part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.
Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with
Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June
1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. _I.L.N. 27 June
1891 p._ 854, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p._ 832,
_portrait_.
MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805;
major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany.
1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being
disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Brighton 18 March 1851.
MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney,
woollen manufacturer). _b._ Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary
in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome;
prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood,
co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830;
ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at
Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3;
contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6,
many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as
Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor
1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived
in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe
1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz
in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final
reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881),
memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. _d._ at his hotel in the Rue
des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. _bur._ in vaults of Shandon
church, Cork. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
463–88, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_
(1885) 91–4; _S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed._ (1877) 238;
_Dublin Univ. mag. xxx_ 442–52 (1847) _signed Morgan Rattler_;
_I.L.N. xlix_ 137 (1866), _portrait_.
MAHONY, PIERCE. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co.
solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies,
at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug.
1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell
1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court
of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster
declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal
of the Union. _d._ 18 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. iv_ 41, 42 (1814),
_portrait_.
MAHONY, RICHARD JOHN (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee,
Kerry). _b._ Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist,
Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord,
all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A.
Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his
estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of
several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. _d._ 4
Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. _bur._ in family vault
near Dromore castle 27 Dec. _Times 28 Dec. 1892 p._ 4.
MAIDEN, JOSEPH. _b._ close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire
1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to
sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others
at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250
sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at
Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton
1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his
master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. _d._
Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Maer.
_Sporting Review_, _xxxviii_ 383–7 (1857) _portrait_, _lii_ 318,
392 (1864); _The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid_ (1880)
313–18; _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 211–2.
NOTE.--The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S.
Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.
MAIDLOW, JOHN MOTT (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent).
_b._ 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A.
1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867;
a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on
the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public
therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons
preservation 1867. _d._ 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London
26 Sep. 1893.
MAIDMENT, JAMES (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill,
London). _b._ London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817;
much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter
Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford,
and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73;
principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837;
edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14
vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of
his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. _d._ Edinburgh 26 Oct.
1879. _T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment_ (1883),
_portrait_; _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiii_ 601–3 (1879).
MAIN, DAVID M. (son of a Scottish banker). _b._ 1847; edited
A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations.
Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English
sonnets 1884. _d._ 1888.
MAIN, JOHN FREDERIC. _b._ 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan
gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at
Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London
1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol;
assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South
Kensington. _d._ Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.
MAIN, ROBERT (son of Thomas Main). _b._ Upnor, Kent 12 July
1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation
scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler
1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860;
chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60;
ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41
and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president
1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member
of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860
to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859
etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860;
Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. _d._ Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 9 May 1878. _E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_
(1879) 165–88; _Nature 16 May 1878 pp._ 72–3.
MAIN, THOMAS. _b._ 1806; presbyterian minister Kilmarnock
1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St.
Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general
assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in
the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. _d._ 7 Bellevue
crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1851) 55–62.
MAIN, THOMAS JOHN (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). _b._ 1818;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843;
senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A.
1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842,
retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval
college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The
indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam
engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions
on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed.
1863. _d._ 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec.
1885. _Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p._ 233.
MAINE, MISS E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among
strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person
1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3
vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. _d._ Wales 24 Jany. 1891.
MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (son of James Maine, M.D.)
_b._ Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s
hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar
1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first
chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847;
tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law
at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850;
barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to
death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman
law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July
1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov.
1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at
Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863;
elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of
jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll.
Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20
May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June
1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of
Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor
of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of
Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection
with the early history of society and its relation to modern
ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876;
Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other
books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. _d._ Cannes 3 Feb.
1888. _Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with
his speeches_ (1892), _memoir pp._ 1–83, _portrait_; _Bristed’s
Five years at an English university_, _i_ 174, 234, 237, 268–70
(1852); _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 197–204; _The
Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 69–74.
MAINWARING, EDWARD VINCENT. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served
in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at
Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the
Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The
Lancet. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.
MAINWARING, FREDERICK. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June
1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep.
1852, sold out 29 April 1853. _d._ Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.
MAINWARING, GEORGE BYRES. _b._ 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal
N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1
Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed
on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887;
author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists
in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. _d._ Serampore,
Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.
MAINWARING, SIR HENRY MAINWARING, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas
Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). _b._ 25
April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden
was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804.
_d._ Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. _Sporting Review_, _xliii_
83 (1860).
MAINWARING, ROWLAND (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks,
Warwickshire 1745–1815). _b._ 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May
1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798;
commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22
July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive
gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832;
Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal
act. Bath 1838. _d._ Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11
April 1862.
MAINWARING, SWEEDLAND. _b._ 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15
Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov.
1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881.
_d._ Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.
MAINWARING, TOWNSHEND (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring
of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). _b._ Oteley park 16 March
1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov.
1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and
1857–68. _d._ Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.
MAINZER, JOSEPH. _b._ Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise
of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé;
singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account
of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical
editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came
to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848
to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed.
1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony
1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring
counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb.
1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum
1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4,
continued as The musical times 1844. _d._ Manchester 10 Nov.
1851. _A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer_ (1844);
_Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp._ 103–5.
MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. _b._ Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of
W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of
modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in
prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874;
A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar
quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. _drowned_
while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.
MAIR, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital,
London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society;
hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840,
surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served
in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada
1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils.
Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or
total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state
of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. _d._ Kingston
5 Oct. 1877. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867)
246–7.
MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh
hall, Lincs.) _b._ 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of
commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated
baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s
Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list
1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch
and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s
guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872;
Short rules for cribbage 1878. _d._ Osbert house, Skegness,
Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.
MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal
N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war
1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal
infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the
antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the
procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the
cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing
his skull. _d._ 2 Sep. 1892.
MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull,
_d._ 18 Feb. 1790). _b._ 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793;
captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795,
major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807;
lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on
h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal
and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug.
1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in
Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Wells 18 May 1852. _bur._ in the minster at Ripon.
_I.L.N. xx_ 479 (1852); _G.M. xxxviii_ 92 (1852).
MAITLAND, SIR ALEXANDER CHARLES RAMSAY-GIBSON, 3 Baronet (son
of Alexander M. G. Maitland). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820;
succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant
Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col.
3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed
surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. _d._ Clifton hall,
Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 551 (1876).
MAITLAND, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain
R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828,
_d._ Oct. 1865). _b._ Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and
Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised
at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of
All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire;
C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in
the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome,
illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school
of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the
present time 1849. _d._ London 31 July 1866.
MAITLAND, CHARLES DAVID. _b._ 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall,
Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton
14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the
conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on
the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on
the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and
the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal
son, eight discourses 1844. _d._ Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.
MAITLAND, CHARLES LENNOX BROWNLOW (son of sir Peregrine Maitland
1777–1854). _b._ 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April
1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.;
assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in
Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor
1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884;
col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death;
general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. _d._
Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. _Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p._ 103,
_portrait_.
MAITLAND, EBENEZER FULLER. _b._ 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829;
F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
_d._ Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. _Cautionary hints to testators,
suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a
correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of
Harlow_ 1813.
MAITLAND, EDWARD FRANCIS, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of
Barcaple). _b._ Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and
univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire
9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and
27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session
with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and
assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen
1860. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. _Law mag.
and law review_, _xxix_ 273–4 (1870).
MAITLAND, JOHN (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland,
2 baronet 1755–1848). _b._ 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb.
to death; an organizer of the National security savings’
bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St.
George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund;
accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the
Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built
offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of
National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’
banks self supporting 1847. _d._ Swinton Bank near Peebles 6
Sep. 1865. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 389–96.
MAITLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec.
1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.
MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866).
_b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler
and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842;
barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service
commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author
of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. _d._ 51
Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.
MAITLAND, JULIA CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Barrett). _m._ (1) James
Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who _d._ 6 Jany. 1840;
_m._ (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters
from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843,
another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The
doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs
of the puss and the captain 1854. _d._ Stowe Provost near
Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.
MAITLAND, SIR PEREGRINE (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall,
New Forest, Hants.) _b._ Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1
foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first
brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at
Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut.
governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of
Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief
of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and
commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct.
1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834;
col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to
death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April
1852. _d._ 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. _Hamilton’s
History of the grenadier guards_, _vols._ 2 _and_ 3 (1874);
_Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war_ (1848).
MAITLAND, SAMUEL ROFFEY (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant).
_b._ King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7
Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at
St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll.
1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll.
10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of
St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7;
travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet
An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of
Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years.
1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’;
librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48;
D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839;
lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49;
contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes
under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents
illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and
Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to
illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth,
tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects
connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40
other books. _d._ Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. _Proc. of royal soc.
xvi_ 31–3 (1868).
NOTE.--Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime
minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In
literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its
cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which
should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from
the invention of printing downwards.
MAITLAND, THOMAS, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland).
_b._ Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called
to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep.
1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire
1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death,
took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by
Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and
Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The
works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov.
1851 and 8 following days. _d._ of paralysis at 31 Melville
st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 111–2, _portrait_.
MAITLAND, WILLIAM FULLER (2 son of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland
1780–1858). _b._ 10 March 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1835, M.A. 1839; lived at Stansted, Essex 1842 to death; made a
collection of pictures, most of which were exhibited at South
Kensington museum after his death, 9 of the best were bought
for the National Gallery; lent pictures to the Old Masters’
exhibitions at the R.A. during many years. _d._ Stansted 15
Feb. 1876. _G. H. Rogers-Harrison’s Genealogical account of the
Maitland family_ (1869); _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 1–7
(1854).
MAJENDIE, ASHURST (eld. son of Lewis Majendie of Hedingham
castle, Essex, _d._ 1833 aged 77). _b._ London 24 April 1784;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; barrister L.I. 12 June 1809; resided
at Penzance 1814–8; one of founders of Geological society of
Cornwall 1814; assist. poor law comr. for Sussex, Kent and part
of Essex 1832; F.R.S. 28 June 1821; F.S.A. _d._ Hedingham castle
7 Oct. 1867. _Law Journal xliii_ 440 (1867).
MAJENDIE, LEWIS ASHURST (eld. son of rev. Henry Lewis Majendie,
V. of Great Dunmow, Essex, _d._ 1863). _b._ Great Dunmow 19 May
1835; ed. at Marlborough and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1860;
a student of Lincoln’s inn 1859; M.P. Canterbury, Feb. 1874 to
April 1879. _d._ Hedingham castle, Essex 22 Oct. 1885.
MAJOR, HENRY ARCHIBALD (son of Mr. Major, compositor, who _d._
Reading, June 1863). _b._ One Bell yard, Strand, London 30
Dec. 1828; employed by J. B. Chamberlain, picture dealer 203
High Holborn 1845–8; a letter carrier in Lincoln’s Inn Fields
post office 4 Dec. 1848 to June 1876 when granted pension of
14 shillings and 7 pence per week; played Doggrass in Francis
Talfourd’s pantomime Black-eyed Susan at Strand theatre 12 weeks
from 24 Dec. 1855, also in his own dramas at Grecian theatre
1871–4; known as “The Postman artist of Lincoln’s Inn Fields”;
his picture of Grapes and butterflies took first-class prize at
Floral hall, Covent Garden 1865; he gained 8 more first-class
prizes at picture shows; presented a large painting of fruit
worth £50 to King’s college hospital 7 Jany. 1870; exhibited
6 fruit pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–73; lived at 14
Brownlow st. Holborn. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement
Danes_, _ii_ 65–7 (1876).
NOTE.--He wrote for the Soho theatre A cure for the gout, farce 1859,
and A sketch from the Louvre, farce 1860, for the Grecian theatre 5
farces namely It never rains but it pours 1862, A Rye House plot 1865,
The expected general 1870, The man of mystery 1870 and The rural poet
1871, and 4 dramas namely Primrose farm 1871, The blind fiddler 1872,
The mystic number 7, 1872, and My pretty Jane 1874, for the Britannia
theatre The Ku Klux Klan drama 1873, and for Croydon theatre The lock
out 1879; he wrote 7 other dramas and 8 other farces which were not
produced; two of his dramas The lock out and The Nondescript, and two
of his farces A Jack of both sides and Irish home rule were printed.
MAJOR, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 1 July 1837;
resided at Londonderry. _d._ 1877.
MAJOR, JOHN RICHARDSON (son of John Major). _b._ London 1797;
ed. at Reading sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1827; D.D. 1838; master of Wisbeach gr. sch. 1826–30; head
master of King’s coll. sch. London 1830 to July 1866; V. of
Wartling, Sussex 1846–51; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1871 to death;
author of Extracts from Virgil and from the Fasti of Ovid 1857,
anon.; ed. The journal of the Photographic soc. 1853; re-edited
many classical and other school books, about 30 in number
1820–57. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 29 Feb. 1876. _Men of the
time_ (1875) 691; _Times 9 March 1876 p._ 11.
MAJOR, JOSHUA. _b._ 1787; landscape gardener at Knostrop near
Leeds; assisted in formation of the first Sunday school in
Leeds, superintendent many years; author of A treatise on the
insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden produce 1829;
The theory and practice of landscape gardening 1852; The ladies’
assistant in the formation of their flower gardens 1861. _d._
Knostrop 26 Jany. 1866. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
609; _Gardeners’ Chronicle 10 Feb. 1866 p._ 128.
MAJOR, RICHARD HENRY (son of Richard Henry Major, surgeon).
_b._ London 3 Oct. 1818; an assistant in department of printed
books in British Museum in charge of the maps and charts Jany.
1844, keeper of department of printed maps and plans Jany. 1867,
resigned Nov. 1880; hon. sec. to Hakluyt Soc. 1849–58; F.S.A. 25
Jany. 1855; made researches on the early history of Australia
1861 etc.; hon. sec. of Royal geogr. soc. 1861–81, vice pres.
1881–4; knight of the Tower and Sword, of the orders of
Santiago, Oct. 1875 and of the Rose of Brazil; knight commander
of Crown of Italy, May 1875; edited for the Hakluyt Soc., Select
letters of Christopher Columbus 1847, 2 ed. 1870, and 9 other
books 1849–58; author of The life of prince Henry of Portugal,
surnamed the navigator 1868 and other books. _d._ 51 Holland
road, Kensington 25 June 1891. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British
Museum_ (1872) 377–80; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3, _portrait_.
MAKELLAR, ANGUS. _b._ Argyllshire 1780; D.D. of univ. of Glasgow
1835; presbyterian minister of Carmunnock near Glasgow 1812–4
and of Pencaitland, Haddington 1814–43; moderator of the general
assembly 1840; Free ch. minister Pencaitland 1843; chairman of
the board of missions, Edinb. Oct. 1843 to death; moderator
1843 and 1852. _d._ Edinburgh 10 May 1859. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) 397–404, _portrait_.
MALAN, CHARLES HENRY (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan _b._
1812). _b._ 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal
fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault
on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14
Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served
in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872
and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. _d._ 42
Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery
20 May.
MALCOLM, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1813; timber merchant at Venice,
leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at
Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the
grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892;
consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon.
representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. _d._ Venice 22
Jany. 1893.
MALCOLM, ANDREW GEORGE. _b._ 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician
Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and
pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal;
author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for
its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an
interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. _d._ Rathmines,
Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.
MALCOLM, SIR CHARLES (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot,
Dumfriesshire, _d._ 1803). _b._ Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered
navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts
William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on
the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted
by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28
Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May
1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council
of Royal Geogr. Soc. _d._ Brighton 14 June 1851. _C.R. Low’s
History of the Indian navy_ 2 _vols._ (1877) _i_ 494 _etc._
MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3
Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political
agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.
MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm).
_b._ 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot
20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13
Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of
Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42;
A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death;
general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B.
24 Dec. 1842; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child
of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was _b._ June 1807
and _d._ 29 Oct. 1886). _d._ 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888.
_J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females_, _i_ 43
(1833), _portrait of his wife_.
MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). _b._
1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821,
chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ.
(afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of
Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to
B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical
degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological
Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50,
and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. _d._ 39 Belsize sq. South
Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London.
_Graphic_, _xiv_ 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_; _Testimonials in
favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh
academy_ 1824.
MALDEN, JONAS. _b._ Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at
univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816
to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of
Practical observations on the cow pox. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March
1860.
MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre
Malet, 1 bart. _d._ 24 Jany. 1815). _b._ 23 July 1800; ed. at
Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822;
attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at
Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of
legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836;
sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep.
1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep.
1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23
June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester
school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the
prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with
Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831;
The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou
1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870.
_d._ 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886.
_The Biograph_, _iii_ 458–62 (1880).
MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 Nov. 1806;
ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842;
political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of
Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary
to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of
India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge
of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut
1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the
daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the
Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse
1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book
of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet
family 1885. _d._ 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1888.
MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827,
fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to
death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the
library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. _d._ 2 Richmond hill,
Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.
MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet,
baronet _d._ 1815). _b._ 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay
establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from
Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset
1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John,
Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author
of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849;
The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An
errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome,
Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868;
St. Swithin’s day 1879. _d._ Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.
MALEY, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30
Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours
23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2
hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a
side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat
Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in
44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle,
Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb.
1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in
205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a
side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill
at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov.
1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in
130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his
fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his
style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable;
a capital teacher of boxing. _d._ Coach and Horses public house,
90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. _John Hannan’s Guide
to British boxing_ (1852) 37–9.
MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). _b._ Great Charles st.
Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made
himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt
drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass
work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work;
high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and
maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the
fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he
presented to that institution 1879. _d._ 1882. _Edgbastonia_,
_ii_ 2–4 (1882), _portrait_.
MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.)
_b._ Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42;
Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death,
treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of
vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65;
contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage
settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary
property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor
3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice,
Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867;
P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. _d._ 57
Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Bray
near Maidenhead 21 Jany. _Saturday Review_, _liii_ 76 (1882);
_Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867) _No._ 3 _pp._ 12–13;
_A generation of judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 146–56;
_The bench and the bar_ (1860) _part viii_, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 85 (1882),
_portrait_; _Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins
on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school_ 1874.
MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. _b._ 1841; conductor at Queen’s
theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic
theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre
under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881;
composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy
queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy
moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison.
Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans
1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in
one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses
a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady
Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in
Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. _d._ 11
Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.
MALLESON, JOHN PHILIP (youngest son of Thomas Malleson,
silversmith and jeweller). _b._ Battersea, London 11 Feb.
1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent
minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov.
1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation
at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day
school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the
New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove
house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library,
London to death. _d._ Croydon 16 March 1869. _bur._ Marylebone
cemetery, Finchley. _J. Martineau’s The Godly man_ (1870)
_memoir pp._ 19–63.
MALLET, SIR LOUIS (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit
office). _b._ London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office
Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private
secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an
assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the
articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860;
employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial
treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany.
1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent
under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep.
1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May
1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate
a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug.
1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled
Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects,
by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. _d._ Bath 16 Feb. 1890.
_Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 205–13; _Pictorial World
27 Feb. 1890 pp._ 260, 283, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p._
262, _portrait_.
MALLET, ROBERT (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder).
_b._ Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which
ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof
of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges
over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford
medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the
Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9;
invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form
the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the
Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London
1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great
exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical
mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of
R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of
Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74
scientific papers. _d._ Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey
5 Nov. 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_ 297–304
(1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_ 54–6 (1882).
MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James
Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). _b._ Spring
Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris
1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June
1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to
the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec.
1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852;
G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868
and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of
lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of
James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of
letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of
Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ Heron court near
Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. _bur._ under the choir of
Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. _The Times 18 May 1889 p._
14; _London sketch book_, _Aug. 1884_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_
248 (1852) _portrait_, _xxxii_ 250, 260 (1858) _portrait_, l
132, 142 (1867) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 365, 366 (1874) _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait of his wife_.
MALONE, JOSEPH. _b._ 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army;
sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to
death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of
Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. _d._ 12 July
1883.
MALTBY, EDWARD (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver
and a presbyterian, _d._ Aug. 1794 aged 64). _b._ parish of
St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich
gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven
scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792;
B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain
to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of
Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to
death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester
1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned
1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London
1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the
truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803;
Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed.
1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and
20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. _d._ 4 Upper
Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm.
Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_
(1842) 386–8.
MALTBY, MRS. HARRIET. _b._ 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W.
Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to
the Bath charities. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. _The
Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p._ 4.
MALTBY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion
house st. London, wholesale draper). _b._ London 17 Jany. 1763;
ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor
with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787;
principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed
and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to
King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus,
superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of
the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled
Porsoniana pp. 295–334. _d._ London Institution, 11 Finsbury
circus 5 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _G.M. xli_ 209–10
(1854).
MAMMATT, EDWARD. _b._ 1807; became blind when very young;
learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity,
geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton
brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842;
invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he
received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. _d._
Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.
MAN, WILLIAM (son of William Man). _b._ Dec. 1818; travelled
over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies,
Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in
the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of
Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. _d._ 16 May 1881.
_Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii_ 567 (1881).
MANBY, CHARLES (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850).
_b._ 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his
father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s
gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry
at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales
1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837,
M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56
when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec.
1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission
for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal;
lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21
Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb.
1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil
engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton
2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866.
_d._ Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July
1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi_ 327–34 (1885),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 159 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 156
(1884), _portrait_.
MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain
Welsh fusiliers, _d._ 1774). _b._ Denver near Downham Market,
Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801;
captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth
14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving
life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at
Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the
United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first
to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the
extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The
history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales
1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties
of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the
preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to
Greenland 1822. _d._ Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov.
1854. _G. W. Manby’s Reminiscences_ (1839); _European Mag. July
1813 pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 267 (1843), _portrait_;
_G.M. Jany. 1822 pp._ 66–70.
MANCHESTER, GEORGE MONTAGU, 6 Duke of (elder son of 5 duke of
Manchester 1768–1843). _b._ Kimbolton castle, St. Neots, Hunts.
9 July 1799; styled viscount Mandeville 1799–1843; entered navy
19 Feb. 1812, lieut. 20 Nov. 1818, commander 19 July 1822,
commander on h.p. to his death; M.P. Hunts. 1826–37; succeeded
18 March 1843; founded the National club, London 1845; author
of Hints upon prophecy 1830; Horæ Hebraicæ 1835; Things hoped
for: second advent 1837; The times of Daniel 1845; The finished
mystery 1847; A chapter on the harmonizing gospels. Dublin 1854,
anon., and other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 Aug. 1855.
_bur._ Kimbolton church 28 Aug.
MANCHESTER, WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU, 7 Duke of Manchester (eld.
child of the preceding). _b._ Kimbolton castle 15 Oct. 1823;
styled lord Kimbolton 1823–43; ensign 11 foot 3 Dec. 1841;
ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 21 Jany. 1842, lieut. and
capt. 1 Dec. 1846; styled viscount Mandeville 1843–55; aide de
camp to sir Peregrine Maitland at Cape of Good Hope 1843–4;
retired from army 17 Sep. 1850; contested Westminster 30 July
1847; M.P. Bewdley 18 April 1848, accepted the Chiltern hundreds
May 1852; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1852–5; lord of bed chamber
to prince Albert 1 March to Dec, 1852; succeeded as 7 duke 18
Aug. 1855; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24
June 1861; LL.D. of Camb. univ. 3 June 1864; K.P. 3 March 1877;
knight of order of Iron Cross of Prussia; president of royal
colonial institute; engaged in commercial ventures in Canada
and Australia; author of Court and society from Elizabeth to
Anne, from the papers at Kimbolton 2 vols. 1864; A letter to
prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar from a spectator of the campaign
of 1870 etc. 1871. _d._ Hôtel Royal, Naples 21 March 1890, body
embalmed and _bur._ at Kimbolton. _Baily’s Mag. xiv_ 163–4
(1868), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 245 (1877) _portrait_, _and 29
March 1890 p._ 390, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890
pp._ 390, 408, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 May 1861 p._ 323,
_portrait_; _Times 24 March 1890 p._ 10, _27 March p._ 4.
MANCHESTER GEORGE VICTOR DROGO MONTAGU, 8 Duke of Manchester
(eldest child of the preceding). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 17
June 1853; styled lord Kimbolton 1853–5 and viscount Mandeville
1855–90; captain Armagh militia 30 April 1877 to May 1889; M.P.
Huntingdonshire 1877–80; contested Huntingdonshire, April 1880;
bankrupt 2 April 1889, bankruptcy annulled 8 Aug. 1889, paid
20s. in the pound 1890–91; succeeded as 8 duke 21 March 1890.
_d._ Tanderagee castle, Armagh 18 Aug. 1892.
MANDERS, MR. Proprietor of a menagerie, employing 60 people
1840–71; toured in America; lived in his travelling caravan for
30 years; was in treaty for selling his animals to the French
government 1871; his wife was a well-known Lion queen, she
carried on the menagerie after her husband’s death. He _d._ in
his caravan near Dumfries, Ayrshire 18 Nov. 1871. _The Era 26
Nov. 1871 p._ 12.
MANDERS, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Powell). _b._ 1801; (_m._ 1820
Thomas Manders 1797–1859); made her first appearance at theatre
royal, Exeter 1825; fell from the flies at Sadler’s Wells and
was much injured 1834; at the Strand, Adelphi and Drury Lane
played old women, and was good as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet;
received a sum of money through an appeal made in The Era 1879.
_d._ 17 April 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 21 April. _The Era 25
April 1880 p._ 6.
MANDERS, THOMAS. _b._ 22 Dec. 1797; engaged in one pound note
department of the Bank of England 1814, one pound notes done
away with and his office abolished 1821 when he was pensioned;
went on the stage and toured through Midland counties; manager
of theatre royal, Exeter 1825; (_m._ 1820 Louisa Powell actress
1801–1880); first appeared in London at City theatre, Milton st.
as Justice Greedy; acted at the Strand and Olympic; was at the
Queen’s theatre about 16 years; kept the marquis of Granby, 11
Middle row, Knightsbridge; kept the Sun tavern, Longacre 1838.
_d._ 28 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Woking cemet. _The Era 6 Nov. 1859 p._
15; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 241 (1838), _portrait_; _Actors by
gaslight_ (1838) 81.
MANDEVILLE, JOHN HENRY. Sec. to the commissary for prisoners
of war in France 1801–2; sec. to the embassy at Vienna 1804–9,
at Brussels 1815 and at Frankfort 1817; paid attaché at Paris
1824; sec. of embassy at Lisbon 1828 and at Constantinople 1831;
minister plenipo. at Constantinople 1831–3 and at Buenos Ayres
1835–45 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 16 March 1861. _F.O.
List_, _July 1861 p._ 157.
MANDRON HARVEY, AUGUSTE. _b._ 1813; B.A.; French master St.
Peter’s collegiate school, Eaton square, London; author of Le
vieux chêne. Par l’ auteur de John Hardy le laquais, traduit par
A. Mandron. London 1852. _d._ 41 Kellett road, Brixton, Surrey
16 Dec. 1879.
MANGIN, EDWARD (eld. son of Samuel Henry Mangin, lieut.-col. 14
dragoons, _d._ 1798). _b._ Dublin 15 July 1772; ed. at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; preb. of Dysart, Killaloe
cath. 2 March 1798; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 15 Jany.
1800 to 1 Dec. 1803; preb. of Rath in Killaloe cath. 1 Dec. 1803
to death; author of The deserted city 1805. By E. M., a poem on
Bath in summer; Oddities and outlines. By E. M. 2 vols. 1806;
George the third, a novel 3 vols. 1807; Essays on the sources of
the pleasures received from literary compositions 1809, anon., 2
ed. 1813; Piozziana, or recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi.
By A Friend 1833. _d._ 10 Johnstone st. Bath 17 Oct. 1852.
_Peach’s Houses in Bath_, _i_ 146–7 (1883), _ii_ 8, 37–8, 72
(1884).
MANGLES, CHARLES EDWARD (son of James Mangles, M.P. Guildford
1832–7). _b._ 1798; captain H.E.I.C. naval service; M.P. Newport
1857–9; contested Southampton 6 Dec. 1862; chairman of London
and south-western railway 1859–72; resided at Poyle park,
Tongham, Farnham, Surrey. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Oct. 1873.
MANGLES, JAMES. _b._ 1786; entered navy March 1800; commander
of the Racoon sloop 13 June 1815; captain on h.p. 8 Feb. 1853;
travelled in Europe, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor 1817–18;
F.R.S. 20 June 1825; an original fellow and member of council
of Royal Geographical Soc. 1830; author of The floral calendar
1839; Papers and despatches relating to the Arctic searching
expeditions of 1850–1–2. 1852; Thames estuary, guide to the
navigation of the Thames mouth 1853; author with C. L. Irby of
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor in 1817–18. 1823.
_d._ Fairfield, Topsham road, Exeter 18 Nov. 1867.
MANGLES, ROSS DONELLY (younger son of James Mangles of
Woodbridge, Surrey, M.P. Guildford). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and
Haileybury coll.; writer in service of H.E.I.C. Bengal, April
1819; spent three years in Europe 1828–31; junior sec. to Sudder
board of revenue in Bengal presidency; director of H.E.I.C. 14
April 1847 and chairman 1857–8; M.P. Guildford 1841–58; member
of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1866; author of A brief
vindication of the India company’s government of Bengal 1830;
Christian reasons of a member of the Church of England for being
a reformer 1840. _d._ 23 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 16 Aug.
1877. _Annual register_ (1877) 156; _Times 21 Aug. 1877 p._ 4.
MANGOLD, CARL GEORG (son of Ludwig Mangold, violinist). _b._
Darmstadt 27 Sep. 1812; a pupil of Johann N. Hummel; came to
London about 1837; pianist; a teacher of the piano; taught
the princess Mary of Cambridge, duchess of Teck; professor
at Guildhall school of music to 1887; composer of Marche
triumphale, composed for the christening of the Prince of Wales
1842; Les etoiles, morceaux caractéristiques 1855; Six rêveries
for the pianoforte 1855; Six romances sans paroles 1856; Wild
flowers, three impromptus 1862; Three melodies 1863; Night hymn
at sea 1875; author of Harmony 1886; Counterpoint 1886; History
of harmony and counterpoint 1886. _d._ 4 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury,
London 1 Nov. 1887.
MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (son of Frederick Maning of Johnville,
co. Dublin). _b._ 5 July 1812; taken to Van Diemen’s Land
1824; went to New Zealand 1841, won the hearts of the natives
who installed him as a Pakeha Maori or naturalised stranger;
acquired land of the Ngapuhi tribe at Hokianga, settled at Onaki
and married a Maori; a judge of the Native lands court 15 Nov.
1865, resigned 1881; author of Old New Zealand, being incidents
of native customs, by a Pakeha Maori 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The
history of the war in the North with Heki in 1845, both books
were republished in 1876. _d._ London 25 July 1883. _bur._ New
Zealand, his bust is over door of institute library at Auckland.
_G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand_, _i_ 22, _ii_ 285, _iii_
515 (1883).
MANISTY, SIR HENRY (2 son of James Manisty V. of Edlingham,
Northumberland). _b._ Edlingham 13 Dec. 1808; ed. at Durham
cathedral gr. sch.; member of firm of Meggison, Pringle and
Manisty, solicitors, London 1830–42; barrister G.I. 23 April
1845, bencher 22 July 1857 to death, treasurer 1861; went
northern circuit; Q.C. 7 July 1857; judge of high court of
justice, queen’s bench division 31 Oct. 1876 to death; knighted
at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1876; author of A letter to sir
F. Pollock on the subject of local courts 1843; seized with
paralysis in court 24 Jany. 1890. _d._ 24A Bryanston sq. London
31 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Feb. _Vanity Fair_,
_xxxvi_ 4–5 (1886) _and 30 Nov. 1889_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_
428 (1876) _portrait and 8 Feb. 1890 p._ 163, _portrait_.
MANKS, RICHARD. _b._ in parish of Solihull, Warwickshire 3
May 1818; known as the Warwickshire antelope and the Eastern
Warwickshire star; ran from Hagley Tap house to Birmingham 9¾
miles with 3 steep hills; ran 3 miles in 17 minutes and won; ran
18½ miles up and down hill within 2 hours on the Coventry road
and won; against Mountjoy picked up 300 stones placed 1 yard
apart 51 miles 540 yards for £30 a side; wheeled a barrow with
5 cwt. 588 yards for £50 a side; ran Jackson the American deer
10 miles £100 a side and beat him: a publican 1847; walked 1000
miles in 1000 hours, starting each time as the clock struck at
the Barrack tavern, Sheffield, being watched by three troops of
the 1 royal dragoons 17 June to 29 July 1850; trained Burton
to fight Tass Parker 19 May 1851; said to have walked 1000
quarter miles in 1000 quarter hours, completing task on 4 July
1851, and 1000 miles in 1000 half hours at the Kennington Oval
10 to 31 Oct. 1851. _Illust. Sporting News 7 July_ (1862) 100,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_ 96 (1850) _portrait_, _xix_ 573, 574
(1851), _portrait_.
MANN, FREDERICK WILLIAM (youngest son of general Gother Mann).
_b._ 1782; ensign royal staff corps 9 Feb. 1804, lieut.-col.
31 Dec. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 July 1834; served at captures
of Genoa and Malta; was under lord Cathcart in Germany; with
sir John Moore in Sweden, Portugal and Spain; under sir John
Doyle aided in constructing military roads in Guernsey; in the
Peninsula 1813–14, at the passage of Bidassoa, at Nivelle and
Toulouse; illustrated Giles Witherne by J. P. Wilson 1863. _d._
De Beavoir, Guernsey 28 July 1871. _I.L.N. 12 Aug. 1871 p._ 139.
MANN, GERARD (son of rev. Horace Mann, R. of Mawgan-in-Meneage,
Cornwall 1816–46). _b._ Mawgan-in-Meneage rectory 20 March
1821; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845; rowed No. 3 in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford and Leander at Thames regatta
1844; rowed bow oar in Cambridge boat which beat Oxford in the
first race over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845 and
which won the grand challenge cup against Oxford at Henley 1845;
he and F. M. Arnold of Caius coll. were the crack pair-oar of
their time and won the silver goblets at Henley with great ease
1845; C. of Alderbury, Wilts. 1847–51; R. of Mawgan, Cornwall
1851 to death. _d._ Mawgan 21 Oct. 1855.
MANN, GOTHER FREDERICK. _b._ 1817; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836,
col. 10 Nov. 1868 to 13 Aug. 1874; M.G. 13 Aug. 1874; C.B. 1
March 1861. _d._ The cottage, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey
2 March 1881.
MANN, HENRY. _b._ 1806; an attentive astronomer who had a
valuable instrument; F.R.A.S. 12 May 1871; an amateur musician;
composer of The Heaton galop. Manchester 1871; resided Spern
Bank near Checkheaton. _d._ 15 Phillimore gardens, Kennington 20
Aug. 1879. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xl_ 204 (1880).
MANN, ROBERT JAMES (son of James Mann of Norwich). _b._ Norwich
1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1878;
surgeon at Norwich, afterwards at Buxton; M.D. St. Andrews 1854;
resided in Natal 1857–66; superintendent of education for Natal
1859–66, established a system of primary education; emigration
agent for Natal in London 1866 to death; pres. of Meteorological
Soc. 3 years; author of The book of health 1850; The philosophy
of reproduction 1855; A guide to the knowledge of life 1856;
The colony of Natal 1860–62; The emigrant’s guide to Natal
1868, 2 ed. 1873 and 15 other books. _d._ 5 Kingsdown villas,
Bolingbroke grove, Wandsworth, London 8 Aug. 1886. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet.
MANN, WILLIAM (3 son of major general Cornelius Mann). _b._
Lewisham, Kent 25 Oct. 1817; went to Gibraltar 1830; second
assistant at royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 1839,
first assistant Dec. 1847 to 1870, erected a new transit-circle
there 1855; communicated his observations of the great comet of
Dec. 1844 and of the transit of Mercury on 4 Nov. 1868 to the
Royal Astronomical Soc.; F.R.A.S. 10 March 1871; granted civil
list pension of £50, 18 June 1873, the value for three years of
this pension was paid to his widow. _d._ Claremont near Cape
Town 30 April 1873. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc.
xxxiv_ 144–8 (1874).
MANNERS, CHARLES HENRY SOMERSET (2 son of Charles Manners, 4
duke of Rutland 1754–87). _b._ 24 Oct. 1780; cornet 10 dragoons
7 Feb. 1798; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 2 July 1812 to 2 June 1825;
M.P. Cambs. 1802–30; M.P. North Leicester 1835–52; C.B. 4 June
1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838; col. 3 dragoons 8 Nov. 1839 to
death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ E3 The Albany, London 25 May
1855.
MANNERS, GEORGE JOHN (3 son of 5 duke of Rutland 1778–1857).
