Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 9)

MONTAGUE, Henry James, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann d. 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70). b. about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany. 1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy 27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866, and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre; the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868 which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s; the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s 12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A. Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life, opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts; gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London 27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York; toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America 1878. d. San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 258–61 (1881); Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p. 5, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ix 555, 596 (1878) portrait, x 6 (1878) portrait; Theatre, ii 208 (1878).

MONTALBA, Henrietta Skerrett (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens Montalba). b. 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London; the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta; exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year; resided latterly at Venice. d. the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere, Venice 14 Sep. 1893. bur. near her father in cemetery of St. Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. Art Journal, July 1894 pp. 215–7, portrait; Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p. 530, portrait; Queen 7 Oct. 1893.

MONTALEMBERT, Charles Forbes René, Count de (son of Marc René Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India, d. 21 June 1831, m. 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of H.E.I.C.) b. Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber 1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848; condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded 21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre 1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867; St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow 1874 and 40 other works. d. Paris 13 March 1870. Mrs. Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert 2 vols. (1872); English Cyclopædia, iv 307 (1857), Supplement 1872 p. 902; Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire, xi 484, 485 (1874).

MONTEAGLE, Thomas Spring-Rice, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick d. Sep. 1831). b. Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge 1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835 to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839 to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep. 1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the ecclesiastical titles act 1851. d. Mount Trenchard near Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.

MONTEATH, Alexander M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857; assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under secretary to government of India, financial and home departments 1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867, retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at Berne 1876. d. Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.

MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Monteath). b. 1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C. to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to 10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec. 1850. d. Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. liii 435, 459, 483 (1868).

MONTEFIORE, Joseph Barron (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a cousin of sir M. Montefiore). b. 1802; in partnership with his brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide, South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London. d. 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.

MONTEFIORE, Sir Moses Haim, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias Montefiore b. London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, d. 11 Jany. 1804). b. Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange; partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July 1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855; undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864; admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; m. 10 June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she d. 24 Sep. 1862. He d. East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. bur. in a private mausoleum on his estate. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe (1890), portrait; L. Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore (1884), portrait; J. Weston’s Sir M. Montefiore (1885), portrait; J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 347–58; J. B. Bailey’s Modern Methusalahs (1888) 329–91; I.L.N. xxxiv 309 (1859) portrait, xlvi 153 (1865) portrait; Graphic xii 126, 144 (1876) portrait, xxviii 409 (1883) portrait.

MONTEITH, Alexander Earle (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles d. 1806). b. 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife 1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement 1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp. 1–34 portrait. d. Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 413–8.

MONTEITH, William (son of Wm. Monteith). b. Abbey parish, Paisley 22 June 1790; lieut. Madras engineers 18 March 1809, col. 13 May 1839, retired 10 Dec. 1847; commanded a frontier force of cavalry against the Russians 1810–13; present at Persian head quarters in the war against Russia 1826, comr. for payment of indemnity of £400,000 exacted from Persia by Russia 1828; chief engineer at Madras July 1832 to Jany. 1834 and Sep. 1836 to July 1842; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; hon. L.G. 1854; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845, withdrew 1863; F.R.G.S.; a knight of Persian order of the Lion and Sun; author of Kars and Erzeroum, with the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828–9. 1856; translated Capefigue’s The diplomatists of Europe 1845; edited Narrative of the conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808–9. 1854. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 April 1864. Vibart’s Madras sappers, ii 113–31 (1884).

MONTGOMERIE, Alexander (2 son of Alexander Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1744–1802). b. 30 July 1790; entered navy 27 June 1802; captain 3 Oct. 1820; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Bridgend, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire 26 Dec. 1863.

MONTGOMERIE, Sir Patrick (son of Robert Montgomerie of Irvine, Ayrshire, banker). b. Irvine 1793; ed. at Ayr academy and Woolwich; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 7 July 1810, col. commandant 7 Oct. 1849 to death, served in India 1817–25 and in China 1840–1; general 1 March 1867; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 10 Elvaston place, London 5 Oct. 1872.

MONTGOMERIE, Patrick. b. 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist. engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government 1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884; investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Waltair near Vizagapatam 8 Jany. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 368–70 (1886).

MONTGOMERIE, Roger (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1789–1852). b. Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar 1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire 1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. d. at his residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. Journal of jurisprudence, xxiv 601.

MONTGOMERIE, Thomas George (brother of the preceding). b. 23 April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col. 1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to geographical periodicals. d. 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany. 1878. Athenæum, i 191 (1878).

MONTGOMERY, Alexander Barry. Ensign 1 foot 25 Nov. 1824, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, retired on full pay Jany. 1866; colonel in the army 13 Jany. 1858; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Stoke, Devonport 17 Oct. 1869.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Alexander Leslie, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, 1 baronet 1765–1830). b. London 12 March 1807; entered R.N. 7 Oct. 1819; captain 2 July 1846; R.A. 9 Feb. 1864, admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; an officer of Brazilian order of Southern Cross 1845; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 June 1878. d. 56 Cadogan place, London 13 June 1888.

MONTGOMERY, Fanny Charlotte (2 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield 1787–1869). b. 30 May 1820; m. 13 Oct. 1842 Alfred 3 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1 baronet, he was a commissioner of inland revenue from 1845 to 1882; edited The German Christmas eve, by A. Flohr 1847; authoress of Truth without prejudice 1842; Early influences 1845; Poems 1846; Ashton hall or self seeking and self denying 1846; The Bucklyn shaig 2 vols. 1865; Mine own familiar friend 3 vols. 1872; The wrong man 2 vols. 1873; On the wing, a southern flight 1875; The eternal year 1877, 2 ed. 1889; The maid of Orleans, her life and mission 1891. d. Villa Beatrice, Naples 27 Jany. 1893.

MONTGOMERY, Henry (youngest child of Archibald Montgomery). b. Boltnaconnell house, parish of Killead, co. Antrim 16 Jany. 1788; entered Glasgow college Nov. 1804, M.A. 1807, LL.D. 1833; presbyterian minister of Dunmurry near Belfast 24 Sep. 1809 to death; head master in English school of Belfast academical institution 3 Oct. 1817 to June 1839; moderator of the general synod 30 June 1818; advocated Catholic emancipation from 1813, presented with a service of plate by members of various denominations 18 June 1828; founded the remonstrant synod of Ulster, which first met 25 May 1830; gave lectures to non-subscribing divinity students from 1832; professor of ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838 to death; an original editor of the Bible Christian 1830; contributed to the Irish Unitarian mag. 1846–7 a series of Outlines of the history of presbyterianism in Ireland; author of Letter to D. O’Connell in vindication of the proceedings of the remonstrant presbyterians of Belfast 1831. d. the glebe, Dunmurry 18 Dec. 1865, his portrait painted 1835 by J. P. Knight was engraved several times. His widow Eliza and his dau. Lily granted civil list pension of £100, 29 Jany. 1866. Life of H. Montgomery. By J. A. Crozier, vol. i (1875), portrait; J. L. Porter’s Life of Henry Cooke (1871) 120, 157 etc.; C. Porter’s Irish presbyterian biographical sketches (1883) 34; Times 21 Dec. 1865 p. 9.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Henry Conyngham, 2 Baronet (eld. brother of sir A. L. Montgomery 1807–1888). b. Taunton 10 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; entered Madras civil service 1825; succeeded his father 21 Jany. 1830; collector and magistrate of Tangore 1843; chief secretary to government of Madras 1850–7; member of council Madras 1854–7; resigned the service 29 Oct. 1857; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to Nov. 1876; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876. d. 5 Manchester sq. London 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 June.

MONTGOMERY, James (son of John Montgomery, Moravian minister at Irvine, Ayrshire, d. Barbados 27 June 1791). b. Irvine 4 Nov. 1771; ed. at Moravian school, Fulneck near Leeds 1777–86; clerk in office of Mr. Gales’ Sheffield Register April 1792, became the working editor of the paper 1794; in partnership with Benjamin Naylor purchased Gales’ newspaper business 1794 and brought out the Sheffield Iris 4 July 1794, proprietor of the paper 1795, retired 4 Nov. 1825; wrote for the Eclectic Review; lectured on poetry at Royal Institution 1830 and 1831, these lectures were published 1833; granted civil list pension of £150, 1835; author of Prison amusements 1796; The whisperer, or tales and speculations. By Gabriel Silvertongue, No. 1 May 28, 1795, No. 24 Nov. 5, 1795, he afterward suppressed this volume; his chief poems are The wanderer of Switzerland 1806, 7 ed. 1815; The West Indies 1810, 7 ed. 1828; The world before the flood 1813, 7 ed. 1826; Greenland 1819; The Pelican island 1826, 2 ed. 1828; wrote many hymns which were collected 1853, more than 100 of them are still used; his collected poems were published in 4 vols. 1841, 9 ed. 1881. d. The Mount, Sheffield 30 April 1854. bur. Sheffield cemetery 10 May, where is monument by John Bell, full-length portrait by Barber in Sheffield literary and philosophical institute. J. Holland and J. Everett’s Life of James Montgomery 7 vols. (1854–6), four portraits; J. W. King’s J. Montgomery (1858), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of memories (1883) 81–93; Papers of the Manchester literary club (1889) 385–92, 435–40; Samuel Ellis’s Life, times and character of James Montgomery (1864); W. Howitt’s Home and haunts, ii 292–322 (1847), 3 ed. (1857) 556–77; Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; I.L.N. xxiv 417–18, 551 (1854) portrait, xxvii 436 (1855); The living poets of England (Paris 1827) i 476–522; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 287–315; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 313–23; Chambers’s Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen, iii 161–64 (1870), portrait.

MONTGOMERY, John James (eldest son of John Montgomery). b. Ballymore, co. Westmeath 1832; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s coll. Cork; served under C. B. Lane, C.E. London; private sec. to sir G. Airy at Greenwich observatory; chief assistant to borough engineer Bradford to 1861; borough engineer of Belfast 1861 to death; designed and carried out a scheme of drainage for the borough; diverted the river Blackstaff 1878; M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871; fell ill when travelling in Switzerland, d. Airolo, Aug. 1884. bur. protestant cemetery, Lucerne. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii 436–9 (1884).

MONTGOMERY, Robert (natural son of Robt. Gomery, clown at Bath theatre, d. 14 June 1853). b. Bath 1807; ed. at Dr. Arnot’s school, Bath; took the name of Montgomery; founded a weekly paper at Bath called The Inspector about 1824; matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; ordained at St. Asaph 3 May 1835; C. of Whittington, Shropshire 1835–6; minister of St. Jude’s, Glasgow 1836–43; minister of Percy chapel, St. Pancras, London, Oct. 1843 to death; author of the following poems, The stage coach 1827; The age reviewed, a satire 1827; The omnipresence of the deity 1828, which ran to 8 editions in 8 months, 28 ed. 1855; The Puffiad 1830, a satire; Satan, a poem 1830, 8 ed. 1842; Oxford 1831, 6 ed. 1843; The Messiah 1832, 8 ed. 1842; Woman, the angel of life 1833, 5 ed. 1841; The poetical works of R. Montgomery 3 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1853. d. Brighton 3 Dec. 1855. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 233–52 (1844); Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 142–54.

Note.—He was called by the critics Satan Montgomery from his poem entitled Satan and to distinguish him from James Montgomery the poet; he is immortalised in Montgomery, a poem in the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1853) 159–61.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Robert (2 son of Samuel Law Montgomery, rector of Lower Morville, co. Donegal). b. Londonderry 1809; entered Bengal civil service 1827; magistrate and collector at Allahabad, June 1839; comr. of the Lahore division of the Punjab 1849, member of the board of administration 1852–3, judicial comr. 1853; disarmed the Bengal sepoys at Lahore on outbreak of the mutiny 13 May 1857; chief comr. of Oudh, June 1858, where he enforced the confiscation proclamation; lieut. governor of the Punjab, March 1859 to Feb. 1865; K.C.B. 19 May 1859; G.C.S.I. 20 Feb. 1866; member of council of secretary of state for India 1868 to death; known in India as Pickwick for his benevolence; author of Abstract principles of laws circulated for the guidance of officers employed in administration of civil justice in the Punjab. Bangalore 1864. d. 7 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 28 Dec. 1887. bur. family vault Londonderry 3 Jany. 1888. Illust. news of the world, iii 228 (1859), portrait.

MONTGOMERY, Walter, stage name of Richard Tomlinson (10 son of Wm. Tomlinson). b. Gawennis, Long Island, U.S. of America 25 Aug. 1827; a buyer in the shawl department for Messrs. Shoolbred 1852; played Othello as an amateur at Soho theatre 1852 under name of Young Emery; played at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich and Yarmouth; manager of the new Nottingham theatre; first appeared in London at Princess’s 20 June 1863 as Othello; manager of the Princess’s, played Shylock 22 Aug. 1863; gave readings from Shakespeare &c. at St. James’s hall, London, March 1864; played Leonatus Posthumus 6 March and Cassius April 1865, both at Drury Lane; manager of Haymarket July 1865 to Nov. 1865, where he played Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, King John, Shylock and Iago; the original Lorenzo in W. C. Russell’s tragedy Fra Angelo; played Orlando and Sir Thomas Clifford at Drury Lane, Nov. 1866; played Hamlet at Gaiety theatre 31 July 1871, also Sir Giles Overreach, Louis XI. and Meg Merrilies; m. 30 Aug. 1871 Miss Laleah Burpee Bigelow an American; shot himself at 2 Stafford st. Bond st. London 1 Sep. 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 5 Sep. Winnetta Montague widow of Walter Montgomery. d. Brooklyn, New York 27 May 1877. Illust. sporting news, v 769 (1866), portrait; The Theatre, ii 12 (1883); The Era 3 Sep. 1871 p. 13, 10 Sep. p. 11, 17 June 1877 p. 4.

Note.—Was Hamlet mad? or the lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson. Melbourne 1867; another ed. Was Hamlet mad? By Archibald Ritchie and others, edited by R. H. Horne. London 1871, a pamphlet on Montgomery’s acting in Australia in 1867.

MONTGOMERY, William Fetherston. b. 1797; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar; L.R.C.P. Ireland 1825, F.R.C.P. 1829, president of the college, professor of midwifery there 30 years; collected the Obstetrical museum in the College of physicians, Dublin, since removed to Queen’s college, Galway; a great authority on midwifery in Ireland and on the Continent; author of An exposition of the signs of pregnancy 1837, 2 ed. 1856, and with F. Barker Observations on the Dublin pharmacopæia 1830. d. 8 Merrion square north, Dublin 21 Dec. 1859. Dublin Quart. Journal Medical Science, xxxiii 250 (1862); Medical Times, xl 664 (1859).

MONTGOMERY, William Henry. Studied under W. M. Rooke and W. Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862; contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again, ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist 1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song 1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852, twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers; Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler 1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. d. Waterloo road, London 12 Sep. 1886. bur. Norwood cemet.

MONTI, Raffaelle (son of Gaetano Monti of Ravenna, sculptor). b. Milan 1818; studied under his father in the imperial academy, Milan, took gold medal for group of Alexander taming Bucephalus; exhibited Ajax defending body of Patroclus 1838; sculptor in Vienna 1838–42, in Milan 1842–6; in England 1846 exhibited The veiled statue, executed for the duke of Devonshire; joined the national party in Italy 1847, fled to England 1848; his chief works in England were The sister angels, The veiled vestal, Eve after the fall, and The sleep of sorrow, the dream of joy exhibited at the International exhibition of 1862; his models of Italy, Truth, Eve, two emblematical fountains and six colossal symbolical figures are at the Crystal palace, Sydenham. d. London 16 Oct. 1881. Art Journal, Nov. 1881 p. 352.

MONTRESOR, Frederick Byng. Entered navy 27 June 1823; captain 29 April 1851; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired 1 April 1870, retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878. d. 15 Dec. 1887.

MONTRESOR, Sir Thomas Gage (3 son of John Montresor of Belmont, Kent, his majesty’s chief engineer of America). b. New York 4 March 1774; ensign 18 foot 13 Oct. 1789; D.A.Q.M.G. in Flanders 1794; brigade major in Ireland during French invasion 1799; in Egypt 1801, in India 1803; lieut.-col. 22 dragoons 2 Jany. 1812 to 1816; commanded the troops of the Paishwa at Poonah 1809–13; colonel of 2 dragoon guards 20 Feb. 1837 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1834. d. Dover 26 April 1853.

MONTROSE, James Graham, 4 Duke of (elder son of 3 duke of Montrose 1755–1836). b. 16 July 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1819; vice chamberlain of the household 7 Feb. 1821 to 14 April 1827; P.C. 23 Feb. 1821; M.P. Cambridge 1825–32; col. Stirling militia 12 Oct. 1827; comr. for affairs of India 4 Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830; succeeded his father as 4 earl of Graham and 4 duke of Montrose 30 Dec. 1836; chancellor of univ. of Glasgow 1837 to death; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Stirlingshire 27 Feb. 1843 to death; lord steward of queen’s household 27 Feb. 1852 to 4 Jany. 1853; his seat Buchanan house nearly all burnt 22 Jany. 1850; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Feb. 1858 to 22 June 1859; postmaster general 10 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868; resisted the claim of the earl of Crawford and Balcarres to the dukedom of Montrose 1851. d. Cannes 30 Dec. 1874. I.L.N. xxxii 313 (1858), portrait, lxvi 43 (1875); Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait 23.

MOODIE, Donald (son of major James Moodie of Melsetter, Orkney). Entered navy 1808; lieut. 8 Dec. 1816 and placed on h.p.; went to the Cape Colony and entered the civil service there, resident magistrate at Port Francis 20 Feb. 1825 to 1828 and at Graham’s Town 1828–34; protector of slaves in the eastern districts 1830–4; superintendent of the Government bank, Cape Town 1840; secretary to government of Natal 29 Aug. 1845 to 1851; author of The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the native tribes of South Africa. Cape Town 1838–41, discontinued after p. 64 of part iii.; A voice from the Kahlamba, the Natal Kafirs intercourse with Natal. Pietermaritzburg 1857. d. Pietermaritzburg 1861. Colonial services of Donald Moodie. Pietermaritzburg (1860).

MOODIE, John Wedderburn Dunbar (bro. of the preceding). b. Melsetter, Orkney Islands 7 Oct. 1797; 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 Feb. 1813, 1 lieut. 5 May 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1816; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom 8 March 1814; spent ten years in South Africa with his brother 1819–29; emigrated to Upper Canada 1832; captain of militia on Niagara frontier during insurrection of 1837; sheriff of Vittoria now Hastings county, Ontario 1839–63; wrote in Memoirs of the late war 2 vols. 1831, The campaigns in Holland in 1814, ii. 257–314; author of Ten years in South Africa including a description of the wild sports 2 vols. 1835; Scenes and adventures as a soldier and settler during half a century (with portrait). Montreal 1866. d. Belleville, Ontario 22 Oct. 1869. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 281.

MOODIE, Susannah (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of Reydon hall, Suffolk, d. 1818, and younger sister of Agnes Strickland 1796–1874). b. Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; m. 1831 the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols. 1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons 2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D. Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852. d. Toronto 8 April 1885. J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes Strickland (1887) 85, 192; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 281; Appleton’s American Biography, iv 376 (1888), portrait.

MOODY, John E. b. 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. d. 27 Euston place, New road, London 7 Nov. 1852.

MOODY, Richard Clement (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E. d. 1846). b. St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13 Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July 1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov. 1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle; lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal boundaries 1868. d. Bournemouth 31 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc 453–5 (1887).

MOODY, Stephen. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824, lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I. 26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of 70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct. 1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. 42 Porchester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1856.

MOODY, William (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, d. 1820). b. Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831; with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. d. 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct. 1867.

MOON, Sir Francis Graham, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Christopher Moon, gold and silver smith). b. 4 Holborn Bars, Holborn, London 28 Oct. 1796; employed by Edward Tugwell book and print seller, 55 Threadneedle st., purchased the business on Tugwell’s death 1817; became the leading print publisher in London; purchased stock of Hurst, Robinson and Co. print publishers 1825; member of firm of Moon, Boys and Graves, Pall Mall 1825; carried on his own business at corner of Finch lane; reproduced some of the finest works of sir D. Wilkie, sir C. Eastlake, sir E. Landseer, D. Roberts, S. Prout, C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield and G. Cattermole; published at cost of £50,000 David Roberts’ Sketches in the Holy Land 1842; invited by Louis Philippe as a guest to St. Cloud; common councilman for Broad st. ward, city of London 1830–44; sheriff of London 1843–4; alderman of Portsoken ward 1844–71 and of Bridge Without 1871; lord mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Guildhall 19 April 1855; created baronet 4 May 1855; a chevalier of legion of honour; F.S.A. 9 June 1853; resided 35 Portman sq. London. d. Western house, Brighton 13 Oct. 1871. bur. Fetcham churchyard, Surrey 20 Oct. I.L.N. xxv 460 (1854) portrait, lix 387, 399, 401 (1871) portrait; The City Press 21 Oct. 1871 p. 2, 28 Oct. p. 2.

