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 774 MAOCLESFIELD McCLINTOCK up his residence near Orange, N. J., and en- gaged in practice as an engineer. By the will of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens he was placed in charge of the Stevens floating battery which had for a number of years been in course of construction at Hoboken. He was also made superintendent of the construction of the rail- way bridge over the Hudson river, near Pough- keepsie, N. Y., and superintendent of docks and piers in the city of New York, but resigned the latter office in 1873. He has translated from the French " A Manual of Bayonet Exer- cises," adapted for the use of the United States army (1852), and written a volume of the gov- ernment reports of the "Pacific Railroad Sur- veys" (1854), a volume of the reports of the European commission, u The Armies of Eu- rope," &c., printed by order of congress (1861), and "Report on the Organization and Cam- paigns of the Army of the Potomac" (1864). MACCLESFIELD, a market town and muni- cipal and parliamentary borough of Cheshire, England, 147 m. N. "W. of London; pop. in 1871, 35,451. It is pleasantly situated on the river Bollin, and on a declivity near Maccles- field forest. It has a fine church founded in 1278, and a heavily endowed grammar school dating from 1502. The staple manufacture is silk, which gives employment to about 70 mills. The cotton manufacture is also important. A canal which unites the Grand Trunk and the Peak Forest canals passes near Macclesfield, and opens water communication with most parts of England. fflcCLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold, a British naval officer and arctic explorer, born in Dun- dalk, Ireland, in 1819. He entered the navy at the age of 12, and passed his examination in 1838 ; and after having been stationed for some time at Portsmouth- as mate on the Excellent gunnery ship, he sailed to South America in H. M. steamer Gorgon. For his distinguished conduct in recovering this vessel when strand- ed near Montevideo he was promoted to a lieu- tenancy in 1845. During the next two years he was with the Pacific squadron, in the Frolic, Capt. Hamilton. Returning to England about the time when anxiety began to be expressed for the safety of Sir John Franklin, he entered heartily into the schemes for his relief, and ac- companied Sir James Ross in one of the three arctic expeditions sent out by the admiralty in the spring of 1848. He reached home again in November, 1849, after an absence of 19 months, and early in the following year joined another expedition under Capt. Austin as first lieuten- ant of the Assistance^ Capt. Ommaney. It was his fortune, in August, 1850, to see at Cape Riley the first traces of the missing mariners. In April, 1851, while the ships were fast in the ice in Crozier channel, he commenced a sledge journey of 80 days along the N". shore of Parry sound, travelling 760 m., and reaching the most westerly point which has yet been attained from the east in the arctic regions. The com- parative perfection to which sledge travelling has been carried is due in great part to the improvements which he effected. The squad- ron returned to England in the autumn of the same year, and Lieut. McClintock was at once promoted to the rank of commander. The fol- lowing spring saw him in command of the In- trepid, one of the five vessels sent out to the polar regions under Sir Edward Belcher. In accordance with instructions from the admi- ralty, he sailed, in company with Capt. Kellett, toward Melville island in search of McClure, whom he rescued from a three years' imprison- ment in the ice ; but he was subsequently com- pelled to abandon his own ship with three others of Belcher's fleet, the whole expedition reaching home in September, 1854, some in their single remaining vessel and the rest with Capt. Inglefield. McClintock's services were recog- nized by his promotion to the rank of captain, but he did not obtain active employment until Lady Franklin offered him in 1857 the com- mand of the highly successful expedition which is fully described in the article AECTIO DIS- COVERY (vol. i., p. 677), and which resulted in solving the mystery of Sir John Franklin's fate. On his return in 1859 from this impor- tant voyage, Capt. McClintock was received with great distinction. The university of Dub- lin conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., the corporation of London voted him the free- dom of the city, the queen granted him the full pay of captain in the navy for the two years he was absent, and Lady Franklin pre- sented to him the vessel in which he had made his memorable voyage. He was knighted Feb. 23, 1860, and in the spring of the same year was appointed by the government to survey a deep-sea route for a proposed North Atlantic telegraph. He was made a rear admiral in the fleet in October, 1871. MeCLINTOCK., John, an American clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 1814, died at Madison, N. J., March 4, 1870. He graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1835, and entered the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1836 he was appointed professor of mathematics in Dickinson college, and in 1839 of ancient languages. While hold- ing this post he translated, in conjunction with Dr. Blumenthal, Neander's " Life of Christ," and with Prof. Crooks prepared a series of text books for Latin and Greek. From 1848 to 1856 he was editor of the " Methodist Quar- terly Review," which under his charge gained a high place in various branches of literature. In 1856 he was appointed, in conjunction with Bishop Simpson, a visitor to the English, Irish, French, and German conferences, and was also a delegate at the meeting of the evangelical alliance held in Berlin. In 185i he was placed in pastoral charge of St. Paul's (Methodist Episcopal) church in New York, and in 1860 was called to be preacher in the American chapel in Paris, France, under the charge of the American and foreign Christian union. While in Europe he devoted himself