MC NICOLL, Thomas (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). b. 1822; M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London 1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861. d. 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. London Quarterly Review, xxxix 270, 419 (1863).
MACONOCHIE, Alexander, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). b. 2 March 1777; admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute 1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July 1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional surname of Welwood. d. Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. Kay’s Series of portraits, ii 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877), 2 portraits; Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland, ii 225, 231–55 (1883).
MACONOCHIE, Alexander. b. 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803, midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander 8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836; in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March 1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline 1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut. governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838, 3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. d. Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.
MACONOCHIE, Allan Alexander (1 son of preceding). b. 1806; professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow 1842–55. d. Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May 1885.
MACONOCHIE, Robert Blair (brother of preceding). b. 21 May 1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837, partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest 1856 to death. d. Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883. Journal of jurisprudence, Nov. 1883 p. 600.
M’OSCAR, William. b. Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807; taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years; edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat, a tale. d. Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. W. M’Oscar’s Poetical Works (1878), memoir pp. ix–xiii, portrait.
MACPHERSON, Alexander. b. Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain 1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures. Edinb. 1836. d. Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. H. Scott’s Fasti, iii part i, pp. 336–7 (1870).
MC PHERSON, Duncan. b. 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836; col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.
MACPHERSON, Duncan. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836, surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent 1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861 to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843; Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus 1857. d. Merkára, Coorg 8 June 1867.
MACPHERSON, Duncan (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). b. 9 March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep. 1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879; served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep. 1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. d. Cluny castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886.