MOORE, Adolphus Warburton (son of major John Arthur Moore a director of H.E.I.C.) Ed. Harrow 1855 etc.; junior clerk in secretary’s office India house Aug. 1858, in the financial department 1860, senior clerk June 1867, reading clerk to the council 1871–5, joined the political department 1874, assist. secretary Feb. 1875, retired 1885; acting political sec. 1876–8; private sec. to Lord Randolph Churchill 1885, sec. to the chancellor of the exchequer and private sec. to sec. of state for India 1886; political and secret sec. India house Jany. 1887 to death; C.B. 1886; one of the ablest members of the civil service. d. Monte Carlo 2 Feb. 1887. The Times 3 Feb. 1887 p. 6.

MOORE, Albert Joseph (13 son and 14 child of Wm. Moore, portrait painter 1790–1851). b. York 4 Sep. 1841; ed. at Kensington gr. sch. 1855–8; studied in art school of the R.A. 1858; designed pictorial figures for architects in ceilings &c.; painted decorative pictures from 1865; executed the proscenium of the Queen’s theatre, Long Acre 1867; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1857–79; his pictures are in the public collections of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; an exhibition of his works was held at the Grafton gallery, London 1894. d. 2 Spenser st. Victoria st. Westminster 25 Sep. 1893. bur. Highgate cemet. Temple Bar, liii 342–6 (1878); The Portfolio, i 5–6 (1870); I.L.N. 3 Feb. 1894, supplement pp. 1–4, portrait and 15 views of his paintings; St. James’s Budget 29 Sep. 1893 p. 3, portrait.

MOORE, Alexander. b. 1809; a shipwright’s apprentice; master shipwright, then chief instructor Devonport dockyard 1865–78. d. Dockyard terrace, Devonport 1 April 1878. Report Devonshire Association, x 57–8 (1878).

MOORE, Alfred William. b. Guernsey 1823; known as fatty Moore; ed. at London hospital, L.S.A. 1849; M.R.C.S. 1850; under a special diet lost 3 stone in weight 1846, William Banting and John Harvey disputed his claim to the invention of the system; surgeon accoucheur Provident medical institute, Pimlico road, London; author of The dietary of corpulence 1856; Corpulency i.e. fat or embonpoint in excess. Letters to the Medical Times and Gazette explaining his newly discovered diet system to reduce the weight 1856; resided 2 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London. d. 24 March 1882. Sporting Review lii 398–400 (1864).

MOORE, Aubrey Lackington (2 son of Daniel Moore, V. of Holy Trinity, Paddington since 1866, prebendary of St. Paul’s since 1880). b. Camberwell 1848; ed. at St. Paul’s school 1860–7 and Ex. coll. Oxf. 1867, B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1872–6, lecturer and tutor 1874; assistant tutor at Magd. coll. 1875; R. of Frenchay near Bristol 1876–81; tutor of Keble coll. 1881; exam. chaplain to bishop Mackarness 1878 and to bishop Stubbs 1888; select preacher at Oxford 1885–6; Whitehall preacher 1887–8; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1887; wrote in The Guardian 1883 to death; author of An essay on The Christian doctrine of God in Lux Mundi 1889; Science and the faith, essays on apologetic subjects 1889; Lectures on the reformation in England and on the continent 1890; From Advent to Advent, sermons 2 ed. 1894. d. 2 Keble road, Oxford 17 Jany. 1890; Aubrey Moore studentship founded 1890, portrait by C. W. Furse placed in Keble college hall 1892. A. L. Moore’s Essays, scientific and philosophical (1890) memoir pp. xi–xxxvi; London Figaro 25 Jany. 1890 p. 4, portrait.

MOORE, Beaufoy Alfred. b. 1821; proprietor of the Old Cheshire Cheese chop house, 16 Wine Office court, Fleet st. London 1856 to death. d. 58 Maida Vale, London 5 Feb. 1886.

MOORE, Carter William Daking. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; C. of Barton on Humber 1841–3; C. in charge of Flordon, Norfolk 1848–53; committed to Norwich castle 21 March 1852 for cursing a magistrate at Flordon railway station the day before; C. of Leyton, Essex 1867–9; C. of Woking 1869–71; author of Lights and shades in the life of a curate; and of works on ritualism and confirmation, also of poetry, sermons &c., none of his books are in the British Museum library. d. 1884.

MOORE, Charles (1 son of J. Arthur Moore of Liverpool d. 1830). b. Ireland 17 June 1804; head of firm of C. Moore and co. shipowners, Liverpool, then of London; owned large estates in Ireland; purchased a country seat Mooresfort, Tipperary 1865; M.P. co. Tipperary 1865 to death; purchased the estate of Balleycohey relieving the tenants of the Scully proprietorship, and became very popular. d. 19 Grafton st. Piccadilly, London 15 Aug. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biography, Sep. 1869 p. 150.

MOORE, Charles (2 son of John Moore, printer d. 1844). b. Ilminster, Somerset 8 June 1815; employed by Mr. Meyler, bookseller, Bath 1837–44; printer and bookseller at Ilminster 1844–53; lived at Bath 1853 to death; a councillor for Syncombe and Widcombe ward 1 Sep. 1868, alderman 11 Sep. 1874; made the collection which now forms the Geological museum of the Bath royal literary and scientific institute; F.G.S. 1854; announced at meeting of British Assoc. in Bath 1864 his discovery of existence in England of the Rhætic beds previously overlooked; author of 30 papers on geological subjects. d. Bath 8 Dec. 1881. Proc. of Bath Natural history soc. vii 232–69 (1892); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii 51–2 (1882).

MOORE, Charles Hewett. b. Plymouth 12 June 1821; house pupil to F. C. Skey surgeon 1837; M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1848; demonstrator of anatomy Middlesex hospital school 1847, lecturer on anatomy 1848, assist. surgeon 1848 then surgeon, conjoint lecturer on surgery with Mr. De Morgan 1869; F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1848, librarian 1858, surgical sec. 1859–62, a councillor 1864–5, vice-president 1866–7, and treasurer 1868–9; translated C. Rokitansky’s A manual of pathological anatomy 1854; wrote on Cancer, and wounds of vessels, in T. Holmes’ System of surgery i 508–69, 650–702 (1860), and in iii 259–83 on Diseases of the absorbent system; author of The antecedents of cancer 1865; Rodent cancer 1867; On going to sleep 1868; and with A. Shaw and others Report of the staff at Middlesex hospital on treatment of cancerous diseases 1857. d. at residence of his brother William Foster Moore, Friary st. Plymouth 6 June 1870. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. vi 351–3 (1871).

MOORE, David. b. Dundee 1807; assistant to Dr. J. T. Mackay, director of Dublin univ. botanic garden 1828–38; changed his name from Muir to Moore 1828; director of botanic garden at Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1838 to death; an authority on the mosses and hepaticæ of Ireland; wrote many papers in the Phytologist, Natural history review, Seeman’s journal of botany and other periodicals; author of Concise notices of British grasses best suited for agriculture, 2 ed. 1850; with A. G. More of Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland 1866. d. Glasnevin, co. Dublin 9 June 1879. Journal of botany (1879) 224.

MOORE, Edmund Fitz (youngest son of Richard Moore of Hampton Court palace). b. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827, bencher 1869; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; authorised reporter of the judicial committee; member of Royal Botanical society; author of Reports of cases determined by the privy council on appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny courts 1836–72, 14 vols. 1838–73; Reports of cases determined by judicial committee of privy council 1836–62, 15 vols. 1840–67, New Series 9 vols. 1862–73; The case of the rev. G. C. Gorham against the bishop of Exeter 1852; Reports of cases before the privy council by J. W. Knapp 3 vols. 1831–6, Moore completed vol. 3; The case of Westerton against Liddell in the consistory court 1857; In The Law Reports, English and Irish appeal cases by C. Clark 6 vols. 1866–73, Moore reported the Privy council appeals. d. 112 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 11 Aug. 1873. Law Times lv 317 (1873).

MOORE, Edward. b. 1811; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; V. of Weston, St. Mary, Lincoln 1835–66; V. of Whaplode-Drove, Lincoln 1837–66; chaplain of Wykeham-in-Spalding 1835 to death; P.C. of Spalding 1866 to death; canon of Lincoln 1870 to death; president of Holland bench of magistrates, Lincolnshire; president of Spalding conservative association; F.S.A. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Spalding 13 June 1889. Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xlii 138 (1889).

MOORE, Eleanora. b. 1844; played in Manchester; first appeared in London at St. James’s theatre as the original Winifred in Leicester Buckingham’s Cupid’s Ladder 29 Oct 1859; the original Margaret Lovell in Tom Taylor’s Up at the hills, at St. James’s 29 Oct. 1860; played Venus in Burnand’s Venus and Adonis at Haymarket 29 March 1864; the original Ada Ingot in Robertson’s David Garrick 30 April 1864; played Venus in Planché’s Orpheus in the Haymarket 26 Dec. 1865; the original Lucy Lorrington in Marston’s Favourite of fortune 2 April 1866, and Maud in G. à Becket’s Diamonds and hearts 4 March 1867; played Mabel in Slous’s True to the core at Princess’s 15 June 1867; played Nancy in Oliver Twist at the Queen’s 11 April 1868; the original Marian Beck in Simpson and Dale’s Time and the hour 29 June, and Ruth Kirby in Byron’s Lancashire Lass 24 July, both at the Queen’s; always known as Nelly Moore. d. Soho sq. London 22 Jany. 1869. bur. Brompton cemet. 1 Feb. Illust. Sporting News vi 417 (1867) portrait; Life of E. L. Blanchard (1891) 228, 717.

Note.—Nelly Moore’s performances at the Haymarket are mentioned in H. S. Leigh’s verses called Chateaux d’ Espagne in Carols of Crockayne (1869) 195–8.

MOORE, Edwin (eld. son of Wm. Moore 1790–1851). b. Birmingham 29 Jany. 1813; pupil of David Cox and Samuel Prout the water-colour painters; employed many years as a teacher of painting in water-colours at York, especially in the schools of the Society of Friends, from whom he received a pension after 57 years work; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A. 1855–73. d. York 27 July 1893.

MOORE, Miss Frances. b. 1789 or 1790; author of Manners, a novel, 3 vols. 1817, anon; A year and a day, a novel in two volumes by Madame Panache, author of Manners 1818; Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples and countess of Provence, 2 vols. London 1824, anon. d. Exeter 6 June 1881. Times 13 June 1881 p. 1; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 15 June 1881 p. 5.

MOORE, Francis. Ensign 28 foot 30 Sept. 1787, captain 22 June 1793; major in Lord Belvedere’s corps 20 July 1794; lieut. col. 128 foot 20 Dec. 1794; brigadier general on the staff in Great Britain 25 July 1804 to 24 June 1806; brigadier general on the staff in North America 3 Dec. 1807; commander of the forces in Newfoundland 25 April 1808; L.G. 4 June 1813; general 22 July 1830; the senior general in the British army. d. Bath 22 Aug. 1861, aged 93.

MOORE, George. b. 1791; entered Bombay army 1807, ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 26 March 1809, lieut. 7 July 1813; captain 18 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 19 Aug. 1831 to 28 June 1838; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1840, of 11 N.I. 1840 to 1843, of 19 N.I. 1843 to 1844, of 25 N.I. 1845–46, and of 26 N.I. 1846–8; military auditor general 9 Dec. 1846 to 18 Feb. 1853; lieut. col. of 3 N.I. 1848–9; col. of 8 N.I. 9 July 1849 to death; general 19 Oct. 1868. d. Oxford st. London 18 Aug. 1869.

MOORE, George (2nd son of John Moore of Mealsgate, Cumberland, statesman). b. Mealsgate 9 April 1806; apprenticed to Messenger of Wigtown, draper, 4 years; arrived in London 1 April 1825; assistant at Flint, Ray & Co.’s Grafton house, Newport Market April 1825; assistant and traveller at Fisher, Stroud and Robinson’s Watling st. Jany. 1826 to June 1830; entered as partner firm of Groucock and Copestake 62 Friday st. London June 1830; removed the business to Bow churchyard 1834; established a branch of the firm at Nottingham end of 1844, erected a lace factory there 1845; picked as sheriff of London June 1852, paid the fine of £400 not to serve; removed from Oxford terrace to Kensington palace gardens 1854; purchased the Whitehall estate, Cumberland Oct. 1858; freeman of the Fishmongers’ Co. 1856, prime warden June 1868; built church and schools in Somer’s Town, London 1869; with col. Stuart Wortley dispensed city of London relief Fund at Paris Feb. 1871; sheriff of Cumberland 1872–73; chairman of commission to inquire into money order system of the post office 1876; declined to stand as candidate to parliament for Nottingham, Marylebone, city of London, Surrey, Cumberland and Middlesex; knocked down by a horse 20 Nov. and d. the Grey Goat inn, Carlisle 21 Nov. 1876. bur. in mortuary chapel in church of All Hallows’ near Whitehall, Cumberland 25 Nov. personalty sworn under £400,000. George Moore merchant and philanthropist by S. Smiles (1878) portrait; I.L.N. lxix 530, 533 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiv 541, 542 (1876) portrait; J. Burnley’s Sir Titus Salt and George Moore (1885) 67–128 portrait.

MOORE, George (son of the dispenser at Plymouth infirmary). b. Plymouth 11 March 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris, M.R.C.S. 1829, L.S.A. 1830, M.D. St. Andrew’s 1841, L.R.C.P. 1843, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Camberwell, London 1830–8, and at Hastings 1838–48, and 1857 to about 1875; author of The minstrel’s tale and other poems 1826; Infant baptism reconsidered 1840; The power of the soul over the body 1845, 6 ed. 1868; The use of the body in relation to the mind 1846, 3 ed. 1852; Man and his motives 1848, 3 ed. 1852; The lost tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West with new views of Buddhism 1861. d. Hastings 30 Oct. 1880.

MOORE, George. b. 1834; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1855; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1861; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1862; in practice at Salford, Manchester 1855; removed to Skelton, near Stoke-on-Trent 1860, and to London 1870; a specialist in throat and chest affections; attended the princess of Wales for 20 years; invented a nose inhaler for hay fever and catarrh 1883; treated asthma by means of sprays; author of On some diseases of the nose, throat, air tubes and lungs 1867; Summer catarrh or hay fever, its causes and treatment 1870. d. 37 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 8 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World 30 Jany. 1890 p. 132 portrait; Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7; Lancet 18 Jany. 1890 p. 174.

MOORE, George Bolton. b. 1806; drawing master at royal military academy Woolwich, and at univ. coll. London; a practical artist in perspective; exhibited 32 landscapes at R. A., 31 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1830–70; author of Perspective, its principles and practice, two parts, 1850; The principles of colour applied to decorative art 1851. d. Nov. 1875.

MOORE, George Henry (son of George Moore of Moore hall, co. Mayo). b. Moore hall 1811; entered Oscott college Birmingham about 1817; an editor of the Oscotian, the college magazine, contributed poems to it and to the Dublin and London Mag.; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. 1827; M.P. co. Mayo 1847–57 and 1868 to death; one of the leaders of the tenant-right movement, and the best orator of his party; sheriff of Mayo 1867. d. Moore hall, Ballyglass 19 April 1870. Sir C. G. Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 135, 227–8; The Nation 8 Aug. 1868 portrait, and 23 April 1870.

MOORE, Hans Garrett. b. 31 March 1834; ensign 59 foot 7 June 1855; ensign 88 foot 13 July 1855, adjutant 1863–72, capt. 19 June 1872; major on h.p. 6 June 1878; major 93 foot 15 March 1879; served in Indian mutiny 1857, and received a medal with clasp; in Ashantee war 1873–4, medal with clasp; in Caffre war 1877–8; awarded Victoria cross 27 June 1879 for endeavouring to save life of private Giese in action at Gaikas 29 Dec. 1877; provost-marshall at head quarters during Egyptian war 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; lieut.-col. 1 Jany. 1884, retired as colonel, drowned in Lough Derg, Ireland 6 Oct. 1889.

MOORE, Henry. b. 1793 or 1794; ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Tachbrook, Warwickshire 1819–22; V. of Eccleshall, Staffs. 1822–56; V. of Dunchurch, Warws. 1822–36; V. of Penn St. Bartholomew’s, Staffs. 1836–56; archdeacon of Stafford 1855 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1856–65; canon and precentor of Lichfield 1865 to death; author of Psalms and hymns adapted 1830. d. Tettenhall Wood house, near Wolverhampton 18 July 1876. Charges, speeches, etc. by H. Moore (1877).

MOORE, Hildebrand Ogle (youngest son of Thomas Moore, LL.D., precentor of Clogher). b. June 1851; ed. Marlborough 1866–9 and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. Dublin 1876; a runner and football and tennis player; head of the cricketing department of The Field 1878 to death. d. Addlestone near Weybridge 10 Nov. 1890. bur. Ottershaw cemet. 13 Nov. The Field 15 Nov. 1890 p. 730.

MOORE, Isaac. Ensign 97 foot 20 Feb. 1835, adjutant 20 Feb. 1835 to 23 Sept. 1845, lieut. col. 30 Nov. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. depôt battalion 27 Aug. 1857 to death; brevet colonel 13 Sept. 1861. d. 14 Oct. 1868.

MOORE, John (son of admiral sir Graham Moore d. 1843). b. Malta 16 Jany. 1822; entered navy 7 Feb. 1834; commanded the Harlequin 7 guns in the Mediterranean 1846 etc.; captain 22 Nov. 1848; a naval aide de camp to the queen 16 Jany. 1864 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Brook farm, near Cobham, Surrey 20 Jany. 1866. bur. Cobham churchyard.

MOORE, John Arthur. b. Ireland 1791; in the navy; major H.E.I. Company; military sec. to the commanding officer in the Himalayas; a director of H.E.I. Company 1 May 1850 to April 1851; member of British Archæological assoc. and vice president; F.S.A.; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846. d. 19 Portland place, London 7 July 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 180 (1861).

MOORE, John Bramley (son of Thomas Moore of Leeds). b. Pontefract 1800; lived at Rio Janiero to 1835; assumed name of Bramley 1840; a merchant at Liverpool 1835; alderman 1841–65; chairman of Liverpool docks 1846, made an advantageous arrangement with the earl of Derby for the land, the Albert dock opened by prince Albert 1846; declined the honour of knighthood; the docks extend about 2 miles along the Mersey; mayor of Liverpool 1849; contested Hull 8 July 1852; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Maldon 1854–9; contested Lymington 30 April 1859; M.P. Lincoln 1862–5; made a speech on the relations between England and Brazil 1863, received imperial order of the Rose from the emperor. d. 116 Marine parade, Brighton 19 Nov. 1886.

MOORE, John Collingham (son of Wm. Moore 1790–1851). b. Gainsborough 12 March 1829; water colour painter; exhibited 60 pictures at the R.A. 1853–80; best known by his portraits of children and landscape views in or near Rome and Florence. d. 4 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 12 July 1880.

MOORE, John Lewis. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1829 to death, vice provost 1867 to death; B.A. Dublin 1820, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1839, regius professor of laws 1844–50, professor of modern history 1850 to 1860. d. 25 Nov. 1876.

MOORE, Joseph. b. Shelsley-Beauchamp, Worcs. 1766; learnt die-sinking at Birmingham; a button maker; planned the Birmingham musical festival 1799, chief director of the festivals 1802–49, the net profits of them amounted to £51,756; established the Birmingham oratorio choral society; agitated for erection of the town hall which was first used 1834; went to Berlin and induced Mendelssohn to compose the oratorio of St. Paul for the festival of 1837, and that of Elijah for festival of 1846. d. Crescent, Birmingham 19 April 1851. bur. church of England cemetery, memorial monument erected by subscriptions. J. T. Bunce’s Birmingham general hospital (1873) pp. 106–9; G.M. June 1851 pp. 670–1.

MOORE, Joseph, ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A., M.D. 1814 and Edinb. univ.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; a friend of Dr. J. G. Spurzheim; M.R.C.S., resigned the membership; M.R.C.P.; had a large practice at 10 Savile row, London in midwifery, especially in instrumental cases; an opponent of Dr. John Elliotson and mesmerism; consulting physician to queen Charlotte’s hospital; a writer in The Lancet and Med. Chirur. trans. d. Burch house, Rosherville, Kent 17 June 1855. bur. Highgate cemet. Medical Circular iii 89–90 (1853) portrait.

