MAGHERAMORNE, Sir James Macnaghten Mc Garel Hogg, 1 Baron (1 son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. d. 1876). b. Calcutta 3 May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1 life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855, retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867 and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889; M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867; assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May 1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co. Antrim 5 July 1887. d. 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June 1890. bur. Brompton cemet., personalty sworn at £159,718. St. Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p. 15, portrait; I.L.N. l 609, 610 (1867), portrait; Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p. 26, portrait.
MAGNAY, Sir William, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay 1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). b. College hill, city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London 1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent Nov. 1858. d. Bedford 3 April 1871. I.L.N. iii 313 (1843) portrait, lviii 371 (1871).
MAGNES, Isidore. b. Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864 a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2 portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; found dead in his bed from want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 483–4 (1869).
MAGNIAC, Charles (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth house, Beds.) b. 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6, contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art. d. 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.
MAGNUS, Simon. b. 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham; founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus, the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery, Chatham, at cost of £7000. d. 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30 Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. I.L.N. 22 Jany. 1876 p. 95; The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p. 4.
MAGRATH, Andrew Nicholson. b. 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. d. London 27 Dec. 1860.
MAGRATH, Sir George (3 son of John Magrath). b. co. Tyrone 1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822; L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24 June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. d. George house, George st. Plymouth 12 June 1857. bur. in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church. Munk’s College of physicians iii 254 (1878).
MAGRATH, James. b. 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co. Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto; R. of the Credit 1827 to death. d. Erindale, Upper Canada 14 June 1851. G.M. xxxvi 327 (1851).
MAGUIRE, John Francis (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant). b. Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan 1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863 and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions 1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX 1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. d. Dublin 1 Nov. 1872. bur. St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. I.L.N. lxi 439, 455 (1872), portrait; Graphic, vi 514, 520 (1872), portrait.
MAGUIRE, Robert (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). b. Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork 1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute 1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London, July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857 to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R. of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884; author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R. Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica 1872 and 30 other works. d. Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. Drawing room portrait gallery (1859), portrait 14; C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 108–22; Pinks’s Clerkenwell (1881) 71–6.