MACPHERSON, William (brother of the preceding). b. Aberdeen 19 July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec. 1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5 ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. d. 3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893.
M’PHUN, William Rae. b. 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology, 34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2 parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. d. Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877. Bookseller, March 1877 p. 216.
MACQUEEN, Donald John. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23 Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb. 1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to death. d. Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79.
MACQUEEN, James. b. Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821; The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching correctness. d. 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv 301–2 (1870).
M’QUEEN, James (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, d. 1837). b. 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut. 6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829; major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June 1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tintoch house, Barton fields, Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883.
MACQUEEN, John Fraser (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough, Invernessshire, d. 1813). b. 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June 1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords 1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council 1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66; A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. d. 4 Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881.
MACRAY, John. b. Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor institution, Oxford 1847–71. d. Ducklington rectory, Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p. 816.
MACREADY, Catherine Frances Birch (2 dau. of W. C. Macready 1793–1873). b. Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. d. and bur. at sea on her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. Macready’s Reminiscences, i 425, ii 445, 465, 467 (1875).
MACREADY, Sarah (dau. of Mr. Desmond). b. Newcastle 16 Feb. 1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello, the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen Elizabeth; (m. as his second wife William Macready manager of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William Macready d. Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, bur. in the cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq. Bristol. d. at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8 March 1853. bur. Bristol cath. 14 March. B. S. Penley’s Bath stage (1892) 145–9; The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p. 8.
MACREADY, William Charles (son of William Macready d. 11 April 1829). b. Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793; ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7 June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy, London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden 1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832; assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June 1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839; produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb. 1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841, played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844 to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place; made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851 as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park, London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60 and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849; with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June 1837; m. (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress b. 11 Nov. 1806, d. Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; m. (2) 3 April 1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). d. 6 Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. bur. Kensal green 4 May. Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences 2 vols. (1875), 4 portraits; Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him (1884); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 25–109 (1888); G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden (1839); T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors (1847) 1–36; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 36–9; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters, ii 215–36 (1841); R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 104–28 (1844); Metropolitan Mag. xvii 81–5 (1836); Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1851) 148, 229–34, 3 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book parts 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21, 8 portraits.