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 MACKESON, FREDERICK (1807–1853)

Son of William Mackeson : born Sep. 28, 1807 : educated at Canterbury and in France : entered the Indian Army in Bengal, in 1825 : in the 14th N.I. : stationed as Assistant Political Agent at Ludiana : accompanied Sir A. Burnes (q.v.) to Cabul in 1837 : distinguished as a Frontier and Political Officer in the first Afghan war,in the Khyber and at Peshawar: C.B., 1842 : in the battle of Aliwal : in 1846, Superintendent of Cis-Satlaj territory : was in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9 : Political Officer with the Army : after Chilianwala he swam the Jhelum in full flood : local Lt-Colonel, 1849 : Commissioner of Peshawar in 1851 : he was, while engaged in official work in his verandah, assassinated by a religious fanatic from Koner, Sep. 10, 1853 : he died on Sep. 14. Lord Dalhousie wrote his epitaph, which included the following words—"He was the beau ideal of a soldier—cool to conceive, brave to dare, and strong to do. . . . The loss of Col. Mackeson's life would have dimmed a victory : to lose him thus, by the hand of a foul assassin, is a misfortune of the heaviest gloom for the Government, which counted him among its bravest and its best."

MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM, BARONE (1823–1893)

Son of Duncan Mackinnon : born March 31, 1823 : educated at Campbeltown : after mercantile work at Glasgow, went to India in 1847, and, with Robert Mac-kenzie, who was engaged in the coasting trade, established the firm of Mackinnon, Mackenzie, and, in Sep. 1856, the Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Co., renamed the British India Steam Navigation Co., in 1862, which has increased and opened out trade from India in all directions, and round its coast : obtained in 1878 from the Sultan of Zanzibar a lease of the territory now called German East Africa, but the British Government refused to sanction it : was Chairman, 1888–93, of the Imperial British East Africa Co., whose territory Government took over in 1895 : he promoted Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, 1886 : founded the East African Scottish Mission, 1891 : C.I.E. in 1882 : Baronet, 1889 : died June 22, 1893.

MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES (1765–1832)

Born Oct. 24, 1765 : son of Captain John Mackintosh : educated at Fortrose, and Aberdeen University : studied medicine at Edinburgh : obtained his diploma, 1787 : went to London in 1788 and paid much attention to politics, literature, society, somewhat neglected his profession of medicine : called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1795 : gave lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations : acquired a considerable practice : failed to obtain the appointment of Advocate-General of Bengal, but was knighted and made Recorder of Bombay, and held the appointment from Feb. 1804 to Nov. 1811 : founded the Literary Society of Bombay in 1805 and became its President : was out of his element in Bombay : became M.P. for Nairn, 1813, and for Knaresborough, 18 19 : Professor of Law and General Politics at Haileybury, 1818–24 : wrote on Philosophy for the Edinburgh Review and the Encyclopcedia Britannica : and the History of England : was made a Privy Councillor and a Commissioner of the Board of Control, 1830 : joined in the inquiry into East Indian affairs preparatory to the renewal, in 1833, of the Co.'s Charter : died May 30, 1832.

MACLEAN, CHARLES (circa 1768–1824)

Studied medicine, and entered the E.I. Go's service : made several voyages to India in East Indiamen : was in medical practice at Calcutta in 1792 : wrote on fevers in 1796 : in 1798 he was ordered by the Governor-General to leave India for making an insinuation in a newspaper against a magistrate : left the service of Government : in 1806 he bitterly attacked the Governor-General, Marquis Wellesley : became a lecturer on the diseases of hot climates to the E. I. Co., and opposed the Government project of opening the trade to India : he attacked the quarantine laws, and wrote on medical subjects : died about 1824.

MACLEAN, CHARLES SMITH (1836–)

Born 1836 : entered the Army, 1853, and became Maj-General, 1893 : served in Indian mutiny, 1857, severely wounded : China war, 1860; Afghan war, 1878–80 : Brevet-Lt-Colonel and C.B. : 