Part 24

MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of Henry Longueville Mansel 1783–1835, R. of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire). _b._ Cosgrove rectory 6 Oct. 1820; entered Merchant Taylors’ school 29 Sep. 1830; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 11 June 1839, took a double first 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1852, D.D. 1867; took private pupils 1843–55; fellow of his college 1839–55 and 1864–7, hon. fellow 1868 to death, tutor 1850–64; reader in moral and metaphysical theology at Magd. coll. Oxf. 1855; professor fellow of St. John’s coll. 8 April 1864, and the first honorary fellow Oct. 1868; Bampton lecturer 1858; Waynflete professor of philosophy 1859; select preacher at Oxf. 1860–2 and 1869–71; examining chaplain to bishop of Peterborough 1864–8; regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxf. and canon of Ch. Ch. 5 Jany. 1867 to Oct. 1868; dean of St. Paul’s 21 Oct. 1868 to death; author of The demons of the wind and other poems 1838; Scenes from an unfinished drama entitled Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the nineteenth century 1850, 4 ed. 1852; Prolegomena logica, an inquiry into the psychological character of logical processes 1851; The limits of religious thought, eight Bampton lectures 1858, 5 ed. 1867. _d._ in his sleep at Cosgrove hall, the residence of his son-in-law 31 July 1871, memorial window in north chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral unveiled 25 Jany. 1879. _J. W. Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 321–66, _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans. By Rev. F. Arnold_, _ii_ 273–75 (1875); _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 39; _I.L.N. lix_ 127, 128, 311 (1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Review_, _clix_ 1–39 (1885).

MANSEL, JOHN. _b._ 1777; ensign 53 foot March 1795, lieut. colonel 12 Feb. 1818 to 9 Aug. 1827; C.B. 4 June 1815; sold out of the army 1855. _d._ Smeadmore, Dorset 29 Jany. 1863.

MANSEL, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of sir Wm. Mansel, 7 bart. 1739–1804). _bapt._ 12 Feb. 1789; ensign 10 foot 29 Jany. 1807; captain 53 foot 8 July 1813; placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1817; colonel of 68 foot 4 June 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1832. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 April 1864.

MANSELL, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey). _b._ Guernsey 9 Feb. 1777; entered navy 20 Jany. 1793; present at battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander of the Rose sloop 1808–13 and of the Pelican 1813–4, captured 170 of the enemy’s vessels; presented with order of the Sword by king of Sweden 1812; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837, knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1849. _d._ Guernsey 22 April 1858.

MANSEL, THOMAS, _baptized_ 14 Oct. 1783; entered navy 1798; served at battle of Copenhagen; captain 12 Feb. 1834; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Fareham, Kent 1 April 1869.

MANSFIELD, CHARLES BLACKFORD (son of John Mansfield, R. of Rowner, Hampshire). _b._ Rowner 8 May 1819; ed. at Twyford and Winchester; began residence at Clare hall, Camb. Oct. 1839, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; lived at a cost of a few pence a day and gave his savings to the poor; studied at royal college of chemistry 1846–8; discovered and patented the extraction of benzol from coal-tar 1848, which laid foundation of the aniline industry; went to Paraguay 1852; lectured on the chemistry of the metals at royal institution 1851–2; author of Benzol, its nature and utility 1849; Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate 1856; the naptha on which he was experimenting boiled over and so scalded him that he _d._ Middlesex hospital, London 26 Feb. 1855. _Mansfield’s Paraguay_ (1856), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, EDWARD. Sub-lieutenant royal naval reserve 1 Aug. 1890; aimed at promoting the use of balloons and parachutes for both military and naval warfare; made a successful ascent in his balloon Wanderer at Bombay 13 Nov. 1891 when he descended by his parachute from an altitude of upwards of 11,000 feet; ascended again from Victoria gardens, Bombay 10 Dec. 1891, the balloon burst at a height of about 400 feet and he fell to the ground mangled and dead. _Daily Graphic 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8, _31 Dec. p._ 1, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, HORATIO (5 son of John Mansfield, barrister). _b._ 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; fellow of his coll. 1843–52; barrister I.T. 6 June 1853, went northern circuit; a writer in the Morning Chronicle and Saturday Review many years; deputy stip. magistrate for Liverpool 1872 to death. _d._ Liverpool 13 Aug. 1887.