MOORE, Joseph (son of Edwin Moore, builder of hothouses). b. Eastbourne, Sussex 1817; engaged at Birmingham many years in production of dies chiefly for buttons; carried on business with John Allen as Allen and Moore in Great Hampton road 1844–56; a die-sinker in Summer lane, Birmingham 1856, afterwards in Pitsford st. till his death; executed many prize and commemoration medals, a selection of which he presented to the corporation art gallery of Birmingham; the first president of the Midland Art club; a member of the church of the Messiah at Birmingham. d. 13 Pitsford street, Birmingham 7 Sept. 1892. bur. Key Hill cemetery. Birmingham Weekly Post 10 Sept. 1892 p. 4.

MOORE, Joseph Christian (1 son of James Moore of Douglas, Isle of Man). b. 1802; ed. St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Measham, Derbyshire 1830–44; R. of Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man 1844 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Man 22 March 1844 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Sodor and Man 1877. d. Andreas rectory 26 Feb. 1886.

MOORE, Lionel (son of Niven Moore d. 1889). b. 1830; 6th paid attaché at Constantinople 14 Dec. 1852, the 4th 1857, the 2nd 1858, and the 1st 1859; 2nd secretary 1862; in attendance on the Sultan in England July 1867; went with sir H. Elliot on his mission to Egypt Oct. 1869 on opening of Suez canal; acting consul general at Alexandria 31 May to 28 Oct. 1871; received an allowance for knowledge of Turkish language; some time in foreign office; retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1877; a student of Egyptology. d. Kendall 4 Oct. 1892. Foreign office list (1893) 228.

MOORE, Morris. b. 1812; took part in the war for Greek independence 1830; lived at Rome 1830 to death; great student of Raphael; author of The abuses of the National Gallery. By Verax 1847; Apollo e Marsias opera di Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Milan 1860; Revival of vandalism at the National gallery 1853; Raphael’s Apollo and Marsyas, a European scandal, Edinb. 1884, 2 ed. Rome 1885. d. Rome 28 Dec. 1885.

MOORE, Niven, cancellier to the embassy at Constantinople 17 Nov. 1822; consul at Beyrout 1835–41, and again 27 Nov. 1841; at Aleppo 15 May 1841; acting consul general in Syria 5 Dec. 1848 to 12 June 1850, consul 13 Dec. 1853; C.B. 30 Oct. 1860; received naval medal for Syria, the Turkish decoration of Nishan Iftihar set in diamonds and the Turkish gold medal for Acre for his services in Syria 1840–1; retired upon a pension 30 Nov. 1862. d. 10 Onslow square, London 15 Feb. 1889.

MOORE, Richard (2 son of Steven Moore of Grenane, co. Waterford). b. 1783; called to bar in Ireland 1807; K.C. 1827; solicitor general for Ireland 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sep. 1841; attorney general 16 July 1846 to 13 Dec. 1847; a judge of Irish court of queen’s bench 13 Dec. 1847 to death; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1857. I.L.N. xii 346 (1848) portrait.

MOORE, Richard. b. London 16 Oct. 1810; a wood-carver; member of the National convention which met to promote the passing of the Peoples’ charter 1839; joined Lovett in the Working men’s association 1842; treasurer of the People’s charter union formed 10 April 1848; permanent chairman of the committee for the abolition of newspaper stamps formed 7 March 1849, which met 473 times 1849–61; took part in almost every advanced radical movement; a wood carver 23 Marchmont st., Brunswick sq., London to death; lived in Finsbury, London 1832 to death. d. London 7 Dec. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 12 Dec. C. D. Collet’s Life of Richard Moore (1879); Century Mag. Jany. 1882 p. 428 portrait.

MOORE, Richard (son of Glover Moore of Halsall, Lancs. b. 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; C. of Kirkham, Lancs. 1815–17; C. of Whittington, Lancs. 1817–20; V. of Lund near Preston 12 April 1820 to death, more than 66 years. d. 19 April 1886.

MOORE, Richard Cornwallis. b. 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 17 June 1824; col. commandant 6 Oct. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 6 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Dec, 1879.

MOORE, Robert (3 son of John Moore, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1805). b. 1777; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; sinecure R. of Hollingbourne near Maidstone 1801; R. of Hunton, Kent 1802 to death; sinecure R. of Eynesford near Dartford 1802; canon residentiary of Canterbury 1804–62; R. of Latchingdon 1804; principal registrar of the prerogative court of Canterbury from his boyhood to 1858, drew for 60 years an income averaging £10,000. d. Hunton rectory 5 Sept. 1865, personalty sworn under £250,000 Oct. 28 1865.

MOORE, Robert Ross Rowan (eld. son of Wm. Moore). b. Dublin 23 Dec. 1811; ed. at Luxemburg school near Dublin, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; barrister G.I. 28 April 1837; member of the anti-corn law league, devoting his whole time and energy to the cause 1841–6; the freedom of Cupar was conferred on him Jany. 1844; contested Hastings 30 March 1844; presented with a piece of plate by working men of Exeter 1845; medallions of his head in relief, were sold at the anti-corn law league bazaar held in Covent Garden theatre May 1845. d. Bath 6 Aug. 1864. A. Prentice’s History of the anti-corn law league (1853); G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 228 (1893).

MOORE, Ross Stewart (son of Hugh Moore of Nootka lodge, Carlingford, co. Louth). b. Carlingford 1809; ed. at Crumlin, co. Antrim and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to Irish bar 1833; went north eastern circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; M.P. Armagh city 9 July 1852 to death; one of editors of Irish law and equity reports; author with T. K. Lowry of A collection of the general rules of the queen’s bench, common pleas, and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Dublin 5 Oct. 1855.

MOORE, Samuel Johnston (3 son of James Moore of Clady, Antrim). ed. Belfast academy and Glasgow univ.; M.D. 1863; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1868; pathologist Glasgow royal infirmary 1863–9; medico-legal examiner for the crown for Lower ward of Lanarkshire 1869; consulting physician to Glasgow opththalmic institution; wrote on cholera in Glasgow medical journal Jany. 1867. d. 15 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 2 April 1894. Midland medical miscellany v 481 (1886) portrait.

MOORE, Thomas (son of John Moore, grocer and wine merchant). b. 12 Aungier st. Dublin 28 May 1780; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1794, B.A. 1799; went to London and became student at the Middle Temple 1799; admiralty registrar at Bermuda Aug. 1803, left his office to a deputy and went to New York April 1804, returned to England Nov. 1804, his deputy defaulted in 1817 and left him liable for £6,000, this sum was reduced to £1,000, which he paid in 1822; challenged Francis Jeffery, editor of Edinburgh Review, to a duel, but the Bow st. officers interfered 11 Aug. 1806; published his Irish Melodies, with music by sir John Stevenson, in 10 numbers 1807–34, he received £12,810 for these 122 songs; Intercepted letters or the twopenny post bag by Thomas Brown the younger 1812, a collection of his metrical lampoons on the prince regent; his comic opera M.P. or the blue stocking produced at the Lyceum theatre 1811; resided at Mayfield cottage near Ashbourne from 1811, and at Sloperton cottage near Devizes 1817 to death; became intimate with Lord Byron 1811; his poem Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance 1817, for which he received £3,000 from Longmans’, made him famous in Europe, it was translated into Persian; travelled with lord John Russell in Italy 1819, when he received from lord Byron his Memoirs, which Moore sold to John Murray Nov. 1821, but on 17 May 1824 Murray returned them to him when he burned them, repaying the sum of 2,000 guineas to Murray; granted a literary pension of £300, 1835; author of The poetical works of the late Thomas Little, esq. 1801; The lives of the angels 1823; The memoirs of captain Rock 1824; Memoirs of R. B. Sheridan 1825; The Epicureans 1827; Letters and journals of lord Byron 2 vols. 1830; The history of Ireland 4 vols. 1839–46. m. 25 March 1811 Bessie Dyke an actress, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 March 1850, and d. Sloperton cottage 4 Sept. 1865 aged 68. He d. Sloperton cottage near Devizes 25 Feb. 1852. bur. Bromham near Devizes. Earl Russell’s Memoirs of Thomas Moore 8 vols. 1853–6 two portraits; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 22–30 portrait; T. Moore’s Life of Byron (1847) 142 etc.; C. Pebody’s Authors at work (1872) 304–47; F. Chorley’s The authors of England (1861) 53–57 portrait; J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets (1873) 226–38; The living poets of England (Paris 1827) ii 272–323; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery iii (1832) portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 11 portrait; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii 120–43 (1841); A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed. (1877) 1–26.

Note.—The inscription on his tombstone says he was born May 28, 1779, it should be 1780. He is sketched under the name of Mr. Minus by Theodore Hook in his first novel entitled The man of sorrow. By Alfred Allendale 3 vols. 1809. More than 1,000 of Moore’s letters to his music publisher, James Power, dated 1808–36 were sold by Puttick and Simpson June 1853, the catalogue contains 131 pages.

MOORE, Thomas. b. Stoke near Guildford, Surrey 21 May 1821; helped Robert Marnock to lay out Regent’s Park garden 1840; curator of the Apothecaries’ company’s garden at Chelsea 1848 to death; an editor of Gardeners’ magazine of botany 1850 to 1851, of Garden companion and florists’ guide 1852, of the Floral mag. 1860–1, of Gardeners chronicle 1866–82, of the Florist and pomologist 1868–74, and of the Orchid album 1881–87; secretary to the floral committee and floral director of royal horticultural soc. many years; F.L.S. 1851; judge at many horticultural shows; author of Popular history of British ferns 1851, 2 ed. 1855; The elements of botany for families and schools 11 ed. 1875; author with John Lindley of The treasury of botany 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Chelsea botanical garden 1 Jany. 1887. Gardeners’ Chronicle i 48 (1887) portrait; Little Journal i 373–5 (1885).

MOORE, Thomas Edward Laws. b. 1819; entered navy 19 Oct. 1832; commanded the Plover in search of the Polar expedition under sir John Franklin 17 Nov. 1847 to 1850; governor of the Falkland Islands 1855 to 1862; captain 13 Jany 1852, retired 31 March 1866, retired R.A. 24 May 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, withdrew from the society 1868. d. 5 Victoria place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 1 May 1872.

MOORE, William. b. Birmingham 30 March 1790; portrait painter in London, then at York; worked in oil, water-colours and pastel. d. York 9 Oct. 1851.

MOORE, William Daniel. b. Dublin 19 April 1813; ed. Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A., and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1861; member of court of examiners of Apothecaries hall Dublin 1837–59, governor 1842–3, joint examiner in arts 1861; a Dutch and Scandinavian scholar; hon. fellow of Swedish soc. of physicians 1855; examiner in materia medica Queen’s univ. Ireland 1865; M.D. Oxf. 1862; translated L. V. Dahl’s Heller’s pathological chemistry of the urine 1855; J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On the structure of the spinal cord 1859; Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On atrophy of the brain 1861; Rullman’s On the influence of the southern climatic sanatoria 1861; F. C. Donders’ On the accommodation and refraction of the eye 1864. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 Oct. 1871. Lancet 11 Nov. 1871 p. 696; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1868) 115–21 portrait.

MOORE, William Dennis (son of Dennis Moore, physician). b. Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country; helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March 1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years, resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. d. Union hotel, Penzance, 21 Sept. 1874. bur. Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874.

MOORE, Sir William George (son of Francis Moore under sec. of state for war). b. Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805 etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5 June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles 26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Montrose house, Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.

MOORE, William Yorke. b. Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15 Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835, lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856; served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson. d. 9 Jany. 1890. Numismatic Chronicle (1890) 31.

MOORE, Willoughby. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6 dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about 200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854; his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she d. Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. G.M. xlii 302 (1854); A.R. (1854) 91–93.

MOOREHOUSE, William Sefton (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of Knottingley, Yorkshire). b. Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T. Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province 1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley 1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. d. Sept. 1881.

MOORSOM, Constantine Richard (eld. son of admiral sir Robert Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). b. 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809; commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818; senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852; chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and 1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately printed 1843, published 1846. d. Montagu place, Russell sq. London 26 May 1861.

MOORSOM, William. b. 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut. of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July 1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war and the composition of war fleets 1857. d. Vernon terrace, Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. Memoir of captain William Moorsom 1860, privately printed.

MOORSOM, William Robert (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1834; ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain 13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow, and of the city, are now at the British Museum. Killed during an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester cathedral.

MOORSOM, William Scarth (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861). b. Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany. 1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832; visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6; surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849; author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many scientific papers. d. Great George st. Westminster 3 June 1863. G.M. xv 112, 245 (1863).

MORA, Antonio L. (son of Joseph P. Mora), travelled with Adelina Patti in America; chef d’ orchestre at Her Majesty’s theatre a short time, where he composed the music for R. Reece and Alfred Thompson’s pantomime The Yellow Dwarf Dec. 1882; conductor at South London palace, London 1888 to death; a knight of the legion of honour and of the iron crown of Vienna; composer of The birth of Jesus, a christmas song, New York 1864; Believe me, oh my mother, song, Milan 1874; The gnome’s reverie for the piano 1879; Ninetta, romance 1879; The villa choir, song and chorus 1881; Certainly not, song, words by A. Thompson 1883; Rhoda, comic opera in 3 acts 1889, and 50 other pieces of music 1860–89. d. Brook st. Kensington road, London 25 April 1891. bur. Tottenham cemetery 1 May.

MORAN, John Henry (3 son of Francis Goldsberry Moran, of Kilmore Moy, co. Sligo). b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1830; chaplain H.M. prison, Portland; chaplain Female convict prison, Brixton April 1853–66; V. of St. Thomas, liberty of the rolls, London 1866–86; chaplain National hospital for paralysed, Queen sq. London 1880 to death; author of The doctrine and order of the church of England, proved to be in harmony with the teaching of the Apostles, 2 ed. 1849. d. 98a Southampton row, Holborn, London 12 May, 1892. bur. Tooting churchyard.

MORANT, Alfred William (eld. son of George Morant of London, decorator). b. 17 May 1828; articled to James Simpson, C.E. 1845–50; surveyor to corporation of Great Yarmouth 14 Feb. 1856 to Nov. 1864; engineer to city of Norwich March 1865 to Dec. 1872; borough engineer and surveyor of Leeds Dec. 1872 to death; A.I.C.E. 7 Nov. 1854, M.I.C.E. 29 Jan. 1878; president of Association of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors 1880; edited J. W. Papworth’s Alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms from p. 696 (1874) and T. D. Whitaker’s History of the deanery of Craven 1878; author of Sectional view of a first rate line of battleship 1854; Description of the Leeds sewage works 1876. d. Leeds 28 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvi 377–9 (1881)].

MORANT, Horatio Harbord (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro Place, Hants.) b. 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844, lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to 29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand 1864–6. d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.

MORANT, James Law Lushington. b. 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864 to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast 1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian engineering papers, published at Roorkee. d. Melbourne, Australia 17 June 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 370–4 (1886).

MORE, John Shank (son of rev. George Moore secession minister South Shields). b. Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar 1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843 to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland, 2 vols. 1864. d. 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 66–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv 492–6 (1862).

MORE-O’ FARRALL, John Lewis (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of Balyna, co. Kildare d. 1835 aged 83). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827; comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. d. Granite hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. Law Times lxx 233 (1881).

MOREAU, César. b. Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain 1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. d. Paris 28 Nov. 1861.

MOREHEAD, Charles (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of Easington Yorkshire). b. Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb. univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862; surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life of Robert Morehead 1875. d. Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug. 1882.

MOREHEAD, William Ambrose (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82). b. 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council 1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras; an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two years. d. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. bur. Dean cemetery, Edinb. portrait in Madras banqueting hall. Memorials of Robert Morehead (1875) 402–4.

MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R. Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York. Huddersfield 1861. d. Jany. 1891. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries xiii 318 (1889–91).

MOREL, John James. b. Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to 1848. d. Holly Walk, Hampstead 1 May 1852. F. E. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 95–6 portrait.

MOREL, Victor. A cabinet maker in France; came to England about 1849; had a knowledge of the bitumen process of electrotyping, which consisted in producing stereo plates by means of shell and sand, and making them type high by mounting them on arched metal blocks; engaged by James Vizetelly, engraver Peterborough court, London 1849, the bitumen process was discarded owing to the difficulty of repairing the plates; employed by Cassell, Petter and Galpin to erect an electrotyping foundry, where wax was first used for moulding purposes; made many improvements in electrotyping; established a business at 48 Fetter lane, London, sold his business to Dellagana and co. 1875 and retired to the continent. d. Malines, Belgium 9 Feb. 1889.

MORELAND, Joseph. b. 1809 or 1810; a builder at 76 Old st. St. Luke’s, London; member for St. Luke’s of the Metropolitan board of works 1856 to death. d. 4 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 11 July 1875.

MORELL, John Daniel (9 child of Stephen Morell 1773–1852 congregational minister). b. Little Baddow manse, Essex 18 June 1816; ed. at Homerton college 1833–38 and Glasgow univ., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1841; studied under Fichte at Bonn 1841–2; congregational minister at Gosport Aug. 1842 to 1845; an inspector of schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1876, the first inspector appointed; edited The School Magazine 1876; author of An historical and critical view of the speculative philosophy of Europe in the nineteenth century 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1847; The analysis of sentences 1852, 9 ed. 1858; Handbook of logic 1855, 2 ed. 1857; A grammar of the English language 1857; Philosophical fragments 1878, and 20 other books. d. Clevelands, Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 1 April 1891. bur. Folkestone 4 April. R. M. Theobald’s Memorials of J. D. Morell (1891) 3 portraits; I.L.N. 4 April 1891 p. 435 portrait; Black and White 11 April 1891 p. 322 portrait.

MORELLI, Charles Francis. b. 26 Nov. 1800; boy in Sadler’s Wells pantomimes with Joe Grimaldi; played the monkey in ballet drama of La Perouse at Covent Garden 11 Sept. 1811; acted in the provinces; actor, pantomimist and scene painter under G. B. Davidge at Surrey theatre 1833; with Madame Vestris at Covent Garden 1839–42; with Daniel W. Osbaldiston at Victoria theatre 1844; actor and scene painter with Nelson Lee at City of London theatre many years; a subscriber to general theatrical fund 1839–60, one of the directors, an annuitant Aug. 1865 to death. d. London 9 July 1882. bur. Abney park cemetery.

MORESBY, Sir Fairfax (son of Fairfax Moresby of Lichfield). b. Calcutta 1787; entered navy 21 Dec. 1799; commander of the Wizard brig 18 April 1811; served at siege of Trieste Oct. 1813; Knight of order of Maria Theresa 23 May 1814; captain 7 June 1814; organized the colony of Algoa Bay 1820; commanded the Pembroke in the Mediterranean 1837–40, and the Canopus on the home station 1845–8; R.A. 20 Dec. 1849; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 21 Aug. 1850 to 17 Aug. 1853; V.A. 12 Nov. 1856, admiral 12 April 1862, admiral of the fleet 21 Jany. 1870; D.C.L. Oxford 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Bronwylfa near Exmouth 21 Jany. 1877.

MORGAN, Aaron Augustus. b. 6 March 1822; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew univ. scholar 1847; R. of Bradley, Lincs. 1846–55; chaplain to army works corps in Crimea 1855–6; P.C. of St. John the Evangelist, Brighton 1862–79; V. of Casterton Magna, Rutland 1879–83; V. of Grosmont, Monmouth 1882–4; member of Brighton school board 21 Dec. 1871; author of The book of Ecclesiastes metrically paraphrased 1856; The mind of Shakspere as exhibited in his works 1860, 4 ed. 1880. d. Tivoli near Rome 17 Sep. 1888.

MORGAN, Alice Mary (3 dau. of Thomas Havers of Thelton hall, Norfolk, manager of the Falkland Islands, d. 1870). b. 1850; entered school of art South Kensington 1870, gained a free studentship; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1873–80; removed to Paris 1888, where she exhibited two pictures at the Salon 1889; illustrated some of the stories written by her sister Dora Boulger otherwise Theo Gift 1875–90; she also illustrated A book of modern ballads 1892; A book of old ballads 1892; Some old love songs 1892; Odatis, a poem by Lewis Morris 1892; Love and sleep by L. Morris 1893. m. April 1872 Frederick Morgan, an artist, but she was always known as Alice Havers. d. 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26 Aug. 1890.

MORGAN, Arthur (son of Wm. Morgan, actuary of The Equitable 1750–1833), actuary of The Equitable society 2 Dec. 1830, resigned 3 March 1870; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited W. Morgan’s A view of the rise of the Equitable society 1834; author of Equitable society, three addresses 1854. d. 26 New Bridge st. London 10 March 1870. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii 630 (1873).

MORGAN, Charles Augustus Samuel (brother of 1 Baron Tredegar 1792–1875). b. 2 Sep. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 29 April 1829 to death; R. of Machen, co. Monmouth 1831–73; chancellor of Llandaff cathedral 1851 to death. d. Machen 5 Sep. 1875.

