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as Mr. Fang the magistrate. _d._ 3 Tanfield court, Inner Temple, London 12 Feb. 1862. _J. Foster’s Life of C. Dickens_, _iii_ 4.

LAING, DAVID (son of Mr. Laing, merchant). _b._ City of London 1774; articled to sir John Soane 1790; surveyor of buildings at the Custom house 1811, designed a new Custom house built 1813–17, the front fell down 26 Jany. 1825; joint architect with W. Tite of church of St. Dunstan in the East 1817–20, opened 14 Jany. 1821; F.S.A.; published Hints for dwellings 1800, new ed. 1841; Plans of buildings executed in various parts of England, including the Custom house, London, engraved on 59 plates 1818. _d._ 5 Elm place, West Brompton, London 27 March 1856. _G.M. June 1856 p._ 650; _The Builder 5 April 1856 p._ 189.

LAING, DAVID (2 son of Wm. Laing, bookseller). _b._ Edinburgh 20 April 1793; assistant to his father, and partner with him 1821; sec. of Bannatyne Club 27 Feb. 1823 to its dissolution 1861; F.S.A. Scot. 1824, treasurer, then foreign sec. many years; librarian to the Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh 21 June 1837 to death, printed a general catalogue of the library vol. 1 A to L 1865–71 and vol. 2 as far as letter N 1871–8; hon. professor of antiquities to R. Scottish Acad. 1854; LLD. Dublin univ. 1864; took special interest in old Scotch ballads and history; edited 5 works for Abbotsford club, 17 for Bannatyne club, 3 for Hunterian club, 2 for Shakespeare soc., 1 for Spalding club and 3 for Wodrow soc.; also The works of John Knox 6 vols. 1846–64, and the works of sir David Lindsay 1871, William Dunbar 1834 and Robert Henryson 1865; author of Early Scottish metrical tales 1826, new ed. 1889; Biographical notices of T. Young, vicar of Stowmarket. Edinb. 1870; Etchings by sir David Wilkie, with biographical sketches 1875 and numerous other works. _d._ 12 James st. Portobello, Edinburgh 18 Oct. 1878.

NOTE.--His library in a 31 day sale disposed of by Sotheby & Co. 1879–80 for £16,137 9s. He left drawings to R. Scottish Acad., and a collection of MSS. to Edinb. univ. _T. G. Stevenson’s Notices of David Laing_ (1878); _Select remains of ancient poetry of Scotland by D. Laing, with memoir_ (1885), _portrait_.

LAING, DAVID. _b._ 1800; ed. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; chaplain to Middlesex hospital, London 1840–47; V. of Trinity district, St. Pancras, London 1 June 1847 to 1857, Holy Trinity ch. consecrated 15 Oct. 1850; R. of St. Olave-by-the-Tower, London 1857 to death; founder of Governesses’ Asylum, Prince of Wales’s road, Kentish Town, opened 12 June 1849, hon. sec. to death; F.R.S. 23 Nov. 1843; author of Sermons 1847; Six sermons in a work entitled Great truths for thoughtful moments 1853; The oneness of providence, evidence that the most high ruleth 1854; The Bible, its oneness of mind and oneness of design 1854, and some school books for children. _d._ St. Olave’s rectory, 8 Hart st. Mark lane, London 6 Aug. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _F. Miller’s St. Pancras_ (1874) 218–26, 330.

NOTE.--His wife Mary Elizabeth who acted as hon. sec. of Governesses’ Asylum 1860 to decease, _d._ 55 Haverstock hill, London 21 April 1886 aged 82.

LAING, FRANCIS HENRY. Roman Catholic ecclesiastic; D.D.; edited The catholic freethinker’s fly-sheet 1883, 2 numbers; author of Catholic the same in meaning as sovereign 1848; The knight of the faith, by J. H. L. 1867; The blessed virgin’s root traced in the tribe of Ephraim 1871; The shortcoming of the English catholic press 1879; The catholic freethinker 1886; The two evolutions, the real and the mock 1888. _d._ 17 Dec. 1889. _The Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 62.

LAING, HENRY. _b._ 1803; Seal engraver, Edinburgh; author of Descriptive catalogue of impressions from ancient Scottish seals. Edinb. 1850; Supplementary descriptive catalogue of seals 1866; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1865. _d._ 1883.

LAING, _John_ (son of Mr. Laing, factor to earl of Rosebery at Dalmeny). _b._ Edinburgh 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister of parish of Livingston, Linlithgowshire 1842–3, free church minister there 1843–6; chaplain to presbyterian soldiers at Gibraltar 1846, afterwards at Malta; librarian of New college, Edin. 1850 to death; published Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts in the library of New college, Edinburgh 1868; author with Samuel Halkett of A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain 4 vols. Edinburgh 1882–8. _d._ 3 April 1880. _The Library Chronicle_, _v_ 138, 148–50 (1888).

LAING, JOHN GEORGE (2 son of Malcolm Laing of Upper Canada). _b._ Niagara, Upper Canada 26 Aug. 1839; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1865–8; 2nd wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1862; B.A. 1862; assistant tutor at Trinity college; barrister L.I. 6 June 1866. _d._ 46 Ladbroke grove, Notting Hill, London 4 Feb. 1887.

LAING, PETER. _b._ 5 Jany. 1785; resided at Elgin; entertained by the citizens of Elgin on his birthday 5 Jany. 1888 when aged 103.

LAING, PHILIP (youngest son of James Laing of Pitteenween, Fifeshire). Founded with his elder brother John Laing the great shipbuilding firm of John and Philip Laing at North Sands on the Wear 1793, sole proprietor 1818 to death, the works acquired worldwide reputation; lived at Deptford house, co. Durham 1818 to death. _d._ 1854.

LAING, SAMUEL (son of Robert Laing). _b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 4 Oct. 1780; ed. at Edinb. univ. to 1800; ensign royal staff corps 26 Sep. 1805, served in the Peninsula, sold out 1809; manager of mines at Wanlock head, Scotland 1809; organised herring fisheries in the Orkneys 1818; succeeded to Strynzia estate, Kirkwall on death of his brother Malcolm 6 Nov. 1818; provost of Kirkwall some years; engaged in the kelp trade, in which he lost his money 1834; contested Orkney and Shetland 1832; author of Journal of a residence in Norway 1834–36, 1836; A tour in Sweden 1839; Notes of a traveller on the social state of France, Russia, Switzerland, Italy 1842; The Heimskringla or chronicle of the kings of Norway, a translation 3 vols. 1844; Notes on the schism from the church of Rome 1845. _d._ at res. of his dau. Mrs. Elizabeth Baxter, Edinburgh 23 April 1868.

LAING, SIMON (son of David Laing. _b._ Gretna 1750, pedlar, priest at Gretna Green 1792, _d._ Springfield 31 June 1827). Weaver; priest at Gretna Green 1827 and custodian of the marriage register; took into partnership Robert Elliott; performed his last marriage ceremony 1871 and was the last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._ Kelling near Newcastle-on-Tyne 3 May 1872. _bur._ Gretna ch. yard. _P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green_, _ii_ 200–14 (1844); _Annual Register_ (1872) 31.

LAIRD, JOHN (eld. son of William Laird of Birkenhead, shipbuilder). _b._ Greenock 14 June 1805; associated with his father, managing partner in firm of W. Laird & Son, style of firm changed to John Laird 1833, retired Oct. 1861; one of first to use iron for ships, built a lighter of 60 tons for use on the Irish lakes 1829, built the Lady Lansdowne steamship 1833, the John Randolph 1834 the first iron vessel seen in America, and the Nemesis for the H.E.I.Co. the first iron vessel carrying guns; built the first government iron ship the Dover mail packet 1840; chairman of Birkenhead improvement commission 1855 to Dec. 1861; M.P. Birkenhead 11 Dec. 1861 to death; built many large vessels for the government, Pacific Steam Navigation co., P. and O.S.N. co., Messageries Maritimes co. and British Colonial steam navigation co.; built the Alabama for American confederate states, launched 15 May 1862. _d._ 63 Hamilton sq. Birkenhead 29 Oct. 1874. _Practical Mag. iii_ 401–8 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 74 (1861), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 439 (1874), _portrait_.

LAIRD, MACGREGOR (brother of the preceding). _b._ Greenock 1808; partner with his father; took part in formation of a co. at Liverpool to develop the river Niger, voyaged with Richard Lemon Lander in the Alburka to the junction of the Niger and the Tchadda 1832–3, returned to England 1834; F.R.G.S.; a promoter of British and North American steam navigation co. 1837, which built the Great Western which went to America and back under steam 1838; took an active part in development of Birkenhead from 1844; a merchant at 3 Mincing lane, London; started the African steamship co. 1849; fitted out a trading and exploring expedition at his own cost and risk to Central Africa 1854; built 3 steamers for annual voyages up the Niger; author of The effect of an alteration in the sugar duties on the people of England and the Negro race 1844; author with R. A. K. Oldfield of Narrative of an expedition into Africa by the river Niger in the vessels Quorra and Alburka 2 vols. 1837. _d._ 9 Jany. 1861.

LAKE, EDWARD JOHN (son of major Edward Lake lost at sea 1829). _b._ Madras 19 June 1823; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1840, lieut. 1844; present at battle of Moodkee 20 Dec. 1845; in charge of the Kangra district in the Sutlej 1846; political officer to the Nawab of Bahawalpoor 1848, with whose troops he took part in siege of Mooltun; although but a lieut. was in charge of Davodpootra army; present at Gujerat 1849; in charge of Beas and Ravee country 1850–2; commissioner of Jalundhur Doab 1855; held fort of Kangra during the rebellion 1857; lieut.-col. R.E. 18 Feb. 1861; financial commissioner of the Punjab 1865; C.S.I. 24 May 1866; retired as major general 1 Jany. 1870; Lake scholarship founded at Lahore high sch. Jany. 1870; hon. lay sec. of Church missionary soc. 1869–76; editor of Church missionary record 1871–74; edited Church missionary atlas 5 ed. 1873; author of Sir D. McLeod, a record of forty-two years services in India 1874. _d._ Princes buildings, Clifton 7 June 1877. _bur._ Long Ashton 13 June.

LAKE, GEORGE HANDY. _b._ June 1827; edited Musical Gazette 3 vols. 1856–8; musical critic of Sunday Times; organist of several leading London churches; an accompanist at principal concerts; excellent performer on English concertina; composer of popular ballads, Summer is sweet, and One glance from thee, and many works for pianoforte and concertina; his oratorio Daniel produced at Exeter Hall 1852 met with great success. _d._ London 24 Dec. 1865.

LAKE, SIR HENRY ATWELL (3 son of sir James Samuel Wm. Lake, 4 bart. _d._ 4 Nov. 1832). _b._ Kenilworth 15 Dec. 1810; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 15 Dec. 1826; employed in public works department, India 1826–54; commanded engineers in defence of Kars 1855; a prisoner in Russia 1855–56; transferred to British army as lieut.-col. unattached for his services at defence of Kars 1856; aide de camp to the Queen 24 June 1856 to 1864; lieut.-col. on h.p. 12 Sep. 1856; chief comr. of Dublin police 7 Sep. 1858 to Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 25 March 1875; author of Kars and our captivity in Russia 1856, 2 ed. 1856; Narrative of the defence of Kars, historical and military 1857. _d._ Brighton 17 Aug. 1881. _Nolan’s Russian war_, _ii_ 507 (1857), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_ 121, 126 (1856), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiv_ 389 (1881), _portrait_.

LAKE, NOEL THOMAS. _b._ 22 Oct. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 July 1820, colonel 23 Feb. 1856 to 30 May 1862; M.G. 30 May 1862; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Wellesley house, Shooter’s hill, Kent 19 May 1864.

LAKIN, JOHN. _b._ 1787; took part in whole of Peninsular war with the 16 lancers; serjeant major; keeper in Windsor great park about 1826 to death; the oldest royal servant of Her Majesty. _d._ Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor great park 23 Feb. 1877.

LALOR, JOHN (son of John Lalor, merchant). _b._ Dublin 1814; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; assistant poor law commissioner, Ireland to 1836; one of principal editors of Morning Chronicle, London; solicitor Dublin 1838; left R.C. ch., became a unitarian and edited The Inquirer a weekly paper; author of The Educator, a prize essay 1839; Money and morals, a book for the times 1852. _d._ Holly hill, Hampstead, London 3 Feb. 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 319–20 (1856).

LALOR, PETER (eld. son of Patrick Lalor, M.P. for Queen’s co., gentleman farmer). _b._ Tinakill, Queen’s co. Ireland 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; a civil engineer; sailed for Melbourne 1852; commanded the rebel miners at the Eureka stockade riot near Ballarat 3 Dec. 1854 when he received a ball near the shoulder which caused loss of his left arm; member of legislative assembly for Ballarat Nov. 1855, for South Grant 1856–71 and again 1875–88, chairman of committees 1859–68; inspector of railways 1855; chairman of the Clunes water commission; comr. for trade and customs 1877–80, post master general 1878–80, speaker of the assembly 22 July 1880 to 29 Sep. 1887, awarded a grant of £4000 on his retirement. _d._ Melbourne 9 Feb. 1889.

LAMB, SIR CHARLES MONTOLIEU, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nantcribba hall, Montgomeryshire 8 July 1785; succeeded 13 Oct. 1824; knight marshal of the royal household 30 Jany. 1825 to death; knight marshal of the lists at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1847 to death. _d._ Beauport, Battle, Sussex 21 March 1860. _Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait plate iii_.

LAMB, EDWARD BUCKTON. _b._ 1806; an architect in the modern Gothic style with a large practice; exhibited 57 designs at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1824–69; some of his designs were published in lithography; published Etchings of Gothic ornament 1830; Studies of ancient domestic architecture 1846. _d._ 3 Hinde st. Manchester sq. London 30 Aug. 1869.

LAMB, ROBERT (son of Thomas Lamb of Cockeram, Lancs.). _b._ 1812; ed. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1840; C. of Kirkham, Lancs. 1837–40; principal of Western gram. sch. Brompton, London 1840–44; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Preston 1844–49; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1849 to 1871; contributed many articles to Fraser’s Mag. under pseudonym of A Manchester Man; author of Sermons on passing seasons and events 1853; Selections from articles contributed to Fraser’s Magazine 2 vols. 1866; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s church 2 vols. 1870; Yarndale: an unsentimental story 3 vols. 1872. _d._ Haycarr near Lancaster 24 Dec. 1872.

LAMB, THOMAS. _b._ Lamb’s lane, Forebank, Dundee 1801; grocer and spirit dealer, Murraygate, Dundee; became a convinced teetotaller and destroyed all the liquor he had in stock 1828; opened a coffee house in the Murraygate which became the head quarters of the literary societies and clubs of Dundee; a refreshment contractor for festive meetings; opened refreshment rooms and tea gardens 1843; opened Lamb’s Temperance hotel 30 July 1852 which he much enlarged in 1867; kept a dairy farm. _d._ Dundee 31 Oct. 1869. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 342–9.

LAMBE, GEORGE. _b._ 1786 or 1787; assistant surgeon Bengal army 27 March 1808, surgeon 1 July 1823; superintending surgeon Dacca 31 Jany. 1844 to 10 April 1847; inspector general of hospitals, Bengal 10 April 1847, surgeon general 24 July 1848, phys. general 10 Feb. 1849 to 10 April 1852 when he retired. _d._ very suddenly 3 Feb. 1862.

LAMBERT, GEORGE JACKSON (son of George Lambert, organist of Beverley Minster 40 years, _d._ 15 July 1818). _b._ Beverley 16 Nov. 1794; organist of Beverley Minster 1818–74, 56 years; a fine violoncello and violin player; published overtures, instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, &c.; printed Duett for two performers on the piano 1815; A favourite French air with variations 1820; Major Campbell’s waltz with variations 1830. _d._ Beverley 24 Jany. 1880.

LAMBERT, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (5 son of Robert Alexander Lambert, captain R.N. 1732–1801). _b._ 8 Sep. 1795; entered R.N. April 1809; in the Walcheren expedition; captain 8 Aug. 1825; served in West Indies 1845–47; commodore at Jamaica 23 Jany. 1847; did good service in the war with Burmah; R.A. 21 Jany. 1854, admiral on h.p. 15 Dec. 1863; granted service pension 5 March 1864; K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853, G.C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ suddenly in billiard room of United Service club, 116 Pall Mall, London 5 June 1869.

LAMBERT, JAMES STAUNTON (eld. son of Walter Lambert of Creg Clare, co. Galway, _d._ 25 Sep. 1832). _b._ 5 March 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; sheriff of Galway 1813; M.P. co. Galway 6 July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Budleigh Salterton, South Devon 1 July 1867.

LAMBERT, SIR JOHN (son of Daniel Lambert of Hindon, surgeon). _b._ Bridzor, Wiltshire 4 Feb. 1815; ed. Downside coll. Bath; solicitor at Salisbury 1836–57; mayor of Salisbury 1854 being the first Roman Catholic mayor of a cathedral city since the Reformation; a poor law inspector 1857; superintended administration of the Public Works (manufacturing districts)

## Act 1863; receiver of metropolitan common poor fund under

Metropolitan Poor Act 1867; member of parliamentary boundaries commission 1867 and of the sanitary commission; the first permanent secretary of local government board 31 Aug. 1871 to Nov. 1882; chairman of commission which drew up census of landed proprietors in Great Britain 1872; chairman of boundaries commission 1884–5; C.B. 5 May 1871, K.C.B. 31 May 1879; P.C. 19 May 1885; profoundly versed in ecclesiastical music of the middle ages; author of many musical works in Latin and English; edited A grammar of ritual music by Janssen 1849; The vesper psalter 1849. _d._ Milford house, Elms road, Clapham common near London 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Osmund’s ch. Salisbury which he had founded. _Downside Review_, _vol. viii No._ 1, _and vol. xi No._ 1; _I.L.N. 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 166, _portrait_.

LAMBERT, JOHN ARTHUR (eld. son of sir John Lambert, G.C.B. _d._ 1846). _b._ 30 Sep. 1817; ensign grenadier guards 10 July 1835, lieut.-col. 12 March 1861 to 27 Dec. 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. royal Irish Fusiliers 25 April 1880 to death; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. _d._ Weston house, Thames Ditton 17 Sep. 1887.

LAMBERT, NATHANIEL GRACE (son of Richard Lambert). _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 1811; a coalowner; sheriff of Bucks. 1865; M.P. Bucks. 1868–80; captain commandant Taplow yeomanry lancers. _d._ Denham court near Uxbridge 9 Dec. 1882.

LAMBERT, ROWLEY. _b._ 22 April 1828; entered navy 1841; captain 29 Sep. 1855; commodore on Australian station 28 May 1867 to 8 April 1870; commanded detached squadron for particular service 8 June 1875 to 1877; V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Grosvenor hotel, Victoria station, London 22 July 1880.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Burstow, Surrey 1779; a miller at Nutfield, also in the fuller’s earth trade; in match Lord’s _v._ England 20 July 1801; not allowed to play at Lord’s after 1818 being accused of selling the England _v._ Nottingham match by not playing his best; one of the most successful of cricketers, excelling in batting, bowling, fielding, keeping wicket and in single wicket playing; one of the few cricketers who has made 100 runs twice in the same match 1817; beat at single wicket two of the best players Lord F. Beauclerk and T. C. Howard, Lord’s 6 and 7 July 1810, a sum of money was paid by the defeated to prevent this match being reported in Bentley; author of The cricketer’s guide. Lewes 1816; Instructions and rules for playing cricket 1816; a great bell ringer. _d._ Nutfield 19 April 1851. _bur._ Burstow.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM BLAKE. _b._ Berwick on Tweed 1816; chief engineer of General screw steam shipping co. to 1856; engineer at Portsmouth dockyard 1856–59; chief engineer to the Russian navy 1859–66. _d._ St. Petersburg 18 Feb. 1874.

LAMBTON, HEDWORTH (3 son of Wm. Henry Lambton 1764–97, M.P. city of Durham 1787–97). _b._ 26 March 1797; M.P. North Durham 21 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 8 Lansdowne place, Brighton 16 Sep. 1876.

LAMBTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ 27 March 1793. _d._ 17 Chesham place, London 3 April 1866, personalty sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866.

LAMINGTON, ALEXANDER DUNDAS ROSS WISHART BAILLIE-COCHRANE, 1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B. 1789–1872). _b._ 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport 1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight 1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems 1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols. 1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau, Vincennes 1877. _d._ 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p._ 231, _portrait_; _Times 17, 25 Feb. 1890_.

LAMONT, JOHANN VON (son of a custom-house officer, who _d._ 1816). _b._ Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen 1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S. 1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death; decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin 1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart 1824–71. _d._ Munich 6 Aug. 1879. _bur._ in churchyard at Bogenhausen. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl_ 208–12 (1880); _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x_ 358 (1880).

LAMPSON, SIR CURTIS MIRANDA, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of Newhaven, Vermont). _b._ Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st., merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. _d._ 80 Eaton sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May. _I.L.N. xlix_ 545, 558 (1866), _portrait_.

LAMSON, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. W. O. Lamson, chaplain to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870). _b._ New York 8 Sep. 1852; resided with his parents in Paris 1858–70; studied medicine in Paris 1869–70; assistant surgeon to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870; surgeon in Paris during the siege, for which he received the bronze cross; graduated M.D. in Univ. of Pennsylvania 1872; a surgeon at Ferry Town, New York to 1874; at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1874–6; came to England, Sep. 1876 at invitation of secretary of the League in aid of the Christians in Turkey; surgeon-in-chief to military hospital at Semendria, received a gold medal for bravery; chief of the English military hospital at Costo Foro, Bucharest, during Russo-Turkish war Aug. 1877 to March 1878; was snowed up six days without food on his way back from Plevna to Bucharest; received Star of Roumania and Turkish order of the Medjidie at end of the war 1878; L.R.C.P. Edinb., L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M.C.S. Edinb. May 1878; practised at Rotherfield, Tunbridge Wells, May 1878; bought a practice at Bournemouth for £400, 1879; went for a six months’ trip to America, April 1880; sold his practice and left Bournemouth, April 1881. (_m._ 16 Oct. 1878 Kate eld. child of Wm. John of Manchester, merchant); poisoned his brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John with aconitine at Wm. Henry Bedbrook’s school, Blenheim house, 2 and 4 St. George’s road, Wimbledon 3 Dec. 1881; surrendered himself at Scotland yard 7 Dec. 1881; tried before sir Henry Hawkins at the Old Bailey 9–14 March 1882, when found guilty and sentenced to death; reprieved twice to enable his friends in America to produce evidence of his insanity; confessed his guilt 27 April 1882; hanged in Wandsworth gaol 28 April 1882. _Central criminal court sessions paper._ _Minutes of evidence_, _xcv_ 547–90 (1882); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 514–67; _Law Journal 24 Oct. 1891 pp._ 652–3; _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 294–300, 348–63; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 257 (1882), _portrait_.

L’AMY, JAMES. _b._ Dunkenny 8 July 1772; advocate at Scotch bar 1794; sheriff of Forfarshire, July 1819 to death. _d._ Dundee 15 Jany. 1854. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) _p._ 155.

LANAWAY, CHARLES. _b._ Henfield, Sussex 16 March 1793; played in Brighton and Sussex elevens; a butcher at Brighton 1819; first match at Lord’s, Sussex _v._ England 7 July 1828; underhand bowler. _d._ 49 London road, Brighton 6 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Henfield.

LANCASTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Charles Lancaster of 151 New Bond st. London, gunmaker, _d._ 1847). _b._ York st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1820; in his father’s factory, succeeded to the business 1847; solved the problem of rifled cannon 1844–5; conceived the idea of the oval bore as proper form for all rifled arms and cannon 1850; superintended production of guns in Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; the Lancaster carbine was adopted as the arm for the royal engineers Jany. 1855, superseded by Martini-Henry rifle 1869; took out upwards of 20 patents 1850–72; the Czar of Russia had a large gold medal struck in his honour; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. _d._ 151 New Bond st. London 24 April 1878. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. liii_ 289–92 (1878); _Sporting Mirror_, _iii_ 21–2 (1882).

LANCASTER, HENRY HILL (son of Thomas Lancaster, merchant). _b._ Glasgow 10 Jany. 1829; ed. at Glasgow high school and univ.; Snell exhibitioner Balliol coll. Oxf. 1849; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1872, Arnold prizeman 1854; advocate at Edinburgh 1858, advocate depute 1868–74; sec. to commission of inquiry into state of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1858; member of royal commission on Scottish educational establishments 1872; wrote essays in North British and Edinburgh Reviews, more important of which were reprinted privately in 2 vols. 1876 and published in 1 vol. as Essays and Reviews Edinb. 1876. _d._ suddenly from apoplexy at 5 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1875. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Feb. 1876 p._ 107.

LANCASTER, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; scene painter in London about 1840 to death; connected with the leading London and provincial theatres. _d._ 57 Grosvenor park, Camberwell, London 2 May 1892. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery.

LANCASTER, JOHN (son of John Lancaster). _b._ Radcliffe near Bury, Lancs. 19 Sep. 1815; manager of Patricroft colliery 1841; mineral agent for lord Mostyn at Mostyn colliery 1847 etc.; manager earl Granville’s iron works and collieries, Shelton, Staffs. 1849–56; manager Shireoak colliery near Worksop 1855–58; built 5 blast furnaces at Kirkless hall iron works 1856–60 which were the second set in Lancs.; chairman Wigan coal and iron co. 1865–70; chairman West Cumberland iron and steel works 1870 to death; contested Wigan July 1865, M.P. Wigan 1868–74; F.G.S., M.I.M.E. 1863; rescued the crew of Confederate cruiser Alabama when she was sunk by the Federal war-steamer Kearsage off Cherbourg 19 June 1864. _d._ 58 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 21 April 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884) 402–3.

LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey). _b._ Fulham, Middlesex 24 Aug. 1787; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; Michel scholar at Queen’s coll. 1808, Michel fellow 1809–16; C. of Banbury 1812 and vicar 1815–49; R. of Over Worton near Woodstock 1849 to death; Bampton lecturer 1831; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1832, public examiner 1832–3; under master of Magdalen college school 1840–9; author of The alliance of education and civil government with strictures on the university of London 1828; A treatise on confirmation 1830, 2 ed. 1861; Vindiciæ symbolicæ or a treatise on creeds, articles of faith and articles of doctrine 1848; Sermons 1860; found dead in his bed at his lodgings, High st. Oxford 12 Dec. 1859. _bur._ Holywell cemetery. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college_, _iii_ 270–1 (1863).

LANCE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Lance, inspector of Bow st. horse patrol). _b._ manor-house of Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex 24 March 1802; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1816–23; painter chiefly of fruit and flowers; exhibited 38 pictures at R.A., 135 at B.I. and 48 at Suffolk st. 1824–64; 2 fruit pieces and a portrait of himself are in the South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunnyside near Birkenhead 18 June 1864. _Art Journal_ (1857) 305–7, (1864) 242; _The Critic_, _xxi_ 416 (1860), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 647, 648 (1861), _portrait_.

LANCE, GEORGE EDWIN (son of rev. John Edwin Lance of Buckland St. Mary, Somerset). _b._ 1824; ed. at Haileybury college; went to India 1844; chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny; converted a tract of marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore; retired on the annuity fund 1872. _d._ Cheduba, Festing road, Southsea 9 April 1890.

LANCE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1820; comr. of arbitration at Surinam, Guiana, South America; commissary judge to the British and Netherland court of commission at Surinam for prevention of illegal traffic in slaves 21 Oct. 1828, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1834. _d._ The Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey 12 Jany. 1878.

LAND, EDWARD. _b._ London 1815; sang at the chapel royal; accompanist to John Wilson, afterwards to David Kennedy both Scotch singers; second tenor of the Glee and Madrigal union; secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s catch club; composed Bird of Beauty 1852, The Angel’s Watch 1853 and other popular songs; wrote many original pieces for the pianoforte. _d._ 4 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 29 Nov. 1876.

LANDELLS, EBENEZER (3 son of Ebenezer Landells, merchant). _b._ Newcastle 13 April 1808; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood engraver 1822–9; wood engraver in London 1829; superintended fine-art engraving department of Branston and Vizetelly; started an illustrated journal called The Cosmorama; exhibited 2 wood engravings at Suffolk st. 1833–37; the original projector and one of the 3 original proprietors of Punch or the London Charivari, first number was published at 3 Wellington st. Strand 17 July 1841; engraved much for the Illustrated London News 1842; engraved title page of the Lady’s Newspaper, first number dated 2 Jany. 1847; supplied all the woodcuts for the Illuminated Mag. 1843; author of The boy’s own toymaker 1859, 10 ed. 1881; The illustrated paper model maker 1861. _d._ at his lodgings, Victoria Grove, West Brompton, London 1 Oct. 1860.

LANDELLS, ROBERT THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 1 Aug. 1833; special war correspondent for the Illustrated London News in the Crimea 1856; present as artist in war between Germany and Denmark 1863 receiving decorations from both sides, and in war between Prussia and Austria 1866; attached to staff of the crown prince in Franco-German war 1870 and received order of the Iron Cross for his attention to the sick; painted memorial pictures of ceremonials for the queen; exhibited 24 pictures at Suffolk st. 1863–76; illustrated The young franctireurs by G. A. Henty 1872. _d._ 49 Winchester terrace, Chelsea 6 Jany. 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 61 (1877), _portrait_.

LANDERS, JOHN EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 1803; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 10 Jany. 1820; lieut. 9 Bengal N.I. 1824, major 3 Oct. 1848; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 24 Dec. 1853, col. 28 March 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 7 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 6 April 1885.

LANDMANN, GEORGE THOMAS (son of Isaac Landmann 1741–1826, professor of artillery at the R.M. academy, Woolwich). _b._ Woolwich 1779; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 May 1814, sold out 29 Dec. 1824; lieut.-col. in the Spanish engineers 22 Feb. 1809; col. of infantry in Spanish army 25 March 1810; commanding engineer of the Thames district 1815–7, of the Yorkshire district 1817–9; author of Historical military and picturesque observations in Portugal 2 vols. 1818; Adventures and recollections of colonel Landmann 2 vols. 1852; Recollections of my military life 2 vols. 1854. _d._ Shacklewell near Hackney, London 27 Aug. 1854.

LANDON, ARTHUR JERMYN (2 son of Francis Newcombe Landon of Brentwood, Essex). _b._ 29 June 1851; studied at St. Bartholomew’s; ed. at Netley, passed first in list and took prize for military surgery; L.S.A. 1877, M.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon in the army 4 Aug. 1878; helped to remove the wounded at Laing’s Nek 28 Jany. 1881, present at Majuba hill 27 Feb. where he remained on the field with the wounded, a bullet passed through his body, but he still administered to the fallen, brought into camp the next day where he died 28 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount Prospect, South Africa. _United Service Mag. Oct. 1883 pp._ 424–30.

LANDON, JAMES TIMOTHY BAINBRIDGE (only son of James Landon, V. of Aberford, Yorkshire, _d._ 1850). _b._ Aberford 11 Nov. 1816; ed. Rugby and Wadham coll. Oxf. 1835, scholar of Worcester coll. 1835–43, fellow of Magdalen coll. 1843–47, senior dean of arts 1845; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; public examiner 1849–50; chaplain Bromley coll. Kent 1846–55; V. of Ledsham, Yorks. 1854 to death; canon of York 1877 to death; supposed author of The rime of the new-made baccalere. Oxford 1840; author of Eureka: a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1851, and of Eureka No. II.: a sequel to a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1853, both anon.; Homer. Iliad A, translated into English hexameters 1862. _d._ Ledsham vicarage 7 March 1890.

LANDOR, EDWARD WILSON (son of Walter Landor of Rugeley, solicitor). Admitted a solicitor 1837; practised at Rugeley 1837–41; went to Australia 1841; practised in the city of London 1847–60; at Perth, West Australia 1860; police magistrate Perth 1865 to death; published Adventures in the north of Europe 2 vols. 1836; The bushman 1847; Lofoden or the exiles of Norway 2 vols. 1849. _d._ Perth 24 Oct. 1878. _Solicitor’s Journal_, _xx_ 254 (1879).

LANDOR, ROBERT EYRES (youngest son of Walter Landor, physician, _d._ 1805). _b._ St. Nicholas, Warwick, May 1781; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; V. of Hitchenden, Bucks. 1817–25; chaplain in ord. to Prince Regent; R. of Nafford with Birlingham, Worcs. 11 April 1829 to death, never absent from his Sunday duty, the church was restored with money left by him; author of The Count Arezzi, a tragedy 1824; The impious feast, a poem 1828; The earl of Brecon, a tragedy; Faith’s Fraud, a tragedy; The Ferryman, a drama 1841; The Fawn of Sertorius 1846; The Fountain of Arethusa 1848. _d._ Birlingham rectory 26 Jany. 1869.

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (eld. child of Walter Landor, physician, _d._ 1805). _b._ Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug. 1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy 1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed. 1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia 1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works 2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree 1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books. _d._ Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm. Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. _J. Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols._ (1869), _portrait_; _J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets_ (1873) 166–83; _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 151–76 (1844); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 437–45; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 336–95 (1855); _De Quincey’s Works_, _viii_ 284–332 (1862), _xi_ 176–98 (1862); _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 59–84; _I.L.N. xlv_ 385, 386 (1864), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W. S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages, Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery, which left him completely destitute. _C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii_ 80–7 (1861); _Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p._ 1.

LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID. _b._ Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11 Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college 1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839; Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes 1852. _d._ of cholera at Saltcoats 12 Sep. 1854. _Arran, by the Landsboroughs father and son_ (1875), _memoir pp._ 157–228; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 188 (1868); _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 715 (1863).

LANDSBOROUGH, WILLIAM (son of the preceding). _b._ Stevenston, Ayrshire; went to Australia; discovered Mount Nebo and Fort Cooper 1856, discovered sources of the Thomson river 1860; searched for Burke and Wills the explorers 1861; crossed Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne 1862; presented with a service of plate valued at £500, 12 Nov. 1862; member of Queensland assembly 1864–5; government resident in Burke district 1865–8; discovered with G. Phillips the Western river; inspector of brands for East Moreton, Queensland 1868, awarded a grant of £2000. _d._ Brisbane 16 March 1886. _Journal of Landsborough’s expedition in search of Burke and Wills_ (1862).

LANDSEER, CHARLES (2 son of John Landseer 1769–1852). _b._ 1799; pupil of B. R. Haydon, entered schools of the R.A. 1816; A.R.A. 1837, R.A. 1845, keeper of the R.A. 1851 to May 1873; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 11 at Suffolk st. 1822–79; left £10,000 to the R.A. for foundation of Landseer scholarships. _d._ 35 Grove End road, London 22 July 1879, portrait by himself exhibited at the R.A. 1879. _Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 176 (1862); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 109 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xx_ 128 (1879), _portrait_.

LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 71 Queen Anne st. East (now 33 Foley st.), London 7 March 1802; learnt to draw, etch and paint 1808–14; entered schools of the R.A. 1816, A.R.A. 1826, R.A. 1831, declined the presidency 24 Jany. 1866; lived at 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1826 to death; painted many portraits of the Queen and royal family 1839–66; taught the queen and prince Albert to etch; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; received large gold medal at Paris universal exhibition 1855; received the commission for 4 lions in bronze for base of the Nelson column in Trafalgar sq. 1859, they were uncovered 31 Jany. 1867; exhibited 179 pictures at R.A., 94 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1815–73; 434 etchings and engravings were made from his works down to 1875; his Monarch of the Glen was sold for £7000 April 1892 and £10,000 have been given for the Stag at bay and for the Otter Hunt; a large collection of his works was exhibited at the R.A. 1873–4; illustrated Portraits of the children of the nobility by L. Fairlie 1839 and other works. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1 Oct. 1873. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 11 Oct. _F. G. Stephen’s Memoirs of Sir E. Landseer_ (1874), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol. v_ 137–44, _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A._ (1874); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _i_ 78–95; _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 143–46 (1862); _The Landseer gallery with memoir_ (1871); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 468–74; _Illust. Times 9 Feb. 1867 p._ 88, _portrait_, _and p._ 89 _lions in Trafalgar square_.

LANDSEER, GEORGE (son of Thomas Landseer 1795–1880). _b._ 1829; exhibited 21 figure pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1850–58. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 10 March 1878.

LANDSEER, JESSICA (dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 29 Jany. 1810; landscape and miniature painter; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1816–66. _d._ Folkestone 29 Aug. 1880.

LANDSEER, John (son of a jeweller). _b._ Lincoln 1769; landscape engraver; delivered a series of lectures on engraving at Royal Institution 1806; an advocate for the recognition of the claims of engravers by Royal academy; associate engraver of the R.A. 1806; began a periodical Review of Publications of Art 1808, 2 vols., and The Probe 1837; engraver to William IV.; exhibited 1 engraving at Soc. of artists, 17 at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1791–1852; author of Lectures on the art of engraving 1807; Observations on the engraved gems brought from Babylon 1817; Sabean researches 1823; Essay on the carnivora 1823; A series of engravings illustrating events recorded in the scriptures 1833; A descriptive catalogue of fifty of the earliest pictures in the National gallery 1834. _d._ London 29 Feb. 1852. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _i_ 402–3 (1862); _G.M. xxxvii_ 523–4 (1852).

LANDSEER, THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 71 Queen Anne st. east (now 33 Foley st.), London 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon; etched and engraved more than 125 of the drawings and pictures of his brother Sir Edwin H. Landseer; engraved Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair about 1860; A.R.A. 1868; exhibited 35 engravings at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–77; illustrated Monkey-ana or men in miniature 1828 and other works; author of The life and letters of William Bewick 1871. _d._ 11 Grove End road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. lii_ 169 (1868), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _xii_ 501 (1880), _portrait_.

LANE, CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John Lane). _bapt._ St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 29 Oct. 1786; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 13 Aug. 1807; sought to change his name to Mattenby in 1824 but was not permitted to do so; served in Arracan 1825; in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore 1832; lieut.-col. of 2 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1841–43, of 13 N.I. 1843 to 10 Dec. 1847, of 74 N.I. 10 Dec. 1847 to 25 May 1852; commanded garrison of Candahar when assaulted by the Afghans 10 March 1842; C.B. 27 Dec. 1842; col. 6 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1852 to 1858; general 25 June 1870. _d._ Jersey 18 Feb. 1872.

LANE, CHARLTON (son of Wm. Lane of Croydon, Surrey). _b._ 1797; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; C. of Lambeth 1828–32; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Kennington, London 1832–64; R.D. of Southwark 1854–64; V. of Hampstead 1864–72; professor of rhetoric, Gresham college, London 1863 to death; printed 12 sermons and was author of To the parishioners of Kennington, Stockwell and South Lambeth, how to meet the cholera 1854. _d._ 14 St. John’s Wood park, London 28 May 1875. _bur._ churchyard of St. John, Hampstead.

LANE, CHARLTON GEORGE (son of the preceding). _b._ Kennington parsonage 11 June 1836; ed. at Westminster 1849–54 (in the cricket eleven 5 years, captain 1853) and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; known as the Admirable Crichton of Oxford, usually called White Lane to distinguish him from Ernald Lane of Balliol; rowed No. 3 in the Univ. Eight 1858–9; played in the Univ. Eleven 1856 and 1858–60, captain 1860; won the Univ. racquets; played for Surrey 1856–61, played for Gentlemen against the Players 1857–61, played in the First Eleven of England _v._ Next Fourteen 1860; played for the Veterans against Marylebone cricket club in the M.C.C. centenary week at Lord’s 1887 when he scored double figures in each innings; a brilliant batsman and fine field especially at long-leg; member of the Hogarth club at Oxford; C. of Great Witley, Worcs. 1862–5; C. of Little Gaddesden, Herts. 1868–70, rector 16 Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Mercers’ Co., master 1890. _d._ Little Gaddesden rectory 2 Nov. 1892. _Illustrated Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _The Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 1766.

LANE, CHRISTOPHER BAGOT. _b._ Nurney house, co. Kildare 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin and univ. of Edinb.; admitted into London office of I. K. Brunel, Dec. 1837; professor of civil engineering at Trin. coll. Dublin 1846–49 and at Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; consulting engineer for railways to Brazilian government July 1853 to 1861; resided at Rio Janeiro 1853–60; joint engineer with E. Bagot of various railway lines in South Wales 1864–72; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. _d._ 24 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1877. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii_ 266–9 (1877).

LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of Hereford cath. _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services 1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871; The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876. _d._ Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. _Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane_ (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_ 213, 214 (1876), _portrait_.

LANE, GEORGE. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain 17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to death, _d._ 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.

LANE, HAMMER, cognomen of John Lane). _b._ Birmingham 15 Dec. 1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835; beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850; fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire 28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st. Birmingham from 1841. _John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing_ (1850) 49–52; _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 228, 229 (1864), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom who was _b._ Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and _d._ Birmingham 7 Sep. 1868.

LANE, JAMES HUNTER. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830; hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J. M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1853.

LANE, JOHN BRYANT (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17; engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16 portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. _d._ 45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76). _b._ Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath, line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited 67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 71 (1862); _I.L.N. xxx_ 419, 420 (1857) _portrait_, _lxi_ 548 (1872) _portrait_; _Magazine of art_ (1881) 431–2.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES. _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. _d._ 123 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_ 204–6 (1857).

LANE, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Lane). _b._ King’s Lynn 26 July 1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water 26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at Ipswich 1853 to death. _d._ 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st. Ipswich 29 July 1859.

LANE, SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. _d._ Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.

LANE, SAMUEL HAYCROFT. _b._ 1804; landlord of a beer shop in Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188 Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville, rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842, discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (_m._ Sep. 1843 Sara dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was _b._ Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824 and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death). _d._ the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. _H. B. Baker’s The London Stage_, _ii_ 257–9 (1889); _The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p._ 12.

LANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE GEORGE HOWARD, 1 Baron (4 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). _b._ 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy 5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth, Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. _d._ 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct. 1880.

LANG, DAVID (son of James L. Lang, writer). _b._ Glasgow 1846; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870; entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. _d._ Glasgow 29 April 1886. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xxx_ 322–24 (1886).

LANG, GAVIN. _b._ Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist. minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_, _3 S._ (1851) 219.

LANG, JOHN. _b._ Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871 and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.

LANG, JOHN. _b._ 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840, managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. _d._ Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.

LANG, JOHN DUNMORE. _b._ Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822; arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church, Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal 7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the 6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W. 1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed. 1857 and about 20 other books. _d._ Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891. _J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life_ (1870); _Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 33–7; _Daily Graphic 11 March 1891 p._ 9, _view of his statue_.

LANG, OLIVER. _b._ 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard; foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house; master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22 July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. _d._ Woolwich 12 April 1853. His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853.

LANG, THOMAS BAMFORD. _b._ 1820; controller of general post office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic records 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 6 April 1868.

LANG, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I. 21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I. 1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June 1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. _d._ Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3 Jany. 1870.

LANGDALE, HENRY BICKERSTETH, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, _d._ May 1821). _b._ Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father, Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and 1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer 1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls 19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15 July 1850. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. _bur._ in vault of Temple church, London 24 April. _Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2 vols._ (1852), _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _xlv_ 283–93 (1851); _Leisure Hour iii_ 251.

LANGDALE, CHARLES (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). _b._ 19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P. Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus 1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king George the Fourth 1856. _d._ 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec. 1868. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890), _memoir pp._ 19–61, _portrait_.

LANGFORD, JOSEPH MUNT. _b._ 1809; employed by Messrs. Blackwood, publishers 1830, head of their London branch 1845–81; dramatic critic of The Observer many years; part author of several dramas produced at the Adelphi theatre, London about 1854. _d._ 2 The Paragon, Winchester 28 Aug. 1884.

LANGHAM, STEPHEN NATHANIEL (son of a farm labourer). _b._ Hinckley, Leics. May 1820; pugilist, always known as Nat. Langham, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 11 stone; beat Wm. Ellis 1843, Tom Lowe 1844 and Doctor Campbell 1845; beat George Gutteridge £25 a side at Bourne, Lincs. 23 Sep. 1846; beat Wm. Sparkes the Australian £50 a side at Woking Common 4 May 1847; beaten by Harry Orme £50 a side 117 rounds in 176 minutes at Lower Hope Point down the river Thames 6 May 1851; beat Tom Sayers £100 a side, 61 rounds in 122 minutes near Lakenheath, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1853; fought Ben Caunt £200 a side, 60 rounds in 89 minutes at Standing Creek, Medway 21 Sep. 1857, not decided; won 6 out of 7 fights, is the only man who ever beat Tom Sayers; kept the Ram inn, Bridge st. Cambridge 1851 to 1853, the Cambrian Stores, 12 Castle st. Leicester sq. London 1853 to 1861, and the Cambridge Stores at 12 Castle st. 1870 to death; kept the Mitre tavern, 62 St. Martin’s lane, London 1862 to 1869; bankrupt 2 March 1869, discharged 29 March 1870. _d._ the Cambridge Stores, Castle st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 7 Sep. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 234–52 (1881), _portrait_; _F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 160–7; _Illust. sporting news_, _ii_ 277 (1863), _portrait_.

LANGLEY, ALBERT GORDON (eld. son of Charles Langley of Chudleigh, South Devon). A student of Middle Temple 15 Jany. 1837, certificate of honour Nov. 1857, studentship May 1858, barrister M.T. 30 April 1859, admitted ad eundem at L.I. 2 Nov. 1863; author of A reading of the act to further amend the law of property and to relieve trustees 1860; An essay on the law of pleading by way of claim for alternative relief 1881; edited E. E. Deacon’s The law and practice of bankruptcy 3 ed. 1864. _d._ 19 Lee terrace, Blackheath 29 Jany. 1888.

LANGLEY, DANIEL BAXTER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., S.C.L. 1828, LLD. 1841; V. of Olney, Bucks. 1834–56; R. of Yardley-Hastings with Denton, Northants. 1856 to death; author of Olney lectures delivered in the parish church of Olney 1840; Morning and evening prayers compiled from the Common Prayer Book 1862; Christian laconics, or many things in few words 1862; The destruction of earthly hopes a reason for the cultivation of heavenly affections 1865, 2 ed. 1868. _d._ Yardley-Hastings rectory 15 March 1881.

LANGLEY, EDWARD (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his wife who lived to be 105). _b._ 1763; a surgeon at Riseley, Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. _d._ St. John st. Bedford 25 Jany. 1859 aged 96.

NOTE.--His mother’s father lived to be 103, and her grandfather 100.

LANGRIDGE, GEORGE DAVID. _b._ Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia; represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874 to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. _d._ Melbourne 24 March 1891.

LANGSLOW, ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300 on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in 1846. _d._ New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. _In the privy council. Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of Colombo_ (1847).

LANGSTON, JAMES HAUGHTON. _b._ 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26; M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of co. Oxford 1819. _d._ Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19 Oct. 1863.

LANGTON, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian merchant, _d._ 1838). _b._ Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17 April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876; one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec. to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols. 1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875 and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. _d._ Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Fryerning churchyard, Essex. _Publications of Chetham Society_, _vol. cx_, _memoir pp. iii–x_, _portrait_.

LANGWORTHY, EDWARD RYLEY. _b._ 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and 1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March 1857. _d._ Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.

NOTE.--Left £10,000 to build a wing to the Peel park museum which was opened 14 Aug. 1878; £10,000 to Owen’s college and £20,000 to the grammar school.

LANKESTER, EDWIN (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). _b._ Melton 23 April 1814; studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71, pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death; coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. _d._ Margate 30 Oct. 1874. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1867) 47–51, _portrait_; _Nature_, _xi_ 15–16 (1875); _I.L.N. xli_ 100 (1862), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 463, 465 (1874), _portrait_.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 3 Marquess of (younger son of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). _b._ Shelburne (now Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809, and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres. of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches were printed 1806 etc. _d._ Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany. 1863. _Men of the time: British statesmen._ (1854) 44–69; _H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 91–9; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _v_ (1834), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 14 (1846), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain_, _ii_ 143–53 (1854), _iii_ 156–67 (1854); _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 171, _portrait_; _Hayward’s Essays_, _ii_ 303–19 (1870); _Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p._ 109, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. _I.L.N. xl_ 175 (1862), _portrait_.

LANWARNE, NICHOLAS. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. _d._ The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.

LANYON, SIR CHARLES (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. _d._ The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. _R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry_, _iv_ 388 (1885), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon _b._ Belfast 1840; ed. at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1865. _d._ London 27 Feb. 1877. _Law Times 31 March 1877 p._ 397.

LANYON, SIR WILLIAM OWEN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ co. Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot 21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867, lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C. and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica 1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct. 1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1 Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov. 1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug. 1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G. Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8 May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11 Nov. 1878. _d._ New York 6 April 1887. _The Graphic_, _xxiii_ 217 (1881), _portrait_; _The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p._ 3, _portrait_.

LANZA, GESUALDO (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer). _b._ Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds 1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles 3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813; Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840; Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and upwards of 30 pieces of music. _d._ London 12 March 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known operatic singer.

LAPHAM, GEORGE. _b._ Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone, publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. _d._ 9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.

LAPIDGE, EDWARD (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9, chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey; F.I.B.A. _d._ March 1860.

LAPILETIERE, FRANCES MARY DE (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). _b._ Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (_m._ V. C. J. De Lapiletiere). _d._ at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in 104th year.

LAPORTE, GEORGE HENRY (son of John Laporte, water-colour painter 1761–1839). Animal painter; exhibited 9 sporting subjects at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. gallery 1821–50; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, where he also exhibited; some of his works were engraved in the New Sporting Mag.; animal painter to the king of Hanover. _d._ 13 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 23 Oct. 1873.

LAPPIN, JAMES. _b._ 1824; partner with Job May and then with Richard A. Webster as stockbrokers, Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool stock exchange; a correspondent of The Times on forged transfers of railway stock; ran to catch his train and died in a carriage between Seaforth and Liverpool 25 Oct. 1890. _bur._ St. James’ cemet. 28 Oct. _The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p._ 10.

LAPWORTH, JAMES. _b._ Warwick 1798; clerk in office of Gregory and Adlington, 1 Bedford row, London 1820–37; admitted attorney 1831; private sec. to Sir Wm. Follett 1837–46; clerk to the Home Office 1846–7; librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery lane, London, March 1847 to Dec. 1877 when he retired on pension of £300; compiled catalogues of the books in the library of the Law Society 1851 and 1869. _d._ 7 Blenheim road, Bedford park, London 21 June 1888.

LARBUSCH, FREDERICK. Claimed to have been _b._ London 9 March 1766, probably _b._ Germany 1786; ensign 60 foot 16 Nov. 1809; lieut. as F. Lahrbusch 29 Oct. 1810; known as F. De Lahrbusch 1815; cashiered in 1819 as lieut. De Lahrbush of 60 foot; resided in New York from 1848; entertained at a breakfast in New York to celebrate what he called his 107th birthday 9 March 1873. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of man_ (1879) 207–24; _Historical Mag. and American Notes and Queries_, _April 1867 pp._ 211–12.

LARCOM, SIR THOMAS AISKEW (2 son of Joseph Larcom 1764–1843, captain R.N.). _b._ 22 April 1801; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 June 1820, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1854 to 1 April 1858 when placed on retired full pay with rank of M.G.; assistant in the central organisation of the Irish ordnance survey at Mountjoy, Phœnix park near Dublin 1828–46; the beauty of his county maps of Ireland has never been exceeded; a census comr. in Ireland 1841; a comr. of public works in Ireland 1846; chief director of the public relief works 1846; deputy chairman of Irish board of works 1850; under sec. of state for Ireland Feb. 1853 to Nov. 1868; C.B. 5 March 1858, K.C.B. 19 June 1860; cr. baronet 7 Dec. 1868; P.C. Ireland 1868; edited Sir W. Petty’s The history of the survey of Ireland, for the Irish Archæological soc. 1851; Memoirs of life of Capt. Drummond, in Papers of Corps of Royal Engineers vol. 4 pp. ix–xxiv (1850) and Memoir of city of Londonderry, in Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1837. _d._ Heathfield, Fareham, Hants. 15 June 1879. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 10–15 (1879).

LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marlborough st. Dublin, solicitor, who _d._ 1808). _b._ Dublin 3 April 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD. 1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832; published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols. 1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44; The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris 1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Doctor Diolesius Larner, Doctor Athanasius Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola. _d._ Naples 29 April 1859. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 122–5, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1849) 289 _and_ (1859) 446; _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).

NOTE.--He married in the parish church of St. Paul, Dublin 19 Dec. 1815 Cecilia dau. of Henry Flood of Dublin, barrister, she left him 20 Oct. 1820 and lived near Dublin with Samuel Booth Williams Murphy to 20 Jany. 1829 when he died. Lardner obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of Dublin 1832 and his marriage was dissolved by 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 53, 14 June 1839. On 13 March 1840 he eloped with Mary wife of captain Richard Heaviside of Brighton, who obtained £8000 damages against him in an action tried at town hall, Lewes 1 Aug. 1840. Heaviside obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of London 3 March 1841 and his marriage was dissolved by 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 35, 31 July 1845. Lardner married the lady 2 Aug. 1846 at Paris, where she resided until her death about 30 April 1891.

LARDNER, LEOPOLD JAMES. _b._ Holland 1816; private tutor in family of Jacob van Lennep poet in Holland many years; entered British Museum 1846 where he superintended the transcription of the catalogue of books extending to 300 volumes to his death; frequently employed by the Foreign Office in translating from the Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish; threw himself from the window of his residence 9 Cornwall villas, Kentish Town, London 27 Nov. 1855. _Times 3 Dec. 1855 p._ 6 _col._ 6.

LARKIN, NATHANIEL JOHN. _b._ London 5 Dec. 1781; the first sec. of society of civil engineers 1825; manufacturer of mathematical models at 29 Baker st. Spa Fields, London 1829; author of An essay on a mosaic pavement formed of right angled triangles of different colours 1818; An introduction to solid geometry 1820; The rudiments of linear, plane and solid geometry 1820. _d._ 21 Oct. 1855.

LARKING, JOHN WINGFIELD (son of John Larking 1755–1838). _b._ Clare house 1801; English consul in Egypt; negotiated terms of peace between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan and probably prevented a war between France and England 1839; the first Englishman who acquired influence in Egypt, a favourite with Mehemet, Said and Ismail; received order of Medjidie; at his expense Dr. Henry Holman Drake re-wrote and published the Hundred of Blackheath, a portion of Hasted’s History of Kent 1886; resided at The Firs, Old road, Lee, Kent from 1858, _d._ there 18 May 1891. _Times 21 May 1891 p._ 7; _Blackheath Local Guide 23 May 1891 pp._ 10, 13.

LARKING, LAMBERT BLACKWELL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton 1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana; member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc. Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R. Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield 1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864; with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected, enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking. _d._ Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. _Archæologia Cantiana_, _vii_ 323–29 (1868).

LARPENT, SIR GEORGE GERARD DE HOCHEPIED-, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June 1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July 1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct. 1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control and the East India Co. 1833. _d._ Conduit st. Regent st. London 8 March 1855.

LASCELLES, EDWIN (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). _b._ 25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P. Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of Yorkshire to death. _d._ Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire 25 April 1865.

LASCELLES, WILLIAM SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT (3 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). _b._ 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton 1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield 1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July 1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death. _d._ Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 193–4 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 42 (1851).

LASLETT, WILLIAM EMERSON (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett). _b._ 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60 and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874; gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and charitable purposes. _d._ Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 561, 562 (1858), _portrait_.

LASSELL, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, _d._ 1810). _b._ Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant 1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854; invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ; set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed; ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters of the reflecting telescope. _d._ in his sleep at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi_ 7–10 (1881); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait No._ 13; _Nature, xxii_ 565–6 (1880).

LAST, EDWARD. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22 May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858 to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep. 1865. _d._ East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.

LAST, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; printer at 3 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at 3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50, at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3, at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April 1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30 numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to print a six-sheet poster. _d._ last week of March 1880. _Mr. Punch, his origin and career_ [1870] 13–32.

LATCHFORD, BENJAMIN. Bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker to the Queen at 11 Upper St. Martin’s lane, London 1844. _d._ Walton on Naze 20 June 1886 aged 93.

LATEY, JOHN LASH. _b._ Tiverton 14 June 1808; wrote in North Devon newspapers; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1842; wrote in first number of Illust. London News 14 May 1842, editor 1858 to 31 Dec. 1890; author of The ballot 1839; The pattern book of letters for working people 1840. _d._ 11 North villas, Camden sq. London 6 Jany. 1891. _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 224, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_.

LATHAM, DANIEL. _b._ Buenos Ayres 1860; amateur actor in South America; studied acting in England under name of Veovide; engaged the first English dramatic company that ever appeared in the Argentine republic 1882, toured there for three seasons with his own companies 1882–4. _d._ St. Thomas’ hospital, London 29 Oct. 1885.

LATHAM, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of John Latham of Bradwall hall, Cheshire 1787–1853). _b._ 4 May 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 7 June 1852; contested Mid Cheshire, April 1880; M.P. Crewe division of Cheshire, Dec. 1885 to June 1886. _d._ Bradwall hall near Sandbach 4 Oct. 1886.

LATHAM, HENRY (3 son of John Latham, physician 1761–1843). _b._ London 4 Nov. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 1820; V. of Selmerton with Alceston, Sussex 1833–47; V. of Fittleworth, Sussex 1847 to death; author of Harmonia Paulina 1837; Anthologia Davidica 1846; published Sertum Shakespearianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notæ floribus. Oxford 1863, being translations from Shakespeare, Cowper and the prayer-book with ten original Latin poems; Black and white, a journal of a three months tour in the United States 1867. _d._ of cholera at Boulogne 6 Sep. 1866.

LATHAM, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Oxford 18 March 1787; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf., won chancellor’s prize for Latin verse by a poem on Trafalgar 1806, fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1806–21; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1815; student at L.I. Dec. 1806; became blind so as not to be able to read from 1807; lived in Cheshire 1829 to death; author of a volume of poems published anonymously at Sandbach 1836 and of English and Latin poems, original and translated 1853. _d._ Bradwall hall 30 Jany. 1853. _English and Latin poems by J. Latham_ (1853), _memoir pp. i–xxxvi_.

LATHAM, PETER MERE (brother of preceding). _b._ London 1 July 1789; ed. at Sandbach free sch., Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, M.B. 1814, M.D. 1816; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 7 July 1815, candidate 30 Sep. 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, censor 1820, 1833 and 1837, Gulstonian lecturer 1819, Lumleian lecturer 1827–28, Harveian orator 1839; phys. to Middlesex hosp. 1815 to Nov. 1824; phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 30 Nov. 1824 to Nov. 1841; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837 to 1865; retired from practice to Torquay 1865; one of the last of the advocates of bleeding; author of An account of the disease prevalent in the general hospital 1825; Lectures on clinical medicine 1836; Lectures on clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart 2 vols. 1845–6; The collected works of P. M. Latham. Sydenham soc. 1876. _d._ Inglewood, Belgrave road, Torquay 20 July 1875. _Munk’s College of physicians_ (1878) _iii_ 185; _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. xi pp. xxv–xxxvi_ (1875).

LATHAM, ROBERT GORDON (eld. son of Thomas Latham, V. of Billingborough, Lincs.). _b._ Billingborough 24 March 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1835; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, M.D. 1844; professor of English language and literature in University college, London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1842; lecturer on forensic medicine and materia medica at Middlesex hospital, assistant phys. 1844–9; director of ethnological department at Crystal Palace 1852; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; originated the idea that original home of Aryan race was not in Asia but in Europe; edited Todd Johnson’s A dictionary of the English language 2 vols. in 4 parts 1866–70; author of The English language 1841, 5 ed. 1862; A handbook of the English language 1851, 9 ed. 1875; Logic in its application to language 1856; Descriptive ethnology 2 vols. 1859; The ethnology of India 1859; Opuscula. Essays chiefly philological and ethnographical 1860; Elements of comparative philology 1862; The nationalities of Europe 2 vols. 1863; A defence of phonetic spelling 1872; Two dissertations on Hamlet 1872; Outlines of general philology 1878. _d._ Upper Richmond road, Putney 9 March 1888.

LATHAM, SAMUEL METCALFE. Vice consul at Dover for Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Sweden and Norway from 10 to 30 years to Jany. 1879; foreign office passport agent at Dover 30 July 1858; received in Jany. 1879 the following distinctions, the rank of officer of Belgian order of Leopold, knighthood of Italian order of the Crown, of Belgian order of the Crown of Oak, and of order of Wasa of Sweden and Norway, also German order of the Red Eagle. _d._ 4 June 1886.

LATHBURY, THOMAS (son of Henry Lathbury). _b._ Brackley, Northamptonshire 1798; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Chatteris, Cambs.; C. of Mangotsfield, Gloucs. 1831–8; C. of the Abbey ch. Bath 1838–48; V. of St. Simon’s, Baptist Mills, Bristol 1848 to death; made a collection of printed Service Books 1845; author of A history of the English episcopacy from the period of the long parliament to the act of uniformity 1836; A history of the convocation of the Church of England 1842, 2 ed. 1853; A history of the nonjurors, their controversies and writings 1845; A history of the book of Common Prayer and other books of authority 1858; edited Jeremy Collier’s An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain with a life of the author 9 vols. 1852. _d._ 3 Cave st. Portland sq. Bristol 11 Feb. 1865.

LATIMER, JOHN PADDON (eld. son of Isaac Latimer, newspaper proprietor, Plymouth). _b._ at Truro 1843; barrister M.T. 30 April 1869; one of parliamentary staff of The Times some years, and was war correspondent in the Baltic provinces during the Franco-German war 1870; edited Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Feb. 1878 to Feb. 1881; associated with his father and brother in conducting the Western Daily Mercury; deputy stip. mag. at West Ham 1884 to death. _d._ Glen View, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 May 1885 in 42 year.

LATIMER, THOMAS. _b._ Bristol 9 Aug. 1803; apprentice to Thomas Davison, printer, Whitefriars, London; sec. London gymnastic soc.; reporter Devonshire Chronicle, Exeter 1827, to Plymouth Journal, to Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1830; sub-editor Western Times 1831, editor and proprietor of Western Times, Exeter 183-, brought it out twice a week and then as a daily 1866; for many years denounced the practices of the Puseyite party, and defended a prosecution for libel brought against him by Henry Phillpotts bishop of Exeter at Exeter assizes 27 March 1848 when acquitted on plea of justification; presented with a service of plate by the Reform party 1840; started the Tiverton Times 1865; presented with a salver and 550 sovereigns by the Liberal party 1 Jany. 1868; transferred the Western Times to his son Hugh Latimer and son in law S. H. B. Glanville 1873. _d._ 143 Fore st. Exeter 5 Jany. 1888. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ in 1827 Miss Francis Annie Perry of London, she learnt shorthand and helped her husband in his work. In 1830 T. Latimer was the only shorthand writer in Devonshire.

LATOUR, HENRY LOUIS. With Henry Adams and Mr. Spurling ascended from Cremorne gardens on 27 June 1854, being seated on a parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being attached to it, his feet rested on a treadwheel intended to move the wings, the parachute would not act and the balloon was lowered near Marsh-lane station, Eastern Counties railway when he was dashed against a tree, removed to Chasseraux Arms, Tottenham where he _d._ 5 July 1854. _Times 11 July 1854 p._ 12.

LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe, musical composer 1758–1836). _b._ London 20 March 1801; climbed many Swiss mountains alone 1824–6; travelled in America 1832–4; superintendent of Port Phillip district of New South Wales 30 Sep. 1839, lieut. governor of Victoria 27 Jany. 1851 to 5 May 1854; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; author of The Alpenstock, or sketches of Swiss scenery and manners 1829; The Pedestrian: a summer’s ramble in the Tyrol 1832; The Rambler in North America 2 vols. 1835; The Rambler in Mexico in 1836; The Solace of Song, short poems suggested by scenes in Italy 1837. _d._ Clapham house, Littlington near Eastbourne 4 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 575, 576 (1854), _portrait_, _xxvii_ 124 (1855).

LATROBE, JOHN ANTES (brother of preceding). _b._ London 1799; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Melton Mowbray; C. of Tintern, Monmouth; P.C. of St. Thomas’s, Kendal 1840–65; hon. canon of Carlisle 1858 to death; author of The music of the church considered in its various branches, congregational and choral 1831; The chant, its character explained 1838; Scripture illustrations, a series of engravings 1838; Sacred lays and lyrics 1850. _d._ Gloucester 19 Nov. 1878.

LATROBE, PETER (brother of preceding). _b._ 1795; took orders in the Moravian church; secretary of the Unity of the Brethren in England 1836 to death; an organist and composer; wrote an Introduction on the progress of the Church Psalmody for an edition of the Moravian hymn tunes. _d._ Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut, Saxony 24 Sep. 1863.

LATTER, HENRY JOSEPH. Engaged in bank of England till 1863; general manager of East London bank afterwards called Central bank of London 1863 to death. _d._ Goddendene, Farnborough, Kent 9 Jany. 1891.

LATTER, ROBERT JAMES (3 son of Mr. Latter _d._ 30 June 1829). _b._ London 1783; midshipman 1794; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, captain 21 Sep. 1804; major 30 Bengal N.I. 16 Dec. 1814, lieut.-col. 21 March 1819; lieut.-col. 66 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ London 24 Feb. 1855. _Memoir of general Latter. By Mrs. Baillie_ (1870), _portrait_.

LATTER, THOMAS (son of Barré R. W. Latter, major 13 Bengal N.I.). _b._ India 1816; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836; lieut. 67 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840 to death; chief interpreter to sir Henry Thomas Godwin in the second Burmese war; captain in the army 6 Feb. 1851; led the storming party against eastern entrance of the Shwé Dagon pagoda 14 April 1852; resident deputy comr. at Prome 30 Dec. 1852; author of A note on Boodhism and the cave temples of India 1844; A grammar of the language of Burmah 1845; murdered in his bed at Prome by the Burmese at 2 a.m. 8 Dec. 1853.

LAUDER, JAMES ECKFORD (son of a tanner). _b._ Silvermills, Edinburgh 15 Aug. 1811; studied painting at the Trustees’ academy 1830–3; lived in Italy 1834–8; painter in Edinburgh 1838 to death; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1846, a regular contributor to its exhibitions from 1832; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1841–53; his picture The Parable of Forgiveness gained a prize of £200 at Westminster Hall competition 1847; his picture Hagar is in the National Gallery of Scotland. _d._ Edinburgh 29 March 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. May 1869 p._ 413.

LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Silvermills, Edinburgh 25 June 1803; subject painter in Edinb. 1826–33; associate of Royal Institution, Edinb. 1828; member of Scottish academy 18 July 1829; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1827–49; studied in Italy 1833–8; resided in London 1838–52; the first pres. of National Institution of the fine arts, Portland gallery, Regent st.; principal teacher in drawing, academy of Board of Trustees, Edinb. Feb. 1852 to 1861; his greatest picture is the ‘Trial of Effie Deans’ 1840, now at Hospitalfields, Arbroath; several of his pictures with his bust in marble by John Hutcheson, R.S.A. are in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 3 Wardie avenue, Ferry road, Edinburgh 21 April 1869, marble monument with medallion portrait erected over his grave at Edinb. Jany. 1872. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. June 1869 pp._ 477–8; _I.L.N. lx_ 52 (1872), _portrait_.

LAUDERDALE, ANTHONY MAITLAND, 10 Earl of (brother of the 9th Earl). _b._ 10 June 1785; entered navy 2 Oct. 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; K.C.M.G. 20 Feb. 1820; admiral 18 June 1857; M.P. Haddington burghs 1813–18, M.P. Berwickshire 1826–32; succeeded 22 Aug. 1860. _d._ Thirlestane castle 22 March 1863.

LAUDERDALE, CHARLES BARCLAY MAITLAND, 12 Earl of (only son of rev. Charles Maitland, R. of Little Lingford, Wilts., _d._ 1844). _b._ 29 Sep. 1822; in the army but name not in army list; a railway porter, a station master; succeeded his cousin 1 Sep. 1878; struck by lightning while shooting on his moor near Lauder, Berwickshire, removed to Braidshawrigg, Westruther, where he _d._ the same day 12 Aug. 1884. _Annual Register_ (1885) 149–50.

LAUDERDALE, JAMES MAITLAND, 9 Earl of (eld. son of 8 earl of Lauderdale 1759–1839). _b._ Wimpole st. London 12 May 1784; M.P. Camelford 1806–7, M.P. Richmond 1818–20, M.P. Appleby 1820–31; succeeded 15 Sep. 1839; lieutenant sheriff principal of Berwickshire 3 Nov. 1841 to death. _d._ Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 22 Aug. 1860.

LAUDERDALE, THOMAS MAITLAND, 11 Earl of (only son of hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland general in army, who _d._ 24 June 1841). _b._ Frankfort, co. Cork 3 Feb. 1803; entered navy 22 Sep. 1816; captain 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 1865, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; knighted by patent 3 April 1843; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Feb. 1855 to 18 June 1857; commander in chief on Pacific station 5 May 1860 to 31 Oct. 1862; succeeded his cousin as 11 Earl 22 March 1863; first and principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 22 Nov. 1866 to 8 Feb. 1873, assigned his pay of £300 a year as A.D.C. to Royal benevolent society Dec. 1866; admiral 8 April 1868; admiral of the fleet 27 Dec. 1877; lectured on The defence of the protected territories on the Gold Coast, at R. United Service Instit. 1873. _d._ Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 1 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £466,000, 8 Feb. 1879.

LAUGHLIN, FREDERICK HAMILTON. _b._ Dublin; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1866; C. of St. Peter, Saffron Hill, London 1867–72; a reader and preacher at the College of pensioners, Chelsea; an assistant librarian in British museum 1857–76. _d._ in an asylum, London 23 Aug. 1877.

LAURENCE, JOHN. _b._ Crieff 1839; taught himself Latin and German; a superior shorthand writer; chief editor of the Bulletin, Glasgow; edited the Scottish Banner, a newspaper 1861; reporter for The Kilmarnock Standard 1865 to death. _d._ Langlands st. Kilmarnock 13 May 1866. _bur._ Crieff 18 May.

LAURENCE, JOHN ZACHARIAH. _b._ 1828 or 1829; studied at univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857; F.R.C.S. 1855; surgeon of hospital for epilepsy and paralysis; ophthalmic surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital; in practice at 30 Devonshire st. Portland place, London; edited Ophthalmic Review 3 vols. 1864–67; author of The diagnosis of surgical cancer (Liston gold medal) 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Illustrations of the pathology of cancer 1856; The progress of ophthalmic surgery from the invention of the ophthalmoscope 1863; The optical defects of the eye and their consequences, asthenopia and strabismus 1865. _d._ 3 St. Peter’s sq. Hammersmith, Middlesex 18 July 1870.

LAURENCE, ROBERT FRENCH (5 son of John Laurence of Eltham, Kent). _b._ 2 April 1807; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1824–33; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Great and Little Hampton, Worcs. 17 April to 28 July 1832; V. of Chalgrave with chapel of Berwick, Oxon. 28 July 1832 to 1885; author of An order for the visitation of the sick 1851; An essay on confession, penance and absolution 1852; The churchman’s assistant at holy communion 1860. _d._ 1886.

LAURENCE, SAMUEL. _b._ Guildford, Surrey 1812; portrait painter; exhibited 90 pictures at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1834–79; great friend of James Spedding, G. H. Lewes and T. Leigh Hunt; visited U.S. of America 1854, stayed with Longfellow in Massachusetts. _d._ 6 Wells st. Oxford st. London 28 Feb. 1884.

LAURENT, CHARLES EMILE. _b._ 1819; musician in London; member of Royal Soc. of musicians; converted the Royal Adelaide gallery of practical science, 7 Adelaide st. Strand, which had been opened in 1832, into Laurent’s Casino Royal 5 Oct. 1846 and was conductor there to May 1849; conductor at the Argyll Subscription rooms, Great Windmill st. Oct. 1849. _d._ 23 May 1857.

LAURENT, HENRI (brother of preceding). _b._ 1827; operatic and vocal composer; published The Argyll galop 1857; H. Laurent’s Album of dance music 1858; A maiden’s blush waltz 1862 and upwards of 70 other pieces of dance music 1849–72. _d._ London 20 March 1861.

LAURI, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Lowe (eld. child of John Francis Lowe or Lauri _d._ 22 Jany. 1887 aged 77). _b._ 1833; at Sadler’s Wells with his brothers John and Frederick 1840; pantomimist and clown, one of the first to introduce the trap business being shot up from beneath the stage into the air; engaged at Drury Lane 1851; clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and the golden goose, at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1860; appeared before the Queen at Her Majesty’s 14 Feb. 1861 as clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and Tom Thumb; played clown at Sadler’s Wells 1861–2, Drury Lane 1863–8 and 1878; played clown at Wallack’s theatre, New York 7 June 1869, afterwards at Niblo’s Garden and the Tammany, New York; played in all the principal theatres in Great Britain and on the Continent; last appearance was at Grand theatre, Glasgow, Jany. 1888. _d._ of consumption, 128 Kennington park road, London 16 May 1889. _Illust. Sporting News_, _ii_ 445 (1864), _portrait_, _v_ 808 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Sport and Dram. News_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_.

LAURI, JOHN, stage name of John George Lowe (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1829; played harlequin at Her Majesty’s, Dec. 1860, at Princess’s, Dec. 1861 to 21 Feb. 1862, at Adelphi, Dec. 1862; played harlequin in New York with his brother 1869; a ballet master in London; his 2 daughters were dancers known as Stella and Luna. _d._ 14 Baker st. Clerkenwell, London 27 Sep. 1881.

LAURIE, JAMES. Wine merchant 9 Billiter st. city of London 1833 to death; author of Tables of simple interest at 5, 4½ etc. per cent. 1831, 21 ed. 1861; Tables of simple interest at 5, 6 etc. per cent., also tables of commission 1842, 4 ed. 1854; Tables of exchange between Madeira and London 1844; Tables of exchange between Paris, Bourdeaux, &c. 1845; British and foreign share tables 1847; Manual of foreign exchange 1851, 5th thousand 1867; Universal exchange tables 1852; Decimal coinage 1854. _d._ 28 Aug. 1854.

LAURIE, John. _b._ 1792; entered Madras army 1809; ensign 9 Madras N.I. 29 July 1810, major 31 Oct. 1835 to 5 Aug. 1840; lieut.-col. 45 Madras N.I. 5 Aug. 1840 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 1845–6, of 9 N.I. 1846–50, of 36 N.I. 1850 to 6 June 1851; col. of 1st European regiment 6 June 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Llandulas, North Wales 20 July 1861.

LAURIE, JOHN (son of Benjamin Snaddon of Barrowstown, co. Linlithgow, who _m._ Agnes dau. of John Laurie and took the name of Laurie 1824). _b._ Scotland 1797; merchant in London and government contractor; partner in Laurie and Marner, coach builders, Oxford st. London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1845–6; M.P. Barnstaple 25 Aug. 1854 but unseated on petition; M.P. Barnstaple 1857–59; author of Voice of humanity a voice of mercy 1852. _d._ 2 Aug. 1864. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 561, 562 (1858), _portrait_.

LAURIE, SIR PETER (son of John Laurie of Stichell, Roxburghshire, farmer). _b._ Stichell 1778 or 1779; a saddler at 296 Oxford st. London 1806; became a contractor for the Indian army, made his fortune, retired 1827; governor of the Union bank of London 1839 to death; sheriff of London 1823–4, alderman for Aldersgate ward 6 July 1826 to death, contested the mayoralty 1831, lord mayor 1832–3; knighted at Carlton house 7 April 1824; master of the Saddlers’ company 1833, in whose hall there is a portrait presented to him by the company 24 Feb. 1853; pres. of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; author of Maxims 1833; Killing no murder, or the effects of separate confinement in prisons and gaols 1846; A letter on the disadvantages and extravagance of the separate system of prison discipline 1848. _d._ 7 Park square, Regent’s Park, London 3 Dec. 1861 aged 83. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 10 Dec. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841) 120–53; _I.L.N. ii_ 40 (1843), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He is ridiculed by Dickens in one of his Christmas books under an opprobrious pseudonym.

LAURIE, RICHARD HOLMES (son of Robert Laurie of Fleet st. London, publisher, _d._ May 1836 aged 81). _b._ Fleet st. London 2 Dec. 1777; map, chart and print seller with James Whittle at 53 Fleet st. 1813 to Dec. 1818 when Whittle died and Laurie then carried on the business till his death; published Laurie’s Sailing directions for the Southern Atlantic 1855; Sailing directions for the North Sea 1855; Sailing directions for the straits of Gibraltar 1856. _d._ 53 Fleet st. London 19 Jany. 1858. _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 346.

LAURIE, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; rouge croix pursuivant at Heralds’ college, London 11 Aug. 1823 to 1 Feb. 1839, Windsor herald 1 Feb. 1839 to 5 July 1849, Norroy king of arms 5 July 1849 to 19 Nov. 1859, Clarencieux king of arms 19 Nov. 1859 to death. _d._ Wentworth house, Richmond, Surrey 13 Jany. 1882.

LAURIE, WILLIAM FERGUSON BEATSON. 2 lieut. Madras artillery 8 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 15 Aug. 1867, retired 26 Jany. 1870 with hon. rank of colonel; served in the second Burmese war 1852; author of Orissa, the garden of superstition and idolatry 1850; The second Burmese war 1853; Northern Europe, local, social and political in 1861, 1862 and 8 other books. _d._ Tynwald, Grove Park, Chiswick, Middlesex 13 Nov. 1891 aged 72.

LAUTOUR, PETER AUGUSTUS (2 son of Louis Francis Joseph Lautour). _b._ 1785; cornet 11 dragoons 31 March 1804; major 23 dragoons 6 Jany. 1814 to Jany. 1818 when he retired on h.p.; bankrupt 15 June 1830, imprisoned at Boulogne for debt 1832–3; col. 3 hussars 26 May 1855 to death; general 9 March 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815; K.H. 1816. _d._ Bromley 11 Jany. 1866. _C. Clark’s House of Lords Cases_, _x_ 685–704 (1865).

LAVENU, LOUIS HENRY. _b._ London 1818; studied at R.A. of music; violoncellist at the opera, London; music seller with Nicolas Mori at 28 Bond st. 1843–4; his opera Loretta, a tale of Seville, produced 9 Nov. 1846; professor of the pianoforte at 48 Greek st. Soho 1844–7; musical director of theatre, Sydney, N.S.W.; composed numerous songs and pianoforte pieces. _d._ Sydney 1 Aug. 1859.

LAVERTON, ABRAHAM (son of Abraham Laverton). _b._ 1819; carpet manufacturer at Westbury, Wilts.; a director of Manchester and Sheffield railway many years; contested Westbury 18 Nov. 1868, 27 Feb. 1869 and 1 April 1880; M.P. Westbury 1874 to 1880. _d._ Farleigh castle near Bath 31 Oct. 1886, will proved 8 Dec. personalty amounted to upwards of £647,000.

LAVIE, GERMAIN (1 son of German Lavie of St. John’s, Hampstead). _b._ 1800; ed. at Eton 1811–17 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1831; auditor of Christ Church, Oxford 1849–57; clerk to Oliverson of firm of Crowdie, Lavie & Co. attorneys; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1823; admitted a solicitor 1827; eminent commercial lawyer in London; member of council of Incorporated law society 1846 to death; member of royal commission for inquiry into law study in inns of court 1854; author of Letter to baron Rothschild on the proposed alteration of the law relative to sales and pledges 1857. _d._ St. George’s hospital, Hyde park corner, London 13 July 1857.

LAVIES, JOHN. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. 1819, L.S.A. 1820; surgeon with Mr. Hanbury, King st. Westminster, moved to Great George st.; surgeon to House of Correction; an early member of British Medical Assoc.; president of Medical Registration Assoc.; a medical reformer of his day. _d._ 34 Bessborough gardens, Pimlico, London 26 Oct. 1867. _The Lancet 9 Nov. 1867 p._ 597.

LAVIES, JOSEPH SAMUEL (only son of John Lavies of 5 Great George st. Westminster, surgeon). _b._ 1824; L.S.A. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1846; M.D. Edinb. 1847; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; surgeon Invalid artillery, St. James’s park; staff surgeon households of war office and horse guards; surgeon Westminster female refuge; surgeon Palmer’s hospital, Westminster; surgeon Westminster house of correction; matric. from St. Mary hall, Oxf. 19 Jany. 1872; member of Wanderers’ club; author of Our august assembly. _d._ 96 St. George’s road, Belgravia, London 2 Nov. 1888.

LAW, AUGUSTUS HENRY (eld. son of Wm. Towry Law 1809–86). _b._ Trumpington near Cambridge 21 Oct. 1833; served in the navy Feb. 1846 to Dec. 1853; joined the Church of Rome under the bishop of Southwark at Mortlake 16 May 1852; entered Society of Jesus 1 Jany. 1854; taught in coll. of St. Aloysius at Glasgow 1860–3; missionary priest in Demerara, British Guiana 1866–71; joined the first missionary staff to the Zambesi, March 1879. _d._ at King Umzila’s Kraal 25 Nov. 1880. _A memoir of the life and death of A. H. Law 3 Parts_ (1882–83), 2 _portraits_; _A. Law, S.J. Notes in remembrance_ (1886).

LAW, DAVID. _b._ 1845; ed. Edinb. univ.; editor of a Bombay newspaper to 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; on editorial staff of The Times 1878–79. _d._ of paralysis, Edinburgh 9 April 1880.

LAW, HENRY (3 son of George Henry Law 1761–1845, bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells). _b._ Kelshall rectory, Herts. 28 Sep. 1797; ed. at Greenwich, Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1821, tutor, fourth wrangler 1820; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of St. Anne, Manchester 1822–3; V. of Childwall near Liverpool 1823; archdeacon of Richmond 5 Oct. 1824, resigned Oct. 1826; V. of West Camel, Somerset 1825; archdeacon of Wells 4 Oct. 1826 to 1862; preb. of Wells cath. 1826; resident canon of Wells 1828–62; largely contributed to restoration of Wells cathedral; V. of East Brent 1839; R. of Weston-super-Mare 1834–8 and 1840–62 where he thrice enlarged the parish church and built and endowed three other churches; presented a town-hall to Weston-super-Mare at cost of £4000; dean of Gloucester 1 Dec. 1862 to death; one of the last of the evangelical school; author of Christ is all, the gospel of the Pentateuch 5 vols. 1866–77, new ed. 4 vols. 1866, more than 12,000 copies of this were sold; Jesus set for an example in the tabernacle service 1864; The beacons of the bible, a series of 12 tracts 1861, another series 24 tracts 1868; Awakening and inviting calls 1871; Christian cordials 1873; Forgiveness of sins 1876; Gleanings from the book of life 1877; Family devotion 4 vols. 1878–84; The reformation 1883; He being dead yet speaketh, sermons 1886. _d._ the deanery, Gloucester 25 Nov. 1884. _The Record 28 Nov. and 5 Dec. 1884._

LAW, HUGH (only son of John Law of Woodlawn, co. Down). _b._ Woodlawn 19 June 1818; ed. at Royal school Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837, B.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1840, Q.C. 4 July 1860; legal adviser to lord lieutenant 1868; drafted the Irish Church act and the Irish land act 1870; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1870; solicitor general for Ireland 18 Nov. 1872 to Jany. 1874, attorney general Jany. to March 1874 and 10 May 1880 to 11 Nov. 1881; P.C. Ireland 1874; M.P. for Londonderry county 1874–81; conducted prosecution of C. S. Parnell, M.P. and others for conspiracy in establishing the Land League, Dec. 1880; lord chancellor for Ireland 11 Nov. 1881 to death. _d._ Rathmullen House, Lough Swilly, co. Donegal 10 Sep. 1883. _Law Times_, _lxxv_ 349 (1883).

LAW, JAMES. _b._ 1796; a working man; presbyterian minister and chaplain of the Mariners’ congregation, Dundee, Dec. 1839, chaplain there under the Free church 6 July 1843, suspended from his ministry but soon restored; his case discussed in the house of commons; sought admission into the Church of England; readmitted into the established presbyterian church, minister at South Kirriemuir, Sep. 1844 and at Inverbrothock, Nov. 1845 to death, ordained Jany. 1846. _d._ Arbroath 4 Oct. 1860. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 185–90.

LAW, JAMES THOMAS (brother of Henry Law 1797–1884). _b._ 8 Dec. 1790; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; V. of Bowden, Cheshire 1815; R. of Tattenhall, Cheshire 1816; V. of Childwall, Lancs. 1818; preb. of Chester 9 April 1818, resigned Dec. 1828; preb. of Lichfield 18 July 1818; chancellor of diocese of Lichfield 1821–73; commissary of archdeaconry of Richmond 1824–46; V. of Harborne, Staffs. 1825–45; special commissary of diocese of Bath and Wells 1840; hon. warden of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1846; author of The poor man’s garden, or rules for regulating allotments for potatoe gardens 1830; The acts for building additional churches in populous parishes 1841, 3 ed. 1853; The ecclesiastical statutes at large 5 vols. 1847; Materials for a history of Queen’s college, Birmingham 1869; Lectures on the ecclesiastical law of England 1861; Lectures on the office and duties of churchwardens 1861. _d._ Lichfield 22 Feb. 1876.

LAW, ROBERT. _b._ 1789; ensign 71 foot 8 June 1809; captain Ceylon rifle regt. 1824; major royal Newfoundland companies 29 Aug. 1834, lieut.-col. 3 Feb. 1844 to 17 July 1859; col. 2 West India regiment 12 Jany. 1864 to 1 April 1870; L.G. 13 March 1868; col. 71 foot 1 April 1870 to death; K.H. 1837. _d._ 55 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 16 May 1874.

LAW, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1786; ensign 62 foot 29 April 1813; captain 83 foot 14 July 1825, lieut. col. 83 foot 22 Dec. 1848 to 16 May 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 16 May 1856. _d._ 29 March 1860.

