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Macpherson, Sir Herbert Tayler, a British sol- 

 dier, born at Ardersier, Inverness-shire, Feb. 

 27, 1827; died in India in October, 1886. He 

 entered the army in 1845. He first took part 

 in actual warfare in the Persian War, at the 

 end of which, in 1857, he attained his captaincy. 

 The outbreak of the Indian mutiny followed, 

 and he was present in all the battles fought 

 with the Oude mutineers and the followers of 

 Nana Sahib; he particularly distinguished him- 

 self in the siege of Lncknow. His next services 

 were in the Hazara campaign in 1868, and in 

 1871 he took part in the Looshai expedition. 

 He was appointed to the rank of major-general 

 in the Afghan War in 1878, and was present at 

 the capture of Ali Musjid, and the subsequent 

 expeditions into the Lughman and Kama val- 

 leys. After the Cabul massacre in 1879, he 

 received command of a brigade under Sir Fred- 

 erick Roberts, and was present at the battle of 

 Charasiab, which opened the road to Cabul. 

 After the forces of Mahomed Jan and the 

 Mushk-i-Alim surrounded the English army at 

 Sherpur, he came to the support of Gen. Mas- 

 sey's broken detachment and put the Afghans 

 to flight. In the final operations against the 

 forces of Mahomed Jan, Sir Herbert Macpher- 

 son enjoyed the credit of the second victory of 

 Charasiab. In the battle of Candahar he com- 

 manded the brigade which led the advance, 

 and achieved the victory at one charge. His 

 brilliant Afghan services obtained for him the 

 command of the Indian contingent in Egypt. 

 In the winter of 1885 he was appointed com- 

 mander-in-chief of the Madras presidency. In 

 October, 1886, he assumed the command of the 

 field army in tipper Burmah, but on his arrival 

 at Mandalay he contracted a climatic fever, and 

 died on the voyage down the Irrawaddy while 

 on the route to the Andaman Islands. 



Madvig, Jean Nicolas, Danish philologist and 

 politician, born at Svaneke, in the Island of 

 Bornholm, Aug. 7, 1804; died in Copenhagen, 

 Dec. 12, 1886. He was graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of Copenhagen, and in 1829 was ap- 

 pointed Professor of the Latin Language and 

 Literature, and ultimately became the rector of 

 the university. He published numerous works 

 on philology. His work on " The Essence, De- 

 velopment, and Life of Language," appeared 

 in 1842. Among his other works are " A Glance 

 at the Constitutions of Antiquity," " The Foun- 

 dations of Ancient Metre," and u Critical Notes 

 on Greek and Latin Writers." In 1848 he was 

 appointed Minister of Worship, and in 1852 he 

 was a member of the Danish Chamber. 



Malon, Jules, a Belgian statesman, born at 

 Ypres, Oct. 19, 1810; died Aug. 3, 1886. He 

 became a distinguished advocate of the Brus- 

 sels bar, was appointed chief of division in the 

 Ministry of Justice, and subsequently Governor 

 of Antwerp, was elected to the lower house 

 of the Belgian Parliament in 1841, and on July 

 30, 1845, was selected as Minister of Finance 

 in the Liberal Cabinet organized by Sylvian 

 Van de Weyer. On the dissolution of that 

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Cabinet in 1846, he retained his portfolio in 

 the Conservative ministry. He became one of 

 the leaders of the Conservative party during 

 the struggle over the school question. In 1870 

 he was chosen Premier, holding that office un- 

 til 1878. He was the author of several trea- 

 tises on finance, the monetary question, and 

 railroads, especially of a " History of Belgian 

 Finance from 1831 to 1865" (Paris, 1867). 



May, Sir Thomas Erskine, Lord Farnborough, 

 an English historian and jurist, born in 1815 ; 

 died in London, May 17, 1886. He was called 

 to the bar in 1838, and in 1844 published his 

 " Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, 

 and Usage of Parliament " ; a concise and sci- 

 entific digest of all that had been written on 

 the subject. This work is the text-book of 

 the law by which Parliament governs its pro- 

 ceedings. Colonial legislatures have been 

 modeled on the lines laid down in it, and its 

 translation into foreign languages has extended 

 its influence to other countries. In 1861 he 

 published his u Constitutional History of Eng- 

 land since the Accession of George III," which 

 takes up English history where Hallam left it. 

 His latest work, "Democracy in Europe," was 

 published in 1877. His connection with the 

 House of Commons began in 1831, when he 

 was appointed assistant librarian. In 1840 he 

 became examiner of petitions for private bills, 

 and in 1871 Clerk of the House of Commons. 



Mayer, Joseph, an English antiquarian, born 

 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in 1803; died in 

 Bebington, Cheshire, Jar. 18, 1886. He began 

 life in Liverpool as a silversmith and jeweler, 

 and devoted his leisure and his earnings to the 

 gathering of antique coins and gems. He at- 

 tained great skill as a numismatist, and sold 

 one collection of Greek coins to the French 

 Government in 1844 at a high price. He then 

 devoted all his efforts to the gathering of speci- 

 mens of Egyptian, Roman, and Etruscan art, 

 of ivory carvings and AVedgwood-ware, all of 

 which antiquities were placed in a house in 

 Liverpool, and finally thrown open to public 

 inspection. When the free library and mu- 

 seum was built by the late Sir William Brown, 

 Mr. Mayer made a gift of his collection, which 

 had cost him over 20,000 in money and years 

 of diligent research, to the corporation of Liv- 

 erpool. This collection now forms one of the 

 most valuable and instructive sections of the 

 great museum. In consideration of his munifi- 

 cent gift, Mr. Mayer's statue, by Fontana, was 

 placed in St. George's Hall, Liverpool. He 

 was a constant writer on antiquities, coins, 

 and pottery. His name is. also associated with 

 the introduction of electroplating, he having 

 assisted the inventor of that process, Thomas 

 Spencer, to a successful introduction of his 

 work. The first article ever successfully treat- 

 ed by this process was an electroplated spoon, 

 and it is one of the pieces of the Mayer collec- 

 tion. Mr. Mayer also built in Liverpool a free 

 library, to which he gave 10,000 volumes, and 

 also laid out a park for the use of the people. 