MORGAN, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Sept. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A, 1825, M.A. 1852; M.P. Monmouthshire 1841 to 1874; read many papers before the Caerleon antiquarian association 1854–66 of which he was president; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; F.S.A. 13 May 1830, vice-president; author of Tables of the annual assay office letters used in the marking of plate 1853; Some account of the monuments in the priory church Abergavenny 1872; Old English plate founded on the papers of C. O. S. Morgan and W. J. Cripps 1878. d. The Friars, Newport 5 Aug. 1888. bur. in family vault at Bassaleg church, Monmouthshire. G. T. Clarke’s Limbus patrum Morganiæ (1886) 313; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 384–6 (1889).

MORGAN, Charles Rodney. b. Rupena house, Glamorgan 2 Dec. 1828; M.P. Brecknock 9 July 1852 to death. d. Marseilles 14 Jany. 1854.

MORGAN, Daniel, assumed name of Samuel Moran. b. Campbeltown, New South Wales about 1828; worked on sheep stations and as a stock-rider; unjustly condemned at Castlemaine to 12 years imprisonment 1854; known as Down-the-River Jack or Bill the native; committed a series of highway robberies 1863, a reward of £500 offered for his apprehension by government of N.S.W. 5 Jany. 1864; shot police-sergeant Mc.Ginnerty June 1864, killed John Mc.Lean and wounded two others at Round Hill a few days later; shot police-sergeant Smith Sept. 1864, the reward was increased to £1500 8 March 1865; stuck up Bowler’s station 1 April 1865; stuck up Bond’s station, Upotipotpa and robbed the Albury mail 4 April; stuck up Peechalba station 7 April. shot at Peechalba station 8 April 1865, his head was cut off and sent to Melbourne, his body was bur. at the Murray, said to be the original of Patrick in Ralph Boldrewood’s (i.e. Thomas Alexander Broun) novel Robbery under arms 3 vols. 1888. Morgan the mail robber or the bandit of the bush (1868). His life was dramatised at the Princess’ theatre, London Oct. 1894.

MORGAN, David Lloyd. b. Rhôsmaen near Llandilo 1823; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1846, F.R.C.S. 1861; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1866; surgeon R.N. 31 Dec. 1846, fleet surgeon 1866; inspector general of hospitals 1877, retired 30 May 1883; served on West coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean and during Crimean war; with the land forces in China; senior medical officer of flag ship Euryalus in Japan and China 1862–5, and of the Royal Alfred in the West Indies; deputy inspector general of Bermuda, Hongkong and Chatham; received Blane medal 1871; C.B. 17 June 1871; inspector general at Plymouth 17 Dec. 1878, and at Haslar hospital 6 Feb. 1880; physician in ordinary to the queen July 1888 to death. d. Rhôsmaen 3 Dec. 1892.

MORGAN, Edward. Draper at Newport, Monmouth; granted civil list pension of £20 9 Sep. 1840 for his services as a special constable during the riots, when he received several wounds. d. 26 March 1856.

MORGAN, Hugh (3 son of Hugh Morgan of Machynlleth, co. Montgomery). b. 1826; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1849; V. of Rhyl 1855 to death; archdeacon of St. Asaph and canon residentiary of St. Asaph cathedral 1877 to death. d. canonry of St. Asaph 8 June 1878.

MORGAN, James (son of Thomas Morgan of Cookstown, co. Tyrone, linen merchant, d. 1835). b. Cookstown 15 June 1799; entered Glasgow univ. Nov. 1814, D.D. 1847; studied at Belfast college 1815–20; presbyterian minister at Carlow Feb. 1820, at Lisburn, co. Antrim 1824–78, and at Fisherwich place chapel, Belfast Nov. 1828 to death; a founder of Ulster temperance society 1829; hon. secretary of the general assembly’s foreign mission 1840 to death; moderator of general assembly 1846; joint editor of The Orthodox Presbyterian; author of Essays on some of the principal doctrines and duties of the Gospel 1837; Lessons for parents and sabbath school teachers 1849; The Lord’s Supper 1849; Rome and the Gospel 1853. d. Belfast 5 Aug. 1873. Thomas Morgan’s Life of Dr. Morgan (1874) portrait.

MORGAN, James (son of a farmer). b. about 1795; assistant whipper-in to Mr. Lloyd of Wintlesham hall, Suffolk; whipper-in to Suffolk Border hounds; huntsman to Cambridgeshire hounds; kennel huntsman and whipper in to the Tickham hounds, Kent 3 years; huntsman to Mr. Conyers 15 years; huntsman to the Essex union 3 years; huntsman to lord Berkeley 1851; huntsman to lord Lonsdale 1854. I.L.N. 29 Dec. 1855 p. 760 portrait.

MORGAN, John. b. 1785; entered Madras army 1800; lieut. 12 Madras N.I. 20 July 1801, captain 7 June 1813; major 24 N.I. 8 Sept. 1826, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1831 to 9 Feb. 1834; lieut. col. of 4 N.I. 9 Feb. 1834, of 28 N.I. 1835 to 1840, of 12 N.I. 1840 to 24 Dec. 1841, and of 52 N.I. 24 Dec. 1841 to 23 Jany. 1843; commander at Masulipatam 21 Dec. 1841 to 19 Feb. 1844; col. of 46 N.I. 23 Jany. 1843 to death; general 27 May 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Swansea 29 March 1869.

MORGAN, John. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1850, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; demonstrator of anatomy at school of surgery under direction of council of royal college of surgeons Ireland 1851–61, professor of surgical and descriptive anatomy 1861 to death; author of Practical lessons on affections produced by contagious diseases 1872; Cure of bent knee and the treatment of contracted joints 1874; Report of cases treated in the Westmoreland Lock hospital 1868. d. 23 St. Stephen’s green, Dublin 4 March 1876.

MORGAN, John Edward (son of rev. Mr. Morgan). b. Gothenburg, Sweden 1829; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860, B.M. 1861, M.D. 1865; M.R.C.P. 1861, F.R.C.P. 1868, consiliarius 1887; professor of medicine Owens college, Victoria univ. Manchester 1873, resigned 1891; author of The danger and deterioration of race from the increase of great cities 1866; Town life among the poorest, the air they breathe and the house they inhabit 1869; University oars, an enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1829–69, 1873; The Victoria university why are there no medical degrees 1881. d. Knutsford near Manchester 4 Sept. 1892.

MORGAN, John Minter (eld. son of John Morgan of 39 Ludgate hill, London, wholesale stationer 1741–1807). b. London 1782; devoted himself to philanthropy; author of Remarks on the practicability of Mr. Owen’s plan to improve the condition of the lower classes 1819; The revolt of the bees 1826; anon. which contained his views on education; The reproof of Brutus, a poem 1830; Hampden in the nineteenth century 1834; Colloquies on religion and religious education 1851; reprinted some of his own and other works under title of The Phœnix Library 13 vols. 1850; founded the National Orphan home near his own residence on Ham Common 1849; tried to raise £50,000 to erect a Church of England self-supporting village 1850. d. 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 26 Dec. 1854. bur. in the church on Ham Common 3 Jany. 1855. G.M. April 1855 pp. 430–1; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 pp. 177–8 with view of his self-supporting village.

MORGAN, Maria. b. Cork 1828; visited Rome where she obtained a commission from king Victor Emmanuel to buy saddle-horses in Ireland; on the regular staff of one of the daily papers in New York, being the reporter of cattle markets and fairs; more than six feet in height and known to her associates as “Midy” Morgan. d. New York July 1892. T. Browne’s Advertisers A.B.C. (1893) p. clxv.

MORGAN, Matthew Somerville (son of Matthew Morgan actor and teacher of music, by Mary Somerville actress and singer). b. Lambeth, London 27 April 1839; articled to Grieve and Telbin scene painters 1853; scene painter Princess’s theatre, London; artist and correspondent on Illust. London News, for which he reported the Austro-Italian war 1859; studied in Paris, Italy and Spain and also in Africa 1858; with F. C. Burnand, W. S. Gilbert and others established Fun 1861, and executed the cartoons; exhibited 2 pictures at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1856–61; drew nearly all the illustrations for The Arrow fortnightly paper, 10 numbers only 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; scene painter Covent Garden 1867–9; an editor and proprietor of The Tomahawk, a Saturday journal of satire, for which he did the cartoons No. 1 May 11, 1867 to No. 160 May 28, 1870, his cartoons attacking the queen were much noticed; went to U.S. of America as a caricaturist on Frank Leslie’s papers 1870; manager of several New York theatres; manager of Strobridge lithographic co. Cincinnati 1880–5; founded the Matt Morgan art pottery co. 1883 and the Cincinnati art students’ league; his panoramic pictures of American civil war exhibited Cincinnati 1886; painted in England, Rotten Row and Behind the Scenes; illustrated Neptune’s Heroes by W. H. D. Adams 1861, and the American war 1874; painted a large canvass Christ entering Jerusalem which was exhibited in the provinces; painted scenes for Mr. Barnes of New York 1889, and the scenery for The Brazilian 1890. d. of lumbago New York 2 June 1890. The Mask (1868) 97 portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 14 June 1890 p. 9 portrait; The Graphic 14 June 1890 p. 663 portrait.

MORGAN, Sir Richard Francis (eld. son of Owen Richard Morgan, port magistrate, Colombo, Ceylon, d. 1821). b. Prince st. Colombo 21 Feb. 1821; ed. at the Colombo academy 1834–9; a law student under sir William O’Carr 1839; a proctor to 1846; barrister at Ceylon 1846; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; district judge of Colombo Oct. 1856; acting puisne justice of supreme court of Ceylon 1857; acting senior puisne justice 1860; queen’s advocate for Ceylon 1863, and 1873 to death; chief justice of Ceylon 1 May 1874 to 1875; knighted by patent 20 July 1874. d. Colombo 27 Jany. 1876. W. Digby’s Forty years of official life of sir R. F. Morgan 2 vols. (1879); Law Times lx 332 (1876).

MORGAN, SYDNEY, Lady Morgan (eld. child of Robert Mac Owen, actor, who changed his name to Owenson 1744–1812). b. Dublin 25 Dec. 1783; an actress as the Infant Prodigy in Ireland about 1788; governess in family of James Fetherstone-Haugh of Bracklyn castle, Westmeath 1798–1800; author of St. Clare or the heiress of Desmond 1804, translated into Dutch; The novice of St. Dominick 4 vols. 1805; The wild Irish girl 1806, 7 ed. 1808; her opera The first attempt, produced at T.R. Dublin 4 March 1807, ran several nights and brought her £400; became a permanent member of household of marquess of Abercorn about 1810; m. 20 Jany. 1812 sir Thomas Charles Morgan of Dublin, surgeon, he d. 28 Aug. 1843; author of O’Donnell, a national tale 3 vols. 1814; Florence M’Carthy 4 vols. 1818; France 1817, 4 ed. 1818; Italy 2 vols. 1821; Life of Salvator Rosa 2 vols. 1824, republished 1855; The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys 4 vols. 1827; The book of the boudoir 2 vols. 1829; France, 2 vols. 1830; Dramatic Scenes 2 vols. 1833; The Princess 3 vols. 1835; Woman and her master 2 vols. 1840; granted civil list pension of £300 14 March 1838, the first pension of the kind given to a woman; removed from Kildare st. Dublin to 11 William st. Albert Gate, London 1839. d. Lowndes sq. London 14 April 1859. bur. in old Brompton cemetery, tomb by Westmacott placed over her grave, bust of her by D’Angers dated 1830 and portrait by Berthen in Irish national gallery. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Lady Morgan, her career literary and personal (1860); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 73, 313–19, 355 portrait; H. F. Chorley’s the authors of England (1861) 42–45 portrait; The Queens of Society 3 ed. (1867) 236–61; A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed. (1877) 214–27; J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters (1863) 285–353; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855) p. 747 portrait; W. H. D. Adams’s Women of fashion i 265–331 (1878); The Critic xix 37 (1859) portrait.

MORGAN, Thomas, entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 17 Oct. 1801, captain 1 Nov. 1817; lieut. col. 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. of 14 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1833, of 13 N.I. 1833, of 7 N.I. 1835, of 17 N.I. 1838, and of First Bombay European regiment, right wing 1839 to 1841; commander at Candeish 4 May 1839 to 1842; col. 17 N.I. 27 Dec. 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. at residence of Mrs. General Morgan, Singleton, Middle Wordfield road, Torquay 6 Dec. 1856.

MORGAN, Thomas. b. 18 April 1819; ed. Eton; merchant London; associate of British archæological association 1845, vice president, hon. treasurer 1875–90, contributed many papers on Roman archæology to the Journal; a Spanish scholar; F.S.A. 1875; author of Romano-British mosaic pavements, a history of their discovery, etc. 1886. d. Hillside house, Streatham, Surrey 13 Jany. 1892. Journal British Archæological soc. xlviii 86–8 (1892).

MORGAN, Sir William. b. Wilshampstead near Bedford 1829; arrived in South Australia Feb. 1849; a gold digger at Bendigo 1851; purchased the grocery store of Messrs. Boord brothers, Adelaide, which became one of the leading mercantile houses in the colony; member of legislative council of South Australia 6 Aug. 1869; chief secretary in the legislative council June 1875 to 25 March 1876 and June 1877 to Oct. 1878; prime minister Oct. 1878 to June 1881; called the Cobden of South Australia; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. d. Brighton 2 Nov. 1883. bur. Wilshampstead.

MORGAN, William Domett. b. 2 Oct. 1821; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 1 April 1841, captain 15 May 1855; commandant of 32 Punjaub Pioneers 7 Dec. 1859 to 1879; lieut. col. Bengal staff corp 12 Dec. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Oct. 1889; was in seven severe actions during Indian mutiny 1857. d. 13 Frant road, Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1892.

MORGAN, William Vaughan. b. Glasbury Breconshire 1826; captain 3 Middlesex infantry militia 27 Aug. 1868; a familiar figure in society; a supporter of the London homœopathic hospital, Great Ormond st. 1858, a director 1866, treasurer 1875, chairman 1885, and a munificent donor to its funds; established the Homœopathic convalescent home at Eastbourne 1888; offered St. George’s hospital £1000 a year for five years for a fair trial of homœopathy in the wards; took part in the discussion in The Times on homœopathy; resided 5 The Boltons, South Kensington. d. Grasse, France Feb. 1892. bur. Cannes.

MORGAN, William Wray, printer 67 Barbican, London; founder, proprietor and editor of the Freemason’s chronicle Jany. 1875. d. New Barnett, Herts. 23 June 1893.

MORI, Francis or Frank (son of Nicolas Mori, violinist 1797–1839). b. 1820; professor of singing at the Crystal palace, Sydenham to death; composer of Despair, nocturne for the P. Forte 1846; Who shall be fairest, a ballad 1857; Twelve songs for voice and piano 1861; The river sprite, a comic opera, written by G. Linley 1865, produced at Covent Garden 9 Feb. 1865; F. Mori’s New songs 1865, nine numbers; The vintager’s evening song, a quartett, in Cramer’s Glees 1874 No. 47; and upwards of 90 other pieces of music 1843–74. d. Chamant near Senlis, France 2 Aug. 1873.

MORIARTY, David (son of David Moriarty). b. Derryvrin, parish of Kilcarah, co. Kerry 18 Aug. 1814; ed. at Maynooth; vice-rector of and professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college at Paris 1839–45; rector of Foreign missionary college of Allhallows, Drumcondra, Dublin 1845–54, president on death of the founder Rev. John Hand; coadjutor bishop of Kerry 8 March 1854, bishop of Kerry 22 July 1856 to death, consecrated in pro-cathedral, Dublin 25 April 1854; many of his pastoral letters and sermons attracted much attention; denounced the Fenian brotherhood and opposed home rule. d. the palace, Killarney 1 Oct. 1877. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 63, 375 (1876); Graphic xvi 372 (1877) portrait.

MORIARTY, Edward Aubrey (son of Christopher Moriarty of Wellington lodge, co. Dublin). b. Cappagh house, Galway 1819; ed. at private sch. Dublin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; studied in Germany 1839–46; professor of English literature, Royal academy of trade, Berlin 1843–6; translated serial works of Charles Dickens into German 1852; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; contributed to Edinburgh review; director general of Cologne and Frankfort railway; author with J.D.F. Neigebaur of London ein handbuch für Reisende 1843. d. 3 Hare court, Inner Temple, London 13 July 1874. bur. Catholic cemetery, Kensal green 16 July. Law Times lvii 275–76 (1874).

MORICE, David Robert (eld. son of Robert Morice of Aberdeen, advocate). b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; admitted member of Society of advocates in Aberdeen 1837; legal assessor to town council of Aberdeen 1866; provost of Old Aberdeen; member of council of procurators, vice president 1872; published A handbook of British maritime law 1857. d. Old Aberdeen 27 March 1876. bur. Wellfield cemetery, Aberdeen. Law Times lx 439 (1876).

MORIER, David Richard (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). b. Smyrna 8 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mission sent by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took entire charge of the mission May 1807; attached to Robert Adair’s embassy 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office 5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederated states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847; author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3 vols. 1857. d. 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.

MORIER, John Philip (brother of the preceding). b. Smyrna 9 Nov. 1776; attached to embassy at Constantinople 5 April 1799; despatched on special service to Egypt 22 Dec. 1799; consul general in Albania 3 Dec. 1803; secretary of legation at Washington 5 April 1810; a comr. in Spanish America Oct. 1811; acting under secretary of state for foreign affairs in London Aug. 1815 to 1816; envoy extraordinary to court of Saxony at Dresden 5 Feb. 1816, retired on pension 5 Jany. 1825; author of Memoir of a campaign with the Ottoman army in Egypt 1801. d. London 20 Aug. 1853.

MORIER. Sir Robert Burnett David (only son of David Richard Morier 1784–1877). b. Paris 31 March 1826; ed at Balliol coll. Oxf. B.A. 1849; a clerk in the education department Jany. 1851 to Oct. 1852; unpaid attaché at Vienna 5 Sept. 1853; paid attaché at Berlin 20 Feb. 1858; second secretary at Vienna 1 Oct. 1862, British comr. for arrangement of tariff 1 March 1865; secretary of legation at Athens 10 Sept. 1865 and at Frankfort 30 Dec. 1865; secretary of legation at Darmstadt 1866–71; chargé d’affaires at Stuttgart 18 July 1871, transferred to Munich 30 Jany. 1872; minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 1 March 1876, transferred to Madrid 22 June 1881; ambassador at St. Petersburg 1 Dec. 1884 to death; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866, K.C.B. 16 Oct. 1882, G.C.B. 30 Sept. 1887; P.C. 27 Jany. 1885; G.C.M.G. 13 Feb. 1886; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1889; hon. LL.D. Edinb.; published in the Cobden Club series, Agrarian legislation of Prussia 1870, and Local government in Germany, England and Prussia 1875. d. Montreux, Lake of Geneva 16 Nov. 1893. Black and White 25 Nov. 1893 p. 663 portrait; Daily Graphic 31 Dec. 1891 p. 9 portrait; I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1893 p. 659 portrait.

Note.—His only son Victor Morier, traveller, died at sea 27 May 1892 aged 25, when proceeding to take up his duties in Manicaland as assistant civil comr. to the Anglo-Portuguese delimitation commission.

MORIER, William (brother of John Philip Morier 1776–1853). b. Smyrna 25 Sept. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy Nov. 1803; served at defence of Cadiz 1810, reduction of island of Ponza 1811 and bombardment of Stonington 1813; commanded the Harrier and Childers sloops successively on the North Sea station 1828; captain 18 Jany. 1830; retired V.A. 16 June 1862. d. Brunswick house, Eastbourne 29 July 1864.

MORISON, Sir Alexander (son of Andrew Morison of Anchorfield near Edinburgh). b. Anchorfield 1 May 1779; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; M.D. 12 Sept. 1799; L.C.P. Edinb. 1800, F.C.P. Edinb. 1801; removed from Edinb. to London 1808; L.R.C.P. London 11 April 1808, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; inspecting physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey 1810; physician to Bethlehem hospital 7 May 1835; physician to princess Charlotte and prince Leopold 1816; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; author of Outlines of lectures on mental diseases 1825; Cases of mental disease with practical observations on the medical treatment 1828; The physiognomy of mental diseases 1840. d. Balerno Hill house near Edinburgh 14 March 1866. bur. Currie churchyard 20 March. Munk’s College of physicians iii 61 (1878).

