MACCLESFIELD, England, market town and municipal borough in Ches hire, 166 miles northwest of London, on the river Bollin and on the London and Northwest tern, North Staffordshire and Great Central railways. In the Domesday Survey it is re corded as part of the estate of the Earl of Chester and is reputed to have become a free borough in the beginning of the 13th century. The first recorded charter, however, dates from 1261. The church of Saint Michael was founded in 1278 and was partially rebuilt and considerably enlarged in 1740. A commercial school was erected in 1840 from the funds of the free grammar school founded in 1502. There are slate and stone quarries in the vicinity and brewing is carried on; but the chief manufac tures of the town are in silk and cotton textiles. The first silk mill was set up in 1755, while the manufacture of cotton was begun in 1785. The town has modern water and gas works, an in sane asylum, public library, parks, baths and markets. Pop. about 34,797.
McCLINTOCK, Emory, American actuary: b. Carlisle, Pa., 19 Sept. 1840. He was graduated from Columbia Uni versity in 1859, and afterward took special studies in chemistry. He was tutor in mathe matics at Columbia 1859-60. He was consular agent at Bradford, England, 1863-66, actuary of the Asbury Life Insurance Company, New York, 1867-77, and of the Northwestern Mu tual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, 1871-89. From 1889 to 1911 he was actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, New York, of which he was vice-president in 1905 11, trustee after 1905 and consulting actuary after 1911. He was president of the American Mathematical Society in 1890-94 and of the Actuarial Society of America in 1895-97. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the Institute of Ac tuaries, London. He has contributed to mathe matical journals.
McCLINTOCK,. Sex Francis Leopold, English admiral: b. Dundalk, Ireland, 1819; d. 17 Nov. 1907. He entered the British navy in 1831 and was commissioned lieutenant in 1845. He sailed on four Arctic voyages, being sent out in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin, and again in 1850 and 1852, without discovering any traces of the explorer. In 1857 he renewed
the search as commander of the Fox and brought hack documentary and other evidence of Franklin's death. For his services as an Arctic explorer he was knighted in 1860, and in 1884 made admiral. He wrote 'Voyage of the Fox' (1859).
McCLINTOCK, John, American scholar: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 27 Oct. 1814; d. Madison, N. Y., 4 March 1870. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. He en tered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church and from 1836 to 1851 was professor of mathematics and of Greek and Latin in Dickin son College. From 1848 to 1856 he edited the Methodist Quarterly Review. He was delegate to several conferences abroad and in 1857 be came pastor of Saint Paul's Church, New York. Three years later he was appointed preacher of the American Chapel in Paris. He advocated the Union cause in the Civil War, and after his return to America in 1864 was again pastor of Saint Paul's, New York, but failing health com pelled his resignation and he retired to Ger mantown, Pa. He removed to New Brunswick, N. J., in 1866 and became chairman of the Cen tral Centenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the last three years of his life he was president of the Drew Theo logical Seminary. He was joint editor and compiler with James Strong of the 'Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Lit erature' which goes by their name, the last vol ume of which was published in 1895. Among his other works are 'An Analysis of Watson's Theological Institutes' (1850) ; and 'Tem poral Power of the Pope' (1853). He also is sued a translation of Neander's