Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 8)

MAYHEW, Augustus Septimus (youngest son of Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew of 26 Carey st. London, attorney who d. 1858). b. 1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited 1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861; Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce, Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand 1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871; resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. d. Richmond infirmary 25 Dec. 1875. bur. Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 62–5.

MAYHEW, Edward (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–1875). b. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed. 1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical or London directories after 1855. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 58–61.

MAYHEW, Henry (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–75). b. London 25 Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father; published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London, weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However, a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it; author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin Luther 1865 and many other books; author with John Binny and others of London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury, London 25 July 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Fox Bourne’s English newspapers, ii 117–20, 155, 238; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster School (1884) 329–30; The Mask (1868) 65, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.

Note.—There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s 2-page cartoon called Mr. Punch’s fancy ball 9 Jany. 1847 as the cornet player in the orchestra. On 19 March 1856 he held a meeting of ticket of leave men at National hall, Holborn, the speeches of five of them were fully reported in the newspapers.

MAYHEW, Horace (brother of the preceding). b. July 1818; wrote many farces and tales; sub-editor of Punch under Mark Lemon several years, contributed to Punch to his death; contributed to Cruikshank’s Table Book 1845; his pantomime Plum Pudding produced at Olympic theatre, Dec. 1847; author of The Bal Masqué. By Count Chicard 1848; Change for a shilling 1848; Model men 1848; Model women 1848; A plate of heads 1849; The toothache imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank 1849; Guy Faux 1849; Letters left at the pastry-cooks 1853; edited Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 1848 and 1849; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly News from 1852. d. 33 Addison gardens south, Kensington, London 30 April 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 7 May. J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 19.

MAYHEW, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; student of Lincoln’s inn; started The poor man’s guardian 1847, eight numbers; started The national library; author of A complete history of an action at law 1828; with J. F. A. Bayard and P. Duport wrote Ambition, or Marie Mignot, a drama Haymarket theatre 13 Sep. 1830.

MAYHEW, William. b. 1787; wines and spirit merchant, 106 Fenchurch st. London; M.P. Colchester 12 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Colchester 1830 and 1832. d. at residence of Edward Mayhew surgeon, 7 Park terrace, Victoria park, London 26 April 1855.

MAYNARD, Ambrose, stage name of William Hill. b. 1822; an actor; a comic vocalist at the London and provincial music halls; musical agent Westminster bridge road, London 1857, removed to 6 York road, Lambeth 1864; the oldest musical agent in Great Britain; the writer of the following dramatic pieces, Chickweed and groundsel; Drury lane and Park lane, also known as Extremes of life; Change for a sovereign; The Queen’s birthday; Winkle’s Waxwork; The two shes, a sketch at the South London palace 1888. d. 6 York road 3 Oct. 1888. bur. Nunhead cemetery 6 Oct.

MAYNARD, Frederick W. Secretary to Arundel society, London 1867 to death; author of A descriptive sketch of Arundel Society. d. 27 Aug. 1876.

MAYNARD, George. b. at sea between Liverpool and Dublin 4 Feb. 1812; articled to a solicitor; clerk to John Chappell, theatrical bookseller, Royal Exchange, city of London; acted at Wilmington sq. Rawstone st. and Catherine st. London; appeared at Deptford as Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Easter Monday 1828; at Richmond theatre 1830–1; played at the Pavilion 1839, where he was a favourite in sailors’ characters; one of Penley’s company during his short 9 nights’ season at Lyceum, April 1839; played Guy Fawkes at the Lyceum 1841; acted at T.R. Edinburgh 1845–6; a favourite at the Olympic under George Bolton 1846–7; played leading parts at Adelphi and Surrey; a good melodramatic actor. d. Newcastle 14 Dec. 1851. Theatrical times, ii 105 (1847), portrait.

MAYNARD, Joseph (only son of Joseph Cam Maynard, solicitor). b. London 29 May 1798; solicitor in city of London 1820–70; under-sheriff of London 1838; member of council of Incorporated law society 13 June 1849, vice pres. 1860–1, pres. 1861–2, retired from the council 1870. d. 52 Westbourne terrace, London 9 Jany. 1888.

MAYNARD, Samuel. b. 1790; came from Taunton to London and opened a school in Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town 1810; mathematical bookseller at Earl’s court, Leicester square, London about 1832–62, published 14 catalogues; his books sold by auction in 1200 bundles 1862; author of A commercial perpetual almanac 1846; A table containing useful factors often used in calculation 1846; compiled A key to Mr. Keith’s Complete measurer 1829; A key to Bonnycastle’s Scholar’s guide to arithmetic 1853, and edited 13 other works on mathematics 1829–56. d. Booksellers’ Provident retreat, Abbot’s Langley, Herts. 7 May 1866. The Athenæum 25 Aug. 1866 p. 248.

MAYNE, Henry Blair (2 son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, d. 1841). b. 23 Aug. 1813; ed. Westminster 1826–31 and at Christ Church, Oxf., student 1831–46; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; principal clerk of private bills in house of commons at £1000 a year 1859–70; one of the three best whist players of his day; an habitué of the Arlington and Turf clubs; one of the committee of seven at the Arlington who drew up The laws of whist 1864; author of Sons of Indian officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich 1860; resided at 2 St. James’ place, St. James’ st. London. d. Brighton 17 Jany. 1892.

Note. He always played for pound points and made it a rule not to play again at the same sitting after he had lost two rubbers running. One of his sayings was ‘He who leads trumps oftenest, he oftenest will win the most rubbers.’

MAYNE, Henry Otway. Lieut. 6 Madras light cavalry 17 Sep. 1841, captain 31 Dec. 1855 to death; raised the corps of Mayne’s horse, which became first regiment central India horse. d. Allahabad 2 Nov. 1861.

MAYNE, Sir Richard (4 son of Edward Mayne, judge of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). b. Dublin 27 Nov. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818; proceeded to Trin. coll. Cambridge, B.A. Camb. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1822; joint comr. with Charles Rowan of metropolitan police 29 Sep. 1829, chief comr. 1850 to death; illtreated by the mob during Hyde park riots July 1866; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. d. 80 Chester sq. London 26 Dec. 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 30 Dec, where memorial monument was unveiled 25 Jany. 1871. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 113–5, 358 (1869); I.L.N. liv 23, 45 (1869) portrait, lviii 117 (1871).

MAYNE, Richard Charles (son of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton; entered royal navy 1848; served in Baltic expedition 1854 and in the Crimea 1855–6; explored and surveyed in Vancouver island and British Columbia 1857–61; commanded the Eclipse in New Zealand 1863–4; captain 12 Feb. 1864; commanded Nassau on survey of Straits of Magellan 1866–9, commanded Invincible 1874–5; retired R.A. 26 Nov. 1879; F.G.S.; M.P. Pembroke and Haverfordwest 8 July 1886 to death, having contested the seat Nov. 1885; C.B. 13 March 1867; knight of Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie; author of Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver island 1862; Sailing directions for Magellan Strait 1871; had an apoplectic fit when leaving the Mansion house after the Welsh national banquet and d. 101 Queen’s gate, London 29 May 1892. Graphic 4 June 1892 p. 655, portrait; I.L.N. 4 June 1892 p. 683, portrait.

MAYNE, Robert. b. 1811; M.B. Dublin 1838; F.K.Q.C.P. 14 April 1856; censor 1857; lecturer on practice of medicine at Carmichael school 1835 and physician to Adelaide hospital, Dublin; president of Pathological society of Dublin; contributed to Todd’s Cyclopædia and to Dublin Journal of Medical science; author of On spontaneous varicose aneurism 1853. d. 13 Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 27 April 1864. Dublin Medical Press, li 425–6 (1864).

MAYNE, Robert Dawson (son of Sir Richard Mayne 1796–1868). b. 1844; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1869; chief magistrate of Lagos 1872–4; stipendiary justice at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and judge of the petty debt court 1874 to death. d. 10 June 1887.

MAYNE, William (son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, d. 1841). b. 8 Oct. 1818; entered Bengal army 12 June 1837; ensign 37 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 1 Jany. 1845 to death; present in the action at Bolam Pass 4 May 1839; served at siege of Jellalabad 1842; second in command of the governor general’s body guard 10 Feb. 1844 to 2 Jany. 1846, commanded the body guard 19 Jany. 1847 to 12 April 1851; commanded 10th Bengal irregular horse 2 Jany. 1846 to 19 Jany. 1847; hon. A.D.C. to governor general of India 7 Jany. 1848 to death; brigadier in the Nizam’s service April 1851, afterwards called the Hyderabad contingent 27 Jany. 1854 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 Nov. 1855. d. Cairo 23 Dec. 1855. G.M. Feb. 1856 pp. 185–7.

MAYO, Richard Southwell Bourke, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Mayo 1797–1867). b. Dublin 21 Feb. 1822; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1841 but did not reside; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1851, LL.D. 1852; known as Lord Naas 1849–67; M.P. Kildare 1847–52, M.P. Coleraine 1852–7, and M.P. Cockermouth 1857–68; chief sec. for Ireland, March to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and with a seat in the cabinet July 1866 to Sep. 1868; P.C. 15 May 1852; master of Kildare hounds 1857; succeeded as 6 earl 12 Aug. 1867; founded Palmerston breeding association for improving breed of horses in Ireland; viceroy of India 27 Oct. 1868 to death, sworn in 12 Jany. 1869; K.P. 11 Nov. 1868; stabbed in the shoulder at Port Blair, Hopetown, Andaman islands, by a convict named Shere Ali, and expired in a short time 8 Feb. 1872. bur. in Johnstown churchyard near Naas, co. Mayo 25 April, bust in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral; author of St. Petersburgh and Moscow, a visit to the court of the Czar 2 vols. 1846; m. 31 Oct. 1848 Blanche Julia 4 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield, she was b. 21 Nov. 1826, the government awarded her an annuity of £1000 and gave £20,000 to her younger children. W. W. Hunter’s Life of earl Mayo 2 vols. 1875; Nolan’s Illust. history of India, iii 93 (1878), portrait; Jas. Wilson’s Why was lord Mayo assassinated? (1872); N. A. Chick’s In memoriam, of the assassination of the earl of Mayo (1872); Baily’s Mag. xii 163–4 (1867), portrait; I.L.N. xvi 429 (1850) portrait, liii 569 (1868) portrait, lx 151 etc. (1872) portrait, lxviii 34, 37 (1876).

MAYO, Charles (youngest son of Herbert Mayo 1720–1802, R. of St. George’s in the East, London). b. 24 March 1767; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch., probationary scholar St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1785; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1793, B.D. 1798; Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon 1795–1800; Whitehall preacher 1799–1800; F.R.S. 1 March 1827; F.S.A.; morning preacher at St. Michael’s, Highgate 1803–33. d. Colesgroves, Cheshunt, Herts. 10 Dec. 1858. G.M. vi 210 (1859).

MAYO, Charles (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) b. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of Winchester; became blind 1874. d. St. Peter’s st. Winchester 27 Nov. 1876. Medical times and gazette, ii 638–40 (1876) and ii 373–4 (1877); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii 298 (1875).

MAYO, Elizabeth (sister of rev. Charles Mayo, educational reformer 1792–1846). b. 1793; lived with her brother at Cheam, Surrey, helping him in his school 1822–34; resided in Belsize lane, Hampstead 1834–53, and at Oak Hill, Hampstead 1853 to death; worked for the Home and Colonial school society from 1843 onwards; author of Lessons on objects 1837, 16 ed. 1859; Lessons on shells 1832, 3 ed. 1846; Model lessons for infant schools 1838, 4 ed. 1857; Religious instruction for young children 1845, 4 ed. 1858; Lessons on the miracles 1845. d. Malvern 1 Sep. 1865, memorial tablet in schoolroom of Home and Colonial school society’s buildings, Gray’s Inn road, London. F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead (1890) 459.

MAYO, Herbert (3 son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). b. Queen Anne st. London 3 April 1796; pupil of sir Charles Bell 1812–15; entered Middlesex hospital 17 May 1814, house surgeon 1818, surgeon 1827–42; graduated D.M. at Leyden univ. 16 Sep. 1816; M.R.C.S. 1819, F.R.C.S. 1843; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–30, lecturer on anatomy medical school, Great Windmill st. 1826; F.R.S. 17 April 1828, F.G.S. 1832; professor of anatomy King’s college, London 1830–6; professor of physiology and pathological anatomy 1836; founded the medical school at Middlesex hospital 1836, lecturer on surgery at the hospital 1837–43; physician in a hydropathic establishment at Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach; author of Anatomical and physiological commentaries 1822–3; A course of dissections for students 1825; Outlines of human physiology 1827, 4 ed. 1837; Management of the organs of digestion 1837; The philosophy of living 1837; A treatise on syphilis 1840; Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions 1849, 2 ed. 1851. d. Bad Weilbach near Mayence 15 May 1852. History of Mayo family (1882); F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead (1890) 458; Georgian Era, ii 587 (1833).

MAYO, Thomas (eld. son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). b. London 24 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1813 to 1818; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, M.B. 1815, M.D. 1818; physician at Tunbridge Wells 1818–35, at 56 Wimpole st. London 1835–62; F.R.C.P. 1819, censor 1835, 1839 and 1850, an elect 1847, president 5 Jany. 1857 to Jany. 1862, delivered Lumleian lectures 1839 and 1842, Harveian oration 1841 and Croonian lectures 1853; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; phys. to Marylebone infirmary 1841; phys. in ordinary to duke of Sussex; author of An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia 1831; Elements of the pathology of the human mind 1838; Clinical facts and reflections 1847; Medical testimony in cases of lunacy 1854, with supplement 1856. d. Corsham house, Wiltshire 13 Jany. 1871. W. Munk’s Goldheaded Cane (1884) pp. 220–40; W. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 200 (1838).

MAYOR, William. b. 1826; ed. at Hatfield hall, Durham, Barry scholar, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1855–7; V. of Thornley, Durham 1862–90, where he devoted himself to the colliers and arbitrated successfully in a strike; V. of Shotton, Durham 1890 to death; chairman of Castle Eden petty sessions. d. at residence of his nephew, the Principal’s house, St. Mark’s College, Chelsea 8 Nov. 1892. Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p. 1766.

MAYOW, George Wynell. b. 31 Aug. 1808; ensign in the army on h.p. 9 June 1825; captain 4 dragoon guards 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1847; brigade major to light cavalry brigade in the Crimea to 19 Dec. 1854, A.Q.M.G. of cavalry division 20 Dec. 1854 to end of the war; deputy quartermaster general in Ireland 1 Jany. 1868 to July 1872; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. near Misterton 1 Jany. 1873.

MAYWOOD, Robert Campbell (son of Dr. Maywood, leading physician in Isle of Wight many years). b. Edinburgh 1786; first appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 1817 as Shylock; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard the third 1819; played King Lear at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 6 Nov. 1828; manager with Pratt and Rowbotham of Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia, April 1832, manager with them of Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 3 Sep. to 21 Dec. 1832; manager of the Chestnut and Arch st. theatres 1834; relinquished management of the Chestnut st. theatre and took his farewell benefit 9 March 1840. d. Marshall institute, Troy, New York 1 Dec. 1856. Theatrical inquisitor, xi 395–9 (1817), portrait; J. N. Ireland’s New York stage, i 329, 350 (1866).

MAZZINGHI, Thomas John (only son of Dominick Peter Mazzinghi of London). b. 13 Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1842; served under Indian law commission 1865–9; librarian of the William Salt library, Stafford, Feb. 1873 to Dec. 1892; author of A brief notice of some recent researches respecting Dante Alighieri 1844; Index catalogue of the William Salt library 1878; Sanctuaries. Stafford 1878. d. Walton lodge near Stafford 19 Feb. 1893.

MAZZINI, Giuseppe (son of Giacomo Mazzini a physician). b. Strada Lomellini, Genoa 22 June 1805; attempted insurrections in Sardinia 1833–4; expelled from Switzerland 1836; came to London Jany. 1837; wrote literary articles for London reviews; founded and conducted a school for mendicant organ-boys; originated an association of Italian workmen 1840; his letters were opened by the English government 1844; fought under Garibaldi against Austria 1848; dictator at Rome as triumvir with Armelli and Saffi, March 1849 to June 1850; president in London of National Italian committee 1850, through which he promoted the risings of 1852 and 1853; directed preparations for abortive revolution at Genoa 1857, for which he was condemned to death 1857, this sentence was cancelled 1866 but he refused the pardon; edited Pensiero ed Azione. London 1858–60; author of Italy, Austria and the Pope 1845; Two letters to the people of England on the war 1855; The duties of man 1862; Life and writings 6 vols. 1864–70 and 40 other books, there were also 50 books written about him and his career 1848–91. d. Pisa 10 March 1872. bur. Genoa. E. A. Venturi’s Joseph Mazzini (1875), 2 portraits; Joseph Mazzini, his life. New York (1872), portrait; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xv 273 (1856), portrait.

MEAD, Thomas, stage name of Thomas Prescott (son of a Methodist minister). b. Cambridge 22 Aug. 1819; ran away from home and first appeared on the stage as Orozembo in Pizarro at Devonport theatre 1841; played in the provinces 1841–8; first appeared in London at Victoria theatre as sir Giles Overreach 28 Nov. 1848; played at Surrey theatre 1849–52 and leading parts at Drury Lane 1852–4; shared the lead with T. Swinbourne at T.R. Manchester 1854; a prominent member of Mrs. Seymour’s company at St. James’s theatre, played duke of Richmond in Taylor and Reade’s King’s Rival opening night 2 Oct. 1854; played at Queen’s theatre, Edinburgh, Jany. to July 1856; leading actor at New Grecian theatre 1858; played at Sadler’s Wells and Princess’s, where he was the original Isaac Levy in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend 4 Oct. 1865; lessee and manager of Elephant and Castle theatre, London 1873–4 where his pantomime Babes in the wood was produced 26 Dec. 1873; played the leading part in Charles Reade’s drama Rachel the Reaper, at Queen’s theatre 9 March 1874; played in Shakespearian revivals at Lyceum theatre 1875 to death; his two best parts were the Priest in Louis XI. and the Ghost in Hamlet; author of The Coquette, 3 act play produced at Haymarket 8 July 1867; The lady of the Rose and other poems 1881, with portrait. d. New north road, Islington, London 17 Feb. 1889. bur. Highgate lower cemetery 22 Feb. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) part 9, portrait; The Players, i 193 (1860), portrait; Theatre, xiii 172 (1889).

MEADE, James. b. 1822; acted as puisne justice Montserrat 1852, member of executive and legislative council 1861, colonial secretary and treasurer March 1865, member of the legislative council 1867, administered the government 1872; acting president of Montserrat 1882; in 1886 he was treasurer and registrar of the supreme court, registrar of deeds and of shipping and comptroller of customs. d. The Meadow, Montserrat 22 June 1890.

MEADE, Sir Richard John (son of John Meade, captain R.N.) b. 25 Sep. 1821; ensign 65 Bengal N.I. 3 Nov. 1838, major 1 Jany. 1862; served during Indian mutiny 1857–9 and captured the notorious rebel leader Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; agent to governor general in Central India 1861–70; chief comr. Mysore 1870–5; special comr. Baroda 1875; resident Hyderabad 1876–81, chairman Hyderabad state railway company; C.S.I. 24 May 1866, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. d. Hyères, France 20 March 1894.

MEADE, Robert (2 son of 1 earl of Clanwilliam 1744–1800). b. 29 Feb. 1772; ensign 1 foot 7 Nov. 1787; captain 87 foot Sep. 1793; major in Ward’s regiment Oct. 1794 to 10 April 1801; lieut.-col. 31 foot 10 April 1801 to 8 June 1815; commanded the forces in Madeira 1809, was afterwards second in command at Cape of Good Hope; colonel 12 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to death; general 10 Jany. 1837. d. 48 Bryanston sq. London 11 July 1852. I.L.N. xxi 46 (1852).

MEADOWS, Alfred (4 child of Charles Meadows). b. Ipswich 2 June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London, associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B. 1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853; L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884; attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland 1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891; author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. d. 27 George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. bur. Colnbrook, Bucks. Midland medical miscellany ii 65–7 (1883), portrait; British Gynæcological Journal, iii 343 (1887), portrait; Biograph, v 68–76 (1881).

MEADOWS, Drinkwater. b. Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21; first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep. 1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823, Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding 5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828, Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov. 1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5 April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844 and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund; a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard, a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). d. Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. The Era 11 June 1869 p. 11, col. 1.

MEADOWS, George Deare (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.) b. London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb. 1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his speciality being the diseases of women and children. d. St. George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.

MEADOWS, James (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). b. Dublin 1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63. d. 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. bur. Trinity church, Bow road. Era 17 May 1863 p. 10.

MEADOWS, Joseph Kenny (son of James Meadows, retired naval officer). b. Cardigan. bapt. 1 Nov. 1790; designed and lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare 2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1 portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864. d. 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Pancras cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 98–103.

MEAGHER, Thomas (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). b. 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. d. 1874.

MEAGHER, Thomas Francis (son of the preceding). b. city of Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare, and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol. xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847; contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany. 1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia; organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July 1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853, portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1 July 1867. M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher (1892), portrait; W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New York (1870), portrait; F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir (1863), portrait 51; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883), passim; Reynolds’s Miscellany, iii 481 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii 323 (1848), portrait.

MEAKIN, John. b. Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5 feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859 with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side; attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again able to run. Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p. 417, portrait.

MEANS, Joseph Calrow (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood lane, London). b. 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; bapt. by immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828; preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers 1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st. London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. d. London 6 Feb. 1879. Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 78 et seq.; Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 98 et seq.

MEANY, Stephen Joseph. b. Ennis; a constable in Dublin, where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement, a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus 1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt 27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec. to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. d. New York 8 Feb. 1888. bur. Queenstown. Newspaper Press, i 35, 44 (1867); E. L. Blanchard’s Life, ii 617 (1891).

MEARNS, Duncan (son of Alexander Mearns, minister of Cluny, Aberdeenshire). b. the manse of Cluny 23 Aug. 1779; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. March 1795; studied in the divinity hall 1795–9; D.D.; assistant minister of parish of Tarves 13 Nov. 1799, then minister; professor of divinity Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 12 Oct. 1816 to death; moderator of general assembly 1821; chaplain to the king for Scotland 1825 to death; author of Principles of christian evidence. Edinb. 1818; Report of speech in synod of Aberdeen on the settlement of ministers. Aberdeen 1834, 4 ed. 1840. d. 2 March 1852. H. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1 part 1 p. 397 (1866).

MEATH, John Chambre Brabazon, 10 Earl of (youngest son of 8 earl of Meath 1721–90). b. 9 April 1772; succeeded his brother the 9 earl 26 May 1797; K.P. 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of co. Dublin and custos rotulorum of co. Wicklow 1831; created baron Chaworth of Eaton hall, Hereford in peerage of United Kingdom 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1831. d. Great Malvern 15 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 547 (1851).

MEATH, William Brabazon, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow 1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851; built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery. d. Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. bur. at Bray, will proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. Times 27 May 1887 p. 6, 3 June p. 6.

MECHI, John Joseph (3 son of Giacomo Mechi). b. London 22 May 1802; clerk in a house in Walbrook in the Newfoundland trade 1818–28; a cutler at 130 Leadenhall st. 1828–30, at 4 Leadenhall st. 1830–69, partner with Charles Bazan 1859–69; cutler at 112 Regent st. 1869 to death; made a fortune by his magic razor strop 1830–40; purchased for £3400 a farm of about 130 acres at Tiptree Heath, Essex 1841, where he introduced deep drainage and use of steam power, so that it became a model farm; sheriff of London 1856, alderman for Lime st. ward 1858 to Aug. 1866; failed in business 14 Dec. 1880; author of Letters on agricultural improvements 1844; On the principles which ensure success in trade 1853, another ed. 1856; How to farm profitably 1859, 4 ed. 1864; On the sewerage of towns as it affects British agriculture 1860; Mr. Mechi’s Farm balance sheets, also his lectures and papers on farming 1867 and 12 other books. d. Tiptree hall, Essex 26 Dec. 1880. Biograph, i 250–4 (1879); I.L.N. xxx 337 (1857) portrait, xxxi 317 (1857), lxxviii 37 (1881) portrait; Pictorial World 29 Jany. 1881 pp. 355, 361, portrait.

MECREDY, Henry Sandys. b. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; solicitor in Dublin 1845; vice president of Irish incorporated law society 1885; governor of Royal Irish academy of music; with C. A. Stanwell edited The Incorporated law society’s calendar. Dublin 1887. d. Colwyn Bay, North Wales 30 July 1891.

MEDHURST, Walter Henry (son of William Medhurst of Ross, Scotland, innkeeper). b. London 29 April 1796; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. from 1807; went to Malacca as a missionary printer in service of London missionary soc. 1816; ordained at Malacca 27 April 1819; missionary in Penang 1820 and Batavia 1822–36; established an orphan asylum at Parapattan; worked in Batavia 1838–42, and at Shanghai 1842–56; D.D. from an American univ. 1843; one of the delegates to revise Chinese version of new testament June 1847 to July 1850 and of old testament 1851–3; edited G. Happart’s Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the Formosan language 1840; translated Ancient China, The Shoo-King or the historical classic 1846; The Chinaman abroad, an account of the Malayan archipelago by Ong-Tae-hae 1849; author of An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary. Batavia 1830; A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the Chinese language. Macao 1832; China, its state and prospects 1838; Chinese and English dictionary 2 vols. Batavia 1842–3, and English and Chinese dictionary 2 vols. Shanghae 1847–8; Chinese dialogues. Shanghae 1844; left Shanghai 10 Sep. 1856, arrived in England 22 Jany. 1857. d. Pimlico, London 24 Jany. 1857. bur. Abney park cemetery 30 Jany. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1877) 41.

