See also:CHARLES See also:MACKAY (1814–1889)
, Scottish writer, was See also:born at See also:Perth, on the .27th of See also:March 1814, and educated at the Caledonian See also:Asylum, See also:London, and in See also:Brussels
.
In 183o, being then private secretary to a Belgian ironmaster, he began See also:writing verses and articles for See also:local See also:newspapers
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Returning to London, he devoted himself to See also:literary and journalistic See also:work, and was attached to the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle (1835–1844)
.
He published See also:Memoirs of Extraordinary Public Delusions (1841), and gradually made himself known as an industrious and prolific journalist
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In 1844 he was made editor of the See also:Glasgow See also:Argus
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His literary reputation was made by the publication in 1846 of a See also:volume of verses, Voices from the See also:Crowd, some of which were set to See also:music by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell and became very popular
.
In 1848 See also:Mackay returned to London and worked for the Illustrated London See also:News, of which he became editor in 1852
.
In it he published a number of songs, set to music by See also:Sir Henry See also:Bishop and Henry Russell, and in 1855 they were collected in a volume; they included the popular " Cheer, Boys
!
Cheer
!
" After his severance from the Illustrated London News, in 1859, Mackay started two unsuccessful See also:periodicals, and acted as See also:special correspondent for The Times in See also:America during the See also:Civil See also:War
.
He edited A Thousand and One Gems of See also:English See also:Poetry (1867)
.
Mackay died in London on the 24th of See also:December 1889
.
See also:Marie See also:Corelli (q.v.) was his adopted daughter
.
His son, See also:Eric Mackay (1851–1899), was known as a writer of See also:verse, particularly by his Love Letters of a Violinist (1886)
.
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