MAC DOUGALL, Niel Patrick. b. 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865.
MAC DOUGALL, Patrick Campbell (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). b. Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. d. 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii 77, 347–8 (1884).
M’DOUGALL, William. b. Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 319–25.
MACDOWALL, Charles (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). b. Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. d. 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. The Horological Journal, Sep. 1873 pp. 5–9, portrait.
M’DOWALL, Charles (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). b. 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. d. Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893.
MACDOWALL, Day Hort. b. 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. d. 14 Sep. 1870.
M’DOWALL, William (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). b. Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. d. Dumfries 28 Oct. 1888. M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway (1889) 77, 201, 255.
MAC DOWEL, Benjamin George (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel, physician). b. 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B. and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin 1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland 1881. d. 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep. 1885. Medical times and gazette, ii 417 (1885).
MAC DOWELL, Benjamin Francis. b. 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S. 1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. d. 29 York st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. Medical Press, xxvii 135 (1879).
MACDOWELL, Patrick (son of a tradesman). b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st. London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870, illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. d. 74A Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 103–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 195–7 (1862); Art Journal (1850) p. 8 portrait, and (1871) p. 41; Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii 602–10 (1851), portrait; I.L.N. xxx 417, 418 (1857), lvii 679, 681 (1870), portrait.