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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Maclean.

INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Maclean, Frederick Garr, C.I.E. (1903); M.I.E.E.; b. 1848; s. of Moora; m. Robina Charlotte, d. of J. P. Godby; entered Telegraph Department, 1868; Director-General of Telegraphs in India, 1900-03; Superintendent of Field Telegraph in Afghan War; became Deputy Director General, and Director-General; retired, 1903. Address: Abbotsford, Maybury Common, Woking, Surrey.

Macmillan, Michael, B.A., D.Litt., English Lecturer, Birmingham University; b. Newton Stuwart, N.B., 1853; educ: Rugby and Marlborough, is a B.N.C., Oxford (scholar) in 1st class classical moderations, 2nd class final classical schools; B.A., 1876; joined Indian Educational Service as Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy, Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1878; Principal and Professor of English Literature, 1891-1907; Fellow, Bombay University; Delegate of Bombay Asiatic Society to Hanoi Congress, 1902; retired from Indian service, 1904; was Wilson Philological Lecturer, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1901 and 1905; English Lecturer, Bermingham University since 1905. Publications: Essays for the young; Questions and Answers on Elementary Logic; Annotated editions of Marmion, Robeby, Paradise Lost I to IV, Vicar of Wakefield, Suthy’s Nelson, Ivanhoe, Pope’s Homer’s Illiod, Pride and Prejudice, Othallo, Julius Caesar; School history of India; Promotion of general happiness; Globe Trotter in India Two hundred years ago; Tales of Indian Chivalry; Princess of Balkh; In wield Mahratta battle; The last of the Peshwas; [[Notes on the seige of Corinth]]. Recreations: Rugby, Cycling and Walking. Address: Edmund Street, Birmingham.

Macnabb, Sir Donald Campbell, I.C.S., C.S.I., (1881), R.C.I.E. (1881); s. of J. M. Macnabb, I.C.S.; educ: at Haileybury; entered the Indian Civil Service in the Punjab, 1853; served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; was helpful in raising a considerable body of irregular horse, to be sent to Delhi; Commissioner of Rawalpindi and of Peshawar, 1875-1881: retired, 1881. Address: Forlly Copse, Brackmuin, Birks. Club: East India United Service.

Macnamara, N. Charles, F.R.C.S., I.M.S. (retired); Late Professor, Opthalmic Medicine, Calcutta; Vice-President, Royal College of Surgeons; Surgeon and Founder of Mayo Hospital, Calcutta; Fellow of the Calcutta University; Consulting Surgeon, Westminster Hospital, and of the Royal Opthalmic Hospital, Westminster; Vice-President, British Medical Association; Member, War Office Committee of the Army Medical Service, and Government Committee on Leprosy; Chairman, Committee of British Medical Associations on Medical education and of Teaching University for London; Surgeon-Major, Bengal M.S. and of the Staff in Sonthal rebellion; also of Tirhout Volunteers in the Indian Mutiny. Publications: Origin and Character of the British people; Story of an Irish Sept; Human speech; the evolution of Purposive living matter; volumes 95 and 97 of International Scientific series; Hunterian Oration; Diseases of the

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