Macmillanites
the followers of the Rev. John Macmillan, of Balmaghie, in K Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, who, in the latter part of the 17th century, aided in laying the foundation of the Reformed Presbyterian or Cameronian Church.
MacMILLEN, FRANCIS, American violinist; born in 1885 at Marietta, O., he studied at Chicago and then at Berlin under Joachim. He was awarded 1st prize at the Brussels Conservatory at the age of 16, and made his first public appearance in Brussels in 1903. He then successfully toured Great Britain, Belgium, France, and Germany. His début in New York took place in 1906, and he has since played with leading orchestras in the principal cities of America and Europe.
MacMONNIES, FREDERICK WIL- LIAM, sculptor and painter; born in 1863 in Brooklyn, entered studio of Saint Gaudens in 1880, studying at night in the life classes of the Academy of Designs. He next studied art at Munich and in the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Paris.
MACON 1849. Educated at Trinity College, and Christchurch, Oxford. Admitted to the Irish bar in 1876. Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law 1882-1888. M. P. for South Donegal 1887-1918.
Queen's Counsel 1893. His constant agitation against flogging in the British navy led to the abolishment of the practice, 1906. In House of Commons he established the principle that it was incompatible for a Minister of the Crown to hold directorship in public companies.
One of the seven members of the House constituting the Committee on Privileges (1908). Publications: "The Irish Parliament" (1885); "How the Union was Carried Through" (1887); "Titled Corruption" (1894); "Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Ireland" (1917).