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GB-2014-WSA-11559 · Person · 1747-1826

MACDONALD, SIR ARCHIBALD, BART., son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, Bart., and his second wife Lady Margaret Montgomerie, dau. of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton (S); b. 13 Jul 1747; adm.; KS 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1764, matr. 30 Jun 1764, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1764 – Dec 1776, Faculty Student 7 Dec 1776 – res 23 Dec 1777; BA 1768; MA 1772; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1765, called to bar 24 Nov 1770, Bencher 12 Feb 1778, Treasurer 1789; patent of precedence at Bar 22 Jan 1778; Second Justice of Carmarthen 1780-4; Solicitor-Gen., 7 Apr 1784 – Jun 1788; knighted 27 Jun 1788; Attorney-Gen., 28 Jun 1788 – Feb 1793; MP Hindon 9 Feb 1777-80, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1780 – Feb 1793; Serjeant-at-law 12 Feb 1793; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 12 Feb 1793 – Nov 1813; Privy Councillor 15 Feb 1793; created baronet 27 Nov 1813; FSA 19 Dec 1788; Busby Trustee 21 May 1808; noted for his agreeable manners and conversational talents; m. 26 Dec 1777 Lady Louisa Leveson Gower, eldest dau. of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv), and his second wife; d. 18 May 1826. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-11557 · Person · 1887-?

Macdona, Cuthbert Laud, son of the Rev. Frederick Augustus Macdona, Rector of Cheadle, Cheshire, by Caroline Dorothea, daughter of Thomas Pemberton, of Handsworth, Staffs; b. March 13, 1887; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (H); left July 1903; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michael­ mas 1906; played golf against Oxford 1908; B.A. 1909; served in Great War I; Capt. April 19, 1916; deputy asst. dir. of railway traffic Dec. 1, 1916; Major Feb. 25, 1918; O.B.E. June 3, 1919.

GB-2014-WSA-11555 · Person · 1938-2014

MacCormac, Sir Richard Cornelius, son of Henry MacCormac CBE MD FRCP, consult. physician Middlesex Hosp., and Marion Maud, d. of Benjamin Charles Broomhall FRCS, surgeon and medical missionary in China, of Redlynch, Wilts; b. 3 Sept. 1938; adm. Sept. 1952 (B); left July 1957; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1959, BA 1962 (1st class hons Architecture), hon. Fellow 2006; UCL, MA 1965; RIBA 1967; project architect, Merton LB 1967-9; private practice 1969-; taught Univ. of Camb. Dept of Architecture 1969-75 and 1979-81; visiting Prof. Univ. of Edinburgh 1982-5; dir. Spitalfields Workspace 1981-; Roy. Fine Arts Commission 1983-93; FRSA 1982; pres. RIBA 1991-3; RA 1993; Commissioner, English Heritage 1995-8; sen. partner MacCormac, Jamieson, Prichard (latterly MJP Architects) 1972-2010; CBE Jan. 1994; knighted Jan. 2001; hon. Fellow of the Sch. 2005; m. 12 Sept. 1964 Susan Karin, d. of Lars Hjalmar Landen, author, of Croydon; d. 26 July 2014.

GB-2014-WSA-11552 · Person · 1911-1985

MacCallum Scott, John Hutchison, son of Alexander MacCallum Scott MP, barrister-at-law, and Jessie, d. of John Hutchison, Rector Glasgow HS; b. 25 July 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (R); left Dec. 1928; Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1970; called to tbe Bar (Middle Temple) May 1933; practised on western circuit; 2nd Lieut. RASC 1941, transf. ERE List June 1942, despatches (NW Europe) May 1945; founder and hon. sec. Liberal International; con­tested (Lib) Leeds North 1945, Southend West 1950; man. dir. The Pall Mall Press Ltd; sec. Independent Univ. Planning Board 1970-3; management council Univ. Coll. of Buckingham 1974; author of Beaten Tracks 1938, Eastern Journey 1939, and books on higher education 1967- 74; m. 4 Jan. 1933 Nora, d. of Andrew Birrel of Glasgow; d. 26 June 1985.