MEDHURST, Sir Walter Henry (son of the preceding). b. Batavia, Java 3 Nov. 1822; attached to Sir Henry Pottinger’s suite Aug. 1841; present at taking of Amoy and Chusan; consular interpreter at Shanghai 7 Oct. 1843; consul at Foo-choo-foo 9 Nov. 1854, at Tangchow 21 Dec. 1858, at Hankow 25 Jany. 1864 and at Shanghai 23 July 1868, retired 1 Jany. 1877; knighted at Windsor castle 20 March 1877; helped to form British North Borneo company 1881, organised a system of emigration from China into the company’s territories 1882; author of Curiosities of street literature in China. Shanghai 1871; The foreigner in far Cathay 1872. d. Formosa, Torquay 26 Dec. 1885.

MEDLEY, John (only son of George Medley of Grosvenor place, Chelsea). b. London 19 Dec. 1804; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1845; C. of Southleigh, Devon 1828–31; Inc. of St. John’s, Truro 1831–8; V. of St. Thomas, Exeter 1838–45; preb. of Exeter 8 April 1843 to May 1845; bishop of Frederickton, New Brunswick 24 April 1845 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 4 May 1845, installed in his partly built cathedral 11 June 1845; metropolitan of Canada 11 Jany. 1879 to death; attended the Lambeth Pan-Anglican conference 1889; hon LL.D. Cambridge and D.D. Durham 1888; author of Advice to teachers in Sunday schools 1833; The episcopal form of church government 1835, 2 ed. 1837; Elementary remarks on Chinese architecture 1841; Sermons. Exeter 1845; with H. K. Cornish translated The homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Corinthians 2 vols. 1839. d. Frederickton 9 Sep. 1892. W. Q. Ketchum’s Life of Medley. St. John’s N.B. (1893); Appleton’s American Biography, iv 285 (1888) portrait.

MEDLEY, Julius George. b. 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death; assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849; consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column 1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858; principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec. to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college 1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer; A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United States and Canada 1873. d. on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx 343–7 (1885); I.L.N. lxxxv 292 (1884), portrait.

MEDLEY, Samuel (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99). b. 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University 1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms, 11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C. Branwhite. d. Chatham 10 Aug. 1857.

MEDWIN, Thomas (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). b. Horsham, Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24 light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822; resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824, 5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. 1847. d. in his brother’s house the Carfax, Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. Notes and Queries 5 S. v 161 (1876), 6 S. vi 293 (1882).

MEDWIN, Thomas Rea (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of Greenford, Middlesex). b. 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington, Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2; V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. d. Arlesey vicarage 17 March 1885.

MEE, Anne (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter d. about 1784). b. about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties, many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited 39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (m. Joseph Mee). d. Hammersmith 28 May 1851. The Lady’s monthly museum Jany. 1814, memoir and portrait; A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of the court of George III. (1812), portrait.

MEE, John (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). b. 3 May 1824; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4; association secretary of church missionary society for eastern district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4; secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude, Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873. d. Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William, Scotland 19 Sep. 1883.

MEE, William. b. Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830 and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. d. Shardlow union workhouse, Derbyshire 29 May 1862.

Note.—In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about 1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a Sunday. Notes and Queries 2 series, xii 189, 238, 299 (1861), 3 series ii 43 (1862).

MEEHAN, Charles Patrick. b. 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12 July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34; ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.; author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed. 1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries 1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852; edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. d. 14 March 1890. I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p. 366, portrait; Catholic World, Sep. 1890 pp. 796–801; Tablet 22 March 1890 p. 473.

MEEK, Sir James. b. Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June 1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. d. Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856.

MEEK, James (son of a farmer). b. Brompton near Northallerton 13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813; resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851. d. Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862.

MEEK, Sir James (only son of the preceding). b. York 28 June 1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869. d. Cheltenham 10 Jany. 1891.

MEEK, Robert. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. by abp. of Canterbury 1838; R. of Brixton Deverill, Wilts. 1834; P.C. of Hill Deverill, Wilts. 1837; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1838–43; R. of Sutton Bonnington, Notts. 1843 to death; author of The mutual recognition of glorified saints 1830, 3 ed. 1837; The church of England a faithful witness against the errors and corruptions of the church of Rome 1834; Passion week, a practical exposition 1835; Heavenly things or the blessed hope 1854; The martyr of Allahabad. Memorials of ensign A. M. H. Clark 1857; Ministering angels 1864. d. 1866.

MEEKING, Charles (son of Charles Meeking of London). b. London 1800; draper and linen draper at 1 Broadway, Westminster 1823, moved to 62 Holborn Hill 1827, one of the first of the drapers to conduct a retail business on a thorough system; draper and outfitter Holborn Circus to death, having one of the largest establishments in London; J.P. for Bucks.; purchased Richings manor near Iver, Bucks., from John Sullivan in 1855. d. Richings park, Bucks. 7 Dec. 1872, personalty sworn under £250,000, 1 Feb. 1873.

MEERES, Nathaniel. b. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1840; C. of Cradley, Worcs. 1844–7; R. of Little Stambridge, Essex 1847 to death; author of Sermons preached at Somer’s chapel, St. Pancras 1843; Original psalms and hymns for the use of churches. Coventry 1845; School cyclopædia in verse 1851; Sermons 2 vols. 1851. d. at residence of rev. H. Meeres, Haddenham vicarage, Bucks. 26 March 1863.

MEESON, Alfred (son of Edward Meeson). b. 67 Aldermanbury, London 4 April 1808; architect and surveyor at Wakefield, Yorkshire; assisted sir Charles Barry as superintendent of constructional and engineering details of houses of parliament 1842 to completion; engineer in charge of houses of parliament residing in the building 1853; practised at 58 Pall Mall, London; employed on international exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 and on the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1858 and the Albert hall 1872; architect of the first Alexandra palace on Muswell hill 1873, palace was destroyed by fire 9 June 1873, joint architect of the second palace 1875; author with J. C. Boys of Thames sewage disposal scheme 1867. d. 4 Harley road, South Hampstead, London 12 Jany. 1885.

MELBOURNE, Frederick James Lamb, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount Melbourne 1745–1828). b. Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London 17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec. 1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of £1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20 April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848; G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. d. Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 28, portrait; G.M. xxxix 309, 338 (1853); Greville’s Journal, vol. i pt. 3 pp. 35–7 (1874).

MELDON, Charles Henry (3 son of James Dillon Meldon). b. 5 June 1841; ed. at Stonyhurst and Ushaw colleges, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1862, LL.B. and LL.D. 1874; member of senate of Dublin univ.; called to Irish bar 1863; had a large practice on the Home circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1877; M.P. for co. Kildare 1874–85; first whip to the Home Rule party 1874–9. d. Dublin 15 May 1892.

MELIA, Pius. b. Rome 1800; professor of belles lettres, Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13 Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London 1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians; officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. d. University hospital, London 25 May 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 30 May.

Note.—Raphael Melia b. Rome, naturalised in England 13 Sep. 1849, was author of A treatise on auricular confession. London 1865; The woman blessed by all generations 1868; and The life of V. Pallotti, founder of The pious society of missions 1871.

MELLER, Walter (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill, Surrey). b. 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov. 1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869; lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel 20 Feb. 1867. d. Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.

MELLISH, Sir George (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford, d. 1831). b. Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow 1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48; barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. d. 33 Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. A generation of judges. By Their reporter (1886) 95–111; Law mag. and law review, iii 55–65 (1877); I.L.N. lviii 471, 473 (1870), portrait.

MELLISH, George Lilly (2 son of William Mellish an officer in the army). b. Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll. 1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854; resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. d. Christ Church, Dec. 1881.

MELLISH, Richard Charles. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824; attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830; gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849; sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep. 1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Jany. 1855. d. Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. Foreign office list (1866) 177.

MELLON, Alfred. b. Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society; conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep. 1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865; (m. Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress b. 1824); composer of My pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850; The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published in 1860. d. The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 April. Era 31 March 1867 p. 10 and 7 April p. 11; Illust. sporting news, iv 441 (1865) portrait, v 504 (1866), portrait; Illust. Times 6 April 1867 p. 216, portrait.

MELLON, Henry. b. Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law; leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit; joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864; played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr. Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871. d. Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25 Nov. 1876. Theatrical Times, ii 321, 338 (1847), portrait; E. L. Blanchard’s Life, i 294, 347, ii 393, 462 (1891).

MELLOR, Enoch (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). b. Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870; congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61; minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales 1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867; Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles 1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. d. Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. Congregationalist, ix 617–20 (1880) portrait, x 1000–1011 (1881); E. Mellor’s The hem of Christ’s garment (1882), biographical sketch pp. v–xxxi; Congregational Year book (1882) pp. 315–8.

MELLOR, Sir John (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, d. 1861). b. Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4 years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April 1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July 1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852 and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham 1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired 11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June 1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June 1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation 1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. d. 16 Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. bur. Kingsdown churchyard, Dover 30 April. Law Journal, xxii 250–1, 259–60 (1887); Times 28 April 1887 p. 5.

MELVILL, Henry (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut. governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). b. Pendennis castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32; second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec. 1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London 1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R. of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols. 1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to 1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. d. Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 15 Feb. Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit, ii 1–21 (1839); Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 60–8; Johnson’s Popular Preachers (1863) 189–201; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1856) 210–41; Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 410–13; I.L.N. iv 48 (1844) portrait, lviii 163 (1871); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp. 345–8, 1279–80; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait.

MELVILL, Sir James Cosmo (brother of the preceding). b. Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb. 1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. d. Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23 July 1860.

MELVILL, Sir Maxwell (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871). b. 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin. coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60; assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde 1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883; judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. d. of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5 Aug. 1887. bur. Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s Life of sir M. Melville (1887), portrait; Times 8 Aug. 1887 p. 5, 15 Aug. p. 6.

MELVILL, Teignmouth (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., d. Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). b. 1843; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865, lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ Graphic xix 272 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 277, 282, 554, 560 (1879), portrait; F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C. (1880) 256–7.

MELVILLE, Robert Saunders Dundas, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). b. 14 March 1771; ed. at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings 1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov. 1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to 18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811; lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to 2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St. Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May 1817; F.R.A.S. d. Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851. bur. in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, ii 494 (1886), portrait; G.M. xxxvi 191 (1851); I.L.N xviii 538 (1851); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery (1831) vol. 2, portrait 17 and pp. 8.

MELVILLE, Henry Dundas, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the preceding). b. Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb. 1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31 Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2 Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July 1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9; colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of 32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60 rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president of royal company of archers 1860. d. Melville castle 1 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 167 (1876); J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers (1875) 250, portrait.

MELVILLE, Robert Dundas, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding). b. Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb. 1876. d. Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.

MELVILLE, George John Whyte (only son of John Whyte Melville 1797–1883). b. near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to 1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany. 1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March 1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858; The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6 ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed. 1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely 3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; killed while hunting near Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. Babington’s Records of the Fife foxhounds (1883) 114, portrait; Fores’s Sporting Notes, Oct. 1884 p. 110, portrait; Land and water, xxvi 472, 486 (1878); Baily’s Mag. xiii 55–67 (1867), portrait; Illust. sporting news, vi 569 (1867), portrait; Graphic, xix 52 (1879), portrait.

MELVILLE, Henry Saxelby. b. 1801; formerly printer and publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. d. Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.

MELVILLE, Sir John (eld. son of George Melville of Newington, Edinburgh). b. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood palace 15 Oct. 1859. d. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860. The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p. 2.

MELVILLE, John Whyte (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry, Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). b. 21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18 Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of the St. Andrew’s club 1823. d. Mount Melville near St. Andrews 16 July 1883. Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds (1883) 30, portrait; H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library (1890) pp. 437–40, portrait.

MELVILLE, Michael Linning (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) b. 1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April 1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20 Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842, superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1843. d. 22 June 1878.

MELVILLE, Robert (only son of the preceding). b. 1842; ed. at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. d. suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.

MELVIN, James. b. Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer on humanity (i.e. Latin) at Marischal college, contested professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853; author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin 1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering 6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in univ. library, Aberdeen. d. Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853. Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp. 225–39; Anderson’s Fasti academiæ Mariscallanæ (1889) 527–9.

MENDEL, Samuel. b. Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for £18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at Christies 1875. d. Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17 Sep. 1884.

Note.—He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.

MENDHAM, Joseph (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London, merchant, d. 1810 aged 77). b. 1769; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield, Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws. 22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology, liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830, Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work 1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. d. Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred years of a family living (1889) 123–30, 166.

MENDS, Herbert. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April 1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830; captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb. 1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army 28 Nov. 1854. d. Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged 87.

MENDS, William Bowen. b. Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29 Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46 guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839; pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. d. Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.

MENELAUS, William. b. Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E. 1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to Cardiff 1881–82. d. Tenby 30 March 1882. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1883) pp. 20–2; Red Dragon, June 1882 pp. 387–92, portrait.

MENKEN, Adah Isaacs, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James McCord a merchant d. 1842). b. Chartrain, afterwards called Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house, New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’ school in New Orleans; m. 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture; m. near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states; first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861; went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865; m. 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4; played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864, where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19 Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868; author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed. 1888. d. Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. bur. Père la Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. A. I. Menken’s Infelicia (1888), memoir and portrait; Les Pirates de la Savane. Par Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris (1867), memoir pp. 1–14; T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 243, portrait; Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 251–3 (1881); The Age, ii 369 (1864), portrait; Illust. sporting news, i 44 (1862) portrait, iv 569 (1865), portrait.

MENZIES, Allan (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). b. 1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs. of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000 for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3 ed. 1863. d. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.

MENZIES, Andrew. b. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had 50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses 1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. d. Glasgow 19 April 1873. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 223–8 (1886), portrait.

MENZIES, Sir Charles (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot). b. Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A. 28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April 1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. d. East hill house, Hastings 22 Aug. 1866.

MENZIES, John. b. 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh; apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh 1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852; Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to Scotland 1852. d. 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879. Publishers’ Circular (1879) 1306; Bookseller, Jany. 1880 p. 7.

MENZIES, Robert Stewart (elder son of Graham Menzies of Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). b. 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. d. Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.

MENZIES, William (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). b. Kincardine on Forth 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’ cottages and of villages 1869. d. Windsor great park 3 May 1878. bur. St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1878. Land and Water, xxv 485 (1878).

MENZIES, William Collier (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866). b. 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 19 Oct. 1881. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.

MERCER, Alexander. b. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825, lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.

MERCER, Alexander Cavalie. b. 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859 to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. d. Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov. 1868.

MERCER, George. b. 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal 1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2 Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct. 1891 p. 805.

MERCER, John (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner, d. 1800). b. Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again 1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs. Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society 1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington 1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850; patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; F.C.S. 1842. d. Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866. bur. Great Harwood. E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer (1886), portrait.

MERCER, Robert (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. d. 1846). b. 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821, retired from business. d. Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov. 1875. bur. East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 173–4, portrait.

MERCER-HENDERSON, Douglas. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. d. Naples 21 March 1854.

MERCIER, Lewis Page (only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). b. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842; assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow, and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49, head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London 1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873 and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855; Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1871–2. d. 2 Nov. 1875.

MEREDITH, Charles (son of George Meredith). b. Poyston lodge, Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840; member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26 Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to 1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873. d. Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.

MEREDITH, Sir William Collis (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of Andrea, co. Tyrone). b. Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854, LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. d. 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.

MEREDYTH, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth, 1 Baronet). b. 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. d. 25 Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.

MEREI, August Schoepf. b. Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia 1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war; a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death, established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of infantile development and rickets 1855. d. 114 Oxford street, Manchester, March 1858.

MEREWETHER, Charles George (son of Francis Merewether, R. of Cole Orton, Leics. d. 1864). b. 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death; contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880; M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire into corrupt practices at elections 1880. d. Inns of court hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.

Note.—He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling authority on the subject.

MEREWETHER, Francis (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) b. 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R. of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick, Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832; Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish 1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. d. Cole Orton rectory 21 July 1864.

MEREWETHER, Henry Alworth (eld. son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) b. 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835; recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs 1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823; author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835. d. Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. Law Times, xxxix 442 (1864).

MEREWETHER, Henry Alworth (eld. son of the preceding). b. 23 April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867, treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5 April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875, leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon, New Zealand and America 1874. d. Bowden hill near Chippenham, Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. Law Times, lxiii 353 (1877).

MEREWETHER, Sir William Lockyer (son of H. A. Merewether 1780–1864). b. 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut 3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán, battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind 1857. d. 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) passim; I.L.N. liii 222, 225 (1868), portrait.

MERIVALE, Charles (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). b. 1808; ed. at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4 in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871; scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow 9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda, Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols. 1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862; Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. d. Ely 27 Dec. 1893. bur. Ely 2 Jany. 1894. I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p. 5, portrait; Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1884 pp. 545–65.

MERIVALE, Herman (brother of the preceding). b. Cockwood house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23, captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll. Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary 3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India, May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2 vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol. 2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. d. 13 Cornwall gardens, South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. bur. Fulham cemet. Transactions of Devonshire Association (1884) 570–80; A. W. Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed (1884); I.L.N. lxiv 163, 168, 170 (1874), portrait; Graphic, ix 172, 178 (1874), portrait.

MERIVALE, John Lewis (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885 when he retired on a pension. d. Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14 Dec. 1886.

MERLE, Gibbons. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf 1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818, this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in connection with The white dwarf. d. Paris 19 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 654 (1855).

MERRICK, Joseph (son of an engine driver, his mother was knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). b. Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla, which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip; exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in 1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the London hospital for life from 1885. d. in London hospital, the weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April 1890. Times 16 April 1890 p. 6; British Medical Journal 11 Dec. 1886 pp. 1188–9, 4 portraits; Trans. Pathological Soc. xxxvi 494–8 (1885), 2 portraits.

MERRIDEW, Henry Melville. b. 1837; English bookseller at Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886. d. Boulogne, April 1879. Publishers’ Circular (1879) 323.

MERRIDEW, John (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). b. 1790; bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen and others born or resident in or connected with the county of Warwick 1849. d. Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. Gent. Mag. xiii 639 (1862).

MERRIFIELD, Charles Watkins (eld. son of John Merrifield of Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). b. London 20 Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton, then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842; assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851 but never practised; of the education department of the privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit. of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington 1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc. 19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission 1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861; Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text books of science 1870 etc. d. from the effects of a third attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany. 1884. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi 1–3 (1884); Nature, xxix 270; Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884.

MERRIFIELD, John. b. Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834; schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D. 1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical astronomy 1868. d. 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891. bur. Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. The Western Morning News 29 June 1891 p. 5, 1 July p. 3.

MERRIFIELD, Mrs. Mary Philadelphia. Granted civil list pension of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding, dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols. 1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of Brighton 1864. m. John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar at M.T. 16 May 1828. d. Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.

MERRIMAN, Nathaniel James (3 son of Thomas Merriman of Marlborough). b. 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8; archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions; one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863; dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death, consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. d. from effects of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.

MERRIMAN, Samuel (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). b. Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from 1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807; hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837; examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833. d. 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. Lives of British physicians (1857) 342–59; Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp. 610–5, 682, portrait, 27 Nov. 1852 p. 498; G.M. Feb. 1853 pp. 207–9; Medical Circular, i 462 (1852).

MERRIMAN, Samuel William John (only son of the preceding). b. 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B. 1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London. d. Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873. Medical Times 1 March 1873 p. 238; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. vii 228 (1875).

MERRITT, Henry (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). b. Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833; apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder 1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846 where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850; employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house; restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death; lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854; Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his own autobiography; m. April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M. Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. d. 54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. bur. Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life, ii 232–47 (1892); H. Merritt, art, criticism, and romance 2 vols. (1879), recollections, i 1–65, portrait; The Times 14 July 1877 p. 13; L’ Art. Paris 4 April 1880 pp. 1–8.

MERRY, James (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). b. New Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St. Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart 1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000 guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860. d. 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. Illust. sp. and dr. news, vi 512, 518–19 (1877), portrait; Rice’s History of the British turf, ii 332–38 (1879); Illust. sporting news, iv 369 (1865), portrait; Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 13–25; Baily’s mag. ii 357–63 (1861), portrait; W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed. (1886) 301–25; Thormanby’s Famous Racing Men (1882) pp. 100–107, portrait.

MERRYWEATHER, Moses. b. 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant 1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt 1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich, covering about three acres were acquired, d. Clapham house, Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. London Figaro 7 June 1894 pp. 14–16; Times 5 Oct. 1872 p. 6.

MERRYWEATHER, Richard Moses (eld. son of the preceding). b. Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam fire engine. d. Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.

MERYON, Charles Lewis (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). b. Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802; Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806, M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow 1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec. 1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3 vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with portrait of author. d. The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep. 1877. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 234 (1878).

Note.—By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon b. Paris 23 Nov. 1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was bur. in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. F. S. Ellis’ Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion (1880); Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine Arts club (1879); Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By Philip Burty (1879).

MERYON, Edward. b. 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844; M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the sympathetic system of nerves 1872. d. 14 Clarges st. Mayfair, London 8 Nov. 1880.

MESSITER, Edward. b. 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec. 1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848, of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah 14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col. of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. d. 19 Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.

MESSITER, John. b. 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823, lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. d. Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.

MESSITER, Sussex Lennox Aubrey Beauclerk. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov. 1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. d. 2 Haymarket, London 20 Sep. 1870.

METCALFE, Frederick (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of Gainsborough). b. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849, sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849 to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845 and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. d. Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.

METCALFE, James (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846). b. 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie 11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters; major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec. 1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. d. 44 Harcourt terrace, London 8 March 1888.

METCALFE, Sir Theophilus John, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet d. 1853). b. Delhi 28 Nov. 1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut 1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi 14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid pension 1866. d. Paris 10 Nov. 1883.

METCALFE, William. b. 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson 1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny paper in Cambridge. d. Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888. Bookseller, May 1888 p. 465.

METCALFE, William James (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of Foulmire, Cambs., d. 1850). b. 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. d. suddenly in his private room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.

METEYARD, Eliza (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). b. Lime st. Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death; contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal, People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame 3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865; The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols. 1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60, 5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. d. Stanley place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. bur. Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G. Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 373–5.

METHUEN, Frederick Henry Paul Methuen, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 baron Methuen d. 1849). b. 23 Feb. 1818; cornet royal horse guards 8 Dec. 1837; lieut. 76 foot 3 April 1840; lieut. 71 foot 7 Sep. 1841, sold out 2 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. royal Wiltshire militia 5 May 1846, lieut.-col. commandant 9 Jany. 1859, hon. col. 5 Dec. 1885 to death; militia A.D.C. to the queen 11 Dec. 1860 to death; a lord-in-waiting to the queen June 1859 to July 1866, Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, May 1880 to June 1885 and Feb. to Aug. 1886. d. Corsham court near Chippenham 26 Sep. 1891. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 394–9; I.L.N. xvi 92 (1860), portrait.

METHUEN, Rev. Thomas Anthony (2 son of Paul Cobb Methuen of Corsham, Wilts., d. 1816). b. Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 23 May 1781; ed. at Eton 1796–9 and at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1801; C. of Ickham near Canterbury 1805; R. of All Cannings, Wilts. 1809 to death; R of Garsdon, Wilts. 5 Feb. 1814 to death; author of A series of single sheets containing new year addresses. Devizes 1832–68; A memoir of the rev. R. P. Beachcroft 1832; The voice of God in the ears of sabbath breakers, or four young men drowned in the canal 1847. d. Cannings’ rectory 15 June 1869. Autobiography of T. A. Methuen (1870), 2 portraits.

METZLER, George Thomas. b. 1835; proprietor of Saturday musical review, vol. 1, No. 1–42, 1879; partner in firm of Metzler & Co. pianoforte manufacturers and publishers of music at 37 Great Marlborough st. London about 1860 to death; resided Stamore house, 83 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London. d. Arrochar, Scotland 1 Sep. 1879.

MEUX, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Meux, 1 baronet 1770–1841). b. 28 Dec. 1817; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838; succeeded his father 7 April 1841 as 2 baronet and head of firm of Meux and Co. the Horse shoe brewery, Tottenham court road, London; sheriff of Herts. 1845; M.P. Herts. 1847–59; captain South Herts. yeomanry 21 June 1847 to Sep. 1859; there was an inquiry into his state of mind June 1858. d. 36 Grosvenor sq. London 1 Jany. 1883. A. Barnard’s Noted breweries, ii 155–68 (1889) with 6 views.

MEVES VON SCHROËDER, Augustus Antoine Cornelius (son of Augustus Anthony Wm. Meves von Schroëder, miniature painter, d. 1 Aug. 1818, who m. in 1783 Marianne 2 dau. of Cornelius Crowley, she was a musician and d. Conduit st. London, Jany. 1823). b. London 16 Feb. 1785; taught the pianoforte by his mother, appeared in Edinburgh as a pianist under name of Mr. Augustus 1805; a volunteer with the Loyal British artificers 1811, became captain; a professor of music to 1818; a stockbroker in London 1818, speculated and lost all his money 1821; claimed to be the dauphin of France, Louis XVII. 1818 and asserted that his alleged father brought him to London for safety in 1792; corresponded with the duchess of Angoulême 1830–1; composer of Once more enchanting girl adieu 1810; L’Aimable, a rondo for the pianoforte and harp 1820; Forty seven preludes for the pianoforte 1827; Romanza for the piano 1843; Jerusalem, recit. et aria 1854; Hail to the chief, a glee 1856, and 100 other pieces of music 1810–56; author of The memoirs of Louis Charles, dauphin of France son of Louis XVI. who personated through supposititious means A. Meves. The memoirs written by the veritable Louis XVII. The compilation by his sons W. and A. Meves 1868. d. in a cab while being conveyed to his residence 35 University st. Gower st. London 9 May 1859. W. A. and A. Meves’ The prisoner of the Temple (1860), portrait; W. A. and A. Meves’ Louis XVIIth (1867); Augustus de Bourbon’s Louis XVII. versus The London Times (1872), with the author’s portrait; Augustus de Bourbon’s The dauphin, Louis XVII. (1876), with the author’s portrait; Celebrated claimants (1873) 187–92; J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty (1882) 230–5; The London Figaro 4 Feb. 1880 p. 6.