_b._ London 22 June 1820; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1841; cornet royal horse guards 20 Oct. 1840, major 5 March
1861, placed on h.p. 5 June 1866; brevet colonel 5 March 1866;
M.P. Cambridgeshire 1847–57 and 1863 to death; senior steward
of the Jockey club and chairman of committee on condition of
the turf in 1870. _d._ Cheveley park, Newmarket 8 Sep. 1874.
_Baily’s mag. xxii_ 125 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 260,
280 (1874), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 307 (1875); _Graphic_, _x_ 298,
309 (1874), _portrait_.
MANNERS, RUSSELL HENRY (only child of Russell Manners, M.P.)
_b._ London 31 Jany. 1800; ed. at royal naval college; entered
navy 6 March 1816; captain 4 March 1829; retired admiral 12 Sep.
1865; F.R.A.S. 1836, hon. sec. Feb. 1848 to 1858, foreign sec.
1858, president 1868. _d._ 8 Henrietta st. Cavendish square,
London 9 May 1870. _Monthly notices of the R.A.S. xxxi_ 97–99
(1871).
MANNING, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Manning of Billiter sq. London,
West India merchant). _b._ 1796; lived many years at Leamington,
where he erected protestant churches and contributed to all
charitable institutions; published A list of the various
editions of the Boscobel tracts, Leamington 1861; A series of
views illustrative of the Boscobel tracts 1861; A series of
views to illustrate C. Cotton’s The second part of the complete
angler 1866. _d._ Byron lodge, Leamington 15 Jany. 1880. _The
Warwickshire Times 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 5.
MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Copped
hall, Totteridge, Herts. 15 July 1808; ed. at Harrow 1822–7
and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of Merton
coll. 27 April 1832; C. of Wool Lavington, Sussex, Dec. 1832, R.
of Wool Lavington 10 June 1833; R. of Graffham, Sussex 16 Sep.
1833, rebuilt both his churches; second rural dean of Midhurst
1837; archdeacon of Chichester 30 Dec. 1840, resigned 22 Nov.
1850; select preacher at Oxford 1842; a leader of the high
church party; received into the Church of Rome at the Jesuits’
ch. in Farm st. mews by Father Brownbill 6 April 1851; ordained
priest by Cardinal Wiseman 14 June 1851; studied at Rome 1851–4;
received degree of D.D. from Pius IX. 1854; provost of the
chapter of Westminster 1857; superior of the Congregation of the
Oblates of St. Charles at 10 Westmoreland place, Bayswater 31
May 1857 to 1865; domestic prelate to the Pope and protonotary
apostolic with title of Monsignore 1860; archbishop of
Westminster 30 April 1865 to death, consecrated at St. Mary’s,
Moorfields 8 June and enthroned there 6 Nov.; established
the Westminster diocesan education fund 1866; founded the
pro-cathedral church of our lady of victories, between 12 and 13
Newland terrace, Kensington 1867; founded a University college
at Wright’s lane, Kensington 1874, which was closed 1878;
founded the Diocesan seminary of St. Thomas, Cupola house, King
st. East, Hammersmith 1876; created cardinal-priest by Pius IX.
15 March 1875, enthroned in church of St. Gregory the Great on
the Cœlian hill, Rome 31 March 1875, received the cardinal’s
hat 31 Dec. 1877; founded the temperance society known as The
League of the Cross 1868; member of royal commissions on housing
of the working classes 1884–5 and on the elementary education
acts 1886–7; author of Sermons 4 vols. 1842–50; Sermons preached
before the university of Oxford 1844; Sermons on ecclesiastical
subjects 3 vols. 1863–73; Miscellanies 3 vols. 1877–88; The
grounds of faith, four lectures 1852, 6 ed. 1881, besides 100
other works; he also edited, supplied prefaces to, and was
connected with 60 other works. _d._ Carlisle place, Vauxhall
bridge road, London at 8 a.m. 14 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s
cemet. Kensal Green 22 Jany. _A. W. Hutton’s Cardinal Manning_
(1892), _portrait_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _iii_ 378,
381–95 (1877); _Century Mag. May 1883 pp._ 129–31, _portrait_;
_Strand Mag. ii_ 52–60 (1891), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 20 May
1865 p._ 309, _portrait_.
MANNING, JAMES (son of James Manning of Exeter, Unitarian
minister). _b._ Exeter 1781; barrister L.I. 23 June 1817;
went Western circuit, leader of it many years; recorder of
Sudbury 1835 to death; recorder of Oxford and Banbury, Nov.
1837 to death; serjeant-at-law 19 Feb. 1840; received patent
of precedence April 1845; queen’s ancient serjeant 1846, which
dignity revived at his own suggestion entitled him to a seat
in the house of lords; judge of Whitechapel county court,
March 1847, retired on pension of £700, Feb. 1863, was one of
the 5 judges appointed Aug. 1856 to frame rules for conduct
of the practice and also scales of costs; author of A digest
of the nisi prius reports 1820; The practice of the Court of
Exchequer, revenue branch 1827, and other books; author with
Archer Ryland of Reports of cases in the court of King’s bench
1827–1830. 5 vols. 1828–37; author with T. C. Granger of Cases
argued and determined in the court of Common Pleas 1840–1845. 7
vols. 1841–6; author with T. C. Granger and J. Scott of Common
Bench reports 1845–1849. 8 vols. 1846–51; _m._ (2) 3 Dec. 1857
Charlotte dau. of Isaac Solly of Layton, Essex, and widow of
Wm. Speir, M.D. of Calcutta, she was author of Life in ancient
India 1856 and Ancient and mediæval India 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 44
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 29 Aug. 1866.
MANNING, JOHN. _b._ Aldersgate st. London 1825; appeared
at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. under Charles James as a
tragedian; acted at Newcastle-under-Lyne; a parliamentary
agent in London; appeared at Theatre royal and Liver theatre,
Liverpool; was at the Marylebone, London, under E. T. Smith
1852; acted at the Grecian Saloon in The two Gregories 1855; a
well known low comedian at The Grecian. _d._ 18 March 1890. _The
Players 6 July 1861 p._ 1, _portrait_.
MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Manning of London, sculptor, _d._
1847). Began to practise modelling 1829; received from Society
of Arts gold medal for a model of a statue of Prometheus,
executed this statue in marble and exhibited it at the R.A.
in 1845, it was engraved by B. Holl in the ‘Art Union’ for
1846; sculptor at 3 Union place, New road, London 1847–59, at
66 Marylebone road 1859–65; exhibited sculptures at the R.A.
1845–58. _d._ 1865.
MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Manning, mayor of Leicester). _b._
Leicester 1822; studied at Baptist college at Bristol 1840
and at Glasgow univ.; baptist minister at Sheppard’s Barton,
Frome, Somerset 1846–61; edited the Baptist Mag. some years;
general book editor of Religious tract society 1863, one of the
secretaries 1876 to death; LL.D. Chicago; author of Infidelity
tested by fact, a series of papers reprinted from The Church
1850; edited Selections from the prose writings of John Milton
1862; projected the Religious tract society’s series of
illustrated books of travel 1870, and wrote several of them.
_d._ 35 Ladbroke grove, London 13 Sep. 1881. _S. A. Swaine’s
Faithful baptist men of Bristol college_ (1884) 327.
MANNING, WILLIAM OKE (son of Wm. Oke Manning of Lloyd’s, London,
insurance broker). _b._ 1809; ed. at Bristol; entered his
father’s counting-house; author of Commentaries on the law of
nations 1839, new ed. 1875, being the first English treatise
on the subject; Remarks upon religious tests at the English
universities 1846, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle. _d._
8 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 15 Nov. 1878.
_Athenæum 30 Nov. 1878 p._ 689.
MANNING, WILLIAM THOMAS. Member of firm of Hanslip and Manning,
solicitors 20 Thavies inn, Holborn, London 1844; member of
firm of Hanslip, Manning and Conworth, parliamentary agents 12
Hatton Garden 1850–53; coroner of the Queen’s household and of
the Verge, May 1853 to death. _d._ The Old Farm, New park road,
Clapham park, Brixton 10 Jany. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxiv_ 214,
252 (1888).
MANNINGHAM-BULLER, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (2 son of sir Francis
Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2 baronet 1767–1833). _b._ Churston
Ferrers, Devon 19 July 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825; M.P. for North Staffs. 1837–41, contested North
Staffs. July 1847, M.P. North Staffs. 1865–74; M.P. for Stafford
1841–7; sheriff of Staffs. 1853; took surname of Manningham
before that of Buller by r.l. 4 Jany. 1866; created baronet 20
Jany. 1866. _d._ Dilhorn hall, Cheadle, Staffs. 22 Sep. 1882.
MANSELL, ARTHUR LUKIS (2 son of sir Thomas Mansell 1777–1858).
_b._ 1815; entered navy 8 Sep. 1831; captain 1 Jany. 1865,
retired 7 March 1866; retired V.A. 14 May 1888. _d._ 28 Feb.
1890.
MANSEL, CHARLES GRENVILLE. _b._ 1807; a writer in H.E.I. Co.’s
service 30 April 1826; deputy accountant general in Calcutta
1841; member of board of administration for the affairs of the
Punjab 1849–50; resident at Nagpur, Nov. 1850, retired on the
annuity fund 1855; author of Report on the settlement of the
district of Agra 1842. _d._ 7 Mills terrace, West Brighton 19
Nov. 1886.
MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of Henry Longueville Mansel
1783–1835, R. of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire). _b._ Cosgrove
rectory 6 Oct. 1820; entered Merchant Taylors’ school 29 Sep.
1830; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 11 June 1839, took a
double first 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1852, D.D. 1867;
took private pupils 1843–55; fellow of his college 1839–55
and 1864–7, hon. fellow 1868 to death, tutor 1850–64; reader
in moral and metaphysical theology at Magd. coll. Oxf. 1855;
professor fellow of St. John’s coll. 8 April 1864, and the first
honorary fellow Oct. 1868; Bampton lecturer 1858; Waynflete
professor of philosophy 1859; select preacher at Oxf. 1860–2
and 1869–71; examining chaplain to bishop of Peterborough
1864–8; regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxf. and
canon of Ch. Ch. 5 Jany. 1867 to Oct. 1868; dean of St. Paul’s
21 Oct. 1868 to death; author of The demons of the wind and
other poems 1838; Scenes from an unfinished drama entitled
Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the nineteenth century 1850, 4 ed.
1852; Prolegomena logica, an inquiry into the psychological
character of logical processes 1851; The limits of religious
thought, eight Bampton lectures 1858, 5 ed. 1867. _d._ in his
sleep at Cosgrove hall, the residence of his son-in-law 31 July
1871, memorial window in north chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral
unveiled 25 Jany. 1879. _J. W. Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891)
321–66, _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans. By Rev. F. Arnold_,
_ii_ 273–75 (1875); _Church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 39; _I.L.N. lix_ 127, 128, 311
(1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Review_, _clix_ 1–39 (1885).
MANSEL, JOHN. _b._ 1777; ensign 53 foot March 1795, lieut.
colonel 12 Feb. 1818 to 9 Aug. 1827; C.B. 4 June 1815; sold out
of the army 1855. _d._ Smeadmore, Dorset 29 Jany. 1863.
MANSEL, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of sir Wm. Mansel, 7
bart. 1739–1804). _bapt._ 12 Feb. 1789; ensign 10 foot 29 Jany.
1807; captain 53 foot 8 July 1813; placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1817;
colonel of 68 foot 4 June 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H.
1832. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 April 1864.
MANSELL, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey). _b._
Guernsey 9 Feb. 1777; entered navy 20 Jany. 1793; present at
battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander of the Rose
sloop 1808–13 and of the Pelican 1813–4, captured 170 of the
enemy’s vessels; presented with order of the Sword by king of
Sweden 1812; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; K.C.H. 1
Jany. 1837, knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 1 March
1837; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1849. _d._ Guernsey 22 April 1858.
MANSEL, THOMAS, _baptized_ 14 Oct. 1783; entered navy 1798;
served at battle of Copenhagen; captain 12 Feb. 1834; retired
admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Fareham, Kent 1 April 1869.
MANSFIELD, CHARLES BLACKFORD (son of John Mansfield, R. of
Rowner, Hampshire). _b._ Rowner 8 May 1819; ed. at Twyford and
Winchester; began residence at Clare hall, Camb. Oct. 1839, B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849; lived at a cost of a few pence a day and gave
his savings to the poor; studied at royal college of chemistry
1846–8; discovered and patented the extraction of benzol from
coal-tar 1848, which laid foundation of the aniline industry;
went to Paraguay 1852; lectured on the chemistry of the metals
at royal institution 1851–2; author of Benzol, its nature and
utility 1849; Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate 1856; the naptha on
which he was experimenting boiled over and so scalded him that
he _d._ Middlesex hospital, London 26 Feb. 1855. _Mansfield’s
Paraguay_ (1856), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_, _portrait_.
MANSFIELD, EDWARD. Sub-lieutenant royal naval reserve 1 Aug.
1890; aimed at promoting the use of balloons and parachutes for
both military and naval warfare; made a successful ascent in his
balloon Wanderer at Bombay 13 Nov. 1891 when he descended by his
parachute from an altitude of upwards of 11,000 feet; ascended
again from Victoria gardens, Bombay 10 Dec. 1891, the balloon
burst at a height of about 400 feet and he fell to the ground
mangled and dead. _Daily Graphic 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8, _31 Dec.
p._ 1, _portrait_.
MANSFIELD, HORATIO (5 son of John Mansfield, barrister). _b._
1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; fellow of
his coll. 1843–52; barrister I.T. 6 June 1853, went northern
circuit; a writer in the Morning Chronicle and Saturday Review
many years; deputy stip. magistrate for Liverpool 1872 to death.
_d._ Liverpool 13 Aug. 1887.
MANSFIELD, JAMES. _b._ 1775; a butcher at Debden, Essex;
exhibited himself at the Leicester square rooms, London about
1846 as the ‘Greatest man in the world.’ _d._ Debden, Essex 9
Nov. 1856. _G.M. i_ 786 (1856).
NOTE.--He measured 9 feet round, and weighed 33 stone of 14 lbs. When
sitting on his chair his abdomen covered his knees and hung down almost
to the ground; when he reclined it was necessary to pack his head to
prevent suffocation.
MANSFIELD, RALPH. _b._ Toxteth park, Liverpool 12 March 1799;
ordained minister of Wesleyan church 1820; stationed at Sydney,
N.S.W. Oct. 1820 to 1822, at Parramatta and Windsor during
1823, at Hobart Town 1823–5, at Sydney again 1825–8; edited
Sydney Gazette, first newspaper published in N.S.W. 1829–32;
leader writer for The Colonist, Sydney paper, several years;
contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald from 1841; secretary
of Sydney gas-light company 29 June 1836 to death. _d._ Sydney.
June 1880.
MANSFIELD, SAMUEL (son of John Mansfield of Diggeswell house,
Herts. _d._ 1841, and brother of first baron Sandhurst _d._
1876). _b._ 1815; entered Bengal civil service 1834; political
agent Rewa Kantha 1847; collector and magistrate Kandeish 1852;
revenue comr. Northern division 1859; senior member of council
Bombay 14 May 1867, retired upon the annuity fund 1872; a patron
of the Western India turf; C.S.I. 25 May 1866. _d._ 23 Hanover
sq. London 23 Dec. 1893.
MANSON, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Bombay artillery 1810, col.
16 April 1849 to death; M.G. 26 Dec. 1844; commanded Scinde
division of Bombay army 1 April 1848 to death; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831. _d._ Bombay 23 Feb. 1852.
MANSON, DAVID. _b._ 1838; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1859, M.D.
and C.M. 1862; in practise in London 1862–4; resident physician
Strathpeffer spa 1864–71 and 1882 to death; in practise at
Chesterfield 1871–82; author of On the sulphur waters of
Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Rossshire 1877, 3 ed. 1879,
4 ed. abridged 1881; On the sulphur and chalybeate waters of
Strathpeffer spa, 5 ed. 1884. _d._ Eaglestone, Strathpeffer 9
May 1884.
MANSON, GEORGE (son of Magnus Manson, merchant). _b._ Edinburgh
3 Dec. 1850; apprenticed as a wood engraver to W. and R.
Chambers, publishers 1866–71; studied in the school of art,
Edinb. 1871; exhibited a figure subject at R.A. London 1873;
his paintings dealing with homely subjects are realistic
transcripts from nature, notable for their colour, many of them
are reproduced in his Memoir. _d._ Lympstone, Devon 27 Feb.
1876. _bur._ Gulliford church near Lympstone. _G. Manson and
his works_, 27 _plates_. _Edinb._ (1880), _memoir pp._ 1–22,
_portrait_.
MANSON, JAMES. _b._ 1792; entered Bengal army 1807; ensign 8
Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1808, lieut. 2 June 1814; captain 72 N.I.
13 May 1825, major 11 July 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; lieut.-col.
28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to 1848; comr. with Bajee Rao, Bithoor 16
Sep. 1831 to 1851; lieut.-col. of 42 N.I. 1848–50, of 48 N.I.
1850–52, of 20 N.I. 1852–4, of 21 N.I. 1854–55, of 53 N.I.
1855–7, and of 44 N.I. 1857 to death; M.G. 15 May 1859. _d._ 14
Westbourne sq. London 15 July 1862.
MANSON, JAMES BOLIVAR. _b._ Scotland 1823; ed. Aberdeen, B.A.;
tutor, then schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of Stirling
Observer; editor of Northern Daily express; on editorial staff
of Edinburgh daily review 1862 to death; author of The Bible
in school, a vindication of the Scottish system of education
1852; Contemporary Scottish art, pen and ink pictures from the
Exhibition 1865. _died_ suddenly while writing a leading article
at 16 Keir street, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_,
_iii_ 18 (1869); _The Daily Rev. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1868 p._ 2.
MANSON, WILLIAM. Joined James Stirling Christie and George Henry
Christie, auctioneers of pictures and works of art at 8 King st.
St. James’, London 1831; Edward Manson a brother was afterward
admitted a partner and d. 1884. _d._ 5 Portugal st. Grosvenor
sq. London 19 June 1852. _D. Puseley’s Commercial companion_
(1858) 67–8; _All the year round 8 May 1875 pp._ 125–32.
NOTE.--This business was established by James Christie in 1761 (first
catalogue dated 5 Dec. 1766), who dying in 1803 was succeeded by his
son James Christie, who dying 1831 left it to his two sons mentioned
above. Mr. Thomas Hoade Woods was admitted a partner in 1859. The
business was removed from Pall Mall to King st. in 1824. In Christie’s
sale catalogue may be traced the history of fine art taste in England
for more than a century.
MANT, WALTER BISHOP (eld. son of Richard Mant 1776–1848, bishop
of Down, Connor and Dromore). _b._ Buriton, Hampshire 25 June
1807; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; archdeacon
of Connor 1831; R. of Hillsborough, co. Down, and archdeacon of
Down, Oct. 1834 to death; author of Horæ Apostolicæ 1839; The
man of sorrows, five discourses. Oxford 1852; Memoirs of Richard
Mant. Dublin 1857; Christophoros and other poems 1861; Bible
quartetts [1862] 3 numbers; Scientific quartetts [1862–3] 6
numbers. _d._ archdeaconry, Hillsborough 6 April 1869.
MANTELL, EDWARD REGINALD. _b._ 1799; ed. Em. coll. Camb., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1825; C. of Dartford, Kent 1823–6; C. of Bexley,
Kent 1826–8; C. of Ticehurst, Sussex 1828–31; V. of Louth and
Tetney, Lincs. 1831–59; preb. of Louth in Lincoln cath. 1845 to
death; R. of Gretford with Wilsthorpe, Lincs. 1859 to death;
dean of the peculiar of Stamford 1863 to death; R.D. of Ness
1864–76. _d._ Parkbury, St. Albans 29 May 1884. _The law of
marriage, correspondence between Mr. Allison and E. R. Mantell
on marriage with a deceased wife’s sister_ (1850).
MANTELL, GIDEON ALGERNON (son of a shoemaker). _b._ parish of
St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes 3 Feb. 1790; articled to James Moore,
surgeon, Lewes, partner with him; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S.
1844; practised at Lewes 1835–9, at Clapham Common 1839–45 and
in London 1845 to death; sold his fine collection of fossils to
British Museum for £5000, 1838; opened many tumuli about Lewes;
lectured frequently at Royal Institution; F.L.S. 1813; F.G.S.
1818, Wollaston medallist 1835, one of its secretaries 1841–2,
vice pres. 1848–9; F.R.S. 24 Nov. 1825, royal medallist 1849;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Aug. 1852; author of The
fossils of the South Downs 1822; The wonders of geology 2 vols.
1838, 7 ed. 1849; The medals of creation 2 vols. 1844; On the
remains of man 1850. _d._ 19 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 10 Nov.
1852. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, Lewes, where is memorial
tablet. _A reminiscence of G. A. Mantell_ (1853), _memoir pp._
18–26; _G.M. xxxviii_ 644–47 (1852), _xxxix_ 2 (1853); _Medical
Circular_, _i_ 89, 443 (1852), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnean
society_, _ii_ 235–37 (1855); _Quarterly journal of geological
society_, _ix_ 22–25 (1853); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_
(1865) 158–60; _Physic and physicians_, _ii_ 306–8 (1839).
MANTELL, SIR JOHN ILES (eld. son of George Mantell, M.D. of
Faringdon, Berkshire). _b._ Faringdon 1 Dec. 1813; barrister
M.T. 18 June 1847; queen’s advocate of the Gambia 24 Aug. 1841,
chief justice and judge of the court of vice admiralty of the
Gambia 20 Oct. 1847 to 1866; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867;
stipendiary magistrate for borough of Salford and Manchester
petty sessional division of county 7 Sep. 1869 to Dec. 1885.
_d._ Biarritz 12 July 1893.
MANTELL, JOSHUA (younger brother of G. A. Mantell 1790–1852).
_b._ 1795; L.S.A. 1828; surgeon at Newick, Sussex; founded
the Newick horticultural society 1832; principal editor of
John Baxter’s The library of agricultural and horticultural
knowledge. 2 ed. Lewes 1842, 4 ed. 1846, and of The farmer’s
annual; author of Floriculture, comprising management of stove,
greenhouse and herbaceous plants 1832; thrown from his horse
and received an injury to his brain, removed to Dr. Newington’s
asylum at Ticehurst 1835 where he _d._ May 1865. _G.M. June 1865
p._ 800.
MANTLE, THOMAS ALLEN. _b._ Kates hill near Dudley 31 Jany.
1840; came to London about 1852; a brass finisher by trade;
professional cricketer at Westminster school from 3 May 1862 to
death; played in the Middlesex eleven, scored 1010 runs in 1866;
first played at Lords 10 June 1867 in England v. Middlesex;
a good all-round player; resided at the Lodge, Vincent sq.
Westminster. _d._ 29 April 1884.
MANVERS, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Ward Marshall. _b._
Oxford; a singer in Christ Church cath.; studied in Italy; a
leading tenor in U.S. of America; sang in London at the Ancient
concerts, the Philharmonic soc. and the Sacred harmonic soc.;
leading tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane during
Bunn’s management 1833; retired owing to an attack of chronic
asthma. _d._ 22 Feb. 1874. _The Athenæum 28 Feb. 1874 p._ 301.
MAPLESON, CHARLES (2 son of James Henry Mapleson, operatic
impresario). _b._ 1855; acting manager to his father in London
and U.S. of America; m. Malvina Cavalazzi the dancer. _d._ of
rheumatic gout at 10 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 20 Nov.
1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Nov.
MAPLESON, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1802 or 1803; violinist in Drury
Lane theatre about 40 years, was also musical librarian to the
theatre. _d._ 46 Leicester sq. London 6 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet.
MAPLETON, REGINALD JOHN (3 son of rev. James Henry Mapleton
of Christ Church, Stamford st. Surrey). _b._ 9 Dec. 1817; ed.
Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1826, Stuart exhibitioner to St. John’s
coll. Oxf. 1836, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1857; C. of Horsehouse, Yorks.
1842–4; C. of Berkswell, Warws. 1844–51; V. of Great Glen,
Leics. 1851–5; C. of Saxby, Leics. 1855–9; incumb. of St.
Columba, Kilmartin, Argyllshire 1859–86; dean of Argyll and the
Isles, and canon of Cumbrae 1886 to death. _d._ Duntroon castle,
Lochgilphead 30 Jany. 1892.
MAPPIN, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ 1800; brewer in partnership with Mr.
Bradley at Ecclesall road, Sheffield; proprietor of the Old
brewery, Masbro’; erected St. John’s ch. Ranmoor at his own
charge of £12,000, 1838; gave the east window of the chancel
of St. Peter’s church, Sheffield 1857 as a memorial of James
Montgomery who _d._ 1854; left his pictures with £15,000 for a
picture gallery to town of Sheffield, among his pictures are
many by Pettie, J. Phillips, Creswick and F. Goodall; erected
a residence at Birchlands 1856. _d._ Birchlands, Ranmoor,
Sheffield 22 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Eccleshall churchyard 25 Oct.
_Sheffield Independent 23 Oct. 1883 p._ 3.
MAR and KELLIE, WALTER HENRY ERSKINE, 11 Earl of Mar and 13
Earl of Kellie (1 son of 12 earl of Kellie 1810–72). _b._ India
17 Dec. 1839; ed. at Radley and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1862, M.A. 1866; succeeded as 13 earl of Kellie 15 Jany. 1872;
established his claim to the earldom of Mar before the house of
lords 26 Feb. 1875; as viscount Fentoun was premier viscount of
Scotland; capt. highland border militia; a representative peer
for Scotland, Dec. 1876; grand master mason of Scotland, _d._
Alloa house, Clackmannans 16 Sep. 1888. _R. F. Gould’s History
of freemasonry i_ 200 (1884), _portrait_; _Minutes of evidence
before committee of privilege on claim to earldom of Mar 4
parts_ 1868–75.
MARA, RICHARD WESTON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A.
1836, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; called to Irish bar 1840; attorney
general and judge advocate of island of Antigua 5 Feb. 1859 to
death; acted as chief justice 1863–64. _d._ Antigua 4 April
1871. SOLICITORS’ JOURNAL, _xv_ 496 (1871).
MARCET, FRANÇOIS (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 25 May
1803; lived greater part of his life in canton of Geneva
where he was professor of physics in the academy; member of
Geneva legislature and government; resided at 14 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 1873 to death; member of council of Univ.
college, London; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Dissertation
sur cette question, convient’il d’ accorder un dédommagement au
prévenu absous? Genève 1825; Cours de physique experimentale.
Genève 1836; edited and revised Conversations on natural
philosophy by Jane Marcet 1872. _d._ 14 Stratton st. London 12
April 1883.
MARCET, JANE (only dau. of Francis Haldimand, Swiss merchant).
_b._ London 1769; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1799 Alexander John Gaspard
Marcet, physician, London, _d._ 19 Oct. 1822 aged 52); author
of Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of
that science are familiarly explained 2 vols. 1806, 16 ed.
1853; Conversations on political economy 1816, 5 ed. 1824;
Conversations on natural philosophy 1819, 14 ed. 1872; The game
of grammar, with 290 small cards and 24 counters 1842; Rich and
poor 1851, and 15 other books for children. _d._ 14 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 28 June 1858. _H. Martineau’s Biographical
Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 368–92; _S. J. Hale’s Women’s Record 2
ed._ (1855) 732.
MARCH, CHARLES (son of Richard March, weaver of woollen yarn).
_b._ Boutport st. Barnstaple 15 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Dec.
1807, present at bombardment of Algiers; in the merchant service
1824–32; an agent of the Bible soc.; a shipping agent with
Mr. Bird at Gloucester 1835; commander R.N. July 1864. _d._
Gloucester 17 March 1865. _Memorials of Charles March by his
nephew Septimus March_ (1867), _portrait_.
MARCH, WILLIAM HENRY. Second lieut. R.M. 20 Nov. 1830; served
in Spain 1836–40; fought at Balaclava, wounded at Inkerman; in
command at Shanghai 1860 when he repulsed two attacks of the
Chinese; col. R.M. 16 May 1862, col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864;
retired on full pay as hon. major general 20 Nov. 1865; received
a general officer’s good service pension of £200 in 1890; C.B.
24 May 1873; knight of legion of honour and of Medjidie. _d._ 73
Cambridge terrace, London 5 Jany. 1892.
MARCHANT, FREDERICK. _b._ 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia
theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats,
drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The
man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will
become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A
rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and
Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London
theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the
shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor
castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip
Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb,
pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec.
1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18
Sep. 1874. _d._ London 17 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24
Dec.
MARCHANT, W. T. _b._ 1836; editor of the British Mail and
universal trade review; author of Betrothals and bridals, with
a chat about wedding cakes 1879; In praise of ale, or songs
relating to beer, malt and hops 1888. _d._ Acacia cottage,
Balham road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 31 Dec. 1888.
MARCON, WALTER (4 son of John Marcon of Swaffham, Norfolk). _b._
Swaffham 28 March 1824; ed. at Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1846; in Eton eleven 1841 and 1842, and in Oxford eleven
1843 and 1844; the fastest bowler known, the pace was terrific
always requiring two long stops, nor was a wicket keeper of the
slightest use; bowled 4 wickets in succession in match Swaffham
_v._ Attleborough 4 July 1850; R. of Edgefield, Holt, Norfolk
1848–76. _d._ 1881. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 40
(1863).
MARCUS, LEWIS. Ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831;
head master Holbeach gram. sch.; C. of Biggleswade 1827–41; V.
of St. Paul’s, Finsbury 1846 to death; professor of Latin in
city of London college for ladies, Finsbury; author of A Latin
grammar 1861; Elementary Latin, a delectus of exercises 2 parts
1862–4. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Bunhill row, Finsbury 12 June
1879.
MARCUS, OTTO CHARLES. _b._ 1825; assistant in University
library, Cambridge; author of Marcus’s Conversation guide or
dialogues in English, French, German, Russian, Polish and
Swedish languages 1855. _d._ Cambridge 11 May 1865.
MARDON, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1792; ed. York coll. and Glasgow univ.,
M.A.; Unitarian minister Glasgow 9 years; minister of General
Baptist chapel, Worship st. Finsbury sq. London 26 years; member
of British Archæol. Assoc. 1845, wrote on The burial place of
the widow of Milton in Journal 1850 pp. 322–6, 418; author of A
letter to Dr. Chalmers occasioned by his notice of unitarians
1818; The truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1822; The
apostle Paul, an unitarian 1826; Christianity identified with
unitarianism 1835; The catholic epistle of John the apostle,
translated from the Greek 1853; resided at Sidmouth. _d._ Exeter
15 April 1866.
MARDON, EDWARD RUSSELL. Billiard player; a frequenter of
Newmarket; a great opponent of P.P. (play or pay) betting;
resided at Brighton; author of Billiards, game 500 up, played
at Brighton on 18th January 1844. Brighton 1844, 3 ed. 1858; On
P.P. betting. _Sporting Review_, _May 1858 p._ 365.
MARDYN, MRS. (dau. of poor parents). _b._ Ireland or Chichester
1789 or 1795; a servant in an inn and a helper in the bar; _m._
1811 Mr. Mardyn an actor on the Portsmouth circuit, from whom
she separated, when she allowed him two pounds a week, he died
about 1819; an actress and dancer in the provinces and at the
West London theatre, London (now the Marylebone) 1811; educated
under W. Dimond manager of the Bath theatre 1813–14; played at
Crow st. theatre, Dublin; first appeared at Drury Lane as Amelia
Wildenheim in Lovers’ Vows 26 Sep. 1815; some attention paid her
by Lord Byron was one of the causes of his disagreement with his
wife 1815, she was then hissed at Drury Lane by a fashionable
clique but she appealed to the audience who took her part; she
was good in Albina Mandeville in The Will 17 Oct. 1815, and as
Peggy in The Country Girl 7 Nov. 1815; played Jacintha in the
Suspicious Husband 11 Oct. 1819; made her last appearance at
Drury Lane as Miss Wooburn in Every one has his faults 19 June
1820; _m._ 1821 a foreign gentleman who soon after purchased the
title of Baron R----. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _i_ 269–80
(1826), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_
198–207 (1844); _Georgian Era_, _iv_ 573–4 (1834); _T. Medwin’s
Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron. New York_ (1824) 24, 28;
_T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847) 284.
MARETT, SIR ROBERT PIPON (son of Peter Daniel Marett, major
Madras army). _b._ 20 Nov. 1820; ed. at Caen and the Sorbonne,
Paris; advocate of royal court of Jersey 1840; constable of St.
Helier 1856; solicitor general of Jersey 19 Feb. 1858, attorney
general 1866 to 10 March 1880, and bailiff 10 March 1880 to
death; knighted by patent 31 May 1880; edited Les manuscrits de
P. L. Geyt 1846; author of several poems in the Jersey patois
published in Rimes et poësies Jersiaises edited by Abraham
Mourant 1865 and in the Patois poems of the Channel Islands
edited by J. L. Pitts 1883. _d._ St. Aubin’s, Jersey 10 Nov.
1884. _Law Times 15 Nov. 1884 p._ 51.
MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). _b._
Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr.
sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese
consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a
third class assistant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland
journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and
travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo
17 Jany. 1875, being the first Englishman traversing this
route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China
19 Feb. 1875; _murdered_ at Manwein on the Chinese frontier
21 Feb. 1875. _Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu.
Shanghai_ 1875; _The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to
Bhamo_ (1876), _preface pp. i–xxi_, _portrait_; _J. Anderson’s
Mandalay to Momien_ (1876) 364–449; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 233, 257
(1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 296 (1875), _portrait_.
MARGETTS, CHARLES (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon,
solicitor). _b._ Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818,
solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge
of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847;
registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for
hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and
Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. _d._ Market place,
Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.
MARGOLIOUTH, MOSES (son of Gershon Margoliouth). _b._ Suwalki,
Poland 3 Dec. 1820; _bapt._ at Liverpool a member of the Church
of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany.
1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of
Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare,
Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew,
Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul,
Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of
St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks.
1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian
monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to
June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew
Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of
1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my
fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain
3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the
life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864;
The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books.
_d._ London 25 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Little Linford churchyard.
_M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism
investigated_ (1843) _memoir pp. i–x_; _M. Margoliouth’s
Some triumphs and trophies of the world_ (1882) _memoir pp.
vii–xxii_; _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii_ 220
(1881).
MARGUERITTES, JULIE DE (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville,
physician 1783–1872). _b._ London 1814; _m._ (1) Count de
Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of
the second republic, they went to New York where she supported
him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon
he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and _m._ (2) George
G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known
as Gaslight Foster and _d._ 1850; gave concerts and readings
and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March
1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and
became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia;
_m._ (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The
ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war
of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and
stations 1860. _d._ Philadelphia 21 June 1866.
MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. _b._ Benkendorfe
near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess
nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in
Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882.
_d._ Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_ 25
(1882), _portrait_.
MARIO, GUISEPPE, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo,
Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese
army). _b._ Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin
1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836;
taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable
at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her
Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he
was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots,
Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart;
sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden
nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47
operas; _m._ Giulia Grisi, she _d._ Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having
had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen;
the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London,
Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone
are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at
Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection
of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871
he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La
Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his
retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances
a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London
29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. _d._
176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in cemetery of St.
Lorenzo 13 Dec. _W. Beale’s Light of other days_, _ii_ 1–150
(1890); _L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario_, _ii_ 261–371 (1886); _H.
F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections_, _i_ 275–83 (1862);
_Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp._ 195–202; _Temple Bar_, _March
1884 pp._ 344–59; _I.L.N. lix_ 193, 194 (1871) _portrait_,
_lxxxiii_ 613 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 608 (1883),
_portrait_.
MARJORIBANKS, DAVID ROBERTSON, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John
Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). _b._ Eccles, Berwickshire
2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant
London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks
by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of
Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks
of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. _d._ 56 Upper Brook st.
London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn
under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 619 (1873), _lxiii_
423.
MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees,
Berwickshire 1735–1815). _b._ 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high
sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but
never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas
Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and
senior partner 1837 to death. _d._ Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep.
1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.
MARJORIBANKS, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). _b._ Madras 4 May 1830; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded
1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875.
_d._ Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. _Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p._ 63,
_portrait_.
MARK, BERTRAM VON DER, Doctor of music; opened a college at
Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it
continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a
tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men
1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7
years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile
orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and
an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at
Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the
remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first
performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer
of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or
the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church
service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera;
Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards
of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures,
sonatas, symphonies and dance music. _d._ 8 Great John st.
Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. _bur._ St. Luke’s ch. Chetham.