MORISON, James (son of Robert Morison minister of the united secession church, d. 5 Aug. 1855 aged 74). b. Bathgate, Linlithgowshire 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at univ. of Edinb. and divinity hall of united secession church, Edinb.; ordained minister of Clark’s Lane church, Kilmarnock 29 Sept. 1840, suspended by Kilmarnock presbytery 9 March 1841 for his tract entitled The question “What must I do to be saved” answered by Philanthropos 1840, his suspension was confirmed by the synod 11 June 1841, he declined to recognise the decision and was supported by his congregation; with three other suspended ministers and 9 laymen formed the Evangelical union at a meeting in Kilmarnock 16–18 May 1843; established a theological academy 1843, professor of exegetical theology, and principal 1843 to death; left Kilmarnock for Glasgow 1851, where North Dundas st. church was built for him 1853, retired 1884; edited The Evangelical Repository, a quarterly magazine 1854–67; D.D. of Adrian univ. in Michigan 1862, and of Glasgow 1883; his portrait by R. Gibb, R.S.A., presented to him 1889; author of Not quite a Christian 1840; The nature of the atonement 1841, new ed. 1890; Saving faith 1844, 9 ed. 1850; An exposition of the ninth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1849, new ed. 1888; Commentary on the gospel according to St. Matthew 1870; Mark’s Memoirs of Jesus Christ, a commentary 1873. d. Florentine Bank, Hillhead, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1893. Memorial volume of the ministerial jubilee of principal Morison (1889); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 302–6; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia, Schaff’s ed. i 776 (1881).

MORISON, James Augustus Cotter (4 son of James Morison, the hygeist 1770–1840). b. London 20 April 1832; entered Lincoln college, Oxford March 1850, B.A. and M.A. 1859; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1857; wrote for the Saturday Review; member of Athenæum club and of committee of the London library; member of the Positivist Society, occasionally lectured at Newton hall; author of The Life of St. Bernard 1863, new ed. 1868; Gibbon 1878 and Macaulay 1882 in John Morley’s Men of letters series; Madame de Maintenon, an étude 1885; The service of man, an essay towards the religion of the future 1887. d. Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead 26 Feb. 1888.

MORISON, John (son of John Morison, farmer d. 1833). b. Millseat of Craigston, parish of King Edward, Aberdeenshire 8 July 1791; apprentice to a watchmaker at Banff; studied at Hoxton academy 1811–14; ordained pastor of Union congregational chapel, Sloane st. Chelsea 17 Feb. 1815; pastor of Trevor chapel, Chelsea Dec. 1816 to death; edited the Evangelical Magazine 1824 to 1857; D.D. Glasgow 1830; author of Lectures on the principal obligations of life 1822; Counsels to a newly-wedded pair 1830; An exposition of the book of Psalms, 3 vols. 1832; A tribute of filial sympathy or memories of John Morison of Millseat, Aberdeenshire 1833; A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in the catechetical form 1839; The fathers and founders of the London missionary society, 2 vols. 1840, new ed. 1844; The protestant reformation in all countries 1843. d. 27 Montpelier square, London 13 June 1859. bur. Abney park cemet. 20 June. J. Kennedy’s Memoirs of John Morison (1860); Evangelical Mag. 1859 pp. 513, 608–20.

MORISON, Sir William (2 son of Jones Morison of Greenfield, co. Clackmannan). Cadet Madras establishment 1799; lieut. R.A. 31 Dec. 1800; lieut. col. 17 July 1827; secretary to military board at Madras 1809; formed and directed the Madras commissariat 1810–25; superintended geographical and statistical survey of Madras territory 1811–12; resident at court of Travancore; administered with J. M. Macleod government of Mysore; member of supreme council of India 1834–37, being the first military officer selected for a seat; president of council of India and deputy governor of Bengal during lord Auckland’s absence; col. Madras artillery 13 Aug. 1840 to death; returned to England 1840; major general 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. Clackmannan and Kinross 1842 to death; C.B. 4 Sep. 1821; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 3 March 1842; F.R.A.S. d. 16 Savile row, Piccadilly, London 15 May 1851. G.M. xxxvi 90 (1851).

MORLAND, Sir Henry (3 son of John Morland barrister). b. 9 April 1837; ed. at Haversham and Bromsgrove schools; entered Indian navy 5 June 1852; captain 1877 placed on retired list with rank of hon. lieut. col. 30 April 1863; attached to the Indian marines 1863; transport officer, dockmaster and signal officer at Bombay 1865–79; superintended equipment and despatch of fleet of transports of Abyssinian expedition 1867; conservator of port of Bombay and registrar of shipping 1873; member of Bombay corporation 1868, member of town council 1877, chairman of the corporation 23 June 1886 to death; presented the Bombay jubilee address to the queen at Windsor castle 30 June 1887, when he was knighted; appointed by grand lodge of Scotland provincial grand master for Western India 1870; grand master of all Scottish freemasonry in India 1874; chief founder of the Mahometan lodge, Islam; secretary of Bombay geographical society some years; Assoc. Instit. C.E. 5 Dec. 1882. d. Rampart row, Bombay 28 July 1891.

MORLAND, John (son of Thomas Morland builder and umbrella manufacturer). b. Bridge house place, Newington, Surrey 19 Dec. 1794; wholesale and retail umbrella manufacturer Minories, London, removed to Eastcheap, resided at Croydon 1844 to death; overseer and then an elder among the Friends, long connected with Croydon school, the Spitalfields soup society and the Peace society. d. Croydon 21 Oct. 1867. Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 447–9.

MORLEY, Edmund Parker 2 earl of (2 son of 1 earl of Morley 1772–1840). b. London 10 June 1810; styled viscount Boringdon 1817–40; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830; lord of the bed chamber to Prince Albert 15 Feb. 1840; succeeded 15 March 1840; col. of south Devon militia 8 Jany. 1845 to 1858; a lord in waiting to the queen 24 July 1846 to Feb. 1852. d. Whiteway, Chudleigh, Devon 28 Aug. 1864.

MORLEY, Frances Parker, Countess of (dau. of Thomas Talbot of Wymondham, Norfolk). b. 1781; celebrated as a woman of wit and the “first of talkers”; a painter; m. 23 Aug. 1809, as his second wife, John Parker 1 Earl of Morley, b. 1772, d. 14 March 1840; lithographed the plates in Portraits of the Spruggins family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins 1829; author of The flying burgomaster, a legend of the Black Forest 1832 anon.; The royal intellectual bazaar, a prospectus of a plan for the improvement of the fashionable circle 1832 anon; The man without a name, 2 vols. 1852; edited Dacre, a novel, 3 vols. 1834. d. Saltram, Plympton 6 Dec. 1857. bur. in family vault at Plympton St. Mary.

MORLEY, Atkinson. b. 1781; studied medicine at St. George’s hospital; proprietor of the Burlington hotel 19 and 20 Cork st. and of Morley’s hotel 1–3 Trafalgar sq. London. d. Old Burlington st. London 14 July 1858. Medical Times 24 July 1858 p. 91.

Note.—He left £100,000 with which was founded the Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent hospital. Wimbledon (in connection with St. George’s hospital, London) hospital opened 14 July 1869, receives upwards of 600 patients yearly and contains 80 beds.

MORLEY, Sir Francis Brockman (1 son of George Morley, barrister of Inner Temple). b. Brompton, London 1819; ensign 90 foot 5 April 1839; lieut. 40 foot 27 May 1842, captain 18 Aug. 1848, sold out 23 Dec. 1853; served under sir Charles Napier and lord Gough in India; exon. of H.M.’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 24 Oct. 1868 to death; hon. col. 3 batt. Middlesex regt. militia 1886 to death; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Middlesex 25 July 1869, resigned 1889; K.C.B. 2 Feb. 1886. d. 14 Norland place, Notting hill, London 20 April 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 25 April.

MORLEY, Frederick. b. Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 16 Dec. 1850; a frame work knitter; a left handed batsman and one of the best fast bowlers of his day; engaged by the Notts. commercial club 1869, at Bolton 1870–1; played his first match at Lords 6–8 May 1872; played with the England Eleven 1872–3; engaged at Lords 1874–81; went to Australia with the seventh English team 1882–3. d. 28 Sept. 1884. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 346–7.

MORLEY, George (son of rev. George Morley president of Wesleyan conference 1830, d. 10 Sept. 1843). b. about 1802; ed. at Woodhouse Grove school, Yorkshire; apprenticed to a draper; L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1832; became an eminent surgeon at 18 Park place, Leeds; lectured on chemistry at Leeds school of medicine many years; one of the medical experts at trials of the prisoners Wm. Dove and Wm. Palmer in 1856. d. Jersey 14 Aug. 1867.

MORLEY, Henry (son of Henry Morley of Midhurst, Sussex). b. 100 Hatton garden, London 15 Sept. 1822; ed. at a Moravian school at Neuweid on the Rhine; studied at King’s college, London 1838–43; passed the Apothecaries hall 1843; partner with a doctor at Madeley, Shropshire 1844–8; kept a school at Manchester 1848, and at Liverpool 1848–50; wrote in Household Words and All the year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The Examiner, then editor; English lecturer to evening classes at King’s college, London 1857–65; professor of English language and literature at University college, London 2 Dec. 1865 to 1890; professor of English language and literature at Queen’s college, London 1878–90; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London 1882–90; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1879; lived at 8 Upper Park road, Hampstead 3 May 1858 to 1889; author of Sunrise in Italy 1848; A defence of ignorance 1851; Palissy the Potter 1852, 4 ed. 1878; Jerome Cardan, 2 vols. 1854; Cornelius Agrippa, 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of Bartholomew fair 1859; English writers, 2 vols. 1864–67; English writers, 4 vols. 1887–89; Clement Marot, 2 vols. 1871; A first sketch of English literature 1873, 13 ed. 1886; editor of Cassell’s library of English literature, 5 vols. 1875–81; Morley’s Universal library, 63 vols. 1883–8; Cassell’s National library, 214 vols. 1886–90; The Carisbrooke library, 14 vols. 1889–91; Companion Poets, 9 vols. 1891–2. d. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 14 May 1894. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 375–76; Graphic 19 May 1894 p. 582 portrait.

MORLEY, Sir Isaac (son of Wm. Morley). b. Doncaster 1801; a merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841. d. Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.

MORLEY, Samuel (youngest child of John Morley of Wood st. London, hosier, d. 1848). b. Well st. Hackney 15 Oct. 1809; hosier with his brother John Morley in Wood st. Cheapside, London 1842–55, sole partner 1855; a frame-work knitter at Nottingham 1860; built mills at Loughborough, Leicester, Heanor in Derbyshire, and Daybrook and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; his business was the largest in the textile industries of its class, employing about 8,000 people; took Thomas Hill into partnership 1860; chairman of the dissenters’ parliamentary committee 1847; treasurer of the Ancient Merchants’ lectures 1849–79; organized the Administrative reform association May 1855; treasurer to Home Missionary society 1858; promoted religious services in theatres 1860; chairman of the Bank act and currency reform committee 1861; contributed £6,000 to erection of Congregationalist memorial hall in Farringdon st. London 1875; spent £14,000 in building chapels 1864–70; M.P. Nottingham 1865, unseated on petition 1866; contested Bristol April 1868; M.P. Bristol 16 Nov. 1868 to 18 Nov. 1885; seconded the address in house of commons 1871; member for city of London of London school board Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1876; a great supporter of the temperance movement; refused a peerage 24 June 1885; author of The drinking usages of the commercial room 1862. d. Hall place near Tonbridge 5 Sept. 1886. bur. Abney Park cemet. London, portrait by H. T. Wells R.A. in Library of Congregationalist memorial hall, marble statue of him erected at Bristol. J. C. Harrison’s S. Morley, personal reminiscences (1886); E. Hodder’s Life of S. Morley (1889) portrait; The Congregationalist xv 711–19 (1886); I.L.N. lviii 158–169 (1871) portrait; Biograph v 51–5 (1881).

MORLEY, William. b. 1785; a fitter and setter up of stocking and point net lace frames in Nottingham; introduced the use of a 5-bar tackle on the point net frame; with John Kendall constructed the straight bolt which had great rapidity of movement 1811; invented the circular bolt; invented a machine for making plain net which brought him much profit; became the leading man in Nottingham in the lace trade; in business with Messrs. Boden of Derby, retired 1853. d. 1855. Felkin’s Machine-wrought hosiery (1867) 313–5; Lace in Ure’s Dictionary of Arts iii 32 (1875).

MORLEY, William. b. 1 Jany. 1787; established the first wholesale Manchester warehouse in London at 36 Gutter lane Cheapside 1806; chairman of several railway companies in the early days. d. Windmill house, Blackheath, Kent 10 March 1884.

Note.—His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan asylum. d. April 1883.

MORLEY, William Hook (son of George Morley barrister). b. 1815; barrister M.T. 12 Jany. 1838; connected with appeal cases from India, having a knowledge of Persian and Arabic; edited The history of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia by Mir Khwand 1848; author of Analytical digest of reported cases decided in the supreme court of judication in India 2 vols 1849–50, New Ser. vol. 1 1852 no more published; The administration of justice in British India, its past and present history 1858; On the Muhammedan laws prevalent in India; Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed by Sháh Husain 1856; A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in Arabic and Persian in the library of the Royal Asiatic society 1854; The coins of the Atabek princes of Syria and Asia Minor. d. 35 Brompton sq. London 21 May 1860. Numismatic Chronicle xx Proceeding 34–5 (1860).

MORNINGTON, William Pole Tylney Long Wellesly 4 Earl of (only son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). b. 22 May 1788; sec. of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807; sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20; M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. d. at his lodgings Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. G.M. iii 215 (1857).

Note.—He m. (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney Long.

At the wedding the lady’s dress cost 700 guineas the bonnet 150, and the veil 200. Her jewellery cost 25,000 guineas. Eight hundred wedding favours were distributed at a cost of a guinea and a half each. She possessed in landed estates alone £1,500,000. He was the second person whom the Court of chancery deprived of paternal rights by withdrawing his children out of his care. His life was insured for about a quarter of a million, but he lived latterly upon an allowance of £10 a week from the duke of Wellington.

MORPHETT, Sir John (son of Nathaniel Morphett, solicitor). b. London 4 May 1809; landed at Kangaroo Island 11 Sept. 1836 and was present at the proclamation of colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836; a general merchant, helped to lay out the town of Adelaide 1837; member of committee for protection of aborigines 6 March 1838; founded the Literary Association and Mechanics’ Institute; treasurer of the corporation of Adelaide 5 Dec. 1840; member of the first legislature of the colony 15 June 1843 to 1857; speaker 20 Aug. 1851 to 1855; member of the legislative council 1857–73; chief secretary 4 Feb. to 8 Oct. 1861; president of the council March 1865 to 1873; knighted by patent 30 April 1870. d. Cumming, South Australia 7 Nov. 1892. I.L.N. xxi 141, 142 (1852) portrait.

MORPHINOS, Narcissus. b. 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek church, London Wall, London 1848–74. d. 1 Sutherland place, Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 53–7.

MORRALL, Michael Thomas. A needle manufacturer at Studley works, Warwickshire; introduced the grooveless needle into London 1843; author of History and description of needle making 1852, 5 ed. 1866 portrait.

MORRELL, Charles Francis (only son of Thomas Samuel Morrell of The Grove, Bayons park, Lincolnshire). b. 12 March 1853; ed. Cheltenham coll. and Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1875; barrister M.T. 13 June 1877; edited Sir R. Lane’s Exchequer Reports 1605–12, 1884; author of The handy book of the law of horses 1881; A popular statement of the law of wills 1882; Probate and administrations, a handbook for executors 1882; A popular statement of the law of insurance 1883; A concise statement of the bankruptcy act 1883, 2 ed. 1884; Reports of cases under the bankruptcy act 1883 etc. 9 vols. 1885–93; Bankruptcy, a manual of practical law 1891; Insurance, a manual 1892. d. 2 Tavistock place, London 3 Feb. 1894.

MORRELL, Frederick Joseph (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor to univ. of Oxford, d. 10 April 1854 aged 75). b. Oxford 25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford churchmen’s union. d. 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Jany. 1883. bur. Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. Solicitors’ Journal xxvii 185, 201 (1883).

MORRELL, James (1 son of James Morrell of Headington hill near Oxford, d. 1855). b. 1810; ed. at Eton; master of Headington harriers 1836 to 21 March 1847; master of the Berkshire fox hounds 1847–57; sold his hounds for 2,600 guineas and his horses for £3,765 2s. 14 April 1858; sheriff of Berks. Feb. 1853. d. Headington hill house 12 Sept. 1863. Sporting Review xl 381–4 (1858) portrait, xlviii 436–48 (1862), l 326–8 (1863).

MORRELL, Thomas Baker (5 son of Baker Morrell). b. Oxford 1815; ed. at Balliol coll., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B. and D.D. 1863; R. of Henley on Thames 1852–62; coadjutor bishop of Edinburgh Nov. 1862 to Aug. 1869 when he resigned; author with W. W. How of Psalms and hymns 1854. d. 26 Royal York crescent, Clifton 15 Nov. 1877.

MORRIN, Joseph. b. Dumfriesshire about 1792; studied medicine in Quebec, Edinburgh and London; practised at Quebec, became the leading physician in Lower Canada; one of the three founders of Beaufort asylum; mayor of Quebec twice; the first president of medical board of Lower Canada; gave a large sum of money for erection of a Presbyterian college in Quebec, known as Morrin college. d. Quebec 29 Aug. 1861.

MORRIS, Sir Benjamin (son of George Morris Wall). b. Waterford 1798; ensign 25 foot 29 June 1815, served at Gibraltar and in the West Indies, captain 19 Sep. 1826, sold out 18 Oct. 1833; sheriff of Waterford 1836 and 1854; mayor of Waterford 1845–47 and 1867–68; knighted by the marquess of Normanby 1836. d. the Mall, Waterford 20 Dec. 1875.

MORRIS, Charles D’Urban (6 son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris 1770–1851). b. Charmouth, Dorset 17 Feb. 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf. 1845; scholar Lincoln coll. 1846–50; fellow of Oriel coll. 1851–54; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1853; rector of Trinity school, New York 1853–6; kept a private school for boys at Lake Mohegan; professor in New York univ.; professor of Latin and Greek in the Johns Hopkins univ. Baltimore 1876 to death; author of Principia Latina 1860; A compendious grammar of Attic Greek 1869, 4 ed. 1876; A compendious grammar of the Latin language 1870, 4 ed. 1876; Probatio Latina 1871; Latin reading book 1873. d. Baltimore 7 Feb. 1886. Appleton’s American biography iv 411 (1888); Athenæum 6 March 1886 p. 327.

MORRIS, Charles Henry (4 son of Sir John Morris, 2 baronet 1775–1855). b. 27 Feb. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1842, captain 3 Nov. 1848; military comr. to 2 corps of French army in the Crimea 1855; A.A.G. in Crimea 1855–6; inspector of volunteers 1 March 1860 to April 1865; military attaché Vienna 1874–5; L.G. 1 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855; an officer of the Legion of Honour. d. 6 Portugal st. Park lane, London 12 Oct. 1887.

MORRIS, David. b. 1800; a banker at Carmarthen; M.P. Carmarthen 24 July 1837 to death. d. Carmarthen 30 Sep. 1864.

MORRIS, Sir Edmund Finucane (3 son of Samuel Morris). b. Jamaica 1792; ensign 49 foot 21 June 1810, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1836 to 7 Nov. 1843, when placed on half pay; served in Canada, at the Cape of Good Hope and in Bengal 1821–43, and on his return was only remaining officer who had set out in 1821; aide de camp to the queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; col. 97 foot 14 May 1859 to 15 Dec. 1861; col. 49 foot 15 Dec. 1861 to death; general 13 March 1868; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. St. George’s lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 4 Dec. 1871.

MORRIS, Edward. One of the earliest advocates of temperance in Scotland; author of Henry Bell: The history of temperance and teetotal societies in Glasgow 1855. d. Aug. 1860. S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 334.

MORRIS, Sir Evan (son of Joseph Morris, leather manufacturer). b. Wrexham 1842; ed. at Birmingham and Wrexham; solicitor of firm of Evan Morris and co. at Wrexham 1872 to death; mayor of Wrexham 1889; knighted by the queen at Pale, Llanderfel, North Wales, while on a visit to Wrexham 27 Aug. 1889; captain 1 volunteer batt. royal Welsh fusiliers 25 June 1879; county councillor of Denbighshire; resided at Roseneath, Wrexham. d. Eastbourne 18 April 1890.

