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# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 7/Chapter 210

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O it's up in the Highlands, and along the sweet Tay, Did bonie James Campbell ride monie a day. Sadled and bridled, and bonie rode he; Hame came horse, hame came sadle, but neer hame cam he. And doun cam his sweet sisters, greeting sae sair, And down cam his bonie wife, tearing her hair. 'My house is unbigged, my barn's unbeen, My corn's unshorn, my meadow grows green.'
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Saddled and briddled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. Down cam his auld mither, greetin fu sair, And down cam his bonny wife, wringin her hair. Saddled and briddled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he.
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Hie upon Hielands, and laigh upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day. He saddled, he bridled, and gallant rode he, And hame cam his guid horse, but never cam he. Out cam his mother dear, greeting fu sair, And out cam his bonnie bryde, riving her hair. 'The meadow lies green, the corn is unshorn, But bonnie George Campbell will never return.' Saddled and bridled and booted rode he, A plume in his helmet, a sword at his knee. But toom cam his saddle, all bloody to see, Oh, hame cam his guid horse, but never cam he!
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High upon Highlands, and low upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day. 'My meadow lies green, and my corn is unshorn, My barn is to build, and my babe is unborn.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 7/Chapter 205

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YOURR'rrL marvel when I tell ye o Our noble Burly and his train, When last he marchd up through the land, Wi sax-and-twenty westland men. Than they I neer o braver heard, For they had a' baith wit and skill; They proved right well, as I heard tell, As they cam up oer Loudoun Hill. Weel prosper a' the gospel-lads That are into the west countrie Ay wicked Claverse to demean, And ay an ill dead may he die! For he's drawn up i battle rank, An that baith soon an hastilie; But they wha live till simmer come, Some bludie days for this will see. But up spak cruel Claverse then, Wi hastie wit an wicked skill, 'Gae fire on yon westlan men; I think it is my sovreign's will.' But up bespake his cornet then, 'It's be wi nae consent o me; I ken I'll neer come back again, An mony mae as weel as me. 'There is not ane of a' yon men But wha is worthy other three; There is na ane amang them a' That in his cause will stap to die. 'An as for Burly, him I knaw; He's a man of honour, birth, an fame; Gie him a sword into his hand, He'll fight thysel an other ten.' But up spake wicked Claverse then-+--+- I wat his heart it raise fu hie-+--+- And he has cry'd, that a' might hear, 'Man, ye hae sair deceived me. 'I never kend the like afore, Na, never since I came frae hame, That you sae cowardly here suld prove, An yet come of a noble Gra+eme.' But up bespake his cornet then, 'Since that it is your honour's will, Mysel shall be the foremost man That shall gie fire on Loudoun Hill. 'Your command I'll lead them on, But yet wi nae consent o me; For weel I ken I'll neer return, And mony mae as weel as me.' Then up he drew in battle rank-+--+- I wat he had a bonny train-+--+- But the first time that bullets flew Ay he lost twenty o his men. Then back he came the way he gaed, I wat right soon an suddenly; He gave command amang his men, And sent them back, and bade them flee. Then up came Burly, bauld an stout, Wi 's little train o westland men, Wha mair than either aince or twice In Edinburgh confind had been. They hae been up to London sent, An yet they're a' come safely down; Sax troop o horsemen they hae beat, And chased them into Glasgow town.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 7/Chapter 206

