MC MASTER, William. b. Tyrone, Ireland 24 Dec. 1811; in mercantile house of Robert Cathcart, Toronto, Canada 1833; a merchant at Toronto; member of legislative council of Canada 1862–7 when he was called to the senate; gave 12,000 dollars to Canadian literary institute, Woodstock; built at cost of 100,000 dollars Mc Master hall, the baptist college, Toronto; with his wife gave 80,000 dollars to Jarvis st. baptist ch. Toronto; chairman of Canada board of G. W. Railway; president Canadian bank of commerce; while speaking at Mc Master hall, Toronto, fainted and remained unconscious till his death next morning 22 Sep. 1887. Appleton’s American biography, iv 149 (1888).
M’MICHAEL, Neil. b. 1808; minister of Gillespie church, Dunfermline 1835 to death; professor of divinity, united presbyterian church 1847–; D.D.; author of Hildebrand and his age 1853; The pilgrim psalms an exposition of the songs of degrees 1860. d. Dunfermline 3 April 1874. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 390–93.
MACMILLAN, Angus. b. Glenbrittle, Skye 1810; went to New South Wales 1829, worked on sheep stations to 1839; in company with one black man explored the country south-west of Sydney 28 May 1839 etc.; discovered Gippsland 1840–1 which was originally called by him Caledonia Australis; author of On the preservation of sight 1859; settled down on a sheep-run of his own on the Avon where he d. May 1865. Mc Combie’s History of the colony of Victoria (1858) 79, 80; Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 306.
MACMILLAN, Daniel (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie, island of Arran, farmer d. 1823). b. Upper Corrie 13 Sep. 1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany. 1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller 1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43; bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857; gave up his business in London end of 1843. d. Cambridge 27 June 1857. T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan (1882), portrait; A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s publications (1891), portrait.
MACMILLAN, James. b. 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836 to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester races. d. Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. Newspaper Press, ii 69 (1868).
MACMILLAN, John. b. Byreflat, parish of Keir, Dumfriesshire 9 June 1802; ed. at gr. sch. Dumfries and univ. of Edinb., M.A. 1829; master in Watson’s hospital, Edinb. March 1827 to Jany. 1831; rector of Dumfries gr. sch. Jany. 1831 to April 1837; one of classical masters in Glasgow high sch. April 1837 to Nov. 1844; one of classical masters in high school of Edinb. Nov. 1844 to 1867, examiner 1867–72. d. 1872. W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of high school of Edinburgh (1857) 48.
M’MINNIES, John Gordon (son of John M’Minnies). b. Lancaster 1817; alderman of Warrington; senior partner in W. Bashall and Co. cotton manufacturers, Farington near Preston; M.P. Warrington 1880–85. d. Summer house, Warrington 1 Feb. 1890.
MC MULLEN, John. b. Ballinahinch, co. Down 8 March 1833; ed. St. Mary’s college, Chicago to 1854; studied at Urban coll. Rome 1854, priest and D.D. 1858; president of the univ. of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago 1861–4, building destroyed in the fire 1871; in charge of the cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago 1870, vicar general of the diocese 1877; bishop of the diocese of Davenport, Iowa 1880 to death. d. Davenport 3 July 1883. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 150 (1888).
MC MULLEN, Richard Turrill. b. Surrey 10 Jany. 1830; sailed in a 3 ton cutter the Leo in a voyage to the Eddystone 1868; in the Sirius 11 tons circumnavigated Scotland; sailed with 2 seamen from Greenhithe to Cherbourg, but as they sulked and mutinied he henceforth sailed alone; had a 16 ton yacht the Orion; he skirted most of the currents and races between the Pentland Firth and the Channel islands and tried most of the anchorages between the Galloper Sands and the Land’s End; author of Down channel from London to the Land’s End in the Leo 3 tons, and from London to the Scilly islands in the Orion 16 tons 1869; Infidelity, its cause and antidote 1879; Orion, or how I came to sail alone in a 19 ton yacht 1879; An experimental cruise single handed in the Procyon 7 ton lugger 1880; Whither do they ascend? 1881; Priestly pretensions and God’s word 1885; found dead sitting alone in his boat the Perseus in mid channel June 1891. R. T. Mc Mullen’s Down channel (1893); The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 5.
MC MURDIE, Henry. b. London 21 May 1822; in a mercantile house in Liverpool; became a Romanist; educated at Mount St. Mary seminary, Emmettsburg, U.S. America; ordained priest 1854; professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in Mount St. Mary, and then the director of the seminary; the ablest theologian and metaphysician of the R.C. ch. in U.S. of America. d. Emmettsburg 20 Jany. 1880. Appleton’s American biography, iv 150 (1888).