LAW, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of Ewan Law, M.P. _d._ 29 April 1829). _b._ 6 Dec. 1786; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1804–14; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1813; one of comrs. of bankruptcy 1825; a comr. of court for relief of insolvent debtors 1826, chief comr. 1 Aug. 1853 to 6 Aug. 1861 when the court was abolished by 24 and 25 Vict. cap. 134; author of Some remarks on the Alpine passes of Strabo 1846; A criticism on Mr. Ellis’ theory on the route of Hannibal 1855; The Alps of Hannibal 2 vols. 1866; author with H. R. Reynolds of Reports of cases in the court for relief of insolvent debtors 1830. _d._ 5 Sussex sq. Brighton 5 Oct. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 255 (1869); _Law Journal_, _iv_ 560 (1869).

LAW, WILLIAM TOWRY (youngest son of 1 baron Ellenborough 1750–1818). _b._ 16 June 1809; ed. at Eton and Peter house Camb., M.A. 1834; ensign 51 foot 23 Nov. 1826; served on staff of general Maison with French army in the Morea; ensign grenadier guards 21 Sep. 1830, sold out 1831; ordained 1831; R. of Yeovilton, Somerset 1835–40; V. of East Brent 1840–45; V. of Harborne, Staffs. 1845, resigned 1851; prebend. of Wells 22 Sep. 1840–51; chancellor of diocese of Bath and Wells 1839–51; relinquished his holy orders in Church of England by deed dated 31 Aug. 1870 inrolled in Chancery 7 Sep.; joined Church of Rome 19 Sep. 1851; author of On the restoration of the weekly offertory 1844; Attempted usurpation of authority over the church of England by the bishop of Rome 1850; A letter to the parishioners of Harborne 1850; Unity and faithful adherence to the word of God are only to be found in the catholic church 1852. _d._ Hampton court palace 31 Oct. 1886.

LAWES, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Hobson Vitruvius Lawes, serjeant at law, who _d._ 27 Nov. 1849 aged 67). _b._ 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; special pleader at 3 Essex court Temple 1839–45; barrister M.T. 6 June 1845; chairman of metropolitan commission of sewers 16 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Sydenham hill near London 22 May 1852.

LAWFORD, EDWARD. Solicitor in City of London 1812 to 1854; solicitor to East India co. 1826 to 1854; clerk to Drapers’ co. Drapers’ hall, Throgmorton st. 1826 to 1854; member of council of Incorporated Law Society 24 June 1845 to 1854.

LAWFORD, EDWARD. _b._ 1810; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 16 Dec. 1825, col. 18 Feb. 1861; col. commandant R.E. 21 Dec. 1865 to death; M.G. 1 March 1867. _d._ Brighton 23 March 1871.

LAWFORD, THOMAS WRIGHT (nephew of Edward Lawford, solicitor to H.E.I. Co.) Solicitor at Llandilo, Carmarthen 1834–40, at Brecon 1840–2, at Tyridail near Llandilo 1842–57; market gardener, dealer in poultry and grape grower for London market at Tyridail, hatched chickens by steam, bankrupt 21 Nov. 1854, paid dividend of 3 pence in the £ Nov. 1856; engaged in mining in Prussia, failed, borrowed £80,000 from life assurance companies 1849–54, repaid £36,000, paid £25,000 in commission, premiums and interest being at the rate of £5,000 per annum. _W. J. Lawson’s History of Banking 2 ed._ (1855) 451–53.

LAWLESS, CECIL JOHN (2 son of 2 baron Cloncurry _d._ 1853). _b._ 1 Aug. 1820; M.P. Clonmel 1846 to death. _d._ 5 Nov. 1853.

LAWLESS, EDMUND BARRY. _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859. _d._ 13 Upper Temple st. Dublin 20 Nov. 1885.

LAWLESS, MATTHEW JAMES (son of Barry Lawless of Dublin, solicitor). _b._ near Dublin 1837; ed. at Prior Park college near Bath; pupil of Henry O’Neil, R. A. in London; drew illustrations for Once a Week, Cornhill Mag., Punch and London Society; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1858–63. _d._ of consumption at 4 Pembridge crescent, Bayswater, London 6 Aug. 1864.

LAWLEY, SIR FRANCIS, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert Lawley, 5 bart. _d._ 1793). _b._ 1782; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. and All Souls’ coll. Oxf., B.C.L. 1808, D.C.L. 1813; fellow of All Souls’ till 1815; M.P. Warwickshire 1820–32; major Warwickshire yeomanry cavalry, lieut.-col. 26 April 1845, resigned Jany. 1848; succeeded his brother as 7 bart. 10 April 1833. _d._ Middleton hall, Warwickshire 30 Jany. 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_ 106 (1851).

LAWRANCE, EDWARD. _b._ 1802; admitted solicitor Nov. 1825, partner with David Blenkarne at 32 Bucklersbury to 1843; head of firm of Lawrance and Plews 1843–50, of Lawrance, Plews and Boyer 14 Old Jewry chambers 1850 to death; member of council of Incorporated law soc. 29 June 1858 to death, vice pres. 1868–9, pres. 1869–70; had a large bankruptcy practice for 40 years; author of Bankruptcy law reform, a letter to the lord chancellor 1859; A handbook on the law of principal and surety 1861. _d._ 1 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1871.

LAWRANCE, EDWARD ELEAZAR. _b._ Ipswich 1784; solicitor at Ipswich 1808 to death; clerk to borough magistrates at Ipswich 1836; clerk to magistrates of Samford petty sessions 40 years; coroner for the liberty of the duke of Norfolk 40 years; oldest attorney on rolls except one who was admitted in 1805; member British Archæol. Assoc. 1859. _d._ 170 Woodbridge road, Ipswich 20 May 1866. _Journal of British Archæol Assoc. xxiii_ 306 (1867).

LAWRANCE, MISS HANNAH. _b._ 1795; a contributor to the Athenæum; author of Historical memoirs of the Queens of England 2 vols. 1838–40; The history of woman in England and her influence on society and literature, Vol. i. 1843, no more published. _d._ Nov. 1875.

LAWRENCE, SIR ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON, 1 Baronet (elder son of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence 1806–57). _b._ Allahabad 6 Sep. 1838; served in Bengal civil service 1857 to death; created baronet for his father’s services in India 10 Aug. 1858; assist. commissioner in the Punjaub to death; killed accidentally between Torahon and Tarunda about 120 miles from Simla, northern India 27 Aug. 1864. _bur._ at Simla 29 Aug.

LAWRENCE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. _b._ 1 July 1803; entered Madras army 1818; major 7 Madras light cavalry 16 March 1840, lieut.-col. 23 May 1846 to 1848, 1855–6 and 1857–8; lieut.-col. 6 Madras light cavalry 1848–54; lieut.-col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1854–5; lieut.-col. 2 Madras light cavalry 1856–7, col. 17 May 1859 to death; M.G. 20 July 1858. _d._ Biarritz, France 21 Feb. 1868.

LAWRENCE, SIR ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (3 son of Charles Lawrence of Fairfield, Jamaica). _b._ Gatacre, Salop 14 July 1809; ed. at Eton; ensign 23 foot 4 April 1827; lieut. rifle brigade 17 March 1830, lieut.-col. 1 Aug. 1847, placed on h.p. 24 July 1856; commanded 2nd brigade of second division in the Crimea 25 Dec. 1855 to 10 June 1856; col. of 58 foot 6 Jany. 1870 to 13 April 1884; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1879; col. commandant of first battalion of rifle brigade 13 April 1884 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Fox-hills near Chertsey 25 Jany. 1892. _Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1892 p._ 9 _col._ 4, _portrait_.

LAWRENCE, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lawrence of Cirencester, Gloucs., surgeon 1753–1837). _b._ 21 March 1794; took a leading part in founding Royal agricultural college at Cirencester 1842, owner of a farm adjoining that of the college where he conducted experiments which led to introduction of numerous improvements in agricultural machinery; author of Practical directions for the cultivation of cottage gardens 1831; A letter on agricultural education 1851; A handy book for young farmers 1859; To my labourers, on the economy of food 1860, and of several papers in Transactions of Royal Agricultural Society. _d._ The Querns, Cirencester 5 July 1881.

LAWRENCE, ELIAS. Midshipman R.N. 1789–93; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 May 1793, col. commandant 10 July 1837, retired on full pay 10 July 1844; general 20 June 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ 8 St. Michael’s terrace, Devonport 25 March 1856.

LAWRENCE, FREDERICK (eld. son of John Lawrence of Bisham, Berkshire, farmer). _b._ Bisham 1821; employed by Simpkin and Marshall, publishers, London; entered printed book department of British Museum, Dec. 1846, helped to compile general catalogue to May 1849; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; chairman of the Garibaldian committee 1864; wrote a series of articles on literary impostures and on eminent English authors in Sharpe’s London Journal; edited at Guildford in 1841 The Iris, a journal of literature and science, 3 numbers; edited The Lawyer’s Companion 5 vols. 1864–8; author of The common law procedure act, 1852 with an introduction 1852; The life of Henry Fielding 1855; Culverwell _v._ Sidebottom. A letter to the attorney general. By a Barrister 1857, 2 ed. 1859. _d._ suddenly at his chambers, 1 Essex court, Temple, London 25 Oct. 1867. _Handbook of fictitious names. By Olphar Hamst_ [_Ralph Thomas_] (1868) 2, 205; _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 363–4.

LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (eld. son of rev. Alfred Charnley Lawrence _d._ 1867). _b._ Braxted rectory, Essex 25 March 1827; ed. at Rugby 1841–5 and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Guy Livingstone, or Thorough 1857 anon., 6 ed. 1867, which describes his own boyhood and college life; Sword and Gown 1859, 5 ed. 1888; Barren Honour 2 vols. 1862; Border and Bastile 1863, 3 ed. 1864; A bundle of ballads 1864; Maurice Dering or the quadrilateral 1864, 2 ed. 1869; Sans Merci, or Kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1869, and 5 other books all stated to be by the author of Guy Livingstone. _d._ 134 George st. Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1876. _Edinburgh Review_, _cviii_ 532–40 (1858); _Spectator 28 Oct. 1876 pp._ 1345–7.

NOTE.--His book Border and Bastile 1863 is a record of his journey to the United States of America in January 1863 with the intention of joining as a volunteer the confederate army under general Stonewall Jackson; before he got near the confederate lines he was taken prisoner and shut up in a guard-house, whence after correspondence with Lord Lyons the British ambassador at Washington he was liberated on the condition of his immediate return to England.

LAWRENCE, SIR GEORGE ST. PATRICK (3 son of lieut.-col. Alexander Lawrence 1764–1835). _b._ Trincomalee, Ceylon 17 March 1804; cornet 2 Bengal light cavalry 15 Jany. 1822, adjutant 1825–34, major 26 Feb. 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861; military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten the envoy of Afghanistan, Sep. 1839 to 23 Dec. 1841 when Macnaghten was murdered; assistant political agent in the Peshawur district of the Punjaub, Oct. 1846; taken prisoner by the Sikhs 25 Oct. 1846; deputy comr. of Peshawur 7 June 1849; political agent in Mewar 24 July 1850 to 13 March 1857; resident in the Rajputana states 13 March 1857 to Dec. 1864; brigadier general of all the forces in Rajputana during the mutiny 1857; M.G. 25 May 1861, retired on full pay 29 Oct. 1866; hon. L.G. 11 Jany. 1867; granted good service pension of £100 a year 11 Jany. 1865; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author of Reminiscences of forty-three years in India, edited by W. Edwardes 1874. _d._ 20 Kensington park gardens, London 16 Nov. 1884. _Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir Henry Lawrence_, _vol. i_ (1872); _Golden Hours_ (1869) 314–29, 397–409, 457–69, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1884 pp._ 533, 542, _portrait_.

LAWRENCE, HENRY. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1811, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; lieut. 67 N.I. 1823, major 3 Aug. 1837 to 3 Nov. 1843; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 1846, of 2nd European regiment 1846–8, of 73 N.I 1848–50, of 44 N.I. 1850 to 1851, of 24 N.I. 1851–2, of 58 N.I. 1852 to 15 April 1854; commanded Lahore field force 29 March 1854 to 1855 and Lahore district or station 1855 to 8 Aug. 1856; col. of 72 N.I. 15 April 1854, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 23 May 1874. _d._ 1 Camden gardens, Chislehurst road, Richmond hill, Surrey 23 Nov. 1887.

LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (4 son of lieut.-col. Alexander W. Lawrence 1764–1835). _b._ Mattura, Ceylon 28 June 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856 to death; a revenue surveyor in north west province 1833–39; political agent in charge of Ferozepore 1839; commander of Sikh contingent in the entry into Cabul 16 Sep. 1842; British resident at Nepaul 1 Dec. 1843, founded the Lawrence asylum for soldiers’ children 1844; governor general’s agent for foreign relations and the affairs of the Punjaub 3 Jany. 1846 and for the affairs of the North West frontier 1 April 1846; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 28 April 1848; present at Sobraon and at the occupation of Lahore; British resident at Lahore 8 Jany. 1847 to Oct. 1847 and practically ruler of the Punjaub; removed the maharanee from Lahore and separated her from Dhuleep Singh; present at siege of Moultan and at Chillianwallah; president of board of administration of Punjaub 14 April 1849 to 1853; governor general’s agent in Ajmeer, Rajputana 9 Feb. 1853; colonel 20 June 1854; hon. A.D.C. to queen 20 June 1854; chief comr. and agent to governor general in Oude 14 March 1857; brigadier general 19 May 1857 with command of all the troops in Oudh; on breaking out of mutiny fortified Lucknow; author of Some passages in the life of an adventurer in the Punjaub, anon. 1842; Adventures of an officer in the service of Runjeet Singh 2 vols. 1845; Essays, military and political 1859; Essays on the Indian army and Oude 1859; struck by a shell in the residency at Lucknow 2 July 1857 and _d._ in Dr. Fayrer’s house 4 July. _Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir H. Lawrence 2 vols._ (1872); _J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers_, _ii_ 275–352 (1867); _L. E. R. Rees’ Personal narrative of siege of Lucknow_ (1858), _portrait_.

LAWRENCE, REV. HEZEKIAH. _b._ 1800; missionary of London Jews society more than 50 years. _d._ Danzig 10 June 1884.

LAWRENCE, John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1 Baron (6 son of lieut.-col. Alexander Wm. Lawrence 1764–1835). _b._ Richmond, Yorkshire 4 March 1811; assist. magistrate and collector at Delhi 1831–35; magistrate and collector of Paniput and Delhi 1844–46; administrator of Trans-Sutlej province 1 March 1846; member of board of administration of Punjaub 1849 and chief commissioner Feb. 1853; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. civil 11 Nov. 1857; kept the Punjaub in security during the mutiny and sent great assistance to the army at Delhi, gave up the administration 28 Feb. 1859; one of the chief men in the preservation of India during the mutiny; received freedom of city of London 3 June 1859; cr. baronet 3 Aug. 1858; granted annuity of £2000 by H.E.I.Co. 25 Aug. 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 and took his seat 11 April 1859; P.C. 13 May 1859; D.C.L. Oxf. 1859; D.C.L. Camb. 1859; refused governorship of Bombay 1860; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861, invested 1 Nov. 1861; governor general of India 5 Dec. 1863, landed in India 12 Jany. 1864, resigned 12 Jany. 1869; held a great durbar at Lahore, Oct. 1864; created baron Lawrence of the Punjaub and of Grately, Northampton 4 April 1869; member of London school board, Chelsea division, Nov. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873, chairman Dec. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873; much opposed to the Afghan war of 1878–79. _d._ 23 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 26 June 1879. _bur._ in nave of Westminster abbey 5 July; statues of him have been erected in Calcutta and in Waterloo place, London. _R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence_ 2 _vols._ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _G. B. Malleson’s Recollections of an Indian official_ (1872) 1–218; _H. A. Page’s Leaders of men_ (1880) 367–98; _Nolan’s Illust. Hist. of British empire in India_, _iii_ 40 (1860), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 156, 162 (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xx_ 29 (1879), _portrait_.

LAWRENCE, MARTHA (dau. of John Cripps of Upton house, Tetbury). Said to have been _b._ Bow lane, Cheapside, London 9 Aug. 1758; _bapt._ St. Mary, Aldermanbury 15 Aug. 1758; (_m._ at Streatham 12 Nov. 1783 John Lawrence). She _d._ Richmond, Surrey 17 Feb. 1862 aged 103 years and 6 months. _bur._ Ham common, Surrey. _W. J. Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 266–68.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Lawrence of St. Agnes, Cornwall). _b._ St. Agnes 4 Feb. 1789; a builder at Pitfield wharf, Commercial road, Lambeth, 30 Bread st. Cheapside and 21 Pitfield st. Hoxton 1823 to death; member of common council of City of London before 1837, alderman of Bread st. ward 1848 to death, sheriff 1849–50; chairman of board of directors of Legal and Commercial fire and life assurance company; comr. of Tower Hamlets commission of sewers and of Holborn and Finsbury commission of sewers; a Unitarian and a great reformer. _d._ 94 Westbourne terrace, London 25 Nov. 1855.

LAWRENCE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Lawrence 1794–1881). _b._ Cirencester 16 July 1783; apprenticed to John Abernethy the surgeon 1799, and his demonstrator at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 1802–14, assistant surgeon there March 1813, surgeon 19 May 1824 to 1865, lecturer on surgery 1829–62; F.R.S. 11 Nov. 1813; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the eye 1814; surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals 1815; M.R.C.S. 1805, professor of anatomy and surgery 1815, member of council 1828, Hunterian orator 1834 and 1846, examiner 1840–67, pres. 1846 and 1855; surgeon extraordinary to the Queen 1837–58, serjeant surgeon 24 March 1858 to death; member of general medical council 1858–63; created baronet 8 April 1867; author of A treatise on ruptures 1810, 3 ed. 1816, 5 ed. 1838; A short system of comparative anatomy translated from the German 1807, 2 ed. 1827; An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology 1816; Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man 1819, 9 ed. 1848; Lectures on surgery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1830; A treatise on the venereal diseases of the eye 1830; A treatise on the diseases of the eye 1833, 2 ed. 1841; The Hunterian orations 2 vols. 1834 and 1846. _d._ 18 Whitehall place, London 5 July 1867, portrait in committee room of St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and bust in College of Surgeons. _Memoir by Sir W. S. Savory in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for 1868 pp._ 1–18; _Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _i_ 145–66 (1860); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_ 25–30 (1868); _Medical Circular_, _iv_ 191–3, 209–10, 227–9 (1854), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_ 29, _portrait_; _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _ii_ (1840), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He married 14 Aug. 1828 Louisa younger dau. of James Senior of Broughton house, Aylesbury, Bucks. At Drayton green until 1840 and afterwards at Ealing park, she was well known for her devotion to horticulture. The queen and Prince Albert sometimes visited the gardens at Ealing, where she at one time received Sir Robert Peel and all the ministers at a fête given in their honour. She _d._ Ealing park 14 Aug. 1855.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM HUDSON. _b._ 21 Jany. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, captain 2 Feb. 1832, retired on half pay 31 July 1840; held several government appointments at Corfu. _d._ Bath 13 March 1884, probably oldest officer in the R.A.

LAWRENSON, JOHN (son of major Lawrenson). _b._ Ireland 1801; cornet 13 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1818; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1822; capt. 17 lancers 1827, major 31 Dec. 1839; lieut.-col. 13 light dragoons 27 June 1845 to 23 June 1848; lieut.-col. 17 lancers 18 April 1851, on h.p. 30 Sep. 1856; brigadier general in Crimea 30 July 1855 to 2 July 1856; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters of army 1860–65; col. of 8 hussars 22 Feb. 1865, of 13 hussars 10 Dec. 1868 to death; general 2 Nov. 1875; hunted with the Atherstone hounds 1847–8, afterwards with the Pytchley, then at Brixworth; rode in military steeple chases. _d._ Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 30 Oct. 1883. _Baily’s Mag. xli_ 367–9, 429 (1883).

LAWRIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 26 June 1818; blind from early infancy; an excellent pianist, composer and virtuoso of music; organist of St. James’s episcopal church, Edinb. many years, then of rev. Mr. Kirk’s ch. Brighton st. Edinb.; published many pieces for the pianoforte; wrote some good hymn tunes. _d._ Edinburgh, Dec. 1880.

LAWRIE, JAMES ADAIR (son of rev. Archibald Lawrie of Loudoun, friend of Robert Burns the poet). _b._ 1801 or 1802; M.D. Glasgow, L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. Bengal; professor of surgery in Andersonian univ. Glasgow; professor of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1850 to death; in practice at 18 Brandon place, Glasgow; edited with W. Weir The Glasgow Medical Journal, vol. v. 1832; author of Essay on cholera founded on observations of the disease in India and in Sunderland 1832. _d._ Bridge of Allan 23 Nov. 1859. _Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_ (1886) 171, _portrait_.

LAWRY, WALTER (son of Joseph Lawry _d._ 1832). _b._ Ruthern, St. Gorran, Cornwall 3 Aug. 1793; Wesleyan minister in New South Wales 1817–20, in Friendly Isles 1820–22, 1823–25, in Van Diemen’s land 1822–23, in England 1825–43, in New Zealand and Australia 1843 to death; general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in New Zealand 1844–51; author of Friendly and Feejee islands, a missionary visit 1850, 2 ed. 1850; A second missionary visit to the Friendly islands 1851. _d._ Paramatta, N.S.W. 30 March 1859. _Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 314–20.

LAWSON, CECIL GORDON (5 son of Wm. Lawson, Scottish portrait painter). _b._ Wellington, Shropshire 3 Dec. 1851; commenced painting in oils at the age of four; sketched in the open air at the age of 10, at the age of 14 was selling his sketches to the dealers; made his first sketching tour in Kent, Surrey and Sussex 1866; landscape painter; his pictures refused by the Royal Academy 1866, exhibited 13 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1869–80; first exhibited at New British Instit. Bond st. 1868; Cheyne walk, Chelsea, exhibited at R.A. 1870; his large picture painted at Wrotham in Kent, ‘The hop gardens of England,’ was not accepted at the R.A. 1875, but in 1876 was hung in a good position. _d._ 15 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 10 June 1882. _bur._ Haslemere 17 June. _Cecil Lawson, a memoir. By E. W. Gosse_ (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvi_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 56 (1882), _portrait_; _London Society_, _xliii_ 345 (1882), _portrait_.

LAWSON, HENRY (younger son of Johnson Lawson, dean of Battle, _d._ 25 Nov. 1778). _b._ Greenwich 23 March 1774; apprenticed to Edward Nairne of Cornhill, optician, his mother’s third husband; member of Spectacle makers’ company, and twice master; one of original members of Askesian society 1796; lived at Hereford 1823–41, equipped an observatory there with a five-foot refractor 1826 and with one of 11 feet 1834, the finest telescope ever made by Dollond, he afterwards presented the latter to royal naval school at Greenwich; removed to 7 Lansdown crescent, Bath 1841 where he formed an observatory on the roof of his house; silver medallist of Royal soc. of arts for his invention of an observing chair called Reclinea; F.R. Astron. Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 21 May 1840; published Register of the quantity of rain that has fallen in the city of Hereford 1836; A paper on the arrangement of an observatory 1844. _d._ 7 Lansdown crescent, Bath 23 Aug. 1855.

LAWSON, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov. 1799; ed. at Glasgow univ.; entered counting house of his uncle at New York 1815; partner in a mercantile house which failed 1826; associate editor of Morning Courier 1827–9 and of Mercantile Advertiser 1829–33; marine insurance agent in New York 1833; author of Tales and sketches. By A Cosmopolite. New York 1830; Poems. Gleanings from spare hours of a business life. New York 1857; Giordano, a tragedy produced at Park theatre, New York, Nov. 1828; Liddesdale or the border chief, a tragedy 1859; contributed many articles to periodicals. _d._ Yonkers, New York 20 March 1880. _Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_, _ii_ 208–10 (1876).

LAWSON, JAMES ANTHONY (eld. son of James Lawson). _b._ Waterford 1817; ed. at Waterford and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1836, senior moderator 1837, gold medallist; B.A. 1838, LLB. 1841, LLD. 1850; Whately professor of political economy 1840–45; called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 29 Jany. 1857; bencher of King’s Inns 1861; legal adviser to the crown in Ireland 1858–9; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1861, attorney general 1865 to 1866; P.C. Ireland 1865; suppressed the ‘Irish People’ newspaper 1865; contested Univ. of Dublin 1857; M.P. Portarlington 1865–8; contested Portarlington 1868; justice of Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, Dec. 1868; justice of Queen’s Bench division June 1882 to death; an Irish church comr. July 1869; P.C. 18 May 1870; a comr. for the great seal March to Dec. 1874; Patrick Delany attempted to murder him while walking in Kildare st. Dublin 11 Nov. 1882; author of Five lectures on political economy 1844; author with H. Connor of Reports of cases in high court of chancery of Ireland during the time of lord chancellor Sugden 1865. _d._ Shankhill near Dublin 10 Aug. 1887. _Irish Law Times_, _xi_ 464 (1887).

LAWSON, JOHN JOSEPH (2 son of James Lawson of Norwood). _b._ 1802; publisher of the Times newspaper to death. _d._ Downshire hill, Hampstead 24 March 1852. _The Times testimonial. Report of the trial Bogle versus Lawson_ 1841; _The Nelson sword v. Lord Denman’s law_. _The summing up of the judge in Evans versus Lawson for libel_ 1848.

LAWSON, JOHN PARKER. Minister in episcopal church of Scotland; chaplain in the army; lived in Edinburgh; author of The life of George Wishart of Pitarrow. Edinb. 1827; Life and times of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury 2 vols. 1829; The Roman Catholic church in Scotland 1836; History of the Scottish episcopal church from the revolution to the present time. Edinb. 1843; Scotland delineated in a series of views, with letter press by J. P. Lawson 2 vols. 1847–54, 2 ed. 1858. _d._ 1852.

LAWSON, LIONEL. _b._ 1824; ed. in Germany; inherited a fortune from his father; established a manufactory of printing ink at St. Ouen, France, where he made a fortune, and then sold business; printing ink manufacturer at 1 Bouverie st. Fleet st. and at Old Ford, Bow; purchased a large share in The Daily Telegraph, but never took any active part in management of the paper. _d._ 2 Brook st. Hanover sq. London 20 Sep. 1879, personalty sworn under £900,000, 11 Oct. 1879. _I.L.N. lxxv_ 361, 362 (1879), _portrait_.

LAWSON, SIR WILFRID, 1 Baronet (5 son of Thomas Wybergh of Clifton hall, Westmoreland 1757–1827). _b._ Bramhope hall, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; assumed name of Lawson by r.l. 26 Sep. 1812 on inheriting estate of his maternal uncle sir W. Lawson; sheriff of Cumberland 1820; cr. baronet 30 Sep. 1831. _d._ Brayton, Cumberland 12 June 1867.

LAWSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Lanark; a ploughboy; entered the army 1837; a non-commissioned officer 1839–54; served through Crimean war 1854–6; ensign 42nd (Royal Highland) foot 5 Nov. 1854, captain 10 Aug. 1858 to death, instructor of musketry to his regiment 1856; left England for Calcutta, Aug. 1857; commanded the picket of 37 men which defended themselves against 2000 rebels on the banks of the Suarda 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Nynee Tal, Bengal 18 Aug. 1859.

LAWSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Wright of Kelvedon hall, Essex 1763–1826). _b._ Middleton lodge, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire 8 May 1796; assumed by r.l. name of Lawson in lieu of Wright 5 May 1834; cr. a baronet 8 Sep. 1841; received order of Christ from Pope Gregory XVI. 1844. _d._ Brough hall, Catterick, Yorkshire 22 June 1865.

LAWSON, WILLIAM JOHN. Ed. at Christ’s hospital, London till 16 years old; clerk in banking house of Barclay, Bevan & Co. 15 years; a founder of The Bank of London 1855; established Lawson’s Merchant’s magazine, statist and commercial review 1852; author of History of banking in Scotland 1845; The history of banking 1850, 2 ed. 1855; A handy-book on the law of banking 1859, this work was suppressed and 1500 copies destroyed, 16th thousand of an altered edition 1871; The bank of England as it is and as it ought to be 1865; living in London in March 1865.

LAWTON, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester, Feb. 1808; a scholar in Bennett st. Sunday sch., a teacher, a superintendent, senior visitor and manager March 1848 to death; librarian Manchester mechanics’ institution 1832–45; collector of Manchester royal infirmary 1845 to death; director of Mechanics’ institution 1850. _d._ Stretford, Manchester 7 Sep. 1853. _G. Milner’s ed. of B. Braidley’s Bennett st. memorials. Manchester_ (1880) 194–228, _portrait_.

LAWTON, GEORGE. _b._ York 6 May 1779; admitted a proctor 3 Nov. 1808; a solicitor and notary public at York to 1863; registrar of archdeaconry of East Riding of Yorkshire; author of The Marriage act 4 George IV. c. 76, 1823; A brief treatise of Bona Notabilia 1825; Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum 2 vols. 1840, 2 ed. 1842; The religious houses of Yorkshire 1853. _d._ Nunthorpe near York 2 Dec. 1869.

LAXTON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Robert Laxton, surveyor). _b._ London 30 March 1802; ed. at Christ hospital; surveyed and laid down several lines of railway; constructed water works at Falmouth 1848 and at Stonehouse; joint engineer with Robert Stephenson of the Watford water company for supplying London with water from the chalk formation; projected and edited The civil engineer and architect’s journal a monthly periodical Oct. 1837, purchased a weekly journal called The architect and building gazette which he united to The civil engineer; laid out large part of Hove, Brighton; surveyor to the Farmers’ and General fire and life insurance company 1840 to death; author of The improved builder’s price book 1828; The builder’s price book 1844. _d._ 19 Arundel st. Strand, London 31 May 1854. _Civil Engineer, July 1854 pp._ 270–1; _G.M. Aug. 1854 pp._ 199–200.

LAYARD, FREDERIC PETER. _b._ 6 May 1818; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 30 April 1851 to 11 March 1864; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 11 March 1864, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; author of A Hugenot relic, an ivory box with the arms of Charles de Nocé and Marguerite de Rembouillet 1886, _d._ 3 Cavendish road, St. John’s Wood, London 21 May 1891.

LAYARD, WILLIAM TWISLETON. _b._ 4 Aug. 1813; ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 22 Feb. 1833, lieut.-col. 12 June 1859 to 3 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._ Friedland, Wandsworth, London 16 Jany. 1891.

LAYCOCK, JAMES CAMPEY. _b._ Appleton near York 6 May 1796; solicitor Huddersfield 1820–76, clerk to the justices 1828–72, presented with a silver salver; clerk to the borough bench 1868–72; a large donor to the parish ch. schools; president of Huddersfield infirmary 1860 to death; the last survivor of the original shareholders in Huddersfield banking co. _d._ Huddersfield 17 Feb. 1885. _Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury_ (1885) 133–7; _Solicitors’ Journal 14 March 1885 p._ 326.

LAYCOCK, ROBERT (only son of Joseph Laycock of Low Gosforth hall, Northumberland, _b._ 1798, _d._ 2 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn under £464,000, 14 Jany. 1882). _b._ Winlaton, co. Durham 1833; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857; sheriff of Notts. 1878; contested North Notts. 26 Feb. 1872 and Nottingham 5 Feb. 1874; M.P. North Lincoln, April 1880 to death. _d._ Eastbourne 14 Aug. 1881.

LAYCOCK, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Laycock, Wesleyan minister, _d._ 1833). _b._ Wetherby, Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove and Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835; M.D. Göttingen 1839; sec. of the British Assoc. 1844; lecturer on clinical medicine at York school of medicine 1846; professor of practice of physic, univ. of Edin. 5 Nov. 1855 to death, being the only Englishman ever elected; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; phys. in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland 1 Oct. 1869 to death; author of A treatise on the nervous diseases of women 1840; Lectures on the principles and methods of medical observation and research. Edinb. 1856, 2 ed. 1864; Mind and Brain, or the correlations of consciousness and organisation. Edinb. 2 vols. 1859, 2 ed. 1869, and of 300 articles in medical journals. _d._ 13 Walker st. Edinburgh 21 Sep. 1876. _Revue des cours scientifiques_, _ii_ 808 (1876); _Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 211, 276.

LAYTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM HANHAM (son of Thomas Layton _d._ 1844). _b._ 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1828; C. of Wem, Shropshire, resigned 1835; angel of Catholic Apostolic ch. Duncan st. Islington 14 July 1835 to death; author of The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1866; On the decadence and fall of Christendom 1868; The parables of Christ considered with reference to their meaning by H. W. J. Thiersch, a translation 1869; On spiritual and true worship 1871. _d._ 11 Highbury grove, London 21 Oct. 1878.

LAYTON, HENRY (2 son of rev. Thomas Layton, V. of Chigwell, Essex, _d._ 1833). _b._ Chigwell 2 Feb. 1799; entered navy 3 May 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired R.A. 15 June 1864; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Reading 3 March 1882. _O’Byrne p._ 640.

LEA, GEORGE (son of John Lea, carpet manufacturer). _b._ Kidderminster 22 Oct. 1804; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Waddington, Lincs. 1827–9; P.C. Christ Church, Birmingham 1840–64; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840–64; V. of St. George’s, Edgbaston 1864, resigned 25 March 1883; leader of the evangelical party in Birmingham; author of Memoir of rev. John Davis, rector of St. Clement’s, Worcester 1859; Sermons preached in memory of G. Lea, to which are added his last two sermons 1883. _d._ Edgbaston 10 May 1883. _Edgbastonia_, _June 1883 pp._ 81–3, _portrait_.

LEA, WILLIAM (1 son of William Lea of Stone, Warwickshire). _b._ 1 Dec. 1820; ed. Rugby and at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 14 April 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1859; V. of St. Peter’s, Droitwich 1849–87; hon. canon of Worcester 1858–81; archdeacon of Worcester May 1881 to death; author of Sermons on the prayer book preached in Rome 1866; Small farms, how they can be made to answer by fruit growing 1872; Church plate in the archdeaconry of Worcester 1884. _d._ Orchardlea, Droitwich 24 Sep. 1889.

LEACH, ALFRED. L.S.A. 1883; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; M.D. and C.M. Aberdeen 1888; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1889; assistant house surgeon Rotherham hospital; house phys. Bath hospital; phys. Pimlico road free dispensary, London to death; invented a flexible cautery; a good linguist, speaking Arabic, Italian and French; author of The quadrangle by moonlight, or meditations in Marischal college. Aberdeen 1879; The letter H, past, present and future: a treatise with rules for the silent H, and notes on WH. 1880. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 14 Sep. 1892 aged 35.

LEACH, JONATHAN. _b._ 1784; ensign 70 foot 7 Aug. 1801, captain 1804; captain 95th rifles 1 May 1806; major rifle brigade 9 Sep. 1819, sold out 24 Oct. 1821; lieut.-col. in the army 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815; served in the West Indies 1803–5, at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsula and France 1808–14, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; author of Rough sketches of the life of an old soldier 1831; Sketches of the services of the rifle brigade from its formation to Waterloo 1838; Rambles along the Styx 1847. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1855.

LEACH, RICHARD HOWELL (2 son of Thomas Leach of 58 Doughty st. London). _b._ 1814; entered office of Registrar of court of chancery 1832, senior registrar 1868–82; largely assisted in drawing up the Chancery funds rules of 1872 and 1874; one of the editors of H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees in equity 2 ed. 1854, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1862 and 4 ed. 2 vols. in 3, 1877–9. _d._ Ernstein house, Tunbridge Wells 4 Aug. 1883.

LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL. _b._ Berwick-on-Tweed 2 March 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; pastor of St. Andrew’s presbyterian church, Toronto 1832; joined Church of England and became the first incumbent of St. George’s, Montreal 1841; fellow, dean of the faculty of arts, professor of logic and moral philosophy and Molson professor of English literature in University McGill coll. Montreal; canon of Ch. Ch. cath. Montreal 1854–65; archdeacon of Montreal 1865 to death; author of Discourse on the nature and duties of the military profession 1840; Introductory lecture for the Mercantile Library association 1854. _d._ 16 University st. Montreal 13 Oct. 1886.

LEADAM, THOMAS ROBINSON. _b._ 22 Nov. 1809; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1837; author of Case of hydrophobia treated homœopathically 1849; Homœopathy as applied to the diseases of females and of early childhood 1851; The diseases of women homœopathically treated 2 ed. 1874; A popular treatise on the safe management of labour 1876. _d._ 1879.

LEADBETTER, JOHN. _b._ Penicuik on the Esk river 2 May 1788; clerk in a Glasgow firm, became a partner; established John Leadbetter & Co., linen manufacturers 1815, had branch houses in Dundee and Belfast; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1844–5; erected a building for the Glasgow Mechanics’ institution; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway opened 1842; retired from business 1848. _d._ Glenallon, Torquay 17 March 1865. _Memoirs of 100 Glasgow men_, _ii_ 173–6 (1886), _portrait_.

LEADBITTER, GEORGE. _b._ Hexham 1787; one of the officers at Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19 stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who _d._ 10 July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant in case of Wood _v._ Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845 respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the stewards one Wood a defaulter; _killed_ by being overturned in a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3 Dec. 1852. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _Sporting Review_, _xxix_ 71–2, 292 (1853); _The Town_, _i_ 22 (1837); _Times 7 Dec. 1852 p._ 5 _col._ 3; _13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp._ 838–56 (1845).

LEADER, NICHOLAS PHILPOT (eld. son of Nicholas Philpot Leader _d._ 1836). _b._ 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; M.P. co. Cork 1861–68; of Dromagh castle, co. Cork. _d._ London 31 March 1880.

LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller, _d._ 1861). _b._ Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons, editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876 and alderman 1880. _d._ Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. _bur._ Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. _Sheffield Independent 31 Oct._, 2, _5 Nov. 1885_.

LEAF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1791 or 1792; warehouseman at 39 Old Change, city of London 1821–74; made a large collection of water-colour pictures and drawings, sold at Christie’s 6–8 May 1875. _d._ Park hill, Streatham common, Surrey 3 July 1874.

LEAHY, ARTHUR (7 son of John Leahy of South Hill, Killarney 1770–1846). _b._ 5 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut.-col. 10 Dec. 1873 to death; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman; D.A.Q.G. for the R.E.; assistant director of works in fortification branch of the war office 1864; instructor of field works at school of military engineering, Chatham 13 Nov. 1871; second in command of the R.E. at Gibraltar, March 1876; colonel in the army 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Netley hospital, Southampton 13 July 1878.

LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL. _b._ London 1797; portrait and subject painter; painted portraits of Duke of Sussex, Marquess of Bristol and of many prominent Irishmen; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1820–52; lived in Italy 1837–43. _d._ Brighton 9 Feb. 1875.

LEAHY, JOHN (brother of Arthur Leahy 1830–78). _b._ 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Limerick 1864 to death. _d._ Newcastle West, Ireland 13 Oct. 1874. _Irish law times_, _viii_ 549, 553 (1874).

LEAHY, JOHN PIERS (son of Daniel Leahy). _b._ Cork 25 June 1802; ed. at Cork and Bloomfield near Dublin; studied at Corpo Santo, Lisbon, entered order of St. Dominic there 8 Sep. 1817, professed 9 Sep. 1818; acting rector of Corpo Santo, Oct. 1829 to 1836; prior of Dominican convent, Cork 3 times; prior provincial of Irish Dominicans, June 1848; coadjutor bishop of Dromore 14 July 1854, consecrated in St. Mary’s cath. Cork 1 Oct. 1854; bishop of Dromore 29 Feb. 1860 to death; author of The book of the rosary to which is annexed the rule of the third order of St. Dominick. Dublin 1842. _d._ Newry 6 Sep. 1890. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _i_ 305 (1876), _ii_ 365 (1876).

LEAHY, PATRICK (son of Patrick Leahy, civil engineer). _b._ near Thurles, Tipperary 31 May 1806; ed. Maynooth; C. of Scartheen, Cashel; professor of theology St. Patrick’s coll. Thurles, pres. of college; one of secretaries of synod of Thurles 22 Aug. 1850, priest of Thurles; preb. of diocese of Cashel, then precentor; vice-rector of Catholic univ. of Ireland at establishment 18 May 1854, also professor of sacred scripture 1854–7; archbishop of Cashel 27 April 1857 to death, consecrated 29 June; issued address condemning agrarian murders 16 May 1869; cathedral at Thurles built by his energy at cost of £45,000, commenced 1857, consecrated 21 June 1879, when 21 bishops and 280 priests were present. _d._ near Thurles 26 Jany. 1875. _bur._ Thurles cathedral. 3 Feb. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 139 (1875).

LEAKE, JOHN MARTIN (eld. son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe near Colchester, Essex, _d._ 7 April 1836 aged 97). _b._ 5 Dec. 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1797, bencher 1836 to death; chairman of Essex quarter sessions. _d._ Thorpe hall, Essex 16 May 1862.

LEAKE, SIR LUKE SAMUEL (youngest son of Luke Leake of Stoke Newington, Middlesex). _b._ 1828; went to Western Australia 1833, member of legislative council of W.A., and the first speaker 26 June 1872 to death; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1876. _d._ Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 1 May 1886.

LEAKE, ROBERT MARTIN. Ensign 14 foot 2 Oct. 1805; captain 63 foot 14 Feb. 1811, major 18 July 1822 to 26 Oct. 1824 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ Woodhurst, Oxted, Surrey 26 Aug. 1873.

LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN (brother of John Martin Leake 1773–1862). _b._ Bolton row, Mayfair, London 14 Jany. 1777; 1 lieut. R.A. 14 Aug. 1794, lieut.-col. 29 July 1820, sold out 1823; served in West Indies 1794–9 and with Turkish army in Egypt 1800; made a general survey of Egypt 1801–2; surveyed the Morea and Northern Greece 1805–7; sent on a mission to Ali Pacha 1808; sent as resident to the Swiss confederation 1815; granted £600 per annum 5 Jany. 1812 in consideration of his services in Turkey since 1799; F.R.S. 13 April 1815; F.R.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 26 June 1816 collected in Greece, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, now in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge; author of The topography of Athens 1821, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Journal of a tour in Asia Minor 1824; An historical outline of the Greek revolution 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Numismata Hellenica 1854, supplement 1859; author with C. P. Yorke of Les principaux monumens Egyptiens du musée Britannique 1827. _d._ Brighton 6 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. London. _J. H. Marsden’s Memoir of W. M. Leake_ (1864); _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xx_ 35–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xi_ 7–9 (1860).

LEAKEY, CAROLINE WOOLMER (4 dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Exeter 8 March 1827; lived at Hobart Town, Tasmania with her married sister 1847–53; wrote in The Sunday at Home 1854, Girls Own Paper and other periodicals; established the Exeter Home and rescue 1861 and worked for it to 1881; author of Lyra Australis, or attempts to sing in a strange land 1854; The broad arrow, being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. By Oline Keese 1859, new ed. 1886; God’s Tenth 1861, the first of a series of new year addresses 1861–81; Fine weather Dick and other sketches 1882. _d._ Exeter 12 July 1881. _Clear Shining Light, a memoir of C. W. Leakey. By Emily Leakey_ (1882).

LEAKEY, JAMES (son of John Leakey of Exeter, wool merchant). _b._ Exeter 20 Sep. 1775; painter at Exeter of portraits, miniatures, landscapes and small interiors; painted miniatures in oils on ivory; lived in London 1821–5; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A. 1821–46, including The Marvellous Tale 1821, The Fortune Teller 1822 and The Distressed Wife 1846. _d._ Exeter 16 Feb. 1865. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 82–5.

LEAPINGWELL, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M. A. 1826, LLD. 1851; esquire bedel of univ. of Camb. 1826 to death; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; comr. of bankrupts for Cambridge and district; deputy recorder for Cambridge; deputy judge of borough court of pleas, Cambridge; deputy professor of political economy at Camb.; author of A manual of the Roman civil law, arranged after the analysis of Dr. Hallifax. Camb. 1859. _d._ Cambridge 24 Dec. 1863. _Gent. Mag. xvi_ 264, 400 (1864).

LEAR, EDWARD. _b._ Holloway, London 12 May 1812; the youngest of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, &c. 1827, which he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Knowsley residence of Earl of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Knowsley Menagerie 1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing lessons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses addressed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841; Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846, 27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851; published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E. L., London 1859, nine numbers. _d._ Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29 Jany. 1888. _Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear_ (1889), _portrait_; _E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed._ (1888) _memoir pp._ 5–7.

LEARED, ARTHUR. _b._ Wexford 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1860; admitted M.D. at Oxford 7 Feb. 1861; physician in co. Wexford; went to India 1851; practised in London 1852; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1871; phys. to British civil hospital at Smyrna during Crimean war 1854–6; visited Iceland 4 times 1862–74, America 1870, and Morocco 1872, 1877 and 1879; identified site of Roman station, Volubilis; claimed to have invented the double stethoscope; author of The causes and treatment of imperfect digestion 1860, 7 ed. 1882 with portrait; Morocco and the Moors 1876, 2 ed. 1891; A visit to the court of Morocco 1879. _d._ 12 Old Burlington st. London 16 Oct. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc._ (1879) 802; _British Medical Journal 25 Oct. 1879 pp._ 663–4.

LEARMONTH, ALEXANDER (1 son of the succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1829; ed. at Eton, matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 17 March 1847; a student I.T. 1847; cornet 17 lancers 21 Aug. 1849, major 30 Sep. 1856, lieut.-col. 1 July 1859, sold out same day; served in the Crimea and in the Indian mutiny; hon. col. Midlothian rifle volunteers 18 June 1879 to death; M.P. Colchester 1870–80. _d._ 44 Park lane, London 10 March 1887. _The Times 11 March 1887 p._ 8.

LEARMONTH, JOHN. _b._ 1789; coach builder 4 Princes st. Edinburgh, where he made a large fortune; built at his own expense the Dean bridge across the water of Leith, finished in 1833; lord provost of Edinb. 1832–3; contested city of Edinb. 31 May 1834. _d._ 6 Moray place, Edinb. 17 Dec. 1858. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 152–3, _portrait_.

LEASH, WILLIAM. _b._ England 1812; a clerk and book-keeper; a clerk in Edinburgh, returned to England about 1839; Congregational minister at Dover to 1846, at Esher st. Kennington, London 1846–57, at Ware, Herts., then at Maberly chapel, Kingsland 1865; edited the Christian Weekly News; edited the Christian Times 1864, and The Rainbow a magazine 1864–5; author of The Hall of Vision, a poem in three books. Manchester 1837; Philosophical Lectures. Dover 1846; The great redemption, an essay on the mediatorial system 1849; The beauties of the Bible 1852, 2 ed. 1856; Lays of the future 1853. _d._ Sandringham road, West Hackney, London 6 Nov. 1884. _Struggles for life: an autobiography_ (1864).

LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, _d._ 1842). _b._ Wakefield 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank 1834; banker at Wakefield and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851; contested Wakefield 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wakefield 2 May 1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended until 1862; M.P. for Wakefield 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church of England in 1843; purchased Hemsworth hall near Pontefract 1851; author of Poems 1840; Strafford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols. 1858. _d._ Carleton near Pontefract 14 Nov. 1889. _Biograph_, _v_ 209–213 (1881); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol._ 168 _p._ 421, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1880 p._ 41, _portrait_.

LEATHER, JOHN TOWLERTON (1 son of James Leather, colliery proprietor, _d._ 1849). _b._ Yorkshire 30 Aug. 1804; engineer of Sheffield waterworks 1833; contractor with Mr. Waring 1839, made Chester and Crewe section of London and North Western line; sole contractor for Erewash valley line of the Midland 1847–50; constructed the dam and the siphons for the repairs of the Middle Level 1862; constructor of the Portland breakwater 1849–56 and of the Sea forts at Spithead 1861–72; made the extension of the Portsmouth dock yard costing £2,000,000, 1867–77; M.I.C.E. 23 Feb. 1836; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1869; sheriff of Northumberland 1875. _d._ Leventhorpe hall near Leeds 6 June 1885. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxiii_ 433–6 (1886).

LEATHER, JOHN WIGNALL (eld. son of George Leather, M.I.C.E.). _b._ near Leeds 26 April 1810; entered his father’s office and was with him engaged on the Leeds water supply works 1833–51 and on the Bradford water supply 1838–57; employed on the Fen drainage 1845; engineer of Aire and Calder navigation; made Hartlepool and Stockton railway 1838–41 which included the Greatham viaduct of 92 arches; laid out Birmingham, Dudley and Wolverhampton railway 1835; retired from business 1877; M.I.C.E. 6 March 1849; author of Report to the Leeds town council on an effectual sewerage for Leeds 1845. _d._ De Grey lodge, Leeds 31 Jany. 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 473–9 (1887).

LEATHERLAND, JOHN A. (son of a carpenter). _b._ Kettering 11 May 1812; a shoemaker, a loom weaver, a ribbon weaver 1829–37, a velvet weaver, a maker of velvet waistcoats which he sold throughout the county till 1850; local reporter to Northampton Herald 1849 and other newspapers; living in High st. Kettering in 1869; author of Psyche, a prize essay on the immateriality of the mind and the immortality of the soul. Northampton 1853; On courtesy. Essay xiii. in J. Cassell’s Social Science 1861; Essays and poems, with a brief autobiographical memoir 1862, memoir pp. 1–39. _d._ probably before 1877.

LEATHES, EDMUND JOHN, stage name of Edmund Donaldson (2 son of John William Donaldson, D.D., Greek scholar 1811–61). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 23 March 1847; ed. Marlborough 1861–64 where he won the mile race in 4 min. 38 sec.; sheep farming in New Zealand; studied medicine in Edinb.; acted at Old Theatre royal, Dublin, April 1869 and then in Sydney, New Zealand, Honolulu, San Francisco, Nevada, New York and Boston; at Princess’s theatre, London 1 March 1873 as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice; acted James Annesley in C. Reade’s The Wandering Heir, Queen’s theatre 15 Nov. 1873; played Laertes 200 nights Lyceum 30 Oct. 1874 to 29 June 1875 and Matthew Hawker in Human Nature, Drury Lane 12 Sep. 1885; a teacher of the dramatic art and literature; wrote The actor’s wife a novel 3 vols. 1880 and An actor abroad or gossip from the recollections of an actor in Australia, New Zealand, &c. 1883; produced his blank verse play For king and country, at Gaiety 1 May 1883 and another drama The actor’s wife. _d._ Tenterfield, Bina gardens, South Kensington, London 6 June 1891. _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 4 May 1878 p._ 149, _portrait_.

LE BAS, CHARLES WEBB (son of Charles Le Bas, linen draper). _b._ 20 New Bond st. London 26 April 1779; ed. at Hyde abbey school near Winchester; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1796, scholar, Craven scholar 1799 and member’s prizeman, fellow 1801–14; fourth wrangler, B.A. and chancellor’s medallist 1800; barrister L.I. 1806; ordained deacon 1809; R. of St. Paul’s, Shadwell 1811; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 May 1812; professor of mathematics and dean in East India college, Haileybury 1813, principal 1837 to 31 Dec. 1843; the Le Bas prize at Cambridge for the best essay on an historical subject was founded in 1848 by his old pupils at cost of £1920; wrote nearly 80 articles for The British Critic 1827–38; author of Considerations on miracles 1828; Sermons on various occasions 3 vols. 1822–34; The life of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, bishop of Calcutta 2 vols. 1831; Memoir of Henry Vincent Bailey, archdeacon of Stow 1846; Life of Wicliff 1832; Life of Cranmer 1833; Life of Jewel 1835 and Life of Laud 1836, being vols. 1, 4, 5, 11 and 13 of The Theological Library edited by H. J. Rose and W. R. Lyall. _d._ 74 Montpelier road, Brighton 25 Jany. 1861.

LE BLANC, HENRY. _b._ 1776; ensign 71 foot 9 July 1792, major 12 June 1806; lieut.-col. 5 veteran battalion 5 Feb. 1807 to 1814 when battalion was reduced and he retired on full pay; major of Chelsea hospital 22 Sep. 1814 to death; colonel in the army 28 Nov. 1854; served at siege of Pondicherry and capture of Cape of Good Hope 1806; lost a leg at capture of Buenos Ayres 1807. _d._ Clifton Down, Bristol 13 July 1855. _Particulars of the investigation at the Royal hospital, Chelsea, upon charges brought by the Major against the apothecary_ 1830.

LE BRETON, ANNA LETITIA (dau. of Charles Rochemont Aikin, surgeon). _b._ 4 Broad st. buildings, London 30 June 1808; edited Correspondence of W. E. Channing and Lucy Aikin 1874; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld 1874; Memories of seventy years. By One of a literary family [Mrs. Le Breton], edited by Mrs. Hubert Martin 1883. (_m._ 6 Aug. 1833 the succeeding). _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 29 Sep. 1885. _Memoirs of Seventy years_ (1883) 3, 135 _et seq._

LE BRETON, PHILIP HEMERY (eld. son of rev. Philip Le Breton, R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). _b._ St. Saviour’s rectory, Jersey 30 Oct. 1806; ed. at Mr. Cogan’s school, Walthamstow with Benjamin Disraeli and Milner Gibson; also at Westminster and Paris; solicitor in London 1828–51; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; revising barrister for West Surrey several years; lived at Hampstead 1851 to death; member for Hampstead of Metropolitan board of works 1 July 1859 to Nov. 1879; presented with a public testimonial including gift of £500 for his activity in preserving Hampstead Heath 1871. _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 6 Aug. 1884. _bur._ in old Hampstead churchyard. _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 152, 184, 320, 362, 453–5.

LE BRETON, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Le Breton, attorney general and bailiff of Jersey). _b._ Colomberie, St. Helier’s, Jersey 1790; educ. at Caen, Normandy as an American under the name of Burgh 1810–12 and fought several duels; advocate of Jersey bar 8 Aug. 1812; col. of Jersey Town regt. 17 July 1820 to 1850; shot Aaron de Ste Croix in a duel 1820; attorney general 25 March 1824; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Feb. 1847, after the visit of the Queen to Jersey in Sep. 1846; bailiff of Jersey 22 June 1848 to death. _d._ The Terrace, St. Helier’s, Jersey 24 Nov. 1857. _The Jersey Independent 25 Nov. 1857 p._ 2.

LE BRETON, WILLIAM CORBET (only son of William Le Breton). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 1815; ed. Winchester and at Pemb. coll. Oxf. 1831–37, Morley scholar; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837 to 8 July 1842; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; dean of Jersey 26 Dec. 1849 to death; R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey 1850–75; R. of St. Helier’s, Jersey 1875 to death; father of Lilian Langtry, actress. _d._ London 28 Feb. 1888.

LE BRUN, John. _b._ Switzerland; ed. at Gosport, Hampshire; ordained Congregationalist in Jersey 25 Nov. 1813; minister of the London missionary society at Port Louis, Mauritius 18 May 1814 to 1832 and 27 Dec. 1841 to death; returned to Mauritius on his own account 1834, built a chapel at Port Louis and established schools in Mauritius. _d._ Port Louis 21 Feb. 1865.

LECHMERE-CHARLTON, EDMUND (elder son of Nicholas Lechmere of Hanley castle and Ludlow, who assumed additional surname of Charlton 1784). _b._ 20 Sep. 1789; M.P. for Ludlow 8 Jany. 1835 to 18 July 1837. _d._ 1857.

LECKENBY, JOHN. _b._ Ripon 20 Sep. 1814; managed different branches of Yorkshire banking company; treasurer of Scarborough many years; F.G.S. 1859. _d._ Scarton 7 April 1877.

LECKIE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen factor). _m._ George Leckie; author of The Village School, a story. Edinb. 1837; The power of conscience, a dramatic poem 1841; The stepmother 1842; The Hebrew boy 1842; The guardian 1843; The dream of the western shepherd 1845. _d._ Edinburgh, March 1856.

LECLERCQ, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clark. _b._ 20 Sep. 1797; made his first appearance on opening night of the Sans Pareil theatre, London as a dancer 27 Nov. 1806; chief dancer and inventor of the ballets at Surrey and Coburg theatres; manager of the Olympic about 1826; ballet master at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow 1844; ballet master at Olympic 1846, at Haymarket 1851 to death; his second wife Margaret Leclercq was well known as a dancer, she _d._ Bedford house, Carlyle sq. London 28 June 1889 aged 77. He _d._ 16 Albert st. Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1861. _Era 1 Dec. 1861 p._ 10.

NOTE.--His son Arthur Leclercq played harlequin in the pantomime Undine or the spirit of the waters, at Haymarket theatre Dec. 1858 to Feb. 1859, he was subsequently acting manager for Charles Fechter until his death in 1879 when he became acting manager for Mr. O’Neil; he died at his residence Fort Hamilton, Long Island, U.S. of America about 18 January 1890.

LECONFIELD, GEORGE WYNDHAM, 1 Baron (eld. natural child of 3 Earl of Egremont 1751–1837). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 5 June 1787; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 March 1803; captain 72 foot 19 Sep. 1805; lieut. 1 foot guards 13 Nov. 1807; major 78 foot 31 Jany. 1811; major 12 light dragoons 25 April 1811; lieut.-col. 20 light dragoons 10 Dec. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 June 1816; served in Spain and Portugal, taken prisoner by the French Aug. 1810; came into the estate of Petworth, Sussex and others adjoining and £60,000 on his father’s death 1837; sheriff of Sussex 1842; created baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the east riding of the county of York 14 April 1859. _d._ Petworth, Sussex 18 March 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000 22 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 385–6, _ii_ 54 (1869).

LE COUTEUR, SIR JOHN (eld. son of lieut.-gen. John Le Couteur _d._ 23 April 1835 aged 74). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 1794; ensign 96 foot 15 Nov. 1810; lieut. 104 foot 21 Nov. 1811, placed on h.p. 25 Aug. 1817; brevet lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the sovereign 27 Aug. 1830, resigned 1872; adjutant general of Jersey militia 1853–72; sold out of the army 1857; viscount or sheriff of island of Jersey 1842 to death, coroner there 1872 to death; F.R.S.; sec. and founder of Jersey agricultural and horticultural soc.; knighted by patent 17 Aug. 1872; published On the varieties, properties and classification of wheat 1836, 2 ed. 1872; On the rise, progress and state of agriculture in Jersey 1852; The rifle, its effects on the war 1855. _d._ Bellevue, Jersey 24 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 311 (1876).

LEDGER, CHARLES. _b._ England; clerk in house of Messrs. Naylor at Lima 1836–8, and then at their establishment at Tacna where he purchased the alpaca wools from the Indians 1838–42; in business at Tacna from 1842; exported a flock of 276 alpacas to Sydney 28 Nov. 1858, which the government purchased for £15,000 and gave him £1300 a year to manage it. _Illust. News of the World 17 Sep. 1859 pp._ 173–4, _portrait_; _Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 pp._ 127–9.

LEDGER, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era, a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an enthusiastic mason. _d._ Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham hill 14 June 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 20 June. _Era 21 June 1874 p._ 9 _col._ 2.

LEDWARD, RICHARD ARTHUR (son of Richard Perry Ledward). _b._ Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise. _d._ of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Perivale church near Ealing.

LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford, attorney). _b._ Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin; M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death, when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858; formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin. _d._ York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. _Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886) 534–35, 613–14; _Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_ (1888) 215–6.

NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was _b._ Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful teacher of anatomy, _d._ 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.

LEE, _Mrs._ Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian history 1881 to death. _d._ Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.

LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). _b._ the Elms, Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll. Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill, co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871 to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863, sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. _d._ Lauriston house, Ealing, Middlesex 19 July 1883. _Church portrait journal_, _i_ 25 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 315–20 (1881).

LEE, BENJAMIN. _b._ Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14 dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America 1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. _d._ Parramatta 13 April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.

LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. _b._ 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. _d._ Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.

LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London, Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen 1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838; The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. _d._ Mentone 3 June 1870. _The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp._ 891–2.

LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. _d._ Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.

LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot 6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171 paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838, retired R.A. 1871. _d._ Vlees farm, Herman station in division of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 159–61 (1862); _Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 85–8.

LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). _b._ 1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov. 1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre 1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre 1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828; The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness 1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831 and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (_m._ Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she _d._ 26 April 1851); found dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road, London 8 Oct. 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections_, _ii_ 129–35 (1856).

LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London). Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ Windlesham court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.

LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, _d._ 1781). _b._ London 1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence 5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2 vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted; Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2 of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who _d._ 1824), she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted 4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or the Inheritance 1822. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.

LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. _d._ at her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. _Era 27 May 1866 p._ 10.

LEE, HENRY. _b._ 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872, a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural history was one of most valuable private collections in England; author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact 1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked 1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. _d._ Renton house, 343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. _Land and Water 10 Nov. 1888 p._ 568.

LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’ Journal to death. _d._ at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.

LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian of royal society). _b._ London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby 1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47; hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23 Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848; held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522 deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious; Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851. _d._ Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. _bur._ St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. _E. W. Benson’s Memorial Sermon 2 ed._ (1880); _John Evans’s Lancashire Authors_ (1850) 153–7; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 51 (1848) _portrait_, _lvi_ 55 (1870), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian 22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ. three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college, Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D. St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40; dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14 June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly 1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac; author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829; Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. _d._ at his residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 135–7 _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 271–4 (1884); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv_ 212–17 (1862); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol. i_, _part_ 1, _pp._ 12–13, 64 (1866).

LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97). _b._ 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816; travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3 Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7, treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society £500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864, bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40, pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836 and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec. 1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres. of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862; contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged by Joseph Bonomi 1858. _d._ Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25 Feb. 1866. _Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury_ (1870); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii_ 302–5 (1867); _Catalogue of law books in the library at Hartwell_ (1855); _Catalogue of theological books in the library of Hartwell house_ (1855).

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden 1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. _d._ Wilton house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. _The Era 15 Oct. 1881 p._ 8; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 33–34, _portrait_.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain association; F.R.G.S. _d._ Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb. 1884. _bur._ Crystal palace district cemetery 7 Feb.

LEE, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834; of firm of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster, and 5 Dean’s court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary to 20 bishops, including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London; legal secretary to abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London, Winchester, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester and Ripon to death; chapter clerk and registrar and steward of courts of St. Paul’s cathedral; registrar of diocese of London to death; a personal friend of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at Sonning near Reading. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 10 April 1889. _Law Times_, _lxxxvii_ 13 (1889).

LEE, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia and Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then at Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of fossils to British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman antiquities found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman building discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an antiquarian sketch book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated catalogue of the museum of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman imperial profiles, one hundred and sixty lithographs 1874; Note-book of an amateur geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s Lake-dwellings of Switzerland 1866, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ Villa Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18 Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2nd series_, _xii_ 142–3 (1888).

LEE, JOHN LEE (son of William Hanning _d._ 1834, by Harriet dau. of Edward Lee). _b._ 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place of Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset 1845. _d._ Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.

LEE, JOHN YATE. _b._ 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; practised as a conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar of Liverpool court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869 when he retired on full salary; author of A treatise on the evidence of abstracts of titles to real property 1843. _d._ Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876. _Law Times_, _lx_ 422 (1876).

LEE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the life, and copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted portraits of them, also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhibited 27 enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. _d._ 13 Stone st. Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.

LEE, LAVATER. _b._ 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm. Batty at Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth Baths, London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov. 1841; on his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over 14 horses, threw a back somersault on a horse going at full speed and turned 21 forward somersaults without the aid of a spring-board. _d._ 17 Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.

LEE, MATTHEW HENRY (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch, Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged 18, scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight, Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when he rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his decease; a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited Diaries and letters of Philip Henry 1882. _d._ about 13 Dec. 1890.

LEE, RICHARD NELSON (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee). _b._ Kew 8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at private theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur at Deptford, then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre; acted with John Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in 1821 with Gyngell the conjuror who _d._ 1833; performed as a juggler at Adelphi and other London theatres 1822; played at Surrey theatre, opening as harlequin, under Elliston 7 years from 24 June 1827; wrote the pantomimes 1831–3 and played harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–36; managed Sadler’s Wells theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836; proprietor with John Johnson of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836, they promoted and organised the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s coronation 28 June 1838; they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable theatre Oct. 1838; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at Dartford 1845 causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a new theatre 1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time 1852; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger lane, Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed; manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City of London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated by Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which were played. _d._ Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 5 Jany. _T. Frost’s The Old Showman_ (1874) 247, 254, 320, 346–58; _The Mask_ (1868) 21, _portrait_; _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 420 (1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N. Lee’s baptism could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen out of Kew church some years ago and have never been recovered. The inscription on his tombstone in Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872 aged 65, also of Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870 aged 53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who departed this life September 28th 1870 aged 17.

LEE, ROBERT. _b._ Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed. at Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34, D.D. 1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease at Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie, Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was burnt down 19 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until 14 June 1857 when restored church opened, introduced stained glass into some of the windows 1857 and the first organ used in national church 22 April 1865; professor of biblical criticism and antiquities in univ. of Edinb., dean of chapel royal Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec. 1846 to death; censured by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by the synod 7 May for celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec. 1865; Isabella Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The Holy Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various readings 1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for family worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863; The reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. _d._ Torquay 12 March 1868. _bur._ Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. _R. H. Story’s Life of R. Lee, D.D. 2 vols._ (1870), _portrait_; _Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 461–64 (1884).

LEE, ROBERT (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire). _b._ Melrose 1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814; L.R.C.P. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian lecturer 1862, Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince Woronzow governor general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826; obstetric phys. in London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in hospital 1827; lecturer on midwifery in the Webb st. school 1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830; sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc. 1830–5; regius professor of midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834, but resigned it after delivering his introductory address; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital 1835–66; author of On the structure of the human placenta and its connection with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas, emperors of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery 1864; A treatise on hysteria 1871. _d._ 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill, Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _R. Lee’s Memoirs on the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus_ (1849); _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 266–9 (1878); _Lancet_, _i_ 332–7 (1851), _portrait_.

LEE, ROBERT (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ Edinburgh 1830; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of advocates 1853; procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877; judge of second division of the court of session, Edinb., with title of Lord Lee, April 1880 to death. _d._ 12 Rothesay place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.

LEE, SAMUEL. _b._ Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783; apprenticed to a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself Greek and Hebrew; teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school, Shrewsbury; entered Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11 March 1819–31, regius professor of Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–31; preb. of Bristol cathedral 5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell, Somerset 1831–8; R. of Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound linguist, knew about 20 languages; author of A grammar of the Hebrew language 1827; A brief enquiry into the question whether a christian can object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of observing the christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent unscriptural and unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and English 1840; The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the nature, progress and end of prophecy 1849. _d._ Barley rectory 16 Dec. 1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom, Shrewsbury. _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _vol._ 5 (1834), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 52 (1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 203–7 (1853).

LEE, SAMUEL. King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. _d._ Little Baddow hill, Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. _bur._ Little Baddow ch. yard 27 Sep. when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.

LEE, SAMUEL (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). _b._ 1837; ed. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court 1877–8 and 1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose, with introductions. Globe edition 1871; author with J. Lonsdale of The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ 8 Tavistock place, Tavistock sq. London 14 April 1892.

LEE, SARAH (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester). _b._ Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. _m._ (1) 1813 Thomas Edward Bowdich, naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and 1823, he _d._ Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824; she _m._ (2) about Oct. 1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s collections in Paris 1818–22; termed herself a member of the Wetteravian society; granted civil list pension of £50, 20 April 1854; author of The Freshwater fishes of Great Britain 1828, 12 parts, only four perfect copies are known, the plates of fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron Cuvier 1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions; Anecdotes of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas or the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. _d._ at her daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. _Literary Gazette 11 Oct. 1856 p._ 784; _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 653–4.

LEE, SMYTH. _b._ Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office, Devonport; reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western Morning News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated Sporting News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted at the Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s Wells. _d._ Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._ Finchley 7 Feb. _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 78, 152 (1866), _portrait_.

LEE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket, London). _b._ Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s Wells 1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833 or 1834; acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s Wells 1837; acted Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23 Oct. 1838; proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St. Luke’s 1838–54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace, Old St. Pancras road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St. John st. Clerkenwell 1856, where he _d._ 11 Aug. 1856. _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 281–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 153 (1847), _portrait_; _The Era 17 Aug. 1856 p._ 10.

LEE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; painter in water-colours of English rustic figures and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of Instit. of Painters in water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member and sec. of Langham Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55; published Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841, two parts only. _d._ 177 Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. _Art Journal_ (1865) 139.

LEE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death, reader 1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury was his pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property lawyer, his opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges; often called upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his opinion as amicus curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented success in his profession. _d._ Brighton 7 July 1869. _Law Times 17 July 1869 p._ 262; _T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury_, _i_ 37–8, 43 (1888).

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Henry Lee). _b._ Lewisham, Kent 1801; partner in firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of London and Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. _d._ Holborough court near Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. _d._ Aug. 1835). _b._ Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch. 1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Dublin 1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1863; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench 1863–4; archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter, Dublin 1864 to death; member of convocation and of convention of ch. of Ireland; member of new testament revision company Feb. 1870 to 1880; author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its nature and proof 1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures on ecclesiastical history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of St. John 1882, on which he had been working since 1864. _d._ 64 Merrion square south, Dublin 11 May 1883. _W. Lee’s University Sermons. Dublin_ (1886), _memoir vii–xiv_.

LEE, WILLIAM (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ 18 George st. Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868; presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death; author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of the Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of Dr. Somerville of Jedburgh. _d._ 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct. 1866. _The Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 1886 p._ 4.

LEECE, JOSEPH (1 son of John Leece). _b._ Edgley, Stockport, Cheshire 8 Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer, Manchester 1847, foreman of shops where he improved the machinery, managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted the heavy gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4; introduced the Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted the rifle for the Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target 5 times in succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for trial of light field guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of war office ordnance committee; managing director of sir J. Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1879. _d._ Melbourne, Australia 13 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv_ 399 (1886).

LEECH, JOHN (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832). _b._ Bennett st. Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the Charterhouse 1824–33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; published Etchings and Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on Bell’s Life in London; illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack Brag 1837; contributed to fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a full-page illustration entitled Foreign Affairs, signed with the Leech in the bottle as well as John Leech; chief artist on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons and 2400 small drawings for which he received about £40,000; illustrated the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in Bentley’s Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly Mag. 1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas Stories 1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a Week 1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and many other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility 1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited at the R.A. 1855. _d._ 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech held at 9 Conduit st. London 1872. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2 vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _F. G. Kitton’s John Leech_ (1884); _John Leech and other papers. By John Brown_ (1882) 1–79; _Fine Art. By W. A. Rossetti_ (1867) 282–9; _Illust. Review iv_ 289–98, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 58–65 (1864), _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 329 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865; his only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide on his voyage home from Australia 29 March 1876 aged 20. He drew a portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor of the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’ in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.

LEEDS, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY DARCY-OSBORNE, 7 Duke of. _b._ 21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet 10 hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825; capt. 2 life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to house of lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7 duke 10 July 1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb. 1846 to death; took the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated as a huntsman and deer stalker. _d._ Clarendon hotel, 169 New Bond st. London 4 May 1859. _m._ 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine 3 dau. of Richard Caton and widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey, bart. who _d._ 1819. She _d._ 8 April 1874. _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 87, 90 (1833), _portrait of the Duchess_; _I.L.N. xxv_ 616 (1854) _portrait_, _xxxiv_ 478, 485 (1859) _portrait_.

LEEDS, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington 1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president; oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural Soc. of England 1869–89. _d._ Norwich 27 June 1890. _I.L.N. 12 July 1890 p._ 53, _portrait_.

LEEDS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1786; engaged in commercial pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia; published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture,

## part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the

public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers, revised 1862. _d._ 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May 1866.

LEEKE, SIR HENRY JOHN (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle of Wight). _b._ St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803; served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8; superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March 1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10 Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. _d._ Uplands near Fareham 26 Feb. 1870. _C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_, _ii_ 240–382 (1877).

LEEKE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1798; ensign 52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep. 1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex 1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke, Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. _d._ Holbrooke hall near Derby 1 June 1879.

LEEMAN, GEORGE (son of George Leeman of York). _b._ York, Aug. 1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman, Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor 1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68 and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York. _d._ 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.

LEEMAN, JOSEPH JOHNSON (younger son of the preceding). _b._ Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P. York 2 April 1880 to death. _d._ Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.

LEES, _Asa_ (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine manufacturer, _d._ about 1847). _b._ 1816; machine maker at Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a private company, the works were sold to a limited liability company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. _d._ Albert house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. _Oldham Chronicle 3 June 1882 p._ 6, _col._ 3.

LEES, CATHCART. _b._ 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837, F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to 1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science, Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin 1857. _d._ 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.

LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly, treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight, bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._ 19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March 1880 p._ 4.

LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87 High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist; founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany. 1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed. 1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851; Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents 1880. _d._ Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Pendock. _Journal of botany_ (1887) 384.

LEES, SIR HARCOURT, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1 baronet 1739–1811). _b._ 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb. of Fennor in Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of Tullycorbet in Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The Antidote, or nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious attention of the right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates of unrestricted civil and religious liberty. By a clergyman of the established church and no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with a supplement entitled L’Abeja or a bee among the evangelicals. Dublin 1820, and 8 other pamphlets chiefly in support of protestant ascendancy. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 March 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 518–9 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 219 (1852).

NOTE.--See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees before chief justice B---- and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry and eavesdropping. Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made to government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose the attempt to murder her majesty 1840.

LEES, JAMES. _b._ Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s and in Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828; writer to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John Anderson, bailie, Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping and insurance 1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on their qualifications, duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of the customs, with the tariff or customs’ tables and customs’ forms 1859; The merchant seaman’s act 1845; The merchant shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. _d._ Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5 July 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 310–11.

LEES, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief justice and judge of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug. 1836 to 1865 when he retired; president of legislative council of Bahama islands; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; author of Meteorological journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839. _d._ Victoria station on Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).

LEES, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). _b._ 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8 July 1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. _d._ Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.

LEES, TOM. _b._ 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s amphitheatre, gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion of the ring; with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it travelled in the provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne gardens, Melbourne, under George Coppin’s management; lived some years in New Zealand. _m._ Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer, sister of James Cooke equestrian manager. _d._ Dunedin hospital, New Zealand 24 July 1878. _The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p._ 5.

LEES, WILLIAM NASSAU (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees 1776–1852). _b._ 21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11 Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 8 June 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 21 Feb. 1884; M.G. 28 Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or Mahommedan college, Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law, logic, literature and mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William 1853; Persian translator to government; government examiner in Arabic, Persian and Urdu for all branches of the service; part proprietor of Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of London 1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author of A biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami 1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867; Indian Musalmáns 1871. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.

LEESON, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ about 1800; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Oxf. 1838, M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847; F.C.S.; M.R.I.; physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic medicine to St. Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. _d._ The Maples near Ventnor, Isle of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. _Times 9 Nov. 1872 p._ 5, _col._ 6.

LEESON, JOHN SACKVILLE. Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut. Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15 April 1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Paris 7 May 1859.

LEESON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson 1773–1850). _b._ Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec. 1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle 1835; knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick 1838–41 and genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or June 1838. _d._ Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.

LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu, dean of Emly). _b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor 1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2 vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives 3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3 vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars 3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court 1873, anon. _d._ 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. _J. S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves_, _vol._ 1 _pp. v–xxxi_ (1880); _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_ 319–20 (1873); _Temple Bar_, _l_ 504–17 (1877).

LEFEBVRE, NICHOLAS. _b._ 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811; captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. _d._ Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.

LEFEVRE, SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre, M.P. Reading, _d._ 1823). _b._ Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11 Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P. Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4; poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist. sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March 1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847; a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr., resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew all the European languages and Hebrew. _d._ Cliftonville near Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_ 15–18 (1879); _Graphic_, _xi_ 291, 292 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 93 (1843), _portrait_.

LEFFLER, ADAM (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon player, _d._ 1819). _b._ 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey; appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road, London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the stave to G above it. _d._ 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road, London 18 March 1857. _Era 5 April 1857 p._ 10.

LE FLEMING, GEORGE CUMBERLAND HUGHES- (son of John Cumberland Hughes of Bath). _b._ 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823; captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment 1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1 April 1862. _d._ 7 June 1877.

LEFROY, ANTHONY (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869). _b._ Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7 and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. _d._ Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.

LEFROY, EDWARD CRACROFT (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of 13 Victoria st. Westminster). _b._ 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets 1885. _d._ at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.

LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809 or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.

LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R. of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec 1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death; sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849; director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4, determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec. of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office 1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to 1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee 1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April 1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania, Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A. 1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533, _portrait_.

LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June 1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes 5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29 Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._ 73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94, 335–48.

LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815; a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit 55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50. _d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.

LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._ 1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar 1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant 1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822, 1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10. _d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848), _portrait_.

LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890; county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890; chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to 1890. _d._ Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany. 1891. _Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 291.

LEFTLEY, CHARLES DAKIN. _b._ 1789; proprietor of business of Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. _d._ 21 Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.

LEGARD, FRANCIS DIGBY (1 son of George Legard of York). _b._ 13 March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley, Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M. E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing 1876. _d._ Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.

LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851; gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852; edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés. Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho, London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_ (1867) 57–81.

LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853 and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry 1867. _d._ Calais 27 Dec. 1877.

LE GEYT, GEORGE. _b._ Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep. 1861. _O’Byrne p._ 645.

LEGGE, ARTHUR CHARLES. _b._ 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May 1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p. 23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. _d._ Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May 1890.

LEGGE, MARY (dau. of Mr. Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ London, May 1802. _m._ 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister, Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837, _d._ Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860. _d._ Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany. 1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_ (1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_.

LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I. 28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48 N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to 1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of 26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham, Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.

LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col. 28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central India 3 June 1859.

LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire 1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16 July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877.

LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12 June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.

LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52; served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital 1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.

LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham, Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F. L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57; author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.

LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice, R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin. coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July 1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag. during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire 1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel 1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets. _d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888).

LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane, London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate. _d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d. _I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303.

LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11 Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_.

LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts. 15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24; minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the 6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4 Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London 29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863), _portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862).

LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._ Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection, to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850; accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._ Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H. B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs. 17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April 1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st. London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire. _Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented 19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._ Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876).

LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._ 1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire 7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884), _portrait_.

LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29 March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre 22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872; Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel, 35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London, bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848 to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts 1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20 April 1860.

LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.). _b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton 1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for £29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot, viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery.

LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health, Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887.

LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871). _b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._ 311–12, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July 1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near Liverpool 21 June.

LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester). _b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death, was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre 21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840; The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle 1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage, 221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the violin.

LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13, at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia 10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816, his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand 1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853), _portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864; _Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7.

LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton 20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols. 1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life, two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn 1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._ 24 Dec. 1874.

LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805; ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions, Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871).

LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._ 6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton. _d._ 6 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin, Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to 1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col. commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.

LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen 1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden 1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858 to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster 11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80; author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._ college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1 (1881).

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._ Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59, after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems, By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37 (1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327.

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55 Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822, _d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R. Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888. _The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8.

LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._ Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death; contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp. v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.

LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_.

LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_.

LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley; presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. _Scott’s Fasti vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 70; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 300–306.

LEITCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ. observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland, Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto; president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221.

LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.

LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859.

LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._ Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85; professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._ Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889).

LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._ Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1, _p._ 216.

LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May 1869.

LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. _d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647.

LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. _d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_, _lxxxii_ 479 (1887).

LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888.

LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.

LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4; succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.

LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36.

LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London, pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead, Essex.

LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. _High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._ (1795).

NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug.

LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876).

LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug. 1852. _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 234–5 (1855).

LE MARCHANT, SIR DENIS, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le Marchant, major general 1766–1812). _b._ Newcastle 3 July 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade 1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841 to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846 to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant 1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles, viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the reign of George III. with notes 1845. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 30 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851_, _portrait_, _lxv_ 475, 489 (1874) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 187 (1875); _Law Times 7 Nov. 1874 p._ 17.

LE MARCHANT, SIR JOHN GASPARD (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain 1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to 27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29 Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864; commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of 11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860; K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. _d._ 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb. 1874.

LE MESSURIER, ALEXANDER PETER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839, lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of 10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.

LE MESSURIER, AUGUSTUS SMITH. _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to England. _d._ 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec. 1876. _Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p._ 132.

LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2 Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24 N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6 Feb. 1852.

LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats 1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852. _d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14, _portrait_.

LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. _bur._ Mylor ch. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 314–15, 1267.

LEMON, MARK (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who _m._ 27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and _d._ 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32). _b._ Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (_m._ 28 Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and _d._ Nov. 1890). He _d._ Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. _bur._ Ifield 27 May. _Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp._ 481–88, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 49–60; _Appleton’s Journal_, _viii_ 493–5, _portrait_; _E. Walford’s Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s With a show in the north. Reminiscences of Mark Lemon_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 65–7, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career” [1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.

LEMON, ROBERT (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). _b._ 1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series 1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of broadsides 1866. _d._ 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany. 1867. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii_ 481–2 (1867).

LEMON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. _d._ 4 Aug. 1856). _b._ St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.

LEMPRIERE, GEORGE OURRY. _b._ 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May 1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. _d._ Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany. 1864.

LENDRICK, JAMES WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B. A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and Wicklow nearly 34 years. _d._ 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany. 1872. _Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p._ 47.

LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.

LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.

LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852.

LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April 1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4 June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.

LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852; M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.

LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838 to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug. 1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton, London 15 Jany. 1864.

LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853; M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb. 1877.

LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding). _b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85; a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March 1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July 1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed, a statement of the strength of the English and French navies 1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.

LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond. 1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13 dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813; lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873).

LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army 1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23 April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of 67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of 34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.

LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster 1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28 March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8; an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada 1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July 1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3 vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862, anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st. London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2 vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).

LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I. 1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July 1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death; president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.; M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.

LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall 1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock, Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869; author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor, Berks. Jany. 1892.

LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr. O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces; again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time; played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R. Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace, Belfast 31 May 1878.

LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G. Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from 1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near Queenstown 27 Oct.

LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871; author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.

LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act 56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov. 1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C. 1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831; elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22 July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau. of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850; the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885 pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336 (1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876), _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.

LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20 May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there 9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865; made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct. 1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870. _Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._

LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place, London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east 1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97 High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.

LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._ 1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey; an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St. Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug. _J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.

LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he _d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000; left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.

LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain 40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867; C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep. 1878.

LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house, Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times 11 July 1870 p._ 5.

LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._ 1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May 1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie 1869. _d._ Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.

LESLIE, CHARLES POWELL (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, _d._ 15 Nov. 1831). _b._ 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co. Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to death. _d._ Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Leslie of Philadelphia, clockmaker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Clerkenwell, London 19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A. in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters 1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols. 1865. _d._ 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859. _C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom Taylor 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures by C. R. Leslie, R.A._ (1872); _Wedmore’s Masters of genre painting_ (1879); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 20–26; _W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 39–47 (1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 127–31; _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_, _ii_ 230–55, 326–46 (1866).

LESLIE, FRANK, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter, glove maker). _b._ Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842 signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854; The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. _d._ Fifth Avenue, New York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal process name of Frank Leslie. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 696 (1887).

LESLIE, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military outfitter). _b._ Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A. theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb. 1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre 1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882 to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23 Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec. 1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T. Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in the Lowther, a song which was very popular. _d._ 8 Tavistock chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Charlton cemetery 10 Dec. _Theatre 2 June 1884 pp._ 322–3, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp._ 200, 207, _portrait_; _The Pelican_, _Christmas number 1892_, _portrait_; _Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p._ 58, _five portraits_.

LESLIE, HENRY. _b._ Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830; first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic 1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880 to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868; and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life, Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863; The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow, Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March 1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. _d._ Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.

LESLIE, HENRY JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. _d._ Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.

LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812, lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly 1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848; provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death. _d._ Montreal 1873.

LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough, co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14 Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy 27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._ The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.

LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany. 1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb. 1861 aged 70.

LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858 to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea, co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.

LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood, Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826, captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned 13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9 July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st. Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886).

LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865, R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed. at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.; called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag. and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries 1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27 Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone. Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881); _Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65 (1882).

LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie 1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816, 1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5; brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city 25 Nov. 1874.

LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple, Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March 1880.

LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto; member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario 19 April 1885.

LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London). First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug. 1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._ 9.

LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary to military board, member of military board; introduced a system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug. 1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_ in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874).

LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith). _b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A. 1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867 to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax 1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._ Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.

LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808; ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road, Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.

L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital 1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6 Jany. 1875 aged 72.

L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11 July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland 1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin 1860. _d._ Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. _Recollections of sir G. B. L’Estrange_ (1874).

LE STRANGE, HENRY L’ESTRANGE STYLEMAN (only son of Henry Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). _b._ 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839; declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847; drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853, carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave 1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862. _d._ suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. _bur._ Hunstanton.

L’ESTRANGE, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec. 1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. _d._ 13 Oct. 1877.

LETBY, RICHARD. _b._ York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York _v._ Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 211 (1862).

LETHBRIDGE, AMBROSE GODDARD (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug. 1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. _d._ Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. _Law Times_, _lx_ 114 (1875).

LETHBRIDGE, JOHN ARSCOTT. _b._ Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals; midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany. 1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853. _d._ Greenwich 16 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 310 (1854).

LETHBRIDGE, JOSEPH WATTS. _b._ Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire 1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough 1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue 1878. _d._ Wellingborough 27 July 1885. _Congregational Year Book_ (1886) 190.

LETHBRIDGE, SIR JOHN HESKETH, 3 Baronet (brother of A. G. Lethbridge 1804–75). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr. Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. _d._ 6 Hillsborough terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. _New Sporting mag. xiv_ 286 (1838), _portrait_.

LETHBRIDGE, THOMAS BRIDGEMAN. _b._ 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9 March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5; commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at Southsea. _d._ 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.

LETHEBY, HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London 1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855, resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition, nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_, _i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_.

LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud, professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New Bond st. 5 March 1883.

LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder). _b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag. Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug. 1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840; sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires 4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900, 29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician 1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild, a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856, anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.

LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll. Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton, Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec. 1884.

LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich 1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London 1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H. E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193 (1885).

LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie 1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812; succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville 22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855; representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.

LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ 18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland 1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18 Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_ 324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876), _portrait_.

LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester 15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883; resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon 5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_.

LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin, builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag. May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels 1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death; author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839, anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer 3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols. 2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne 2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2 vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols. 1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste 1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870), _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_; _Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._ 452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60; _I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872); _Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards 1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.

LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842; surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42; president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859); _Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887).

LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6 (1881), _portrait_.

LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army 10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15 Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860; colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500 by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874; Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers 1874. _d._ at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west, Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._ (1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.

LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16 March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March 1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the 20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield 3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2 _portraits_.

LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey, Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2 Feb. 1873.

LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin). An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres. _d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C. chapel, Crosby.

LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). _b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12 May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888); _Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N. xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).

LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt; assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.; the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a widow and 22 children.

LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819; ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department, British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol. Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853; Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished; Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._ 24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).

LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811; ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany. 1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3 Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857 to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28 Sep. 1884.

LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society, The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse. Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’ brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876 under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens, London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._ Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889 p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._ 51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.

LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin 17 May 1870.

LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged 65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6; took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London, personalty over £525,000.

LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn, Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death; sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.

LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843; ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._ Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.

LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting 1875. _d._ The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. _T. Ribot’s English Psychology_ (1873) 255–314; _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 268–87; _Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp._ 15–24; _Graphic_, _xviii_ 624 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 565 (1878), _portrait_.

LEWIN, FREDERICK ALBERT (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington, Surrey). _b._ Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler 1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer; author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed. 1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. _d._ suddenly from heart disease, 9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.

LEWIN, MALCOLM. _b._ 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras 1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. _d._ 31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.

LEWIN, THOMAS (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield, Sussex, _d._ 1842 aged 76). _b._ Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833; a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death; F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed. 1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863; Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament 1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.

LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879;

## acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of

assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March 1889.

LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._ Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16 May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations. _d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley, Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.

LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807; articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood 1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.

LEWIS, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm. Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, _d._ 1858). _b._ Wakefield, Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany. 1847, retired Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New Boswell court, Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns and Longden 8 Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives in West Kent 1857–74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to Oct. 1886 when unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92; created baronet 6 April 1887; author of The four reformed parliaments 1842; The election manual for England and Wales 1857, 3 ed. 1865; The bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two lectures on a short visit to America 1876. _d._ 36 Hyde park gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement Danes_, _ii_ 36–7 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 209–11 (1880).

LEWIS, CHARLES GEORGE (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–1856). _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing and engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir Edwin Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an engraving at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. _d._ Felpham near Bognor, Sussex 16 June 1880.

LEWIS, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ London 1830; painter of landscapes and genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute of painters in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and Portland galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row, Chelsea 1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk, where he _d._ 28 Jany. 1892. _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for 1892 p._ 106, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p._ 4, _portrait_.

LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). _b._ near Baltimore, U.S. America, April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid into English verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much praised by Edgar A. Poe; (_m._ 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn, New York, barrister); she resided many years in England; Lamartine called her the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival of Sappho’; author of Records of the heart. By Stella. New York 1844, another ed. New York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems. London 1866; Sappho of Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which reached a 7th ed. and was translated into modern Greek and played at Athens. _d._ 29 Bedford place, London 24 Nov. 1880. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 703 (1887), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855), 727, _portrait_.

LEWIS, EVAN (son of an architect). _b._ Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown, Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A. London 1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8, at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel, Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston 1866–8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death; F.R.G.S. and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines the Saviour made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the use of Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or the saint and the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s week of work, an examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. _d._ 29 Offord road, Islington 19 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemet. _Congregational Year book_ (1870) 303–5.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (son of Johann Ludwig a political refugee from Hanover). _b._ London 14 March 1779; aquatinted Girtin’s etchings of Paris published 1803; engraved the plates for second issue of John Chamberlain’s Original designs of the most celebrated masters in the royal collection 1812; engraved Sir Thomas Lawrence’s crayon portraits and many of his drawings; engraver of drawings to Princess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, George IV., William IV. and Victoria; landscape painter in oils and water-colours; exhibited 56 pictures at R.A., 51 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1802–53; published Scenery of the river Thames 1821, 35 aquatints; The scenery of the rivers Tamar and Tavy 1823, 47 plates; The scenery of the river Exe 1827, 30 views; Scenery on the Devonshire rivers 1843. _d._ Bull’s Cross, Enfield, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1856.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813; studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence; resided some years in India from 1834, painted many large pictures of state ceremonials for the native princes, some of which were engraved by his father and published in England; travelled collecting materials for an ethnographical work which was never published. _d._ suddenly at Genoa 26 May 1875.

LEWIS, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.M. 25 April 1793, captain 1801–18 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. R.M. 28 Sep. 1826 to 10 July 1837 when he retired on full pay; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1837 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; commanded a battalion of marines in American war 1812–4. _d._ Stonehouse, Plymouth 14 Sep. 1854 aged 84.

LEWIS, GEORGE. _b._ Glasgow; presbyterian minister Middle church, Perth to 1839; minister of St. David’s church, Dundee 6 June 1839–43; one of a deputation sent to America respecting slavery; minister of the Free church, Ormiston 1849–65; editor of Scottish Guardian newspaper; author of The state of St. David’s parish. Dundee 1841; Tracts on Scottish church principles. Dundee 1843, six numbers; Impressions of America and the American churches 1845; The Bible, the missal and the breviary 2 vols. 1853; The doctrines of the Bible developed in the facts of the Bible 1854. _d._ Jersey. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 353–8; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _pt._ 2, _p._ 698.

LEWIS, GEORGE COLEMAN HAMILTON. _b._ 1805 or 1806; attorney at 10 Ely place, Holborn, London 1834 to death; partner with his brother James Graham Lewis 1834, succeeded him as head of firm of Lewis and Lewis 22 Jany. 1873; deputy clerk of the peace and clerk to the licensing justices for the liberty of the Tower 1848 to death; solicitor to the Dramatic Authors’ Society. _d._ 20 Woburn place, Russell sq. London 13 March 1879. _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 42.

LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis 1780–1855). _b._ London 21 April 1806; ed. at Eton, Jany. 1819 to Dec. 1823, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828 to 1839; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1857; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1831; assistant comr. to enquire into condition of poorer classes in Ireland 1833; a comr. of inquiry into state of instruction in Ireland 4 June 1834; joint comr. with John Austin to inquire into affairs of Malta 10 Sep. 1836; a poor law comr. for England and Wales, Jany. 1839 to July 1847; M.P. for Herefordshire, Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; one of secretaries to board of control 30 Nov. 1847 to 16 May 1848; under sec. for home department 15 May 1848 to 9 July 1850; financial sec. to treasury 9 July 1850 to Feb. 1852; contested Herefordshire 19 July 1852 and Peterborough 6 Dec. 1852; editor of the Edinburgh Review, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; refused governorship of Bombay 1853; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 Jany. 1855; M.P. Radnor boroughs Feb. 1855 to death; chancellor of the exchequer 5 March 1855 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 28 Feb. 1855; carried the Newspaper stamp duties bill 1855; home secretary 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. for war 23 July 1861 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1859–61 and 1862 to death; author of An essay on the origin and formation of the romance languages 1839, 2 ed. 1862; An essay on the government of dependencies 1841; An essay on the influence of authority in matters of opinion 1849, 2 ed. 1875; An enquiry into the credibility of the early Roman history 2 vols. 1855; On foreign jurisdiction and the extradition of criminals 1859; An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients 1862; A dialogue on the best form of government 1863. _d._ Harpton court, Radnorshire 13 April 1863, bust by H. Weeks placed in Westminster abbey Sep. 1864, statue by Marochetti at Hereford unveiled 3 Sep. 1864. _Letters of sir G. C. Lewis to Friends_ (1870), _portrait_; _Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians_ (1876) 576–78; _The drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 409–12; _I.L.N. xvi_ 388 (1850), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 24 Sep. 1864 p._ 205, _view of statue at Hereford_.

LEWIS, GEORGE ROBERT (brother of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–1856). _b._ London 27 March 1782; studied under Henry Fuseli in schools of the R.A.; went with Dr. T. F. Dibdin as draughtsman to the Continent 1818, illustrated Dibdin’s Bibliographical and picturesque tour through France and Germany 1821; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 18 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–59; published An address on education as connected with design in British manufacture. Hereford 1838; Illustrations of phrenology 1841, No. 1, no more published; Illustrations of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire 1842; The early fonts of England 1843; The early church of Shobdon, Herefordshire 1852. _d._ at res. of his son John Lewis, 1 Haverstock ter. (now Belsize grove) Hampstead 15 May 1871. _Barnes’s Hampstead_ (1890) 394–6.

LEWIS, GRIFFITH GEORGE. _b._ Woolwich 10 Nov. 1784; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1803, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 23 Nov. 1858 to death; served in Spain 1813; lost his leg at siege of St. Sebastian 25 July 1813; served in Newfoundland 1819–27; commanded the R.E. at Jersey 1830–6, at Cape of Good Hope 1836–42, in Ireland 1843–7 and at Portsmouth 1847–51; governor of royal military academy, Woolwich, April 1851 to July 1856; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 12 Aug. 1858; editor with J. Williams of Papers on subjects connected with the duties of the corps of royal engineers, vols. 1–3 1851–4, in which he wrote many papers. _d._ Brighton 24 Oct. 1859.

LEWIS, HARMAN HICKS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 21st wr. 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1840; lecturer on natural philosophy at college of civil engineers, London. _d._ 18 Coburn place, Upper Kennington place, London 17 March 1865.

LEWIS, HENRY NAISH (son of an officer in the army). _b._ 27 April 1816; ed. Hambly house academy, Streatham; played a round of parts at Catherine st. theatre; acted under Davidge’s management; at the Lyceum theatre 6 years, being a very quick study he often was a substitute for Keely, Wrench, Oxberry, Bland and others; played Old Men under Gladstanes at Pavilion; at St. James’; at Surrey 8 years; appeared at all the London theatres and acted with many of the stars. _Theatrical Times_, _iii_ 415, 440 (1848), _portrait_.

LEWIS, HUBERT (2 son of Walter Clapham Lewis of Upper Norland house, Kensington). _b._ 23 March 1825; entered Emm. coll. Camb. Dec. 1844, scholar, B.A. 1848; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854; conveyancing and equity draftsman at Bradford 1857 to 1860, in London at 34 Cursitor st. 1860 to death; author of Principles of conveyancing explained by concise precedents 1863; Principles of equity drafting 1865; The ancient laws of Wales viewed in regard to the light they throw upon the origin of some English institutions. Edited by J. E. Lloyd 1889; almost entirely rewrote George Goldsmith’s The doctrine and practice of equity 6 ed. 1871. _d._ 20 Dalby sq. Margate 6 March 1884. _H. Lewis’s Ancient laws of Wales_ (1889), _preface_.

LEWIS, JAMES. _b._ Scotland; presbyterian minister at St. John’s ch. Leith 19 Jany. 1832 to 1843; joined the Free ch. 1843; went to Rome in 1864 and opened his house for religious services, until in 1867 the Papal government ordered him to discontinue the services; rented a room and opened public services outside the gates of the city of Rome 1867, with money contributed from Scotland, Rome and America built a church there, which was dedicated 1871; D.D. of Princetown univ. 1871; author of The church of Scotland obeying the law of the land in her opposition to the civil courts 1840; The church of Scotland, the crisis and preparation 1843; Finance of the Free church of Scotland 1843; The necessity for sabbath trains tried and disposed of 1847; Indian government in relation to christianity 1858. _d._ of diphtheria Rome 29 Jany. 1872. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1, _pt._ 1, _p._ 109.

LEWIS, JAMES GRAHAM. _b._ Jany. 1804; attorney at 10 Ely place, Holborn, London 1829 to death; clerk of indictments, Midland circuit 1829–54; head of firm of Lewis & Lewis 1834 to death, with the best criminal practice in London. _d._ 53 Euston sq. London 22 Jany. 1873.

LEWIS, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of James Lewis of Ebley near Stroud, cloth manufacturer). _b._ parish of King’s Stanley, Gloucs. Aug. 1786; teacher of writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping and shorthand at 104 High Holborn, London, at 13 Wellington terrace, Waterloo road to 1834, at 113 Strand 1835 to June 1853 when he retired; taught and lectured on writing and stenography in the chief towns of the United Kingdom; founder of Society of reporters; author of The art of writing with the velocity of speech 1812 anon., 5 ed. 1820; The ready writer or ne plus ultra of shorthand, invented and published by J. H. Lewis 1812, 95th ed. 1862; An historical account of shorthand 1815; Lewis’s Orations on the battle of Waterloo 1815; The art of making a good pen 10 ed. 1825; The Lewisian system of shorthand 1826, 68 ed. 1834; The shorthand prayer book 1832, 2 ed. 1835; The quick and easy method of teaching bookkeeping 14 ed. 1860; his library of 317 books on shorthand was sold in 1872. _d._ 49 Milton road, Gravesend 30 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _T. Anderson’s History of shorthand_ (1882) 113, 266–76; _J. W. Gibson’s Bibliography of shorthand_ (1887) 110–15.

LEWIS, JOHN DELAWARE (son of John Delaware Lewis, Russian merchant). _b._ St. Petersburgh 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; M.P. Devonport 1868 to 1874, contested Devonport 5 Feb. 1874 and 2 April 1880 and Oxford 16 March 1874; author of Sketches of Cantabs. By John Smith of Smith-Hall gent. 1849, 3 ed. 1858; Across the Atlantic 1850; Our college, leaves from an undergraduate’s scribbling book 1857; Hints for the evidences of spiritualism. By M.P. 1872, 2 ed. 1875; Juvenalis Satiræ with a literal English prose translation 1873, 2 ed. 1882; Esprit des Grecs et des Romains 1881; Causes Celebres. Paris 1883. _d._ Westbury house, Petersfield, Hampshire 31 July 1884. _Academy 9 Aug. 1884 p._ 94.

LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–1856). _b._ 71 Queen Anne street East (now 33 Foley street), London 14 July 1805; made studies of animals in the menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand 1820 etc.; painter of Italian, Spanish and Oriental subjects; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–77; etched six studies of wild animals, published about 1825; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 30 March 1827, member 1 June 1829 to 1858, president 1856–8; travelled in Spain 1832–3 and in the East 1839–51; lived at Walton on Thames 1851 to death; A.R.A. 1859, R.A. 1865, resigned June 1876; hon. R.S.A. 1853; sold his copies of the great works of Spanish and Venetian schools to royal Scottish academy; published A collection of etchings 1825; Lewis’s Sketches and drawings of the Alhambra 1835; Lewis’s Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters 1836; Sporting. By Nimrod, embellished from pictures by J. F. Lewis 1838. _d._ The Holme, Walton on Thames 15 Aug. 1876. _bur._ Frimley, Surrey. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 339–43 (1862); _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_ (1878) 271; _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 540 _etc._, _ii_ 89, 453 (1891); _Thackeray’s From Cornhill to Cairo_ (1891) 324–30, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 25 March 1865 p._ 177, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_.

LEWIS, JOHN HARVEY (son of Wm. Lewis of Harlech house, co. Dublin). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.A. 1838; called to Irish bar 1838, retired 1850; sheriff of Kildare 1857; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857 and Hull 30 April and 20 Aug. 1859; M.P. Marylebone 19 April 1861 to 26 Jany. 1874; a strong advocate of the ballot and of the disestablishment of Irish church. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Monte Carlo 23 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London. _Gray v. Lewis. Law Reports. Equity Cases_, _viii_ 526–46 (1869), _Chancery Appeals_, _viii_ 1036–56 (1873).

LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVID (eld. son of David Lewis, physician). _b._ London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4 Skinner’s place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with Alfred Thompson, The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb. to Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif Polonais by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre 25 Nov. 1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were The Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a bad name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s Wells 8 Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols. 1880. _d._ Royal free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _The Mask_ (1868) _p. iii_, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 1 March 1890 p._ 8, _and 8 March p._ 18, _portrait_.

LEWIS, LEWIS ALPHA. _b._ Nov. 1802; apprenticed to J. and A. Arch of Cornhill, London, booksellers and auctioneers; a literary auctioneer and bookseller at the Bank coffee house, Bank buildings, Cornhill 1825–7, at 15 Poultry 1827–39, at 125 Fleet st. 1839–61, at 24 Bell yard, Fleet st. 1863–9 and at 17 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn 1870 to death; bankrupt 6 July 1841. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 28 June 1877. _bur._ Kensal green cemet. _Bookseller_, _July 1877 p._ 667; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_, _ii_ 53 (1876).

LEWIS, MARIA THERESA (only dau. of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827, younger brother of John 3 earl of Clarendon 1757–1838). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 8 March 1803; granted precedence of an earl’s daughter Feb. 1839; edited Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry from the year 1783 to 1852, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The semi-detached house. By the hon. Emily Eden 1859; author of The story of beauty and the beast, dramatized for juvenile performers 1844; The story of Cinderella, dramatized 1844; Lives of the friends and contemporaries of lord chancellor Clarendon 3 vols. 1852. (_m._ (1) 6 Nov. 1830 Thomas Henry Lister, novelist and dramatist 1800–42; _m._ (2) 26 Oct. 1844 Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman 1806–63). She _d._ the principal’s lodgings, Brasenose college, Oxford 9 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, RICHARD. A parliamentary reporter; secretary to National lifeboat institution 1850 to death; barrister I.T. 30 April 1862. _d._ Cannes 17 March 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 317 (1883), _portrait_.

LEWIS, SAMUEL. Publisher as S. Lewis & Co. at 87 Aldersgate st. London 1838–42, at 87 Hatton Garden 1842–5 and at 13 Finsbury place south 1845–52; published A topographical dictionary of England with maps and a plan of London 4 vols. 1831, 7 ed. 1849; A topographical dictionary of Wales 2 vols. 1833, 4 ed. 1849; A topographical dictionary of Ireland 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1842; An atlas comprising maps of the counties of England and Wales 1842; A topographical dictionary of Scotland 3 vols. 1846. _d._ 19 Compton terrace, Islington 28 Feb. 1865.

LEWIS, SAMUEL (son of the preceding). Author of The history and topography of the parish of St. Mary, Islington 1842; Islington as it was and as it is 1854; The book of English rivers 1855. _d._ 1 Priory villas, Canonbury, London 4 May 1862.

LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (youngest son of Wm. Jones Lewis of Croydon, surgeon). _b._ 7 Spital sq. Bishopsgate, London 13 July 1836; ed. at City of London school 1844–54, Carpenter scholar 1847; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 Oct. 1854 when his sight failed; practised farming in England 1856–7; studied farming, lived in Canada 1857–60; his eyes twice operated on by George Critchett 1864; returned to Camb. 1864, migrated to C.C. coll. 1865, B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of C.C. coll. 1869 to 1887, librarian 1870–91; F.S.A. 22 March 1872; ordained 1872; classical lecturer C.C. coll. 1874; Latin lecturer to Assoc. for higher education of women 1875–7; collected coins, gems and seals from all parts of Europe, which he left by will to his college; contributed papers to Camb. Philos. Soc, Royal Soc. of literature, &c.; author of Report on the age of the Utrecht psalter 1874; The library of Corpus Christi college 1891, and other antiquarian papers; (_m._ 12 Dec. 1887 Agnes Smith author of novels). _d._ suddenly in the train near Oxford 31 March 1891. _A. S. Lewis’ Life of S. S. Lewis_ (1892), _portrait_.

LEWIS, THOMAS. Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s coll.; independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873 and then principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when it became known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of council of University coll. of North Wales. _d._ Naples 12 Feb. 1892.

LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811). Succeeded his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal, Liverpool 1811, retired on expiration of his lease. _d._ London 1852.

LEWIS, SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis of Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). _b._ London 14 May 1780; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire militia 1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P. Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec. to treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board of trade 5 Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of the navy 17 Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of laws in South Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846; chairman of Economic life assurance co. _d._ Harpton court, Radnorshire 22 Jany. 1855.

LEWIS, THOMAS TAYLOR. _b._ Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C. of Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow near Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils, several local fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula Lewisii, Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for the Camden Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853. _d._ Bridstow 28 Oct. 1858.

LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS. _b._ 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll. London and Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist. surgeon in army 31 March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880; sent to Germany with David Cunningham by the War Office to study pathology; assistant professor of pathology in the army medical school, Netley; recommended for election as F.R.S. in April 1886; sent with D. Cunningham to India to investigate cholera cases; made the discovery of the filaria in the urine of patients in general hospital, Calcutta 1869; author of A report on the microscopic objects found in cholera evacuations. Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting human blood 1872, 2 ed. 1874; The pathological significance of nematode hæmatozoa 1874; Physiological and pathological researches 1888; with David Cunningham he wrote A report of researches into the nature of cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in its relation to disease 1875; Leprosy in India 1877. _d._ Bywood, Woolston 7 May 1886. _Lancet_, _i_ 955, 993 (1886).

LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal; went through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia language to writing and translated the New Testament into Khassei. _d._ May 1891.

LEWIS, WALLER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.P. 1859; metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior medical officer of General post office at £1000 a year; medical superintendent inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary commissioner Home office; author of Report on the state of the burial vaults of metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread of epidemic cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of noxious trades and occupations 1855. _d._ Whitby 7 Sep. 1882.

LEWIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in 1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London, Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817; Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. _d._ about 16 Nov. 1870. _Quarterly Review_, _June 1849 pp._ 90–5; _W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess_ (1836) 273; _W. G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess_ (18--) _ix_ 82–4; _Chess Players’ Chronicle_, _i_ 9, 33 (1841); _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p._ 555.

LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). _b._ 1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at 10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859; reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn 26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society 10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. _d._ 1 Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _v_ 242–4 (1861).

NOTE.--His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov. 1869, was killed by accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877.

LEWIS, WILLIAM GARRETT (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). _b._ Margate 5 Aug. 1821; articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40; clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853, preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with 400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St. Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. _d._ Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green 21 Jany. _Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp._ 97–102.

LEY, WILLIAM (son of rev. Mr. Ley). _b._ Devonshire 1806; ed. at Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831, L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years; surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum, Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. _d._ while visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. _Medical Times_, _i_ 345–6 (1869).

LEYBOURNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1842; sang in the provinces many years; next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs 1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. _d._ of consumption, Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 19 Sep. _The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p._ 3, _20 Sep. 1884 p._ 11, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp._ 227, 236, _portrait_.

NOTE.--His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée benefit was given for his widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on 27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was singing for William Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement he had to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and was frequently seen in public in his carriage.

LEYLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which he was hon. manager. _d._ Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.

LEYLAND, JOSEPH BENTLEY (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist). _b._ Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian Falconer, are in the Salford museum. _d._ Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.

LIARDET, FRANCIS (2 son of John Liardet). _b._ Chelsea 14 June 1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful 84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre; captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849; The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young naval lieutenant 1858. _d._ Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863, marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. _E. G. Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand_, _ii_ 68, 163 (1845).

LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, GUGLIELMO BRUTO ICILIO TIMOLEONE, Count. _b._ Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences, Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28 Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850; sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868; author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols. Paris 1838–41. _d._ Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. _Memoir of Augustus de Morgan_ (1882) _passim_; _Saturday Rev. lv_ 266–7 (1883); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp._ 259–61.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS WILLIAM ANSON, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount Anson 1767–1818). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col. commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec. 1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831; postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836 and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures, sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. _d._ 2 Great Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS GEORGE ANSON, 2 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16 Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as 2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire 1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc. for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the reformatory at Saltley. _d._ at his residence in London 7 Jany. 1892. _Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of children of the nobility 3 Ser. plate_ 2 (1841).

LICHTENSTEIN, GEORGE. _b._ Hungary 1823; ed. for legal profession; a political refugee in England; naturalized 18 Dec. 1854; professor of music at Edinburgh 1856 to death; tutor to duke of Edinburgh; composer of My dream waltz for the pianoforte, with cornet ad lib. 1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854; Pensées patriotiques, mélodies originales pour piano 1855; War march for the piano 1855. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.

LIDDELL, _Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius_ (youngest son of 1 baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). _b._ 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ 1840–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, treasurer 1875; contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; permanent under sec. of state for home department 1867 to death; K.C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ 49 Rutland gate, London 27 June 1885.

LIDDELL, ANDREW (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk, schoolmaster). _b._ Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow 1815–44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of wrought iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow 1819, pres. of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E. 1843; pastor of baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which he purchased and presented to his congregation; wrote Life of David Dale, for Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. _d._ Bardowie house, Glasgow 15 Nov. 1855.

LIDDELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (6 son of 1 baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). _b._ 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6 dragoons 15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first cricket match at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ St. John’s Wood club 1 June 1840, a hard forward driver and active in the field, on committee of Marylebone club; comptroller of the household and equerry to duchess of Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting to the Queen 1858–82; treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71; deputy ranger of Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor park 1871–83. _d._ South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 549 (1862).

LIDDELL, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812; director of the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and hospitals 1844; deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital 1840; inspector general of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director general of medical department of the navy April 1854 to 1864; hon. phys. to the queen 13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 May 1848; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb. 1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; knight of Russian order of St. Anne and of Greek order of the Redeemer. _d._ 72 Chester sq. London 28 May 1868.

LIDDELL, ROBERT (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). _b._ 24 Sep. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex 1836–51; V. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these churches, Messrs. Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in the Consistory court, Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against him 5 Dec. 1855, which was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the Arches court 20 Dec. 1856, but the privy council decided partly for both parties, each to pay his own costs 21 March 1857; author of The seven deadly sins, lectures in St. Paul’s 1858; The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860; The christian priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867; The lay of the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A pastoral farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other books. _d._ 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 40–9.

LIDDERDALE, THOMAS WILLIAM (2 son of Thomas Robertson Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I. regt.) _b._ 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a first class assistant in printed book department; a student in Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P. H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880 in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16 York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to Charing Cross hospital, where he _d._ same day 4 Sep. 1884.

LIDDON, HENRY PARRY (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N., _d._ 1869 aged 77). _b._ North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug. 1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll. sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St. Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884 and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh, June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God, sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion, Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey, a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s, sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. _d._ Claremont crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. _bur._ crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll., and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 141–52, _2 Ser._ (1875) 396–400; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 153–66 (1875); _Church quarterly review_, _Oct. 1890 pp._ 212–18; _Temple Bar_, _lxxii_ 334–8 (1884); _The Biograph_, _v_ 360–2 (1881); _I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p._ 353, _portrait_.

LIEBSTEIN, HERMANN (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg, Gallicia, Austria, merchant). _b._ Austria 1829; naturalised in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to obtain it 1882. _d._ at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London 13 July 1882.

LIECHTENSTEIN, MARIE, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry 4 baron Holland who _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as Miss Marie Fox). _b._ 21 Dec. 1850; (_m._ at pro-cathedral, Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2 son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was _b._ Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta, secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874; Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von Brackel 1877. _d._ Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. _Morning Post 28 June 1872 p._ 5.

LIEFDE, JACOB B. DE (of Dutch parentage). _b._ 1847; ed. in Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883; Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols. 1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.

LIFFORD, JAMES HEWITT, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford 1750–1830). _b._ 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804; student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state of Ireland 1849. _d._ Brighton 22 April 1855.

LIGAR, CHARLES WHYBROW. _b._ Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2 lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col. and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia 1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. _d._ 1879.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1791; West India merchant and ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing lane, London 1833. _d._ Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington 22 June 1860.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH HENRY (son of a baker of Nuneaton, Warwickshire). _b._ 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated; a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton, where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. _The Times 2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885_; _Cross’s Life of G. Eliot_, _i_ 449, _ii_ 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).

LIGHT, SIR HENRY (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service). _b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut. governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. _d._ Falmouth 3 March 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 307 (1870).

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN EMANUEL. _b._ Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire methodism. _d._ Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN PRIDEAUX (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, _d._ 1847). _b._ Crediton 23 March 1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants. 1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex. coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor 1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847. _d._ the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March 1887. _Boase’s Exeter college_ (1879) 125.

LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH BARBER (son of John Jackson Lightfoot, accountant, _d._ 1843). _b._ 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April 1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor 1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858, a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861; chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge; endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship 1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp 2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text 1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891; Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. _d._ the Imperial hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in chapel of Auckland Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle, memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. _C. Bullock’s The two bishops_ (1890) 33–56, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 579–82 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 201 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 791, _portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the Cambridge divinity school.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS. _b._ 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain 45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov. 1858.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS (son of the preceding). _b._ 27 Dec. 1820; ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany. 1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B. 14 May 1859. _d._ 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.

LIGHTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBERT, 6 Baronet. _b._ Earlsgift, co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April 1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching christian? _d._ Ellastone 12 April 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 402 (1875).

LILLEY, JOHN (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston). _b._ Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col. Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where he _d._ 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought out. _Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling dragoon_ (1863); _Military despotism. Addenda to the case_ (1863).

LILLEY, SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham, Surrey). _b._ 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885 to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, _d._ Southsea 22 June 1887. _Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp._ 373, 381.

LILLIE, JOHN. _b._ Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed. Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York 1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858 to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. _d._ Kingston 23 Feb. 1867. _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ (1867) 128–30.

LILLIE, SIR JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Philip Lillie of Drimdoe castle, Roscommon). _b._ Drimdoe castle 1790; ensign 6 foot 3 March 1807; captain 60 foot 1813, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; entered Portuguese army; commanded 7th Cacadores at battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse; organised and commanded an expedition to Portugal to support claims of Queen Donna Maria 1831; captain 46 foot 6 Dec. 1827, placed on h.p. 27 March 1828; knighted 6 March 1816; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; lieut.-col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837, retired from the army 1855; author of An historical sketch of the origin and progress of parliamentary corruption 1832; Observations on parliamentary corruption and on the consequences of parliamentary reform 1832. _d._ 1 Norfolk terrace, Bayswater, London 29 June 1868. _I.L.N. liii_ 47 (1868).

NOTE.--He was severely wounded at the battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814 and left for 48 hours on the field of battle supposed to have been killed.

LILLY, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1804; employed by Lackington and Co. of Finsbury circus, London, booksellers 1820; bookseller at 3 Museum st. Bloomsbury 1831–5, at 19 King st. Bedford st. 1835–50 and 1851–7, at 7 Pall Mall 1850–3, at 15 Bedford st. 1857–63, and at 17 New st. Covent Garden 1863 to death; bought and sold more copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works than any other bookseller on record; largely concerned in formation of Henry Huth’s library; the first portion of his stock was sold at Sotheby’s 15 March 1871 and 9 following days; published A collection of ballads and broadsides printed between 1559 and 1597, with a preface 1867. _d._ 31 Mornington crescent, London 29 Oct. 1870. _Bookseller 1 Dec. 1870 p._ 1071.

LILLY, MRS. _b._ 1790; attended Queen Victoria as monthly nurse at the births of her 9 children 1840–57. _d._ Camberwell 26 April 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 1 May.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK (son of the succeeding). _b._ Hove, Sussex 23 July 1829; first played at Lord’s in Sussex _v._ Marylebone 26 June 1848; reporter for Bell’s Life in London; a printer of scores on cricket grounds; partner with John Wisden at 2 New Coventry st. Leicester sq. London as a dealer in articles for cricket to 1858; resided at 15 Kennington Oval from 1858, where he published F. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores and biographies of cricketers 3 vols. 1862–3; edited The guide to cricketers 1849, 23 ed. 1866; The public school matches; English cricketers’ trip to Canada 1860, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ Brighton 15 Sep. 1866. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 605 (1863); _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 33 (1866), _portrait_, _v_ 424 (1866), _portrait_.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of the manager of the duke of Richmond’s brick fields). _b._ West Hampnett near Goodwood 13 June 1792; a bricklayer, removed to Brighton 12 Dec. 1822; manager over bricklayers at Hove; played for Sussex against England in his first cricket match at Lord’s 18–19 June 1827; the first great round-arm bowler, known as the ‘Nonpareil Bowler,’ his average was 7 runs per wicket; went in first and came out last in two matches 1839 and 1845; kept the Royal Sovereign inn, Preston st. Brighton with cricket ground attached 1837–44; bowler to Marylebone cricket club 1844 to death, had a benefit in 1853; professional at Winchester school 1851–3; generally called William Lillywhite; author of Illustrated handbook of cricket 1844, 3 ed. 184-; kept a cricket shop at 10 Prince’s terrace, Caledonian road, Islington, London, where he _d._ of cholera 21 Aug. 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is monument. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 34–53; _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 9–12(1862); _I.L.N. 22 July 1843 p._ 59, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world 22 May 1858 pp._ 252, 254, _view of monument_.

LILLYWHITE, HENRY. _b._ Hawkley, Hampshire 1789; believed to be a relative of William Lillywhite the Sussex bowler; a player in Hampshire; played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 16 July 1821. _d._ Ropley, Hants. Jany. or Feb. 1858. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _i_ 444 (1862).

LILLYWHITE, JAMES (son of the preceding). _b._ Hove, Brighton 29 Oct. 1825; bowled at Cambridge 1845–51, at Westminster sch. 1849–51, permanently engaged by Cheltenham sch. 1855 to 1880; first played at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Middlesex 26 May 1851; a good twisting round-arm bowler of middle speed and an average batsman. _d._ 3 Queen’s circus, Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1882. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 230 (1863).

LILLYWHITE, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hove, Brighton 10 Nov. 1826; bowled at Lord’s 1844; coach to Rugby school 1850–5; partner with his father and brothers James and Frederick as manufacturers of cricketing articles at 10 Princes ter. Caledonia road, Islington 1850–6, in business alone at 5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1856 to death; engaged at Harrow school from 1861; a fine and powerful hitter, a good field, generally at cover point, a round-arm bowler delivering slow twisters; published vol. iv. of Lillywhite’s Cricket scores at 5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1863. _d._ Euston sq. London 27 Oct. 1874. _Illust. Sporting News_, _i_ 244 (1862), 4 _portraits_; _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 149 (1862); _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 107 (1874), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18 April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket ground.

LIMBIRD, JOHN. _b._ 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143 Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4; engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’ (edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos. Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death; author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. _d._ 157 Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. _Bookseller_, _Nov. 1859 p._ 1326.

LIMPUS, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music; organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe, and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed some sacred and secular music. _d._ 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 15 March 1875.

LIND, JOHANNA MARIA, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas Jonas Lind, accountant). _b._ Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris 1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London, last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2; founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland 1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866; chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London 1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883; she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (_m._ at Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She _d._ Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov. 1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. _Rev. H. S. Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2 vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1850) 5–9, _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song_, _ii_ 330–66 (1863); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections_, _i_ 299–312 (1862); _A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice of her life_ (1847), _portrait_; _B. Lumley’s Reminiscences_ (1864); _Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis. Philadelphia_ (1851); _Theatre_, _xi_ 1–12 (1888); _H. F. Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits_ (1853) 125–47; _Ireland’s Records of the New York stage_, _ii_ 571–2 (1867).

NOTE.--Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. _A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn versus Lind_ (1848).

The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina; Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.

LINDAM, JACOB OLE (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a factor in Danish East India company’s service). _b._ India 13 April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb. 1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May or June 1818. _d._ Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881. _Times 11 Jany. 1882 p._ 6.

LINDLEY, JOHN (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich, nurseryman). _b._ Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon. sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36, in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea 1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828, royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora 1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first principles of botany 18--, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849; The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9, nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of botany 1866. _d._ Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. _H. Field’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea_ (1878) 189–214; _The Naturalist_, _iv_ 434–42 (1839), _portrait_; _The Gardener’s Chronicle_ (1865) 1058, 1082; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 30–7 (1867).

LINDLEY, ROBERT (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). _b._ Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts 1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello; professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the violoncello 1855. _d._ Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June 1855. _Dramatic and musical review_, _iii_ 379 (1844).

NOTE.--His son Wm. Lindley _b._ 1802 was a good violinist and excelled in orchestral playing, he _d._ at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.

LINDO, ELIAS HIAM. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death; author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ. 1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. _d._ 1865.

LINDO, MARK PRAGER. _b._ London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about 1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens, Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken van den Ouden Heer Smits _i.e._ M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage 1877–9. _d._ at the Hague 9 March 1877.

LINDSAY, SIR ALEXANDER (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837). _b._ 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795, regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death; studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872. _Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery_, _i_ 298 _etc._ (1877).

LINDSAY, CHARLES HUGH (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869). _b._ Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot 5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846, captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42 and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St. George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885 to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Lyons 25 March 1889.

LINDSAY, COLIN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 6 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage with Bothwell 1888. _d._ 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 28 Jany. 1892.

LINDSAY, HUGH HAMILTON (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P. Forfar burghs 1820–30). _b._ 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May 1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir J. Brooke 1853. _d._ 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29 May 1881.

LINDSAY, JAMES (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836). _b._ 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830; served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May 1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835. _d._ Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.

LINDSAY, SIR JAMES (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). _b._ Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861; major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867; inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April 1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870; K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death; L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested Wigan 28 March 1857. _d._ Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug. 1874.

LINDSAY, JAMES BOWMAN. _b._ Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799; a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee 15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of forming an electric communication between Great Britain and other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers; author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861; occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50 languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly completed at his death, but never published. _d._ 11 South Union st. Dundee 29 June 1862. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 2 July, date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 212–19.

LINDSAY, JOHN. _b._ Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts 1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage of the Parthians 1852. _d._ Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec. 1870. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 307 (1872).

LINDSAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30; ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge 1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec. 1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage. Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols. 1867. _d._ 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June 1866. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 108–12; _W. Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church_ (1873) 298.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM LAUDER (eld. son of James Lindsay of the Sasine office, Register house, Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1852; L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M. 1852; F.L.S. 1858; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; medical officer to Murray’s royal institution for the insane at Perth 1854; the first Neill gold medallist of Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1859 for his History of British lichens 1856; studied the flora of New Zealand, North Germany, Norway and Iceland; author of A popular history of British lichens 1856; Contributions to New Zealand botany 1868; Memoirs on the spermogones and pyonides of lichens 1870; Mind in the lower animals in health and disease 1879. _d._ 3 Hartington gardens, Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1880.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM SCHAW (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). _b._ Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831, second mate 1834; chief mate of the Olive Branch 1835, captain 1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal company 1841–5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6 Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. ship-brokers, 11 Abchurch lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852, and Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854–9; M.P. Sunderland 1859–65; author of Our navigation and mercantile marine laws considered with a view to their revision and consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce 4 vols. 1874–6; Manning of the royal navy and mercantile marine 1877. _d._ Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex 28 Aug. 1877.

LINEN, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1808; a book binder in city of New York; spent some years in California; contributed poems to the Knickerbocker Mag. and the Scottish American; author of Songs of the seasons and other poems. New York 1852; Poetical and prose writings. San Francisco 1865; The poetical and prose writings. New York 1865; The golden gate 1869. _d._ city of New York 20 Nov. 1873. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 732 (1887).

LINES, SAMUEL. _b._ Allesley near Coventry 1778; apprenticed to Mr. Keeling of Birmingham, clock-dial enameller 1794; employed as designer by Mr. Clay the papier-mâché maker and by Wyon and Halliday die engravers; started a drawing school in Newhall st. Birmingham 1807; built a house in Temple Row, lived there rest of his life; established with other artists a life academy in Peck lane, New st. 1809, which was removed to Union passage 1814; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. 1817–25; helped to found Birmingham school of art 1821; treasurer and curator of Birmingham society of artists to 1858; was a good landscape-painter and teacher. _d._ 3 Temple row west, Birmingham 22 Nov. 1863, portrait by W. T. Roden in Birmingham museum and art gallery.

LINGARD, JAMES W. _b._ London 8 Jany. 1823; made his debut at Garrick theatre, London as Ralph Reckless in Twice killed; went to U.S. America in 1848; appeared at Purdy’s National theatre, New York as Alley Croaker in the Miseries of human life 18 April 1853; played Deacon Perry in Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Purdy’s 18 July 1853, and then played Uncle Tom for 368 consecutive nights; an actor of old men characters; manager of Bowery theatre N. Y. 1858 and several seasons; revenue collector New York 1868; kept a saloon in the Broadway 1869; committed suicide in New York, July 1870. _Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) _p._ 221, _portrait_.

LINGARD, JOHN (son of John Lingard of Claxby, Lincs., carpenter). _b._ Winchester 5 Feb. 1771; at English college at Douay 30 Sep. 1782 to 21 Feb. 1793; joined some of the Douay students at Tudhoe, Durham 1794, they migrated to Pontop hall 1794 and then to Crookhall near Durham; vice pres. of Crookhall college, prefect of studies, professor of natural and moral philosophy; ordained priest at York 18 April 1795; removed with the Crookhall community to St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 1808, remained there till Sep. 1811; missioner at Hornby near Lancaster 1811 to death; visited Rome 1817 and 1825; created doctor of divinity and of the canon and civil law by Pius VII. 24 Aug. 1821; author of The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church 2 vols. 1806, 4 ed. 1858; A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans to the revolution in 1688, 8 vols. 1819–30, new ed. 10 vols. 1888 which was translated into French, Italian and German; A new version of the Four Gospels 1836. _d._ Hornby 17 July 1851. _bur._ in cloister of college cemetery at Ushaw; portrait by James Lonsdale in hall of Ushaw college; tablet to his memory in Hornby parish church. _J. Lingard’s History of England 6 ed. vol._ 1 (1854), _portrait_; _Fortunes made in business_, _ii_ 99–105 (1884); _Metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1854 pp._ 3–25, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_ 323–5 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 117, 118 (1851), _portrait_.

LINKLATER, JOHN. _b._ 1817; attorney at 111 St. Martin’s lane, London 1838; head of firm of Linklater, Hackwood and Addison, 7 Walbrook to death; author of Digest and index to the Bankruptcy act, the Debtor’s act, and the Bankruptcy repeal and insolvent court act 1870, 2 ed. 1870. _d._ Toulon, France 26 May 1870.

LINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; wrote the songs and music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Alfred cottage, Victoria road, Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865.

LINLEY, GEORGE (son of the preceding). Author of The Goldseeker and other poems 1860; Old Saws newly set 1864; (_m._ 4 Oct. 1862 Emma youngest sister of Sims Reeves, singer). _d._ 28 April 1869.

LINN, HENRY, stage name of Alexander Cumming Rutherford Crawford. _b._ Greenock 1846; with his brother acted as negro comedians; champion clog dancer 1864; a Scottish vocalist, his songs The highland man’s toast, Jock M’Craw, and Bonnie Jeanie Deans were very popular, others were My name is Jim, and Poor and Needy; a great favourite in Liverpool; last sang at Carlisle 1890; author of Harry Linn’s Fireside song book. Glasgow 1884. _d._ Royal infirmary, Edinburgh 11 June 1890. _bur._ 15 June.

LINNELL, JOHN (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, _d._ 1837). _b._ Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805; portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I. 1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours 1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace 1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. _d._ Redstone Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Reigate cemet. 25 Jany. _A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols._ (1892), _two portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xc_ 535, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 125 (1882), _portrait_; _Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 228, _portrait_.

LINSELL, RICHARD. _b._ Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765; apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7; general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing 1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. _Life of Richard Linsell. By A Friend._ (_Rusticus_) _Tottenham_ (1855).

NOTE.--He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5 hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4 min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr. Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood open to play any man in England at 20 different games.

LINSKILL, MARY (eld. child of Thomas Linskill a worker in jet). _b._ Whitby, Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1840; apprenticed to a milliner; an amanuensis; a painter; many of her novels appeared originally in Good Words; author of Tales of the North Riding. By Stephen Yorke 2 vols. 1871; Cleveden 2 vols. 1875, new ed. 1892; Carl Forrester’s faith 1883; The magic flute 1884; Between the heather and the northern sea 3 vols. 1884, new ed. 1890; A lost son and the glover’s daughter 1885; The haven under the hill 3 vols. 1886, new ed. 1892; A garland of seven lilies 1886; Hagar, a north Yorkshire pastoral 1887; Robert Holt’s illusion, and other stories 1888. _d._ Stakesby Vale, Whitby 9 April 1891. _Mary Linskill’s In exchange for a soul_, _new ed._ (1892), _memoir pp. xi–xix_.

LINTON, HENRY (eld. son of rev. Henry Linton 1804–87, V. of Diddington, Hunts.) _b._ 1839; ed. at Harrow and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1860; in the Harrow cricket eleven 1854–7; entered Madras civil service 1861; head assistant to collector and magistrate of Nellore to death. _d._ Madras 24 Aug. 1866.

LINTON, THOMAS. Superintendent of police at Edinburgh 1851–78, public prosecutor 1851 to death. _d._ suddenly in his room next the police court, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1892.

LINTON, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 22 April 1791; a landscape painter in London; a founder of Society of British artists 1824, a member to 1842; exhibited 57 pictures at R.A., 78 at B.I. and 101 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–71; author of Ancient and modern colours, with their chemical and artistical properties 1852; The scenery of Greece and its islands 1856, 2 ed. 1869; Colossal vestiges of the older nations 1862. _d._ 7 Lodge place, St. John’s Wood road, London 18 Aug. 1876. _Art Journal_ (1850) 252, _portrait_, (1858) 9–11, (1876) 329.

LINTON, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg lodge, Dumfriesshire). _b._ Kirkpatrick Fleming, co. Dumfries 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; spent four summer vacations as surgeon on a whaler in the Arctic regions; L.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Glasgow 1834; assistant surgeon 66 foot 18 Jany. 1827 to 1841; surgeon in the army 2 July 1841; staff surgeon of first class 17 March 1848, deputy inspector general of hospitals of first division of army in the Crimea 1854, had charge of the great hospital at Scutari 1855, inspector general of hospitals 1 Oct. 1858, placed on h.p. 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of English army in India 1858–9; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ Skairfield, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire 9 Oct. 1880.

LINWOOD, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Linwood of Birmingham). _b._ 1817; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1837–51; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; Hertford, Ireland and Craven scholar 1836, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1839; ordained deacon; assistant master at Shrewsbury; public examiner at Oxford 1850–1; published A lexicon to Æschylus 1843, 2 ed. 1847; Sophoclis Tragœdiæ superstites, with Latin notes 1846, 4 ed. 1877; A treatise on Greek tragic metres with the choric parts of Sophocles metrically arranged 1855. _d._ Birchfield, Handsworth, Staffs. 7 Sep. 1878. _Academy 28 Sep. 1878 p._ 315.

LIPTRAP, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 21 Bengal N.I. 4 Nov. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 19 June 1831, major 17 Feb. 1850 to 7 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 7 May 1855 to 1856, of 45 N.I. 1856 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ London 21 Sep. 1878.

LIPTROTT, JOHN. _b._ 29 Jany. 1813; ensign 31 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1829; commandant 16 Irregular cavalry 24 Jany. 1846, commandant 17 Irregular cavalry 1847 to 7 Jany. 1860; lieut.-col. 14 Bengal N.I. 28 Nov. 1859 to 1862, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ 7 Clarendon road, Southsea 25 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 15 March 1890 p._ 325, _portrait_.

LISBURNE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS VAUGHAN, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Lisburne 1769–1831). _b._ 30 Oct. 1800; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1851; M.P. for Cardiganshire 1854–9. _d._ Crosswood, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire 9 Nov. 1873.

LISGAR, SIR JOHN YOUNG, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir William Young, 1 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ Bombay 31 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 1824; M.P. Cavan 1831–55; a lord of the treasury 16 Sep. 1841 to 21 May 1844; one of the secretaries to the treasury 21 May 1844 to 7 July 1846; succeeded as 2 baronet 10 March 1848; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1852–55; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 1855–9; governor general and com. in chief of New South Wales 22 March 1861 to 24 Dec. 1867; governor general of dominion of Canada 2 Jany. 1869–1872; cr. Baron Lisgar 26 Oct. 1870; lord lieut. of Cavan 9 March 1871 to death; G.C.M.G. 20 March 1855; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1859, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1868. _d._ Lisgar house, Ballieborough, co. Cavan 6 Oct. 1876. _Eclectic Mag. lxxviii_ 129, 244 (1872), _portrait_.

LISTER, FREDERICK GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 14 Aug. 1806, lieut. 9 Oct. 1808; captain 52 N.I. 16 March 1824, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 30 Sep. 1845; commandant of Sylhet light infantry battalion 14 March 1828 to 18 July 1854; lieut-col. 8 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1849, of 70 N.I. 1849–50, of 53 N.I. 1850 to 13 April 1855; political agent Cossiah Hills 11 Feb. 1841 to 1854; col. of 31 N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1861, of 2 N.I. 1861 to 1869; L.G. 23 Aug. 1869. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 28 Feb. 1870.

LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington, wine merchant). _b._ Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed, and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc. 1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of the red corpuscle of mammalian blood; aided the opticians in construction of the microscope; Lister’s law of the aplanatic foci, remains the guiding principle as the source of all the microscopy of the age; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832. _d._ Upton house, Upton, Essex 24 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Stoke Newington. _Biographical Catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 433–8.

LISTER, THOMAS (14 child of Joseph Lister a quaker gardener). _b._ Old Mill wharf, Barnsley 11 Feb. 1810; ed. at Ackworth school 1821–4; worked with his father as a gardener to 1832, then in a linen warehouse at Barnsley; postmaster at Barnsley 1839–70 when he was presented with a testimonial; a constant attendant and contributor of papers at annual meetings of British Association; president of Barnsley Naturalists’ Society; is referred to by name in Mrs. G. L. Banks’s Yorkshire story entitled Wooers and winners 1880; author of The rustic wreath poems, moral, descriptive and miscellaneous 1834; Temperance Rhymes 1837; Rhymes of progress 1862, and of many poems and translations in Tait’s Magazine 1838–9. _d._ Barnsley 25 March 1888. _W. Andrews’s Modern Yorkshire Poets_ (1885) 146–53; _W. C. Newsam’s Poets of Yorkshire_ (1845) 163–5; _W. Grainge’s Poets of Yorkshire_, _ii_ 444–6 (1868); _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 22.

LISTON, MARIA (dau. of Mr. Simpson a tradesman in the Strand, London). _b._ about 1834; first appeared Drury Lane boxing night 1858 as Sylvia in Robin Hood; played in the burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865 etc.; (_m._ Wm. Henry Liston, lessee of Olympic theatre, London 1869–72, he _d._ 9 April 1876 aged 46); played chief roles at the Olympic 1869–72; acted at the Criterion and the Royalty theatres. _d._ Carlton house, 4 Bridge avenue, Hammersmith 25 Feb. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 1 March. _The Era 2 March 1879 p._ 6.

LISTON, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Tyrer). _b._ London 1780; pupil of M. Kelly and Mrs. Crouch; sang at concerts in the Rotunda, Dublin; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 21 Aug. 1801 as Winifred in Morton’s Zorinski; played at Drury Lane 1801–2; acted Queen Dollalolla in O’Hara’s burlesque Tom Thumb at Haymarket 27 July 1805; the original Minna in Dimond’s Adrian and Orilla at Covent Garden 15 Nov. 1806 and the original Anna in Reynold’s Exile 10 Nov. 1808; made her last appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 31 May 1822 when she spoke a farewell address; (_m._ 23 March 1807 John Liston the comedian, who _d._ George’s ter. Hyde park corner 22 March 1846 aged 70). She _d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton 19 Sep. 1854. _Biography of the British stage_ (1824) 177; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _June 1813_, _portrait_; _The British Stage_, _i_ 121 (1817), _portrait_; _G.M. 1846 pt. i_, _pp._ 547, 660.

LISTOWEL, WILLIAM HARE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of hon. Richard Hare 1773–1827). _b._ Bally Ellis near Mallow 22 Sep. 1801; M.P. co. Kerry 1826–30; succeeded his grandfather 13 July 1837; vice admiral of Munster 1838 to death; M.P. St. Alban’s 1841–7; a lord in waiting to the queen 1840 to Sep. 1841 and Oct. 1853 to death; K.P. 1839. _d._ Morrison’s hotel, 1 Dawson st. Dublin 4 Feb. 1856.

LITCHFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; lieut.-col. of 3 Bombay light cavalry 1829 or 1830 to 1832 and 1833–5, of 2 light cavalry 1832–3, of 1 light cavalry 1835 to 1838; commandant at Deesa 1831–3, at Hursole 1833–5 and at Sholapore 1835–8; M.G. on retired list 28 Feb. 1838. _d._ Marine hotel, Exmouth 18 June 1857.

LITCHFIELD, HARRIET (dau. of John Silvester Hay, head surgeon of royal hospital, Calcutta). _b._ 4 May 1777; first appeared at Richmond 1792 as Julia in The Surrender of Calais; acted in Scotland and at Liverpool 1793; (_m._ 1794 John Litchfield, editor of The monthly mirror, who _d._ Mountfield house, Harrow road, London 30 May 1858 aged 84); played at Covent Garden 1797–9 and 1800–5; acted Lady Macbeth 5 Dec. 1800; the original Ottalia in Monk Lewis’s Alfonso, king of Castile 15 Jany. 1802, and Mrs. Ferment in Morton’s School of reform 15 Jany. 1803; played at the Haymarket 1805–6, retired 1806; last appeared on stage at Haymarket 8 Oct. 1812 as Emilia in Othello, her best part. _d._ 11 Jany. 1854, portraits of her by De Wilde and Samuel Drummond are in Garrick club.

LITCHFIELD, HENRY. _b._ Great Torrington, Devon 7 Oct. 1786; entered navy 1 May 1800; commander of the Moselle 1813 and of the Mohawk 1813–4; commander of the Orontes 1824–6 on the Halifax station; captain 20 Nov. 1826; retired admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ London 26 Aug. 1864.

LITCHFIELD, WILLIAM EDMUND. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819; cornet 7 Madras light cavalry 1820; captain 6 light cavalry 6 Oct. 1828, major 30 Sep. 1840 to 11 Sep. 1848; lieut.-col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1849–50, of 5 Madras light cavalry 1850 to 8 Dec. 1852, of 2 Madras light cavalry 1853–6 and 1857–9, and of 7 Madras light cavalry 1856–7; M.G. 31 Aug. 1856. _d._ 3 Vicarage gardens, Church st. Kensington 30 April 1873.

LITOLFF, Henri Charles (son of Louis Litolff, musical composer). _b._ London 6 Feb. 1818; pianist Covent Garden theatre 24 July 1832; music publisher at Brunswick 1851–60; resided in Paris from 1861; published much music in Brunswick, London, Magdeburg and Paris 1846–86; composed and produced the following operas in Paris and Brussels, La boite de Pandore, opera-bouffe 1872; Héloise et Abelard, opera comique 1872; La fiancée du roi de Garbe, opera comique 1874; La belle au bois dormant 1874; La mandragore 1876; Les Templiers, opera 1886; L’escadron volant de la reine, opera comique 1888. _d._ Colombe near Paris, Aug. 1891.

LITTLE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Archibald Little of Shabden park, Surrey). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; ed. Charterhouse 1822 etc.; cornet 9 dragoons 4 Oct. 1831, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 24 May 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. of 11 hussars 23 May 1873, of 9 lancers 8 March 1875 to death; general 21 Jany. 1880, placed on retired list 7 Sep. 1880; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 25 May 1889; served in Sutlej campaign including Sobraon; commanded 1 brigade of cavalry at siege of Lucknow; commanded the post of Dilkousha 16–24 Nov. 1857; commanded the cavalry brigade in Ireland, Jany. 1868 to July 1869. _d._ Upton house, Tetbury 10 June 1891.

LITTLE, GEORGE (3 son of George Little of Blackburn, Lancs.) _b._ 1815; articled to Slater and Heelis of Manchester, solicitors; barrister M.T. 8 May 1840, bencher 30 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; judge of chancery court of county palatine of Lancaster 22 April 1871 to death. _d._ 11 New sq. Lincoln’s inn, London 27 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Salford cemetery.

LITTLE, HERBERT JOHN (son of John Little of Eldernell, Cambs.) _b._ 1835; member of R. Agricultural Society 1870, on the council 1881 to death, steward of implements 1884, senior steward at Newcastle exhibition 1887, when he wrote a report on the implements; judge of farms in Warwickshire competition 1870 and judge in Cumberland and Westmoreland competition 1880, his 2 reports printed in vol. xii and xvi of Journal of the society; wrote articles on The agricultural labourer 1887, on Working dairies, and on Technical instruction; alderman of Isle of Ely county council; published Farm labour account book 1886. _d._ Coldham hall, Wisbech 30 Jany. 1890. _The Times 3 Feb. 1890 p._ 6.

LITTLE, ROBERT WENTWORTH. _b._ Dublin 1838 or 1839; in business in London 1855; clerk in the masonic grand secretary’s office 1862, second clerk and cashier 1866–72; secretary of the masons’ girls’ school 1872; initiated in the royal union lodge, Uxbridge 1861; honorary member of 80 lodges and chapters; the first P.G. secretary of Middlesex on the provincial grand lodge being established; P.G.S.W. 1875; provincial G.H. in chapter, the highest possible position 1875; consecrated all the lodges in the province of Middlesex; edited The Rosicrucian, a record of the Society’s Transactions 1868–78; General statutes of the order of knights of the Red Cross 1868. _d._ 7 St. Martin’s road, Stockwell, London 12 April 1878. _bur._ Camberwell cemetery, Honor Oak 17 April. _Masonic portraits. By J.G._ (1876) 100–5.

LITTLE, THOMAS. _b._ Feb. 1802; pupil of Robert Abraham; practised in London as an architect and surveyor, then as an architect only; built church of St. Mark, Regent’s park 1848, presented parish of St. Pancras with the ground upon which it stands; built All Saints’ church, St. John’s Wood 1850; St. Saviour’s, Warwick road, Paddington 1856; church of Fairlight near Hastings, chapels at Nunhead cemetery, and Paddington cemetery near Wilsdon, Marylebone girls and infant schools. _d._ 36 Northumberland st. Marylebone road, London 20 Dec. 1859. _G.M. viii_ 406 (1860).

LITTLEDALE, RICHARD FREDERICK (4 son of John Littledale of Dublin, auctioneer). _b._ Dublin 14 Sep. 1833; foundation scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1850; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, LL.B. and LL.D. 1862, D.C.L. Oxford 1862; C. of St. Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk 1856–7; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st. Soho, London 1857–61; heard more confessions than any priest of the Church of England except Dr. Pusey; a great speaker and controversialist; author of Catholic ritual in the Church of England, scriptural, reasonable, lawful 1865, 13 editions; The mixed chalice 1867, 4 editions; Plain reasons for not joining the church of Rome 1880; author with rev. James Edward Vaux of The priest’s prayer book 1864, 7 ed. 1890; The people’s hymnal 1867, 8 editions; The Christian Passover 1873, 4 ed., and The altar manual. _d._ 9 Red Lion sq. Holborn, London 11 Jany. 1890, memorial reredos erected in chapel at St. Katharine’s 32 Queen sq. London, March 1891. _Church Portrait Journal_, _iii_ 85–8 (1882), _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 Feb. 1890 p._ 9, _portrait_.

LITTLER, JOHN. Ed. Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822; dean and vicar of Battle, Sussex 1836 to death, the deanery being a peculiar with power of granting marriage licences and a court for proving wills; author of Two sermons preached at Battle 1847, 1848. _d._ the deanery, Battle, Sussex 17 Feb. 1863.

LITTLER, SIR JOHN HUNTER (eld. son of Thomas Littler of Tarvin, Cheshire). _b._ Tarvin 6 Jany. 1783; entered Bengal army 1799; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 29 Nov. 1800, captain 16 Dec. 1814; lieut.-col. 14 N.I. 23 May 1828 to 1832; lieut.-col. 54 N.I. 1832 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 40 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 30 July 1839; col. 36 N.I. 30 July 1839 to death; commander at Barrackpore 15 July 1840 to 3 Feb. 1843; commanded Rajpootana field force 7 April 1843 to 30 May 1845; commanded Lahore field force 30 May 1845 to 7 Jany. 1847; commanded Punjaub division 7 Jany. 1847 to 17 Jany. 1848; provisional member of council 12 May 1847 (took his seat 21 Feb. 1848) to 10 May 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 May 1844, G.C.B. 31 Jany. 1848. _d._ Bigadon, Buckfastleigh near Totnes, Devonshire 18 Feb. 1856. _bur._ in family vault at Tarvin. _I.L.N. viii_ 157 (1846), _portrait_.

LITTLETON, HENRY (son of James Littleton). _b._ London 7 Jany. 1823; entered music publishing house of Alfred Novello 1841, manager 1846, sole manager 1856, a partner 1861, sole proprietor 1866; had a branch establishment in New York; created the development of English taste for choral music; published the Messiah in 12 monthly numbers at sixpence 1846 and other standard music at cheap prices; retired 1887 leaving largest music publishing business in the world; gave daily concerts at the Albert hall and revived the oratorio concerts under Dr. Mackenzie at the St. James’ hall. _d._ Westwood house, Sydenham 11 May 1888. _bur._ at Lee, Kent. _A short history of cheap music_ (1887), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 6, _portrait_.

LITTLEWOOD, WILLIAM EDENSOR (only son of George Littlewood, printer). _b._ London 2 Aug. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll. Camb., 35th wrangler 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1860; C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1857–61; head master of Hipperholme gr. sch. Yorkshire 1861–8; C. of Southall, Middlesex 1868–70; P.C. of Ironville, Derbyshire 1870–2; V. of St. James’s, Bath 1872–81; London Diocesan home missionary in charge of St. Thomas’s, Finsbury park, London 1881 to death; author of A garland from the parables 1858, religious verse; Essentials of English history 1862, 2 ed. 1865; Essentials of New Testament study 1872; Down in Dingyshire 1872; The story of the wanderer 1874; Bible bibliographies 1878. _d._ Bush End vicarage, Essex 3 Sep. 1886.

LITTON, EDWARD (3 son of Edward Litton of Ballyfarmoth, co. Dublin 1754–1808). _b._ Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1 Dec. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1832; gained five medals from historical soc. of univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar Easter term 1811; leader of North-West circuit some years, retired 1833; made very large income at the Chancery bar; K.C. 13 July 1830; M.P. Coleraine 1837–42; a master of Irish court of chancery Jany. or Feb. 1843 to death; P.C. Ireland 1868; wrote three letters in T. Martin’s A plan for the settlement of the question of the sale and transfer of land 1862. _d._ 32 Merrion square, Dublin 22 Jany. 1870. _Irish Law Times_, _iv_ 72–4, 554 (1870).

LITTON, EDWARD FALCONER (only son of Daniel Litton of Waterloo road, Dublin, wine merchant). _b._ 18 Dec. 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1849, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Tyrone 13 April 1880 to Aug. 1881, being the first Liberal who ever represented it; second comr. under Land Law (Ireland) act 1881, Aug. 1881 to Jany. 1890; judicial comr. and judge of supreme court of judicature Jany. 1890 to death, with 73 land commissioners under him; married four times; author of Life or death, the destiny of the soul in the future state 1860. _d._ Ardavilling house, Cloyne 27 Nov. 1890. _Our Judges. By Rhadamanthus_ (1890) _pp._ 119–22, _portrait_; _Irish Law Times_, _xxiv_ 620, 625, 633, 662 (1890); _London Figaro 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 8, _portrait_.

LITTON, MARIE, stage name of Maria Lowe. _b._ Derbyshire 1847; first appeared on the stage at Princess’s theatre, London as Effie Deans in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 23 March 1868; played Mrs. Cureton in Alfred Thompson’s On the cards, at opening of Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868, and Alice Renshaw in Byron’s Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869; lessee of Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871 to 13 March 1874; produced pieces by W. S. Gilbert, W. Marston, W. G. Wills, H. C. Merivale and P. Simpson, in which she acted secondary parts; played Zayda in W. S. Gilbert’s comedy The Wicked World, at Haymarket 4 Jany. 1873; the original Caroline Effingham in W. S. Gilbert’s Tom Cobb, at St. James’s 24 April 1875; played Mrs. Montressor in Tom Taylor’s Unequal Match, at Prince of Wales’s 29 Sep. 1877; lessee of theatre attached to Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Oct. 1878, opened the house again under name of The Imperial, Feb. 1879, played Lady Teazle, Lydia Languish and Olivia, acted Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, 137 nights from Easter 1879, played Rosalind in As you like it, 100 nights; manager of the new T.R. Glasgow, Oct. 1880; played Eva de Malvoisie in Youth, at Drury Lane 6 Aug. 1881, and Daisy Brent in The Cynic, at Globe 14 Jany. 1882; the original Vere Herbert in Moths, at Globe 25 March 1882; (_m._ 1879 Wm. Wybrow Robertson, manager of Westminster Aquarium 1875–8). _d._ 6 Alfred place west, Thurloe sq. London 1 April 1884. _Biograph_, _vi_ 242–3 (1881); _Theatre i_ 189 (1878) _portrait_, _i_ 255 (1880), _portrait_; _Touchstone 8 June 1878 p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _v_ 537, 543 (1876), _portrait_, _xii_ 265 (1879), _portrait_, _xiii_ 108 (1880), _portrait_; _Dramatic Notes_ (1883) 15, _portrait_.

LIVERPOOL, CHARLES CECIL COPE JENKINSON, 3 Earl of (half-brother of Robert 2 earl of Liverpool 1770–1829). _b._ 29 May 1784; styled hon. Cecil Jenkinson 1786–1820; served in the navy 1794–7; page of honor to George iii 1794; matric. at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 April 1801; cornet Surrey regt. of yeomanry 20 Aug. 1803; sec. of legation at Vienna 13 July 1804; M.P. Sandwich 1807–12; under sec. of state home department 10 Oct. 1807; under sec. of state, war and colonial department 1809–10; lieut.-col. Cinque ports regt. of militia 28 July 1811; M.P. Bridgenorth 1812–18; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–28; succeeded as 3 earl 4 Dec. 1829; high steward of Kingston-on-Thames 1829; prothonotary of county palatine of Lancaster; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; lord steward of the household 3 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; G.C.B. 11 Dec. 1845. _d._ Buxted park near Uckfield, Sussex 3 Oct. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 538 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 450, 618 (1851).

LIVESEY, HOWARD. A correspondent of The Times on social questions; attacked the scheme for the Manchester ship canal under the heading of What is a port?; an enthusiastic fisherman, well known in the Lake district for 30 years; instituted the Lunesdale fish hatchery near Lancaster. _d._ West road, Lancaster 4 Feb. 1892.

LIVESEY, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1803; ed. Manchester sch. 1819–23 and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Trinity ch. Camb. 1827–31; incumb. of St. Philip’s, Sheffield, July 1831 to death; conveyed 5 acres of ground at Stacey Springwood to the ecclesiastical comrs. for a new parochial burial ground 1857 on which he erected a lodge and mortuary chapel, consecrated 5 July 1859; military chaplain Sheffield 1836 to death; author of Mechanics’ churches. A letter to sir R. Peel on church extension in populous towns 1840. _d._ Sheffield 11 Aug. 1870. _Manchester School Register_, _iii_ 142 (1874).

LIVESEY, JOSEPH. _b._ Walton near Preston 5 March 1794; brought up as a weaver; a cheese-factor at Preston 1815 to death; drafted the first teetotal pledge 1 Sep. 1832; brought out Livesey’s Moral Reformer, 23 numbers Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1833 and Jany. 1838 to Feb. 1839; issued in Jany. 1834 The Preston temperance advocate, which he edited 4 years, this was the first English teetotal publication; agitated against the corn laws 1841, issuing The Struggle a weekly paper, 235 numbers Dec. 1841 till the repeal of the laws 1846; published the Teetotal Progressionist, Aug. 1851 to May 1852, and the Staunch Teetotaller 24 numbers Jany. 1867 to Dec. 1868 with a portrait of himself; he and his sons managed The Preston Guardian, weekly paper 1844–59; author of Reminiscences of early teetotalism 1868; The autobiography of Joseph Livesey. Preston 1881, 2 ed. London 1885. _d._ Bank parade, Preston 2 Sep. 1884. _J. Weston’s Joseph Livesey, the story of his life_ (1884); _J. Pearce’s Life and teachings of Joseph Livesey_ (1885); _Cassell’s Mag. March 1882 pp._ 243–5, _portrait_.

LIVESEY, THOMAS. _b._ 1807; manager of South Metropolitan gas company 1839, secretary 1842 to death; resided at Dulwich Common. _d._ in the surgery of his physician’s house 10 Oct. 1871. _Times 14 Oct. 1871 p._ 5; _W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of Camerwell_ (1877) 347.

LIVESEY, THOMAS J. Lecturer on method and school management, St. Mary’s R.C. training college, Brook Green, Hammersmith 1865 to death; author of How to teach arithmetic 1877; The primer of English history 1877; How to teach grammar 1881; Moffatt’s How to prepare notes of lessons 1882; The Granville illustrated history of England 1885; translated F. S. Hattler’s Flowers from the catholic kindergarten 1890. _d._ 19 July 1890. _bur._ St. Mary Magdalen, Mortlake 23 July. _The Tablet 26 July 1890 p._ 147.

LIVINGSTONE, CHARLES (son of Neill Livingstone of Blantyre near Glasgow, tea-dealer). _b._ Blantyre 28 Feb. 1821; in a lace manufacturing warehouse in Hamilton; emigrated to Western states of America 1840; entered Union theological college, New York city 1847 where he took his degree 1850; had a pastoral charge in Massachusetts; came to England, April 1857 and went with his brother David Livingstone as secretary to the expedition for exploring Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, invalided home 1863; British consul at Fernando Po 17 Oct. 1864, the Bight of Benin and Biafra were added to his consular district 24 June 1867, the seat of the consulate was removed to Old Calabar 1 April 1872. _d._ of African fever near Lagos 28 Oct. 1873. _Proc. of Royal Geographical Soc. xviii_ 512–14 (1874).

LIVINGSTONE, DAVID (brother of preceding). _b._ Blantyre 19 March 1813; a piecer at a cotton factory 1823, a cotton spinner 1832; studied medicine in Anderson college and Greek and divinity in Glasgow univ. 1836–8; studied medicine in London 1839; licentiate of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1840; ordained a missionary of London Missionary Soc. in Albion chapel, London 20 Nov. 1840; landed at Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, May 1841; crossed the Kalahari desert in search of Lake Ngami, which he found 1 Aug. 1849; discovered the Zambesi, June 1851; discovered the Victoria falls Nov. 1855; arrived in London 12 Dec. 1856, presented with gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 15 Dec.; received freedom of city of London 21 May 1857 and of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee 1857; LL.D. Glasgow, Dec. 1854; D.C.L. Oxford 1857; F.R.S. 1857; severed his connection with London missionary soc. 1857; British consul at Quilimane 15 Jany. 1858; commanded expedition to explore Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, explored the Zambesi, Shira and Rovuma, discovered Lake Nyassa 16 Sep. 1859, received a despatch recalling the expedition 2 July 1863, arrived in England 23 July 1864; author of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa 1857; with C. Livingstone Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and of the discovery of lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1865; consul in the territories of all African kings and chiefs in the interior of Africa not subject to the authority of the kings of Portugal or Abyssinia or of the viceroy of Egypt 15 March 1865 to death; discovered lakes Meoro and Bangweolo 1869; returned to Ujiji where he found H. M. Stanley who had been sent to look for him 28 Oct. 1871, returned to lake Bangweolo where he became very ill; found dead on his knees at Chitambo’s village in Ilala 1 May 1873, body embalmed, brought to England and _bur._ in nave of Westminster abbey 18 April 1874. _The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his death, continued by H. Waller 2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _Life and finding of Dr. Livingstone. Containing the original letters written by H. M. Stanley. With an account of Dr. Livingstone’s death and latest discoveries_ (1874), _portraits_; _H. M. Stanley’s How I found Livingstone_ (1872); _Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. xviii_ 6 _et seq._ 497–512 (1874); _Illustrated Review_, _i_ 519–23 (1870), _portrait_; _The weaver boy who became a missionary. By H. G. Adams_ (1867); _Illustrated news of the world_, _i_ (1858), _portrait_; _The personal life of David Livingstone. By W. G. Blaikie_ (1880), _portrait_; _J. Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 78–106 (1880).

NOTE.--A civil list pension was granted him 19 June 1873, 7 weeks after his death. His surviving son Wm. Oswell Livingstone _b._ South Africa 1850 took part in the expedition sent out in 1872 to find his father, he practised as a physician at St. Albans and _d._ at Maida villa, Lattimore road, St. Albans 30 Dec. 1889.

LIVINGSTONE, SIR THOMAS, 10 Baronet (son of sir Alexander Livingstone, 9 baronet, _d._ 1795). Entered navy 17 Sep. 1782; captain 13 June 1800, R.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 1 June 1848. _d._ Westquarter, Falkirk 1 April 1853.

LIVIUS, CHARLES BARHAM. Author of Maid or wife or the deceiver deceived, a musical comedy. The music by the author. Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1821; The Freyschütz or the wild huntsman of Bohemia, romantic opera, Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; composer of Where shall the lover rest, song 1810; Variations sur un air favori pour le pianoforte 1835. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1865.

LIZARS, ALEXANDER JARDINE. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1831; professor of anatomy Marischall coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1841 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of anatomy Aberdeen univ. 15 Sep. 1860 to 1863; author of Elements of anatomy intended as a text-book for students 3 parts. Edinb. 1844. _d._ Ambleside 12 June 1866.

LIZARS, JOHN (son of Daniel Lizars, publisher and engraver, _d._ 1812). _b._ Edinburgh about 1787; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ.; surgeon in the navy during Peninsular war; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1815; partner with John Bell and Robert Allan as surgeons in Edinb. 1815; professor of surgery in royal college of surgeons Edinb. 1831 to death; senior operating surgeon of royal infirmary 1831, introduced operation for removal of the upper jaw, the well-known ‘Lizars’ lines’ are called after him; author of A system of anatomical plates of the human body, accompanied with descriptions and observations. 12 parts Edinburgh 1822–6; Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria 1825; A system of practical surgery with plates 2 parts 1838, 1840; Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco 1854, 8 ed. 1859. _d._ 15 South Charlotte st. Edinburgh 21 May 1860.

LIZARS, WILLIAM HOME (brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 1788; ed. at high sch. Edinb.; apprenticed to his father; studied at Trustees’ academy, Edinb.; his two pictures Reading the will and A Scotch wedding, exhibited at the R.A. in 1812 are in the National gallery of Scotland at Edinb.; an engraver and copper-plate printer in Edinb. 1812; engraved the plates for his brother’s A system of anatomical plates 1822; a founder of Royal Scottish academy 1826; perfected a method of etching for illustrating books; engraved views for N. G. Philips’ Views in Lancashire and Cheshire of halls, castles, etc. 1822; J. Browne’s Picturesque views of Edinburgh 1825; Lizars’ Views of principal cities in Scotland; and for Guides to several Scotch railways 1842–50. _d._ Edinburgh 30 March 1859.

LLANOS, FRANCES MARY (only dau. of Thomas Keats, livery stable keeper _d._ 1804 and sister of John Keats the poet). _b._ Craven st. City road, London 3 June 1803; resided with her guardian Richard Abbey at Walthamstow 1814–20; her brother corresponded with her 1817–20; when of age she brought an action against Abbey to recover the inheritance due to her; (_m._ 1826 Valentin Llanos Gutierrez a Spaniard, author of Don Esteban or memoirs of a Spaniard written by himself 3 vols. 1825, and Sandoval or the freemason. A Spanish tale 3 vols. 1826 anon.; he lost greater part of his money at Madrid, and _d._ Spain 14 Aug. 1885 aged 90); a civil list pension of £80 was granted her 23 Nov. 1880; many important letters from her brother are addressed to her. She _d._ Madrid 16 Dec. 1889. _Athenæum 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 16; _H. B. Forman’s Poetical works of John Keats 4 vols._ (1883), _contains the letters addressed to his sister, in vols. i, iii and iv_.

LLANOVER, BENJAMIN HALL, 1 Baron (eld. son of Benjamin Hall of Hensol castle, Glamorganshire 1778–1817). _b._ Upper Gower st. London 8 Nov. 1802; ed. at Westminster sch. 1814–20 and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; M.P. Monmouth 3 May 1831 but unseated 18 July 1831; M.P. Monmouth 1832–7; M.P. Marylebone 1837–59; carried through House of Commons the act which created Metropolitan board of works 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 14 Aug. 1855; cr. baronet 16 Aug. 1838; president of board of health 14 Oct. 1854 to Aug. 1855; P.C. 14 Nov. 1854; first comr. of works and public buildings 21 July 1855 to Feb. 1858; created baron Llanover of Llanover and Abercarn, co. Monmouth 29 June 1859; lord lieut. of Monmouth 20 Nov. 1861 to death; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the state of the church 1850; Church abuses, a letter to the rev. E. Phillips 1852. _d._ 9 Great Stanhope st. London 27 April 1867. _bur._ Llanover churchyard, memorial monument in Llandaff cathedral. _Men of the time_ (1865) 528; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429 (1859), _portrait_.

NOTE.--The great bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament was called ‘Big Ben’ after him 1856.

LLEWELLYN, DAVID HERBERT (son of rev. David Llewellyn, P.C. of Easton near Pewsey, Wilts. _d._ 1869). _b._ Easton 1838; ed. at Marlborough 1848–53; studied at Charing Cross hospital 1856–9; M.R.C.S. 1859; surgeon of the Confederate steam vessel Alabama which left the Mersey 28 July 1862; after the engagement between the Alabama and the federal ironclad Kearsage off Cherbourg 19 June 1864 he refused to escape by overloading the boat containing the wounded, and went down with the ship, being the only man lost; memorial tablets erected in Charing Cross hospital and in Easton church. _Medical Times_, _ii_ 24, 25, 81, 374 (1864); _The Times 21 June 1864 p._ 11; _I.L.N. 9 July 1864 p._ 41, _portrait_.

LLOYD, ARTHUR. _b._ 1774; lieut. 53 foot 15 Sep. 1795; captain 20 foot 25 May 1803; major 98 foot 22 May 1804; major 97 foot 1816, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Lytham, Lancashire 31 Oct. 1851.

LLOYD, BARTHOLOMEW CLIFFORD (2 son of rev. Bartholomew Lloyd 1772–1837, provost of Trinity college, Dublin 1831–7). _b._ 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1843; called to Irish bar 1830; chairman of quarter sessions for county of Waterford to death; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; author with F. Goold of Reports of cases in court of chancery in Ireland during the time of lord chancellor Sugden 1836; A selection of cases in court of chancery during the time of lord chancellor Plunket 1839. _d._ Crewe, Cheshire 28 April 1872.

LLOYD, CHARLES DALTON CLIFFORD (eld. son of Robert Clifford Lloyd 1809–63). _b._ Portsmouth 13 Jany. 1844; ed. at Sandhurst; served in British Burmah police force 1865–72; barrister L.I. 7 June 1875; resident magistrate for co. Down 16 Feb. 1874 to May 1881; restored order in co. Longford, Jany. to May 1881; special resident magistrate at Kilmallock, co. Limerick, May 1881 to Sep. 1883, arrested Father Eugene Sheehy and other leaders of the land league, thus restoring order in co. Limerick 1881; inspector general of reforms in Egypt 1883 and under secretary of state 1884; formulated proposals for reform of prison management Jany. 1884, resigned office May 1884; resident magistrate in co. Londonderry 12 March 1885; lieutenant governor and colonial secretary Mauritius 23 Nov. 1885, transferred to the Seychelles, Aug. 1886, resigned 1887; British consul for Kurdistan 15 Sep. 1889 to death. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at Erzeroum 7 Jany. 1891. _C. D. C. Lloyd’s Ireland under the land league: a narrative of personal experience_ (1892); _Graphic xxv_ 417 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1883), _portrait_.

LLOYD, EDWARD. Midshipman R.N. Sep. 1798; captain 19 July 1821, R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; awarded good service pension 19 March 1849; K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; F.R.S. 12 March 1818; (_m._ Aug. 1816 Colin Campbell youngest dau. of James Baillie of Ealing grove, Middlesex, M.P. for Horsham, she _d._ 8 Nov. 1830). He _d._ Priory cottage, Cheltenham 29 April 1855.

NOTE.--His wife was the lady on whose death the medical robber John St. John Long was prosecuted for manslaughter at the Old Bailey 19 Feb. 1831. Long _d._ 41 Harley st. London 2 July 1834 aged 35.

LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ 30 Jany. 1780; partner in Jones, Lloyds & Co. bankers, Manchester and London, retired 25 Dec. 1848; a member of the Broughton Archers and present when they formed a body guard to the Queen at Holland house, Kensington. _d._ on anniversary of his birth, Coombe Wood, Croydon 30 Jany. 1863, personalty sworn under £600,000, 4 April. _L. H. Grindon’s Manchester banks_ (1877) 150–9.

LLOYD, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward John Lloyd 1799–1879). Barrister L.I. 7 June 1858; reported for the Law Times in court of sir W. Page Wood; sec. to commissioners on the patent laws 1 Sep. 1862, the report is dated 29 July 1864; special correspondent of the Standard at Athens; author of The law of trade marks, with account of its history in the decisions of courts of law 1862; with his wife, children and other persons left Athens on 11 April 1870 to visit the plains of Marathon, and on same day was taken prisoner by brigands, who being pursued by troops, murdered him and other prisoners near Dhilissi 21 April 1870. _bur._ at Athens. _I.L.N. lvi_ 557 (1870), _portrait_; _Law Times_, _xlix_ 38 (1870); _A.R._ (1870) 39–42.

LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ Thornton Heath near Croydon 16 Feb. 1815; bookseller and newsvendor at Curtain road, Shoreditch, London; compiled and published Lloyd’s Stenography 1833; published a monthly budget of news 1836; Lloyd’s Pickwickian songster 1840; Lloyd’s Reciter 1846; Lloyd’s Song book 1846, 3 ed. 1847; issued Lloyd’s Penny weekly miscellany 1842, which became Lloyd’s Entertaining Journal 1844 and lasted till 1847; issued Lloyd’s Penny Atlas 1842–5; brought out Lloyd’s Illustrated London Newspaper 27 Nov. 1842, 7 numbers only, but continued without illustrations as Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper, which now circulates half a million weekly; introduced the fast rotary printing machine 1870; established a large paper manufactory at Sittingbourne, Kent, producing 300 tons of paper a day about 1864; leased 100,000 acres of land in Algeria, grew Esparto grass there and imported it for papermaking. _d._ 17 Delahay st. Westminster 8 April 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet., net value of his estate sworn at £563,022 May 1890. _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 188–94, _portrait_; _Sell’s Dictionary of the world’s press_ (1891) 79–80, _portrait_; _Graphic 19 April 1890 p._ 444, _portrait_.

NOTE.--In Jany. 1855 he issued The business and agency gazette which became The Clerkenwell News, May 1856, the first district newspaper in London, the name was altered to The Clerkenwell News and London Times, Feb. 1866 when it was issued 5 times a week, it became a daily paper April 1866 and its name was altered to The London Daily Chronicle and Clerkenwell News 1869, the name Daily Chronicle was adopted 25 Nov. 1872, Lloyd bought the paper for £30,000 in 1876 and established it as a London daily paper after spending £150,000.

LLOYD, EDWARD JOHN (2 son of Thomas Gore Lloyd, accountant general of H.E.I.C.) _b._ London 25 Feb. 1799; ed. at Blackheath and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825, bencher 23 April 1849 to death; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1849; judge of county courts, circuit 54, Bristol, Chipping Sodbury and Thornbury 18 Feb. 1863 to Sep. 1874 when he retired on a pension. _d._ Hillside, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonard’s on Sea 1 June 1879. _bur._ Ore cemetery, Hastings.

LLOYD, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ Sep. 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 22 Sep. 1826, col. 20 April 1861, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 15 Feb. 1864; commanded R.E. at Constantinople 1855 and in the Crimea when docks at Sebastopol were destroyed under his directions April 1856. _d._ Maitland St. Clements, Jersey 12 June 1892.

LLOYD, EUSEBIUS ARTHUR. _b._ 1794; ed. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, favourite pupil of Abernethy; assist. surgeon 1824 and surgeon 1847–61; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; often attended to Abernethy’s private practice for him; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1824, sec. 1827–8, V.P. 1838; took Abernethy’s house 14 Bedford row, London, where he had a large practice 1831–61; surgeon Christ’s hospital; introduced the cure of hydrocele by injecting red precipitate into the tunica vaginalis; the injection of nævi with liquor ammoniæ and the medium operation for lithotomy; author of A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula 1821. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 4 March 1862.

LLOYD, GEORGE WILLIAM AYLMER. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 17 Sep. 1806; captain 71 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 3 June 1830 to 7 Jany. 1836; lieut.-col. of 52 N.I. 7 Jany. 1836, of 43 N.I. 1837, of 17 N.I. 1838 to 1840, of 25 N.I. 1840–41, of 28 N.I. 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; col. of 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; commander of Rajpootana field force 21 Jany. 1848 to 1850, of Mooltan field force 1850 to 1851, of Agra field force 1851 to 1853; commanded Dinapore division 10 Nov. 1854 to 29 Oct. 1857; L.G. 2 June 1860; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Darjeeling 4 June 1865.

LLOYD, HORACE (eld. son of John Horatio Lloyd 1798–1884). _b._ 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1850; barrister M.T. 7 June 1852, bencher 1868 to death; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; a good whist, billiard and chessplayer, played at the Whitehall club and at Simpson’s divan; spent many of his vacations at Homburg and Baden Baden. _d._ 42 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 30 March 1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 406 (1874); _The Westminster Papers_, _vii_ 9, 15 (1874).

