MAC DERMOTT

Robert (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). b. Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; profe or of materia medic a in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. d. of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin (1860). M’DIARMID, John (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to profe or John Play fair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wake field 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with di ertations and notes. By Atticus Secund us 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. d. Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation , iii 720–2 (1863).