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'O BILLIE, billie, bonny billie, Will ye go to the wood wi me? We'll ca our horse hame masterless, An gar them trow slain men are we.' 'O no, O no!' says Earlstoun, 'For that's the thing that maunna be; For I am sworn to Bothwell Hill, Where I maun either gae or die.' So Earlstoun rose in the morning, An mounted by the break o day, An he has joind our Scottish lads, As they were marching out the way. 'Now, farewell, father! and farewell, mother! An fare ye weel, my sisters three! An fare ye well, my Earlstoun! For thee again I'll never see.' So they're awa to Bothwell Hill, An waly, they rode bonnily! When the Duke o Monmouth saw them comin, He went to view their company. 'Ye're welcome, lads,' then Monmouth said, Ye're welcome, brave Scots lads, to me; And sae are you, brave Earlstoun, The foremost o your company. 'But yield your weapons ane an a', O yield your weapons, lads, to me; For, gin ye'll yield your weapons up, Ye'se a' gae hame to your country.' Out then spak a Lennox lad, And waly, but he spoke bonnily! 'I winna yield my weapons up, To you nor nae man that I see.' Then he set up the flag o red, A' set about wi bonny blue: 'Since ye'll no cease, and be at peace, See that ye stand by ither true.' They stelld their cannons on the height, And showrd their shot down in the how, An beat our Scots lads even down; Thick they lay slain on every know. As eer you saw the rain down fa, Or yet the arrow frae the bow, Sae our Scottish lads fell even down, An they lay slain on every know. 'O hold your hand,' the Monmouth cry'd, 'Gie quarters to yon men for me;' But wicked Claverhouse swore an oath His cornet's death revengd sud be. 'O hold your hand,' Monmouth cry'd, 'If ony thing you'll do for me; Hold up your hand, you cursed Gra+eme, Else a rebel to our king ye'll be.' Then wicked Claverhouse turnd about-+--+- I wot an angry man was he-+--+- And he has lifted up his hat, And cry'd, God bless his Majesty! Than he's awa to London town, Ay een as fast as he can dree; Fause witnesses he has wi him taen, An taen Monmouth's head frae his body. Alang the brae beyond the brig, Mony brave man lies cauld and still; But lang we'll mind, and sair we'll rue, The bloody battle of Bothwell Hill.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Macdonald, James William

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​Macdonald, James William, son of the late Captain Archibald Macdonald, of 10th Hussars, and grandson of the first Lord Macdonald, in the peerage of Ireland, who claimed descent from the Lord of the Isles. He was born in 1811, and emigrated, in 1839, to South Australia, where he settled in the Sturt district. In 1841 he was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands, and in 1844-5 was Colonial Treasurer. After acting as Visiting Magistrate in the north, he was for a number of years Magistrate at Burra, and ultimately Commissioner of Insolvency for four years. Retiring on a pension, he resided at the Sturt till 1880, when he returned to England, where he died in the suburbs of London, on Dec. 1st, 1881.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mackenzie, Sir Robert Ramsay

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​Mackenzie, Sir Robert Ramsay, Bart., sometime Premier of Queensland, the son of the 8th baronet of Coul, Ross-shire, emigrated to New South Wales, and ​married, in 1846, Louisa Alexandrina, daughter of Richard Jones, M.L.A., of Sydney. He was returned to the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the Burnett in 1860, and was Colonial Treasurer in the Administration of Mr. (now Sir) R. G. W. Herbert, the first formed under responsible government, from Dec. 1859 to August 1862. In the Macalister Government, which succeeded, he was Colonial Secretary from Feb. to July 1866, and in August 1867 he formed a Government of which he was Premier and Colonial Treasurer. He went out of office in Nov. 1868, succeeded his brother as 10th baronet in the same year, and died on Sept. 19th, 1873. His son, Sir Arthur George Ramsay Mackenzie, is the 11th and present baronet.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Macdonald-Paterson, Hon. Thomas

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​Macdonald-Paterson, Hon. Thomas, M.L.C., was born in Glasgow on May 9th, 1844, and educated in that city, arriving in Queensland in 1861. Having become a resident of Rockhampton, he was elected mayor of that town, and represented the district in the Legislative Assembly in the Liberal interest from 1878 to 1883, when he unsuccessfully contested the Mitchell district. He was, however, returned unopposed for Moreton in November of the same year; but resigned his seat in April 1885, on his becoming Postmaster-General in the Griffith Government, and accepting a seat in the Legislative Council as the Ministerial representative in the Upper House. Mr. Macdonald-Paterson, who possesses a large stake in the Mount Morgan mine, left the Ministry in August 1887, but continues to be a member of the Upper House. He was selected as one of the Queensland representatives to the Federation Convention held in Sydney in March 1891.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mackelvie, James Tannock