_Era 2 Feb. 1868 p._ 6; _Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861_,
5 _views_; _Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p._ 5; _The Pianist
by Dr. Mark. Bristol_ (1865), _portrait_.
MARKBY, THOMAS (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford,
Cambs.). _b._ 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849;
ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St.
John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical
lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting
local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two
books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil
and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858;
The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868.
_d._ Cambridge 4 March 1870.
MARKES, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; founder of the Hollywood
whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club
meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden,
London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. _d._ 288
King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. _The Westminster Papers 1
Aug. 1875 p._ 77.
MARKHAM, FREDERIC (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827).
_b._ Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at
Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for
a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col.
22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland
Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March
1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced
each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded
second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan
during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to
the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the
queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur
district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before
Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of
Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in
Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. _d._ Limmer’s
hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. _bur._ at
Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up
by officers of his regiment. _Men of the time_ (1856) 528–9.
MARKHAM, MRS. HANNAH. _b._ St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse
in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of
Marquess of Dufferin. _d._ Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. _Daily
Graphic 4 July 1892 p._ 8 _col._ 2, _portrait_.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). _b._
28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested
Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. _d._ 26 Jany. 1852.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM ORLANDO (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the
peace, Northampton). _b._ 1818; studied medicine at Edinb.,
Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854;
F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London,
and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864;
poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug.
1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was
presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British
medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on
auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the
analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical
practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860;
Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is
it necessary or justifiable? 1866. _d._ 21 Nightingale lane,
Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.
MARKLAND, JAMES HEYWOOD (youngest son of Robert Markland,
check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, _d._ 1828). _b._
Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.;
solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright
to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814;
F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S.
28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842
to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for
Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s
church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the
colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848;
distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable
works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons
for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the
sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places
1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering
sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed.
1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing
money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles
to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. _d._ 1
Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath
abbey. _G.M._ (1821) _pt. ii p._ 278, (1865) _pt. i pp._ 649–52.
MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, 5 Duke of (1 son of
4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). _b._ Billhill, parish of
Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland
1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June
1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham
1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke
5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death;
lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March
1845 to death. _d._ Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will
proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art_,
_iii_ 121–32 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 214 (1857); _In the matter of
the duke and duchess of Marlborough_ (1853).
NOTE.--In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan
Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her,
the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman,
soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The
Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a
legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford
were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of
The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. _The Annual
Register_ (1838) 294–6.
MARLBOROUGH, JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, 6 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk
2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June
1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock
1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the
author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for
subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as
6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to
death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C.
10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9
Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov.
1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick
12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the
duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she
collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and
clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May
1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections
which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems
were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author
of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church
of England. Westminster 1856; _found dead_ on floor of his
bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. _bur._ in chapel of
Blenheim palace 10 July. _Antiquarian Mag. i_ 35–8, 78–83, 255–6
(1882), _ii_ 145–6; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield_, _ii_
87 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 404 (1876), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxviii_ 32 (1883), _portrait_; _Times, 6, 7, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 July 1883_.
MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, 8 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Wilmington crescent, London, a residence
of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of
Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at
Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5
June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883;
_m._ (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn,
she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con.
with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself
marchioness of Blandford; _m._ (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow
of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000
a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under
Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures,
books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical
engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and
of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals
attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting.
_d._ suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892.
_bur._ Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. _Baily’s Mag.
xxviii_ 187 (1876), _portrait_; _The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892_.
NOTE.--The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei
Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000.
The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture,
the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the
collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was
sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim
enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.
MARLING, SIR SAMUEL STEPHENS, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling
of Stroud, Gloucs.) _b._ Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810;
a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874,
M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. _d._ in his
counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N.
lxxxiii_ 428 (1883), _portrait_.
MARLOIS, EDOUARD. _b._ in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to
Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and
Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds
and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song
1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le
piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’
voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other
pieces. _d._ 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.
MARLOW, CHARLES. _b._ Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814;
first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race
was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first
jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee
at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for
the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St.
Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks
1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a
high character for honesty but took to drinking. _d._ Devizes
workhouse, Oct. 1882. _bur._ Devizes 28 Oct. _Sporting Review_,
_Jany. 1857 pp._ 1–5, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p._
60; _I.L.N. xxii_ 416 (1853), _portrait_.
MARLOW, WILLIAM BIDDLECOMB. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep.
1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full
pay as M.G. _d._ Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.
MARNOCK, ROBERT. _b._ Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800;
gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield
botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at
Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s
park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener
1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato
near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the
most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The
Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and
land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of
the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and
descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837.
_d._ Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15
Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal
Green 21 Nov. _Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp._ 565,
567, _portrait_; _Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp._ 733, 744,
_portrait_.
MAROCHETTI, CARLO (son of French parents). _b._ Turin 1805;
naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris;
studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of
Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to
city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian
Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of
battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini
in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of
honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue
of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian
statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at
Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace
yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at
R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers
slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton
Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club
1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and
Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. _d._ suddenly
at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near
Paris 29 Dec. 1867. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 352 (1862);
_I.L.N. xxxvlii_ 176, 178 (1861), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 28
July 1866 p._ 57, _portrait_; _G.M. Feb. 1868 pp._ 249–50.
MARQUIS, JAMES. _b._ 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May
1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb.
1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign
1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of
Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in
Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. _d._ Brookland, Hawke road,
Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.
MARRABLE, FREDERICK (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of
board of green cloth). _b._ 1818; articled to Edward Blore the
architect; architect in London; superintending architect to
Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices
of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club,
13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30
Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary
Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural
designs at R.A. 1843–70. _d._ Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.
MARRAS, GIACINTO (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). _b._ Naples
6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came
to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the
Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842;
sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England
12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house
10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860,
he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India
1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian
operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher
of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong
to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita,
serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839;
12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of
singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent
him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above
1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77;
_m._ a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician
by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. _d._
Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. _bur._ protestant cemetery at Cannes.
_Theatre_, _ii_ 44–5 (1883).
MARRAT, WILLIAM. _b._ Pibsey, Lincolnshire 6 April 1772; printer
and publisher at Boston some years; taught mathematics in New
York 1817–20 and at Liverpool from 1821; mathematical tutor in a
school at Exeter 1833–6; contributed to Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
diary and other mathematical serials 50 years; conducted The
enquirer, Boston, Lincolnshire 1811–12, 3 vols.; author of An
introduction to the theory and practice of mechanics. Boston
1810; The history of Lincolnshire 3 vols. 1814–16; Historical
description of Stamford. Lincoln 1816; An historical description
of Grantham 1816. _d._ Liverpool 26 March 1853. _Trans. Historic
Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 1861–62 p._ 35.
MARRECO, ALGERNON FREIRE-. _b._ North Shields 1835; ed. at the
Ecola Polytechnica, Lisbon; connected with Durham univ. from
1859, professor of chemistry both in the college of medicine and
the college of physical science Durham 1871 to death, examiner
for the medical and science degrees Durham; one of the best
analysts in the north of England. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 27 Feb.
1882. _Lancet_, _i_ 409, 670 (1882).
MARRETT, THOMAS. _b._ 1786; entered Madras army 1802; lieut. 9
Madras N.I. 26 May 1804, captain 30 April 1814; lieut.-col. 11
N.I. 18 June 1828 to 1831, of 44 N.I. 1831 to 10 Oct. 1833, of
11 N.I. 10 Oct. 1833 to 15 May 1834, of 43 N.I. 15 May 1834 to
1835, of 46 N.I. 1835 to 1836, of 6 N.I. 1836 to 1837, of 10
N.I. 1837 to 1838, of 2 N.I. 1838 to 1839, of 5 N.I. 1839 to 19
April 1841; col. of 2 N.I. 19 April 1841 to 1853, of 40 N.I.
1853 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Bath 5 Sep. 1862.
MARRIAN, THOMAS. _b._ Birmingham; brewer at Oxford; founded the
Burton Weir brewery, Sheffield 1830, his beer had a large sale
in the colonies; took his sons Thomas and Francis Marrian and F.
M. Tindall into partnership 1875; business turned into a private
limited company; a town councillor of Sheffield. _d._ Thurcroft
hall, Rotherham 15 Aug. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Breweries_, _iii_
317–8 (1890), _portrait_.
MARRIOTT, CHARLES (3 son of rev. John Marriott, poet 1780–1825).
_b._ Church Lawford near Rugby 24 Aug. 1811; ed. at Rugby
1825–9; entered Exeter coll. Oxf. 4 March 1829; scholar of
Balliol coll. Oct. 1829 to 1833; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter
1833 to 1858, tutor 1835–8, sub-dean Oct. 1841, dean 1844; first
principal of diocesan theological coll. Chichester, Feb. 1839
to Oct. 1841; great ally of Dr. Pusey at Oxford 1845; V. of
St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1850–56; member of the hebdomadal
council; set up a printing press at Littlemore 1846; edited with
Pusey and Keble A library of the Fathers 1841–55, he edited 24
volumes; the first editor of The literary churchman 5 May 1855,
wrote 16 articles in first 7 numbers; supported an establishment
called The Universal purveyor, to supply pure articles at a
moderate price, in which he lost much money; author of Sermons
preached before the University and in other places 2 vols.
1843–50; Hints on private devotion 1848;. Reflections in a Lent
reading of the Epistle to the Romans 1849; The co-operative
principle not opposed to a true political economy 1855; edited
Analecta Christiana 2 parts 1844–8; paralysed 1856, lived with
his brother Rev. John Marriott at Bradfield, Berkshire 1856 to
death. _d._ Bradfield 15 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Bradfield 20 Sep.
_Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 153–93, _portrait_.
MARRIOTT, CHARLES HANDEL RAND. _b._ London 3 Nov. 1831; played
the violin in various orchestras; musical director Highbury
Barn, London 1860–5; musical director Cremorne gardens; director
of Hastings pier orchestra 1873 to death; musical editor of The
young ladies’ journal 1864; composer of La Virginie, varsoviana
1855; C. H. R. Marriott’s Album of dance music 1861; Thy face is
always dear to me, words by R. Lejoindre 1874, is said to have
brought him in over £2000; Blue Danube quadrilles 1876; Ruth,
sacred song 1888; The bard of Avon quadrilles 1888, and upwards
of 320 other pieces, songs and dance music 1855–88; he is said
to have written about 40 pieces annually for many years. _d._ 7
Wilmot place, Camden Town, London 10 Dec. 1889.
MARRIOTT, FITZHERBERT ADAMS (2 son of George Wharton Marriott
of St. Giles’, London). _b._ 1811; ed. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Cottesbach, Leics. 1842–3; archdeacon of
Hobart Town and chaplain to bishop of Tasmania 1843–54; V. of
Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs. 1860 to death; author of Is a penal
colony reconcilable with God’s institution of human society and
the laws of Christ’s kingdom? a letter to sir W. T. Denison.
Hobart Town 1847; Principles of legislation for the church in
Ireland, three letters to lord Lyttleton 1869, two editions.
_d._ The Close, Exeter 19 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery
23 Oct.
MARRIOTT, FREDERICK. Originated The Death warrant 1843, name
changed to The Guide to Life, became The London mercury; started
a halfpenny periodical entitled Chat 1848; editor and proprietor
of The San Francisco letter. _d._ Oct. 1886. _E. L. Blanchard’s
Life_, _ii_ 596 (1891).
MARRIOTT, HARVEY (3 son of William Marriott of Dorking, Surrey
1744–1803). _b._ 23 July 1782; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1806; C. of Marston, Worcs. 1807; R. of Claverton, Bath
1808–47; V. of Loddiswell, Devon 1847–62; V. of Wellington,
Somerset 1862 to death; author of A course of practical sermons
adapted to be read in families 1816, Second course 1819, Third
course 1824, Fourth course 1829; Essay on the Madras system of
education 1819; Eight sermons on ‘The signs of the times’ 1828;
A selection of poetry. Kingsbridge 1859. _d._ Wellington 18 Aug.
1865.
MARRIOTT, HAYES. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 11 Oct. 1833,
lieut.-col. 13 July 1860, commandant 21 Nov. 1865; general 1
Oct. 1877; retired 2 Dec. 1877; served in China war 1839–41; in
the Crimea 1854–5, at Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol and
in the expeditions to Kertch and Kinburn; granted good service
pension Oct. 1880. _d._ Ellerslie, Barton Fields, Canterbury 5
Oct. 1892.
MARRIOTT, J. H. _b._ 1799; a reporter on The Times, London;
connected with theatres; an optician and mathematical
instrument maker at Wellington, New Zealand; an actor at
Wellington; managed the amateur military performances in which
he took a leading part; helped to build the Olympic theatre,
Wellington, executed the scenery and decorations and assisted in
manufacturing from whale oil the gas for the lighting 1844, the
first gas used in Wellington; author of a volume of poems; he
was father of Alice Marriott actress, who married Robert Edgar
actor who _d._ 25 May 1871. _d._ Wellington 25 Aug. 1886. _bur._
in the Episcopalian cemetery 29 Aug., when 600 persons attended
the funeral.
MARRIOTT, JOHN (son of John Marriott of Stowmarket, Suffolk,
solicitor). _b._ about 1830; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1851; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; advocate general of
Bombay 1863 to death; an acting puisne justice Bombay 25 Nov.
1873. _d._ Bombay 7 Jany. 1884.
MARRIOTT, THOMAS BECKETT FIELDING. _b._ 25 June 1813; 2 lieut.
R.A. 20 Dec. 1832, lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1855, colonel 27 June
1863; col. on staff commanding R.A. in Ireland 1866–9; col.
commandant 7 Aug. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
Avonbank, Pershore 25 Nov. 1880.
MARRIOTT, WHARTON BOOTH (7 son of George Wharton Marriott,
barrister). _b._ 32 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Nov. 1823;
ed. at Eton 1838–43 and Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1843–6;
Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1846 to 22 April 1851;
B.C.L. 1851, M.A. 1856, B.D. 1870; select preacher at Oxf. 1868
and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1871; an assistant
master at Eton 1850–60; F.S.A. 30 May 1857, member of council
1871; edited The Adelphi of Terence with English notes 1863;
Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphosis with English notes 1862, 2
ed. 1868; author of Vestiarium Christianum: the origin of the
dress of holy ministry in the church 1868; The vestments of the
church, an illustrated lecture 1869. _d._ Eton college 16 Dec.
1871. _Hort’s Memorials of W. B. Marriott_ (1873), _portrait_;
_Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 195–6.
MARRIOTT, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 4 June 1820; entered Bombay
army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut.
col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July
1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration;
C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s
testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political
economy 1874. _d._ Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. _Guardian 14 Jany. 1880
p._ 41.
MARRIOTT, _Sir William Marriott Smith-_, 4 Baronet (2 son of
sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). _b._ Portman st.
London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15
Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to
baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The
olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott
1855. _d._ Horsmonden rectory 4 Oct. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 662
(1864).
MARRYAT, HORACE (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich,
_d._ 1824). _b._ 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the
Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden,
including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. _d._
Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887.
MARRYAT, JOSEPH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1790; M.P. Sandwich
1826–35. _d._ Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876.
MARRYAT, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862;
retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ the cottage,
Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881.
MARRYAT, SAMUEL FRANCIS (youngest son of Frederick Marryat,
captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). _b._ 1826;
midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California
1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian
archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848;
Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal,
with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. _d._ Kensington
Gore, London 12 July 1855.
MARSDEN, ANDREW. _b._ Nottingham; a pugilist 6 feet 1½ inches in
height; beat Edward Baldwin or O’Baldwin at Tring, Herts. £50
a side 3 rounds 21 Oct. 1863; fought Joseph Wormald of London
for £200 a side and the champion’s belt at Horley 4 Jany. 1865,
when Wormald won after 18 rounds in 37 minutes; fought Baldwin
again £100 a side, 11 rounds in 16 minutes at Holme station near
Peterborough 25 Sep. 1866, the ring was broken into by Marsden’s
party and the referee awarded the stakes to Baldwin; turf
commission agent at 2 St. Anne’s Valley, Hunger hill, Nottingham
to death. _d._ suddenly at Nottingham 21 July 1892. _bur._
General cemet. Nottingham 23 July. _Modern boxing. By Pendragon_
(1879) 83–8; _Illust. sport. news_, _ii_ 284 (1863), _portrait_.
MARSDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 16 March 1773; Wesleyan
Methodist minister at Stockport 1793, in London 1796–8, 1816–21
and 1830–3, in Macclesfield 1798–1801, in Manchester 1800–1802
and 1824–7, in Sheffield 1836–9; supernumerary at Glossop 1842
to death; president of the Conference 1821 and 1831; general
sec. of Wesleyan missionary soc.; delegate to the Wesleyan
ch. in Canada 1833; author of A treatise on the nature and
importance of true religion, with an account of the death of
some christians and unbelievers 1813. _d._ Hadfield 16 May 1858.
MARSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Kennington, Surrey 1 Oct. 1812;
articled to Russell and Son of Southwark, solicitors; admitted
solicitor 1835, in practice at 37 Queen st. city of London to
death; vestry clerk of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, city of
London 1835, and ward clerk of ward of Vintry, city of London
1837; vestry clerk of Camberwell 1850 to 1892 when he was
entertained at a public dinner; instrumental in carrying through
parliament the Dulwich college act 1858. _d._ 113 The Grove,
Camberwell, Surrey 12 May 1893. _bur._ Forest hill cemet. _W. H.
Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 186, 189, _portrait_.
MARSDEN, ISAAC MOSES. Founder of firm of E. Moses and Son,
slopsellers, 137 Ratcliff highway, London 1832; tailors and
outfitters at 154, 155, 156 and 157 Minories, and at 83, 84, 85,
86 Aldgate, city of London from 1846; the firm published the
following books, The past the present and the future. A public
address on the opening of the new establishment of Elias Moses
and Son 1846; Fashions. Price lists 1849–57; The growth of an
important branch of British industry. The readymade clothing
system 1860; Gossip on dress 1863; The philosophy of dress 1864;
The tercentenary of William Shakespeare 1864; A popular history
of London 1866 part i. _d._ 4 Kensington gardens terrace, London
26 July 1884.
MARSDEN, JOHN BUXTON. _b._ Liverpool 1803; sizar of St. John’s
coll. Camb. 10 April 1823; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Burslem,
Staffs. 1827; C. of Harrow; R. of Lower Tooting, Surrey 1833–44;
V. of Great Missenden, Bucks. 1844–51; P.C. of St. Peter, Dale
End, Birmingham 1851 to death; edited The Christian Observer
1859–69; author of The history of the early Puritans 1850;
The history of the later Puritans 1852; History of Christian
churches and sects 2 vols. 1856, new ed. 1858. _d._ 37 Highfield
road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16 June 1870. _Christian Observer_,
_Aug. 1870 pp._ 633–4.
MARSDEN, JOHN HOWARD (1 son of rev. Wm. Marsden, vicar of
Eccles, Lancs.) _b._ Wigan 1803; entered Manchester school
6 Aug. 1817, head scholar 1822, exhibitioner to St. John’s
coll. Camb. 1822, fellow 1827–41, Bell univ. scholar 1823;
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; F.R.S.L.; Seatonian prizeman
1829; select preacher at Camb. 1834, 1837 and 1847; R. of Great
Oakley, Essex 1840–89; Hulsean lecturer 1843 and 1844; Disney
professor of archæology, Camb. 1851–65; residentiary canon of
Manchester cath. 1858–71; member of Numismatic soc. 1863; author
of Philomorus Notes on the Latin poems of sir Thomas More 1842;
An examination of certain passages in our Lord’s conversation
with Nicodemus. Eight Hulsean lectures 1844; The evils which
have resulted from a misapprehension of our Lord’s miracles.
Eight Hulsean lectures 1845; Two lectures upon archæology 1852;
A brief memoir of lieut.-col. W. M. Leake 1864; College life in
the time of James the first, diary of Sir Simon d’ Ewes 1851.
_d._ Grey’s Friars, Colchester 24 Jany. 1891. _The Numismatic
Chronicle_ 1891. Proceedings p._ 22; _The Times 26 Jany. 1891
p._ 6; _Manchester school register_, _iii_ 126–7 (1874).
MARSDEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. C.C. coll. Camb., Mawson
scholar, B.A. 1834; V. of Child-Wickham, Gloucs. 1843–57; R. of
Burstow, Surrey 1858–74; R. of St. John, Horsleydown, London
1874–81; chaplain of St. Olave’s workhouse, Southwark 1874–80;
resided at 115 Paulet road, Camberwell; author of The sacred
steps of creation, or the revealed genetic theology illustrated
by geology and astronomy 1865. _d._ Leigh Bank, Sutton, Surrey
13 Dec. 1890.
MARSDEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Sheffield, Aug. 1796; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1827; M.D. Erlangen 1848;
established in 1828 a small dispensary in Greville st. Hatton
Garden, to which the poor were admitted without any formality,
the only hospital in London which received cholera patients
1832, it was moved into Gray’s Inn road 1843, on this site was
built the royal free hospital and Marsden became senior surgeon;
opened a small house in Cannon row, Westminster, for reception
of cancer patients 1851, this became the Cancer hospital,
Brompton in 1861, of which Marsden was senior surgeon; author
of Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhœa better known
by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera 1834, 4 ed. 1871;
translated A treatise on cancer of the breast by A. A. L. M.
Velpeau 1856. _d._ 65 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 16 Jany.
1867. _bur._ Norwood cemet., portraits of him at royal free
hospital and at cancer hospital. _The Hospital 14 May 1887 p._
103.
MARSH, CHARLES WILLIAMS. Originated Shakespearian jesting in
the circus ring; clown with Wm. Batty and Joseph Holloway
many years; played clown in pantomime of Crotchet and Quaver
at Covent garden theatre Christmas 1844; attached to the Vine
hotel, Great college st. Liverpool. _d._ Vine hotel, Liverpool,
July 1866. _Era 5 Aug. 1866 p._ 10.
MARSH, EDWARD GARRARD (son of John Marsh of St. Thomas’,
Salisbury). _b._ 1783; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf. 1800–4; fellow of
Oriel 1804–14; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; Bampton lecturer 1848;
P.C. of North Hincksey, Berks. 1820–8; prebendary of Southwell,
Notts. 18 Oct. 1821 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 1828–34;
V. of Yardley, Herts. 1828–34; R. of Waltham, Lincs. 1834–41;
V. of Aylesford, Kent 1841 to death; translated The book of
psalms 1832; The treatise of John Chrysostom on the priesthood
1844; author of Eight sermons preached before the university of
Oxford 1814; A brief summary of the evidence of the christian
religion 1829; Seven sermons on the ten commandments 1832; Two
hundred and ten psalms and hymns adapted to seventy tunes 1837;
Essays on some of the prophecies 1844; The christian doctrine of
sanctification. Bampton lectures 1848. _d._ Aylesford 20 Sep.
1862.
MARSH, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of rev. Robert Marsh). _b._
Loughrea, co. Galway 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1812, M.D. 1840; apprenticed to sir Philip Crampton, surgeon
1814–18; M.R.C.P. Dublin 1818, pres. 1841, 1842, 1845 and 1846;
assistant phys. to Stevens’ hospital, Dublin 1820; professor
of medicine at college of surgeons, Dublin 1827–32; F.K.Q.C.P.
Dublin 28 Oct. 1839; phys. in ordinary to queen in Ireland 1837;
created baronet 26 Feb. 1839; author of Cases of jaundice with
dissections 1822; The evolution of light from the living human
subject 1842; Clinical lectures with observations on practical
medicine, edited by J. S. Hughes 1869. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. Dublin
1 Dec. 1860, marble bust by J. H. Foley in King’s and Queen’s
College of physicians in Dublin. _Dublin univ. mag. xviii_ 688
_and lvii_ 222; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_ 338 (1861).
MARSH, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet. _b._ Charlemont st. Dublin 1821;
cornet 3 dragoon guards 5 Aug. 1842, major 24 July 1857, sold
out 17 May 1861; succeeded 1 Dec. 1860. _d._ 6 Victoria square,
Westminster 27 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 570 (1868).
MARSH, JOHN BARLING. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; lieut. R.N. 2
Feb. 1830; commander of the Heroine on coast of Africa 1849–51;
captain 21 Feb. 1856; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879. _d._ 74A
Lansdowne road, Kensington park, London 12 July 1879. _The Times
17 July 1879 p._ 11.
MARSH, JOHN FINCH (son of Thomas Marsh). _b._ Chatham, Kent 4
March 1789; linen draper Whitechapel, London 1818–28; a minister
of the Friends 1818; visited all the meetings in England 1822
etc.; visited Friends in Ireland 1837, 1856 and 1865; with Sarah
Harris and Mary B. Brown went to Holland and Germany. _d._ Park
lane, Croydon 7 Oct. 1873. _A memoir of J. F. Marsh, by his
daughter P. Pitt_ (1873).
MARSH, JOHN FITCHETT (son of John Marsh, solicitor). _b._ Wigan
24 Oct. 1818; solicitor at Warrington 1839 to 1873 and town
clerk 1847–58; resided at Chepstow 1873 to death; contributed
to the Historical society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘On some
correspondence of Dr. Priestley’ 1855 and 4 other articles;
author of Notes of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton
widow of the poet 1855; On the engraved portraits and pretended
portraits of Milton 1860; Annals of Chepstow castle 1883. _d._
Hardwick house, Chepstow 24 June 1880. _Palatine note book_,
_ii_ 168–72 (1882).
MARSH, JOHN WILLIAM (son of rev. Edward Garrard Marsh
1783–1862). _b._ 1822; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A.
1856; C. of Aylesford near Maidstone 1845–8; V. of Bleasby,
Notts. 1848–74; R. of St. Michael, Winchester 1874 to death;
author of A memoir of A. F. Gardiner 1857; First fruits of the
South American mission 1873; Narrative of the progress of the
South American mission 1883. _d._ Downside, Winchester 14 Dec.
1882.
MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY (eld. son of rev. Matthew Marsh, chancellor
of diocese of Salisbury). _b._ Winterslow near Salisbury 12
Sep. 1810; ed. at Westminster 1822–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; went to New South
Wales 1840 where he farmed sheep on a very extensive scale for
14 years; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1851–54; M.P.
Salisbury 1857–68; F.R.G.S.; author of Overland from Southampton
to Queensland 1867. _d._ Bournemouth 26 Jany. 1881. _Solicitors’
Journal xxv_ 300 (1881).
MARSH, ROBERT. Receiver-general of Westminster abbey 1844 to
death. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 June 1865 aged
66. _bur._ North cloisters 21 June.
MARSH, WILLIAM (3 son of colonel sir Charles Marsh of Reading).
_b._ 20 July 1775; ed. at Reading and St. Edmund hall Oxf.,
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1839; C. of St. Lawrence,
Reading, Dec. 1800; C. of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1801–2; V. of
Basildon and Ashampton, Berkshire 1802–14; R. of St. Peters,
Colchester 1814–29; R. of St. Thomas, Birmingham, Oct. 1829 to
1839, where from frequent subject of his sermons he came to be
known as Millennial Marsh; principal official and commissary of
royal peculiar of deanery of Bridgnorth 1837; Inc. of St. Mary,
Leamington 1839–51; hon. canon of Worcester 1848 to death; R. of
Beddington, Surrey 1860 to death; author of A short catechism
on the collects. Colchester 1821, 3 ed. 1824; Select passages
from the sermons and conversations of a clergyman 1823, another
ed. 1828; A few plain thoughts on prophecy, particularly as
it relates to the latter days. Colchester 1840, 3 ed. 1843;
The last warning, a commentary on the 21st chapter of St. Luke
1848, and 45 other works. _d._ Beddington rectory 24 Aug. 1864.
_Life of Rev. W. Marsh. By his daughter_ (1868), _portrait_;
_Colvile’s Warwickshire Worthies_ (1869) 529–33.
MARSH-CALDWELL, ANNE (3 dau. of James Caldwell of Linley Wood
near Lawton, Staffs. _d._ 16 Jany. 1838). _b._ Linley Wood 1791;
_m._ July 1817 Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, latterly of Eastbury
lodge, Herts., he _d._ 23 Dec. 1849; succeeded to estate of
Linley Wood 1858, resumed by r.l. surname of Caldwell in
addition to that of Marsh 18 May 1860; author of the following
books, first editions all anonymous, Tales of the woods and
fields 1836; Two old men’s tales 3 vols. 1843; Triumphs of time
3 vols. 1844; Aubrey 3 vols. 1845; Mount Sorel 2 vols. 1845;
Emilia Wyndham 3 vols. 1846; Father Darcy, an historical romance
2 vols. 1846; The protestant reformation in France, or the
history of the Huguenots 2 vols. 1847; Norman’s bridge or the
modern Midas 3 vols. 1847; The previsions of Lady Evelyn 1847;
Angela or the captain’s daughter 3 vols. 1848; Mordaunt Hall
3 vols. 1849; The Wilmingtons 3 vols. 1850; Lettice Arnold 2
vols. 1850; Time the avenger 3 vols. 1851; Ravenscliffe 3 vols.
1851; Castle Avon 3 vols. 1852; The heiress of Haughton 3 vols.
1855; Evelyn Marston 1856; The rose of Ashurst 3 vols. 1857;
translated from Vitet, The song of Roland as chanted before
the battle of Hastings by the minstrel Taillefer 1854. _d._
Linley Wood, Staffs. 5 Oct. 1874. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record
2 ed._ (1855) 735, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv_ 575;
_Athenæum_, _ii_ 512 (1874).
MARSHALL, ANTHONY. _b._ 6 Aug. 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1808,
lieut.-col. 19 Feb. 1841, retired on full pay 12 July 1845;
commanded R.E. Cape of Good Hope, June 1842 to 12 July 1845;
L.G. 20 April 1861. _d._ Plymouth 25 May 1865.
MARSHALL, ARTHUR MILNES (2 son of Wm. P. Marshall of Stroud,
sec. to institution of mechanical engineers). _b._ Birmingham 8
June 1852; graduated B.A. London 1870, B.Sc. 1873, D.Sc. 1877;
entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1871, fellow 1877–85; B.A.
1875, M.A. 1878, M.D. 1882; assistant to professor F. M. Balfour
in organizing the classes of comparative morphology at Cambridge
1875; at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1877; professor of zoology
at Owen’s college, Manchester, July 1879 to death; F.R.S. 1885;
as secretary and as chairman he took part in organizing the
course of studies for the Victoria univ. Manchester; edited
Studies from the biological laboratories, Owen’s college 1886;
author of The frog, an introduction to anatomy and histology.
Manchester 1882, 4 ed. 1891; The Manchester Museum, Outline
classification of the animal kingdom 1891, and Catalogue of
the embryological models 1891 in 2 volumes; A text book of
vertebrate embryology 1893; with C. Herbert Hurst A junior
course of practical zoology 1887, 3 ed. 1892; fell from Scafell,
Cumberland, and rolling down 130 feet was _killed_ on the spot
31 Dec. 1893, inquest at Wasdale head inn, verdict accidental
death. _bur._ the Old cemetery, Birmingham 4 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N.
13 Jany. 1894 p._ 38, _portrait_.
MARSHALL, _Sir Chapman_ (only son of Anthony Marshall of
Peterborough). _b._ Peterborough 1786; a wholesale grocer at 179
Upper Thames st. London; sheriff of London 1830; knighted at St.
James’s palace 9 March 1831; alderman of ward of Bridge Within
1832–59, lord mayor 1839–40. _d._ 17 Pembridge crescent, Notting
hill, London 9 Jany. 1862, portrait at Innholders’ hall.
MARSHALL, _Sir Charles_ (only son of Samuel Marshall,
serjeant-at-law). _b._ London 24 May 1788; ed. at Westminster
sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T.
24 Nov. 1815; chief justice of Ceylon 17 July 1832 to 1836;
knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1832; author of Reports
of cases in the court of common pleas 1813 to 1816. 2 vols.
1815–17; A treatise on the law of insurance by Samuel Marshall
with additions 1823. _d._ 5 Kensington gardens terrace, London 5
Feb. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 162 (1873).
MARSHALL, CHARLES. Ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836;
C. of St. Antholin, London, and lecturer of St. Margaret’s,
Lothbury 1840–6; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1846 to
death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. 1856 to death; hon.
sec. of city of London national schools; author with William
Wilkinson of The Latin prayers of Charles II. or an account of
the liturgia of dean Durel. Oxford 1882. _d._ 29 Jany. 1883.
_I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854), _portrait_.
MARSHALL, CHARLES (son of Nathan Marshall). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;
scene painter at Surrey theatre and other London theatres;
scene painter at Covent Garden and Drury Lane under W. C.
Macready’s management 1837 etc.; painted scenery for The
Tempest and As you like it, and for Lord Lytton’s plays 1838
etc.; introduced the limelight on the stage and originated and
developed the transformation scene; scene painter to the opera
at Her Majesty’s theatre 1844 to about 1858 when he retired;
exhibited 52 landscapes at R.A., 52 at B.I. and 139 at Suffolk
st. 1828–79; painted some panoramas of Napoleon’s battles.
The Overland Route, &c; contributed a diorama to illustrate
coronation of Wm. IV. 1831; published Select illustrated
topography of thirty miles round London by W. E. Trotter, from
drawings of C. Marshall 1839. _d._ 7 Lewisham road, Highgate 8
March 1890. _Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 59–64
(1880).
MARSHALL, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; principal stage comedian
under Andrew Ducrow at Astley’s several seasons; played at the
Coburg; acted with Edmund Kean, Macready and other celebrities;
acted under Edmund Glover in Glasgow; stage manager of Bath and
Bristol theatres under J. H. Chute 7 years 1856 etc.; manager
of the Brighton theatre and of the Liver theatre, Liverpool;
last played in London at Princess’s theatre 1871; last appeared
on the stage as the Grandfather in the Old Curiosity shop at
Nottingham theatre for benefit of his son Frederick Marshall 9
June 1873. _d._ Bristol 6 March 1879.
MARSHALL, CHARLES WARD (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music
seller). _b._ 1808; a tenor singer on the London stage under
stage name of Manvers about 1835; successful as a concert and
oratorio singer 1842–9 when he retired. _d._ Islington 22 Feb.
1876.
MARSHALL, DUNCAN. _b._ near Holy Loch, Argyleshire 1785; a
fisherman; built a hermitage at the foot of Rushfield hill,
a mile and a half from the head of Holy Loch or Kilmun, and
became known as the hermit of Kilmun, his only companions being
a few goats; during the summer received a large number of
visitors; his health failing, he was removed to Dunoon 1862.
_d._ Dunoon, Feb. 1865. _bur._ underneath a flat on Rushfield
hill 21 Feb. 1865. _Times 24 Feb. 1865 p._ 12.
MARSHALL, FRANCIS ALBERT (5 son of Wm. Marshall 1796–1872).
_b._ Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1840; ed. at Harrow; matric.
from Exeter coll. Oxf. 14 June 1859; clerk in the audit office
Somerset House 1862–8; dramatic critic to the London Figaro
some years from 1870; author of the following plays, Mad as a
hatter, farce produced at Royalty theatre 7 Dec. 1863; Corrupt
practices, drama Lyceum 22 Jany. 1870; Q.E.D. or all a mistake,
comedietta Court 25 Jany. 1871; False Shame, comedy Globe 4 Nov.
1872, revived at Royalty 19 June 1880; Brighton, comedy Court
25 May 1874, which ran 300 nights; Biorn, 5 act opera Queen’s
17 Jany. 1877; Family Honour, comedy Aquarium 18 May 1878;
Lola or the Belle of Baccarato, comic opera Olympic 15 Jany.
1881; author with W. S. Wills of Cora, a drama Globe 28 Feb.
1877; edited the Henry Irving edition of Shakespeare’s works 8
vols. 1887–90; author of A study of Hamlet 1875; Henry Irving
actor and manager. By An Irvingite 1883; L.S.D. an unfinished
novel brought out in Britannia Magazine; _m._ (1) Imogene, she
appeared as Elfrida in his five act opera of Biorn at Queen’s
theatre 17 Jany. 1877, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885; _m._ (2) 2 May
1885 Ada Cavendish the actress. _d._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London
28 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 12, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 70, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr.
news 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 556, _portrait_.
MARSHALL, GEORGE. _b._ 29 Sep. 1794; banker at Birmingham;
numismatist; author of A view of the silver coin and coinage of
Great Britain, also an account of the silver coins struck in
Scotland 1838. _d._ 25 Feb. 1855.
