MALCOLM

See also:

• MALCOLM MACCOLL (c. 1838-1907)

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