Background
MacGauley was born around 1806 into a Catholic family at Kilmainham, where his father was a carpenter.
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James MacGauley
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After school in Dublin, he went to Street Patrick"s College, Maynooth to train for the priesthood, where the physicist Nicholas Callan gave him scientific interests. He was a priest at Saint Mary"s Church, Dublin He then served as professor of natural philosophy to the Board of National Education in Ireland, from 1836 to 1856. As part of his work, he ran a laboratory in Marlborough Street, Dublin, in the Board"s headquarters.
MacGauley emigrated to Canada about 1856, and was there to around 1865, when he settled in England.
At the time of his death, on 25 October 1867, he was also managing director to the Inventors" Patentright Association. MacGaulay left the priesthood around 1856, and in 1857 married Julia Frances Cahill in Boston, Massachusetts.
They had four children.
Membership
He became a member of the council of the Inventors" Institute (of London), and took an active part in the executive committee of that body, and was one of the editors as well as a contributor to their organ, the Scientific Review.
