MACKEAN, Walter George. Edinburgh 17.6.1872 — Aberdeen 2.11.1932. British (Scottish) Missionary in Sikkim. Son of James Mackean. Worked for Scottish Universities’ Mission in Sikkim in 1900-29?. In 1929-32 Parish Minister of Maryton, Angus. Married 1906 Susan Carswell, children. Publications: “Sikkim”, E.R.E. 11, 1920. Sources: http://dustydocs.com/link/150/41043/156520/parish-page-ancestor-abel.html.
MACGREGOR, William Lewis. ?.12.1801 — Dinapur (Danapur) near Patna 7.9.1853. British Physician in India, Author of Sikh History. M.D. 1825 Edinburgh, then to India. The principal physician to Ranjit Singh and superior of —> Honigberger. Married Anna Caroline, at least one daughter. Publications: The history of the Sikhs: Containing the Lives…
MACGREGOR, Charles Metcalfe. Agra 12.8.1840 — Cairo 5.2.1887. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Geographer and Explorer in India. Son of Major Robert Guthrie M. of Bengal army. Educated at Marlborough College. At the age of 16 joined Indian army and had immediately to fight the 1857 uprising. Further military service in…
MACFIE, John Mandeville. 30.12.1871 — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Studies at Glasgow, M.A. 1891. From 1894 Presbyterian missionary in Rajputana. Not to be confused with Major-General J.M.M. (1891–1985). Publications: The Mahābhārata: A Summary. 265 p. Madras 1921; The laws of Manu; a summary in English. 4+131 p. Madras 1921; The…
MCCULLOCH, William. Edinburgh 1856 — 1928. Rev. British (Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Principal of theological college in Chinsurah (1886). Retired in 1911 and returned to the U.K. in the 1920s. Married Helen Mabel Paterson, two daughters and two sons. Publications: Bengali Household Tales. 11+320 p. L. Collected and Translated. 1912.…
MCCAWLEY, James David (born James Quillan McCawley Jr.). Glasgow 30.3.1938 — Chicago 10.4.1999. U.S. (Scottish-born) Linguist. Professor in Chicago. Son of James Quillan McC., a businessman, and Monica Bateman, a physician, a Roman Catholic family. In 1939 the father moved to Toronto, but the family only followed after the war.…
MACALISTER, Robert Alexander Stewart. Rathmines, Dublin 8.7.1870 — Cambridge 26.4.1950. Irish Archeologist. Professor in Dublin. Son of Alexander M. (1844–1919), anatomist and Egyptologist, and Elizabeth Stewart. His mother and paternal grandfather came from Scotland. Father was Professor at Trinity College and from 1883 at Cambridge, thus he grew up in Cambridge, educated…
MACALISTER, George. 1843 — Edinburgh 28.8.1920. Rev. British (Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. M.A. Ordained 1871. First in Beawar, from 1876 worked in Jaipur, where he was in charge of education. D.D. Married with Selina Paulin (d. 1875), one daughter, and with Mary Murray Procter (1857–1924), children. Publications: Specimens of the…
MORICI, Giuseppe. 13.9.1855 — 19??. Italian interested in Sanskrit. “R. Provveditore agli Studi a Macerata”. Publications: “Kālidāsa. Ritusanhāra. Traduzione in versi con note”, Orlando furioso. Rivista di lettere, scienze ed arti 2, Livorno 1886, 81-84, 92-96, 98-101; Kālidāsa. La nube messaggera. Poema tradotto. 79 p. Roma 1891 (and SFII 1-3,…
MAROZZI, Eli Raphael. Motegallo 1913 — Honolulu 31.8.1999. U.S. (Italian-born) Artist (sculptor and ceramist) and Practiser of Vedānta. Came to the U.S.A. as child, grew up in Pennsylvania. In 1941-43 in army. Studies at University Washington (B.A. 1949) and of Hawaii (M.A. 1952), 1950 also in India (Indian art and…