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• Macrae, James
  Colonial administrator in India, governor of Madras for the British East India Company.
• Macron, Emmanuel
  President of France (2017-)
• Mahé de la Bourdonnais, Bertrand-François
  French naval officer, colonial administrator and slave-owner in Ile de France (Mauritius) in the eighteenth century. Son of a Saint-Malo shipowner, he began his seafaring career as a ship's boy. He then joined the Compagnie des Indes Orientales as a naval officer and took part in numerous commercial voyages in the Indian Ocean. A liberal-minded man, he also fitted out ships on his own account, trading in India and amassing a considerable fortune. Thanks to his contacts with Louis XV's ministers, he was appointed Governor General of the Isles of France and Bourbon in 1733. He took up his post in 1735 and held it until 1746. Determined to make the Mascareignes a bridgehead for the future conquest of India, he began by relying on the Ile de France, recently appropriated by the Kingdom of France (1721). He undertook extensive public works in Port-Louis, making it his capital and transforming it into a veritable seaport in just a few years. Mahé de La Bourdonnais met the labor needs of both islands by intensifying the slave trade, particularly on the East African coast. At the same time, he reinforced the tools of servile coercion, in particular the repression of marronnage, in order to preserve the colonial order in these new slave-owning societies.
• Mahoux, Paul
• Maillard, Auguste
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Maillot-Rosély, Henri
  French sculptor born in Saint-Denis de La Réunion.
• Malcolm, John
  British military officer and colonial administrator in India.
• Malissard, Georges
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Maltin, Michael
  Stroud clock restorer
• Mandela, Nelson
  South African anti-apartheid activist, politician and first president of South Africa (1994-1999).
• Mangin, Charles
  French soldier who fought in North Africa and Europe. Mangin was a key supporter of the use of Senegalese Tirailleurs during the First World War.
• Marcault-Derouard, Liza
• March, Sydney
  British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include a bust of Cecil Rhodes in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Boer War Memorial in Belfast, and the equestrian statue of Horatio Kitchener, which was originally installed in Kolkata, but was later relocated to Khartoum before being repatriated to Chatham in the late 1950s.
• Marchand, Jean-Baptiste
  Born into a modest family, Jean-Baptiste Marchand epitomised those French officers who counted on wars of colonial conquest for rapid advancement. The Congo-Nil mission (1896-1899) was the pinnacle of his colonial career. His face-off with the British army at Fachoda in 1898 earned him a hero's welcome on his return, but his closeness to the nationalist far-right led him to resign from the army in 1904. An unsuccessful candidate in the 1906 parliamentary elections, he temporarily disappeared from public life. He returned to service in 1914, becoming a general in 1915. Wounded three times, he served until 1918. He died in 1934.
• Marochetti, Carlo
  Italian-born French sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the equestrian statue of Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine (which was originally installed in Algiers but was later repatriated to France in 1980), the equestrian statue of Stapleton Cotton in Chester, and the statue of Robert Clive in Shrewsbury.
• Maroons
• Marquet de Vasselot, Jean Joseph Marie Anatole
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Marquette, Jacques
  French missionary and explorer in North America in the seventeenth century.
• Marshall, William Calder
  Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Robert Peel in Manchester and the statue of George Grey in Cape Town.
• Martial, Armand
  French sculptor
• Martin, Ros
• Mason, Hugh
  English cotton mill owner, social reformer and Liberal politician in the nineteenth century. The British cotton textile industry had deep connections to transatlantic slavery and colonialism in this period. The industry was supplied by countries such as the United States, India, and Egypt, and, in many cases, enslaved labour was involved in producing the raw materials. In the 1860s, for example, Mason had to manage his company's response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine, which was partly triggered by the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• Matusa, David
  Zimbabwean sculptor active in the twentieth century.
• Mauchamp, Emile
  French colonial doctor who died in Morocco in 1907.
• Maugendre-Villers, Edouard
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Mazuet, Jean
  French sculptor in the twentieth century.
• McBride, Charles
  Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• McFall, David
  Scottish sculptor in the twentieth century.
• McGill, David
  Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• McGrigor, James, 1st Baronet
  Scottish physician, military surgeon and botanist in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. McGrigor was a key figure in the founding of the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as Director-General of the Army Medical Department from 1815 to 1851. The British Empire was involved in a number of colonial conflicts during this period, including the First Ashanti War (1823-1831), the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842) and the Xhosa Wars.
• McKenzie, R. Tait
  Canadian sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• McMillan, William
  Scottish sculptor active in the twentieth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the bust of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough in Bloomsbury, the statue of Hugh Trenchard in Westminster, and the statue of King George V in Barrackpore.
• Mellish, Richard
  Jewellery maker
• Ménard, Charles
  French colonial soldier who died fighting in Africa in the late nineteenth century.
• Mercié, Antonin
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Mérignargues, Léopold
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Merlieux, Louis-Parfait
  French sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
• Merrifield, Leonard Stanford
  British sculptor active in the twentieth century.
• Merwart, Paul
  French-Polish colonial painter in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who died in the Mount Pelée eruption of 1902.
• Methuen, Paul, 3rd Baron Methuen
  British Army officer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Methuen fought in a number of colonial conflicts in Africa.
• Michel, Gustave
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Michelet, Firmin
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Milburn, George Walker
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Miles, John
  Stroud watchmaker in the eighteenth century.
• Mill, John Stuart
  British philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant in the nineteenth century. Mill was an employee of the East India Company from 1823 to 1858.
• Millais, John Everett
  British painter and illustrator in the nineteenth century.
• Milligan, Robert
  Scottish slave-owner and merchant in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Milligan was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1746 to an inkeeper, although secondary sources suggest he may have grown up on his family's plantations in Jamaica. He was resident in the colony roughly between 1768 and 1779, where he worked as a merchant and slave-factor in partnership with James Dick of Kingston. After settling in London from the 1780s onwards, Milligan became a merchant in two London firms, Milligan and Allen and Milligan and Mitchell, by 1794. Milligan & Mitchell had interests in the Golden Vale estate in Jamaica, while two additional estates, Kellet's and Mammee Gully, were also listed as the property of Robert Milligan. Firmly established in London's West India circles as a member of the Society of West India Planters and Merchants, Milligan spearheaded the development of the West India Docks in the final years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth, serving as deputy chairman and chairman of the West India Dock Company.
• Milnes, Thomas
  British sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur
  Commander-in-chief of the ruler of Bengal Nawab Sira ud-daula; conspired with the British East India Company to betray the Nawab in order to be appointed king of Bengal himself. His reign saw the rapid increase in the political power of the British East India Company in India.
• Mitchel, John
  Irish nationalist, pro-slavery propagandist, and white supremacist. Exiled in the United States from 1853, Mitchel was a hardline supporter of the institution of slavery and the Southern secessionist cause. Mitchel edited the Confederate newspaper Daily Enquirer in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War, and was a fierce opponent of Reconstruction after the war. Mitchel was also deeply influenced by the essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author of the proslavery text 'Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question' (1849), whom he met in London in 1846.