LLOYD, HORATIO FREDERICK (son of Mr. Lloyd, hatter). _b._ Strand, London 9 Nov. 1808; first appeared theatre royal, Newcastle 1829; played in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow 1829–32; commenced an engagement at the theatre royal, Edinburgh 1 Oct. 1832 and remained there 16 years; played in Glasgow 1848–51; manager theatre royal, Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1851 to 10 July 1852 when he was ruined; principal low comedian Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow 1853–64; took his farewell of the stage at theatre royal, Glasgow, May 1889. _d._ Glasgow 28 Nov. 1889. _bur._ South necropolis, Glasgow 3 Dec.

NOTE.--He was educated at a school kept by a Mr. Shaw in Yorkshire, who was the Mr. Squeers of Nicholas Nickleby. Shaw is said really to have been a kind and considerate schoolmaster who was entirely ruined by Dickens’ description, he was buried in Greta Bridge churchyard.

LLOYD, HUMPHREY (brother of Bartholomew Clifford Lloyd 1808–72). _b._ Dublin 16 April 1800; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1815, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827, D.D. 1840; junior fellow 1824, senior fellow 18 Sep. 1843 to March 1867; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 19 Dec. 1831 to 1843; established the existence of conical refraction in biaxial crystals 1833, also the law by which the polarisation of the rays composing the luminous cone is governed; manager of magnetic observatory of Trin. coll. Dublin for which he devised the instruments; vice provost of Trin. coll. Aug. 1862, provost Feb. 1867 to death; pres. of Royal Irish academy 1846–51, Cunningham gold medallist 1862; pres. of British Association at Dublin 1857; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.S. Edinb. 27 Feb. 1832; D.C.L. Oxford 1855; granted German order ‘Pour le Merite’ 1874; author of A treatise on light and vision 1831; Account of the induction inclinometer 1842; Lectures on the wave theory of light 1841, 3 ed. 1873; Observations made at the magnetical observatory, Trinity college, Dublin 1865; Of the power of the keys or of the authority to bind and to loose 1873; A treatise on magnetism 1874; Miscellaneous papers 1877. _d._ the provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 17 Jany. 1881, bust by A. B. Joy placed in library of Trin. coll. 1892. _Proc. of Royal soc. xxxi_ 21–6 (1881); _Proc. of R.I. Academy_, _v_ 165–6 (1883); _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 125 (1881), _portrait_.

LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (eld. son of Jacob Wm. Hinde of Ulverstone, Lancs.) _b._ 1816; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1874; C. of Banhaglog, Montgomeryshire 1841–8; joined Church of Rome; served in the Pontifical Zouaves; knight of order of St. Gregory, knight of the Saviour of Greece; assumed name of Lloyd in lieu of Hinde on inheriting property of Youde of Plasmadog, Denbighshire; restored parish church of Llangurig at cost of £10,000; author of The history of the princes, the lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fadog ... 6 vols. 1881–7 and several other genealogical works; resided Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 14 Oct. 1887.

LLOYD, JOHN AUGUSTUS (youngest son of John Lloyd of Lynn, Norfolk). _b._ London 1 May 1800; ed. at Tooting and Winchester; went to Tortola, aide de camp to the governor; a captain of engineers on staff of Simon Bolivar the liberator of Colombia, South America, became lieut.-col.; surveyed Isthmus of Panama for Bolivar and reported on best means of inter-oceanic communication 1827–9, the report appeared in Philos. Trans. 1830 pp. 59–68; F.R.S. 11 March 1830; scientifically employed by the admiralty and royal society; colonial civil engineer and surveyor general of Mauritius 31 Aug. 1831 to 4 April 1849; ascended the Peter Botte mountain, previously regarded as inaccessible 1832; special comr. for Exhibition of 1851, 9 July 1850; A.I.C.E. 1849, member of council; British chargé d’affaires in Bolivia 4 Dec. 1851; started on a mission to stir up the Circassians against Russia 13 May 1854; author of numerous scientific papers; his widow Fanny Drummond Lloyd was granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856 and _d._ 28 Sep. 1856. He _d._ of cholera at Therapia 10 Oct. 1854. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv_ 161–5 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_ 623, 624 (1851), _portrait_.

LLOYD, JOHN FREDERICK (brother of Humphry Lloyd 1800–81). _b._ 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Kilmore 1840–8; fellow of St. John’s coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1849–53; Inc. of St. Paul, Auckland 1853–65; archdeacon of Waitemata, Auckland 1865–70; R. of Kirk-Ireton, Derbyshire 1870–4; R. of Newton Wold, Lincs. 1874 to death. _d._ 8 Sep. 1875.

LLOYD, JOHN HORATIO (son of John Lloyd, attorney and prothonotary of the counties of Chester and Flint). _b._ Stockport 1 Sep. 1798; ed. Stockport gram. sch. and Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1823–6; barrister I.T. 6 May 1826; M.P. Stockport 1832–4; chief authority on legal matters connected with railways, devised the securities known as Lloyd’s Bonds before 1864, without which many railways could not have been constructed; by his advice the new company for laying the Atlantic cable was formed 1860; retired from practice 1876; A.I.C.E. 1860, member of council 1867–8; author with F. M. Danson of Reports of cases relating to commerce, manufactures, &c. in courts of common law 1828–29. 1830; author with W. N. Welsby of Reports of cases relating to commerce, manufacture, &c. determined in the courts of common law 1829 and 1830. 1829–30; edited third ed. of W. Paley’s A treatise on the law of principal and agent 1833. _d._ 100 Lancaster gate, London 18 July 1884. _bur._ Hendon 23 July. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii_ 450–4 (1884); _Law Times_, _xxxix_ 538, 551 (1864).

LLOYD, JOSEPH SKIPP. Adjutant of corps of Gentlemen at Arms 5 May 1852 to 10 April 1856. _d._ Brighton 25 March 1891.

LLOYD, JULIUS (son of Francis Lloyd, manufacturer, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1830; ed. at Blackheath and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 3 May 1851; 22 wrangler 1852, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855; C. of Brentwood, Essex 1855–7; C. of St. Peter, Wolverhampton 1858–62; C. of Trysull, Staffs. 1862–6; C. of St. Peter, Pimlico, London 1866–8; V. of High Cross, Herts. 1868–71; Inc. of St. John, Greenock 1871–80; R. of St. Ann, Manchester 1880–6; V. of Leesfield, Lancs. 1886–91; hon. canon of Manchester 1886–91; canon residentiary of Manchester 1891 to death; R. of St. Philip, Salford 1891 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Manchester 1881 to death; author of The life of sir Philip Sydney 1862; An analysis of the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis with reference to the Hebrew grammar of Gesenius 1869; Christian politics, a study of the principles of politics according to the New Testament 1877; History of the English church 1879; Sermons on the prophets of the Old Testament 1889 and 15 other books. _d._ just as he had finished addressing a meeting of the Church Day schools association in Manchester town hall 27 May 1892.

LLOYD, LLEWELYN. _b._ 1792; resided over 20 years in the north of Europe; author of Field sports of the north of Europe 2 vols. 1830; Scandinavian adventures, with account of northern fauna 2 vols. 1854; The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway, with an account of the seals and salt water fishes 1867; Peasant life in Sweden 1870. _d._ near Gothenbergh, Sweden 17 Feb. 1876.

LLOYD, RIDGWAY ROBERT SYERS CHRISTIAN CODNER (son of Francis Brown Lloyd, surgeon). _b._ Devonport 20 Dec. 1842; studied at Guy’s hospital, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1866; house surgeon in Peterborough infirmary 1867–70; practised at St. Albans 1870 to death; author of An account of the altars, monuments and tombs existing 1428 in St. Albans’ abbey. By J. Amundesham, translated from the Latin. St. Albans 1873 and of many papers on archæological subjects. _d._ from typhoid fever at Bricket road, St. Albans 1 June 1884.

LLOYD, ROBERT CLIFFORD (brother of John Frederick Lloyd 1810–75). _b._ 1809; ensign 76 foot 30 Dec. 1826, lieut.-col. 17 July 1857; lieut.-col. 68 foot 8 July 1859, sold out 2 Dec. 1862; brevet colonel 9 Sep. 1859. _d._ Avignon, France, Jany.-March 1863.

LLOYD, SAMPSON (7 son of Samuel Lloyd of Birmingham, banker). _b._ Birmingham 7 June 1808; held quarter share in firm of Lloyds, Fosters & Co. colliers 1835 to Jany. 1867 when business was transferred to Patent shaft and axletree company limited, vice chairman and manager of it 1867–73; A.I.C.E. 7 April 1857; one of founders of Institution of mechanical engineers at Birmingham 1847. _d._ Areley house near Stourport 26 Sep. 1874. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 292 (1875).

LLOYD, THOMAS. _b._ Portsea 29 Oct. 1803; ed. at school of naval architecture 1819–26; inspector of steam machinery at Woolwich 19 Jany. 1833; chief engineer at Woolwich 16 Nov. 1842 to 6 April 1847; a chief engineer of the navy 6 April 1847 to 1869; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; M.I.C.E. 18 May 1841. _d._ 84 Finchley road, Hampstead 23 March 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xli_ 217–20 (1875).

LLOYD, SIR THOMAS DAVIES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, co. Cardigan, _d._ 18 June 1845). _b._ Swansea 23 May 1820; ed. at Sunbury, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; cornet 13 light dragoons 2 Oct. 1840; ensign 82 foot 14 July 1843, sold out 1846; sheriff of co. Cardigan 1850; created a baronet 21 Jany. 1863; M.P. Cardiganshire 1865–8; M.P. district of Cardigan 1864–74. _d._ Bronwydd, co. Cardigan 21 July 1877.

LLOYD, T. G. B. (1 son of Dr. Lloyd of Birmingham). _b._ 15 Aug. 1829; civil engineer; employed surveying in Spain, the United States, Canada and Newfoundland; investigated the documents and traditions of the extinct Beothucs or Red Indians of Newfoundland and sent three papers to the Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute; made investigations on recent and fossil beavers; F.G.S. 1864. _d._ 3 Feb. 1876. _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxii_ 87–8 (1876).

LLOYD, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Middleton Massie Lloyd of Brynestyn near Wrexham, Denbighshire). _b._ Wrexham 1782; sheriff of Denbighshire 1829; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Llandudno near Conway 16 May 1857.

LLOYD, WILLIAM FORSTER (only son of rev. Wm. Lloyd of Bradenham, Bucks.) _b._ Bradenham 1794; ed. at Westminster 1806–12, captain 1811–2, student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812–37; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; Greek reader 1823; Drummond professor of political economy 1832–7; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; was in holy orders; author of Prices of corn in Oxford in the beginning of the fourteenth century, also from 1583 to present time. Oxford 1830; Two lectures on the checks to population. Oxford 1833; Four lectures on poor laws 1835; Two lectures on the justice of poor laws and one lecture on rent 1837. _d._ Prestwood, Missenden, Bucks. 2 June 1852.

LLOYD, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Uley, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1791; engaged in commercial pursuits in London to 1825; sec. of Sunday school union 1810; on committee of Religious tract society 1816; with others edited The Youths’ magazine 1805; author of The Bible catechism, all the answers being in the exact words of scripture 1822, 4 ed. 1830; Sketch of the life of R. Raikes and of the history of Sunday schools 1826; Catechisms for the young 1850; Scripture selections for the young 1850. _d._ King’s Stanley, Gloucs. 22 April 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 668 (1853).

LLOYD, WILLIAM HENRY CYNRIC (4 son of Bell Lloyd of Woodstock, _d._ July 1845). _b._ 1802; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1819–29; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Ronton, Staffs. 1826–49; R. of Norbury, Staffs. 1826–49; archdeacon of Durban 1869 to death. _d._ The Glebe, Port Natal 3 Jany. 1881.

LLUELLYN, SIR RICHARD (son of Richard Lluellyn of South Witham, co. Lincoln). _b._ 1783; entered army as captain with temporary rank 1799, served as such in 52 foot in Spain and the Mediterranean 1800–1801, placed on h.p. 1802; purchased an ensigncy dated July 1802; captain 28 foot 28 Feb. 1805 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on half pay; served in Peninsula and Netherlands; colonel of 39 foot 17 Jany. 1853 to death; general 18 Jany. 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 20 Montagu sq. London 7 Dec. 1867.

LOBB, HARRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1850; surgeon London Galvanic hospital; surgeon St. Andrew’s hospital, Well st. London 1884 to death; author of Hygiene or the book of health 1855; On some of the more obscure forms of nervous affections 1858; A popular treatise on curative electricity 1867, 3 ed. 1873; Hypogastria of the male 1871, 3 ed. 1880; Nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia and diabetes 1872. _d._ 66 Russell sq. London 20 Jany. 1889.

LOCCO, SIGNOR. _b._ Palermo 1798; painter to the court of Naples; resided at intervals in England 1849 to death; painted miniatures on ivory of the Queen and prince and princess of Wales; painted on ivory the head of Christ and ‘The End of the world.’ _d._ Cardiff 14 Feb. 1889.

LOCH, FRANCIS ADAM ELLIS. _b._ 3 May 1827; cornet 1 Bombay cavalry 9 Oct. 1844, captain 29 May 1857; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 7 April 1870; commandant of Sind frontier force 1873–6; brigadier general Bombay 10 May 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 4 March 1887; general 22 Jany. 1889; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 2 Albany gardens, King’s road, Richmond, Surrey 27 July 1891.

LOCH, FRANCIS ERSKINE. _b._ April 1788; entered navy 1 Sep. 1799, captain 29 Sep. 1814; naval aide de camp to the queen 4 May 1847 to 2 Sep. 1850; R.A. 2 Sep. 1850, V.A. 14 May 1857, admiral on h.p. 16 June 1862, pensioned 25 June 1863. _d._ 2 Lansdown crescent, Cheltenham 13 Feb. 1868.

LOCH, GEORGE (brother of the succeeding). _b._ London 6 July 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847, bencher 17 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1875; Q.C. 20 June 1863; attorney general to prince of Wales 18 April 1873 to death; contested Falkirk 14 Feb. 1851 and Manchester 9 July 1852; M.P. Wick burghs 1868–72. _d._ The Cottage, Bishopsgate, Staines 18 Aug. 1877.

LOCH, GRANVILLE GOWER (2 son of James Loch of Drylaw 1780–1855). _b._ 28 Feb. 1813; entered navy 23 Feb. 1826; captain 26 Aug. 1841; extra aide de camp to sir Hugh Gough in China 1842; visited India 1843; commanded the Alarm frigate in West Indies 1846–9; sent to coast of Nicaragua, Feb. 1848 to enforce redress for certain outrages, carried and dismantled a fort at Serapaqui, the demands were conceded and a treaty arranged; C.B. 30 May 1848; captain of the Winchester 50 guns the flagship on China and East Indian station 16 March 1852 to death; author of The closing events of the campaign in China, the operations in the Yang-tze-Kiang and the treaty of Nanking 1843; led a joint naval and military expedition against Nya-Myat-Toon a Burmese robber chief at Donablew; shot through the body 4 Feb. and _d._ 6 Feb. 1853. _bur._ at Rangoon, memorial monu. in St. Paul’s cath. London.

LOCH, JAMES (eld. son of George Loch of Drylaw, Mid-Lothian). _b._ 7 May 1780; admitted advocate 1801; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806; auditor to marquess of Stafford, to lord Francis Egerton, to earl of Carlisle and others; carried out the Sutherlandshire clearings 1811–20, by which 15,000 crofters were removed from inland to the sea-coast; M.P. St. Germans 1827–30, M.P. Wick burghs 1830–52, contested the seat 26 July 1852; F.G.S., F.S.S. and F.Z.S.; author of An account of the improvements on the estate of Sutherland 1815, another ed. 1820; Memoir of George Granville late duke of Sutherland 1834. _d._ 12 Albemarle st. London 5 July 1855.

LOCH, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ 8 Sep. 1781; served in naval service of H.E.I.Co. to 1821 when he retired; in command of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Scaleby castle beat off the Piedmontese a French frigate of 44 guns 1808; a director of H.E.I.Co. 1821–54, deputy chairman 1828 and 1836, chairman 1829 and 1833; M.P. for Hythe 26 March 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ at the res. of his son in law, the Hall, Bushey, Herts. 19 Feb. 1868. _G.M. v_ 679 (1868); _I.L.N. xvi_ 184 (1850), _portrait_.

NOTE.--On the 15 March 1837 he was dangerously wounded with a knife in a murderous attack made upon him at the India house, Leadenhall st. London by a man called Kearney who had been employed as a conductor of ordnance in India. Kearney destroyed himself by poison in Giltspur street compter in March 1837. _Annual Register 1837 p._ 26.

LOCHORE, ROBERT. _b._ Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about 1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor 1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815, anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been attributed to Burns. _d._ Glasgow 27 April 1852. _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _i_ 382–6 (1876); _C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _iv_ 91–7 (1857).

LOCHRANE, OSBORNE AUGUSTUS. _b._ Middleton, Armagh, Ireland 22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug. 1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871, resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of his speeches and orations were published. _d._ Atlanta, Georgia 17 June 1887.

LOCK, GEORGE. _b._ Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1 Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856, educational works and books for children; purchased S. O. Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon & Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about 1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into a limited liability co. April 1893. _d._ 7 Warltersville road, Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. _The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891 pp._ 836–7; _Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p._ 224.

LOCKE, JOHN (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey, surveyor). _b._ London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833, bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871; one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June 1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark 31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. _d._ 63 Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xxx_ 479 (1857), _portrait_, _lxxvi_ 157 (1880), _portrait_.

LOCKE, JOSEPH (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager). _b._ Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14 Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction 1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester 1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852 for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour; originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July 1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue of him by Marochetti. _d._ Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. _J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862), _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 141–8 (1861).

LOCKER, ARTHUR (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.) _b._ Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed. 1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village surgeon 1874. _d._ 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893. _I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p._ 791, _portrait_.

LOCKHART, ALLAN ELIOTT (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P. Selkirkshire, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Borthwickbrae, Hawick 15 March 1878.

LOCKHART, ARCHIBALD INGLIS. _b._ 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec. 1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep. 1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col. 26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842, minister of Cambusnethan). _b._ in the manse of Cambusnethan 14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9; Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817, D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April 1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place, Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist. 3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald 1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888; History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled 1839. _d._ Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. _bur._ next Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. _Law Review_, _xxi_ 354–6 (1855); _Quarterly Review_, _Oct. 1864 pp._ 439–82; _J. G. Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads_ (1856) _memoir 7 leaves_, _portrait_; _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 344–52; _Bookseller_, _Aug. 1860 pp._ 505–8; _National Review_, _iii_ 745–62 (1884); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 7–13, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_ 559, 564 (1854), _portrait_.

LOCKHART, LAURENCE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1796; presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857; author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845; Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. _d._ 1876. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 2 _part_ 1 _p._ 221 (1868).

LOCKHART, LAURENCE WILLIAM MAXWELL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb. 1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain 19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war 1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col. 8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869; Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. _d._ Mentone, France 23 March 1882. _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp._ 675–80.

LOCKHART, WILLIAM (brother of Laurence Lockhart 1796–1876). _b._ 1787; M.P. co. Lanark 1841 to death; dean of faculties of univ. of Glasgow 1853 to death; lieut.-col. commandant Lanarkshire yeomanry cavalry. _d._ Milton-Lockhart 25 Nov. 1856.

LOCKHART, WILLIAM (only son of rev. Alexander Lockhart _d._ 1831, V. of Stone, Bucks. 1821–30). _b._ at Warlingham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1819; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; joined John Henry Newman at Littlemore 1842; received into church of Rome, Aug. 1843, being the first of the tractarians who went over; studied under the Rosminians in Rome 1843–5; entered the Order of Charity 1845, procurator general; R. of St. Etheldreda’s, Ely place, Holborn, London 1876 to death, which he purchased for £5,300 and restored at cost of £6,000; edited The Lamp when renamed The Illust. Catholic mag. 5 vols. 1871–3; author of The communion of saints, or our relation to the Virgin, the angels and the saints 3 ed. 1869; Non possumus or the temporal sovereignty of the Pope 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, vol. 2, 1886; Cardinal Newman, a reminiscence of 50 years 1891; found dead in his bed at the Presbytery, St. Etheldreda’s, Holborn, London 15 May 1892. _The Biograph_, _iv_ 432–3 (1880).

LOCKWOOD, ADOLPHUS RAVEN. _b._ 1841; ed. by Frederick Chatterton; patronised by duke of Cambridge; with his brother and sister Ernest and Fanny Lockwood first appeared as harpists at Hanover sq. rooms, London, May 1847, music written for them and taught them by Gerhard Taylor; harpist to king of Bavaria. _d._ Munich 22 Jany. 1885. _I.L.N. xii_ 106 (1848), _portrait_.

LOCKWOOD, FREDERICK VERNON (2 son of Thomas Lockwood of Dan-y-Craig, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; C. of Sturry, Kent 1826; R. of Musham, Kent 7 March 1827 to 21 Jany. 1840; preb. of Lincoln 24 Jany. 1828 to March 1845; chaplain to House of Commons 1830–2; canon of Canterbury 16 Nov. 1838 to death; V. of Minster in Thanet 21 Jany. 1840 to death. _d._ the Precincts, Canterbury 1 July 1851. _bur._ in the cathedral 5 July.

LOCKWOOD, SIR GEORGE HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 25 March 1804; ed. at Eton; cornet 3 light dragoons 10 March 1825, lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846, placed on h.p. 12 May 1853; served in Afghanistan 1842 and the Punjaub 1848–9; commanded a brigade at battle of Goojerat; A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 27 Nov. 1874; col. 12 lancers 12 March 1861 to 1 Jany. 1872; col. 3 hussars 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 22 Oct. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 18 Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 15 April 1884.

LOCKWOOD, HENRY FRANCIS. _b._ Doncaster 1811; articled to Peter Robinson, London; superintended rebuilding of York castle 1832; commenced practice at Hull 1834; removed to Bradford 1849, in partnership with William and Richard Mawsom, built Bradford town hall, the Exchange and Airedale coll.; erected rifle factory at Enfield Lock 1856; removed to London 1874, competed for the law courts, built the City Temple 1874 and Inns of court hotel 1866; architect to sir Titus Salt at Saltaire; author with A. H. Cates of The history and antiquities of the fortifications to the city of York 1834. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 20 July 1878. _The Builder 27 July 1878 p._ 788.

LOCKWOOD, MARK (son of Mr. Lockwood a farmer near Leeds). _b._ 25 April 1798; employed by his uncle Benjamin Crosby of Stationers’ hall court, London, bookseller 1812–14 and by his successors Simpkin and Marshall 1814–35, admitted a partner with them 1835, superintended the buying department and country trade 1839 to death; became the greatest book buyer in the world. _d._ 16 Highbury place, Islington 23 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 28 Nov. _G.M. iv_ 106 (1858).

LOCKYER, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ 1797; ensign 71 foot 25 March 1813; lieut. 3 foot 1820, captain 1822; major 97 foot 26 June 1835, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded forces in Ceylon 1855–60; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 9 Feb. 1855. _d._ on board steamship Ripon on his way home from Ceylon 30 Aug. 1860.

LOCKYER, THOMAS. _b._ Old Town, Croydon, Surrey 1 Nov. 1826; a bricklayer; the best wicket keeper of his day, a hard hitter with a wonderful eye, a round-arm fast bowler; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Surrey 20 May 1850; manager of the Surrey county eleven and United England eleven matches; landlord of Prince Albert inn, Mitcham road, Croydon 8 Feb. 1860 to 1863; landlord of Sheldon Arms inn, Croydon 17 Nov. 1865 to death. _d._ Sheldon Arms inn, Whitgift st. Croydon 22 Dec. 1869. _bur._ Ch. Ch. Broad Green, Croydon. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 114 (1863); _Sporting Review_, _lxiii_ 11 (1870); _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 329 (1864), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 36, _portrait_.

LOCOCK, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Locock, M.D. 1763–1843). _b._ Northampton 21 April 1799; resident private pupil of sir Benjamin Brodie in London; M.D. Edinb. 1821; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1836, member of council 1840–2; had the best practice in London as an obstetric physician; physician to Westminster Lying-in hospital many years; fellow of university of London 1836 to death; first physician accoucheur to the Queen 1840–75, attended at birth of all her children; created a baronet 5 May 1857; F.R.S.; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1857; discovered the efficacy of bromide of potassium in epilepsy 1857; contested Isle of Wight 22 July 1865; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868; resided 26 Hertford st. Mayfair, London. _d._ Binstead, Isle of Wight 23 July 1875. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 July. _Munk’s College of Physicians_, _iii_ 270 (1878); _I.L.N. lxvii_ 119, 124, 239 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xii_ 123 (1875), _portrait_.

LOCOCK, SIDNEY (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 9 Hanover sq. London 14 May 1834; unpaid attaché at Athens 7 May 1853; secretary of legation in Japan 1865, at the Hague 1868; secretary of embassy at Constantinople 1872; minister resident and consul general to republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador 23 May 1874 to 12 Feb. 1881; minister resident in Servia 16 April 1881; appointed envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to emperor of Brazil 11 Feb. 1885 but did not proceed. _d._ 22 Southwick st. Hyde park, London 30 Aug. 1885. _Foreign Office List_ (1886) 213.

LODER, EDWARD JAMES (eld. son of John David Loder, violinist 1788–1846). _b._ Bath 1813; pupil of Ferdinand Ries at Frankfort 1826–34; composed music for J. S. Arnold’s drama Nourjahad produced at English opera house, London, July 1834; musical director at Princess’s theatre about 1846–50, then conductor at Manchester; composed the operas of The Dice of Death 1835, The Foresters 1845, The Deerstalkers 1845, The Night Dancers produced at Princess’s Oct. 1846, revived there 1850, and at Covent Garden 1860; Raymond and Agnes produced at Manchester 1855 and at St. James’s theatre London 1859 and other operas; published three sets of Songs 1837–8; his name is attached to 150 pieces of music; author of First principles of singing 1838; The modern pianoforte tutor 18--, new ed. 1870. _d._ London 5 April 1865. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 491 (1858), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ a dau. of the choral conductor at Covent Garden, she was _b._ London 1813, ed. at R. Academy of music, went to U.S. of America in 1840 and made her debut with Braham at a concert in the Tabernacle, New York, Nov. 1840, sang for 8 seasons at the Old Philharmonic and Assembly concert rooms taking soprano parts; a teacher of music and singing 1870–80. _d._ New York 28 Feb. 1880.

LODER, _George_ (son of George Loder of Bath, flute-player). _b._ Bath about 1816; resided at Baltimore, U.S. of America, some years; musical director of Olympic theatre, New York 1839; principal of New York vocal institute 1844; conductor for Anna Bishop at Adelaide 1856; conductor with Lyster’s opera troupe; organist, vocalist, conductor and composer in London 1860; published in 1861 his comic operetta Pets of the Parterre, which had been produced at Lyceum theatre; published his musical entertainment The old house at home 1862; The New York glee book 1844 contains several part-songs by him; published The middle voice 1860, 12 solfeggi, and various separate songs. _d._ the hospital, Adelaide, S. Australia 15 July 1868.

LODER, GILES. _b._ 9 Oct. 1786; Russia merchant at 5 Adam’s court, Old Broad st. City of London 1839; purchased estate of Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, from Lord Southampton’s trustees for £335,000. _d._ 1 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 19 Aug. 1871, personalty sworn under £3,000,000, 31 Aug. _I.L.N. 9 Sep. 1871 p._ 235.

LODER, JOHN FAWCETT (brother of Edward James Loder 1813–65). _b._ 1812; orchestral leader and manager of concerts at Bath; violinist in London, and leader of concerts and festivals; played the viola in Dando’s quartet at Crosby hall, London 1842–53. _d._ Hawley crescent, London 16 April 1853. _Grove’s Dict. of Music_, _i_ 429, _ii_ 159 (1879–80).

LODER, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (son of Giles Loder 1786–1871). _b._ 7 Aug. 1823; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb.; inherited from his father the income of nearly two and a half millions of money, with power of appointment among his children, besides estates 1871; sheriff of Northampton 1877; M.P. Shoreham 1880–5; cr. baronet 27 July 1887; had estates in England, Russia and Sweden; a scientific farmer. _d._ Beach house, Worthing 27 May 1888, leaving more than £2,500,000 personalty.

LODGE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ April 1810; manager of Marine Insurance Co. 1839–88; salved from wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 £322,103 at a cost of 5⅓ per cent., and from the wreck of the Alfonso XII. in 1885 £90,000 from a depth of 26⅔ fathoms, these and other successes revolutionized the premium rate on specie; presented with a farewell address signed by 20 marine insurance companies and 60 members of Lloyd’s 1888; treasurer of Highgate literary and scientific institution. _d._ 7 The Grove, Highgate 1 April 1893.

LODWICK, PETER. Entered Bombay army 1799; lieut. marine battalion 26 May 1800, captain 23 May 1811; captain 11 N.I. 1818; lieut.-col. 6 N.I. 182- to 1829 or 1830; lieut.-col. 3 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1831; lieut.-col. 4 N.I. 1831 to 18 April 1833; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 April 1833 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 20 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 28 June 1838; col. 16 N.I. 9 Nov. 1840 to 1869; general 25 Jany. 1861. _d._ Bagnéres de Bigorre, France 28 Aug. 1873. _Report of proceedings in case of The King, on the prosecution of J. Asplin v. Lodwick for a libel_ 1810.

LOEWE, LOUIS. _b._ of Jewish parents at Zülz Prussian Silesia 1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East 1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Sussex 1839; went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore 1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856; opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb. 1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841; author of A dictionary of the Circassian language 1854; edited Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. _d._ 53 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. _Morais’s Eminent Israelites_ (1880) 208–11; _Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol. ix Proceedings_ 22–3 (1889).

LOFFT, CAPEL (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer 1751–1824). _b._ Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton 1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ. scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind. By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E. Storer (_i.e._ Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes. _d._ at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.

LOFTHOUSE, MARY (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor, Wiltshire, landscape painter). _b._ 1853; water-colour painter; her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists, Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. 1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1884; (_m._ 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister L.I. 7 June 1869). _d._ Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May 1885.

LOFTUS, ARTHUR JOHN (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.) _b._ 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars 1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep. 1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen 1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. _d._ Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.

LOFTUS, FERRARS (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower of London). _b._ 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815, captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia 25 April 1870 to death. _d._ Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.

LOFTUS, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845). _b._ 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June 1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839; fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect; bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. _d._ Nice, France 19 Jany. 1877. _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 2–4.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). _b._ 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 635 (1852).

LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. _d._ Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. _b._ Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. _d._ on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.

LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). _b._ St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. _d._ 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 207–8.

LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. _b._ 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.

LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870.

LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). _b._ Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. _d._ London, April 1872. _James Logan’s Scottish Gael_, _new ed._ (1876) _memoir pp. ix–xx_; _R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 310–11.

LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. _d._ Penang 20 Oct. 1869.

LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). _b._ 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890.

LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). _b._ Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who _d._ 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. _d._ Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 177–8 (1886), _portrait_.

LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, _d._ 1841). _b._ Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. _d._ Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. _bur._ Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. _B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal_ (1883), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 228–34; _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii_ 76–80 (1876); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait ix_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 487–8 (1851), _portrait_.

LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. _d._ Jany. 1883. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 66–8; _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 34, 474, 478.

LOGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. _d._ Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856.

LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). _b._ Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. _d._ Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. _Sir John Login and Duleep Singh_ (1890), _portrait_.

LOGIN, THOMAS. _b._ Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. _d._ while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 205 (1878).

LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India 1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_ (1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7; _Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847), _portrait_.

LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. _Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).

LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._ Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. _d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886.

LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873 p._ 79.

LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N. xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81 (1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861).

LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_ (1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20 (1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14.

NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.

LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872).

LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884), _portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885), _portrait_.

LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.

LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10.

LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey.

LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._ 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.

LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May 1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888) 32, _portrait_.

LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). _b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868).

LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879).

LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. _Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._ 255.

LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). _b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 106 (1863).

LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._ 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._ Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.

LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._ Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.

LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). _b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany. 1867. _G.M. iii_ 399 (1867).

LONG, WILLIAM. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort 1826–55. _d._ Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84. _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1887) 162, 175–80.

LONG, WILLIAM (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). _b._ 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its burrows. Devizes 1876. _d._ Onslow gardens, London 14 April 1886. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 375 (1886).

LONGDEN, SIR HENRY ERRINGTON (son of Thomas Hayter Longden). _b._ 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June 1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2 clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52; in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps; adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general 1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late 67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. _d._ Bournemouth 29 Jany. 1890.

LONGDEN, SIR JAMES ROBERT (youngest son of John Robert Longden of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). _b._ 1827; government clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to 1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica 5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March 1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of Hertfordshire under Local government act. _d._ Longhope near Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.

LONGFIELD, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. _d._ 3 Nov. 1878.

LONGFIELD, JOHN (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co. Cork 1767–1842). _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June 1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29 foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col. Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. _d._ Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. _History of Eighth foot 2 ed. p._ 283.

LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield _d._ 3 Nov. 1878). _b._ South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. _d._ 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. _Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p._ 606.

LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). _b._ Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. _d._ Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.

LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). _b._ co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. _d._ 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868.

LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). _b._ Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. _d._ 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.

LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). _b._ 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. _d._ Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.

LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, _d._ 1822). _b._ Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. _d._ Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 161–8 (1875); _Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp._ 346–58; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_; _Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p._ 417, _portrait_, _20 Dec. 1862 p._ 541 _view of installation_.

LONGMAN, CHARLES (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). _b._ 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down _dead_ in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.

LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. _d._ Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. _History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic_, _xx_ 366, 431, 483 (1860); _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 79–109.

LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). _b._ Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. _d._ Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. _Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 3, _portrait_.

LONGMAN, _William_ (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). _b._ 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. _d._ Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. _William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp._ 417–21; _Publishers’ Circular_ (1877) 605–6; _Graphic_, _xvi_ 204 (1877), _portrait_.

LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). _b._ Westmoreland 15 April 1765; _bapt._ Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; _m._ James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he _d._ 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. _d._ Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. _W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man_ (1879) 272–80.

LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ Aberdeen 7 May 1883. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887) 407–14; _Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series_.

LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. _d._ Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. _d._ 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). _b._ Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. _J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords_, _iv_ 745–912 (1866); _Law mag. and law review_, _xi_ 215–34 (1861); _Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p._ 143, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1861) 528–42; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 336 (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 117 (1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 261, 267, 339 (1872), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854).

NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.

LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._ 260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858).

LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._ Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876.

LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). _b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. _d._ The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. _Law Times_, _vol._ 82 _p._ 111 (1886).

LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, _d._ 1807 aged 70). _b._ Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. _d._ suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. _E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale_ (1868), _portrait_; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 48; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 163–66; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 206–11 (1875); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 415–16.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). _b._ Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. _d._ City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 35–6 (1872); _W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath_ (1872) 31–9.

LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March 1854. _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 304–306.

LORD, _Henry William_ (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of Hampstead). _b._ 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb. 1862. _d._ 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.

LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). _b._ Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. _d._ 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. _Leisure Hour_, _xxii_ 696–9 (1873), _portrait_; _Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp._ 387, 395; _Graphic_, _vii_ 3, 12 (1873), _portrait_.

LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. _d._ Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.

LORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. _d._ Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. _J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 74–8.

LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). _b._ 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. _d._ on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889.

LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; _killed_ in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany. 1865. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 477–8; _A.R._ (1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865).

LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. _James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890); _Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_.

LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._ Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 349–58.

LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._ Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England 1875. _d._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. _bur._ in Grange cemet. Edinb.

LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). _b._ America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.

LORT, _William_. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. _d._ Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.

LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. _d._ Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.

NOTE.--He was _bur._ at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.

LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. _d._ Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xvii Proceedings p._ 16 (1855); _Archæologia_, _xxvii_ 301–5 (1838).

LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, _d._ 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. _d._ 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858.

LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). _b._ Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who _d._ Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. _d._ Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 197–238, _portrait_.

LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. _d._ Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 153–85.

LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). _b._ Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (_m._ 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. _d._ Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo. _P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 125–63, _portrait_; _Times 14 May 1877 p._ 7, _15 May p._ 10.

LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. _d._ Dublin, middle of April 1873.

LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb _d._ 1824). _b._ Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (_m._ 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, _d._ 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She _d._ 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. _Cottage Gardener_, _xx_ 248, 255–9 (1858).

LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). _b._ 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. _d._ 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall_ (1879).

LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, _d._ 17 May 1807). _b._ 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. _d._ 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863.

LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.

LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. _b._ 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. _d._ 5 Feb. 1892. _bur._ Fulham cemet.

LOUND, THOMAS. _b._ 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. _d._ King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.

LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). _b._ Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. _d._ Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 47 (1875).

LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. _d._ suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887.

LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, _d._ about 1814). _b._ Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. _Cumberland’s British theatre_, _vol. xx_ (1828), _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _iii_ 163–74 (1825), _portrait_.

LOVE, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. _d._ Paris 3 June 1891.

LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). _b._ 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. _d._ Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.

LOVE, HORATIO N. _b._ 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. _d._ Margate 14 March 1882.

LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). _b._ London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.

LOVE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. _d._ near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.

LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). _b._ London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. _d._ 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. _Memoirs of W. E. Love_ (1834); _G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S._ (1850); _Ireland’s New York Stage_, _ii_ 273, 317 (1867); _I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p._ 215, _portrait_, _27 Jany. 1855 p._ 84, _portrait_.

LOVEDAY, Ely. _b._ 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (_m._ W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). _d._ 11 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Kensal Green 15 Nov.

LOVEDAY, GEORGE BEAUMONT (son of the preceding). _b._ 1833; fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (_m._ 25 Jany. 1877 Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). _d._ 8 Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 24 Dec. _J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed._ (1889) 30–4.

LOVEDEN, PRYSE (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, _d._ 1849). _b._ Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden 1849. _d._ Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). _b._ 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (_m._ at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). _d._ 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. _bur._ Hucknall Torcard church near her father. _monu._ placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxiii_ 69–73 (1853), _portrait_; _Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp._ 358–61; _Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy_ (1849) _vol. ii_, _portrait_ 21; _Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv_ 414 (1871); _Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1846) 290, 720; _I.L.N. xxi_ 499 (1852); _G.M. Jany. 1853 pp._ 89–90.

NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.

LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. _d._ Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.

NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. _Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt._ 1 _pp._ 190–3 (1850); _Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p._ 106.

LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). _b._ 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. _d._ Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. _Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 97, 218, _portrait_.

LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. _I.L.N. lxii_ 533 (1878), _portrait_.

LOVELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. _d._ 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 82, _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 March 1890 p._ 12, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 152 (1890).

LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.

LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) _b._ 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. _d._ Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861.

LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury Lane, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (_m._ 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_ 250–5 (1855).

LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell 1786–1861). _b._ about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846; assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.

LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock exchange). _b._ Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. _B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed._ 1851 _pp._ 196–9; _The Critic_, _xix_ 229 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_ 208 (1844), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_ 196, _portrait_.

LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) _b._ 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3 ed. 1869. _d._ Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.

LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). _b._ Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative association; secretary of British Association for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. _d._ 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. _bur._ Highgate. _The life and struggles of W. Lovett_ (1876); _The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed._ (1839); _G. J. Holyoake’s_ _History of Co-operation_, _i_ 127, _ii_ 411–13 (1875–9); _R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism_ (1854) 120 _etc._; _Who were the Chartists?_ in _Century Mag. xxiii_ 421–30 (1882), _portrait_.

LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen). _b._ 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April 1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2 vols. 1856. _d._ in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.

LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov. 1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850, consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New York 1848; _d._ The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. _M. F. Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low_ (1859), _portrait_; _W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low_ (1855); _Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of Fife_ (1866) 299–305.

LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire, land-agent). _b._ 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh 1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200, 1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed. 1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Mayfield, Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1859. _Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 717–8 (1863); _Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 457 (1884).

LOW, HERBERT MOREY (son of Edwin Low of city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death; originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many years. _d._ 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany. 1891.

LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25 June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore 1836. _d._ 2 May 1852.

LOW, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar, Fifeshire). _b._ Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807; lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I. 1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848, col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years; political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853 to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May 1873. _d._ Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880. _bur._ Kembach, Fifeshire. _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxi_ 93 (1880), _portrait_.

LOW, SAMPSON (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London, printer and publisher, _d._ 1800). _b._ London, Nov. 1797; bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169 Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875; chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire 1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75; published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. _d._ 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. _Publishers’ Circular 1 May 1886 pp._ 431–3, _portrait_; _Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp._ 418–20.

LOW, SAMPSON (eld. son of preceding). _b._ London 6 July 1822; in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and 1870. _d._ 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.

LOW, THOMAS BELL (son of David Low). _b._ Birkenhead 1855; went to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant engineers in public works department Otago district, and architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. _d._ in the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. xci_ 450–51 (1888).

LOW, WALTER (son of a publisher). _b._ England 1843; publisher and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4 April 1872. _Times 8 April 1872 p._ 7.

LOW, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to 1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years; concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867, purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E. Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850. _d._ 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemet. where is monument.

LOWDER, CHARLES FUGE (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath, banker, _d._ 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). _b._ 2 West Wing, Lansdowne crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school, London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East 22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated 30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission 1877. _d._ Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9 Sep. 1880. _bur._ Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. _Charles Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa_ (1882), _portrait_; _Church Portrait Journal_, _i_ 113 (1876), _portrait_.

LOWDER, SAMUEL NETTERVILLE. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov. 1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866; commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5; D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 4 Manor road, Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.

LOWE, ABRAHAM. _b._ July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810; captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 10 April 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 513 (1854).

LOWE, ANN ELIZABETH (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge lane, Charing Cross, painter, _d._ in a poor lodging house in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). _b._ 1777; god daughter of Dr. Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. _d._ 5 Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger sister Frances Meliora Lowe _b._ 1783, _d._ 5 Minerva place 6 Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B. Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. _Times 1 and 3 Nov. 1855_; _Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed. iv_ 385–93, 463 (1884).

LOWE, ARTHUR (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861). _b._ Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April 1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 18 June 1876. _d._ 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke, Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.

LOWE, EDWARD. _b._ Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at 14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64, kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. _d._ 14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. _The Figaro 10 March 1880 p._ 14; _The Chess-Monthly_, _April 1880 p._ 255.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM. The first scholar in anatomy and physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals. _d._ Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCY (youngest son of sir Hudson Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). _b._ St. Helena 10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837, lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21 foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col. 86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875; author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore 1860. _d._ 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

LOWE, GEORGE (son of a brewer at Derby). _b._ Derby 1788; an early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862; consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29 April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works 1831–52. _d._ 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxx_ 442–5 (1870).

LOWE, JAMES. _b._ Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed 1851, an advocate of temperance. _d._ Dundee 11 Nov. 1853. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 153.

LOWE, JAMES. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London, The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63; contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close _d._ 16 Feb. 1891 aged 74. Lowe _d._ end of Oct. 1865.

LOWE, JAMES. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. _History of the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart_ (1882); _Mechanics’ Mag. xli_ 443, 461 (1844).

LOWE, JOSIAH BEATSON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880 to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews 1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849; Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879. _d._ Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.

LOWE, PATRICK. _b._ 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot; formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a medal with 13 clasps. _d._ Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.

LOWE, RICHARD GROVE (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St. Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans district 1845 to death. _d._ St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June 1872.

LOWE, RICHARD THOMAS. _b._ 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death; author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851; A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2, 1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; _drowned_ in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly Islands about 13 April 1874.

LOWE, ROBERT MANLEY (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J. and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). _b._ 24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe 1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R. L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in 1793 for the protection of the legal profession. _d._ 48 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. _Solicitors’ Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p._ 819.

LOWE, THOMAS HILL PEREGRINE FURYE (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., _d._ 10 Nov. 1797). _b._ Bromsgrove 21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley, Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs. 1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839; canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death, installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon 1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church 1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon 1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon. _d._ the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.

LÖWENTHAL, JOHANN JACOB (son of a merchant). _b._ Buda-Pesth, July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849; went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death; won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament 1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862; edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9; naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W. Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association 1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A collection of games played 1864. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 July 1876. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861), _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 754.

LOWER, MARK ANTHONY (2 son of the succeeding). _b._ Chiddingly, Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes 1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846, hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes 1865. _d._ Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. _bur._ St. Ann’s churchyard, Lewes. _Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists_ (1877); _M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica_ (1860), _portrait_.

LOWER, RICHARD (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge owner). _b._ Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree, selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. _d._ High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.

LOWNDES, JEFFERSON (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford). _b._ 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875; commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83; stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and 1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. _Sporting Mirror_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 205–7, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _xvii_ 444 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 84 (1883), _portrait_.

LOWNDES, WILLIAM LOFTUS (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose hill, Dorking, Surrey). _b._ April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P. Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. _d._ 48 Westbourne terrace, London 6 April 1865.

LOWREY, DANIEL (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary, to Leeds). _b._ 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871; built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. _d._ Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 July.

LOWRIE, WALTER. _b._ Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S. of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years; senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. _d._ New York 14 Dec. 1868.

LOWRY, JAMES CORRY (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co. Tyrone). _b._ 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb. 1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to death. _d._ 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.

LOWRY, JOSEPH WILSON (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver 1762–1824). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged, 1853. _d._ 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879. _Nature_, _ii_ 197 (1879).

LOWRY, THOMAS KENNEDY. Ed. at Belfast academical institution, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867; a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster 1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. _d._ Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July 1872. _Irish law times_, _vi_ 439 (1872).

LOWTH, JOHN JACKSON. _b._ 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824; ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death, commanded his regiment in Crimean war. _d._ at Portsmouth one hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.

LOWTH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819; captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24 Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858. _d._ Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.

LOWTHER, GORGES (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge, Dublin, _d._ 1785). _b._ 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May 1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2 vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. _d._ Hampton hall, Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 535 (1854); _Proceedings in King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt_ 1805.

LOWTHER, HENRY CECIL (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side _v._ W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot 20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P. Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the House.’ _d._ Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867. _Cricket Scores_, _i_ 399 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _Sporting Review_, _lix_ 8 (1868).

LOWTHER, SIR JOHN HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther, 1 Baronet 1759–1844). _b._ 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth 1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and 1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852. _d._ 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.

LOWTHROP, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall, east riding of Yorkshire). _b._ Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull 1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. _d._ Nice 19 Dec. 1853.

LOY, JOHN GLOVER (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). _b._ Whitby 1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby 64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice both in England and abroad. _d._ 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep. 1865.

LOYD, LEWIS (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co. Carmarthen). _b._ 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones, Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. _d._ at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left £3,000,000. _Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p._ 499.

LUARD, HENRY (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall, Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, _d._ 23 May 1836). _b._ 4 Dec. 1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841. _d._ 1856. _Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp._ 1–11, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p._ 382, _view of testimonial_.

LUARD, HENRY RICHARDS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb. 1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61, assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death, and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and 1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ 1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92); with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. _d._ 4 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. _The Biograph_, _Feb. 1882 pp._ 140–2.

LUARD, JOHN (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). _b._ 5 May 1790; served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut. 16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St. Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British soldier 1852. _d._ The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875. _Times 28 Oct. 1875 p._ 11, _2 Nov. p._ 7; _Graphic_, _xii_ 515, 518 (1875), _portrait_.

LUARD, JOHN DALBIAC (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Blyborough, Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec. 1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out 13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of 1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8; his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. _d._ Winterslow near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. _The Critic_, _March 1861 pp._ 317–8.

LUARD, JOHN KYNASTON (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place, Essex). _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct. 1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to 1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51, of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9 Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March 1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ 29 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.

LUARD, RICHARD GEORGE AMHERST (eld. son of John Luard 1790–1875). _b._ 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845; ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May 1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June 1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5; col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June 1887. _d._ Eastbourne 24 July 1891.

LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). _b._ Duke st. Westminster 26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825, sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist 1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836 to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets 11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839; On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. _d._ High Elms, Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 32–7 (1867); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv_ 510–2 (1866).

NOTE.--He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to its true authors.

LUBY, THOMAS (son of John Luby). _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. _d._ 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. _bur._ Aberystwith. _Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p._ 524.

LUCAN, GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). _b._ St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. _d._ 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. _The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser._ (1860), _portrait_; _Nolan’s Russian war_, _i_ 544–50, _ii_ 725 (1855), _portrait_; _G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 36–40; _I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp._ 429–30, _portrait_; _Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp._ 542, 544, _portrait_.

NOTE.--At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _ii_ 379, _iii_ 235, _iv_ 5, _v_ 3, _vii_ 471, _ix_ 354 (1877).

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). _b._ 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. _d._ Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). _b._ Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. _d._ 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. _bur._ Woking cemet. 27 March. _Mag. of Music_, _Oct. 1890 p._ 183, _portrait_; _W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music_ (1854) 306.

LUCAS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. _d._ 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, EDWARD (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, _d._ 1796). _b._ 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. _d._ Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lix_ 507 (1871).

LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). _b._ Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. _d._ at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. _Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols._ (1886); _F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller_ (1862); _Duffy’s League of North and South_ (1886) 330.

LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, _d._ 1862). _b._ London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. _d._ 18 Dec. 1873. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p._ 654.

LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. _d._ of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. _bur._ beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. _The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin_ (1874), _portrait_; _An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin_ (1874); _Journal of mental science_, _Oct. 1874 pp._ 361–72; _Popular science monthly_, _vi_ 301 (1874); _Graphic_, _ix_ 480 (1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, _John_ (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). _b._ London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. _d._ 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 473, 474 (1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s

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entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. _d._ Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). _b._ 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. _d._ in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Jeddah. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 418–21, 465; _Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 766, _23 Dec. p._ 838.

LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) _b._ Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (_m._ 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. _d._ 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. _H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas_ (1890), _portrait_.

LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. _b._ 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. _d._ Pau, France 22 May 1856.

LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). _b._ Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. _d._ Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). _b._ 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. _d._ 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 238, 271 (1887); _Morning Star 17 April 1865 p._ 4.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). _b._ Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. _d._ Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 38 (1869).

LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). _b._ Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. _d._ 29 March 1870. _Biographical catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). _b._ Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. _d._ Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, LORENZO. _b._ 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. _d._ Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. _b._ 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. _d._ 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; _m._ (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys _d._ 8 May 1876 aged 52; _m._ (2) Charles Medwin. She _d._ 20 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. _b._ 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, CHARLES. _b._ Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. _d._ 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxii_ 544 (1873).

LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). _b._ 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 373–5 (1875), _portrait_.

LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. _b._ 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. _d._ Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. _The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p._ 4.

LUDLAM, HENRY. _b._ 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. _d._ 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii_ 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). _b._ 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. _d._ Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, JOHN. _b._ 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) _b._ Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. _d._ Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. _d._ Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. _Lancet_, _ii_ 360 (1881); _Barker’s Eminent medical men_, _i_ 27–30 (1865), _portrait_.

LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec. 1859. _d._ 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. _Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p._ 156 _and 19 April 1862 p._ 323.

LUMLEY, BENJAMIN (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada, _d._ London about 1831). _b._ 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane, London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre 1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s 1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris 1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845, which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him; gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent; bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30 Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22 Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons 1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.; The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864; Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal. By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. _d._ 8 Kensington crescent, London 17 March 1875. _bur._ West Ham cemet. _I.L.N. iii_ 124 (1843) _portrait_, _iv_ 237 (1844) _portrait_, _xi_ 96 (1847) _view of testimonial_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, WILLIAM GOLDEN. _b._ 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825, LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835; secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847; assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug. 1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872; author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed. 1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877. _d._ 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. _Law Times_, _lxv_ 110 (1878); _Solicitors’ Journal xxii_ 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, JAMES (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). _b._ 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. _d._ St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 179–81 (1886), _portrait_; _The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p._ 6.

LUMSDEN, JAMES. _b._ 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838; minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843; professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856 to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856. _d._ Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii part_ 2 _p._ 792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). _b._ Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business 1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost 1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining prince of Wales at luncheon. _d._ 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March 1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_ (1886), _ii_ 183–4 (1886), _portrait_.

LUND, JOHN. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr. and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859 when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. _d._ Leamington 24 Aug. 1888.

LUND, THOMAS. _b._ Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell. of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration 3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the differential calculus 1838. _d._ Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF. _b._ Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815; water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh 1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862; illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. _d._ Stockholm 16 Dec. 1875. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 28, 36 (1876), _portrait_.

LUNING, JACOB WILLIAM (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning 1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). _b._ Hamelvörden 19 May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school, Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; _m._ at Spalding, Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue 15 children. _d._ Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged 103. _Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 255–63.

NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. _d._ Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. _d._ London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). _b._ 1800; matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London 1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman 1867. _d._ The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. _bur._ Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). _b._ Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, _d._ there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). _b._ Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and _d._ 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. _d._ Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. _Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp._ 213–16, _portrait_; _The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp._ 129–32, _portrait of Master M’Grath_.

LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). _b._ 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. _The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p._ 5.

LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). _b._ Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. _d._ 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. _Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels_ (1884) 373–411, _portrait_; _A generation of Judges. By their reporter_ (1886) 21–9; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 513 (1865), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p._ 307, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 20 (1882), _portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, _Charles_ (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). _b._ London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. _d._ 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). _b._ 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. _d._ Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, _d._ 1839). _b._ 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii 1875. _d._ Maidstone 13 July 1893. _A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord Sherbrooke_ (1893).

LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). _b._ 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890.

LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839, master of the crown office, London). _b._ Singleton, Lancs. 13 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England, Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions 1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. _d._ Paris 11 Aug. 1855. _bur._ Boxley, Kent. _Henry Lushington’s The Italian war_ (1859), _memoir pp. ix–ci_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). _b._ 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. _d._ 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 17 June 1801). _b._ Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3 Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P. Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and 1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ 26 Dorset square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863). _b._ Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher 1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P. Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading 1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets 1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821, one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821; judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858; judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867; P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July 1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818. _d._ Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. _Law Times_, _liv_ 225–6, 240–1 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_ 91, 95, 211 (1873), _portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). _b._ Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803; entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took

## part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was

nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852; commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May 1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Oak lodge, Thornton Heath, Surrey 28 May 1877.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. _d._ Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 1801). _b._ Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. _d._ Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. _An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington_ (1841).

LUTHER, ROBERT. _b._ 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. _d._ Acton 7 Sep. 1862. _Sporting Review_, _xlviii_ 412–13 (1862).

LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). _b._ Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. _d._ Bolton 3 July 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884) 403–4.

LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). _b._ Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. _d._ Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. _bur._ Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. _Memorials of a consecrated life_ (1883), _portrait_; _Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb_ (1886).

LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). _b._ 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. _d._ 12 Oct. 1888.

LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). _b._ 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme 1820. _d._ 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits of him at Holland House and at White’s club. _Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries_ (1889) _passim_; _St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1878 pp._ 43–52.

LUTTRELL, HENRY ACLAND FOWNES (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell 1793–1888). _b._ 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8 June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. _d._ Badgworth court, Axbridge, Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.

LUTTRELL, HENRY FOWNES (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816, M.P.) _b._ 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812; M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. _d._ Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.

LUTWIDGE, ROBERT WILFRED SKEFFINGTON (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). _b._ London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. _d._ Salisbury 28 May 1873. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 3 June. _Law Times_, _lv_ 127 (1873).

LUXFORD, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to 1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44; sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. _d._ Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_ 426 (1855).

LUXMOORE, CHARLES SCOTT (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford and St. Asaph, _d._ 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). _b._ 1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley, Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819 to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St. Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to death. _d._ Cradley 27 April 1854. _bur._ in St. Asaph cathedral.

LUXMOORE, THOMAS CORYNDON. _b._ 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). _d._ Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1878.

LYALL, ALFRED (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex, _d._ 1805). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45; R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7 and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures 1856. _d._ Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. _bur._ Harbledown.

LYALL, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1784; succeeded his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841; contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P. City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life 1847. _d._ 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853. _Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series_, _portrait_ 26 (1846).

LYALL, GEORGE. _b._ London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832 and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor 1871–73. _d._ Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.

LYALL, WILLIAM ROWE (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). _b._ London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex 1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to 1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death; edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. _d._ the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb. 1857. _bur._ Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. _G.M. April 1857 pp._ 491–2.

LYCETT, SIR FRANCIS (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester). _b._ Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers, London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard 11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board, Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. _d._ 18 Highbury grove, London 29 Oct. 1880. _Christian Miscellany_, _Jany. 1881 pp._ 15–18, _portrait_.

LYDE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria 1860. _d._ Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.

LYE, THOMAS. _b._ Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795; well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. _d._ Middleham 27 May 1866. _Sporting Review_, _lvi_ 79–80 (1866).

LYELL, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). _b._ Kinnordy 14 Nov. 1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819, secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50, Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835, Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave 7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19 Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath 1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874; author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols. 1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2 vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man 1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed. 1878. _d._ 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. _bur._ in nave of Westminster abbey 27 Feb. _Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols._ (1881), 2 _portraits_; _Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii_ 53–69 (1876); _Proc. of Royal soc. xxv_ 11–14 (1877); _Nature_, _xii_ 325 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 227, 230 (1865), _portrait_.

LYGON, EDWARD PYNDAR (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816). _b._ about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June 1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April 1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death; colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1860.

LYLE, _Acheson_ (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co. Londonderry 1761–1815). _b._ 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818; assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery, Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to death. _d._ The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. _Irish law times 30 April 1870 p._ 326.

LYLE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ., took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth, Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. _d._ Glasgow 19 April 1859. _Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 129–30 (1877); _Brown’s Poets of Paisley_, _i_ 269.

LYNCH, DAVID (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). _b._ 1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns 1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates court Jany. 1867 to death. _d._ 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec. 1872. _bur._ Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. _Irish law times_, _vi_ 647, 662 (1872).

LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. _d._ Somerville, Howth 27 Oct. 1889 aged 47.

LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, _d._ 1843). _b._ 24 Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829, Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron 1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy 1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep. 1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war 1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec. 1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris 4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest class of the Lion and Sun. _d._ 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.

LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. _b._ Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817; taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda, Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44; pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death, cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore 1866. _d._ Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 64 (1888).

LYNCH, THEODORA ELIZABETH (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica, sugar-planter). _b._ Dale park, Sussex 1812; _m._ 28 Dec. 1835 Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica, _b._ Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, _d._ Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre, a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. _d._ 81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.

LYNCH, THOMAS KERR (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch 1807–73). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. _d._ 31 Cleveland sq. London 27 Dec. 1891. _Times 29 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.

LYNCH, THOMAS TOKE (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon, _d._ 1820). _b._ Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq. 1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st. 1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song 1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. _d._ 76 Arlington st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. _White’s Memoirs of T. T. Lynch_ (1874), _portrait_; _A critical and descriptive notice of Rev. T. T. Lynch_ (1859); _Miller’s Singers and songs of the church_ (1869) 560–61; _Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 134–69 (1880); _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 101–10 _and his Religious Life in London_ (1870) 187–92.

LYNCH, WILLIAM WILTSHIRE. _b._ 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot 17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881; lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G. Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. _d._ of cholera at Allahabad 4 Aug. 1888.

LYNCH-BLOSSE, HENRY (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8 bart. 1784–1818). _b._ 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77; archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of Llandaff 1877 to death. _d._ Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.

LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). _b._ Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. _d._ 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. _Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst_ (1869); _Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors_, _viii_ 1–212 (1869); _Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards_ (1869); _Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 394–7, _portrait_; _W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New York_ (1863) _pp._ 173–79; _Law Magazine_, _liv_ 321–68 (1856); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series_ (1836), _portrait_; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_ (1831), _portrait_; _Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis_ (1847) 142–59; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 100–107.

NOTE.--He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he heard the equity case of Small _v_ Attwood, which occupied a greater number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1 Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.

LYNDON, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary, Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish, Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul, south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston school committee 7 years. _d._ Boston 19 April 1878. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1878_ (1883) _p._ 641.

LYNE, CHARLES (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). _b._ Castle hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V. of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31 March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. _d._ Colby villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, FRANCIS (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon 1766–1823). _b._ Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of Father Ignatius 1881. _d._ 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

NOTE.--Lyne _v._ Sampson Low and others _The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873_. This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.

LYNE, LEWIS CLIFTON (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker 1790–1861). _b._ 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie, a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. _d._ 38 East st. Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Woking cemetery.

LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS. _b._ Belfast 1836; student at the R.A. 1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865 p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in Dublin and Manchester. _d._ Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, HENRY. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal 27 Sep. 1847. _d._ St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, FRANCIS. _b._ 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851, lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he _died_ same day. _I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp._ 303, 304, _portrait_.

LYON, HENRY (son of a house agent). _b._ St. Luke’s, London 15 March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp, and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. _The life of Henry Lyon_ (1865).

LYON, THOMAS EATON. _b._ Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug. 1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund 1839. _d._ White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 Jany. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. _Era 31 Jany. 1869 p._ 10.

LYON, WILLIAM (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland place, London). _b._ 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823, captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859, Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (_m._ 1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). _d._ Goring hall near Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). _b._ Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (_m._ 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she _d._ 10 March 1852). He _d._ Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia_, _i_ 398 (1857), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p._ 164, portrait.

LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). _b._ Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817; midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington 13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb. 1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19 May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris 6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C. 9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented his being created an earl. _d._ Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, FRANCIS. _b._ Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822 but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. _d._ 1865.

LYONS, HUMPHRY. _b._ 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827 to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1 European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of 23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859; lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. _d._ Widmore, Bromley, Kent 27 May 1873.

LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE. _b._ England; ordained in the church of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia 1861. _d._ Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) _b._ 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. _d._ Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, JOHN CHARLES (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). _b._ 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. _d._ Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. _bur._ in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, LOUISA, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). _b._ about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. _Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography_ (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, ROBERT SPENCER DYER (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). _b._ Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. _Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp._ 33–5, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 396–400 (1880).

LYONS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). _b._ Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. _d._ 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, ARTHUR. _b._ 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. _d._ Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of William Lysley _d._ 1792). _b._ 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, SAMUEL (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). _b._ 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. _d._ Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. _Gloucestershire Notes and Queries_, _ii_ 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, JAMES (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, _d._ 1841). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. _d._ Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.

LYSTER, WILLIAM SAURIN (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). _b._ Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. _d._ Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, JOHN. _b._ York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. _d._ Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.

LYTH, RICHARD BURDSALL. _b._ York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. _d._ Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, THOMAS. _b._ Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. _d._ Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). _b._ Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. _bur._ Hagley churchyard 22 April. _British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp._ 542–3; _I.L.N. xxvii_ 44 (1855), _portrait_, _lxviii_ 421, 430 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Walford’s Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_ 12; _Illust. Midland news_, _i_ 61 (1869), _portrait_.

LYTTELTON, SPENCER (brother of the preceding). _b._ Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. _d._ 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). _b._ 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. _d._ Malvern 24 July 1884.

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). _b._ 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. _d._ Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. _Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son_ 2 _vols._ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper_ (1873); _The Derby ministry_. _By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent_ (1858) 143–94; _Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp._ 551–5, _portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_ (1873) 1–5, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 243–56; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 189–214 (1844), _portrait_; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists_, _ii_ 198–220 (1858); _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _iii_ 27–63 (1855); _Graphic_, _vii_ 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 _portraits_.

NOTE.--He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).

LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). _b._ 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. _d._ at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. _bur._ in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. _T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 189–96; _C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 28 (1882), _portrait_; _Army and navy mag. iii_ 99 (1882), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp._ 654–68, _portrait_; _Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p._ 707, _portrait_.

LYTTON, ROSINA ANNE DOYLE (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). _b._ Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; _m._ at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. _d._ Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. _bur._ churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. _Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey_ (1887), _portrait_; _Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey_ (1884), _this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885_; _Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums_ (1858) 47–9; _Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public_ (1857), _3 ed._ (1857); _The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son_, _ii_ 33 _etc._; _You have heard of them. By Q._ (1854), 31–6; _Daily News 16 March 1882 p._ 5.

LYVEDEN, ROBERT VERNON, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). _b._ 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873), _lxiv_ 54 (1874).

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MAAS, JOSEPH. _b._ Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. _d._ of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). _b._ 1805; (_m._ 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ 7 Feb. 1875.

MABERLEY, FREDERICK HERBERT (son of Stephen Maberley of London). _b._ 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. _d._ Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_ 511 (1860).

MABERLY, WILLIAM LEADER (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). _b._ 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. _d._ 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. _E. Yates’s Recollections_, _i_ 96–100 (1884); _A. Trollope’s Autobiography_, _i_ 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, DAVID. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. _d._ Edinburgh 10 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 86 (1859).

MAC ADAM, JAMES. _b._ Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. _d._ Belfast 1 June 1861. _Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii_ 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, SIR JAMES NICHOLL (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). _b._ 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. _d._ 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, JOHN (son of Wm. Macadam). _b._ Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. _d._ on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam _d._ 23 Feb. 1836 the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). _b._ 1803; surveyor general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. _d._ the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. _Observations sur les routes dites Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam etc._ 1861.

MACALESTER, CHARLES ARCHIBALD (son of colonel Archibald Macalester). _b._ 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12 Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands; chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H. 1833. _d._ Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, ARTHUR. _b._ Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor; solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6; secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866; premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields 28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1; colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G. 13 March 1876. _d._ at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside, Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, ROBERT WHITAKER (son of Robert Stephens M’All, independent minister, _d._ 1838). _b._ 1821; independent minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’ Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society; received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission 1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer chapel, Sunderland 1853. _d._ Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893. _The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission. By H. Bonar_ (1879); _A cry from the land of Calvin and Voltaire_ (1887).

MC CALL, SAMUEL (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). _b._ St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel, Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed. entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. _d._ 2 Goulton road, Clapton, London 9 March 1888. _Congregational Year book_ (1889) 198–201.

MC ALPIN, WILLIAM. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy of Egypt 25 years, _d._ 1 May 1865 aged 61. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

MACAN, GEORGE. _b._ 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14 N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2 June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. _d._ 1 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, HENRY. _b._ 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856; general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._ 31 Craven road, Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; _found dead_ in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till 1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province 1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. _d._ from effects of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 269–70, _portrait_.

M’ARDLE, JOHN FRANCIS. _b._ Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce, and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug. 1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March 1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque, Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal 6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield, May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house, Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other songs. _d._ at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21 Feb. 1883. _bur._ Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, REGINA (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857. _d._ in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, DAVID CHARTERIS. _b._ 1809; in service of North British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868, retired from active service 1885, local director of the Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the imprest system 1854. _d._ Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, DUNCAN. _b._ Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27 April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10 Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany. 1855. _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, SIR EDWARD (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834, of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool industry). _b._ Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809, captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60;

## acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of

100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July 1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. _d._ 27 Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, HANNIBAL HAWKINS (son of the succeeding). _b._ Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805; assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 6 March 1861.

MACARTHUR, JAMES (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). _b._ Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood 1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its present state and future prospects 1837. _d._ Sydney 21 April 1867.

MACARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct. 1882. _A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir_, _i_ 246–9 (1870).

M’ARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan minister, _d._ 1840). _b._ Malin, barony of Innishowen, co. Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from 15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857; contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate in the colonies. _T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 448 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic xxii_ 436 (1880), _portrait_; _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_ (1884) 85–95.

MACARTHY or CARTER, JOHN or THOMAS, known as Macarte and Massarti. _b._ Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st. Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany. 1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. _d._ in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. _bur._ Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. _Times 17 Nov. 1862 p._ 12; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 209 (1874); _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 16–17, 20 (1885); _T. Frost’s Circus Life_ (1876) 293–6.

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1 Baron (eld. child of Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). _b._ Rothley Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ. scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death; contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds 1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856; a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England, March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep. 1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July 1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848, installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ. of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy 1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep. 1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11 May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856 to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols. 1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England 5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. _d._ in his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec. 1859. _bur._ in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860 where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. _G. O. Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay_ 2 _vols._ (1876), _portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 489–93; _Illustrated Review_, _iv_ 1–11 (1873), _portrait_; _Peter Anton’s Masters in history_ (1884) 123–94; _Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By J. H. Stirling_ (1868) 112–71; _Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of Lord Macaulay_ (1862); _R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 33–50 (1844); _D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties_, _ii_ 113–35 (1859); _Proc. of royal society_, _xi_ 11–26 (1860); _Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _ii_ 1–26 (1860); _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 121, _portrait_.

MACAULAY, BEATA ELIZABETH. _b._ 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay; contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. _d._ Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight 15 Jany. 1883.

MACAULAY, CHARLES ZACHARY. _b._ 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office 1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of £1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology. London 1871. _d._ 7 Aug. 1886.

MACAULAY, COLIN CAMPBELL (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of Rothley). _b._ Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor 1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society, president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions. _d._ Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. _bur._ family vault Rothley. _G.M. xl_ 644 (1853).

MACAULAY, SIR JAMES BUCHANAN (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector general of hospitals). _b._ Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec. 1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles 1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego, Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America; admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench 1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856 when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal 1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. _d._ Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.

MACAULAY, KENNETH (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). _b._ Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864, treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P. borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865. _d._ Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. _Law Times_, _xliii_ 224 (1867); _I.L.N. xxii_ 152 (1853), _portrait_.

MC AULEY, JEREMIAH. _b._ Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. _d._ New York 18 Sep. 1884. _Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York_ (1885), _portraits of himself and wife_.

MACBAIN, SIR JAMES (youngest son of Smith Macbain of Invergordon). _b._ Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business 1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80; member for the Central province, to the legislative council 1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884; chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres. of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. _d._ Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.

MACBEAN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810, lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. _d._ 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1871.

MACBEAN, FREDERICK. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May 1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815; major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. _d._ 15 March 1865 aged 78.

M’BEAN, JAMES. _b._ 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. _d._ 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26 April 1886.

MACBEAN, SIR WILLIAM (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col. 6 foot). _b._ Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct. 1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7 Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2 Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24 May 1855.

M’BEAN, WILLIAM. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29 Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16 Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March 1858. _d._ Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June 1878. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 4 (1878), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xviii_ 116 (1878), _portrait_.

MACBEAN, WILLIAM FORBES. _b._ 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._ Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.

MACBETH, JAMES. _b._ Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 266–71.

MACBETH, NORMAN (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). _b._ Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. _d._ 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888.

MACBRIDE, JOHN ALEXANDER PATERSON (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). _b._ Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. _d._ Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. _Graphic 3 May 1890 p._ 508, _portrait_.

MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID (only son of John Macbride, admiral, _d._ 1800). _b._ Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. _d._ Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.

M’BRIDGE, JAMES. _b._ 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. _d._ Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. _Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p._ 76.

M’CABE, EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. _d._ 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin. _Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop_ (1879); _Saturday Review_, _lix_ 243; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 521 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 372 (1882), _portrait_.

MACCABE, JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (_m._ 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. _d._ of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany.

NOTE.--The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.

M’CABE, RICHARD. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. _d._ Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. _bur._ Chord 29 Jany. _Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p._ 88.

MACCABE, WILLIAM BERNARD. _b._ Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. _d._ Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.

M’CALL, ALLAN. _b._ Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. _d._ Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.

MC CALL, WILLIAM. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. _d._ 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.

MACCALL, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). _b._ Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. _d._ Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.

MAC CALMONT, FREDERICK HAYNES (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). _b._ Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. _d._ Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxv_ 56 (1880).

M’CALMONT, HUGH (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, _d._ 1839). _b._ 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. _d._ 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.

MC CANN, NICHOLAS (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. _d._ 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.

MACCARTHY, SIR CHARLES JUSTIN. _b._ Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. _d._ Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.

M’CARTHY, DANIEL. _b._ near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. _d._ Killarney, July 1881. _Times 28 July 1881 p._ 10.

MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. _b._ Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. _Dublin Review_, _April 1883 pp._ 261–93.

MAC CARTHY, HAMILTON WRIGHT (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). _b._ 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. _d._ 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.

MC CARTHY, JOHN F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). _b._ 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. _d._ Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.

MACCARTHY, JOHN GEORGE (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). _b._ Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. _d._ Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. _Irish Law Times_, _xxii_ 116 (1888).

MC CAUL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. _d._ St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. _bur._ Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. _J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul_ (1863); _I.L.N. xxiv_ 400 (1854), _portrait_.

MC CAUL, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. _d._ 15 April 1887. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 254–5.

MC CAUL, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. _d._ 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.

MC CAUSLAND, DOMINICK (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). _b._ Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. _d._ 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. _W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland_ (1873); _Irish Law Times_, _vii_ 354 (1873).

MC CAUSLAND, JOHN KENNEDY. _b._ 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.

MC CAW, WILLIAM. _b._ Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 166–70.

MC CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. _d._ Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv_ 148 (1874); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 287–91 (1874); _Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series_ (1865), _portrait_.

MC CLELLAND, JAMES. _b._ Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. _d._ 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 185–6 (1886), _portrait_.

MC CLELLAND, JOHN. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. _d._ 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.

M’CLINTOCK, JOHN (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, _d._ 1799). _b._ 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. _d._ Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.

MC CLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, _d._ 1806). _b._ Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. _d._ 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. _The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches_ (1853); _S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed._ (1865); _A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage_ (1857); _S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator_ (1854); _Graphic_, _viii_ 407, 412 (1873), _portrait_.

MC CLURE, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). _b._ Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. _d._ Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. _Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p._ 8, _portrait_.

M’COLLUM, THOMAS. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. _d._ 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 26 March. _Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p._ 392, _view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre_.

MC COMB, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). _b._ Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. _d._ Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). _b._ Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. _d._ Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p._ 5; _Newspaper Press_, _iv_ 153–4 (1870); _Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist_ (1890) 34–9.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). _b._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1880. _Times 3 Feb. 1880 p._ 5; _Graphic_, _xxi_ 196 (1880), _portrait_; _W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed._ (1886), _memoir xi–xviii_; _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880_; _James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle_ (1882).

NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm.

MACCOMO, MARTINI. _b._ Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. _d._ from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. _Era 15 Jany. 1871 p._ 11, _col._ 1; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 15–16 (1885).

MC CONNELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. _d._ of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867.

M’COOLE, MICHAEL. _b._ Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. _d._ New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. _W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring_ (1884) 14, 18–20, _portrait_.

MC CORKINDALE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 134–5.

MACCORMAC, HENRY (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). _b._ Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. _d._ Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.

MC CORMICK, ROBERT (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). _b._ Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852. 1854. _d._ Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. _R. Mc Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _memoir ii_ 183–368, _three portraits_.

MC CORMICK, WILLIAM. _b._ Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry 1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London. _d._ London 12 June 1878.

M’CREA, ROBERT CONTART. _b._ 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. _United Service mag. March 1875 p._ 407.

M’CREE, GEORGE WILSON. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. _d._ 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. _Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 696, _portrait_; _Times 28 Nov. 1892 p._ 6.

M’CRIE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. _d._ 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 349–56, _portrait_.

MACCULLOCH, HORATIO (son of a weaver). _b._ Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. _d._ St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. _Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch_ (1872), _life pp._ 9–39, _portrait_; _Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen_, _iii_ 11–13 (1875).

MC CULLOCH, SIR JAMES (son of George Mc Culloch). _b._ Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. _d._ Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.

M’CULLOCH, JAMES MELVILLE (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). _b._ St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. _d._ Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. _Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch_ (1884), _memoir pp. vii–lvi_, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 289–94.

MC CULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). _b._ Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. _d._ in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p._ 541, _portrait_.

MC CULLOCH, WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. _d._ 4 April 1885.

MC CULLOUGH, JOHN EDWARD (son of a farmer). _b._ in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. _d._ in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. _The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 121, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp._ 199, 209, _portrait_; _New monthly mag. cxix_ 619–23 (1881), _portrait_.

M’CUTCHEON, JAMES. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ _d._ Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.

MAC DERMOTT, ROBERT (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). _b._ Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. _d._ of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. _Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin_ (1860).

M’DIARMID, JOHN (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. _d._ Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 720–2 (1863).

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel 20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. _b._ New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June 1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of 21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated for release of women and children from working in coal mines 1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland; president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S. America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873; member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. _d._ Well hall near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. _bur._ New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov. _The Biograph_, _Aug. 1880 pp._ 148–57; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, ANGUS. _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys. to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871, another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of the heart upon pregnancy 1878. _d._ 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1886.

MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES (youngest son of John Macdonald 1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). _b._ about 1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. _d._ Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.

MACDONALD, ELIZABETH (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland). _b._ 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received 22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. _d._ at the convent, Winchester 17 May 1854.

MACDONALD, GEORGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep. 1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain 16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7 July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845; col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Torquay 1 March 1883. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1883) _portrait_.

MACDONALD, HUGH. _b._ Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817; apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855; edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal 1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. _d._ 16 March 1860. _Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works_ (1865), _memoir_; _Rev. Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 286–7.

MACDONALD, JAMES. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60.

MAC DONALD, JAMES. _b._ Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; _killed_ while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. _bur._ Elmer’s End cemetery.

MACDONALD, JAMES WILLIAM BOSVILLE (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). _b._ 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. _Army and navy mag. iii_ 399 (1882), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.

MACDONALD, JOHN (son of Wm. Macdonald). _b._ Strathglass, Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon 1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest 1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston, Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar 1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle, Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68; co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland, Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis 24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1878 to death. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. _Brady’s Catholic hierarchy_, _iii_ 475–6 (1877).

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman of Sutherlandshire). _b._ George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815; emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram. sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh, Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62 and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865; P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general 1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov. 1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879; favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28 June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the Canadian Disraeli. _d._ Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June 1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. _E. G. Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald_ (1892), 2 _portraits_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 237; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 102–4 (1888), _portrait_; _Black and White 13 June 1891 p._ 602, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 7 March 1891_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 5 (1858), _portrait_.

MAC DONALD, JOHN CAMERON (son of a factor for lord Abinger). _b._ Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne 1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates 1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71; printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper 1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct. 1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged letters cost The Times a large sum of money. _d._ Waddon near Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. _The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889_; _I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 786, _portrait_; _Graphic 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 753, _portrait_.

MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist). _b._ Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to 1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32 and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829 colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member of Scottish academy 1829–58. _d._ Rome 4 March 1878. _bur._ cemetery of Porta San Paolo. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879) 109–26; _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 190.

M’DONALD, NORMAN HILTON (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B., adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. _d._ lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec. 1857.

MACDONALD, NORMAN WILLIAM. _b._ 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7 April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. _d._ Priory field house, Taunton 13 May 1893.

M’DONALD, PETER (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co. Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of Dublin 1886. _d._ Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. _Daily Graphic 17 March 1891 p._ 8, _portrait_.

MACDONALD, REGINALD GEORGE (eld. son of John Macdonald of Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). _b._ Aug. 1788; M.P. Plympton 1812–24. _d._ 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March 1873.

MACDONALD, ROBERT (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant). _b._ Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870, and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond, Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 156–61; _Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 36–70.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of John Macdonald of Carraden, Linlithgow). _b._ 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne 1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death; canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian faith 1824. _d._ Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti_ (1879) 177.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s medical school, London; professor of natural history in the united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. _d._ 20 Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of a bootcloser). _b._ Newcastle 1859; a newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson, Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had 355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in 1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. _d._ Sefton arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 161–4 (1881), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xvi_ 238, 245 (1881), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM BELL (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). _b._ Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean 1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald. Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854; Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. _d._ 114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. _Gent. Mag. March 1863 p._ 390; _Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland_ (1868) 71.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM RUSSELL. _b._ 1787; editor and part proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald, the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.; Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted 1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second lessons for the nursery 1838. _d._ Great James st. Bedford row, London 30 Dec. 1854.

MAC DONELL, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul general, Algiers). _b._ Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to 23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March 1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant 2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. _d._ Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. _I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p._ 639, _portrait_.

MAC DONELL, EWEN (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell, lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). _b._ 1807; studied medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded special thanks of government of India and a letter of approbation from the queen. _d._ 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court, London 20 May 1891.

MACDONELL, SIR JAMES (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of Glengarry). _b._ Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804, lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt 1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain 2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July 1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8; commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb. 1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and of St. Vladimir of Russia. _d._ 15 Wilton place, London 15 May 1857. _Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders_, _ii_ 292–322 (1822); _Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards_, _ii_ 214–17 (1833).

MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer _d._ 1858). _b._ Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. _d._ 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. _bur._ Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. _James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll_ (1890), _portrait_.

MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) _b._ Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. _bur._ at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. _Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp._ 240–1.

MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. _d._ 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.

MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. _The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p._ 49.

MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). _b._ Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. _d._ Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. _Law Times_, _xxxi_ 178 (1858).

MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. _d._ Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.

MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. _d._ Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. _bur._ under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.

MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell _d._ 1867). _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. _d._ Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 220, 222 (1881), _portrait_.

MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, _b._ 1796, living 1889). _b._ Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. _Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886) 429–32.

MC DONNELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. _d._ Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.

MC DONOGH, ALLEN. _b._ Galway 1804; one of the best known steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William 1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000 against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr. Preston 1847 etc. _d._ Dublin, May 1888. _Baily’s Mag. xlix_ 269–70 (1888).

MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843; contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. _d._ 41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. _Irish law times_, _xvi_ 177 (1882).

MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death; author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849. _d._ Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London 20–23 Feb. 1884. _Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb._ 1852.

MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). _b._ 1800; apprentice to Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods, originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls, &c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto ‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856 paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids; retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862; presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. _The Biograph_, _v_ 544–9 (1881).

MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. _b._ Jany. 1804; a master in Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. _d._ 107 Stockwell park road, Brixton 10 March 1880. _City Press 13 March 1880 p._ 3.

MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43; minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 398–400.

MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba, Argyllshire). _b._ Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79 highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853 to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1862.

MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall, captain 88 foot). _b._ Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C. of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London 1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it was the first consecration that had taken place out of England; also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec. 1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74; archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight 1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (_m._ July 1843 Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak 1882, she _d._ Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He _d._ Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Shorwell 20 Nov. _C. J. Bunyon’s Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife_ (1889), 2 _portraits_.

MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times; translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1853.

M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly castle, co. Argyle). _b._ Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec. 1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture 1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Dunolly 12 April 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. _b._ 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). _b._ Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. _d._ 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. _Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 77, 347–8 (1884).

M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 319–25.

MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). _b._ Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. _d._ 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. _The Horological Journal_, _Sep. 1873 pp._ 5–9, _portrait_.

M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). _b._ 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. _d._ Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893.

MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. _b._ 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. _d._ 14 Sep. 1870.

M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). _b._ Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. _d._ Dumfries 28 Oct. 1888. _M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway_ (1889) 77, 201, 255.

MAC DOWEL, BENJAMIN GEORGE (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel, physician). _b._ 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B. and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin 1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland 1881. _d._ 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep. 1885. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 417 (1885).

MAC DOWELL, BENJAMIN FRANCIS. _b._ 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S. 1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. _d._ 29 York st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. _Medical Press_, _xxvii_ 135 (1879).

MACDOWELL, PATRICK (son of a tradesman). _b._ Belfast 12 Aug. 1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st. London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870, illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. _d._ 74A Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 103–8; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 195–7 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1850) _p._ 8 _portrait, and_ (1871) _p._ 41; _Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii_ 602–10 (1851), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 417, 418 (1857), _lvii_ 679, 681 (1870), _portrait_.

MACDUFF, JOHN. _b._ 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40 foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30 July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863; C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh division at Lucknow 1857. _d._ Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25 Sep. 1865.

MC ELROY, JOHN. _b._ Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782; emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick, Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy, an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war 1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. _d._ Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the world.

M’ENCROE, JOHN. _b._ Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed. St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia 1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the principal heresies 1841. _d._ Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.

MACEWAN, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. _d._ Glasgow 11 June 1866. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 187–8 (1886), _portrait_.

MACEWEN, ALEXANDER (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate secession ch. near Edinb. _d._ 1827). _b._ Howgate 5 April 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845 to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch. Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied in scripture supernatural 1866. _d._ Glasgow 4 June 1875. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 129–34; _Sermons by A. Macewen_ (1877) _memoir ix–lvi_.

MACFARLANE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of Drymen, Stirlingshire). _b._ Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen 1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years; entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and present duty 1847. _d._ Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 189–90 (1886), _portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti vol._ 2 _pt._ 1 _pp._ 7, 235, 353 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 72–9.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). _b._ Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words; author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855; Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study, brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. _d._ Glasgow 6 Nov. 1862. _bur._ Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. _The poetical works of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x_ (1882); _Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 287–91.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, _b._ 1800, _d._ 1871). _b._ 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. _d._ Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. _bur._ Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. _Memoirs of James Macfarlan_ (1892).

MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). _b._ Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.

MACFARLANE, DUGALD. _b._ Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. _d._ Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp._ 567, 569, _portrait_.

MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton, Glasgow). _b._ Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion 1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. _d._ Duddingston 6 Feb. 1866. _Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi_ 18 (1869).

MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823). _b._ Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40; minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840, then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842; minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death, the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P. synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons 1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D. 1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. _d._ 14 Victoria road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. _W. Graham’s Memoirs of John Macfarlane_ (1876) _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 379–85.

MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). _b._ 30 July 1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet 29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853 to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session 1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. _d._ Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiv_ 659–61 (1880).

MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren, dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). _b._ 24 Villiers st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9; student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased, edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha; conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second, at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23 Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876; Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A. Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. _A life of G. A. Macfarren. By H. C. Banister_ (1891), _portrait_; _Addresses by G. A. Macfarren_ (1888), _portrait_; _Cazalet’s Royal academy of music_ (1854) 307–9; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 573 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 553 (1883), _portrait_.

MACFIE, ROBERT ANDREW (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). _b._ Leith 4 Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall, Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh 1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859, M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question 1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871; Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885; The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. _d._ Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. _The Biograph_, _July 1879 pp._ 61–4; _New Monthly Mag. cxvi_ 936–8 (1879), _portrait_.

MACGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS (son of a farmer _d._ 1851). _b._ New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper, a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869; correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva, sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875; special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877; author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874, 4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the northern lights 1876. _d._ of typhus fever, Constantinople 9 June 1878. _bur._ Catholic cemetery 12 June. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 115–16 (1888), _portrait_; _The war correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols._ 1878; _I.L.N. 22 June 1878 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_; _Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p._ 173, _portrait_, _6 July 1878 pp._ 3, 4, _view of funeral_; _The Nineteenth century_, _Sep. 1891 pp._ 414–5.

M’GAULEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Professor of natural philosophy to board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada 1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. _d._ 25 Oct. 1867. _Times 26 Oct. 1867 p._ 9.

M’GAVIN, JOHN. _b._ Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838, joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened 2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his decease. _d._ while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July 1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine Arts. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 191–6 (1886), _portrait_.

MAC GAVIN, JOHN DRUMMOND (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). _b._ near Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation in Paris. _d._ Paris 19 April 1893.

MC GEACHEY, FORSTER ALLEYNE (only son of major Alexander Mc Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). _b._ 1809; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I. 1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852; sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. _d._ Shenley Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887.

MC GEE, THOMAS D’ARCY (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man). _b._ Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence, Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile, Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America 1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; _shot_ by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. _The poems of T. D. Mc Gee_ (1869) _memoir pp._ 15–40, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters_ (1885) 103–6; _I.L.N. lii_ 437, 457 (1868), _portrait_.