MARSHALL, HENRY (son of John Marshall). _b._ Kilsyth,
Stirlingshire 1775; ed. at Glasgow univ.; surgeon’s mate in
royal navy, May 1803; assistant surgeon in Forfarshire militia
Jany. 1805 and in 89th foot April 1806; assistant surgeon 2
Ceylon regiment 1809, surgeon 1 Ceylon regiment 1813–21, staff
surgeon in North Britain 1821–3 at Chatham 1823–5 and at Dublin
1825–8; deputy-inspector general of hospitals on h.p. 22 July
1830; investigated with Sir A. M. Tulloch statistics of the
sickness, &c. of the British army 1835–6; the first hon. M.D.
of New York univ. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Notes on the
medical topography of the interior of Ceylon 1821; On the
enlisting, the discharging and pensioning of soldiers 1832, 2
ed. 1839; Ceylon, a general description of the island 1846.
_d._ Edinburgh 5 May 1851. _John Brown’s Horæ Subsecivæ_ (1858)
225–90; _Edinb. Med. and Surg. journal_, _lxxvi_ 489–92 (1851).
MARSHALL, HENRY. _b._ 1795; attorney at Godalming, Surrey 1816
to death; mayor of Godalming 1836 and six times afterwards;
clerk of the peace for Surrey, Oct. 1856 to 1872; registrar of
Guildford county court 1856–69. _d._ High st. Godalming 23 Sep.
1874. _bur._ Farncombe cemetery near there 28 Sep. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xviii_ 904 (1874).
MARSHALL, HUBERT. _b._ 1804 or 1805; entered Madras army 14 Sep.
1824; lieut. 33 Madras N.I. 11 Nov. 1826, major 5 July 1854;
deputy secretary to government military department 1852 to 1869;
lieut.-col. 8 Madras N.I. 2 Jany. 1860 to 1861; lieut.-col. 18
Madras N.I. 1861–3; lieut.-col. 33 Madras N.I. 1863–5; general 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ Newton house, Dalkeith 3 May 1880.
MARSHALL, JAMES (son of a doctor at Rothesay, Bute, who _d._
1806). _b._ Rothesay 23 Feb. 1796; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and
univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; minister of Outer high church,
Glasgow 1819–28; minister of Tolbooth ch. Edinb. 1828, resigned
29 Sep. 1841; ordained by bishop of Durham as curate of Norham,
Durham 19 Dec. 1841; R. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1842–7;
secretary to newly founded Lay readers’ association 1845; P.C.
of Ch. Ch. Clifton, May 1847 to death; edited Letters of the
late Mrs. Isabella Graham of New York 1839; author of Inward
revival or motives and hindrances to advancement in holiness.
Edinb. 1840; Early piety illustrated in the life and death of a
young parishioner. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 29 Aug. 1855.
_Memoir by Rev. James Marshall_ (1857); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._
1 _pt._ 1 _p._ 52 (1866).
MARSHALL, SIR JAMES (2 son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 19
Dec. 1829; lost his right arm through a gun accident; matric.
from Ex. coll. Oxf. 3 Feb. 1848; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; C. of
St. Bartholomew’s, Little Moorfields, London 1854–7; joined
Church of Rome, Nov. 1857; procurator and precentor in R.C.
ch. Bayswater, London; classical master at Oratory school,
Birmingham 1863; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; practised at
Manchester; chief magistrate of the Gold Coast and assessor to
the native chiefs May 1873; raised levies in Ashanti war 1874;
senior puisne judge of supreme court of the Gold Coast, Nov.
1876, chief justice 1879 to 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle
29 June 1882; executive comr. for West African colonies at
Colonial exhibition 1886; C.M.G. 28 June 1886; chief justice of
territories of royal Niger company 1887; knight commander of St.
Gregory the Great, June 1889. _d._ Margate 11 Aug. 1889.
MARSHALL, JAMES. _b._ 1806; founded business of Marshall and
Snelgrove, drapers and silk mercers at 11 Vere st. Oxford st.
London 10 April 1837, they employed nearly 1800 hands in 1887,
in 1800 the largest haberdasher’s shop in London employed only
16 persons; in 1893 they were silk mercers at 10 to 20 Vere st.,
334 to 348 and 352 and 354 Oxford st., 14 to 20 Henrietta st.
Cavendish sq., 2 to 24 Marylebone lane, and at Scarborough and
Leeds. _d._ Goldbeaters, Millhill, Hendon, Middlesex 22 Nov.
1893, leaving personal estate of the net value of £719,116.
MARSHALL, JAMES GARTH (3 son of John Marshall of Headingley,
Leeds, M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30). _b._ Leeds 20 Feb. 1802;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; member of firm of Marshall and Co. of
Holbeck, Leeds and Shrewsbury, flax spinners, the former of
these mills is described in Disraeli’s ‘Sybil’ 1845; M.P. for
Leeds 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.G.S. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1
May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1860. _d._ Monk Coniston near
Ambleside 22 Oct. 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxviii_ 317–20 (1874).
MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (son of John Marshall of
Garlieston, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 7 Jany. 1794; ed.
at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Nov. 1818; purchased
estate of Curriehill in Midlothian; dean of faculty of advocates
March 1852; a judge of court of session with title of Lord
Curriehill 3 Nov. 1852 to Oct. 1868. _d._ Curriehill near
Edinb. 27 Oct. 1868. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 123–4,
_portrait_.
MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (eld. son of preceding). _b._
Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1827; ed. at Edinb. academy and univs. of
Glasgow and Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1851; a member of
general council of univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow; a judge of
court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 29 Oct. 1874 to
death; chancellor’s assessor of Edinb. univ. court; author of
Analysis of titles to land consolidation (Scotland) act 1868.
Edinburgh 1869. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 5 Nov. 1881.
MARSHALL, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Marshall of Ely, solicitor).
_b._ Ely 11 Sep. 1818; studied at Univ. coll. London 1838–44;
M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849; demonstrator of anatomy at Univ.
coll. about 1845, extra assistant surgeon 1847, professor of
surgery 1866–85, Emeritus professor 1885 to death; consulting
surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1884; member of council of
R.C.S. 1873, pres. 1883, representative of the college in
general council of medical education 9 June 1881 to death, pres.
of the council 10 May 1887 to death; Bradshaw lecturer 1883,
Hunterian orator 1885, Morton lecturer 1889; F.R.S. 11 June
1857; pres. of royal medical and chirurgical society of London
1882–3; lectured on anatomy to art students at Marlborough
House 1853; professor of anatomy at royal academy 16 May 1873
to death; introduced the galvano-cautery and operation of the
excision of varicose veins; Fullerian professor of physiology
at the royal institution 4 years; invented system of circular
wards for hospitals; author of A description of the human body,
its structure and functions 1860, 4 ed. 1883; The outlines of
physiology, human and comparative 3 vols. 1867; Anatomy for
artists 1878, 3 ed. 1890; A rule of proportion for the human
figure 1878. _d._ 92 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1 Jany. 1891. _bur._
at Ely 6 Jany., bust by Thomas Brock, R.A. in Univ. coll.
London; memorial painted glass window placed in choir of Ely
cathedral by his widow Jany. 1894. _Proc. of royal soc. xlix pp.
iv–vii_ (1891); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 77 (1883), _portrait_.
MARSHALL, MARY. _b._ England 1813; played columbine in
Barrymore’s pantomime of Davy Jones’s Locker at Drury Lane, Dec.
1830; the original White Cat in J. R. Planché’s extravaganza
at Covent Garden, Easter 1842; played Lazarillo to James
Wallack’s Don Cæsar de Bazan at Princess’s 8 Oct. 1844; played
soubrettes in comedy at Lyceum; played Fortunio in Planché’s
burlesque Fortunio at Sadler’s Wells 22 April 1851; acted the
leading parts in Frank Talfourd’s burlesques at Strand theatre,
May 1851 to May 1852; played at Princess’s under Charles Kean
1853–5; made her début in America at Burton’s theatre, New York
1856; first appeared in Philadelphia at National theatre 6 July
1857; returned to England 11 Sep. 1862; always known as Polly
Marshall; _m._ Mr. Zerman. _d._ 1 D’Israeli terrace, Disraeli
road, Putney 17 Nov. 1878. _The Era 24 Nov. 1878 p._ 5.
NOTE.--Her brother Joseph Marshall, harlequin at Drury Lane theatre,
afterwards ballet master at T.R. Manchester _d._ 30 Nov. 1873.
MARSHALL, MATTHEW. First assistant cashier of Bank of England
1829–35, cashier 1835–64. _d._ Emersham house, Beckenham, Kent
30 June 1873.
MARSHALL, THOMAS FALCON. _b._ Liverpool, Dec. 1818; contributed
4 pictures to Liverpool academy exhibition of 1836; removed to
London about 1847; exhibited 60 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and
42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–78; his best works are in South
Lancashire; his picture The Coming Footstep 1847 is at South
Kensington museum. _d._ 46 Victoria road, Kensington, London 26
March 1878.
MARSHALL, THOMAS HORNCASTLE (3 son of rev. Thomas Horncastle
Marshall, V. of Pontefract, Yorkshire, _d._ 1841 aged 84). _b._
Marston 1 March 1800; barrister G.I. 14 Nov. 1821, bencher Jany.
1850 to death, treasurer 1851; revising barrister for north
Northumberland 1832; deputy judge and steward of Court of Honor
of Pontefract; judge of county courts, circuit No. 14 (Dewsbury,
Leeds, Pontefract and Wakefield), March 1847 to death; drew or
suggested several sections of County Courts act 9 & 10 Vict.
cap. 45 (1846); author of A letter to lord Brougham on county
courts, writs of prohibition and certiorari 1855. _d._ St.
Leonards 18 Feb. 1875.
NOTE.--He libelled by means of a pamphlet an attorney at Leeds called
Barret, for which a jury gave Barret 40/-damages at York assizes April
1856.
MARSHALL, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of John Marshall, government agent
for colonising New South Wales). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1840; P.C. of Swallowcliffe and Anstey, Wiltshire
1841–5; joined Church of Rome 1845; an inspector of schools 16
Dec. 1848; published Tabulated reports on Roman Catholic schools
inspected in the south and east of England and in South Wales
1859; granted cross of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. for his
Christian missions, their agents, their method and their results
3 vols. 1862; lectured in the U.S. of America about 1873; LL.D.
Georgetown college. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 14 Dec. 1877. _J.
Gondon’s Motifs de conversion de dix ministres Anglicans pp_.
20–37; _J. Gondon’s Conversion de cent cinquante ministres
Anglicans pp._ 90–102.
MARSHALL, WILLIAM (brother of James Garth Marshall 1802–73).
_b._ 26 May 1796; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1824; M.P. for
Petersfield 1826–30, for Leominster 1830, for Beverley 1831, for
Carlisle 1835–47 and for East Cumberland 1847–68. _d._ 32 St.
Georges road, Eccleston sq. London 16 May 1872.
MARSHALL, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller).
_b._ Oxford 1806; chorister of chapel royal, London; organist to
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1825–46, organist to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1825–46;
Mus. Bac. Oxf. 1826, Mus. Doc. 1840; organist of St. Mary’s,
Kidderminster 1846 to death; published Three Canzonets 1825;
Cathedral Services. Oxford 1847; author of The art of reading
church music Oxford 1842; A collection of anthems used in the
cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales 1840, 4
ed. 1862; edited with Alfred Bennett A collection of cathedral
chants 1829. _d._ Handsworth, Birmingham 24 Aug. 1875.
MARSHALL, WILLIAM. _b._ hamlet of Meadowmore, Perthshire 1807;
ed. at Glasgow univ. 1820–2; minister of united secession
church, Coupar-Angus, Perthshire 28 Dec. 1830 to death; edited
The Dissenter, 12 monthly numbers Jany. to Dec. 1833; secretary
of the Voluntary church association; helped to bring about union
of relief and secession churches 1847; moderator of united
presbyterian synod 1865; D.D. New York univ. June 1865 and
Hamilton univ. July 1865; presented with £1500 by his friends
29 Oct. 1872; author of Men of mark in British church history
1875; Historic names in Forfarshire 1875; Historic scenes in
Perthshire 1880. _d._ Coupar-Angus 22 Aug. 1880. _Mc Kelvie’s
Annals of the United presbyterian church p._ 609.
MARSHALL, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1810;
ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 12 June 1813, lieut. 1816; captain 35 N.I.
10 Oct. 1825, major 2 April 1834 to 4 Jany. 1841; lieut.-col.
of 34 N.I. 4 Jany. 1841 to 1845, of 73 N.I. 1845–46, of 34
N.I. 1846–50, of 32 N.I. 1850–51; col. of 32 N.I. 15 March
1851 to 1861, of 3 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 23 July 1865. _d._
Southport, Lancashire 29 Jany. 1868.
MARSHAM, HENRY SHOVELL JONES. _b._ 28 Jany. 1794; entered navy
17 May 1807; captain 24 Dec. 1833; retired R.A. 21 Oct. 1856;
retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Hayle place near Maidstone 26
Oct. 1875.
MARSHAM, ROBERT BULLOCK (eld. son of hon. and rev. Jacob
Marsham, canon of Windsor 1759–1840). _b._ 17 June 1786; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826;
fellow of Merton coll. 1812–26, dean 1824, warden 1826 to death;
barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; recorder of Rochester to 1826;
contested univ. of Oxf. July 1852. _d._ Caversfield house near
Bicester 27 Dec. 1880. _bur._ north transept of Merton college
chapel 1 Jany. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_;
_Law Times_, _lxx_ 161 (1881).
MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK (eld. son of Joshua Marshman, orientalist
and missionary 1768–1837). _b._ Aug. 1794; went with his father
to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious
undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India;
founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the
Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper
The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college
for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the
government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of
committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868;
contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author
of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marshman’s Guide to
the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into
Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and
times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, embracing the history of the
Serampore mission 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the
earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration
3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. _d._ 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington,
London 8 July 1877.
MARSON, JOB (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse
trainer). _b._ Belle Vue training stables near Malton,
Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847
and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on
Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever
before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George
Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. _d._ Middleham 11 Sep. 1857.
_Sporting Review_, _xxxiii_ 1–6 (1855), _portrait_, _xxxviii_
238–40 (1857); _Rice’s History of the British turf_, _i_ 267
(1879); _I.L.N. xxii_ 417 (1853), _portrait_.
MARSTON, CHARLES DALLAS. _b._ 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll.
Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham
in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5
July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73;
V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of
Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the
epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their
diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and
service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. _d._ East Sheen,
Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.
MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste
Noel). _b._ Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first
appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at
Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (_m._
1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44;
played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean
and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts
were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale
and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The
love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in
Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864,
and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep.
1867. _d._ 5 March 1887. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_,
_part_ 14, _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 169, 194 (1847),
_portrait_.
MARSTON, HENRY, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a
physician). _b._ Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at
Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and
as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June
1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as
Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester
in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840;
took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at
Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles
in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford
in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863,
Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s
25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864,
Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius
Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer
Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a
special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at
Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban
lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal
masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. _d._ 4 Lidlington
place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table books_, _parts_ 9 _and_ 18, 2
_portraits_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 201 (1847), _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xi_ 280, 318 (1879), _portrait_.
MARSTON, JOHN WESTLAND (son of Stephen Marston, baptist
minister). _b._ Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to
his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John
Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author
of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced
at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847;
Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850;
Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard
struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket
15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna
Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of
fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14
March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life,
Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873;
Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical
criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ.
1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at
Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem,
and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860;
Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and
other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition
2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. _d._ at his
lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 159–86
(1844); _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_
(1851) 201–206; _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_;
_London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_.
MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (only son of the preceding). _b._ 123
Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his
eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All
in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other
stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is
the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King,
and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. _d._ 191
Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. _Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By
L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest_ (1891)
_and For a song’s sake_ (1887); _The collected poems of P. B.
Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait_ (1892).
MARTEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov.
1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825,
lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col.
6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837.
_d._ Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868.
MARTIN, ALBINUS. _b._ Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an
architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera
house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and
resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a
consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. _d._ 17 Oct.
1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 223–26 (1872).
MARTIN, EDWARD. _b._ Brenchley, Kent 24 Nov. 1814; played his
first match at Lord’s Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 26 June 1843;
played for Kent and Hampshire; generally called The Veteran;
dealer in cricketing appliances and keeper of a cricket ground
at Oxford. _d._ 29 Oct. 1869. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_,
_iii_ 152 (1863).
MARTIN, FRANCIS OFFLEY (4 son of Henry Martin of Colston Basset,
Notts., M.P. for Kinsale and master in chancery, who _d._ 19
July 1839). _b._ 22 March 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius
coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 19 May 1829; assistant tithe comr.;
an inspector of charities 1857 to 7 Dec. 1872; second charity
comr. for England and Wales 7 Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ 89 Onslow
gardens, London 4 Dec. 1878.
MARTIN, FREDERICK. _b._ Geneva 19 Nov. 1830; secretary and
amanuensis to Thomas Carlyle from 1856 for some years; started
The Statesman, a biographical mag. in which he began an account
of Carlyle’s early life; started The statesman’s year book 1864,
edited it to Dec. 1882; granted civil list pension of £100, 21
April 1879; author of The life of John Clare 1865; Stories of
banks and bankers 1865; Commercial handbook of France 1867;
The story of Alec. Drummond of the 17th lancers 3 vols. 1869;
Handbook of contemporary biography 1870. _d._ 22 Lady Margaret
road, Kentish Town, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
1 Feb.
MARTIN, GEORGE (2 son of rev. Joseph Martin of Ham court,
Worcs., canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral 1796–1815). _b._
1789; ed. at New coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; preb. of
Exeter cath. 15 Sep. 1815 to death; chancellor of the diocese
1820 to death; V. of Harberton, South Devon 22 June 1820 to
death; principal of training sch. Exeter (the first in England)
Oct. 1839, which began Feb. 1840, first stone of new college
laid 19 May 1853; cut his throat at Harberton vicarage 27 Aug.
1860. _G.M. ix_ 437 (1860).
MARTIN, GEORGE. Proprietor of Royal Oak park grounds,
Manchester. _d._ 21 Oct. 1865 aged 39. _Illust. sporting news_,
_iv_ 533, 545 (1865), _portrait_.
MARTIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; clerk in office of John James,
secondary of City of London; clerk in the city solicitors’
office; assistant clerk at Mansion House justice room 1850–55;
chief clerk at the Guildhall, June 1855, retired on full salary
1882. _d._ 2 Cromwell gardens, Kensington, London 30 Dec. 1887.
MARTIN, GEORGE ANNE. _b._ 1807 or 1808; L.S.A. 1828; M.R.C.S.
1830; M.D. Edinburgh 1837; L.R.C.P. 1840; practised at Ventnor,
Isle of Wight 1838 to death; author of The Undercliff, Isle of
Wight: its climate, history and natural productions. 1849. _d._
Belgrave house, Ventnor 7 Jany. 1867.
MARTIN, GEORGE BOHUN. _b._ 21 March 1799; entered navy 11 April
1815; captain 19 April 1828; captain of Victory 101 guns, flag
ship at Portsmouth 26 Sep. 1851 to 23 Dec. 1852; superintendent
of Deptford dockyard 10 Jany. 1853 to death; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827.
_d._ Nottingham 14 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 627 (1854).
MARTIN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 8 March 1828; chorister
at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster
Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music
at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master
at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first
organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National
choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio
performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National
schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in
Jany. 1864 a choir of 1000 voices for the Macbeth music at
three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth 23 April
1864; composed Is she not beautiful? 1845 and other glees for
which he obtained many prizes. _d._ Bolingbroke House hospital,
Wandsworth, London 16 April 1881. _bur._ by the parish in Woking
cemetery.
MARTIN, HARRIET LETITIA (dau. of Richard Martin 1754–1834,
known as Humanity Martin, M.P. for co. Galway 1801–26). _b._
London 5 July 1801; when staying in Paris wrote a tale entitled
Canvassing, which was appended to Michael Banim’s novel The
Mayor of Windgap 1835; author of a novel called The Changeling,
a tale of the year ’47, 1848. _d._ Dublin 12 Jany. 1891.
MARTIN, HENRI. _b._ Marseilles, France 1793; visited London and
the provinces as a lion tamer 1831–32, performed at Drury Lane
theatre, retired 1840; curator of Rotterdam zoological gardens;
figures in several novels of Honore Balzac and Eugene Sue. _d._
Overschie near Rotterdam, April 1882. _I.L.N. 15 April 1882._
MARTIN, HENRY (son of Mr. Martin of North st. Brighton,
saddler). _b._ Ringmer, Sussex 10 May 1813; a saddler in
Brighton; councillor for the Pavilion ward on the Incorporation
of the town May 1854 to death, alderman Jany. 1859 to death,
mayor 1865–66, a magistrate 23 Jany. 1873 to death; author of
The history of Brighton and environs 1871. _d._ 5 Powis sq.
Brighton 24 April 1885. _Sussex Daily News 25 April 1885 p._ 6
_cols._ 3–4.
MARTIN, HENRY AUSTIN. _b._ London 23 July 1824; graduated
at Harvard medical school 1845; practised at Boston,
Massachusetts; staff surgeon in the Federal army 1861; rose to
be surgeon-in-chief of the second corps of army of the Potomac;
introduced into U.S. of America the practice of true animal
vaccination 1870 which was universally adopted; invented pure
rubber bandage for treatment of ulcers 1877; performed operation
of tracheotomy without tubes many times; contributed largely to
Lancet and other medical journals. _d._ Boston 7 Dec. 1884.
MARTIN, SIR HENRY BYAM (2 son of sir Thomas Byam Martin
1773–1854). _b._ 1803; midshipman on board the ‘Liffey’ 50 guns
Oct. 1818; captain 28 April 1827; captain of Duke of Wellington
130 guns, and commodore in the western squadron 1 Feb. 1853 to
4 March 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 10 Oct. 1853 to 13 July
1854; served for a short time as flag officer in Baltic fleet
for which he was made K.C.B. 5 July 1856; admiral 15 June 1864.
_d._ Genoa 9 Feb. 1865.
MARTIN, HUGH (son of Alexander Martin). _b._ Aberdeen 11 Aug.
1822; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A. 1839;
B.D. Edinb. April 1872; free church minister at Panbride near
Carnoustie 1844–58; minister of Free Greyfriars, Edinb. 1858
to June 1865 when he retired owing to ill health; examiner in
mathematics for degree of M.A. in univ. of Edinb. 1866–8; author
of Christ’s presence in the gospel history 1860; A study of
trilinear co-ordinates 1867; National education 1872; The shadow
of Calvary 1875; The Westminster doctrine of the inspiration of
scripture 1877, 5 ed. 1877. _d._ Lasswade near Edinburgh 14 June
1885.
MARTIN, JAMES. Partner in Martins & Co. bankers, 68 Lombard st.
London. _d._ Chiselhurst common, Kent 17 Aug. 1878, personalty
under £500,000, 28 Sep. 1878.
MARTIN, SIR JAMES (son of John Martin of Fermoy, Ireland). _b._
Middleton, co. Cork 14 May 1820; taken to New South Wales 1821;
admitted solicitor of the supreme court 10 May 1845; member
for Cork and Westmoreland in the legislative assembly 1848–59,
member for East Sydney, Orange, the Lachlan, East Sydney and
East Macquarie successively 30 Aug. 1859 to 19 Nov. 1873;
attorney general 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856 and 7 Sep. 1857
to 8 Nov. 1858; called to the bar of N.S.W. 6 Sep. 1856; Q.C.
1857; prime minister and attorney general 16 Oct. 1863 to 2 Feb.
1865, 22 Jany. 1866 to 26 Oct. 1868 and 15 Dec. 1870 to 13 May
1872; knighted by patent 4 May 1869; chief justice of supreme
court of N.S.W. 19 Nov. 1873 to death; author of The Australian
Sketch-book. Sydney 1838. _d._ Clarens near Sydney 4 Nov.
1886. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 64–82;
_Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 37, _portrait_.
MARTIN, SIR JAMES RANALD (son of rev. Donald Martin of Kilmuir,
Isle of Skye). _b._ Kilmuir 1793; studied at St. George’s
hospital, London 1813–7; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon
Bengal army 1817; surgeon to governor-general’s body-guard 1821;
served in first Burmese war; practised at Calcutta from 1826,
presidency surgeon 1830, retired 20 May 1840; practised in
Grosvenor st. London 1840; physician to council of India 1859
to death; inspector general of army hospitals; F.R.S. 1845;
C.B. 25 April 1860; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June
1860; author of Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
Calcutta 1837, A brief topographical and historical notice of
Calcutta. Privately printed 1847; author with James Johnson of
The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions
1841, 8 ed. 1861. _d._ 37 Upper Brook st. London 27 Nov. 1874.
_Medical Circular_, _iv_ 101–105 (1854), _portrait_; _Barker’s
Photographs of medical men_ (1865), _portrait_; _Medical
times_, _ii_ 647–8 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 547, 551, 552 (1874),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 586, 600 (1874), _portrait_.
MARTIN, JOHN (son of Fenwick Martin, fencing master). _b._
Haydon Bridge near Hexham, Northumberland 19 July 1789; a
painter on china and glass in London 1806; historical and
landscape painter; exhibited pictures at the R.A. from 1812;
historical painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold
1817; his finest work Belshazzar’s Feast obtained premium of
£200 at British Institution 1821, the picture was repeated on
glass and exhibited as a transparency in the Strand; an original
member of Soc. of British Artists 1824; exhibited The fall of
Nineveh at Brussels 1833 which was bought by Belgian government;
member of Belgian academy and knight of order of Leopold; many
of his works were engraved, some by himself; received sum of
£2000 for his illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost; his three
large pictures of the Apocalypse were exhibited after his death
at the Hall of Commerce, 52 Threadneedle st. city of London, and
at chief cities in England. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 17 Feb.
1854. _Redgrave’s Century of painters_, _ii_ 424–37 (1866); _W.
C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 120–6.
NOTE.--His eldest daughter Isabella Mary materially assisted her
brother-in-law Joseph Bonomi the curator of the Soane museum, Lincoln’s
Inn Fields, London, in his official duties during the later years of
his life, she died 23 March 1880.
MARTIN, JOHN (son of John Martin of 112 Mount st. Grosvenor
sq. London, _d._ 1836). _b._ 16 Sep. 1791; bookseller at 13
Old Compton st. Soho 1811–15, at 23 Holles st. Cavendish sq.
1815–6, at 46 New Bond st. 1816–9; partner with John Rodwell
at 46 New Bond st. 1819–26, retired 1826; secretary to the
Artists’ Benevolent fund 1833–45; librarian to duke of Bedford
at Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire 1836 to death; F.S.A. and F.L.S.;
edited Gray’s Bard 1837 and Gray’s Elegy 1839 and 1854; author
of Bibliographical catalogue of books privately printed 1834, 2
ed. 1854; History and description of Woburn and its abbey 1845;
Enquiry into the authority for a statement in Echard’s History
of England regarding William, lord Russel. Privately printed
1852, published 1856. _d._ Froxfield near Woburn 30 Dec. 1855.
_bur._ in Eversholt churchyard. _G.M. xlv_ 317 (1856).
MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; physician in city of London some
years; laid down meteorological charts representing the varying
aspects of months, seasons and years from daily observation;
edited An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the
South Pacific ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary
of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive
communications of Mr. William Mariner several years resident in
those islands 2 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818 reprinted as vol. xiii of
Constable’s Miscellany. _d._ Lisbon 8 July 1869.
MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ near Kennington church, London 10 July 1796;
a baker by trade, always called by the reporters the Master of
the Rolls; fought and beat George Oliver 18 July 1813; beat Jack
Scroggins £100 a side, 65 rounds in 2 hours at Moulsey Hurst 18
Dec. 1818; beaten by Jack Randall at Crawley Downs 4 May 1819;
beaten by Randall again £300 a side at same place 11 Sep. 1821;
beaten by Edward Turner 100 guineas a side, 40 rounds in 67
minutes at Wallingham common 26 Oct. 1819; beat Jack Strong
otherwise Cabbage 100 guineas a side, 75 rounds in 72 minutes
at Farnham Royal, Bucks. 28 March 1820; beat Edward Turner £100
a side, 60 rounds in 78 minutes at Crawley 5 June 1821; beaten
by Samuel Evans £100 a side, 16 rounds in 71 minutes at Knowl
Hill, Berkshire 4 Nov. 1828; won 9 out of 14 fights; landlord
of the Crown at Croydon many years; kept the Horns tavern at
Kennington, London; retired first to St. Albans and afterwards
to Devonshire; became a total abstainer and vegetarian. _d._
1871 or 14 Aug. 1868. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _i_ 395–41
(1880), _portrait_; _The Fancy. By An Operator_, _i_ 201–5
(1826), _portrait_.
MARTIN, JOHN (2 child of Samuel Martin of Longhorne, parish
of Donoughmore, co. Down). _b._ Longhorne 8 Sep. 1812; ed. at
Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; a member of the Repeal
Association, expelled having joined the secession of the Young
Ireland party; contributed to The United Irishman newspaper;
issued The Irish Felon, successor to The United Irishman 24
June 1848 to 22 July 1848, surrendered to the police 8 July
1848, tried for treason-felony and sentenced to 10 years
transportation 19 Aug. 1848, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land Nov.
1849, granted a conditional pardon 1854, resided in Paris Oct.
1854 to June 1856 when granted an unconditional pardon; returned
to Ireland 1858, established with The O’Donoghue the short-lived
National League; contested co. Longford, Dec. 1869; joined the
Home government association for Ireland, May 1870; M.P. for co.
Meath, Jany. 1871 to death; known in Ireland as Honest John
Martin; paid secretary to Home Rule league, hon. sec. 1874. _d._
Dromalane house near Newry 29 March 1875. _P. A. Sillard’s Life
and letters of John Martin_ (1893).
MARTIN, JOHN (eld. son of John Martin of Overbury court, Worcs.
1774–1832). _b._ 2 Feb. 1805; member of firm of Martins & Co.
bankers 68 Lombard st. London; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1832–5 and
1837–59; contested Tewkesbury 6 Jany. 1835. _d._ the Upper hall,
Ledbury 7 March 1880.
MARTIN, JOHN (2 son of rev. Samuel Martin, V. of Warsop, Notts.)
_b._ 10 Oct. 1807; ed. at Rugby; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn,
London 1830 to death; founded a national school in Baldwin’s
gardens, Holborn; an active member of the Church Association;
promoter of great ecclesiastical suit of Martin _v._
Mackonochie 1867–76, always refused to take any steps to obtain
imprisonment of the defendant; chairman of committee of Colonial
and Continental church society. _d._ 9 Montagu place, Russell
sq. London 16 May 1885.
MARTIN, JOHN (son of Francis Martin of Davieland, dean of
faculty of procurators in Paisley). _b._ 23 July 1811; a writer
to the signet in Edinburgh 6 March 1834; principal clerk of
session 1880 to death. _d._ 19 Chester st. Edinburgh 26 March
1893.
MARTIN, JOHN CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814,
fellow 1821–9, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1835; R. of
Killeshandra, Kilmore 30 May 1831 to death; archdeacon of Ardagh
1854–66; archdeacon of Kilmore, Sep. 1866 to death. _d._ 17
Jany. 1878.
MARTIN, JOHN EDWARD (eld. son of John Martin 1791–1855,
librarian to Duke of Bedford). _b._ 1821 or 1822; sub-librarian
to Society of Inner Temple 1850; librarian 1856 to Dec. 1882
when his brain gave way; private librarian to Duke of Bedford at
Woburn, to Duke of Northumberland, Marquis of Ripon and other
owners of extensive collections. _d._ 20 July 1893. _Law Journal
29 July 1893 p._ 536.
MARTIN, LEOPOLD CHARLES (2 son of John Martin, painter
1789–1854). _b._ 6 Dec. 1817; godson of Leopold afterwards first
king of the Belgians; an artist and numismatist; clerk in the
Stationery office, London 1836 to 1870; author of Contributions
to English literature by the civil servants of the crown and
East India company from 1794 to 1863. 1865; author with his
elder brother Charles Martin of Civil costumes of England from
the conquest to George III. 61 plates 1842, and of Dresses
worn at Her Majesty’s Bal Costumé, May 1842. 1842; author with
Charles Trubner of The current gold and silver coins of all
countries 1862, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1889.
MARTIN, PETER JOHN (son of Peter Patrick Martin, surgeon). _b._
Pulborough, Sussex 1786; M.R.C.S. 1813; practised at Pulborough;
F.G.S. 1833; gave 3 lectures in 1833–4, afterwards published,
to the Philosophical and literary society of Chichester on A
parallel between Shakespeare and Scott and the kindred nature
of their genius; wrote often under signature of P.P. in The
Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841–5; author of Geological memoir on
a part of Western Sussex, with some observations upon chalk
basins, the Weald denudation and outlines by protrusion 1828.
_d._ Pulborough 13 May 1860.
MARTIN, PHILIP WYKEHAM (eld. son of Charles Wykeham-Martin of
Leeds castle, Kent 1801–70). _b._ 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London
18 Jany. 1829; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850;
M.P. for Rochester 8 Feb. 1856 to death; introduced and carried
the Sale of spirits amendment act 1862 and the Hotel keepers’
liability act 1863. _d._ in library of House of Commons 31 May
1878, being only member who has died in the House since Spencer
Perceval. _bur._ in parish church of Broomfield near Leeds
Castle 7 June. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 92, 94 (1858), _portrait_.
MARTIN, ROBERT MONTGOMERY. _b._ co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803;
went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope,
June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India
1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial
Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East
India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of
Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East
India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and
ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols.
1834; The Marquis of Wellesley’s Indian despatches 5 vols.
1836; History of the antiquities of Eastern India 3 vols. 1838;
Statistics of the colonies of the British empire 1840; Ireland
before and after the Union 1844, 2 ed. 1848; China, political,
commercial and social 2 vols. 1847; The Indian empire 5 vols.
1857. _d._ Wellesley lodge, Sutton, Surrey 6 Sep. 1868.
MARTIN, SAMUEL (son of Wm. Martin, shipwright). _b._ Woolwich
28 April 1817; Congregationalist pastor of Highbury chapel,
Cheltenham, Feb. 1839 to 1842; pastor of Independent chapel,
Little James st. Westminster 5 July 1842 to death, chapel was
rebuilt 1863; chairman of Congregational Union 1862; established
day schools and a school for the reformation of criminals in
Westminster; took an active part in management of Westminster
hospital 1845–72 to which he presented communion plate 1869;
author of Discourses to youth 1843; The extra work of a
London pastor 1863; edited The useful arts, their birth and
development 1851. _d._ 19 Belgrave road, London 5 July 1878. _J.
E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 110–7; _Waddington’s
Congregational History_, _v_ 593–6 (1880); _Illust. news of the
world_ (1862), _portrait_.
MARTIN, SIR SAMUEL (2 son of Samuel Martin of Culmore, Newton
Limavady, co. Londonderry). _b._ 23 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1857; special
pleader 1828–9; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, bencher 1843 to
1850 and Nov. 1878 to death; Q.C. April or May 1843; M.P. for
Pontefract 1847–50; baron of court of exchequer 6 Nov. 1850,
retired 22 Jany. 1874; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1850; knighted at
Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; common law comr. 30 April 1857, the
report is dated 31 July 1857; doctor of laws, Durham, Sep. 1857;
tried Franz Müller for murder of Mr. Briggs 27–29 Oct. 1864;
P.C. 2 Feb. 1874. _d._ 132 Piccadilly, London 9 Jany. 1883.
_bur._ Brompton cemetery 13 Jany. _A generation of judges. By
their reporter_ (1886) 83–94; _Times 10 Jany. 1883 p._ 6 _cols._
1–2; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 61 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xl_
173–74 (1883); _Illust. Times 5 Nov. 1864 p._ 289, _portrait_.
MARTIN, SAMUEL DICKINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 June 1803; an engineer
and surveyor there 1824 to death; surveyed many railway lines; a
leading arbitrator in compensation cases; founded Yorkshire and
north of England land agents and surveyors’ association, pres.
of it; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. _d._ Harrogate, Yorkshire 26 Sep.
1877.
MARTIN, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. 1810, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; general
medical practitioner at Reigate, Surrey; member of the
Provincial medical and surgical association; started and edited
The Institute: a journal of medical, surgical and obstetrical
science and practice and philosophical gazette 2 vols. 1850–1;
presented by his admirers at Reigate with his portrait about
Aug. 1851. _d._ Reigate 12 Feb. 1867 aged 87. _Medical
Circular_, _i_ 45–6 (1852), _portrait_.
MARTIN, THOMAS (son of John Nickleson Martin of Wollaton,
Notts.) _b._ 11 Dec. 1787; entered navy March 1799; captain 2
Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ 1 Nov. 1868.
