Part 32

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORLEY, SIR ISAAC (son of Wm. Morley). _b._ Doncaster 1801; a merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841. _d._ Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.

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

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

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

NOTE.--His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan asylum. _d._ April 1883.

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

MORNINGTON, WILLIAM POLE TYLNEY LONG WELLESLY 4 Earl of (only son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). _b._ 22 May 1788; sec. of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807; sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20; M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. _d._ at his lodgings Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. _G.M. iii_ 215 (1857).

NOTE.--He _m._ (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney Long.

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

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

MORPHINOS, NARCISSUS. _b._ 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek church, London Wall, London 1848–74. _d._ 1 Sutherland place, Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. _Ritchie’s Religious Life of London_ (1870) 53–7.

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

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

MORRELL, FREDERICK JOSEPH (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor to univ. of Oxford, _d._ 10 April 1854 aged 75). _b._ Oxford 25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford churchmen’s union. _d._ 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. _Solicitors’ Journal xxvii_ 185, 201 (1883).

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORRIS, DAVID. _b._ 1800; a banker at Carmarthen; M.P. Carmarthen 24 July 1837 to death. _d._ Carmarthen 30 Sep. 1864.

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

MORRIS, EDWARD. One of the earliest advocates of temperance in Scotland; author of Henry Bell: The history of temperance and teetotal societies in Glasgow 1855. _d._ Aug. 1860. _S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 334.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORRIS, SIR JOHN (son of Edward Morris). _b._ Wolverhampton 1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton 1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bycullah park, Enfield, Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.

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

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

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

MORRIS, MOWBRAY. _b._ Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847, and manager about 1848–73; _m._ 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The Times. _d._ 21 April 1874. _Publisher’s Circular_ (1874) 308; _The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_; _The Times 4 May 1874 p._ 1.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORRISON, PETER. Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road, London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance co. 1 Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of Deposit at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director there 1853–4 and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were branches in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes, and Dublin; proprietor of the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859, lost £2,480 over it in 2½ years; resided at 44 Porchester sq. Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862. _Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp._ 4–5, _19 Feb. p._ 184.

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

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

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

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

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

MORROGH, LEONARD. _b._ county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. _Baily’s mag. xxx_ 373 (1877) _portrait li_, 132 (1889).

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORT, CHARLES CHESTER. _b._ 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. _d._ Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. _The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p._ 4.

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

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

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

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

MORTIMER, WILLIAM. _b._ Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc. 1884. _d._ The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. _Bailey’s mag. xx_ 1 (1871) _portrait_, _xlv_ 272 (1886).

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORTON, JOHN CHALMERS (son of preceding). _b._ 11 July 1821; ed. Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners; member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers 1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861, new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other books. _d._ Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. _bur._ Harrow ch. yard 9 May. _Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv_ 691–6 (1888); _Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p._ 428 _portrait_, _14 May p._ 453.

MORTON, JOHN DRUMMOND. _b._ Manchester 1830; sec. of National reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and political essays. _d._ Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ Salford cemet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOSELEY, EDWIN CHARLES. _b._ 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. _d._ Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885.

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

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

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

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

MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). _b._ Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8; assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man 1868–72; English master at University college school, London 1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light 1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878, 2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism 1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. _d._ at his mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. _bur._ Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. _Light 10 Sept. 1892 p._ 439 _portrait_, _17 Sept. pp._ 445–6, 447, _5 Nov. 1892 pp._ 529–32 _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOSSMAN, THOMAS WIMBERLEY (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). _b._ Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. _d._ East Torrington rectory 6 July 1885. _Biograph vi_ 342–9 (1881); _Church Times 10 July 1885 p._ 531, _17 July p._ 555; Tablet _18 July 1885 p._ 103.

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

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

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

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

MOSTYN, THOMAS EDWARD MOSTYN-LLOYD (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn 1795–1884). _b._ Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death. _d._ Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP. _b._ Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S. of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860, LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. _d._ Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. _bur._ Kensal green cemet. 4 June. _J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W. Holmes_ (1878); _Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history_ (1879) _pp._ 195–252; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 438–40 (1888) _portrait_; _Graphic xv_ 549 (1877) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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