MACLEOD, RODERICK, M.D. (d. 1852), physician, a native of Scotland, was educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. on 1 Aug. 1816, his thesis being 'De Tetano.' After a brief career in the army, from which he retired on half-pay, he settled in London. By 1822 he was physician to the Westminster General Dispensary, to the Infirmary for Children, and to the Scottish Hospital in London. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 22 Dec. 1821, and a fellow on 9 July 1836. In 1837 he read the Gulstonian lectures, and became consiliarius in 1839. On 13 Feb. 1833 he was elected physician to St. George's Hospital, and resigned that office in consequence of ill-health in 1845. Macleod, who was a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London and of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, died at Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, on 7 Dec. 1852.
Macleod became in July 1822 editor and proprietor of the London 'Medical and Physical Journal,' which had been previously issued under the title of the 'Medical and Physical Journal,' Though the times were stormy for advocates of medical reform, Macleod conducted the paper with tact and ability. He was assisted in the editorship by John Bacot, M.D. In 1842 he published, with large additions, his Gulstonian lectures 'On Rheumatism in its various forms, and on the Affections of Internal Organs, more especially the Heart and Brain, to which it gives rise,' 8vo, London.
[Medical Times, 18 Dec. 1852, p. 625; Munk's Coll. of Phys. 1878.]
MACLIAC, MUIRCHEARTACH (d. 1015), Irish poet, was a native of Connaught, and became chief poet to Brian Boroimhe [q. v.] He was son of Cuceartach, also called Maelceartach. A quatrain, quoted by the O'Clerys (Annals, ii. 786) as the first he composed, refers to himself, 'Muircheartach beg mac Maoilcertaigh baoi ag iongaire na mbo' ('Little Muircheartach, son of Maelceartach, was herding cows'). It is related of him that, like some of the Irish saints, he carried a bell. He accompanied Brian to the battle of Clontarf in 1014, and a lament for the king, 'A Chinncoradh, caidi Brian,' ('Oh! Eincora, where is Brian?'), of which many manuscript copies exist, and which is printed in Harcuman s 'Irish Minstrelsy,' ii. 197, was considered by so good a scholar as Nicholas O'Gara to be genuine, and was inserted in the collection made by him in 1650. The oldest existing manuscript of a poem attributed to Mac Liac is in the 'Book of Leinster,' a twelfth-century manuscript (fol. 152, col. a, line 6). The verses, which occupy a whole column of the manuscript, are found in a sort of corpus poetarum, extending through sixty-six columns (fol. 129-54), and including the works of such well-known authors as Gillaccemuim (A.D. 1050), the translator of Nennius, Flann Mainistrech. (d. 1056) [q. v.], Maelmura Othna (d. 886) [q. v.] and Kineth O'Hartigan (d. 975) [q. v.] The last sixteen lines of the corpus are attributed to the heroic Ossin; but there seems no reason for doubting the authenticity of those poems which bear the names of authors not two centuries old at the date of the actual transcription of the manuscript. The last couplet but one is 'Rochabra in comdui can cheis mac liac linne nan eices' ('The Lord succoured without sorrow Mac Liac of the line of the learned'). The poem is a legend of Cam Conaill. Several other poems, of which less ancient copies exist, are attributed to Mac Liac, but require careful investigation before their authorship can be satisfactorily determined. They are described by O'Curry (Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, ii. 120) and by O'Reilly (Chronological Account of Irish Writers, p. 70). Macliac died in 1015. He had a son, Cumara, who died in 1030, and a son of Cumara was slain by Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh in 1048.
[Annala Rioghachta Eireann, ed. J. O'Donovan, vol. ii.; Book of Leinster, facsimile published by Royal Irish Academy.]
MACLISE, DANIEL (1806–1870), historical painter, was the son of Alexander McLeish, McLish, McClisse, or McLise, a Scottish highlander, once a private soldier in the Elgin fencibles, but at the time of the artist's birth engaged in tanning or shoemaking at Cork, where his regiment had been quartered in 1797. On 24 Dec. in that year Alexander McLish married Rebecca Buchanan, ‘daughter of Mrs. Buchanan, Almshouse,’ as she is described in the register of the presbyterian (now unitarian) church, Princes Street, Cork, where she was subsequently employed as pew-opener for twenty-two years. The records of the same church have entries of the baptism of seven children, issue of this marriage. The first is of a daughter, baptised in 1803, the second of a son, Daniel, baptised on 2 Feb. 1806, the subject of this article. Of the date of his birth there is no record yet discovered. He appears to have always stated that he was born on 25 Jan. 1811, and this date is given in O'Driscoll's life, and has been frequently repeated since (for an account of the controversy on this point see the Irish Daily