Note.—He left two sons, 1 William Augustus Meves author and writer of works under name of Augustus de Bourbon; 2 Augustus Meves author and drum player in Weist Hill’s orchestra London, d. Jany. 1880.

MEWBURN, Francis. First solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington railway co. 1825; chief bailiff of Darlington 28 Nov. 1846; presented with a service of plate costing £400 by 224 of his friends at the Central hall, Darlington 17 Aug. 1855; author of Observations on the second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the law of real property. Durham 1830, 2 ed. 1830. d. 1882. I.L.N. lxvii 337, 341 (1875), portrait.

MEXBOROUGH, John Savile, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 earl of Mexborough 1761–1830). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 3 July 1783; styled Viscount Pollington till 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; M.P. for Pontefract 1807–26 and 1831–2; succeeded to the peerage 3 Feb. 1830; is described as Methley in A. W. Kinglake’s Eothen or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844; his printed books were sold at Sotheby’s 19–20 Dec. 1860 for £2120, and his manuscripts were sold 6 Feb. 1861 for £3019. d. 25 Portman sq. London 25 Dec. 1860.

MEYERS, John Henry. Apprentice to Edward Colyer, Fenchurch street London 1836–43; printer Hayden sq. Minories 1843–9; bookseller and stationer at Enfield 1849, retired 1887; proprietor of Meyers’ Observer 1859; resided at Hampton 1887, then at Richmond. d. Enfieldia, Richmond 9 June 1892.

MEYNELL, Charles. b. 1828; ed. at Sedgley park, Staffs., and English college, Rome; professor of metaphysics at St. Mary’s college Oscott many years; missioner at Caverswall, North Staffs. 1873 to death; author with rev. J. S. Northcote of The Colenso controversy considered from the Catholic standpoint 1863; author of Short sermons on doctrinal subjects 1866; Padre Liberatore and the Ontologists, a review 1868; Proteus and Amadeus, a correspondence. Edited by Aubrey De Vere 1878, Meynell sustains the part of Amadeus and Wilfrid Blount that of Proteus; Sermons for the spring quarter. Edited by H. I. D. Ryder 1883. d. Caverswall, Staffs. 3 May 1882.

MEYNELL, Godfrey (2 son of Godfrey Meynell of Langley, Derbyshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1838 aged 19; rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1840 and 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; practised as a conveyancer at York. d. 1858.

MEYNELL, Henry (2 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., d. 1801). b. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 24 June 1803; flag captain of the Newcastle at St. Helena, where he was noticed by Napoleon 1815; captain 10 April 1816; R.A. 29 April 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862; gentleman usher to George IV. 22 March 1820 to 26 June 1830 and to William IV. 24 July 1830 to 23 March 1831; one of grooms of waiting to Victoria, April 1845; M.P. Lisburn, co. Antrim 1826–47. d. Paris 24 March 1865. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 528–30; G.M. xviii 663 (1865).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, Hugo Charles (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., d. 1801). b. 1784; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826; assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures at Temple Newsam near Leeds. d. Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb. 1869. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 140–41; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 332–4 (1854).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, Hugo Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford 1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to death. d. 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. I.L.N. lviii 579 (1871).

MEYRICK, George. b. 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784; captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794, regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay; lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798; L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. d. Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, Albert Childers (3 son of sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson baronet d. 1874). b. 13 July 1848; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary counsel. d. 20 March 1894.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, Sir Harry Stephen, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4 dragoons 1771–1853). b. Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837; an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal, member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby 1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding, Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. d. Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 523 (1874), lxv 236; Journal of royal agricultural society of England, 2 series x 519–41; Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix 293–6 (1875).

MIALL, Edward (younger son of Moses Miall, general merchant, d. 1829). b. Portsmouth 8 May 1809; usher in Saltmarsh’s school, Bocking near Braintree 1827 and then in Waddell’s school at Nayland, Suffolk; independent minister at Ware, Herts. Feb. 1831; minister of Bond st. chapel, Leicester 1834–40; established The Nonconformist, weekly paper in London 14 April 1841, editor 1842 to death; a founder of The National complete suffrage union April 1842; contested Southwark 12 Sep. 1845 and Halifax 30 July 1847; M.P. Rochdale 1852–7; introduced resolutions in favour of the disestablishment of Irish church 27 May 1856; contested Tavistock 4 Sep. 1857 and Banbury 9 Feb. 1859; member of royal commission on education June 1858 to 1861; received a testimonial of £5000 and a service of plate after the sixth triennial conference of the Liberation Society 1862; contested Bradford 16 Oct. 1867 and 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Bradford 1869–74; ten thousand guineas were subscribed for him in 1873; lived at Honor Oak near London 1864–81; author of The nonconformist’s sketch-book 1845, 2 ed. 1867; Views of the voluntary principle 1845; The British churches in relation to the British people 1849, 2 ed. 1850; Bases of belief, an examination of Christianity as a divine revelation 1853, 3 ed. 1861; Title deeds of the Church of England to her parochial endowments 1862, 6 ed. 1865; An editor off the line, or wayside musings 1865; The social influences of the state church 1867. d. Greystone lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 29 April 1881. Arthur Miall’s Life of Edward Miall (1884), portrait; J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 208–18; I.L.N. vii 176 (1845) portrait, lxxviii 443 (1881) portrait; Congregationalist, viii 441, portrait.

MICHAEL, James Lionel. Solicitor at Grafton, New South Wales; one of the earliest of Australian poets; author of Songs without music. Sydney 1854; John Cumberland. Sydney 1857, a narrative poem; found drowned in the Clarence river 1868. G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales (1868) 218–20.

MICHAEL, William Henry (1 son of Lewin Michael of Swansea, merchant). b. 6 Sep. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1864, bencher 13 Jany. 1882 to death; Q.C. April 1878; author of The sanitary acts 1867; with J. S. Will The law of gas and water supply 1872, 3 ed. 1884; with W. H. Corfield and J. A. Wanklyn A manual of public health 1874; resided 54 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London. d. Schloss Labers, Meran in the Tyrol 15 Feb. 1892.

MICHEL, Charles Edward. b. 1810; ensign 66 foot 25 Nov. 1828, major 25 June 1847; lieut.-col. 54 foot 28 July 1857, retired on full pay 21 Sep. 1860 with hon. rank of M.G. d. 18 Inverness terrace, London 7 Aug. 1893.

MICHEL, Sir John (eld. son of general John Michel d. 1844). b. 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at Eton; ensign 57 foot 3 April 1823; ensign 64 foot 20 Nov. 1823, captain 15 Feb. 1827; captain 3 foot 20 Feb. 1835; major 6 foot 6 May 1840, lieut.-col. 15 April 1842 to 1 Oct. 1854; A.D.C. to his uncle sir Henry Fane, commander-in-chief East Indies 1835–9; commanded a brigade during Kaffir war 1846–7, and second division of the army in Kaffir war 1852–3; chief of the staff of Turkish contingent during Crimean war 27 March 1855 to April 1856; commanded the Malwa field force in Indian mutiny 1858–9, defeated Tantia Topee at Beorora 15 Sep. 1858, and at Mingrauli 9 Oct., annihilated one wing of his force near Saugor 5 Dec, Tantia Topee was hanged 18 April 1859; commanded the first division in North China, which burned the summer palace at Pekin 18 Oct. 1860; col. of 86 foot 19 Aug. 1862 to death; commanded the troops in the first autumn manœuvres in south of England 1873; commanded the forces in Ireland 1875–80; general 28 March 1874, field marshal 27 March 1885; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 21 March 1859, G.C.B. 20 May 1871, granted service reward 20 Aug. 1852. d. at his seat Dewlish, Dorchester 23 May 1886. Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1860 pp. 181–94.

MICHELL, Charles Cornwallis (2 son of Sampson Michell, admiral Portuguese navy 1755–1809). b. Exeter 29 March 1793; baptized Charles Collier but known as Charles Cornwallis; ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1807–9; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 Oct. 1809, 1 lieut. 1813, placed on h.p. with rank of captain 4 Sep. 1817; commanded a battery of Portuguese artillery during Peninsular war; attached to staff of marshal Beresford in the Brazils 1820; military drawing master at R.M. college, Sandhurst 25 March 1824; professor of fortification at R.M. academy, Woolwich 27 Sep. 1825 to 1828; surveyor general, civil engineer, and superintendent of works at Cape of Good Hope 1828 to July 1848; A.Q.M.G. in Caffre war of 1833–4, for which he was created K.H. 1836; knight of Portuguese orders of St. Bento d’Avis 1844 and of the Tower and Sword, Sep. 1846. d. Eltham, Kent 28 March 1851. Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 564.

MICHELL, Sir Frederick Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Exeter 8 April 1788; entered navy 17 Sep. 1803; captain 22 Feb. 1830; R.A. 9 July 1855, V.A. 16 June 1862, retired admiral 2 April 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. North gate, Totnes 14 Jany. 1873.

MICHELL, Sir John (son of rev. John Michell of Huish, Somerset). b. 1781; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 March 1798, lieut.-col. 22 July 1830; commanded the R.A. in Canada 1831–36 and at Gibraltar 1844–48; col. commandant 14 June 1856 to death; general 2 June 1864; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. 76 Portland place, London 23 Aug. 1866.

MICHELL, John Edward (only son of the preceding). b. 16 Sep. 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1846, lieut.-col. 2 Sep. 1870, colonel 17 April 1878 to death; brigadier general Bengal 31 March 1876 to 31 July 1876 and 9 March 1877 to 30 April 1880; C.B. 2 June 1869; M.G. 1 May 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny. d. Bishop’s Down, Spa, Tunbridge Wells 7 March 1883.

MICHELL, Nicholas (son of John Michell 1774–1868). b. Calenick near Truro 4 June 1807; ed. at Truro gr. sch.; employed in his father’s tin smelting works at Calenick; contributed to the Forget-me-not, the Keepsake and other annuals; author of The siege of Constantinople, with other poems 1831; An essay on woman 1833; The fatalist or the fortunes of Godolphin 3 vols. 1840; The traduced, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; Ruins of many lands 1849; Spirits of the past 1853; The poetry of creation 1856; The immortals, or glimpses of paradise 1870; a collected edition of his poems appeared in 1871. d. Tehidy terrace, Falmouth 6 April 1880. bur. St. Kea churchyard 12 April. Biograph, i 46 (1879); Men of the West, April 1877 pp. 17–20, portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp. 352–4, 1281; Dublin univ. mag. lxxxviii 241, 501.

MICHELL, Richard (3 son of Edward Michell). b. Bruton, Somerset 1805; ed. at Bruton gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1868; a successful private tutor; fellow of Lincoln college 1830, bursar 1832, tutor 1834–48; the first prælector of logic at Oxford 1839–49; public orator of univ. of Oxf. 1849 to death; member of the new hebdomadal council 1854–72; R. of South Moreton, Berkshire 1856 to death; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1848 and principal 5 Feb. 1868, the hall was converted into Hertford college in 1874, principal 10 Oct. 1874 to death; author of The nature and comparative value of the christian evidences considered. Bampton lectures 1849; Orationes Creweianæ 1878. d. Hertford college, Oxford 29 March 1877, portrait in Hertford college. Graphic, xv 356 (1877), portrait.

MICHELL, William (1 son of Bennet Michell). b. Bodmin 14 Feb. 1796; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1839; M.R.C.S. 1813; in practice at Fore st. Bodmin 1850; M.P. Bodmin 1852–7; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857; M.P. Bodmin 30 April 1859; accepted Chiltern hundreds 5 Aug. 1859; author of On difficult cases of parturition and the use of ergot of rye 1828. d. Plymouth 4 Nov. 1872.

MICHELL, William Edwards (only son of William Michell 1805–69, registrar of the stannaries). b. Truro 14 March 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Jany. 1861; capt. royal Cornwall and Devon miners’ artillery militia 12 Feb. 1870; lieut.-col. commanding 2 brigade western division royal artillery militia 4 April 1883 to death; F.R.A.S. d. Woolwich 5 Nov. 1892. bur. Newquay.

MICKLETHWAITE, Frederick Nathaniel (3 son of Nathaniel Micklethwaite of Taverham hall, Norwich 1784–1856). b. 1817; ed. Eton and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; his first match at Lord’s, Harrow v. Eton 31 July 1834; the best bat in the Eton eleven; played for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s 23–4 June 1836, afterwards played for I. Zingari; on committee of Marylebone club; barrister I.T. 29 April 1842. d. Taverham hall, Norwich 18 Oct. 1878. F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii 279 (1862).

MICKLETHWAITE, Thomas. b. 4 Sep. 1813; editor and proprietor of Sheffield Patriot 1841; proprietor and editor of Wakefield Journal and examiner 1841 to Nov. 1852; poor law auditor for west Yorkshire audit district 28 June 1851 to death; a town councillor of Wakefield; chairman of board of guardians 1849–51; high chief ranger of ancient order of Foresters 1849; barrister G.I. 30 April 1853. d. Wakefield 23 May 1857. bur. in the vicarage croft 27 May. Wakefield Journal 29 May 1857 p. 5.

MIDDLEMIST, Robert. b. 29 Feb. 1808; a computer at Nautical almanac office, London 1831; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1834; mathematical master in royal naval school, Greenwich; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. as an undergraduate 1838, scholar, 27th wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; C. of Ufford, Northamptonshire 1843–5; senior assistant mathematical master at Harrow 1845 to death; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1860 to death. d. Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1877. bur. at Harrow 18 Jany. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 202–205.

MIDDLEMORE, Richard (son of Richard Middlemore of The Davids, Northfield). b. 12 Oct. 1804; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827; an ophthalmic surgeon at Temple Row, Birmingham 1827, retired 1879; assist. surgeon Birmingham and Midland eye hospital 1828, and hon. surgeon 1835–49, gave £1000 for an annual lecture there 1888; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of the blind asylum at Edgbaston 1848 which he endowed with £2000 in 1889; founded a prize for an essay on improvements in ophthalmic medicine and surgery, to be awarded by British Medical assoc. 1877; author of A treatise on diseases of the eye and its appendages 2 vols. 1835. d. The Limes, Bristol road, Birmingham 1 March 1891. Lancet 7 March 1891 p. 579.

MIDDLEMORE, William (brother of the preceding). b. 1802; leather merchant Birmingham and a government contractor, retired; a town councillor of Birmingham 1839; gave and laid out a recreation ground of four acres in the centre of the town; a benefactor to the Baptist cause; gave £500 towards price of Aston hall and park 1863; a liberal donor to the school of art 1844 and to the art gallery; chairman of Birmingham wagon co. d. 38 Elvetham road, Birmingham 15 Jany. 1887.

MIDDLETON, Sir Henry Willoughby, 8 Baron (1 son of Henry Willoughby, M.P. 1780–1849). b. Apsley hall, Notts. 28 Aug. 1817; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; succeeded his cousin as 8 baron 5 Nov. 1856; capt. South Notts. yeomanry cavalry 1861; hon. col. 1 brigade East Riding artillery volunteers 1862; bought the Middleton pack from sir Tatton Sykes 1853, hunted 5 days a week at his sole expense to 1860, spending £20,000, a guarantee fund of £2,000 was raised in 1860, master of the hounds to his death; presented with a testimonial and his portrait by Henry T. Wells, R.A. Dec. 1877; bought the parish of West Bruton, Notts. 941 acres March 1857. d. Settrington house, Birdsall, Yorks. 20 Dec. 1877. Times 21 Dec. 1877 p. 3; Baily’s Mag. x 269–71 (1865), portrait.

MIDDLETON, Charles. b. 1787; ensign 1 foot 19 Sep. 1804; captain 22 light dragoons 25 Feb. 1810, placed on h.p. 25 Sep. 1820; captain 2 dragoon guards 10 Jany. 1822; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 3 Dec. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1851; commandant of cavalry depot, Maidstone 1 Jany. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; major 72 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Rockey hill terrace, Maidstone 23 Oct. 1854. G.M. xliii 84 (1855).

MIDDLETON, Sir George Nathaniel Broke, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke 1776–1841, 1 Baronet). b. Plymouth 26 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1821 etc.; entered R.N. 16 Aug. 1825; captain 18 Dec. 1845; commander of the Gladiator 1854; at attack on Bomarsund, then in the Black Sea 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 Feb. 1855; assumed name of Middleton by r.l. 17 July 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1864; admiral 22 Jany. 1877; rode to hounds when over seventy; a liberal supporter of Suffolk sports. d. Shrublands near Ipswich 14 Jany. 1887. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 129 (1887).

MIDDLETON, John. b. Norwich 1827; landscape painter at Norwich; his landscapes were noted for their effective rendering of the seasons of the year; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. and 15 at B.I. 1847–55. d. of consumption at Surrey st. Norwich 11 Nov. 1856.

MIDDLETON, John George. b. 1817; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1844, LL.D. 1849; member of college of doctors of the law 2 Nov. 1849; steward of doctors’ commons 1860 to death; reported in the Court of probate and divorce, his reports are comprised in The Law Reports, Courts of probate and divorce vols. 1–3 (1869–75) and Probate division vols. 1–3 (1876–8). d. Marine lodge, Southend 6 March 1878. Solicitors’ Journal, xxii 394 (1878).

MIDDLETON, John William (son of Wm. Middleton, solicitor, d. 1885). b. Leeds 1838; solicitor at Leeds 1860 to death; a founder of Leeds and county conservative club; vice president of Incorporated law society, Leeds 1881, president 1882 and 1883; member of council of Incorporated law society of the United Kingdom 1883 to death. d. Fairfield, Far Headingley near Leeds 16 July 1887. bur. Chapel Allerton ch. near Leeds 19 July. Law Times 6 Aug. 1887 p. 266.

MIDDLETON, Joseph (younger son of Joseph Middleton of Grove house near Leeds). b. 28 March 1818; pupil of Thomas Chitty; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843; went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough, June 1865 to death; author of Hyacinth, a poem and lyrics 1840; Stanhope, a domestic novel 1845; Marmaduke Lorrimer 3 vols. 1850; Love versus law, or marriage with a deceased wife’s sister 3 vols. 1855. d. Gibton grove, Roundhay near Leeds 24 Dec. 1871. Solicitors’ Journal, xvi 162 (1872).

MIDDLETON, William Alexander. Second lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1839, colonel 10 Nov. 1868 to death; deputy adjutant general R.A. 1 Oct. 1870 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. on board royal mail steamer Douro, bound for Lisbon 13 April 1875.

MIDDLETON, William George (1 son of George Middleton). b. 1846; cornet 12 lancers 9 May 1865, captain 4 Jany. 1871 to 11 July 1874 when he sold out; extra A.D.C. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1870–4; first whip to the 12th lancers harriers 1865–6 and hunted the drag hounds at Ballincolley, co. Cork 1866–8; rode his first steeple chase at Cork 1867; his horse Lord of the Harem won 29 races; won the Irish grand military cup on Waterford at Punchestown 1873 and 1874; the best rider to hounds since James Mason; acted as pilot across country to the empress of Austria during her 4 hunting visits to England and Ireland 1876 and 1878–80; a cricketer and member of I. Zingari; known as “Bay Middleton”; killed while riding in the Midland sportsman’s cup steeplechase at Herd Hill farm near Kineton, Warwickshire 9 April 1892. bur. Haselbeck, Northamptonshire 14 April. Baily’s Mag. xlv 1–2 (1886) portrait, lvii 350 (1892); Sporting Mirror, v 13 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. 16 April 1892 p. 479, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 23 April 1892 p. 209, portrait.

MIDLETON, William John Brodrick, 7 Viscount (3 son of hon. Charles Brodrick, abp. of Cashel 1761–1822). b. 8 July 1798; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Ashstead, Surrey 1822–25; R. of Castle Rising, Norfolk 1825–39; R. of Bath 1839–54; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; raised to rank of a viscount’s son by royal warrant 1849; canon of Wells 1855–63; dean of Exeter 2 April 1863 resigned Nov. 1867; succeeded his brother as 7 viscount 2 Dec. 1863; author of Facts and documents, the negotiation between the rector of Bath and the committee of the Weymouth house school. Bath 1840. d. Peper Harow 29 Aug. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 283, 363 (1870); Mayor’s Notabilia of Bath (1879) 197.

MIDWINTER, William. b. Forest of Dean, Gloucs. 19 June 1852; went to Australia; learnt cricket at Bendigo, Victoria; played for Victoria against New South Wales in 9 matches 1875–87; came to England 1877; played for Gloucestershire 1877–81; member of the United South of England eleven; played for English team in Australia 1881–2; played for Australian team in England 1884; lessee of various hotels in Melbourne; went out of his mind 1889. d. Kew asylum near Melbourne 3 Dec. 1890. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 170, portrait.

MIERS, John (son of a jeweller). b. London 25 Aug. 1789; developed the mineral resources of Chili with lord Cochrane 1819–25; studied botany in England 1825; resided at Buenos Ayres 1826–31 where he erected a mint for the government; an engineer in Rio Janeiro 1831–8 where he also erected a mint for the government; resided in London 1838 to death; F.L.S. 1839, wrote nearly 80 papers in its Transactions, chiefly on South American plants; F.R.S. 9 March 1843; received grand cross of order of Rose of Brazil; Lindley dedicated to him the genus Miersia, a Chilian group of plants; author of Travels in Chili and La Plata 2 vols. 1825; Illustrations of South American plants 2 vols. 1850–7; Contributions to botany 3 vols. 1861–71; On the apocynaceæ of South America 1878; bequeathed his botanical collection to British Museum. d. 84 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Oct. 1879. Journal of botany (1880) 33–6, portrait; Proc. of Royal Society, xxix 22–3 (1879).

MIGNAN, Robert. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. first European regiment 3 May 1820, captain 11 Sep. 1830, major of the right wing 15 Aug. 1847 to death; brevet lieut.-col. 7 June 1849; author of Travels in Chaldæa, including a journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon performed on foot 1829; A winter journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia in Koordistan 2 vols. 1839. d. Poonah 3 June 1852.

MIGNOT, Louis Rémy (son of a confectioner at Baltimore). b. Charleston, South Carolina 1831; studied art in Holland; opened a studio in New York about 1855; painted tropical scenes in South America; associate member of Academy of design 1858, an academician 1859; came to London 1862; exhibited 8 landscapes at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1863–71; his picture The source of Susquehannah was exhibited at Paris exposition 1867; a collection of his paintings was exhibited in London after his death. d. Brighton, Sep. 1870.

MILANO, John, stage name of John Millingham (son of John Millingham d. 18 Nov. 1874 aged 95). b. 1825; dancer at Grecian saloon, London; harlequin at Sadler’s Wells theatre 7 Dec. 1851, at Surrey Dec. 1852, at Drury Lane Dec. 1853 and Dec. 1854, at Haymarket Dec. 1855 and Dec. 1856, at Drury Lane Dec. 1857, Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859, at Princess’s Dec. 1862; ballet master and arranger of ballets at many London theatres; wrote with H. T. Arden, Harlequin prince Happy-go-lucky produced at Alhambra palace London 26 Dec. 1871; m. (1) 1849 Thérese Cushnie dancer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, she d. 22 Aug. 1857; m. (2) Minnie Sidney actress, she d. 9 Feb. 1873. d. 191 Kennington road, London 20 Aug. 1874. bur. Brompton cemet. 24 Aug. Era 23 Aug. 1874 p. 4.

MILBANK, Mark (1 son of Wm. Milbank of Thorp Perrow, Yorks. d. 1802). b. 2 May 1795; ed. Harrow, matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 6 Nov. 1813; M.P. Camelford 1818–31; sheriff North riding of Yorkshire 1837. d. Barningham park near Greta Bridge, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1881.

MILBANKE-HUSKISSON, Sir John Ralph, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Peniston Milbanke of Halnaby, Yorks. 1776–1850). b. 5 Nov. or Dec. 1800; clerk in Foreign office 10 Oct. 1823; sec. of legation at Frankfort 6 Sep. 1826; sec. of embassy at St. Petersburg 28 Oct. 1835, and at Vienna 2 Oct. 1838; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. Munich 14 Nov. 1843 and at the Hague 28 Oct. 1862, retired on a pension 29 Sep. 1867; succeeded as 8 baronet 27 July 1850; assumed by r.l. surname of Huskisson in compliance with will of Eliza Emily widow of rt. hon. William Huskisson 5 Jany. 1866. d. Eartham house near Chichester 30 Dec. 1868. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 p. 110; F.O. List, Jany. 1869 p. 188.

MILDMAY, Carew Anthony St. John (9 son of sir Henry Paulet St. John, 3 Baronet, who assumed surname of Mildmay by r.l. 8 Dec. 1790, d. 11 Nov. 1808). b. Winchester 2 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; student of Inner Temple 1822; V. of Dogmersfield 1824; R. of the sinecure rectory of Shorewell, Isle of Wight 1824 to death; V. of Burnham, Essex 1827–58; R. of Chelmsford 1826 to death; chaplain to bishop Wigram 1860; archdeacon of Essex 1861 to death; author of Sermons 1879, which contain an In Memoriam pp. ix–xxiii. d. Homburg 13 July 1878. bur. Chelmsford.

MILES, Charles Popham (4 son of William Augustus Miles, political writer, d. 1817). b. 1810; ed. at Morpeth gr. sch.; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co.; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1851; C. of St. Ann, Limehouse, and chaplain of Sailors’ home, Wells st. London 1838–9; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1839–41; C. of Bishopwearmouth 1841–3; incumbent of St. Jude’s, Glasgow, Nov. 1843, his benefice was withdrawn from episcopal jurisdiction after a controversy between him and his bishop 1844; principal of Malta protestant college 1858–67; V. of Monkwearmouth, Durham 1867–83; hon. canon of Durham 1872; F.L.S.; author of Lectures on the book of the prophet Daniel 2 parts 1840–41; The voice of the reformation, an apology for evangelical doctrines 1844; The Cyclopædia of religious denominations 1853; The Scottish episcopal church, antagonistic to the church of England in Scotland. Glasgow 1857. d. Great Chesterford, Essex 10 July 1891. John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 126–32.

