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Macbean, Alexander (d. 1784), writer and amanuensis; employed as an amanuensis by encyclopaedist Ephraim Chambers; one of the six amanuenses employed by S.J. on his Dictionary; author of a Dictionary of Ancient Geography (1773): 81, 106, 107, 532, 576–7, 762, 763, 815
Macbean, William (fl. 1785), younger brother of the above and the last to survive of S.J.’s dictionary assistants: 106
Macclesfield, Anne, nee Mason, Countess of (c. 1673–1753), wife of the following: 97, 98 and n. c, 99 and n. b, 100 n. a
Macclesfield, Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of (c.i 659–1701), army officer, diplomat and divorce; staunch Whig; Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (1696); involved in the most scandalous and salacious divorce proceedings of the century: 98 n. c
Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of (1667–1732), Lord Chancellor (1718); Whig; serjeant-at-law then Queen’s serjeant (1705); MP for Derby (1705); Lord Chief Justice (171 o); Privy Councillor (171 o); fellow of the Royal Society (1712); close ties with George I; impeached for embezzlement (1725); struck off the roll of Privy Councillors (1725): 91
Macconochie, Allan, Lord Meadowbank (1748–1816), Scottish lawyer: 638
McDonald, Alexander (d. c. 1770), Highland schoolmaster and bard; author of a work on Gaelic and English vocabulary, sent to S.J. via J.B.: 411
Macdonald, Flora (1722–90), Jacobite heroine: 724
Macdonald, Lady (1748–89), wife of Sir Alexander Macdonald: 730
Macdonald, Ranald (fl. 1776), of Egg: 428
Macdonald, Sir Alexander (c.1745–95), 9th Baronet of Sleat, ist Baron Macdonald: 344, 352
Macdonald, Sir James (1742–66), 8th Baronet of Sleat: 237, 809 n. c
Mackenzie, Henry (1745–1831), writer; author of the sentimental novel The Man of Feeling (1771) and its contrasting follow-up, The Man of the World (1773); generally known as the arch-sentimentalist of Scottish literature; comptroller of taxes for Scotland (1779); edited the periodicals The Mirror and The Lounger; founder member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; one of the directors of the Highland Society of Scotland: 192–3, 983, 1071 n. 1258
Macklin, Charles (1697?–!797), actor and playwright; prospered at Drury Lane during the actors’ revolt (1733-4); much-lauded interpretation of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1741); quarrel with Garrick; author of Love a-la-Mode (1758); helped to establish the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin; Macbeth at Covent Garden responsible for starting the trend of playing Shakespeare by place and period, rather than in contemporary garb (1773); key innovator of eighteenth-century theatre: 205, 520
Maclaine, Dr Archibald (1722–1804), miscellaneous author; ‘a learned divine’: 189, 1028 n. 158
Maclaurin, John, LordDreghorn (1734–96), judge and writer; eldest son of Colin Maclaurin, below; author of The Philosopher’s Opera (1757); one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; senator of the College of Justice as Lord Dreghorn through the interest of Henry Dundas: 247, 456, 526 and n. a, 565, 566, 573, 590, 638 andn. b
Maclaurin, Prof. Colin (1698–1746), mathematician and natural philosopher; deputy to James Gregory at Edinburgh University (1726); one of two co-secretaries on foundation of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society (1737); author of the Treatise of Fluxions (1742); took a leadingrole in the defence of Edinburgh against the highland army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745: 526
Maclean, Alexander (c.1754–1835), 14th Laird of Coll: 428, 480, 482
Maclean, Hugh (d. 1786), 13th Laird of Coll, father of‘Young Coll’: 59
Maclean, Mr (fl. 1775), of Torloisk: 428
Maclean, Sir Allan (c.1710–83), 6th Baronet of Duart, Chief of the Clan Maclean: 424, 464 andn. a, 570, 573, 586, 589–90
Macleod, Flora (d. 1780), of Raasay: 585, 586
Macleod, John (d. 1786), 9th Laird of Raasay: 424, 425, 464, 465, 482, 852
MacMaster, William (fl. 1772), a probationer for whom J.B. acted as counsel: 351
MacNeny, see Neny, Count Patrice
Maconochie, Allan, Lord