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​Mackelvie, James Tannock, has established a perpetual memorial for himself in Auckland, N.Z., by his endowment of that city with a valuable art collection selected by himself in Europe, and a rich bequest for the maintenance of a permanent gallery. To further this purpose the Municipal Corporation, in Sept. 1891, resolved to erect a Mackelvie annexe to the handsome building, in which the Grey Literary Collection and the Auckland Free Public Library are placed. Mr. Mackelvie in early life was engaged as supercargo of a vessel during the Crimean war, and subsequently as purser on an Atlantic liner. Leaving the sea, he obtained an appointment in a large mercantile house in London, and was so engaged in 1865, when Dr. Campbell, desiring a partner to take charge of his business while he visited Europe, entered into an agreement with Mr. Mackelvie, who came to Auckland and assumed the direction of the business of Messrs. Brown, Campbell & Co. until 1870, when the partnership terminated by effluxion of time. During that short period, however, Mr. Mackelvie had amassed a fortune by means of judicious mining investments on the Thames goldfields. He returned to Europe a month or two after quitting his connection with Brown, Campbell & Co., and lived in retirement, employing a large part of his time in collecting the art treasures which he had resolved to bequeath to the city where his fortune was made. Many valuable paintings and sketches were forwarded to Auckland during his lifetime, and at his death, which took place on June 4th, 1885, by the terms of his will, after providing for about £35,000 legacies, in some of which the trustees have a reversionary interest, the balance of the estate was left in trust for the people of Auckland. The legacy, owing to the great depreciation in all kinds of property, is very much less than the testator no doubt intended, but, including the reversionary interest in legacies, the trustees hope the amount may not be far short of £30,000, besides the valuable collection now in the Art Gallery. During his stay in the colony Mr. Mackelvie was director of the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, and other companies.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Macleay, Hon. Sir William John

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​Macleay, Hon. Sir William John, M.L.C., second son of Kenneth Macleay, of Keiss Castle, Caithness, by Isabella, daughter of John Horne, and nephew of the late Hon. Alexander Macleay, M.L.C., F.R.S., sometime Colonial Secretary and Speaker of the First Legislative Council of New South Wales, was born in Caithness on June 13th, 1820, and educated at the Academy and the University of Edinburgh, emigrating in 1839 to New South Wales, where he engaged in squatting on the Murrumbidgee until 1854, when his parliamentary career commenced. He was elected to the old Legislative Council for Lachlan and Lower Darling in 1854, and sat in the Assembly for Murrumbidgee from 1856 to 1874, when he resigned, and conducted an expedition to New Guinea, in his own barque, The Chevert, in company with Capt. Onslow, starting from Sydney on May 15th, 1875. He was nominated to the Legislative Council in Oct. 1877, on his return from this journey. In June 1857 Mr. Macleay married Susan Emmeline, second daughter of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Edward Deas Thomson. He was knighted in 1889, and died on Dec. 7th, 1891. Sir William was the holder of the gold medal struck in 1875 to commemorate distinguished services in connection ​with the stamping out of bushranging, having assisted in repulsing an attack by the notorious Gilbert gang at Plumb's Inn, near Goulburn, in 1864, and he was also the recipient of a gold medal from the International Fisheries Exhibition of London for his book on the fishes of Australia. To the Linnæan Society he a few years back presented a meeting-house at Elizabeth Bay, adjoining his residence, where he provided everything necessary for meeting and for study. He also set apart a sufficient sum of money to endow four fellowships of £400 each yearly at the Sydney University, so that students might follow up their studies at the university after attaining the degree of B.Sc. By his will he bequeathed £20,000 to the Linnæan Society.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Macgregor, Hon. John

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​Macgregor, Hon. John, sometime Minister of Mines, Victoria, was the son of John Macgregor, and was born in the island of Skye, Scotland, in 1828. He arrived in Victoria in 1840, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1855, and practised in Melbourne, in what was latterly the firm of Macgregor, Ramsay, & Brahe. He unsuccessfully contested East Bourke in 1868, but on the retirement of Mr. Wilson Gray in the next year he was returned for Rodney, for which district he sat in the Legislative Assembly till 1874, when he retired from Parliament. Mr. Macgregor joined the first MᶜCulloch Government, and was Minister of Mines from July 1866 to May 1868. On the defeat of the Macpherson Ministry in April 1870 Mr. Macgregor was asked by the Governor to form a Government, but he recommended that Sir James MᶜCulloch should be sent for. Mr. Macgregor brought in, and for the first time carried, a Payment of Members Bill. He had long retired from public life when he died on March 27th, 1884.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mackay, Hon. Angus

