MACLAGAN, William Dalrymple, lish archbishop: b. Edinburgh, 18 Jnne 1826; d. 19 Sept. 1910. He was educated at Edinburgh and was graduated in mathematical honors at Cambridge University. He served in the Indian army (1847-49) ; was ordained deacon (1856) and priest (1857). He was appointed bishop of Lichfield (1878) and archbishop of York in 1891. He published 'Pastoral Letters and Synodal Charges' (1892).
McLANE, mak-lan', Allan, American sol dier and jurist: b. 8 Aug. 1746; d. Wilmington, Del., 22 May 1829. In 1774 he settled in Kent County, Del., and in the Revolution he took a prominent part. He became a lieutenant in Thomas Rodney's regiment of Delaware militia, where he rendered important service at Long Island and White Plains and also in the New Jersey campaign. In 1777 he was made captain and was in command of the American guard about Philadelphia, taking active part in the battle of Monmouth. With the rank of major under Gen. Henry Lee he participated in the capture of Stony Point and Paulus Hook and attained colonel's rank. At the close of the war he was appointed judge of the Delaware Court of Appeals. In 1790-98 he was United States marshal of Delaware under Washington's appointment, and from 1808 until his death col lector of Wilmington (Del.) port. He also served in the Delaware legislature, being for a time speaker of the lower house.
McLANE, James Woods, American phy sician: b. New York, 19 Aug. 1839; d. 25 Nov. 1912. He was graduated at Yale University in 1861 and took his M.D. at the College of Physi cians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1864. He was thereafter for many years connected with the medical faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as lecturer on materia medica in 1866-67, professor of materia medica and thera peutics 1868-72, adjunct-professor of obstetrics, diseases of women and children and medical jurisprudence in 1872-79, professor of gynecol ogy in 1882-85 and of obstetrics in 1891-98. He became professor emeritus in 1898; and in 1891 1903 he was dean of the medical faculty. From 1905 until his death he was president of Roose velt Hospital.
McLANE, Louis, American statesman: b. Smyrna, Kent County, Del., 28 May 1786; d. Baltimore, 7 Oct. 1857. He was the son of Allan McLane (q.v.), and entering the navy at an early age, served as a midshipman under the elder Decatur. Quitting the navy in 1801 he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808 and rose to eminence in the profession. represented Delaware in Congress, 1816-27, when he was chosen United States senator. In
1829-31 he was Minister to Great Britain, and on his return home was made Secretary of the Treasury. In 1833 he declined to sanction the removal of the deposits from the United States Bank, and was consequently transferred by the President to the State Department. He held the office of Secretary of State till June 1834, when he resigned and retired from political life. In 1837 he accepted the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which he held till 1847. In June 1845 he was appointed by President Polk ambassador to London during the Oregon negotiations, after the settlement of which he resigned. In 1850 he was a member of the convention to reform the constitution of Maryland.
McLANE, Robert American politician and diplomat: b. Wilnung-ton, Del., 23 Tune 1815; d. Paris, France, 16 April 1898. He studied at the College Bourbon of Paris (1829-31), was graduated from West Point in 1837, took active part in the Seminole War in Florida (1837), and served under General Scott in the Cherokee country (Georgia). He re signed from the army in 1843, and having al ready been admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, began practice at Baltimore, Md. In 1847-51 he was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives in the 30th and 31st Congresses. In 1853 he was appointed commis sioner, with powers of minister plenipotentiary, to China, Japan, Siam, Korea and Cochin China: and from this mission he returned in 1856, having with Commodore Perry concluded important treaties. In 1859-61 he was Minister to Mexico, in which capacity he signed the treaty of 1860. In 1861 he returned to Balti more and there took a prominent part in the discussions attending the secession of the Cotton States. He was one of the committee appointed by the Maryland legislature (May 1861) to con fer with Lincoln in regard to alleged unconsti tutional proceedings on the part of the Federal government within the State of Maryland. Uoon the decision of the State legislature, based on the committee's report, that it was inexpe dient for Maryland to secede, McLane retired from public affairs for a time. In 1877-78 he was State senator; in 1879-83 a representative in the 46th and 47th Congresses; and in 1883 85 governor of Maryland. He was Minister to France in 1885-89 by appointment of President Cleveland. After tendering his resignation in 1::9. he spent his remaining years at Paris.