MILES, George Francis, known as Frank Miles (youngest son of Robert Henry Wm. Miles, rector of Bingham, Notts.). b. 22 April 1852; studied art on the continent; worked in Wales some time; painted portraits of princess of Wales and some members of her family; best known for a series of portrait studies of female heads, which had a great sale; introduced many Japanese flowers into England; exhibited 8 portraits at R.A. 1874–80; confined in Brislington asylum near Bristol 27 Dec. 1887 to death. d. Brislington asylum 15 July 1891. bur. Almondsbury near Bristol.

MILES, Henry Downes. b. 1806; sub-editor of The Constitution 1833, which was started in opposition to The Times; subsequently on The Crown; ring reporter to the London daily press and Bell’s Life in London many years, retired 1871; edited The Sporting Magazine; translated M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1846 and The Wandering Jew 1846; edited The licensed victuallers’ year book 1873, and The sportsman’s companion 1863–4, twelve parts only; author of The life of J. Grimaldi 1838; Dick Turpin 4 ed. 1845; Claude du Val 1850; The Anglo-Indian word book 1858; The book of field sports and library of veterinary knowledge 1860–63; Miles’ Modern practical farrier 1863–64; English country life 1868–69; Pugilistica, being one hundred and forty-four years of the history of British boxing 3 vols. 1880–81. d. Wood Green, Middlesex, Feb. 1889.

MILES, John. b. Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 16 March 1813; entered house of Simpkin and Marshall, booksellers, Stationers’ hall court 1829, admitted a partner 1836, became senior partner, retired Oct. 1883; a vice president of the Booksellers’ provident institution; master of the Stationers’ company 1883; governor of the New River co. to his death; built and endowed All Saints’ church, Friern Barnet, Middlesex at a cost of £15,000. d. Manor house, Friern Barnet, May 1886. Bookseller, June 1886 p. 518.

MILES, John William (6 child of Philip John Miles of Leigh court 1774–1845). b. 21 June 1817; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1865; banker at Bristol; M.P. city of Bristol 30 April 1868, unseated June 1868. d. Underdown near Ledbury, Herefordshire 5 Nov. 1878.

MILES, Joseph Johnson (son of John Miles, partner in Simpkin, Marshall and co., booksellers). b. London 1811; entered house of Hamilton and Adams 1826, became a partner 1832; chairman of Mudie’s library co.; almoner of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 4 years; a director of the Improved industrial dwellings co. 1863; a great philanthropist for many years; master of the Stationers’ co. 1882. d. Highgate 1 Nov. 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Nov. Sunday Mag. May 1885 pp. 294–8, portrait.

MILES, Sir Philip John William, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Miles 1797–1878). b. 2 Sep. 1825; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 17 lancers 27 June 1845, lieut. 11 June 1847, sold out 13 Oct. 1848; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 17 June 1878; M.P. East Somerset 1878–85; partner in banking house of sir W. Miles, Corn st. Bristol; sheriff of Bristol 1853. d. 75 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s Gate, London 5 June 1888.

MILES, Philip William Skinner (5 child of Philip John Miles 1774–1845). b. 15 May 1816; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1834; M.P. Bristol 1837–52; sheriff of Gloucester 1863. d. King’s Weston house near Bristol 1 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. viii 120 (1846) portrait, xx 277 (1852) portrait.

MILES, Sibella Elizabeth (dau. of John Westby Hatfield, auctioneer in West Cornwall d. 1839 aged 72). b. Falmouth 28 Sep. 1800; kept a girls’ boarding school at Penzance to 1833; m. 13 Aug. 1833 at Madron, West Cornwall, Alfred Miles commander R.N., he edited Horsburgh’s Indian directory 1841 and 1852, and d. Lympston, South Devon 28 Nov. 1851; author of The wanderer of Scandinavia 2 vols. 1826; Moments of loneliness 1829; Fruits of solitude 1831; Essay on the factory question 1844, anon.; Leisure evenings or records of the past 1860; The grotto of Neptune 1864; and some of the poems in part 2 of Original Cornish ballads 1846. d. 54 South Lambeth road, London 29 March 1882. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 355–6, 1282.

MILES, William (eld. son of Wm. Miles, captain West Middlesex militia, d. 1820). Cadet Bombay army 1799; ensign 1 Bombay N.I. 6 March 1800; lieut.-col. 1 Bombay European regiment 1 May 1824; commanded his regiment in Tenasserim during first Burmese war and captured Merjui; political resident at Palampore 1829–31; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 5 June 1829 to 28 July 1834; comr. at Baroda 1831–2; retired M.G. 28 July 1834; translated The Shajrat Ul Atrak or genealogical tree of the Turks and Tartars 1838; translated for the Oriental translation fund two works by Ali Kirmānā Husain namely History of Hydur Naik 1842 and History of the reign of Tipú Sultan 1844. d. North villa, Regent’s park, London 21 May 1860.

MILES, Sir William, 1 Baronet (brother of Philip Wm. Skinner Miles 1816–81). b. 18 May 1797; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1815; student of Lincoln’s inn 1818; M.P. Chippenham 1818–20; M.P. New Romney 1830–31; contested East Somerset 1832; M.P. East Somerset 1834–65; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions 1836–70; presented at the crown court Wells, Oct. 1861, with his portrait by Frank Grant, R.A.; colonel of north Somerset yeomanry cavalry 9 Aug. 1843 to Jany. 1867; created baronet 19 April 1859. d. Leigh court, Bristol 17 June 1878.

MILEY, John. b. co. Kildare about 1805; ed. at Maynooth and Rome; R.C. curate of Dublin parish 1835; attended Daniel O’Connell in Richmond Bridewell, Dublin, May 1844; went with Daniel O’Connell to Genoa as his private chaplain March 1847, O’Connell died 15 May 1847, Miley placed his heart in church of St. Agatha, Rome, conveyed his body to Glasnevin cemetery, Ireland, and preached his funeral sermon in Marlborough st. church Dublin 4 Aug.; rector of the Irish college, Paris 1849–59; parish priest of Bray 1859 to death; author of Rome under Paganism and the popes 1848; History of the papal states 3 vols. 1850; The temporal sovereignty of the popes 1856, vol. 1 only; L’Empereur Napoléon III. et la Papauté 1859. d. Bray 18 April 1861. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell, ii 36, 457 (1888).

MILFORD, Samuel Frederick (eld. son of Samuel Frederick Milford of Heavitree near Exeter). b. Exeter 16 Sep. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 10 May 1822; judge of diocesan ecclesiastical court Bristol; master in equity of New South Wales and chief comr. of insolvent estates Sep. 1842 to Jany. 1856; resident judge in district of Moreton Bay (now Queensland) Jany. 1856 to Feb. 1859; judge of supreme court of New South Wales at Sydney, judge of the court of vice-admiralty and primary judge in equity Feb. 1859 to death. d. Maitland, N.S.W. 26 May 1865.

MILL, James. Educ. at Edinb. univ.; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; a surgeon at Wick 1827–47; at Thurso 1847 to death; provost of Thurso 1852–60 and 1865; sheriff depute; presented with a carriage, a time piece and a silver tea service 1872. d. Thurso 27 June 1873. Medical times, ii 81 (1873).

MILL, John. b. St. Gennys, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1815; ed. at Edinb. univ.; M.D.; editor of the Phrenological and physiological library; sec. of the proposed National university for technical and industrial training 1871; assisted R. A. Caplin in her Women in the reign of queen Victoria 1876; author of The fossil spirit, a boy’s dream of geology 1854; The claims of Swedenborg, an oration 1856–7; The use of clairvoyance in medicine 1858; Disraeli the author, orator and statesman 1863; Primary, industrial and technical education, What to teach and how to teach it 1871; The Ottomans in Europe or Turkey in the present crisis with the Secret societies’ maps 1876. d. Camberwell, London 26 June 1881. Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 566.

MILL, Sir John Barker, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Barker of Wareham, Dorset). b. 1803; ed. at Downing coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; V. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 14 May 1831 to 1836; assumed name of Mill by r.l. 1835; created a baronet 16 March 1836. d. Mottisfont abbey near Romsey 20 Feb. 1860. W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 232–5.

MILL, John Stuart (eld. child of James Mill, philosopher 1773–1836). b. 13 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 20 May 1806; ed. by his father; lived with sir Samuel Bentham in France 1820–1; a junior clerk in examiner’s office, India house 21 May 1823, an assistant 1828, chief of the office with £2000 a year 1856, retired with pension of £1500 a year on dissolution of East India co. 1858; founded the Utilitarian society, winter of 1822–3, the society read essays and discussed questions, it lasted till 1826; wrote in the Westminster Review 1824–8; edited Bentham’s Treatise upon evidence 5 vols. 1826; member of the Speculative society 1826–9; proprietor of Westminster Review 1837–40; M.P. Westminster 1865–8; contested Westminster 18 Nov. 1868; chairman of the Jamaica committee to promote prosecution of governor Eyre 1866; rector of Univ. of St. Andrews 1866; author of A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive 2 vols. 1843, 11 ed. 1891; Essays on some unsettled questions of political economy 1844, 2 ed. 1874; Principles of political economy 2 vols. 1848, 6 ed. 1865; On liberty 1859; Dissertations and discussions 4 vols. 1859–75. d. Avignon, France 8 May 1873. J. S. Mill’s Autobiography (1867); A. Bain’s J. S. Mill, a criticism (1882); J. Morley’s Miscellanies, ii 239–327 (1877); Caroline Fox’s Memories of old friends 2 vols. (1882), passim; W. L. Courtney’s Life of J. S. Mill (1889); I.L.N. xlviii 280, 281 (1886) portrait, lxii 455, 456 (1873) portrait; Illustrated Times 28 April 1866 p. 264, portrait; English psychology translated from the French of Th. Ribot (1873) 78–123; Mind, No. 14, March 1879 p. 211; The Examiner 17 May 1873 pp. 502–18; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. viii 259–73 (1875); Charles Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living (1877) 14–18; J. S. Mill and Abraham Hayward, by W. D. Christie (1873).

MILL, William Hodge (son of John Mill of Dundee). b. Hackney near London 18 July 1792; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1 Oct. 1814; 6 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; D.D. Oxf. 1839; the first principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1820–38; member of Bengal Asiatic society, vice pres. 1833–7; chaplain to Wm. Howley, abp. of Canterbury 1839; Christian advocate at Cambridge 1839; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb. and canon of Ely Oct. 1848 to death; R. of Brasted, Kent 1843 to death; author of Christa Sangita or the sacred history of our Lord Jesus Christ in Sanscrit verse. Book 1, the infancy. Calcutta 1831, and of A Sanskrit translation of the Sermon on the Mount; Observations on the attempted application of pantheistic principles to the criticism of the gospel 2 parts 1840–44, 2 ed. 1861, and of many theological lectures and sermons. d. Brasted 25 Dec. 1853. bur. Ely cathedral 31 Dec., bust in rooms of Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta. G.M. xli 205–6 (1854).

MILLAR, Rev. James. Chaplain of Edinburgh Castle 16 May 1850 to death. d. Edinburgh 7 May 1875.

MILLAR, John, Lord Craighill (son of John Hepburn Millar of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1817; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; LL.D. Glasgow; called to bar 1842; advocate depute 1858, 1859 and 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 6 March 1867 and 4 March 1874; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; a lord of session 15 July 1874, took courtesy title of Lord Craighill; a lord justiciary 4 March 1876. d. 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1888. Law Journal, xxiii 508 (1888).

MILLARD, John. Elocution master at city of London school 21 years; professor of elocution at Royal academy of music and Royal college of music to death; author of A grammar of elocution 1869, 2 ed. 1882. d. 63 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1893. John Millard’s Shakespeare for recitation (1893).

MILLER, David Prince. b. Mansfield, Notts. 1808; apprenticed to a draper in Tottenham Court road, London; clerk in chambers of Mr. Booth, barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; ran away from home, employed in Richardson’s theatre at Portsmouth and at other fairs 1832; a strolling conjuror at fairs in Great Britain 1832–39 and from 1848; first appeared at Glasgow fair July 1839; erected a wooden building for theatrical performances at Glasgow 1839, when J. H. Alexander proceeded against him for infringement of the Theatre royal patent, Miller was detained in gaol 13 weeks; opened the Royal Adelphi theatre Glasgow 21 Dec. 1842, rebuilt the house at cost of £2000 and opened it again 3 Oct. 1847; lessee of Queen’s theatre, Manchester for a short time; gave an entertainment entitled The ups and downs of life, at Concert hall, Liverpool, and at the National hall, Holborn, London; contributed to Henry Mayhew’s London labour and the London poor at salary of £2 per week 1850; a showman at the great fair at Bayswater during Great Exhibition of 1851, the fair was a failure; author of The life of a showman and the managerial struggles of D. P. Miller, originally published in 12 parts April 1842 &c., 2 ed. 1849. d. Kent road, Glasgow 24 May 1873.

MILLER, Fiennes Sanderson. b. 16 May 1783; major 6 dragoons 25 May 1809 to 15 May 1817; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Radway Grange, Warws. 12 Sep. 1862.

MILLER, Frederic Peel. b. Clapham, Surrey 29 July 1828; first played with Dulwich and Streatham clubs; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Surrey 2 June 1851; in the Surrey eleven 1853; came into a fortune and gave large sums for the publication of Lillywhite’s cricket scores vols. 1–4 (1863), which but for him would have broken down; president of the United All England eleven some seasons to 1857; in Australia and New Zealand for his health 1870–2; retired into Somerset 1873; one of the most wonderful run getters; on committee of the Surrey club and managed many of the great matches at the Oval. d. Chilworthy near Chard 22 Nov. 1875. Baily’s Mag. xxviii 7–10 (1876); Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iv 236 (1863); R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 38, portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93, portrait.

MILLER, Henry (2 son of Edward Miller). b. Radway, Warwickshire 7 March 1828; matric. from Worcester coll. Oxf. 6 Feb. 1846; demy of Magd. coll. 1846–58, fellow 1858–61; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; C. of Littleham with Exmouth 1854; R. of Radway, Warwickshire 1858–60; V. of Ashbury, Berkshire 1860 to death; author of The question of interpretation plainly stated in reference to certain views put forth by the authors of Essays and Reviews 1861; Some account of the parish of Ashbury 1877. d. 4 Feb. 1892. J. R. Bloxam’s Magdalen college, Oxford, vii 378 (1881).

MILLER, Hugh (son of Hugh Miller, lost in his trading-sloop in the Moray firth 9 Nov. 1807). b. Cromarty 10 Oct. 1802; apprenticed to a stonemason 1819–22; a journeyman mason in different parts of Scotland 1822–34; accountant in branch of Commercial bank at Cromarty, Dec. 1834 to Jany. 1840; edited The Witness, an Edinburgh bi-weekly paper, organ of the non-intrusionists Jany. 1840 to death; his part in the free church movement 1839 to 1843 was only second to that of Chalmers; author of Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason 1829; The old red sandstone or new walks in an old field 1841, 2 ed. 1842; First impressions of England and its people 1847, 3 ed. 1861; Footprints of the creator, or the Asterolepis of Stromness 1849, 2 ed. 1861; The testimony of the rocks 1857; The cruise of the Betsey 1858; shot himself at Portobello near Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1856. bur. in the Grange cemetery, bust by Wm. Brodie in national portrait gallery, Edinburgh. P. Bayne’s Life and letters of Hugh Miller (1871), 2 portraits; H. Miller’s My schools and schoolmasters (1852); H. Miller’s Footprints of the creator (1861), memoir by L. Agassiz pp. iii–xxxvii; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 405–12, portrait.

MILLER, James (3 son of rev. James Miller 1777–1860). b. the manse, Essie, Forfarshire 2 April 1812; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–7; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1832, F.R.C.S. Edinb.; assistant to Robert Liston 1832–4, succeeded to his practice in Edinb. 1834; professor of surgery in univ. of Edinb. 30 July 1842 to death; surgeon in ordinary, Scotland to prince Albert 8 July 1847 and to the Queen 17 April 1848; surgeon to royal infirmary, Edinb.; professor of pictorial anatomy to school of design at royal institution, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Principles of surgery 1844 and Practice of surgery 1846, they were amalgamated into A system of surgery 1864; Surgical experience of chloroform 1848; Prostitution in relation to its cause and cure 1859. d. Pinkhill near Edinburgh 17 June 1864. bur. in Grange cemetery Edinb. 22 June, bust by sir John Steell in Medical mission house 56 George sq. Edinb. Proc. of Royal Soc. v 298 (1866); Edinburgh Medical Journal, July 1864 pp. 92–6; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Catalogue of Surgeon-general’s office. Washington ix 311–12 (1888).

MILLER, John (3 son of rev. Peter Miller of Bockleton, Worcester, and Leysters, Herefordshire). b. Bockleton 20 Jany. 1787; ed. at St. Paul’s, London and Worcs. coll. Oxf., scholar 6 June 1806, fellow 4 June 1810; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; select preacher 1814; C. of Croft and Yarpole, Herefordshire 1814–18; Bampton lecturer 1817; C. of Bishopston, Wilts. 1818–21; R. of Benefield, Norths. 1822, resigned 1842; C. of Bockleton 1851 to May 1855, P.C. of Bockleton, May 1855 to death; author of The divine authority of holy scripture asserted, Bampton lectures 1817; A christian guide for plain people, especially for the poor, six sermons. Oxford 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Sermons to show a sober application of scriptural principles to the realities of life 1830; Conspectus of the Hampden case at Oxford 1836; Thoughts for the labouring classes among christians 1831, 3 ed. 1836; A safe path for humble churchmen, six sermons 1850. d. Bockleton 18 Jany. 1858. J. M. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies (1875) 23–42; Coleridge’s Memoir of Keble 2 ed. (1869) i 23–29; G.M. iv 441–44 (1858).

MILLER, John. b. 5 Nov. 1810; bookseller at 27 Rathbone place, London 1833–6, at 404 Oxford st. 1836–47, at 361 Oxford st. 1847–8, at Chandos st. 1848–65 and at Green st. 1865 to death; published R. H. Horne’s famous farthing epic Orion 1843 and other books. d. London 10 Jany. 1873.

MILLER, John (son of James Miller, builder). b. Ayr 26 July 1805; in a solicitor’s office, Ayr 1818–23; in office of Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, Edinb. 1823, who took him into partnership 1825; constructed roads in Scotland and Ireland 1829–31; engineer of Dundee and Arbroath railway, of the Glasgow, Ayr and Kilmarnock and of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 1835; engineer of North British railway, of direct Northern railway from London to York, and of northern half of Great Northern railway; constructed many of finest viaducts in Great Britain, especially the Lugar viaduct; retired 1850; A.I.C.E. June 1830, M.I.C.E. May 1832; F.R.S. Edinb. 1841; M.P. city of Edinburgh 1868–74; purchased estates of Leithenhopes, Peebleshire, and Drumlithie, Kincardineshire. d. 2 Melville crescent, Edinburgh 7 May 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv 286–9 (1883).

MILLER, John Birmingham. b. 1778; called to Irish bar 1811; Q.C. 1 July 1837. d. Kildare 1 Jany. 1855.

MILLER, John Cale (only son of John Miller). b. Margate, Kent 11 Oct. 1814; ed. Brompton gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Oxf.; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1834–6; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1857; C. of Bexley, Kent 1837; assistant curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1839, curate 1841–6; R. of St. Martin’s, Birmingham, June 1846 to March 1866; established a working men’s assoc. 1854; began special services in St. Martin’s ch. for the labouring classes Nov. 1856; V. of Greenwich 7 March 1866 to death; hon. canon of Worcester, Aug. 1852, canon and treasurer 31 Oct. 1871 to 1873; select preacher at Oxford 1867; canon of Rochester 1873 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Rochester 1877 to death; member for Greenwich of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to March 1872; author of Subjection, no not for an hour, a warning to protestant christians in behalf of the truth of the gospel as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines of the tractarian heresy 1850, 5 ed. 1850, which evoked several replies; Bible inspiration vindicated, an essay on “Essays and Reviews” 1861; A hymn book for church of England Sunday schools 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Letters to a young clergyman 1878 and 40 other books. d. Park place, Maze Hill, East Greenwich 11 July 1880. bur. Shooter’s Hill cemet. 16 July. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait No. 35; Drawing-room portrait gallery 4th series (1860), portrait No. x; C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 199–208.

MILLER, John Fletcher. b. Whitehaven, Cumberland 20 June 1816; commenced keeping a meteorological register 1831; made experiments on the fall of rain in the Lake district 1844, erected pluviometers on the mountains 1846; his paper On the meteorology of the Lake district sent to Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1 May 1854; had a grant from Royal Soc. of London towards costs of his observations 1847, F.R.S. 6 June 1850; founded an observatory 1849 and sent results of his observations to Astronomische Nachrichten, Altona; A.I.C.E. 1851; entered Guy’s hospital, London, Oct. 1855; Ph.D. and M.A. Göttingen; F.R.A.S.; collected materials for a Physical geography of the English lake and mountain district. d. 14 July 1856. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi 166–70 (1857); H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland, vi 189–216 (1875).

MILLER, John Moodie. b. near Stirling 1826; printer at Leith; issued The Edinburgh Times 1857; bookseller at Lindsay place, Edinb. to death; published many books. d. Edinburgh 28 June 1884.

MILLER, Joseph. b. Carlisle 1797; partner with John Barnes as manufacturers of marine steam engines in London 1822–35; made the engines for many men of war and other ships; partner with Richard Ravenhill 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 1834, left a legacy of £5000 to the institution, which established a Miller medal to be given with the premiums bearing his name; F.R.S. 30 March 1843. d. Charleston, South Carolina 23 Feb. 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx 149–56 (1861).

MILLER, Josiah (son of rev. Edward Miller). b. Putney, Surrey 8 April 1832; studied at Highbury college; B.A. London 1853, M.A. 1855; Independent pastor at Dorchester 1855, at Long Sutton, Lincs. 1860, and at Newark 1868; secretary of British Society for propagation of the gospel among the Jews; secretary to London city mission to death; author of Our hymns, their authors and origin 1866; Our dispensation, or the place we occupy in the divine history of the world 1868; Singers and songs of the church 2 ed. 1869; Christianum organum or the inductive method in scripture and science 1870. d. 77 Fortess road, Kentish town, London 22 Dec. 1880. bur. Abney Park cemet. Congregational yearbook (1882) 319.

MILLER, Joshua (son of Robert and Thomazine Miller). bapt. Whickham 1783; served in H.M.S. Pomona under Capt. Lobb 1805; worked at the Bedlington iron works conveying goods down the river to Blyth. d. Union workhouse, Morpeth 24 April 1872. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man (1879) 119–29.

Note.—He claimed to have been born on 25 Oct. 1761 and to have been one hundred and eleven.

MILLER, Lydia Falconer F. (dau. of Mr. Fraser of Inverness, tradesman). b. about 1811; ed. at Edinburgh; lived with her mother at Cromarty; took pupils 1833–6; m. 7 Jany. 1837 Hugh Miller 1802–56, assisted him in editing The Witness, granted civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1857; author under pseudonym of Harriet Myrtle of A story-book of the seasons. Spring 1845; A story-book of the seasons. Summer 1846; The man of snow and other tales 1848; Home and its pleasures 1852; Amusing tales 1853; The ocean child 1857, 2 ed. 1858; Cats and dogs 1857, 3 ed. 1872; The dog and his cousins 1876; Stories of the cat 1877; also of a novel on the disruption in the Scottish Kirk entitled Passages in the life of an English heiress 1847, anon. d. at her son-in-law’s manse, Lochinver, Sutherlandshire 11 March 1876. bur. Grange cemet. Edinb. 20 March.

MILLER, Maxwell (3 son of Robert Miller of London, barrister). b. London 1832; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; exhibitioner at Worcester coll. Oxf. 1851; Fitzgerald scholar at Queen’s coll. 1851; went to Melbourne 1852; secretary to diocese of Melbourne; one of the two inspectors of education for Victoria; one of sub-editors of Argus newspaper; edited with his brother Wm. Miller The Tasmanian Daily news about 1853–5; member for Hobart Town of house of assembly 1856–63; introduced with Francis Smith the scheme of superior education, which remained in force 25 years; assistant clerk to house of assembly 1863–7; author of The Tasmanian house of assembly, a metrical catalogue. Hobart 1860; Financial condition of Tasmania 1862. d. Hobart Town 10 April 1867.

MILLER, Patrick (son of rev. D. Miller of Cumnock, Kilmarnock). b. 21 May 1782; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1804; extra licentiate of coll. of physicians, London 10 April 1807; settled as physician at Exeter; physician to Devon and Exeter hospital 1809; physician to St. Thomas’ lunatic asylum near Exeter 1822. d. Mount Radford near Exeter 24 Dec. 1871. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 52 (1878); Proc. of M. & C. Soc. vii 48 (1875).

MILLER, Robert (son of John Charles Miller of Mountjoy sq. Dublin). b. about 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1826, went Midland circuit, one of the 3 leaders of it many years; serjeant at law 7 Nov. 1850; judge of circuit No. 20 (Leicestershire and Rutland), 1 Jany. 1856 to death. d. 31 Leinster square, Hyde park, London 5 Aug. 1876.

MILLER, Robert Kalley. b. 1843; ed. at Peterhouse, Camb., B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Greenwich 1873–85; author of The romance of astronomy 1873, 2 ed. 1875. d. Medbourn house, Tunbridge Wells 2 June 1889.