MACGEORGE, ANDREW. _b._ Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of municipal council 1832. _d._ Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct. 1857. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 197–8 (1886), _portrait_.

MACGEORGE, ANDREW (son of the preceding). _b._ Glasgow 13 May 1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836, head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a memoir 1884. _d._ Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891.

MACGEORGE, ROBERT JACKSON. _b._ near Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41; incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58; incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag. at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st. theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering. Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. _d._ 14 May 1884. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis_ (1867) 238–9; _Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 71.

M’GEORGE, THOMAS. _b._ 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by a bad start. _d._ Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885. _Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p._ 443; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 28 Feb. 1885 p._ 584, _7 March p._ 609, _portrait_.

M’GETTIGAN, DANIEL (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). _b._ parish of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb. 1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe 1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope overruled his objections. _d._ Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _i_ 233, 313 (1876), _ii_ 360.

M’GHEE, CHARLES (son of a Jamaica negro _d._ aged 108). _b._ 1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel; Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man; lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury Lane. _d._ Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. _W. P. Treloar’s Ludgate hill_ (1881) 116, 118–19, _portrait_; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_, _i_ 164 (1868).

MC GHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital, Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859. _d._ Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862.

MAC GILCHRIST, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.; sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850; practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856, 2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter, a tragedy 1861. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers_ (1868) 136.

MACGILL, HAMILTON MONTGOMERY. _b._ Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed. at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church, Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870; edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876. _d._ in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880. _bur._ Glasgow necropolis 11 June. _C. H. Macgill’s Memories of Dr. H. Macgill_ (1880), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 67–71.

M’GILL, JAMES. _b._ 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.; author of The four centuries or christianity and the military profession. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.

M’GILL, JOHN. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death, inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870. _d._ St. Andrews 16 March 1871.

MACGILLIVRAY, CHARLES R. (son of a small farmer). _b._ Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop, Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow 1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh 1869. _d._ Glasgow 7 June 1867.

MACGILLIVRAY, JOHN (eld. child of William Macgillivray 1796–1852). _b._ Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6; naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67; author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50, to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Sydney 6 June 1867. _Good Words_ (1868) 425–9, _portrait_.

MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815, LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. _J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the Hebrides_ (1888), _portrait on page_ 11.

M’GILVRAY, W. _b._ island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848; D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 230–7; _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt. i_ 44 (1868).

M’GLASHAN, JAMES. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons, publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry, junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal publisher in Dublin to 1855. _d._ of mental disease, Edinburgh 4 March 1858. _Bookseller_, _March 1858 p._ 108; _Fitzpatrick’s Life of Charles Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _passim_.

MC GLASHAN, JOHN. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in

## actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in

the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ New Zealand 1866.

MACGLASHAN, JOHN (1 son of John Macglashan). _b._ Peterborough 5 Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock; resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion 1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. _d._ Aboyne, Deeside, Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx_ 338–40 (1885).

MC GOUGAN, EUGENE MALCOLM. _b._ 1828; in general post office, London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions for the blind in north of London. _d._ St. Albans 21 July 1893. _Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3._

MACGOWAN, EDWARD, M.D.; practised at Exeter; physician to the mission of London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1841; arrived at Jerusalem 21 Jany. 1842. _d._ Jerusalem 6 Feb. 1860 aged 65. _W. H. Hunt’s Jerusalem. Bishop Gobat in re Hanna Hadoub_ (1858) 22 _etc._

M’GRATH, HENRY WALTER (3 son of Nicholas M’Grath of Dublin). _b._ Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; deacon 1829; P.C. of Walton le Dale near Preston 1832–7; R. of St. Ann’s, Manchester, Aug. 1837 to 1852; R. of St. Paul’s, Kersal Moor 29 May 1852 when the church was consecrated to 1865; hon. canon of Manchester 1858 to death; built a house called Ditton at Torquay about 1878, lived there 1878 to death; author of The sacraments practically rejected by Unitarians, in Unitarianism confuted (1839) 593–646. _d._ Ditton, Lower Warberry road, Torquay about 17 July 1884. _C. W. Bardsley’s Memorials of St. Ann’s church_ (1877) 17, 20; _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 174–78.

MAC GREGOR, ARTHUR TREVOR. _b._ 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22 Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired admiral 7 April 1885. _d._ Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.

MACGREGOR, SIR CHARLES METCALFE (2 son of Robert Guthrie Macgregor). _b._ Agra 12 Aug. 1840; ed. at Marlborough 1853–5; ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 5 Jany. 1857; commanded a squadron of Hodson’s horse in Indian mutiny Aug. 1858, second in command 1861–4; served in Fane’s horse through Chinese campaign 1860; served in the Afghan war 1878–80; assist. deputy quartermaster general in India 1865–7 and in Abyssinia 1867–8; commanded the Punjab frontier force 28 Nov. 1885 to death; major general 22 Jany. 1887; author of Mountain warfare, an essay 2 ed. 1866; A military report on the country of Bhutan 1873; Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan 2 vols. 1879; Wanderings in Balochistan 1882; compiled History of the Second Afghan war 6 vols. 1885–6, suppressed by Indian government; The defence of India 1884, suppressed by the government; C.S.I. 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; C.B. 1879; K.C.B. 17 Jany. 1881; compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia 1868 which occupied him 5 years. _d._ Shepheard’s hotel, Cairo 5 Feb. 1887. _bur._ Glengyle on shores of Loch Katrine. _The life of Sir C. M. Macgregor. Ed. by Lady Macgregor_ 2 _vols._ (1883), _portrait_.

MC GREGOR, SIR DUNCAN. _b._ 16 March 1787; ensign or lieut. 72 foot 31 Aug. 1801; captain 78 foot 17 April 1804, major 25 Nov. 1813, placed on h.p. 25 April 1816; major 31 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 26 May 1825; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826, placed on h.p. 27 July 1838; served in Sicily and Italy 1806, in Egypt 1807 and in the Peninsula 1813–4; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826 to 27 July 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of constabulary force, Ireland 1838–58; general 28 Oct. 1864; K.C.B. 28 Dec. 1848 for his services in Ireland; retired from the army Oct. 1877; author of A narrative of the loss of the Kent. By A Passenger 1825, 7 ed. 1860. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 8 June 1881.

NOTE.--While major of 31 regt. on board the Kent East Indiaman, she took fire 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, and he was instrumental in saving the lives of the passengers.

MACGREGOR, SIR GEORGE HALL (son of general John A. P. Macgregor _d._ 1868). _b._ 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858; political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten, envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839; assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny 1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858; had 3rd class of the Douranee empire 1839 and second class 1840; major general on retired list 18 March 1859; C.B. 10 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 24 June 1861. _d._ Glencarnock, Torquay 2 Jany. 1883. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age_, _i_ 141–207 (1880).

M’GREGOR, JAMES. _b._ Liverpool 1808; manager of Liverpool commercial bank many years; chairman South Eastern railway co. 1848 to death; contested Banbury 31 July 1847; M.P. Sandwich 1852–6; contested Sandwich 28 March 1857; resided at 25 Eccleston sq. London. _d._ of paralysis in house of Robert Douglas, hair dresser 23 New Bond st. London 5 Sep. 1858.

MC GREGOR, JOHN (eld. son of David Mc Gregor of Drynie, Rosshire). _b._ Stornoway, Rosshire 1797; emigrated to Prince Edward island 1802, a school teacher, clerk in a store, engaged in shipbuilding, member of house of assembly; returned to Europe 1828; one of the joint secretaries of board of trade 24 Jany. 1840 to 6 Aug. 1847; M.P. Glasgow July 1847; accepted stewardship of manor of Northstead, Feb. 1857; author of Historical sketches of the colonies of British America 1828; The resources and statistics of nations 1835, one vol. only; My note

## book 3 vols. 1835; The commercial and financial legislation of

Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations 5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian and Ottoman empires 1851; The history of the British empire from James I. 2 vols. 1852; one of the founders of Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, a director, chairman of the board, and the governor, advanced to himself £13,700 all of which except £700 became a bad debt, bank failed 3 Sep. 1856 and all the shareholders were ruined; escaped trial and imprisonment by his death at Boulogne 23 April 1857. _D. Morier Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859) 268–390; _I.L.N. xii_ 75 (1848), _portrait_.

MAC GREGOR, SIR JOHN (2 son of Duncan Mac Andrew of Culross, Perthshire). _b._ 20 Oct. 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of army as hospital assistant 27 June 1809; inspector general of hospitals 28 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the queen 16 Aug. 1859; K.C.B. 10 June 1859; took by r.l. name of Mac Gregor instead of Mac Andrew 24 July 1863. _d._ Corstorphine lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 13 Jany. 1866.

MACGREGOR, JOHN (son of Sir Duncan Macgregor 1787–1881). _b._ Gravesend 24 Jany. 1825; saved from Kent East Indiaman 1 March 1825; ed. at King’s school, Canterbury and 6 other schools; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1839–40 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1844–7, 34th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; wrote and sketched for Punch 1845; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; travelled in his canoe the Rob Roy 15 feet long, from France to Switzerland 1865, the first of his many canoe journeys; always known as Rob Roy Macgregor; a founder of Shoeblack brigade 1851; hon. sec. of the Open-Air mission of the Pure literature society and of the Protestant Alliance 1853; member for Greenwich on the London school board 28 Nov. 1870 to 1876; the profits of his books and receipts from his many lectures were all given to charities; author of Three days in the East 1851; The law of reformatories 1856; Our brothers and cousins, a tour in Canada 1859; A description of the Rob Roy canoe 1866; A thousand miles in the Rob Roy canoe 1866, 13 ed. 1891; A voyage alone in the yawl Rob Roy 1867; The Rob Roy on the Baltic 1867; The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth 1869, 6 ed. 1880. _d._ Lochiel, Boscombe near Bournemouth 16 July 1892. _bur._ Bournemouth cemet. 20 July. _Leisure Hour_, _xx_ 248, 782, _portrait_.

MC GREGOR, JOHN ALEXANDER PAUL. _b._ 1780; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, major 12 July 1814; lieut.-col. commandant 22 N.I. 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1 Nov. 1830; military auditor general 1830 to 1845; col. of 37 N.I. 1 Nov. 1830, of 61 N.I. 1833, of 28 N.I. 1836 to 27 Aug. 1847, of 54 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 7 Sussex place, Hyde park gardens, London 5 March 1868.

MACGREGOR, JOHN MURRAY. _b._ 12 May 1819; entered Madras army 1 March 1838; engaged in important operations in Central India 1842 and 1843; served during the Indian mutiny; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. _d._ 17 Castle hill avenue, Folkestone 18 Dec. 1891.

MACGREGOR, ROBERT. _b._ Ardchattan, Bonar near Oban, Argyleshire 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1842; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1833; superintendent and apothecary in Glasgow royal infirmary, where his investigations into nature of diabetes acquired for him an European reputation, then physician; fellow of faculty of physicians and surgeons, Glasgow 1837; lecturer on chemistry in Portland street school of medicine; physician to Glasgow royal infirmary to death; author of An enquiry into the state of urea in healthy and diseased urine and the formation of sugar in diabetes 1836. _d._ 93 West Regent st. Glasgow 20 March 1855. _bur._ Ardchattan 29 March. _Glasgow Medical Journal_, _iii_ 126–8 (1856).

M’GRIGOR, ALEXANDER BENNET. _b._ 1827; head of firm of M’Grigor, Donald and Co. writers, 172 St. Vincent st. Glasgow; he carried through parliament scheme for city of Glasgow Union railway 1863–4; connected with speedy liquidation of City of Glasgow bank, originated the Assets company by means of which the creditors of the bank were promptly paid off; member of supreme court of univ. of Glasgow; one of the most prominent citizens of Glasgow; author of Contributions towards an index of passages on the topography of Jerusalem 1876; The British parliament, its history and functions 1887. _d._ Glasgow 22 March 1891.

MC GRIGOR, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of Aberdeen, merchant, _d._ 1800). _b._ Lethendrey in Strathspey, Invernesshire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793; surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805; inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812, retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815, retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chatham; K.T.S.; baronet 30 Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow 25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821 to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death; author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from India 1804; A letter to the commissioners on military enquiry 1808. _d._ 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. _The autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor_ (1861), _portrait_; _Munk’s Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 309–13 (1878); _Illustrated news of the world_, _i_ 204 (1858), _portrait_; _Proc. Royal society_, _ix_ 532–34 (1858); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1840), _portrait_.

MC GRIGOR, JAMES (son of Charles Mc Grigor, barrackmaster at Nottingham, _d._ 1841). _b._ 1819; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 24 Feb. 1835, captain 24 Jany. 1845, most courageously disarmed his regiment for mutiny 16 Sep. 1857 for which he received the thanks of the government; major of 30 Bombay N.I. 20 July 1858; lieut.-col. 15 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to death; _drowned_ while bathing at Aden 28 June 1863.

MC GUFFOG, SAMUEL. M.D. Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1804; licentiate of college of physicians 5 Dec. 1814; physician to the English embassy at Constantinople, April 1816 to death. _d._ Constantinople 15 June 1856. _Munk’s Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 129 (1878).

MC GUIRE, JOHN HERON. _b._ Ireland; C. of St. Ann’s, Manchester; V. of St. Luke’s, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1843–57; a great opponent of the Unitarians and the Roman Catholics. _d._ Taymouth terrace, Stepney, London 22 Feb. 1860. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 170–74.

MC HAFFIE, JAMES. _b._ 1777; 2 lieut. 21 foot 7 Sep. 1797, captain 24 Aug. 1804 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Torhousemuir house, Wigtonshire 22 Nov. 1865.

MAC HALE, JOHN (5 child of Patrick Mac Hale of Tobber-navine, barony of Tyrawley, co. Mayo, farmer). _b._ Tobber-navine 6 March 1791; ed. at Castlebar and at Maynooth 1807–14; ordained priest 1814; lecturer and professor of dogmatic theology in Maynooth college 1814–25; published 32 letters signed Hierophilos, Feb. 1820 to March 1824; elected bishop of Maronia in partibus infidelium 31 Jany. 1825, appointed 8 March, consecrated 5 June and became coadjutor bishop of Killala and priest of Crossmolina; bishop of Killala 20 May 1834; visited Rome 1831 and 1854; archbishop of Tuam 21 July 1834, consecrated 26 Aug., helped by a coadjutor bishop from 1878; preached often in the Irish language; the most popular man after D. O’Connell who called him ‘the lion of St. Jarlath’s’ and ‘the lion of the fold of Judah’; opposed Newman’s residence in Ireland 1854; author of The evidences and doctrines of the catholic church 1827, 2 ed. 1842; The letters of J. Mac Hale under their respective signatures of Hierophilos, John bishop of Maronia, bishop of Killala, and archbishop of Tuam 1847; Sermons and discourses 1883, and many works in the Irish language 1842–73. _d._ St. Jarlath’s, Tuam 7 Nov. 1881. _B. O’Reilly’s J. Mac Hale_ 2 _vols._ _New York_ (1890), 2 _portraits_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 148–50 (1876); _Burke’s History of catholic archbishops of Tuam_ (1882) 240–374; _I.L.N. xvii_ 225 (1850), _portrait_; _Biograph iv_ 85–91 (1880).

M’HARDY, JOHN BUNCH BONNEMAISON. _b._ 3 Dec. 1801; entered navy 25 May 1812; captain 1 Jany. 1840; chief constable Essex constabulary 11 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1881; admiral on half pay 1 April 1870. _d._ Clan lodge, Bath 19 Dec. 1882.

M’HENRY, JAMES. _b._ 1816 or 1817; merchant Liverpool; the originator of the provision trade between Liverpool and U.S. America; submitted first samples of Indian corn as food to sir R. Peel during the Irish famine 1846; contractor for the western extension of the railway under facilities afforded by the government, disagreements arose, and it took him 20 years to substantiate his claims, which were not paid when he died. _d._ 25 Addison road, Kensington, London 26 May 1891.

M’IAN, ROBERT RONALD (son of Robert M’Ian, sheep farmer). _b._ Inverness 1805; ed. Liverpool and Resscliff; apprentice to a nurseryman at Dingwall; a soldier in 42 regt.; scene painter Glasgow theatre; a provincial actor in Penley’s companies; acted at Bath and Bristol 1827–31; a good swordsman; his best part was the Dougal Creature, in Sir Walter Scott’s Two Drovers; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre in Lo Zingaro 1834; acted at Covent Garden 1838, at Drury Lane 1839; was the jester at Eglinton tournament 28 to 30 Aug. 1839; painter of historical subjects 1835 to death; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47; A.R.S.A. 1852; illustrated J. Logan’s 3 works, The clans of the Scottish highlands 1845, new ed. 1857, Gaelic gatherings 1848, Highlanders at home 1863; and E. A. H. Ogilvy’s A book of highland minstrelsy 1846, 2 ed. 1848; (his wife Fanny M’Ian was also an historical painter and mistress of school of design at Somerset House, exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47); he lived latterly at 36 Charlotte st. Portman sq. London, and _d._ Heath Mount, Hampstead 13 Dec. 1856. _The Era 21 Dec. 1856 p._ 11; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 185–6, _portrait_.

MACILWAIN, GEORGE (son of an Irish country surgeon). _b._ 1797; M.R.C.S. 1818, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon to Finsbury dispensary 20 years; surgeon to City of London truss society; M.R.I.A.; author of A treatise on stricture of the urethra 1824, 2 ed. entitled Surgical observations on diseases of the mucous canals of the body 1830; Remarks on the unity of the body 1836; The general nature and treatment of tumours 1845; Memoirs of John Abernethy 2 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1 vol. 1856. _d._ Matching near Harlow, Essex 22 Jany. 1882.

MAC INNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1779; entered Bengal army 1798; lieut. 2nd European regiment 4 March 1800; lieut. 20 (or Marine) Bengal N.I. 1803, major 3 June 1816; lieut.-col. commandant 61 N.I. 13 May 1825, col. 5 June 1829 to 1831; col. of 73 N.I. 1831 to 23 June 1842, of 40 N.I. 23 June 1842 to 1843, of 59 N.I. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845, of 24 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1851, of 64 N.I. 1851 to 1855, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1855 to death; general 4 July 1856. _d._ Hale-end, Woodford, Essex 12 March 1859.

MACINTIRE, ANDREW WILLIAM. _b._ 24 Feb. 1815; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 9 June 1831; col. R.A. 6 May 1867, col. commandant 19 June 1884 to death; commanded Southern district brigade in Madras 1869–74; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 1874–81; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ 14 Leinster sq. London 26 Feb. 1885.

MACINTOSH, ALEXANDER FISHER. _b._ 1795; cornet 14 light dragoons 31 Oct. 1811; captain 79 foot 17 June 1819; lieut.-col. 15 foot 15 Dec. 1825 to 8 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. of 90 foot 4 March 1857, col. of 93 foot 3 June 1862 to death; general 27 Dec. 1864; K.H. 1833. _d._ Oatlands park, Walton-on-Thames 28 Aug. 1868.

M’INTOSH, CHARLES (son of a gardener). _b._ Abercairny, Perthshire, Aug. 1794; in charge of Abercairny gardens; gardener to marquis of Breadalbane at Taymouth castle, then to sir Thomas Baring at Stratton park, Hants.; under Mr. Horner laid out and planted grounds of Colosseum, London 1824; gardener to prince Leopold at Claremont many years; remodelled royal gardens at Laecken, Brussels; gardener to duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith 1838–58, where he planned the grounds and conservatories; a landscape gardener and garden architect 1858 to death; A.L.S.; edited The British year book for the country 1856; author of The practical gardener 2 vols. 1828–9; Flora and pomana, or the British fruit and flower garden 1829; The greenhouse, hothouse and stove 1838; The orchard 1839; The new and improved practical gardener 1839; The book of the garden 2 vols. 1853–5; The larch disease 1860. _d._ Newcome villa, Murray field, Scotland 9 Jany. 1864. _Proc. of Linnæan society 1864 p. xlii._

MC INTYRE, ÆNEAS JOHN (only son of Æneas Mc Intyre of Hackney, LL.D.) _b._ 1821; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846, bencher 6 May 1873 to death; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; county court judge of circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire) 1 Jany. 1889 to death; member of the bar committee 1883 to death; M.P. Worcester, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested North Hackney, Dec. 1885; a well known Freemason, _d._ Mirfield near Dewsbury, Yorkshire 19 Sep. 1889. _Masonic Portraits. By J.G._ (1876) 32–6.

MC INTYRE, COLIN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 78 foot 9 April 1825, lieut.-col. 28 Oct. 1864, retired on full pay 2 Oct. 1866; L.G. 4 March 1880; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Grandholm, Teignmouth 24 Aug. 1887.

MC INTYRE, MARTIN. _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 15 Aug. 1847; professional bowler with the Germanstown club, Philadelphia 1869–70; in the Nottingham eleven 1871–5; engaged by the Hull club, Yorkshire 1871; first appeared at Lords in the match Gentlemen _v._ Players 3–5 July 1871 when he bowled G. F. Grace out with his first ball; a very fast round-arm bowler; played in Australia as one of W. G. Grace’s eleven 1873–4. _d._ Moorgreen, Eastwood 28 Feb. 1885. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 342–3; _Bell’s Life in London 7 March 1885 p._ 2.

MAC INTYRE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1792; M.D. Edinb. 1811; F.R.C.P. London 1851; practised at 84 Harley st. London and then at Brighton; wrote On apoplectic affections. Lancet 1841; On the gastric origin of diabetes. London Med. Journ. 1850; author of Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium 1850. _d._ 21 Clifton road, Brighton 4 March 1857.

M’INTYRE, WILLIAM. First appeared in London at Surrey theatre as Paul in The idiot of the mountain 18 Nov. 1861; played at the Lyceum and at Drury Lane under Falconer and Chatterton’s management; acted Black Mullins in Falconer’s Peep o’ Day at Lyceum, and Mogg a convict in Halliday’s The Great City at Drury Lane 22 April to 17 Aug. 1867; played Strozzi in Bernard’s Doge of Venice, at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1867; acted Jenkinson in The Vicar of Wakefield, at Standard theatre 1 Nov. 1870, Claudius in Hamlet at Gaiety 31 July 1871, Gurth in Halliday’s Rebecca at Drury Lane 23 Sep. 1871; played Hickory in Merritt’s Rough and Ready at Adelphi 31 Jany. 1874, Black Jack in Janet Pride at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1874, Simon Legree in Lemon and Taylor’s Slave life or Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Adelphi 11 Feb. 1875, and Spreadeagle in Round the world in eighty days at Princess’s 15 March 1875; acted Ham in Little Emly at Adelphi 30 Oct. 1875, Corry Kinchela in The Shaughraun at Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876, Sir John Murray in Willing’s Under two reigns at Park theatre 3 May 1879, Hallo in Simpson and Templar’s Zillah at Lyceum 2 April 1879, Silas Swayne in Buchanan’s The Exiles of Erin at Olympic 7 May 1881, and Varney in Amy Robsart at Sadler’s Wells 10 Dec. 1881. _d._ 5 Aldine st. Shepherd’s Bush, London 8 May 1885.

MC INTYRE, WILLIAM (brother of Martin Mc Intyre 1847–85). _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 24 May 1844; a fine fast round-arm bowler; played in the Notts. eleven 1869–71; played in the Lancashire eleven 1872–81; first played at Lord’s in North _v._ South 6 and 7 June 1870; the Lancashire county committee gave him a benefit on his retirement in 1881 which realised over £1000. _d._ Prestwich asylum, Lancs. 13 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Bolton 15 Sep.

MAC IVOR, JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1839, fellow 1844 to death; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of moral philosophy 9 Nov. 1872 to 1878; R. of Ardstraw, Derry 1858 to death; author of An essay upon the versification of Homer 1839; Dis-endowment or co-endowment 1869; Some papers on intermediate education in Ireland 1869; Religious progress, its criterion, instruments and laws, sermons 1871. _d._ Ardstraw 17 July 1886.

MC KANE, JOHN (son of J. Mc Kane of Belfast, linen manufacturer at Ballymena). Ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast; LL.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland; called to Irish bar 1864; professor of civil law Queen’s coll. Belfast to 1885; M.P. Mid Armagh, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ 64 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 11 Jany. 1886.

MACKARNESS, GEORGE RICHARD (2 son of John Mackarness of Islington, West India merchant, then of Bath, _d._ 2 Jany. 1870). _b._ London 1823; ed. at Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster 1841–5; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 10 March 1874; fellow of St. Columba’s coll. Ireland 1846–7; C. of Chilton Foliatt, Wilts. 1846–47; C. of Barnwell, Northants. 1848–54; V. of Ilam, Stafford 1854–74; chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1870–74; fellow of St. Chad’s coll. Denstone 1872; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 14 Jany. 1874 to death, consecrated 25 March; edited Ilam anastatic drawing society, vol. xi 1868. _d._ 43 Marine parade, Brighton 20 April 1883.

MACKARNESS, JOHN FIELDER (the elder brother of the preceding). _b._ Islington, London 3 Dec. 1820; ed. at Eton and Merton college Oxf., postmaster 1840–4; rowed in the Merton boat when it bumped every college boat but one; president of the Oxford Union; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, D.D. 1869; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1844 to 11 Aug. 1846; V. of Tardebigge, Worcs. 1845 to 1855; hon. canon of Worcester 1847–58; R. of Honiton, Devon, and head master of gram. sch. 1855–69; preb. of Exeter 1858–69; V. of Monkton, Devon 1867–70; proctor in convocation for diocese of Exeter 1865–9; bishop of Oxford 15 Dec. 1869, resigned 17 Nov. 1888, consecrated 25 Jany. 1870; chancellor of order of the Garter 5 Feb. 1870 to 1888; refused to allow proceedings to be taken against canon Carter rector of Clewer, his decision upheld in court of appeal 23 March 1880; edited Eighteen years of a clerical meeting, minutes of Alcester clerical association 1862; author of A few words to the country parsons on the election for Oxford university. By One of themselves 1840; A plea for toleration in answer to the No Popery cry 1850; May or must, a letter on a case in the court of queen’s bench 1879 _i.e._ The Clewer case. _d._ Angus house, Eastbourne 16 Sep. 1889. _bur._ Sandhurst churchyard, Berkshire 21 Sep., memorial window in the new schoolroom of All Hallows’ school Honiton, opened 10 Dec. 1892. _C. C. Mackarness’s Memorials of the episcopate of J. F. Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_.

MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam 1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping 1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871; A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50 other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness, vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash.

MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea 1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct. 1890.

MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847; sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India 1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada 1849. _d._ at sea on his way home from India 15 April 1852.

MACKAY, ALEXANDER MURDOCH (son of Alexander Mackay, free church minister of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, D.D., residing at Ventnor). _b._ Rhynie 13 Oct. 1849; studied engineering in Edinb. univ. 1870–3; draughtsman with an engineering firm in Berlin 1873, chief of the locomotive department to Sep. 1875; sailed from Southampton as missionary to Uganda 27 April 1876, made a road from the coast to Mpwapwa 1877, arrived at Uganda Nov. 1878, where he resided to July 1887, driven away by Arab traders 12 Oct., went to the Great Lake 1887; taught the people of Uganda and converted many to christianity, reduced the language to writing and made translation of portions of scripture; prepared reading sheets by which many learnt to read, worked the printing presses himself; built houses, boats, &c. for the king of Uganda; sent constant news to England about Emin Pasha; recovered and sent bishop Hannington’s diary to England, Oct. 1886; with R. P. Ashe translated St. Matthew’s Gospel into Ganda 1888. _d._ Usambiro 8 Feb. 1890. _A. M. Mackay, pioneer missionary of the church missionary society in Uganda. By his sister_ (1890) _portrait_; _The story of Mackay of Uganda. By his sister_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 26 April 1890 p._ 515, _portrait_.

MACKAY, ANGUS (son of Murdoch Mackay of the 78th highlanders and a settler in Sydney). _b._ Aberdeen 26 Jany. 1824; taken to New South Wales 1827; ed. at Australian college, Sydney; a schoolmaster; edited The Atlas newspaper 1847–50; manager of a general business for sir Henry Parkes at Geelong 1850–1; a digger in Victoria 1853; proprietor and editor of the Bendigo Advertiser 1854; founded Riverina Herald in Echuca; started the Sydney Daily Telegraph 1879, manager to 1883; sat for Sandhurst burghs in Victorian legislature Feb. 1868 to 1879 and 1883; minister of mines 9 April 1870 to June 1871 and June 1872 to July 1874; minister for education May to July 1874; minister of mines and education July 1874 to Aug. 1875; played against the All England eleven 1865; author of The great goldfield, a tour through the first discovered gold district of New South Wales 1853; A visit to Sydney and the Cudgegong diamond mines 1870; The semi-tropical agriculturalists and colonists’ guide 1875. _d._ Sandhurst 7 July 1886.

MC KAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Kilmarnock 1801; apprenticed to a handloom weaver; a bookbinder at Kilmarnock to death; kept a circulating library in King st. Kilmarnock; author of Droathy Tam 1828, many editions; Poems 1830; Recreations of leisure hours 1832, 2 ed. 1844; A history of Kilmarnock 1848, 3 ed. 1864; Ingleside lilts 1855. _d._ Kilmarnock 14 April 1883. _C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _v_ 85–90 (1857).

MACKAY, CHARLES. _b._ High st. Edinb. 31 Oct. 1787; private in Argyll militia 1803–15; first appeared Greenock theatre as Don Pedro in The Wonder, Feb. 1816; first seen in Edinb. at theatre royal as Mr. Russell in The Jealous Wife 26 Dec. 1818, then as Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott witnessing the representation on 15 Feb. 1819, one of the most popular characters on the stage; was also good in Old Dornton in the Road to Ruin, and in Sir Peter Teazle; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie at Drury Lane 3 July 1821, an engagement for 6 nights; ceased to be a member of regular company of the T.R. Edinb. 21 April 1841 after 22 years’ service; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 4 Feb. 1852 being the 1134th time of his acting the part; played the Baillie the last time and his final appearance 25 Jany. 1853; the most important of the actors in the Waverley dramas. _d._ 17 Lutton place, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1857. _bur._ in the Calton burying ground. _The British Stage_, _v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_; _The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10; _Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789.

NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23 Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828.

MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery). _b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825 and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician, Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July 1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D. of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857 to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St. James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London 1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8; _The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N. xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_.

M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3.

MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist. surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river 1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol 1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital, Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec. 1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870; wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal 1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879. _The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640.

MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D., senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper; principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol. 1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_ (1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death. Funeral sermon_ (1881).

MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D. Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.; author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.

MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54; ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut. 41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May 1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry, Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s, April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road, West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887.

MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay 1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will, pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26 Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise, was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25 April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18 Dec. 1889.

M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21 May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5 and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and 1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference 1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll. Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9 Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7.

MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan, Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon 1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne 1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay. Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873.

MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’, London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824; author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850; A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology 1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno 1869. _d._ 41 Hamilton terrace, London 23 Feb. 1882. _Athenæum 4 March 1882 p._ 283.

M’KEAN, R. _b._ 1849; manager Royal Albert music hall, Glasgow 1865 and of Alexandra, Victoria, Folly and Britannia music halls; partner with H. T. Rossborough in the Britannia music hall at time of death. _d._ 81 London st. Glasgow 8 May 1885. _bur._ Southern Necropolis 12 May.

MACKELLAR, JOHN (eld. son of general Patrick Mackellar, chief engineer in north America and Minorca, _d._ 1779). _b._ Minorca about 1768; entered navy 6 Jany. 1781; captain 27 April 1799; agent for prisoners of war and transports and governor of naval hospital at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1804 to about May 1810; rear admiral 27 May 1825, admiral 26 July 1847; awarded a service pension 1 July 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 14 April 1854. _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 241 (1833).

MACKELLAR, MARY (dau. of Allan Cameron of Fort William, baker). _b._ 1 Oct. 1834; (_m._ John Mackellar, captain of a coasting vessel, obtained a judicial separation about 1877); visited many places in Europe with her husband, settled in Edinburgh 1876; bard to the Gaelic society of Inverness; author of Poems and songs, Gaelic and English 1880; The tourist’s handbook of Gaelic and English phrases for the Highlands 1880, 3 ed. 1882; A guide to Lochaber; translated into Gaelic, Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands 1886. _d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1890. _bur._ Kilmallie, Argyllshire.

MACKELVIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 7 March 1800; apprentice to a draper at Leith; studied at univ. of Edinb. from Nov. 1809, then at Glasgow; licensed to preach by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk 7 March 1827; minister of Balgedie, Kinross-shire 16 April 1829 to death; one of earliest promoters of union between secession and relief churches which took place 13 May 1847; moderator of synod of 1856; D.D. Hamilton, Ohio; originated the Dick club 1835; author of Lochleven and other poems by Michael Bruce, with a life of the author 1837; Annals and statistics of the united presbyterian church. The biographical notices by W. Mackelvie 1873. _d._ Balgedie 10 Dec. 1863. _Sermons by Wm. Mackelvie_ (1875), _memoir by J. Macfarlane pp._ 7–64, _portrait_.

MAC KENNA, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 1837; ed. Downside; ensign 28 foot 30 March 1860, sold out 8 Aug. 1865; sub-editor of Evening News, London to death; author of Off parade 3 vols. 1872; King’s beeches, stories of old chums 1873; Plucky fellows, a book for boys 1873, 2 ed. 1874; At school with an old dragoon 1874; A child of fortune 3 vols. 1875; Handfast to strangers 3 vols. 1876; Brave men in action 1878, 2 ed. 1889; The tradesman’s club 1880. _d._ 8 Shalcombe st. Chelsea 5 Jany. 1883.

M’KENNA, THEOBALD. Called to Irish bar 1821; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; assistant under secretary for Ireland to death. _d._ 1856.

MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Roderick Mackenzie). _b._ 1771; ed. in Edinburgh and at military academy, Angers; ensign 1 foot 30 June 1787; lieut. 42 foot 1791; major 78 foot 24 July 1793; raised 2nd battalion of 78 foot, lieut.-col. 10 Feb. 1794; lieut.-col. 36 foot 22 May 1797 to 23 May 1816; second in command at capture of Cape of Good Hope 1795; commanded a division in expedition against Naples 1808 and afterwards the troops in the two Calabrias; general 19 July 1821; G.C. of order of St. Januarius; G.C.H. 1817; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baronet 21 Aug. 1820. _d._ Bath 17 Oct. 1853.

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Second viola player in orchestra of theatre royal, Edinburgh 1833, first violin player 1835, leader of the orchestra Feb. 1846 to death, this orchestra was for its size the first in the kingdom, it made successful annual visits to London. _d._ 7 Oct. 1857.

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (3 son of Alexander Mackenzie, builder, _d._ 1836). _b._ Logierait near Dunkeld, Perthshire 28 Jany. 1822; learnt trade of a stonemason; a journeyman builder at Kingston, Ontario 1842; a builder and contractor at Sarnia 1848; editor of the ‘Lambton Shield’ at Sarnia 1852; member for Lambton in the provincial parliament 1861–7 and in the dominion house of commons 1867–82; member for East York, July 1882 to death; formed a ministry 7 Nov. 1873, becoming himself minister of public works, resigned Sep. 1873; resigned leadership of the liberals 1880; presented with freedom of Irvine, Dundee and Perth 1875 and of Inverness 1881. _d._ St. Alban’s st. Toronto 17 April 1892. _bur._ Lake View cemetery near Sarnia. _Speeches of A. Mackenzie. Toronto_ (1876), _memoir pp._ 1–13, _portrait_.

M’KENZIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Auldcarn, Nairnshire 18 June 1829; captain hon. artillery company of London 8 March 1879, retired into the veteran company with hon. rank of major 8 March 1884; a skilled expert in all matters of forestry; superintendent of Epping Forest under corporation of London 1880 to death. _d._ The Warren, Loughton, Essex 27 March 1893. _City Press 29 March 1893 p._ 4, _1 April p._ 5.

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER MACKAY. _b._ 1827; entered Bengal army; raised 8th regiment of irregular cavalry and was second in command 10 Oct. 1854 to 1859 when it mutinied; commandant of Meywar Bheel corps 18 March 1863 to 1874; M.G. 25 Nov. 1874. _d._ 41 Queensborough terrace, London 27 May 1879.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES (3 son of John Mackenzie of Torridon, N.B.) _b._ 28 Feb. 1807; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; head master of St. Olave’s gram. sch. Southwark 1832–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopgate 1836–46; R. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st. with St. Leonard, Eastcheap 1846–66, and of same united with All Hallows’, Lombard st. and St. Dionis Backchurch 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; principal of Westbourne coll. London 1855–64; founder of metropolitan evening classes for young men 1848; founder of city of London coll. for young men 1862; author of Crosby place, a lecture 1842; History of the church of Christ 1842; Tabular views of the contents of the pentateuch 1850; The young christian’s glossary 5 ed. 1852; Westbourne college, Bayswater road, an inaugural address 1855. _d._ 35 Woburn sq. London 16 April 1888.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES FREDERICK (youngest son of Colin Mackenzie of Portmore, Peeblesshire). _b._ Harcus cottage, Portmore 10 April 1825; ed. at Edinb. acad. and Grange sch. near Sunderland; pensioner St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1844, migrated to Caius coll. Easter 1845, 2nd wrangler 1848, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; fellow of Caius coll., tutor; one of secretaries to Cambridge board of education 1848–55; C. of Haslingfield, Cambs. Oct. 1851 to 1854; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 1854–59; chaplain to the troops in Natal 1858–9; bishop of the mission to the tribes dwelling in neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa and river Shire, Africa 1860 to death; consecrated in cathedral at Cape Town 1 Jany. 1861; author of Holiday’s at Linmere, or our Lord’s miracles explained 1855. _d._ Malo island, Central Africa 31 Jany. 1862. _Harvey Goodwin’s Memoir of bishop Mackenzie_ (1865), _portrait_; _G. H. Smyttan’s Tribute to bishop Mackenzie_ (1862); _Frances Awdry’s An elder sister and her brother the missionary bishop_ (1878); _In Zululand, the story of the Mackenzie memorial mission_ (1872); _Thomas Pelham Dale’s A life’s motto_ (1869) 308–41; _C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers and founders_ (1871) 285–316.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES KENNETH. _b._ Scotland 1788; received degree of doctor in both law and medicine; aide de camp to duke of Wellington; accompanied British commission to Mexico 1823, being appointed consul for Vera Cruz 10 Oct. 1823; consul general to Hayti 27 Dec. 1825 to 10 Oct. 1828; comr. of arbitration to mixed commission at Havana 20 Feb. 1830 to Nov. 1834; returned to England and contributed to reviews and to the Encyclopædia Britannica; leader-writer on a London conservative journal; lost his life by burning of a hotel in New York 6 July 1862. _F.O. List_, _July 1864 p._ 166.

MACKENZIE, COLIN (son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, attorney general in island of Grenada, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 25 March 1806; cadet H.E.I.C. 1825; ensign 48 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826; cantonment magistrate at Palaveram 1835–6; present at the murder of sir William Macnaughton; sent on an embassy from Akbar to Jellalabad 1842; raised 4th regt. frontier brigade 1848–9; employed in annexing Berar 1853; in mutiny of 1856–7; lieut.-col. staff corps 18 Feb. 1861; superintendent of army clothing for all India 4 March 1862 to 24 Nov. 1864; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 13 March 1868. _d._ The Hitchel, St. Margaret’s road, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1881. _H. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine, life of C. Mackenzie_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 464 (1881), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, COLIN A. _b._ 1779; sent by government to Morlaix to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with Napoleon 1810; appointed by government to receive and entertain prince Lucien Bonaparte taken prisoner of war 1810; presided over commission for investigation of British claims on French government to 1828; sent to Portugal to adjust some political differences 1828; one of founders of Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall, London 1815; left part of his property to found a museum at Dingwall. _d._ 5 Hyde park place, London 24 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 96–7 (1852).

MACKENZIE, DONALD. _b._ in north of Scotland 15 June 1783; in employment of North-west fur co. Montreal 1801–9; one of 5 promoters of The Pacific fur co. 23 June 1810; established a fur trading post at Asteria on Columbia river, Capt. Black of H.M.S. Racoon took possession 30 Nov. 1813 and renamed it Fort George, restored to U.S. America 1814; chief factor of Hudson bay co. March 1821 and governor 1825, retired 1833. _d._ Mayville, Chautauque county, New York 20 Jany. 1851. _W. Anderson’s Scottish nation_, _iii_ 724–5 (1863); _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 133 (1888).

MACKENZIE, DONALD. Wholesale chemist at Islington, London; an elder of Edward Irving’s ch. in Regent sq. 1824, followed him on his expulsion 1832; angel of Catholic Apostolic church, Islington to 1835; the 12th apostle of the C.A. church, Albury, Surrey 14 July 1835 and had Norway and Sweden assigned to him as his sphere; disapproved of the apostles taking precedence over the prophets and retired from the Apostolic college in 1840 and never afterwards took any part in the work. _d._ 1855. _Miller’s Irvingism i_ 90, _ii_ 418 (1878).

MACKENZIE, DONALD (only son of Donald Mackenzie, captain 21 foot). _b._ 1818; L.R.C.P. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1839, in practice at Lasswade near Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1842; advocate depute 1854–58 and 1859–61; sheriff of Fife 26 Jany. 1861 to 14 March 1870; judge of court of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 14 March 1870 to death. _d._ Maulside, Dulwich wood park, Surrey, residence of major general Stuart 19 May 1875. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xix_ 316 (1875); _Law mag. and law review_, _iv_ 815–818 (1875).

MC KENZIE, DOUGLAS. Ed. St. Alban’s school and Peterhouse, Camb., scholar, 33 wrangler 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1886; 2 master Crewkerne gram. sch. and C. of Chaffcombe, Somerset 1864–6; C. of Rounds, Northants. 1866–9; V.P. of Trin. coll. Peterborough 1869–71; V. of St. Mary, Wolverton 1871–2; vice principal of St. Andrew’s coll. Grahamstown, South Africa 1873; principal of St. Andrew’s diocesan coll. Bloemfontain 1874–9; canon of Bloemfontain 1877–80; archdeacon of Harrismith 1879–80; bishop of Zululand 1880 to death, consecrated at Cape Town 30 Nov. 1880. _d._ of fever in Zululand before 15 Jany. 1890. _W. M. Cameron’s D. Mc Kenzie_ (1890); _Times 16 Jany. 1890 p._ 5, _17 Jany. p._ 9.

MACKENZIE, EDWARD (2 son of Alexander Mackenzie, canal engineer 1765–1836). _b._ 1 May 1811; civil engineer and contractor; purchased manor and estate of Fawley court near Henley, Bucks. from Wm. Peere Williams Freeman 1853; sheriff of Bucks. 1862. _d._ Fawley Court, Bucks. 27 Sep. 1880, personalty sworn under £1,000,000 Oct. 1880. _Times 30 Sep. 1880 p._ 9 _col._ 6.

MACKENZIE, FRANCIS JAMES NAPIER. _b._ 19 Oct. 1837; ensign 52 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1855; major Bengal staff corps 17 March 1875, lieut.-col. 17 March 1881; retired with hon. rank of colonel 13 July 1882; buried for seven hours among ruins at the Casamicciola earthquakes, Ischia 28 July 1883; wrote The destruction of La Piccola Sentinella at Ischia 28 July in The Times 10 Aug. 1883 pp. 2–3. _d._ Rome 18 Nov. 1884.

MACKENZIE, FRANCIS LEWIS (son of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, lord Mackenzie _d._ 1850). _b._ Belmont near Edinb. 16 Sep. 1833; ed. at Edinb. academy 1843, at Glasgow coll. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1852 to death; very talented and much interested in Sunday schools etc. _d._ Trinity coll. Cambridge 15 March 1855. _bur._ Madingley near Camb. 21 March. _C. P. Miles’s Memoir of F. L. Mackenzie_ (1857), 2 _portraits_.

MACKENZIE, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Mackenzie, linen draper). _b._ 1787; made architectural and topographical drawings for John Britton and others; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1804–28; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 4 Feb. 1813 to 1817, member 1823, treasurer 30 Nov. 1831 to death; published Etchings of landscapes for the use of students 1812; Architectural antiquities of St. Stephen’s chapel, Westminster 1844; Observations on the construction of the roof of King’s college chapel, Cambridge 1846. _d._ 43 Stanhope st. Hampstead road, London 25 April 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 371, _ii_ 84, 455 (1891).

MACKENZIE, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ New South Wales 1816 or 1817; ed. at Univ. college school and hospital, London; fellow and member of council of univ. college; M.D. Lond. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1855; physician to Queen Charlotte’s lying-in hospital; consulting physician and accoucheur to Westbourne dispensary; author of The pathology of phlegmasia dolens, Lettsonian lectures 1862. _d._ 11 Chester place, Hyde park square, London 3 April 1865. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 159 (1867).

MACKENZIE, GEORGE. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1777; tenant of a large farm; served in Perthshire militia till it was disbanded; began to keep a register of atmospheric changes 1802; author of The system of the weather of the British islands. Edinburgh 1818; Manual of the weather for 1830, including a brief account of the cycles of the winds and weather. Edinburgh 1829; Elements of the cycles of the winds, weather and prices of corn. Perth 1843. _d._ County Place, Perth 13 May 1856.

MACKENZIE, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ Bellefield, Rossshire 24 March 1837; ensign 60 rifles 9 May 1856, lieut. 21 May 1858, sold out 16 April 1861; served in war in U.S. of America in northern army July 1863, and became a captain; chess player in Dublin 1860; settled in New York 1865; played in London chess tournament 1862, won 10 games, drew 2 and lost 2; won first prize in each of New York chess club annual tournaments 1865, 6, 7 and 8; won first prizes in second American chess congress Dec. 1871 and in third congress 1874; played in tournaments Paris 1878, Berlin 1881, Vienna 1882, London 1883 and Hamburg 1885; at Frankfort in 1887 won 15 out of 20 games, first prize and champion chess player of the world; _found dead_ in his bed at an hotel, New York 14 April 1891. _Westminster papers 1 Oct. 1878 p._ 125, _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 758; _Times 16 April 1891 p._ 6; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iii_ 133 (1888), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, HENRY (youngest son of John Mackenzie, merchant, _d._ 1820). _b._ King’s Arms’ yard, Coleman st. City of London 16 May 1808; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1815 etc.; engaged in commerce; entered Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1830, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1869; C. of Wool and Lulworth, Dorset 1834; English chaplain at Rotterdam 1835–6; C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1836–7; master of Bancroft’s hospital, Mile End 1837–40; Inc. of St. James’s, Bermondsey 1840–4; V. of Great Yarmouth 1844–8; R. of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 1848–55; R. of Tydd St. Mary near Wisbech 1855–66; preb. of Lincoln 1858–64; sub dean and canon residentiary of Lincoln 1864 to death; archdeacon of Nottingham 1866–70; R. of South Collingham near Newark 1866–71; bishop suffragan of Nottingham 22 Jany. 1870 to 1878, consecrated at St. Mary’s, Nottingham 2 Feb. 1870; select preacher at Oxford 1871; P.C. of Scofton near Worksop 1871–3; member of convocation 1857; author of The life of Offa, king of Mercia 1840; A short commentary on the gospels and acts 1847; Thoughts for hours of retirement 1864; Hymns and verses for Sundays and holydays 1871. _d._ The subdeanery, Lincoln 15 Oct. 1878. _bur._ at South Collingham. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854) _portrait_, _lvi_ 157, 188, 253 (1870) _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, HOLT (son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1787; entered H.E.I.C.S. as a writer July 1807; sec. to government in territorial department May 1817; returned to England 1831, retired on the annuity fund Oct. 1833; one of comrs. of board of control 28 July 1832 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; author of Note addressed to Mr. Pennington on the importation of foreign corn 1841. _d._ 28 Wimpole st. London 31 March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 359, 575 (1876).

MACKENZIE, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1820; major 8 Bengal light cavalry 10 Aug. 1850, lieut.-col. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1858; lieut.-col. 5 European light cavalry 1858 to death; commandant 6 irregular cavalry 2 Sep. 1840 to 26 Feb. 1853; commandant at Ferozepore 18 Dec. 1857 to death; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Simla 15 Aug. 1859.

MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES THOMPSON, 1 Baronet (son of George Mackenzie of Aberdeen, merchant 1773–1852). _b._ 27 Dec. 1818; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.; went to India 1835 where he made a fortune; returned to England 1850, became a successful financier; purchased the estates of Kintail and Glenmuick near Ballater and there entertained the Shah on his visit to England 1889; created baronet 21 March 1890. _d._ Brighton 12 Aug. 1890. _London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 9, _col._ 2, _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, JOHN (2 son of sir Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, 3 baronet _d._ 1770). _b._ 19 Dec. 1763; lieut. 73 foot 1 Jany. 1778; captain in an independent company 13 Feb. 1782, placed on h.p. 1783; captain on formation of 78 highlanders 10 March 1793, lieut.-col. 15 July 1795, placed on h.p. 1802; general 10 Jany. 1837. _d._ Inverness 14 June 1860. _bur._ in Gairloch tomb at Beauly priory.

NOTE.--He was known by sobriquet of Fighting Jack, and was at time of his death the oldest officer in British army.

MACKENZIE, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1805; major 3 Bengal light cavalry 1 Nov. 1838 to 30 Oct. 1848; lieut.-col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 30 Oct. 1848 to 1852; lieut.-col. 7 Bengal light cavalry 1852 to death. _d._ Simla 5 May 1856.

MACKENZIE, JOHN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1804; connected with editorial department of Galignani’s messenger since 1840, edited it latterly. _d._ 65 Rue St. Anne, Paris 6 Dec. 1879.

MACKENZIE, JOHN FRANCIS CAMPBELL. _b._ Scotland; sub-lieutenant R.N. 30 Aug. 1841; first lieut. of the Miranda during the Russian war serving in the White Sea and at Sebastopol 1854–5; served with a scaling ladder party at attack on Redan 1855; inspecting officer of coast guard at Swanage 1855, and at Ryde; captain 1 Oct. 1861, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1887; queen’s harbour master Holyhead 1872–92; connected with all the philanthropic movement in Anglesea; a knight of the legion of honour. _d._ of influenza, Holyhead 11 Jany. 1892. _bur._ with military honours 15 Jany. _Times 12, 13, 16, 22 Jany. 1892._

MACKENZIE, JOHN KENNETH (younger son of Alexander Mackenzie). _b._ Yarmouth, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1850; clerk in a merchant’s office at Bristol 1865; entered Bristol medical school, Oct. 1870; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1874; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1874; appointed by London missionary society superintendent of medical station at Hankow, China, arrived there 8 June 1875; removed to Tien-tsin March 1879, where he founded a medical school for native students, obtained funds for erection of a new hospital at Tien-tsin, opened 2 Dec. 1880; edited The China medical missionary journal 1887. _d._ of small-pox at Tien-tsin 1 April 1888. _Mrs. Bryson’s J. K. Mackenzie, medical missionary in China_ (1891), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, JOSHUA HENRY, Lord Mackenzie (eld. son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1777; passed advocate 19 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Linlithgow 1811; judge of court of session 14 Nov. 1822 to 1851 with courtesy title of lord Mackenzie; judge of court of justiciary 1824–51; one of comrs. of tentative jury court 1825–51. _d._ Belmont near Edinb. 17 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 93–4 (1852).

MACKENZIE, KENNETH DOUGLAS (only son of Donald Mackenzie). _b._ 1 Feb. 1811; ensign 92 foot 25 Nov. 1831, captain 1844, major 26 Dec. 1857, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; deputy assistant A.G. in Dublin; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1855, assistant A.G. at head quarters before Sebastopol 1855; assistant A.G. in Dublin during Fenian disturbances 1865–6; assistant Q.M.G. at the horse guards 1 April 1870 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ on bank of river Meavy near Roborough, Devon 24 Aug. 1873 after being upset in a gig crossing the river Meavy. _A.R._ (1873) 79, 148.

MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon, _d._ 1851). _b._ Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned 1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887 to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888; published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble, of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887; granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4 ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope 1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879; A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4; Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. _d._ 19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. _bur._ in graveyard of St. Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. _H. R. Haweis’s Sir M. Mackenzie_ (1893), _portrait_; _Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays_ (1893), _portrait_; _Journal of laryngology_, _vi_ 95–108 (1892), _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 371 (1891), 5 _portraits_; _Victoria Mag. xxxiii_ 185 (1879), _portrait_; _Provincial Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.

MC KENZIE, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about 1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. _d._ while on a visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. _bur._ Glasgow necropolis. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 199–202 (1886), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, RICHARD JAMES (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). _b._ Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36; apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9; assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850; lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849; with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed 27 operations after the battle of the Alma. _d._ of cholera on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. _Begbie and Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie_ (1855), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT (son of a parish schoolmaster). _b._ Barry, Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857; frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.; author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth century 1880; America, a history 1882. _d._ Magdalen yard road, Dundee 2 Feb. 1881.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain in the army, author of books in Gaelic). _b._ Drew’s court, Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork 1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London 1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office 25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3 vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock 3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works in America 1854–71. _d._ Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. _Law Times 30 Oct. 1852 pp._ 66–7.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). _b._ 1793; a writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty 1837–47. _d._ Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie, tradesman, Perth). _b._ Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired 1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. _d._ 24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1869 pp._ 609–10; _Law mag. and law rev. xxix_ 271–3 (1870).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794; apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to 1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. _d._ 19 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_ 102–5 (1852).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer, _d._ 1800). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death; with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow 1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye, Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and 2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838; author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 30 July 1868. _Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 203–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Glasgow Medical journal_, _i_ 6–13 (1868).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3; minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the 33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth, unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in portions for all the days in the year 1847. _Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt._ 2 _p._ 754 (1869).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (son of James Mackenzie _d._ 1822). _b._ Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story 1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life, its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus, his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading 1867 and 35 other books. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. _Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B. Mackenzie_ (1872), _biographical sketch pp. ix–xci_, _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie 1825–62). _b._ Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P. Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb. 1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853; contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. _d._ The Glen, Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (son of Daniel Mackenzie _d._ 1795). _b._ Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth 1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834, and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov. 1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837, utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws 1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. _d._ Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie. Toronto_ 2 _vols._ (1862), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 241; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 201; _G.M. xi_ 566–8 (1861).

MC KERROW, JOHN. _b._ Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith 1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian churches 1867. _d._ at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series_ (1851) 297–303; _United Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p._ 285.

MC KERROW, WILLIAM (son of William Mc Kerrow _d._ 1851, wheelwright and turner). _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets, and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association 1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance, vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its advantages, a lecture 1853. _d._ Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire 4 June 1878. _Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son_ (1881), _portrait_; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 178–82.

MACKESON, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Mackeson). _b._ Hythe, Kent 28 Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany. 1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; _assassinated_ when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853.

MACKESON, WILLIAM WYLLYS (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue Mountain, Jamaica). _b._ 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage. By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2 vols. 1884. _d._ Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892.

MACKESY, THOMAS LEWIS. _b._ Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ. 1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R. coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death; last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. _d._ 47 Lady lane, Waterford 9 April 1869.

MC KEWAN, DAVID HALL (son of David Mc Kewan). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in sepia 1870. _d._ 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2 Aug. 1873. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 396–7.

MACKIE, IVIE. _b._ 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie, Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56 and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60; presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a munificent contributor to local charities. _d._ Manchester 23 Feb. 1873.

MACKIE, JAMES (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., _d._ 1858). _b._ 18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3 April 1857 to death. _d._ Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec. 1867.

MC KIE, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. _d._ Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. _Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891_, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.

MACKIE, JOHN (son of James Mackie of Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. _d._ Bargaly 3 July 1858.

MACKIE, ROBERT BOWNAS (son of Robert J. Mackie). _b._ Wakefield 1829; ed. Wesley coll. Sheffield; partner in firm of Robert Mackie and Sons, corn merchants, Wakefield; contested Wakefield 2 Feb. 1874 and 6 May 1874; M.P. Wakefield 1880 to death. _d._ 35 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 18 June 1885.

M’KILLOP, HENRY FREDERICK. Sub-lieutenant R.N. 10 Aug. 1847; captain R.N. 24 Nov. 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877; captain of the port and comptroller general of ports and lighthouses in Egypt to death; knight of legion of honour; received 1st class Medjidie 1875; raised to rank of Fereek by the Khedive 1877; author of Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New Zealand as a midshipman 1849. _d._ Ramlet, Alexandria, Egypt 5 June 1879.

MC KIM, ROBERT. _b._ co. Tyrone 24 May 1816; apprenticed to a stone-mason; emigrated to U.S. of America; a stone-mason at Philadelphia, then at Madison, Indiana 1837–55; a coal merchant 1855; purchased and mounted in his observatory one of the best telescopes in America; presented to observatory of De Pauw univ. a complete astronomical outfit at cost of over 10,000 dollars. _d._ Madison 9 May 1887.

MC KINLAY, JOHN. _b._ Sandbank on the Clyde 1819; emigrated to New South Wales 1836 where he took up several runs near the South Australian border; commanded expedition sent to trace the fate of Burke and Wills by South Australian government, left Adelaide 16 Aug. 1861, proved that Lake Torrens did not exist but found several new lakes, explored the country between Eyre’s Creek and Central Mount Stuart; reached Port Denison 25 Sep. 1862; voted £1000 by the government of S. Australia 1862; explored northern part of S. Australia 1865–6. _d._ 31 Dec. 1872, monument erected at Gawler, S. Australia. _Mackinlay’s Journal of exploration in the interior of Australia_ (1862); _J. Davis’s Tracts of Mc Kinlay across Australia_ (1863); _W. Howilt’s History of discovery in Australia_, _ii_ 254–83 (1865); _J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia_, _ii_ 475–91 (1875); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 36 (1865), _portrait_.

M’KINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Devonport 1766; entered navy 5 Aug. 1773; captain 20 Oct. 1801; superintendent of royal navy asylum Greenwich, April 1821 to 22 July 1830; admiral on h.p. 11 June 1851, pensioned 16 Sep. 1851. _d._ Anglesey near Gosport 17 Jany. 1852.

MACKINNON, DANIEL HENRY (youngest son of Daniel Mackinnon of Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). _b._ 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1 Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2 ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. _d._ 7 Jany. 1884.

MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of Strath, _d._ 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain, Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. _d._ Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. _The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p._ 5.

MACKINNON, KENNETH M. _b._ 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army 19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857; apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west provinces. Cawnpore 1848. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon _d._ 1888). _b._ Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen; emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839; settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W. legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in 1868 and lived in Devonshire. _d._ Torquay 21 March 1888.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon 1789–1870). _b._ Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815; entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain 1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848; Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Ormley lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877.

MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1825; ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and _died_ soon after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) _pp._ 77–80.

MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to 1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants; commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and 10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15 July 1889. _d._ of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893. _Black and White 1 July 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 July 1893 p._ 7, _portrait_.

MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of Mackinnon). _b._ 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich 1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65; brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia; F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon., published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols. 1846. _d._ Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. _I.L.N. xv_ 44 (1849), _portrait_.

MACKINTOSH, ANGUS (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum, Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr. Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29 July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. _A.R._ (1864) 19–22.

MACKINTOSH, CHARLES CALDER (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh _d._ Tain 1831). _b._ Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow; co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep. 1850. _d._ Pau 24 Nov. 1868. _W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C. Mackintosh_ (1871), _biographical sketch pp._ 23–51, _portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 310 (1870).

MACKINTOSH, DANIEL (son of the owner of a water-power mill). _b._ Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy, geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart. Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861, received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received 4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research; presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3; author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales, its character and origin 1869. _d._ Birkenhead 19 July 1891. _bur._ Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. _Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p._ 432.

MACKINTOSH, MACKAY. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May 1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert, Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829; Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare 1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic; Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick Macleod with memorials 1869. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 19 (1870).

MACKMURDO, GILBERT WAKEFIELD. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. _d._ Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.

MACKNESS, JAMES (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man). _b._ Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s 15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. _d._ Wellington sq. Hastings 8 Feb. 1851. _Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard_ (1851).

MACKONOCHIE, ALEXANDER HERIOT (3 son of George Mackonochie, retired colonel). _b._ Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage, Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862, church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him 1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years; resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870; V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec. 1883; author of First principles _v._ Erastianism, sermons 1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, _found dead_ in the deer forest of Manore 15 Dec. 1887. _bur._ in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild, Working 23 Dec. _E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir_ (1890), _portrait_; _Church portrait journal n.s. iii_ 49–56 (1882), _portrait_; _Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson. By W. G. F. Phillimore_ (1868); _Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale_ (1871).

MACKONOCHIE, JAMES (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1823; advocate at Scotch bar 1845; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; a revising barrister 1873–88; recorder of Winchester, Jany. 1880 to Dec. 1888; judge of county court, circuit 55 (Hants. and Dorset), Nov. 1888 to death. _d._ Kenilworth, Cavendish road, Bournemouth 18 Dec. 1892.

MC KOWEN, JAMES. _b._ Lambeg near Lisburn, co. Antrim 11 Feb. 1814; employed at bleach works of Richardson, Sons & Owden, Belfast about 1833 to death; contributed many racy poems to Northern Whig and other Ulster papers from about 1840, generally under pseudonym of Kitty Connor; one of his pieces The old Irish cow, became very popular in Ulster, and another The ould Irish jig, is known throughout Ireland; 9 of his poems are in The harp of Erin. Dublin 1867; resided at Millbrook. _d._ Beechside, Lisburn 22 April 1889. _bur._ Lambeg 25 April. _The Northern Whig 24 April 1889 pp._ 1, 5.

MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY, 4 Baronet (eld. son of sir Digby Mackworth, 3 bart. 1766–1838). _b._ Oxford 13 June 1789; ed. at Westminster; lieut. 7 fusiliers 9 July 1807; carried the colours at Talavera 27 and 28 July 1809; one of lord Hill’s aides de camp; captain 13 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1818 to 23 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832 for his assistance in suppressing riots in forest of Dean 1830 and at Bristol 1831; succeeded his father as 4 bart. 2 May 1838; sheriff of Monmouthshire 1843; chief founder of National club, London 1845; contested Derby 1846 and Liverpool 1847. _d._ Glen Uske, Monmouthshire 23 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 524–26 (1852); _I.L.N. xxi_ 282 (1852).

NOTE.--He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the 1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.

MACKWORTH, HUBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.; author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. _d._ Clifton wood house, Bristol 13 July 1858.

MACLACHLAN, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803, col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare. _d._ Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.

MACLACHLAN, ARCHIBALD. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799; major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec. 1854.

MACLACHLAN, DANIEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced life 1863. _d._ Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi_ 350 (1871).

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers, Edinburgh. _d._ Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1876. _Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p._ 8.

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow cathedral 23 May 1878. _d._ Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.

MACLAGAN, ALEXANDER (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). _b._ Bridgend, Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829; manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871; National songs and ballads 1878. _d._ Edinburgh 20 April 1879. _C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel_, _v_ 226–40 (1857).

MACLAGAN, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S. 1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p. 1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826; pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. _d._ 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June 1865. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v_ 476–7 (1866).

MACLAGAN, DAVID (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co. 1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh, a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church 1876. _d._ Mentone 30 March 1883.

MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., _d._ 1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep. 1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic movements; botanist. _d._ Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic 17 June 1893 p._ 5, _view of fountain_.

MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale in the Isle of Mull, _d._ 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). _b._ 13 Jany. 1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22 Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col. 7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816; lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17 foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855. _d._ 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). _b._ Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30 July; _murdered_ by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. _bur._ Kandahar with military honours. _Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign_ (1882) 131–4, _portrait_.

MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium, Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868; A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army 1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical 1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.

MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). _b._ Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Moreland cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. _R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren_ 2 _vols._ (1869), _portrait_.

MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). _b._ Renton, Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833, baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81, used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland; established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4 ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of Edinburgh 1840. _d._ Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886, portrait in council chamber, Edinb. _J. B. Mackie’s Life and works of D. Mc Laren_ 2 _vols._ (1888), 2 _portraits_.

M’LAREN, JAMES. _b._ Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the oldest official connected with the company. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1893.

M’LAREN, JOHN H. _b._ Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager 1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. _d._ Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.

MC LAUCHLAN, HENRY. _b._ 1791; surveyor in connection with the manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S. 1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans. Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857; Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. _d._ 14 Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxviii proceedings p._ 53 (1882); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 333.

MACLAUCHLAN, THOMAS (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister of Moy, Inverness). _b._ Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43; Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire 1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council 1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic; Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels 1857; The early Scotch church 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 21 March 1886.

MC LAUGHLAN, JOHN (son of a Highland Scotchman). _b._ Dovenby near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm. Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug. 1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828; umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth, Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several years. _d._ Liverpool, Oct. 1876. _J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s Wrestling_ (1893) 208–218.

MC LAUGHLIN, HUBERT. _b._ 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of ancient Irish saints 1874. _d._ Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882. _Times 21 Dec. 1882 p._ 4 _col._ 4.

MACLAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776; ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805; minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of which he became general agent and then president; obtained an endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel, Glasgow 1840. _d._ New York city 2 May 1860. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 141–2 (1888).

MACLAY, MIKLUOHO (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). _b._ 1846; ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in New Guinea 1887. _d._ Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April 1888.

MACLEA, CHARLES GASCOIGNE. _b._ 1793; member of firm of Maclea and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition 1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. _d._ Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 516–8; _Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire_, _i_ 641, _ii_ 251–2 (1878).

MACLEAN, ALEXANDER (son of David Maclean of Glasgow, manufacturer). _b._ Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861; studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1877. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.

MACLEAN, ALLAN THOMAS (2 son of Archibald Maclean of Penny-cross, co. Argyle). _b._ 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861; served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with 6 clasps. _d._ Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 113, 358, 525 (1869).

MC LEAN, ARCHIBALD (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a member of legislative council of Canada). _b._ St. Andrew’s, April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff; a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker; judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to death. _d._ Toronto 1865. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 142–3 (1888).

MACLEAN, ARCHIBALD. Rear admiral in German navy. _d._ Berlin 7 Nov. 1884.

MC LEAN, CHARLES. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London 1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov. 1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. _d._ 1869.

MACLEAN, SIR CHARLES FITZROY, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet _d._ 5 July 1847). _b._ 14 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct. 1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar; colonel 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ West Cliff house, Sandgate road, Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.

MACLEAN, DONALD (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). _b._ 1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford 1835–47. _d._ Rome 21 March 1874.

MC LEAN, SIR DONALD (4 son of John Mc Lean). _b._ Kilmonaig near Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki 1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives 5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870, K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. _d._ New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 163, 248, 289, _portrait_.

MACLEAN, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart, Fifeshire). _b._ Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849, placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 _d._ Southampton 29 May 1861.

MC LEAN, HECTOR (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20; rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887; captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. _d._ of typhoid fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.

NOTE.--The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second division which takes place annually in the month of March were instituted in his memory.

MACLEAN, HENRY DUNDAS (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour, Argyleshire 1764–1855). _b._ 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot 27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832, placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846; sheriff of Cumberland 1848. _d._ Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec. 1863.

MACLEAN, JOHN (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire). _b._ 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858; assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London, Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college, Toronto 1871. _d._ Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. _The Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p._ 1720.

MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria, Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B. 25 Aug. 1857. _d._ East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874; his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and _d._ 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.

MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre 27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to 1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. _d._ at his lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890. _bur._ Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 255; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 575, 592, 593 (1877) _portrait_, _xxii_ 537 (1885) _portrait_, _and 22 March 1890 p._ 44 _portrait_; _The Era 22 March 1890_.

M’LEAN, JOHN DONALD (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle of Skye). _b._ Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837; grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec. 1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death. _d._ Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec. 1866. _Australian men of mark_, _ii_ 87–92 (1889), _portrait_.

M’CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON (son of Francis M’Clean of Belfast) _b._ 1813; ed. at royal academical institution Belfast and Glasgow univ.; M.I.C.E. 15 June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858–64, pres. 1864–5; lieut.-col. engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865 to death; chairman Anglo American telegraph co.; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. East Staffordshire 17 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Stonehouse near Ramsgate 13 July 1873.

M’LEAN, ROBERT. _b._ 29 July 1857; ed. at Dr. Adams’ school, Victoria park, Manchester and at Fettes coll. Edinb. 1870–5; articled to Hall, Son and Lord, Manchester 1876–81; New Inn prizeman at examination June 1881; practised at Manchester 1881, and in London with Albert Gibson 1888 to death; author of A lesson well learnt and of other dramas and of Diversions of an articled clerk 1892; edited with A. Gibson and Arthur Weldon, Law Notes, a monthly magazine for students 1888 to Feb. 1893; author with A. Gibson of The student’s conveyancing 1885, 3 ed. 1892; Student’s Equity 1887; Student’s practice of the courts 1882, 4 ed. 1889; wrote the libretto of Eric the Dane, a cantata performed at one of Sir Charles Halle’s concerts. _d._ Richmond house, High st. Oxford road, Manchester 2 Feb. 1893. _Law Notes_, _March 1893_, _portrait_.

M’LEAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1788; a publisher of engravings 69 Haymarket, London 1825, retired in favor of his eldest son; brought out prints of sir E. Landseer’s pictures of The Stag at bay, Dignity and impudence, Laying down the law, and Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home; published the Political sketches of H. B. [_i.e._ J. Doyle] No. 1–757, a series of coloured lithographic prints 1829–43; published Illustrated description of the works of J. Gillray 1830; Humorous engravings, sporting prints 1835. _d._ Selhurst, Surrey 9 March 1875.

MACLEAR, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of James Maclear). _b._ Newton Stewart, Tyrone 17 March 1794; ed. Winchester; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815; house surgeon of Bedford infirmary 1815; practised at Biggleswade 1823–33, where he erected an observatory 1828; astronomer royal at Cape of Good Hope 5 Jany. 1834 to 1870; F.R.A.S. 1828; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831, royal medallist 1869; Lalande medal of the Academy of sciences 1867; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; became totally blind 1867; contributed to Memoirs of R. Astronom. soc. 1835 etc.; author of Observations of Halley’s comet made at Cape of Good Hope 1837; Astronomical observations made under the direction T. Maclear 1840; Contributions to astronomy and geodesy 2 vols. 1851 and 1853; Verification and extension of La Caille’s arc of meridian 1866; Catalogue of 4810 stars from observation made by sir T. Maclear 1884. _d._ Grey villa, Mowbray, Capetown 14 July 1879. _bur._ in the observatory grounds. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl_ 200–204 (1880); _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 17–18 (1879); _Nature 14 Aug. 1879 p._ 365.

MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec. N.S.W., _d._ 1848). _b._ 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822 etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30; member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6; member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875; settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. _d._ Chalet des Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891.

MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 15 April 1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. _d._ 49 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892.

MACLEAY, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician). _b._ Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 3 Malta terrace, Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 444–5.

MACLEAY, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore, Rossshire). _b._ Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75; the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay; expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ. of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875; knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec. 1891. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 93–8, _portrait_.

MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP (brother of James Robert Macleay 1811–92). _b._ London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S. 1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21; Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the new sperm whale 1851. _d._ Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865. _F.O. List_, _Jany. 1865 p._ 116.

MACLEHOSE, JAMES (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). _b._ Govan 16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow 1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R. Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards of 50 writers in his employment and published many books; bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. _d._ 18 Victoria crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. _Maclehose’s Memoirs_, _ii_ 343–6 (1886), _portrait_.

MC LELAN, ARCHIBALD WOODBURY. _b._ 1824; member of provincial assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881; minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr. for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. _d._ Nova Scotia 25 June 1890.

M’LELLAN, ARCHIBALD (son of a coachbuilder). _b._ Glasgow 1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st. purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854; author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833; Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839. _d._ Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. _bur._ in the High church burying-ground at Glasgow. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 205–6 (1886), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 286–91 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 457–62.

M’LENNAN, DONALD (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent). _b._ Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan. Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. _d._ 2 Vicarage gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.

MC LENNAN, JOHN. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821, surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849, retired 26 Jany. 1855. _d._ 5 April 1874.

MC LENNAN, JOHN FERGUSON (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91). _b._ Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871; LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865; Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876; Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. _d._ Hawthorndene, Hayes Common, Kent 16 June 1881.

MACLEOD, ALEXANDER. _b._ Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44; presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844; transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children 1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877; Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. _d._ Birkenhead 13 Jany. 1891. _In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D._ (1891); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 375–80.

M’LEOD, SIR CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800; captain 21 N.I. 21 Sep. 1804, major 25 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 12 N.I. 31 May 1827 to 5 June 1829; col. 34 N.I. 5 June 1829 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 30 June 1852. _d._ Seymour st. Portman sq. London 15 April 1853.

MACLEOD, DONALD. Entered Madras army 1812; lieut.-col. of 6 Madras light cavalry 1840, of 5 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to 1846; col. 3 light cavalry 11 Sep. 1848 to 1860; col. 4 light cavalry 1860–69; L.G. 2 Oct. 1862; commander of Nagpore subsidiary force 20 Sep. 1848 to 17 June 1851, of Ceded district 28 March 1854 to 28 March 1859. _d._ 29 Greenhill gardens, Morningside, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1870.

MC LEOD, SIR DONALD FRIELL (son of Duncan Mc Leod 1780–1856). _b._ Fort William, Calcutta 6 May 1810; entered Bengal civil service 1829; administrator of Saugor and Nerbudda 1831–40; collector and magistrate at Benares 1843–9; comr. at Jellunder of the Trans-Sutlej States 1849–54; financial comr. of the Punjab 1854–9 and 1860–5; lieut. governor of the Punjab, Jany. 1865, retired 1870; chairman of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi railway; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ St. George’s hospital, London 28 Nov. 1872 from an accident on the Metropolitan railway at Gloucester road station same day. _E. J. Lake’s Memoir of sir D. F. Mc Leod_ (1873), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxi_ 550, 565 (1872), _portrait_.

MACLEOD, DUNCAN (son of Donald Macleod). _b._ Torbat, co. Ross 20 Feb. 1780; entered Bengal army Feb. 1797; lieut. Bengal engineers 13 Feb. 1803, col. 18 June 1831 to death; built the palace at Moorshedabad 1825–36; left India, Feb. 1841; A.I.C.E. 1842; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ London 8 June 1856. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 163–66 (1857).

MACLEOD, SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD (3 son of Norman Macleod 1783–1862). _b._ 1828; studied medicine at Glasgow, M.D. 1853; at Paris and Vienna; senior surgeon of civil hospital at Smyrna, Feb. 1854 to 1856; surgeon at Glasgow 1856 to death; surgeon in Glasgow royal infirmary, and lecturer on surgery at Anderson’s college; regius professor of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1869; crown member of general council of medical education 15 Sep. 1887 to death; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 10 Sep. 1877; LL.D. St. Andrews; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; author of Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea 1858; Outlines of surgical diagnosis 1864; Note book for sir G. Macleod’s clinical class 5 ed. 1890; wrote articles in S. Cooper’s Surgical dictionary 1861. _d._ Woodside crescent, Glasgow 31 Aug. 1892. _bur._ Campsie churchyard. _I.L.N. 10 Sep. 1892 p._ 326, _portrait_.

MACLEOD, SIR JOHN (son of Donald Macleod of Bernaray, co. Inverness). Ensign 78 highlanders 9 March 1793, lieut.-col. 12 May 1808 to Jany. 1826; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837; colonel of 77 regt. 17 Feb. 1840 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 4 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 July 1832. _d._ 18 Montague st. Portman sq. London 3 April 1851.

M’LEOD, JOHN LYONS. Entered R.N. 26 Nov. 1841; when a midshipman he captured the slaver Venus after an action of 20 minutes 13 Feb. 1845 for which promoted to be lieut.; British consul at Mozambique 15 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858, when he exposed the slavery system known as the engagés libres; consul for districts bordering on rivers Niger and Chadda 26 June 1866, consulate abolished 13 May 1869, granted compensation allowance 1 July 1869; author of Travels in Eastern Africa 2 vols. 1860; Madagascar and its people 1865. _d._ 25 Oct. 1893.

MACLEOD, SIR JOHN MACPHERSON (eld. son of Donald Macleod, colonel in Madras army). _b._ Ardarden, Dumbartonshire 1792; ed. at Haileybury and at univ. of Edinb.; writer Madras civil service 1811; assistant sec. to government of Madras 1814–20 and sec. 1823; comr. for government of Mysore 1832; member of Indian law commission 1835, retired 1841; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; P.C. 24 March 1871; author of Remarks on some popular objections to the income tax 1849. _d._ 1 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 1 March 1881.

MACLEOD, JOSEPH ADDISON (eld. son of Joseph Addison Macleod of city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1839; ed. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1861; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1863; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882. _d._ 27 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 14 April 1883. _bur._ Hulton, Essex 18 April.

MACLEOD, NORMAN (son of Norman Macleod, minister of Morven, Argyllshire). _b._ Morven, Dec. 1783; minister at Kilbrandon, Argyllshire 1806–8; minister at Campbeltown, Argyllshire 12 June 1808; minister at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Aug. 1825; D.D. Glasgow 30 July 1827; minister of Gaelic chapel of ease, St. Columba’s, Glasgow 31 Oct. 1835 to death; moderator of general assembly of church of Scotland 1836; chaplain in ord. to the queen 2 Oct. 1841; one of the deans of chapel royal 1841; author of Gaelic collection for the use of schools 1828; The Gaelic messenger 2 vols. 1831; The psalms of David in Irish; author with D. Dewar of A dictionary of the Gaelic language 1831. _d._ Glasgow 25 Nov. 1862. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 103–7; _Hew Scott’s Fasti_, _ii_ 32–3, 55 _and iii_ 37.

MACLEOD, NORMAN (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Kirk st. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 3 June 1812; ed. at Glasgow and Edinburgh univs.; minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire 15 March 1838 to 1843; minister of Dalkeith near Edinburgh 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; sent by general assembly to British North America, June 1845; member of general assembly 1849; minister of Barony church, Glasgow 27 Feb. 1851, inducted July 1851; dean of the chapel royal; one of H.M. chaplains for Scotland 26 Dec. 1857; hon. D.D. Glasgow 30 April 1858; dean of the order of the thistle 26 July 1869; visited the mission stations in India 1867; moderator of the general assembly 1869; edited The Edinburgh christian magazine 1850–9; Good words 1860 etc.; Good words for the young 1868–70; author of Deborah or fireside readings for servants 1857; The home school, or hints on home education 1856; Parish papers 1862; Reminiscences of a highland parish 1867; The starling, a Scottish story 2 vols. 1867; Eastward, a visit to Egypt and the Holy Land 1866; Peeps at the far east, a visit to India 1871 and 25 other books. _d._ Glasgow 16 June 1872. _bur._ Campsie 20 June. His statue erected in Glasgow and two windows placed by the queen to his memory in Crathie church. _D. Macleod’s Memoir of N. Macleod_ (1877), _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 86–7, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 313–23; _More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands_ (1884) 209–37; _Illustrated Review_, _iv_ 33–7 (1872), _portrait_; _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 207–12 (1886), _portrait_.

MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ Scotland; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1816; surgeon in the army; settled in London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1821; F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1837, consiliarius 1839; editor and proprietor of London Medical Gazette, number one 8 Dec. 1827, a weekly journal; physician St. George’s hospital 13 Feb. 1833 to 1845; author of On rheumatism 1842. _d._ Chanonry, Old Aberdeen 7 Dec. 1852. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 243–4 (1878).

MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ 1786; M.P. Cromarty and Nairn 1818–20; M.P. co. Sutherland 1831–7 and M.P. Inverness district of burghs 1837–40; lord lieutenant of Cromarty 8 May 1833 to death. _d._ Invergordon castle, Rossshire 13 March 1853.

M’LEOD, RODERICK (son of the minister of Snizort). _b._ Glen-Haltin, Isle of Skye 1794; presbyterian minister at Lynedale, Skye to 1823, at Bracadale 1823–38 and at Snizort 1838–43; minister of the Free church, often preaching on hill sides and in snow storms 1843, itinerated in Skye to his death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1863; author of Report of the proceedings of the general assembly in the case of the suspension of R. M’Leod 1826. _d._ 1868. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 383–8, _portrait_.

MACLEOD, RODERICK BANNATYNE. _b._ 18 Feb. 1823; entered Bengal army; cornet 4 European light cavalry 27 Sep. 1843, captain 6 Sep. 1851; captain 3 European light cavalry to 1862; major 21 hussars 30 July 1862, lieut.-col. 4 March 1868 to 8 Dec. 1877 when he retired as M.G. _d._ Golden manor court near Hanwell, Middlesex 24 Feb. 1881.

MACLEOD, WILLIAM COUPERUS. Entered Madras army 1821; lieut. 30 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 14 May 1853 to 1856; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1856–7, of 14 N.I. 1857–9, of 40 N.I. 1859–60, of 14 N.I. 1860–3 and of 1 N.I. 1863 to 1 Aug. 1864; commandant at Jaulnah 16 Aug. 1859 to 9 July 1861; commandant at Malabar and Canara 9 July 1861 to 15 Jany. 1862; commandant of Nagpore subsidiary force 15 Jany. 1862 to 2 June 1863; commanded Pegu division 2 June 1863 to 27 April 1864; commanded Ceded district 27 April 1864 to 30 May 1868; col. of 30 Madras N.I. 12 March 1865 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 62 Gloucester gardens, London 4 April 1880.

M’LERIE, JOHN. _b._ Ayrshire 1809; private in fusilier guards; an orderly clerk in war office; ensign 58 foot 28 Dec. 1838, adjutant 1838–48, lieut. 27 June 1841, sold out 7 June 1850; served in Tasmania and N.S.W.; was in Maori war of 1845; paymaster and adjutant of the mounted patrol, Sydney; principal gaoler at Darlinghurst; police magistrate and superintendent of police, Sydney 1850; inspector general of police 1856 when he suppressed bush-ranging. _d._ 6 Oct. 1874. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates_ (1879) 140.

M’LETCHIE, JAMES. _b._ Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800; apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.; presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841, at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow 1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. _bur._ Grange cemetery 24 Sep. _Sermons by J. M’Letchie_ (1871) _memoir pp. vii–xxvii_, _portrait_.

MACLISE, DANIEL (2 child of Alexander Mc Lish of Cork, tanner). _baptized_ in presbyterian ch. Princes st. Cork 2 Feb. 1806 but he always said he was _b._ 25 Jany. 1811; student at Cork academy opened 1822; opened a studio in Patrick st. 1825; entered schools of the R.A. London 20 April 1828, gained the gold medal for historical composition 1829; contributed 80 character portraits to Fraser’s Mag. latterly under nom de plume of Alfred Croquis, June 1830 to 1838; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1829–71; altered spelling of his name to Maclise 1835; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840; for his great mural paintings of Wellington and Blucher 1858–61 and The death of Nelson on board the Victory 1861–4, in the royal gallery Westminster, he was paid £7,000; designed the Swiney cup for the Society of arts, the medal for International Exhibition 1862, and the Turner medal for the R.A.; illustrated The princess by A. Tennyson 1860 and took part in illustrating many other works. _d._ 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 25 April 1870. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery in his father’s vault, portrait by E. M. Ward in National portrait gallery. _W. J. O’Driscoll’s Memoir of D. Maclise_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 100, _portrait_; _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 15–19; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 161–64 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_; _Fine art. By W. M. Rossetti_ (1867) 245–54; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 448–63, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vi_ 293 (1845) _portrait_, _iii_ 169, 170 (1868), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 4 May 1870 p._ 313, _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. May 1847 p._ 594, _portrait_.

MACLIVER, PETER STEWART (son of David Macliver of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland). _b._ Edinburgh 1820; ed. High sch. and univ. of Glasgow; on staff of Tyne mercury at Newcastle 1845; started the Newcastle Guardian; founder and proprietor of Western Daily Press, Bristol 29 June 1858, built at great cost new offices 1889; M.P. Plymouth 1880–85; great advocate of cause of post office officials; liberal candidate for Doncaster division of Yorkshire 1890. _d._ Cotham park, Brighton 19 April 1891. _Michell’s Newspaper Press directory_ (1892) 78, _portrait_; _Congregationalist_, _Dec. 1881 pp._ 977–82, _portrait_.

MACLOUGHLIN, DAVID. _b._ 1784; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1810; L.R.C.S. 1809; assistant surgeon in the army 22 June 1815; served during Peninsular war, taken prisoner; in charge of a French hospital; Napoleon made him a member of the Legion of honour, the first Englishman so honoured; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; in practice at 36 Bruton st. London; author of Result of an enquiry into the existence of premonitory diarrhœa in cholera 1854; Consultation médico-légale sur paralysies vraies. Paris 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Result of an enquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by intercourse 1856; Proofs of the non existence of a specific enthetic disease 1863; Letter to the duke of Somerset relative to the question, Is there a syphilitic virus 1864; Pathological facts as to the means for the prevention of contagious disease 1864. _d._ 22 Maddox st. London 26 Feb. 1870.

MACLURE, ROBERT. Ed. Edinb. acad.; head classical and mathematical master of a district sch. in connection with King’s coll. London; a candidate for Greek chair in Edinb. univ. Dec. 1851; professor of humanity Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen 1852 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of humanity in Aberdeen univ. 15 Sep. 1860 to 1881. _Testimonials of Dr. Maclure, candidate for the Greek chair_ (1852).

MACMAHON, SIR CHARLES (3 son of sir Wm. Macmahon, master of the rolls in Ireland). _b._ Fortfield, co. Dublin 10 July 1824; ensign 71 Highlanders 4 Aug. 1843; cornet 10 hussars 3 April 1846, lieut. 2 Feb. 1847, sold out 8 Aug. 1851; a member of the police force, Melbourne, Australia, Jany. 1853, assist. commissioner 1856, then chief commissioner, resigned 1858; member of legislative assembly West Bourke 1861, a member of the cabinet 1861–63; contested West Bourke 1863; member legislative assembly, West Melbourne 1866–78 and 1880–86; speaker of the assembly 1871–4, 1874–7 and 1880; knighted by patent 29 Sep. 1875. _d._ East Melbourne 28 Aug. 1891. _Mennell’s Australian Biog._ (1892) 305–6.

