Mclean
GEORGE PAYNE, United States Senator from Connecticut; born in 1857 at Simsbury, Conn., and admitted to the bar in 1881 at Hartford. In 1883 he entered politics as a Republican member of the General Assembly of Connecticut. Later in 1884 he was made clerk of the Board of Pardons, a position which he held for seventeen years. In 1901-1903 he was Governor of Connecticut, and during his term a Constitutional Convention was called, which formed a new Constitution for the State.
In 1910 he was elected to the United States Senate, to which body he was reelected for the term of 1917-1923. MACLEAN, KAID, SIR HARRY AUBREY DE, GENERAL, born in 1848 of the family of Macleans of Drinnin.
Was appointed instructor to the Moorish army under the late Sultan, whom he accompanied on his expeditions. He became a colonel in the Sultan of Morocco's Body Guard, and while on a mission for the Sultan in 1907 was captured in July, 1907, by the bandit Raisuli, in whose hands he remained a prisoner for seven months. He was decorated for his services by the British Government. He died in 1920.
WILLIAM SHARP (1856-1905), q. v., a secret well preserved until after Mr.
WILLIAM SHARP (1856-1905), q. v., a secret well preserved until after Mr.
Sharp's death. The works under this name had a strong Gaelic flavor. His other style was to a marked degree different from this and he was a volumi- (1895), a romance; "The Mountain magazine work, he published: "Pharais" (1895), a romance; "The Mountain Lovers" (1895); "The Sin-Eater and the Ford" (1896) ; "Green Fire" (1896) a modern version of the old Celtic rothe Ford" (1896); "Green Fire" (1896); a modern version of the old Celtic romance, "The Laughter of Peterkin"; "The Dominion of Dreams" (1899); Romance"; "The Highland Year"; etc.
Romance"; "The Highland Year"; etc. er; born in Cork, Ireland, Feb. 2, 1806.
He was the son of a Highland soldier of the Royal Academy, London, in 1828, soon exhibited at the Academy, and in 1833 made himself famous by his "All- Hallow Eve." He became royal academician in 1840. His later pictures are many of them familiar by engraving.
The frescoes-each 45 feet long and 12 feet high-in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, depicting "The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher on the Evening of the Battle of Waterloo" and "The Death of Nelson at Trafalgar," were admitted to be the finest mural paintings hitherto executed in Great Britain. The most noteworthy pictures exhibited by Maclise, after the completion of these great works, were "Othello," "Desdemona," and "Ophelia" (1867), "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid" (1869). He died in London, England, April 25, 1870. a