MORRIS, Francis Orpen (eld. son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris of Beverley, Yorkshire 1770–1851). b. Cove near Cork 25 March 1810; ed. at Bromsgrove sch. and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834; B.A. Durham 1844; P.C. of Hanging Heaton near Dewsbury 1834; C. of Taxal, Cheshire 1836; C. of Ch. Ch. Doncaster 1836; C. of Ordsall, Notts. 1838; C. of Crambe, Yorkshire 1842; V. of Nafferton near Driffield 1844–54; chaplain to duke of Cleveland 1844; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1854 to death; edited the Naturalist, vols. vi to viii, 1856–8; author of A history of British birds, 6 vols. 1851–7, 3 ed. 1891; A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds, 3 vols. 1853–6, 3 ed. 1892; A history of British butterflies 1853, 3 ed. 1853; A natural history of British moths, 4 vols. 1859–70; Dogs and their doings 1870, 2 ed. 1887; Anecdotes in natural history 1872, 2 ed. 1889; The country seats of noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 5 vols. 1866–80; and about 53 other books. d. Nunburnholme 10 Feb. 1893. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) 106–8; Good Words, September (1893) portrait; Church portrait journal ii, 5 (1881) portrait; The Graphic 25 Feb. 1893 p. 183 portrait.

MORRIS, Sir George (2 son of colonel Samuel Morris of Littleton, Tipperary). b. 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. 2 dragoon guards 13 June 1805; major 3 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 8 July 1819, when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814; served in actions and sieges in the West Indies 1795–1801; on the staff in Portugal and Spain 1808–9; served at Cape of Good Hope, in France, and at Gibraltar; usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1841 to death; knighted by patent 1841. d. 32 Gardiner’s place, Mountjoy square, Dublin, May 1858.

MORRIS, Henry Gage (2 son of Henry Gage Morris, rear admiral 1770–1851). b. 1811; sub-lieut. R.N. 1830; served at battle of Navarino 1827 and in China 1842; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1 July 1866; retired admiral 27 March 1885; author of Forty five predictions of the Old Testament 1855. d. 21 Queen Anne’s gate, London 21 Jany. 1891.

MORRIS, James. b. 1795; head of firm of Morris, Prevost and co. merchants 25 Old Broad st. London; a director of bank of England 1827–80 and governor 1847–48; contested Liverpool 8 Jany. 1835 and Cork 5 July 1841. d. 17 Cadogan place, London 9 May 1882.

MORRIS, J. B. On the Irish turf; came to London; purchased Hungerford from George Osbaldeston for 80 guineas and with him won the Great Yorkshire handicap twice and the Suffolk stakes at Newmarket; bought Kingston from lord Ribblesdale for 2,000 guineas and with him won the Goodwood cup, the Northumberland plate, and the whip at Newmarket; won the Doncaster St. Leger with Knight of St. George and cleared £30,000, 1854; generally known by name of Jelly. Sporting Review xxxix 363–4 (1858).

MORRIS, James Edward Gordon. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 24 Bombay N.I. 1821, captain 9 March 1830, major 10 Nov. 1843 to 3 July 1848; lieut. col. of 12 N.I 3 July 1848 to 1853, of 28 N.I. 1853–4, and of 5 N.I. 1854–7; commandant Baroda 20 May 1854 to 22 Sept. 1856; commandant Hyderabad 22 Sept. 1856 to 18 Feb. 1858; col. of 15 N.I. 2 Dec. 1857 to death; M.G. 13 April 1860. d. 5 Compton terrace, Brighton 10 March 1867.

MORRIS, John (son of John Morris, timber merchant). b. Homerton, London 19 Feb. 1810; ed. at Clifton, Nuneham, and Parson’s Green, Fulham; pharmaceutical chemist at Kensington some years; professor of geology and mineralogy at Univ. college London 1854 to Sept. 1877, emeritus professor 1877 to death, delivered 1100 lectures; lectured at the Coal exchange on coal and coal mining; F.G.S. 1845, Lyell medallist 1876, presented with an address and £600 by Geological soc. 14 July 1870; president of the Geological Association 1877; admitted to freedom of the Turners’ company 7 Feb. 1878; hon. M.A. Cambridge 6 June 1878; with H. Woodward edited The geological magazine, vol. 3 1864; author of A catalogue of British fossils 1843 2 ed. 1854; A new geological chart, showing the stratified rocks 1859, new ed. 1865; A series of large geological diagrams 1878; and upwards of 55 papers in scientific journals. d. 22 Bolton road, St. John’s Wood, London 7 Jany. 1886. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 13 Jany. Geological Mag. (1878) 481–7 portrait, (1886) 95–6; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xlii 44 (1886).

MORRIS, Sir John (son of Edward Morris). b. Wolverhampton 1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton 1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. d. Bycullah park, Enfield, Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.

MORRIS, John (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). b. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July 1826; ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church of Rome 20 May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9; ordained priest Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at Great Marlow; canon of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English college at Rome 1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary to cardinal Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon penitentiary of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus Feb. 1867, took his first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was successively minister at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey, socius to the provincial Father Whitty, first superior of the Oxford mission and professor of ecclesiastical history and canon law in the college of St. Beuno, North Wales to 1877 and 1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879, rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st. Berkeley sq. London 1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author of The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1859, 2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence cardinal Wiseman, 3 ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic forefathers, related by themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of Father John Gerrard, 3 ed. 1881. d. while preaching in the Jesuit church at Wimbledon 22 Oct. 1893.

MORRIS, John Brande (son of rev. John Morris, D.D. schoolmaster). b. New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837, resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church of Rome 16 Jany. 1846, ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior Park near Bath 1851; canon of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853; domestic chaplain to E. R. Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir John Acton of Aldenham hall, Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex 1868; later on he was chaplain to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a convent of nursing nuns at St. Vincent house, 49 Queen st. Hammersmith to death; author of An essay towards the conversion of learned and philosophical Hindus 1843; Nature a parable, a poem 1842; Jesus the son of Mary or the doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha Koomee or the gospel prophecy of our lady’s assumption, a drama 1858; translated for the Library of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Romans 1841; and Select works of St. Ephrem 1846. d. 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9 April 1880. bur. Mortlake.

MORRIS, John Carnac (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of H.E.I. Co.) b. 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered Madras civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10 March 1831; Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832; civil auditor or accountant general 1839; established the Madras government bank 1834, secretary and treasurer 1834, superintendent 1835; edited the Madras journal of literature and science from 1834; civil auditor and superintendent of stamps 1843; left India 1 July 1846 and settled in London; established a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia by way of Panama; promoter and managing director of London and Eastern banking company, chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858; author of Telugu selections, with translations and grammatical analyses, Madras 1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and Teloogoo, 2 vols. Madras 1835. d. Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. bur. St. Heliers. C. C. Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants (1885) 101–2.

MORRIS, Mowbray. b. Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847, and manager about 1848–73; m. 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The Times. d. 21 April 1874. Publisher’s Circular (1874) 308; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; The Times 4 May 1874 p. 1.

MORRIS, Richard. b. 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for rifles, patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death, resided at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. shot himself at 11 Haymarket, London 14 Dec. 1891. The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p. 12.

MORRIS, Richard. b. London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll. Battersea; lecturer on English language and literature King’s coll. school, London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury 1870; C. of Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological soc., president 1874; on council of Early English text soc.; hon. M.A. of Oxf. 1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute for boys, Wood Green July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the Early English text soc. Early English alliterative poems 1864, Sir Gawayne and the Green knight 1864, The story of Genesis and Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English homilies 1868, Chaucer’s translation of Boethius De Consolatione philosophiæ 1868, Legends of the holy rood 1871, An old English miscellany 1872, Cursor mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies 1874; he also edited The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1866, Specimens of Early English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat 1872; Complete works of Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The etymology of local names 1857; Historical outlines of English accidence 1872; English grammar 1875. d. Harold Wood, Essex 12 May 1894. bur. Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. I.L.N. 26 May 1894 p. 643 portrait.

MORRIS, Samuel Sheppard Oakley (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of Llanelly, Carmarthen). b. 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London 1857, scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar 1866–71; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig gr. sch. 1870–2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of Dolgelly 1873–8; naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug. 1878, interpreter in Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor in H.M.S. Victoria which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893, brass memorial tablet placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital Sept. 1893.

MORRIS, William. b. 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842, lieut. 14 May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major 17 Sept. 1857 to death; commanded his regiment at battle of Balaklava; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.

MORRIS, William (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). b. 11 Feb. 1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. d. 14 Dec. 1886.

MORRIS, William (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). b. 9 July 1820; barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming lunacy case 1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen v. Hume 1853, and the Cochrane succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author of The law of railway and other joint stock companies. d. Caversham house, Brixton hill, Surrey, 7 April 1889.

MORRIS, William Placidus. b. London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.; bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy 1832–42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton 1842 to death. d. Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. The Tablet 24 Feb. 1872 pp. 238, 245.

MORRISON, Allan (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). b. 1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April 1861; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862, 1863, and 1865. d. Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.

MORRISON, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1859–61; was umpire at the University boat race 1869–70; purchased Hampworth lodge, Downton near Salisbury from Robert Shafto 1867; sheriff of Wiltshire 1881. d. 4 April 1884.

MORRISON, George Staunton (son of Robert Morrison, oriental scholar 1782–1834). Student interpreter in China 30 June 1847; secretary and registrar at Hong Kong 10 Dec. 1857; consul at Nagasaki in Japan 21 Dec. 1858, retired on a pension 1 Jany. 1864; severely wounded in an attack made on the British legation at Yedo by an armed band of Japanese 5 July 1861. d. Nice 20 Aug. 1893. I.L.N. xxxix 427 (1861) portrait.

MORRISON, James (son of Joseph Morrison who d. 1804). b. Hampshire 1790; partner in general drapery business of Joseph Todd in Fore st. city of London, the firm became known as Morrison, Dillon and co., and was converted into the Fore st. company, limited; made a large fortune; bought land in Berkshire, Bucks, Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Islay, Argyleshire; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1830; M.P. Ipswich 12 Dec. 1832 to 1835; contested Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ipswich 19 June 1835 to 1837; M.P. Inverness burghs 1840–7; made a large collection of pictures of the old masters, Italian and Dutch and of English pictures; author of Rail roads, speech in the House of Commons 1836; Observations illustrative of the defects of the English system of railway legislation 1846; The influence of English railway legislation on trade and industry 1848. d. Basildon park near Reading 30 Oct. 1857, leaving between three and four millions. Puseley’s Commercial companies (1858) p. 146; Waagen’s Cabinets of art (1857) 105–13; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 300–312; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 260–63 (1854); The Town ii 795 (1839).

MORRISON, Sir James William (only son of James Morrison, deputy master and worker of the Mint). b. London 1774; ed. at Loughborough house school and Yverdun in Switzerland; clerk in royal mint 1792; deputy master and worker 1803 to March 1851; knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. d. the hermitage, Snaresbrook, Essex 27 June 1856.

MORRISON, Peter. Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road, London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance co. 1 Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of Deposit at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director there 1853–4 and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were branches in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes, and Dublin; proprietor of the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859, lost £2,480 over it in 2½ years; resided at 44 Porchester sq. Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862. Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp. 4–5, 19 Feb. p. 184.

MORRISON, Richard James, known as Zadkiel (son of Richard Caleb Morrison, gentleman pensioner under George III., who d. 1808). b. London 15 June 1795; entered navy 1806, saw much boat service in the Adriatic, lieut. 3 March 1815; served in the coastguard April 1827 to Oct. 1829, when placed on h.p.; presented to the admiralty a plan for registering merchant seamen 22 April 1824, since adopted in principle, also suggested a plan for providing seamen 6 March 1835; brought out The herald of astrology for the years 1831–34 by Zadkiel the Seer, London 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, four volumes, continued as The astronomical almanac for 1835 by Zadkiel 1834, one volume, continued as Zadkiel’s almanac and herald of astrology for 1836. 1835 and went on to his death; brought an action for libel against sir Edward Belcher in the Queen’s Bench, when he got a verdict with 20/-damages 29 June 1863; author under his own name of Narrative of the loss of the Rothsay Castle in Beaumaris bay, 4 ed. 1831; Observations on Dr. Halley’s great comet, 2 ed. 1835; The solar system as it is and not as it is represented 1857; Explanation of the bell buoy invented by lieut. Morrison 1858; Astronomy in a nutshell 1860; The comet, a map on the course of Encke’s comet 1860; The New Principia or true system of astronomy 1868, 2 ed. 1872; King David triumphant, a letter to the astronomer of Benares 1871; under the name of Zadkiel he also edited The horoscope, a weekly miscellany Liverpool 1834, nineteen numbers; The horoscope, a monthly magazine London 1 vol. 1841; The voice of the stars No. 1 1862; and was author of Zadkiel’s magazine or record of astrology, 2 numbers Jany. and Feb. 1849; The grammar of astrology 1840. 3 ed. 1849; Zadkiel’s legacy, also essays on Hindu astrology and the nativity of the prince of Wales 1842; An essay on love and matrimony 1851; The hand-book of astrology 2 vols 1861–2; On the great first cause, his existence and attributes 1867; Zadkiel’s astronomical ephemeris for 1849 etc., 1848 etc. d. Sunnyside, Knight’s park, Kingston-on-Thames 5 Feb. 1874. Companion to Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1855 with a portrait; A. Steinmetz’s Manual of weather casts (1866) 33; C. Cooke’s Curiosities of occult literature (1863) 4–9, 242; A. D. Morgan’s Budget of paradoxes (1872) 195, 277, 472; British almanac and companion (1867) 119–22; Horace Welby’s Predictions realised (1862) 37–8; A. J. Pearce’s Text book of astrology i 27–8, 207–8, ii 30 etc. (1879–89); Mercurius’s Predicting almanack for 1876 pp. 40–6 portrait; Athenæum vol. i 630, 666, 701 (1874).

Note.—He predicted the death of the Prince Consort in Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1861 thus “The position of Saturn in May will be evil for all persons born upon or near the 26 Aug., among the sufferers I regret to see the worthy prince consort of these realms.” The prince was b. 26 Aug. 1819 and d. at Windsor 14 Dec. 1861.

MORRISON, Robert. b. parish of Moy, Invernessshire 14 Feb. 1822; manager of works of Messrs. Hawthorn at Newcastle 1844–53; manufacturer of engines at Ouseburn from 1853; invented and patented an improved steam hammer, which gained first prize at Exhibition of 1862; made a hammer of 40 tons for Russia 1863; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861. d. 20 Dec. 1869. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi 220–22 (1871).

MORRISSEY, John. b. Templemore, Tipperary 5 Feb. 1831; taken to Lower Canada 1836 and to Troy, New York 3 months later; apprenticed to an iron moulder at Troy; bar-tender at Aleck Hamilton’s house, Troy; an emigrant runner in New York 1849; fought George Thompson on Mare Island 31 Aug. 1852 for 2,000 dollars a side and championship of California and won in 9 rounds; fought Yankee Sullivan at Boston Four-corners, 100 miles from New York 5 Oct. 1853 for 2,000 dollars a side and won in 37 rounds; badly beaten by Wm. Poole in New York 26 July 1854. Poole was killed by Morrissey’s friends 24 Feb. 1855; fought J. C. Heenan at Long Point Island in lake Erie 10 Oct. 1858 for 5,000 dollars a side and the championship of America and won in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; kept a gambling house where he lost 124,000 dollars in one night to Benjamin Wood 1867; opened a large gambling house in Saratoga 1869, made Saratoga a famous summer resort; member of Congress 6 Nov. 1866 to death. d. Saratoga, New York county 1 May 1878. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery, Troy 4 May. W. E. Harding’s John Morrissey, his life, battles and wrangles (1880) portrait; Nation 9 May 1878 pp. 304–5.

MORRITT, William John Sawrey (son of rev. Robert Morritt). b. 12 Sep. 1813; ensign 37 foot 15 March 1831, lieut. 15 March 1833; lieut. 77 foot Feb. 1834, sold out 26 Dec. 1834; came into Rokeby estate, Yorkshire on death of his uncle 1843; started the Four in hand driving club April 1856; crippled by a dog cart accident; M.P. north riding of Yorkshire 1862–5; one of the best coachmen of his day. d. Brighton 13 April 1874. Baily’s mag. xxv 249–54 (1874) portrait.

MORROGH, Leonard. b. county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. Baily’s mag. xxx 373 (1877) portrait li, 132 (1889).

MORSE, Charles (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk 1783–1852). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match at Lords in Marylebone v. Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842; member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug. 1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester v. I. Zingari he scored 145 runs in one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. d. 25 March 1883. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 78 (1863).

MORSE, Francis (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50; C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury 1853; P.C. of St. John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean lecturer at Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to death; preb. of Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell cath. 1885 to death; member of Nottingham sch. board Feb. 1871, then chairman; founded the annual Saturday and Sunday collections for the local hospital; author of Parents, God’s nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9 ed. 1879; Working for God, four sermons 1857; The cleansing blood 1859; Confirmation, nine addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of the church to the sick 1888. d. suddenly at residence of J. Watson, J.P., the Park, Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.

MORSE, James. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I. 3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut. col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Farley court, Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.

MORSE, Salmi. b. Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England; endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883; found drowned in the North river at 88th street, New York 22 Feb. 1884.

MORSHEAD, William Henry Anderson (son of colonel Henry Anderson Morshead of Widey court, Devon). b. 1811; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct. 1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 11 Jany. 1876. d. 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.

MORSON, Thomas Newborn Robert. b. Stratford le bow, London; apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. d. 38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 353 (1874).

MORT, Charles Chester. b. 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. d. Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p. 4.

MORT, Thomas Sutcliffe. b. Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851; established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district 1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney 1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. d. Bodalla near Sydney 9 May 1878. The Australian portrait gallery (1885) 51–6 portrait.

MORTIMER, Favell Lee (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of Barclay, Bevan & co. London). b. London 1802; founded parish schools on her father’s estates; m. in the year 1841 Thomas Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London, who d. 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. d. Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. bur. in churchyard, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. The Family Friend (1878) 183.

MORTIMER, George Ferris Whidborne (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer of Bishopsteignton, Devon). b. Bishopsteignton 22 July 1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823; Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. d. Rose Hill, Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. E. W. Linging’s History of City of London school (1882) 28–9; Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp. 179–80; City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement, portrait.

MORTIMER, John. b. 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. d. Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856.

MORTIMER, William. b. Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc. 1884. d. The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. Bailey’s mag. xx 1 (1871) portrait, xlv 272 (1886).

MORTLOCK, William (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire). b. Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens, never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first played at Lord’s in M.C.C. v. Surrey club 12 June 1854; made good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school, Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon closed them. d. 23 Jany. 1884. bur. Norwood cemet. 28 Jany. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv 588 (1863); Illust. Sporting news iii 345 (1864) portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93 portrait; Cricket Jany. 1884 p. 10.

MORTON, George Sholto Douglas 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut. col. John Douglas 1756–1818). b. London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin 17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4; vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. d. 47 Brook st. London 31 March 1858.

MORTON, Alexander. b. Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820; ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation. d. New York 12 Oct. 1869.

MORTON, Charles (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh, agricultural implement maker). b. 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and 1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other famous cases. d. Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.

MORTON, James. b. Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death; prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta 1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. d. Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. G.M. xix 390 (1865).

MORTON, John (2 son of Robert Morton). b. Ceres, Fifeshire 17 July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton, Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates 1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839; author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843; Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. d. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire 26 July 1864.

MORTON, John Chalmers (son of preceding). b. 11 July 1821; ed. Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners; member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers 1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861, new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other books. d. Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. bur. Harrow ch. yard 9 May. Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv 691–6 (1888); Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p. 428 portrait, 14 May p. 453.

MORTON, John Drummond. b. Manchester 1830; sec. of National reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and political essays. d. Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. bur. Salford cemet.

MORTON, John Maddison (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ. Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school, Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov. 1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse 15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22 July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Dec. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. J. M. Morton’s Plays for home performance (1889) memoir pp. ix–xv; Theatre xiv 220–1, 255 (1889) portrait; London Figaro 23 Dec. 1891 p. 7 portrait; Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p. 4 portrait; London Society xlix 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886) portrait.

MORTON, Saville. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser in 1852. Stabbed by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. bur. Montmartre cemet. Annual Register (1852) 402–7.

Note.—Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for murder, but acquitted, he d. at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69.

MORTON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. d. 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemet.

MOSCHELES, Ignatz (son of a cloth merchant). b. Prague, 30 May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public performer on the piano; m. 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London 1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820; Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827; Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by E. Pauer 1886. d. Leipzig 10 March 1870. C. E. Moscheles’ Life of Moscheles 2 vols. (1873) portrait; Musical Gem (1832) p. 74 portrait.

MOSELEY, Charles. b. Manchester 27 March 1840; member of firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal 1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3 May 1887. d. Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887. bur. Southern cemet. 5 Oct. The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct. 1887 p. 5, and 9 Oct. p. 5.

MOSELEY, Edwin Charles. b. 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. d. Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885.

MOSELEY, Henry (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at Newcastle-under-Lyne). b. 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12 Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology 2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural philosophy. d., Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. Trans. of Instit. of naval architects xiii 328–30 (1872); I.L.N. lx 90 (1872).

MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (son of the preceding). b. St. Ann’s Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc. and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science 1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869; studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S. 7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March 1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852 etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878; On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878; Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell ill in 1887 and never recovered. d. Firwood Clevedon, Somerset 10 Nov. 1891. H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed. (1892) memoir v–xvi and portrait; Biograph vi 387–90 (1881); Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p. 599 portrait; I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891 p. 694 portrait.

MOSELEY, Litchfield. b. 1839; author of Penny readings in prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. d. 16 Wilton road, Dalston, London 21 June 1879.

MOSES, Henry. b. about 1782; engraver, published many sets of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases, altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates 1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3 vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. d. Cowley, Middlesex 28 Feb. 1870.

MOSES, William Stainton (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). b. Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8; assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man 1868–72; English master at University college school, London 1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light 1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878, 2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism 1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. d. at his mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. bur. Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. Light 10 Sept. 1892 p. 439 portrait, 17 Sept. pp. 445–6, 447, 5 Nov. 1892 pp. 529–32 portrait.

MOSLEY, John Ivon. b. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary, prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben Brierly’s Journal. d. Manchester 6 Sept. 1876.

MOSLEY, Sir Oswald, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). b. Morton near Chester 27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837; sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for £200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832; Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history of Tutbury 1863. d. Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May 1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872); I.L.N. lviii 578 (1871).

MOSS, James. b. 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. d. Greenock 14 Nov. 1882.

MOSS, Joseph William. b. Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley, removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. d. Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862.

MOSS, Thomas. b. 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861; Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death; vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. d. Nice 4 Jany. 1881.

MOSS, Sir Thomas Edwards- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss 1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the North-Western bank). b. 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; m. 1847 Amy Charlotte, heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc. 1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 26 April 1890.

MOSS, Tom Cottenham Edwards- (2 son of preceding). b. 7 April 1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley 1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death. M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893.

MOSSMAN, John (son of George Mossman, sculptor). b. London 1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman Macleod. d. Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890.

MOSSMAN, Thomas Wimberley (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). b. Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. d. East Torrington rectory 6 July 1885. Biograph vi 342–9 (1881); Church Times 10 July 1885 p. 531, 17 July p. 555; Tablet 18 July 1885 p. 103.

MOSTYN, Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). b. 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col. commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. d. Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April 1854.

MOSTYN, Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and 1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840; col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for £10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. d. Mostyn hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. Baily’s mag. xlii 197 (1884); I.L.N. xliv 237 (1864) portrait.

MOSTYN, Thomas. b. Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death, his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. d. Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24 Sept.

MOSTYN, Thomas. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810; surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct. 1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7 Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo; served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and 1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. d. Alpha house, Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.

MOSTYN, Thomas Edward Mostyn-Lloyd (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn 1795–1884). b. Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death. d. Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.

MOTLEY, John Lothrop. b. Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S. of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860, LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. d. Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W. Holmes (1878); Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history (1879) pp. 195–252; Appleton’s American biography iv 438–40 (1888) portrait; Graphic xv 549 (1877) portrait.

MOTT, Charles. Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his report was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble about the Keighley union and was removed from his office; manager of lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South Lancashire poor law district to his death, where he suffered from the defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published Report from the poor law commissioners relative to statements concerning management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838. d. of paralysis 12 May 1851.

MOTTERAM, James (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston, Birmingham, merchant). b. 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to death; Q.C. 28 June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21 (Birmingham, &c.) June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse dau. of Auguste Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list pension of £75 24 May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend, and if so, how far the civil jurisdiction of local courts, read at Social Science Congress 1882; The jurisdiction of local courts, and other pamphlets. d. Maney house near Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.

MOTTERSHEAD, Thomas. b. 1826; a silk weaver, London; a member of the radical party in London; contested Preston 5 Feb. 1874; the radical candidate for the new borough of Clerkenwell 1884, fractured his skull by falling down stairs at the offices of the Liberty and defence league, 4 Westminster chambers and died the same day at the Westminster hospital 5 Dec. 1884.

MOTTRAM, Charles. b. 9 April 1807; engraved plates in the line manner after sir Edwin Landseer and others; engraved mezzotint plates after T. J. Barker and others; engraved many plates in the mixed style after W. H. Hunt, sir E. Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and others; exhibited 7 engravings at R.A. 1861–77. d. 92 High st. Camden Town, London 30 Aug. 1876.

MOULD, Jacob Wrey. b. Chiselhurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s college, London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen Jones, architect, studying the Alhambra; designed with him Moresque-Turkish divan of Buckingham palace and the decorations of the great exhibition of 1851; designed and built All Soul’s church, New York 1853; assistant architect of public works New York 1857, chief architect 1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874, but returned after a few years; translated the libretti of La Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville 1856, Hernani 1857, Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula 1865; illustrated vol. 2 of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and assisted him in his Grammar of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions of Gray’s Elegy in a country churchyard 1846, and The book of common prayer 1849. d. New York 14 June 1886.

MOULD, James. b. Bodmin 1814; contributed to the Falmouth newspapers 1833; on the Ipswich press 1837; on parliamentary staff of London Morning Herald 1841, and of the Standard to 1887; manager of Standard parliamentary staff and summary writer 1865–87; author of Lives of and politics of British statesmen 1854 anon. d. 19 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 5 Jany. 1889.

MOULE, Henry (6 son of George Moule of Melksham, Wiltshire, solicitor). b. Melksham 27 Jany. 1801; ed. at Marlborough and St. John’s coll. Camb., foundation scholar; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; C. of Melksham 1823; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1825–9; V. of Fordington, Dorset 1829 to death; chaplain to the troops in Dorchester barracks some years, for whose use he built in 1846 a church known as Ch. Ch. West Fordington; invented the dry earth closet system, which process he patented with James Bannehr 28 May 1860, his system has been adopted in military camps, in many hospitals, and extensively in India; author of Barrack sermons preached at Dorchester 1847; Manure for the million, to the cottage gardeners of England 1861, eleventh thousand 1870; The advantages of the dry earth system 1868; National health and wealth promoted by the general adoption of the dry earth system 1873. d. Fordington vicarage 3 Feb. 1880. H. C. G. Moule’s Sermons on the death of H. Moule (1880) 5–13; Chambers’s Encyclopædia x 731–3 (1874).

MOULE, Horace Mosley (4 son of the preceding). b. 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1851–54; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb.; Hulsean prizeman 1858, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assistant master at Marlborough 1865; author of Essays, verses, etc. by H. M. Moule and others, Fordington Times soc. 1859; Christian oratory, an inquiry into its history 1859; The Roman republic, a review of the salient points in its history 1860. d. 1873.

MOULE, John. b. 1794; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 1 June 1812, lieut. 19 Jany. 1816; captain 23 N.I. 29 April 1826, major 30 June 1840 to 1 April 1846; lieut. col. 46 N.I. 1 April 1846–49, of 5 N.I. 1849–51, of 10 N.I. 1851–2, of 11 N.I. 1852–5, of 67 N.I. 1855–6, of 33 N.I. 1856–61, and of 4 N.I. 1861 to death; commandant at Sealkote 11 May 1855, at Ferozepore 2 July 1856 to 18 Dec. 1857; M.G. 27 Jany. 1858. d. Belmont, Melksham, Wiltshire 4 April 1867.

MOULE, Joseph (son of John Moule). b. 23 Jany. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch.; superintending president of general post office, Edinburgh June 1822, retired Feb. 1855; sergeant at arms in H.M.’s household 1822 to death; author of Two letters to the members of the congregation of St. James’s chapel, Edinburgh with reference to D. T. K. Drummond, 2 pamphlets 1843, and of Memoirs of celebrated authors prefixed to the Naturalist’s Library, 40 volumes 1843. d. Maismore sq. Peckham, Surrey 23 June 1855.

MOULE, Thomas. b. St. Marylebone, London 14 Jany. 1784; bookseller in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. 1816–23; a clerk in the general post office, where he was inspector of blind letters, retired after 44 years service; chamber-keeper in the lord chamberlain’s department 1822 to death; member of the Numismatic Society; author of A table of dates for the use of genealogists and antiquaries 1820 anon; Bibliotheca heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ, an analytical catalogue of books in genealogy, heraldry, &c. 1822; Antiquities in Westminster abbey 1825; The English counties delineated, or a topographical description of England, 2 vols. 1837; Heraldry of Fish 1842; contributed the letter-press to Hewetson’s Views of noble mansions in Hampshire 1825. d. Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, London 14 June 1851. G.M. xxxvi 210 (1851).

MOULLIN, Elise (dau. of M. Greillard). b. Caen, Normandy; fled to England after the coup d’etat of 1852; published anonymously a brochure Le Berceau du communisme en Perse, etudes historiques et philosophiques; wrote essays in English periodicals; m. M. Moullin. d. 8 Dec. 1855.

MOULTRIE, Gerard (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the succeeding). b. Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and chaplain at Shrewsbury school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of Brinfield, Berks 1860; chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney, Bristol 1864–9; V. of Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden of St. James’s college, Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The primer set forth at large for the use of the faithful in family and private prayer 1864; author of Hymns and lyrics for the seasons and saints’ days of the church 1867; The espousals of St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. d. St. James’s college, Southleigh 25 April 1885. Church Times 1 May 1885 p. 345; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 771–2.

MOULTRIE, John (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire). b. 31 Great Portland st. London, the residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19, where he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian 1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby 10 June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to reside 1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3 ed. 1852; The dream of life, lays of the English church and other poems 1843; The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4 ed. 1851; St. Mary, the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths, and graves 1854; wrote many hymns, most of which are in B. H. Kennedy’s Hymnologia Christiana 1863. d. Rugby rectory 26 Dec. 1874. bur. in parish church, to which an aisle was added in his memory. John Moultrie’s Poems, 2 vols. (1876) memoir by rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp. v–lxxxiv; Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians (1876) 620–4; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 772.

MOUNSEY, Augustus Henry. Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover 1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2 sec. and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June 1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul general at Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris 14 Sept. 1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at Athens 22 July 1878; minister resident and consul general at Bogota 26 April 1881; author of A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia 1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an episode of Japanese history 1879. d. Bogota, Colombia 10 April 1882. Foreign Office List 1882 p. 151.

MOUNTAIN, Armine Simcoe Henry (5 son of Jacob Mountain 1749–1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). b. Quebec 4 Feb. 1797; ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec. 1818; travelled in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy 1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24 April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May 1825; brevet major 30 Dec. 1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828, lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8 March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot 8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850; military secretary on staff of sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March 1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4; deputy adjutant general to the land forces sent from India to China during the war 1840–2, and was present at all the chief engagements; A.D.C. to the queen June 1845; military secretary to lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded a brigade in the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla and Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian, Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. d. Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain, edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain (1857) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, George Jehoshaphat (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. d. Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain (1866) portrait; F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada (1870) 131–86 portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 447–8 (1888) portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis (1867) 284–7; I.L.N. xli 576, 587 (1862) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, Jacob George (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). b. 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. bur. St. John’s cemetery. Lives of missionaries, North America (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, Jacob Henry Brooke (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). b. Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. d. Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p. 1324.

MOUNT CASHELL, Stephen Moore, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). b. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. d. Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 405 (1883) portrait.

MOUNT EDGCUMBE, Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b. Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Countess.

MOUNTFORD, William. b. Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. d. Boston, Massachusetts 20 April 1885.

MOUNTMORRES, Hervey De Montmorency 4 Viscount (only son of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–1833). b. Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. d. The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 115 (1872).

MOUNTMORRES, William Browne De Montmorency, 5 Viscount (1 son of the preceding). b. Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany. 1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. murdered with 6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880. bur. Monkstown. Graphic xxii 356 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 361 (1880) portrait.

MOUNTSOY, Antoine. b. Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p. 14 portrait.

MOUNT TEMPLE, William Francis Cowper Temple, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. d. Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct. (1888); I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp. 481, 482 portrait.

MOUTRIE, William Francis Collard. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. d. 1869.

MOWAT, John Lancaster Gough (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, d. 1881). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. hung himself at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. The Times 9 Aug. 1894.

MOWATT, Alexander Murray. b. 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. d. Liverpool 21 June 1869. Newspaper Press iii 181 (1869).

MOWATT, Anna Cora (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, d. 1860). b. Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; m. 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and d. Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she m. (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who d. 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. Howitt’s Journal iii 146, 167, 181 portrait; Ireland’s New York stage ii, 437–8, 729 (1867); Tallis’ Drawing room table book 1851, Part 2 pp. 9–11 two portraits; Theatrical Times iii 162, 169 (1848) portrait; A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress (1854) portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 450 (1888) portrait.

MOWBRAY, Alfred Joseph Stourton, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). b. 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. d. Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.

MOWBRAY, Alfred Richard. b. Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. d. 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. bur. Holywell cemet. Guide to the church congress (1883) 51.

MOXON, Edward (son of Michael Moxon). bapt. in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c. author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. d. Putney Heath 3 June 1858. bur. Wimbledon churchyard. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 347–62; Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 229–35 and 257; P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii 46, 458 (1889).

Note.—Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go d.” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 356–92 (1850).

MOXON, Emma (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. d. Cambridge Oct. 1814). b. 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; m. 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. bur. Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 203 portrait; The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter (1870); A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i 341, ii 172, 365 (1888); Law Reports 8, Chancery 881–8 (1873).

MOXON, James Henry Harmar (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). b. Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. d. suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883. Baily’s Mag. xl 415 (1883).

MOXON, Walter (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). b. Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. d. 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic acid. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 July. British medical journal 1886 vol. ii 178, 234, 392, 434.

MOYLAN, Denis. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector general of rates 1870. d. 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.

MOYLE, John Grenfell (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–1828). b. Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board, Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. d. 23 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.

MOYLE, Matthew Paul (2 son of John Moyle). b. Chacewater, Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine 1823. d. Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.

MOYSEY, Charles Abel (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., d. 1831). b. 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. d. Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

MOZLEY, Anne (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller). b. Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present 1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68, and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley 1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. 1891. d. Derby 27 June 1891. A. Mozley’s Essays from Blackwood (1892) memoir pp. vii–xx; I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p. 3 portrait.

MOZLEY, Harriet Elizabeth (elder sister of John Henry Newman, cardinal, d. 11 Aug. 1890). m. at St. Werburgh’s, Derby 27 Sept. 1836 Thomas Mozley, divine and journalist 1806–93; author of The fairy bower or the history of a month 1841; The lost brooch 1841; Louisa, or the bride 1842; Family adventures 1852. d. 71 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 17 July 1852.

MOZLEY, James Bowling (brother of Anne Mozley 1809–91). b. Gainsborough 15 Sept. 1813; ed. at Grantham gr. sch. 1822–8; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 1 July 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1871; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1840–56; joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, the organ of the high church party about 1845–55; V. of Old Shoreham, Sussex 1856 to death; select university preacher 1869; canon of Worcester 1869–71; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and canon of Ch. Ch. 7 Oct. 1871 to death; author of On the Augustinian doctrine of predestination 1855, 2 ed. 1878; The primitive doctrine of baptismal regeneration 1856; A review of the baptismal controversy 1862, 2 ed. 1883; Eight lectures on miracles; Bampton lectures 1865, 6 ed. 1883; Ruling ideas in early ages and their relation to the Old Testament faith 1877, 4 ed. 1889; The theory of development, a criticism of Dr. Newman’s essay 1878; Sermons, parochial and occasional 1879, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures and other theological papers 1883. d. Old Shoreham vicarage 4 Jany. 1878. J. B. Mozley’s Essays, 2 vols. (1884) introduction pp. xi–xlvii; J. B. Mozley’s Letters (1885) introduction pp. 1–30; I.L.N. lxxii 108 (1878) portrait.

MOZLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Gainsborough 1806; ed. at Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf.; pupil of John Henry Newman; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; fellow of Oriel April 1829 to 27 Sept. 1836, junior treasurer 1835; C. of Buckland near Oxford 1831; P.C. of Moreton-Pinkney, Northamptonshire 1831–6; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1836–47, rebuilt the church; advocated the tractarian movement from 1833; edited the British Critic 1841–3; wrote leading articles for The Times from 1844 for more than 40 years; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1868–80; rural dean of Plymtree 1874, and of Ottery St. Mary 1876; author of Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel college and the Oxford movement, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1882; Reminiscenses, chiefly of towns, villages and schools, 2 vols. 1885; The Word 1889; The Son 1891; Letters from Rome on the occasion of the Œcumenical council 1869–70, 2 vols. 1891; The creed, or a philosophy 1893, with autobiographical preface. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 17 June 1893.

MUDGE, Henry (son of Thomas Mudge). b. Tower Hill house, Bodmin 29 July 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; practised at Bodmin to his death; advocated strict temperance principles; mayor of Bodmin twice; edited The Western temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1838; The Bodmin temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1840–1; The Cornwall and Devon temperance journal, 8 vols. 1851–8; author of An exposure of Odd-fellowship 1845; Rescued texts or teetotalism put under the protection of the gospel 1853, 3 ed. 1856; Alcoholics, a letter to practitioners in medicine By one of themselves 1856; Dialogues against the use of tobacco 1861. d. Fore st. Bodmin 27 June 1874. Boase & Courteney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 377–8 (1874), iii 1290 (1882).

MUDGE, Richard Zachariah (eld. son of major general Wm. Mudge, col. R.A. 1762–1820). b. Plymouth 6 Sept. 1790; ed. at Blackheath and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 May 1807, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 7 Sept. 1840; in charge of the drawing department, Tower of London, some years; superintended the ordnance survey of Lincolnshire 1818; appointed comr. by the British government to examine the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 1838, the survey was made by Mr. Featherstonehaugh and himself Aug. to Oct. 1839, the boundary was settled by the treaty of Washington 1842; author of Observations on railways with reference to utility, profit and the obvious necessity of a national system 1837. d. Teignmouth, Devon 25 Sept. 1854. bur. Denbury. S. R. Flint’s Mudge memoirs (Truro 1883) 177–239.

MUDGE, Zachary (son of John Mudge, physician 1721–93). b. Plymouth 22 Jany. 1770; entered navy 1 Nov. 1780; captain 15 Nov. 1800; captain of Blanche 32 gun frigate 23 Sept. 1802 in the West Indies, where he captured many French merchant ships and privateers; lost his ship in an action with a French squadron 19 July 1805, tried by court martial 14 Oct. when acquitted of all blame; commanded the Phœnix in the Bay of Biscay 1805–10, and the Valiant, 74 guns 1814–5; admiral 15 Sept. 1849. d. Sydney near Plympton 26 Oct. 1852. bur. Newton Ferrers. Memorial window in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.

MUDIE, Charles Edward (son of Thomas Mudie, second-hand bookseller). b. Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 Oct. 1818; assisted his father until 1840; stationer and bookseller at 28 Upper King st. (now Southampton row), Bloomsbury; published Poems by James Russell Lowell 1844, and R. W. Emerson’s Man thinking, an oration 1844; commenced lending books 1842; removed to 510 New Oxford st. 1852, where he opened a large new hall and library 17 Dec. 1860; established branches in London, Birmingham and Manchester; made over the library to a limited company 1864, in which he held half the shares and remained manager, there were over 25,000 subscribers to his library; member of London school board for Westminster 1870–3; author of Stray Leaves 1872, a vol. of poems, 2 ed. 1872. d. 31 Maresfield gardens, Hampstead 28 Oct. 1890. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 421–32 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 72–3 portrait; I.L.N. 3 Nov. 1890 p. 583 portrait.

MUDIE, Charles Henry (son of the preceding). b. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill 26 Jany. 1850; ed. at Univ. college school, London; took part in management of his father’s business 1871 to death; a good musician, an amateur actor, and a lecturer; he devoted much time to improvement of the poorer classes. d. 13 Jany. 1879. C. H. Mudie [by Mary Mudie his sister] (1879) portrait; Athenæum i 90 (1879).

MUDIE, James. Second lieutenant royal marines 10 May 1799, first lieut. 18 Aug. 1804 to 1810 or 1811; manufactured medals of principal persons engaged in Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns; became insolvent 22 Aug. 1821; in New South Wales July 1822 to March 1836; owner of Castle Forbes station near Maitland, N.S.W. where there was an insurrection of the convicts in 1833, when he was removed from the commission of the peace together with 32 other magistrates; gave evidence in London before select committee appointed to inquire into the system of transportation, April and May 1837; author of An historical and critical account of a grand series of national medals, published under the direction of J. Mudie 1820; The felonry of New South Wales being a picture of the real romance of life in Botany bay 1837. R. Therry’s Reminiscenses (1863) 164–78; R. Flanagan’s History of New South Wales i 478–9, 524 (1862); Vindication of J. Mudie and J. Larnach from reflections on their conduct relative to treatment of convict servants 1834.

