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* MACKLIN. 634 MACLAREN. a life filled vith quarrels and lawsuits. His tjliyluek, which lie plaj-eil for fifty years, was a famous cifalion. lie also excelled in his nu- merous eoniie riiles. Of his own plays, only three were ])rinle<l: Tlic Triic-horn Ii-ishiiiaii. Love a la Mode, and The Mini- of the ^Vorld. The last is a niasterpioco. -Macklin's Life was written by Congreve (London, 17!)8), tirned into sheer ro- mance by KirUnian ( ib., 17ft!)), untrustworthily described bv L'ooke (ib., 1804), and well treated by Parry (ib., 18!)1). MACKONOCHIE, in;'i-kon'6-ki. Alexaxdeb IIkkiot ( lS:i.')-S7). An English ecclesiastic, famed for his High (-'hureh views. He was born at Fare- ham, and was educated at Bath. Exeter, Edin- burgh, and Wadham College. Oxford. In 1858 he began to work with Charles Fuge Lewder (q.v. ) at Saint George's in the East, London, and four years after took charge of Saint Alban's, Holborn. in a London slum where he worked for twenty years. Here he olliciated at services so elaborate as to be called by Shaftesbury, in 18GG, "in outward form . . . the worship of Jupiter or Juno." For his Catholic ritual he was |)rose- cuted again and again — in 1808, 1809. and 1870, in 1874. and in 1882. In the last year he re- signed out of respect for the wish of the dying Archbishop Tail, and accepted a charge at Saint Peter's, Londfin Docks ; but was forced to resign from it (lS8.'i). and returned to Saint Alban's and worked there iniiHicially. He was found dead in the snow, in the deer forest of Jfanore, wlieie he had lost his way, in December, 1887. He did a great work in the London slums and his continual suits at law helped to clear up diffi- culties on ritual questions. Consult the Life by Mrs. Fowle (1890). McLACHLAN, mak-laK'hin, Alexandeb (1818-90). A Scottish-Canadian pnet. He was born in Johnstone. Renfrewshire, Scotland, and went to Canada in 1840. He was a man of democratic disjiosition. as is shown by the vigor- ous radicalism iif his verse — Tiie Spirit of Love, and Other I'oems (1840) ; Poems. Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1850); Lt/Hes (18.58): The Emiyrant. (iml Other Poems (1861) ; Poems and Sonfls (1874). In ISO.S he was Government emi- gration agent in Scotland, where he lectured, as well as in Canada and the L'nited States. A com- plete edition of liis poems, with a memoir, was pulilislicd in 1890. MACLA'GAN, William Dalrymple (1826 — I. An Knglish prelate. He was born in Edin- burgh, and educated there and at Petcrhouse College. Cambridge. He served in the Indian Army from 1847 to 1852; was ordained priest in 1857 ; was rector of Xcwington, then vicar of Saint Mary Abbott's, Kensington, till 1878, when he. was ajipointed Bishop of Lichfield. In 1891, on the death of Dr. Magee, he was translated to the Archbishopric of York, and in the same year was made an honorary fellow of Pcterhouse Col- lege, Cambridge. In' 1899 and 1900 he sat as assessor with the .rchbishop of Cantcrhnry in a voluntary spiritual court for the hearing of cases involving important principles of ritual and the determination of the law and practice of the Church upon them. Opinions were given at these sittings, having only moral force, on the opremonial use of incense and of processional lights, and the reservation of the Sacrament, the preparation of which involved careful historical and legal I'esearch. He also joined his brother primate in a learned and ellective defense of Anglican orders at the time when they were de- clared invalid at Kome. He edited, in connection with Dr. Archib;ild Weir, the Church and the Age: Essays on the Principles: and Present Posi- tion of the Anylican Church (2 vols., 1870.), and published a volume of pastoral letters and syn- odieal charges (1891). McLANE, mfik-lfin', Allan (1740-1829). An American soldier in the Kevolutionary War. He entered the Continental Army as a volunteer in 1775; became a lieutenant imder Ciesar Kodncy in the same year; distinguished himself at Long Isl.and and White Plains; participated in the New Jersey campaign, and was jjromoted to a captaincy in 1777. He commanded the Ameri- can outposts about Philadelphia in 1777-78, and took ])art in the battle of ilonmouth. The next year he was a major in Gen. Henry Lee's "legion.' and assisted matcriall.y in the capture of both' Stony Point and Paulus Hook. He remained in the army until the close of the war, and sulj- sequently became a judge of the Delaware Court of Appeals. I'nited .States marshal for Delaware, and collector of the port of Wilmington. He was a man of gigantic stature and wonderful physical strength, and was noted for his great personal bravery. McLANE, Louis (1786-1857). An American statesman, born in Symrnji, Del. He began his career as a midsliipman in the navy, but later studied law and entered politics. He was a Representative in Congress from 1817 to 1827, and a Senator from 1827 to 1829, when he was appointed Minister to England, where he carried on negotiations which resulted in the opening of the British W'est India ports to our trade. He returned from England in 1831 in order to be- come Secretary of the Treasury in .Jackson's Cabi- net, but in 18.33 disapproved of .Jackson's order to withdraw the deposits from the L^nited States Bank, and was transferred to the State Depart- ment, where he remained one year. From 1837 to 1847 he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1845 he was again made Minister to England, but resigned in 1846 after the settlement of the Oregon question. McLANE, RonERT Milligax (1815-98). An American diplomatist, born in Delaware. He studied at Saint Mary's College, Baltimore, and in France, and graduated at West Point in 1837. He resigned from the army in 1843 and practiced law in ISaltimore. In 1845-40 he was in the Legislature of ilaryland, and from 1847 to 1851 served in the L^nited States House of Representa- tives. He was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1853, and in the same year was appointed Conntiissioner to China, but retired in 1854. In 1859-00 he was Minister to Mexico. He was a States' Rights candidate for Congress in 1801, but withdrew before the special election, and was a member of the committee ajijiointed to consider the relations of Maryland with the Union. From 1879 to 1883 he was again a mem- ber of the United .States House of Representa- tives. He was Governor of Maryland in 1884-85. but resigned to accept the post of Minister to France. After his retirement in 1889 he lived in Paris until his death. MACLAREN, m'-klarVn. Ian. The pseu- donym of the Scotch writer John Watson (q.v.).