MANSFIELD, JAMES. _b._ 1775; a butcher at Debden, Essex; exhibited himself at the Leicester square rooms, London about 1846 as the ‘Greatest man in the world.’ _d._ Debden, Essex 9 Nov. 1856. _G.M. i_ 786 (1856).

NOTE.--He measured 9 feet round, and weighed 33 stone of 14 lbs. When sitting on his chair his abdomen covered his knees and hung down almost to the ground; when he reclined it was necessary to pack his head to prevent suffocation.

MANSFIELD, RALPH. _b._ Toxteth park, Liverpool 12 March 1799; ordained minister of Wesleyan church 1820; stationed at Sydney, N.S.W. Oct. 1820 to 1822, at Parramatta and Windsor during 1823, at Hobart Town 1823–5, at Sydney again 1825–8; edited Sydney Gazette, first newspaper published in N.S.W. 1829–32; leader writer for The Colonist, Sydney paper, several years; contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald from 1841; secretary of Sydney gas-light company 29 June 1836 to death. _d._ Sydney. June 1880.

MANSFIELD, SAMUEL (son of John Mansfield of Diggeswell house, Herts. _d._ 1841, and brother of first baron Sandhurst _d._ 1876). _b._ 1815; entered Bengal civil service 1834; political agent Rewa Kantha 1847; collector and magistrate Kandeish 1852; revenue comr. Northern division 1859; senior member of council Bombay 14 May 1867, retired upon the annuity fund 1872; a patron of the Western India turf; C.S.I. 25 May 1866. _d._ 23 Hanover sq. London 23 Dec. 1893.

MANSON, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Bombay artillery 1810, col. 16 April 1849 to death; M.G. 26 Dec. 1844; commanded Scinde division of Bombay army 1 April 1848 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Bombay 23 Feb. 1852.

MANSON, DAVID. _b._ 1838; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1859, M.D. and C.M. 1862; in practise in London 1862–4; resident physician Strathpeffer spa 1864–71 and 1882 to death; in practise at Chesterfield 1871–82; author of On the sulphur waters of Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Rossshire 1877, 3 ed. 1879, 4 ed. abridged 1881; On the sulphur and chalybeate waters of Strathpeffer spa, 5 ed. 1884. _d._ Eaglestone, Strathpeffer 9 May 1884.

MANSON, GEORGE (son of Magnus Manson, merchant). _b._ Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1850; apprenticed as a wood engraver to W. and R. Chambers, publishers 1866–71; studied in the school of art, Edinb. 1871; exhibited a figure subject at R.A. London 1873; his paintings dealing with homely subjects are realistic transcripts from nature, notable for their colour, many of them are reproduced in his Memoir. _d._ Lympstone, Devon 27 Feb. 1876. _bur._ Gulliford church near Lympstone. _G. Manson and his works_, 27 _plates_. _Edinb._ (1880), _memoir pp._ 1–22, _portrait_.

MANSON, JAMES. _b._ 1792; entered Bengal army 1807; ensign 8 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1808, lieut. 2 June 1814; captain 72 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 11 July 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; lieut.-col. 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to 1848; comr. with Bajee Rao, Bithoor 16 Sep. 1831 to 1851; lieut.-col. of 42 N.I. 1848–50, of 48 N.I. 1850–52, of 20 N.I. 1852–4, of 21 N.I. 1854–55, of 53 N.I. 1855–7, and of 44 N.I. 1857 to death; M.G. 15 May 1859. _d._ 14 Westbourne sq. London 15 July 1862.

MANSON, JAMES BOLIVAR. _b._ Scotland 1823; ed. Aberdeen, B.A.; tutor, then schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of Stirling Observer; editor of Northern Daily express; on editorial staff of Edinburgh daily review 1862 to death; author of The Bible in school, a vindication of the Scottish system of education 1852; Contemporary Scottish art, pen and ink pictures from the Exhibition 1865. _died_ suddenly while writing a leading article at 16 Keir street, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 18 (1869); _The Daily Rev. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1868 p._ 2.