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​Mackay, Hon. Angus, son of Murdoch Mackay, of 78th Highlanders, and Elizabeth (Macleod) his wife, was born at Aberdeen on Jan. 26th, 1824, and was taken to Sydney, N.S.W., by his parents when only three years old. He was educated at the Australian College, and was intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but became a schoolmaster, and meanwhile contributed to the Australian Magazine and also to the Atlas, a Sydney paper, established by Mr. Robert Lowe (now Viscount Sherbrooke). In 1847 he became editor of the Atlas, but resigned in 1850 to become manager of a business for Mr. (now Sir Henry) Parkes at Geelong, Victoria. Returning to Sydney, he was attached to the People's Advocate, but again took up his residence in Victoria in 1853, and in the following year joined in purchasing the Bendigo Advertiser, subsequently assisting his co-partners in starting the M‘Ivor Times and the Riverine Herald. In Feb. 1868 Mr. Mackay was returned to the Victorian Parliament for Sandhurst, and was re-elected in March 1871 and again in April 1874. At the general election in May 1877 Mr. Mackay suffered defeat owing to his adherence to Sir James M‘Culloch; but Mr. Blackham, who displaced him, being unseated on petition, he was once more returned for Sandhurst in July of the same year. Having again gone to reside in Sydney, he did not offer himself as a candidate in 1880, but was elected in 1883 and again rejected in 1886. In July 1879 Mr. Mackay started the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper on behalf of a company of which he was manager till Feb. 1883, when he was re-elected for Sandhurst. Mr. Mackay was Minister of Mines in the M‘Culloch Government from April 1870 to June 1871, and in the Francis Administration from June 1872 to July 1874, acting also as Minister of Public Instruction from May to July 1874. In the Kerferd Government Mr. Mackay continued to be Minister of Mines and Education from July 1874 to August 1875. He died on July 7th, 1886.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mackenzie, Lieut-Col. Henry Douglas

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​Mackenzie, Lieut.-Col. Henry Douglas, of the family of the Mackenzies, baronets of Coul, Ross-shire, is the eldest son of the late Rev. Charles. Mackenzie and Henrietta, his wife, daughter of Chas. Simonds, of Beading, Berkshire. He was born in 1849, and was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Having taken service in the New South Wales military forces, be acted as Brigade-Major to the Soudan expedition in 1885, was mentioned in despatches, and received a medal with clasp, and also the Khedive's star. In Oct. 1888 he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General to the New South Wales forces, and ranks as lieut.-colonel. He married, in 1873, Sofala, daughter of the late Hon. John Bligh Suttor, M.L.C., of Wyngdon, Bathurst, N.S.W.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Maclean, Hon. John Donald

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​Maclean, Hon. John Donald, M.L.A., sometime treasurer of Queensland, youngest son of Donald Maclean, of Aird and Glen in the island of Skye, and one of the original directors of the Australian Agricultural Company, was born at Aird in 1821. He emigrated to New South Wales in 1837, and ultimately went largely into squatting pursuits, being at one time interested in no less than forty stations. Latterly he resided on his property at Westbrook, Darling Downs, Qd. Having entered the parliament of that colony, he became Colonial Treasurer in the second Ministry of Mr. (now Sir) R. G. W. Herbert, which was formed in July 1866 when Mr. Macalister retired, owing to the refusal of the Governor's assent to his Legal Tender Notes Bill. Mr. Maclean took office in the midst of a monetary crisis, but quickly restored the equilibrium of the finances, when his career was cut short by a fall from his horse which ended fatally on Dec. 16th, 1866.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Noel, Wriothesley Baptist

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​Noel, Wriothesley Baptist, sometime Judge of the Court of Insolvency, Victoria, was the eldest son of the Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel, tenth son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, Bart., by Jane, eldest daughter of Peter Baillie, of Dochfour. He was born on August 15th, 1827, at Walthamstow, Essex, and entered at Trinity College, Cambridge; but left the university without taking a degree, owing to being incapacitated for study by an accident. He entered at the Middle Temple in Nov. 1847, and was called to the bar in Nov. 1850. In Nov. 1852 he landed in Melbourne, and was appointed police magistrate at Kilmore, Victoria. In Jan. 1855 he was removed to Melbourne as police magistrate for the county of Bourke; and later in the year he was appointed Crown Prosecutor, becoming Deputy-Chairman of General Sessions in July 1857. Two years later he was appointed Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, and in Feb. 1871 Judge of the Court of Insolvency under the new statute. He married, in 1858, at the John Knox Church, Melbourne, Margaret, daughter of John McKenzie, of Tain, Scotland, who died on June 6th, 1869. Judge Noel died on May 19th, 1886.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/O'Connor, C. Y.

