MACDUFF, John. b. 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40 foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30 July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863; C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh division at Lucknow 1857. d. Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25 Sep. 1865.
MC ELROY, John. b. Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782; emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick, Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy, an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war 1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. d. Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the world.
M’ENCROE, John. b. Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed. St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia 1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the principal heresies 1841. d. Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.
MACEWAN, Andrew. b. Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. d. Glasgow 11 June 1866. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 187–8 (1886), portrait.
MACEWEN, Alexander (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate secession ch. near Edinb. d. 1827). b. Howgate 5 April 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845 to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch. Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied in scripture supernatural 1866. d. Glasgow 4 June 1875. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 129–34; Sermons by A. Macewen (1877) memoir ix–lvi.
MACFARLANE, Duncan (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of Drymen, Stirlingshire). b. Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen 1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years; entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and present duty 1847. d. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 189–90 (1886), portrait; Scott’s Fasti vol. 2 pt. 1 pp. 7, 235, 353 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 72–9.
MACFARLAN, James (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). b. Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words; author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855; Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study, brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. d. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1862. bur. Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. The poetical works of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x (1882); Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 287–91.
MACFARLAN, James (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, b. 1800, d. 1871). b. 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. d. Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. bur. Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. Memoirs of James Macfarlan (1892).
MACFARLANE, Charles (son of Robert Macfarlane). b. Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. d. the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.
MACFARLANE, Dugald. b. Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. d. Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp. 567, 569, portrait.