MANSON, WILLIAM. Joined James Stirling Christie and George Henry Christie, auctioneers of pictures and works of art at 8 King st. St. James’, London 1831; Edward Manson a brother was afterward admitted a partner and d. 1884. _d._ 5 Portugal st. Grosvenor sq. London 19 June 1852. _D. Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 67–8; _All the year round 8 May 1875 pp._ 125–32.

NOTE.--This business was established by James Christie in 1761 (first catalogue dated 5 Dec. 1766), who dying in 1803 was succeeded by his son James Christie, who dying 1831 left it to his two sons mentioned above. Mr. Thomas Hoade Woods was admitted a partner in 1859. The business was removed from Pall Mall to King st. in 1824. In Christie’s sale catalogue may be traced the history of fine art taste in England for more than a century.

MANT, WALTER BISHOP (eld. son of Richard Mant 1776–1848, bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore). _b._ Buriton, Hampshire 25 June 1807; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; archdeacon of Connor 1831; R. of Hillsborough, co. Down, and archdeacon of Down, Oct. 1834 to death; author of Horæ Apostolicæ 1839; The man of sorrows, five discourses. Oxford 1852; Memoirs of Richard Mant. Dublin 1857; Christophoros and other poems 1861; Bible quartetts [1862] 3 numbers; Scientific quartetts [1862–3] 6 numbers. _d._ archdeaconry, Hillsborough 6 April 1869.

MANTELL, EDWARD REGINALD. _b._ 1799; ed. Em. coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; C. of Dartford, Kent 1823–6; C. of Bexley, Kent 1826–8; C. of Ticehurst, Sussex 1828–31; V. of Louth and Tetney, Lincs. 1831–59; preb. of Louth in Lincoln cath. 1845 to death; R. of Gretford with Wilsthorpe, Lincs. 1859 to death; dean of the peculiar of Stamford 1863 to death; R.D. of Ness 1864–76. _d._ Parkbury, St. Albans 29 May 1884. _The law of marriage, correspondence between Mr. Allison and E. R. Mantell on marriage with a deceased wife’s sister_ (1850).

MANTELL, GIDEON ALGERNON (son of a shoemaker). _b._ parish of St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes 3 Feb. 1790; articled to James Moore, surgeon, Lewes, partner with him; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; practised at Lewes 1835–9, at Clapham Common 1839–45 and in London 1845 to death; sold his fine collection of fossils to British Museum for £5000, 1838; opened many tumuli about Lewes; lectured frequently at Royal Institution; F.L.S. 1813; F.G.S. 1818, Wollaston medallist 1835, one of its secretaries 1841–2, vice pres. 1848–9; F.R.S. 24 Nov. 1825, royal medallist 1849; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Aug. 1852; author of The fossils of the South Downs 1822; The wonders of geology 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 1849; The medals of creation 2 vols. 1844; On the remains of man 1850. _d._ 19 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 10 Nov. 1852. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, Lewes, where is memorial tablet. _A reminiscence of G. A. Mantell_ (1853), _memoir pp._ 18–26; _G.M. xxxviii_ 644–47 (1852), _xxxix_ 2 (1853); _Medical Circular_, _i_ 89, 443 (1852), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnean society_, _ii_ 235–37 (1855); _Quarterly journal of geological society_, _ix_ 22–25 (1853); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 158–60; _Physic and physicians_, _ii_ 306–8 (1839).

MANTELL, SIR JOHN ILES (eld. son of George Mantell, M.D. of Faringdon, Berkshire). _b._ Faringdon 1 Dec. 1813; barrister M.T. 18 June 1847; queen’s advocate of the Gambia 24 Aug. 1841, chief justice and judge of the court of vice admiralty of the Gambia 20 Oct. 1847 to 1866; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; stipendiary magistrate for borough of Salford and Manchester petty sessional division of county 7 Sep. 1869 to Dec. 1885. _d._ Biarritz 12 July 1893.