MARTIN, SIR THOMAS BYAM (4 son of Henry Martin baronet,
comptroller of the navy 1733–94). _b._ Ashstead house, Surrey
25 July 1773; entered navy April 1786; captain 5 Nov. 1793;
commanded the Tamar in the West Indies 1797, captured 9
privateers in 5 months; had a large share in capture of the
Russian ship Sewolod 26 Aug. 1808, for which he received cross
of Swedish order of the Sword; R.A. 1 Aug. 1811; second in
command at Plymouth 1813–4; deputy comptroller of the navy Jany.
1815, comptroller 9 Feb. 1816 to 2 Nov. 1831; admiral 22 July
1830, vice admiral of the U.K. 1847, admiral of the fleet 13
Oct. 1849 to death; M.P. for Plymouth 1818–32; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 3 March 1830; one of elder brethren of Trinity
house 1833 to death. _d._ the Dockyard, Portsmouth 21 Oct. 1854,
portrait in United service club. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._
(1849) 735–6; _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 252 (1833).
MARTIN, WILLIAM (brother of John Martin 1789–1854). _b._ the
Twohouse in Haltwhistle, Northumberland 21 June 1772; worked
in a ropery at Hawdon dock 1794–5 and 1809–10; served in the
Northumberland regiment of militia 1795–1805 and 1810; studied
perpetual motion from 1805; went to London 1808, exhibited and
sold his patent for perpetual motion; founded the Martinean
Society 1814 based upon the negation of Newtonian theory of
gravitation; styled himself Anti-Newtonian from 1821; lectured
throughout England 1830; designed models for a lifeboat and
a lifebuoy, a self-acting railway gate and a design for a
high-level bridge over the Tyne; author of Harlequins’ invasion,
a new pantomime engraved and published by W.M. 1811; A new
system of natural philosophy on the principle of perpetual
motion, with a variety of other useful discoveries 1821; W. M.’s
Challenge to the whole terrestrial globe as a philosopher and
critic and poet and prophet 1829, 2 ed. 1829; A short outline
of the philosopher’s life from being a child in frocks to the
present day 1833, with portrait; An exposure of a new system of
irreligion called the new moral world promulgated by R. Owen,
Esq., whose doctrine proves him a child of the devil 1839,
and other books. _d._ at his brother’s house, Lindsey house,
Chelsea, London 9 Feb. 1851. _G.M. i_ 327–8 (1851), _i_ 433
(1854); _M. A. Richardson’s Local historian’s Table Book_, _iii_
137–8 (1842), _iv_ 366.
MARTIN, WILLIAM. _b._ Ewell near Epsom 10 March 1750. _d._ St.
Pancras parish, London 14 Nov. 1852 aged 102. _bur._ in the old
church St. Pancras. _I.L.N. xxi_ 548 (1852).
MARTIN, WILLIAM (natural son of Jane Martin, laundress). _b._
Woodbridge, Suffolk 1801; master in a school at Uxbridge to
1836; returned to Woodbridge 1836, delivered lectures and wrote
articles for the magazines; issued Peter Parley’s Annual 1840
to death, six other writers adopted the same pseudonym; author
of numerous educational works under name of Peter Parley, a
series of Household tracts for the people under name of Old
Chatty Cheerful and many under his own name. _d._ Holly lodge,
Woodbridge 22 Oct. 1867.
MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM (youngest son of Henry Martin). _b._
Birmingham 1807; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and St. John’s
coll. Camb., scholar 1826–31, fellow 1831–8; 26th wrangler, 4th
classic and second chancellor’s medallist 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A.
1832; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1836; chief justice of New Zealand
5 Feb. 1841, resigned 12 June 1857, the New Zealand government
granted him pension of £333 6s. 8d. by special act 10 Aug. 1858;
settled at Auckland 1859; D.C.L. Oxford 14 July 1858; knighted
by patent 24 May 1860; author of Inquiries concerning the
structure of the Semitic language 2 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Torquay
18 Nov. 1880. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 12–14,
_portrait_; _Foreign church chronicle_, _March 1881_.
MARTIN, WILLIAM CHARLES LINNÆUS (son of Wm. Martin, naturalist
1767–1810). _b._ 1798; superintendent of museum of Zoological
Society of London, Oct. 1830 to 1838; F.L.S.; author of A
natural history of quadrupeds 1840; The history of the dog 1845;
The history of the horse 1845; An introduction to the study of
birds, n.d.; A general history of humming-birds with reference
to the collection of J. Gould 1852 and other books. _d._ Dacre
park terrace, Lee, Kent 15 Feb. 1864.
MARTIN-LEAKE, STEPHEN (eld. son of Stephen Ralph Martin Leake
1782–1865, assistant secretary to the treasury). _b._ 19 March
1826; ed. at King’s coll. London and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
20th wrangler 1848; pupil of Edward Bullen; barrister M.T. 26
Jany. 1853; author of The elements of the law of contracts 1867,
new ed. 1878; Elementary digest of law of property of land 1874;
Digest of the law of uses and profits of land 1888; author with
Edward Bullen of Precedents of pleadings in actions in the
superior courts of common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. _d._ Marshalls,
High Cross, Ware, Herts. 7 March 1893. _bur._ Thorpe-le-Soken,
Essex. _Solicitors’ Journal 25 March 1893 p._ 359.
MARTINEAU, ARTHUR. _b._ 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow
1831–6, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; V. of Whitkirk near Leeds 1838–63;
V. of Alkham with Capel, Kent 1863–4; R. of St. Mildreds, Bread
st., with St. Margaret Moyses, London 1864 to death; chap.
to Bp. of London, June 1865; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1866
to death; chap. to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; author
of No need of a living infallible guide in matters of faith
(four sermons). Leeds 1850; Church history of England from the
earliest times down to the Reformation 1853, 2 ed. 1854. _d._
Cannes, France 11 Nov. 1872.
MARTINEAU, HARRIET (youngest child of Thomas Martineau,
camlet manufacturer, who _d._ June 1826). _b._ Norwich 12
June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5;
awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three
essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the
Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of
political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834
were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s
first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America
1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a
serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients
herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism
1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832,
at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45;
built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside,
Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death;
travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles
Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2
vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social
nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her
friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the
Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review
after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of
western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy
of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and
many other books. _d._ The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876.
_bur._ beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. _H.
Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman_
(1877), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 206–12,
_portrait_; _Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller_ (1884);
_James Payn’s Some literary recollections_ (1884) 97–136; _W. H.
D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers_ (1882) 404–17; _R. H.
Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 65–75 (1844), _portrait_;
_S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 739, _portrait_; _J.
S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master_ (1851); _Cornhill
Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 44, 46 (1876),
_portrait_, _xxviii_ 197 (1883), _portrait_; _British medical
journal 14 April 1877 p._ 449.
NOTE.--She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to
the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the
South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.
MARTINEAU, ROBERT BRAITHWAITE (son of Philip Martineau, taxing
master to the court of chancery). _b._ 99 Guildford st. London
19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a
solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman
Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large
picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at
International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London
1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his
pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan
club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. _d._ 13 Feb. 1869. _F. T.
Palgrave’s Essays on art_ (1865).
MARTINEAU, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Martineau of
Birmingham). _b._ 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch.,
head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham,
solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of
Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany.
1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor
1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of
Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25
March 1887. _d._ Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
28 July 1893. _Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 1–4 (1884), _portrait_; _Law
Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p._ 550.
MARTINS, SIR WILLIAM (son of W. Martin). _b._ 1800; one of the
gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign
11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb.
1840. _d._ 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty
sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 595 (1874).
MARTLEY, HENRY. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832;
called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher
of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered
estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death.
_d._ Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.
MARTON, GEORGE (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray
hall near Lancaster, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1800; ed. at
Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster
1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of
Lancashire 1858. _d._ 24 Nov. 1867.
MARTYN, FRANCIS MOUNTJOY. _b._ 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27
Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863;
brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to
Martyn 1830. _d._ London 24 Jany. 1874.
MARUM, EDWARD PURCELL MULHALLEN (only son of Richard C. Marum of
Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). _b._ 1828; ed. at
Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish
bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co.
Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3
Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while
attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed
to police barracks adjoining the church where he _d._ 21 Sep.
1890. _St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p._ 23, _portrait_.
MARVIN, CHARLES THOMAS (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of
engineering works on the Neva, Russia). _b._ Plumstead, Kent
1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till
1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months;
a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876,
transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May
1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom
house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26
June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the
secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as
he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to
20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to
Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals
and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the
Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The
eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the
Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the
scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the
gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England
and America, and 12 other books. _d._ Grosvenor house, Plumstead
Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. _Times 17 July 1878 p._ 11, _5 Dec.
1890 p._ 6; _London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p._ 11, _portrait_.
MARWOOD, WILLIAM. _b._ Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler
at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln
1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful;
hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb.
1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov.
1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. _d._ Church lane, Horncastle
4 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Trinity ch. 6 Sep. _The life of W. Marwood_
(1883), _portrait_; _Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp._
1–2, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp._ 9, 20,
_facsimile of his letter_; _Entracte Annual_ (1882) 26–7; _Law
Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 490.
NOTE.--His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was
executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’;
this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s
auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep.
1883.
MARWOOD-ELTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood
Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, _d._ 4 Dec. 1827). _b._ 1801;
ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l.
16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838
with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. _d._
18 April 1884.
MARX, KARL. _b._ Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of
Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish
Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845,
settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the
Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which
was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an
active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848,
after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till
his death; chief founder and director of the International
1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in
Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. _d._ 41 Maitland park
road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times.
New York_ (1883); _Progress_, _May and June 1883_; _Graphic_,
_xxvii_ 329 (1883), _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _March
1875 pp._ 382–91.
MASFEN, JOHN. _b._ Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at
Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death;
the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general
practices in the kingdom. _d._ Stafford 7 June 1854.
MASHEDER, RICHARD. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859;
barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica
1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual
relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review
1865, 2 ed. 1865. _d._ Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.
MASKELL, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond.,
Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West
Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and
chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C.
of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to
City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the
Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses
of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All
Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. _d._
Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.
MASKELL, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton
Mallet, Somerset to 1825). _b._ Bath 1814; matric. from Univ.
coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe,
Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay
1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted
examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism
Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850;
F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut.
1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and
another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British
Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England
according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and
the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3
ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in
the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ
Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a
dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church
of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink
sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M.
1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. _d._
Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. _E. G. K. Browne’s
Annals of the tractarian movement_ (1861) 193–200, 214; _Proc.
of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 140 (1891).
MASON, CHARLES KEMBLE. _b._ Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first
appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre;
played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April
1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited
California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights
at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of
Music, Philadelphia 1869. _Ireland’s Records of New York stage_,
_ii_ 105–6 (1867).
MASON, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered
navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America,
July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William
IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. _d._
Eastbourne 27 May 1853. _G.M. xl_ 91–2 (1853).
MASON, FRANCIS (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Walingate, York
2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a
shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist
preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53
and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852;
D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most
of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the
Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its
people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. _d._
Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. _Francis Mason’s The story of a
working-man’s life. New York_ (1870).
MASON, FRANCIS (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant
of Wood st. Cheapside, London). _b._ Islington 21 July 1837;
matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college,
London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson;
M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college
hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras
and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer
on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant
surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6,
surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of
Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres.
1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877;
On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital
reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). _d._ 5 June 1886. _bur._
Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St.
Thomas’s hospital. _St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv_ 249
(1886).
MASON, FREDERICK. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known
as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841;
beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a
side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany.
1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who
became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near
Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. _d._ St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
20 Oct. 1860. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 309–14 (1881).
MASON, GEORGE HEMING (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton
park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) _b._ Fenton park 11 March
1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked
to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly
escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures
of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt
marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England,
married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the
grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited
25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The
harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe,
is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held
at Burlington fine arts club 1873. _d._ 7 Theresa terrace,
Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.
MASON, GEORGE HENRY MONCK (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain
R.N.) _b._ 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut.
3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11
May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state
1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by
the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. _G.M. i_ 105–6
(1858).
MASON, HENRY JOSEPH MONCK (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason
of Dublin). _b._ Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist
and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800;
examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the
manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant
librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51;
correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop
Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of
An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in
Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839;
The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843;
Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. _d._ Dargle
cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. _bur._ in the old
cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. _H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the
parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev.
John O’Hanlon_ (1891).
MASON, HUGH (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge,
Ashton-under-Lyne). _b._ Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton
spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne;
mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of
commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885,
contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. _d._ 2 Feb. 1886.
MASON, JAMES WOOD (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of
Horsley court, Gloucs.) _b._ 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the
Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy
and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. _d._ on
board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6
March 1893.
MASON, JOHN CHARLES (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the
H.E.I.Co.’s home service). _b._ London, March 1798; clerk in the
secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary
of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office
1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport
of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and
transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired
April 1867; represented government of India on committee on
Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An
analysis of the constitution of the East India company and
of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their
affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. _d._ 12 Pembridge gardens,
Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.
MASON, SIR JOSIAH (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). _b._
Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker,
then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster;
manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker
1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan
for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for
James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many
years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed
1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every
week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating
spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R.
Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and
became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited
liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington
near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage
for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000,
1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and
buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868;
knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific
college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880.
_d._ Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of
Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. _J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason,
a biography_ (1882); _Fortunes made in business_, _i_ 129–83
(1884); _Biograph_, _iii_ 119–25 (1880); _Dent’s Birmingham_
(1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, _with views of_ _College and
Orphanage_; _Edgbastonia_, _i_ 48–49 (1881); _I.L.N. lv_ 247,
248 (1869), _portrait_; _Illust. midland news_, _i_ 8 (1869),
_portrait_; _Practical Mag. i_ 162 (1873), _portrait_.
MASON, STEPHEN (son of David Mason). _b._ Kennoway, Fifeshire
1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of
commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. _d._ 4 Thornton
villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.
MASON, THOMAS MONCK (only son of William Monck Mason of
Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute
players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London
1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000
in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke
of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall
Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17
hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English,
and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the
Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency
of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. _d._
about 16 Sep. 1889. _T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of
aerostation_ (1838), _portrait_.
MASON, WILLIAM HAYLEY. Author of Goodwood: its house, park
and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the
gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. _d._ East
street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.
MASON, WILLIAM MONCK (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel
R.E.) _b._ Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in
revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on
abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his
large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary
collections and historical and philological compositions 1858;
author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and
cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation
in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church
cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published
Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of
Ireland 1825. _d._ Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey
6 March 1859.
MASON, WILLIAM SHAW. _b._ Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805
remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth
parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in
Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial
survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy
3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of
Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana.
Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him
for Sir R. Peel. _d._ Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.
MASQUERIER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing
at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal
academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London,
completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits
1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The
incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the
chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine
likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought
him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death.
_d._ 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855.
_G.M. xliii_ 540 (1855).
MASSEREENE, JOHN FOSTER-SKEFFINGTON, 10 Viscount (eld. child of
Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard _d._ 18 Jany. 1843, by
lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness
Loughneagh, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831). _b._ Dublin 30 Nov. 1812;
succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831;
assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of
Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author
of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six
cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858,
new ed. 1860. _d._ from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co.
Antrim 28 April 1863.
MASSEY, JAMES. _b._ 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat
Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a
side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct.
1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at
Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100
a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847;
beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes
26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a
side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh
£100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852
and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854;
fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856;
won 13 out of 17 fights. _d._ 1864. _Illust. sporting news 9
Jany. 1864 p._ 385, _portrait_.
MASSEY, RICHARD. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837
to 1877. _d._ 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged
84.
MASSEY, ROSE M. (dau. of Joseph T. Massey of Hamilton square,
Birkenhead, Cheshire). _b._ 1850; first appeared in London at
Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American
Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me
to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George
Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque
of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at
Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old
Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime
of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs.
Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre,
London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at
Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine
Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at
Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden
theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu
the jeune premier 1874. _d._ New York 23 July 1883.
MASSEY, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (son of Wm. Massey). _b._ 1809;
barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany.
1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P.
for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for
Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department
Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of
commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8;
ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb.
1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common
law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63,
new ed. 1865–6. _d._ 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. _bur._
Kensal Green cemet. _I.L.N. xlvi_ 237 (1865), _portrait_.
MASSIE, EDWARD (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget,
Chester). _b._ 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct.
1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll.
Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols.
1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects
2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in
English verse 1878. _d._ Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany.
1893.
MASSIE, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1799; a missionary in
India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at
Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59;
an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement,
visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author
of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a
summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The
evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The
American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. _d._
Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_
472, _ii_ 54 (1869).
MASSINGBERD, FRANCIS CHARLES (only son of Francis Massingberd,
R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, _d._ 1817). _b._
Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and
Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A.
1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored
the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln
1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec.
1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave;
author of English history of the leaders of the reformation.
1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the
church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church
and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book
1864. _d._ Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. _bur._ South Ormsby.
_Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii_ 272–9 (1885).
MASSINGBERD, VINCENT AMCOTTS (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd,
R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). _b._ 1808; entered navy
21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired
admiral Oct. 1884. _d._ The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth,
Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.
MASSINGHAM, JOHN DEACON. _b._ 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and
D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby
1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul,
Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles
in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of
Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and
found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the
state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. _d._ Chelsea,
London 20 June 1882.
MASSON, ELIZABETH. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano
vocalist and vocal composer. _d._ London, Jany. 1865.
MASSON, GEORGE JOSEPH GUSTAVE. _b._ London 9 March 1819; ed.
at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8
Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons
of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master
at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869;
contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French
literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction
to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre
Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The
Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European
literature, French literature 1888. _d._ while on a visit to Sir
Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.
MASSY, GODFREY (3 son of Hugh Massy _d._ 14 March 1814). _b._
Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll.
Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V.
of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant
orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland.
_d._ Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. _Dawson Massy’s Footprints of
a faithful shepherd_ (1855), _portrait_.
MASSY-BERESFORD, JOHN MAUNSELL (youngest son of John Massy
of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). _b._ 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter,
Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore
1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of
Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. _d._ London 22 Oct. 1886.
MAST, GEORGE CHRISTIAN. _b._ Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8
Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college
148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French
practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A
concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878.
_d._ Jany. 1884.
MASTER, ROBERT AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1824;
major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855,
lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light
cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec.
1861. _d._ Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.
MASTER, ROBERT MOSLEY (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1794; ed.
at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C.
of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec.
1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64;
archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near
Preston 1865 to death. _d._ Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.
MASTER, STREYNSHAM (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of
Croston, Lancs. _d._ 1798). _b._ Croston 10 June 1766; ed.
at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788,
M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. _d._ 19 Jany. 1864.
_Manchester school register_, _ii_ 33–4 (1868).
MASTERS, JOSEPH. _b._ Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax,
bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st.
London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and
publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848;
started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the
Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols.
1842–63. _d._ 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. _Guide to
the church congress_ (1883) 49–50.
MATCHAM, GEORGE (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller
1753–1833). _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B.
1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman
of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed
accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s
Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov.
1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were
reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the
Quarterly Review. _d._ 18 Jany. 1877.
MATHER, CHARLES (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of
Grantham, Lincs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college
1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on
cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting
and dramatic news under name of Exon. _d._ Paulton’s terrace,
Chelsea 1 July 1878.
MATHER, COTTON (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani
at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey
1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to
the New Testament and Psalms 1861. _d._ Junior Garrick club,
London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.
MATHER, ROBERT COTTON (son of James Mather, congregational
minister). _b._ New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at
univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D.
Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833;
went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833;
pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to
1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches;
founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly
journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in
Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of
many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (_m_. Elizabeth
Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she
_d._ Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He _d._ 5 Torrington park,
Finchley, London 21 April 1877. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of
missionaries_ (1877) 96–7; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 325.
MATHESON, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of
Attadale, Rossshire, _d._ 1826 aged 48). _b._ Attadale 6 Jany.
1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for
Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84;
a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May
1882. _d._ 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.
MATHESON, CHARLES (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice,
merchant). _b._ 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and
St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton
Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854,
M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury
1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed.
1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. _d._
Leamington 15 April 1894.
MATHESON, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of
Shinness, Sutherlandshire). _b._ Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796;
ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of
Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when
he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis
in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross
and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his
exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis
with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord
lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846;
the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. _d._
Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_
21 (1879).
MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house
of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor;
chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author
of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. _d._
between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_, _vol ii_ (1886), _portrait_.
MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a
merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of
Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845,
chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853;
general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from
Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman
of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. _d._ 10 May 1882.
MATHESON, THOMAS (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). _b._
Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815,
major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21
Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.
MATHEW, THEOBALD (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron
Llandaff). _b._ Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790;
ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the
convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained
by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the
Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10
April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties
on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to
1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese
for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified
by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted
civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. _d._ Queenstown 8
Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork,
uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890,
another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8
Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central
square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in
National portrait gallery, London. _J. F. Maguire’s Father
Mathew_ (1863), 2 _portraits_; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_, _i_
96–120 (1877); _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 299–306; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _i_
460–520 (1883); _I.L.N. ii_ 53 (1843) _portrait_, _iii_ 85
(1843) _portrait_, _28 June 1890 pp._ 820–2 _several portraits_;
_Sporting Review_, _xl_ 209–10 (1858); _J. Copner’s Sketches
of celibate worthies 2 ed._ (1886) 325–50; _Dublin Univ. mag.
xxxiii_ 694, _portrait_.
MATHEWS, ANNE (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances
Maria Kelly). _b._ 1782 or 1783; _m._ at York 28 March 1803
Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping
Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other
characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July
1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The
mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April
1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles
Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory
recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and
other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. _d._ Chelsea villa, Fulham
near London 12 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct.
_Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxii_ 93 (1847).
MATHEWS, CHARLES JAMES (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian
1776–1835). _b._ Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect
1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district
surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with
F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first
appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked
lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and
Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost
30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March
1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843;
lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted
at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt
4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at
Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s
theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre
de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as
a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863,
at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool
as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in
French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870,
New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety
theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years;
went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877;
made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis
Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts
in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most
successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833,
Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of
Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. _d._ Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29
June. _The life of C. J. Mathews_, _edited by Charles Dickens 2
vols._ (1879), _portraits_; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the
London stage_ (1867), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol.
vi_ 351–53, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 57 (1838),
_portrait_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 57, _portrait_; _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 159–70 (1888); _Theatrical
times_, _i_ 105 (1847), _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane_, _ii_ 123–27 (1881); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_
(1880) 405–10; _J. Hollingshead’s Plain English_ (1880) 111–16;
_Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 423–47
(1855), _iii_ 343–73 (1855); _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_
(1847) 187–98, _portrait_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 205
(1879), _portrait_; _London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp._ 3–7,
_portrait_.
MATHEWS, HELEN. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at
Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s
comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and
Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same
house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in
Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of
Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum
company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour
with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona
and Miranda. _d._ Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _xvi_ 497 (1882), _portrait_.
MATHEWS, JULIA ISABELLA (dau. of James Mathews, artificial
flower maker). _b._ Angel court, Strand, London about 1840;
taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney
2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand
theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess
of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at
Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871;
played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety
theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at
Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla
in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre,
Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe
Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (_m._ at Dunedin, Otago,
New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated
1870). _d._ at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S.
of America 19 May 1876. _London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp._
8–9, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 753 (1867),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 169, 171
(1874); _The Entracte 27 May 1876 p._ 8, _3 June p._ 8; _The Era
28 May 1876 p._ 10.
MATHEWS, LUCIA ELIZABETT or ELIZABETTA, best known as Madame
Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver
1757–1821). _b._ 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned
music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; _m._ 28 Jany. 1813 at St.
Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet
master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817
and _d._ 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer
as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20
July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris
1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français;
first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in
Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success;
played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent
Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the
Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831
to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas
by Planché and Dance; _m._ at Kensington church 18 July 1838
Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with
him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden
1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase
10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace
Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played
with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s
1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced
burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine
through clouds 26 July 1854. _d._ Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug.
1856. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. _Memoirs of the life
of Madame Vestris_ (1826), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _privately printed_; _C. B. Wilson’s
Our actresses_, _ii_ 184–222 (1844), _portrait_; _T. Marshall’s
Lives of actors_ (1847) 37–56, _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic
biography_, _v_ 91 (1826), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_,
_i_ 41–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 41 (1847),
_portrait_; _The dramatic mirror_ (1847) _p._ 60, _portrait_;
_E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 127–29 (1881); _British
stage_, _v_ 1 (1821), _portrait_; _Planché’s Recollections
and reflections 2 vols._ (1872), _passim_; _The Town_, _ii_
(1838–39), _passim_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 37 (1879),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_ 268 (1847), _portrait_.
MATHEWS, WILKINSON (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in
Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). _b._ Whitby 9 March 1784; ed.
at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.;
B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister
L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C.
Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he
retired, _d._ 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866.
_bur._ Leyland, Lancs. _Law Times xci_ 536 (1866).
MATHIAS, GEORGE (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot).
_b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814,
placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed
on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot
8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea
1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death.
_d._ St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.
MATRAVERS, JOHN. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners;
purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from
Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of
Bristol; F.S.A. _d._ London 30 Nov. 1851.
MATSON, EDWARD. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant
general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June
1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of
M.G. _d._ 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.
MATTEI, ANTONIO. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April
1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G.
5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. _d._ at his residence Sliema,
Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.
MATTHEW, WALTER EDMUND (3 son of David Matthew of City of
London, merchant). _b._ 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’
and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and
Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch.
Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo
1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. _d._ 19 Feb. 1889.
MATTHEWS, CHARLES PETER. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co.
brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club,
London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English
paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J.
Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s
Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. _d._ 18 Feb. 1891.
NOTE.--His collection of 125 pictures sold at Christie’s 6 June 1891
for £57,858 12s., being much less than he gave for the pictures. _Times
8 June 1891 p._ 12.
MATTHEWS, EMILIA (dau. of Mr. Apjohn, bandmaster of a regiment).
_b._ 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first
appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty
Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City
theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played
at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus
in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque
Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March
1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride
at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at
St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31
Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct.
1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow
Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in
Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April
1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s
theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May
1869; _m._ Frank Matthews 1807–71. _d._ Brompton, London 27 Aug.
1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the
Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. _Era 31
Aug. 1873 p._ 12, _7 Sep. p._ 11.
MATTHEWS, FRANK. _b._ Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first
appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London
at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1
July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow
in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre
April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80
nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27
Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec.
1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett
in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s
Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr.
Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in
Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for
scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866,
Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at
St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at
Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange
at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s
Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee
crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June
1840 and was lame for life. _d._ 7 Linden grove, Bayswater,
London 24 July 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 29 July. _Planché’s
Extravaganzas_, _iv_ 87 (1879), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1871
p._ 11 _col._ 4.
MATTHEWS, HENRY WILLIAM. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March
1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug.
1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July
1884.
MATTHEWS, JAMES. _b._ 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and
the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure
sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South
Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long
time. _d._ 28 Aug. 1880.
MATTHEWS, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil
of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820;
clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s
Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose;
clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent
Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay
in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3
pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended
production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called
‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury
Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey
pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi,
Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing
Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last
composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859;
played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes;
last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb;
the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and
Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57
Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern
18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton
1866 to death. _d._ 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4
March 1889. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 9 March. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 273
(1847), _portrait_; _Theatre n.s. xiii_ 233 (1889); _The World
21 Dec. 1881 pp._ 5–6 _and ’Xmas number_ 1886, _portrait_; _H.
Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 93–95.
NOTE.--He _m._ at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 28 Oct. 1825 Fanny
Maria Casciani dau. of a Florentine sculptor and had three children,
Clara who _m._ Mr. Lawrence a clown; Fanny; and a son who died in
infancy.
MATTHEWS, RICHARD. Barrister M.T. 25 April 1828; sergeant at law
7 July 1852. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854 aged 57. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
MATTHEWS, WILLIAM ANTHONY. _b._ Malta 14 Aug. 1813; partner in
firm of Thomas Turton and sons of Sheaf steel works Sheffield;
mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1852–54, being the first to
hold the two offices together. _d._ 19 July 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_
39 (1854), _portrait_.
MATTHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1820; captain of
right wing of 1 European regiment 8 Sep. 1835 to 1 March 1850;
deputy comr. of Assam 1 April 1839 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 33
N.I. 1 March 1850 to 1852, of 30 N.I. 1852–3, of 1 European
fusiliers (right wing) 1853–4, of 17 N.I. 1854–6, of 21 N.I.
1856–9; col. of 2nd European fusiliers 19 Aug. 1859 to death;
M.G. 1 Jany. 1862. _d._ Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood,
London 28 March 1865.
MATTHIESSEN, AUGUSTUS (son of William Matthiessen of 1 Nun’s
court, Coleman st. city of London, merchant). _b._ London 2
Jany. 1831; studied under Will and Buff at Giessen 1852, Ph.D.
Giessen; studied under Bunsen at Heidelberg 1853–7; fitted
up a laboratory at 1 Torrington place, London 1857, where
he investigated the physical properties of pure metals and
alloys; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council, royal medallist
1869; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital 1862–8;
constructed ten electrical standards for the British Association
1862–5; joint lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1868–70, sole lecturer 1870; had a large practice as a
consulting chemist; an editor of Philosophical Mag. Jany. 1869
to June 1870; examiner to Univ. of London 1870; author of 38
scientific papers and of 23 papers with other writers; poisoned
himself with prussic acid at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
6 Oct. 1870. _Nature_, _ii_ 517–18 (1870); _Times 8 Oct. 1870
p._ 5 _col._ 5.
MATTHISON, ARTHUR. _b._ Birmingham, May or June 1826; journalist
in New York; vocalist and lecturer at Hamilton’s Diorama, St.
James’s hall, London 1873; played King Richard in Rebecca 13
Feb. 1875, Owen in The World 31 July 1880, Colonel Dalton in
Youth 6 Aug. 1881, all at Drury Lane theatre; author of Keep
your door locked, farce produced at Adelphi 29 Aug. 1866; Enoch
Arden, a drama 1869; A false step 1879, prohibited by the lord
chamberlain; Brave hearts, drama Criterion 24 Jany. 1881; A
thread of silk, comedy Crystal Palace 3 Nov. 1881; More than
ever, burlesque Gaiety 1 Nov. 1882; author with Clement Scott
of The great divorce case, comedy Criterion 15 April 1876; with
Joseph Hatton of Liz, drama Opera Comique 1 Sep. 1877; and with
Charles Wyndham of Tantalus, Folly 14 Oct. 1878; translated A.
Belgioioso’s Brief observations on singing 1860, and A. Perrin’s
Military studies 1863; author of The state banquet 1862; Half an
hour with a good author 1872; his poem The little hero 1879 was
frequently recited and was set to music by Stephen Adams _i.e._
Michael Maybrick in 1881; composer of The little gold locket,
a song 1879; wrote the words of upwards of 50 songs 1861–80,
of H. Leslie’s cantata The daughter of the Isles 1862, of J.
Barnby’s sacred idyll Rebekah 1872, and of M. W. Balfe’s opera
The Talisman 1874. _d._ 17 Store st. Bedford sq. London 21 May
1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May.
MATURIN, EDWARD (son of Charles Robert Maturin, C. of St.
Peter’s church, Dublin, and novelist 1782–1824). _b._ Dublin
1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832; barrister in
the U.S. of America; professor of Greek in College of South
Carolina; taught Greek and Latin in New York 30 years; revised
the Gospel of St. Mark for the American Bible Union 1850; author
of Montezuma, the last of the Aztecs, a romance 2 vols. New York
1845; Benjamin the Jew of Grenada, a romance 1848; Eva, or the
Isles of life and death 2 vols. 1848; Lyrics of Spain and Erin.
Boston 1850; Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy. New York 1852.
_d._ New York 25 May 1881.
MATURIN, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Dublin 1803; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C.
of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin
1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin
about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week.
Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons
1888. _d._ Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. _bur._ All
Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.
MAUDE, DANIEL (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall,
Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). _b._ 1801; ed.
at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828;
barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for
Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall,
Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate
value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary
magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb.
1874. _d._ 1874. _J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of
Alverthorpe_ (1874).
MAUDE, FRANCIS (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). _b._
17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820,
commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined
the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church
missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen
and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal
naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s
hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. _The
Shipwrecked Mariner_, _xxx_ 21–30 (1883).
MAUDE, FREDERIC PHILIP (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great
George st. Westminster). _b._ London 1818; barrister I.T. 29
Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law
of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The
law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E.
Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various
branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. _d._ 44 St. George’s
road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_ 158
(1870).
MAUDSLAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831).
_b._ London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering
business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which
the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E.
1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine
engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines
for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty;
patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting
annular cylinder screw engine. _d._ 21 Hyde park sq. London 25
Sep. 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 562–9 (1862).
MAUDSLAY, THOMAS HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1792;
member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish
sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed
the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25
years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before
select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831;
made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw;
purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. _d._ Knight’s Hill,
Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. _bur._ at Woolwich, personalty
sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. _Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April
1864 p._ 282.
MAUGHAM, ROBERT. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle
st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of
founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and
secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary
to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June
1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831
and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer
or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec.
1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began
3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for
him by the members of the society, part of which was invested
in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council
12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury
laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825;
A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of
criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law
of real property 1842. _d._ at the Incorporated law society,
Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery 22
July. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _vi_ 727 (1862); _Parliamentary
report on legal education_ (1846) 158–68, _portrait at Incorp.
law soc._
NOTE.--His son Robert Ormond Maugham _b._ 1814, admitted solicitor
1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, _d._ from
cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.
MAUGHAN, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I.
6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of
Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and
naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I.
28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June
1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858;
lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. _d._
Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.
MAULE, SIR JOHN BLOSSETT (2 son of George Maule, barrister,
solicitor to the treasury, _d._ 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave
sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). _b._ Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at
Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death,
treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany.
1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1
Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec.
1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace
and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. _d._ 47
Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. _I.L.N.
lxxxi_ 656 (1882) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_ 425 (1889), _portrait_.
MAULE, LAUDERDALE (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). _b._ 25
March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835;
captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24
Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to
death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death.
_d._ Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854.
MAULE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton,
Middlesex, surgeon). _b._ Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler
and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister
L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh
circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of
England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron
of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common
pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted
1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21
July 1855 to death. _d._ 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany.
1858. _E. Leathley’s Memoir of early life of sir W. H. Maule_
(1872); _Law magazine and law review_, _v_ 1–34 (1858); _Law
Times 10 March 1894 pp._ 439–40.
MAULEVERER, JAMES THOMAS. Ensign 61 foot 18 April 1834; captain
30 foot 23 July 1844, lieut.-col. 30 Sep. 1854 to 19 Dec. 1862
when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 30 Sep. 1857; C.B. 5 July
1855. _d._ 14 Craven st. London 26 Oct. 1866.
MAUND, Benjamin. _b._ 1790; chemist, bookseller, printer and
publisher at Bromsgrove, Worcs. to about 1852; F.L.S. 5 June
1827; started a monthly publication entitled The Botanic Garden
1824, issued with it in parts The auctarium of the botanic
garden, The floral register, The fruitist, and A dictionary of
English and Latin terms used in botanical descriptions by J.
S. Henslow, the whole work consisted of 13 vols. 1825–50, it
was partly reissued as The botanic garden and fruitist 3 vols.
1851–4, 2 ed. in 12 vols. appeared in 1878; edited The Botanist
1837–48 and The Naturalist 1837 &c. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight
21 April 1863.
MAUNDER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1832; ed. Totteridge school,
at Guy’s hospital, London, and univs. of Edinb. and Paris;
M.R.C.S. 1854, F.R.C.S. 1857; civil assistant surgeon at
Renkioi hospital, and in the field during Crimean war 1854–5;
demonstrator of anatomy and of operative surgery in Paris;
junior surgeon Great Northern hospital London; demonstrator
of anatomy Guy’s hospital; lecturer on clinical surgery and
demonstrator of operative surgery London hospital; translated
P. Ricord’s Lectures on chancres 1859; edited with sir A. Clark
Clinical lectures 1864 etc.; author of Operative surgery 2 parts
1860–1, 2 ed. 1873; Tumour of lower jaw removed without external
wound 1874; Surgery of the arteries 1875; Fistula in ano 1877;
resided Queen Anne st. London. _d._ from effects of an accident
4 July 1879. _The Lancet 12 July 1879 p._ 67.
MAUNSELL, DANIEL TOLER THOMAS (1 son of rev. Thomas Maunsell
of Fintona, co. Tyrone). _b._ 1835; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
M.B. 1859; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1859; M.R.I.A.; demonstrator of
anatomy, Carmichael school of medicine, Dublin; physician south
city dispensary district, Dublin; lecturer on materia medica and
then on botany, Ledwich school of medicine, Dublin; originator
of Poor-law medical officers’ association; author of To the poor
law medical officers of Ireland, The Irish poor law medical
system, by Dispensarius 3 ed. 1870. _d._ South Richmond st.
