MC KERROW, William (son of William Mc Kerrow d. 1851, wheelwright and turner). b. Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets, and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association 1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance, vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its advantages, a lecture 1853. d. Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire 4 June 1878. Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son (1881), portrait; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 178–82.
MACKESON, Frederick (son of Wm. Mackeson). b. Hythe, Kent 28 Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany. 1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; assassinated when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853.
MACKESON, William Wyllys (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue Mountain, Jamaica). b. 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage. By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2 vols. 1884. d. Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892.
MACKESY, Thomas Lewis. b. Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ. 1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R. coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death; last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. d. 47 Lady lane, Waterford 9 April 1869.
MC KEWAN, David Hall (son of David Mc Kewan). b. London 16 Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in sepia 1870. d. 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2 Aug. 1873. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 396–7.
MACKIE, Ivie. b. 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie, Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56 and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60; presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a munificent contributor to local charities. d. Manchester 23 Feb. 1873.
MACKIE, James (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., d. 1858). b. 18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3 April 1857 to death. d. Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec. 1867.
MC KIE, James. b. Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. d. Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891, portrait.
Note.—He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.
MACKIE, John (son of James Mackie of Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. d. Bargaly 3 July 1858.