MANTELL, JOSHUA (younger brother of G. A. Mantell 1790–1852). _b._ 1795; L.S.A. 1828; surgeon at Newick, Sussex; founded the Newick horticultural society 1832; principal editor of John Baxter’s The library of agricultural and horticultural knowledge. 2 ed. Lewes 1842, 4 ed. 1846, and of The farmer’s annual; author of Floriculture, comprising management of stove, greenhouse and herbaceous plants 1832; thrown from his horse and received an injury to his brain, removed to Dr. Newington’s asylum at Ticehurst 1835 where he _d._ May 1865. _G.M. June 1865 p._ 800.

MANTLE, THOMAS ALLEN. _b._ Kates hill near Dudley 31 Jany. 1840; came to London about 1852; a brass finisher by trade; professional cricketer at Westminster school from 3 May 1862 to death; played in the Middlesex eleven, scored 1010 runs in 1866; first played at Lords 10 June 1867 in England v. Middlesex; a good all-round player; resided at the Lodge, Vincent sq. Westminster. _d._ 29 April 1884.

MANVERS, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Ward Marshall. _b._ Oxford; a singer in Christ Church cath.; studied in Italy; a leading tenor in U.S. of America; sang in London at the Ancient concerts, the Philharmonic soc. and the Sacred harmonic soc.; leading tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane during Bunn’s management 1833; retired owing to an attack of chronic asthma. _d._ 22 Feb. 1874. _The Athenæum 28 Feb. 1874 p._ 301.

MAPLESON, CHARLES (2 son of James Henry Mapleson, operatic impresario). _b._ 1855; acting manager to his father in London and U.S. of America; m. Malvina Cavalazzi the dancer. _d._ of rheumatic gout at 10 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 20 Nov. 1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Nov.

MAPLESON, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1802 or 1803; violinist in Drury Lane theatre about 40 years, was also musical librarian to the theatre. _d._ 46 Leicester sq. London 6 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.

MAPLETON, REGINALD JOHN (3 son of rev. James Henry Mapleton of Christ Church, Stamford st. Surrey). _b._ 9 Dec. 1817; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1826, Stuart exhibitioner to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1836, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1857; C. of Horsehouse, Yorks. 1842–4; C. of Berkswell, Warws. 1844–51; V. of Great Glen, Leics. 1851–5; C. of Saxby, Leics. 1855–9; incumb. of St. Columba, Kilmartin, Argyllshire 1859–86; dean of Argyll and the Isles, and canon of Cumbrae 1886 to death. _d._ Duntroon castle, Lochgilphead 30 Jany. 1892.

MAPPIN, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ 1800; brewer in partnership with Mr. Bradley at Ecclesall road, Sheffield; proprietor of the Old brewery, Masbro’; erected St. John’s ch. Ranmoor at his own charge of £12,000, 1838; gave the east window of the chancel of St. Peter’s church, Sheffield 1857 as a memorial of James Montgomery who _d._ 1854; left his pictures with £15,000 for a picture gallery to town of Sheffield, among his pictures are many by Pettie, J. Phillips, Creswick and F. Goodall; erected a residence at Birchlands 1856. _d._ Birchlands, Ranmoor, Sheffield 22 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Eccleshall churchyard 25 Oct. _Sheffield Independent 23 Oct. 1883 p._ 3.

MAR and KELLIE, WALTER HENRY ERSKINE, 11 Earl of Mar and 13 Earl of Kellie (1 son of 12 earl of Kellie 1810–72). _b._ India 17 Dec. 1839; ed. at Radley and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862, M.A. 1866; succeeded as 13 earl of Kellie 15 Jany. 1872; established his claim to the earldom of Mar before the house of lords 26 Feb. 1875; as viscount Fentoun was premier viscount of Scotland; capt. highland border militia; a representative peer for Scotland, Dec. 1876; grand master mason of Scotland, _d._ Alloa house, Clackmannans 16 Sep. 1888. _R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry i_ 200 (1884), _portrait_; _Minutes of evidence before committee of privilege on claim to earldom of Mar 4 parts_ 1868–75.

MARA, RICHARD WESTON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; called to Irish bar 1840; attorney general and judge advocate of island of Antigua 5 Feb. 1859 to death; acted as chief justice 1863–64. _d._ Antigua 4 April 1871. SOLICITORS’ JOURNAL, _xv_ 496 (1871).