Dublin 18 Aug. 1875. _The Lancet_, _ii_ 329, 349, 466, 494, 581,
614, 674 (1875).
MAUNSELL, FREDERICK (6 son of Robert Maunsell, member of supreme
council of Madras, _d._ 1 Feb. 1832 aged 87). _b._ 1794; ensign
18 foot 16 April 1812; captain 85 foot 24 June 1819, lieut.-col.
23 May 1836 to 19 June 1846; inspecting field officer 19 June
1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 53 foot 4 June 1860 to 2 April 1865;
col. 85 foot 2 April 1865 to death; general 9 Aug. 1870. _d._
Bray near Dublin 18 Oct. 1875.
MAUNSELL, GEORGE EDMUND (2 son of Thomas Philip Maunsell
1781–1866). _b._ 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 22 Nov. 1838;
R. of Thorpe Malsor 1842; chaplain to earl of Westmoreland 1842;
author of Poems 1861. d. 112 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 29 Oct.
1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 470 (1875).
MAUNSELL, HENRY. _b._ 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1831; F.R.C.S.I. 1832;
professor of midwifery, Royal college of surgeons, Dublin;
edited with A. Jacob The Dublin medical press 1839 etc.; author
of The Dublin practice of midwifery 1834, 3 ed. 1871; author
with R. T. Evanson of A treatise on the management and diseases
of children 1836, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ Greystones, co. Wicklow 27
Sep. 1879.
MAUNSELL, THOMAS PHILIP. _b._ Oct. 1781; sheriff of
Northamptonshire 1821; M.P. North Northamptonshire 1835–57; col.
Northampton and Rutland militia 2 April 1845 to death. _d._
Thorpe Malsor, Northampton 4 March 1866.
MAUNSELL, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Rushton hall, Northants 1813; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1837; associate of
British archæological assoc. 1852; recorder of Stamford 10 June
1859 to death; author of Church bells and ringing 1861. _d._
Thorpe Malsor 13 March 1862. _Journal of British Archæological
Assoc. xix_ 156 (1863).
MAUNSELL, WILLIAM WRAY (son of Wm. Maunsell, archdeacon of
Kildare). _b._ 1782; priest 24 Aug. 1803; archdeacon of Limerick
1814 to death; precentor of Cloyne 27 May 1822 to death. _d._ 25
July 1860.
MAURICE, JAMES WILKES. _b._ Devonport 10 Feb. 1775; entered navy
as able seaman 1789; commanded the Diamond Rock, Martinique 7
May 1804, yielded to an attack of the French 2 June 1805, tried
by court martial but honorably acquitted; captain 18 Jany.
1809; governor of island of Anholt in the Baltic, July 1810 to
Sep. 1812, defeated an attack of the Danes on the island 27
March 1811; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ East Emma place,
Stonehouse, Plymouth 4 Sep. 1857.
MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (5 child of Michael Maurice
_b._ 1766, Unitarian minister). _b._ Normanston near Lowestoft
29 Aug. 1805; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1823; founder of
the Select essay club known as the Apostles at Camb.; migrated
to Trin. hall Camb. Oct. 1825; an editor of Metropolitan
quarterly mag. Nov. 1825, three numbers; one of purchasers of
London literary chronicle, which he edited from 1 May 1828,
it was amalgamated with the Athenæum 30 July 1828, edited the
latter from 1828 to May 1829; a commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf.
3 Dec. 1829 to 30 June 1837; baptized as a member of Church of
England 29 March 1831; B.A. Oxford 1831, M.A. 1835, hon. M.A.
Camb. 1867; ordained to curacy of Bubbenhall near Leamington 26
Jany. 1834; chaplain to Guy’s hospital Jany. 1836 to June 1846;
one of editors of The Educational Magazine, Sep. 1839, sole
editor 1840–1; professor of English literature and history at
King’s college, London 1840, professor of theology there 1846,
dismissed from both his chairs 27 Oct. 1853; Boyle lecturer
July 1845, Warburton lecturer Aug. 1845; chaplain of Lincoln’s
Inn, June 1846 to 1860; founded in London, Queen’s college for
female education 1848, chairman of the committee to about Nov.
1853; spiritual leader of the Christian socialists; edited with
J. M. Ludlow their first organ called Politics for the People
17 weekly numbers from 6 May 1848; presided at conferences held
with the working classes 1849; drew up a scheme for a Working
Men’s college Feb. 1854, which was started at 31 Red Lion sq.
Holborn 30 Oct. 1854 when he became the principal, the college
was moved to 45 Great Ormond st. 1857; P.C. of St. Peter’s,
Vere st. London 20 July 1860 to 7 Nov. 1869; Knightbridge
professor of casuistry, moral theology and moral philosophy
at Cambridge 25 Oct. 1866 to death; member of commission on
contagious diseases 1870; V. of St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1871 to
death; Cambridge preacher at Whitehall, July 1871; author of
Eustace Conway: or the brother and sister, a novel 3 vols. 1834,
anon.; Subscription no bondage 1835; The kingdom of Christ,
or hints on the ordinances and constitution of the Catholic
church in Letters to a member of the Society of Friends 1838,
3 ed. 1883; What is revelation? 1859; The claims of the Bible
and of science 1863; Moral and metaphysical philosophy 2 vols.
1871–2. _d._ 6 Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 1 April 1872.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 5 April, bust in Cambridge univ. library
and another by Woolner placed in St. John the Baptist’s chapel,
Westminster Abbey, Aug. 1873, portraits in National portrait
gallery, Working Men’s college and Queen’s college. _Life of
F. D. Maurice. Edited by his son F. Maurice_ 2 _vols._ (1884),
2 _portraits_; _Life of Charles Kingsley_ (1877), _passim_;
_J. H. Rigg’s Modern Anglican theology_ (1880) 244–344; _J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 49–60; _J. F. Hurst’s
History of rationalism_ (1867) 375–7; _Illust. Review_,
_iii_ 609–16, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862)
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _v_ 382, 384 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lx_ 339, 353, 358 (1872), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In his novel Eustace Conway 3 vols. 1834 the villain is called
Captain Marryat, in consequence of this Captain Frederick Marryat the
novelist challenged Maurice to a duel which he declined, Maurice had
never heard of Captain Marryat the novelist.
MAURICE, PETER (2 son of Hugh Maurice of Greenwich). _b._
1803 or 1804; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829,
B.D. 1837, D.D. 1840; chaplain of New coll. 1828–59; C. of
Kennington, Berkshire 1829–54; chaplain of All Souls’ coll.
1837–58; V. of Yarnton near Oxford 1858 to death; author of
Popery in Oxford 1832, a tract; Popery of Oxford confronted,
repudiated and disavowed 1837, a pamphlet; Key to the Popery of
Oxford 1838; Postscript to the Popery of Oxford 1851; composer
of An evening service in E; With angels and archangels; Choral
harmony, a collection of tunes 1854, Supplement 1858; Tunes
in four parts for congregational worship 1855. _d._ Yarnton
vicarage 30 March 1878.
MAVOR, JOHN (son of Wm. Fordyce Mavor, LL.D., R. of Woodstock,
author of the Spelling book 1758–1837). _b._ 1785; ed. at Wadham
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816; fellow of Lincoln
coll. to 1826, sub-rector 1822, Greek lecturer 1823, claviger
1824; P.C. of Forest hill, Oxon. 1823–48; R. of Hadleigh, Essex
9 Aug. 1825 to death, his living was sequestered about 1843;
confined for debt in Oxford county gaol 1843 or 1844 to death.
_d._ in his cell in county gaol Oxford 19 June 1853.
MAXFIELD, TOM. _b._ Sheffield 16 June 1819; on the Bath road
near Slough ran 20 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes 16 May 1845 in
presence of an immense assemblage; ran 20 miles at Arlington
corner near Hounslow in 1 hour 59 minutes; was known as The
North Star; ran upwards of 50 races against The Welshman, Byrne,
The wonder of the north and Jackson, and with one exception was
the winner; a coalheaver at Windsor to death; fell into great
poverty; _found dead_ in his bed Bier lane, Windsor 28 Nov.
1864, verdict death from natural causes.
MAXSE, SIR HENRY FITZ-HARDINGE BERKELEY (son of James Maxse of
Effingham hall, Surrey, _d._ 1864). _b._ 1832; ensign grenadier
guards 1 June 1849; lieut. coldstream guards 19 Jany. 1855,
placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord
Cardigan in Crimean war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava;
lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863;
lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July
1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the
gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July
1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author
of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den
Gouverneur Maxse 1866. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep.
1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1885), _portrait_.
MAXSE, JAMES (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset).
_b._ 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of
the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn
quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up
hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated
hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner
of well-known yacht Sabrina. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London
3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864.
_Sporting Review_, _li_ 272 (1864).
MAXWELL, ACHESON. _b._ 1760; held various confidential
employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to
China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential
mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public
accounts some years, retired on a pension. _d._ 8 Upper Belgrave
place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.
MAXWELL, ALEXANDER (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire). _b._ 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835,
lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in
the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.;
general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of
honour. _d._ 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.
MAXWELL, CHARLES FRANCIS. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825,
lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. _d._ 1873.
MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet
1779–1838). _b._ 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839,
lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in
the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin
ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught
rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. _d._ 21 Inverkeith
row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.
MAXWELL, GEORGE. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826;
lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired
with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. _d._ Kilucleigh, Langholm,
Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.
MAXWELL, HENRY HAMILTON (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of
Birdstown, Donegal). _b._ 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery
10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec.
1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej
campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20
Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm.
Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore
1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of
field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir
on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for
providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. _d._
Rome 28 May 1892.
MAXWELL, JAMES. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857,
placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in
the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17
Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._ on board the Africa
at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April
1874.
MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (2 child and only son of John Clerk of
Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and _d._ 2
April 1856). _b._ 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at
Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850,
scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow;
2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854;
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club
known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy
at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860;
professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London
1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution
17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of
Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical
laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of
the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society
1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of
electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more
than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of
On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory
of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics
1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2
ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890.
_d._ 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Parton
churchyard, Glenlair. _The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell
and W. Garnett_ (1882), 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xxxiii_ 1–16 (1882); _Nature_, _xxiv_ 601 (1881), _portrait_.
MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell,
7 baronet 1768–1844). _b._ Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire
1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author
of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and
capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for
franchise 1860. _d._ at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865.
_Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 477 (1866).
MAXWELL, JOHN BALFOUR (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain
R.N., C.B., _d._ 1831). _b._ 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812;
commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._
Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.
MAXWELL, JOHN HALL (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1847). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812;
called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to
Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned
9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great
attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected
many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856;
presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17
Jany. 1866. _d._ Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait
by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural
soc. _Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North_ (1870) 3–6.
MAXWELL, SIR PETER BENSON (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell
1824–92). _b._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr.
to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder
of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder
of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits
Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals
of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856;
author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An
introduction to the duties of police magistrate in the Prince of
Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation
of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author
with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the
queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author
with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts
1–5, 1852–4. _d._ Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard,
Fleet st. London, law publisher, who _d._ 1850). _b._ 1817 or
1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published
Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other
important legal works. _d._ Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM JOHN LEIGH. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1838; entered
office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer
Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates
valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871;
A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service
in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley
railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. _d._ on
voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at sea.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM ROBERT (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill
house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served
in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11
Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many
years. _d._ Brighton 21 March 1892.
MAY, ALICE. _b._ 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the
regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company
toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand
Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and
Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and
Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra
28 March 1881; _m._ Louis Raymond. _d._ 16 Aug. 1887. _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp._ 97, 107, _portrait_.
MAY, CHARLES (son of a Friend). _b._ Alton, Hants. 1800;
apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and
millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome
of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an
observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E.
1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed
to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented
compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced
the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. _d._ 3
Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. _Proceedings of royal
society_, _xi_ 10 (1860); _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xx_ 148 (1861).
MAY, EDWARD COLLETT. _b._ Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied
under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at
Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69;
famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal
exercises for daily practice 1853. _d._ about 16 Jany. 1887.
_Life of John Hullah_ (1886).
NOTE.--His daughter Florence May, pianist, is the composer of Six songs
for the pianoforte 1880 and other music.
MAY, EDWARD HARRISON (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). _b._
England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied
art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851;
capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war,
and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy
1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy
of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century
club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in
the Metropolitan museum, New York. _d._ Paris 17 May 1887.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iv_ 272 (1888).
MAY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CHICHESTER (son of Edward May, rector of
Belfast). _b._ Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll.
Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany.
1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal
adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov.
1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8
Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of
queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice
1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports.
Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868;
edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series,
vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. _d._ Lisnavagh, co.
Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. _Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p._ 274, _portrait_.
MAY, HENRY WILLIAM (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts.,
_d._ 24 Dec. 1861). _b._ 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford,
B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and
conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author
of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent
conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law
of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited
with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of
decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and
courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th
ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. _d._ Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle
of Wight 30 June 1878.
MAY, HUNTLY, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. _b._
Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very
eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; _m._ 1846
Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road,
Wandsworth in 1881. _d._ Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. _The
Era 22 April 1866 p._ 6, _2 July 1881 p._ 4 _and 9 July 1881 p._
5.
MAY, JOHN. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829,
superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. _d._ 23 Oct.
1855.
MAY, ROBERT CHARLES (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm
of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). _b._ Ampthill, Beds.
5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer
1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864;
consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes;
an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for
railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines,
Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. _d._ Marseilles 20 July
1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 367–8 (1883);
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii_ 180 (1883).
MAY, SIR STEPHEN. _b._ 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted
by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of
Ireland. _d._ Belfast 1851.
MAY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE, 1 Baron Farnborough. _b._ London 8
Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch.
1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister
M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of
petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses
of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856,
clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May
1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov.
1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon.
D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron
Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May
1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges,
proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated
into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese;
The constitutional history of England since the accession of
George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in
Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny
Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, _d._
Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. _bur._ Chippenham churchyard,
Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church,
Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in
house of commons 6 March 1890. _Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._
14–19; _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1110, 1175 (1879), _portrait_;
_Pump Court_, _iii_ 105, 156, _portrait_.
NOTE.--His peerage of Farnborough existed only six days, probably the
shortest duration of any peerage; the barony of Marjoribanks lasted 7
days 12 to 19 June 1873.
MAYALL, JOHN EDWIN. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52;
photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in
1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for
cartes de visite of the royal family, _d._ 1867.
MAYD, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield,
Suffolk). _b._ 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll.
Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising
barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to
death, _d._ Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892.
MAYER, JOSEPH. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. 1803; gold
and silversmith and jeweller at 68 and 70 Lord st. Liverpool;
sold his collection of ancient Greek coins to French government
1844; purchased Rev. Dr. Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s
Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of
Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities
valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it
to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and
20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding
the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to
him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he
introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave
many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of
volunteers; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1850; retired from business; author
of A catalogue of the drawings, miniatures, cameos, etc.,
illustrative of the Bonaparte family in the collection of J.
Mayer 1854, 2 ed. 1855; History of art of pottery in Liverpool
1855; A library of national antiquities 2 vols. 1857–73; A
catalogue of engraved gems and rings in the collection of
J. Mayer 1879. _d._ Bebington 18 Jany. 1886. _C. R. Smith’s
Retrospections_, _i_ 67–76, _ii_ 109–10, 300, _iii_ 68, 70
(1883–91); _Illust. Times 10 June 1867 p._ 365, _view of his
collection at Liverpool_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. May 1886 p._
144; _Times 21 Jany. 1886 p._ 7.
MAYER, KARL. Librarian to Prince Consort in England 1847–61.
_d._ Berlin, Dec. 1884.
MAYER, SAMUEL RALPH TOWNSHEND (2 son of Samuel Mayer of
Gloucester, solicitor). _b._ Gloucester, Aug. 1841; contributed
to the Gloucester newspapers; came to London, where he founded
the Free and open church association 1866, secretary till Feb.
1872; edited the first report of the Metropolitan conservative
working men’s association 1868; edited The illustrated review
Jany. to June 1871; The free and open church advocate 3 vols.
1872–7; proprietor and editor of St. James’s Magazine, Jany.
1875; author of Amy Fairfax 1859, a novelette; Fractional
supplement to Hotson’s Ready reckoner 1861; The origin and
growth of Sunday schools in England 1878; Who was the founder of
Sunday schools? being an inquiry 1880. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28
May 1880.
MAYERS, JOHN POLLARD. Barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1799, bencher 1840
to death; agent for island of Barbadoes. _d._ Brasted near
Sevenoaks, Kent 30 Dec. 1853 aged 76.
MAYERS, WILLIAM S. FREDERICK (son of Michael John Mayers, R.
of St. Peter’s, Winchester). _b._ Tasmania 7 Jany. 1831; a
journalist in New York to 1859; interpreter at Canton 7 Feb.
1859 to 1870; vice consul at Kin-kiang 17 Aug. 1871; Chinese
secretary of legation at Pekin 10 Nov. 1871, second sec. to the
legation 20 July 1876; his official report on The famine in the
northern province of China was printed and his Report of an
Expedition to Nang Chang Foo is in Parl. Papers vol. lxviii 213
(1874); F.R.G.S.; member of R. Asiatic soc.; procured for the
British museum one of the few existing copies of the Imperial
encyclopædia of Chinese literature in 5020 volumes; author of
The Anglo-Chinese calendar manual 1869; The Chinese reader’s
manual 1874; Treatise between China and foreign powers 1877; The
Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles 1878, 2 ed. 1886.
_d._ of typhus fever, Shanghai 24 March 1878. _Journal Royal
Asiatic Soc. vol. x_ (1878) _55th Annual Report 20 May 1878 pp.
xii–xiv_; _Athenæum_, _i_ 444 (1878); _Academy_, _i_ 300 (1878);
_Foreign Office List_ 1879 _p._ 214.
MAYHEW, AUGUSTUS SEPTIMUS (youngest son of Joshua Dorset Joseph
Mayhew of 26 Carey st. London, attorney who _d._ 1858). _b._
1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited
1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality
of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861;
Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry
Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a
lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint
author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor
relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the
fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce,
Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand
1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871;
resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. _d._ Richmond infirmary
25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. _Hodder’s Memories of
my time_ (1870) 62–5.
MAYHEW, EDWARD (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–1875). _b._ 1813;
M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle
doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own
farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the
veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The
horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their
management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed.
1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make
your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical
or London directories after 1855. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my
time_ (1870) 58–61.
MAYHEW, HENRY (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–75). _b._ London 25
Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran
away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father;
published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly
paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The
Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London,
weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where
he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to
do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal
Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song
Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However,
a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch
17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it;
author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life
and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin Luther 1865
and many other books; author with John Binny and others of
London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the
Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The
great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The
criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury,
London 25 July 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Fox Bourne’s
English newspapers_, _ii_ 117–20, 155, 238; _F. H. Forshall’s
Westminster School_ (1884) 329–30; _The Mask_ (1868) 65,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.
NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s 2-page cartoon
called Mr. Punch’s fancy ball 9 Jany. 1847 as the cornet player in the
orchestra. On 19 March 1856 he held a meeting of ticket of leave men
at National hall, Holborn, the speeches of five of them were fully
reported in the newspapers.
MAYHEW, HORACE (brother of the preceding). _b._ July 1818; wrote
many farces and tales; sub-editor of Punch under Mark Lemon
several years, contributed to Punch to his death; contributed
to Cruikshank’s Table Book 1845; his pantomime Plum Pudding
produced at Olympic theatre, Dec. 1847; author of The Bal
Masqué. By Count Chicard 1848; Change for a shilling 1848; Model
men 1848; Model women 1848; A plate of heads 1849; The toothache
imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank
1849; Guy Faux 1849; Letters left at the pastry-cooks 1853;
edited Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 1848 and 1849; contributed to
Lloyd’s Weekly News from 1852. _d._ 33 Addison gardens south,
Kensington, London 30 April 1872. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 7
May. _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 19.
MAYHEW, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1810; student
of Lincoln’s inn; started The poor man’s guardian 1847, eight
numbers; started The national library; author of A complete
history of an action at law 1828; with J. F. A. Bayard and
P. Duport wrote Ambition, or Marie Mignot, a drama Haymarket
theatre 13 Sep. 1830.
MAYHEW, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; wines and spirit merchant, 106
Fenchurch st. London; M.P. Colchester 12 May 1831 to 3 Dec.
1832; contested Colchester 1830 and 1832. _d._ at residence of
Edward Mayhew surgeon, 7 Park terrace, Victoria park, London 26
April 1855.
MAYNARD, AMBROSE, stage name of William Hill. _b._ 1822; an
actor; a comic vocalist at the London and provincial music
halls; musical agent Westminster bridge road, London 1857,
removed to 6 York road, Lambeth 1864; the oldest musical agent
in Great Britain; the writer of the following dramatic pieces,
Chickweed and groundsel; Drury lane and Park lane, also known as
Extremes of life; Change for a sovereign; The Queen’s birthday;
Winkle’s Waxwork; The two shes, a sketch at the South London
palace 1888. _d._ 6 York road 3 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Nunhead
cemetery 6 Oct.
MAYNARD, FREDERICK W. Secretary to Arundel society, London 1867
to death; author of A descriptive sketch of Arundel Society.
_d._ 27 Aug. 1876.
MAYNARD, GEORGE. _b._ at sea between Liverpool and Dublin 4
Feb. 1812; articled to a solicitor; clerk to John Chappell,
theatrical bookseller, Royal Exchange, city of London; acted at
Wilmington sq. Rawstone st. and Catherine st. London; appeared
at Deptford as Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Easter
Monday 1828; at Richmond theatre 1830–1; played at the Pavilion
1839, where he was a favourite in sailors’ characters; one of
Penley’s company during his short 9 nights’ season at Lyceum,
April 1839; played Guy Fawkes at the Lyceum 1841; acted at T.R.
Edinburgh 1845–6; a favourite at the Olympic under George Bolton
1846–7; played leading parts at Adelphi and Surrey; a good
melodramatic actor. _d._ Newcastle 14 Dec. 1851. _Theatrical
times_, _ii_ 105 (1847), _portrait_.
MAYNARD, JOSEPH (only son of Joseph Cam Maynard, solicitor).
_b._ London 29 May 1798; solicitor in city of London 1820–70;
under-sheriff of London 1838; member of council of Incorporated
law society 13 June 1849, vice pres. 1860–1, pres. 1861–2,
retired from the council 1870. _d._ 52 Westbourne terrace,
London 9 Jany. 1888.
MAYNARD, SAMUEL. _b._ 1790; came from Taunton to London
and opened a school in Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town 1810;
mathematical bookseller at Earl’s court, Leicester square,
London about 1832–62, published 14 catalogues; his books
sold by auction in 1200 bundles 1862; author of A commercial
perpetual almanac 1846; A table containing useful factors
often used in calculation 1846; compiled A key to Mr. Keith’s
Complete measurer 1829; A key to Bonnycastle’s Scholar’s guide
to arithmetic 1853, and edited 13 other works on mathematics
1829–56. _d._ Booksellers’ Provident retreat, Abbot’s Langley,
Herts. 7 May 1866. _The Athenæum 25 Aug. 1866 p._ 248.
MAYNE, HENRY BLAIR (2 son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield,
Surrey, _d._ 1841). _b._ 23 Aug. 1813; ed. Westminster 1826–31
and at Christ Church, Oxf., student 1831–46; B.A. 1835, M.A.
1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; principal clerk of private
bills in house of commons at £1000 a year 1859–70; one of the
three best whist players of his day; an habitué of the Arlington
and Turf clubs; one of the committee of seven at the Arlington
who drew up The laws of whist 1864; author of Sons of Indian
officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich 1860; resided at 2 St. James’
place, St. James’ st. London. _d._ Brighton 17 Jany. 1892.
NOTE. He always played for pound points and made it a rule not to play
again at the same sitting after he had lost two rubbers running. One of
his sayings was ‘He who leads trumps oftenest, he oftenest will win the
most rubbers.’
MAYNE, HENRY OTWAY. Lieut. 6 Madras light cavalry 17 Sep. 1841,
captain 31 Dec. 1855 to death; raised the corps of Mayne’s
horse, which became first regiment central India horse. _d._
Allahabad 2 Nov. 1861.
MAYNE, SIR RICHARD (4 son of Edward Mayne, judge of court of
King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 27 Nov. 1796; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818; proceeded to Trin. coll. Cambridge,
B.A. Camb. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1822; joint
comr. with Charles Rowan of metropolitan police 29 Sep. 1829,
chief comr. 1850 to death; illtreated by the mob during Hyde
park riots July 1866; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1851.
_d._ 80 Chester sq. London 26 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 30 Dec, where memorial monument was unveiled 25 Jany.
1871. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 113–5, 358 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_
23, 45 (1869) _portrait_, _lviii_ 117 (1871).
MAYNE, RICHARD CHARLES (son of the preceding). _b._ 1835; ed. at
Eton; entered royal navy 1848; served in Baltic expedition 1854
and in the Crimea 1855–6; explored and surveyed in Vancouver
island and British Columbia 1857–61; commanded the Eclipse in
New Zealand 1863–4; captain 12 Feb. 1864; commanded Nassau on
survey of Straits of Magellan 1866–9, commanded Invincible
1874–5; retired R.A. 26 Nov. 1879; F.G.S.; M.P. Pembroke and
Haverfordwest 8 July 1886 to death, having contested the seat
Nov. 1885; C.B. 13 March 1867; knight of Legion of Honour and
of the Medjidie; author of Four years in British Columbia and
Vancouver island 1862; Sailing directions for Magellan Strait
1871; had an apoplectic fit when leaving the Mansion house after
the Welsh national banquet and _d._ 101 Queen’s gate, London 29
May 1892. _Graphic 4 June 1892 p._ 655, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 4
June 1892 p._ 683, _portrait_.
MAYNE, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; M.B. Dublin 1838; F.K.Q.C.P. 14
April 1856; censor 1857; lecturer on practice of medicine at
Carmichael school 1835 and physician to Adelaide hospital,
Dublin; president of Pathological society of Dublin; contributed
to Todd’s Cyclopædia and to Dublin Journal of Medical science;
author of On spontaneous varicose aneurism 1853. _d._ 13 Upper
Gloucester st. Dublin 27 April 1864. _Dublin Medical Press_,
_li_ 425–6 (1864).
MAYNE, ROBERT DAWSON (son of Sir Richard Mayne 1796–1868). _b._
1844; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1867; barrister L.I.
26 Jany. 1869; chief magistrate of Lagos 1872–4; stipendiary
justice at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and judge of the petty debt
court 1874 to death. _d._ 10 June 1887.
MAYNE, WILLIAM (son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey,
_d._ 1841). _b._ 8 Oct. 1818; entered Bengal army 12 June 1837;
ensign 37 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 1 Jany. 1845 to
death; present in the action at Bolam Pass 4 May 1839; served
at siege of Jellalabad 1842; second in command of the governor
general’s body guard 10 Feb. 1844 to 2 Jany. 1846, commanded the
body guard 19 Jany. 1847 to 12 April 1851; commanded 10th Bengal
irregular horse 2 Jany. 1846 to 19 Jany. 1847; hon. A.D.C. to
governor general of India 7 Jany. 1848 to death; brigadier in
the Nizam’s service April 1851, afterwards called the Hyderabad
contingent 27 Jany. 1854 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 Nov.
1855. _d._ Cairo 23 Dec. 1855. _G.M. Feb. 1856 pp._ 185–7.
MAYO, RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of
Mayo 1797–1867). _b._ Dublin 21 Feb. 1822; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1841 but did not reside; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1851, LL.D.
1852; known as Lord Naas 1849–67; M.P. Kildare 1847–52, M.P.
Coleraine 1852–7, and M.P. Cockermouth 1857–68; chief sec. for
Ireland, March to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and with a
seat in the cabinet July 1866 to Sep. 1868; P.C. 15 May 1852;
master of Kildare hounds 1857; succeeded as 6 earl 12 Aug. 1867;
founded Palmerston breeding association for improving breed of
horses in Ireland; viceroy of India 27 Oct. 1868 to death, sworn
in 12 Jany. 1869; K.P. 11 Nov. 1868; stabbed in the shoulder
at Port Blair, Hopetown, Andaman islands, by a convict named
Shere Ali, and expired in a short time 8 Feb. 1872. _bur._ in
Johnstown churchyard near Naas, co. Mayo 25 April, bust in
the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral; author of St. Petersburgh
and Moscow, a visit to the court of the Czar 2 vols. 1846;
_m._ 31 Oct. 1848 Blanche Julia 4 dau. of George Wyndham, 1
baron Leconfield, she was _b._ 21 Nov. 1826, the government
awarded her an annuity of £1000 and gave £20,000 to her younger
children. _W. W. Hunter’s Life of earl Mayo_ 2 _vols._ 1875;
_Nolan’s Illust. history of India_, _iii_ 93 (1878), _portrait_;
_Jas. Wilson’s Why was lord Mayo assassinated?_ (1872); _N. A.
Chick’s In memoriam, of the assassination of the earl of Mayo_
(1872); _Baily’s Mag. xii_ 163–4 (1867), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
xvi_ 429 (1850) _portrait_, _liii_ 569 (1868) _portrait_, _lx_
151 _etc._ (1872) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 34, 37 (1876).
MAYO, CHARLES (youngest son of Herbert Mayo 1720–1802, R. of
St. George’s in the East, London). _b._ 24 March 1767; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ sch., probationary scholar St. John’s coll.
Oxf. 1785; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1793, B.D. 1798; Rawlinson professor
of Anglo-Saxon 1795–1800; Whitehall preacher 1799–1800; F.R.S. 1
March 1827; F.S.A.; morning preacher at St. Michael’s, Highgate
1803–33. _d._ Colesgroves, Cheshunt, Herts. 10 Dec. 1858. _G.M.
vi_ 210 (1859).
MAYO, CHARLES (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) _b._
Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S.
1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as
a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of
Winchester; became blind 1874. _d._ St. Peter’s st. Winchester
27 Nov. 1876. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 638–40 (1876)
_and ii_ 373–4 (1877); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 298
(1875).
MAYO, ELIZABETH (sister of rev. Charles Mayo, educational
reformer 1792–1846). _b._ 1793; lived with her brother at Cheam,
Surrey, helping him in his school 1822–34; resided in Belsize
lane, Hampstead 1834–53, and at Oak Hill, Hampstead 1853 to
death; worked for the Home and Colonial school society from 1843
onwards; author of Lessons on objects 1837, 16 ed. 1859; Lessons
on shells 1832, 3 ed. 1846; Model lessons for infant schools
1838, 4 ed. 1857; Religious instruction for young children 1845,
4 ed. 1858; Lessons on the miracles 1845. _d._ Malvern 1 Sep.
1865, memorial tablet in schoolroom of Home and Colonial school
society’s buildings, Gray’s Inn road, London. _F. E. Baines’s
Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 459.
MAYO, HERBERT (3 son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._
Queen Anne st. London 3 April 1796; pupil of sir Charles Bell
1812–15; entered Middlesex hospital 17 May 1814, house surgeon
1818, surgeon 1827–42; graduated D.M. at Leyden univ. 16 Sep.
1816; M.R.C.S. 1819, F.R.C.S. 1843; professor of anatomy and
surgery 1828–30, lecturer on anatomy medical school, Great
Windmill st. 1826; F.R.S. 17 April 1828, F.G.S. 1832; professor
of anatomy King’s college, London 1830–6; professor of
physiology and pathological anatomy 1836; founded the medical
school at Middlesex hospital 1836, lecturer on surgery at the
hospital 1837–43; physician in a hydropathic establishment at
Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach; author of Anatomical and
physiological commentaries 1822–3; A course of dissections for
students 1825; Outlines of human physiology 1827, 4 ed. 1837;
Management of the organs of digestion 1837; The philosophy of
living 1837; A treatise on syphilis 1840; Letters on the truths
contained in popular superstitions 1849, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Bad
Weilbach near Mayence 15 May 1852. _History of Mayo family_
(1882); _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 458;
_Georgian Era_, _ii_ 587 (1833).
MAYO, THOMAS (eld. son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._
London 24 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster sch. and Oriel coll.
Oxf., fellow 1813 to 1818; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, M.B. 1815,
M.D. 1818; physician at Tunbridge Wells 1818–35, at 56 Wimpole
st. London 1835–62; F.R.C.P. 1819, censor 1835, 1839 and 1850,
an elect 1847, president 5 Jany. 1857 to Jany. 1862, delivered
Lumleian lectures 1839 and 1842, Harveian oration 1841 and
Croonian lectures 1853; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; phys. to Marylebone
infirmary 1841; phys. in ordinary to duke of Sussex; author of
An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia
1831; Elements of the pathology of the human mind 1838; Clinical
facts and reflections 1847; Medical testimony in cases of lunacy
1854, with supplement 1856. _d._ Corsham house, Wiltshire 13
Jany. 1871. _W. Munk’s Goldheaded Cane_ (1884) _pp._ 220–40; _W.
Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 200 (1838).
MAYOR, WILLIAM. _b._ 1826; ed. at Hatfield hall, Durham, Barry
scholar, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Nicholas, Durham
1855–7; V. of Thornley, Durham 1862–90, where he devoted himself
to the colliers and arbitrated successfully in a strike; V. of
Shotton, Durham 1890 to death; chairman of Castle Eden petty
sessions. _d._ at residence of his nephew, the Principal’s
house, St. Mark’s College, Chelsea 8 Nov. 1892. _Guardian 16
Nov. 1892 p._ 1766.
MAYOW, GEORGE WYNELL. _b._ 31 Aug. 1808; ensign in the army on
h.p. 9 June 1825; captain 4 dragoon guards 6 March 1835, placed
on h.p. 8 Oct. 1847; brigade major to light cavalry brigade in
the Crimea to 19 Dec. 1854, A.Q.M.G. of cavalry division 20 Dec.
1854 to end of the war; deputy quartermaster general in Ireland
1 Jany. 1868 to July 1872; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 13 March
1867. _d._ near Misterton 1 Jany. 1873.
MAYWOOD, ROBERT CAMPBELL (son of Dr. Maywood, leading physician
in Isle of Wight many years). _b._ Edinburgh 1786; first
appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 1817 as Shylock;
appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard the third 1819;
played King Lear at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 6 Nov.
1828; manager with Pratt and Rowbotham of Walnut st. theatre,
Philadelphia, April 1832, manager with them of Chestnut st.
theatre, Philadelphia 3 Sep. to 21 Dec. 1832; manager of the
Chestnut and Arch st. theatres 1834; relinquished management of
the Chestnut st. theatre and took his farewell benefit 9 March
1840. _d._ Marshall institute, Troy, New York 1 Dec. 1856.
_Theatrical inquisitor_, _xi_ 395–9 (1817), _portrait_; _J. N.
Ireland’s New York stage_, _i_ 329, 350 (1866).
MAZZINGHI, THOMAS JOHN (only son of Dominick Peter Mazzinghi
of London). _b._ 13 Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 28 Jany.
1842; served under Indian law commission 1865–9; librarian of
the William Salt library, Stafford, Feb. 1873 to Dec. 1892;
author of A brief notice of some recent researches respecting
Dante Alighieri 1844; Index catalogue of the William Salt
library 1878; Sanctuaries. Stafford 1878. _d._ Walton lodge near
Stafford 19 Feb. 1893.
MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE (son of Giacomo Mazzini a physician). _b._
Strada Lomellini, Genoa 22 June 1805; attempted insurrections in
Sardinia 1833–4; expelled from Switzerland 1836; came to London
Jany. 1837; wrote literary articles for London reviews; founded
and conducted a school for mendicant organ-boys; originated an
association of Italian workmen 1840; his letters were opened
by the English government 1844; fought under Garibaldi against
Austria 1848; dictator at Rome as triumvir with Armelli and
Saffi, March 1849 to June 1850; president in London of National
Italian committee 1850, through which he promoted the risings
of 1852 and 1853; directed preparations for abortive revolution
at Genoa 1857, for which he was condemned to death 1857, this
sentence was cancelled 1866 but he refused the pardon; edited
Pensiero ed Azione. London 1858–60; author of Italy, Austria and
the Pope 1845; Two letters to the people of England on the war
1855; The duties of man 1862; Life and writings 6 vols. 1864–70
and 40 other books, there were also 50 books written about him
and his career 1848–91. _d._ Pisa 10 March 1872. _bur._ Genoa.
_E. A. Venturi’s Joseph Mazzini_ (1875), 2 _portraits_; _Joseph
Mazzini, his life. New York_ (1872), _portrait_; _Illust. news
of the world_ (1862), _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xv_
273 (1856), _portrait_.
