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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-

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