MILLER, Samuel (eld. son of Samuel Miller of Bedford row, London). b. 1799; student Gray’s Inn 11 Jany. 1832 and barrister 30 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman and conveyancer at 3 Old sq. Lincoln’s inn; author of Suggestions for a general equalization of the land tax with a view to provide the means of reducing the malt duties 1839, 3 ed. 1843; An essay on the present state of the law respecting equitable mortgages by deposit of deeds 1842; The law of equitable mortgages 1844; The laws relating to the land tax 1849. d. St. John’s, Fulham near London 2 Feb. 1852.

MILLER, Samuel. b. 1785; commission agent in London; an active administrative reformer; known in the city of London by his letters to the press on Corporation abuses, Magisterial mistakes, and Defects of the old and new poor law. d. Powell st. west, King sq. Goswell road, London 18 Feb. 1865.

MILLER, Samuel (son of rev. Mr. Miller, minister of Monikie). b. Eassie manse, Forfarshire 2 March 1810; ed. St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–30; presbyterian minister Monifieth, Sep. 1835 to 1843; free church minister Monifieth, preaching in a wooden shed 1843–6; free church minister St. Matthew’s, Glasgow 1846 to death; D.D. of Princeton college, New Jersey 27 July 1847; presented with his portrait 6 Nov. 1879; author of Discourse before the general assembly of the free church of Scotland 1851. d. Glasgow, July 1881. bur. in the necropolis 8 July. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 387–92; Memorials of S. Miller (1883), biographical sketch pp. ix–lxiii, portrait.

MILLER, Samuel Christie (2 son of Thomas Christie of Brooklands, Broomfield, Essex). b. 1811; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyme 1847–59; assumed the name of Miller on succeeding to his relative’s (William H. Miller) estate of Craigentinny, Midlothian in 1862. d. Britwell court, Maidenhead, Berks. 5 April 1889.

MILLER, Thomas (son of George Miller, wharfinger, d. 1810). b. Gainsborough 31 Aug. 1807; apprenticed to a basket-maker; a basket-maker at Swan’s yard, Long Row, Nottingham 1832–5, at 33 Elliott’s row, St. George’s road, Southwark 1835–41; a bookseller at 9 Newgate st. 1841–2, and at 17 Ludgate hill 1843–5; wrote tales for The London Journal; author of Songs of the sea nymphs 1832; A day in the woods 1836; Beauties of the country 1837; Rural Sketches 1839, 2 ed. 1862; Gideon Giles the roper 1841; Godfrey Malvern or the life of an author 2 vols. 1842–3, 2 ed. 1857; History of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest 1848, 3 ed. 1849; wrote the fifth volume of G. W. Reynolds’s Mysteries of London 1846 and about 30 other books. d. 23 New st. Kennington park road, London 24 Oct. 1874. Wylie’s Old and new Nottingham (1853) 168, 207–10; Thomas Cooper’s Life 4 ed. (1873) 1–54.

MILLER, William. b. 1786; 2 lieut. R.A 1 Oct. 1801, captain 2 April 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 April 1849. d. Silverton, co. Dublin 19 March 1852.

MILLER, William. Deputy assistant commissary general 5 Aug. 1811, assistant commissary general 22 Oct. 1816, deputy commissary general 20 Jany. 1837, commissary general 29 Dec. 1849, placed on h.p. Feb. 1852. d. July 1856.

MILLER, William. b. Wingham, Kent 2 Dec. 1795; assistant commissary R.A. 1 Jany. 1811; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; went to La Plata, Sep. 1817; served in the Buenos Ayres artillery in the struggle for Chilian independence Jany. 1818; major commanding the marines on board the O’Higgins 50 guns 22 Dec. 1818; defeated the Spaniards at Pisco and assumed the government of Yca, Aug. 1821; an intimate friend of Simon Bolivar; made a general of brigade at Lima 1823 and a general of division and commander-in-chief of the cavalry 1824; his charge at the head of the Húsares de juria at the battle of Ayacucho finally secured the liberties of Chili and Peru 9 Dec. 1824; wounded many times, especially at battle of Pisco; governor of Potosi 1825, returned to Europe 1826; received freedom of city of Canterbury; returned to Peru and as commander-in-chief put down an insurrection under general Gamarra 1834; took part in every battle fought in Chili and Peru in the cause of South American independence until 1839; British consul-general for the islands of the Pacific 1843 to death; general Castilla refused a settlement of his claims on the Peruvian government 1859. d. on board H.M. ship Naiad in Callao harbour 31 Oct. 1861. bur. in English cemetery at Bella Vista, Lima. John Miller’s Memoirs of general Miller 2 vols. (1829), portrait; C. R. Markham’s History of Peru (1892) 241, 550; Foreign Office List (1862) 164; C. R. Markham’s War between Peru and Chili (1882) 25–7, 141.

MILLER, William. b. Christchurch, Hants. 12 Jany. 1784; imprisoned for debt at Winchester 1814; removed to queen’s prison, Southwark July 1854, liberated Feb. 1862 after being 48 years in prison. Illust. news of the world, viii 180 (1861), portrait.

MILLER, William. b. 1809; chief cashier of bank of England on retirement of Matthew Marshall 1864 to death; author of Tables used at the bank of England for reducing the gross weight of gold and silver to standard 1854. d. 4 Granville park terrace, Blackheath, Kent 29 Nov. 1866.

MILLER, William. b. Bridgegate, Glasgow, Aug. 1810; a wood-turner at Glasgow till Nov. 1871; contributed poems to periodicals; wrote songs in Whistle Binkie 1832–53, his Wee Willie Winkie and other nursery lyrics gained for him the title of ‘Laureate of the nursery’; author of Scottish nursery songs and other poems 1863. d. at his son’s residence, Glasgow 20 Aug. 1872. bur. Tollcross graveyard, Glasgow, monument in city necropolis. Whistle Binkie, ii pp. xxvii–xxx, 3 etc. (1878); J. Grant Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland, ii 334–40 (1877); St. Paul’s Mag. May 1872 pp. 489–91.

MILLER, William (youngest son of George Miller, shawl manufacturer). b. Edinburgh 28 May 1796; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; apprenticed to Wm. Archibald, engraver 1811–5; pupil of George Cooke in London 1819; landscape engraver in Edinb. 1821; engraved 19 plates for Williams’s Views in Greece; engraved plates of many of Turner’s pictures, also of Clarkson Stanfield and many other painters; engraved 44 plates for Hood’s Poems illustrated by Birket Foster 1871; hon. member of Royal Scottish academy; exhibited 2 landscapes at RA. London 1837–8; a minister among the Friends 1841; resided at Millerfield house, Edinb. d. at his daughter’s house, Sheffield 20 Jany. 1882. W. F. Miller’s Catalogue of engravings by Wm. Miller (1866), portrait; Graphic, xxv 181 (1882), portrait; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 444–7.

MILLER, Sir William, 1 Baronet (3 son of James Miller of Leith 1775–1855). b. Leith 25 March 1809; ed. Edinb. univ.; merchant at St. Petersburgh 1832–54 and hon. British consul there 16 years; M.P. Leith 1859–68; M.P. Berwickshire 1873–4; cr. a baronet 24 March 1874; resided 1 Park lane, London. d. Manchester 10 Oct. 1887.

MILLER, William Allen (son of Wm. Miller of the Borough, London, brewer). b. Ipswich 17 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and at a quaker’s seminary, Ackworth, Yorkshire; apprenticed to his uncle Bowyer Vaux surgeon Birmingham 1833–8; studied at King’s coll. London 1838–40, demonstrator of chemistry there 1840; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1842; professor of chemistry King’s coll. London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1845, member of council 1848–50 and 1855–7, treasurer 1861 to death; investigated with Dr. Huggins the spectra of the heavenly bodies 1862, gold medal of royal astronom. soc. was conferred upon them jointly 1867; gave a course of four lectures on spectrum analysis at royal, institution May 1867; invented a self-registering thermometer adapted to deep-sea soundings; member of senate of univ. of London 1865 to death; member of royal commission on scientific instruction 1870; assayer to the Mint and Bank of England; a founder of Chemical Soc. 1841, twice president; LL.D. Edinb. 1860, D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LL.D. Camb. 1869; Rede’s lecturer at Camb. 1869; edited J. F. Daniell’s Elements of meteorology 1845, his Introduction to the study of inorganic chemistry appeared in T. N. Goodeve’s Text-books of science 1871; author of On the importance of chemistry to medicine 1845; Elements of chemistry, theoretical and practical 3 parts 1855–7, 6 ed. 1877–8; Practical hints to the medical student 1867. d. Liverpool 30 Sep. 1870. bur. Norwood cemetery near London. Proc. of Royal Society, xix 19–26 (1871); J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889).

MILLER, William Haigh. b. 1812; chief of advance department of National Provincial bank of England in London, retired after 44 years service Oct. 1879; author of The mirage of life 1850, 3 ed. 1884; The culture of pleasure 2 ed. 1872; The currency maze, a sketch of the question without an end 1877; Life’s pleasure garden 1884; On the bank’s threshold, or the young banker 1890; The great rest giver 1891. d. 38 Lonsdale sq. Islington, London 14 Sep. 1891.

MILLER, William Hallowes (son of captain Miller of Velindre near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire and of the British army). b. Velindre 6 April 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 5 wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, M.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1829–44 and 1874 to death; professor of mineralogy in univ. of Camb. 1832 to death; F.G.S. 1830; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838, foreign sec. 1856–73, royal medallist 1870; constructed new standards of weight 1843, the old standards having been ruined by the fire which consumed houses of parliament 1834; LL.D. Dublin 1865; D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; knight of St. Maurice and St. Lazare and of order of Leopold of Belgium; developed a system of crystallography which has maintained its ground with mineralogists; author of A treatise on crystallography 1839; The elements of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 1831, 4 ed. 1850; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1833, 3 ed. 1843; Patrick Miller and steam navigation 1862. d. 7 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 20 May 1880. Quarterly journal of geological society, xxxvii 44–47 (1881); Proc. of royal society, xxxi 2–7 (1881).

MILLER, William Henry (son of Wm. Miller captain royal horse guards blue). b. Windsor May 1805; entered Madras artillery 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. 1 May 1824; commanded the artillery in the Bundelkund campaign of 1858, lost his right arm at battle of Banda 19 April 1858; aide de camp to the queen 26 April 1859; C.B. 1 March 1861; M.G. 30 Sep. 1861; retired from the army invalided 21 March 1860; president of Banda and Kirwee prize committee; granted good service pension 11 Jany. 1865; published a Letter to Bennett Woodcroft, Esq. F.R.S., vindicating right of his grandfather Patrick Miller of Dalswinton to be regarded as first inventor of practical steam navigation 1862. d. Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 15 May 1873.

MILLIGAN, Robert (son of John Milligan of Galloway). b. Dunnance, Kirkcudbright 10 Oct. 1786; head of firm of Milligan, Forbes & Co. worsted merchants, Bradford; mayor of Bradford 1847–8; M.P. Bradford 1850–7; member of council of anti-corn law league. d. Acacia house near Leeds 1 July 1862.

MILLIGAN, William. b. at manse of Elie, Fifeshire 1819; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1862; professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 1860–93, emeritus professor 1893; junior clerk of general assembly of Church of Scotland 1875, senior clerk 1886, moderator 1882; Croall lecturer 1878–80; Baird lecturer 1885 and 1891; one of the New Testament revisers; in A popular commentary on the New Testament 1879 etc. he wrote A commentary of the Revelation 1883 and with W. F. Moulton A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1880; also author of The decalogue and the Lord’s day, with a chapter on confession of faith 1866; The resurrection of our Lord, six lectures 1881; The revelation of St. John 1886; Elijah, his life and times 1887. d. 39 Royal terrace, Edinburgh 11 Dec. 1893. I.L.N. 23 Dec. 1893 p. 790, portrait.

MILLINGEN, John Gideon (son of Michael Millingen a Dutch merchant). b. 9 Queen’s sq. Westminster 8 Sep. 1782; taken to Paris 1790; matric. at the Ecole de Médecine and obtained a medical degree; assistant surgeon 97 foot 26 Jany. 1802; served in Egypt; surgeon 31 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 26 May 1814; served in all the Peninsular campaigns under Wellington and Hill; principal surgeon of cavalry at Waterloo and surrender of Paris; lived at Boulogne some time; connected with military lunatic asylum at Chatham; resident physician to Middlesex pauper lunatic asylum at Hanwell 1837–9; kept a private lunatic asylum in Kensington; wrote libretto of Horn’s musical farce The Bee-Hive, produced at Lyceum theatre 19 Jany. 1811; wrote 5 dramatic pieces, Ladies at home, Haymarket 7 Aug. 1819; The illustrious stranger or married and buried, Drury lane 4 Oct. 1827; Who’ll lend me a wife, Victoria theatre 22 July 1834; The miser’s daughter, Drury lane 24 Feb. 1835; Borrowed feathers, Queen’s theatre 27 Feb. 1836; author of Sketches of ancient and modern Boulogne 1826; Adventures of an Irish gentleman 1830; Curiosities of medical experience 2 vols. 1837; Stories of Torres Vedras 3 vols. 1839; Aphorisms on the treatment and management of the insane 1840; The history of duelling 2 vols. 1841; Jack Hornet or the march of intellect 1845; Mind and matter illustrated by considerations on hereditary insanity 1847. d. London 1862. J. G. Millingen’s Recollections of republican France from 1790 to 1801, vol. 1 (1848), portrait.

MILLINGEN, Julius Michael (son of James Millingen, archæologist 1774–1845). b. London 19 July 1800; ed. at Rome; studied at univ, of Edinb. 1817–21; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1821; left England for Corfu 27 Aug. 1823; spent some time with lord Byron at Metaxata from Nov. 1823, attended him in his last illness at Missolonghi where he died 19 April 1824; served as surgeon in the Greek army until its surrender to the Turks 1823; a physician at Constantinople 1827 to death; court physician to five successive sultans; an original member and afterwards president of General society of medicine; discovered the ruins of Aczani in Phrygia and excavated the site of the temple of Jupiter Urius on the Bosphorus; represented the Dutch government in the international council of health at Constantinople; author of Memoirs of the affairs of Greece, with anecdotes relating to lord Byron vol. 1 (1831); Arbitrary detention by the inquisition at Rome of three protestant children in defiance of the will of their father J. Millingen 1842; his MS. autobiography was burnt in the fire at Pera 1870. d. Pera, Constantinople 30 Nov. 1878. bur. Scutari cemet. 2 Dec. Les bains orientaux, avec une notice biographique de Jules van Millingen. Par le docteur S. S. Mavrogény. Strasburg (1891), portrait; Morning Post 12 Dec. 1878 p. 5; Times 17 Dec. 1878 p. 10; Moore’s Life of Byron (1847) 603, 635–8, 664.

Note.—He was married 3 times. His first wife, from whom he was divorced, was the authoress of Thirty years in the Harem 1872; she married (2) Mehemet Kibrizli Pasha afterwards grand vizier. The son Frederick Millingen became a Turk taking the name of Osman Bey and entered the Turkish army. Later on he gave lectures in European cities and wrote pamphlets on Turkish affairs. Finally he was baptized in the Greek church and became known in Russia as Alexei Andrejivich. He wrote numerous books 1870–90.

MILLINGTON, James Heath. b. Cork; entered schools of royal academy, London 1826; painter of subject pictures, portraits and miniatures; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk st. 1831–71; curator of school of painting at the R.A. a short time. d. London 1873.

MILLINGTON, John. b. London 11 May 1779; a patent agent in London many years; commenced lecturing at royal institution, London 1815, professor of mechanics there 7 July 1817, gave annual courses of lectures on natural philosophy, mechanics and astronomy until 1829; an original fellow of Royal Astronomical society of London 1820, secretary 14 Feb. 1823 to 10 Feb. 1826; vice-president of Birkbeck’s London Mechanics’ institution; chief engineer of silver mines and chief superintendent of a mint in Mexico about 1830; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Virginia 1837; state geologist of Mississippi; author of An epitome of the elementary principles of natural and experimental philosophy 1823, 2 ed. 1830; Elements of civil engineering. Philadelphia 1839. d. Williamsburg 10 July 1868. bur. Bruton parish churchyard, Williamsburg, where is monument.

MILLS, Sir Charles, 1 Baronet (3 son of Wm. Mills of Bitterne, Hants. M.P. 1750–1820). b. Popes, Hatfield 23 Jany. 1792; ed. at Winchester; a director of H.E.I.Co. 28 Aug. 1822 to 1858; member of banking firm of Glyn, Mills & Co. London; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; created baronet 17 Nov. 1868. d. Hillingdon court near Uxbridge, Middlesex 4 Oct. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 359 (1872).

MILLS, Charles James Conway (son of major William Mills of Teddington, Middlesex 1791–1838). b. 29 May 1816; ed. Rugby; ensign 77 foot 26 Dec. 1834; lieut. 52 foot 23 Feb. 1839, lieut.-col. 11 July 1856 to 24 Oct. 1856; served before Sebastopol 1855; lieut.-col. 94 foot 24 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 18 Feb. 1862; colonel commandant Oxford military brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 25 June 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. d. Howard’s villa, Cardington, Bedford 12 Feb. 1894.

MILLS, Francis. b. 1793; well known in fashionable and financial society; a frequent contributor to periodicals; amateur painter; one of founders of the Garrick club 1831. d. of apoplexy Spring gardens terrace, St. James’ park, London 21 July 1854.

MILLS, George (son of Wm. Mills 1776–1857). b. 1808; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ship-builder with Charles Wood at Bowling-on-the-Clyde 1835–44, began building iron steamers 1838 and many iron canal boats; a stockbroker 1845–50 and manager of the Bowling and Balloch railway and of the Loch Lomond steamboat company; started the Glasgow advertiser and shipping gazette, the first Glasgow penny paper 1857, which ceased 1858; started in Aberdeen 1869 a halfpenny paper called The Northern Star, which ceased 1871; literary critic of the Glasgow Mail many years; started the Milton chemical works 1866, which he carried on till his death; published anonymously Craigclutha: a tale of old Glasgow and the west of Scotland 1857; I remember 1858; and The beggar’s benison, or a hero without a name but with an aim: a Clydesdale story 2 vols. 1866. d. Glasgow, May 1881.

MILLS, Henry. b. 1819; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; recorder of Buckingham, Jany. 1858 to Nov. 1863; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 5 Nov. 1863 to death. d. Calcutta 19 March 1864.

MILLS, John (1 son of Wm. Mills of Bisterne, Hants., M.P. 1750–1820). b. 11 Aug. 1789; ed. Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22 Oct. 1807; officer in Coldstream guards; served in the Peninsula and in Holland; M.P. Rochester 1831–4; a verderer of the New Forest. d. Bisterne 18 Feb. 1871.

MILLS, John (son of Edward Mills). b. Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 19 Dec. 1812; greatly extended musical culture in Wales by establishing musical societies in various places; went to London as a missionary to the Jews on behalf of the Welsh Calvinistic methodists 1846; visited the Holy Land 1855 and 1859; author of Grammadeg Cerddoriaeth, a grammar of music. Llanidloes 1838; The British Jews 1853; Palestina. Llanidloes 1858; Three months residence in Nablûs, and an account of the modern Samaritans 1864. d. London 28 July 1873. Biography of the Rev. John Mills. By R. Mills and Rev. N. C. Jones, D.D. (in Welsh). Aberdare (1881).

MILLS, John. Resided in Essex; author of The old English gentleman or the fields and the woods 3 vols. 1841; The stage coach or the road of life 3 vols. 1843; D’Horsay or the follies of a day 1844; The English fireside 3 vols. 1844; The old hall or our hearth and homestead 3 vols. 1845; The sportsman’s library 1845; Christmas in the olden times 1846; The life of a foxhound 1848, 3 ed. 1892; A capful of moonshine, or ’tis not all gold that glitters 1849; Our county 3 vols. 1850; The belle of the village 3 vols. 1852; The life of a racehorse 1854; The wheel of life 1855; The flyers of the hunt 1859; Stable secrets or Puffy Doddles, his sayings and sympathies 1863; Too fast to last 3 vols. 1881; On the spur of the moment 3 vols. 1884. d. about 1885.

MILLS, John. Ed. at Pembroke coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; R. of Orton Waterville, Hunts. 1 May 1837 to death; as senior regent of Cambridge presented a congratulatory address to the queen on her accession June 1837; a strong supporter of Church missionary society, had a mangle, a threshing floor and a flower stall in Peterborough market, the profits of which went to the missionary fund. d. Orton Waterville, Dec. 1892.

MILLS, John Remington. b. London 15 Jany. 1798; a silk manufacturer to 1840 when he retired; contested Leeds 28 March and 5 June 1857; contested Finsbury 17 Dec. 1861; M.P. Wycombe 1862–8; contested Wycombe 17 Nov. 1868; F.R.G.S. d. Kingswood lodge near Tunbridge Wells 22 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £1,200,000, 27 Dec. 1879.

MILLS, Paixfield or Paitfield. b. 1817; solicitor general of Nevis 9 Dec. 1847, chief justice of Nevis 1852 or 1853. d. of cholera at Nevis 1 Jany. 1854.

MILLS, Richard (youngest son of Thomas Mills, V. of Hillingdon, Middlesex). b. Hillingdon 1785; one of the sworn clerks of court of chancery to 1842; a taxing master in court of chancery 1842–71. d. the Moat, Eltham, Kent 21 April 1880. Law Times, lxix 16 (1880).

MILLS, Richard. b. Pump farm near Benenden, Kent 16 Feb. 1798; first played at Lord’s in Kent v. M.C.C. 2 July 1827; left handed batsman and bowler; played in the great matches at Lord’s for many seasons and was one of best players of his day; with Wenman beat an eleven at double wicket without having any fieldsmen; a match Kent v. Yorkshire given for his benefit at Cranbrook 1862; a farmer and hop grower at Hawkhurst, Kent 1862. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii 17 (1862).

MILLS, Richard Horner. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; professor of political economy in Queen’s college, Cork 1849 to death; author of The principles of currency and banking, being five lectures delivered in Queen’s college, Cork 1853. d. London 24 Aug. 1893.

MILLS, Thomas. b. 18 Oct. 1794; contested Reading 30 June 1841; M.P. Totnes 8 July 1852 to death. d. on the St. Alban’s road, between Tolmers and Colman Green, Herts. 10 Nov. 1862.

MILLS, Thomas (son of Thomas Mills of Grove house, Surrey). b. 17 Nov. 1792; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1816 to death; R. of Little Henny, Essex 8 May 1821 to death; R. of Stutton, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1821 to death; R. of Great Saxham, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1829 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1859 to death. d. Stutton rectory 29 Sep. 1879.

MILLS, William. b. Lessudden, Roxburghshire 1776; merchant at Glasgow; raised himself to a position of affluence; established the first line of steamers betwixt Glasgow and the Mersey 1820; lord provost of Glasgow 1834 and 1836. d. 1857.

MILLS, William (2 son of Frederick Russell Mills of Hillingdon, Middlesex, precis writer to Home office). b. Lower Grosvenor place, London 3 June 1820; ed. at Harrow, where he obtained a governor’s scholarship; captain of the Harrow eleven 1839; went to St. John’s coll. Camb., played in the university eleven 1840–3; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847; revising barrister in South Wales circuit to death; reported in the Q.B. and Q.B. division 1857 to death; on the staff of the Law reports 1867 to death; edited with Wm. Markby, Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence in actions at nisi prius 11 ed. 1866. d. 1 Brunswick villas, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Sep. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 26 Sep. Law Times, lxiii 385 (1877).

MILLS, William (son of rev. W. Mills of Harrow). b. 1818; ed. at Harrow; chief engineer of London, Chatham and Dover railway from its foundation 1864 to 1891. d. 327 Clapham road, Surrey 8 Dec. 1891. bur. Norwood 12 Dec.

MILTON, William (2 son of Henry Milton of the war office). b. Camberwell, Surrey 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Little Marlow 1854–9; C. of Newbury 1859–68; V. of Little Marlow 1880 to death; author of The sacrificial vestments, are they legal? 1866; The eucharist illustrated and cleared from error, sermons 1871; Fancies and fallacies of the opponents of the Purchas judgment 1875; Church perplexities 5 parts 1877–8; Mr. Parker’s fallacies refuted 1880; The only way to ritual peace 1881. d. 30 Aug. 1882.

MILLTOWN, Edward Nugent Leeson, 6 Earl of (2 son of 4 earl of Milltown 1799–1866). b. 9 Oct. 1835; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother as sixth earl 8 April 1871; an Irish representative peer 1881 to death; hon. commissioner in lunacy 1889; K.P. 7 Feb. 1889; P.C. Ireland 1888; introduced a bill for amendment of the larceny act, to permit flogging of burglars using fire-arms 1889; a well-known chairman of committees of house of lords; president of the Benevolent soc. of St. Patrick, London. d. Russborough house near Blessinton, Wicklow 31 May 1890. The London Figaro 7 June 1890, portrait; I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741, portrait; Graphic 14 June 1890 p. 663, portrait.

MILLWARD, Charles. b. 1830; in a Greek merchant’s office in Liverpool; proprietor of The Porcupine, a journal of current events, social, political and satirical, Liverpool, No. 1 Oct. 6, 1860; hon. sec. of Savage club, London many years; a monumental mason, 15 Camden road, London; wrote Little snow white, extravaganza, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1871; Jack and the beanstalk, burlesque Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; Jack and the beanstalk, Park theatre 26 Dec. 1877; he was father of Jessie Millward actress. d. 1 Camden st. London 7 June 1892. bur. Highgate new cemet. 10 June.

MILMAN, Egerton Charles William Miles (1 son of lieut.-general F. M. Milman d. 1856). b. 6 Feb. 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 24 April 1835, capt. 7 April 1848; lieut.-col. 37 foot 30 Nov. 1849 to 9 Nov. 1862; served in Canadian rebellion 1838; in India during the mutiny; M.G. on the staff at Mauritius 5 Sep. 1866 to death; commander of the forces at Mauritius. d. Richmond 23 Oct. 1869.