GB-2014-WSA-11551 · Person · 1917-1975

MacBride, Geoffrey Ernest Derek, son of Ernest William MacBride DSc FRS, Prof. of Zoology Imp. Coll. of Science, and Constance, d. of Francis Henry Chrysler KC of Ottawa; b. 16 Apr. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1942, MA 1943; Intell. Corps 1943-5 (Capt.); HM Foreign Service 1946-75, seconded Control Commn for Germany 1947, Consul Dusseldorf 1960, Foreign Office 1966; MBE 1950; CMG 1971; retd June 1975; m. 1st 1940 Shirley Margaret, d. of Arthur Huish Evans of Hoylake, Cheshire; 2nd 30 Sept. 1972 June Doreen, d. of Rev. Canon Dudley Moore of Barbados; d. in Vienna 24 Dec. 1975.

GB-2014-WSA-11549 · Person · 1870-?

Macauley, William George Ridgeway, son of William Robert Macauley, M.R.C.P. (I), of Hyde Park, by Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of William Charles Argent, of Mauritius; b. Aug. 29, 1870; adm. Sept. 24, 1885 (R); left April 1887; St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1896; practised at Harlesden, Middlesex; Capt. R.A.M.C.; served on ambu­lance trains, and in France in Great War I; m. Jan. 14, 1897, Helen Augusta, daughter of Johnson Walter, of Norwich.

GB-2014-WSA-11546 · Person · 1896-1983

Mabey, Harold Victor, brother of Charles Henry Cecil Mabey (q.v.); b. Sept. 8, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (A); left July 1912; sculptor, joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. 1915; 2nd Lieut. Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Aug. 20, 1916, attached 8th Batt. Devon Regt. 1917; Lieut. Feb. 20, 1918; served in Italy until the end of Great War I; served in Great War II as Lieut. R. A. P. C.; m. Nov. 24, 1920, Cynthia Reine, daughter of Arthur Howard Linford, of Hamp­stead, and sister of Bernard Owen Mordaunt Linford (q.v.); d. 30 Apr. 1983.

GB-2014-WSA-11545 · Person · 1894-1971

Mabey, Charles Henry Cecil, son of Charles Henry Mabey, of Surrey, by Emily Sarah, daughter of Samuel Prince Catterson, of Eastbourne, Sussex; b. April 16, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left July 1911; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Aug. 20, 1916; Lieut. Devon Regt. Feb. 20, 1918; served in France in Great War I; demob. Jan. 1919; a chartered accountant in practice in London; A. C. A. Aug. 1919; F. C. A. 1926; retired 1959; m. 1st April 29, 1922, Norah Eileen, daughter of Walter George Kirby, of Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex; 2nd July 28, 1945, Winifred Eileen, elder daughter of H. A. Cook, of Sutton, Surrey; d. 1971.

Lyttelton, Oliver, 1893-1972
GB-2014-WSA-11542 · Person · 1893-1972

Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos of Aldershot, only son of the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, M. P., sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies, by his second wife, Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. March 15, 1893; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906 and went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; temp. Capt. Oct. 18, 1915; served in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917; D.S.O., Oct. 20, 1916; M.C. July 26, 1918; played golf for Cambridge 1913; M. P. Aldershot 1940-54; Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals 1939-40; P. C. 1940; President of the Board of Trade 1940-1 and May-July 1945; Minister of State and Member of War Cabinet 1941-2; Minister of Production and Member of War Cabinet 1942-5; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1951-4; created Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Sept. 10, 1954; chairman of Associated Electrical Insudtries Ltd. 1945-51 and since 1954; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of George, 10th Duke of Leeds; d. 21 Jan. 1972.

GB-2014-WSA-11541 · Person · 1882-?

Lyster, Ernest Algernon; b. Nov. 23, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (H); left Dec. 1897.