MARCET, FRANÇOIS (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 25 May 1803; lived greater part of his life in canton of Geneva where he was professor of physics in the academy; member of Geneva legislature and government; resided at 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 1873 to death; member of council of Univ. college, London; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Dissertation sur cette question, convient’il d’ accorder un dédommagement au prévenu absous? Genève 1825; Cours de physique experimentale. Genève 1836; edited and revised Conversations on natural philosophy by Jane Marcet 1872. _d._ 14 Stratton st. London 12 April 1883.

MARCET, JANE (only dau. of Francis Haldimand, Swiss merchant). _b._ London 1769; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1799 Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, physician, London, _d._ 19 Oct. 1822 aged 52); author of Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained 2 vols. 1806, 16 ed. 1853; Conversations on political economy 1816, 5 ed. 1824; Conversations on natural philosophy 1819, 14 ed. 1872; The game of grammar, with 290 small cards and 24 counters 1842; Rich and poor 1851, and 15 other books for children. _d._ 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1858. _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 368–92; _S. J. Hale’s Women’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 732.

MARCH, CHARLES (son of Richard March, weaver of woollen yarn). _b._ Boutport st. Barnstaple 15 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Dec. 1807, present at bombardment of Algiers; in the merchant service 1824–32; an agent of the Bible soc.; a shipping agent with Mr. Bird at Gloucester 1835; commander R.N. July 1864. _d._ Gloucester 17 March 1865. _Memorials of Charles March by his nephew Septimus March_ (1867), _portrait_.

MARCH, WILLIAM HENRY. Second lieut. R.M. 20 Nov. 1830; served in Spain 1836–40; fought at Balaclava, wounded at Inkerman; in command at Shanghai 1860 when he repulsed two attacks of the Chinese; col. R.M. 16 May 1862, col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864; retired on full pay as hon. major general 20 Nov. 1865; received a general officer’s good service pension of £200 in 1890; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of legion of honour and of Medjidie. _d._ 73 Cambridge terrace, London 5 Jany. 1892.

MARCHANT, FREDERICK. _b._ 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats, drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb, pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec. 1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18 Sep. 1874. _d._ London 17 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 Dec.

MARCHANT, W. T. _b._ 1836; editor of the British Mail and universal trade review; author of Betrothals and bridals, with a chat about wedding cakes 1879; In praise of ale, or songs relating to beer, malt and hops 1888. _d._ Acacia cottage, Balham road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 31 Dec. 1888.

MARCON, WALTER (4 son of John Marcon of Swaffham, Norfolk). _b._ Swaffham 28 March 1824; ed. at Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846; in Eton eleven 1841 and 1842, and in Oxford eleven 1843 and 1844; the fastest bowler known, the pace was terrific always requiring two long stops, nor was a wicket keeper of the slightest use; bowled 4 wickets in succession in match Swaffham _v._ Attleborough 4 July 1850; R. of Edgefield, Holt, Norfolk 1848–76. _d._ 1881. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 40 (1863).

MARCUS, LEWIS. Ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; head master Holbeach gram. sch.; C. of Biggleswade 1827–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Finsbury 1846 to death; professor of Latin in city of London college for ladies, Finsbury; author of A Latin grammar 1861; Elementary Latin, a delectus of exercises 2 parts 1862–4. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Bunhill row, Finsbury 12 June 1879.

MARCUS, OTTO CHARLES. _b._ 1825; assistant in University library, Cambridge; author of Marcus’s Conversation guide or dialogues in English, French, German, Russian, Polish and Swedish languages 1855. _d._ Cambridge 11 May 1865.

MARDON, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1792; ed. York coll. and Glasgow univ., M.A.; Unitarian minister Glasgow 9 years; minister of General Baptist chapel, Worship st. Finsbury sq. London 26 years; member of British Archæol. Assoc. 1845, wrote on The burial place of the widow of Milton in Journal 1850 pp. 322–6, 418; author of A letter to Dr. Chalmers occasioned by his notice of unitarians 1818; The truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1822; The apostle Paul, an unitarian 1826; Christianity identified with unitarianism 1835; The catholic epistle of John the apostle, translated from the Greek 1853; resided at Sidmouth. _d._ Exeter 15 April 1866.

