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Paul Maclachlan and the Ironmaster: A Case Study in Controversya
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015
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Born at the small Highland farm of Belachknockan in Glenlivet on 18 September 1805, Paul Maclachlan was the second of John Maclachlan and Helen Grant’s sons to be educated for the priesthood. There were already clergy kinsmen from Banffshire, a county which produced many priests for the increasingly industrial Lowlands of Scotland. Two James Maclachlans had attended the nearby seminary of Scalan, and Paul Maclachlan and his brother John, the older by nineteen months, were sent to the successor college of Aquhorties in Aberdeenshire. Paul, who won renown for his high intellectual qualities, entered the Lowland District seminary nine months ahead of his older brother on 17 March 1819. In January 1821 he was in the second class studying Caesar under the future Bishop James Kyle, while John was a year behind with the Rev. James Sinnott and Cornelius Nepos.
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28 CDS (1885), p. 179. A branch of the Protestant Association was founded in Stirling soon after the 1835 start in Glasgow, with two lecture courses given over successive winters on the evils of Popery. Maclachlan had local prejudices to overcome, but no sectarian incidents were recorded for Stirling or Falkirk in Handley, Irish.
29 Handley, Irish Modern, pp. 217–8. The Revised Code of 1862 ended the system of Catholic inspectors for Britain. When education on the rates was introduced by the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act, Catholic schools were not inspected or aided. Their continuing voluntary efforts were rewarded by the Education (Scotland) Act of 1918 which brought denominational schools fully into the state system.
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33 CDS (1885), p. 180. Maclachlan was the third Scottish Supernumerary Privy Councillor to be so honoured after the restoration of the Hierarchy. Darragh, J., The Catholic Hierarchy of Scotland: A Biographical List, 1653–1985 (Glasgow, 1986)Google Scholar.
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39 CDS (1885), p. 177. Stonyhurst-educated Charles Waterton wrote Wanderings in South America (six editions 1825–66) and Natural History Essays (1838–57).
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43 CDS (1885), p. 177. The same source shows that, through his St. Sulpice connections no doubt, Maclachlan acted for a time as correspondent to the Paris l’Univers.
44 The Dublin Review replaced the Catholic Magazine which had become a focus of dispute among English Catholics, See P. Richardson, ‘John Lingard and the English Catholic historical periodical press, 1809–41’, in Phillips, P. (ed.), Lingard Remembered: Essays to mark the Sesquicentenary of John Lingard’s Death (London: Catholic Record Society, 2004)Google Scholar.
45 The publisher was Partridge, Oakey and Co., Paternoster Row, in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
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47 At the Disruption, Lewis Hay Irving was minister of rural Abercorn in West Lothian. As a leading light of the Free Church (he was painted with other ministers signing the deed of demission) Irving moved to Falkirk. His second wife was Catherine Cadell, a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Carron Ironworks near Falkirk. Irving’s controversial writing included a rebuttal of Maclachlan’s Catholicism one in Principle and Tolerant in Practice, published in the Scottish Protestant of 12 July 1851.
48 Maclachlan was later accused of ‘palpable misquotation’ for omitting part of Irving’s text: ‘There are nowhere in Spain any roads, except in the immediate precincts of the larger cities. In a territory far larger than Great Britain there are actually no roads. You find at the gate of a Spanish town a piece of road, formed for a short way into the country, but it soon comes to an abrupt end.’ Kennard, Controversial, p. 5.
49 Such audiences sought entertainment as well as enlightenment: ‘One of the relaxations of Aberdeen students was to go to the Roman Catholic Chapel on Sunday evenings… Occasionally these attacks produced bursts of merriment from his Protestant hearers,’ Stark, J., Priest Gordon of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, 1909), p. 76.Google Scholar
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69 Based at 25 Great George Street in Westminster, the Institution of Civil Engineers was established in 1818 and incorporated ten years later.
70 http://www.dodingtonfamily.or/crumlintop.htm. Thomas Kennard settled at Crumlin while the viaduct was under construction.
71 The seventh son Edward was a Blaenavon resident when called upon, along with older brother Howard, to prove their father’s will. Robert William Kennard left £140,000.
72 http://howdoiwin.com/stpeterschurch/tour.html. There is irony in the fact that during the Crimean War Britain fought to defend Muslim Turkey against Christian Russia.
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82 Henry Hallam’s two-volume Constitutional History of England from Henry VII to George II (1827) was regularly cited by Kennard, especially in conflict with the Catholic historian John Lingard whose eight-volume History of England appeared between 1819 and 1830.
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84 Maclachlan’s changing attitude to his opponent, from courtesy to irritation, is illustrated by a five-point comparison of the priest’s language, ‘Before (The velvet paw of Jesuitism)’ with ‘After (Its talons)’. Kennard, Controversial, p. 366.
85 In 1850 Bishop Gillis had himself been embroiled in a ‘controversial discussion’ with the Earl of Denbigh whose son he had received into the Church. This resulted in exchanges before the English public in the Morning Herald. Gordon, , Catholic Church, p. 486.Google Scholar
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94 CDS (1885), p. 177. Letters from the Oxonian owner-editor Robert Walker, starting on 31 August 1856 from a Glasgow address at 20 Dixon Street (he later published from Edinburgh) shows Maclachlan being supportive in a struggle with the Free Press over printers’ equipment. SCA/BL, 13 Aug. 1856 to 22 Dec. 1857.
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98 Ibidem, p. 127 (Free Press, 1 July 1854). Maclachlan regretted that the editor had decided against publishing Kennard’s correspondence with the subordinate, despite the fact that it had been set in type. Maclachlan, , True Religion, p. 47.Google Scholar
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103 Ibidem, p. 243.
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106 Reference is made to the ‘Doric dialect’, and there is a more serious distinction between Classical and Hellenistic Greek, Kennard, Controversial, pp. 531, 603.
107 The letter dated 27 March 1854 ends with twelve numbered historical points covering eighteen pages. Footnotes are almost as full as the text.
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114 http://www.dorset-opc.com/MarnhullDirectories.htm. In his latter years the Rector rebuilt the chancel at his own expense and had two of the bells recast in (family?) iron.
115 Crockford’s Clerical Directory gives the impression of an even richer living in the 1850s when the gross income was £1,105. By way of comparison a Perpetual Curate called George Kennard (no relation) lived on £50 a year at Speeton near Flamborough Head.
116 New College Library in Edinburgh holds R. B. Kennard’s study of Essays and Reviews: their history… etc. (1863). Kennard earlier intervened on behalf of a fellow-clergyman fifteen miles away at Broad Chalke who was suspended for espousing the higher criticism of Christian Karl Josias Bunsen. Essays and reviews: a protest addressed to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, on the appearance of the ‘Episcopal Manifesto’, with a letter to the Rev. Rowland Williams (London: Robert Hardwicke, 2nd edition 1861), pp. 98. Later publications include Apostles and sealing through their ministry (London. Thomas Bosworth, 1871?), pp. 16; Some popular objections to the claims of the, so called, ‘Catholic Apostolical Churches’, considered in a letter to a clergyman of the Church of England (London: Thomas Bosworth, 1876), pp. 16; and Arundines Sturi: sive Ecologae ex Mureto, Buchanano, aliisque recentioris aevi poetis (Oxford: John Parker, 1878), pp. 126.
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120 Readers of the book were directed back to this charge on the second last page. Ibidem, pp. 82, 691.
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