MACREDIE, Patrick Boyle Mure (son of Thomas Mure). b. Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835; engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S. Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built improved dwellings for his workmen. d. Edinburgh 15 April 1868. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 377–82.
MACROBIN, John. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1826; M.D. Edinb. 1827; professor of medicine in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1839 to 15 Sep. 1860, emeritus professor 1860 to death; represented univ. of Aberdeen on general medical council 19 Dec. 1868 to 19 Oct. 1873; author of An introduction to the study of practical medicine 1835. d. Aberdeen 4 Jany. 1879.
MACROSSAN, John Murtagh (son of a farmer). b. Donegal 1832; went to Australia 1853; on the gold fields of Victoria, New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland 1853–73; chosen member for the Kennedy electorate to the legislative assembly by the miners of Charters Town, Queensland 1873; sec. for public works and mines 21 Jany. 1879 to 13 March 1883, and 13 June 1888 with additional office of colonial sec. Jany. 1890, retired Aug. 1890; member for Townsville 1888 to death; a delegate for Queensland to Australian federation convention in Sydney 1891. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 30 March 1891; the Queensland parliament voted £2000 to his widow.
MC SHERRY, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1816; lieut. 15 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; captain 30 N.I. 12 May 1827, major 1 Dec. 1839 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 30 N.I. 1846–47, of 1 N.I. 1847–55, brevet col. 20 June 1854. d. 1856.
MC TAGGART, Sir John, 1 Baronet (1 son of John Mc Taggart of Ardwell, Stranraer, Wigtonshire). b. Wigtonshire 15 March 1789; a merchant in London; contested Wigton 1832; M.P. Wigton district of burghs 1835–57; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841. d. Ardwell 13 Aug. 1867. G.M. iv 392 (1867).
MC TAVISH, Charles Carroll (son of Charles Mc Tavish). b. U.S. of America; M.P. Dundalk 6 Aug. 1847, unseated on petition 20 March 1848; governor of Rupert’s Land, Canada. d. Liverpool 3 days after his return 23 July 1870. Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia for 1870, x 592 (1873).
MACTIER, William. Entered Bengal army 1810; major 4 Bengal light cavalry 12 Jany. 1842 to 6 Sep. 1851; lieut.-col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 6 Sep. 1851 to 1853; lieut.-col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 1853 to death; colonel in the army 20 June 1854; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Juanpore, Bengal 17 Sep. 1855.
MACVICAR, John Gibson (2 son of Patrick Macvicar, minister of St. Paul’s, Dundee). b. Dundee 16 March 1800; ed. at univs. of St. Andrews and Edinb.; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Dundee; lecturer in natural history at St. Andrew’s univ. 1827–31 when he became professor; assistant to Dr. Candlish in St. George’s parish, Edinb.; pastor of a branch of the Scottish church in Ceylon 1839–52; minister of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, July 1853 to death; edited the Quarterly journal of agriculture 1828; author of Elements of the economy of nature 1830, 2 ed. 1856; On the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime 1837, reproduced as The philosophy of the beautiful 1855; An enquiry into human nature 1853. d. the manse of Moffat 12 Feb. 1884.
MC WHINNIE, Andrew Melville. b. south of England 1808; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1839–60 and assist. surgeon 1854–60; translated J. G. Cloquet’s Anatomical description of the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia 1835; author of Malformation of the bladder 1854; and with T. Wormald of A series of anatomical sketches 1838. d. The Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 27 Feb. 1866.
MC WILLIAM, James Ormiston. b. Dalkeith, Scotland 1808; L.C.S. Edinb. 1827; assistant surgeon in the navy 1829; surgeon to the Scout on west coast of Africa 1836–9; M.D. Edinb. 1840; senior surgeon to the Albert which left England 12 May 1841 and entered the Niger 13 Aug., a malignant fever broke out 4 Sep., the Albert turned back 4 Oct. and reached England 19 Nov.; sent on a special mission to Cape de Verde Islands 1844 to inquire into origin of yellow fever at Boa Vista; medical officer to the Custom House 1847 to death; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; member of Epidemiological Soc., secretary several years; presented with a service of plate by naval medical officers 1858; author of Medical history of the expedition to the Niger 1843; Dr. Mc William’s remarks on Dr. Gilbert King’s Report on the fever at Boa Vista 1848; Exposition of the case of the assistant surgeons of the royal navy 3 ed. 1850. d. 14 Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 4 May 1862. bur. Woking cemet. 10 May. Proc. of royal soc. xii 59–61 (1863).