MARDON, EDWARD RUSSELL. Billiard player; a frequenter of Newmarket; a great opponent of P.P. (play or pay) betting; resided at Brighton; author of Billiards, game 500 up, played at Brighton on 18th January 1844. Brighton 1844, 3 ed. 1858; On P.P. betting. _Sporting Review_, _May 1858 p._ 365.

MARDYN, MRS. (dau. of poor parents). _b._ Ireland or Chichester 1789 or 1795; a servant in an inn and a helper in the bar; _m._ 1811 Mr. Mardyn an actor on the Portsmouth circuit, from whom she separated, when she allowed him two pounds a week, he died about 1819; an actress and dancer in the provinces and at the West London theatre, London (now the Marylebone) 1811; educated under W. Dimond manager of the Bath theatre 1813–14; played at Crow st. theatre, Dublin; first appeared at Drury Lane as Amelia Wildenheim in Lovers’ Vows 26 Sep. 1815; some attention paid her by Lord Byron was one of the causes of his disagreement with his wife 1815, she was then hissed at Drury Lane by a fashionable clique but she appealed to the audience who took her part; she was good in Albina Mandeville in The Will 17 Oct. 1815, and as Peggy in The Country Girl 7 Nov. 1815; played Jacintha in the Suspicious Husband 11 Oct. 1819; made her last appearance at Drury Lane as Miss Wooburn in Every one has his faults 19 June 1820; _m._ 1821 a foreign gentleman who soon after purchased the title of Baron R----. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _i_ 269–80 (1826), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_ 198–207 (1844); _Georgian Era_, _iv_ 573–4 (1834); _T. Medwin’s Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron. New York_ (1824) 24, 28; _T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847) 284.

MARETT, SIR ROBERT PIPON (son of Peter Daniel Marett, major Madras army). _b._ 20 Nov. 1820; ed. at Caen and the Sorbonne, Paris; advocate of royal court of Jersey 1840; constable of St. Helier 1856; solicitor general of Jersey 19 Feb. 1858, attorney general 1866 to 10 March 1880, and bailiff 10 March 1880 to death; knighted by patent 31 May 1880; edited Les manuscrits de P. L. Geyt 1846; author of several poems in the Jersey patois published in Rimes et poësies Jersiaises edited by Abraham Mourant 1865 and in the Patois poems of the Channel Islands edited by J. L. Pitts 1883. _d._ St. Aubin’s, Jersey 10 Nov. 1884. _Law Times 15 Nov. 1884 p._ 51.

MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). _b._ Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr. sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a third class assistant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo 17 Jany. 1875, being the first Englishman traversing this route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China 19 Feb. 1875; _murdered_ at Manwein on the Chinese frontier 21 Feb. 1875. _Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu. Shanghai_ 1875; _The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to Bhamo_ (1876), _preface pp. i–xxi_, _portrait_; _J. Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien_ (1876) 364–449; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 233, 257 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 296 (1875), _portrait_.

MARGETTS, CHARLES (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon, solicitor). _b._ Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818, solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847; registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. _d._ Market place, Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.

MARGOLIOUTH, MOSES (son of Gershon Margoliouth). _b._ Suwalki, Poland 3 Dec. 1820; _bapt._ at Liverpool a member of the Church of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany. 1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare, Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew, Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul, Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of 1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain 3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864; The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books. _d._ London 25 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Little Linford churchyard. _M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism investigated_ (1843) _memoir pp. i–x_; _M. Margoliouth’s Some triumphs and trophies of the world_ (1882) _memoir pp. vii–xxii_; _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii_ 220 (1881).

MARGUERITTES, JULIE DE (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville, physician 1783–1872). _b._ London 1814; _m._ (1) Count de Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of the second republic, they went to New York where she supported him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and _m._ (2) George G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known as Gaslight Foster and _d._ 1850; gave concerts and readings and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March 1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia; _m._ (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and stations 1860. _d._ Philadelphia 21 June 1866.

MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. _b._ Benkendorfe near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882. _d._ Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_ 25 (1882), _portrait_.

