Malcolm MacColl
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Malcolm MacColl (c. 1838-April 5, 1907), British clergyman and publicist, was the son of a Scottish farmer.
He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, for the Scotch Episcopal ministry, and after further study at the University of Naples was ordained in 1859, and entered on a succession of curacies in the Church of England, in London and at Addington, Bucks.
He quickly became known as a political and ecclesiastical controversialist, wielding an active pen in support of William Ewart Gladstone, who rewarded him with the living of St. Georges, Botolph Lane, in 1871, and with a canonry of Ripon in 1884. The living was practically a sinecure, and he devoted himself to political pamphleteering and newspaper correspondence, the result of extensive European travel, a wide acquaintance with the leading personages of the day, strong views on ecclesiastical subjects from a high-church standpoint, and particularly on the politics of the Eastern Question and Islam. He took a leading part in ventilating the Bulgarian and Armenian atrocities, and his combative personality was constantly to the fore in support of the campaigns of Gladstonian Liberalism. - He died in London on the 5th of April 1907.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
