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GB-2014-WSA-11560 · Person · 1909-1988

Macdonald, Donald Malcolm Thomas, son of Donald Percival Macdonald, HM Tormore School, Kent, and Alice Caroline Constance, d. of Thomas Whittenbury Wheeler (qv); b. 15 Aug. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (R); left Apr. 1927; PO RAF Mar. 1930, FO Sept. 1931, Flt Lieut Sept. 1935, Sqdn Ldr Oct. 1938, temp. Wing Cdr Dec. 1940; despatches Jan. 1941 and Jan. 1943; temp. Group Capt. Jan. 1944; Wing Cdr Oct. 1946, Group Capt. July 1948, Air Cdre Jan. 1955, acting Air Vice-Marshal Jan. 1957; Dir.-Gen. Personal Services Air Ministry 1957-8, Dir.-Gen. Manning 1958-61; retd Aug. 1961; CB June 1952; Crofters Commissioner 1962-5; chairman Roy. British Legion (Scotland) 1977-81; m. 10 Dec. 1938 Kathleen Mary de Vere, d. of John Theodore Hunt of Oxford; d. 26 Oct. 1988.

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.

Macdonald, ---, fl. 1801
GB-2014-WSA-11558 · Person · fl. 1801

MACDONALD, ---; b.; in school list 1801.

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-11554 · Person · 1836-1865

MACCARTHY, HENRY POPHAM TENISON, eldest son of Daniel MacCarthy, Carbery, Hampshire, and Enricchetta, dau. of Sir Home Riggs Popham (qv); b. 19 May 1836; adm. 30 Sep 1848; Addiscombe Coll. 1853-5; Cadet, EICS Madras 1855; 2nd Lieut., Madras Artillery 8 Jun 1855; Lieut., 27 Aug 1858; d. at Madras 5 Feb 1865.

GB-2014-WSA-11553 · Person · 1838-1887

MACCARTHY, FLORENCE STRACHAN, brother of Henry Popham Tenison MacCarthy (qv); b. Italy 29 Aug 1838; adm. 30 Sep 1848; Lieut., 1st Royal East Middlesex Militia; living Southampton, Hampshire, in 1881 (1881 Census); m. 12 Sep 1866 Alice, youngest dau. of Rev. James Linton, Hemingford House, Hemingford Abbots, Hunts; d. 6 Apr 1887.

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.