MACDONELL, James (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer d. 1858). b. Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. d. 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. bur. Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll (1890), portrait.
MC DONNELL, Sir Alexander, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) b. Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. bur. at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp. 240–1.
MC DONNEL, Sir Edward. b. Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. d. 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.
MC DONNELL, Edward (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p. 49.
MAC DONNELL, Eneas (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). b. Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. d. Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. Law Times, xxxi 178 (1858).
MC DONNELL, Randal W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.
MAC DONNELL, Richard (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. d. Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. bur. under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.
MACDONNELL, Sir Richard Graves (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell d. 1867). b. Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. d. Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. I.L.N. lxxviii 220, 222 (1881), portrait.
MC DONNELL, Robert (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, b. 1796, living 1889). b. Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. d. 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 429–32.
MC DONNELL, Thomas. b. 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. d. Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.