K.B. : Captain-General and Governor of the Caribbee islands, 1775–9 : made an Irish Peer, 1776 : defended Grenada and made prisoner of war, but released : appointed Governor of Madras and held the office from June 22, 1781, to June 8, 1785 : reduced the Dutch settlements in S. India : conducted war against Hyder Ali and Tippoo : resented control from the Bengal Government : sent home Coote's successor, Major-General James Stuart : made treaty of Mangalore with Tippoo, 1783 : resigned because his policy in S. India was not upheld : declined the Governor-Generalship, Feb. 1785 : granted a pension by .the E. I. Co. : severely wounded by Stuart in duel in Hyde Park, 1786 : made an Irish Earl in 1792 : sent as Plenipotentiary on an embassy to Pekin, 1792–4 : deputed on a mission to Louis XVIII of France at Vevrai, 1795 : made an English Baron, 1796 : Governor of Cape of Good Hope, 1796–8 : declined the Presidency of the Board of Control : died May 31, 1806 : wrote accounts of his Embassies.
MACAULAY, COLMAN PATRICK LOUIS (1848–1890)
I.C.S.: son of Patrick Macaulay : born Sep. 1848 : educated at Liege and Queen's University, Ireland : went to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1870 : Financial Secretary to the Government of Bengal and Member of the Bengal Legislative Council : went to Pekin, 1885 : obtained Chinese Government passports, and was organizing a mixed political and scientific mission to Lhasa, to open up trade, when it was suddenly stopped, in 1886, in deference to Chinese susceptibilities : Acting Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government : died May 2, 1890 : C.I.E.
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, FIRST BARON (1800–1859)
Born Oct. 25, 1800 : son of Zachary Macaulay : educated at private schools and at Trinity College, Cambridge : Fellow, 1824 : gained the Chancellor's English verse prizes on Pompeii and Evening : Commissioner in Bankruptcy, 1828 : M.P. for Calne, 1830; for Leeds, 1831 : Commissioner of the Board of Control, 1832 : Secretary, 1833 : helped to carry the Bill of 1833 for renewing the charter of the E. I. Co. : made a great speech on the second reading : appointed Legal Member of the Supreme Council in India : went out in 1834 : landed at Madras in June : was at Ootacamund with Lord W . Bentinck, the Governor-General, until he went on to Calcutta in September. As Legal Member, he was head of the Law Commission and largely responsible for the preparation of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. He also wrote a great minute on Education in India, and obtained a decision in preference of English studies rather than of Oriental languages and literature. His sister married (Sir) Charles Trevelyan, and Macaulay lived with them in Calcutta, in the house in Chowringhi now occupied by the Bengal Club. He resigned his appointment on Jan. 17, 1838. He wrote his essay on Clive in Jan. 1840, and on Warren Hastings in Oct. 1841 : M.P. for Edinburgh, 1839–47, and 1852–6 : Secretary at War, and in the Cabinet, 1839–41 : in 1853 he supported the India Bill for the renewal of the E. I. Co.'s Charter : in 1854 he was Chairman of the Committee appointed to arrange for the examination of candidates for the Indian Civil Service by open competition, and wrote the report. He died Dec. 28, 1859. His parliamentary career, his History of England and literary productions had, except in respect of the matters above mentioned, no special connexion with India.
MACBEAN, FORBES (1857–)
Born Jan. 3, 1857 : son of Colonel Forbes Macbean : educated at Uppingham : entered the Army, 1876, and became Lt-Colonel, 1898 : was in the Afghan war, 1879–80 : in engagements at Kabul and march from Kabulto Kandahar : Transvaal campaign, 1881 : Tirah, 1897–8, severely wounded : Brevet Lt-Colonel : South African war, 1899–1902. C.B. and Brevet-Colonel.
MAC CULLOCH, WILLIAM ( ? –1843)
Assistant Examiner of Indian correspondence at the India House, and Chief Examiner, 1818–30, when he retured : died March 17, 1843 : had a high reputation as an administrator, his despatches being accounted perfect models, and even superior to James Mill's, who succeeded him.
