MACCLESFIELD, nfillek'lz-fild. A manu facturing town in Cheshire, England, on the river Boffin, 15 miles southeast of Manchester (Map: England, D 3). Notable buildings are the Church of Saint Michael's, founded in 1278; a grammar school endowed in 1502; the town hall, and infirmary. It is an active municipality and owns water and gas works, markets, quarries, cemetery, two parks, and bath, and maintains a free library and technical schools. Silks and other textiles are manufactured, and bleaching is an important industry. In the vicinity, coal, slate, and stone are obtained. Macclesfield was a por tion of the Mercian royal demesne; it became a borough in 1261 and was incorporated in 1678. Population. in 1891, 36,000; in 1901, 34,600.
McCLIN'TOCK, Sir ERANcis LEOPOLD (1819 —). .An English naval officer and explorer. He was born in Ireland. entered the navy in 1831, and in 1838 went to South America in the steam ship Gorgon. He was attached to the Pacific squadron, in 1848 was a member of the Arctic expedition under Sir James C. Ross, and in 1S50 was first lieutenant of the Resistance in the Arctic expedition for the relief of Sir John Franklin. On his return to England he was made commander, and in 1852 served under Sir Edward Belcher in a third Arctic expedition. He succeeded in rescuing Captain McClure near Melville Island (1854), but was afterwards obliged to abandon his own vessel. In 1857, in command of the Fox, fitted out by Lady Franklin, he started on a new search for Sir John Franklin, and made the first discovery of the explorer's death on the northwestern coast of King William Land. On his return in 1859 he was knighted, and received the degree of doctor of laws from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dub lin. Ile was made a rear-admiral in 1871 and a vice-admiral in 1877: was in command of the North American and West Indian station from 1879 to 1882: was promoted to be full admiral in 1S84; and in 1887 received an admiral's pen sion. Be published Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas (1859).
IVIeCLINTOCK„Jonx (1814-70). A Metho dist Episcopal theologian. He was born in Phila delphia, October 27. 1814, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835.
He was ordained a minister of the .Metho dist Episcopal Church, and acted as pro fessor of mathematics and of Greek and Latin in Dickinson College from 1836 to 1846. In 1848 he was elected by the General Conference editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, retaining the position for eight years. In 1856 lie was ap pointed, with Bishop Simpson, a delegate to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of England, and to the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance held at Berlin. In 1857 he became pastor of Saint Paul's Methodist Church in New York. and in 1860 was preacher in the American Chapel in Paris. During the Civil War he advocated with ability the Union cause, and his home in Paris was a rallying centre for patriotic Americans. Returning to America in 1864, he was again, for a short time, placed in charge of Saint Paul's Church in New York. His health failing, he re signed in 1865, and resided in Germantown, Pa. In 1866 lie removed to New Brunswick, N. .1.. supplying for a time Saint James's Church, and was made chairman of the Central Centenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1S07 he became president of Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., and held the posi tion till his death there, March 4, 1870. Besides numerous articles in periodicals, he published a translation of Neander's Life of ('heist (18-17) ; Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers( l563) ; The Temporal Power of the Pope; a translation of Bungcner's history of the Council of Trent (1851) ; and prepared, in collaboration with Dr. Blumenthal, Analysis of Watson's Theological Institutes (1850). In the last twenty years of his life he labored in preparing the Cyclop•dia of Biblical. Theological, and Ecclesiastical Latent turc,in connection with Dr. James Strong. At the time of his death three volumes had been pub lished; the work was continued by Dr. Strong and finished in 1SS7 (12 vols.). A volume of Dr. Mc Clintock's sermons, entitled Liring Words(1871), and Lectures on Theological Eneyclop•dia and Methodology (1S73) were published after his death. Consult his Life by Crooks (New York, 1876).