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Charles Mackay was born on March 27, 1814, in Perth, Scotland, to George Mackay and Amelia Cargill. His mother died shortly after his birth.
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Charles Mackay was born on March 27, 1814, in Perth, Scotland, to George Mackay and Amelia Cargill. His mother died shortly after his birth.
Charles Mackay was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and in Brussels.
In 1830, being then private secretary to a Belgian ironmaster, he began writing verses and articles for local newspapers. Returning to London, he devoted himself to literary and journalistic work, and was attached to the Morning Chronicle (1835 - 1844). He published Memoirs of Extraordinary Public Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), and gradually made himself known as an industrious and prolific journalist. In 1844 he was made editor of the Glasgow Argus. His literary reputation was made by the publication in 1846 of a volume of verses, Voices from the Crowd, some of which were set to music by Henry Russell and became very popular. Mackay had the degree of LL. D. from the University of Glasgow in 1846. In 1848 Mackay returned to London and worked for the Illustrated London News, of which he became editor in 1852. In it he published a number of songs, set to music by Sir Henry Bishop and Henry Russell, and in 1855 they were collected in a volume; they included the popular " Cheer, Boys! Cheer! " After his severance from the Illustrated London News, in 1859, Mackay started two unsuccessful periodicals, and acted as special correspondent for The Times in America during the Civil War. He edited A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry (1867).
Charles Mackay died on December 24, 1889, in London.
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Quotations:
"There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. "
"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. "
Charles Mackay was a member of the Percy Society.
Charles Mackay was twice married. First, during his Glasgow editorship, to Rosa Henrietta Vale, by whom he had three sons and a daughter, and secondly to Mary Elizabeth Mills, who was likely a servant in the household previously.
George Mackay was a bombardier in the Royal Artillery.
Marie Corelli was an English novelist and mystic.
Eric Mackay was an English writer of verse.