MC MAHON, PATRICK. _b._ 1813; barrister G.I. 8 June 1842, went Oxford circuit; M.P. co. Wexford 1852–65 and M.P. New Ross 1868–74; junior counsel for defence of Tichborne claimant 1872–3; author of articles in Dublin Review. _d._ 19 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. xxx_ 499 (1857) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 43 (1876).

MAC MAHON, PATRICK WILLIAM. Ensign 81 foot 6 Nov. 1835; captain 44 foot 17 May 1845, lieut.-col. 28 Aug. 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 36 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to death; col. in the army 4 May 1861; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brighton 14 Oct. 1871.

MC MAHON, SIR THOMAS, 2 Baronet (younger son of John Mc Mahon, patentee comptroller of port of Limerick, _d._ 22 May 1789). _b._ 27 Dec. 1779; ensign 22 foot 2 Feb. 1797; lieut.-col. 17 foot 20 June 1811 to 4 Nov. 1822; succeeded brother as 2 bart. 12 Sep. 1817; colonel 94 foot 28 March 1838 to 28 Sep. 1847; colonel 10 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; commander in chief at Bombay 16 Oct. 1839 to 13 Jany. 1847; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 18 Jany. 1827, G.C.B. 20 June 1859. _d._ 10 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 10 April 1860.

MACMAHON, SIR THOMAS WESTROPP, 3 Baronet (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 14 Feb. 1813; cornet 16 lancers 24 Dec. 1829; cornet 6 dragoons 1830, captain 1838–42; captain 9 light dragoons 1842, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; in Sutlej campaign, present at Sobraon 1846; major 5 dragoon guards 24 Nov. 1854, lieut.-col. 12 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; military secretary Bombay 14 Feb. 1840 to April 1847; A.Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March to 20 Dec. 1854, present at Alma, Balaklava, Tchernaya and at siege of Sebastopol; M.G. cavalry brigade Aldershot, and inspector general of cavalry in Great Britain 14 June 1871 to 31 July 1876; col. of 18 hussars 6 Jany. 1874 and of 5 dragoon guards 1885 to death; general 12 April 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ The Sycamores, Farnborough, Hampshire 23 Jany. 1892.

MACMANUS, TERENCE BELLEW. _b._ co. Fermanagh about 1823; a shipping agent at Liverpool; a member of the ’82 club in Ireland 1844; joined the physical force movement 1848; took part in the Tipperary civil war 1848; tried for high treason by special commission at Clonmel with Smith O’Brien 9 Oct. 1848, sentenced to death and confined in Richmond Bridewell, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life, transported to Van Diemen’s Land, reached there July 1849; escaped to San Francisco 1852 where he became a shipping agent but failed. _d._ San Francisco 1860. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery near Dublin 10 Nov. 1861.

MAC MASTER, GILBERT. _b._ Saintfield, Ireland 13 Feb. 1778; at Jefferson coll. Philadelphia 1791–3; licensed to practise medicine 1805; pastor of Reformed presbyterian ch. Duanesberg, New York 1808–40, and of Princetown ch. Indiana 1840–6; D.D. of Union univ. 1828; author of An essay in defence of some fundamental doctrines of christianity. Utica 1815; An apology for the book of Psalms 1818; The moral character of civil government with reference to the institutions of the United States. Albany 1832; Thoughts on the union of the church. Cincinnati 1846. _d._ New Albany, Indiana 15 March 1854. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 148 (1888).

MC MASTER, VALENTINE MUNBEE. _b._ 1835; assist. surgeon 78 regt. 27 March 1855, surgeon 14 March 1868; served in Persian war 1857, in Indian mutiny, wounded at Lucknow; Victoria cross for exposing himself to the fire of the enemy in bringing in and attending to the wounded at Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857, decorated 18 June 1858. _d._ the barracks, Belfast 22 Jany. 1872. _Medical Times_, _i_ 115 (1872).

MC MASTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Tyrone, Ireland 24 Dec. 1811; in mercantile house of Robert Cathcart, Toronto, Canada 1833; a merchant at Toronto; member of legislative council of Canada 1862–7 when he was called to the senate; gave 12,000 dollars to Canadian literary institute, Woodstock; built at cost of 100,000 dollars Mc Master hall, the baptist college, Toronto; with his wife gave 80,000 dollars to Jarvis st. baptist ch. Toronto; chairman of Canada board of G. W. Railway; president Canadian bank of commerce; while speaking at Mc Master hall, Toronto, fainted and remained unconscious till his _death_ next morning 22 Sep. 1887. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 149 (1888).

M’MICHAEL, NEIL. _b._ 1808; minister of Gillespie church, Dunfermline 1835 to death; professor of divinity, united presbyterian church 1847–; D.D.; author of Hildebrand and his age 1853; The pilgrim psalms an exposition of the songs of degrees 1860. _d._ Dunfermline 3 April 1874. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 390–93.

MACMILLAN, ANGUS. _b._ Glenbrittle, Skye 1810; went to New South Wales 1829, worked on sheep stations to 1839; in company with one black man explored the country south-west of Sydney 28 May 1839 etc.; discovered Gippsland 1840–1 which was originally called by him Caledonia Australis; author of On the preservation of sight 1859; settled down on a sheep-run of his own on the Avon where he _d._ May 1865. _Mc Combie’s History of the colony of Victoria_ (1858) 79, 80; _Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 306.

MACMILLAN, DANIEL (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie, island of Arran, farmer _d._ 1823). _b._ Upper Corrie 13 Sep. 1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany. 1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller 1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43; bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857; gave up his business in London end of 1843. _d._ Cambridge 27 June 1857. _T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan_ (1882), _portrait_; _A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s publications_ (1891), _portrait_.

MACMILLAN, JAMES. _b._ 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836 to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester races. _d._ Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _ii_ 69 (1868).

MACMILLAN, JOHN. _b._ Byreflat, parish of Keir, Dumfriesshire 9 June 1802; ed. at gr. sch. Dumfries and univ. of Edinb., M.A. 1829; master in Watson’s hospital, Edinb. March 1827 to Jany. 1831; rector of Dumfries gr. sch. Jany. 1831 to April 1837; one of classical masters in Glasgow high sch. April 1837 to Nov. 1844; one of classical masters in high school of Edinb. Nov. 1844 to 1867, examiner 1867–72. _d._ 1872. _W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of high school of Edinburgh_ (1857) 48.

M’MINNIES, JOHN GORDON (son of John M’Minnies). _b._ Lancaster 1817; alderman of Warrington; senior partner in W. Bashall and Co. cotton manufacturers, Farington near Preston; M.P. Warrington 1880–85. _d._ Summer house, Warrington 1 Feb. 1890.

MC MULLEN, JOHN. _b._ Ballinahinch, co. Down 8 March 1833; ed. St. Mary’s college, Chicago to 1854; studied at Urban coll. Rome 1854, priest and D.D. 1858; president of the univ. of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago 1861–4, building destroyed in the fire 1871; in charge of the cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago 1870, vicar general of the diocese 1877; bishop of the diocese of Davenport, Iowa 1880 to death. _d._ Davenport 3 July 1883. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 150 (1888).

MC MULLEN, RICHARD TURRILL. _b._ Surrey 10 Jany. 1830; sailed in a 3 ton cutter the Leo in a voyage to the Eddystone 1868; in the Sirius 11 tons circumnavigated Scotland; sailed with 2 seamen from Greenhithe to Cherbourg, but as they sulked and mutinied he henceforth sailed alone; had a 16 ton yacht the Orion; he skirted most of the currents and races between the Pentland Firth and the Channel islands and tried most of the anchorages between the Galloper Sands and the Land’s End; author of Down channel from London to the Land’s End in the Leo 3 tons, and from London to the Scilly islands in the Orion 16 tons 1869; Infidelity, its cause and antidote 1879; Orion, or how I came to sail alone in a 19 ton yacht 1879; An experimental cruise single handed in the Procyon 7 ton lugger 1880; Whither do they ascend? 1881; Priestly pretensions and God’s word 1885; _found dead_ sitting alone in his boat the Perseus in mid channel June 1891. _R. T. Mc Mullen’s Down channel_ (1893); _The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p._ 5.

MC MURDIE, HENRY. _b._ London 21 May 1822; in a mercantile house in Liverpool; became a Romanist; educated at Mount St. Mary seminary, Emmettsburg, U.S. America; ordained priest 1854; professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in Mount St. Mary, and then the director of the seminary; the ablest theologian and metaphysician of the R.C. ch. in U.S. of America. _d._ Emmettsburg 20 Jany. 1880. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 150 (1888).

MACNAB, SIR ALLAN NAPIER, 1 Baronet (son of Allan Macnab, lieut. 71 foot). _b._ Newark now Niagara, Ontario 19 Feb. 1798; served against the Americans in their invasion of Canada 1813; midshipman on board H.M.S. Wolfe short time 1813; a volunteer with the 100th foot 1813; ensign 49 foot 3 March 1814, served in the American war, at end of which he left the army 1814 or 1815; articled clerk in office of attorney general; called to Canadian bar 1826, practised at Hamilton 1826; member for Wentworth in house of assembly 1830, speaker of the house 1837–41 and 1844–8; at the head of a band of volunteers defeated the Canadian rebels 1837–8 and for his services was knighted by patent 14 July 1838; a queen’s counsel; leader of the conservatives 1841–4 and 1848; formed a coalition ministry with Augustin Norbert Morin 1854–6; settled near Brighton, Sussex 1857; contested Brighton 30 April 1859; created baronet 5 Feb. 1858; returned to Hamilton and elected member again 1860; a militia A.D.C. to the queen and hon. col. in the army; col. commandant of 7th military district in Upper Canada; chosen speaker again 1862. _d._ Hamilton, Toronto 8 Aug. 1862. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 151–2 (1888), _portrait_.

M’NAB, DUNCAN. _b._ South Knapdale, Argyleshire 1807; ed. Glasgow univ.; assist. minister to Dr. Mackintosh Mackay at Dunoon 1835; assist. to the second charge at Campbelton 1839 and to the first charge 1841–3; joined the Free church 1843, minister at Campbelton, assisted in organising many congregations; minister of Free Renfield congregation, Glasgow 1856 to death; author of Discourses. Ed. by A. S. Patterson. With biographical sketch pp. ix–xv by W. Trail (1864), portrait. _d._ at house of his brother-in-law in London 12 June 1863. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 39 (1870).

MC NAB, WILLIAM RAMSAY (only son of James Mc Nab _b._ 1810, curator of Edinb. botanical gardens, _d._ 20 Nov. 1878). _b._ Edinburgh, Nov. 1844; M.D. Edinb. 1866, began practice 1867; professor of natural history in royal agricultural college, Cirencester 1870–2; introduced the facts and methods of Julius Von Sachs in teaching botany 1871; professor of botany in royal college of science, Dublin, March 1872 to death; scientific superintendent of royal botanic gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 1880 to death; Swiney lecturer on fossil botany at British Museum 1888 to death; author of Outlines of morphology and physiology 1877, new ed. 1881; Outlines of classification of plants 1877. _d._ 2 Montrose, Cabra road, Dublin 3 Dec. 1889; a subscription raised for his wife and children. His collection of coleoptera is in the Dublin museum of science and art. _Nature_, _Dec. 1889 pp._ 112, 159, _Feb. 1890 p._ 347.

MACNAGHTEN, AGNES (dau. of James Eastmont of St. Berner’s near Edinb.) An associate of British archæological assoc. 1845; resided at Bittern manor near Southampton the ancient Roman Clausentum, preserved the Roman remains found on the spot and made a collection of the coins discovered there; (_m._ first Lewis Shedden captain 15 hussars; _m._ secondly 1848 Stewart Macnaghten of Invertrossachs, Perthshire, barrister M.T. 1839). _d._ Bittern manor 28 April 1863. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 168 (1864).

MACNAGHTEN, SIR EDMUND CHARLES WORKMAN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). _b._ Dublin 1 April 1790; succeeded 22 Nov. 1843; M.P. Antrim 1847–52; author of The elements of political economy. Coleraine 1854. _d._ Dundarave, Bushmills, co. Antrim 6 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 95, 623 (1876).

MACNAGHTEN, ELLIOT (4 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). _b._ 1 April 1807; ed. Rugby 1818 etc.; officer of supreme court, Calcutta; director H.E.I.Co. 1842–58, deputy chairman 1854–5, chairman 1855–6; member of council for India 21 Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1871 and V.P. 1866. _d._ Ovingdean near Brighton 24 Dec. 1888.

MC NAIR, WILLIAM WATTS. _b._ 13 Sep. 1849; in Indian survey department 1 Sep. 1867 to death; a good plane-tabler and an accomplished surveyor; accompanied the Khyber column of the Afghan field force 1879–80 when he explored the Lughman valley and the route to Kafiristan, of which he made maps; surveyed in Beluchistan 1881–9; visited Kafiristan disguised as a native doctor and speaking Urdu, April to June 1883, read an account of this expedition before the Royal Geographical Soc. in London 10 Dec. 1883, and was awarded the Murchison grant. _d._ of typhoid fever at Mussooree 13 Aug. 1889. _J. E. Howard’s Memoir of W. W. Mc Nair_ (1889), 2 _portraits_.

NOTE.--Mc Nair was officially reprimanded by Lord Ripon for crossing the Afghan frontier against all regulations, but congratulated in private on the success of his visit to Kafiristan.

MACNAMARA, SIR BURTON (youngest son of Francis Macnamara of Doolin castle, co. Clare). _b._ Doolin castle 1794; entered navy 26 July 1808; served on the lakes in Canada 1814–5; inspecting commander of coast guard 1825–32; captain 16 Nov. 1833; R.A. on h.p. 21 July 1856; admiral on h.p. 20 March 1867; knighted by Marquess of Normanby 1839; a candidate for the borough of Ennis 1841. _d._ 22 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 12 Dec. 1876.

MACNAMARA, FRANCIS. _b._ 1802; M.P. Ennis 1832–5; sheriff of co. Clare 1839; lieut.-col. Clare militia 4 Nov. 1854 to 10 Nov. 1871. _d._ 27 June 1873.

MACNAMARA, HENRY TYRWHITT JONES (2 son of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, officer in 47 foot). _b._ 1820; ed. at Ealing and Lichfield gr. sch.; pupil of Wm. Alexander Dow, special pleader; a founder of Hardwicke debating soc. which first met at George’s hotel, Strand, the first president; a special pleader 1841–9; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1849; went Oxford circuit 1849–72; had many pupils; much employed as an arbitrator; recorder of Reading, Aug. 1864 to Oct. 1870; a revising barrister 1867–72; judge of county court, circuit 43 (Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone), 1 April 1872 to Aug. 1873; legal member of court of the railway comrs. 2 Aug. 1873 to death; wrote some light pieces for the stage; author of Tournaments, or the days of chivalry 1839; Peace, permanent and universal, its consistency with divine revelation 1841, an essay which gained prize of 100 guineas awarded by the Society for promotion of permanent and universal peace 1 Jany. 1841; A practical treatise on nullities and irregularities in law 1842; A practical treatise on the counts and pleas allowed in civil proceedings 1844; R. P. Collier’s Railway consolidation acts 2 ed. 1847; Leonora, a love story 3 vols. 1848, anon.; The complete practice of the law of England 1855; Paley’s Law and practice of summary convictions 4 ed. 1856 and 5 ed. 1866. _d._ 34 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 2 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Willesden cemetery 8 Feb. _H. T. J. Macnamara’s The christian code: rules for the conduct of human life_ (1878); _Graphic_, _xv_ 236 (1877), _portrait_; _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxi_ 732–34 (1877).

MACNAMARA, JAMES AUSTIN. _b._ 1777; bookseller Cork, a bookseller in Dublin 1813, bankrupt 1814, returned to Cork 1815; he brought out The holy catholic bible, containing the whole of the books in the sacred scriptures, translated from the Latin Vulgate. Cork, printed for the proprietor J. A. Macnamara 1818, quarto. _d._ suddenly in the street, London 21 Dec. 1860. _H. Cotton’s Rhemes and Doway_ (1855) 110–16, 210–13.

MC NAMARA, THOMAS. _b._ near Slane, co. Meath 1808; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth college, ordained Maynooth 1833; one of the founders of Castleknock college, co. Dublin 1834, affiliated with the Congregation of the Mission 1839, gave missions throughout Ireland; founded with others the Catholic institution for deaf and dumb mutes at Cabra near Dublin 1846; superior of Castleknock college and visitor of the Irish province of the Congregation of the Mission 1864; rector of the Irish college in Paris 1868–89; author of Programmes of sermons and instructions. Dublin 1881; Sacred rhetoric, or the art of rhetoric as applied to the preaching of the word of God. Dublin 1882. _d._ St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, co. Dublin 8 March 1892. _bur._ in cemetery at Castleknock 11 March. _College Chronicle_ (_Castleknock_), _June 1892 pp._ 5–6.

MACNAMARA, WILLIAM NUGENT (brother of sir Burton Macnamara 1794–1876). _b._ 1776; second of Daniel O’Connell in his duel with J. N. D’Esterre at Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare 1 Feb. 1815; M.P. co. Clare 1830 to 1852. _d._ Ennistymon, co. Clare 11 Nov. 1856.

MACNAUGHT, JOHN (son of John Macnaught of Clarendon, Jamaica). _b._ 1826; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; P.C. St. Chrysostom, Everton, Lancashire 1853, Hugh M’Neill’s opposition to Macnaught’s broad doctrine caused him to resign in 1861; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1867–71; incumbent of Holy Trinity ch. Conduit st. London 1871–5 when chapel was pulled down; V. of St. Mary’s, Northend, Fulham 1881–6; author of Peter, confession and absolution, three essays 1851; The doctrine of inspiration of holy writ 1856, 2 ed. 1857, to which many replies were made; Free discussion versus intolerance, or the Liverpool clerical society’s method of expelling a brother clergyman 1856; Christianity and its evidences 1863; Cœna Domini 1878. _d._ 2 Rutland gate, Kensington, London 13 May 1890, cremated. _Pictorial World 21 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.

MACNAUGHTAN, JOHN. _b._ Greenock; minister of Scotch congregation, Crown court, Drury Lane, London 1831; minister of high church, Paisley 1832–43; pastor of free high church, Paisley 1843; minister at Belfast 1849; author of A discourse preached in the High church, Paisley 1837; Sketch of the life of William Perry; Slander against the Free church met and answered 1846; The interdicted farewell sermon. Paisley 1849. _Scott’s Fasti vol. ii pt. i p._ 207 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 215–22.

M’NAUGHTEN, DANIEL (son of Daniel M’Naughten a turner). A turner at Glasgow from age of 15; imagined that he was persecuted and always watched by order of the Tories; came to London and near the Salopian coffee house, Charing Cross, fired twice at and killed Edward Drummond private sec. to sir Robert Peel, mistaking him for the baronet, 20 Jany. 1843; tried at central criminal court 3 March 1843 and acquitted as being insane; confined in Bedlam, then removed to criminal lunatic asylum, Broadmoor, where he _died_ 3 May 1865, inquest held same day, verdict death from natural causes. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials_, _i_ 314–402 (1850); _Fraser’s Mag. April 1843 pp._ 444–54; _Annual Register_ (1843) 6–9 _and_ 345–62; _Law Journal 12 Sep. 1891 pp._ 583–4; _I.L.N. ii_ 80, 151 (1843), _portrait_; _The Globe 5 May 1865 p._ 1.

NOTE.--Mr. Drummond was _b._ 30 March 1792 and became a clerk in the treasury at an early age, he was _bur._ at Charlton near Woolwich 31 Jany. 1843.

MC NAUGHTON, JAMES. _b._ Kenmore, Scotland 10 Dec. 1796; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1816; settled as a physician at Albany, U.S. America 1817; lectured at College of physicians and surgeons at Fairfield, New York 1818–38; professor of theory and practice of medicine, Albany medical coll. 1840 to death; president of Albany county medical soc. 1848–9; president of medical and surgical staff of Albany hospital. _d._ Paris, France 12 June 1874. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 153 (1888).

MACNEE, SIR DANIEL (son of Robert Macnee). _b._ Fintry, Stirlingshire 1806; ed. at Glasgow, LL.D. 27 April 1876; apprenticed to John Knox, landscape painter 1819–23; drew and coloured plates for W. H. Lizars the engraver at Edinb. 1825; A.R.S.A. 1830, contributed to its exhibitions from 1825, pres. 9 Feb. 1876; resided in Kent painting portraits 1832; portrait painter at Glasgow 1832–77, at Edinb. 1877 to death; exhibited 97 paintings at R.A. London 1840–80; pres. of West of Scotland academy 1866–76; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; painted many subject pictures, his picture The Bracelet is now in National gallery of Scotland; his portrait of Dr. Wardlaw was awarded a gold medal at Paris international exhibition 1855. _d._ 6 Learmonth terrace, Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 213–17 (1886), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 199, 200 (1876), _portrait_; _Armstrong’s Scottish Painters_ (1888) 46.

MAC NEECE, THOMAS (1 son of James Mac Neece). _b._ near Markethill, co. Armagh 4 Jany. 1807; sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1825, univ. scholar 1828, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1848, fellow June 1836 to death; tutor, lecturer and examiner 1836–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1842 to death; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1842 to death; author of On faith, two sermons 1850; Sermons preached in the chapel of Trinity college, Dublin 1863. _d._ Boulogne 26 Sep. 1862. _bur._ Arboe. _Sermons by T. Mac Neece_ (1863), _memoir pp. ix–xxi_, _portrait_.

MACNEIL, RODERICK (elder son of Roderick Macneil of Barra, Invernessshire). _b._ 1790; ensign in army 17 March 1808; captain 60 foot 1 Dec. 1814; captain 1 life guards 1 July 1819; major 84 foot 9 Aug. 1821; major 2 life guards 29 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 91 foot 16 July 1841; lieut.-col. 78 Highlanders 15 April 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded a division of the army in Madras 1846–51; granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; colonel of 8 foot 18 March 1855 to 3 June 1860; colonel of 78 highlanders 3 June 1860 to death; general 21 Dec. 1862. _d._ 35 Hyde park gardens, London 22 Oct. 1863.

MC NEILE, EDMUND HUGH (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1841; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 32 wrangler and B.A. 1863, M.A. 1866; C. of Emmanuel ch. Liverpool 1865; C. of Steeple Claydon, Bucks. 1866; V. of St. Paul’s, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1867 to death; hon. canon of Liverpool 1880 to death; chaplain to bishop of Chester 1877–84. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Liverpool 8 Jany. 1893.

MC NEILE, HUGH (son of Alexander Mc Neile, sheriff of Antrim). _b._ Ballycastle, co. Antrim 15 July 1795; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1821, B.D. and D.D. 1847; served his terms at King’s inns, Dublin, and at Lincoln’s inn; C. of Stranorlar, Donegal 1820; R. of Albury, Surrey 1822–34; P.C. of St. Jude, Liverpool 1834–48; hon. canon of Chester cath. 1845–68; P.C. of St. Paul, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1848–67; canon residentiary of Chester cath. July 1860; dean of Ripon 9 Sep. 1868, resigned Oct. 1875; author of Seventeen sermons 1825, 2 ed. 1828; Popular lectures on the prophecies 1830; The church and the churches 1846, 3 ed. 1867; The collected works of Dean Mc Neile 1877, vol. i. _d._ Bournemouth 28 Jany. 1879. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery 1 Feb. _J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 228–55; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 182–9; _Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis_ (1847) 406–15; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841) 239–50; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 420–4; _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 36; _Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p._ 30; _Drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860), _portrait_ 11; _Dublin univ. mag. xxix_ 462, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 105 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xix_ 241 (1879), _portrait_.

M’NEILL, ALEXANDER DUNCAN (1 son of Alexander M’Neill, advocate). _b._ Edinburgh 1829; ed. Edinb. high sch. and univ.; an actor in the English provinces; played at Drury Lane, at Lyceum and at Birmingham; manager of old Theatre royal, Aberdeen 1862 and lessee 1869; manager of Royal Princess’ Edinb. 14 Sep. 1868 to death; first appeared as Richelieu 28 Sep., and first time in Edinb. as Rob Roy 7 Nov. 1868; also directed Theatres royal Dumfries and Dundee, and the Gaiety theatre Glasgow; a good actor as Rob Roy, as Jacques in As you like it, and as sir John Falstaff; made his last appearance as Rob Roy at Lyceum, Edinb. 21 July 1884; wrote The gloamin’ and the mirk, a story of modern Athens, a drama at the Princess’ 8 Feb. 1869. _d._ 4 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 7 Nov. 1884. His son W. A. M’Neill was lessee of the Princess’ Nov. 1884 to 22 May 1886 when the house closed. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 482–7.

M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD (5 son of John M’Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire). _b._ Colonsay, Sep. 1803; writer to the signet 18 June 1829; director and principal clerk at chancery office Edinb. 24 March 1843 to 1858; one of the principal clerks of session 6 July 1858 to death; took great interest in the breed of the deer hounds possessed by his family, and contributed to W. Scrope’s Days of deer stalking 1883, An account of the original Scotch greyhounds and details of deer coursing; author of Notes on the authenticity of Ossian’s Poems. By a member of the Society of antiquaries of Scotland 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 2 June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _July 1870 p._ 375.

M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1852; ed. at Baptist theological coll. near Birmingham; connected with Birmingham Daily Mail, and Birmingham Morning News; leader writer and dramatic critic on Newcastle chronicle; came to London 1878, writer and dramatic critic on The Sportsman from 1882; sent on 18 Dec. 1887 to Rouen to report the prize fight between James Smith and Jake Kilrain 19 Dec., missed at Boulogne on 20 Dec., found drowned on the beach near the jetty on 6 Jany. 1888 having probably been murdered. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 10 Dec. 1891 p._ 9, _view of house where he is said to have been murdered_.

MC NEILL, SIR JOHN (brother of Archibald Mc Neill 1803–70). _b._ Colonsay, Aug. 1795; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814; assistant surgeon Bombay army 6 Sep. 1816, surgeon 1 May 1824, retired 4 June 1836; attached to H.E.I.Co.’s legation in Persia 1824–35; secretary of special embassy at Teheran 30 June 1835; minister plenipotentiary to shah of Persia 9 Feb. 1836, envoy and min. plenipo. 25 May 1836 to 5 Aug. 1842; notwithstanding his protests Herat was besieged by the Persians Nov. 1837 to Sep. 1838; he concluded a treaty of commerce with Persia 11 Oct. 1841; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; chairman of board of supervision entrusted with working of Scottish poor law act of 1845, 1845–68; sent to the Crimea with A. M. Tulloch, Feb. 1855, to report on the commissariat department, &c., their final report was signed in London, Jany. 1856; knight of Persian order of the Sun and Lion 1835; G.C.B. 15 April 1839; P.C. 6 May 1857; the last survivor of original members of Royal Asiatic Society 1823; F.R.S. Edinb. 1840; D.C.L. 24 June 1857; author of Progress and present position of Russia in the East 1836, another ed. 1854. _d._ Cannes 17 May 1883, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. vol. vii passim_ (1877); _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 549 (1883), _portrait_; _Sir A. M. Tulloch’s Crimean Commission_ (1880) _with preface by Mc Neill pp. v–xiv_.

MACNEILL, SIR JOHN BENJAMIN (son of Torquil P. Macneill). _b._ Mount Pleasant, Dundalk 1794; lieut. in Louth militia 29 April 1811; one of principal assistants to Thomas Telford the engineer, having the turnpike roads in north of England entrusted to him; a consulting engineer in London and Glasgow about 1834; constructed the Wishaw and Coltness railway and other small lines in Scotland; conducted a series of important experiments in canal-boat traction; made known his system of sectio-planography 1837, adopted for railway plans by standing orders of house of commons; surveyed North of Ireland for the Irish railway commission; professor of civil engineering, Trinity college, Dublin 1842–52; completed the Dublin and Drogheda railway; completed first section to Kildare of Great southern and western railway 1844 for which he was knighted by earl de Grey 1844; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; author of Tables for calculating the cubic quantities of earthwork in the cuttings for canals, railways and turnpike roads 1833, 2 ed. 1846; translated C. L. M. H. Navier’s On the means of comparing the advantages of different lines of railway 1836. _d._ 186 Cromwell road, South Kensington, London 2 March 1880. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 361–7 (1883).

MAC NICHOLAS, PATRICK. Professor of Greek in Maynooth college; bishop of Achonry 23 Feb. 1818 to death, consecrated 17 May 1818. _d._ Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 13 Feb. 1852.

MC NICOLL, THOMAS (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). _b._ 1822; M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London 1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861. _d._ 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. _London Quarterly Review_, _xxxix_ 270, 419 (1863).

MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). _b._ 2 March 1777; admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute 1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July 1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional surname of Welwood. _d._ Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. _Kay’s Series of portraits_, _ii_ 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877), 2 _portraits_; _Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland_, _ii_ 225, 231–55 (1883).

MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803, midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander 8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836; in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March 1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline 1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut. governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838, 3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. _d._ Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.

MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER (1 son of preceding). _b._ 1806; professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow 1842–55. _d._ Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May 1885.

MACONOCHIE, ROBERT BLAIR (brother of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837, partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest 1856 to death. _d._ Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1883 p._ 600.

M’OSCAR, WILLIAM. _b._ Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807; taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years; edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat, a tale. _d._ Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. _W. M’Oscar’s Poetical Works_ (1878), _memoir pp. ix–xiii_, _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain 1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures. Edinb. 1836. _d._ Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _iii

## part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870).

MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836; col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836, surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent 1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861 to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843; Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus 1857. _d._ Merkára, Coorg 8 June 1867.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). _b._ 9 March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep. 1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879; served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep. 1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. _d._ Cluny castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886.

MACPHERSON, EWEN, known as Cluny Macpherson (1 son of Duncan Macpherson 1750–1817, lieut.-col. of 3 foot guards). _b._ 24 April 1804; became chief of the clan Macpherson 1817; ensign 1 foot 13 Nov. 1823, lieut. 5 Nov. 1825, placed on h.p. as captain 1 Oct. 1826; lieut.-col. Invernessshire highland rifle volunteers 3 June 1861 to 2 Nov. 1882, hon. col. 2 Nov. 1882 to death; permanent steward of Northern athletic meetings; his piper always played during his meal time; first chief of the Gaelic soc. 1871, served again in 1872; kept up breeds of pure highland cattle and black faced sheep; made a fine collection of arms and Scottish relics at Cluny castle; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Cluny castle, Kingussie 11 Jany. 1885. _Biograph_, _April 1881 pp._ 337–41; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 189 (1881), _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, GERARDINE (elder child of Mr. Bate of London, artist). _b._ 1830 or 1831; discovered Michael Angelo’s picture The Entombment at Rome, and sold it to the National gallery, London 1868; executed the etchings for the second edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna 1857; wrote Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson, which was published in 1878 after her death; gave lessons in English, worked as an amanuensis and as a newspaper correspondent in Rome; (_m._ 4 Sep. 1849 Robert Macpherson, artist, who settled in Rome as a painter, then as a photographer, and _d._ there 1873). _d._ Rome 24 May 1878. _Macpherson’s Memoirs of Anna Jameson_ (1878), _memoir of G. Macpherson pp. xiii–xvii_, 360.

MACPHERSON, SIR HERBERT TAYLOR (son of Duncan Macpherson, major 78 foot). _b._ Ardersier, co. Inverness 27 Feb. 1827; ensign 78 foot 28 Feb. 1845, captain 5 Oct. 1857; captain 82 foot 26 Feb. 1859; captain Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 28 Feb. 1871; obtained V.C. 18 June 1858 for his conduct at defence of Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857; brigadier general Bengal 15 April 1876 to 9 Nov. 1878; commanded first brigade of first division of Khyber column in Afghan war 1878–9; M.G. Bengal 1880–5; commanded the Indian contingent in expeditionary force to Egypt 4 Aug. to Oct. 1882; C.B. 30 Aug. 1869, K.C.B. 22 Feb. 1881; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882; M.G. 1 July 1882; commander-in-chief at Madras 1 March 1886, assumed command of force of 30,000 men in Burmah 9 Sep. 1886. _d._ on board steamer Irrawaddy directly after leaving Prome for Rangoon 20 Oct. 1886. _J. F. Maurice’s Campaign in Egypt_ (1887) _p._ 208; _Graphic xxvi_ 553 (1882), _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, HUGH. _b._ 1768; a surgeon in the army; professor of Greek in univ. and King’s coll. of Aberdeen 1797 to death, and sub-principal 1817 to death; proprietor of the island of Eigg, Invernessshire. _d._ Old Aberdeen 12 March 1854.

MACPHERSON, SIR JAMES DUNCAN (brother of Sir H. T. Macpherson 1827–86). _b._ 1811; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; ensign Bengal army 4 Dec. 1828; brigade major during Punjaub campaign 1848–49; military sec. to government of the Punjaub 1852–8; commanded Agra brigade 20 Aug. 1862; commissary general of Bengal army 5 March 1864 to 22 July 1869; M.G. 24 Jany. 1867; C.B. 27 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 31 Belsize park gardens, London 29 May 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 547 (1874).

M’PHERSON, JOHN. _b._ Blairnamarrow, Strathavon, Lanarkshire 29 Aug. 1801; in Paris from 1818 where he was ordained a R.C. priest 9 June 1827; professor at Aquhorties coll. Scotland 1827–32; priest of the Meadows ch. Dundee 1832, erected St. Andrew’s ch. in the Nethergate where he remained to 1847; president of Blair coll. for training the priesthood 1847–58; created D.D. at Rome 1857; vicar general of the district 1858–61; priest at New abbey 1861, and at Perth 1864–9 where he founded a convent for ladies teaching the schools and visiting the prisons; priest of St. Mary’s, Dundee 1869 to death. _d._ Dundee 16 July 1871. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 366.

MACPHERSON, JOHN (son of Hugh Macpherson, professor of Greek in univ. of Aberdeen 1768–1854). _b._ Old Aberdeen 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ., M.A., hon. M.D. 1845; studied medicine in London, Bonn, Vienna and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Oct. 1839; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1840–64; civil surgeon of Howrah near Calcutta 1843–6; assist. surgeon European general hospital, Calcutta 1846; presidency surgeon and superintendent general of vaccination to 1864; retired 1864 after 24 years of service without taking any furlough; in practice 35 Curzon st. London 1864 to 1890; made a fine collection of engravings; with J. Mc Clelland conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history, vols. 6–8, 1841; author of The mineral waters of India. Calcutta 1854; Cholera in its home 1866; The baths and wells of Europe 1869, 3 ed. 1888; Our baths and wells, the mineral waters of the British islands 1871; Annals of cholera from the earliest periods 1884. _d._ 35 Curzon st. London 17 March 1890. _I.L.N. 5 April 1890 p._ 419, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890 pp._ 399, 408, _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, PHILIP. _b._ 1790; ensign 43 foot 2 Nov. 1809; aide de camp and military sec. to sir Charles James Napier in the operations in Scinde; captain 17 foot 26 Nov. 1829, lieut.-col. 3 Dec. 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855; C.B. 4 July 1843; commanded 1 brigade of 4 division in the Crimea 18 Dec. 1854 to 15 June 1855; M.G. 24 Dec. 1858; colonel 13 foot 15 Aug. 1863 to death. _d._ Clifton, York 2 Feb. 1864. _T. Carter’s Historical record of thirteenth light infantry_ (1867) _p._ 194.

MACPHERSON, ROBERT BARCLAY. _b._ 1775; ensign 88 foot 3 June 1795, major 17 March 1808 to 28 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73 foot 29 July 1852 to 11 Feb. 1857; colonel 88 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.H. 1835. _d._ Viewfield lodge, Stirling 23 Dec. 1858.

MACPHERSON, SAMUEL CHARTERS (brother of John Macpherson 1817–90). _b._ King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806; studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany. 1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847; agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death; brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa 1852. _d._ in his brother’s house at Calcutta 15 April 1860. _Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson_ (1865), _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Aberdeen 19 July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec. 1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5 ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ 3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893.

M’PHUN, WILLIAM RAE. _b._ 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology, 34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2 parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. _d._ Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877. _Bookseller_, _March 1877 p._ 216.

MACQUEEN, DONALD JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23 Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb. 1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to death. _d._ Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79.

MACQUEEN, JAMES. _b._ Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821; The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching correctness. _d._ 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv_ 301–2 (1870).

M’QUEEN, JAMES (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, _d._ 1837). _b._ 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut. 6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829; major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June 1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Tintoch house, Barton fields, Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883.

MACQUEEN, JOHN FRASER (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough, Invernessshire, _d._ 1813). _b._ 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June 1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords 1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council 1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66; A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. _d._ 4 Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881.

MACRAY, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor institution, Oxford 1847–71. _d._ Ducklington rectory, Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. _Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p._ 816.

MACREADY, CATHERINE FRANCES BIRCH (2 dau. of W. C. Macready 1793–1873). _b._ Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. _d._ and _bur._ at sea on her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. _Macready’s Reminiscences_, _i_ 425, _ii_ 445, 465, 467 (1875).

MACREADY, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Desmond). _b._ Newcastle 16 Feb. 1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello, the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen Elizabeth; (_m._ as his second wife William Macready manager of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William Macready _d._ Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, _bur._ in the cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq. Bristol. _d._ at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8 March 1853. _bur._ Bristol cath. 14 March. _B. S. Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 145–9; _The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p._ 8.

MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (son of William Macready _d._ 11 April 1829). _b._ Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793; ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7 June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy, London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden 1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832; assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June 1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839; produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb. 1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841, played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844 to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place; made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851 as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park, London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60 and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849; with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June 1837; _m._ (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress _b._ 11 Nov. 1806, _d._ Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; _m._ (2) 3 April 1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). _d._ 6 Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. _bur._ Kensal green 4 May. _Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences_ 2 _vols._ (1875), 4 _portraits_; _Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him_ (1884); _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 25–109 (1888); _G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden_ (1839); _T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors_ (1847) 1–36; _A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets_ (1884) 36–9; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_, _ii_ 215–36 (1841); _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 104–28 (1844); _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_ 81–5 (1836); _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag._ (1851) 148, 229–34, 3 _portraits_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book parts_ 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 _and_ 21, 8 _portraits_.

MACREDIE, PATRICK BOYLE MURE (son of Thomas Mure). _b._ Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835; engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S. Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built improved dwellings for his workmen. _d._ Edinburgh 15 April 1868. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 377–82.

MACROBIN, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1826; M.D. Edinb. 1827; professor of medicine in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1839 to 15 Sep. 1860, emeritus professor 1860 to death; represented univ. of Aberdeen on general medical council 19 Dec. 1868 to 19 Oct. 1873; author of An introduction to the study of practical medicine 1835. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Jany. 1879.

MACROSSAN, JOHN MURTAGH (son of a farmer). _b._ Donegal 1832; went to Australia 1853; on the gold fields of Victoria, New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland 1853–73; chosen member for the Kennedy electorate to the legislative assembly by the miners of Charters Town, Queensland 1873; sec. for public works and mines 21 Jany. 1879 to 13 March 1883, and 13 June 1888 with additional office of colonial sec. Jany. 1890, retired Aug. 1890; member for Townsville 1888 to death; a delegate for Queensland to Australian federation convention in Sydney 1891. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 30 March 1891; the Queensland parliament voted £2000 to his widow.

MC SHERRY, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1816; lieut. 15 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; captain 30 N.I. 12 May 1827, major 1 Dec. 1839 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 30 N.I. 1846–47, of 1 N.I. 1847–55, brevet col. 20 June 1854. _d._ 1856.

MC TAGGART, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (1 son of John Mc Taggart of Ardwell, Stranraer, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 15 March 1789; a merchant in London; contested Wigton 1832; M.P. Wigton district of burghs 1835–57; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841. _d._ Ardwell 13 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_ 392 (1867).

MC TAVISH, CHARLES CARROLL (son of Charles Mc Tavish). _b._ U.S. of America; M.P. Dundalk 6 Aug. 1847, unseated on petition 20 March 1848; governor of Rupert’s Land, Canada. _d._ Liverpool 3 days after his return 23 July 1870. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia for 1870_, _x_ 592 (1873).

MACTIER, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1810; major 4 Bengal light cavalry 12 Jany. 1842 to 6 Sep. 1851; lieut.-col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 6 Sep. 1851 to 1853; lieut.-col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 1853 to death; colonel in the army 20 June 1854; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Juanpore, Bengal 17 Sep. 1855.

MACVICAR, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of Patrick Macvicar, minister of St. Paul’s, Dundee). _b._ Dundee 16 March 1800; ed. at univs. of St. Andrews and Edinb.; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Dundee; lecturer in natural history at St. Andrew’s univ. 1827–31 when he became professor; assistant to Dr. Candlish in St. George’s parish, Edinb.; pastor of a branch of the Scottish church in Ceylon 1839–52; minister of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, July 1853 to death; edited the Quarterly journal of agriculture 1828; author of Elements of the economy of nature 1830, 2 ed. 1856; On the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime 1837, reproduced as The philosophy of the beautiful 1855; An enquiry into human nature 1853. _d._ the manse of Moffat 12 Feb. 1884.

MC WHINNIE, ANDREW MELVILLE. _b._ south of England 1808; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1839–60 and assist. surgeon 1854–60; translated J. G. Cloquet’s Anatomical description of the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia 1835; author of Malformation of the bladder 1854; and with T. Wormald of A series of anatomical sketches 1838. _d._ The Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 27 Feb. 1866.

MC WILLIAM, JAMES ORMISTON. _b._ Dalkeith, Scotland 1808; L.C.S. Edinb. 1827; assistant surgeon in the navy 1829; surgeon to the Scout on west coast of Africa 1836–9; M.D. Edinb. 1840; senior surgeon to the Albert which left England 12 May 1841 and entered the Niger 13 Aug., a malignant fever broke out 4 Sep., the Albert turned back 4 Oct. and reached England 19 Nov.; sent on a special mission to Cape de Verde Islands 1844 to inquire into origin of yellow fever at Boa Vista; medical officer to the Custom House 1847 to death; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; member of Epidemiological Soc., secretary several years; presented with a service of plate by naval medical officers 1858; author of Medical history of the expedition to the Niger 1843; Dr. Mc William’s remarks on Dr. Gilbert King’s Report on the fever at Boa Vista 1848; Exposition of the case of the assistant surgeons of the royal navy 3 ed. 1850. _d._ 14 Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 4 May 1862. _bur._ Woking cemet. 10 May. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 59–61 (1863).

MADAN, GEORGE (5 son of Spencer Madan of Lichfield, Staffs.) _b._ 1808; ed. Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1829–37, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Cam, Gloucs. 1838–52; V. of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1852–65; hon. canon of Bristol 1851–8; R. of Dursley 1865–87; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1887 to death; author of A few plain words on the use of the church burial service for dissenters 1850; The question discussed, Are private confession and priestly absolution chargeable with blasphemy and profanity? 1859; and Letters and Sermons to his parishioners. _d._ Bearland house, Gloucester 30 June 1891.

MADAN, SPENCER (eld. son of Spencer Madan, rector of Ibstock, Leics., canon of Lichfield 1812). _b._ the Friary, Lichfield 6 Oct. 1791; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1812–25, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; tutor to Duke of Richmond’s sons at Brussels a year and a half; C. of Seale, Leics. 1816–24; canon of Lichfield 4 Dec. 1817 to death; V. of Batheaston, Somerset 3 Oct. 1824 to death; V. of Twerton, Somerset 6 Oct. 1825 to death; chaplain to the Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death. _d._ the Close, Lichfield 27 Aug. 1851. _bur._ west side of north transept of Lichfield cathedral 3 Sep. _G.M. Jany. 1852 pp._ 97–9.

MADDEN, DANIEL OWEN (only son of Owen Madden of Cork, merchant). _b._ Mallow 1815; student of the Inner Temple, London; settled in London in connection with The Press newspaper 1842; called himself D. O. Maddyn; author of Ireland and its rulers since 1829. 3 parts anon. 1843–4, 2 ed. 1845; The age of Pitt and Fox 1846; Wynville, or clubs and coteries, a novel 3 vols. 1852; Revelations of Ireland in the past generation 1848; The speeches of H. Grattan 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The game of brag or the Batterary boys, a comic novel 2 vols. 1853; The Mildmayes, or the clergyman’s secret. By Danby North 1856; Chiefs of parties, past and present 2 vols. 1859; and with T. Davis, The life of J. P. Curran and a memoir of H. Grattan 1846. _d._ Dublin 6 Aug. 1859. _bur._ Upper Shandon, Cork 9 Aug. _The Athenæum_, _ii_ 209, 246 (1859).

MADDEN, _Sir Frederic_ (7 son of Wm. John Madden, captain R.M.) _b._ Portsmouth 16 Feb. 1801; assisted in preparation of classified catalogue of printed books in British Museum 1826–8; assistant keeper of manuscripts in Br. Mus. Feb. 1828, keeper of the manuscript department 18 July 1837 to July 1866; one of first hundred members selected for the Athenæum club 12 June 1830; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; K.H. July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1833; M.R.I.A.; a gentleman of the privy chamber to Wm. IV. and to Victoria 26 Nov. 1834 to death; a member of the Star club 1833; had a grant of arms from the office of Ulster, king of arms, Dublin 1839; ed. for Bannatyne club, Syr Gawayne, a collection of romance poems 1839; ed. for British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript music 1842; Lists of additions to the manuscripts 1843 etc.; ed. for Roxburghe club, The ancient romance of Havelok 1828; The romance of William and the Werwolf 1832; The Gesta Romanorum 1838; also edited Privy purse expenses of the princess Mary daughter of Henry the eighth 1831; How the good wif thaught his doughter 1838; Matthæi Parisiensis, historia Anglorum 1858; ed. with Josiah Forshall, Wiclif’s Bible 1850, for which 65 manuscripts were consulted. _d._ 25 St. Stephen’s sq. London 8 March 1873. _Memorials of the Star club_ (1860), _coloured plate of his arms_; _I.L.N. lxii_ 259, 415 (1873).

NOTE.--He made a collection of 27,500 printed ballads and songs in 25 vols. royal folio; his books and MSS. were sold at Sotheby’s, Aug. 1873 for £1519 14s. By his will he directed that his private letters and MSS. were to be sealed up and given to the Bodleian library and not to be opened until 1 Jany. 1920.

MADDEN, JOHN B. _b._ Galway, Ireland 1823; went to U.S. of America 1846; member for Queen’s county to State assembly; chief justice of Long Island, city of New York to death. _d._ Long Island 1875. _Appleton’s American Cyclopædia for 1875 p._ 581 (1877).

MADDEN, JOHN MILLS. _b._ 10 July 1809; entered Madras army 1825; ensign 51 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 29 May 1857 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 57 Elsham road, Kensington 17 July 1877.

MADDEN, MICHAEL. _b._ 1827; a pugilist; beat John Walker near Woking 10 Oct. 1848; fought Jack Grant for £25 a side on Woking common 12 Dec. 1848, they fought 140 rounds in 5 hours and 45 minutes when darkness came on and battle was drawn; beaten by Wm. Hayes at Edenbridge 17 July 1849, fight was for £100 a side and lasted 6 hours in 185 rounds, being the longest fight on record; beat Jack Jones of Portsmouth £50 a side, 23 rounds in 69 minutes at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, Jones fell with his head against a stake and was killed; tried for manslaughter at Maidstone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; received £50 forfeit from James Mace who refused to fight 20 Oct. 1857; received £15 forfeit from James Mace who bolted the morning of the fight 10 May 1858; beaten by Robert Travers £100 a side, 45 rounds in 97 minutes near Ashford 5 April 1859; landlord of the Little Bell, 78 St. John st. Smithfield, London 1859–63; kept the Rising Sun, 128 Kent st. Southwark 1863–4, the Ben Jonson, 24 Great Wild st. 1864–5, and the Phœnix tavern, 12 Stacey st. Soho 1872. _d._ of bronchitis at the Phœnix tavern 22 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 Nov. _Bell’s Life in London 23 Nov. 1872 p._ 3.

MADDEN, RICHARD ROBERT (youngest son of Edward Madden of Dublin, silk manufacturer 1739–1830). _b._ Wormwood gate, Dublin 22 Aug. 1798; studied medicine in Paris 1820, Naples 1821 and London 1822; a reporter on the Morning Herald 1822; travelled in the Levant 1824–7; M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1855; a surgeon in Curzon st. Mayfair 1829–33; a magistrate in Jamaica 1833–4; superintendent of liberated Africans, and judge arbitrator in mixed court of commission, Havana 1836–40; a comr. of inquiry on western coast of Africa 1841–3; special correspondent at Lisbon of the Morning Chronicle 1843–6; colonial secretary of Western Australia 1847–50; secretary to the Loan fund board, Dublin Castle 1850–80; author of Travels in Turkey 2 vols. 1829; The Mussulman 3 vols. 1830; A twelve months’ residence in the West Indies 2 vols. 1835; The United Irishmen, their lives and times 7 vols. 1842–6, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1858; The life and martyrdom of Savonarola 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington 3 vols. 1855, 2 ed. 1855 and of 18 other books. _d._ 3 Vernon terrace, Booterstown, co. Dublin 5 Feb. 1886. _bur._ Donnybrook graveyard. _Memoirs of R. R. Madden. Ed. by his son T. M. Madden, M.D._ (1891), _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_ 272–8 (1876), _portrait_.

MADDEN, SAMUEL ALEXANDER (son of rev. Samuel Madden of Kell’s Grange, Kilkenny). _b._ 5 July 1824; ensign 51 foot 7 July 1843, lieut.-col. 24 July 1869, placed on h.p. 20 March 1880; lieut.-col. of brigade depot at Perth 20 March 1880, retired 5 July 1883 with hon. rank of M.G.; served during Burmese war 1852–3; in the Umbeyla expedition commanded his regiment in the Jowaki campaign 1877 and received medal with clasp; headed his regiment throughout Afghan war of 1878–79 and was present at taking of Ali Masjid; C.B. 19 July 1879. _d._ Freelands, Wherwell, Hants. 13 March 1888.

MADDEN, SAMUEL OWEN (son of Owen Madden of Mallow, co. Cork). _b._ Mallow 1831; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1861, B. and D.D. 1883; C. of Buttevant 1857–8; C. of St. Peter, Cork 1858; vicar choral Cork cath. 1867; R. of St. Paul, Cork 1869–75; R. of Ch. Ch. Cork 1875–8; dean of Cork and R. of St. Fin Barre cath. 1878 to death; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. 1890 to death. _d._ the deanery, Cork 25 June 1891. _I.L.N. 18 July 1891 p._ 71, _portrait_.

MADDICK, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1824; printer at 3a Savoy st. Strand, London 1852–3, then at 11 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1853–4; founder of Court Circular 26 April 1856; original promoter of Sporting Life 16 March 1859, and of English mechanic and world of science 31 March 1865. _d._ 12 Mostyn road, Brixton, Surrey 6 July 1881. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 9 July.

MADDOCK, SIR THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Maddock, preb. of Chester, _d._ 12 Feb. 1825). _b._ 1792; ed. Manchester gram. sch. and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1811; political resident at Lucknow 1829; sec. to government of India in the legislative, judicial and revenue departments 1838–43; knighted by patent 25 April 1844; deputy governor of Bengal and pres. of council of India, Sep. 1845 to Feb. 1849; M.P. Rochester 1852–7. _d._ 10 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria street, Westminster 15 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. 29 Jany. 1870 p._ 130.

MADDOX, JOHN MEDEX, stage name of John Medex. _b._ 1789; managed the Colosseum in Regent’s park, London 1840; lessee of Princess’s theatre, Oxford st. 26 Dec. 1842 to Easter 1850; produced Scribe’s Don Cæsar de Bazan, Oct. 1844; Charlotte Cushman first appeared in England at Princess’s as Bianca in Fazio 14 Feb. 1845; produced many operas by Balfe and Linley, and Loder’s Night Dancers, Oct. 1846; wrote A curious case, a drama Princess’s 1846; The first night, a drama Princess’s 1 Oct. 1849; Infanticide or the Bohemian mother, a melo-drama Royal Coburg theatre; A.S.S. a farce, Lyceum 23 April 1853; A fast train, Lyceum 25 April 1853; Chesterfield Thinskin, a farce, Princess’s 1853; Frederick the Great; Death of Mary queen of Scots; and Is it a lie. _d._ 7 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London 5 March 1861. _H. B. Baker’s London Stage_, _ii_ 161–71 (1889); _Era Almanac_ (1876) 1–2.

MADDOX, WILLIS. _b._ Bath 1813; painted The Annunciation and other sacred pictures for Wm. Beckford; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1844–53; many of his portraits are at Bath and Bristol; painted several portraits for the Sultan at Constantinople; published Views of Lansdowne tower, Bath, by E. F. English, from drawings by W. Maddox 1844. _d._ Pera near Constantinople 26 June 1853.

MADDY, JOHN (son of Joseph Maddy). _b._ Dorston, Hereford 1765 or 1766; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791, B.D. and D.D. 1812; admitted D.D. Camb. 10 Dec. 1835; educated the sons of many nobility and gentry at their houses in London; R. of Somerton, Suffolk 1799 to death; R. of Hartest with Boxted 17 Feb. 1819 to death; R. of Stansfield 22 Nov. 1820 to death; canon of Ely 6 March 1835 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death; F.S.A.; F.R.S. 12 June 1817. _d._ Somerton, Bury St. Edmund’s 17 June 1853. _G.M. xl_ 208 (1853).

MADDY, WATKIN. _b._ Herefordshire about 1798; ed. at Hereford gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2nd wrangler 1820, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1830; fellow of St. John’s coll. 18 March 1823 to March 1834; taught mathematics in London to death; author of The elements of the theory of plane astronomy. Cambridge 1826, new ed. 1832. _d._ Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham 13 Aug. 1857.

MADGE, THOMAS. _b._ Plymouth 1786; ed. Crediton gram. sch.; studied medicine under his relative Thomas Hugo at Crediton; with rev. Timothy Kenrick at Exeter 1804 and at York coll. 1805–9; Unitarian minister Churchgate st. chapel, Bury St. Edmunds 1810; co-pastor of Octagon chapel, Norwich 1811–25; minister Essex st. chapel, Strand, London 1825 to May 1860; chaplain to sheriff of London 1857–8; presented with a thousand guineas and a silver salver May 1860; author of The salvation of man by the free grace of God asserted 1812, 2 ed. 1815; Lectures on high church principles 1844; Prayers for morning and evening 1866; Discourses on christian faith and life 1867 and 20 other works. _d._ 20 Highbury terrace, London 29 Aug. 1870. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 3 Sep. _W. James’ Memoirs of T. Madge_ (1871), _portrait_; _Diprose’s St. Clements_, _ii_ 27–8 (1868).

MADGE, TRAVERS (son of the preceding). _b._ Thorpe near Norwich 12 Oct. 1823; ed. univ. coll. London, matriculated 1840; student Manchester coll. 1840; town missionary at Norwich 1845–7; an itinerant preacher; teacher of the Lower Mosley street schools, Manchester 1848–50 and 1859–61. _d._ Norwich 23 March 1866. _B. Hereford’s Travers Madge_ (1867); _W. James’s Memoirs of Thomas Madge_ (1871) 179–80, 266–8; _J. Evan’s Lancashire authors_ (1880) 161–6.

MADIGAN, EGGIE. One of the best vaulters in the profession; a principal performer with Hengler’s, Boswell’s, Cooke’s and Myers’ circuses; well known throughout the continent and India; met with many accidents during his career. _d._ 2 King Alfred’s place, Birmingham 7 July 1892 aged 34.

MADOX, HENRY. _b._ 1784; cornet 6 dragoons 14 March 1800, lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1833, placed on h.p. 1 June 1838; brevet colonel 28 June 1838; K.H. 1832. _d._ 28 Great Pulteney st. Bath 18 March 1865.

MAEDER, CLARA (4 dau. of George Frederick Fisher, auctioneer). _b._ London 14 July 1811; singer; first appeared as lord Flimnap in D. Corri’s version of Garrick’s Lilliput 10 Dec. 1817 at a London house; acted Richard III in pantomime of Gulliver at Covent Garden 8 March 1818; first appeared in U.S. America at Park theatre, New York, as Albina Mandeville in the comedy of The Will 11 Sep. 1827; acted in operettas, burlesques and extravaganzas in which she made rapid changes of costume; sang Scotch heroic songs and ballads throughout the United States, becoming so popular that children were named after her and young ladies affected her lisp and manner 1830; (_m._ 6 Dec. 1834 J. G. Maeder 1809–76); appeared in opera but was a failure 1835; made her last appearance in New York 1851. _Appleton’s American biography iii_ 464 (1887).

MAEDER, JAMES GASPARD. _b._ Dublin 1809; went to United States of America 1833 where he became a distinguished musician, composer, musical director, teacher and theatrical manager; composer of The Swiss quadrilles. Dublin 1830; The song of home. London 1852, 3 ed. 1878; The unwilling bride 1858; The daughter’s dream, a romance, New York 1864; The fair enchantress, a barcarolle 1874. _d._ Chelsea, Massachusetts 28 May 1876. _Era 25 June 1876 p._ 11.

MAGEE, DAVID. Founded a brewery in Bolton, Lancs. 1853; erected the Crown brewery, Bolton 1866. _d._ 1875. _Barnard’s Noted breweries_, _iv_ 221–6 (1891), _view of brewery_.

MAGEE, JAMES (son of John Magee, Irish journalist and lottery broker, _d._ Nov. 1809). Editor and proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post about 1815; a police magistrate at Dublin. _d._ Sep. 1866. _Trial of an action for deceit in which J. Magee was plaintiff and N. P. O’Gorman defendant. Dublin_ (1816).

MAGEE, JOHN. _b._ Borris, co. Carlow 1812; ed. Carlow coll. and at Maynooth; professor of theology Carlow coll. 1839–62 and V.P. 1856–62; priest of Stradbally, Queen’s county 1862 to death. _d._ Stradbally 15 Oct. 1881. _Comerford’s Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 228.

MAGEE, THOMAS PERCIVAL (son of Wm. Magee 1766–1831, archbishop of Dublin). Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; preb. of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1826; preb. of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 1826 to death; archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 13 April 1830 to death; R. of St. Thomas’s, Dublin 1843 to death; author of An enquiry into the nature and origin of the visible church 1822; A short explanation of the gospel of St. Luke 1823. _d._ 16 Dec. 1854.

MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR (eld. son of John Magee, V. of Drogheda, _d._ 1837). _b._ in apartment next library of Cork cathedral 18 Dec. 1821; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1838; B.A 1842, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1860, Donnellan lecturer 1865; C. of St. Thomas, Dublin 1844–6; C. of St. Saviour’s, Bath 1848–50; chaplain of Octagon chapel, Bath 1850–60; preb. of Wells cath. May 1859 to 1861; P.C. of Quebec chapel, London 1860–1; R. of Enniskillen 1861; dean of Cork 1 Feb. 1864 to Oct. 1868; dean of the chapel royal, Dublin 1866–9; commenced erecting Cork cath.; bishop of Peterborough 14 Oct. 1868, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 15 Nov. 1868; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 21 June 1870; made a noted speech against the disestablishment of the Irish church; president of the Church congress at Leicester, Oct. 1880; select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1880–2; archbishop of York 30 Jany. 1891, enthroned in York minster 17 March; one of the greatest orators of his day; author of Sermons at St. Saviour’s, Bath 1854; Sermons at the Octagon chapel, Bath 1852; The gospel and the age 1884; The Atonement 1886 and 40 other works. _d._ at an hotel in Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 5 May 1891. _bur._ burial ground Peterborough cathedral 9 May, a cenotaph bearing his effigy unveiled in Peterborough cathedral 9 Oct. 1893. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 139–46 (1875); _Contemporary Review_, _Oct. 1892 pp._ 534–46; _Church portrait journal_, _vol. ii_ (1878), _portrait as frontispiece_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_ 168–80 (1876), _portrait_; _Northamptonshire Biographical notices. W. C. Magee_ (1892), _portrait_; _The Biograph_, _vi_ 598–606 (1881); _I.L.N. liii_ 401 (1868) _portrait_, _2 Dec. 1893 p._ 695, _view of cenotaph_; _Graphic 9 May 1891 p._ 519, _portrait_.

MAGENIS, SIR ARTHUR CHARLES (5 son of col. Richard Magenis of Warringstown, Downshire 1763–1831, M.P. Enniskillen). _b._ Ireland 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821; attached to mission at Berlin 26 Aug. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 27 Jany. 1851; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 12 Feb. 1852, to king of Sweden and Norway 20 May 1854 and to king of Portugal 11 Nov. 1859 to June 1866 when he retired upon a pension; K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856, G.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, London 14 Feb. 1867.

MAGENIS, HENRY ARTHUR (brother of preceding). _b._ July 1795; lieut. 7 foot 4 March 1813; captain 82 foot 30 Sep. 1824, placed on h.p. 20 Nov. 1827; major 87 foot 25 Feb. 1831, lieut.-col. 18 April 1845; lieut.-col. 27 foot 23 March 1849 to 1 April 1852; inspecting field officer York recruiting district 1 April 1852. _d._ York 14 Nov. 1852.

MAGHERAMORNE, SIR JAMES MACNAGHTEN MC GAREL HOGG, 1 Baron (1 son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. _d._ 1876). _b._ Calcutta 3 May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1 life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855, retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867 and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889; M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867; assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May 1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co. Antrim 5 July 1887. _d._ 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June 1890. _bur._ Brompton cemet., personalty sworn at £159,718. _St. Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609, 610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26, _portrait_.

MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay 1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill, city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London 1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843) _portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871).

MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864 a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2 portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869).

MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6, contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art. _d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.

MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham; founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus, the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery, Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30 Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany. 1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4.

MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860.

MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone 1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822; L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24 June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth 12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878).

MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co. Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto; R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14 June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851).

MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant). _b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan 1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863 and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions 1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX 1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872. _bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_.

MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._ Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork 1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute 1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London, July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857 to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R. of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884; author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R. Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica 1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 71–6.

MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin 24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb. 1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6.

MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow 1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov. 1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct. 1881.

MAHER, JAMES. _b._ Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822; parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare 1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. _d._ Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath. 200 priests were present. _bur._ Carlow Graigue. _Comerford’s Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 177–8; _Letters of Father Maher_ (1877).

MAHER, JOHN. _b._ 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41; sheriff of Wexford 1853. _d._ 28 May 1860.

MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) _b._ Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. _d._ Turtulla near Thurles 18 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p._ 411.

MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding). _b._ Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869; M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872; resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873; medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875; medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881; M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. _d._ of enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 745, 763 (1884); _Guy’s Hospital Reports_ (1886) 1–10.

MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. _b._ Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784; learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at Cork with an Irish girl, she _d._ about Dec. 1850; carried on a vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death; author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2 ed. 1826, portrait. _d._ 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851. Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed kept a fencing academy. _The travels of Deen Mahomed_ 2 _vols._ _Cork_ (1794); _Willis’s Current notes_ (1852) 23; _G.M. xxxv_ 444 (1851).

MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son of Patrick Mahon _d._ 1821). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 17 March 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war; colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took

## part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.

Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. _I.L.N. 27 June 1891 p._ 854, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p._ 832, _portrait_.

MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805; major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Brighton 18 March 1851.

MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney, woollen manufacturer). _b._ Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome; prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood, co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830; ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3; contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6, many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor 1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe 1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881), memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. _d._ at his hotel in the Rue des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. _bur._ in vaults of Shandon church, Cork. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 463–88, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_ (1885) 91–4; _S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed._ (1877) 238; _Dublin Univ. mag. xxx_ 442–52 (1847) _signed Morgan Rattler_; _I.L.N. xlix_ 137 (1866), _portrait_.

MAHONY, PIERCE. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co. solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies, at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug. 1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell 1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal of the Union. _d._ 18 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. iv_ 41, 42 (1814), _portrait_.

MAHONY, RICHARD JOHN (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee, Kerry). _b._ Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist, Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord, all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A. Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. _d._ 4 Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. _bur._ in family vault near Dromore castle 27 Dec. _Times 28 Dec. 1892 p._ 4.

MAIDEN, JOSEPH. _b._ close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire 1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250 sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton 1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. _d._ Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Maer. _Sporting Review_, _xxxviii_ 383–7 (1857) _portrait_, _lii_ 318, 392 (1864); _The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid_ (1880) 313–18; _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 211–2.

NOTE.--The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S. Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.

MAIDLOW, JOHN MOTT (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent). _b._ 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf., taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A. 1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867; a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons preservation 1867. _d._ 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Sep. 1893.

MAIDMENT, JAMES (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill, London). _b._ London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817; much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford, and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73; principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837; edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14 vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. _d._ Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1879. _T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment_ (1883), _portrait_; _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiii_ 601–3 (1879).

MAIN, DAVID M. (son of a Scottish banker). _b._ 1847; edited A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations. Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English sonnets 1884. _d._ 1888.

MAIN, JOHN FREDERIC. _b._ 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London 1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol; assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South Kensington. _d._ Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.

MAIN, ROBERT (son of Thomas Main). _b._ Upnor, Kent 12 July 1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860; chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60; ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41 and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president 1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860 to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882; Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859 etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860; Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. _d._ Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 9 May 1878. _E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 165–88; _Nature 16 May 1878 pp._ 72–3.

MAIN, THOMAS. _b._ 1806; presbyterian minister Kilmarnock 1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St. Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. _d._ 7 Bellevue crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 55–62.

MAIN, THOMAS JOHN (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). _b._ 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842, retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec. 1885. _Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p._ 233.

MAINE, MISS E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person 1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3 vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. _d._ Wales 24 Jany. 1891.

MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (son of James Maine, M.D.) _b._ Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar 1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847; tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850; barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July 1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov. 1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863; elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876; Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. _d._ Cannes 3 Feb. 1888. _Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with his speeches_ (1892), _memoir pp._ 1–83, _portrait_; _Bristed’s Five years at an English university_, _i_ 174, 234, 237, 268–70 (1852); _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 197–204; _The Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 69–74.

MAINWARING, EDWARD VINCENT. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The Lancet. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.

MAINWARING, FREDERICK. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep. 1852, sold out 29 April 1853. _d._ Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.

MAINWARING, GEORGE BYRES. _b._ 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887; author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. _d._ Serampore, Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.

MAINWARING, SIR HENRY MAINWARING, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). _b._ 25 April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804. _d._ Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 83 (1860).

MAINWARING, ROWLAND (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks, Warwickshire 1745–1815). _b._ 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May 1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798; commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22 July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832; Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act. Bath 1838. _d._ Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11 April 1862.

MAINWARING, SWEEDLAND. _b._ 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15 Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.

MAINWARING, TOWNSHEND (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). _b._ Oteley park 16 March 1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and 1857–68. _d._ Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.

MAINZER, JOSEPH. _b._ Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé; singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848 to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed. 1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony 1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb. 1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum 1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4, continued as The musical times 1844. _d._ Manchester 10 Nov. 1851. _A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer_ (1844); _Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp._ 103–5.

MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. _b._ Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874; A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. _drowned_ while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.

MAIR, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society; hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840, surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada 1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils. Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. _d._ Kingston 5 Oct. 1877. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 246–7.

MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh hall, Lincs.) _b._ 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list 1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872; Short rules for cribbage 1878. _d._ Osbert house, Skegness, Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.

MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war 1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing his skull. _d._ 2 Sep. 1892.

MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull, _d._ 18 Feb. 1790). _b._ 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793; captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795, major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807; lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug. 1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Wells 18 May 1852. _bur._ in the minster at Ripon. _I.L.N. xx_ 479 (1852); _G.M. xxxviii_ 92 (1852).

MAITLAND, SIR ALEXANDER CHARLES RAMSAY-GIBSON, 3 Baronet (son of Alexander M. G. Maitland). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820; succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col. 3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. _d._ Clifton hall, Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 551 (1876).

MAITLAND, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828, _d._ Oct. 1865). _b._ Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire; C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome, illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the present time 1849. _d._ London 31 July 1866.

MAITLAND, CHARLES DAVID. _b._ 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton 14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal son, eight discourses 1844. _d._ Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.

MAITLAND, CHARLES LENNOX BROWNLOW (son of sir Peregrine Maitland 1777–1854). _b._ 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April 1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.; assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor 1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884; col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death; general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. _d._ Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. _Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p._ 103, _portrait_.

MAITLAND, EBENEZER FULLER. _b._ 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829; F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. _d._ Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. _Cautionary hints to testators, suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of Harlow_ 1813.

MAITLAND, EDWARD FRANCIS, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of Barcaple). _b._ Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire 9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and 27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1860. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. _Law mag. and law review_, _xxix_ 273–4 (1870).

MAITLAND, JOHN (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland, 2 baronet 1755–1848). _b._ 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb. to death; an organizer of the National security savings’ bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St. George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund; accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’ banks self supporting 1847. _d._ Swinton Bank near Peebles 6 Sep. 1865. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 389–96.

MAITLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.

MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. _d._ 51 Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.

MAITLAND, JULIA CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Barrett). _m._ (1) James Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who _d._ 6 Jany. 1840; _m._ (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843, another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs of the puss and the captain 1854. _d._ Stowe Provost near Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.

MAITLAND, SIR PEREGRINE (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall, New Forest, Hants.) _b._ Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct. 1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834; col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852. _d._ 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. _Hamilton’s History of the grenadier guards_, _vols._ 2 _and_ 3 (1874); _Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war_ (1848).

MAITLAND, SAMUEL ROFFEY (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant). _b._ King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7 Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll. 1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll. 10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7; travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years. 1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’; librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48; D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839; lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49; contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40 other books. _d._ Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. _Proc. of royal soc. xvi_ 31–3 (1868).

NOTE.--Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from the invention of printing downwards.

MAITLAND, THOMAS, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland). _b._ Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death, took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov. 1851 and 8 following days. _d._ of paralysis at 31 Melville st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 111–2, _portrait_.

MAITLAND, WILLIAM FULLER (2 son of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland 1780–1858). _b._ 10 March 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; lived at Stansted, Essex 1842 to death; made a collection of pictures, most of which were exhibited at South Kensington museum after his death, 9 of the best were bought for the National Gallery; lent pictures to the Old Masters’ exhibitions at the R.A. during many years. _d._ Stansted 15 Feb. 1876. _G. H. Rogers-Harrison’s Genealogical account of the Maitland family_ (1869); _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 1–7 (1854).

MAJENDIE, ASHURST (eld. son of Lewis Majendie of Hedingham castle, Essex, _d._ 1833 aged 77). _b._ London 24 April 1784; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; barrister L.I. 12 June 1809; resided at Penzance 1814–8; one of founders of Geological society of Cornwall 1814; assist. poor law comr. for Sussex, Kent and part of Essex 1832; F.R.S. 28 June 1821; F.S.A. _d._ Hedingham castle 7 Oct. 1867. _Law Journal xliii_ 440 (1867).

MAJENDIE, LEWIS ASHURST (eld. son of rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, V. of Great Dunmow, Essex, _d._ 1863). _b._ Great Dunmow 19 May 1835; ed. at Marlborough and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1859; M.P. Canterbury, Feb. 1874 to April 1879. _d._ Hedingham castle, Essex 22 Oct. 1885.

MAJOR, HENRY ARCHIBALD (son of Mr. Major, compositor, who _d._ Reading, June 1863). _b._ One Bell yard, Strand, London 30 Dec. 1828; employed by J. B. Chamberlain, picture dealer 203 High Holborn 1845–8; a letter carrier in Lincoln’s Inn Fields post office 4 Dec. 1848 to June 1876 when granted pension of 14 shillings and 7 pence per week; played Doggrass in Francis Talfourd’s pantomime Black-eyed Susan at Strand theatre 12 weeks from 24 Dec. 1855, also in his own dramas at Grecian theatre 1871–4; known as “The Postman artist of Lincoln’s Inn Fields”; his picture of Grapes and butterflies took first-class prize at Floral hall, Covent Garden 1865; he gained 8 more first-class prizes at picture shows; presented a large painting of fruit worth £50 to King’s college hospital 7 Jany. 1870; exhibited 6 fruit pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–73; lived at 14 Brownlow st. Holborn. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement Danes_, _ii_ 65–7 (1876).

NOTE.--He wrote for the Soho theatre A cure for the gout, farce 1859, and A sketch from the Louvre, farce 1860, for the Grecian theatre 5 farces namely It never rains but it pours 1862, A Rye House plot 1865, The expected general 1870, The man of mystery 1870 and The rural poet 1871, and 4 dramas namely Primrose farm 1871, The blind fiddler 1872, The mystic number 7, 1872, and My pretty Jane 1874, for the Britannia theatre The Ku Klux Klan drama 1873, and for Croydon theatre The lock out 1879; he wrote 7 other dramas and 8 other farces which were not produced; two of his dramas The lock out and The Nondescript, and two of his farces A Jack of both sides and Irish home rule were printed.

MAJOR, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 1 July 1837; resided at Londonderry. _d._ 1877.

MAJOR, JOHN RICHARDSON (son of John Major). _b._ London 1797; ed. at Reading sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827; D.D. 1838; master of Wisbeach gr. sch. 1826–30; head master of King’s coll. sch. London 1830 to July 1866; V. of Wartling, Sussex 1846–51; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1871 to death; author of Extracts from Virgil and from the Fasti of Ovid 1857, anon.; ed. The journal of the Photographic soc. 1853; re-edited many classical and other school books, about 30 in number 1820–57. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 29 Feb. 1876. _Men of the time_ (1875) 691; _Times 9 March 1876 p._ 11.

MAJOR, JOSHUA. _b._ 1787; landscape gardener at Knostrop near Leeds; assisted in formation of the first Sunday school in Leeds, superintendent many years; author of A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden produce 1829; The theory and practice of landscape gardening 1852; The ladies’ assistant in the formation of their flower gardens 1861. _d._ Knostrop 26 Jany. 1866. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 609; _Gardeners’ Chronicle 10 Feb. 1866 p._ 128.

MAJOR, RICHARD HENRY (son of Richard Henry Major, surgeon). _b._ London 3 Oct. 1818; an assistant in department of printed books in British Museum in charge of the maps and charts Jany. 1844, keeper of department of printed maps and plans Jany. 1867, resigned Nov. 1880; hon. sec. to Hakluyt Soc. 1849–58; F.S.A. 25 Jany. 1855; made researches on the early history of Australia 1861 etc.; hon. sec. of Royal geogr. soc. 1861–81, vice pres. 1881–4; knight of the Tower and Sword, of the orders of Santiago, Oct. 1875 and of the Rose of Brazil; knight commander of Crown of Italy, May 1875; edited for the Hakluyt Soc., Select letters of Christopher Columbus 1847, 2 ed. 1870, and 9 other books 1849–58; author of The life of prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the navigator 1868 and other books. _d._ 51 Holland road, Kensington 25 June 1891. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 377–80; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3, _portrait_.

MAKELLAR, ANGUS. _b._ Argyllshire 1780; D.D. of univ. of Glasgow 1835; presbyterian minister of Carmunnock near Glasgow 1812–4 and of Pencaitland, Haddington 1814–43; moderator of the general assembly 1840; Free ch. minister Pencaitland 1843; chairman of the board of missions, Edinb. Oct. 1843 to death; moderator 1843 and 1852. _d._ Edinburgh 10 May 1859. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 397–404, _portrait_.

MALAN, CHARLES HENRY (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan _b._ 1812). _b._ 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14 Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872 and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. _d._ 42 Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 20 May.

MALCOLM, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1813; timber merchant at Venice, leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892; consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon. representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. _d._ Venice 22 Jany. 1893.

MALCOLM, ANDREW GEORGE. _b._ 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal; author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. _d._ Rathmines, Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.

MALCOLM, SIR CHARLES (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, _d._ 1803). _b._ Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28 Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May 1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council of Royal Geogr. Soc. _d._ Brighton 14 June 1851. _C.R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_ 2 _vols._ (1877) _i_ 494 _etc._

MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.

MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm). _b._ 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825; lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot 20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13 Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42; A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death; general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was _b._ June 1807 and _d._ 29 Oct. 1886). _d._ 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888. _J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females_, _i_ 43 (1833), _portrait of his wife_.

MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). _b._ 1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821, chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ. (afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50, and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. _d._ 39 Belsize sq. South Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London. _Graphic_, _xiv_ 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_; _Testimonials in favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh academy_ 1824.

MALDEN, JONAS. _b._ Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816 to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of Practical observations on the cow pox. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March 1860.

MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, 1 bart. _d._ 24 Jany. 1815). _b._ 23 July 1800; ed. at Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822; attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836; sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep. 1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep. 1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23 June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831; The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou 1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870. _d._ 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886. _The Biograph_, _iii_ 458–62 (1880).

MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 Nov. 1806; ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842; political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut 1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse 1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet family 1885. _d._ 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1888.

MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827, fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. _d._ 2 Richmond hill, Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.

MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, baronet _d._ 1815). _b._ 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset 1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John, Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849; The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868; St. Swithin’s day 1879. _d._ Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.

MALEY, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30 Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours 23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2 hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in 44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle, Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb. 1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in 205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov. 1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in 130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable; a capital teacher of boxing. _d._ Coach and Horses public house, 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. _John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing_ (1852) 37–9.

MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). _b._ Great Charles st. Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work; high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he presented to that institution 1879. _d._ 1882. _Edgbastonia_, _ii_ 2–4 (1882), _portrait_.

MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.) _b._ Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42; Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death, treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65; contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor 3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice, Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867; P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. _d._ 57 Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Bray near Maidenhead 21 Jany. _Saturday Review_, _liii_ 76 (1882); _Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867) _No._ 3 _pp._ 12–13; _A generation of judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 146–56; _The bench and the bar_ (1860) _part viii_, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 85 (1882), _portrait_; _Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school_ 1874.

MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. _b._ 1841; conductor at Queen’s theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881; composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison. Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans 1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. _d._ 11 Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.

MALLESON, JOHN PHILIP (youngest son of Thomas Malleson, silversmith and jeweller). _b._ Battersea, London 11 Feb. 1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library, London to death. _d._ Croydon 16 March 1869. _bur._ Marylebone cemetery, Finchley. _J. Martineau’s The Godly man_ (1870) _memoir pp._ 19–63.

MALLET, SIR LOUIS (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit office). _b._ London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860; employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany. 1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep. 1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May 1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug. 1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects, by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. _d._ Bath 16 Feb. 1890. _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 205–13; _Pictorial World 27 Feb. 1890 pp._ 260, 283, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p._ 262, _portrait_.

MALLET, ROBERT (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder). _b._ Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9; invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London 1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74 scientific papers. _d._ Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey 5 Nov. 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_ 297–304 (1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_ 54–6 (1882).

MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). _b._ Spring Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris 1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June 1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ Heron court near Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. _bur._ under the choir of Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. _The Times 18 May 1889 p._ 14; _London sketch book_, _Aug. 1884_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_ 248 (1852) _portrait_, _xxxii_ 250, 260 (1858) _portrait_, l 132, 142 (1867) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 365, 366 (1874) _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait of his wife_.

MALONE, JOSEPH. _b._ 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army; sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. _d._ 12 July 1883.

MALTBY, EDWARD (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver and a presbyterian, _d._ Aug. 1794 aged 64). _b._ parish of St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792; B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester 1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned 1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London 1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803; Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed. 1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and 20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. _d._ 4 Upper Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm. Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 386–8.

MALTBY, MRS. HARRIET. _b._ 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W. Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to the Bath charities. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. _The Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p._ 4.

MALTBY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion house st. London, wholesale draper). _b._ London 17 Jany. 1763; ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787; principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus, superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled Porsoniana pp. 295–334. _d._ London Institution, 11 Finsbury circus 5 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _G.M. xli_ 209–10 (1854).

MAMMATT, EDWARD. _b._ 1807; became blind when very young; learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity, geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842; invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. _d._ Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.

MAN, WILLIAM (son of William Man). _b._ Dec. 1818; travelled over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies, Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. _d._ 16 May 1881. _Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii_ 567 (1881).

MANBY, CHARLES (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales 1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837, M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56 when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec. 1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal; lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb. 1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton 2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866. _d._ Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi_ 327–34 (1885), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 159 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 156 (1884), _portrait_.

MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain Welsh fusiliers, _d._ 1774). _b._ Denver near Downham Market, Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801; captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth 14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales 1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to Greenland 1822. _d._ Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov. 1854. _G. W. Manby’s Reminiscences_ (1839); _European Mag. July 1813 pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 267 (1843), _portrait_; _G.M. Jany. 1822 pp._ 66–70.

MANCHESTER, GEORGE MONTAGU, 6 Duke of (elder son of 5 duke of Manchester 1768–1843). _b._ Kimbolton castle, St. Neots, Hunts. 9 July 1799; styled viscount Mandeville 1799–1843; entered navy 19 Feb. 1812, lieut. 20 Nov. 1818, commander 19 July 1822, commander on h.p. to his death; M.P. Hunts. 1826–37; succeeded 18 March 1843; founded the National club, London 1845; author of Hints upon prophecy 1830; Horæ Hebraicæ 1835; Things hoped for: second advent 1837; The times of Daniel 1845; The finished mystery 1847; A chapter on the harmonizing gospels. Dublin 1854, anon., and other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 Aug. 1855. _bur._ Kimbolton church 28 Aug.

MANCHESTER, WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU, 7 Duke of Manchester (eld. child of the preceding). _b._ Kimbolton castle 15 Oct. 1823; styled lord Kimbolton 1823–43; ensign 11 foot 3 Dec. 1841; ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 21 Jany. 1842, lieut. and capt. 1 Dec. 1846; styled viscount Mandeville 1843–55; aide de camp to sir Peregrine Maitland at Cape of Good Hope 1843–4; retired from army 17 Sep. 1850; contested Westminster 30 July 1847; M.P. Bewdley 18 April 1848, accepted the Chiltern hundreds May 1852; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1852–5; lord of bed chamber to prince Albert 1 March to Dec, 1852; succeeded as 7 duke 18 Aug. 1855; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1861; LL.D. of Camb. univ. 3 June 1864; K.P. 3 March 1877; knight of order of Iron Cross of Prussia; president of royal colonial institute; engaged in commercial ventures in Canada and Australia; author of Court and society from Elizabeth to Anne, from the papers at Kimbolton 2 vols. 1864; A letter to prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar from a spectator of the campaign of 1870 etc. 1871. _d._ Hôtel Royal, Naples 21 March 1890, body embalmed and _bur._ at Kimbolton. _Baily’s Mag. xiv_ 163–4 (1868), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 245 (1877) _portrait_, _and 29 March 1890 p._ 390, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890 pp._ 390, 408, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 May 1861 p._ 323, _portrait_; _Times 24 March 1890 p._ 10, _27 March p._ 4.

MANCHESTER GEORGE VICTOR DROGO MONTAGU, 8 Duke of Manchester (eldest child of the preceding). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 17 June 1853; styled lord Kimbolton 1853–5 and viscount Mandeville 1855–90; captain Armagh militia 30 April 1877 to May 1889; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1877–80; contested Huntingdonshire, April 1880; bankrupt 2 April 1889, bankruptcy annulled 8 Aug. 1889, paid 20s. in the pound 1890–91; succeeded as 8 duke 21 March 1890. _d._ Tanderagee castle, Armagh 18 Aug. 1892.

MANDERS, MR. Proprietor of a menagerie, employing 60 people 1840–71; toured in America; lived in his travelling caravan for 30 years; was in treaty for selling his animals to the French government 1871; his wife was a well-known Lion queen, she carried on the menagerie after her husband’s death. He _d._ in his caravan near Dumfries, Ayrshire 18 Nov. 1871. _The Era 26 Nov. 1871 p._ 12.

MANDERS, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Powell). _b._ 1801; (_m._ 1820 Thomas Manders 1797–1859); made her first appearance at theatre royal, Exeter 1825; fell from the flies at Sadler’s Wells and was much injured 1834; at the Strand, Adelphi and Drury Lane played old women, and was good as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet; received a sum of money through an appeal made in The Era 1879. _d._ 17 April 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 21 April. _The Era 25 April 1880 p._ 6.

MANDERS, THOMAS. _b._ 22 Dec. 1797; engaged in one pound note department of the Bank of England 1814, one pound notes done away with and his office abolished 1821 when he was pensioned; went on the stage and toured through Midland counties; manager of theatre royal, Exeter 1825; (_m._ 1820 Louisa Powell actress 1801–1880); first appeared in London at City theatre, Milton st. as Justice Greedy; acted at the Strand and Olympic; was at the Queen’s theatre about 16 years; kept the marquis of Granby, 11 Middle row, Knightsbridge; kept the Sun tavern, Longacre 1838. _d._ 28 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Woking cemet. _The Era 6 Nov. 1859 p._ 15; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 241 (1838), _portrait_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 81.

MANDEVILLE, JOHN HENRY. Sec. to the commissary for prisoners of war in France 1801–2; sec. to the embassy at Vienna 1804–9, at Brussels 1815 and at Frankfort 1817; paid attaché at Paris 1824; sec. of embassy at Lisbon 1828 and at Constantinople 1831; minister plenipo. at Constantinople 1831–3 and at Buenos Ayres 1835–45 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 16 March 1861. _F.O. List_, _July 1861 p._ 157.

MANDRON HARVEY, AUGUSTE. _b._ 1813; B.A.; French master St. Peter’s collegiate school, Eaton square, London; author of Le vieux chêne. Par l’ auteur de John Hardy le laquais, traduit par A. Mandron. London 1852. _d._ 41 Kellett road, Brixton, Surrey 16 Dec. 1879.

MANGIN, EDWARD (eld. son of Samuel Henry Mangin, lieut.-col. 14 dragoons, _d._ 1798). _b._ Dublin 15 July 1772; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; preb. of Dysart, Killaloe cath. 2 March 1798; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 15 Jany. 1800 to 1 Dec. 1803; preb. of Rath in Killaloe cath. 1 Dec. 1803 to death; author of The deserted city 1805. By E. M., a poem on Bath in summer; Oddities and outlines. By E. M. 2 vols. 1806; George the third, a novel 3 vols. 1807; Essays on the sources of the pleasures received from literary compositions 1809, anon., 2 ed. 1813; Piozziana, or recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi. By A Friend 1833. _d._ 10 Johnstone st. Bath 17 Oct. 1852. _Peach’s Houses in Bath_, _i_ 146–7 (1883), _ii_ 8, 37–8, 72 (1884).