MARIO, GUISEPPE, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo, Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese army). _b._ Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin 1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836; taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots, Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart; sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47 operas; _m._ Giulia Grisi, she _d._ Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen; the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London, Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871 he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London 29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. _d._ 176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in cemetery of St. Lorenzo 13 Dec. _W. Beale’s Light of other days_, _ii_ 1–150 (1890); _L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario_, _ii_ 261–371 (1886); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections_, _i_ 275–83 (1862); _Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp._ 195–202; _Temple Bar_, _March 1884 pp._ 344–59; _I.L.N. lix_ 193, 194 (1871) _portrait_, _lxxxiii_ 613 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 608 (1883), _portrait_.

MARJORIBANKS, DAVID ROBERTSON, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). _b._ Eccles, Berwickshire 2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. _d._ 56 Upper Brook st. London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 619 (1873), _lxiii_ 423.

MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees, Berwickshire 1735–1815). _b._ 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and senior partner 1837 to death. _d._ Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.

MARJORIBANKS, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). _b._ Madras 4 May 1830; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded 1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875. _d._ Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. _Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p._ 63, _portrait_.

MARK, BERTRAM VON DER, Doctor of music; opened a college at Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men 1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7 years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera; Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures, sonatas, symphonies and dance music. _d._ 8 Great John st. Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. _bur._ St. Luke’s ch. Chetham. _Era 2 Feb. 1868 p._ 6; _Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861_, 5 _views_; _Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p._ 5; _The Pianist by Dr. Mark. Bristol_ (1865), _portrait_.

MARKBY, THOMAS (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford, Cambs.). _b._ 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St. John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858; The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868. _d._ Cambridge 4 March 1870.

MARKES, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; founder of the Hollywood whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden, London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. _d._ 288 King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. _The Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77.

MARKHAM, FREDERIC (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827). _b._ Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col. 22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March 1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. _d._ Limmer’s hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. _bur._ at Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up by officers of his regiment. _Men of the time_ (1856) 528–9.

MARKHAM, MRS. HANNAH. _b._ St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of Marquess of Dufferin. _d._ Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. _Daily Graphic 4 July 1892 p._ 8 _col._ 2, _portrait_.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). _b._ 28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. _d._ 26 Jany. 1852.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM ORLANDO (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the peace, Northampton). _b._ 1818; studied medicine at Edinb., Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London, and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864; poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug. 1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is it necessary or justifiable? 1866. _d._ 21 Nightingale lane, Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.

MARKLAND, JAMES HEYWOOD (youngest son of Robert Markland, check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, _d._ 1828). _b._ Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.; solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814; F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S. 28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842 to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848; distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places 1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed. 1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. _d._ 1 Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath abbey. _G.M._ (1821) _pt. ii p._ 278, (1865) _pt. i pp._ 649–52.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, 5 Duke of (1 son of 4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). _b._ Billhill, parish of Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland 1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June 1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham 1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke 5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death; lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March 1845 to death. _d._ Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art_, _iii_ 121–32 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 214 (1857); _In the matter of the duke and duchess of Marlborough_ (1853).

NOTE.--In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her, the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman, soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. _The Annual Register_ (1838) 294–6.

MARLBOROUGH, JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, 6 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk 2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June 1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock 1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as 6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9 Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov. 1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick 12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May 1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church of England. Westminster 1856; _found dead_ on floor of his bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. _bur._ in chapel of Blenheim palace 10 July. _Antiquarian Mag. i_ 35–8, 78–83, 255–6 (1882), _ii_ 145–6; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 87 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 404 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 32 (1883), _portrait_; _Times, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 July 1883_.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, 8 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Wilmington crescent, London, a residence of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5 June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883; _m._ (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn, she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con. with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself marchioness of Blandford; _m._ (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000 a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures, books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting. _d._ suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. _Baily’s Mag. xxviii_ 187 (1876), _portrait_; _The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892_.

NOTE.--The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000. The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture, the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.

MARLING, SIR SAMUEL STEPHENS, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling of Stroud, Gloucs.) _b._ Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810; a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874, M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. _d._ in his counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 428 (1883), _portrait_.

MARLOIS, EDOUARD. _b._ in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song 1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’ voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other pieces. _d._ 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.

