MAGOUN, Herbert William. Bath, co. Sagadahoc, Maine 17.2.1856 — Belmont, Mass. 8.1. 1956. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas P. I. Magoun (1830–1886) and Maria Littlefield. Studies at Iowa (now Grinnell) College (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882). In 1879-80 Assistant Principal of High School in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1880-81 Principal…
MACPHAIL, James Merry. Shaflesbury, Dorset 1863 — Tisri, Bihar 15.6.1929. British (Scottish) Missionary Physician. Son of Dugald Macphail and Janet Merry. Studies at Glasgow, M.A. 1885, M.D. 1895. A physician of the Santal Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.He was a specialist of eye surgeryand in 1890 founded Bamdah…
MACNICOL, Nicol. Catacol, Lochranza, Isle of Arran 26.2.1870 — Edinburgh 13.2.1952. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Marathi Scholar. Son of the local minister. Studies at Glasgow High School and University, M.A. 1891, D.Litt. 1901, D.D. 1928 Glasgow. From 1895 missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland Mission, first at…
MACLEOD, Roderick Henry. Kensington, London 20.6.1854 — Cambridge 22.12.1928. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Dunning Macleod and Elizabeth Mackenzie Cameron. In I.C.S. 1877-1904, served in North India. From 1913 Lecturer in Indian Law at Cambridge (Caius College) (in 1924 there). M.A. 1915 Cambridge. Married 1890 Emily Stevenson…
MACLAGAN, Edward Douglas. Pañjāb, India 25.8.1864 — London 22.10.1952. Sir. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of —> General Robert Maclagan (1820–1894) and Patricia Gilmour, educated in Winchester and at New College, Oxford (B.A. 1886, M.A.). In 1883 passed the I.C.S. examination and went to India in 1885.…
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…
MCKENZIE, John. Turriff, Aberdeenshire 13.6.1883 — Edinburgh 30.10.1955. Rev. British (Scottish) Teacher and Scholar in India. Son of Andrew McKenzie, educated at Gordon’s College in Aberdeen, studied at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1904), at New College, Edinburgh and at Tübingen University. Ordained as priest in 1908. From 1908 Professor at Wilson…
MACKAY, Ernest John Henry. Bristol 5.7.1880 — London 2.10.1943. British Archaeologist. Son of Richard Cockrill Mackay (1839–1906) and Mary Dermott Thomas, educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University. B.A. 1918, M.A. 1922, D.Litt. 1933. Assisted excavations in Egypt in 1907-12, trained by Petrie. In 1913-16 conducted excavations and photographic…
MACHEK, Václav. Úhlejov, okr. Jičín/Neupaka 8.11.1894 — Brno 26.5.1965. Czechoslovakian Slavic, Vedic and IE Scholar. Professor in Brno. From 1914 studied at Prague Slavic, Baltic, Latin, IE and Sanskrit (under Zubatý). After interruption caused by WW I Ph.D. there 1921. In 1921-24 librarian of Slovakian Library in Paris, also further…
MACHALSKI, Franciszek. Braddock near Pittsburgh 5.7.1904 — Cracow 24.1.1979. Polish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Cracow. Born in a poor emigrant family in the U.S.A., they returned to Poland, when he was six. Grew up in Żołynia, near Łańcut in south-eastern Poland. From 1924 studied Polish and German, soon Sanskrti (Stasiak),…