MEAD, THOMAS, stage name of Thomas Prescott (son of a Methodist
minister). _b._ Cambridge 22 Aug. 1819; ran away from home and
first appeared on the stage as Orozembo in Pizarro at Devonport
theatre 1841; played in the provinces 1841–8; first appeared in
London at Victoria theatre as sir Giles Overreach 28 Nov. 1848;
played at Surrey theatre 1849–52 and leading parts at Drury Lane
1852–4; shared the lead with T. Swinbourne at T.R. Manchester
1854; a prominent member of Mrs. Seymour’s company at St.
James’s theatre, played duke of Richmond in Taylor and Reade’s
King’s Rival opening night 2 Oct. 1854; played at Queen’s
theatre, Edinburgh, Jany. to July 1856; leading actor at New
Grecian theatre 1858; played at Sadler’s Wells and Princess’s,
where he was the original Isaac Levy in Charles Reade’s Never
too late to mend 4 Oct. 1865; lessee and manager of Elephant
and Castle theatre, London 1873–4 where his pantomime Babes in
the wood was produced 26 Dec. 1873; played the leading part in
Charles Reade’s drama Rachel the Reaper, at Queen’s theatre 9
March 1874; played in Shakespearian revivals at Lyceum theatre
1875 to death; his two best parts were the Priest in Louis XI.
and the Ghost in Hamlet; author of The Coquette, 3 act play
produced at Haymarket 8 July 1867; The lady of the Rose and
other poems 1881, with portrait. _d._ New north road, Islington,
London 17 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Highgate lower cemetery 22 Feb.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) _part_ 9, _portrait_;
_The Players_, _i_ 193 (1860), _portrait_; _Theatre_, _xiii_ 172
(1889).
MEADE, JAMES. _b._ 1822; acted as puisne justice Montserrat
1852, member of executive and legislative council 1861, colonial
secretary and treasurer March 1865, member of the legislative
council 1867, administered the government 1872; acting president
of Montserrat 1882; in 1886 he was treasurer and registrar
of the supreme court, registrar of deeds and of shipping and
comptroller of customs. _d._ The Meadow, Montserrat 22 June
1890.
MEADE, SIR RICHARD JOHN (son of John Meade, captain R.N.) _b._
25 Sep. 1821; ensign 65 Bengal N.I. 3 Nov. 1838, major 1 Jany.
1862; served during Indian mutiny 1857–9 and captured the
notorious rebel leader Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; lieut.-col.
Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; agent to
governor general in Central India 1861–70; chief comr. Mysore
1870–5; special comr. Baroda 1875; resident Hyderabad 1876–81,
chairman Hyderabad state railway company; C.S.I. 24 May 1866,
K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. _d._ Hyères, France
20 March 1894.
MEADE, ROBERT (2 son of 1 earl of Clanwilliam 1744–1800). _b._
29 Feb. 1772; ensign 1 foot 7 Nov. 1787; captain 87 foot Sep.
1793; major in Ward’s regiment Oct. 1794 to 10 April 1801;
lieut.-col. 31 foot 10 April 1801 to 8 June 1815; commanded the
forces in Madeira 1809, was afterwards second in command at Cape
of Good Hope; colonel 12 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to death; general 10
Jany. 1837. _d._ 48 Bryanston sq. London 11 July 1852. _I.L.N.
xxi_ 46 (1852).
MEADOWS, ALFRED (4 child of Charles Meadows). _b._ Ipswich 2
June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London,
associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B.
1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853;
L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house
phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases
of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho
square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to
death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884;
attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland
1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the
Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in
grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual
of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into
Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891;
author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases
of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated
Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of
women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. _d._ 27
George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. _bur._ Colnbrook,
Bucks. _Midland medical miscellany ii_ 65–7 (1883), portrait;
_British Gynæcological Journal_, _iii_ 343 (1887), _portrait_;
_Biograph_, _v_ 68–76 (1881).
MEADOWS, DRINKWATER. _b._ Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in
Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21;
first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep.
1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s
Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823,
Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in
Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned
Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding
5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828,
Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in
The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov.
1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5
April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at
Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of
Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844
and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in
Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle
24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund;
a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the
Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion
st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard,
a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). _d._
Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. _The
Era 11 June 1869 p._ 11, _col._ 1.
MEADOWS, GEORGE DEARE (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.)
_b._ London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb.
1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised
at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his
speciality being the diseases of women and children. _d._ St.
George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.
MEADOWS, JAMES (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). _b._ Dublin
1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta
some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic
artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine
pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63.
_d._ 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. _bur._ Trinity
church, Bow road. _Era 17 May 1863 p._ 10.
MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (son of James Meadows, retired naval
officer). _b._ Cardigan. _bapt._ 1 Nov. 1790; designed and
lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s
Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the
people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare
2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the
Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1
portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s
Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by
Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many
other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864.
_d._ 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. _bur._ St. Pancras
cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_
(1870) 98–103.
MEAGHER, THOMAS (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). _b._ 1796;
mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. _d._ 1874.
MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS (son of the preceding). _b._ city of
Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare,
and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings
of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846;
called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol.
xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered
to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847;
contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war
committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith
O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in
Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to
be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted
to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s
Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New
York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped
John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany.
1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number
of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased
July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of
Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served
with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia;
organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first
regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given
him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part
of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at
Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a
Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command
of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July
1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches
on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853,
portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days
of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three
articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat
into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1
July 1867. _M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher_ (1892),
_portrait_; _W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New
York_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir_
(1863), _portrait_ 51; _Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish
history_ (1883), _passim_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _iii_ 481
(1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.
MEAKIN, JOHN. _b._ Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5
feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven
Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at
Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859
with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All
England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s
All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England
handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by
A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side;
attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again
able to run. _Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p._ 417,
_portrait_.
MEANS, JOSEPH CALROW (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood
lane, London). _b._ 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher
at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; _bapt._ by
immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828;
preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his
congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently
to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary
to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers
1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister
of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head
master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st.
London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a
scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny
Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the
S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography.
_d._ London 6 Feb. 1879. _Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 78
_et seq._; _Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 98 _et seq._
MEANY, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Ennis; a constable in Dublin,
where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then
on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s
Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal
agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement,
a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus
1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt
27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department
of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences
Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec.
to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed
to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of
Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. _d._ New York
8 Feb. 1888. _bur._ Queenstown. _Newspaper Press_, _i_ 35, 44
(1867); _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _ii_ 617 (1891).
MEARNS, DUNCAN (son of Alexander Mearns, minister of Cluny,
Aberdeenshire). _b._ the manse of Cluny 23 Aug. 1779; ed. at
King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. March 1795; studied in the divinity
hall 1795–9; D.D.; assistant minister of parish of Tarves 13
Nov. 1799, then minister; professor of divinity Univ. and King’s
coll. Aberdeen 12 Oct. 1816 to death; moderator of general
assembly 1821; chaplain to the king for Scotland 1825 to death;
author of Principles of christian evidence. Edinb. 1818; Report
of speech in synod of Aberdeen on the settlement of ministers.
Aberdeen 1834, 4 ed. 1840. _d._ 2 March 1852. _H. Scott’s
Fasti_, _vol._ 1 _part_ 1 _p._ 397 (1866).
MEATH, JOHN CHAMBRE BRABAZON, 10 Earl of (youngest son of 8 earl
of Meath 1721–90). _b._ 9 April 1772; succeeded his brother the
9 earl 26 May 1797; K.P. 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of co. Dublin
and custos rotulorum of co. Wicklow 1831; created baron Chaworth
of Eaton hall, Hereford in peerage of United Kingdom 10 Sep.
1831; P.C. Ireland 1831. _d._ Great Malvern 15 March 1851. _G.M.
xxxv_ 547 (1851).
MEATH, WILLIAM BRABAZON, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding).
_b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord
Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested
co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow
1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county
militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851;
built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone
on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery.
_d._ Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. _bur._ at Bray, will
proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. _Times 27 May 1887 p._ 6, _3
June p._ 6.
MECHI, JOHN JOSEPH (3 son of Giacomo Mechi). _b._ London 22
May 1802; clerk in a house in Walbrook in the Newfoundland
trade 1818–28; a cutler at 130 Leadenhall st. 1828–30, at 4
Leadenhall st. 1830–69, partner with Charles Bazan 1859–69;
cutler at 112 Regent st. 1869 to death; made a fortune by his
magic razor strop 1830–40; purchased for £3400 a farm of about
130 acres at Tiptree Heath, Essex 1841, where he introduced deep
drainage and use of steam power, so that it became a model farm;
sheriff of London 1856, alderman for Lime st. ward 1858 to Aug.
1866; failed in business 14 Dec. 1880; author of Letters on
agricultural improvements 1844; On the principles which ensure
success in trade 1853, another ed. 1856; How to farm profitably
1859, 4 ed. 1864; On the sewerage of towns as it affects British
agriculture 1860; Mr. Mechi’s Farm balance sheets, also his
lectures and papers on farming 1867 and 12 other books. _d._
Tiptree hall, Essex 26 Dec. 1880. _Biograph_, _i_ 250–4 (1879);
_I.L.N. xxx_ 337 (1857) _portrait_, _xxxi_ 317 (1857), _lxxviii_
37 (1881) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 Jany. 1881 pp._ 355,
361, _portrait_.
MECREDY, HENRY SANDYS. _b._ 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; solicitor in Dublin 1845; vice president
of Irish incorporated law society 1885; governor of Royal Irish
academy of music; with C. A. Stanwell edited The Incorporated
law society’s calendar. Dublin 1887. _d._ Colwyn Bay, North
Wales 30 July 1891.
MEDHURST, WALTER HENRY (son of William Medhurst of Ross,
Scotland, innkeeper). _b._ London 29 April 1796; ed. at St.
Paul’s sch. from 1807; went to Malacca as a missionary printer
in service of London missionary soc. 1816; ordained at Malacca
27 April 1819; missionary in Penang 1820 and Batavia 1822–36;
established an orphan asylum at Parapattan; worked in Batavia
1838–42, and at Shanghai 1842–56; D.D. from an American univ.
1843; one of the delegates to revise Chinese version of new
testament June 1847 to July 1850 and of old testament 1851–3;
edited G. Happart’s Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the
Formosan language 1840; translated Ancient China, The Shoo-King
or the historical classic 1846; The Chinaman abroad, an account
of the Malayan archipelago by Ong-Tae-hae 1849; author of
An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary.
Batavia 1830; A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the
Chinese language. Macao 1832; China, its state and prospects
1838; Chinese and English dictionary 2 vols. Batavia 1842–3, and
English and Chinese dictionary 2 vols. Shanghae 1847–8; Chinese
dialogues. Shanghae 1844; left Shanghai 10 Sep. 1856, arrived
in England 22 Jany. 1857. _d._ Pimlico, London 24 Jany. 1857.
_bur._ Abney park cemetery 30 Jany. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register
of missionaries_ (1877) 41.
MEDHURST, SIR WALTER HENRY (son of the preceding). _b._ Batavia,
Java 3 Nov. 1822; attached to Sir Henry Pottinger’s suite Aug.
1841; present at taking of Amoy and Chusan; consular interpreter
at Shanghai 7 Oct. 1843; consul at Foo-choo-foo 9 Nov. 1854, at
Tangchow 21 Dec. 1858, at Hankow 25 Jany. 1864 and at Shanghai
23 July 1868, retired 1 Jany. 1877; knighted at Windsor castle
20 March 1877; helped to form British North Borneo company 1881,
organised a system of emigration from China into the company’s
territories 1882; author of Curiosities of street literature in
China. Shanghai 1871; The foreigner in far Cathay 1872. _d._
Formosa, Torquay 26 Dec. 1885.
MEDLEY, JOHN (only son of George Medley of Grosvenor place,
Chelsea). _b._ London 19 Dec. 1804; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1845; C. of Southleigh,
Devon 1828–31; Inc. of St. John’s, Truro 1831–8; V. of St.
Thomas, Exeter 1838–45; preb. of Exeter 8 April 1843 to
May 1845; bishop of Frederickton, New Brunswick 24 April
1845 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 4 May
1845, installed in his partly built cathedral 11 June 1845;
metropolitan of Canada 11 Jany. 1879 to death; attended the
Lambeth Pan-Anglican conference 1889; hon LL.D. Cambridge and
D.D. Durham 1888; author of Advice to teachers in Sunday schools
1833; The episcopal form of church government 1835, 2 ed. 1837;
Elementary remarks on Chinese architecture 1841; Sermons. Exeter
1845; with H. K. Cornish translated The homilies of St. John
Chrysostom on Corinthians 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Frederickton 9 Sep.
1892. _W. Q. Ketchum’s Life of Medley. St. John’s N.B._ (1893);
_Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 285 (1888) _portrait_.
MEDLEY, JULIUS GEORGE. _b._ 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal
engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death;
assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849;
consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer
with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field
engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column
1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858;
principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec.
to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college
1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil
engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of
engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed
railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer;
A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A
year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United
States and Canada 1873. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna
at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxx_ 343–7 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 292 (1884), _portrait_.
MEDLEY, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99).
_b._ 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a
stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University
1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The
Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms,
11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C.
Branwhite. _d._ Chatham 10 Aug. 1857.
MEDWIN, THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). _b._ Horsham,
Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24
light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on
h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life
guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went
to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he
stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822;
resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the
wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824,
5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English
verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler
in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady
Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B.
Shelley 2 vols. 1847. _d._ in his brother’s house the Carfax,
Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. _Notes and Queries_ 5 _S. v_ 161 (1876), 6
_S. vi_ 293 (1882).
MEDWIN, THOMAS REA (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of
Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf.,
bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington,
Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head
master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross
chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2;
V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A
manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated
from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at
Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. _d._ Arlesey
vicarage 17 March 1885.
MEE, ANNE (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter _d._ about
1784). _b._ about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the
prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties,
many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were
engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited
39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (_m._ Joseph Mee).
_d._ Hammersmith 28 May 1851. _The Lady’s monthly museum Jany.
1814_, _memoir and portrait_; _A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of
the court of George III._ (1812), _portrait_.
MEE, JOHN (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). _b._ 3 May 1824;
ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A.
1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of
All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4;
association secretary of church missionary society for eastern
district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible
society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4;
secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude,
Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to
death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870
to Nov. 1873. _d._ Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William,
Scotland 19 Sep. 1883.
MEE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a
moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned
to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which
became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830
and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under
pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. _d._ Shardlow union workhouse,
Derbyshire 29 May 1862.
NOTE.--In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about
1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of
his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a
Sunday. _Notes and Queries 2 series_, _xii_ 189, 238, 299 (1861), _3
series ii_ 43 (1862).
MEEHAN, CHARLES PATRICK. _b._ 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12
July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34;
ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish
ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.;
author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed.
1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries
1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of
Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated
History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of
O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis
Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of
the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order
of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852;
edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. _d._ 14 March 1890.
_I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p._ 366, _portrait_; _Catholic World_,
_Sep. 1890 pp._ 796–801; _Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.
MEEK, SIR JAMES. _b._ Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal
navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on
Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June
1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services
at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government
to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural
produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report
was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted
at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. _d._
Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856.
MEEK, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ Brompton near Northallerton
13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar
of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813;
resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of
York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick
railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851.
_d._ Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862.
MEEK, SIR JAMES (only son of the preceding). _b._ York 28 June
1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a
partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of
York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of
York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York
rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July
1869. _d._ Cheltenham 10 Jany. 1891.
MEEK, ROBERT. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. by abp. of
Canterbury 1838; R. of Brixton Deverill, Wilts. 1834; P.C. of
Hill Deverill, Wilts. 1837; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1838–43;
R. of Sutton Bonnington, Notts. 1843 to death; author of The
mutual recognition of glorified saints 1830, 3 ed. 1837;
The church of England a faithful witness against the errors
and corruptions of the church of Rome 1834; Passion week, a
practical exposition 1835; Heavenly things or the blessed hope
1854; The martyr of Allahabad. Memorials of ensign A. M. H.
Clark 1857; Ministering angels 1864. _d._ 1866.
MEEKING, CHARLES (son of Charles Meeking of London). _b._
London 1800; draper and linen draper at 1 Broadway, Westminster
1823, moved to 62 Holborn Hill 1827, one of the first of the
drapers to conduct a retail business on a thorough system;
draper and outfitter Holborn Circus to death, having one of the
largest establishments in London; J.P. for Bucks.; purchased
Richings manor near Iver, Bucks., from John Sullivan in 1855.
_d._ Richings park, Bucks. 7 Dec. 1872, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 1 Feb. 1873.
MEERES, NATHANIEL. _b._ 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.D. 1840; C. of Cradley, Worcs. 1844–7; R. of Little
Stambridge, Essex 1847 to death; author of Sermons preached at
Somer’s chapel, St. Pancras 1843; Original psalms and hymns for
the use of churches. Coventry 1845; School cyclopædia in verse
1851; Sermons 2 vols. 1851. _d._ at residence of rev. H. Meeres,
Haddenham vicarage, Bucks. 26 March 1863.
MEESON, ALFRED (son of Edward Meeson). _b._ 67 Aldermanbury,
London 4 April 1808; architect and surveyor at Wakefield,
Yorkshire; assisted sir Charles Barry as superintendent of
constructional and engineering details of houses of parliament
1842 to completion; engineer in charge of houses of parliament
residing in the building 1853; practised at 58 Pall Mall,
London; employed on international exhibitions of 1851 and 1862
and on the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1858 and the Albert
hall 1872; architect of the first Alexandra palace on Muswell
hill 1873, palace was destroyed by fire 9 June 1873, joint
architect of the second palace 1875; author with J. C. Boys of
Thames sewage disposal scheme 1867. _d._ 4 Harley road, South
Hampstead, London 12 Jany. 1885.
MELBOURNE, FREDERICK JAMES LAMB, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount
Melbourne 1745–1828). _b._ Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London
17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to
Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec.
1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador
to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of
£1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20
April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848;
G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. _d._ Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853.
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 28, _portrait_; _G.M.
xxxix_ 309, 338 (1853); _Greville’s Journal_, _vol. i pt._ 3
_pp._ 35–7 (1874).
MELDON, CHARLES HENRY (3 son of James Dillon Meldon). _b._ 5
June 1841; ed. at Stonyhurst and Ushaw colleges, and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1862, LL.B. and LL.D. 1874; member of senate of
Dublin univ.; called to Irish bar 1863; had a large practice
on the Home circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1877; M.P. for co. Kildare
1874–85; first whip to the Home Rule party 1874–9. _d._ Dublin
15 May 1892.
MELIA, PIUS. _b._ Rome 1800; professor of belles lettres,
Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany
and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13
Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to
Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London
1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians;
officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the
Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines
of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian
states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution
and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the
origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. _d._
University hospital, London 25 May 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 30 May.
NOTE.--Raphael Melia _b._ Rome, naturalised in England 13 Sep. 1849,
was author of A treatise on auricular confession. London 1865; The
woman blessed by all generations 1868; and The life of V. Pallotti,
founder of The pious society of missions 1871.
MELLER, WALTER (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill,
Surrey). _b._ 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did
not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov.
1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869;
lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel
20 Feb. 1867. _d._ Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.
MELLISH, SIR GEORGE (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford,
_d._ 1831). _b._ Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton
and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow
1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner
Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48;
barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death,
reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader;
Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death;
P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 33
Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. _A generation of judges. By
Their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_
55–65 (1877); _I.L.N. lviii_ 471, 473 (1870), _portrait_.
MELLISH, GEORGE LILLY (2 son of William Mellish an officer in
the army). _b._ Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll.
Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll.
1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854;
resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. _d._
Christ Church, Dec. 1881.
MELLISH, RICHARD CHARLES. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824;
attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830;
gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849;
sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep.
1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance
1 Jany. 1855. _d._ Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. _Foreign
office list_ (1866) 177.
MELLON, ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member
of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a
violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at
Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at
Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at
Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English
opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced
his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society;
conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name
at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep.
1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865;
(_m._ Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress _b._ 1824); composer of My
pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a
glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850;
The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the
ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of
dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published
in 1860. _d._ The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 April. _Era 31 March 1867 p._ 10 and
_7 April p._ 11; _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 441 (1865)
_portrait_, _v_ 504 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 6 April
1867 p._ 216, _portrait_.
MELLON, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during
two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law;
leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit;
joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after
played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters
at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and
Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather
in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864;
played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr.
Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25
Jany. 1871. _d._ Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25
Nov. 1876. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 321, 338 (1847), _portrait_;
_E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 294, 347, _ii_ 393, 462 (1891).
MELLOR, ENOCH (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). _b._
Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield
coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870;
congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61;
minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to
death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales
1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The
atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies
were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted
with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867;
Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles
1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. _d._
Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. _Congregationalist_, _ix_
617–20 (1880) _portrait_, _x_ 1000–1011 (1881); _E. Mellor’s
The hem of Christ’s garment_ (1882), _biographical sketch pp.
v–xxxi_; _Congregational Year book_ (1882) _pp._ 315–8.
MELLOR, SIR JOHN (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, _d._
1861). _b._ Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at
Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4
years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to
Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became
leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April
1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July
1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852
and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham
1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired
11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June
1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian
prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur
Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June
1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author
of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation
1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. _d._ 16
Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. _bur._ Kingsdown
churchyard, Dover 30 April. _Law Journal_, _xxii_ 250–1, 259–60
(1887); _Times 28 April 1887 p._ 5.
MELVILL, HENRY (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut.
governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). _b._ Pendennis
castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct.
1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32;
second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent
of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the
Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East
India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec.
1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London
1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death;
canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R.
of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in
London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author
of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of
the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols.
1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to
1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons
preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral
of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. _d._ Amen corner, St. Paul’s
churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 15
Feb. _Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit_, _ii_ 1–21 (1839); _Ritchie’s
London Pulpit_ (1858) 60–8; _Johnson’s Popular Preachers_ (1863)
189–201; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1856) 210–41; _Roose’s
Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 410–13; _I.L.N. iv_ 48 (1844) _portrait_,
_lviii_ 163 (1871); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._
345–8, 1279–80; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.
MELVILL, SIR JAMES COSMO (brother of the preceding). _b._
Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb.
1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to
H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841;
K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. _d._ Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23
July 1860.
MELVILL, SIR MAXWELL (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin.
coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered
Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60;
assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde
1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883;
judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of
governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E.
15 Feb. 1887. _d._ of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5
Aug. 1887. _bur._ Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. _Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s
Life of sir M. Melville_ (1887), _portrait_; _Times 8 Aug. 1887
p._ 5, _15 Aug. p._ 6.
MELVILL, TEIGNMOUTH (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., _d._
Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). _b._ 1843; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865,
lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at
Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped
around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow
granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed
to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ _Graphic
xix_ 272 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 277, 282, 554, 560
(1879), _portrait_; _F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C._ (1880) 256–7.
MELVILLE, ROBERT SAUNDERS DUNDAS, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry
Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). _b._ 14 March 1771; ed.
at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings
1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P.
co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board
of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov.
1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to
18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811;
lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord
of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to
2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother
of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St.
Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May
1817; F.R.A.S. _d._ Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851.
_bur._ in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. _J. E. Doyle’s_
_Official baronage_, _ii_ 494 (1886), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_
191 (1851); _I.L.N xviii_ 538 (1851); _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery_ (1831) _vol._ 2, _portrait_ 17 _and pp._ 8.
MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the
preceding). _b._ Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb.
1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31
Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2
Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July
1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9;
colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of
32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60
rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30
March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded
as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and
governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president
of royal company of archers 1860. _d._ Melville castle 1 Feb.
1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167 (1876); _J. B. Paul’s History of royal
company of archers_ (1875) 250, _portrait_.
MELVILLE, ROBERT DUNDAS, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy
controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the
navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb.
1876. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.
MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN WHYTE (only son of John Whyte Melville
1797–1883). _b._ near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to
1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream
guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany.
1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March
1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with
the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the
life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce
or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an
autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858;
The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby
house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for
nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6
ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863,
2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed.
1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely
3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; _killed_ while hunting near
Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. _Babington’s Records
of the Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 114, _portrait_; _Fores’s Sporting
Notes_, _Oct. 1884 p._ 110, _portrait_; _Land and water_, _xxvi_
472, 486 (1878); _Baily’s Mag. xiii_ 55–67 (1867), _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 569 (1867), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xix_ 52 (1879), _portrait_.
MELVILLE, HENRY SAXELBY. _b_. 1801; formerly printer and
publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier
than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. _d_.
Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.
MELVILLE, SIR JOHN (eld. son of George Melville of Newington,
Edinburgh). _b_. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer
to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown
agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood
palace 15 Oct. 1859. _d_. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860.
_The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p._ 2.
MELVILLE, JOHN WHYTE (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry,
Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). _b._
21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18
Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of
the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were
sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of
the St. Andrew’s club 1823. _d._ Mount Melville near St. Andrews
16 July 1883. _Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds_ (1883)
30, _portrait_; _H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library_
(1890) _pp._ 437–40, _portrait_.
MELVILLE, MICHAEL LINNING (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) _b._
1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at
Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and
sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April
1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20
Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842,
superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23
Nov. 1843. _d._ 22 June 1878.
MELVILLE, ROBERT (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1842; ed.
at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17
Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising
Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence
in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. _d._
suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.
MELVIN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr.
sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master
at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer
on humanity (_i.e._ Latin) at Marischal college, contested
professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished
Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver
snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853;
author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin
1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a
third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering
6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his
sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in
univ. library, Aberdeen. _d._ Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853.
_Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp._ 225–39; _Anderson’s Fasti
academiæ Mariscallanæ_ (1889) 527–9.
MENDEL, SAMUEL. _b._ Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester
warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in
Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses
and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence
Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for
£18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at
Christies 1875. _d._ Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17
Sep. 1884.
NOTE.--He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving
the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign
countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports
of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton
to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.
MENDHAM, JOSEPH (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London,
merchant, _d._ 1810 aged 77). _b._ 1769; ed. at St. Edmund
hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield,
Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws.
22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology,
liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow
of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society
Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the
Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic
writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and
expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary
policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830,
Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work
1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. _d._
Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. _W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred
years of a family living_ (1889) 123–30, 166.
MENDS, HERBERT. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April
1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830;
captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb.
1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army
28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged
87.
MENDS, WILLIAM BOWEN. _b._ Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered
navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29
Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46
guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of
Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839;
pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. _d._
Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.
MENELAUS, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to
an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill
at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks
at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first
to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel
under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South
Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel
institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E.
1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented
a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to
Cardiff 1881–82. _d._ Tenby 30 March 1882. _Proc. of Instit. of
M.E._ (1883) _pp._ 20–2; _Red Dragon, June 1882 pp._ 387–92,
_portrait_.
MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James
McCord a merchant _d._ 1842). _b._ Chartrain, afterwards called
Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister
were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house,
New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played
at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans
and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’
school in New Orleans; _m._ 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken
musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him
in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New
Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture;
_m._ near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist,
he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New
York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states;
first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861;
went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known
as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865;
_m._ 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4;
played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864,
where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in
Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became
intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles
Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier
in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la
Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19
Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion
theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868;
author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems
not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems
dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed.
1888. _d._ Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Père la
Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to
Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. _A. I. Menken’s Infelicia_
(1888), _memoir and portrait_; _Les Pirates de la Savane. Par
Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 1–14; _T. A.
Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 243, _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old
Drury Lane_, _ii_ 251–3 (1881); _The Age_, _ii_ 369 (1864),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 44 (1862) _portrait_,
_iv_ 569 (1865), _portrait_.
MENZIES, ALLAN (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). _b._
1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs.
of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000
for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of
conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author
of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick
esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3
ed. 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.
MENZIES, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high
sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas
Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a
line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had
50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two
minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director
of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses
1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1873. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 223–8 (1886),
_portrait_.
MENZIES, SIR CHARLES (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot).
_b._ Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut.
R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine
artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de
camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A.
28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April
1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. _d._ East hill house, Hastings 22
Aug. 1866.
MENZIES, JOHN. _b._ 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh;
apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet
st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh
1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to
number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in
Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852;
Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to
Scotland 1852. _d._ 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879.
_Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 1306; _Bookseller_, _Jany. 1880
p._ 7.
MENZIES, ROBERT STEWART (elder son of Graham Menzies of
Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). _b._ 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East
Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor
sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.
MENZIES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on
Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). _b._ Kincardine on Forth
1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and
surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and
parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21
Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park
and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management
and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage
of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question
considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’
cottages and of villages 1869. _d._ Windsor great park 3 May
1878. _bur._ St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret
Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June
1878. _Land and Water_, _xxv_ 485 (1878).
MENZIES, WILLIAM COLLIER (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866).
_b._ 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869;
L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 19 Oct. 1881. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.
MERCER, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut.
27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825,
lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European
regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B.
9 June 1849. _d._ York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.
MERCER, ALEXANDER CAVALIE. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec.
1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859
to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. _d._ Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov.
1868.
MERCER, GEORGE. _b._ 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to
death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal
1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2
Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. _Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct.
1891 p._ 805.
MERCER, JOHN (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner,
_d._ 1800). _b._ Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at
Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again
1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony
on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs.
Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the
business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the
so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society
1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington
1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850;
patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June
1852; F.C.S. 1842. _d._ Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866.
_bur._ Great Harwood. _E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer_
(1886), _portrait_.
MERCER, ROBERT (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates
of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. _d._ 1846).
_b._ 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821,
retired from business. _d._ Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov.
1875. _bur._ East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_.
MERCER-HENDERSON, DOUGLAS. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803,
lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G.
11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after
that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. _d._ Naples 21 March 1854.
MERCIER, LEWIS PAGE (only son of Francis Michael Jacob
Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). _b._ 1820; ed.
at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A.
1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842;
assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow,
and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master
Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49,
head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London
1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873
and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of
A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon
and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855;
Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic
feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2
vols. 1871–2. _d._ 2 Nov. 1875.
MEREDITH, CHARLES (son of George Meredith). _b._ Poyston lodge,
Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a
squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840;
member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26
Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to
1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873.
_d._ Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain
placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.
MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM COLLIS (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of
Andrea, co. Tyrone). _b._ Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at
Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province
of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same
province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84;
knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854,
LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. _d._ 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.
MEREDYTH, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth,
1 Baronet). _b._ 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded
his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for
Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. _d._ 25
Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.
MEREI, AUGUST SCHOEPF. _b._ Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia
1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of
the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of
medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian
medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war;
a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death,
established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms
and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of
infantile development and rickets 1855. _d._ 114 Oxford street,
Manchester, March 1858.
MEREWETHER, CHARLES GEORGE (son of Francis Merewether, R. of
Cole Orton, Leics. _d._ 1864). _b._ 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C.
14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death;
contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880;
M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire
into corrupt practices at elections 1880. _d._ Inns of court
hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.
NOTE.--He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms
in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling
authority on the subject.
MEREWETHER, FRANCIS (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.)
_b._ 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R.
of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick,
Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters
to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case
between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal
in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832;
Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his
apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants
of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish
1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. _d._ Cole Orton
rectory 21 July 1864.
MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of Henry Merewether of
Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister
I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent
of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835;
recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen
Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his
death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when
he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new
system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs
1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823;
author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and
municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835.
_d._ Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. _Law Times_,
_xxxix_ 442 (1864).
MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 23
April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister
I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867,
treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5
April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875,
leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of
By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon,
New Zealand and America 1874. _d._ Bowden hill near Chippenham,
Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. _Law Times_, _lxiii_ 353 (1877).
MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (son of H. A. Merewether
1780–1864). _b._ 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at
Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut
3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col.
Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the
frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán,
battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military
secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at
Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay
against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in
Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to
death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report
relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind
1857. _d._ 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. _C. R.
Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ (1869) _passim_;
_I.L.N. liii_ 222, 225 (1868), _portrait_.
MERIVALE, CHARLES (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). _b._ 1808; ed.
at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4
in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat
race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871;
scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow
9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher
before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall
1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at
Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to
speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to
death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary
of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda,
Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History
of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols.
1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862;
Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four
lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. _d._ Ely 27
Dec. 1893. _bur._ Ely 2 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p._ 5,
_portrait_; _Edinburgh Review_, _Oct. 1884 pp._ 545–65.
MERIVALE, HERMAN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Cockwood
house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23,
captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll.
Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first
Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol
coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister
I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of
political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures
upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of
Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary
of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary
3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India,
May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in
Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates
as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on
political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on
colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2
vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of
sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol.
2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the
court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer
chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. _d._ 13 Cornwall gardens,
South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. _bur._ Fulham cemet.
_Transactions of Devonshire Association_ (1884) 570–80; _A. W.
Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed_ (1884); _I.L.N.
lxiv_ 163, 168, 170 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 172, 178
(1874), _portrait_.
MERIVALE, JOHN LEWIS (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office
Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885
when he retired on a pension. _d._ Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14
Dec. 1886.
MERLE, GIBBONS. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London
of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf
1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s
Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe
about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and
housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818,
this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in
connection with The white dwarf. _d._ Paris 19 Jany. 1855. _G.M.
xliii_ 654 (1855).
MERRICK, JOSEPH (son of an engine driver, his mother was
knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). _b._
Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses
on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla,
which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip;
exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by
an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent
decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in
1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the
London hospital for life from 1885. _d._ in London hospital, the
weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April
1890. _Times 16 April 1890 p._ 6; _British Medical Journal 11
Dec. 1886 pp._ 1188–9, 4 _portraits_; _Trans. Pathological Soc.
xxxvi_ 494–8 (1885), 2 _portraits_.
MERRIDEW, HENRY MELVILLE. _b._ 1837; English bookseller at
Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during
the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed
corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of
Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886.
_d._ Boulogne, April 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 323.
MERRIDEW, JOHN (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross
Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). _b._ 1790;
bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed
to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and
returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved
edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A
catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen
and others born or resident in or connected with the county of
Warwick 1849. _d._ Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. _Gent. Mag.
xiii_ 639 (1862).
MERRIFIELD, CHARLES WATKINS (eld. son of John Merrifield of
Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). _b._ London 20
Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton,
then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842;
assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf
of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy
on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany.
1851 but never practised; of the education department of the
privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education
department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit.
of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to
the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of
naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington
1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British
association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s
analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc.
19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery
in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission
1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861;
Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text
books of science 1870 etc. _d._ from the effects of a third
attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany.
1884. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi_ 1–3 (1884); _Nature_, _xxix_
270; _Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884_.
MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834;
schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school
Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D.
1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered
a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude
at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author
of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on
navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical
astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical
astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891.
_bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning
News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.
MERRIFIELD, MRS. MARY PHILADELPHIA. Granted civil list pension
of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services
she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s
A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco
painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of
painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding,
dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols.
1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water
colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and
shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and
present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of
Brighton 1864. _m._ John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar
at M.T. 16 May 1828. _d._ Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.
MERRIMAN, NATHANIEL JAMES (3 son of Thomas Merriman of
Marlborough). _b._ 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8;
archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of
mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions;
one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863;
dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death,
consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams
dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot
and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through
Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._
Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from
1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807;
hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to
Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to
Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on
midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837;
examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court
of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion
of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult
parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German
and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833.
_d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British
physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682,
_portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9;
_Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN (only son of the preceding).
_b._ 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B.
1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western
general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to
Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use
of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London.
_d._ Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873.
_Medical Times 1 March 1873 p._ 238; _Proc. of Med. and Chir.
soc. vii_ 228 (1875).
MERRITT, HENRY (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). _b._
Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the
alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833;
apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder
1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846
where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850;
employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in
The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The
Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of
the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the
Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the
restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art
notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the
paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under
the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house;
restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster
abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death;
lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s
park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt
and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854;
Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his
own autobiography; _m._ April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M.
Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures
at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. _d._
54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. _bur._
Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty
years of an agitator’s life_, _ii_ 232–47 (1892); _H. Merritt,
art, criticism, and romance_ 2 _vols._ (1879), _recollections_,
_i_ 1–65, _portrait_; _The Times 14 July 1877 p._ 13; _L’ Art.
Paris 4 April 1880 pp._ 1–8.
MERRY, JAMES (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). _b._ New
Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster
in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and
Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had
cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks
burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition
July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced
racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at
Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased
Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas
with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St.
Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby
with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with
Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart
1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000
guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased
lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860.
