McGEE, TnomAs D'Ancy, 1825-68; b. Ireland; emio-rated to America when 17 years of age, and settled in Boston, Mass., where he contrrbuted to the Pilot, of which he became editor. He returned to Ireland in 1845 and remained until 1848, writing for the Dublin Nation and interesting himself in the repeal movement. He again crossed the ocean, and for the next 9 years was the editor of the Nevi York Nation, afterwards the American Ult. In 1857 he changed his residence to Canada, and established The New Ercein Montreal, being also elected a member of parliament, a position to which he was constantly re-elected until his death. He was also twice a member of the ministry, and for one term president of the executive council. He was a prominent advocate of the inovement for the union of the provinces, and drafted the plan on which that was afterwards effected. He opposed the Fenian movement, a fact which is supposed to have caused his death. He was assassinated April 7,1868, by one Whealen, at the door of his hotel, after a night session of parliantent. He was an able journalist, a brilliant public speaker, and the author of a number of important works. Among these are: History of the Irish Settlers in 1Vorth America, from the earliest period to 1850; History of Attenbpts to establish Me Protestant Reformation in Ireland ; Sketches of O'Connell and his Friends ; Popular History of Ireland ; and a volume of poems.
MacGEOGIIE'GAN, JAMES, 1698-1760;. b. Ireland; pursued his studies at Rheims, and taking holy orders became chaplain of the Irish brigade 'attached to. the French army. At the instance of a number of distinguished Irislunen in the French service, lie wrote in French a IIistory of Ireland, which was translated into English in 1835.
McGILL, JOHN, D.D., 1809-72; b. Philadelphia: emigrated in childhood to Bards town, Ky.; graduated at St. Joseph's college; practiced law in New Orleans and in Kentucky; studied theology at Baltimore and Rome; took priest's orders in 1830 in the Ronian church at Bardstown; preached in Lexington, Ky., and in 1850 was conse crated bishop of Richmond, Va. He took a prominent part in the Vatican council. He is said to have been an able preacher and a, distinguished controversial writer.
McGILLIVRAY, ALEXANDER, 1740-93% b. Ala.; son of a Scotch trader named _McGillivray, and a half-breed daughter of a French officer. He received a good educa tion at Charleston, and was for a time in mercantile business at Savannah, but soon came back to the Creek Indians, whom he led, on the royalist side durino. the revolution ary war. At its close he negotiated an alliance between the Creeks ancfSeminoles, and Spain; and he became an ao-ent of the latter. In 1790 he was a party to a treaty grant ing a considerable territorybto the United States, and was made a brig.gen. and U. S. agent.
McGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM, LD.D., 1796-1852; b. Scotland; graduated at King's college, Aberdeen, where, and at Edinburgh, he studied medicine, He never took a medical degree, but devoted himself to his-favorite study of natural history. In 1823 he was appointed keeper of the Edinburgh university, and in 1831 curator of the museura of the royal college of surgeons at Edinburgh. In 1841 he was appointed professor of natural history iu Marischal .college, Aberdeen. His most important works are: A His tory of British Birds, 5 vols., 1837-52; A Manual of British Ornithology, 2 vols., 1840-41; and The Flowering Plants of Great Britain and Ireland.