MANGLES, CHARLES EDWARD (son of James Mangles, M.P. Guildford 1832–7). _b._ 1798; captain H.E.I.C. naval service; M.P. Newport 1857–9; contested Southampton 6 Dec. 1862; chairman of London and south-western railway 1859–72; resided at Poyle park, Tongham, Farnham, Surrey. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Oct. 1873.

MANGLES, JAMES. _b._ 1786; entered navy March 1800; commander of the Racoon sloop 13 June 1815; captain on h.p. 8 Feb. 1853; travelled in Europe, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor 1817–18; F.R.S. 20 June 1825; an original fellow and member of council of Royal Geographical Soc. 1830; author of The floral calendar 1839; Papers and despatches relating to the Arctic searching expeditions of 1850–1–2. 1852; Thames estuary, guide to the navigation of the Thames mouth 1853; author with C. L. Irby of Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor in 1817–18. 1823. _d._ Fairfield, Topsham road, Exeter 18 Nov. 1867.

MANGLES, ROSS DONELLY (younger son of James Mangles of Woodbridge, Surrey, M.P. Guildford). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and Haileybury coll.; writer in service of H.E.I.C. Bengal, April 1819; spent three years in Europe 1828–31; junior sec. to Sudder board of revenue in Bengal presidency; director of H.E.I.C. 14 April 1847 and chairman 1857–8; M.P. Guildford 1841–58; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1866; author of A brief vindication of the India company’s government of Bengal 1830; Christian reasons of a member of the Church of England for being a reformer 1840. _d._ 23 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 16 Aug. 1877. _Annual register_ (1877) 156; _Times 21 Aug. 1877 p._ 4.

MANGOLD, CARL GEORG (son of Ludwig Mangold, violinist). _b._ Darmstadt 27 Sep. 1812; a pupil of Johann N. Hummel; came to London about 1837; pianist; a teacher of the piano; taught the princess Mary of Cambridge, duchess of Teck; professor at Guildhall school of music to 1887; composer of Marche triumphale, composed for the christening of the Prince of Wales 1842; Les etoiles, morceaux caractéristiques 1855; Six rêveries for the pianoforte 1855; Six romances sans paroles 1856; Wild flowers, three impromptus 1862; Three melodies 1863; Night hymn at sea 1875; author of Harmony 1886; Counterpoint 1886; History of harmony and counterpoint 1886. _d._ 4 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury, London 1 Nov. 1887.

MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (son of Frederick Maning of Johnville, co. Dublin). _b._ 5 July 1812; taken to Van Diemen’s Land 1824; went to New Zealand 1841, won the hearts of the natives who installed him as a Pakeha Maori or naturalised stranger; acquired land of the Ngapuhi tribe at Hokianga, settled at Onaki and married a Maori; a judge of the Native lands court 15 Nov. 1865, resigned 1881; author of Old New Zealand, being incidents of native customs, by a Pakeha Maori 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The history of the war in the North with Heki in 1845, both books were republished in 1876. _d._ London 25 July 1883. _bur._ New Zealand, his bust is over door of institute library at Auckland. _G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand_, _i_ 22, _ii_ 285, _iii_ 515 (1883).

MANISTY, SIR HENRY (2 son of James Manisty V. of Edlingham, Northumberland). _b._ Edlingham 13 Dec. 1808; ed. at Durham cathedral gr. sch.; member of firm of Meggison, Pringle and Manisty, solicitors, London 1830–42; barrister G.I. 23 April 1845, bencher 22 July 1857 to death, treasurer 1861; went northern circuit; Q.C. 7 July 1857; judge of high court of justice, queen’s bench division 31 Oct. 1876 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1876; author of A letter to sir F. Pollock on the subject of local courts 1843; seized with paralysis in court 24 Jany. 1890. _d._ 24A Bryanston sq. London 31 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Feb. _Vanity Fair_, _xxxvi_ 4–5 (1886) _and 30 Nov. 1889_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 428 (1876) _portrait and 8 Feb. 1890 p._ 163, _portrait_.

MANKS, RICHARD. _b._ in parish of Solihull, Warwickshire 3 May 1818; known as the Warwickshire antelope and the Eastern Warwickshire star; ran from Hagley Tap house to Birmingham 9¾ miles with 3 steep hills; ran 3 miles in 17 minutes and won; ran 18½ miles up and down hill within 2 hours on the Coventry road and won; against Mountjoy picked up 300 stones placed 1 yard apart 51 miles 540 yards for £30 a side; wheeled a barrow with 5 cwt. 588 yards for £50 a side; ran Jackson the American deer 10 miles £100 a side and beat him: a publican 1847; walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours, starting each time as the clock struck at the Barrack tavern, Sheffield, being watched by three troops of the 1 royal dragoons 17 June to 29 July 1850; trained Burton to fight Tass Parker 19 May 1851; said to have walked 1000 quarter miles in 1000 quarter hours, completing task on 4 July 1851, and 1000 miles in 1000 half hours at the Kennington Oval 10 to 31 Oct. 1851. _Illust. Sporting News 7 July_ (1862) 100, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_ 96 (1850) _portrait_, _xix_ 573, 574 (1851), _portrait_.

MANN, FREDERICK WILLIAM (youngest son of general Gother Mann). _b._ 1782; ensign royal staff corps 9 Feb. 1804, lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 July 1834; served at captures of Genoa and Malta; was under lord Cathcart in Germany; with sir John Moore in Sweden, Portugal and Spain; under sir John Doyle aided in constructing military roads in Guernsey; in the Peninsula 1813–14, at the passage of Bidassoa, at Nivelle and Toulouse; illustrated Giles Witherne by J. P. Wilson 1863. _d._ De Beavoir, Guernsey 28 July 1871. _I.L.N. 12 Aug. 1871 p._ 139.

MANN, GERARD (son of rev. Horace Mann, R. of Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall 1816–46). _b._ Mawgan-in-Meneage rectory 20 March 1821; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845; rowed No. 3 in the Cambridge boat against Oxford and Leander at Thames regatta 1844; rowed bow oar in Cambridge boat which beat Oxford in the first race over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845 and which won the grand challenge cup against Oxford at Henley 1845; he and F. M. Arnold of Caius coll. were the crack pair-oar of their time and won the silver goblets at Henley with great ease 1845; C. of Alderbury, Wilts. 1847–51; R. of Mawgan, Cornwall 1851 to death. _d._ Mawgan 21 Oct. 1855.

MANN, GOTHER FREDERICK. _b._ 1817; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836, col. 10 Nov. 1868 to 13 Aug. 1874; M.G. 13 Aug. 1874; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ The cottage, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 March 1881.

MANN, HENRY. _b._ 1806; an attentive astronomer who had a valuable instrument; F.R.A.S. 12 May 1871; an amateur musician; composer of The Heaton galop. Manchester 1871; resided Spern Bank near Checkheaton. _d._ 15 Phillimore gardens, Kennington 20 Aug. 1879. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xl_ 204 (1880).

MANN, ROBERT JAMES (son of James Mann of Norwich). _b._ Norwich 1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon at Norwich, afterwards at Buxton; M.D. St. Andrews 1854; resided in Natal 1857–66; superintendent of education for Natal 1859–66, established a system of primary education; emigration agent for Natal in London 1866 to death; pres. of Meteorological Soc. 3 years; author of The book of health 1850; The philosophy of reproduction 1855; A guide to the knowledge of life 1856; The colony of Natal 1860–62; The emigrant’s guide to Natal 1868, 2 ed. 1873 and 15 other books. _d._ 5 Kingsdown villas, Bolingbroke grove, Wandsworth, London 8 Aug. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.

MANN, WILLIAM (3 son of major general Cornelius Mann). _b._ Lewisham, Kent 25 Oct. 1817; went to Gibraltar 1830; second assistant at royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 1839, first assistant Dec. 1847 to 1870, erected a new transit-circle there 1855; communicated his observations of the great comet of Dec. 1844 and of the transit of Mercury on 4 Nov. 1868 to the Royal Astronomical Soc.; F.R.A.S. 10 March 1871; granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1873, the value for three years of this pension was paid to his widow. _d._ Claremont near Cape Town 30 April 1873. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xxxiv_ 144–8 (1874).

MANNERS, CHARLES HENRY SOMERSET (2 son of Charles Manners, 4 duke of Rutland 1754–87). _b._ 24 Oct. 1780; cornet 10 dragoons 7 Feb. 1798; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 2 July 1812 to 2 June 1825; M.P. Cambs. 1802–30; M.P. North Leicester 1835–52; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838; col. 3 dragoons 8 Nov. 1839 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ E3 The Albany, London 25 May 1855.

MANNERS, GEORGE JOHN (3 son of 5 duke of Rutland 1778–1857). _b._ London 22 June 1820; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; cornet royal horse guards 20 Oct. 1840, major 5 March 1861, placed on h.p. 5 June 1866; brevet colonel 5 March 1866; M.P. Cambridgeshire 1847–57 and 1863 to death; senior steward of the Jockey club and chairman of committee on condition of the turf in 1870. _d._ Cheveley park, Newmarket 8 Sep. 1874. _Baily’s mag. xxii_ 125 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 260, 280 (1874), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 307 (1875); _Graphic_, _x_ 298, 309 (1874), _portrait_.

MANNERS, RUSSELL HENRY (only child of Russell Manners, M.P.) _b._ London 31 Jany. 1800; ed. at royal naval college; entered navy 6 March 1816; captain 4 March 1829; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; F.R.A.S. 1836, hon. sec. Feb. 1848 to 1858, foreign sec. 1858, president 1868. _d._ 8 Henrietta st. Cavendish square, London 9 May 1870. _Monthly notices of the R.A.S. xxxi_ 97–99 (1871).

MANNING, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Manning of Billiter sq. London, West India merchant). _b._ 1796; lived many years at Leamington, where he erected protestant churches and contributed to all charitable institutions; published A list of the various editions of the Boscobel tracts, Leamington 1861; A series of views illustrative of the Boscobel tracts 1861; A series of views to illustrate C. Cotton’s The second part of the complete angler 1866. _d._ Byron lodge, Leamington 15 Jany. 1880. _The Warwickshire Times 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 5.

MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Copped hall, Totteridge, Herts. 15 July 1808; ed. at Harrow 1822–7 and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of Merton coll. 27 April 1832; C. of Wool Lavington, Sussex, Dec. 1832, R. of Wool Lavington 10 June 1833; R. of Graffham, Sussex 16 Sep. 1833, rebuilt both his churches; second rural dean of Midhurst 1837; archdeacon of Chichester 30 Dec. 1840, resigned 22 Nov. 1850; select preacher at Oxford 1842; a leader of the high church party; received into the Church of Rome at the Jesuits’ ch. in Farm st. mews by Father Brownbill 6 April 1851; ordained priest by Cardinal Wiseman 14 June 1851; studied at Rome 1851–4; received degree of D.D. from Pius IX. 1854; provost of the chapter of Westminster 1857; superior of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Charles at 10 Westmoreland place, Bayswater 31 May 1857 to 1865; domestic prelate to the Pope and protonotary apostolic with title of Monsignore 1860; archbishop of Westminster 30 April 1865 to death, consecrated at St. Mary’s, Moorfields 8 June and enthroned there 6 Nov.; established the Westminster diocesan education fund 1866; founded the pro-cathedral church of our lady of victories, between 12 and 13 Newland terrace, Kensington 1867; founded a University college at Wright’s lane, Kensington 1874, which was closed 1878; founded the Diocesan seminary of St. Thomas, Cupola house, King st. East, Hammersmith 1876; created cardinal-priest by Pius IX. 15 March 1875, enthroned in church of St. Gregory the Great on the Cœlian hill, Rome 31 March 1875, received the cardinal’s hat 31 Dec. 1877; founded the temperance society known as The League of the Cross 1868; member of royal commissions on housing of the working classes 1884–5 and on the elementary education acts 1886–7; author of Sermons 4 vols. 1842–50; Sermons preached before the university of Oxford 1844; Sermons on ecclesiastical subjects 3 vols. 1863–73; Miscellanies 3 vols. 1877–88; The grounds of faith, four lectures 1852, 6 ed. 1881, besides 100 other works; he also edited, supplied prefaces to, and was connected with 60 other works. _d._ Carlisle place, Vauxhall bridge road, London at 8 a.m. 14 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s cemet. Kensal Green 22 Jany. _A. W. Hutton’s Cardinal Manning_ (1892), _portrait_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _iii_ 378, 381–95 (1877); _Century Mag. May 1883 pp._ 129–31, _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 52–60 (1891), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 20 May 1865 p._ 309, _portrait_.

MANNING, JAMES (son of James Manning of Exeter, Unitarian minister). _b._ Exeter 1781; barrister L.I. 23 June 1817; went Western circuit, leader of it many years; recorder of Sudbury 1835 to death; recorder of Oxford and Banbury, Nov. 1837 to death; serjeant-at-law 19 Feb. 1840; received patent of precedence April 1845; queen’s ancient serjeant 1846, which dignity revived at his own suggestion entitled him to a seat in the house of lords; judge of Whitechapel county court, March 1847, retired on pension of £700, Feb. 1863, was one of the 5 judges appointed Aug. 1856 to frame rules for conduct of the practice and also scales of costs; author of A digest of the nisi prius reports 1820; The practice of the Court of Exchequer, revenue branch 1827, and other books; author with Archer Ryland of Reports of cases in the court of King’s bench 1827–1830. 5 vols. 1828–37; author with T. C. Granger of Cases argued and determined in the court of Common Pleas 1840–1845. 7 vols. 1841–6; author with T. C. Granger and J. Scott of Common Bench reports 1845–1849. 8 vols. 1846–51; _m._ (2) 3 Dec. 1857 Charlotte dau. of Isaac Solly of Layton, Essex, and widow of Wm. Speir, M.D. of Calcutta, she was author of Life in ancient India 1856 and Ancient and mediæval India 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 44 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 29 Aug. 1866.

MANNING, JOHN. _b._ Aldersgate st. London 1825; appeared at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. under Charles James as a tragedian; acted at Newcastle-under-Lyne; a parliamentary agent in London; appeared at Theatre royal and Liver theatre, Liverpool; was at the Marylebone, London, under E. T. Smith 1852; acted at the Grecian Saloon in The two Gregories 1855; a well known low comedian at The Grecian. _d._ 18 March 1890. _The Players 6 July 1861 p._ 1, _portrait_.

MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Manning of London, sculptor, _d._ 1847). Began to practise modelling 1829; received from Society of Arts gold medal for a model of a statue of Prometheus, executed this statue in marble and exhibited it at the R.A. in 1845, it was engraved by B. Holl in the ‘Art Union’ for 1846; sculptor at 3 Union place, New road, London 1847–59, at 66 Marylebone road 1859–65; exhibited sculptures at the R.A. 1845–58. _d._ 1865.

MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Manning, mayor of Leicester). _b._ Leicester 1822; studied at Baptist college at Bristol 1840 and at Glasgow univ.; baptist minister at Sheppard’s Barton, Frome, Somerset 1846–61; edited the Baptist Mag. some years; general book editor of Religious tract society 1863, one of the secretaries 1876 to death; LL.D. Chicago; author of Infidelity tested by fact, a series of papers reprinted from The Church 1850; edited Selections from the prose writings of John Milton 1862; projected the Religious tract society’s series of illustrated books of travel 1870, and wrote several of them. _d._ 35 Ladbroke grove, London 13 Sep. 1881. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men of Bristol college_ (1884) 327.

MANNING, WILLIAM OKE (son of Wm. Oke Manning of Lloyd’s, London, insurance broker). _b._ 1809; ed. at Bristol; entered his father’s counting-house; author of Commentaries on the law of nations 1839, new ed. 1875, being the first English treatise on the subject; Remarks upon religious tests at the English universities 1846, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle. _d._ 8 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 15 Nov. 1878. _Athenæum 30 Nov. 1878 p._ 689.

MANNING, WILLIAM THOMAS. Member of firm of Hanslip and Manning, solicitors 20 Thavies inn, Holborn, London 1844; member of firm of Hanslip, Manning and Conworth, parliamentary agents 12 Hatton Garden 1850–53; coroner of the Queen’s household and of the Verge, May 1853 to death. _d._ The Old Farm, New park road, Clapham park, Brixton 10 Jany. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxiv_ 214, 252 (1888).

MANNINGHAM-BULLER, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (2 son of sir Francis Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2 baronet 1767–1833). _b._ Churston Ferrers, Devon 19 July 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; M.P. for North Staffs. 1837–41, contested North Staffs. July 1847, M.P. North Staffs. 1865–74; M.P. for Stafford 1841–7; sheriff of Staffs. 1853; took surname of Manningham before that of Buller by r.l. 4 Jany. 1866; created baronet 20 Jany. 1866. _d._ Dilhorn hall, Cheadle, Staffs. 22 Sep. 1882.

MANSELL, ARTHUR LUKIS (2 son of sir Thomas Mansell 1777–1858). _b._ 1815; entered navy 8 Sep. 1831; captain 1 Jany. 1865, retired 7 March 1866; retired V.A. 14 May 1888. _d._ 28 Feb. 1890.

MANSEL, CHARLES GRENVILLE. _b._ 1807; a writer in H.E.I. Co.’s service 30 April 1826; deputy accountant general in Calcutta 1841; member of board of administration for the affairs of the Punjab 1849–50; resident at Nagpur, Nov. 1850, retired on the annuity fund 1855; author of Report on the settlement of the district of Agra 1842. _d._ 7 Mills terrace, West Brighton 19 Nov. 1886.

MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of Henry Longueville Mansel 1783–1835, R. of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire). _b._ Cosgrove rectory 6 Oct. 1820; entered Merchant Taylors’ school 29 Sep. 1830; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 11 June 1839, took a double first 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1852, D.D. 1867; took private pupils 1843–55; fellow of his college 1839–55 and 1864–7, hon. fellow 1868 to death, tutor 1850–64; reader in moral and metaphysical theology at Magd. coll. Oxf. 1855; professor fellow of St. John’s coll. 8 April 1864, and the first honorary fellow Oct. 1868; Bampton lecturer 1858; Waynflete professor of philosophy 1859; select preacher at Oxf. 1860–2 and 1869–71; examining chaplain to bishop of Peterborough 1864–8; regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxf. and canon of Ch. Ch. 5 Jany. 1867 to Oct. 1868; dean of St. Paul’s 21 Oct. 1868 to death; author of The demons of the wind and other poems 1838; Scenes from an unfinished drama entitled Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the nineteenth century 1850, 4 ed. 1852; Prolegomena logica, an inquiry into the psychological character of logical processes 1851; The limits of religious thought, eight Bampton lectures 1858, 5 ed. 1867. _d._ in his sleep at Cosgrove hall, the residence of his son-in-law 31 July 1871, memorial window in north chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral unveiled 25 Jany. 1879. _J. W. Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 321–66, _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans. By Rev. F. Arnold_, _ii_ 273–75 (1875); _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 39; _I.L.N. lix_ 127, 128, 311 (1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Review_, _clix_ 1–39 (1885).

MANSEL, JOHN. _b._ 1777; ensign 53 foot March 1795, lieut. colonel 12 Feb. 1818 to 9 Aug. 1827; C.B. 4 June 1815; sold out of the army 1855. _d._ Smeadmore, Dorset 29 Jany. 1863.

MANSEL, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of sir Wm. Mansel, 7 bart. 1739–1804). _bapt._ 12 Feb. 1789; ensign 10 foot 29 Jany. 1807; captain 53 foot 8 July 1813; placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1817; colonel of 68 foot 4 June 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1832. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 April 1864.

MANSELL, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey). _b._ Guernsey 9 Feb. 1777; entered navy 20 Jany. 1793; present at battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander of the Rose sloop 1808–13 and of the Pelican 1813–4, captured 170 of the enemy’s vessels; presented with order of the Sword by king of Sweden 1812; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837, knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1849. _d._ Guernsey 22 April 1858.

MANSEL, THOMAS, _baptized_ 14 Oct. 1783; entered navy 1798; served at battle of Copenhagen; captain 12 Feb. 1834; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Fareham, Kent 1 April 1869.

MANSFIELD, CHARLES BLACKFORD (son of John Mansfield, R. of Rowner, Hampshire). _b._ Rowner 8 May 1819; ed. at Twyford and Winchester; began residence at Clare hall, Camb. Oct. 1839, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; lived at a cost of a few pence a day and gave his savings to the poor; studied at royal college of chemistry 1846–8; discovered and patented the extraction of benzol from coal-tar 1848, which laid foundation of the aniline industry; went to Paraguay 1852; lectured on the chemistry of the metals at royal institution 1851–2; author of Benzol, its nature and utility 1849; Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate 1856; the naptha on which he was experimenting boiled over and so scalded him that he _d._ Middlesex hospital, London 26 Feb. 1855. _Mansfield’s Paraguay_ (1856), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, EDWARD. Sub-lieutenant royal naval reserve 1 Aug. 1890; aimed at promoting the use of balloons and parachutes for both military and naval warfare; made a successful ascent in his balloon Wanderer at Bombay 13 Nov. 1891 when he descended by his parachute from an altitude of upwards of 11,000 feet; ascended again from Victoria gardens, Bombay 10 Dec. 1891, the balloon burst at a height of about 400 feet and he fell to the ground mangled and dead. _Daily Graphic 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8, _31 Dec. p._ 1, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, HORATIO (5 son of John Mansfield, barrister). _b._ 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; fellow of his coll. 1843–52; barrister I.T. 6 June 1853, went northern circuit; a writer in the Morning Chronicle and Saturday Review many years; deputy stip. magistrate for Liverpool 1872 to death. _d._ Liverpool 13 Aug. 1887.

MANSFIELD, JAMES. _b._ 1775; a butcher at Debden, Essex; exhibited himself at the Leicester square rooms, London about 1846 as the ‘Greatest man in the world.’ _d._ Debden, Essex 9 Nov. 1856. _G.M. i_ 786 (1856).

NOTE.--He measured 9 feet round, and weighed 33 stone of 14 lbs. When sitting on his chair his abdomen covered his knees and hung down almost to the ground; when he reclined it was necessary to pack his head to prevent suffocation.

MANSFIELD, RALPH. _b._ Toxteth park, Liverpool 12 March 1799; ordained minister of Wesleyan church 1820; stationed at Sydney, N.S.W. Oct. 1820 to 1822, at Parramatta and Windsor during 1823, at Hobart Town 1823–5, at Sydney again 1825–8; edited Sydney Gazette, first newspaper published in N.S.W. 1829–32; leader writer for The Colonist, Sydney paper, several years; contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald from 1841; secretary of Sydney gas-light company 29 June 1836 to death. _d._ Sydney. June 1880.

MANSFIELD, SAMUEL (son of John Mansfield of Diggeswell house, Herts. _d._ 1841, and brother of first baron Sandhurst _d._ 1876). _b._ 1815; entered Bengal civil service 1834; political agent Rewa Kantha 1847; collector and magistrate Kandeish 1852; revenue comr. Northern division 1859; senior member of council Bombay 14 May 1867, retired upon the annuity fund 1872; a patron of the Western India turf; C.S.I. 25 May 1866. _d._ 23 Hanover sq. London 23 Dec. 1893.

MANSON, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Bombay artillery 1810, col. 16 April 1849 to death; M.G. 26 Dec. 1844; commanded Scinde division of Bombay army 1 April 1848 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Bombay 23 Feb. 1852.

MANSON, DAVID. _b._ 1838; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1859, M.D. and C.M. 1862; in practise in London 1862–4; resident physician Strathpeffer spa 1864–71 and 1882 to death; in practise at Chesterfield 1871–82; author of On the sulphur waters of Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Rossshire 1877, 3 ed. 1879, 4 ed. abridged 1881; On the sulphur and chalybeate waters of Strathpeffer spa, 5 ed. 1884. _d._ Eaglestone, Strathpeffer 9 May 1884.

MANSON, GEORGE (son of Magnus Manson, merchant). _b._ Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1850; apprenticed as a wood engraver to W. and R. Chambers, publishers 1866–71; studied in the school of art, Edinb. 1871; exhibited a figure subject at R.A. London 1873; his paintings dealing with homely subjects are realistic transcripts from nature, notable for their colour, many of them are reproduced in his Memoir. _d._ Lympstone, Devon 27 Feb. 1876. _bur._ Gulliford church near Lympstone. _G. Manson and his works_, 27 _plates_. _Edinb._ (1880), _memoir pp._ 1–22, _portrait_.

MANSON, JAMES. _b._ 1792; entered Bengal army 1807; ensign 8 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1808, lieut. 2 June 1814; captain 72 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 11 July 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; lieut.-col. 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to 1848; comr. with Bajee Rao, Bithoor 16 Sep. 1831 to 1851; lieut.-col. of 42 N.I. 1848–50, of 48 N.I. 1850–52, of 20 N.I. 1852–4, of 21 N.I. 1854–55, of 53 N.I. 1855–7, and of 44 N.I. 1857 to death; M.G. 15 May 1859. _d._ 14 Westbourne sq. London 15 July 1862.

MANSON, JAMES BOLIVAR. _b._ Scotland 1823; ed. Aberdeen, B.A.; tutor, then schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of Stirling Observer; editor of Northern Daily express; on editorial staff of Edinburgh daily review 1862 to death; author of The Bible in school, a vindication of the Scottish system of education 1852; Contemporary Scottish art, pen and ink pictures from the Exhibition 1865. _died_ suddenly while writing a leading article at 16 Keir street, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 18 (1869); _The Daily Rev. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1868 p._ 2.

MANSON, WILLIAM. Joined James Stirling Christie and George Henry Christie, auctioneers of pictures and works of art at 8 King st. St. James’, London 1831; Edward Manson a brother was afterward admitted a partner and d. 1884. _d._ 5 Portugal st. Grosvenor sq. London 19 June 1852. _D. Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 67–8; _All the year round 8 May 1875 pp._ 125–32.

NOTE.--This business was established by James Christie in 1761 (first catalogue dated 5 Dec. 1766), who dying in 1803 was succeeded by his son James Christie, who dying 1831 left it to his two sons mentioned above. Mr. Thomas Hoade Woods was admitted a partner in 1859. The business was removed from Pall Mall to King st. in 1824. In Christie’s sale catalogue may be traced the history of fine art taste in England for more than a century.

MANT, WALTER BISHOP (eld. son of Richard Mant 1776–1848, bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore). _b._ Buriton, Hampshire 25 June 1807; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; archdeacon of Connor 1831; R. of Hillsborough, co. Down, and archdeacon of Down, Oct. 1834 to death; author of Horæ Apostolicæ 1839; The man of sorrows, five discourses. Oxford 1852; Memoirs of Richard Mant. Dublin 1857; Christophoros and other poems 1861; Bible quartetts [1862] 3 numbers; Scientific quartetts [1862–3] 6 numbers. _d._ archdeaconry, Hillsborough 6 April 1869.

MANTELL, EDWARD REGINALD. _b._ 1799; ed. Em. coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; C. of Dartford, Kent 1823–6; C. of Bexley, Kent 1826–8; C. of Ticehurst, Sussex 1828–31; V. of Louth and Tetney, Lincs. 1831–59; preb. of Louth in Lincoln cath. 1845 to death; R. of Gretford with Wilsthorpe, Lincs. 1859 to death; dean of the peculiar of Stamford 1863 to death; R.D. of Ness 1864–76. _d._ Parkbury, St. Albans 29 May 1884. _The law of marriage, correspondence between Mr. Allison and E. R. Mantell on marriage with a deceased wife’s sister_ (1850).

MANTELL, GIDEON ALGERNON (son of a shoemaker). _b._ parish of St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes 3 Feb. 1790; articled to James Moore, surgeon, Lewes, partner with him; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; practised at Lewes 1835–9, at Clapham Common 1839–45 and in London 1845 to death; sold his fine collection of fossils to British Museum for £5000, 1838; opened many tumuli about Lewes; lectured frequently at Royal Institution; F.L.S. 1813; F.G.S. 1818, Wollaston medallist 1835, one of its secretaries 1841–2, vice pres. 1848–9; F.R.S. 24 Nov. 1825, royal medallist 1849; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Aug. 1852; author of The fossils of the South Downs 1822; The wonders of geology 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 1849; The medals of creation 2 vols. 1844; On the remains of man 1850. _d._ 19 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 10 Nov. 1852. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, Lewes, where is memorial tablet. _A reminiscence of G. A. Mantell_ (1853), _memoir pp._ 18–26; _G.M. xxxviii_ 644–47 (1852), _xxxix_ 2 (1853); _Medical Circular_, _i_ 89, 443 (1852), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnean society_, _ii_ 235–37 (1855); _Quarterly journal of geological society_, _ix_ 22–25 (1853); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 158–60; _Physic and physicians_, _ii_ 306–8 (1839).

MANTELL, SIR JOHN ILES (eld. son of George Mantell, M.D. of Faringdon, Berkshire). _b._ Faringdon 1 Dec. 1813; barrister M.T. 18 June 1847; queen’s advocate of the Gambia 24 Aug. 1841, chief justice and judge of the court of vice admiralty of the Gambia 20 Oct. 1847 to 1866; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; stipendiary magistrate for borough of Salford and Manchester petty sessional division of county 7 Sep. 1869 to Dec. 1885. _d._ Biarritz 12 July 1893.

MANTELL, JOSHUA (younger brother of G. A. Mantell 1790–1852). _b._ 1795; L.S.A. 1828; surgeon at Newick, Sussex; founded the Newick horticultural society 1832; principal editor of John Baxter’s The library of agricultural and horticultural knowledge. 2 ed. Lewes 1842, 4 ed. 1846, and of The farmer’s annual; author of Floriculture, comprising management of stove, greenhouse and herbaceous plants 1832; thrown from his horse and received an injury to his brain, removed to Dr. Newington’s asylum at Ticehurst 1835 where he _d._ May 1865. _G.M. June 1865 p._ 800.

MANTLE, THOMAS ALLEN. _b._ Kates hill near Dudley 31 Jany. 1840; came to London about 1852; a brass finisher by trade; professional cricketer at Westminster school from 3 May 1862 to death; played in the Middlesex eleven, scored 1010 runs in 1866; first played at Lords 10 June 1867 in England v. Middlesex; a good all-round player; resided at the Lodge, Vincent sq. Westminster. _d._ 29 April 1884.

MANVERS, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Ward Marshall. _b._ Oxford; a singer in Christ Church cath.; studied in Italy; a leading tenor in U.S. of America; sang in London at the Ancient concerts, the Philharmonic soc. and the Sacred harmonic soc.; leading tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane during Bunn’s management 1833; retired owing to an attack of chronic asthma. _d._ 22 Feb. 1874. _The Athenæum 28 Feb. 1874 p._ 301.

MAPLESON, CHARLES (2 son of James Henry Mapleson, operatic impresario). _b._ 1855; acting manager to his father in London and U.S. of America; m. Malvina Cavalazzi the dancer. _d._ of rheumatic gout at 10 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 20 Nov. 1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Nov.

MAPLESON, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1802 or 1803; violinist in Drury Lane theatre about 40 years, was also musical librarian to the theatre. _d._ 46 Leicester sq. London 6 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.

MAPLETON, REGINALD JOHN (3 son of rev. James Henry Mapleton of Christ Church, Stamford st. Surrey). _b._ 9 Dec. 1817; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1826, Stuart exhibitioner to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1836, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1857; C. of Horsehouse, Yorks. 1842–4; C. of Berkswell, Warws. 1844–51; V. of Great Glen, Leics. 1851–5; C. of Saxby, Leics. 1855–9; incumb. of St. Columba, Kilmartin, Argyllshire 1859–86; dean of Argyll and the Isles, and canon of Cumbrae 1886 to death. _d._ Duntroon castle, Lochgilphead 30 Jany. 1892.

MAPPIN, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ 1800; brewer in partnership with Mr. Bradley at Ecclesall road, Sheffield; proprietor of the Old brewery, Masbro’; erected St. John’s ch. Ranmoor at his own charge of £12,000, 1838; gave the east window of the chancel of St. Peter’s church, Sheffield 1857 as a memorial of James Montgomery who _d._ 1854; left his pictures with £15,000 for a picture gallery to town of Sheffield, among his pictures are many by Pettie, J. Phillips, Creswick and F. Goodall; erected a residence at Birchlands 1856. _d._ Birchlands, Ranmoor, Sheffield 22 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Eccleshall churchyard 25 Oct. _Sheffield Independent 23 Oct. 1883 p._ 3.

MAR and KELLIE, WALTER HENRY ERSKINE, 11 Earl of Mar and 13 Earl of Kellie (1 son of 12 earl of Kellie 1810–72). _b._ India 17 Dec. 1839; ed. at Radley and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862, M.A. 1866; succeeded as 13 earl of Kellie 15 Jany. 1872; established his claim to the earldom of Mar before the house of lords 26 Feb. 1875; as viscount Fentoun was premier viscount of Scotland; capt. highland border militia; a representative peer for Scotland, Dec. 1876; grand master mason of Scotland, _d._ Alloa house, Clackmannans 16 Sep. 1888. _R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry i_ 200 (1884), _portrait_; _Minutes of evidence before committee of privilege on claim to earldom of Mar 4 parts_ 1868–75.

MARA, RICHARD WESTON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; called to Irish bar 1840; attorney general and judge advocate of island of Antigua 5 Feb. 1859 to death; acted as chief justice 1863–64. _d._ Antigua 4 April 1871. SOLICITORS’ JOURNAL, _xv_ 496 (1871).

MARCET, FRANÇOIS (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 25 May 1803; lived greater part of his life in canton of Geneva where he was professor of physics in the academy; member of Geneva legislature and government; resided at 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 1873 to death; member of council of Univ. college, London; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Dissertation sur cette question, convient’il d’ accorder un dédommagement au prévenu absous? Genève 1825; Cours de physique experimentale. Genève 1836; edited and revised Conversations on natural philosophy by Jane Marcet 1872. _d._ 14 Stratton st. London 12 April 1883.

MARCET, JANE (only dau. of Francis Haldimand, Swiss merchant). _b._ London 1769; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1799 Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, physician, London, _d._ 19 Oct. 1822 aged 52); author of Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained 2 vols. 1806, 16 ed. 1853; Conversations on political economy 1816, 5 ed. 1824; Conversations on natural philosophy 1819, 14 ed. 1872; The game of grammar, with 290 small cards and 24 counters 1842; Rich and poor 1851, and 15 other books for children. _d._ 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1858. _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 368–92; _S. J. Hale’s Women’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 732.

MARCH, CHARLES (son of Richard March, weaver of woollen yarn). _b._ Boutport st. Barnstaple 15 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Dec. 1807, present at bombardment of Algiers; in the merchant service 1824–32; an agent of the Bible soc.; a shipping agent with Mr. Bird at Gloucester 1835; commander R.N. July 1864. _d._ Gloucester 17 March 1865. _Memorials of Charles March by his nephew Septimus March_ (1867), _portrait_.

MARCH, WILLIAM HENRY. Second lieut. R.M. 20 Nov. 1830; served in Spain 1836–40; fought at Balaclava, wounded at Inkerman; in command at Shanghai 1860 when he repulsed two attacks of the Chinese; col. R.M. 16 May 1862, col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864; retired on full pay as hon. major general 20 Nov. 1865; received a general officer’s good service pension of £200 in 1890; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of legion of honour and of Medjidie. _d._ 73 Cambridge terrace, London 5 Jany. 1892.

MARCHANT, FREDERICK. _b._ 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats, drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb, pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec. 1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18 Sep. 1874. _d._ London 17 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 Dec.

MARCHANT, W. T. _b._ 1836; editor of the British Mail and universal trade review; author of Betrothals and bridals, with a chat about wedding cakes 1879; In praise of ale, or songs relating to beer, malt and hops 1888. _d._ Acacia cottage, Balham road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 31 Dec. 1888.

MARCON, WALTER (4 son of John Marcon of Swaffham, Norfolk). _b._ Swaffham 28 March 1824; ed. at Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846; in Eton eleven 1841 and 1842, and in Oxford eleven 1843 and 1844; the fastest bowler known, the pace was terrific always requiring two long stops, nor was a wicket keeper of the slightest use; bowled 4 wickets in succession in match Swaffham _v._ Attleborough 4 July 1850; R. of Edgefield, Holt, Norfolk 1848–76. _d._ 1881. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 40 (1863).

MARCUS, LEWIS. Ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; head master Holbeach gram. sch.; C. of Biggleswade 1827–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Finsbury 1846 to death; professor of Latin in city of London college for ladies, Finsbury; author of A Latin grammar 1861; Elementary Latin, a delectus of exercises 2 parts 1862–4. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Bunhill row, Finsbury 12 June 1879.

MARCUS, OTTO CHARLES. _b._ 1825; assistant in University library, Cambridge; author of Marcus’s Conversation guide or dialogues in English, French, German, Russian, Polish and Swedish languages 1855. _d._ Cambridge 11 May 1865.

MARDON, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1792; ed. York coll. and Glasgow univ., M.A.; Unitarian minister Glasgow 9 years; minister of General Baptist chapel, Worship st. Finsbury sq. London 26 years; member of British Archæol. Assoc. 1845, wrote on The burial place of the widow of Milton in Journal 1850 pp. 322–6, 418; author of A letter to Dr. Chalmers occasioned by his notice of unitarians 1818; The truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1822; The apostle Paul, an unitarian 1826; Christianity identified with unitarianism 1835; The catholic epistle of John the apostle, translated from the Greek 1853; resided at Sidmouth. _d._ Exeter 15 April 1866.

MARDON, EDWARD RUSSELL. Billiard player; a frequenter of Newmarket; a great opponent of P.P. (play or pay) betting; resided at Brighton; author of Billiards, game 500 up, played at Brighton on 18th January 1844. Brighton 1844, 3 ed. 1858; On P.P. betting. _Sporting Review_, _May 1858 p._ 365.

MARDYN, MRS. (dau. of poor parents). _b._ Ireland or Chichester 1789 or 1795; a servant in an inn and a helper in the bar; _m._ 1811 Mr. Mardyn an actor on the Portsmouth circuit, from whom she separated, when she allowed him two pounds a week, he died about 1819; an actress and dancer in the provinces and at the West London theatre, London (now the Marylebone) 1811; educated under W. Dimond manager of the Bath theatre 1813–14; played at Crow st. theatre, Dublin; first appeared at Drury Lane as Amelia Wildenheim in Lovers’ Vows 26 Sep. 1815; some attention paid her by Lord Byron was one of the causes of his disagreement with his wife 1815, she was then hissed at Drury Lane by a fashionable clique but she appealed to the audience who took her part; she was good in Albina Mandeville in The Will 17 Oct. 1815, and as Peggy in The Country Girl 7 Nov. 1815; played Jacintha in the Suspicious Husband 11 Oct. 1819; made her last appearance at Drury Lane as Miss Wooburn in Every one has his faults 19 June 1820; _m._ 1821 a foreign gentleman who soon after purchased the title of Baron R----. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _i_ 269–80 (1826), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_ 198–207 (1844); _Georgian Era_, _iv_ 573–4 (1834); _T. Medwin’s Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron. New York_ (1824) 24, 28; _T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847) 284.

MARETT, SIR ROBERT PIPON (son of Peter Daniel Marett, major Madras army). _b._ 20 Nov. 1820; ed. at Caen and the Sorbonne, Paris; advocate of royal court of Jersey 1840; constable of St. Helier 1856; solicitor general of Jersey 19 Feb. 1858, attorney general 1866 to 10 March 1880, and bailiff 10 March 1880 to death; knighted by patent 31 May 1880; edited Les manuscrits de P. L. Geyt 1846; author of several poems in the Jersey patois published in Rimes et poësies Jersiaises edited by Abraham Mourant 1865 and in the Patois poems of the Channel Islands edited by J. L. Pitts 1883. _d._ St. Aubin’s, Jersey 10 Nov. 1884. _Law Times 15 Nov. 1884 p._ 51.

MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). _b._ Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr. sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a third class assistant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo 17 Jany. 1875, being the first Englishman traversing this route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China 19 Feb. 1875; _murdered_ at Manwein on the Chinese frontier 21 Feb. 1875. _Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu. Shanghai_ 1875; _The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to Bhamo_ (1876), _preface pp. i–xxi_, _portrait_; _J. Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien_ (1876) 364–449; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 233, 257 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 296 (1875), _portrait_.

MARGETTS, CHARLES (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon, solicitor). _b._ Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818, solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847; registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. _d._ Market place, Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.

MARGOLIOUTH, MOSES (son of Gershon Margoliouth). _b._ Suwalki, Poland 3 Dec. 1820; _bapt._ at Liverpool a member of the Church of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany. 1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare, Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew, Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul, Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of 1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain 3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864; The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books. _d._ London 25 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Little Linford churchyard. _M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism investigated_ (1843) _memoir pp. i–x_; _M. Margoliouth’s Some triumphs and trophies of the world_ (1882) _memoir pp. vii–xxii_; _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii_ 220 (1881).

MARGUERITTES, JULIE DE (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville, physician 1783–1872). _b._ London 1814; _m._ (1) Count de Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of the second republic, they went to New York where she supported him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and _m._ (2) George G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known as Gaslight Foster and _d._ 1850; gave concerts and readings and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March 1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia; _m._ (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and stations 1860. _d._ Philadelphia 21 June 1866.

MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. _b._ Benkendorfe near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882. _d._ Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_ 25 (1882), _portrait_.

MARIO, GUISEPPE, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo, Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese army). _b._ Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin 1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836; taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots, Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart; sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47 operas; _m._ Giulia Grisi, she _d._ Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen; the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London, Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871 he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London 29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. _d._ 176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in cemetery of St. Lorenzo 13 Dec. _W. Beale’s Light of other days_, _ii_ 1–150 (1890); _L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario_, _ii_ 261–371 (1886); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections_, _i_ 275–83 (1862); _Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp._ 195–202; _Temple Bar_, _March 1884 pp._ 344–59; _I.L.N. lix_ 193, 194 (1871) _portrait_, _lxxxiii_ 613 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 608 (1883), _portrait_.

MARJORIBANKS, DAVID ROBERTSON, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). _b._ Eccles, Berwickshire 2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. _d._ 56 Upper Brook st. London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 619 (1873), _lxiii_ 423.

MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees, Berwickshire 1735–1815). _b._ 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and senior partner 1837 to death. _d._ Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.

MARJORIBANKS, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). _b._ Madras 4 May 1830; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded 1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875. _d._ Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. _Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p._ 63, _portrait_.

MARK, BERTRAM VON DER, Doctor of music; opened a college at Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men 1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7 years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera; Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures, sonatas, symphonies and dance music. _d._ 8 Great John st. Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. _bur._ St. Luke’s ch. Chetham. _Era 2 Feb. 1868 p._ 6; _Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861_, 5 _views_; _Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p._ 5; _The Pianist by Dr. Mark. Bristol_ (1865), _portrait_.

MARKBY, THOMAS (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford, Cambs.). _b._ 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St. John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858; The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868. _d._ Cambridge 4 March 1870.

MARKES, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; founder of the Hollywood whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden, London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. _d._ 288 King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. _The Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77.

MARKHAM, FREDERIC (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827). _b._ Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col. 22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March 1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. _d._ Limmer’s hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. _bur._ at Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up by officers of his regiment. _Men of the time_ (1856) 528–9.

MARKHAM, MRS. HANNAH. _b._ St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of Marquess of Dufferin. _d._ Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. _Daily Graphic 4 July 1892 p._ 8 _col._ 2, _portrait_.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). _b._ 28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. _d._ 26 Jany. 1852.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM ORLANDO (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the peace, Northampton). _b._ 1818; studied medicine at Edinb., Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London, and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864; poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug. 1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is it necessary or justifiable? 1866. _d._ 21 Nightingale lane, Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.

MARKLAND, JAMES HEYWOOD (youngest son of Robert Markland, check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, _d._ 1828). _b._ Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.; solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814; F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S. 28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842 to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848; distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places 1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed. 1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. _d._ 1 Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath abbey. _G.M._ (1821) _pt. ii p._ 278, (1865) _pt. i pp._ 649–52.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, 5 Duke of (1 son of 4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). _b._ Billhill, parish of Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland 1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June 1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham 1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke 5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death; lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March 1845 to death. _d._ Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art_, _iii_ 121–32 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 214 (1857); _In the matter of the duke and duchess of Marlborough_ (1853).

NOTE.--In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her, the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman, soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. _The Annual Register_ (1838) 294–6.

MARLBOROUGH, JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, 6 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk 2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June 1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock 1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as 6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9 Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov. 1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick 12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May 1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church of England. Westminster 1856; _found dead_ on floor of his bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. _bur._ in chapel of Blenheim palace 10 July. _Antiquarian Mag. i_ 35–8, 78–83, 255–6 (1882), _ii_ 145–6; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 87 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 404 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 32 (1883), _portrait_; _Times, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 July 1883_.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, 8 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Wilmington crescent, London, a residence of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5 June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883; _m._ (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn, she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con. with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself marchioness of Blandford; _m._ (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000 a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures, books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting. _d._ suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. _Baily’s Mag. xxviii_ 187 (1876), _portrait_; _The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892_.

NOTE.--The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000. The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture, the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.

MARLING, SIR SAMUEL STEPHENS, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling of Stroud, Gloucs.) _b._ Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810; a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874, M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. _d._ in his counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 428 (1883), _portrait_.

MARLOIS, EDOUARD. _b._ in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song 1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’ voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other pieces. _d._ 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.

MARLOW, CHARLES. _b._ Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814; first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St. Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks 1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a high character for honesty but took to drinking. _d._ Devizes workhouse, Oct. 1882. _bur._ Devizes 28 Oct. _Sporting Review_, _Jany. 1857 pp._ 1–5, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p._ 60; _I.L.N. xxii_ 416 (1853), _portrait_.

MARLOW, WILLIAM BIDDLECOMB. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full pay as M.G. _d._ Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.

MARNOCK, ROBERT. _b._ Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800; gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener 1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837. _d._ Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15 Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal Green 21 Nov. _Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp._ 565, 567, _portrait_; _Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp._ 733, 744, _portrait_.

MAROCHETTI, CARLO (son of French parents). _b._ Turin 1805; naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris; studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club 1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. _d._ suddenly at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near Paris 29 Dec. 1867. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 352 (1862); _I.L.N. xxxvlii_ 176, 178 (1861), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 28 July 1866 p._ 57, _portrait_; _G.M. Feb. 1868 pp._ 249–50.

MARQUIS, JAMES. _b._ 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May 1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign 1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. _d._ Brookland, Hawke road, Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.

MARRABLE, FREDERICK (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of board of green cloth). _b._ 1818; articled to Edward Blore the architect; architect in London; superintending architect to Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club, 13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30 Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural designs at R.A. 1843–70. _d._ Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.

MARRAS, GIACINTO (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). _b._ Naples 6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842; sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England 12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house 10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860, he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India 1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita, serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839; 12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above 1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77; _m._ a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. _d._ Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. _bur._ protestant cemetery at Cannes. _Theatre_, _ii_ 44–5 (1883).

MARRAT, WILLIAM. _b._ Pibsey, Lincolnshire 6 April 1772; printer and publisher at Boston some years; taught mathematics in New York 1817–20 and at Liverpool from 1821; mathematical tutor in a school at Exeter 1833–6; contributed to Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s diary and other mathematical serials 50 years; conducted The enquirer, Boston, Lincolnshire 1811–12, 3 vols.; author of An introduction to the theory and practice of mechanics. Boston 1810; The history of Lincolnshire 3 vols. 1814–16; Historical description of Stamford. Lincoln 1816; An historical description of Grantham 1816. _d._ Liverpool 26 March 1853. _Trans. Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 1861–62 p._ 35.

MARRECO, ALGERNON FREIRE-. _b._ North Shields 1835; ed. at the Ecola Polytechnica, Lisbon; connected with Durham univ. from 1859, professor of chemistry both in the college of medicine and the college of physical science Durham 1871 to death, examiner for the medical and science degrees Durham; one of the best analysts in the north of England. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 27 Feb. 1882. _Lancet_, _i_ 409, 670 (1882).

MARRETT, THOMAS. _b._ 1786; entered Madras army 1802; lieut. 9 Madras N.I. 26 May 1804, captain 30 April 1814; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 June 1828 to 1831, of 44 N.I. 1831 to 10 Oct. 1833, of 11 N.I. 10 Oct. 1833 to 15 May 1834, of 43 N.I. 15 May 1834 to 1835, of 46 N.I. 1835 to 1836, of 6 N.I. 1836 to 1837, of 10 N.I. 1837 to 1838, of 2 N.I. 1838 to 1839, of 5 N.I. 1839 to 19 April 1841; col. of 2 N.I. 19 April 1841 to 1853, of 40 N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Bath 5 Sep. 1862.

MARRIAN, THOMAS. _b._ Birmingham; brewer at Oxford; founded the Burton Weir brewery, Sheffield 1830, his beer had a large sale in the colonies; took his sons Thomas and Francis Marrian and F. M. Tindall into partnership 1875; business turned into a private limited company; a town councillor of Sheffield. _d._ Thurcroft hall, Rotherham 15 Aug. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Breweries_, _iii_ 317–8 (1890), _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES (3 son of rev. John Marriott, poet 1780–1825). _b._ Church Lawford near Rugby 24 Aug. 1811; ed. at Rugby 1825–9; entered Exeter coll. Oxf. 4 March 1829; scholar of Balliol coll. Oct. 1829 to 1833; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter 1833 to 1858, tutor 1835–8, sub-dean Oct. 1841, dean 1844; first principal of diocesan theological coll. Chichester, Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1841; great ally of Dr. Pusey at Oxford 1845; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1850–56; member of the hebdomadal council; set up a printing press at Littlemore 1846; edited with Pusey and Keble A library of the Fathers 1841–55, he edited 24 volumes; the first editor of The literary churchman 5 May 1855, wrote 16 articles in first 7 numbers; supported an establishment called The Universal purveyor, to supply pure articles at a moderate price, in which he lost much money; author of Sermons preached before the University and in other places 2 vols. 1843–50; Hints on private devotion 1848;. Reflections in a Lent reading of the Epistle to the Romans 1849; The co-operative principle not opposed to a true political economy 1855; edited Analecta Christiana 2 parts 1844–8; paralysed 1856, lived with his brother Rev. John Marriott at Bradfield, Berkshire 1856 to death. _d._ Bradfield 15 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Bradfield 20 Sep. _Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 153–93, _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES HANDEL RAND. _b._ London 3 Nov. 1831; played the violin in various orchestras; musical director Highbury Barn, London 1860–5; musical director Cremorne gardens; director of Hastings pier orchestra 1873 to death; musical editor of The young ladies’ journal 1864; composer of La Virginie, varsoviana 1855; C. H. R. Marriott’s Album of dance music 1861; Thy face is always dear to me, words by R. Lejoindre 1874, is said to have brought him in over £2000; Blue Danube quadrilles 1876; Ruth, sacred song 1888; The bard of Avon quadrilles 1888, and upwards of 320 other pieces, songs and dance music 1855–88; he is said to have written about 40 pieces annually for many years. _d._ 7 Wilmot place, Camden Town, London 10 Dec. 1889.

MARRIOTT, FITZHERBERT ADAMS (2 son of George Wharton Marriott of St. Giles’, London). _b._ 1811; ed. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Cottesbach, Leics. 1842–3; archdeacon of Hobart Town and chaplain to bishop of Tasmania 1843–54; V. of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs. 1860 to death; author of Is a penal colony reconcilable with God’s institution of human society and the laws of Christ’s kingdom? a letter to sir W. T. Denison. Hobart Town 1847; Principles of legislation for the church in Ireland, three letters to lord Lyttleton 1869, two editions. _d._ The Close, Exeter 19 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery 23 Oct.

MARRIOTT, FREDERICK. Originated The Death warrant 1843, name changed to The Guide to Life, became The London mercury; started a halfpenny periodical entitled Chat 1848; editor and proprietor of The San Francisco letter. _d._ Oct. 1886. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _ii_ 596 (1891).

MARRIOTT, HARVEY (3 son of William Marriott of Dorking, Surrey 1744–1803). _b._ 23 July 1782; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806; C. of Marston, Worcs. 1807; R. of Claverton, Bath 1808–47; V. of Loddiswell, Devon 1847–62; V. of Wellington, Somerset 1862 to death; author of A course of practical sermons adapted to be read in families 1816, Second course 1819, Third course 1824, Fourth course 1829; Essay on the Madras system of education 1819; Eight sermons on ‘The signs of the times’ 1828; A selection of poetry. Kingsbridge 1859. _d._ Wellington 18 Aug. 1865.

MARRIOTT, HAYES. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 11 Oct. 1833, lieut.-col. 13 July 1860, commandant 21 Nov. 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877; retired 2 Dec. 1877; served in China war 1839–41; in the Crimea 1854–5, at Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol and in the expeditions to Kertch and Kinburn; granted good service pension Oct. 1880. _d._ Ellerslie, Barton Fields, Canterbury 5 Oct. 1892.

MARRIOTT, J. H. _b._ 1799; a reporter on The Times, London; connected with theatres; an optician and mathematical instrument maker at Wellington, New Zealand; an actor at Wellington; managed the amateur military performances in which he took a leading part; helped to build the Olympic theatre, Wellington, executed the scenery and decorations and assisted in manufacturing from whale oil the gas for the lighting 1844, the first gas used in Wellington; author of a volume of poems; he was father of Alice Marriott actress, who married Robert Edgar actor who _d._ 25 May 1871. _d._ Wellington 25 Aug. 1886. _bur._ in the Episcopalian cemetery 29 Aug., when 600 persons attended the funeral.

MARRIOTT, JOHN (son of John Marriott of Stowmarket, Suffolk, solicitor). _b._ about 1830; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; advocate general of Bombay 1863 to death; an acting puisne justice Bombay 25 Nov. 1873. _d._ Bombay 7 Jany. 1884.

MARRIOTT, THOMAS BECKETT FIELDING. _b._ 25 June 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832, lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1855, colonel 27 June 1863; col. on staff commanding R.A. in Ireland 1866–9; col. commandant 7 Aug. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Avonbank, Pershore 25 Nov. 1880.

MARRIOTT, WHARTON BOOTH (7 son of George Wharton Marriott, barrister). _b._ 32 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Nov. 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–43 and Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1843–6; Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1846 to 22 April 1851; B.C.L. 1851, M.A. 1856, B.D. 1870; select preacher at Oxf. 1868 and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1871; an assistant master at Eton 1850–60; F.S.A. 30 May 1857, member of council 1871; edited The Adelphi of Terence with English notes 1863; Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphosis with English notes 1862, 2 ed. 1868; author of Vestiarium Christianum: the origin of the dress of holy ministry in the church 1868; The vestments of the church, an illustrated lecture 1869. _d._ Eton college 16 Dec. 1871. _Hort’s Memorials of W. B. Marriott_ (1873), _portrait_; _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 195–6.

MARRIOTT, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 4 June 1820; entered Bombay army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut. col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July 1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration; C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political economy 1874. _d._ Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. _Guardian 14 Jany. 1880 p._ 41.

MARRIOTT, _Sir William Marriott Smith-_, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). _b._ Portman st. London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15 Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott 1855. _d._ Horsmonden rectory 4 Oct. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 662 (1864).

MARRYAT, HORACE (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich, _d._ 1824). _b._ 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1790; M.P. Sandwich 1826–35. _d._ Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ the cottage, Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881.

MARRYAT, SAMUEL FRANCIS (youngest son of Frederick Marryat, captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). _b._ 1826; midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California 1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848; Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal, with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. _d._ Kensington Gore, London 12 July 1855.

MARSDEN, ANDREW. _b._ Nottingham; a pugilist 6 feet 1½ inches in height; beat Edward Baldwin or O’Baldwin at Tring, Herts. £50 a side 3 rounds 21 Oct. 1863; fought Joseph Wormald of London for £200 a side and the champion’s belt at Horley 4 Jany. 1865, when Wormald won after 18 rounds in 37 minutes; fought Baldwin again £100 a side, 11 rounds in 16 minutes at Holme station near Peterborough 25 Sep. 1866, the ring was broken into by Marsden’s party and the referee awarded the stakes to Baldwin; turf commission agent at 2 St. Anne’s Valley, Hunger hill, Nottingham to death. _d._ suddenly at Nottingham 21 July 1892. _bur._ General cemet. Nottingham 23 July. _Modern boxing. By Pendragon_ (1879) 83–8; _Illust. sport. news_, _ii_ 284 (1863), _portrait_.

MARSDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 16 March 1773; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Stockport 1793, in London 1796–8, 1816–21 and 1830–3, in Macclesfield 1798–1801, in Manchester 1800–1802 and 1824–7, in Sheffield 1836–9; supernumerary at Glossop 1842 to death; president of the Conference 1821 and 1831; general sec. of Wesleyan missionary soc.; delegate to the Wesleyan ch. in Canada 1833; author of A treatise on the nature and importance of true religion, with an account of the death of some christians and unbelievers 1813. _d._ Hadfield 16 May 1858.

MARSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Kennington, Surrey 1 Oct. 1812; articled to Russell and Son of Southwark, solicitors; admitted solicitor 1835, in practice at 37 Queen st. city of London to death; vestry clerk of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, city of London 1835, and ward clerk of ward of Vintry, city of London 1837; vestry clerk of Camberwell 1850 to 1892 when he was entertained at a public dinner; instrumental in carrying through parliament the Dulwich college act 1858. _d._ 113 The Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 12 May 1893. _bur._ Forest hill cemet. _W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 186, 189, _portrait_.

MARSDEN, ISAAC MOSES. Founder of firm of E. Moses and Son, slopsellers, 137 Ratcliff highway, London 1832; tailors and outfitters at 154, 155, 156 and 157 Minories, and at 83, 84, 85, 86 Aldgate, city of London from 1846; the firm published the following books, The past the present and the future. A public address on the opening of the new establishment of Elias Moses and Son 1846; Fashions. Price lists 1849–57; The growth of an important branch of British industry. The readymade clothing system 1860; Gossip on dress 1863; The philosophy of dress 1864; The tercentenary of William Shakespeare 1864; A popular history of London 1866 part i. _d._ 4 Kensington gardens terrace, London 26 July 1884.

MARSDEN, JOHN BUXTON. _b._ Liverpool 1803; sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 April 1823; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Burslem, Staffs. 1827; C. of Harrow; R. of Lower Tooting, Surrey 1833–44; V. of Great Missenden, Bucks. 1844–51; P.C. of St. Peter, Dale End, Birmingham 1851 to death; edited The Christian Observer 1859–69; author of The history of the early Puritans 1850; The history of the later Puritans 1852; History of Christian churches and sects 2 vols. 1856, new ed. 1858. _d._ 37 Highfield road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16 June 1870. _Christian Observer_, _Aug. 1870 pp._ 633–4.

MARSDEN, JOHN HOWARD (1 son of rev. Wm. Marsden, vicar of Eccles, Lancs.) _b._ Wigan 1803; entered Manchester school 6 Aug. 1817, head scholar 1822, exhibitioner to St. John’s coll. Camb. 1822, fellow 1827–41, Bell univ. scholar 1823; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; F.R.S.L.; Seatonian prizeman 1829; select preacher at Camb. 1834, 1837 and 1847; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1840–89; Hulsean lecturer 1843 and 1844; Disney professor of archæology, Camb. 1851–65; residentiary canon of Manchester cath. 1858–71; member of Numismatic soc. 1863; author of Philomorus Notes on the Latin poems of sir Thomas More 1842; An examination of certain passages in our Lord’s conversation with Nicodemus. Eight Hulsean lectures 1844; The evils which have resulted from a misapprehension of our Lord’s miracles. Eight Hulsean lectures 1845; Two lectures upon archæology 1852; A brief memoir of lieut.-col. W. M. Leake 1864; College life in the time of James the first, diary of Sir Simon d’ Ewes 1851. _d._ Grey’s Friars, Colchester 24 Jany. 1891. _The Numismatic Chronicle_ 1891. Proceedings p._ 22; _The Times 26 Jany. 1891 p._ 6; _Manchester school register_, _iii_ 126–7 (1874).

MARSDEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. C.C. coll. Camb., Mawson scholar, B.A. 1834; V. of Child-Wickham, Gloucs. 1843–57; R. of Burstow, Surrey 1858–74; R. of St. John, Horsleydown, London 1874–81; chaplain of St. Olave’s workhouse, Southwark 1874–80; resided at 115 Paulet road, Camberwell; author of The sacred steps of creation, or the revealed genetic theology illustrated by geology and astronomy 1865. _d._ Leigh Bank, Sutton, Surrey 13 Dec. 1890.

MARSDEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Sheffield, Aug. 1796; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1827; M.D. Erlangen 1848; established in 1828 a small dispensary in Greville st. Hatton Garden, to which the poor were admitted without any formality, the only hospital in London which received cholera patients 1832, it was moved into Gray’s Inn road 1843, on this site was built the royal free hospital and Marsden became senior surgeon; opened a small house in Cannon row, Westminster, for reception of cancer patients 1851, this became the Cancer hospital, Brompton in 1861, of which Marsden was senior surgeon; author of Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhœa better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera 1834, 4 ed. 1871; translated A treatise on cancer of the breast by A. A. L. M. Velpeau 1856. _d._ 65 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 16 Jany. 1867. _bur._ Norwood cemet., portraits of him at royal free hospital and at cancer hospital. _The Hospital 14 May 1887 p._ 103.

MARSH, CHARLES WILLIAMS. Originated Shakespearian jesting in the circus ring; clown with Wm. Batty and Joseph Holloway many years; played clown in pantomime of Crotchet and Quaver at Covent garden theatre Christmas 1844; attached to the Vine hotel, Great college st. Liverpool. _d._ Vine hotel, Liverpool, July 1866. _Era 5 Aug. 1866 p._ 10.

MARSH, EDWARD GARRARD (son of John Marsh of St. Thomas’, Salisbury). _b._ 1783; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf. 1800–4; fellow of Oriel 1804–14; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; Bampton lecturer 1848; P.C. of North Hincksey, Berks. 1820–8; prebendary of Southwell, Notts. 18 Oct. 1821 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 1828–34; V. of Yardley, Herts. 1828–34; R. of Waltham, Lincs. 1834–41; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1841 to death; translated The book of psalms 1832; The treatise of John Chrysostom on the priesthood 1844; author of Eight sermons preached before the university of Oxford 1814; A brief summary of the evidence of the christian religion 1829; Seven sermons on the ten commandments 1832; Two hundred and ten psalms and hymns adapted to seventy tunes 1837; Essays on some of the prophecies 1844; The christian doctrine of sanctification. Bampton lectures 1848. _d._ Aylesford 20 Sep. 1862.

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of rev. Robert Marsh). _b._ Loughrea, co. Galway 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.D. 1840; apprenticed to sir Philip Crampton, surgeon 1814–18; M.R.C.P. Dublin 1818, pres. 1841, 1842, 1845 and 1846; assistant phys. to Stevens’ hospital, Dublin 1820; professor of medicine at college of surgeons, Dublin 1827–32; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 28 Oct. 1839; phys. in ordinary to queen in Ireland 1837; created baronet 26 Feb. 1839; author of Cases of jaundice with dissections 1822; The evolution of light from the living human subject 1842; Clinical lectures with observations on practical medicine, edited by J. S. Hughes 1869. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Dec. 1860, marble bust by J. H. Foley in King’s and Queen’s College of physicians in Dublin. _Dublin univ. mag. xviii_ 688 _and lvii_ 222; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_ 338 (1861).

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet. _b._ Charlemont st. Dublin 1821; cornet 3 dragoon guards 5 Aug. 1842, major 24 July 1857, sold out 17 May 1861; succeeded 1 Dec. 1860. _d._ 6 Victoria square, Westminster 27 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 570 (1868).

MARSH, JOHN BARLING. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; lieut. R.N. 2 Feb. 1830; commander of the Heroine on coast of Africa 1849–51; captain 21 Feb. 1856; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879. _d._ 74A Lansdowne road, Kensington park, London 12 July 1879. _The Times 17 July 1879 p._ 11.

MARSH, JOHN FINCH (son of Thomas Marsh). _b._ Chatham, Kent 4 March 1789; linen draper Whitechapel, London 1818–28; a minister of the Friends 1818; visited all the meetings in England 1822 etc.; visited Friends in Ireland 1837, 1856 and 1865; with Sarah Harris and Mary B. Brown went to Holland and Germany. _d._ Park lane, Croydon 7 Oct. 1873. _A memoir of J. F. Marsh, by his daughter P. Pitt_ (1873).

MARSH, JOHN FITCHETT (son of John Marsh, solicitor). _b._ Wigan 24 Oct. 1818; solicitor at Warrington 1839 to 1873 and town clerk 1847–58; resided at Chepstow 1873 to death; contributed to the Historical society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘On some correspondence of Dr. Priestley’ 1855 and 4 other articles; author of Notes of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton widow of the poet 1855; On the engraved portraits and pretended portraits of Milton 1860; Annals of Chepstow castle 1883. _d._ Hardwick house, Chepstow 24 June 1880. _Palatine note book_, _ii_ 168–72 (1882).

MARSH, JOHN WILLIAM (son of rev. Edward Garrard Marsh 1783–1862). _b._ 1822; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; C. of Aylesford near Maidstone 1845–8; V. of Bleasby, Notts. 1848–74; R. of St. Michael, Winchester 1874 to death; author of A memoir of A. F. Gardiner 1857; First fruits of the South American mission 1873; Narrative of the progress of the South American mission 1883. _d._ Downside, Winchester 14 Dec. 1882.

MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY (eld. son of rev. Matthew Marsh, chancellor of diocese of Salisbury). _b._ Winterslow near Salisbury 12 Sep. 1810; ed. at Westminster 1822–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; went to New South Wales 1840 where he farmed sheep on a very extensive scale for 14 years; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1851–54; M.P. Salisbury 1857–68; F.R.G.S.; author of Overland from Southampton to Queensland 1867. _d._ Bournemouth 26 Jany. 1881. _Solicitors’ Journal xxv_ 300 (1881).

MARSH, ROBERT. Receiver-general of Westminster abbey 1844 to death. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 June 1865 aged 66. _bur._ North cloisters 21 June.

MARSH, WILLIAM (3 son of colonel sir Charles Marsh of Reading). _b._ 20 July 1775; ed. at Reading and St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading, Dec. 1800; C. of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1801–2; V. of Basildon and Ashampton, Berkshire 1802–14; R. of St. Peters, Colchester 1814–29; R. of St. Thomas, Birmingham, Oct. 1829 to 1839, where from frequent subject of his sermons he came to be known as Millennial Marsh; principal official and commissary of royal peculiar of deanery of Bridgnorth 1837; Inc. of St. Mary, Leamington 1839–51; hon. canon of Worcester 1848 to death; R. of Beddington, Surrey 1860 to death; author of A short catechism on the collects. Colchester 1821, 3 ed. 1824; Select passages from the sermons and conversations of a clergyman 1823, another ed. 1828; A few plain thoughts on prophecy, particularly as it relates to the latter days. Colchester 1840, 3 ed. 1843; The last warning, a commentary on the 21st chapter of St. Luke 1848, and 45 other works. _d._ Beddington rectory 24 Aug. 1864. _Life of Rev. W. Marsh. By his daughter_ (1868), _portrait_; _Colvile’s Warwickshire Worthies_ (1869) 529–33.

MARSH-CALDWELL, ANNE (3 dau. of James Caldwell of Linley Wood near Lawton, Staffs. _d._ 16 Jany. 1838). _b._ Linley Wood 1791; _m._ July 1817 Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, latterly of Eastbury lodge, Herts., he _d._ 23 Dec. 1849; succeeded to estate of Linley Wood 1858, resumed by r.l. surname of Caldwell in addition to that of Marsh 18 May 1860; author of the following books, first editions all anonymous, Tales of the woods and fields 1836; Two old men’s tales 3 vols. 1843; Triumphs of time 3 vols. 1844; Aubrey 3 vols. 1845; Mount Sorel 2 vols. 1845; Emilia Wyndham 3 vols. 1846; Father Darcy, an historical romance 2 vols. 1846; The protestant reformation in France, or the history of the Huguenots 2 vols. 1847; Norman’s bridge or the modern Midas 3 vols. 1847; The previsions of Lady Evelyn 1847; Angela or the captain’s daughter 3 vols. 1848; Mordaunt Hall 3 vols. 1849; The Wilmingtons 3 vols. 1850; Lettice Arnold 2 vols. 1850; Time the avenger 3 vols. 1851; Ravenscliffe 3 vols. 1851; Castle Avon 3 vols. 1852; The heiress of Haughton 3 vols. 1855; Evelyn Marston 1856; The rose of Ashurst 3 vols. 1857; translated from Vitet, The song of Roland as chanted before the battle of Hastings by the minstrel Taillefer 1854. _d._ Linley Wood, Staffs. 5 Oct. 1874. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 735, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv_ 575; _Athenæum_, _ii_ 512 (1874).

MARSHALL, ANTHONY. _b._ 6 Aug. 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1808, lieut.-col. 19 Feb. 1841, retired on full pay 12 July 1845; commanded R.E. Cape of Good Hope, June 1842 to 12 July 1845; L.G. 20 April 1861. _d._ Plymouth 25 May 1865.

MARSHALL, ARTHUR MILNES (2 son of Wm. P. Marshall of Stroud, sec. to institution of mechanical engineers). _b._ Birmingham 8 June 1852; graduated B.A. London 1870, B.Sc. 1873, D.Sc. 1877; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1871, fellow 1877–85; B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878, M.D. 1882; assistant to professor F. M. Balfour in organizing the classes of comparative morphology at Cambridge 1875; at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1877; professor of zoology at Owen’s college, Manchester, July 1879 to death; F.R.S. 1885; as secretary and as chairman he took part in organizing the course of studies for the Victoria univ. Manchester; edited Studies from the biological laboratories, Owen’s college 1886; author of The frog, an introduction to anatomy and histology. Manchester 1882, 4 ed. 1891; The Manchester Museum, Outline classification of the animal kingdom 1891, and Catalogue of the embryological models 1891 in 2 volumes; A text book of vertebrate embryology 1893; with C. Herbert Hurst A junior course of practical zoology 1887, 3 ed. 1892; fell from Scafell, Cumberland, and rolling down 130 feet was _killed_ on the spot 31 Dec. 1893, inquest at Wasdale head inn, verdict accidental death. _bur._ the Old cemetery, Birmingham 4 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 13 Jany. 1894 p._ 38, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, _Sir Chapman_ (only son of Anthony Marshall of Peterborough). _b._ Peterborough 1786; a wholesale grocer at 179 Upper Thames st. London; sheriff of London 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 March 1831; alderman of ward of Bridge Within 1832–59, lord mayor 1839–40. _d._ 17 Pembridge crescent, Notting hill, London 9 Jany. 1862, portrait at Innholders’ hall.

MARSHALL, _Sir Charles_ (only son of Samuel Marshall, serjeant-at-law). _b._ London 24 May 1788; ed. at Westminster sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1815; chief justice of Ceylon 17 July 1832 to 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1832; author of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas 1813 to 1816. 2 vols. 1815–17; A treatise on the law of insurance by Samuel Marshall with additions 1823. _d._ 5 Kensington gardens terrace, London 5 Feb. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 162 (1873).

MARSHALL, CHARLES. Ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of St. Antholin, London, and lecturer of St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–6; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1846 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. 1856 to death; hon. sec. of city of London national schools; author with William Wilkinson of The Latin prayers of Charles II. or an account of the liturgia of dean Durel. Oxford 1882. _d._ 29 Jany. 1883. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, CHARLES (son of Nathan Marshall). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806; scene painter at Surrey theatre and other London theatres; scene painter at Covent Garden and Drury Lane under W. C. Macready’s management 1837 etc.; painted scenery for The Tempest and As you like it, and for Lord Lytton’s plays 1838 etc.; introduced the limelight on the stage and originated and developed the transformation scene; scene painter to the opera at Her Majesty’s theatre 1844 to about 1858 when he retired; exhibited 52 landscapes at R.A., 52 at B.I. and 139 at Suffolk st. 1828–79; painted some panoramas of Napoleon’s battles. The Overland Route, &c; contributed a diorama to illustrate coronation of Wm. IV. 1831; published Select illustrated topography of thirty miles round London by W. E. Trotter, from drawings of C. Marshall 1839. _d._ 7 Lewisham road, Highgate 8 March 1890. _Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 59–64 (1880).

MARSHALL, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; principal stage comedian under Andrew Ducrow at Astley’s several seasons; played at the Coburg; acted with Edmund Kean, Macready and other celebrities; acted under Edmund Glover in Glasgow; stage manager of Bath and Bristol theatres under J. H. Chute 7 years 1856 etc.; manager of the Brighton theatre and of the Liver theatre, Liverpool; last played in London at Princess’s theatre 1871; last appeared on the stage as the Grandfather in the Old Curiosity shop at Nottingham theatre for benefit of his son Frederick Marshall 9 June 1873. _d._ Bristol 6 March 1879.

MARSHALL, CHARLES WARD (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller). _b._ 1808; a tenor singer on the London stage under stage name of Manvers about 1835; successful as a concert and oratorio singer 1842–9 when he retired. _d._ Islington 22 Feb. 1876.

MARSHALL, DUNCAN. _b._ near Holy Loch, Argyleshire 1785; a fisherman; built a hermitage at the foot of Rushfield hill, a mile and a half from the head of Holy Loch or Kilmun, and became known as the hermit of Kilmun, his only companions being a few goats; during the summer received a large number of visitors; his health failing, he was removed to Dunoon 1862. _d._ Dunoon, Feb. 1865. _bur._ underneath a flat on Rushfield hill 21 Feb. 1865. _Times 24 Feb. 1865 p._ 12.

MARSHALL, FRANCIS ALBERT (5 son of Wm. Marshall 1796–1872). _b._ Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1840; ed. at Harrow; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 14 June 1859; clerk in the audit office Somerset House 1862–8; dramatic critic to the London Figaro some years from 1870; author of the following plays, Mad as a hatter, farce produced at Royalty theatre 7 Dec. 1863; Corrupt practices, drama Lyceum 22 Jany. 1870; Q.E.D. or all a mistake, comedietta Court 25 Jany. 1871; False Shame, comedy Globe 4 Nov. 1872, revived at Royalty 19 June 1880; Brighton, comedy Court 25 May 1874, which ran 300 nights; Biorn, 5 act opera Queen’s 17 Jany. 1877; Family Honour, comedy Aquarium 18 May 1878; Lola or the Belle of Baccarato, comic opera Olympic 15 Jany. 1881; author with W. S. Wills of Cora, a drama Globe 28 Feb. 1877; edited the Henry Irving edition of Shakespeare’s works 8 vols. 1887–90; author of A study of Hamlet 1875; Henry Irving actor and manager. By An Irvingite 1883; L.S.D. an unfinished novel brought out in Britannia Magazine; _m._ (1) Imogene, she appeared as Elfrida in his five act opera of Biorn at Queen’s theatre 17 Jany. 1877, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885; _m._ (2) 2 May 1885 Ada Cavendish the actress. _d._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 28 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 12, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 70, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 556, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, GEORGE. _b._ 29 Sep. 1794; banker at Birmingham; numismatist; author of A view of the silver coin and coinage of Great Britain, also an account of the silver coins struck in Scotland 1838. _d._ 25 Feb. 1855.

MARSHALL, HENRY (son of John Marshall). _b._ Kilsyth, Stirlingshire 1775; ed. at Glasgow univ.; surgeon’s mate in royal navy, May 1803; assistant surgeon in Forfarshire militia Jany. 1805 and in 89th foot April 1806; assistant surgeon 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, surgeon 1 Ceylon regiment 1813–21, staff surgeon in North Britain 1821–3 at Chatham 1823–5 and at Dublin 1825–8; deputy-inspector general of hospitals on h.p. 22 July 1830; investigated with Sir A. M. Tulloch statistics of the sickness, &c. of the British army 1835–6; the first hon. M.D. of New York univ. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Notes on the medical topography of the interior of Ceylon 1821; On the enlisting, the discharging and pensioning of soldiers 1832, 2 ed. 1839; Ceylon, a general description of the island 1846. _d._ Edinburgh 5 May 1851. _John Brown’s Horæ Subsecivæ_ (1858) 225–90; _Edinb. Med. and Surg. journal_, _lxxvi_ 489–92 (1851).

MARSHALL, HENRY. _b._ 1795; attorney at Godalming, Surrey 1816 to death; mayor of Godalming 1836 and six times afterwards; clerk of the peace for Surrey, Oct. 1856 to 1872; registrar of Guildford county court 1856–69. _d._ High st. Godalming 23 Sep. 1874. _bur._ Farncombe cemetery near there 28 Sep. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xviii_ 904 (1874).

MARSHALL, HUBERT. _b._ 1804 or 1805; entered Madras army 14 Sep. 1824; lieut. 33 Madras N.I. 11 Nov. 1826, major 5 July 1854; deputy secretary to government military department 1852 to 1869; lieut.-col. 8 Madras N.I. 2 Jany. 1860 to 1861; lieut.-col. 18 Madras N.I. 1861–3; lieut.-col. 33 Madras N.I. 1863–5; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Newton house, Dalkeith 3 May 1880.

MARSHALL, JAMES (son of a doctor at Rothesay, Bute, who _d._ 1806). _b._ Rothesay 23 Feb. 1796; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; minister of Outer high church, Glasgow 1819–28; minister of Tolbooth ch. Edinb. 1828, resigned 29 Sep. 1841; ordained by bishop of Durham as curate of Norham, Durham 19 Dec. 1841; R. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1842–7; secretary to newly founded Lay readers’ association 1845; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Clifton, May 1847 to death; edited Letters of the late Mrs. Isabella Graham of New York 1839; author of Inward revival or motives and hindrances to advancement in holiness. Edinb. 1840; Early piety illustrated in the life and death of a young parishioner. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 29 Aug. 1855. _Memoir by Rev. James Marshall_ (1857); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1 _pt._ 1 _p._ 52 (1866).

MARSHALL, SIR JAMES (2 son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829; lost his right arm through a gun accident; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 3 Feb. 1848; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Little Moorfields, London 1854–7; joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1857; procurator and precentor in R.C. ch. Bayswater, London; classical master at Oratory school, Birmingham 1863; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; practised at Manchester; chief magistrate of the Gold Coast and assessor to the native chiefs May 1873; raised levies in Ashanti war 1874; senior puisne judge of supreme court of the Gold Coast, Nov. 1876, chief justice 1879 to 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 29 June 1882; executive comr. for West African colonies at Colonial exhibition 1886; C.M.G. 28 June 1886; chief justice of territories of royal Niger company 1887; knight commander of St. Gregory the Great, June 1889. _d._ Margate 11 Aug. 1889.

MARSHALL, JAMES. _b._ 1806; founded business of Marshall and Snelgrove, drapers and silk mercers at 11 Vere st. Oxford st. London 10 April 1837, they employed nearly 1800 hands in 1887, in 1800 the largest haberdasher’s shop in London employed only 16 persons; in 1893 they were silk mercers at 10 to 20 Vere st., 334 to 348 and 352 and 354 Oxford st., 14 to 20 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq., 2 to 24 Marylebone lane, and at Scarborough and Leeds. _d._ Goldbeaters, Millhill, Hendon, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1893, leaving personal estate of the net value of £719,116.

MARSHALL, JAMES GARTH (3 son of John Marshall of Headingley, Leeds, M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30). _b._ Leeds 20 Feb. 1802; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; member of firm of Marshall and Co. of Holbeck, Leeds and Shrewsbury, flax spinners, the former of these mills is described in Disraeli’s ‘Sybil’ 1845; M.P. for Leeds 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.G.S. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1860. _d._ Monk Coniston near Ambleside 22 Oct. 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 317–20 (1874).

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 7 Jany. 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Nov. 1818; purchased estate of Curriehill in Midlothian; dean of faculty of advocates March 1852; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 3 Nov. 1852 to Oct. 1868. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 27 Oct. 1868. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 123–4, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1827; ed. at Edinb. academy and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1851; a member of general council of univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 29 Oct. 1874 to death; chancellor’s assessor of Edinb. univ. court; author of Analysis of titles to land consolidation (Scotland) act 1868. Edinburgh 1869. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 5 Nov. 1881.

MARSHALL, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Marshall of Ely, solicitor). _b._ Ely 11 Sep. 1818; studied at Univ. coll. London 1838–44; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849; demonstrator of anatomy at Univ. coll. about 1845, extra assistant surgeon 1847, professor of surgery 1866–85, Emeritus professor 1885 to death; consulting surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1884; member of council of R.C.S. 1873, pres. 1883, representative of the college in general council of medical education 9 June 1881 to death, pres. of the council 10 May 1887 to death; Bradshaw lecturer 1883, Hunterian orator 1885, Morton lecturer 1889; F.R.S. 11 June 1857; pres. of royal medical and chirurgical society of London 1882–3; lectured on anatomy to art students at Marlborough House 1853; professor of anatomy at royal academy 16 May 1873 to death; introduced the galvano-cautery and operation of the excision of varicose veins; Fullerian professor of physiology at the royal institution 4 years; invented system of circular wards for hospitals; author of A description of the human body, its structure and functions 1860, 4 ed. 1883; The outlines of physiology, human and comparative 3 vols. 1867; Anatomy for artists 1878, 3 ed. 1890; A rule of proportion for the human figure 1878. _d._ 92 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1 Jany. 1891. _bur._ at Ely 6 Jany., bust by Thomas Brock, R.A. in Univ. coll. London; memorial painted glass window placed in choir of Ely cathedral by his widow Jany. 1894. _Proc. of royal soc. xlix pp. iv–vii_ (1891); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 77 (1883), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, MARY. _b._ England 1813; played columbine in Barrymore’s pantomime of Davy Jones’s Locker at Drury Lane, Dec. 1830; the original White Cat in J. R. Planché’s extravaganza at Covent Garden, Easter 1842; played Lazarillo to James Wallack’s Don Cæsar de Bazan at Princess’s 8 Oct. 1844; played soubrettes in comedy at Lyceum; played Fortunio in Planché’s burlesque Fortunio at Sadler’s Wells 22 April 1851; acted the leading parts in Frank Talfourd’s burlesques at Strand theatre, May 1851 to May 1852; played at Princess’s under Charles Kean 1853–5; made her début in America at Burton’s theatre, New York 1856; first appeared in Philadelphia at National theatre 6 July 1857; returned to England 11 Sep. 1862; always known as Polly Marshall; _m._ Mr. Zerman. _d._ 1 D’Israeli terrace, Disraeli road, Putney 17 Nov. 1878. _The Era 24 Nov. 1878 p._ 5.

NOTE.--Her brother Joseph Marshall, harlequin at Drury Lane theatre, afterwards ballet master at T.R. Manchester _d._ 30 Nov. 1873.

MARSHALL, MATTHEW. First assistant cashier of Bank of England 1829–35, cashier 1835–64. _d._ Emersham house, Beckenham, Kent 30 June 1873.

MARSHALL, THOMAS FALCON. _b._ Liverpool, Dec. 1818; contributed 4 pictures to Liverpool academy exhibition of 1836; removed to London about 1847; exhibited 60 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and 42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–78; his best works are in South Lancashire; his picture The Coming Footstep 1847 is at South Kensington museum. _d._ 46 Victoria road, Kensington, London 26 March 1878.

MARSHALL, THOMAS HORNCASTLE (3 son of rev. Thomas Horncastle Marshall, V. of Pontefract, Yorkshire, _d._ 1841 aged 84). _b._ Marston 1 March 1800; barrister G.I. 14 Nov. 1821, bencher Jany. 1850 to death, treasurer 1851; revising barrister for north Northumberland 1832; deputy judge and steward of Court of Honor of Pontefract; judge of county courts, circuit No. 14 (Dewsbury, Leeds, Pontefract and Wakefield), March 1847 to death; drew or suggested several sections of County Courts act 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 45 (1846); author of A letter to lord Brougham on county courts, writs of prohibition and certiorari 1855. _d._ St. Leonards 18 Feb. 1875.

NOTE.--He libelled by means of a pamphlet an attorney at Leeds called Barret, for which a jury gave Barret 40/-damages at York assizes April 1856.

MARSHALL, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of John Marshall, government agent for colonising New South Wales). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840; P.C. of Swallowcliffe and Anstey, Wiltshire 1841–5; joined Church of Rome 1845; an inspector of schools 16 Dec. 1848; published Tabulated reports on Roman Catholic schools inspected in the south and east of England and in South Wales 1859; granted cross of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. for his Christian missions, their agents, their method and their results 3 vols. 1862; lectured in the U.S. of America about 1873; LL.D. Georgetown college. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 14 Dec. 1877. _J. Gondon’s Motifs de conversion de dix ministres Anglicans pp_. 20–37; _J. Gondon’s Conversion de cent cinquante ministres Anglicans pp._ 90–102.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (brother of James Garth Marshall 1802–73). _b._ 26 May 1796; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1824; M.P. for Petersfield 1826–30, for Leominster 1830, for Beverley 1831, for Carlisle 1835–47 and for East Cumberland 1847–68. _d._ 32 St. Georges road, Eccleston sq. London 16 May 1872.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller). _b._ Oxford 1806; chorister of chapel royal, London; organist to Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1825–46, organist to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1825–46; Mus. Bac. Oxf. 1826, Mus. Doc. 1840; organist of St. Mary’s, Kidderminster 1846 to death; published Three Canzonets 1825; Cathedral Services. Oxford 1847; author of The art of reading church music Oxford 1842; A collection of anthems used in the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales 1840, 4 ed. 1862; edited with Alfred Bennett A collection of cathedral chants 1829. _d._ Handsworth, Birmingham 24 Aug. 1875.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM. _b._ hamlet of Meadowmore, Perthshire 1807; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1820–2; minister of united secession church, Coupar-Angus, Perthshire 28 Dec. 1830 to death; edited The Dissenter, 12 monthly numbers Jany. to Dec. 1833; secretary of the Voluntary church association; helped to bring about union of relief and secession churches 1847; moderator of united presbyterian synod 1865; D.D. New York univ. June 1865 and Hamilton univ. July 1865; presented with £1500 by his friends 29 Oct. 1872; author of Men of mark in British church history 1875; Historic names in Forfarshire 1875; Historic scenes in Perthshire 1880. _d._ Coupar-Angus 22 Aug. 1880. _Mc Kelvie’s Annals of the United presbyterian church p._ 609.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1810; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 12 June 1813, lieut. 1816; captain 35 N.I. 10 Oct. 1825, major 2 April 1834 to 4 Jany. 1841; lieut.-col. of 34 N.I. 4 Jany. 1841 to 1845, of 73 N.I. 1845–46, of 34 N.I. 1846–50, of 32 N.I. 1850–51; col. of 32 N.I. 15 March 1851 to 1861, of 3 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 23 July 1865. _d._ Southport, Lancashire 29 Jany. 1868.

