See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:ALEXANDER See also:MACFARREN (1813-1887)
, See also:English composer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 2nd of See also:March 1813, and entered the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Music in 1829
.
A See also:symphony by him was played at an Academy See also:concert in 1830; for the opening of the See also:Queen's See also:Theatre in See also:Tottenham See also:Street, under the management of his See also:father, in 1831, he wrote an See also:overture
.
His Chevy See also:Chase overture, the orchestral See also:work by which he is perhaps best known, was written as See also:early as 1836, and in a single See also:night
.
On leaving the Academy in '836, See also:Macfarren was for about a See also:year a music teacher in the Isle of See also:Man, and wrote two unsuccessful operas
.
In 1837 he was appointed a See also:professor at the Academy, and wrote his Romeo and Juliet overture
.
In the following year he brought out The See also:Devil's See also:Opera, one of his best See also:works
.
In 1845 he became conductor at Covent See also:Garden, producing the See also:Antigone with Mendelssohn's music; his opera on See also:Don Quixote was produced under See also:Bunn at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1846; his subsequent operas include See also:Charles II
.
(1849), See also:Robin See also:Hood (1860, She Stoops to Conquer (1864), and Helvellyn (2864)
.
A See also:gradual failure of his eyesight, which had been defective from boyhood, resulted in See also:total See also:blindness in 1865, but he overcame the difficulties by employing an See also:amanuensis in See also:composition, and made hardly a break in the course of his work
.
He was made See also:principal of the Royal Academy of Music in See also:succession to Stern-See also:dale See also:Bennett in See also:February 1875, and in March of the same year professor of music in See also:Cambridge University
.
Shortly before this he had begun a See also:series of oratorios: St See also:John the Baptist (See also:Bristol, 1873); Resurrection (See also:Birmingham, 1876) ; See also:Joseph (See also:Leeds, 1877); and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:David (Leeds, 1883)
.
In spite of their solid workmanship, and the skill with which the ideas are treated, it is difficult to hear or read them through without smiling at some of the touches of quite unconscious See also:humour often resulting from the way in which the Biblical narratives have been, as it were, dramatized
.
He delivered many lectures of See also:great and lasting value, and his theoretical works, such as the Rudiments of See also:Harmony, and the See also:treatise on See also:counterpoint, will probably be remembered longer than many of his compositions
.
He was knighted in 1883, and died suddenly in London on the 31st of See also:October 1887
.
An excellent memoir by H
.
C
.
Banister appeared in 1891
.
McGEE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS D'ARCY (1825-1868), Irish-See also:Canadian politician and writer, second son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James McGee, a See also:coast-guard,
was born at See also:Carlingford, Co
.
See also:Louth, on the 130 of See also:April 1825
.
He early showed a remarkable aptitude for See also:oratory
.
At the See also:age of thirteen he delivered a speech at See also:Wexford,. and when four years later he emigrated to See also:America he quickly gained a reputation as a writer and public See also:speaker in the See also:city 'of See also:Boston
.
He thus attracted the See also:attention of O'Connell, and before he was twenty years of age he returned to London to become See also:parliamentary correspondent of the See also:Freeman's See also:Journal, and shortly afterwards London correspondent of the Nation, to which he also contributed a number of poems
.
He married in 1847 See also:Mary See also:Theresa Caffry, by whom he had two See also:children
.
In 1846 he be-came one of the moving See also:spirits in the " See also:Young See also:Ireland " party, and in promoting the See also:objects of that organization he contributed two volumes to the " Library of Ireland:" On the failure of the See also:movement in 1848 McGee escaped in the disguise of a See also:priest to the See also:United States, where between 1848 and 1853 he established two See also:newspapers, the New See also:York Nation and the See also:American See also:Celt
.
His writings at first were exceedingly See also:bitter and See also:anti-English; but as years passed he realized that a greater measure of See also:political freedom was possible under the See also:British constitution than under the American
.