MILMAN, Francis Miles. b. 22 Aug. 1783; ensign Coldstream guards 3 Dec. 1800, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 8 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 82 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; severely wounded at battle of Talavera. d. 9 Berkeley sq. London 9 Dec. 1856.

MILMAN, Henry Hart (3 son of sir Francis Milman, 1 baronet 1746–1821). b. Brook st. St. James’s, London 10 Feb. 1791; ed. at Greenwich, Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxford, fellow 1814, Newdigate prizeman 1812; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D. 1849; wrote hymns for Reginald Heber’s Hymnal 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Reading 1818–35; professor of poetry at Oxford 1821–31; published a drama entitled Fazio 1815, 2 ed. 1816, which was produced without his knowledge as The Italian wife at Surrey theatre, produced as Fazio at Covent Garden 5 Feb. 1818, Ristori had it translated into Italian for her 1856; Bampton lecturer 1827; canon of Westminster 6 April 1835 to Nov. 1849; R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 1835–49; dean of St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Nov. 1849 to death, inaugurated evening services under the dome 28 Nov. 1858; author of Samor, lord of the bright city 1818, 2 ed. 1818; The fall of Jerusalem 1820, 5 ed. 1853; The martyr of Antioch 1822; Belshazzar 1822; Anne Boleyn 1826; The poetical works of H. H. Milman 3 vols. 1839; The history of Christianity from the birth of Christ to the abolition of paganism in the Roman empire 3 vols. 1840; History of Later Christianity, including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas the fifth 6 vols. 1854–5, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1867; A memoir of lord Macaulay 1862; The history of the Jews 3 vols. 1829, 7 ed. 1887; Annals of St. Paul’s cathedral 1868 and 20 other books; edited The works of Q. Horatius Flaccus 1849. d. Sunninghill, Berkshire 24 Sep. 1868. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Oct., monument erected by public subscription in south aisle of the choir. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, ii 268–73 (1875); Illustrated Review, iv 225–32; Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians (1876) 593–5; The living poets of England (Paris 1827) 406–28; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 51; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 188–94; G.M. i 859 (1868), ii 582 (1884); I.L.N. xv 336 (1849) portrait, xxiv 400 (1854) portrait, liii 331, 340 (1868) portrait; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 736.

MILMAN, Henry Salusbury (son of Francis Miles Milman 1783–1856). b. 26 Nov. 1821; ed. at Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster 1840–44; fellow of All Souls 1844–58; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; an assist. enclosure commissioner 1877–82; an assist. land commissioner 1882; director of the Soc. of antiquaries 1880–93. d. 1 Cranley place, Onslow sq. London 22 Dec. 1893. bur. Kensal green 27 Dec.

MILMAN, Robert (3 son of sir Wm. George Milman, 2 baronet 1781–1857). b. Easton in Gordano, Somerset 25 Jany. 1816; ed. at Westminster and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 2 June 1834; B.A. 1838, M.A. and D.D. 1867; C. of Winwick, Northamptonshire 1839–40; V. of Chaddleworth, Berkshire 1840–51; V. of Lambourn, Berkshire 1851–62, built a church and schools in the hamlet of Eastbury and restored the chancel of Lambourn church; V. of Great Marlow, Bucks. 1862–7; bishop of Calcutta, Jany. 1867 to death, consecrated in Canterbury cathedral 2 Feb., landed at Calcutta 31 March, his diocese extended over nearly a million square miles, received the Kol converts into church of England 1869; author of Meditations on confirmation 1850; Life of Torquato Tasso 2 vols. 1850; The love of the atonement 1853; Mitslav, or the conversion of Pomerania 1854; Inkerman, a poem 1855; Convalescence 1865. d. Rawul Pindi, Punjab 15 March 1876. bur. there 16 March, monument erected by Indian government in Calcutta cathedral. F. M. Milman’s Memoir of Robert Milman (1879); I.L.N. l 313 (1867) portrait, lxviii 267 (1876).

MILN, James (son of James Maud Miln of Woodhill, Barry, Forfarshire). b. 1819; served in the navy in China war 1842; a merchant in China and India; studied Breton antiquities at Carnac 1873–80, excavated the hillocks of the Bosseno 1874–6 and explored three circular sepultures at Kermario, his collections of antiquities are in the Miln museum at Carnac; F.S.A. Scotland; author of Excavations at Carnac, Brittany. Edinb. 1877–81; Fouilles faites à Carnac, Brittany, les alignments de Kermario. Rennes 1881. d. Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1881. Luco’s J. Miln et les trois sepultures circulaires. Tours (1881).

MILNE, George. b. near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire about 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; partner with A. Guild as writers to the signet at Dundee, on Guild’s death partner with Robert Miln; secretary to Society of writers Dundee 1821–8, president 1828; sheriff clerk depute for Dundee district about April 1822; a comr. of police for the fourth district of Dundee 1827; proprietor and editor of the Dundee Chronicle 1830, which ceased in about ten months but was revived by Milne in 1832; clerk to the Harbour trustees 1838 to death; in July 1869 his widow published a book containing his prayers on the chapters of St. Luke’s gospel. d. Dundee 19 Jany. 1865. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 249–53.

MILNE, Joshua. b. 1775; actuary to Sun life assurance 15 June 1810, resigned 19 Dec. 1843; published A treatise on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and survivorships, on the construction of tables of mortality and on the probabilities and expectations of life 2 vols. 1815, his tables were generally adopted by insurance societies; the first to compute accurately the value of lives; contributed articles on annuities, bills of mortality and law of mortality to fourth ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. Clapton terrace, Upper Clapton, London 4 Jany. 1851. J. Miln’s Correspondence with John Heysham in H. Lonsdale’s Life of John Heysham (1870) 137–73.

MILNER, Edward (son of Henry Milner). b. Hillside, Darley, Derbyshire 20 Jany. 1819; ed. Bakewell gram. sch.; studied at Jardin des plantes, Paris; apprentice to and then colleague of sir Joseph Paxton in his later years in laying out estates and in landscape gardening; laid out some of the best gardens in the United Kingdom and on the continent 1850–84; laid out Prince’s park, Liverpool 1844, Manley hall, Manchester, Highbury park, Birmingham, Ashtead park, Epsom, and Osmaston, Derbyshire; principal of Crystal palace school of gardening 1881 to death, and was succeeded bys son Henry Ernest Milner, partner with his father 1870–84; landscape gardener 7 Victoria st. London, and author of The art of landscape gardening 1890. d. Hillside, Kingswood road, Dulwich Wood park, Norwood, Surrey 26 March 1884. The Gardener’s chronicle (1884), portrait.

MILNER, Henry Robert. b. 1804; ensign 34 foot 1 Jany. 1824; captain 94 foot 1 May 1828, lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1841 to 29 Dec. 1854 when he retired on full pay as M.G. d. Albion hotel, Plymouth 14 Jany. 1855.

MILNER, Mary. m. rev. Joseph Milner, vicar of St. Lawrence, Appleby, d. 1883; edited The christian mother’s magazine 2 vols. 1844, title changed to The Englishwoman’s magazine 9 vols. 1845–54; The people’s gallery of engravings, vols. i to iv and vol. v, Nos. 1 to 4. London 1848–9; author of The christian mother or maternal duties exemplified in the Old and New Testament 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The life of Isaac Milner, dean of Carlisle 1842; Sketches illustrative of important periods in the history of the world 1843, Second series 1847; The garden, the grove and the field, a garland of the months 1852. d. Appleby vicarage, Penrith 10 May 1863.

MILNER, William (son of Thomas Milner, safe maker, d. 1849 aged 72). With his father a metal manufacturer at Sheffield to 1827, and with him removed to Liverpool in 1827; took out patent for fire-resisting safes 1840 and 2 other patents; founded Milner’s Phœnix safe works, Liverpool covering an acre of ground 1852 employing 50 workmen, in 1860 they had 500 hands; the London depôt was at Moorgate st., City. Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 151, (1860) 130–1.

MILNER, Sir William Mordaunt Edward, 5 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Milner, 4 bart. of Bolton Percy, Yorks. d. 1855). b. Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 20 June 1820; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; M.P. York 1848–57; succeeded 25 March 1855; kept race horses from 1841. d. Nun Appleton 12 Feb. 1867. Sporting Review, lvii 155–6 (1867); G.M. iii 531 (1867).

MILROY, Gavin. b. Edinburgh 1805; ed. at Edinb. high school and univ., M.D. July 1828; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1847, F.R.C.P. 1853; a general practitioner in London; co-editor of Johnson’s Medico-Chirurgical Review 1844–7; superintendent medical inspector general board of health 1849–50 and 1853–5; sent by colonial office to Jamaica 1851; member of sanitary commission sent out to British army in the Crimea 1855–6, drew up with John Sutherland the report of its transactions; medical commissioner in the West Indies 1871–2; one of chief founders of Epidemiological Society 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of Quarantine and the plague 1846; The cholera not to be arrested by quarantine 1847; The health of the royal navy 1862. d. 21 Church road, Richmond, Surrey 11 Jany. 1886. bur. Kensal Green cemet.; bequeathed £2000 to Royal college of physicians for endowment of a lectureship on state medicine and public health.

MILTON, Daniel. Disputed the headship of the Christian Israelites with John Wroe 1857, and again after Wroe’s death in 1864; sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for defacing the property of Melbourne house, Wakefield, the property of the Christian Israelites 14 Dec. 1863. J. H. Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 223–4.

MILTON, Sir John (son of Henry Milton of Heathfield lodge, Middlesex). b. 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; entered war office 1840; assistant accountant general of the army 1860 and accountant general 1871–78; C.B. 21 Feb. 1874; knighted at Windsor castle 27 Nov. 1878. d. Bladon terrace, Streatham common, Surrey 29 Nov. 1880.

MILWARD, Clement (3 son of Clement Milward of Chewton house, Somerset, admiral). b. 20 Aug. 1821; barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846, bencher 9 May 1865, treasurer 1880; Q.C. 16 Feb. 1865; one of leaders of northern circuit; practiced before parliamentary committees of houses of lords and commons; author of The county courts act, the amendment act and the extension and amendment act, with rules and practice 1850. d. London 26 Oct. 1890.

MILWARD, Thomas Walter. b. 1826; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, served in the Crimea 1855; D.A.Q.M.G. in Chinese war 1860; in Abyssinian campaign 1868; deputy director of ordnance; inventor and constructor of the light steel guns for mountain service used in Abyssinia, on the Gold Coast and in India; colonel 15 Aug. 1868; lieut.-col. R.A. 3 Feb. 1866 to death; aide de camp to the queen 1868 to death; superintendent of royal laboratory, Woolwich 1870 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Woolwich 31 Dec. 1874. bur. Charlton. I.L.N. lxvi 57, 58 (1875), portrait; Graphic, xi 92 (1875), portrait.

MIMPRISS, Robert (son of an official in Deptford dockyard). b. Deptford 14 Jany. 1797; ed. at Blackheath; purser on board a foreign merchantman 1813; devoted himself to development of Sunday schools from 1821; devised the Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction based on Edward Greswell’s Harmony of the gospels; engaged in writing books in connection with his system 1830–50, travelled repeatedly round the country setting forth its merits and advocating millenarian and teetotal principles; author of A pictorial, geographical, chronological and historical chart 1832; Gospel recreations for Sabbath evenings 1836; The treasury harmony of the four evangelists 2 vols. 1849–51, republished as The gospel treasury, new ed. 1884; The Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction 1855. d. Clapham, London 20 Dec. 1875. Robert Mimpriss: a memoir of his life and work (1876), portrait.

MINGAYE, William James. b. 1785; entered navy 16 Sep. 1798; served on shore at capture of Cape of Good Hope, Jany. 1806; captain 29 Jany. 1822; acting capt. of the Royal George yacht 23 July 1822; commanded the Hyperion 42 guns in Newhaven harbour 8 Jany. 1825 to 1831; pensioned 18 Dec. 1858; admiral on h.p. 27 April 1863. d. Hyperion lodge, Rosherville, Kent 30 Nov. 1865.

MINIFIE, William. b. Devonshire 14 Aug. 1805; an architect and bookseller at Baltimore, U.S. of America 1828; curator of Maryland academy of sciences; professor of drawing at Maryland institute schools of art; author of Text-book of mechanical drawing. Baltimore 1849; A text-book of geometrical drawing 3 ed. 1851; Essay on the theory and application of color 1854; Popular lectures on drawing and design 1854. d. Baltimore 24 Oct. 1880.

MINTER, John Moolenburgh. b. 1815; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1857; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1868; surgeon R.N. 30 Dec. 1837, surgeon in Implacable on coast of Syria 1840; surgeon in the field during Burmese war 1851; deputy inspector general 18 April 1859, inspector general 22 March 1872; hon. physician to the queen to death; surgeon extraordinary to prince of Wales, travelled with him in Egypt and the Holy Land 1861–2; travelled with prince and princess of Wales on the continent; deputy inspector naval hospital, Malta; inspector general naval hospital, Plymouth 1 April 1873, retired 2 April 1875. d. Mount Priory, Plympton, Devon 15 Dec. 1891.

MINTO, Gilbert Elliott-Murray-Kynynmond, 2 Earl of (eld. son of sir Gilbert Elliot, 1 earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. Lyons, France 16 May or Nov. 1782; ed. Eton and univ. of Edinb.; M.P. Ashburton 1806–7; M.P. co. Roxburgh 1812 to 21 June 1814; styled viscount Melgund 1813–4; succeeded as 2 earl 21 June 1814; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to court of Berlin 18 July 1832 to Sep. 1834; P.C. 15 Aug. 1832; G.C.B. 20 Dec. 1834; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1836; first lord of the admiralty 15 Sep. 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; an elder brother of the Trinity house 5 Dec. 1837 to death; lord keeper of the privy seal 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; envoy extraord. to Sardinia, Tuscany, Sicily and Switzerland 4 Sep. 1847 to 1848; governor of naval college, Portsmouth; assumed additional surname of Murray-Kynynmond by r.l. d. 48 Eaton square, London 31 July 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage, ii 502–3 (1886), portrait.

MINTO, William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond, 3 Earl of. b. Minto castle, Roxburghshire 19 March 1814; styled viscount Melgund 1817–59; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1836; M.P. Hythe 1837–41; contested Rochester 30 June 1841; M.P. Greenock 1847–52; contested Glasgow 10 July 1852; M.P. Clackmannan 1857–9; chairman of royal commission for survey of Scotland 1857; succeeded as 3 earl of Minto 31 July 1859; K.T. 13 May 1870. d. 2 Portman square, London 17 March 1891.

MINTO, Emma Eleanor Elizabeth Elliot-Murray-Kynymond, Countess of (only dau. of general sir Thomas Hislop, 1 baronet 1764–1843). b. 1824; m. 20 May 1844 the preceding; author of A memoir of the right honourable Hugh Elliot. Edinburgh 1868; edited Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl of Minto from 1751 to 1806, 3 vols. 1874; and Lord Minto in India: life and letters of Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto, from 1807 to 1814 while governor-general of India, 1880. d. Eaglescliffe, Bournemouth 21 April 1882.

MINTO, William (son of James Minto). b. near Alford, Aberdeenshire 10 Oct. 1845; entered Aberdeen univ. 1861, where he took honours in classics, mathematics and philosophy, an unprecedented feat, M.A. 1865; was at Merton coll. Oxf. 1866–7; assistant to A. Bain professor of logic and English literature Aberdeen univ. 1867–73 and professor 1880 to death; came to London 1873, edited The Examiner 1874–8 and London Opinion 1880; a leader-writer on Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette; author of A manual of English prose literature, biographical and critical 1872; Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley 1874; The crack of doom 3 vols. 1886; The mediation of Ralph Hardelot 3 vols. 1888; Was she good or bad 1889; University extension manual on logic 1893; Plain principles of prose composition 1893; English literature under the Georges 1894. d. Aberdeen 1 March 1893. W. Minto’s Literature under the Georges (1894), memoir; Athenæum 4 March 1893 p. 282; I.L.N. 11 March 1893 p. 298, portrait.

MINTON, Herbert (2 son of Thomas Minton, potter 1765–1836). b. Stoke on-Trent 4 Feb. 1793; ed. at Audlem school, Cheshire; partner with his father at Stoke 1817–28; re-entered the business 1836 and took as partners John Boyle and Mr. Hollins; Colin Minton Campbell became a partner 1849; introduced manufacture of hard porcelain, parian, semi transparent porcelain, encaustic tiles, azulejos or coloured enamel tiles, mosaics, Delia Robbia ware, majolica and Palissy ware; employed 1500 hands in 1858; lived at Hartshill near Stoke many years, where he built and endowed a church and schools 1842; the school of art at Stoke was erected by public subscription as a memorial to Minton. d. Belmont, Torquay 1 April 1858. bur. at Hartshill. Account of a visit to the works of Minions, Stoke-upon-Trent (1884); Digby Wyatt’s On the influence exercised on ceramic manufactures by H. Minton (1858); Fortunes made in business, iii 63–115 (1887).

MIRANDA, David Myers. b. 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death. d. Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886.

MITCHEL, John (3 son of John Mitchel of Dromalane, Newry, presbyterian minister). b. Camnish near Dungiven, co. Londonderry 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin; solicitor at Banbridge near Newry 1840–5; joined the Repeal association 1843, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; on the staff of the Nation newspaper 1845 to Dec. 1847; issued first number of the United Irishman 12 Feb. 1848 in which he incited his fellow-countrymen to rebellion; arrested under the treason felony act 13 May 1848, sentenced at Dublin 27 May 1848 to 14 years’ transportation, granted a ticket-of-leave in Van Diemen’s Land April 1850, which he resigned 1853, and escaped to San Francisco Oct. 1853; started The Citizen newspaper at New York 7 Jany. 1854; conducted the Southern Citizen Oct. 1857 to Aug. 1859; naturalised by supreme court of Columbia 7 May 1860; edited the Enquirer at Richmond; wrote leading articles for the Examiner; editor of the Daily News at New York; edited the Irish Citizen at New York 19 Oct. 1867 to 27 July 1872; contested Tipperary Feb. 1874, elected M.P. for Tipperary 16 Feb. 1875 but declared by house of commons incapable of being elected 18 Feb., elected again 12 March 1875, the Irish court of common pleas decided 26 May 1875 that being an alien and a convicted felon he was not duly elected; author of The life and times of Aodh O’Neill, prince of Ulster 1846; Jail journals or five years in British prisons. New York 1854; The last conquest of Ireland (perhaps). New York 1860; An apology for the British government in Ireland. Dublin 1860; The history of Ireland from the treaty of Limerick to the present time. New York 2 vols. 1868 and Dublin 1869. d. Dromalane near Newry 20 March 1875. bur. in unitarian cemetery, Newry 23 March where is monument. J. G. Hodges’ Report of the trial of John Mitchel (1848); W. Dillon’s John Mitchel (1888), portrait; Sullivan’s Speeches from the dock (1887) 74–96; O’Shea’s Leaves from the life of a special correspondent, i 9–24 (1885); Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 587–605; Sullivan’s New Ireland, i 175–87 (1877); I.L.N. xii 323 (1848), portrait.

MITCHELL, Alexander (son of Wm. Mitchell, inspector-general of barracks in Ireland). b. Dublin 13 April 1780; brickmaker and builder at Belfast to 1832; patentee of the Mitchell screw-pile and mooring 1842, first used for foundation of Maplin Sand lighthouse 1838, applied to many extensive undertakings; established himself at Belfast, and at 17 Great George st. Westminster as Mitchell’s Screw-pile and mooring company, the privy council in 1847 renewed his patent for 14 years; his improved method of mooring ships was generally adopted; M.I.C.E. 1848–57; author of Description of a patent screw-pile battery and lighthouse. Belfast 1843; On submarine foundations, particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. d. Glen Devis near Belfast 25 June 1868.

MITCHELL, Alexander. b. Aberdeen 1831; ensign grenadier guards 15 Oct. 1850, lieut. 19 Oct. 1854, sold out 7 March 1856; contested Berwick 29 June 1863; M.P. Berwick 1865–8. d. 6 Great Stanhope st. London 16 May 1873.

MITCHELL, Alexander. b. near Ellon, Scotland 18 Oct. 1817; clerk in a bank at Peterhead; secretary of the Wisconsin marine and fire insurance company at Milwaukee, U.S. of America 1839, in 1853 the company was reorganized under the state law as a bank; first comr. of board of Milwaukee debt commission 1861 to death; president of Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company, which became Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company and now owns more miles of track than any other railroad company in the world; president of Chicago and Northwestern railway company 1869; member of congress 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875; richest man in the northwest states. d. New York 19 April 1887.

MITCHELL, Charles. b. Norwich 1807; bookseller and advertisement agent for town and country newspapers at 12 and 13 Red lion court, Fleet st. London about 1836 to death; proprietor and publisher of The Newspaper press directory 1846, which has been published annually from 1854. d. 1 Edith villas, Edith grove, West Brompton, London 8 Feb. 1859.

MITCHELL, David William (1 son of Alexander Mitchell of Gerard’s Cross, Bucks., and Cavendish crescent, Bath). b. Bath 1813; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836; resided at Penzance 1838–42, whence he contributed information to the 3 edition of Yarrell’s British birds 1843; an original member of Penzance Natural history soc. 1839; sec. to Zoological soc. Regent’s park, London 1847 to 1859, and a contributor to the Proceedings in 1849 and 1858; F.L.S. 21 Nov. 1843; author of A popular guide to the gardens of the Zoological society of London 1852; Guide to the gardens of the Zoological gardens of London 1858; furnished the plates of G. R. Gray’s The genera of birds 1844. d. Neuilly near Paris 1 Nov. 1859.

MITCHELL, George (son of Jewish parents). b. 1794; left England before 1820; edited an English paper in Brussels; spent many months with the Carlists in the Pyrenees, imprisoned in Spain 2 years; settled near Bayonne; naturalised in France; occupied a high position at the ministry of the interior, Paris. d. the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris 16–23 July 1880. Morning Advertiser 28 July 1880 p. 5.

Note.—He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert Mitchell b. Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of Jacques Offenbach the composer. Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire, xvii p. 1598.

MITCHELL, James. b. 1791; line-engraver; engraved sir David Wilkie’s Alfred in the neatherd’s cottage 1829, and Rat hunters 1830; engraved The Contadina after sir C. L. Eastlake, and lady Jane Grey after James Northcote, for the Literary Souvenir of 1827 and 1832, The Secret after Robert Smirke for The Keepsake 1831; produced Edie Ochiltree after sir Edwin Landseer, and five other illustrations for the author’s edition of Waverley Novels 1829–33; exhibited 6 engravings at Suffolk st. 1824–31. d. London 29 Nov. 1852.

MITCHELL, James. An excise officer coming daily in contact with the makers of alcoholic liquors; became a total abstainer Nov. 1835; vice president of the Western Scottish temperance union; one of the founders and a gratuitous lecturer of the Scottish total abstinence society; superintendent of City of Glasgow temperance mission; paid lecturer of the United Kingdom alliance for Scotland from June 1856. d. 184 Hospital st. Glasgow 18 Jany. 1862. S. Couling’s Temperance movement (1862) 331–3.

MITCHELL, James (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian minister). b. Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian church; law agent to Glasgow univ. d. Park terrace, Glasgow 3 Nov. 1882. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 229–32 (1886), portrait.

MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday 1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885 he wrote Mika M’ Alister. d. St. Vincent’s hospital, New York 12 Nov. 1888.

MITCHELL, John. b. 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire; published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs 1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy of witchcraft 1839. d. Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. G.M. i 388–9 (1856).

MITCHELL, John (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway, d. Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). b. Stirlingshire 11 June 1785; ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803; lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1 June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein 1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation 1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. d. Edinburgh 9 July 1858. bur. in the Canongate churchyard. J. Mitchell’s Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the author by Leonhard Schmitz (1865) pp. vii–xvii.

MITCHELL, John. b. London 21 April 1806; bookseller, publisher and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London; introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842; gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice, La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet 1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. d. 10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. bur. Brompton cemet. 18 Dec. The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p. 12.

MITCHELL, John. b. 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22 June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G. d. The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9 Nov. 1888.

MITCHELL, John. b. 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. d. the Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. Daily Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p. 8, portrait.

MITCHELL, John Mitchell (2 son of John Mitchell). b. Falkirk 1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50 years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland; fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe: illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb. 1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance. Edinb. 1864. d. Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865.

MITCHELL, Joseph (son of John Mitchell, C.E. d. 1824). b. Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry; apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824, M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland; engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3; partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867; F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. d. London 26 Nov. 1883. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi 362–8 (1884).

MITCHELL, Muirhead (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras, London). b. London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18 Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. d. 50 Pall Mall, London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876.

MITCHELL, Robert (son of James Mitchell 1791–1852). b. 19 May 1820; engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, after sir Edwin Landseer 1852 and The parish beauty and The pastor’s pet after Alfred Rankley 1853 and 1854, and in the mixed style The happy mothers and The startled twins after Richard Ansdell 1850 and Christ walking on the sea after R. S. Lander 1854; etched several plates completed in mezzotint by other engravers; exhibited at Royal academy 1858. d. 8 Rochester place, Widmore lane, Bromley, Kent 16 May 1873.

MITCHELL, Samuel (son of Samuel Mitchell, cutler and edge tool maker). b. Sheffield 13 Feb. 1803; entered his father’s business, for which he travelled in Norway, Sweden and Russia; member of Sheffield literary and philosophical soc. Dec. 1822 and a contributor to its transactions, president 1856; explored with Thomas Bateman the tumulus at Arba Lowe 23 May 1845; collected materials for The history and topography of the hundreds of wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, of which a small part was prepared for printing at his death. d. The Mount, Sheffield 1869. W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire, iii 108–102 (1891).

