MEAD, ROBERT, son of Robert Mead, The Black Lion, Fleet Street, London, stationer; b. 1616; adm.; KS 1630; contributed some commendatory verses to the Poeticall Blossomes of Abraham Cowley (qv) 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors “upon statutable grounds” 1648 (Burrows, 329); BA 1638; MA 1641; MD 1646; Capt. in Royalist Army; distinguished himself at siege of Oxford and in assault on Abingdon; one of the Commissioners for negotiating the surrender of Oxford 17 May 1646; Agent for Charles II in Sweden 1649-51; his comedy, The Combat of Love and Friendship, written by him when an undergraduate, was acted at Christ Church but not published until 1654; d. 21 Feb 1652/3. DNB.
MEAD, ROBERT WILLIAM, son of Elisha Preston Mead MD MRCS LSA, Whitby, Yorks., and Catherine --- (IGI); b. 2 Jan 1858; adm. 12 Jun 1871 (G); QS 22 Jul 1872; left Dec 1874; MB CM Edinburgh 1879; MD 1882; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; MRCS 1880; surgeon with P. & O. Steamship Co.; practised at Whitby, Yorks.; m. 3 Jun 1890 Alice Mary, only dau. of George James Rigg, Buckhurst Hill, Essex; d. 15 Dec 1926.
MEAD, RIVIS, brother of Robert William Mead (qv); b. 5 May 1860; adm. 26 Sep 1872 (G); QS 1875; left Dec 1877; MB CM Edinburgh 1882; Univ. Hospital, Edinburgh; MRCS 1883; Surgeon to Seaside Home, Whitby, Yorks.; emigrated to Australia; practised at Quirindi, New South Wales; d. at Waitara, New South Wales 1 Oct 1934.
McMILLAN, SIR ROBERT FURSE, eldest son of John McMillan, Adelaide Road, London, barrister, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 24 Jan 1858; adm. 4 Apr 1871 (James'); QS 19 Apr 1873; left May 1876; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1876; scholar 1879; 1st cl. Law 1879; LLB 1879; Fellow, Trinity Hall 1880; adm. Inner Temple 3 Jul 1878, called to bar 11 May 1881; Western Circuit; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Western Australia Nov 1906 – Dec 1913, Chief Justice from Dec 1913; knighted 3 Jun 1916; Lieut. -Gov., Western Australia, from 1921; KCMG 3 Jun 1925; m. 2 Aug 1887 Margaret Aitcheson, second dau. of John Elder, Yairam, Victoria, Australia, farmer; d. 23 Apr 1931.
Mcfarlane, Ian Dalrymple, son of James Blair Mcfarlane, ship repairer, of Marseille, and Valerie Edith Liston, d. of Henry Liston Dalrymple, banker, of Hong Kong; b. 7 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left Mar. 1934; Univ. of St Andrews (Harkness schol.) 1934-8, BA (1st class hons) 1938, MA 1945; 2nd Lieut. Black Watch Jan. 1940, p.o.w. St Valery June 1940 (Capt.), MBE for services in captivity Feb. 1946; lecturer in French Camb. Univ., 1945; Fellow Caius Coll. 1947, tutor 1952, sen. tutor 1956; Prof. of French Language and Literature Univ. of St Andrews 1961-70; MA (Oxon.) 1970; Prof. of French Literature Oxf. Univ. and Fellow Wadham Coll. 1971-83, Emeritus 1983; FBA 1978; hon. DLitt St Andrews 1982; W. P. Ker lecturer Glasgow 1981, Andrew Lang lecturer St Andrews 1982, Zaharoff lecturer Oxford 1984; Pres. Modern Humanities Research Assn 1985; author of Renaissance France 1470-1589 1974, Buchanan 1981, The Entry of Henri II into Paris 1549 1985; m. 12 Sept. 1939 Marjory Nan, d. of Rev. William Hamilton Hamilton; d. 17 Aug. 2002.
MCEWAN, NICHOLSON LACEY, son of Robert McEwan, Holbrooke House, Richmond, Surrey, and Mary, dau. of William Buck; b. 15 Mar 1847; adm. 30 Jan 1860 (James'); QS 1862; left Oct 1863; clerk with North British and Mercantile Fire Insurance Co., London (1881 Census); m. 1877 Lucy Peters.
MCDONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, BART., eldest son of James McDonnell MD, Belfast, Ireland, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of J. Clarke, Belfast; b. 1794; adm. Mich. 1808; KS 1810; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1813, matr. 1 Jun 1813, Westminster Student, afterwards Faculty Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1815, for Latin Essay 1819 and for English Essay 1820; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1816; BA 1816; MA 1820; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 May 1817, called to bar 22 Nov 1824; Midland Circuit; gave up legal practice to become Chief Clerk in office of Chief Secretary for Ireland; Resident Commissioner, Board of Education (I), 1839-71; Privy Councillor (I) 1846; created baronet 20 Jan 1872; m. 1826 Barbara, widow of Richard Staples, and eldest dau. of Hugh Montgomery, Benvarden, co. Antrim; d. 21 Jan 1875. DNB.
Mayne, William Cyril, youngest son of the Rev. Jonathan Mayne, Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts, by Lydia Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. John Webster Hawksley, Rector of Redruth, Cornwall; b. April 14, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 16, 1890; Mure Scholar 1894; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1896 (adm. pensr. Oct. 1, 1896); Stewart of Rannock Scholar 1897; 1st class Classical Tripos and B.A. 1899; M.A. 1904; ordained 1906; asst. master at Eastbourne Coll. 1899-1906; at Malvern Coll. 1906-7; Curate of Great Malvern 1906-7; asst. master at Rugby School 1907-12; Curate of All Saints, Poplar, 1912-4; Vice-Principal of Bishop's Coll Cheshunt 1919, Principal May 19, 1920-4; Rector of Poplar, Middlesex 1925-30; Vicar of Chiswick 1930-4; Boyle Lecturer 1929-31; Prof. of Greek and Classical Literature, Durham Univ., and Canon of Durham 1934-43; Dean of Carlisle 1943-59; Warden of the Order of St. Elizabeth of Hungary; served as Army Chaplain in Great War I, 1914-9, in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France; author of a Translation of Pindar's Olympian Odes into English Verse (1907), and other works; m. Jan. 14, 1930, Mary, only daughter of Major George Arthur Onslow, of Dorrington, Salop; d. July 20, 1962.
MAYNE, ROBERT, brother of William Mayne (qv); b. 26 Feb 1778; adm. 16 Sep 1788; KS 1792; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 25 May 1796, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1797 (sic, correctly ?) – void by marriage 10 Jun 1803; BA 1800; MA 1803; ordained; Rector of Limpsfield, Surrey, from 30 Oct 1806; DL JP Surrey; m. 8 Jun 1803 Charlotte Cunynghame, dau. of Col. --- Graham, St. Lawrence House, near Canterbury, Kent; d. 7 Mar 1841.
MAYNE, ROBERT FREDERICK, eldest son of Robert Mayne (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 27 Mar 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1818; d. 27 Jun 1820.