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the Enemy upon the day of Battell, written by Lieutenant-General Mackay, and Recommended to All (as well officers as soldiers) of the Scots and English army. In xxiii articles. Published by his Excellencies Secretary. , Reprinted at Edinburgh by John Reid in 1693. A volume printed by the Bannatyne Club in 1833 contains his ' Memoirs touching the Scots Wars,' 'Memoires ecrites a sa Majestie Britannique touchant la derniere Campaigne dlrlande,' 'Lettres ou Depeches ecrites, iorsqu'il commandoit en chef les troupes de sa Majestie en Écosse,' and an Appendix of 'Letters relative to Military Affairs in Scotland in the years 1689 and 1690,' Many of his letters are printed in 'Leven and Melville Papers' (Bannatyne Club), in Macpherson's 'Original Papers,' and in 'Hist. MSS. Comm.' 12th Rep. App. pt. viii.
{{smaller block|[Life by John Mackay of Rockville, 1836 ; Mackay's Memoirs, Leven and Melville Papers, Balcarres's Memoirs, and Memoirs of Ewan Cameron (all Bannatyne Club) ; MaePherson's Original Papers; Burnet's Own Time; Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain ; Napier's Memorials of Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee; Macau1ay's Hist. of England ; Burton's History of Scotland.]}}{{DNB TFH}}
'''MACKAY,''' JAMES TOWNSEND (1775 P-1862), botanist, was born in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, about 1775. After being
educated at the parish school he was trained
as a gardener, and having filled several posts
in Scotland went to Ireland in 1803. He
visited the west of the island in 1804 and
1805, and as a result published a 'Catalogue of the Rarer Plants of Ireland' in the
' Transactions ' of the Royal Dublin Society
for the following year. This catalogue he
enlarged into the 'Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants of Ireland,' published in 1825
in the 'Transactions' of the Royal Irish
Academy, which was again the basis of his
'Flora Hibernica,' published in 1836, the
cryptogamic portion of which was by Drs.
Harvey and Taylor. The governors of Trinity
College, Dublin, having determined to establish a botanical garden, Mackay was recommended to them as a curator, and he held
the post from 1806 until his death. Soon
after his appointment he was elected an
associate of the Linnean Society, and in
1850 the university of Dublin bestowed
upon him the degree of LL.D. He was
attacked by paralysis about 1860, and died
of bronchitis in Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.
Mackay discovered several species of
plants new to the British Isles, and contributed largely to Sir J. E. Smith's 'English
Botany ' (1790-1814). His herbarium is
preserved at Dublin. Several unsuccessful
attempts were made to perpetuate his name,
which is now borne by a genus of seaweeds,
Maekaya, so named by Dr. Harvey, and by
a species of heath, Erica Mackaiana. Nine
papers by him upon Irish plants, several from
the reports of the British Association, are
enumerated in the ' Royal Society's Catalogue,' iv. 161 ; but his only independent work was the 'Flora Hibernica.'
{{smaller block|[Proc. Linn. Soc. 1862, p. cv; Journal of
Horticulture, 1862, ii. 457.]}}{{DNB GSB}}
'''MACKAY''', MACKINTOSH (1800-1873), Gaelic scholar, born in 1800, son of
Captain Alexander Mackay of Duard Beg in
Sutherland, was educated for the ministry,
and was presented to the parish of Laggan,
Inverness-shire, in 1825. He superintended
the printing in 1828 of the Gaelic dictionary
of the Highland and Agricultural Society,
which is still the standard dictionary of that
language. In the following year he published
at Inverness the first edition of the ' Poems '
of Robert Mackay, Rob Donn [q. v.] In recognition of these services the university
of Glasgow gave him the degree of LL.D.
In 1832 he was translated to the parish of
Dunoon. He left the established church at
the disruption, but retained the free church
charge of the same parish. He was elected
moderator of the free church assembly in
1849. Five years after he emigrated to Australia, became minister of the Gaelic church
at Melbourne in 1864 and at Sydney in 1866.
Returning to Scotland he became minister of
the free church at Tarbert, Harris, and died
in 1873. He had the honour of the friendship of Sir Walter Scott, who describes him
as ' a simple, learned man and a Highlander,
who weighs his own nation justly, a modest
and estimable person.' On visiting Abbotsford in May 1831, Mackay drew the attention
of Scott and Lockhart to the poems of Rob
Donn, and thus led to the review of them by
Lockhart in the 'Quarterly,' July 1831, for
which he supplied several prose translations.
Scott recommended the manse at Laggan as
a suitable place, and Mackay as a suitable
tutor to his friend, Mr. Skene of Rubislaw,
for his son, William Forbes Skene, the historian of Celtic Scotland, then a youth of
nineteen, who went to Laggan and studied
Gaelic. Mackay thus acted as foster-father
to the Gaelic poet of the last and the Celtic
historian of tue present century.
{{smaller block|[Information from Mr. W. Forbes Skene;
Quarterly Renew, July 1831.]}}{{DNB ÆM}}
MACKAY, ROBERT, commonly called Rob Donn (the Brown) (1714-1778), Gaelic poet, was born at Allt-na-Caillich, Strath-