MC NEILL

Sir John (brother of Archibald Mc Neill 1803–70). b. Colon say, Aug. 1795; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814; a istant surgeon Bombay army 6 Sep. 1816, surgeon 1 May 1824, retired 4 June 1836; attached to H.E.I.Co.’s legation in Persia 1824–35; secretary of special emba y at Teheran 30 June 1835; minister plenipotentiary to shah of Persia 9 Feb. 1836, envoy and min. plenipo. 25 May 1836 to 5 Aug. 1842; notwithstanding his protests Herat was besieged by the Persians Nov. 1837 to Sep. 1838; he concluded a treaty of commerce with Persia 11 Oct. 1841; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; chairman of board of supervision entrusted with working of Scottish poor law act of 1845, 1845–68; sent to the Crimea with A. M. Tulloch, Feb. 1855, to report on the commi ariat department, ., their final report was signed in London, Jany. 1856; knight of Persian order of the Sun and Lion 1835; G.C.B. 15 April 1839; P.C. 6 May 1857; the last survivor of original members of Royal Asiatic Society 1823; F.R.S. Edinb. 1840; D.C.L. 24 June 1857; author of Progre and present position of Ru ia in the East 1836, another ed. 1854. d. Cannes 17 May 1883, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. King lake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. vol. vii pa im (1877); I.L.N. lxxxii 549 (1883), portrait ; Sir A. M. Tulloch’s Crime an Commi ion (1880) with preface by Mc Neill pp. v–xiv .