MACLEAY, Kenneth (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician). b. Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. d. 3 Malta terrace, Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland (1889) 444–5.
MACLEAY, Sir William (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore, Rossshire). b. Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75; the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay; expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ. of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875; knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec. 1891. The Australian portrait gallery (1885) 93–8, portrait.
MACLEAY, William Sharp (brother of James Robert Macleay 1811–92). b. London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S. 1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21; Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the new sperm whale 1851. d. Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865. F.O. List, Jany. 1865 p. 116.
MACLEHOSE, James (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). b. Govan 16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow 1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R. Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards of 50 writers in his employment and published many books; bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. d. 18 Victoria crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. Maclehose’s Memoirs, ii 343–6 (1886), portrait.
MC LELAN, Archibald Woodbury. b. 1824; member of provincial assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881; minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr. for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. d. Nova Scotia 25 June 1890.
M’LELLAN, Archibald (son of a coachbuilder). b. Glasgow 1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st. purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854; author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833; Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839. d. Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. bur. in the High church burying-ground at Glasgow. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 205–6 (1886), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 286–91 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 457–62.
M’LENNAN, Donald (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent). b. Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan. Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. d. 2 Vicarage gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.
MC LENNAN, John. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821, surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849, retired 26 Jany. 1855. d. 5 April 1874.
MC LENNAN, John Ferguson (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91). b. Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871; LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865; Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876; Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. d. Hawthorndene, Hayes Common, Kent 16 June 1881.
MACLEOD, Alexander. b. Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44; presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844; transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children 1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877; Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. d. Birkenhead 13 Jany. 1891. In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D. (1891); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 375–80.