MacCARTHY, WELBORE: Church of England, bishop of Grantham; b. at Cork, Ireland, Apr. 11, 1840. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and St. Aidan's Theological College, Birkenhead, and was ordered deacon in 1867 and ordained priest in the following year. He was successively curate of Preston-Patrick, Westmoreland (1867-68), Ulvereton (1868-71), Christ Church, Battersea (1871-72), and Balham, Surrey (1872-73). He then went to India, where he was chaplain at Jhansi, Northwestern Provinces (1874-75), Rangoon, Burma (1875-1877), St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta (1877-82 and 1889-98), Mussooree (1882-84), Meerut (1884,85), Shahjahanpur (18857; all three in the Northwestern Provinces), and Lucknow (1888,89). He was likewise commissary to the bishop of Calcutta in 1879,82 and 1891-98, as well as acting archdeacon of Calcutta in 1891-92 and archdeacon in 1892-98. Returning to England in 1898, he was rector of Aahwell in 1898-1901 and vicar of Gainaborough in 1901-05, besides being assistant chaplain of St. George's, Cannes, France, in 1900-05, and rural dean of Corringham and prebendary of Lincoln in 1901-1905. In* 1905 he became vicar of Grantham, and in the same year was consecrated bishop of Grantham (suffragan to the bishop of Lincoln).

McCAUL, ALEXANDER: Church of England; b. at Dublin, Ireland, May 16, 1799; d. at London Nov. 13, 1863. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1819), and in 1821 went to Warsaw, Poland, as a missionary of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. At the close of 1822 he returned to England, took orders and became curate of Huntley, near Gloucester, but on his marriage in 1823 he returned to Warsaw, where he lived as head of the Jewish mission and English chaplain till 1830. Settling in London he continued to cooperate with the London Society, which in 1840 made him principal of the Hebrew college in London. In 1841 he was given the professorship of Hebrew and rabbinical literature m King's College, London, to which the chair of divinity, was added in 1846. He became rector of St. James's in 1843, prebendary of ,$t. Paul's in I

1845, and rector of the parish of St. Magnus, St. Margaret, and St. Michael on Fish Street Hill, in 1850. On the revival of Convocation in 1852 he was elected proctor for the London clergy, whom he represented till his death. He published a large number of single sermons and pamphlets, but his principal works are two series of Warburtonian lectures: Lectures on the Prophecies (London, 1846) and The MessiahshiP of Jesus (1852). He wrote also Rationalism and the Divine Interpretation of Scripture (1850); Notes on the First Chapter of Genesis (1861); Testimonies to the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures (1862), and An Examination of Bishop Colenao'a Difficulties with Regard to the Pentateuch (2 parts, 1863--64).

Bibliography: J. B. MCCSUI, A Memorial Sketch of . Alexander MeCaul, Oxford, 1883; DNB, xxzv. 1-2.