Part 29

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).