MARSHAM, HENRY SHOVELL JONES. _b._ 28 Jany. 1794; entered navy 17 May 1807; captain 24 Dec. 1833; retired R.A. 21 Oct. 1856; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Hayle place near Maidstone 26 Oct. 1875.

MARSHAM, ROBERT BULLOCK (eld. son of hon. and rev. Jacob Marsham, canon of Windsor 1759–1840). _b._ 17 June 1786; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826; fellow of Merton coll. 1812–26, dean 1824, warden 1826 to death; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; recorder of Rochester to 1826; contested univ. of Oxf. July 1852. _d._ Caversfield house near Bicester 27 Dec. 1880. _bur._ north transept of Merton college chapel 1 Jany. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_; _Law Times_, _lxx_ 161 (1881).

MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK (eld. son of Joshua Marshman, orientalist and missionary 1768–1837). _b._ Aug. 1794; went with his father to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India; founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marshman’s Guide to the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, embracing the history of the Serampore mission 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration 3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. _d._ 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington, London 8 July 1877.

MARSON, JOB (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse trainer). _b._ Belle Vue training stables near Malton, Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847 and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. _d._ Middleham 11 Sep. 1857. _Sporting Review_, _xxxiii_ 1–6 (1855), _portrait_, _xxxviii_ 238–40 (1857); _Rice’s History of the British turf_, _i_ 267 (1879); _I.L.N. xxii_ 417 (1853), _portrait_.

MARSTON, CHARLES DALLAS. _b._ 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5 July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73; V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. _d._ East Sheen, Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.

MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste Noel). _b._ Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (_m._ 1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44; played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864, and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep. 1867. _d._ 5 March 1887. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part_ 14, _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 169, 194 (1847), _portrait_.

MARSTON, HENRY, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a physician). _b._ Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June 1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840; took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863, Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864, Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. _d._ 4 Lidlington place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Tallis’s Drawing room table books_, _parts_ 9 _and_ 18, 2 _portraits_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 201 (1847), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xi_ 280, 318 (1879), _portrait_.

MARSTON, JOHN WESTLAND (son of Stephen Marston, baptist minister). _b._ Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. _d._ at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 159–86 (1844); _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 201–206; _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_; _London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_.

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (only son of the preceding). _b._ 123 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King, and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. _d._ 191 Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. _Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest_ (1891) _and For a song’s sake_ (1887); _The collected poems of P. B. Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait_ (1892).

MARTEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov. 1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825, lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col. 6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837. _d._ Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, ALBINUS. _b._ Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. _d._ 17 Oct. 1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 223–26 (1872).

MARTIN, EDWARD. _b._ Brenchley, Kent 24 Nov. 1814; played his first match at Lord’s Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 26 June 1843; played for Kent and Hampshire; generally called The Veteran; dealer in cricketing appliances and keeper of a cricket ground at Oxford. _d._ 29 Oct. 1869. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _iii_ 152 (1863).

MARTIN, FRANCIS OFFLEY (4 son of Henry Martin of Colston Basset, Notts., M.P. for Kinsale and master in chancery, who _d._ 19 July 1839). _b._ 22 March 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 19 May 1829; assistant tithe comr.; an inspector of charities 1857 to 7 Dec. 1872; second charity comr. for England and Wales 7 Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ 89 Onslow gardens, London 4 Dec. 1878.

MARTIN, FREDERICK. _b._ Geneva 19 Nov. 1830; secretary and amanuensis to Thomas Carlyle from 1856 for some years; started The Statesman, a biographical mag. in which he began an account of Carlyle’s early life; started The statesman’s year book 1864, edited it to Dec. 1882; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; author of The life of John Clare 1865; Stories of banks and bankers 1865; Commercial handbook of France 1867; The story of Alec. Drummond of the 17th lancers 3 vols. 1869; Handbook of contemporary biography 1870. _d._ 22 Lady Margaret road, Kentish Town, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 Feb.

MARTIN, GEORGE (2 son of rev. Joseph Martin of Ham court, Worcs., canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral 1796–1815). _b._ 1789; ed. at New coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; preb. of Exeter cath. 15 Sep. 1815 to death; chancellor of the diocese 1820 to death; V. of Harberton, South Devon 22 June 1820 to death; principal of training sch. Exeter (the first in England) Oct. 1839, which began Feb. 1840, first stone of new college laid 19 May 1853; cut his throat at Harberton vicarage 27 Aug. 1860. _G.M. ix_ 437 (1860).

MARTIN, GEORGE. Proprietor of Royal Oak park grounds, Manchester. _d._ 21 Oct. 1865 aged 39. _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 533, 545 (1865), _portrait_.

MARTIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; clerk in office of John James, secondary of City of London; clerk in the city solicitors’ office; assistant clerk at Mansion House justice room 1850–55; chief clerk at the Guildhall, June 1855, retired on full salary 1882. _d._ 2 Cromwell gardens, Kensington, London 30 Dec. 1887.

MARTIN, GEORGE ANNE. _b._ 1807 or 1808; L.S.A. 1828; M.R.C.S. 1830; M.D. Edinburgh 1837; L.R.C.P. 1840; practised at Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1838 to death; author of The Undercliff, Isle of Wight: its climate, history and natural productions. 1849. _d._ Belgrave house, Ventnor 7 Jany. 1867.

MARTIN, GEORGE BOHUN. _b._ 21 March 1799; entered navy 11 April 1815; captain 19 April 1828; captain of Victory 101 guns, flag ship at Portsmouth 26 Sep. 1851 to 23 Dec. 1852; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 10 Jany. 1853 to death; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827. _d._ Nottingham 14 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 627 (1854).

MARTIN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 8 March 1828; chorister at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in Jany. 1864 a choir of 1000 voices for the Macbeth music at three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth 23 April 1864; composed Is she not beautiful? 1845 and other glees for which he obtained many prizes. _d._ Bolingbroke House hospital, Wandsworth, London 16 April 1881. _bur._ by the parish in Woking cemetery.

MARTIN, HARRIET LETITIA (dau. of Richard Martin 1754–1834, known as Humanity Martin, M.P. for co. Galway 1801–26). _b._ London 5 July 1801; when staying in Paris wrote a tale entitled Canvassing, which was appended to Michael Banim’s novel The Mayor of Windgap 1835; author of a novel called The Changeling, a tale of the year ’47, 1848. _d._ Dublin 12 Jany. 1891.

MARTIN, HENRI. _b._ Marseilles, France 1793; visited London and the provinces as a lion tamer 1831–32, performed at Drury Lane theatre, retired 1840; curator of Rotterdam zoological gardens; figures in several novels of Honore Balzac and Eugene Sue. _d._ Overschie near Rotterdam, April 1882. _I.L.N. 15 April 1882._

MARTIN, HENRY (son of Mr. Martin of North st. Brighton, saddler). _b._ Ringmer, Sussex 10 May 1813; a saddler in Brighton; councillor for the Pavilion ward on the Incorporation of the town May 1854 to death, alderman Jany. 1859 to death, mayor 1865–66, a magistrate 23 Jany. 1873 to death; author of The history of Brighton and environs 1871. _d._ 5 Powis sq. Brighton 24 April 1885. _Sussex Daily News 25 April 1885 p._ 6 _cols._ 3–4.

MARTIN, HENRY AUSTIN. _b._ London 23 July 1824; graduated at Harvard medical school 1845; practised at Boston, Massachusetts; staff surgeon in the Federal army 1861; rose to be surgeon-in-chief of the second corps of army of the Potomac; introduced into U.S. of America the practice of true animal vaccination 1870 which was universally adopted; invented pure rubber bandage for treatment of ulcers 1877; performed operation of tracheotomy without tubes many times; contributed largely to Lancet and other medical journals. _d._ Boston 7 Dec. 1884.

MARTIN, SIR HENRY BYAM (2 son of sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773–1854). _b._ 1803; midshipman on board the ‘Liffey’ 50 guns Oct. 1818; captain 28 April 1827; captain of Duke of Wellington 130 guns, and commodore in the western squadron 1 Feb. 1853 to 4 March 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 10 Oct. 1853 to 13 July 1854; served for a short time as flag officer in Baltic fleet for which he was made K.C.B. 5 July 1856; admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ Genoa 9 Feb. 1865.

MARTIN, HUGH (son of Alexander Martin). _b._ Aberdeen 11 Aug. 1822; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A. 1839; B.D. Edinb. April 1872; free church minister at Panbride near Carnoustie 1844–58; minister of Free Greyfriars, Edinb. 1858 to June 1865 when he retired owing to ill health; examiner in mathematics for degree of M.A. in univ. of Edinb. 1866–8; author of Christ’s presence in the gospel history 1860; A study of trilinear co-ordinates 1867; National education 1872; The shadow of Calvary 1875; The Westminster doctrine of the inspiration of scripture 1877, 5 ed. 1877. _d._ Lasswade near Edinburgh 14 June 1885.

MARTIN, JAMES. Partner in Martins & Co. bankers, 68 Lombard st. London. _d._ Chiselhurst common, Kent 17 Aug. 1878, personalty under £500,000, 28 Sep. 1878.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES (son of John Martin of Fermoy, Ireland). _b._ Middleton, co. Cork 14 May 1820; taken to New South Wales 1821; admitted solicitor of the supreme court 10 May 1845; member for Cork and Westmoreland in the legislative assembly 1848–59, member for East Sydney, Orange, the Lachlan, East Sydney and East Macquarie successively 30 Aug. 1859 to 19 Nov. 1873; attorney general 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856 and 7 Sep. 1857 to 8 Nov. 1858; called to the bar of N.S.W. 6 Sep. 1856; Q.C. 1857; prime minister and attorney general 16 Oct. 1863 to 2 Feb. 1865, 22 Jany. 1866 to 26 Oct. 1868 and 15 Dec. 1870 to 13 May 1872; knighted by patent 4 May 1869; chief justice of supreme court of N.S.W. 19 Nov. 1873 to death; author of The Australian Sketch-book. Sydney 1838. _d._ Clarens near Sydney 4 Nov. 1886. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 64–82; _Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 37, _portrait_.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES RANALD (son of rev. Donald Martin of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye). _b._ Kilmuir 1793; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1813–7; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Bengal army 1817; surgeon to governor-general’s body-guard 1821; served in first Burmese war; practised at Calcutta from 1826, presidency surgeon 1830, retired 20 May 1840; practised in Grosvenor st. London 1840; physician to council of India 1859 to death; inspector general of army hospitals; F.R.S. 1845; C.B. 25 April 1860; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860; author of Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta. Calcutta 1837, A brief topographical and historical notice of Calcutta. Privately printed 1847; author with James Johnson of The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions 1841, 8 ed. 1861. _d._ 37 Upper Brook st. London 27 Nov. 1874. _Medical Circular_, _iv_ 101–105 (1854), _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1865), _portrait_; _Medical times_, _ii_ 647–8 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 547, 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 586, 600 (1874), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Fenwick Martin, fencing master). _b._ Haydon Bridge near Hexham, Northumberland 19 July 1789; a painter on china and glass in London 1806; historical and landscape painter; exhibited pictures at the R.A. from 1812; historical painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold 1817; his finest work Belshazzar’s Feast obtained premium of £200 at British Institution 1821, the picture was repeated on glass and exhibited as a transparency in the Strand; an original member of Soc. of British Artists 1824; exhibited The fall of Nineveh at Brussels 1833 which was bought by Belgian government; member of Belgian academy and knight of order of Leopold; many of his works were engraved, some by himself; received sum of £2000 for his illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost; his three large pictures of the Apocalypse were exhibited after his death at the Hall of Commerce, 52 Threadneedle st. city of London, and at chief cities in England. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 17 Feb. 1854. _Redgrave’s Century of painters_, _ii_ 424–37 (1866); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 120–6.

NOTE.--His eldest daughter Isabella Mary materially assisted her brother-in-law Joseph Bonomi the curator of the Soane museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, in his official duties during the later years of his life, she died 23 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of John Martin of 112 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London, _d._ 1836). _b._ 16 Sep. 1791; bookseller at 13 Old Compton st. Soho 1811–15, at 23 Holles st. Cavendish sq. 1815–6, at 46 New Bond st. 1816–9; partner with John Rodwell at 46 New Bond st. 1819–26, retired 1826; secretary to the Artists’ Benevolent fund 1833–45; librarian to duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire 1836 to death; F.S.A. and F.L.S.; edited Gray’s Bard 1837 and Gray’s Elegy 1839 and 1854; author of Bibliographical catalogue of books privately printed 1834, 2 ed. 1854; History and description of Woburn and its abbey 1845; Enquiry into the authority for a statement in Echard’s History of England regarding William, lord Russel. Privately printed 1852, published 1856. _d._ Froxfield near Woburn 30 Dec. 1855. _bur._ in Eversholt churchyard. _G.M. xlv_ 317 (1856).

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; physician in city of London some years; laid down meteorological charts representing the varying aspects of months, seasons and years from daily observation; edited An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner several years resident in those islands 2 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818 reprinted as vol. xiii of Constable’s Miscellany. _d._ Lisbon 8 July 1869.

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ near Kennington church, London 10 July 1796; a baker by trade, always called by the reporters the Master of the Rolls; fought and beat George Oliver 18 July 1813; beat Jack Scroggins £100 a side, 65 rounds in 2 hours at Moulsey Hurst 18 Dec. 1818; beaten by Jack Randall at Crawley Downs 4 May 1819; beaten by Randall again £300 a side at same place 11 Sep. 1821; beaten by Edward Turner 100 guineas a side, 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Wallingham common 26 Oct. 1819; beat Jack Strong otherwise Cabbage 100 guineas a side, 75 rounds in 72 minutes at Farnham Royal, Bucks. 28 March 1820; beat Edward Turner £100 a side, 60 rounds in 78 minutes at Crawley 5 June 1821; beaten by Samuel Evans £100 a side, 16 rounds in 71 minutes at Knowl Hill, Berkshire 4 Nov. 1828; won 9 out of 14 fights; landlord of the Crown at Croydon many years; kept the Horns tavern at Kennington, London; retired first to St. Albans and afterwards to Devonshire; became a total abstainer and vegetarian. _d._ 1871 or 14 Aug. 1868. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _i_ 395–41 (1880), _portrait_; _The Fancy. By An Operator_, _i_ 201–5 (1826), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 child of Samuel Martin of Longhorne, parish of Donoughmore, co. Down). _b._ Longhorne 8 Sep. 1812; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; a member of the Repeal Association, expelled having joined the secession of the Young Ireland party; contributed to The United Irishman newspaper; issued The Irish Felon, successor to The United Irishman 24 June 1848 to 22 July 1848, surrendered to the police 8 July 1848, tried for treason-felony and sentenced to 10 years transportation 19 Aug. 1848, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land Nov. 1849, granted a conditional pardon 1854, resided in Paris Oct. 1854 to June 1856 when granted an unconditional pardon; returned to Ireland 1858, established with The O’Donoghue the short-lived National League; contested co. Longford, Dec. 1869; joined the Home government association for Ireland, May 1870; M.P. for co. Meath, Jany. 1871 to death; known in Ireland as Honest John Martin; paid secretary to Home Rule league, hon. sec. 1874. _d._ Dromalane house near Newry 29 March 1875. _P. A. Sillard’s Life and letters of John Martin_ (1893).

MARTIN, JOHN (eld. son of John Martin of Overbury court, Worcs. 1774–1832). _b._ 2 Feb. 1805; member of firm of Martins & Co. bankers 68 Lombard st. London; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1832–5 and 1837–59; contested Tewkesbury 6 Jany. 1835. _d._ the Upper hall, Ledbury 7 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 son of rev. Samuel Martin, V. of Warsop, Notts.) _b._ 10 Oct. 1807; ed. at Rugby; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn, London 1830 to death; founded a national school in Baldwin’s gardens, Holborn; an active member of the Church Association; promoter of great ecclesiastical suit of Martin _v._ Mackonochie 1867–76, always refused to take any steps to obtain imprisonment of the defendant; chairman of committee of Colonial and Continental church society. _d._ 9 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 16 May 1885.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Francis Martin of Davieland, dean of faculty of procurators in Paisley). _b._ 23 July 1811; a writer to the signet in Edinburgh 6 March 1834; principal clerk of session 1880 to death. _d._ 19 Chester st. Edinburgh 26 March 1893.

MARTIN, JOHN CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, fellow 1821–9, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1835; R. of Killeshandra, Kilmore 30 May 1831 to death; archdeacon of Ardagh 1854–66; archdeacon of Kilmore, Sep. 1866 to death. _d._ 17 Jany. 1878.

MARTIN, JOHN EDWARD (eld. son of John Martin 1791–1855, librarian to Duke of Bedford). _b._ 1821 or 1822; sub-librarian to Society of Inner Temple 1850; librarian 1856 to Dec. 1882 when his brain gave way; private librarian to Duke of Bedford at Woburn, to Duke of Northumberland, Marquis of Ripon and other owners of extensive collections. _d._ 20 July 1893. _Law Journal 29 July 1893 p._ 536.

MARTIN, LEOPOLD CHARLES (2 son of John Martin, painter 1789–1854). _b._ 6 Dec. 1817; godson of Leopold afterwards first king of the Belgians; an artist and numismatist; clerk in the Stationery office, London 1836 to 1870; author of Contributions to English literature by the civil servants of the crown and East India company from 1794 to 1863. 1865; author with his elder brother Charles Martin of Civil costumes of England from the conquest to George III. 61 plates 1842, and of Dresses worn at Her Majesty’s Bal Costumé, May 1842. 1842; author with Charles Trubner of The current gold and silver coins of all countries 1862, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1889.

MARTIN, PETER JOHN (son of Peter Patrick Martin, surgeon). _b._ Pulborough, Sussex 1786; M.R.C.S. 1813; practised at Pulborough; F.G.S. 1833; gave 3 lectures in 1833–4, afterwards published, to the Philosophical and literary society of Chichester on A parallel between Shakespeare and Scott and the kindred nature of their genius; wrote often under signature of P.P. in The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841–5; author of Geological memoir on a part of Western Sussex, with some observations upon chalk basins, the Weald denudation and outlines by protrusion 1828. _d._ Pulborough 13 May 1860.

MARTIN, PHILIP WYKEHAM (eld. son of Charles Wykeham-Martin of Leeds castle, Kent 1801–70). _b._ 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 Jany. 1829; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; M.P. for Rochester 8 Feb. 1856 to death; introduced and carried the Sale of spirits amendment act 1862 and the Hotel keepers’ liability act 1863. _d._ in library of House of Commons 31 May 1878, being only member who has died in the House since Spencer Perceval. _bur._ in parish church of Broomfield near Leeds Castle 7 June. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 92, 94 (1858), _portrait_.

MARTIN, ROBERT MONTGOMERY. _b._ co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803; went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India 1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols. 1834; The Marquis of Wellesley’s Indian despatches 5 vols. 1836; History of the antiquities of Eastern India 3 vols. 1838; Statistics of the colonies of the British empire 1840; Ireland before and after the Union 1844, 2 ed. 1848; China, political, commercial and social 2 vols. 1847; The Indian empire 5 vols. 1857. _d._ Wellesley lodge, Sutton, Surrey 6 Sep. 1868.

MARTIN, SAMUEL (son of Wm. Martin, shipwright). _b._ Woolwich 28 April 1817; Congregationalist pastor of Highbury chapel, Cheltenham, Feb. 1839 to 1842; pastor of Independent chapel, Little James st. Westminster 5 July 1842 to death, chapel was rebuilt 1863; chairman of Congregational Union 1862; established day schools and a school for the reformation of criminals in Westminster; took an active part in management of Westminster hospital 1845–72 to which he presented communion plate 1869; author of Discourses to youth 1843; The extra work of a London pastor 1863; edited The useful arts, their birth and development 1851. _d._ 19 Belgrave road, London 5 July 1878. _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 110–7; _Waddington’s Congregational History_, _v_ 593–6 (1880); _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.

MARTIN, SIR SAMUEL (2 son of Samuel Martin of Culmore, Newton Limavady, co. Londonderry). _b._ 23 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1857; special pleader 1828–9; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, bencher 1843 to 1850 and Nov. 1878 to death; Q.C. April or May 1843; M.P. for Pontefract 1847–50; baron of court of exchequer 6 Nov. 1850, retired 22 Jany. 1874; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; common law comr. 30 April 1857, the report is dated 31 July 1857; doctor of laws, Durham, Sep. 1857; tried Franz Müller for murder of Mr. Briggs 27–29 Oct. 1864; P.C. 2 Feb. 1874. _d._ 132 Piccadilly, London 9 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 13 Jany. _A generation of judges. By their reporter_ (1886) 83–94; _Times 10 Jany. 1883 p._ 6 _cols._ 1–2; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 61 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xl_ 173–74 (1883); _Illust. Times 5 Nov. 1864 p._ 289, _portrait_.

MARTIN, SAMUEL DICKINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 June 1803; an engineer and surveyor there 1824 to death; surveyed many railway lines; a leading arbitrator in compensation cases; founded Yorkshire and north of England land agents and surveyors’ association, pres. of it; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. _d._ Harrogate, Yorkshire 26 Sep. 1877.

MARTIN, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. 1810, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; general medical practitioner at Reigate, Surrey; member of the Provincial medical and surgical association; started and edited The Institute: a journal of medical, surgical and obstetrical science and practice and philosophical gazette 2 vols. 1850–1; presented by his admirers at Reigate with his portrait about Aug. 1851. _d._ Reigate 12 Feb. 1867 aged 87. _Medical Circular_, _i_ 45–6 (1852), _portrait_.

MARTIN, THOMAS (son of John Nickleson Martin of Wollaton, Notts.) _b._ 11 Dec. 1787; entered navy March 1799; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ 1 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, SIR THOMAS BYAM (4 son of Henry Martin baronet, comptroller of the navy 1733–94). _b._ Ashstead house, Surrey 25 July 1773; entered navy April 1786; captain 5 Nov. 1793; commanded the Tamar in the West Indies 1797, captured 9 privateers in 5 months; had a large share in capture of the Russian ship Sewolod 26 Aug. 1808, for which he received cross of Swedish order of the Sword; R.A. 1 Aug. 1811; second in command at Plymouth 1813–4; deputy comptroller of the navy Jany. 1815, comptroller 9 Feb. 1816 to 2 Nov. 1831; admiral 22 July 1830, vice admiral of the U.K. 1847, admiral of the fleet 13 Oct. 1849 to death; M.P. for Plymouth 1818–32; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 3 March 1830; one of elder brethren of Trinity house 1833 to death. _d._ the Dockyard, Portsmouth 21 Oct. 1854, portrait in United service club. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 735–6; _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 252 (1833).

MARTIN, WILLIAM (brother of John Martin 1789–1854). _b._ the Twohouse in Haltwhistle, Northumberland 21 June 1772; worked in a ropery at Hawdon dock 1794–5 and 1809–10; served in the Northumberland regiment of militia 1795–1805 and 1810; studied perpetual motion from 1805; went to London 1808, exhibited and sold his patent for perpetual motion; founded the Martinean Society 1814 based upon the negation of Newtonian theory of gravitation; styled himself Anti-Newtonian from 1821; lectured throughout England 1830; designed models for a lifeboat and a lifebuoy, a self-acting railway gate and a design for a high-level bridge over the Tyne; author of Harlequins’ invasion, a new pantomime engraved and published by W.M. 1811; A new system of natural philosophy on the principle of perpetual motion, with a variety of other useful discoveries 1821; W. M.’s Challenge to the whole terrestrial globe as a philosopher and critic and poet and prophet 1829, 2 ed. 1829; A short outline of the philosopher’s life from being a child in frocks to the present day 1833, with portrait; An exposure of a new system of irreligion called the new moral world promulgated by R. Owen, Esq., whose doctrine proves him a child of the devil 1839, and other books. _d._ at his brother’s house, Lindsey house, Chelsea, London 9 Feb. 1851. _G.M. i_ 327–8 (1851), _i_ 433 (1854); _M. A. Richardson’s Local historian’s Table Book_, _iii_ 137–8 (1842), _iv_ 366.

MARTIN, WILLIAM. _b._ Ewell near Epsom 10 March 1750. _d._ St. Pancras parish, London 14 Nov. 1852 aged 102. _bur._ in the old church St. Pancras. _I.L.N. xxi_ 548 (1852).

MARTIN, WILLIAM (natural son of Jane Martin, laundress). _b._ Woodbridge, Suffolk 1801; master in a school at Uxbridge to 1836; returned to Woodbridge 1836, delivered lectures and wrote articles for the magazines; issued Peter Parley’s Annual 1840 to death, six other writers adopted the same pseudonym; author of numerous educational works under name of Peter Parley, a series of Household tracts for the people under name of Old Chatty Cheerful and many under his own name. _d._ Holly lodge, Woodbridge 22 Oct. 1867.

MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM (youngest son of Henry Martin). _b._ Birmingham 1807; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar 1826–31, fellow 1831–8; 26th wrangler, 4th classic and second chancellor’s medallist 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1836; chief justice of New Zealand 5 Feb. 1841, resigned 12 June 1857, the New Zealand government granted him pension of £333 6s. 8d. by special act 10 Aug. 1858; settled at Auckland 1859; D.C.L. Oxford 14 July 1858; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; author of Inquiries concerning the structure of the Semitic language 2 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Torquay 18 Nov. 1880. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 12–14, _portrait_; _Foreign church chronicle_, _March 1881_.

MARTIN, WILLIAM CHARLES LINNÆUS (son of Wm. Martin, naturalist 1767–1810). _b._ 1798; superintendent of museum of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 1830 to 1838; F.L.S.; author of A natural history of quadrupeds 1840; The history of the dog 1845; The history of the horse 1845; An introduction to the study of birds, n.d.; A general history of humming-birds with reference to the collection of J. Gould 1852 and other books. _d._ Dacre park terrace, Lee, Kent 15 Feb. 1864.

MARTIN-LEAKE, STEPHEN (eld. son of Stephen Ralph Martin Leake 1782–1865, assistant secretary to the treasury). _b._ 19 March 1826; ed. at King’s coll. London and St. John’s coll. Camb., 20th wrangler 1848; pupil of Edward Bullen; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1853; author of The elements of the law of contracts 1867, new ed. 1878; Elementary digest of law of property of land 1874; Digest of the law of uses and profits of land 1888; author with Edward Bullen of Precedents of pleadings in actions in the superior courts of common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. _d._ Marshalls, High Cross, Ware, Herts. 7 March 1893. _bur._ Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. _Solicitors’ Journal 25 March 1893 p._ 359.

MARTINEAU, ARTHUR. _b._ 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1831–6, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; V. of Whitkirk near Leeds 1838–63; V. of Alkham with Capel, Kent 1863–4; R. of St. Mildreds, Bread st., with St. Margaret Moyses, London 1864 to death; chap. to Bp. of London, June 1865; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1866 to death; chap. to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of No need of a living infallible guide in matters of faith (four sermons). Leeds 1850; Church history of England from the earliest times down to the Reformation 1853, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ Cannes, France 11 Nov. 1872.

MARTINEAU, HARRIET (youngest child of Thomas Martineau, camlet manufacturer, who _d._ June 1826). _b._ Norwich 12 June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5; awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834 were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America 1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism 1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832, at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45; built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside, Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2 vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and many other books. _d._ The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876. _bur._ beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. _H. Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman_ (1877), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 206–12, _portrait_; _Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller_ (1884); _James Payn’s Some literary recollections_ (1884) 97–136; _W. H. D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers_ (1882) 404–17; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 65–75 (1844), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 739, _portrait_; _J. S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master_ (1851); _Cornhill Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 44, 46 (1876), _portrait_, _xxviii_ 197 (1883), _portrait_; _British medical journal 14 April 1877 p._ 449.

NOTE.--She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.

MARTINEAU, ROBERT BRAITHWAITE (son of Philip Martineau, taxing master to the court of chancery). _b._ 99 Guildford st. London 19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London 1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. _d._ 13 Feb. 1869. _F. T. Palgrave’s Essays on art_ (1865).

MARTINEAU, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Martineau of Birmingham). _b._ 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch., head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham, solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany. 1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor 1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25 March 1887. _d._ Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 28 July 1893. _Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 1–4 (1884), _portrait_; _Law Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p._ 550.

MARTINS, SIR WILLIAM (son of W. Martin). _b._ 1800; one of the gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign 11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840. _d._ 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 595 (1874).

MARTLEY, HENRY. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death. _d._ Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.

MARTON, GEORGE (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray hall near Lancaster, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1800; ed. at Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster 1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1858. _d._ 24 Nov. 1867.

MARTYN, FRANCIS MOUNTJOY. _b._ 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27 Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863; brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to Martyn 1830. _d._ London 24 Jany. 1874.

MARUM, EDWARD PURCELL MULHALLEN (only son of Richard C. Marum of Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). _b._ 1828; ed. at Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co. Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3 Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed to police barracks adjoining the church where he _d._ 21 Sep. 1890. _St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p._ 23, _portrait_.

MARVIN, CHARLES THOMAS (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of engineering works on the Neva, Russia). _b._ Plumstead, Kent 1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till 1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months; a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876, transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May 1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26 June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to 20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England and America, and 12 other books. _d._ Grosvenor house, Plumstead Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. _Times 17 July 1878 p._ 11, _5 Dec. 1890 p._ 6; _London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p._ 11, _portrait_.

MARWOOD, WILLIAM. _b._ Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln 1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful; hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb. 1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov. 1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. _d._ Church lane, Horncastle 4 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Trinity ch. 6 Sep. _The life of W. Marwood_ (1883), _portrait_; _Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp._ 9, 20, _facsimile of his letter_; _Entracte Annual_ (1882) 26–7; _Law Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 490.

NOTE.--His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’; this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep. 1883.

MARWOOD-ELTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, _d._ 4 Dec. 1827). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l. 16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838 with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. _d._ 18 April 1884.

MARX, KARL. _b._ Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845, settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an

## active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848,

after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till his death; chief founder and director of the International 1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. _d._ 41 Maitland park road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times. New York_ (1883); _Progress_, _May and June 1883_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 329 (1883), _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _March 1875 pp._ 382–91.

MASFEN, JOHN. _b._ Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death; the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general practices in the kingdom. _d._ Stafford 7 June 1854.

MASHEDER, RICHARD. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica 1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review 1865, 2 ed. 1865. _d._ Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.

MASKELL, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond., Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C. of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. _d._ Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.

MASKELL, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 1825). _b._ Bath 1814; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe, Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay 1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850; F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut. 1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3 ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M. 1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. _d._ Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. _E. G. K. Browne’s Annals of the tractarian movement_ (1861) 193–200, 214; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 140 (1891).

MASON, CHARLES KEMBLE. _b._ Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre; played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April 1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of Music, Philadelphia 1869. _Ireland’s Records of New York stage_, _ii_ 105–6 (1867).

MASON, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America, July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. _d._ Eastbourne 27 May 1853. _G.M. xl_ 91–2 (1853).

MASON, FRANCIS (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Walingate, York 2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53 and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852; D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. _d._ Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. _Francis Mason’s The story of a working-man’s life. New York_ (1870).

MASON, FRANCIS (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant of Wood st. Cheapside, London). _b._ Islington 21 July 1837; matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college, London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson; M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6, surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres. 1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877; On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). _d._ 5 June 1886. _bur._ Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St. Thomas’s hospital. _St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv_ 249 (1886).

MASON, FREDERICK. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841; beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany. 1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. _d._ St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 20 Oct. 1860. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 309–14 (1881).

MASON, GEORGE HEMING (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) _b._ Fenton park 11 March 1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England, married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe, is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington fine arts club 1873. _d._ 7 Theresa terrace, Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.

MASON, GEORGE HENRY MONCK (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain R.N.) _b._ 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut. 3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11 May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state 1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. _G.M. i_ 105–6 (1858).

MASON, HENRY JOSEPH MONCK (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason of Dublin). _b._ Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800; examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51; correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839; The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843; Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. _d._ Dargle cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. _bur._ in the old cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. _H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev. John O’Hanlon_ (1891).

MASON, HUGH (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne). _b._ Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne; mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885, contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. _d._ 2 Feb. 1886.

MASON, JAMES WOOD (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of Horsley court, Gloucs.) _b._ 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. _d._ on board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6 March 1893.

MASON, JOHN CHARLES (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the H.E.I.Co.’s home service). _b._ London, March 1798; clerk in the secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office 1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired April 1867; represented government of India on committee on Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An analysis of the constitution of the East India company and of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. _d._ 12 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.

MASON, SIR JOSIAH (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). _b._ Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker, then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster; manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker 1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed 1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R. Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000, 1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868; knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880. _d._ Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. _J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason, a biography_ (1882); _Fortunes made in business_, _i_ 129–83 (1884); _Biograph_, _iii_ 119–25 (1880); _Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, _with views of_ _College and Orphanage_; _Edgbastonia_, _i_ 48–49 (1881); _I.L.N. lv_ 247, 248 (1869), _portrait_; _Illust. midland news_, _i_ 8 (1869), _portrait_; _Practical Mag. i_ 162 (1873), _portrait_.

MASON, STEPHEN (son of David Mason). _b._ Kennoway, Fifeshire 1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. _d._ 4 Thornton villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.

MASON, THOMAS MONCK (only son of William Monck Mason of Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000 in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17 hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English, and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. _d._ about 16 Sep. 1889. _T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of aerostation_ (1838), _portrait_.

MASON, WILLIAM HAYLEY. Author of Goodwood: its house, park and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. _d._ East street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.

MASON, WILLIAM MONCK (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel R.E.) _b._ Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary collections and historical and philological compositions 1858; author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of Ireland 1825. _d._ Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey 6 March 1859.

MASON, WILLIAM SHAW. _b._ Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805 remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy 3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana. Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him for Sir R. Peel. _d._ Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.

MASQUERIER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London, completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits 1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death. _d._ 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855. _G.M. xliii_ 540 (1855).

MASSEREENE, JOHN FOSTER-SKEFFINGTON, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard _d._ 18 Jany. 1843, by lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness Loughneagh, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831). _b._ Dublin 30 Nov. 1812; succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831; assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858, new ed. 1860. _d._ from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co. Antrim 28 April 1863.

MASSEY, JAMES. _b._ 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct. 1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100 a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847; beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes 26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852 and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854; fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856; won 13 out of 17 fights. _d._ 1864. _Illust. sporting news 9 Jany. 1864 p._ 385, _portrait_.

MASSEY, RICHARD. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837 to 1877. _d._ 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged 84.

MASSEY, ROSE M. (dau. of Joseph T. Massey of Hamilton square, Birkenhead, Cheshire). _b._ 1850; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs. Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre, London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu the jeune premier 1874. _d._ New York 23 July 1883.

MASSEY, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (son of Wm. Massey). _b._ 1809; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany. 1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P. for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8; ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb. 1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63, new ed. 1865–6. _d._ 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _I.L.N. xlvi_ 237 (1865), _portrait_.

MASSIE, EDWARD (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget, Chester). _b._ 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll. Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols. 1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects 2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in English verse 1878. _d._ Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany. 1893.

MASSIE, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1799; a missionary in India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59; an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement, visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 472, _ii_ 54 (1869).

MASSINGBERD, FRANCIS CHARLES (only son of Francis Massingberd, R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, _d._ 1817). _b._ Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln 1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec. 1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave; author of English history of the leaders of the reformation. 1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book 1864. _d._ Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. _bur._ South Ormsby. _Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii_ 272–9 (1885).

MASSINGBERD, VINCENT AMCOTTS (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd, R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). _b._ 1808; entered navy 21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired admiral Oct. 1884. _d._ The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.

MASSINGHAM, JOHN DEACON. _b._ 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby 1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul, Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. _d._ Chelsea, London 20 June 1882.

MASSON, ELIZABETH. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano vocalist and vocal composer. _d._ London, Jany. 1865.

MASSON, GEORGE JOSEPH GUSTAVE. _b._ London 9 March 1819; ed. at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8 Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869; contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European literature, French literature 1888. _d._ while on a visit to Sir Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.

MASSY, GODFREY (3 son of Hugh Massy _d._ 14 March 1814). _b._ Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V. of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland. _d._ Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. _Dawson Massy’s Footprints of a faithful shepherd_ (1855), _portrait_.

MASSY-BERESFORD, JOHN MAUNSELL (youngest son of John Massy of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). _b._ 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter, Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore 1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. _d._ London 22 Oct. 1886.

MAST, GEORGE CHRISTIAN. _b._ Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8 Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college 148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878. _d._ Jany. 1884.

MASTER, ROBERT AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1824; major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855, lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.

MASTER, ROBERT MOSLEY (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1794; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C. of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec. 1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64; archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near Preston 1865 to death. _d._ Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.

MASTER, STREYNSHAM (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of Croston, Lancs. _d._ 1798). _b._ Croston 10 June 1766; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. _d._ 19 Jany. 1864. _Manchester school register_, _ii_ 33–4 (1868).

MASTERS, JOSEPH. _b._ Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax, bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st. London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848; started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols. 1842–63. _d._ 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) 49–50.

MATCHAM, GEORGE (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller 1753–1833). _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov. 1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the Quarterly Review. _d._ 18 Jany. 1877.

MATHER, CHARLES (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of Grantham, Lincs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college 1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting and dramatic news under name of Exon. _d._ Paulton’s terrace, Chelsea 1 July 1878.

MATHER, COTTON (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey 1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to the New Testament and Psalms 1861. _d._ Junior Garrick club, London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.

MATHER, ROBERT COTTON (son of James Mather, congregational minister). _b._ New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D. Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833; went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833; pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to 1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches; founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (_m_. Elizabeth Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she _d._ Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He _d._ 5 Torrington park, Finchley, London 21 April 1877. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries_ (1877) 96–7; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 325.

MATHESON, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of Attadale, Rossshire, _d._ 1826 aged 48). _b._ Attadale 6 Jany. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84; a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May 1882. _d._ 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.

MATHESON, CHARLES (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice, merchant). _b._ 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury 1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed. 1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. _d._ Leamington 15 April 1894.

MATHESON, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of Shinness, Sutherlandshire). _b._ Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796; ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846; the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. _d._ Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 21 (1879).

MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor; chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. _d._ between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_, _vol ii_ (1886), _portrait_.

MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845, chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853; general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. _d._ 10 May 1882.

MATHESON, THOMAS (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). _b._ Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815, major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.

MATHEW, THEOBALD (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron Llandaff). _b._ Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790; ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10 April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to 1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. _d._ Queenstown 8 Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork, uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890, another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in National portrait gallery, London. _J. F. Maguire’s Father Mathew_ (1863), 2 _portraits_; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_, _i_ 96–120 (1877); _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 299–306; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _i_ 460–520 (1883); _I.L.N. ii_ 53 (1843) _portrait_, _iii_ 85 (1843) _portrait_, _28 June 1890 pp._ 820–2 _several portraits_; _Sporting Review_, _xl_ 209–10 (1858); _J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies 2 ed._ (1886) 325–50; _Dublin Univ. mag. xxxiii_ 694, _portrait_.

MATHEWS, ANNE (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances Maria Kelly). _b._ 1782 or 1783; _m._ at York 28 March 1803 Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July 1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April 1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. _d._ Chelsea villa, Fulham near London 12 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxii_ 93 (1847).

MATHEWS, CHARLES JAMES (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian 1776–1835). _b._ Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect 1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost 30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843; lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt 4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863, at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870, New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years; went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877; made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833, Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. _d._ Queen’s hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29 June. _The life of C. J. Mathews_, _edited by Charles Dickens 2 vols._ (1879), _portraits_; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage_ (1867), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol. vi_ 351–53, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 57 (1838), _portrait_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 57, _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 159–70 (1888); _Theatrical times_, _i_ 105 (1847), _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 123–27 (1881); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 405–10; _J. Hollingshead’s Plain English_ (1880) 111–16; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 423–47 (1855), _iii_ 343–73 (1855); _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_ (1847) 187–98, _portrait_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 205 (1879), _portrait_; _London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp._ 3–7, _portrait_.

MATHEWS, HELEN. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona and Miranda. _d._ Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xvi_ 497 (1882), _portrait_.

MATHEWS, JULIA ISABELLA (dau. of James Mathews, artificial flower maker). _b._ Angel court, Strand, London about 1840; taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney 2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871; played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre, Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (_m._ at Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated 1870). _d._ at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S. of America 19 May 1876. _London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp._ 8–9, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 753 (1867), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 169, 171 (1874); _The Entracte 27 May 1876 p._ 8, _3 June p._ 8; _The Era 28 May 1876 p._ 10.

MATHEWS, LUCIA ELIZABETT or ELIZABETTA, best known as Madame Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver 1757–1821). _b._ 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; _m._ 28 Jany. 1813 at St. Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817 and _d._ 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20 July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris 1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français; first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success; played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831 to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas by Planché and Dance; _m._ at Kensington church 18 July 1838 Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden 1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase 10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s 1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine through clouds 26 July 1854. _d._ Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. _Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris_ (1826), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris_ (1830), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris_ (1830), _privately printed_; _C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _ii_ 184–222 (1844), _portrait_; _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_ (1847) 37–56, _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _v_ 91 (1826), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 41–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 41 (1847), _portrait_; _The dramatic mirror_ (1847) _p._ 60, _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 127–29 (1881); _British stage_, _v_ 1 (1821), _portrait_; _Planché’s Recollections and reflections 2 vols._ (1872), _passim_; _The Town_, _ii_ (1838–39), _passim_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 37 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_ 268 (1847), _portrait_.

MATHEWS, WILKINSON (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). _b._ Whitby 9 March 1784; ed. at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C. Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he retired, _d._ 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866. _bur._ Leyland, Lancs. _Law Times xci_ 536 (1866).

MATHIAS, GEORGE (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot). _b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot 8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea 1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.

MATRAVERS, JOHN. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners; purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of Bristol; F.S.A. _d._ London 30 Nov. 1851.

MATSON, EDWARD. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June 1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. _d._ 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.

MATTEI, ANTONIO. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April 1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. _d._ at his residence Sliema, Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.

MATTHEW, WALTER EDMUND (3 son of David Matthew of City of London, merchant). _b._ 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch. Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo 1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. _d._ 19 Feb. 1889.

MATTHEWS, CHARLES PETER. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co. brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club, London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J. Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. _d._ 18 Feb. 1891.

NOTE.--His collection of 125 pictures sold at Christie’s 6 June 1891 for £57,858 12s., being much less than he gave for the pictures. _Times 8 June 1891 p._ 12.

MATTHEWS, EMILIA (dau. of Mr. Apjohn, bandmaster of a regiment). _b._ 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March 1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct. 1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May 1869; _m._ Frank Matthews 1807–71. _d._ Brompton, London 27 Aug. 1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. _Era 31 Aug. 1873 p._ 12, _7 Sep. p._ 11.

MATTHEWS, FRANK. _b._ Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1 July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80 nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec. 1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr. Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June 1840 and was lame for life. _d._ 7 Linden grove, Bayswater, London 24 July 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 29 July. _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _iv_ 87 (1879), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1871 p._ 11 _col._ 4.

MATTHEWS, HENRY WILLIAM. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March 1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug. 1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July 1884.

MATTHEWS, JAMES. _b._ 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long time. _d._ 28 Aug. 1880.

MATTHEWS, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820; clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose; clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3 pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called ‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi, Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859; played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes; last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb; the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57 Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern 18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton 1866 to death. _d._ 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4 March 1889. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 9 March. _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 273 (1847), _portrait_; _Theatre n.s. xiii_ 233 (1889); _The World 21 Dec. 1881 pp._ 5–6 _and ’Xmas number_ 1886, _portrait_; _H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 93–95.

NOTE.--He _m._ at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 28 Oct. 1825 Fanny Maria Casciani dau. of a Florentine sculptor and had three children, Clara who _m._ Mr. Lawrence a clown; Fanny; and a son who died in infancy.

MATTHEWS, RICHARD. Barrister M.T. 25 April 1828; sergeant at law 7 July 1852. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854 aged 57. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM ANTHONY. _b._ Malta 14 Aug. 1813; partner in firm of Thomas Turton and sons of Sheaf steel works Sheffield; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1852–54, being the first to hold the two offices together. _d._ 19 July 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 39 (1854), _portrait_.

MATTHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1820; captain of right wing of 1 European regiment 8 Sep. 1835 to 1 March 1850; deputy comr. of Assam 1 April 1839 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 33 N.I. 1 March 1850 to 1852, of 30 N.I. 1852–3, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1853–4, of 17 N.I. 1854–6, of 21 N.I. 1856–9; col. of 2nd European fusiliers 19 Aug. 1859 to death; M.G. 1 Jany. 1862. _d._ Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 28 March 1865.

MATTHIESSEN, AUGUSTUS (son of William Matthiessen of 1 Nun’s court, Coleman st. city of London, merchant). _b._ London 2 Jany. 1831; studied under Will and Buff at Giessen 1852, Ph.D. Giessen; studied under Bunsen at Heidelberg 1853–7; fitted up a laboratory at 1 Torrington place, London 1857, where he investigated the physical properties of pure metals and alloys; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council, royal medallist 1869; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital 1862–8; constructed ten electrical standards for the British Association 1862–5; joint lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1868–70, sole lecturer 1870; had a large practice as a consulting chemist; an editor of Philosophical Mag. Jany. 1869 to June 1870; examiner to Univ. of London 1870; author of 38 scientific papers and of 23 papers with other writers; poisoned himself with prussic acid at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 6 Oct. 1870. _Nature_, _ii_ 517–18 (1870); _Times 8 Oct. 1870 p._ 5 _col._ 5.

MATTHISON, ARTHUR. _b._ Birmingham, May or June 1826; journalist in New York; vocalist and lecturer at Hamilton’s Diorama, St. James’s hall, London 1873; played King Richard in Rebecca 13 Feb. 1875, Owen in The World 31 July 1880, Colonel Dalton in Youth 6 Aug. 1881, all at Drury Lane theatre; author of Keep your door locked, farce produced at Adelphi 29 Aug. 1866; Enoch Arden, a drama 1869; A false step 1879, prohibited by the lord chamberlain; Brave hearts, drama Criterion 24 Jany. 1881; A thread of silk, comedy Crystal Palace 3 Nov. 1881; More than ever, burlesque Gaiety 1 Nov. 1882; author with Clement Scott of The great divorce case, comedy Criterion 15 April 1876; with Joseph Hatton of Liz, drama Opera Comique 1 Sep. 1877; and with Charles Wyndham of Tantalus, Folly 14 Oct. 1878; translated A. Belgioioso’s Brief observations on singing 1860, and A. Perrin’s Military studies 1863; author of The state banquet 1862; Half an hour with a good author 1872; his poem The little hero 1879 was frequently recited and was set to music by Stephen Adams _i.e._ Michael Maybrick in 1881; composer of The little gold locket, a song 1879; wrote the words of upwards of 50 songs 1861–80, of H. Leslie’s cantata The daughter of the Isles 1862, of J. Barnby’s sacred idyll Rebekah 1872, and of M. W. Balfe’s opera The Talisman 1874. _d._ 17 Store st. Bedford sq. London 21 May 1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May.

MATURIN, EDWARD (son of Charles Robert Maturin, C. of St. Peter’s church, Dublin, and novelist 1782–1824). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832; barrister in the U.S. of America; professor of Greek in College of South Carolina; taught Greek and Latin in New York 30 years; revised the Gospel of St. Mark for the American Bible Union 1850; author of Montezuma, the last of the Aztecs, a romance 2 vols. New York 1845; Benjamin the Jew of Grenada, a romance 1848; Eva, or the Isles of life and death 2 vols. 1848; Lyrics of Spain and Erin. Boston 1850; Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy. New York 1852. _d._ New York 25 May 1881.

MATURIN, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C. of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin 1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week. Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons 1888. _d._ Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. _bur._ All Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.

MAUDE, DANIEL (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall, Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). _b._ 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall, Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb. 1874. _d._ 1874. _J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of Alverthorpe_ (1874).

MAUDE, FRANCIS (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). _b._ 17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820, commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. _The Shipwrecked Mariner_, _xxx_ 21–30 (1883).

MAUDE, FREDERIC PHILIP (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great George st. Westminster). _b._ London 1818; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E. Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. _d._ 44 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_ 158 (1870).

MAUDSLAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831). _b._ London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E. 1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty; patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting annular cylinder screw engine. _d._ 21 Hyde park sq. London 25 Sep. 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 562–9 (1862).

MAUDSLAY, THOMAS HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1792; member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25 years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831; made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw; purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. _d._ Knight’s Hill, Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. _bur._ at Woolwich, personalty sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. _Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April 1864 p._ 282.

MAUGHAM, ROBERT. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June 1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831 and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec. 1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began 3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for him by the members of the society, part of which was invested in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council 12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825; A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law of real property 1842. _d._ at the Incorporated law society, Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery 22 July. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _vi_ 727 (1862); _Parliamentary report on legal education_ (1846) 158–68, _portrait at Incorp. law soc._

NOTE.--His son Robert Ormond Maugham _b._ 1814, admitted solicitor 1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, _d._ from cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.

MAUGHAN, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June 1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. _d._ Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.

MAULE, SIR JOHN BLOSSETT (2 son of George Maule, barrister, solicitor to the treasury, _d._ 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). _b._ Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death, treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany. 1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1 Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec. 1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. _d._ 47 Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 656 (1882) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_ 425 (1889), _portrait_.

MAULE, LAUDERDALE (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). _b._ 25 March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835; captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24 Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854.

MAULE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton, Middlesex, surgeon). _b._ Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted 1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21 July 1855 to death. _d._ 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany. 1858. _E. Leathley’s Memoir of early life of sir W. H. Maule_ (1872); _Law magazine and law review_, _v_ 1–34 (1858); _Law Times 10 March 1894 pp._ 439–40.

MAULEVERER, JAMES THOMAS. Ensign 61 foot 18 April 1834; captain 30 foot 23 July 1844, lieut.-col. 30 Sep. 1854 to 19 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 30 Sep. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ 14 Craven st. London 26 Oct. 1866.

MAUND, Benjamin. _b._ 1790; chemist, bookseller, printer and publisher at Bromsgrove, Worcs. to about 1852; F.L.S. 5 June 1827; started a monthly publication entitled The Botanic Garden 1824, issued with it in parts The auctarium of the botanic garden, The floral register, The fruitist, and A dictionary of English and Latin terms used in botanical descriptions by J. S. Henslow, the whole work consisted of 13 vols. 1825–50, it was partly reissued as The botanic garden and fruitist 3 vols. 1851–4, 2 ed. in 12 vols. appeared in 1878; edited The Botanist 1837–48 and The Naturalist 1837 &c. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 April 1863.

MAUNDER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1832; ed. Totteridge school, at Guy’s hospital, London, and univs. of Edinb. and Paris; M.R.C.S. 1854, F.R.C.S. 1857; civil assistant surgeon at Renkioi hospital, and in the field during Crimean war 1854–5; demonstrator of anatomy and of operative surgery in Paris; junior surgeon Great Northern hospital London; demonstrator of anatomy Guy’s hospital; lecturer on clinical surgery and demonstrator of operative surgery London hospital; translated P. Ricord’s Lectures on chancres 1859; edited with sir A. Clark Clinical lectures 1864 etc.; author of Operative surgery 2 parts 1860–1, 2 ed. 1873; Tumour of lower jaw removed without external wound 1874; Surgery of the arteries 1875; Fistula in ano 1877; resided Queen Anne st. London. _d._ from effects of an accident 4 July 1879. _The Lancet 12 July 1879 p._ 67.

MAUNSELL, DANIEL TOLER THOMAS (1 son of rev. Thomas Maunsell of Fintona, co. Tyrone). _b._ 1835; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1859; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1859; M.R.I.A.; demonstrator of anatomy, Carmichael school of medicine, Dublin; physician south city dispensary district, Dublin; lecturer on materia medica and then on botany, Ledwich school of medicine, Dublin; originator of Poor-law medical officers’ association; author of To the poor law medical officers of Ireland, The Irish poor law medical system, by Dispensarius 3 ed. 1870. _d._ South Richmond st. Dublin 18 Aug. 1875. _The Lancet_, _ii_ 329, 349, 466, 494, 581, 614, 674 (1875).

MAUNSELL, FREDERICK (6 son of Robert Maunsell, member of supreme council of Madras, _d._ 1 Feb. 1832 aged 87). _b._ 1794; ensign 18 foot 16 April 1812; captain 85 foot 24 June 1819, lieut.-col. 23 May 1836 to 19 June 1846; inspecting field officer 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 53 foot 4 June 1860 to 2 April 1865; col. 85 foot 2 April 1865 to death; general 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ Bray near Dublin 18 Oct. 1875.

MAUNSELL, GEORGE EDMUND (2 son of Thomas Philip Maunsell 1781–1866). _b._ 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 22 Nov. 1838; R. of Thorpe Malsor 1842; chaplain to earl of Westmoreland 1842; author of Poems 1861. d. 112 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 29 Oct. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 470 (1875).

MAUNSELL, HENRY. _b._ 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1831; F.R.C.S.I. 1832; professor of midwifery, Royal college of surgeons, Dublin; edited with A. Jacob The Dublin medical press 1839 etc.; author of The Dublin practice of midwifery 1834, 3 ed. 1871; author with R. T. Evanson of A treatise on the management and diseases of children 1836, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ Greystones, co. Wicklow 27 Sep. 1879.

MAUNSELL, THOMAS PHILIP. _b._ Oct. 1781; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1821; M.P. North Northamptonshire 1835–57; col. Northampton and Rutland militia 2 April 1845 to death. _d._ Thorpe Malsor, Northampton 4 March 1866.

MAUNSELL, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Rushton hall, Northants 1813; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1837; associate of British archæological assoc. 1852; recorder of Stamford 10 June 1859 to death; author of Church bells and ringing 1861. _d._ Thorpe Malsor 13 March 1862. _Journal of British Archæological Assoc. xix_ 156 (1863).

MAUNSELL, WILLIAM WRAY (son of Wm. Maunsell, archdeacon of Kildare). _b._ 1782; priest 24 Aug. 1803; archdeacon of Limerick 1814 to death; precentor of Cloyne 27 May 1822 to death. _d._ 25 July 1860.

MAURICE, JAMES WILKES. _b._ Devonport 10 Feb. 1775; entered navy as able seaman 1789; commanded the Diamond Rock, Martinique 7 May 1804, yielded to an attack of the French 2 June 1805, tried by court martial but honorably acquitted; captain 18 Jany. 1809; governor of island of Anholt in the Baltic, July 1810 to Sep. 1812, defeated an attack of the Danes on the island 27 March 1811; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ East Emma place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 4 Sep. 1857.

MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (5 child of Michael Maurice _b._ 1766, Unitarian minister). _b._ Normanston near Lowestoft 29 Aug. 1805; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1823; founder of the Select essay club known as the Apostles at Camb.; migrated to Trin. hall Camb. Oct. 1825; an editor of Metropolitan quarterly mag. Nov. 1825, three numbers; one of purchasers of London literary chronicle, which he edited from 1 May 1828, it was amalgamated with the Athenæum 30 July 1828, edited the latter from 1828 to May 1829; a commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf. 3 Dec. 1829 to 30 June 1837; baptized as a member of Church of England 29 March 1831; B.A. Oxford 1831, M.A. 1835, hon. M.A. Camb. 1867; ordained to curacy of Bubbenhall near Leamington 26 Jany. 1834; chaplain to Guy’s hospital Jany. 1836 to June 1846; one of editors of The Educational Magazine, Sep. 1839, sole editor 1840–1; professor of English literature and history at King’s college, London 1840, professor of theology there 1846, dismissed from both his chairs 27 Oct. 1853; Boyle lecturer July 1845, Warburton lecturer Aug. 1845; chaplain of Lincoln’s Inn, June 1846 to 1860; founded in London, Queen’s college for female education 1848, chairman of the committee to about Nov. 1853; spiritual leader of the Christian socialists; edited with J. M. Ludlow their first organ called Politics for the People 17 weekly numbers from 6 May 1848; presided at conferences held with the working classes 1849; drew up a scheme for a Working Men’s college Feb. 1854, which was started at 31 Red Lion sq. Holborn 30 Oct. 1854 when he became the principal, the college was moved to 45 Great Ormond st. 1857; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Vere st. London 20 July 1860 to 7 Nov. 1869; Knightbridge professor of casuistry, moral theology and moral philosophy at Cambridge 25 Oct. 1866 to death; member of commission on contagious diseases 1870; V. of St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1871 to death; Cambridge preacher at Whitehall, July 1871; author of Eustace Conway: or the brother and sister, a novel 3 vols. 1834, anon.; Subscription no bondage 1835; The kingdom of Christ, or hints on the ordinances and constitution of the Catholic church in Letters to a member of the Society of Friends 1838, 3 ed. 1883; What is revelation? 1859; The claims of the Bible and of science 1863; Moral and metaphysical philosophy 2 vols. 1871–2. _d._ 6 Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 1 April 1872. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 5 April, bust in Cambridge univ. library and another by Woolner placed in St. John the Baptist’s chapel, Westminster Abbey, Aug. 1873, portraits in National portrait gallery, Working Men’s college and Queen’s college. _Life of F. D. Maurice. Edited by his son F. Maurice_ 2 _vols._ (1884), 2 _portraits_; _Life of Charles Kingsley_ (1877), _passim_; _J. H. Rigg’s Modern Anglican theology_ (1880) 244–344; _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 49–60; _J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism_ (1867) 375–7; _Illust. Review_, _iii_ 609–16, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _v_ 382, 384 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lx_ 339, 353, 358 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In his novel Eustace Conway 3 vols. 1834 the villain is called Captain Marryat, in consequence of this Captain Frederick Marryat the novelist challenged Maurice to a duel which he declined, Maurice had never heard of Captain Marryat the novelist.

MAURICE, PETER (2 son of Hugh Maurice of Greenwich). _b._ 1803 or 1804; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1837, D.D. 1840; chaplain of New coll. 1828–59; C. of Kennington, Berkshire 1829–54; chaplain of All Souls’ coll. 1837–58; V. of Yarnton near Oxford 1858 to death; author of Popery in Oxford 1832, a tract; Popery of Oxford confronted, repudiated and disavowed 1837, a pamphlet; Key to the Popery of Oxford 1838; Postscript to the Popery of Oxford 1851; composer of An evening service in E; With angels and archangels; Choral harmony, a collection of tunes 1854, Supplement 1858; Tunes in four parts for congregational worship 1855. _d._ Yarnton vicarage 30 March 1878.

MAVOR, JOHN (son of Wm. Fordyce Mavor, LL.D., R. of Woodstock, author of the Spelling book 1758–1837). _b._ 1785; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816; fellow of Lincoln coll. to 1826, sub-rector 1822, Greek lecturer 1823, claviger 1824; P.C. of Forest hill, Oxon. 1823–48; R. of Hadleigh, Essex 9 Aug. 1825 to death, his living was sequestered about 1843; confined for debt in Oxford county gaol 1843 or 1844 to death. _d._ in his cell in county gaol Oxford 19 June 1853.

MAXFIELD, TOM. _b._ Sheffield 16 June 1819; on the Bath road near Slough ran 20 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes 16 May 1845 in presence of an immense assemblage; ran 20 miles at Arlington corner near Hounslow in 1 hour 59 minutes; was known as The North Star; ran upwards of 50 races against The Welshman, Byrne, The wonder of the north and Jackson, and with one exception was the winner; a coalheaver at Windsor to death; fell into great poverty; _found dead_ in his bed Bier lane, Windsor 28 Nov. 1864, verdict death from natural causes.

MAXSE, SIR HENRY FITZ-HARDINGE BERKELEY (son of James Maxse of Effingham hall, Surrey, _d._ 1864). _b._ 1832; ensign grenadier guards 1 June 1849; lieut. coldstream guards 19 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord Cardigan in Crimean war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava; lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863; lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July 1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July 1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den Gouverneur Maxse 1866. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1885), _portrait_.

MAXSE, JAMES (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset). _b._ 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner of well-known yacht Sabrina. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864. _Sporting Review_, _li_ 272 (1864).

MAXWELL, ACHESON. _b._ 1760; held various confidential employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public accounts some years, retired on a pension. _d._ 8 Upper Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.

MAXWELL, ALEXANDER (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel, Renfrewshire). _b._ 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.; general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of honour. _d._ 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.

MAXWELL, CHARLES FRANCIS. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825, lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. _d._ 1873.

MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet 1779–1838). _b._ 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20 May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. _d._ 21 Inverkeith row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.

MAXWELL, GEORGE. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826; lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. _d._ Kilucleigh, Langholm, Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.

MAXWELL, HENRY HAMILTON (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of Birdstown, Donegal). _b._ 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery 10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec. 1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20 Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm. Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. _d._ Rome 28 May 1892.

MAXWELL, JAMES. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857, placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17 Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._ on board the Africa at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April 1874.

MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (2 child and only son of John Clerk of Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and _d._ 2 April 1856). _b._ 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse, Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850, scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow; 2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London 1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution 17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society 1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics 1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890. _d._ 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Parton churchyard, Glenlair. _The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell and W. Garnett_ (1882), 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii_ 1–16 (1882); _Nature_, _xxiv_ 601 (1881), _portrait_.

MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell, 7 baronet 1768–1844). _b._ Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire 1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for franchise 1860. _d._ at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865. _Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 477 (1866).

MAXWELL, JOHN BALFOUR (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain R.N., C.B., _d._ 1831). _b._ 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812; commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7; captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.

MAXWELL, JOHN HALL (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel, Renfrewshire, _d._ 1847). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812; called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned 9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17 Jany. 1866. _d._ Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural soc. _Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North_ (1870) 3–6.

MAXWELL, SIR PETER BENSON (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell 1824–92). _b._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr. to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An introduction to the duties of police magistrate in the Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts 1–5, 1852–4. _d._ Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard, Fleet st. London, law publisher, who _d._ 1850). _b._ 1817 or 1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other important legal works. _d._ Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM JOHN LEIGH. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1838; entered office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871; A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. _d._ on voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at sea.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM ROBERT (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11 Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many years. _d._ Brighton 21 March 1892.

MAY, ALICE. _b._ 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra 28 March 1881; _m._ Louis Raymond. _d._ 16 Aug. 1887. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp._ 97, 107, _portrait_.

MAY, CHARLES (son of a Friend). _b._ Alton, Hants. 1800; apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E. 1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. _d._ 3 Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. _Proceedings of royal society_, _xi_ 10 (1860); _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 148 (1861).

MAY, EDWARD COLLETT. _b._ Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69; famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal exercises for daily practice 1853. _d._ about 16 Jany. 1887. _Life of John Hullah_ (1886).

NOTE.--His daughter Florence May, pianist, is the composer of Six songs for the pianoforte 1880 and other music.

MAY, EDWARD HARRISON (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). _b._ England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851; capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war, and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy 1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in the Metropolitan museum, New York. _d._ Paris 17 May 1887. _Appleton’s American Biog. iv_ 272 (1888).

MAY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CHICHESTER (son of Edward May, rector of Belfast). _b._ Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll. Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany. 1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov. 1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice 1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868; edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. _d._ Lisnavagh, co. Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. _Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p._ 274, _portrait_.

MAY, HENRY WILLIAM (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts., _d._ 24 Dec. 1861). _b._ 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford, B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. _d._ Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 30 June 1878.

MAY, HUNTLY, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. _b._ Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; _m._ 1846 Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road, Wandsworth in 1881. _d._ Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. _The Era 22 April 1866 p._ 6, _2 July 1881 p._ 4 _and 9 July 1881 p._ 5.

MAY, JOHN. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829, superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. _d._ 23 Oct. 1855.

MAY, ROBERT CHARLES (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). _b._ Ampthill, Beds. 5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer 1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864; consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes; an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines, Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. _d._ Marseilles 20 July 1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 367–8 (1883); _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii_ 180 (1883).

MAY, SIR STEPHEN. _b._ 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of Ireland. _d._ Belfast 1851.

MAY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE, 1 Baron Farnborough. _b._ London 8 Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch. 1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856, clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov. 1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges, proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese; The constitutional history of England since the accession of George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, _d._ Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. _bur._ Chippenham churchyard, Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in house of commons 6 March 1890. _Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 14–19; _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1110, 1175 (1879), _portrait_; _Pump Court_, _iii_ 105, 156, _portrait_.

NOTE.--His peerage of Farnborough existed only six days, probably the shortest duration of any peerage; the barony of Marjoribanks lasted 7 days 12 to 19 June 1873.

MAYALL, JOHN EDWIN. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52; photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in 1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for cartes de visite of the royal family, _d._ 1867.

MAYD, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield, Suffolk). _b._ 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to death, _d._ Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892.

MAYER, JOSEPH. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. 1803; gold and silversmith and jeweller at 68 and 70 Lord st. Liverpool; sold his collection of ancient Greek coins to French government 1844; purchased Rev. Dr. Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and 20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of volunteers; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1850; retired from business; author of A catalogue of the drawings, miniatures, cameos, etc., illustrative of the Bonaparte family in the collection of J. Mayer 1854, 2 ed. 1855; History of art of pottery in Liverpool 1855; A library of national antiquities 2 vols. 1857–73; A catalogue of engraved gems and rings in the collection of J. Mayer 1879. _d._ Bebington 18 Jany. 1886. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 67–76, _ii_ 109–10, 300, _iii_ 68, 70 (1883–91); _Illust. Times 10 June 1867 p._ 365, _view of his collection at Liverpool_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. May 1886 p._ 144; _Times 21 Jany. 1886 p._ 7.

MAYER, KARL. Librarian to Prince Consort in England 1847–61. _d._ Berlin, Dec. 1884.

MAYER, SAMUEL RALPH TOWNSHEND (2 son of Samuel Mayer of Gloucester, solicitor). _b._ Gloucester, Aug. 1841; contributed to the Gloucester newspapers; came to London, where he founded the Free and open church association 1866, secretary till Feb. 1872; edited the first report of the Metropolitan conservative working men’s association 1868; edited The illustrated review Jany. to June 1871; The free and open church advocate 3 vols. 1872–7; proprietor and editor of St. James’s Magazine, Jany. 1875; author of Amy Fairfax 1859, a novelette; Fractional supplement to Hotson’s Ready reckoner 1861; The origin and growth of Sunday schools in England 1878; Who was the founder of Sunday schools? being an inquiry 1880. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 May 1880.

MAYERS, JOHN POLLARD. Barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1799, bencher 1840 to death; agent for island of Barbadoes. _d._ Brasted near Sevenoaks, Kent 30 Dec. 1853 aged 76.

MAYERS, WILLIAM S. FREDERICK (son of Michael John Mayers, R. of St. Peter’s, Winchester). _b._ Tasmania 7 Jany. 1831; a journalist in New York to 1859; interpreter at Canton 7 Feb. 1859 to 1870; vice consul at Kin-kiang 17 Aug. 1871; Chinese secretary of legation at Pekin 10 Nov. 1871, second sec. to the legation 20 July 1876; his official report on The famine in the northern province of China was printed and his Report of an Expedition to Nang Chang Foo is in Parl. Papers vol. lxviii 213 (1874); F.R.G.S.; member of R. Asiatic soc.; procured for the British museum one of the few existing copies of the Imperial encyclopædia of Chinese literature in 5020 volumes; author of The Anglo-Chinese calendar manual 1869; The Chinese reader’s manual 1874; Treatise between China and foreign powers 1877; The Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles 1878, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ of typhus fever, Shanghai 24 March 1878. _Journal Royal Asiatic Soc. vol. x_ (1878) _55th Annual Report 20 May 1878 pp. xii–xiv_; _Athenæum_, _i_ 444 (1878); _Academy_, _i_ 300 (1878); _Foreign Office List_ 1879 _p._ 214.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAYO, CHARLES (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) _b._ Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of Winchester; became blind 1874. _d._ St. Peter’s st. Winchester 27 Nov. 1876. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 638–40 (1876) _and ii_ 373–4 (1877); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 298 (1875).

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

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

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

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

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

MAYWOOD, ROBERT CAMPBELL (son of Dr. Maywood, leading physician in Isle of Wight many years). _b._ Edinburgh 1786; first appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 1817 as Shylock; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard the third 1819; played King Lear at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 6 Nov. 1828; manager with Pratt and Rowbotham of Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia, April 1832, manager with them of Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 3 Sep. to 21 Dec. 1832; manager of the Chestnut and Arch st. theatres 1834; relinquished management of the Chestnut st. theatre and took his farewell benefit 9 March 1840. _d._ Marshall institute, Troy, New York 1 Dec. 1856. _Theatrical inquisitor_, _xi_ 395–9 (1817), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _i_ 329, 350 (1866).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MEAGHER, THOMAS (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). _b._ 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. _d._ 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MEATH, WILLIAM BRABAZON, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow 1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851; built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery. _d._ Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. _bur._ at Bray, will proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. _Times 27 May 1887 p._ 6, _3 June p._ 6.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about 1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a Sunday. _Notes and Queries 2 series_, _xii_ 189, 238, 299 (1861), _3 series ii_ 43 (1862).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MELBOURNE, FREDERICK JAMES LAMB, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount Melbourne 1745–1828). _b._ Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London 17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec. 1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of £1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20 April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848; G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. _d._ Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853. _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 28, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 309, 338 (1853); _Greville’s Journal_, _vol. i pt._ 3 _pp._ 35–7 (1874).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MELLON, ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society; conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep. 1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865; (_m._ Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress _b._ 1824); composer of My pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850; The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published in 1860. _d._ The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 April. _Era 31 March 1867 p._ 10 and _7 April p._ 11; _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 441 (1865) _portrait_, _v_ 504 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 6 April 1867 p._ 216, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

MELVILL, SIR MAXWELL (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871). _b._ 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin. coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60; assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde 1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883; judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. _d._ of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. _Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s Life of sir M. Melville_ (1887), _portrait_; _Times 8 Aug. 1887 p._ 5, _15 Aug. p._ 6.

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

MELVILLE, ROBERT SAUNDERS DUNDAS, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). _b._ 14 March 1771; ed. at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings 1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov. 1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to 18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811; lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to 2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St. Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May 1817; F.R.A.S. _d._ Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851. _bur._ in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. _J. E. Doyle’s_ _Official baronage_, _ii_ 494 (1886), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_ 191 (1851); _I.L.N xviii_ 538 (1851); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_ (1831) _vol._ 2, _portrait_ 17 _and pp._ 8.

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

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

MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN WHYTE (only son of John Whyte Melville 1797–1883). _b._ near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to 1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany. 1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March 1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858; The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6 ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed. 1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely 3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; _killed_ while hunting near Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. _Babington’s Records of the Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 114, _portrait_; _Fores’s Sporting Notes_, _Oct. 1884 p._ 110, _portrait_; _Land and water_, _xxvi_ 472, 486 (1878); _Baily’s Mag. xiii_ 55–67 (1867), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 569 (1867), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xix_ 52 (1879), _portrait_.

MELVILLE, HENRY SAXELBY. _b_. 1801; formerly printer and publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. _d_. Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MERCER, ALEXANDER CAVALIE. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859 to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. _d._ Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov. 1868.

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

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

MERCER, ROBERT (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. _d._ 1846). _b._ 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821, retired from business. _d._ Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov. 1875. _bur._ East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MERRIDEW, HENRY MELVILLE. _b._ 1837; English bookseller at Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886. _d._ Boulogne, April 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 323.

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

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

MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834; schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D. 1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891. _bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.

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

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

MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._ Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from 1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807; hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837; examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833. _d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682, _portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9; _Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon _b._ Paris 23 Nov. 1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was _bur._ in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. _F. S. Ellis’ Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion_ (1880); _Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine Arts club_ (1879); _Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By Philip Burty_ (1879).

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

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

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

MESSITER, SUSSEX LENNOX AUBREY BEAUCLERK. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov. 1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. _d._ 2 Haymarket, London 20 Sep. 1870.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO CHARLES (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., _d._ 1801). _b._ 1784; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826; assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures at Temple Newsam near Leeds. _d._ Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb. 1869. _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 140–41; _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 332–4 (1854).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO FRANCIS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford 1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to death. _d._ 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 579 (1871).

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

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

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HARRY STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4 dragoons 1771–1853). _b._ Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837; an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal, member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby 1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding, Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. _d._ Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 523 (1874), _lxv_ 236; _Journal of royal agricultural society of England_, _2 series x_ 519–41; _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 293–6 (1875).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILES, HENRY DOWNES. _b._ 1806; sub-editor of The Constitution 1833, which was started in opposition to The Times; subsequently on The Crown; ring reporter to the London daily press and Bell’s Life in London many years, retired 1871; edited The Sporting Magazine; translated M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1846 and The Wandering Jew 1846; edited The licensed victuallers’ year book 1873, and The sportsman’s companion 1863–4, twelve parts only; author of The life of J. Grimaldi 1838; Dick Turpin 4 ed. 1845; Claude du Val 1850; The Anglo-Indian word

## book 1858; The book of field sports and library of veterinary

knowledge 1860–63; Miles’ Modern practical farrier 1863–64; English country life 1868–69; Pugilistica, being one hundred and forty-four years of the history of British boxing 3 vols. 1880–81. _d._ Wood Green, Middlesex, Feb. 1889.

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

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

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

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

MILES, PHILIP WILLIAM SKINNER (5 child of Philip John Miles 1774–1845). _b._ 15 May 1816; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1834; M.P. Bristol 1837–52; sheriff of Gloucester 1863. _d._ King’s Weston house near Bristol 1 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. viii_ 120 (1846) _portrait_, _xx_ 277 (1852) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILL, JOHN STUART (eld. child of James Mill, philosopher 1773–1836). _b._ 13 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 20 May 1806; ed. by his father; lived with sir Samuel Bentham in France 1820–1; a junior clerk in examiner’s office, India house 21 May 1823, an assistant 1828, chief of the office with £2000 a year 1856, retired with pension of £1500 a year on dissolution of East India co. 1858; founded the Utilitarian society, winter of 1822–3, the society read essays and discussed questions, it lasted till 1826; wrote in the Westminster Review 1824–8; edited Bentham’s Treatise upon evidence 5 vols. 1826; member of the Speculative society 1826–9; proprietor of Westminster Review 1837–40; M.P. Westminster 1865–8; contested Westminster 18 Nov. 1868; chairman of the Jamaica committee to promote prosecution of governor Eyre 1866; rector of Univ. of St. Andrews 1866; author of A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive 2 vols. 1843, 11 ed. 1891; Essays on some unsettled questions of political economy 1844, 2 ed. 1874; Principles of political economy 2 vols. 1848, 6 ed. 1865; On liberty 1859; Dissertations and discussions 4 vols. 1859–75. _d._ Avignon, France 8 May 1873. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1867); _A. Bain’s J. S. Mill, a criticism_ (1882); _J. Morley’s Miscellanies_, _ii_ 239–327 (1877); _Caroline Fox’s Memories of old friends_ 2 _vols._ (1882), _passim_; _W. L. Courtney’s Life of J. S. Mill_ (1889); _I.L.N. xlviii_ 280, 281 (1886) _portrait_, _lxii_ 455, 456 (1873) _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 28 April 1866 p._ 264, _portrait_; _English psychology translated from the French of Th. Ribot_ (1873) 78–123; _Mind_, _No._ 14, _March 1879 p._ 211; _The Examiner 17 May 1873 pp._ 502–18; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. viii_ 259–73 (1875); _Charles Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living_ (1877) 14–18; _J. S. Mill and Abraham Hayward, by W. D. Christie_ (1873).

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

MILLAR, REV. JAMES. Chaplain of Edinburgh Castle 16 May 1850 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1875.

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

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

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

MILLER, FIENNES SANDERSON. _b._ 16 May 1783; major 6 dragoons 25 May 1809 to 15 May 1817; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Radway Grange, Warws. 12 Sep. 1862.

MILLER, FREDERIC PEEL. _b._ Clapham, Surrey 29 July 1828; first played with Dulwich and Streatham clubs; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Surrey 2 June 1851; in the Surrey eleven 1853; came into a fortune and gave large sums for the publication of Lillywhite’s cricket scores vols. 1–4 (1863), which but for him would have broken down; president of the United All England eleven some seasons to 1857; in Australia and New Zealand for his health 1870–2; retired into Somerset 1873; one of the most wonderful run getters; on committee of the Surrey club and managed many of the great matches at the Oval. _d._ Chilworthy near Chard 22 Nov. 1875. _Baily’s Mag. xxviii_ 7–10 (1876); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 236 (1863); _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 38, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILLER, JOHN BIRMINGHAM. _b._ 1778; called to Irish bar 1811; Q.C. 1 July 1837. _d._ Kildare 1 Jany. 1855.

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

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

MILLER, JOHN MOODIE. _b._ near Stirling 1826; printer at Leith; issued The Edinburgh Times 1857; bookseller at Lindsay place, Edinb. to death; published many books. _d._ Edinburgh 28 June 1884.

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

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

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

NOTE.--He claimed to have been born on 25 Oct. 1761 and to have been one hundred and eleven.

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

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

MILLER, PATRICK (son of rev. D. Miller of Cumnock, Kilmarnock). _b._ 21 May 1782; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1804; extra licentiate of coll. of physicians, London 10 April 1807; settled as physician at Exeter; physician to Devon and Exeter hospital 1809; physician to St. Thomas’ lunatic asylum near Exeter 1822. _d._ Mount Radford near Exeter 24 Dec. 1871. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 52 (1878); _Proc. of M. & C. Soc. vii_ 48 (1875).

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

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

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

MILLER, SAMUEL. _b._ 1785; commission agent in London; an

## active administrative reformer; known in the city of London by

his letters to the press on Corporation abuses, Magisterial mistakes, and Defects of the old and new poor law. _d._ Powell st. west, King sq. Goswell road, London 18 Feb. 1865.

MILLER, SAMUEL (son of rev. Mr. Miller, minister of Monikie). _b._ Eassie manse, Forfarshire 2 March 1810; ed. St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–30; presbyterian minister Monifieth, Sep. 1835 to 1843; free church minister Monifieth, preaching in a wooden shed 1843–6; free church minister St. Matthew’s, Glasgow 1846 to death; D.D. of Princeton college, New Jersey 27 July 1847; presented with his portrait 6 Nov. 1879; author of Discourse before the general assembly of the free church of Scotland 1851. _d._ Glasgow, July 1881. _bur._ in the necropolis 8 July. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 387–92; _Memorials of S. Miller_ (1883), _biographical sketch pp. ix–lxiii_, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Christchurch, Hants. 12 Jany. 1784; imprisoned for debt at Winchester 1814; removed to queen’s prison, Southwark July 1854, liberated Feb. 1862 after being 48 years in prison. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 180 (1861), _portrait_.

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

MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Bridgegate, Glasgow, Aug. 1810; a wood-turner at Glasgow till Nov. 1871; contributed poems to periodicals; wrote songs in Whistle Binkie 1832–53, his Wee Willie Winkie and other nursery lyrics gained for him the title of ‘Laureate of the nursery’; author of Scottish nursery songs and other poems 1863. _d._ at his son’s residence, Glasgow 20 Aug. 1872. _bur._ Tollcross graveyard, Glasgow, monument in city necropolis. _Whistle Binkie_, _ii pp. xxvii–xxx_, 3 _etc._ (1878); _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_, _ii_ 334–40 (1877); _St. Paul’s Mag. May 1872 pp._ 489–91.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILLS, PAIXFIELD or PAITFIELD. _b._ 1817; solicitor general of Nevis 9 Dec. 1847, chief justice of Nevis 1852 or 1853. _d._ of cholera at Nevis 1 Jany. 1854.

MILLS, RICHARD (youngest son of Thomas Mills, V. of Hillingdon, Middlesex). _b._ Hillingdon 1785; one of the sworn clerks of court of chancery to 1842; a taxing master in court of chancery 1842–71. _d._ the Moat, Eltham, Kent 21 April 1880. _Law Times_, _lxix_ 16 (1880).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILNER, SIR WILLIAM MORDAUNT EDWARD, 5 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Milner, 4 bart. of Bolton Percy, Yorks. _d._ 1855). _b._ Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 20 June 1820; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; M.P. York 1848–57; succeeded 25 March 1855; kept race horses from 1841. _d._ Nun Appleton 12 Feb. 1867. _Sporting Review_, _lvii_ 155–6 (1867); _G.M. iii_ 531 (1867).

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

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

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

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

MILWARD, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1826; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, served in the Crimea 1855; D.A.Q.M.G. in Chinese war 1860; in Abyssinian campaign 1868; deputy director of ordnance; inventor and constructor of the light steel guns for mountain service used in Abyssinia, on the Gold Coast and in India; colonel 15 Aug. 1868; lieut.-col. R.A. 3 Feb. 1866 to death; aide de camp to the queen 1868 to death; superintendent of royal laboratory, Woolwich 1870 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Woolwich 31 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Charlton. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57, 58 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 92 (1875), _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MINTO, EMMA ELEANOR ELIZABETH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYMOND, Countess of (only dau. of general sir Thomas Hislop, 1 baronet 1764–1843). _b._ 1824; _m._ 20 May 1844 the preceding; author of A memoir of the right honourable Hugh Elliot. Edinburgh 1868; edited Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl of Minto from 1751 to 1806, 3 vols. 1874; and Lord Minto in India: life and letters of Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto, from 1807 to 1814 while governor-general of India, 1880. _d._ Eaglescliffe, Bournemouth 21 April 1882.

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

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

MIRANDA, DAVID MYERS. _b._ 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death. _d._ Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886.

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

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

## particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. _d._ Glen Devis

near Belfast 25 June 1868.

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert Mitchell _b._ Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of Jacques Offenbach the composer. _Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xvii p._ 1598.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MITCHELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER (youngest son of John Mitchell, Russia merchant at Riga and London). _b._ Montrose 1812; ed. at Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829, became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. _d._ 50 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000. _I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p._ 144 _portrait_, _27 March 1875 p._ 307.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIVART, JAMES EDWARD. _b._ 1781; proprietor of Mivart’s hotel 42–45 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 1816–56, now called Claridge’s hotel. _d._ 10 College crescent, St. John’s wood, London 5 Jany. 1856.

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

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

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

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

MOFFITT, ANDREW. _b._ 11 Jany. 1836; assistant surgeon in army 25 May 1858, surgeon 1 March 1873, surgeon major 1 April 1873; principal medical officer of the Ever Victorious army in China 1863; author of A manual of instruction for attendants on sick and wounded in war 1870. _d._ Southampton 3 Feb. 1882. _Graphic_, _xxix_ 244 (1884), _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOLLER, JOHANNES. _b._ 1814; miniature painter to king of Denmark. _d._ 21 Warrior gardens, St. Leonards on Sea 30 Oct. 1885.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOMBACH, ISRAEL LAZARUS, known as Julius L. Mombach (son of rev. Lazarus Mombach, chazan in Plungstadt, Germany). _b._ Plungstadt 1813; brought to England 1823; taught music by rev. Mr. Eliasson; a singer in the Great synagogue, St. James’ place, Aldgate st. London 1828, then director of the choir 1841 to his death; taught singing to the members of the Jews’ college; conducted concerts at Jewish working men’s club; composed music for the German synagogues in England and the colonies. _d._ Armfield’s hotel, South place, Finsbury, London 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ West Ham cemetery. _J. L. Mombach’s Sacred musical compositions_, _edited by Rev. M. Keizer_ (1881), _portrait and memoir_; _Jewish Chronicle 13 March 1880 p._ 7.

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

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

MONCORVO, VISCOUNT DA TORRE DE. _b._ 13 May 1788; envoy extraord. and minister-plenipo. from Portugal to England 1835 to death. _d._ 57 Upper Seymour st. London 11 Jany. 1851, remains removed to French chapel. _bur._ Chelsea cemetery 18 Jany.

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

MONCREIFF, SIR JAMES WELLWOOD, Lord Moncreiff (2 son of rev. sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, 8 baronet and divine 1750–1827). _b._ 13 Sep. 1776; ed. at Edinb. and Glasgow univs.; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 30 Nov. 1793, exhibitioner; B.C.L. 1800; called to Scottish bar 26 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross 7 Feb. 1807; dean of the faculty of advocates 22 Nov. 1826 to 1829; defended the resurrectionist Burke 1828; succeeded his father as 9 baronet 9 Aug. 1827; a judge of court of session with title of lord Moncreiff 24 June 1829 to death. _d._ 47 Moray place, Edinburgh 30 March 1851. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Chambers’s Eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 154–6 (1870), _portrait_; _Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the college of justice_ (1832) 552; _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 157–60, _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _ii_ 557–97 (1829) _xlv_ 261–5 (1851).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MONK, JOHN. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder of Manchester. _d._ 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany. 1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 260 (1874).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MONTAGU, JAMES. _b._ 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain 17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ Marlborough 9 March 1868.

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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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

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