_d._ 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _vi_ 512, 518–19 (1877), _portrait_; _Rice’s History of
the British turf_, _ii_ 332–38 (1879); _Illust. sporting news_,
_iv_ 369 (1865), _portrait_; _Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting
life_ (1864) 13–25; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 357–63 (1861), _portrait_;
_W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed._ (1886) 301–25; _Thormanby’s
Famous Racing Men_ (1882) _pp._ 100–107, _portrait_.
MERRYWEATHER, MOSES. _b._ 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin
and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant
1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced
his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great
Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was
called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he
built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt
1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich,
covering about three acres were acquired, _d._ Clapham house,
Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. _London Figaro 7 June 1894
pp._ 14–16; _Times 5 Oct. 1872 p._ 6.
MERRYWEATHER, RICHARD MOSES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented
with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam
fire engine. _d._ Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.
MERYON, CHARLES LEWIS (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). _b._
Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802;
Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806,
M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s
hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily
and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow
1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended
on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec.
1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in
London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope
as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3
vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with
portrait of author. _d._ The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep.
1877. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 234 (1878).
NOTE.--By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse
Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon _b._ Paris 23 Nov.
1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and
etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was
_bur._ in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. _F. S. Ellis’
Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion_ (1880);
_Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine
Arts club_ (1879); _Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By
Philip Burty_ (1879).
MERYON, EDWARD. _b._ 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844;
M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to
hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative
anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and
intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history
of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological
researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the
sympathetic system of nerves 1872. _d._ 14 Clarges st. Mayfair,
London 8 Nov. 1880.
MESSITER, EDWARD. _b._ 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut.
39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec.
1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848,
of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah
14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col.
of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. _d._ 19
Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.
MESSITER, JOHN. _b._ 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823,
lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. _d._
Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.
MESSITER, SUSSEX LENNOX AUBREY BEAUCLERK. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov.
1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the
gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. _d._ 2 Haymarket,
London 20 Sep. 1870.
METCALFE, FREDERICK (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of
Gainsborough). _b._ 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll.
Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849,
sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head
master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of
Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849
to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed.
1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German
literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and
the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845
and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. _d._
Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.
METCALFE, JAMES (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846).
_b._ 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep.
1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie
11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the
commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him
throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters;
major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet
lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec.
1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. _d._ 44 Harcourt
terrace, London 8 March 1888.
METCALFE, SIR THEOPHILUS JOHN, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas
Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet _d._ 1853). _b._ Delhi 28 Nov.
1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil
service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut
1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on
outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi
14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector
at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid
pension 1866. _d._ Paris 10 Nov. 1883.
METCALFE, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as
a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of
W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s
mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson
1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny
paper in Cambridge. _d._ Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888.
_Bookseller_, _May 1888 p._ 465.
METCALFE, WILLIAM JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of
Foulmire, Cambs., _d._ 1850). _b._ 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder
of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder
of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit
54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. _d._ suddenly in his private
room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.
METEYARD, ELIZA (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). _b._ Lime st.
Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe
near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death;
contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal,
People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of
Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame
3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865;
The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s
gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols.
1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a
manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60,
5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. _d._ Stanley
place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. _bur._
Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G.
Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead.
_Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 373–5.
METHUEN, FREDERICK HENRY PAUL METHUEN, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1
baron Methuen _d._ 1849). _b._ 23 Feb. 1818; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Dec. 1837; lieut. 76 foot 3 April 1840; lieut. 71 foot
7 Sep. 1841, sold out 2 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. royal Wiltshire
militia 5 May 1846, lieut.-col. commandant 9 Jany. 1859, hon.
col. 5 Dec. 1885 to death; militia A.D.C. to the queen 11 Dec.
1860 to death; a lord-in-waiting to the queen June 1859 to
July 1866, Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, May 1880 to June 1885 and
Feb. to Aug. 1886. _d._ Corsham court near Chippenham 26 Sep.
1891. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 394–9; _I.L.N. xvi_ 92
(1860), _portrait_.
METHUEN, _Rev. Thomas Anthony_ (2 son of Paul Cobb Methuen of
Corsham, Wilts., _d._ 1816). _b._ Chandos st. Cavendish sq.
London 23 May 1781; ed. at Eton 1796–9 and at Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1801; C. of
Ickham near Canterbury 1805; R. of All Cannings, Wilts. 1809 to
death; R of Garsdon, Wilts. 5 Feb. 1814 to death; author of A
series of single sheets containing new year addresses. Devizes
1832–68; A memoir of the rev. R. P. Beachcroft 1832; The voice
of God in the ears of sabbath breakers, or four young men
drowned in the canal 1847. _d._ Cannings’ rectory 15 June 1869.
_Autobiography of T. A. Methuen_ (1870), 2 _portraits_.
METZLER, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 1835; proprietor of Saturday
musical review, vol. 1, No. 1–42, 1879; partner in firm of
Metzler & Co. pianoforte manufacturers and publishers of music
at 37 Great Marlborough st. London about 1860 to death; resided
Stamore house, 83 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London. _d._
Arrochar, Scotland 1 Sep. 1879.
MEUX, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Meux, 1 baronet
1770–1841). _b._ 28 Dec. 1817; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1838; succeeded his father 7 April 1841 as 2 baronet and
head of firm of Meux and Co. the Horse shoe brewery, Tottenham
court road, London; sheriff of Herts. 1845; M.P. Herts.
1847–59; captain South Herts. yeomanry 21 June 1847 to Sep.
1859; there was an inquiry into his state of mind June 1858.
_d._ 36 Grosvenor sq. London 1 Jany. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Noted
breweries_, _ii_ 155–68 (1889) _with 6 views_.
MEVES VON SCHROËDER, AUGUSTUS ANTOINE CORNELIUS (son of Augustus
Anthony Wm. Meves von Schroëder, miniature painter, _d._ 1 Aug.
1818, who _m._ in 1783 Marianne 2 dau. of Cornelius Crowley,
she was a musician and _d._ Conduit st. London, Jany. 1823).
_b._ London 16 Feb. 1785; taught the pianoforte by his mother,
appeared in Edinburgh as a pianist under name of Mr. Augustus
1805; a volunteer with the Loyal British artificers 1811,
became captain; a professor of music to 1818; a stockbroker in
London 1818, speculated and lost all his money 1821; claimed to
be the dauphin of France, Louis XVII. 1818 and asserted that
his alleged father brought him to London for safety in 1792;
corresponded with the duchess of Angoulême 1830–1; composer
of Once more enchanting girl adieu 1810; L’Aimable, a rondo
for the pianoforte and harp 1820; Forty seven preludes for
the pianoforte 1827; Romanza for the piano 1843; Jerusalem,
recit. et aria 1854; Hail to the chief, a glee 1856, and 100
other pieces of music 1810–56; author of The memoirs of Louis
Charles, dauphin of France son of Louis XVI. who personated
through supposititious means A. Meves. The memoirs written by
the veritable Louis XVII. The compilation by his sons W. and A.
Meves 1868. _d._ in a cab while being conveyed to his residence
35 University st. Gower st. London 9 May 1859. _W. A. and A.
Meves’ The prisoner of the Temple_ (1860), _portrait_; _W. A.
and A. Meves’ Louis XVIIth_ (1867); _Augustus de Bourbon’s
Louis XVII. versus The London Times_ (1872), _with the author’s
portrait_; _Augustus de Bourbon’s The dauphin, Louis XVII._
(1876), _with the author’s portrait_; _Celebrated claimants_
(1873) 187–92; _J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty_ (1882)
230–5; _The London Figaro 4 Feb. 1880 p._ 6.
NOTE.--He left two sons, 1 William Augustus Meves author and writer of
works under name of Augustus de Bourbon; 2 Augustus Meves author and
drum player in Weist Hill’s orchestra London, _d._ Jany. 1880.
MEWBURN, FRANCIS. First solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington
railway co. 1825; chief bailiff of Darlington 28 Nov. 1846;
presented with a service of plate costing £400 by 224 of his
friends at the Central hall, Darlington 17 Aug. 1855; author of
Observations on the second report of the commissioners appointed
to inquire into the law of real property. Durham 1830, 2 ed.
1830. _d._ 1882. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 337, 341 (1875), _portrait_.
MEXBOROUGH, JOHN SAVILE, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 earl of
Mexborough 1761–1830). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 3
July 1783; styled Viscount Pollington till 1830; ed. at Trin.
coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; M.P. for Pontefract 1807–26 and 1831–2;
succeeded to the peerage 3 Feb. 1830; is described as Methley in
A. W. Kinglake’s Eothen or traces of travel brought home from
the East 1844; his printed books were sold at Sotheby’s 19–20
Dec. 1860 for £2120, and his manuscripts were sold 6 Feb. 1861
for £3019. _d._ 25 Portman sq. London 25 Dec. 1860.
MEYERS, JOHN HENRY. Apprentice to Edward Colyer, Fenchurch
street London 1836–43; printer Hayden sq. Minories 1843–9;
bookseller and stationer at Enfield 1849, retired 1887;
proprietor of Meyers’ Observer 1859; resided at Hampton 1887,
then at Richmond. _d._ Enfieldia, Richmond 9 June 1892.
MEYNELL, CHARLES. _b._ 1828; ed. at Sedgley park, Staffs., and
English college, Rome; professor of metaphysics at St. Mary’s
college Oscott many years; missioner at Caverswall, North
Staffs. 1873 to death; author with rev. J. S. Northcote of The
Colenso controversy considered from the Catholic standpoint
1863; author of Short sermons on doctrinal subjects 1866;
Padre Liberatore and the Ontologists, a review 1868; Proteus
and Amadeus, a correspondence. Edited by Aubrey De Vere 1878,
Meynell sustains the part of Amadeus and Wilfrid Blount that
of Proteus; Sermons for the spring quarter. Edited by H. I. D.
Ryder 1883. _d._ Caverswall, Staffs. 3 May 1882.
MEYNELL, GODFREY (2 son of Godfrey Meynell of Langley,
Derbyshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1838
aged 19; rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1840
and 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845;
practised as a conveyancer at York. _d._ 1858.
MEYNELL, HENRY (2 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs.,
_d._ 1801). _b._ 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 24 June
1803; flag captain of the Newcastle at St. Helena, where he was
noticed by Napoleon 1815; captain 10 April 1816; R.A. 29 April
1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862; gentleman
usher to George IV. 22 March 1820 to 26 June 1830 and to William
IV. 24 July 1830 to 23 March 1831; one of grooms of waiting to
Victoria, April 1845; M.P. Lisburn, co. Antrim 1826–47. _d._
Paris 24 March 1865. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
528–30; _G.M. xviii_ 663 (1865).
MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO CHARLES (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar
Cross, Staffs., _d._ 1801). _b._ 1784; master of the Hoar
Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826;
assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance
with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures
at Temple Newsam near Leeds. _d._ Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb.
1869. _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 140–41; _Waagen’s
Treasures of art_, _iii_ 332–4 (1854).
MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO FRANCIS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford
1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to
death. _d._ 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. _I.L.N.
lviii_ 579 (1871).
MEYRICK, GEORGE. _b._ 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784;
captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794,
regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay;
lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798;
L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. _d._ Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853.
MEYSEY-THOMPSON, ALBERT CHILDERS (3 son of sir Harry Stephen
Meysey-Thompson baronet _d._ 1874). _b._ 13 July 1848; ed. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister
I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary
counsel. _d._ 20 March 1894.
MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HARRY STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of
Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4
dragoons 1771–1853). _b._ Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809;
fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own
estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837;
an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman
of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal,
member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman
of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern
railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s
association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby
1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding,
Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866;
cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent
in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by
r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. _d._ Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May
1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 523 (1874), _lxv_ 236; _Journal of royal
agricultural society of England_, _2 series x_ 519–41; _Minutes
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 293–6 (1875).
MIALL, EDWARD (younger son of Moses Miall, general merchant,
_d._ 1829). _b._ Portsmouth 8 May 1809; usher in Saltmarsh’s
school, Bocking near Braintree 1827 and then in Waddell’s school
at Nayland, Suffolk; independent minister at Ware, Herts.
Feb. 1831; minister of Bond st. chapel, Leicester 1834–40;
established The Nonconformist, weekly paper in London 14 April
1841, editor 1842 to death; a founder of The National complete
suffrage union April 1842; contested Southwark 12 Sep. 1845
and Halifax 30 July 1847; M.P. Rochdale 1852–7; introduced
resolutions in favour of the disestablishment of Irish church
27 May 1856; contested Tavistock 4 Sep. 1857 and Banbury 9
Feb. 1859; member of royal commission on education June 1858
to 1861; received a testimonial of £5000 and a service of
plate after the sixth triennial conference of the Liberation
Society 1862; contested Bradford 16 Oct. 1867 and 18 Nov. 1868;
M.P. Bradford 1869–74; ten thousand guineas were subscribed
for him in 1873; lived at Honor Oak near London 1864–81;
author of The nonconformist’s sketch-book 1845, 2 ed. 1867;
Views of the voluntary principle 1845; The British churches
in relation to the British people 1849, 2 ed. 1850; Bases of
belief, an examination of Christianity as a divine revelation
1853, 3 ed. 1861; Title deeds of the Church of England to her
parochial endowments 1862, 6 ed. 1865; An editor off the line,
or wayside musings 1865; The social influences of the state
church 1867. _d._ Greystone lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 29 April
1881. _Arthur Miall’s Life of Edward Miall_ (1884), _portrait_;
_J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_ (1858) 208–18; _I.L.N. vii_
176 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxviii_ 443 (1881) _portrait_;
_Congregationalist_, _viii_ 441, _portrait_.
MICHAEL, JAMES LIONEL. Solicitor at Grafton, New South Wales;
one of the earliest of Australian poets; author of Songs
without music. Sydney 1854; John Cumberland. Sydney 1857, a
narrative poem; _found drowned_ in the Clarence river 1868. _G.
B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales_ (1868)
218–20.
MICHAEL, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Lewin Michael of Swansea,
merchant). _b._ 6 Sep. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1864,
bencher 13 Jany. 1882 to death; Q.C. April 1878; author of The
sanitary acts 1867; with J. S. Will The law of gas and water
supply 1872, 3 ed. 1884; with W. H. Corfield and J. A. Wanklyn
A manual of public health 1874; resided 54 Cornwall gardens,
Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Schloss Labers, Meran in the Tyrol 15
Feb. 1892.
MICHEL, CHARLES EDWARD. _b._ 1810; ensign 66 foot 25 Nov. 1828,
major 25 June 1847; lieut.-col. 54 foot 28 July 1857, retired on
full pay 21 Sep. 1860 with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 18 Inverness
terrace, London 7 Aug. 1893.
MICHEL, SIR JOHN (eld. son of general John Michel _d._ 1844).
_b._ 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at Eton; ensign 57 foot 3 April 1823;
ensign 64 foot 20 Nov. 1823, captain 15 Feb. 1827; captain 3
foot 20 Feb. 1835; major 6 foot 6 May 1840, lieut.-col. 15
April 1842 to 1 Oct. 1854; A.D.C. to his uncle sir Henry Fane,
commander-in-chief East Indies 1835–9; commanded a brigade
during Kaffir war 1846–7, and second division of the army in
Kaffir war 1852–3; chief of the staff of Turkish contingent
during Crimean war 27 March 1855 to April 1856; commanded the
Malwa field force in Indian mutiny 1858–9, defeated Tantia Topee
at Beorora 15 Sep. 1858, and at Mingrauli 9 Oct., annihilated
one wing of his force near Saugor 5 Dec, Tantia Topee was hanged
18 April 1859; commanded the first division in North China,
which burned the summer palace at Pekin 18 Oct. 1860; col. of 86
foot 19 Aug. 1862 to death; commanded the troops in the first
autumn manœuvres in south of England 1873; commanded the forces
in Ireland 1875–80; general 28 March 1874, field marshal 27
March 1885; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 21 March 1859, G.C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 20 Aug. 1852. _d._ at his seat
Dewlish, Dorchester 23 May 1886. _Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1860
pp._ 181–94.
MICHELL, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (2 son of Sampson Michell, admiral
Portuguese navy 1755–1809). _b._ Exeter 29 March 1793; baptized
Charles Collier but known as Charles Cornwallis; ed. at R.M.
academy, Woolwich 1807–9; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 Oct. 1809, 1 lieut.
1813, placed on h.p. with rank of captain 4 Sep. 1817;
commanded a battery of Portuguese artillery during Peninsular
war; attached to staff of marshal Beresford in the Brazils 1820;
military drawing master at R.M. college, Sandhurst 25 March
1824; professor of fortification at R.M. academy, Woolwich
27 Sep. 1825 to 1828; surveyor general, civil engineer, and
superintendent of works at Cape of Good Hope 1828 to July 1848;
A.Q.M.G. in Caffre war of 1833–4, for which he was created K.H.
1836; knight of Portuguese orders of St. Bento d’Avis 1844 and
of the Tower and Sword, Sep. 1846. _d._ Eltham, Kent 28 March
1851. _Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 564.
MICHELL, SIR FREDERICK THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._
Exeter 8 April 1788; entered navy 17 Sep. 1803; captain 22 Feb.
1830; R.A. 9 July 1855, V.A. 16 June 1862, retired admiral 2
April 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ North
gate, Totnes 14 Jany. 1873.
MICHELL, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Michell of Huish, Somerset).
_b._ 1781; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 March 1798,
lieut.-col. 22 July 1830; commanded the R.A. in Canada 1831–36
and at Gibraltar 1844–48; col. commandant 14 June 1856 to death;
general 2 June 1864; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 28 June 1861.
_d._ 76 Portland place, London 23 Aug. 1866.
MICHELL, JOHN EDWARD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 16 Sep.
1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1846, lieut.-col. 2 Sep. 1870,
colonel 17 April 1878 to death; brigadier general Bengal 31
March 1876 to 31 July 1876 and 9 March 1877 to 30 April 1880;
C.B. 2 June 1869; M.G. 1 May 1880; served in the Crimean war and
Indian mutiny. _d._ Bishop’s Down, Spa, Tunbridge Wells 7 March
1883.
MICHELL, NICHOLAS (son of John Michell 1774–1868). _b._ Calenick
near Truro 4 June 1807; ed. at Truro gr. sch.; employed in his
father’s tin smelting works at Calenick; contributed to the
Forget-me-not, the Keepsake and other annuals; author of The
siege of Constantinople, with other poems 1831; An essay on
woman 1833; The fatalist or the fortunes of Godolphin 3 vols.
1840; The traduced, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; Ruins
of many lands 1849; Spirits of the past 1853; The poetry of
creation 1856; The immortals, or glimpses of paradise 1870; a
collected edition of his poems appeared in 1871. _d._ Tehidy
terrace, Falmouth 6 April 1880. _bur._ St. Kea churchyard 12
April. _Biograph_, _i_ 46 (1879); _Men of the West_, _April 1877
pp._ 17–20, _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._
352–4, 1281; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxviii_ 241, 501.
MICHELL, RICHARD (3 son of Edward Michell). _b._ Bruton,
Somerset 1805; ed. at Bruton gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1868; a successful
private tutor; fellow of Lincoln college 1830, bursar 1832,
tutor 1834–48; the first prælector of logic at Oxford 1839–49;
public orator of univ. of Oxf. 1849 to death; member of the new
hebdomadal council 1854–72; R. of South Moreton, Berkshire 1856
to death; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1848 and principal
5 Feb. 1868, the hall was converted into Hertford college in
1874, principal 10 Oct. 1874 to death; author of The nature and
comparative value of the christian evidences considered. Bampton
lectures 1849; Orationes Creweianæ 1878. _d._ Hertford college,
Oxford 29 March 1877, portrait in Hertford college. _Graphic_,
_xv_ 356 (1877), _portrait_.
MICHELL, WILLIAM (1 son of Bennet Michell). _b._ Bodmin 14 Feb.
1796; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1839; M.R.C.S.
1813; in practice at Fore st. Bodmin 1850; M.P. Bodmin 1852–7;
contested Bodmin 28 March 1857; M.P. Bodmin 30 April 1859;
accepted Chiltern hundreds 5 Aug. 1859; author of On difficult
cases of parturition and the use of ergot of rye 1828. _d._
Plymouth 4 Nov. 1872.
MICHELL, WILLIAM EDWARDS (only son of William Michell 1805–69,
registrar of the stannaries). _b._ Truro 14 March 1840; matric.
from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Jany. 1861; capt. royal Cornwall and Devon
miners’ artillery militia 12 Feb. 1870; lieut.-col. commanding 2
brigade western division royal artillery militia 4 April 1883 to
death; F.R.A.S. _d._ Woolwich 5 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Newquay.
MICKLETHWAITE, FREDERICK NATHANIEL (3 son of Nathaniel
Micklethwaite of Taverham hall, Norwich 1784–1856). _b._ 1817;
ed. Eton and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; his first
match at Lord’s, Harrow _v._ Eton 31 July 1834; the best bat in
the Eton eleven; played for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s
23–4 June 1836, afterwards played for I. Zingari; on committee
of Marylebone club; barrister I.T. 29 April 1842. _d._ Taverham
hall, Norwich 18 Oct. 1878. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_ii_ 279 (1862).
MICKLETHWAITE, THOMAS. _b._ 4 Sep. 1813; editor and proprietor
of Sheffield Patriot 1841; proprietor and editor of Wakefield
Journal and examiner 1841 to Nov. 1852; poor law auditor for
west Yorkshire audit district 28 June 1851 to death; a town
councillor of Wakefield; chairman of board of guardians 1849–51;
high chief ranger of ancient order of Foresters 1849; barrister
G.I. 30 April 1853. _d._ Wakefield 23 May 1857. _bur._ in the
vicarage croft 27 May. _Wakefield Journal 29 May 1857 p._ 5.
MIDDLEMIST, ROBERT. _b._ 29 Feb. 1808; a computer at Nautical
almanac office, London 1831; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1834;
mathematical master in royal naval school, Greenwich; entered
Christ’s coll. Camb. as an undergraduate 1838, scholar,
27th wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; C. of Ufford,
Northamptonshire 1843–5; senior assistant mathematical master
at Harrow 1845 to death; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1860 to
death. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1877. _bur._ at Harrow 18 Jany.
_Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 202–205.
MIDDLEMORE, RICHARD (son of Richard Middlemore of The Davids,
Northfield). _b._ 12 Oct. 1804; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827; an
ophthalmic surgeon at Temple Row, Birmingham 1827, retired 1879;
assist. surgeon Birmingham and Midland eye hospital 1828, and
hon. surgeon 1835–49, gave £1000 for an annual lecture there
1888; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of the blind asylum at
Edgbaston 1848 which he endowed with £2000 in 1889; founded a
prize for an essay on improvements in ophthalmic medicine and
surgery, to be awarded by British Medical assoc. 1877; author
of A treatise on diseases of the eye and its appendages 2 vols.
1835. _d._ The Limes, Bristol road, Birmingham 1 March 1891.
_Lancet 7 March 1891 p._ 579.
MIDDLEMORE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1802;
leather merchant Birmingham and a government contractor,
retired; a town councillor of Birmingham 1839; gave and laid out
a recreation ground of four acres in the centre of the town;
a benefactor to the Baptist cause; gave £500 towards price of
Aston hall and park 1863; a liberal donor to the school of art
1844 and to the art gallery; chairman of Birmingham wagon co.
_d._ 38 Elvetham road, Birmingham 15 Jany. 1887.
MIDDLETON, SIR HENRY WILLOUGHBY, 8 Baron (1 son of Henry
Willoughby, M.P. 1780–1849). _b._ Apsley hall, Notts. 28 Aug.
1817; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; succeeded his cousin as 8
baron 5 Nov. 1856; capt. South Notts. yeomanry cavalry 1861;
hon. col. 1 brigade East Riding artillery volunteers 1862;
bought the Middleton pack from sir Tatton Sykes 1853, hunted
5 days a week at his sole expense to 1860, spending £20,000,
a guarantee fund of £2,000 was raised in 1860, master of the
hounds to his death; presented with a testimonial and his
portrait by Henry T. Wells, R.A. Dec. 1877; bought the parish
of West Bruton, Notts. 941 acres March 1857. _d._ Settrington
house, Birdsall, Yorks. 20 Dec. 1877. _Times 21 Dec. 1877 p._ 3;
_Baily’s Mag. x_ 269–71 (1865), _portrait_.
MIDDLETON, CHARLES. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot 19 Sep. 1804;
captain 22 light dragoons 25 Feb. 1810, placed on h.p. 25 Sep.
1820; captain 2 dragoon guards 10 Jany. 1822; lieut.-col. 3
dragoons 3 Dec. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1851; commandant of cavalry
depot, Maidstone 1 Jany. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; major 72 foot 16
June 1825, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._
Rockey hill terrace, Maidstone 23 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xliii_ 84
(1855).
MIDDLETON, SIR GEORGE NATHANIEL BROKE, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir
Philip Bowes Vere Broke 1776–1841, 1 Baronet). _b._ Plymouth 26
April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1821 etc.; entered R.N. 16 Aug.
1825; captain 18 Dec. 1845; commander of the Gladiator 1854; at
attack on Bomarsund, then in the Black Sea 1854–5; C.B. 5 July
1855; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 Feb. 1855; assumed
name of Middleton by r.l. 17 July 1860; sheriff of Suffolk
1864; admiral 22 Jany. 1877; rode to hounds when over seventy;
a liberal supporter of Suffolk sports. _d._ Shrublands near
Ipswich 14 Jany. 1887. _Baily’s Mag. xlvii_ 129 (1887).
MIDDLETON, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 1827; landscape painter at
Norwich; his landscapes were noted for their effective rendering
of the seasons of the year; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. and
15 at B.I. 1847–55. _d._ of consumption at Surrey st. Norwich 11
Nov. 1856.
MIDDLETON, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 1817; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1844, LL.D. 1849; member of college of
doctors of the law 2 Nov. 1849; steward of doctors’ commons
1860 to death; reported in the Court of probate and divorce,
his reports are comprised in The Law Reports, Courts of probate
and divorce vols. 1–3 (1869–75) and Probate division vols. 1–3
(1876–8). _d._ Marine lodge, Southend 6 March 1878. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xxii_ 394 (1878).
MIDDLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Wm. Middleton, solicitor, _d._
1885). _b._ Leeds 1838; solicitor at Leeds 1860 to death; a
founder of Leeds and county conservative club; vice president of
Incorporated law society, Leeds 1881, president 1882 and 1883;
member of council of Incorporated law society of the United
Kingdom 1883 to death. _d._ Fairfield, Far Headingley near Leeds
16 July 1887. _bur._ Chapel Allerton ch. near Leeds 19 July.
_Law Times 6 Aug. 1887 p._ 266.
MIDDLETON, JOSEPH (younger son of Joseph Middleton of Grove
house near Leeds). _b._ 28 March 1818; pupil of Thomas Chitty;
barrister M.T. 9 June 1843; went northern circuit; recorder of
Scarborough, June 1865 to death; author of Hyacinth, a poem and
lyrics 1840; Stanhope, a domestic novel 1845; Marmaduke Lorrimer
3 vols. 1850; Love versus law, or marriage with a deceased
wife’s sister 3 vols. 1855. _d._ Gibton grove, Roundhay near
Leeds 24 Dec. 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xvi_ 162 (1872).
MIDDLETON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Second lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1839,
colonel 10 Nov. 1868 to death; deputy adjutant general R.A. 1
Oct. 1870 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board royal mail
steamer Douro, bound for Lisbon 13 April 1875.
MIDDLETON, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of George Middleton). _b._
1846; cornet 12 lancers 9 May 1865, captain 4 Jany. 1871 to
11 July 1874 when he sold out; extra A.D.C. to lord lieut. of
Ireland 1870–4; first whip to the 12th lancers harriers 1865–6
and hunted the drag hounds at Ballincolley, co. Cork 1866–8;
rode his first steeple chase at Cork 1867; his horse Lord of
the Harem won 29 races; won the Irish grand military cup on
Waterford at Punchestown 1873 and 1874; the best rider to
hounds since James Mason; acted as pilot across country to the
empress of Austria during her 4 hunting visits to England and
Ireland 1876 and 1878–80; a cricketer and member of I. Zingari;
known as “Bay Middleton”; _killed_ while riding in the Midland
sportsman’s cup steeplechase at Herd Hill farm near Kineton,
Warwickshire 9 April 1892. _bur._ Haselbeck, Northamptonshire
14 April. _Baily’s Mag. xlv_ 1–2 (1886) _portrait_, _lvii_ 350
(1892); _Sporting Mirror_, _v_ 13 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
16 April 1892 p._ 479, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 23
April 1892 p._ 209, _portrait_.
MIDLETON, WILLIAM JOHN BRODRICK, 7 Viscount (3 son of hon.
Charles Brodrick, abp. of Cashel 1761–1822). _b._ 8 July 1798;
ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Ashstead,
Surrey 1822–25; R. of Castle Rising, Norfolk 1825–39; R. of
Bath 1839–54; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to
death; raised to rank of a viscount’s son by royal warrant 1849;
canon of Wells 1855–63; dean of Exeter 2 April 1863 resigned
Nov. 1867; succeeded his brother as 7 viscount 2 Dec. 1863;
author of Facts and documents, the negotiation between the
rector of Bath and the committee of the Weymouth house school.
Bath 1840. _d._ Peper Harow 29 Aug. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 283, 363
(1870); _Mayor’s Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 197.
MIDWINTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Forest of Dean, Gloucs. 19 June 1852;
went to Australia; learnt cricket at Bendigo, Victoria; played
for Victoria against New South Wales in 9 matches 1875–87; came
to England 1877; played for Gloucestershire 1877–81; member of
the United South of England eleven; played for English team in
Australia 1881–2; played for Australian team in England 1884;
lessee of various hotels in Melbourne; went out of his mind
1889. _d._ Kew asylum near Melbourne 3 Dec. 1890. _W. G. Grace’s
Cricket_ (1891) 170, _portrait_.
MIERS, JOHN (son of a jeweller). _b._ London 25 Aug. 1789;
developed the mineral resources of Chili with lord Cochrane
1819–25; studied botany in England 1825; resided at Buenos
Ayres 1826–31 where he erected a mint for the government; an
engineer in Rio Janeiro 1831–8 where he also erected a mint
for the government; resided in London 1838 to death; F.L.S.
1839, wrote nearly 80 papers in its Transactions, chiefly on
South American plants; F.R.S. 9 March 1843; received grand
cross of order of Rose of Brazil; Lindley dedicated to him the
genus Miersia, a Chilian group of plants; author of Travels
in Chili and La Plata 2 vols. 1825; Illustrations of South
American plants 2 vols. 1850–7; Contributions to botany 3 vols.
1861–71; On the apocynaceæ of South America 1878; bequeathed his
botanical collection to British Museum. _d._ 84 Addison road,
Kensington, London 17 Oct. 1879. _Journal of botany_ (1880)
33–6, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Society_, _xxix_ 22–3 (1879).
MIGNAN, ROBERT. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. first European
regiment 3 May 1820, captain 11 Sep. 1830, major of the right
wing 15 Aug. 1847 to death; brevet lieut.-col. 7 June 1849;
author of Travels in Chaldæa, including a journey from Bussorah
to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon performed on foot 1829; A winter
journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia in
Koordistan 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Poonah 3 June 1852.
MIGNOT, LOUIS RÉMY (son of a confectioner at Baltimore). _b._
Charleston, South Carolina 1831; studied art in Holland;
opened a studio in New York about 1855; painted tropical
scenes in South America; associate member of Academy of design
1858, an academician 1859; came to London 1862; exhibited 8
landscapes at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1863–71; his picture The
source of Susquehannah was exhibited at Paris exposition 1867;
a collection of his paintings was exhibited in London after his
death. _d._ Brighton, Sep. 1870.
MILANO, JOHN, stage name of John Millingham (son of John
Millingham _d._ 18 Nov. 1874 aged 95). _b._ 1825; dancer at
Grecian saloon, London; harlequin at Sadler’s Wells theatre 7
Dec. 1851, at Surrey Dec. 1852, at Drury Lane Dec. 1853 and
Dec. 1854, at Haymarket Dec. 1855 and Dec. 1856, at Drury Lane
Dec. 1857, Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859, at Princess’s Dec. 1862;
ballet master and arranger of ballets at many London theatres;
wrote with H. T. Arden, Harlequin prince Happy-go-lucky produced
at Alhambra palace London 26 Dec. 1871; _m._ (1) 1849 Thérese
Cushnie dancer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, she _d._ 22 Aug.
1857; _m._ (2) Minnie Sidney actress, she _d._ 9 Feb. 1873. _d._
191 Kennington road, London 20 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemet.
24 Aug. _Era 23 Aug. 1874 p._ 4.
MILBANK, MARK (1 son of Wm. Milbank of Thorp Perrow, Yorks. _d._
1802). _b._ 2 May 1795; ed. Harrow, matric. from Oriel coll.
Oxf. 6 Nov. 1813; M.P. Camelford 1818–31; sheriff North riding
of Yorkshire 1837. _d._ Barningham park near Greta Bridge,
Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1881.
MILBANKE-HUSKISSON, SIR JOHN RALPH, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir
John Peniston Milbanke of Halnaby, Yorks. 1776–1850). _b._ 5
Nov. or Dec. 1800; clerk in Foreign office 10 Oct. 1823; sec.
of legation at Frankfort 6 Sep. 1826; sec. of embassy at St.
Petersburg 28 Oct. 1835, and at Vienna 2 Oct. 1838; envoy
extraord. and minister plenipo. Munich 14 Nov. 1843 and at the
Hague 28 Oct. 1862, retired on a pension 29 Sep. 1867; succeeded
as 8 baronet 27 July 1850; assumed by r.l. surname of Huskisson
in compliance with will of Eliza Emily widow of rt. hon. William
Huskisson 5 Jany. 1866. _d._ Eartham house near Chichester 30
Dec. 1868. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 p._ 110; _F.O.
List_, _Jany. 1869 p._ 188.
MILDMAY, CAREW ANTHONY ST. JOHN (9 son of sir Henry Paulet St.
John, 3 Baronet, who assumed surname of Mildmay by r.l. 8 Dec.
1790, _d._ 11 Nov. 1808). _b._ Winchester 2 Feb. 1800; ed. at
Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; student of
Inner Temple 1822; V. of Dogmersfield 1824; R. of the sinecure
rectory of Shorewell, Isle of Wight 1824 to death; V. of
Burnham, Essex 1827–58; R. of Chelmsford 1826 to death; chaplain
to bishop Wigram 1860; archdeacon of Essex 1861 to death; author
of Sermons 1879, which contain an In Memoriam pp. ix–xxiii. _d._
Homburg 13 July 1878. _bur._ Chelmsford.
MILES, CHARLES POPHAM (4 son of William Augustus Miles,
political writer, _d._ 1817). _b._ 1810; ed. at Morpeth gr.
sch.; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co.; studied at Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1851; C. of St. Ann, Limehouse, and
chaplain of Sailors’ home, Wells st. London 1838–9; C. of St.
Luke, Chelsea 1839–41; C. of Bishopwearmouth 1841–3; incumbent
of St. Jude’s, Glasgow, Nov. 1843, his benefice was withdrawn
from episcopal jurisdiction after a controversy between him and
his bishop 1844; principal of Malta protestant college 1858–67;
V. of Monkwearmouth, Durham 1867–83; hon. canon of Durham 1872;
F.L.S.; author of Lectures on the book of the prophet Daniel
2 parts 1840–41; The voice of the reformation, an apology
for evangelical doctrines 1844; The Cyclopædia of religious
denominations 1853; The Scottish episcopal church, antagonistic
to the church of England in Scotland. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Great
Chesterford, Essex 10 July 1891. _John Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1848) 126–32.
MILES, GEORGE FRANCIS, known as Frank Miles (youngest son of
Robert Henry Wm. Miles, rector of Bingham, Notts.). _b._ 22
April 1852; studied art on the continent; worked in Wales some
time; painted portraits of princess of Wales and some members
of her family; best known for a series of portrait studies of
female heads, which had a great sale; introduced many Japanese
flowers into England; exhibited 8 portraits at R.A. 1874–80;
confined in Brislington asylum near Bristol 27 Dec. 1887 to
death. _d._ Brislington asylum 15 July 1891. _bur._ Almondsbury
near Bristol.
MILES, HENRY DOWNES. _b._ 1806; sub-editor of The Constitution
1833, which was started in opposition to The Times; subsequently
on The Crown; ring reporter to the London daily press and Bell’s
Life in London many years, retired 1871; edited The Sporting
Magazine; translated M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1846
and The Wandering Jew 1846; edited The licensed victuallers’
year book 1873, and The sportsman’s companion 1863–4, twelve
parts only; author of The life of J. Grimaldi 1838; Dick
Turpin 4 ed. 1845; Claude du Val 1850; The Anglo-Indian word