Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 7)

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.