MACLA'GAN, WILLiAm DALRYMPLE (1826 —1. An English prelate. lIe was born in Edin burgh. and educated there and at Peterhouse College. Cambridge. lle served in the Indian Army from 1847 to 1852; was ordained priest in 1857 ; was rector of Newington„ then vicar of Saint Mary Abbott's, Kensington, till 1878, when he was appointed Bishop of Lichfield. In 1891, on the death of Dr. Magee, he was translated to the Archbishopric of York, and in the same year was made an honorary fellow of Peterhouse Col lege, Cambridge. In 1899 and 1900 lie sat as assessor with the Archbishop of Canterbury in a voluntary spiritual court for the bearing of eases involving important principles of ritual and the determination of the law and practice of the Cliureb upon them. Opinions were given at these sittings, having only moral force. on the ceremonial use of incense and of processional lights, and the reservation of the Sacrament, the preparation of which involved careful historical and legal research. lle also joined his brother primate in a learned and effective defense of Anglican orders at the time when they were de clared invalid at Rome. Ile edited, in connection \vitt' Dr. Archibald Weir, the Church acid the Age: Essays on the Principles) and Present Posi tion of the Anglican Church (2 vols., 1870.), and published a volume of pastoral letters and syn odical charges (1891).
McLANE, MFIk-1511', ALLAN ( 1746-1829 ) . 'An American soldier in the Revolutionary War. lle entered the Continental Army as a volunteer in 1775; became a lieutenant under Cesar Rodney in the same year distinguished himself at Long Island and White Plains; participated in the New Jersey campaign, and was promoted to a captaincy in 1777. He commanded the Ameri can outposts about Philadelphia in 1777-7S, and took part in the battle of Monmouth. The next year he was a major in Gen. Henry Lee's 'legion,' and assisted materially in the capture of Stony Point and Paulus Hook. He remained in the army until the close of the war, and sub sequently became a judge of the Delaware Court of Appeals, United States marshal for Delaware, and collector of the port of Wilmington. He was
a man of gigantic stature and wonderful physical strength, and was noted for his great personal bravery.
MeLANE, Louis (1786-13571. An American statesman,, born in Symrna, Del. He began his career as a midshipman in the navy, but later studied law and entered politics. He was a Representative in Congress from 1817 to 1827, and a Senator from 1827 to 1829, when he was appointed Minister to England, where he carried on negotiations which resulted in the opening of the British \Vest India ports to our trade. He returned from England in 1831 in order to be come Secretary of the Treasury in Jackson's Cabi net, but in 1833 disapproved of Jackson's order to withdraw the deposits from the United States Bank, and was transferred to the State Depart ment, where he remained one year. From 1837 to 1347 he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1345 he was again made Minister to England. but resigned in 1846 after the settlement of the Oregon question.
MeLANE, ROBERT MILLIGAN ( 1815-9S) . An American diplomatist, born in Delaware. He studied at Saint Mary's College, Baltimore, and in France, and graduated at West Point in 1837. Ile resigned from the army in 1843 and practiced law in Baltimore. In 1845-46 he was in the Legislature of Maryland. and from 1847 to 1851 served in the United States. House of Representa tives. He was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1853, and in the same year was appointed C'ommissioner to China, but retired in 1854. In he was Minister to 'Mexico. lIe was a States' Rights candidate for Congress in 1861, hut withdrew before the special election, and was a member of the committee appointed to consider the relations of Maryland with the Union. From 1879 to 1883 he was again a mem ber of the 'United .States House of- Representa tives. He was Governor of Maryland in ISS4-S5. hut resigned to accept the post of Minister to France. After his retirement in 1889 he lived in Paris until his death.