He had now become well-known as an author, and as a lecturer of unusual ability
.
In 1857 McGee, driven from the United States by the scurrilous attacks of the extreme Irish revolutionaries, took up his See also:abode in See also:Canada, and was admitted to the See also:bar of the See also:province of See also:Lower Canada in 1861
.
At the See also:general See also:election in 1858 he was returned to See also:parliament as the member for See also:Montreal, and for four years he was regarded as a powerful See also:factor in the See also:house
.
On the formation of the Sandfield-See also:Macdonald-Sicotte See also:administration in 1862 he accepted the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:president of the See also:council
.
When the See also:cabinet was reconstructed a year later the Irish were See also:left without See also:representation, and McGee sought re-election as a member of the opposite party
.
In 1864 he was appointed See also:minister of See also:agriculture in the administration of See also:Sir E
.
P
.
Tache, and he served the See also:country in that capacity until his See also:death
.
He actively supported the policy of federation and was elected a member of the first Dominion parliament in 1867
.
On the 7th of April 1868, after having delivered a notable speech in the house, he was shot by an See also:assassin as he was about to enter his house at See also:Ottawa
.
His utterances against the Fenian invasion are believed to have been the cause of the See also:crime for which P
.
J
.
Whelan was executed
.
McGee's loss was keenly See also:felt by all classes, and within a few See also:weeks of his death parliament granted an See also:annuity to his widow and children
.
McGee had great faith in the future of Canada as a See also:part of the See also:empire
.
Speaking at St John, N.B., in 1863, he said: " There are before the public men of British America at this moment but two courses: either to See also:drift with the See also:tide of See also:democracy, or to seize the See also:golden moment and See also:fix for ever the monarchical See also:character of our institutions
.
I invite every See also:fellow colonist who agrees with me to unite our efforts that we may give our province the aspect of an empire, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to exercise the See also:influence abroad and at See also:home of a See also:state, and to originate a See also:history which the See also:world will not willingly let See also:die." Sir Charles Gavan See also:Duffy considered that as a poet McGee was not inferior to See also:Davis, and that as an orator he possessed See also:powers rarer than those of T
.
F See also:Meagher
.
McGee's principal works are: A Popular History of Ireland (2 vols., New York, 1862; I vol., London, 1869); Irish Writers of the Seventeenth See also:Century (See also:Dublin, 1846); Historital Sketches of O'Connell and his See also:Friends (Boston, 1844); See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life and Conquests of See also:Art McMurrogh, King of See also:Leinster (Dublin, 1847); Memoir of C
.
Duffy (Dublin, 1849) ; A History of the Irish Settlers in See also:North America (Boston, 1851); History of the Attempts to establish the See also:Protestant See also:Reformation in Ireland (Boston, 1853) ; Life of See also:Edward Magian, Coadjutor See also:Bishop of Derry (New York, 1857); See also:Catholic History of North America (Boston, 1854); Canadian See also:Ballads and Occasional Pieces (New York, 1858) ; Notes on Federal Governments Past and See also:Present (Montreal, 1865) ; Speeches and Addresses, chiefly on the Subject of the British American See also:Union (London, 1865) ; Poems, edited by Mrs M
.
A
.
Sadleir with See also:introductory memoir (New York, 1869)
.
See See also:Fern-rings See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, The Hon
.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Montreal, 1867) ; J
.
K
.
Foram, Thomas D'Arcy McGee as an Empire Builder (Ottawa, 19o4); H
.
J
.
O'C
.
See also:French, A See also:Sketch of the Life of the Hon
.
T
.
D
.
McGee (Montreal); See also:Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American See also:Biography; iv
.
I16; N
.
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.
Dvin's Irishman in Canada (1887); C
.
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.
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Duffy, Four Years of Irish History (1883) ; See also:Alfred See also:Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography (Dublin, 1878)
.
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