MUDIE, Thomas Mollison. b. Chelsea 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at royal academy of music from 1823, professor of the pianoforte there 1832–44; organist at Lord Monson’s seat Gatton, Surrey 1834–40; taught music in Edinburgh 1844–63 when he returned to London; his song Lungi dal caro bene was published at cost of the R.A. of music composed symphonies in C and in B flat; at the concerts of the Society of British musicians, were performed his symphony in F 1835, symphony in D 1837, a quintet in E flat for pianoforte and strings 1843, &c.; composer of Remember, a duet 1840; Six songs and two duets 1844; There be none of beauty’s daughters, a song 1845; The songs of Scotland by G. F. Graham, arranged by T. M. Mudie and others, 3 vols. 1848; Airs from Macfarren’s opera She stoops to conquer 1864, two books; Christabel waltz 1874; First Nocturne for the piano 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces 1830–76. d. Shaftesbury terrace, London 24 July 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 28 July.

MUGGERIDGE, Sir Henry (son of Robert Muggeridge). b. Banstead, Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London; common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855, after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London 1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. d. West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.

MUIR, Emily Margaret (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist). Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre, London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept. 1879. d. Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.

MUIR, James (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). b. Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London 1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer 1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi 323–6 (1889).

MUIR, John. b. Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft, Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God 1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851; Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown court, London 1856. d. Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. Our Scottish clergy, by J. Smith (1848) 45–56; Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 31 (1868).

MUIR, John (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad 1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur, Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death; chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm. Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India, 5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from Sanskrit writers 1879. d. 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7 March 1882. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 103–4; I.L.N. lxxx 352 (1882) portrait.

MUIR, Matthew Andrew. b. Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production much cheaper. d. Glasgow Jany. 1880.

MUIR, Matthew Arnold. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames; owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891, which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. d. 25 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.

MUIR, William (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D., 1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow 1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17 May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage; dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit 1842; Metrical meditations 1870. d. Ormelie, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 23 June 1869. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 75–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 22–5 (1872).

MUIR, William (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). b. Catrine, Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67, his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of temperance. d. Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery. R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir (1888).

MUIR, Sir William Mure (son of Walter Boyd Muir). b. Edinburgh 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854, inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny 1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885. Medical Times and Gazette i 800 (1885).

MUIRHEAD, James (son of Claud Muirhead of Gogan park, Midlothian, proprietor of the Edinburgh Advertiser). b. 1831; in a merchant’s office in Leith; connected with the Edinburgh Advertiser; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; member of faculty of advocates 1857; professor of civil law in univ. of Edinb. 1862 to death; advocate depute 1874–80; sheriff in chancery 1885; sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannanshire 1886; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1885; edited The institutes of Gaius and rules of Ulpian 1880; author of Historical introduction to the private law of Rome, Edinburgh 1886, a work of authority translated into French and Italian; his law library was purchased by subscription after his death and presented to Owen’s college, Manchester. d. Drumsheugh gardens, Edinburgh 8 Nov. 1889. Juridical Review Jany. 1890 pp. 27–36 portrait; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 175–80 portrait.

MULCAHY, John. ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1851; professor of mathematics Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; author of Principles of modern geometry, Dublin 1852, 2 ed. 1862. d. 1 Dec. 1853.

MULCASTER, William Edward (1 son of captain sir William Howe Mulcaster). b. 29 Sept. 1820; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1838, major 14 Nov. 1861; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 4 April 1863 to 1 July 1881; served in Afghanistan 1841; in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, and present at Modkee, etc.; served with 7 Irregular cavalry in second Punjab campaign 1848–9, and was present at siege of Mooltan, etc.; commander of 7 Irregular cavalry 14 Jany. 1852 to 26 May 1864, and was present in campaign on North West frontier 1853; brigadier commanding the cavalry in Sitana campaign 1857; brigadier general in Assam 1864, and commanded the Bhootan field force on the Eastern frontier; brigadier general commanding the Mooltan brigade 1865; commanded the Agra brigade to 1867; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. 3 Portland place, Bath 4 Feb. 1887.

MULES, Henry Charles. b. 1816; copyhold and enclosure comr. 13 Nov. 1852 to death. d. Hill house, Copdock, Suffolk 4 Dec. 1862.

MULHALL, Edward. b. Queen’s co. Ireland 1812; ordained R.C. priest 1835; professor of humanity at Carlow college from 1835, until his health obliged him to retire. d. Mountrath, Queen’s county 9 Sept. 1857.

MULHOLLAND, Andrew (son of Thomas Mulholland, cotton manufacturer). b. Belfast 1791; cotton manufacturer with his brother in York st. Belfast, their mill was burnt down 10 June 1828; produced flax yarns by machinery 1830, in which business he enjoyed almost a monopoly; member of Belfast corporation 1842, mayor 1845; presented the town with the organ in Ulster hall at cost of £3,000, 1845; retired from business 1860; sheriff of Down and Antrim. d. Springvale, Ballywalter, co. Down 24 Aug. 1866.

MULL, Matthias. b. 1820; manager of a printing establishment in India 1850; manager of Bombay gazette; on staff of Bombay times, purchased the paper, took Robert Knight into partnership, and renamed it The Times of India, when it became the representative journal of Western India, retired 1880; author of Shakespeare 1883, emendations on certain passages; Paradise lost, with notes 1884; Hamlet restored, with notes 1885; Hamlet, supplementary notes 1888; Macbeth, with preface and notes 1889. d. Oct. 1893.

MULLANY, Patrick Francis. b. Tipperary 29 June 1847; ed. by the Christian Brethren at Utica, New York 1862; professor of mathematics and English literature Rock hill college, Ellicott city, Maryland 1866, president 1878, charges being made against him he was summoned to Paris and on investigation acquitted; professor of rhetoric at De La Salle institute 1889; established the summer school at Plattsburg, a catholic copy of Chautauqua; contributed to the Contemporary, Fortnightly, American Catholic and North American reviews, and The Forum; author under the name of Azarias, of The development of English literature, the old English period, New York 1879; On thinking, an address 1881; Aristotle and the christian church 1888; Phases of thought and criticism 1892; The history of education from the earliest ages 1893, left unfinished. d. Plattsburgh, New York state Sept. 1893.

MULLEN, Robert. Ensign 1 foot 25 June 1802, major 8 Aug. 1833 to 16 June 1843; lieut. col. in the army 16 June 1843; K.H. 1835. d. at residence of his son, captain Mullen, governor of Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.

MULLENS, Joseph. b. London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept 1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of Missionaries (1877) 169–70; Congregationalist viii 969 portrait; Congregational year book (1880) 342–4.

MULLER, Edward Angier Godfrey. b. about 1802; ensign 1 foot 3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct. 1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866 to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill, Surrey 22 June 1875.

MÜLLER, Franz. b. 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja, Ich habe es gethan. Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp. 239–63; Central criminal court, Sessions papers lx 461–504 (1864); Annual register (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; Illust. Times 24 Sept. 1864 p. 201 portrait; A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii 448–52 (1884).

Note.—This was one of the last of the most celebrated public executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868.

MULLINS, Frederick William (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter Mullins, d. 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry 1736–1824). b. 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. d. Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.

MULLINS, James. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of £35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs. Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860, tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death, hanged at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. Central Criminal court trials lii 769–805 (1860); A.R. (1860) 541–64.

MULLOCK, John Thomas. b. Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville; superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York 1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.

MULLOOLY, Joseph. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s, Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of Wales 1859. d. Rome 25 June 1880. bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo 27 June. Times 3 July 1880 p. 12.

MULOCK, Dinah Maria (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). b. Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti 1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852; Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853; Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols. 1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868; Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864; m. 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii 377–84 (1891).

Note.—The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte.

MULREADY, William (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). b. Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater 1827 to death. d. 7 July 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready (1890) 2 portraits; Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready (1867); Sandby’s History of the royal academy i 355–58 (1862); S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists (1871) 15–6; J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A. (1872); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 137–43; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii 224–30, 298–325 (1866); I.L.N. vii 20 (1845) portrait.

MULVANY, Charles Pelham (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister). b. Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850, scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7; surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868; went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872; assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years; curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881; author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant, Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. d. 69 Augusta terrace, Toronto 31 May 1885. David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1892) 171.

MULVANY, George F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A. d. 1852). b. Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy; exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A., succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy 1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847; Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany 1890. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1869.

MUMFORD, Eliza. b. 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. d. Bromley, Kent 3 Feb. 1884.

Note.—Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882.

MUMMERY, Isaac Vale (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). b. Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec. to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. d. 28 High st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. bur. Abney park cemet. 7 Oct. Congregational Mag. (1893) 234.

MUNBY, Giles (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). b. York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges, and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran, Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. d. the Holt near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. Gardener’s Chronicle ii 260–2 (1876) portrait.

MUNDELL, William Adam (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George st. Westminster). b. 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co., solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847, bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar; Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding of assizes and sessions 1857. d. 150 Buckingham palace road, London 15 July 1875. Law Times lix 252 (1875); Solicitor’s Journal xix 736 (1875); Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p. 77.

MUNDY, Charles Fitroy Miller (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, d. 1834). b. 31 March 1815; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15 Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. London 12 July 1888.

MUNDY, George. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs. Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. d. Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.

MUNDY, Sir George (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire d. Oct. 1822). b. Shipley hall 1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec. 1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1819–31. d. 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.

MUNDY, Sir George Rodney (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy d. 1848). b. London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819, captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857; second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863; commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72; admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5; admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23 June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples during the Italian revolution 1863. d. 12 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.

MUNDY, George Valentine (brother of the preceding). b. 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840; captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut. col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in the army 24 April 1860. d. 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 14 May 1863.

MUNDY, Godfrey Charles (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot 6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857 to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. d. London 10 July 1860.

MUNDY, Sir Robert Miller (brother of Sir George Mundy 1777–1861). b. 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut. R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846 with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col. in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut. governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut. governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of £333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.

MUNDY, William (son of Francis Mundy M.P. d. 6 May 1837). b. Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843; M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South Derbyshire 19 July 1865. d. Markeaton 10 April 1877.

MUNRO, Alexander (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). b. 1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A. and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca 1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham; lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself a house and studio at Cannes. d. Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 133–8.

MUNRO, Alexander. b. Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid, Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations to scripture and reason 1856. d. Glasgow Nov. 1892.

MUNRO, Alexander Thompson (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt., d. Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany. 1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18 Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut. col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3 July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug. 1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate. The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July, 8, 24, 26 Aug., 4 Dec. 1843; Annual Register (1843) 79–80, 115, (1847) 111–12; I.L.N. xi 173 (1847) portrait.

MUNRO, Sir Charles, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain, Rossshire, d. 1846). b. Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5 March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war; received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the war of independence in South America, and commanded a division of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9 baronet 2 May 1848. d. Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.

MUNRO, Donald. b. Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar; head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to 1850; F.L.S. 1821. d. 9 April 1853 Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 237 (1855).

MUNRO, Donald. b. 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. d. Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888.

MUNRO, Sir George Gun (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). b. 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. d. 16 Sept. 1852.

MUNRO, Hugh Andrew Johnstone (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). b. Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. d. Rome 30 March 1885. bur. in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. Saturday Review lix 472; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 131–42 (1854).

MUNRO OR McKENZIE, Janet. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. d. Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. bur. Roskeen 19 April. Times 15 May 1852 p. 8.

MUNRO, John (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, d. May 1788). b. June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.

MUNRO, William (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). b. 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. d. Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.

MUNROE, Kate, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). b. New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; m. 1886 Mr. Miles. d. from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and bur. in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 267; Illust. S. & D. News v 321, 327 (1876) portrait; The Theatre ii 169, 208 (1883) portrait.

MUNSEY, Thomas Alexander Augustus. b. 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. d. Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.

MUNSIE, William. b. Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. d. Glasgow 1864. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 235–6 (1886) portrait.

MUNSTER, Henry (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. d. Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894.

MUNSTER, William Felix Laurence (son of Henry Munster, M.P.) b. Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4; resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. d. St. Louis, Missouri 11 April 1877.

MUNTZ, George Frederick (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz, merchant, d. 1811). b. Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov. 1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811; made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of 15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency 1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of the country, 2 ed. 1843. d. Umberslade hall, near Birmingham 30 July 1857. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 86–101; R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors (1881) 93, 170, 206, 225; Dent’s Birmingham 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880) portrait; I.L.N. i 92 (1842) portrait, xiv 196 (1849) portrait; E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 79–88.

MUNTZ, Philip Henry (brother of preceding). b. Selby hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough 1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec. 1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856; presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P. Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. d. Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. bur. Leamington 28 Dec. Biograph iii 47–52 (1880); Times 26 Dec. 1888, p. 4, 29 Dec. p. 7; Dent’s Birmingham 494, 546 (1880); I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36 portrait.

MURCHISON, Charles (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.) b. Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin 1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April 1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death; physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860, physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital 1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P. 1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875; member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer 1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885; On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23 April 1879. bur. Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St. Thomas’s hospital. Proc. of Royal Society xxix 23–5 (1879).

MURCHISON, Kenneth (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale, Eastern Ross 1751–96). b. 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807; lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion 1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and Singapore. d. Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.

MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth Murchison 1793–1854). b. Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb. 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug. 1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14; captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815; attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany. 1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826, Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society 1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president of British Association at York 1846; director general of the geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861; lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains 1845; m. 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 22 Oct. 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R. I. Murchison, 2 vols. (1875) portrait; Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 206–13; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 29–35 (1872); Walford’s Representative Men (1868) portrait No. 13; I.L.N. xlviii 237 (1866) portrait; Graphic iv 411, 429 (1871) portrait; Illust. Times 13 Jany. 1866 p. 17 portrait; Victoria Mag. xii 461–3 (1809) an account of Lady Murchison; Reg. and mag. of biog. i 297–8 (1869).

MURDOCH, George. b. 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany. 1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22 Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired 14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced, the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece to the Admiralty 1866. d. Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.

MURDOCH, John. b. 1767; a baker; the public hangman in Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct. 1851. d. 15 March 1856. Times 28 March 1856 p. 10.

MURDOCH, John. b. Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to death. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.

MURDOCH, Sir Thomas William Clinton (son of Thomas Murdoch, F.R.S.) b. Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842; chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847, retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1 Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. d. 88 St. George’s sq. London 30 Nov. 1891.

MURE, David (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, d. 1831). b. 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1891.

MURE, James (son of James Mure). b. Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. d. 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 311–13.

MURE, William (brother of David Mure 1810–91). b. Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. d. 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. G.M. viii 634–5 (1860).

MURE, William (eld. son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.

MURFITT, Samuel. b. Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. d. Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.

MURLAND, James William. b. 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. Found dead in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. Irish law times xxiv 275 (1890).

MURLY, George Bullock. b. 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. d. Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.

MURPHY, Mr. b. Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. d. of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. Willis’ Current Notes (1857) 34; E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs (1868) 224; F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3rd series ii 23 (1868).

MURPHY, Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). b. Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; m. 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. d. North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. bur. in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. Appleton’s American biography iv 465 (1888); The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp. 659–60.

MURPHY, Edward William. b. Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. d. 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 69–72 (1868) portrait; Medical times i 217 (1877).

MURPHY, Francis. b. Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. d. West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858.

MURPHY, Sir Francis (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). b. Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. d. St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.

Note.—His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. d. Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.

MURPHY, Francis Stack (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). b. Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. d. Kensington, London 17 June 1860. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 464–7; I.L.N. iv 107 (1844) portrait; Law Times xxxv 191 (1860).

MURPHY, George Mollett (son of a shop keeper who d. 1845). b. Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839, became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845; an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52; signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham 1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall, his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling, with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths for religious services during many seasons; minister of the Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’ industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them 1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story, a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 8 Finchley road, Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. bur. Abney park cemet. 22 July. Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy (1888) portrait; The Biograph iv 233–7 (1880).

MURPHY, George Stormont. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870 to death. d. 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1893. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of cabdrivers with their cabs.

MURPHY, James. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. d. 1883.

MURPHY, Jeremiah John (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). b. Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery 1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. d. 50 Upper Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. bur. in Glasnevin cemet. Law mag. and law review iii 206 (1857).

MURPHY, John. b. Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia 1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal; issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. d. Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.

MURPHY, Miles. b. Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept. 1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828; parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50; vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated 10 March 1850. d. Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856. bur. Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856 p. 524, 23 Aug. p. 540.

MURPHY, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. d. Hotel Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.

MURPHY, Timothy. b. Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec. 1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May 1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841; bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept. 1849. d. Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 102 (1876).

MURRAY, Alexander. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut. 18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31 Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. d. London 24 Dec. 1865.

MURRAY, Alexander (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff). b. 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired 1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.

MURRAY, Amelia Matilda (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803, bishop of St. Davids). b. 30 April 1795; had a government pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.; maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847; Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856; Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. d. Glenberrow, near Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.

MURRAY, Andrew (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn, C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43; assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April 1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869. d. Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxvi 270–72 (1873).

MURRAY, Andrew (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June 1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861; began collection of economic entomology for Science and art department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of mammals 1866. d. 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington 10 Jany. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.

MURRAY, Augustus William. b. 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot 28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25 Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4 March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands 4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius 14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. d. Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.

MURRAY, Charles Knight (son of Charles Murray). b. 12 Oct. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr. of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne, Victoria 1852. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.

MURRAY, Daniel (son of a farmer). b. Sheepwalk, near Arklow, co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca 1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823 to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death; took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850; author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed. d. Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. bur. pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. J. D’Alton’s Memoirs of archbishops of Dublin (1838) 488–92; D. Murray’s Sermons, 2 vols. Dublin (1859) portrait; Notices of D. Murray, archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher (1853) memoir pp. 53–142.

MURRAY, Edward (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37; R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. d. Northolt 1 July 1852. G.M. xxxviii 317 (1852).

Note.—He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played for England more than once.

MURRAY, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47; resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; m. Henry John Murray, British consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres 1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She d. San Remo, Italy 8 Dec. 1882. Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii 111–16 (1876).

MURRAY, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager 1765–1836). b. 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept. 1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb. 1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30 Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J. Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868, Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W. Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre; played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20 Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship 16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary 29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in Forget me not; m. at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh Murray, actor, who d. 29 Jany. 1870. She d. 25 May 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 May. Theatrical Times iii 381, 382 (1848) portrait.

MURRAY, Eustace Clare Grenville (natural son of Richard Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). b. 1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851, acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852; vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28 May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869 for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington 1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon; Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette; proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles, 3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols. 1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. d. Passy, near Paris 20 Dec. 1881. bur. Paris 24 Dec. E. Yates’s Recollections ii 309–30 (1884); J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 106–10; Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii 301–11 (1887); Biograph vi 585 (1881); Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp. 24–5; A.R. (1869) 79–82; Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray, Parliamentary Papers 1868–69, No. 4163.

MURRAY, Freeman. b. 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb. 1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major 20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov. 1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept. 1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61; commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot 14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Florence 14 April 1885.

MURRAY, Gaston, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. b. London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life; first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany. 1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859; Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb. 1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr. Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s; played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande 15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4 March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872; treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General theatrical fund 1880–2. d. 8 Aug. 1889. bur. Nunhead cemet. 12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p. 8, 17 Aug. p. 8.

MURRAY, George (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex 1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813; archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814; bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19 March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. d. 77 Chester sq. London 16 Feb. 1860. Portraits of eminent conservatives, 2nd series (1846) portrait 21.

MURRAY, George (son of John Murray of Troquhain). b. Galloway 1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8 March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843; readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge 1866. d. Wimbledon, Surrey 15 Nov. 1883. H. Scott’s Fasti i 697 (1867).

MURRAY, Sir Henry (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of Mansfield 1727–96). b. 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March 1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons 18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont Murray 1859. d. Wimbledon 29 July 1860.

MURRAY, Henry Leigh, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother of Gaston Murray 1826–89). b. Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820; made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19 April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849; stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm. Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7, at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859; made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of his day. d. 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. bur. Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 307–9 (1888); Tallis’s Dramatic magazine (1851) 135–7 portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14 portrait; The Players iii 399 (1861), and iv 2 (1861); Theatrical Times i 161 (1847) portrait.

MURRAY, James. b. Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms, and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury 1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862. d. Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. Builder xxi 780, 807, (1863).

MURRAY, Sir James (son of Edward Murray). b. co. Londonderry 1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb. 1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin 1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829, knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington 1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other epidemics, Dublin 1849. d. 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec. 1871. bur. Glasnevin cemet. I.L.N. lix 618 (1871), lx 15, 16, (1872) portrait.

MURRAY, James. b. 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826; assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct. 1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. d. 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19 Feb. 1878.

MURRAY, James. b. 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. d. middle of Aug. 1882. Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p. 273.

MURRAY, James Archibald (son of Charles Murray). b. 4 March 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820; second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. d. 7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.