M’GILL, James. b. 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.; author of The four centuries or christianity and the military profession. Glasgow 1857. d. Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.
M’GILL, John. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death, inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870. d. St. Andrews 16 March 1871.
MACGILLIVRAY, Charles R. (son of a small farmer). b. Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop, Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow 1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh 1869. d. Glasgow 7 June 1867.
MACGILLIVRAY, John (eld. child of William Macgillivray 1796–1852). b. Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6; naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67; author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50, to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. d. Sydney 6 June 1867. Good Words (1868) 425–9, portrait.
MACGILLIVRAY, William. b. Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815, LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. d. Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the Hebrides (1888), portrait on page 11.
M’GILVRAY, W. b. island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848; D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 230–7; H. Scott’s Fasti, ii pt. i 44 (1868).
M’GLASHAN, James. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons, publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry, junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal publisher in Dublin to 1855. d. of mental disease, Edinburgh 4 March 1858. Bookseller, March 1858 p. 108; Fitzpatrick’s Life of Charles Lever 2 vols. (1879), passim.
MC GLASHAN, John. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. d. New Zealand 1866.
MACGLASHAN, John (1 son of John Macglashan). b. Peterborough 5 Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock; resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion 1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. d. Aboyne, Deeside, Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx 338–40 (1885).
MC GOUGAN, Eugene Malcolm. b. 1828; in general post office, London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions for the blind in north of London. d. St. Albans 21 July 1893. Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3.