MITCHELL, Stephen (son of Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer d. 1820). b. Linlithgow 19 Sept. 1789; apprentice to J. Anderson & Co. merchants Leith and London 1805–9; in his father’s business at Linlithgow 1809, removed the business to Glasgow 1825, head partner till his retirement in 1859. d. Moffat 21 April 1874; left £66,998 10s. 6d. to found the Mitchell library in Glasgow, library opened in Nov. 1877, it contained 58,000 volumes, including special collections of Burns’ literature and Glasgow books in 1886. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 233–4 (1886) portrait.

MITCHELL, Thomas. b. 1842; assistant to Groombridge and Sons, booksellers, London, then to Longmans’, Green, Reader and Dyer; bookseller at Hastings; architect; author of The stepping stones to architecture 1869; A rudimentary manual of architecture 1870. d. Hastings 24 Nov. 1872.

MITCHELL, Thomas. b. 1821; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; V. of Long Clawson near Melton-Mowbray 1848 to death; author of Palestine revisited and other poems 1858, 3 ed. 1881. d. Long Clawson vicarage 5 March 1885.

MITCHELL, Thomas Alexander (youngest son of John Mitchell, Russia merchant at Riga and London). b. Montrose 1812; ed. at Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829, became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. d. 50 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000. I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p. 144 portrait, 27 March 1875 p. 307.

MITCHELL, Sir Thomas Livingstone (eld. son of John Mitchell of Craigend, Stirlingshire). b. 16 June 1792; joined the army in the Peninsula as a volunteer 1808; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 July 1811, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1818; captain 2 foot 25 Jany. 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; served on the battle fields in Spain and Portugal, received silver medal with 5 clasps; deputy surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828 to death, his survey of the colony was published in three sheets 1835; surveyed northern part of N.S.W. Nov. 1831 to Feb. 1832; surveyed the course of the river Darling 1835; surveyed the rivers Murray and Darling and discovered the region called by him Australia Felix 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 April 1839; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1839; explored overland route to gulf of Carpentaria, Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1847; reported on the Bathurst goldfields 1851; fought a duel with Stuart Alexander Donaldson 27 Sep. 1851; visited England 1853, and patented a new screw-propeller for steam vessels called the boomerang; F.R.G.S.; author of Outlines of a system of surveying for geographical and military purposes 1827; Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia 2 vols. 1838, 2 ed. 1839; Journal of an expedition into tropical Australia in search of a route from Sydney to the gulf of Carpentaria 1848; The Australian geography 1851; Origin, history and description of the boomerang propeller 1853; The Lusiad of Camoens closely translated 1854. d. Carthona, Darling Point, N.S.W. 5 Oct. 1855. G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1868) 215–18; Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 325–6; W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia, i 264–310 (1865), ii 92–107 (1865); J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia i 366–94 (1865), ii 121–42.

MITCHELL, William. b. Billquay, Durham 1799; in a counting house in Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 years; first appeared on the stage as a country boy in the Recruiting Officer at Newcastle; appeared at Strand theatre, London in Professionals puzzled 1831; actor and stage manager Coburg theatre, London 1834; appeared at National theatre, New York as Jem Baggs in The Wandering Minstrel 29 Aug. 1836; opened the Olympic theatre, New York, Dec. 1839, which he conducted till 1850 making money which he afterward lost; his best known part was Manager Crummles in Nicholas Nickleby. d. in poverty at New York 12 May 1856. J. N. Ireland’s Records, ii 192–3 (1867).

MITCHELL, Sir William (son of John Mitchell of Modbury, Devon, a turner in wood and ivory and then a farmer). b. Modbury 1811; an apprentice to a printer at Modbury; a journalist on the True Sun in London 1833; established The shipping and mercantile gazette, a daily paper 1 Jany. 1836, and was chief proprietor and editor; introduced an international code of signals gradually adopted by all maritime countries; established signal stations for reporting movements of all ships using the international code; knighted by patent 27 July 1867; knight commander of Swedish order of St. Olaf 1869; edited A review of the merchant shipping bill, being a series of leading articles from the Shipping and mercantile gazette 1869; and Maritime notes and queries, a record of shipping law and usage 3 vols. 1873–6; published the Mercantile navy list and code of signals 1850. d. Strode near Ivybridge, Devon 1 May 1878. bur. Modbury churchyard 6 May. Biograph, iii 400–409 (1880); Men of the West. Part 3 Sir W. Mitchell. March 1877 pp. 16, portrait; Academy, i 413 (1878).

Note.—He was a performer on the violoncello, bassoon, viola and flute; he procured from Paris the parts and copies for a chorus of 30 voices of Rossini’s Petite Messo Solennelle and produced the work at his residence 6 Hyde Park gate, London in May 1869. Vanity Fair 22 May 1869 p. 379. He also produced the Rival Beauties an operetta by Signor Randegger, which he repeated at Plymouth theatre for some charities 13 Aug. 1868.

MITCHELL, William. b. in the West of England about 1829; an assistant in a shop; a clown under the name of Felix Revolti; ringmaster under Charles Hengler; the Prince of ringmasters his aim being to act naturally and not to anticipate the Clown’s jokes; kept a hotel in London a short time; resumed his post of ringmaster with C. Hengler in Liverpool and London to his death; sketched the stories for some of C. Hengler’s Christmas pieces; his brother F. Mitchell was also in the equestrian business. d. in a railway carriage at Caledonian railway station, Glasgow 6 March 1879. bur. Sight Hill cemetery 10 March. The Era 16 March 1879 pp. 4, 5.

MITCHELL, Sir William Henry Fancourt (son of George Berkley Mitchell, V. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1820 to 1840). b. 1811; writer in colonial secretary’s office, Tasmania 2 April 1833, assistant colonial secretary 1 Aug. 1839; a squatter near Kyneton and Mount Macedon, Port Philip 1840; chief commissioner of the police 1 Jany. 1853, restored order in the gold districts and stamped out bush-ranging; member of legislative council, Victoria, Sep. 1856 to 1858 and 1860 to death; postmaster-general 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; comr. of railways 30 Dec. 1861 to 27 June 1863; chairman of committees in legislative council March 1869, president of the council 1870 to death; knighted by patent 17 July 1875; chairman of R. Goldsborough & Co. woolbrokers in Melbourne and London. d. Barfold near Kyneton, Victoria 24 Nov. 1884.

MITFORD, John (elder son of John Mitford, commander in the navy of H.E.I.Co., d. 18 May 1806). b. Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug. 1781; ed. at Tunbridge gr. sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804; C. of Kelsale, Suffolk 1809; V. of Benhall, Suffolk 17 Feb. 1810, reinstituted 5 Feb. 1824 held it to his death; domestic chaplain to lord Redesdale, Aug. 1815; R. of Weston St. Peter, Suffolk 22 Aug. 1815, R. of Stratford St. Andrew, Suffolk 1817, these livings were united 5 Feb. 1824 when he was reinstituted and held them till his death; contributed to Gent. Mag. from 1833, editor Jany. 1834 to Dec. 1850; composed numerous poems signed J. M.; edited The poems of Thomas Gray 1814, 7 ed. 1866; The works of Thomas Gray 2 vols. 1816, 2 ed. 1836; edited for Pickering’s Aldine edition of the British poets, Cowper 3 vols. 1830, Goldsmith 1831, Milton 3 vols. 1832, Dryden 5 vols. 1832–3, Parnell 1833, Swift 3 vols. 1833–4, Young 2 vols. 1834, Prior 2 vols. 1835, Butler 2 vols. 1835, Gray 4 vols. 1835–6, Falconer 1836 and Spencer 5 vols. 1839; edited Sacred specimens selected from the early English poets 1827, and The works of Milton in prose and verse 8 vols. 1851; author of Agnes the Indian captive, with other poems 1811; Miscellaneous poems 1858. d. Benhall vicarage 27 April 1859. bur. Stratford St. Andrew. Mrs. Houstoun’s Letters and reminiscences of the rev. John Mitford (1891); Mrs. Houstoun’s Woman’s memories, i 122–5, 178–204.

Note.—His collection of silver Greek coins, cameos and miniatures was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson 30 June 1859; his engravings and drawings 23–25 July 1859; his Greek and Latin classics 17–24 Dec. 1859 for £1030; his library of English history, plays and poetry was sold 24 April to 6 May 1860 for £2999; and his manuscripts, including 55 vols. of his own recollections on 9 July 1860 producing £817.

MITFORD, Mary Russell (only child of George Mitford or Midford. d. 11 Dec. 1842). b. Alresford, Hampshire 16 Dec. 1787; drew a prize in a lottery worth £20,000, 1797; ed. at Mrs. St. Quintin’s school 22 Hans place, London 1798 to 1802; one of 114 persons who competed for the poetical address to be spoken at opening of Drury Lane theatre 10 Oct. 1812; lived at Three Mile Cross near Reading 1820 to 1851, and at Swallowfield near Reading 1851 to death; granted civil list pension of £100, 1837; edited Finden’s Tableaux, an annual 1838–41; author of 4 tragedies, Julian produced at Covent Garden 15 March 1823; Foscari at C.G. 4 Nov. 1826; Rienzi at Drury Lane 9 Oct. 1828; Charles I. at Victoria theatre 9 July 1834; she also wrote Mary Queen of Scots, a scena in verse 1831, and an opera libretto Sadak and Kalasrade produced 1835, her plays were published in 2 vols. 1854; author of Miscellaneous poems 1810, 2 ed. 1811; Blanch of Castile 1812; Our village, sketches of rural character and scenery 5 vols. 1824–32, 5 ed. 1856, reprinted from The Lady’s magazine 1819 &c., which made her famous, children were named after her village urchins; Dramatic scenes, sonnets and other poems 1827; Belford Regis or sketches of a country town 3 vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1849; Recollections of a literary life 3 vols. 1852, 4 ed. 1859; Atherton and other tales 3 vols. 1854. d. Swallowfield 10 Jany. 1855. Life of M. R. Mitford, edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange 3 vols. (1870); Friendships of M. R. Mitford, edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange (1882); M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859), portrait; James Payn’s Literary recollections (1885) 74–97; H. F. Chorley’s The authors of England (1861) 63–66, portrait; Yesterdays with authors. By James T. Fields (Boston 1873) 261–352; A book of memories. By S. C. Hall (1877) 438–49; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 353–59; S. T. Hall’s Biographical sketches (1873) 96–108; Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 355, 379, portrait; I.L.N. xxiv 369, 370 (1854) portrait, xxvi 60 (1855).

MITFORD, William Townley (only son of Charles Mitford, treasurer of Sussex, d. 1831). b. 29 June 1817; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839; sheriff of Sussex 1848; M.P. Midhurst, Sussex 1859–74; contested Midhurst 3 Feb. 1874. d. 7 Cavendish sq. London 18 April 1889.

MIVART, James Edward. b. 1781; proprietor of Mivart’s hotel 42–45 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 1816–56, now called Claridge’s hotel. d. 10 College crescent, St. John’s wood, London 5 Jany. 1856.

MOBERLY, George (7 son of Edward Moberly of St. Petersburg, Russia, merchant). b. St. Petersburg 20 Oct. 1803; ed. at Winchester 1816–22 and Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar March 1822, fellow 1826–34, tutor; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; select preacher 1833, 1858 and 1863; Bampton lecturer 1868; head master of Winchester Dec. 1835 to Dec. 1866, fellow Dec. 1866 to 1870; R. of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1866 to 1869; canon of Chester cathedral Oct. 1868 to Sep. 1869; bishop of Salisbury 14 Aug. 1869, consecrated 28 Oct. 1869; founded a diocesan synod; with four other persons he revised and annotated editions of St. John’s Gospel, and the epistles to the Romans, Corinthians and Galations 1857–61; author of Practical sermons 1838; The sayings of the great forty days 1844, 6 ed. 1882; Sermons preached at Winchester college 1844, Second series with a preface on Fagging 1848; The administration of the Holy spirit in the body of Christ. Bampton lectures 1868; Brightstone sermons 1869, 4 ed. 1882; his name is annexed to upwards of 35 works. d. Salisbury 6 July 1885. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester College (1878) 210–12, 239–48; I.L.N. lv 437 (1869), portrait; Saturday Review, lx 47.

MOBERLY, Henry. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 10 Madras N.I. 15 Oct. 1809; lieut. 25 N.I. 1 Sep. 1818; captain 49 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 9 April 1838 to 18 April 1842; sec. of Madras military board 1835–43; lieut.-col. 8 N.I. 18 April 1842 to 1843, of 9 N.I. 1843–5, and of 16 N.I. 1845–6; stipendiary member of military board 17 Nov. 1843 to death; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1846–7, of 8 N.I. 1847–9, and of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. d. Madras 5 July 1852.

MOFFATT, George (son of William Moffatt of London). b. 1810; wholesale tea dealer in London and Liverpool; chairman of Lhynvi iron and coal co.; contested Ipswich 3 June 1842 and Dartmouth 27 Dec 1844; M.P. Dartmouth 1845–52; M.P. Ashburton 1852–9; M.P. Honiton 1860–5; M.P. Southampton 1865–8; author of The Bankruptcy law of England. d. Torquay 20 Feb. 1878; personalty under £350,000, 27 April 1878. Sir Henry Cole’s Life, i 36, ii 101 (1884).

MOFFAT, Robert (son of a custom house officer). b. Ormiston, East Lothian 21 Dec. 1795; apprenticed to a gardener 1809–12; under-gardener at Mr. Leigh’s, High Leigh, Cheshire Dec. 1813 to Dec. 1815; a missionary under the London missionary soc. from 1816, arrived at Cape Town 13 Jany. 1817, travelled in Namaqualand 1817–8; superintendent at Lattakoo 1820–5, at Kuruman 1825–70; visited England 1839–43; persuaded Livingstone to undertake the Bakwana mission 1840; was the pioneer of South African missionary work; left Africa for England 10 June 1870; D.D. Edinb. April 1872; presented with upwards of £5,000 by his friends 1873; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’ company 20 Dec. 1877; entertained at the mansion house, London 7 May 1881; (m. at St. George’s church, Cape Town 27 Dec. 1819 Mary only dau. of James Smith of Dukinfield near Manchester nursery gardener, she was b. at New Windsor, now part of Salford, 1795 and d. Brinton, London 9 Jany 1871 after being for 50 years one of the pioneers of South African mission work); author of Translation of the gospel of St. Luke into Sechwana 1830, Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa 1842 and 9 other books. d. Leigh near Tunbridge 10 Aug. 1883. bur. Norwood cemet. 16 Aug., memorial monument at Ormiston. J. S. Moffatt’s The lives of Robert and Mary Moffatt (1886), portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Moffatt; A. Manning’s Heroes of the desert (1885), portrait; J. Campbell’s Farewell services of R. Moffatt (1843); I.L.N. lx 452 (1872), portrait; Graphic xxviii 192 (1883), portrait.

MOFFITT, Andrew. b. 11 Jany. 1836; assistant surgeon in army 25 May 1858, surgeon 1 March 1873, surgeon major 1 April 1873; principal medical officer of the Ever Victorious army in China 1863; author of A manual of instruction for attendants on sick and wounded in war 1870. d. Southampton 3 Feb. 1882. Graphic, xxix 244 (1884), portrait.

MOFFITT, John M. b. England 1837; apprenticed to a sculptor in London 1852; went to U.S. of America at end of his apprenticeship; executed the figures representing the four ages of man on the eastern entrance to Greenwood cemetery, New York; designed many of the altars in New York churches. d. London 15 Sep. 1887.

MOGFORD, John. b. 1822; landscape painter principally of coast scenes; associate of New Society of Painters in water-colours 1866 and member 1867; lived at 17 Park road, Hampstead 1867 to death; exhibited 32 landscapes at R.A., 28 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1846–79. d. 17 Park road, Hampstead, Nov. 1885.

MOGFORD, Thomas (son of a veterinary surgeon at Northlew, Devonshire). b. Exeter 1 May 1809; printer at Exeter to about 1843 when he moved to London; a landscape painter in Guernsey, where he founded a school of painting; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A., 11 at B.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1838–61; his portraits include E. H. Baily, R.A., Samuel Cousins the engraver, and J. C. Adams the astronomer. d. Guernsey 1868. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 90–6.

MOGRIDGE, George (son of Mathias Mogridge of Ashted, Birmingham, canal agent). b. Ashted 17 Feb. 1787; an apprentice to a japanner 1801; partner with his elder brother Mathias Mogridge in the Japan trade at Birmingham 1811, his brother retired from the business with a fortune, and he became a bankrupt 1826; commenced a literary life 1826; author of Twelve moral tales by Uncle Newbury 1828; The moral budget of my Aunt Newbury 1835; Ephraim Holding’s Homely hints to Sunday school teachers 1843; Cheerful chapters adapted to youth, by Old Alan Gray 1854; The Chinese, by Uncle Adam 1845; under the names of Old Humphrey 1839 etc., and Peter Parley 1836 etc., he also wrote very numerous books; wrote under his own name The churchyard lyrist, five hundred original inscriptions 1832; Footprints of popery, or places where martyrs have suffered 1843; Amos Armfield or leather covered bibles 1845; Learning to act 1846; Wanderings in the Isle of Wight 1846; Things that have wings 1851; Sunny seasons of boyhood 1859; Who is my neighbour 1868, and 50 other books many of them anonymous; for the Religious Tract soc. he wrote 106 books and tracts; resided at 114 Cornwall road, London. d. 4 High Wickham, Hastings 2 Nov. 1854. C. Williams’s George Mogridge, his life, character and writings (1856), portrait; Memoir of Old Humphrey (1855), portrait.

MOHL, Mary Elizabeth (dau. of Charles Clarke). b. Millbank row, Westminster 1793; placed in a convent school at Toulouse 1801; lived in Paris with her mother; great friend of Madame Récamier for 18 years; m. 1847 Julius Mohl the orientalist 1800–76; her receptions in the Rue du Bac, Paris were very popular for nearly 40 years, her friends included Quinet, De Tocqueville, Guizot, Thiers and Renan; author of Madame Récamier, with a sketch of the history of society in France by Madame Mxxx. 1862; Le livre des Rois, par Abou ’lkasim Firdousi traduit et commenté par J. Mohl, Publié par Mme Mohl. 7 vols. 1876–8. d. Paris 15 May 1883. bur. Père-Lachaise cemetery. M. C. M. Simpson’s Letters of G. and M. Mohl (1887), portrait; K. O’Meara’s Madame Mohl (1886), portrait; Contemporary review Aug. 1878 pp. 1–21; F. W. Muller’s Biographical Essays (1884) 272–310.

MOIR, David Macbeth (son of Robert Moir d. 1817). b. Musselburgh near Edinburgh 5 Jany. 1798; studied medicine in Edinburgh, M.R.C.S. 1816; partner with Dr. Brown at Musselburgh 1817 and in practice there to death; wrote jeux d’esprit in Blackwood’s magazine, also essays and serious verse over the signature Δ; wrote for Fraser’s magazine and other periodicals; author of The bombardment of Algiers and other poems 1816, anon.; The legend of Genevieve, with other tales and poems 1824; The autobiography of Mansie Wauch 1828; Outlines of the ancient history of medicine 1831; Proofs of the contagion of malignant cholera 1832; Domestic verses 1843; edited The works of Mrs. Hemans 7 vols. 1839. d. King’s Arms inn, Dumfries 6 July 1851. bur. at Inveresk, statue by Ritchie erected at Musselburgh 1854. m. 8 June 1829 Catherine Elizabeth youngest dau. of Charles Bell of Leith, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853. The poetical works of D. M. Moir. Ed. by Thomas Aird 2 vols. Edinb. (1852), memoir i pp. xv–cxxxii, portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1851 pp. 249–50; Fraser’s Mag. Sep. 1833 p. 290, portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 198–9, portrait.

MOIR, George (son of George Moir). b. Aberdeen 1800; admitted advocate 2 July 1825; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1828; professor of rhetoric and belles lettres in univ. of Edinb. 1 Aug. 1835 to Oct. 1840, professor of Scots law 13 Feb. 1864 to 1865; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1855–8; sheriff of Stirlingshire 1858–68; translated Wallenstein, a dramatic poem by J. C. F. Von Schiller 2 vols. 1827, and The historical works of F. Schiller, Constable’s Miscellany 2 vols. 1828; author of The appellate jurisdiction of Scotch appeals 1851; Magic and witchcraft 1852; Principles of the law of Scotland, containing extracts from lectures of G. Moir 1870, 4 ed. 1886. d. Charlotte sq. Edinb. 19 Oct. 1870. Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 359, 375 (1884); Journal of jurisprudence, xiv 618 (1870).

MOIR, John Macrae. b. Waterside of Thornton at the foot of the Grampians in Kincardineshire 1827; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; went to London 1846; associated with journalism 1852; edited the Illustrated Times, London 9 June 1855 for 3 years; secretary of the Scottish corporation 1862 to death; the first editor of the Illustrated news of the world, No. i Feb. 6, 1858; the first editor of the People’s magazine 1867; London correspondent many years of the chief provincial newspapers; one of compilers of Men of the time; nonconformist minister at Worthing, Sussex; barrister M.T. 6 June 1864; often acted as deputy judge in the lord mayor’s court, and as deputy judge in the city of London court and other metropolitan county courts; a candidate for office of town clerk of city of London 1873, and for that of city remembrancer 1878; edited Capital punishment by John Macrae 1865 and Todesstraffe by Professor Mitteemaier 1862. d. Braefit, 116 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead 12 July 1881. bur. Hampstead cemet. 16 July. The Biograph, Jany. 1881 pp. 9–11; Law Times, lxxi 236 (1881).

MOLE, John Henry. b. Alnwick, Northumberland 1814; began painting miniatures 1835; painted landscapes and figure subjects in water-colours; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colours 1847, member 1848, contributed to annual exhibitions of the society which became the Royal Institute of painters in water-colours 1884, vice pres. 1884; exhibited 11 figure subjects at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1845–80. d. 7 Guildford place, Russell sq. London 13 Dec. 1886.

MOLESWORTH, John Edward Nassau (only son of John Molesworth). b. London 4 Feb. 1790; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. and D.D. 1838; C. of Millbrook, Hampshire 1812–28; C. of Wicksworth, Derbyshire 1828 for two months only; V. of St. Martin’s with St. Paul, Canterbury 1829–39; one of the six preachers at Canterbury 1829; V. of Minster-in-Thanet 1839; V. of Rochdale 3 March 1840 to death; promoted the Rochdale vicarage act 1866 by which the 13 chapels of ease were converted into parish churches and their endowments raised; contributed to the British magazine and Encyclopædia Metropolitana; editor of The penny Sunday reader. Canterbury 14 vols. 1835–41, and of Common sense or everybody’s magazine 2 vols. 1842–43; author of The rick-burners, a tale 1830; Overbury, or some advantages of an established church, a tale 1834, 2 ed. 1860; The pulpit pocket companion and liturgical companion 1836; Resistance to church rates, a letter to the people of England 1836, 5 ed. 1854; The domestic chaplain, sermons on family duties 2 vols. 1838; The parish church 1842 and 30 other books. d. Rochdale vicarage 21 April 1877. bur. St. Martin’s, Castleton Moor, Lancs. Raines’s Vicars of Rochdale (Chetham Soc. 1883), ii 325–76.

MOLESWORTH, James Thomas (brother of 7 Viscount Molesworth 1786–1875). b. 1795; lieut. 6 Bombay N.I. 4 April 1816; captain 11 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, retired 24 April 1837; second assistant commissary general 1827–35; author with Thomas and George Candy of Marathee-English and English-Marathee dictionary. Bombay 2 vols. 1831–47, he worked for six years preparing the second edition published 1857; never made use of his designation the honourable. d. Clifton 13 July 1872. J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 305–6.

MOLESWORTH, Sir Robert (only son of Hickman Blayney Molesworth). b. Dublin 3 Nov. 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1833; called to the Irish bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1828; emigrated to Adelaide 1852; admitted to the bar of Victoria, Australia 1853, solicitor general 25 Nov. 1855 to 17 June 1856; a puisne judge of the colony 17 June 1856, primary judge in equity 1857, retired 1886; chief judge in court of mines; knighted by patent 9 July 1886. d. Edlington, Hawthorne, Melbourne 17 Oct. 1890.

MOLESWORTH, Sir William, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7 baronet 1789–1823). b. Upper Brook st. London 23 May 1810; entered at Trin. coll. Camb., expelled for challenging his tutor to fight a duel; finished his education at univ. of Edinb.; M.P. East Cornwall 1832–7; projected The London Review, April 1835, which he transferred to J. S. Mill 1837; on the first committee of the Reform club 1836; obtained a parliamentary committee to inquire into the system of transportation 1837 and wrote the report; M.P. Leeds 1837–41; M.P. Southwark 1845 to death; sheriff of Cornwall 1842; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; first comr. of the board of works 5 Jany. 1853 to 2 July 1855; colonial secretary 21 July 1855 to death; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1835; edited The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 11 vols. 1839–45, also Hobbes’s Latin works 5 vols. 1839–45, which cost him £6,000. d. 87 Eaton place, London 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 27 Oct. The philosophical radicals of 1832, comprising the life of Sir W. Molesworth, &c. By Mrs. Grote (1866); Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 416–19, portrait; I.L.N. xviii 341, 342 (1851) portrait, xxvii 489, 490 (1855) portrait.

Note.—He m. July 1844 Andalusia only dau. of James Bruce Carstairs of county Kinross. She had m. (1) Temple West of Mathon lodge, Worcester, who d. 13 April 1839. She made her debut as a singer at Drury Lane as Diana Vernon in Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1827 under the stage name of Andalusia Grant. Her last appearance was as Hymen in ‘As you like it’ at Drury lane in 1841. She entertained literary men and others in London and at Pencarrow in Cornwall for many years. d. 87 Eaton place, London 16 May 1888.

