MACKICHAN, Dugald. Glasgow 1851 — 7.4.1932. Very Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary Scholar in India. Son of Alexander Mackichan, a tobacco and snuff merchant. After Glasgow High School studied science, then theology at Glasgow (M.A. 1869, B.D. 1874, D.D. 1884), Leipzig, and Berlin universities. Did early electrostatic and electromagnetic research. In 1873-74 Thomson Fellow. In 1874 ordained as a priest of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1875 went to India as missionary, taught at Wilson College in Bombay, in 1878-1920 its Principal (succeeding John Wilson). Retired in 1920. Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University in 1888-90, 1902-04. 1904-06, 1915-16. LL.D. 1901 Glasgow and 1916 Bombay. Married 1877 Eliza MacRitchie (d. 1920), two daughters. He knew both Sanskrit and Marathi.
Publications: Translated: Garbe, Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita. 50 p. Bombay 1918; R. Roth, Introduction to the Nirukta. 46 p. Bombay 1919.
– “Advaita”, “Vallabha”, and other articles in E.R.E.
– The Missionary Ideal of the Scottish Churches. 238 p. L. [1927?].
– Forty-Five years in India: Memoirs and reminiscences of Principal Mackichan. 11+116 p. L. 1934.
Sources: R.F., Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinburgh 52, 1933, 468f.; Who Was Who 1929–1940; note in E.R.E. Index Vol. 1926; works in N.U.C.; Wikipedia.
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