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​O'Connor, C. Y., M.I.C.E., Engineer-in-chief of Western Australia, is a native of Ireland, where he was born in 1843. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Mr. John Challoner Smith, M.I.C.E., and was engaged in engineering work in connection with the Irish railways until 1865, when he emigrated to New Zealand. Here he was assistant engineer in the province of Canterbury, under Mr. Dobson, from Sept. of the latter year till 1870, when the West Coast portion of Canterbury was constituted a separate county, and he was appointed its engineer. Mr. O'Connor was District Engineer for the county of Westland from July 1871 to Nov. 1872, and District Engineer for the Canterbury provincial district from the latter date till Nov. 1874, when he was appointed District Engineer for the whole West Coast district, a position he ​retained till March 1880. During the latter period he also, by permission of the New Zealand Government, acted as Consulting Engineer for the county of Westland from April 1877 to April 1878, and as Consulting Engineer to the Hokitika Harbour Board from April 1877 to March 1880. From March 1880 to Nov. 1883 Mr. O'Connor was Inspecting Engineer for the whole of the Middle Island of New Zealand, being Under-Secretary for Public Works for the colony from Nov. 1883 to May 1890, when he was appointed Marine Engineer. Mr. O'Connor, who was admitted a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in April 1880, accepted the appointment of Engineer-in-Chief of Western Australia in April 1891, arriving in that colony at the end of May.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Noel, Arthur Baptist

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​Noel, Arthur Baptist, District Court Judge, Queensland, eldest son of the late Judge Wriothesley Baptist Noel (q.v.) by Margaret, daughter of John McKenzie, of Tain, Scotland, was born in 1855, entered at the Inner Temple in Oct. 1873, and was called to the bar in Jan. 1877. Having gone to Queensland in Jan. 1881 to practise his profession, he was appointed a Judge of the Northern District Court of that colony in Jan. 1883. His Honour married on Sept. 25th, 1879, Henrietta Augusta McDonald, daughter of Henry and Ann O'Hara.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Norton, Hon. James

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​Norton, Hon. James, M.L.C., was nominated to the Legislative Council of New South Wales in Oct. 1879, and was Postmaster-General in the Stuart Ministry from May 1883 to May 1884. Mr. Norton is the eldest son of the late Hon. James Norton, M.L.C., formerly a solicitor in large practice in Sydney, by his first wife, Jane, daughter of Alexander Kenneth Mackenzie. He was born in Dec. 1824, and practises as a solicitor in Sydney, being a Fellow of St. Paul's College within the university of Sydney and a trustee of the Free Public Library and Australian Museum in that city. He married first, at Longford, Tasmania, in June 1854, Harriott Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Walker, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General of New South Wales (who died in 1860); and, secondly, at Sydney, in Dec. 1862, Isabella, eldest daughter of Rev. William Stephens, of Levens, Westmoreland.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Nowell, Edwin Cradock

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​Nowell, Edwin Cradock, was born at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1831. He was appointed clerk to the Commissariat Department, Tasmania, 1852; clerk to the Governor 1857; acting clerk to the Executive and Legislative Councils 1862; clerk to the Executive and Legislative Councils 1864, which office he has held continuously down to the present time. He has also held the following offices: — Government Statistician 1867 to 1882; Superintendent of Census 1881; Clerk of Federal Council of Australasia first session 1886, second session 1888, third session 1889, and fourth session 1891. He is author of a "Parliamentary Handbook" (Hobart, 1887), "History of the Relations between the two Houses of Parliament in Tasmania and South Australia" (Hobart, 1890), papers on political economy and meteorology read before the Royal Society of Tasmania, and occasional literary works. Mr. Nowell is an honorary member of the Statistical Society.