MOLESWORTH, William Nassau (eld. son of John Edward Nassau Molesworth 1790–1877). b. Millbrook near Southampton 8 Nov. 1816; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and St. John’s and Pembroke colleges, Cambridge; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; LL.D. Glasgow 1883; C. of Rochdale 1839–41; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Ancoats, Manchester 1841–4; V. of St. Clement, Spotland near Rochdale 1844–89; hon. canon of Manchester cath. 1881; author of Secular education, an important element of religious education 1857; Essay on the French alliance 1860; Plain lectures on astronomy 1862; The history of the reform bill of 1832. 1864; Prize essay on the great importance of an improved system of education for the upper and middle classes 1867; The history of England from 1830. 3 vols. 1871–3, 5th thousand 1874; History of the church of England from 1660. 1882; edited with his father Common Sense 1842–3. d. Rochdale 19 Dec. 1890. bur. Spotland. Biograph, vi 82–4 (1881); I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1891 p. 4, portrait.

MOLINEUX, Thomas. b. 1803; double-bass player; a pianoforte manufacturer; invented the Molineux action for pianos patented 28 April 1860; managing director of St. James’ hall, London many years. d. London about 31 Jany. 1891.

MOLINI, Charles Frederick (son of John James Molini). b. Haymarket, London 9 Jany. 1789; clerk to Abraham Favenc, merchant and then to S. Dobree and Sons; a bookseller at 14 Paternoster row 1830–41, at 17 King William st. Strand 1841 to death as a dealer in Italian books and an agent for Italian marbles, alabasters, etc.; London agent for his cousin Giuseppe Molini of Florence about 1818 to death. d. 17 King William st. London 21 April 1860. Bookseller, July 1860 p. 417.

MOLIQUE, William Bernhard (son of M. Molique, stadtmusikus). b. Nuremberg 7 Oct. 1803; violinist Vienna; leader of band, Munich 1820, and Stuttgart 1826–49; resided in London 1849–66; retired to Canstadt 1866; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music, nearly all of them published in London, among these were Five sets, each of six German songs 1845–8; Three sacred songs from the Psalms 1849; Six melodies for flute and harp 1851; Flying leaves, six pieces for the concertina 1856; Abraham, oratorio. Op. 65 full score, produced at Norwich festival 1860; Three duets for two violins 1860; On parting, song written by lord Byron 1866; I know thou dost love me, song, words by Hoffman 1873. d. Canstadt near Stuttgart 10 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of Biography, June 1869 p. 484.

MOLLAN, John. b. 1790; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 5 July 1819, fellow 28 Oct. 1839, treasurer 1847–55, president 1855, 1856; M.D. Edinb.; M.D. Dublin 1839; M.R.I.A.; consulting physician Richmond lunatic asylum. d. 60 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 17 Sep. 1877.

MOLLER, Johannes. b. 1814; miniature painter to king of Denmark. d. 21 Warrior gardens, St. Leonards on Sea 30 Oct. 1885.

MOLTANO or MOLTARNO, Delhi. A negro; a tamer of wild beasts many years; when entering the cage of three bears and a hyena in Wombwell and Bailey’s menagerie and circus at Hednesford near Cannock Chase, he slipped down and the animals attacked and worried him for fifteen minutes, taken to the Anglesey hotel where he died the same night 14 March 1892. bur. cemetery Burton-on-Trent 18 March.

MOLTENO, Sir John Charles (son of John Molteno). b. 1814; member of Cape of Good Hope legislative assembly for Beaufort West 1854 to 1883; colonial secretary to government of Cape of Good Hope 1872 to 6 Feb. 1878 and 1881 to 1882; came to England 1876 to confer with secretary of state on public business; K.C.M.G. 18 Aug. 1882. d. Claremont house, Cape Town 1 Sep. 1886.

MOLYNEUX, Capel (eld. son of John Molyneux of Gavel hill, Salop). b. Loseley mansion, Surrey 2 Dec. 1804; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; in the army; C. of St. Mary’s, Woolwich 1842–50; minister of the Lock chapel, Harrow road, London 1850–60; V. of St. Paul’s, Onslow sq. 1860–72; author of Lectures delivered in the Lock chapel. 1852; Gethsemane, lectures delivered in Lent 1854; Broken bread, short comments for family use 1855; Lent sermons 1860; A farewell address to the congregation of St. Paul’s, Onslow square 1872. d. Cannes 27 Dec. 1877. Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860, 30–31, portrait; Illust. news of the world (1862) portrait.

MOLYNEUX, Echlin. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1847; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. d. 1878.

MOLYNEUX, Sir John William Henry, 8 Baronet (brother of Capel Molyneux 1804–77). b. 28 Jany. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 27 wrangler 1841; B.A. 1841; V. of St. Gregory with St. Peter, Sudbury, Suffolk 1855 to death; hon. canon of Ely cathedral 1875 to death; succeeded his cousin as 8 baronet 24 Jany. 1879; author of What is a christian? 2 ed. 1853; A letter to the bishop of Ely on the rights of all parishioners to the use of the church 1856; Symbolism not formalism 1857, 2 ed. 1857; Preaching the gospel to the working classes impossible under the pew system 1858; The altar and lights on the altar, a correspondence with the bishop of Ely 1865; Vivisection, a speech 1876. d. Sudbury vicarage 5 March 1879.

MOLYNEUX, William. F.G.S.; author of Burton-on-Trent, its history, its waters and its breweries 1869; to R. Plant’s History of Cheadle, Leek 1881, he contributed The Cheadle coalfield pp. 277–311. d. Durban, Natal 24 Oct. 1882.

MOLYNEUX-WILLIAMS, Thomas. b. 1793; midshipman in the navy 1805–11; ensign 4 foot 14 Feb. 1811; lieut. 77 foot 28 Feb. 1812, captain 16 Sep. 1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; took additional surname of Williams 1836; L.G. 31 March 1866; K.H. 1836. d. 9 Holles st. Cavendish square, London 10 May 1871.

MOMBACH, Israel Lazarus, known as Julius L. Mombach (son of rev. Lazarus Mombach, chazan in Plungstadt, Germany). b. Plungstadt 1813; brought to England 1823; taught music by rev. Mr. Eliasson; a singer in the Great synagogue, St. James’ place, Aldgate st. London 1828, then director of the choir 1841 to his death; taught singing to the members of the Jews’ college; conducted concerts at Jewish working men’s club; composed music for the German synagogues in England and the colonies. d. Armfield’s hotel, South place, Finsbury, London 8 Feb. 1880. bur. West Ham cemetery. J. L. Mombach’s Sacred musical compositions, edited by Rev. M. Keizer (1881), portrait and memoir; Jewish Chronicle 13 March 1880 p. 7.

MONAHAN, James Henry (eld. son of Michael Monahan of Heathlawn near Portumna, Galway). b. Portumna 1804; ed. at Banagher and Trin. coll. Dublin; passed first in science and took the gold medal 1823; student of Gray’s Inn 4 Feb. 1826; called to Irish bar 1828; became leader of Connaught circuit; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1840; bencher of King’s Inns 1847; solicitor general for Ireland 16 July 1846, attorney general 24 Dec. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1850; M.P. for borough of Galway 17 Feb. to Aug. 1847; contested Clonmel 10 Aug. 1847; P.C. Ireland 1848; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas Oct. 1850, resigned Jany. 1876, presided at special commission for trial of the Fenian prisoners at Cork and Limerick 1867; a comr. of national education 1861; author of The method of law, an essay on the statement and arrangement of the legal standard of conduct 1878. d. 5 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 8 Dec. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 Dec. The voice of the bar (1850); Irish law times, xii 605 (1878); O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes (1885) 309–12.

MONCK, Sir Charles Miles Lambert Middleton, 6 Baronet (only son of sir Wm. Middleton, 5 bart. 1738–95). b. London 7 April 1779; ed. at Rugby 1787 etc.; succeeded 7 July 1795; changed his name to Monck under will of his grandfather Lawrence Monck 1799; sheriff of Northumberland 1801; M.P. Northumberland 1812–20; built Belsay castle, a Doric structure 1809; owner of race horses; purchased Twinkle, dam of Cast Steel, whose progeny won for him 100 races; his mare Gossamer ran third for the Oaks 1853; won the Chester cup with Vanity 1858; with Gamester won the St. Leger 1859; sold his stud at York in 1860 for 3595 guineas; author of An address to the county of Northumberland on the bills for the reform of the house of commons. Newcastle 1832. d. Belsay castle, Northumberland 20 July 1867. Baily’s Mag. v 271–4 (1863), portrait; Sporting Review, lviii 87–8 (1867).

MONCORVO, Viscount da Torre de. b. 13 May 1788; envoy extraord. and minister-plenipo. from Portugal to England 1835 to death. d. 57 Upper Seymour st. London 11 Jany. 1851, remains removed to French chapel. bur. Chelsea cemetery 18 Jany.

MONCREIFF, Sir Henry Wellwood, 10 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Edinburgh 21 May 1809; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ. Edinb. 1823; matric. from New coll. Oxf. 5 April 1827, B.A. 1831; president of Union debating soc.; minister of parish of Baldernock, Stirlingshire 1836–7; minister of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire 1837–43; minister of Free East Kilbride 1843–52; minister of Free St. Cuthbert’s, Edinb. 1852 to death; succeeded his father as 10 baronet 4 April 1851; joint principal clerk to free general assembly 1855; D.D. Glasgow 1860; secretary of the Bible board Jany. 1861 to death; moderator of free church assembly 1871; sec. to H.M. master printer in Scotland 1 Jany. 1861; author of Creeds and churches in Scotland 1869; A vindication of the free church claim of right 1877; The free church principle, its character and history, Chalmer lectures 1883. d. 6 Murchiston terrace, Edinburgh 4 Nov. 1883. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 419–28, portrait; W. Wilson’s Memorials of R. S. Candlish (1880) 225–59; Biograph, iv 107–8 (1880).

MONCREIFF, Sir James Wellwood, Lord Moncreiff (2 son of rev. sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, 8 baronet and divine 1750–1827). b. 13 Sep. 1776; ed. at Edinb. and Glasgow univs.; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 30 Nov. 1793, exhibitioner; B.C.L. 1800; called to Scottish bar 26 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross 7 Feb. 1807; dean of the faculty of advocates 22 Nov. 1826 to 1829; defended the resurrectionist Burke 1828; succeeded his father as 9 baronet 9 Aug. 1827; a judge of court of session with title of lord Moncreiff 24 June 1829 to death. d. 47 Moray place, Edinburgh 30 March 1851. bur. in the Dean cemetery, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. Chambers’s Eminent Scotsmen, iii 154–6 (1870), portrait; Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the college of justice (1832) 552; B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 157–60, portrait; Law Magazine, ii 557–97 (1829) xlv 261–5 (1851).

MONCREIFFE, Sir Thomas, 7 Baronet. b. Moncreiffe house, Bridge of Earne, Perthshire 9 Jany. 1822; succeeded 20 Nov. 1830; ensign grenadier guards 15 May 1840, sold out 21 Jany. 1842; lieut.-col. of Perthshire militia 1846–55 and hon. col. 30 Oct. 1855 to death. d. Moncreiffe house 16 Aug. 1879.

MONCRIEFF, Alexander (eld. son of Hugh Moncrieff, advocate Glasgow). Ed. Glasgow coll.; advocate 1852; advocate depute 1862; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1869. d. 22 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 2 June 1870. Journal of jurisprudence July 1870 p. 376.

MONCRIEFF, George. b. 1806; ensign Scots fusilier guards 8 April 1826, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 14 June 1858; M.G. 14 June 1858, L.G. 27 Dec. 1864. d. Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1869.

MONCRIEFF, Robert Scott Wellwood. Treasurer of the Soc. of Scottish antiquaries 1812; great friend of William Henry Murray actor who d. 1852; resided at 17 Leopold place, Edinb.; Old dean of guild 297 High st. Edinb.; came into the Garvoch estate on death of Andrew Wellwood about 1842; built a house near Dalmeny which was so ugly that Lord Rosebery bought it and pulled it down. d. about 1854. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 169–70, portrait.

MONCRIEFF, William Thomas, stage name of W. T. Thomas (son of a tradesman in Newcastle st. Strand, London). b. London 24 Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy 18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817, and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, where his equestrian drama. The dandy family ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April 1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog 30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11 Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837, and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers 23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. d. the Charterhouse, London 3 Dec. 1857. Reynolds’s Miscellany, ix 28–9 (1853), portrait; Era 13 Dec. 1857 p. 11.

MONCTON, Henry (eld. son of hon. Edward Moncton of Somerford, co. Stafford 1744–1832, by Sophia natural dau. of George Pigot 1 baron Pigot, governor of Madras). b. 11 Sep. 1780; ensign 95 foot 5 March 1795; captain 24 dragoons 20 April 1796, major 24 July 1802, placed on h.p. 1803; major 3 foot 15 May 1806; major 8 light dragoons Jany. 1807; lieut-col. 72 foot 18 June 1807 to 1824 or 1825; general 11 Nov. 1851; served during the Irish rebellion and with the Austrian army in Italy. d. Amherst house, Clifton park, Clifton 29 June 1854.

MONEY, Archibald. b. 1778; cornet 11 dragoons April 1794, major 14 Dec. 1809 to 24 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 2 dragoons 24 May 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Crown point, Trowse, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1858.

MONEY, Rowland (son of Wm. Money of Horn house, Hereford). b. 28 April 1782; entered navy 21 April 1796; captain 29 March 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; engaged in the attacks on Washington and Baltimore 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; awarded a pension of £250, 16 Feb. 1816. d. Cheltenham 21 June 1860.

MONGREDIEN, Augustus (son of a French officer). b. London 1807; ed. at R.C. college, Penn, Bucks.; owner of the first screw steamers to the Levant; member of firm of Hugh and John Johnston, corn merchants, London 1859–64; a corn factor as A. Mongredien and co. 61 Mark lane, London 1864; purchased Heatherside, Surrey 1862; member of National political union 1831; member of the Cobden club 1872; president of London Chess club 1839; granted civil list pension of £100, 28 July 1886; author of Trees and shrubs for English plantations 1870; England’s foreign policy 1871; The Heatherside manual of hardy trees and shrubs 1874–5; Frank Allerton: an autobiography 3 vols. 1878; History of the free-trade movement in England 1881; Wealth creation 1882. d. 31 Park road, Forest Hill near London 30 March 1888. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait.

MONINS, Eaton (son of John Monins). b. Canterbury 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 52 foot 1 Dec. 1814; present at Waterloo; major 69 foot 19 Nov. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1835 to 10 Nov. 1848 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; colonel of 8 foot 3 June 1860 to death. d. Wellesley house, Upper Walmer 16 June 1861. bur. in St. Mary’s church, Walmer.

MONK, James Henry (only son of Charles Monk of 40th foot). b. Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1 Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822; 7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823; Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822 to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832; R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829 to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July, the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836; edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum, or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. d. the palace, Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. bur. in north aisle of Westminster abbey 14 June. G.M. i 115–7 (1856); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery (1833) vol. iv, portrait 21; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii 76–9 (1846); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 398–400.

MONK, John. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder of Manchester. d. 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany. 1874. Law Times, lvi 260 (1874).

MONK, William Henry (son of Wm. Monk). b. Brompton, London 16 March 1823; organist of Eaton chapel Pimlico 1841–3, of St. George’s chapel Albemarle st. 1843–5, and of Portman chapel Marylebone 1845–7; choirmaster at King’s college, London 1847, organist 1849, professor of vocal music 1874; professor of music at School for the indigent blind 1851; organist at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1853, where he established a daily choral service; lectured on music at London institution 1850–4; professor in National training school for music 1876 and in Bedford college London 1878; hon. Mus. Doc. Durham 1882; he was musical editor of the following works, The parish choir, from the fortieth number to its close in 1851; Hymns ancient and modern, compiled by sir H. Baker 1862, numerous editions and a sale of 30 million copies; Appendix to Hymns ancient and modern 1869; The holy year, hymns by C. Wordsworth 1865; The Scottish hymnal 1873; The psalter printed for chanting, the harmonies and chants revised 1874; Book of anthems 1875; The children’s hymnal, harmonies 1876; Hymns for mission services 1877; The congregational psalmist hymnal 1886; The book of common prayer, with plain song and music 1891; composer of Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel, arranged 1849; Te Deum laudamus for four voices 1862; The office of holy communion set to music 1884; and the tunes of the hymns Abide with me, and Sweet Saviour bless us ere we go. d. Glebe Field, Stoke Newington, London 1 March 1889. Musical Herald, April 1889, portrait; J. Love’s Scottish church music (1891) 214–5.

MONKSWELL, Robert Porrett Collier, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Collier 1769–1849, M.P. for Plymouth 1832–41). b. Mount Tamar near Plymouth 21 June 1817; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; member of the anti-corn law league; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843, went western circuit, leader of the circuit 1854–63; recorder of Penzance 14 July 1848 to March 1856; M.P. for Plymouth 1852–71; Q.C. July 1854; counsel to Admiralty and judge advocate of the fleet Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1863; solicitor general 2 Oct. 1863 to July 1866; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; attorney general 12 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1871; recorder of Bristol for a few days Oct. 1870; P.C. 3 Nov. 1871; judge of Court of Common Pleas 7 Nov. 1871 where he sat for a few days only; judge of judicial committee of P.C. 22 Nov. 1871 to death; created baron Monkswell of Monkswell, co. Devon 1 July 1885; exhibited 20 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. gallery 1864–80; author of The railways’ clauses, companies clauses and lands clauses consolidation acts, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; A treatise on the law relating to mines 1849; A letter on reform of the superior courts of common law 1851, 2 ed. 1852; translated The oration of Demosthenes on the Crown 1875. d. Grasse near Cannes 27 Oct. 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. London. I.L.N. xliii 393 (1863) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; Saturday Review 30 Oct. 1886 p. 578; Law Journal 30 Oct. 1886 pp. 604, 616, 618.

MONRO, Alexander (son of Alexander Monro anatomist 1733–1817). b. Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1773; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ., M.D. 1797; F.R.C.P. 1799; studied in London and Paris; with his father conjoint professor of anatomy in univ. of Edinb. 1798, delivered the whole course of lectures from 1808, and was sole professor 1817–46, and Emeritus professor 1846 to death; author of Observations on crucial hernia 1803; The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach and intestines 1811, 2 ed. 1830; Outlines of the anatomy of the human body 1813, 2 ed. 1825; Engravings of the thoracic and abdominal viscera 1814. d. Craiglockhart near Edinburgh 10 March 1859, portrait by K. Macleay in National portrait gallery, Edinb. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 175, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv 225 (1862).

MONRO, Sir David (4 son of the preceding). b. 1813; educ. Edinb. acad. and univ.; an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand under the N.Z. co.; member of legislative council of province of New Munster 1849; member of the first general assembly of N.Z. 24 May 1854 to 1866; member for Cheviot 1866–70, for Waikonati 1870; speaker of house of representatives 1861 and 1862 and 1866–70; knighted by patent 10 Feb. 1866; the first person unseated on an election petition in N.Z. 1871; studied medicine in Paris, Berlin and Vienna 1866, M.D. d. Newstead near Nelson, New Zealand 17 Feb. 1877. G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand, iii 7–8 (1883).

MONRO, Edward (eld. son of Edward Thomas Monro, M.D. 1790–1856). b. Gower st. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; P.C. of Harrow Weald, Middlesex 1842–60; V. of St. John’s, Leeds 1860 to death; select preacher at Oxford 1862; established a college for boys called the College of St. Andrews at Harrow Weald; author of The Combatants, an allegory 1848; The dark river 1850; The parish 1853, a poem; Daily studies during Lent 1856; Practical sermons on the characters of the old testament 3 vols. 1855–8; Parochial lectures on English poetry 1856 and 30 other books. d. St. John’s vicarage, Leeds 13 Dec. 1866. bur. Harrow Weald churchyard 20 Dec.

MONRO, Edward Thomas (son of Thomas Monro of Bloomsbury, London, F.R.C.P.) b. London 1794; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1814; candidate of college of physicians 22 Dec. 1815, fellow 23 Dec. 1816, censor 1819, 1829 and 1837, Harveian orator 1834, consiliarius 1837, 1846 and 1852, elect 30 Sep. 1842, treasurer 25 June 1845 to 1854; physician to Bethlehem hospital. d. Bushy, Herts. 25 Jany. 1856. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 153 (1878).

MONRO, Henry (brother of Edward Monro 1815–66). b. 1817; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1863; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. 1848, censor 1861–3, councillor 1864–5 and 1875–7; physician to Bethlehem hospital 1848; founded the House of Charity in Rose st. Soho 1846; physician to St. Luke’s hospital 1855–82; president of Medical psychological association 1864; painted his own portrait and that of his father and presented them to royal college of physicians; author of A treatise on stammering 1849; Remarks on insanity, its nature and treatment 1850; On improving the condition of the insane 1851; Articles on reform in private asylums 1852. d. 14 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 May 1891. Memoir of H. Monro, by rev. Canon W. Foxley Norris, privately printed; Journal of mental science July 1891 pp. 496–7.

MONROE, Mary. b. Derbyshire 1 Feb. 1795; one of the greatest travellers of her time; passed Easter week in Rome as the guest of the Pope 1830; a friend of the marquis de Lafayette; was twice a guest of sir Walter Scott; a friend of the duchess of Kent; travelled 20 weeks in Great Britain and Ireland investigating the condition of the working classes 1865; m. an officer in the customs service of the United States. d. New York 15 Sep. 1893.

MONSELL, Harriet (dau. of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet, of Dromoland, co. Clare 1773–1837). b. Dromoland 1812; a sister of mercy 29 May 1851; superior of house of mercy at Clewer 30 Nov. 1852, resigned 1875, known afterwards as the Community of St. John the Baptist, planted its first mission in London 1860, it numbered in 1883 over 200 sisters in England, America and India; the chief mover in building St. Andrew’s convalescent hospital, Clewer 1865; m. 21 Sep. 1839 rev. Charles Henry Monsell (3 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, d. 1846) b. 12 June 1815, prebendary of Aghadoe 1840, he d. Naples 29 Jany. 1851. She d. The Hermitage, Folkestone 25 March 1883. T. T. Carter’s Harriet Monsell, a memoir (1884), portrait.

MONSELL, John Samuel Bewley (2 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, d. 20 Nov. 1846). b. St. Columb’s, Derry 2 March 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; chaplain to bishop Mant; R. of Dunaghy, Ramoan, co. Antrim; chancellor of diocese of Connor 14 April 1847 to 1853; V. of Egham, Surrey 1853–70; hon. chaplain to the queen 27 Dec. 1872 to death; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1870 to death; rural dean of Emley 1871; wrote many popular hymns, among others God is love, that anthem olden, and Sing to the Lord a joyful song; author of Hymns and miscellaneous poems. Dublin 1837; Parish musings in verse 1850, new ed. 1871; His presence not his memory 1855, poems, 8 ed. 1881; Spiritual songs for the Sundays and holydays 1857, 6 ed. 1875; The passing bell and other poems 1867, 2 ed. 1869; Nursery Carols 1873, and 20 other books. d. in consequence of a fall from the roof of his church which was rebuilding, St. Nicholas rectory, Guildford 9 April 1875. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 762; D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1892) 164; Wilson’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 515.

MONSON, William John Monson, 6 Baron (only child of col. the hon. Wm. Monson 1760–1807). b. Tangore, Madras 14 May 1796; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; F.S.A. 12 Feb. 1818; succeeded his cousin as 6 Baron 7 Oct. 1841; a frequent correspondent of Notes and Queries; author of Extracts from a journal [of tours in Istria, Dalmatia, Sicily, Malta and Calabria] 1820. d. Great western hotel, Paddington, London 17 Dec. 1862. bur. in family vault at South Carlton 24 Dec. G.M. xiv 234 (1863).

MONTAGU, Basil (2 natural son of John Montagu, 4 earl of Sandwich 1718–92, by Martha Ray). b. 24 April 1770; brought up at Hinchinbrook, Hunts.; ed. at Charterhouse and Christ’s coll. Camb., 6th wrangler 1790; B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793; resided at Cambridge till 1795; barrister Gray’s Inn 19 May 1798; a comr. in bankruptcy 1806; founded the Society for the diffusion of knowledge upon the punishment of death 1809; K.C. June 1835; accountant general in bankruptcy 1836 to 1846, established liability of bank of England to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits; author of A summary of the law of set off 1801, 2 ed. 1828; A digest of the bankrupt laws 4 vols. 1805–7, 2 ed. 1819; A digest of the law of partnership 2 vols. 1815, 2 ed. 1822 and about 50 other works; edited The works of Francis Bacon 16 vols. 1825–34; author with W. Scrope Ayrton of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1833–8. 3 vols. 1834–9, and of The law and practice in bankruptcy 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1844; with Richard Bligh of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1832–3. 1835; with Edward Chitty of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1838–40. 1840; with E. C. Deacon and J. De Gex of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840–44. 3 vols. 1842–5. d. Boulogne, France 27 Nov. 1851. H. Gunning’s Reminiscences of Cambridge, i 141–47 (1855); Georgian Era, ii 551 (1833); G.M. xxxvii 410–3 (1852).

MONTAGU, James. b. 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain 17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Marlborough 9 March 1868.

MONTAGU, John (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). b. 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7 Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land 1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and 1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany. 1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death; author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across the Derwent 1841. m. April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He d. London 4 Nov. 1853. bur. Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. Biographical memoir of J. Montagu. By W. A. Newman (1855) portrait.

MONTAGU, John William (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu, G.C.B. 1750–1829). b. 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803, captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.

MONTAGU, Montagu (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham, Surrey). b. 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806, lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California broadsides 1850. d. Bath 31 July 1863. G.M. xv 383 (1863).

MONTAGU, Oliver George Powlett (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich 1811–84). b. 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863; cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881, lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a touching farewell to his old regiment. d. Cairo 25 Jany. 1893. Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p. 63, portrait.

MONTAGU, Sir William Augustus. b. 1785; entered navy 4 Sep. 1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28 guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40 guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17 Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice admiral 17 Aug. 1851. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii 407 (1852).