MACNAMARA, Henry Tyrwhitt Jones (2 son of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, officer in 47 foot). b. 1820; ed. at Ealing and Lichfield gr. sch.; pupil of Wm. Alexander Dow, special pleader; a founder of Hardwicke debating soc. which first met at George’s hotel, Strand, the first president; a special pleader 1841–9; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1849; went Oxford circuit 1849–72; had many pupils; much employed as an arbitrator; recorder of Reading, Aug. 1864 to Oct. 1870; a revising barrister 1867–72; judge of county court, circuit 43 (Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone), 1 April 1872 to Aug. 1873; legal member of court of the railway comrs. 2 Aug. 1873 to death; wrote some light pieces for the stage; author of Tournaments, or the days of chivalry 1839; Peace, permanent and universal, its consistency with divine revelation 1841, an essay which gained prize of 100 guineas awarded by the Society for promotion of permanent and universal peace 1 Jany. 1841; A practical treatise on nullities and irregularities in law 1842; A practical treatise on the counts and pleas allowed in civil proceedings 1844; R. P. Collier’s Railway consolidation acts 2 ed. 1847; Leonora, a love story 3 vols. 1848, anon.; The complete practice of the law of England 1855; Paley’s Law and practice of summary convictions 4 ed. 1856 and 5 ed. 1866. d. 34 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 2 Feb. 1877. bur. Willesden cemetery 8 Feb. H. T. J. Macnamara’s The christian code: rules for the conduct of human life (1878); Graphic, xv 236 (1877), portrait; Solicitors’ Journal, xxi 732–34 (1877).
MACNAMARA, James Austin. b. 1777; bookseller Cork, a bookseller in Dublin 1813, bankrupt 1814, returned to Cork 1815; he brought out The holy catholic bible, containing the whole of the books in the sacred scriptures, translated from the Latin Vulgate. Cork, printed for the proprietor J. A. Macnamara 1818, quarto. d. suddenly in the street, London 21 Dec. 1860. H. Cotton’s Rhemes and Doway (1855) 110–16, 210–13.
MC NAMARA, Thomas. b. near Slane, co. Meath 1808; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth college, ordained Maynooth 1833; one of the founders of Castleknock college, co. Dublin 1834, affiliated with the Congregation of the Mission 1839, gave missions throughout Ireland; founded with others the Catholic institution for deaf and dumb mutes at Cabra near Dublin 1846; superior of Castleknock college and visitor of the Irish province of the Congregation of the Mission 1864; rector of the Irish college in Paris 1868–89; author of Programmes of sermons and instructions. Dublin 1881; Sacred rhetoric, or the art of rhetoric as applied to the preaching of the word of God. Dublin 1882. d. St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, co. Dublin 8 March 1892. bur. in cemetery at Castleknock 11 March. College Chronicle (Castleknock), June 1892 pp. 5–6.
MACNAMARA, William Nugent (brother of sir Burton Macnamara 1794–1876). b. 1776; second of Daniel O’Connell in his duel with J. N. D’Esterre at Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare 1 Feb. 1815; M.P. co. Clare 1830 to 1852. d. Ennistymon, co. Clare 11 Nov. 1856.
MACNAUGHT, John (son of John Macnaught of Clarendon, Jamaica). b. 1826; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; P.C. St. Chrysostom, Everton, Lancashire 1853, Hugh M’Neill’s opposition to Macnaught’s broad doctrine caused him to resign in 1861; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1867–71; incumbent of Holy Trinity ch. Conduit st. London 1871–5 when chapel was pulled down; V. of St. Mary’s, Northend, Fulham 1881–6; author of Peter, confession and absolution, three essays 1851; The doctrine of inspiration of holy writ 1856, 2 ed. 1857, to which many replies were made; Free discussion versus intolerance, or the Liverpool clerical society’s method of expelling a brother clergyman 1856; Christianity and its evidences 1863; Cœna Domini 1878. d. 2 Rutland gate, Kensington, London 13 May 1890, cremated. Pictorial World 21 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.
MACNAUGHTAN, John. b. Greenock; minister of Scotch congregation, Crown court, Drury Lane, London 1831; minister of high church, Paisley 1832–43; pastor of free high church, Paisley 1843; minister at Belfast 1849; author of A discourse preached in the High church, Paisley 1837; Sketch of the life of William Perry; Slander against the Free church met and answered 1846; The interdicted farewell sermon. Paisley 1849. Scott’s Fasti vol. ii pt. i p. 207 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 215–22.
M’NAUGHTEN, Daniel (son of Daniel M’Naughten a turner). A turner at Glasgow from age of 15; imagined that he was persecuted and always watched by order of the Tories; came to London and near the Salopian coffee house, Charing Cross, fired twice at and killed Edward Drummond private sec. to sir Robert Peel, mistaking him for the baronet, 20 Jany. 1843; tried at central criminal court 3 March 1843 and acquitted as being insane; confined in Bedlam, then removed to criminal lunatic asylum, Broadmoor, where he died 3 May 1865, inquest held same day, verdict death from natural causes. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials, i 314–402 (1850); Fraser’s Mag. April 1843 pp. 444–54; Annual Register (1843) 6–9 and 345–62; Law Journal 12 Sep. 1891 pp. 583–4; I.L.N. ii 80, 151 (1843), portrait; The Globe 5 May 1865 p. 1.
Note.—Mr. Drummond was b. 30 March 1792 and became a clerk in the treasury at an early age, he was bur. at Charlton near Woolwich 31 Jany. 1843.
MC NAUGHTON, James. b. Kenmore, Scotland 10 Dec. 1796; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1816; settled as a physician at Albany, U.S. America 1817; lectured at College of physicians and surgeons at Fairfield, New York 1818–38; professor of theory and practice of medicine, Albany medical coll. 1840 to death; president of Albany county medical soc. 1848–9; president of medical and surgical staff of Albany hospital. d. Paris, France 12 June 1874. Appleton’s American biography, iv 153 (1888).
MACNEE, Sir Daniel (son of Robert Macnee). b. Fintry, Stirlingshire 1806; ed. at Glasgow, LL.D. 27 April 1876; apprenticed to John Knox, landscape painter 1819–23; drew and coloured plates for W. H. Lizars the engraver at Edinb. 1825; A.R.S.A. 1830, contributed to its exhibitions from 1825, pres. 9 Feb. 1876; resided in Kent painting portraits 1832; portrait painter at Glasgow 1832–77, at Edinb. 1877 to death; exhibited 97 paintings at R.A. London 1840–80; pres. of West of Scotland academy 1866–76; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; painted many subject pictures, his picture The Bracelet is now in National gallery of Scotland; his portrait of Dr. Wardlaw was awarded a gold medal at Paris international exhibition 1855. d. 6 Learmonth terrace, Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1882. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 213–17 (1886), portrait; Graphic, xiii 199, 200 (1876), portrait; Armstrong’s Scottish Painters (1888) 46.