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MALCOLM MACCOLL (c. 1838-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALCOLM See also:MACCOLL (c. 1838-1907)  , See also:British clergyman and publicist, was the son of a Scottish See also:farmer . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Glenalmond, for the Scotch Episcopal See also:ministry, and after further study at the university of See also:Naples was ordained in 18J9, and entered on a See also:succession of curacies in the See also:Church of See also:England, in See also:London and at Addington, Bucks . He quickly became known as a See also:political and ecclesiastical controversialist, wielding an active See also:pen in support of W . E . See also:Gladstone, who rewarded him with the living of St See also:George's, Botolph See also:Lane, in 1871, and with a canonry of See also:Ripon in 1884 . The living was practically a See also:sinecure, and he devoted himself to political pamphleteering and newspaper See also:correspondence, the result of extensive See also:European travel, a wide acquaintance with the leading personages of the See also:day, strong views on ecclesiastical subjects from a high-church standpoint, and particularly on the politics of the Eastern Question and Mahommedanism . He took a leading See also:part in ventilating the Bulgarian and Armenian " atrocities," and his combative See also:personality was constantly to the fore in support of the See also:campaigns of Gladstonian Liberal-ism., He died in London on the 5th of See also:April 1907 .

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