MACKONOCHIE, ma-kon'o-ki, ALEXANDER IlEttior An English ecclesiastic, famed for his High Church views. He was born at Fare ham. and educated at Bath, Exeter, Edin burgh. and Wadham College. Oxford. In 1858 he began to work with Charles Fuge Lowder (q.v.) at saint George's in the East, London, and four years after took charge of Saint Alban's, Holborn, in a London slum where he worked for twenty years. Ilere he officiated at services so elaborate as to be called by Shaftesbury, in 1866, "in outward form . . . the worship of Jupiter or Juno." For his Catholic ritual he was prose cuted again and again—in 1868, 1369, and 1870, in 1874, and in 1882. In the last year he re signed out of respect for the wish of the dying Archbishop Tait, and accepted a charge at Saint Peter's, London Docks; lint was forced to resign from it (1883). and returned to Saint Alban's and worked there unollieially. He was found dead in the snow, in the deer forest of :Manure, whew he had lost his way, in December, 1887.
He did a great work in the London slums and his continual suits at law helped to clear up diffi culties on ritual questions. Consult the Life by Mrs. Fowl° (1890).
McLACHLAN, ALEXANDER (1818-Mn. Seottish-Canadian poet. He was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and went to Canada in 1840. He was a man of democratic disposition. as is shown by the vigor ous radicalism of his verse—The Spirit of Lore, and Other Pouns (1846); Poems, Chiefly in. the ScatliNk Dialect ( IS5q ; Lyrics (185S) ; The Emigrant. and Other Poems ( S(31) ; Poems and Songs (1874). In 1863 lie was Government emi gration agent in Scotland, where he lectured, as well as in Canada and the United States. A com plete edition of his poems. with a memoir, was published in