MACLEOD, Norman (eld. son of the preceding). b. Kirk st. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 3 June 1812; ed. at Glasgow and Edinburgh univs.; minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire 15 March 1838 to 1843; minister of Dalkeith near Edinburgh 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; sent by general assembly to British North America, June 1845; member of general assembly 1849; minister of Barony church, Glasgow 27 Feb. 1851, inducted July 1851; dean of the chapel royal; one of H.M. chaplains for Scotland 26 Dec. 1857; hon. D.D. Glasgow 30 April 1858; dean of the order of the thistle 26 July 1869; visited the mission stations in India 1867; moderator of the general assembly 1869; edited The Edinburgh christian magazine 1850–9; Good words 1860 etc.; Good words for the young 1868–70; author of Deborah or fireside readings for servants 1857; The home school, or hints on home education 1856; Parish papers 1862; Reminiscences of a highland parish 1867; The starling, a Scottish story 2 vols. 1867; Eastward, a visit to Egypt and the Holy Land 1866; Peeps at the far east, a visit to India 1871 and 25 other books. d. Glasgow 16 June 1872. bur. Campsie 20 June. His statue erected in Glasgow and two windows placed by the queen to his memory in Crathie church. D. Macleod’s Memoir of N. Macleod (1877), portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 86–7, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 313–23; More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands (1884) 209–37; Illustrated Review, iv 33–7 (1872), portrait; Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 207–12 (1886), portrait.
MACLEOD, Roderick. b. Scotland; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1816; surgeon in the army; settled in London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1821; F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1837, consiliarius 1839; editor and proprietor of London Medical Gazette, number one 8 Dec. 1827, a weekly journal; physician St. George’s hospital 13 Feb. 1833 to 1845; author of On rheumatism 1842. d. Chanonry, Old Aberdeen 7 Dec. 1852. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 243–4 (1878).
MACLEOD, Roderick. b. 1786; M.P. Cromarty and Nairn 1818–20; M.P. co. Sutherland 1831–7 and M.P. Inverness district of burghs 1837–40; lord lieutenant of Cromarty 8 May 1833 to death. d. Invergordon castle, Rossshire 13 March 1853.
M’LEOD, Roderick (son of the minister of Snizort). b. Glen-Haltin, Isle of Skye 1794; presbyterian minister at Lynedale, Skye to 1823, at Bracadale 1823–38 and at Snizort 1838–43; minister of the Free church, often preaching on hill sides and in snow storms 1843, itinerated in Skye to his death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1863; author of Report of the proceedings of the general assembly in the case of the suspension of R. M’Leod 1826. d. 1868. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 383–8, portrait.
MACLEOD, Roderick Bannatyne. b. 18 Feb. 1823; entered Bengal army; cornet 4 European light cavalry 27 Sep. 1843, captain 6 Sep. 1851; captain 3 European light cavalry to 1862; major 21 hussars 30 July 1862, lieut.-col. 4 March 1868 to 8 Dec. 1877 when he retired as M.G. d. Golden manor court near Hanwell, Middlesex 24 Feb. 1881.
MACLEOD, William Couperus. Entered Madras army 1821; lieut. 30 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 14 May 1853 to 1856; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1856–7, of 14 N.I. 1857–9, of 40 N.I. 1859–60, of 14 N.I. 1860–3 and of 1 N.I. 1863 to 1 Aug. 1864; commandant at Jaulnah 16 Aug. 1859 to 9 July 1861; commandant at Malabar and Canara 9 July 1861 to 15 Jany. 1862; commandant of Nagpore subsidiary force 15 Jany. 1862 to 2 June 1863; commanded Pegu division 2 June 1863 to 27 April 1864; commanded Ceded district 27 April 1864 to 30 May 1868; col. of 30 Madras N.I. 12 March 1865 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 62 Gloucester gardens, London 4 April 1880.
M’LERIE, John. b. Ayrshire 1809; private in fusilier guards; an orderly clerk in war office; ensign 58 foot 28 Dec. 1838, adjutant 1838–48, lieut. 27 June 1841, sold out 7 June 1850; served in Tasmania and N.S.W.; was in Maori war of 1845; paymaster and adjutant of the mounted patrol, Sydney; principal gaoler at Darlinghurst; police magistrate and superintendent of police, Sydney 1850; inspector general of police 1856 when he suppressed bush-ranging. d. 6 Oct. 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 140.
M’LETCHIE, James. b. Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800; apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.; presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841, at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow 1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to death. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. bur. Grange cemetery 24 Sep. Sermons by J. M’Letchie (1871) memoir pp. vii–xxvii, portrait.
MACLISE, Daniel (2 child of Alexander Mc Lish of Cork, tanner). baptized in presbyterian ch. Princes st. Cork 2 Feb. 1806 but he always said he was b. 25 Jany. 1811; student at Cork academy opened 1822; opened a studio in Patrick st. 1825; entered schools of the R.A. London 20 April 1828, gained the gold medal for historical composition 1829; contributed 80 character portraits to Fraser’s Mag. latterly under nom de plume of Alfred Croquis, June 1830 to 1838; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1829–71; altered spelling of his name to Maclise 1835; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840; for his great mural paintings of Wellington and Blucher 1858–61 and The death of Nelson on board the Victory 1861–4, in the royal gallery Westminster, he was paid £7,000; designed the Swiney cup for the Society of arts, the medal for International Exhibition 1862, and the Turner medal for the R.A.; illustrated The princess by A. Tennyson 1860 and took part in illustrating many other works. d. 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 25 April 1870. bur. Kensal Green cemetery in his father’s vault, portrait by E. M. Ward in National portrait gallery. W. J. O’Driscoll’s Memoir of D. Maclise (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868) 100, portrait; J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii 15–19; Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 161–64 (1862); Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities (1859), portrait; Fine art. By W. M. Rossetti (1867) 245–54; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 448–63, portrait; I.L.N. vi 293 (1845) portrait, iii 169, 170 (1868), portrait; Illust. Times 4 May 1870 p. 313, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. May 1847 p. 594, portrait.
MACLIVER, Peter Stewart (son of David Macliver of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland). b. Edinburgh 1820; ed. High sch. and univ. of Glasgow; on staff of Tyne mercury at Newcastle 1845; started the Newcastle Guardian; founder and proprietor of Western Daily Press, Bristol 29 June 1858, built at great cost new offices 1889; M.P. Plymouth 1880–85; great advocate of cause of post office officials; liberal candidate for Doncaster division of Yorkshire 1890. d. Cotham park, Brighton 19 April 1891. Michell’s Newspaper Press directory (1892) 78, portrait; Congregationalist, Dec. 1881 pp. 977–82, portrait.