MACKINNON, Lionel Daniel (brother of the preceding). b. 1825; ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and died soon after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) pp. 77–80.
MACKINNON, Sir William (son of Duncan Mackinnon). b. Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to 1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants; commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and 10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15 July 1889. d. of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893. Black and White 1 July 1893 p. 3, portrait; I.L.N. 1 July 1893 p. 7, portrait.
MACKINNON, William Alexander (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of Mackinnon). b. 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich 1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65; brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia; F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon., published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols. 1846. d. Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. I.L.N. xv 44 (1849), portrait.
MACKINTOSH, Angus (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness, d. 1847). b. 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum, Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr. Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29 July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. A.R. (1864) 19–22.
MACKINTOSH, Charles Calder (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh d. Tain 1831). b. Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow; co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep. 1850. d. Pau 24 Nov. 1868. W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C. Mackintosh (1871), biographical sketch pp. 23–51, portrait; Scott’s Fasti, iii pt. i p. 310 (1870).
MACKINTOSH, Daniel (son of the owner of a water-power mill). b. Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy, geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart. Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861, received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received 4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research; presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3; author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales, its character and origin 1869. d. Birkenhead 19 July 1891. bur. Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p. 432.
MACKINTOSH, Mackay. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May 1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert, Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829; Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare 1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic; Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick Macleod with memorials 1869. Scott’s Fasti, iii pt. i p. 19 (1870).
MACKMURDO, Gilbert Wakefield. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. d. Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.
MACKNESS, James (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man). b. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s 15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. d. Wellington sq. Hastings 8 Feb. 1851. Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard (1851).
MACKONOCHIE, Alexander Heriot (3 son of George Mackonochie, retired colonel). b. Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage, Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862, church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him 1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years; resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870; V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec. 1883; author of First principles v. Erastianism, sermons 1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, found dead in the deer forest of Manore 15 Dec. 1887. bur. in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild, Working 23 Dec. E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir (1890), portrait; Church portrait journal n.s. iii 49–56 (1882), portrait; Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson. By W. G. F. Phillimore (1868); Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale (1871).