MARLOW, CHARLES. _b._ Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814; first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St. Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks 1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a high character for honesty but took to drinking. _d._ Devizes workhouse, Oct. 1882. _bur._ Devizes 28 Oct. _Sporting Review_, _Jany. 1857 pp._ 1–5, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p._ 60; _I.L.N. xxii_ 416 (1853), _portrait_.

MARLOW, WILLIAM BIDDLECOMB. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full pay as M.G. _d._ Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.

MARNOCK, ROBERT. _b._ Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800; gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener 1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837. _d._ Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15 Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal Green 21 Nov. _Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp._ 565, 567, _portrait_; _Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp._ 733, 744, _portrait_.

MAROCHETTI, CARLO (son of French parents). _b._ Turin 1805; naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris; studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club 1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. _d._ suddenly at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near Paris 29 Dec. 1867. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 352 (1862); _I.L.N. xxxvlii_ 176, 178 (1861), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 28 July 1866 p._ 57, _portrait_; _G.M. Feb. 1868 pp._ 249–50.

MARQUIS, JAMES. _b._ 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May 1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign 1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. _d._ Brookland, Hawke road, Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.

MARRABLE, FREDERICK (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of board of green cloth). _b._ 1818; articled to Edward Blore the architect; architect in London; superintending architect to Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club, 13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30 Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural designs at R.A. 1843–70. _d._ Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.

MARRAS, GIACINTO (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). _b._ Naples 6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842; sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England 12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house 10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860, he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India 1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita, serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839; 12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above 1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77; _m._ a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. _d._ Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. _bur._ protestant cemetery at Cannes. _Theatre_, _ii_ 44–5 (1883).

MARRAT, WILLIAM. _b._ Pibsey, Lincolnshire 6 April 1772; printer and publisher at Boston some years; taught mathematics in New York 1817–20 and at Liverpool from 1821; mathematical tutor in a school at Exeter 1833–6; contributed to Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s diary and other mathematical serials 50 years; conducted The enquirer, Boston, Lincolnshire 1811–12, 3 vols.; author of An introduction to the theory and practice of mechanics. Boston 1810; The history of Lincolnshire 3 vols. 1814–16; Historical description of Stamford. Lincoln 1816; An historical description of Grantham 1816. _d._ Liverpool 26 March 1853. _Trans. Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 1861–62 p._ 35.

MARRECO, ALGERNON FREIRE-. _b._ North Shields 1835; ed. at the Ecola Polytechnica, Lisbon; connected with Durham univ. from 1859, professor of chemistry both in the college of medicine and the college of physical science Durham 1871 to death, examiner for the medical and science degrees Durham; one of the best analysts in the north of England. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 27 Feb. 1882. _Lancet_, _i_ 409, 670 (1882).

MARRETT, THOMAS. _b._ 1786; entered Madras army 1802; lieut. 9 Madras N.I. 26 May 1804, captain 30 April 1814; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 June 1828 to 1831, of 44 N.I. 1831 to 10 Oct. 1833, of 11 N.I. 10 Oct. 1833 to 15 May 1834, of 43 N.I. 15 May 1834 to 1835, of 46 N.I. 1835 to 1836, of 6 N.I. 1836 to 1837, of 10 N.I. 1837 to 1838, of 2 N.I. 1838 to 1839, of 5 N.I. 1839 to 19 April 1841; col. of 2 N.I. 19 April 1841 to 1853, of 40 N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Bath 5 Sep. 1862.

MARRIAN, THOMAS. _b._ Birmingham; brewer at Oxford; founded the Burton Weir brewery, Sheffield 1830, his beer had a large sale in the colonies; took his sons Thomas and Francis Marrian and F. M. Tindall into partnership 1875; business turned into a private limited company; a town councillor of Sheffield. _d._ Thurcroft hall, Rotherham 15 Aug. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Breweries_, _iii_ 317–8 (1890), _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES (3 son of rev. John Marriott, poet 1780–1825). _b._ Church Lawford near Rugby 24 Aug. 1811; ed. at Rugby 1825–9; entered Exeter coll. Oxf. 4 March 1829; scholar of Balliol coll. Oct. 1829 to 1833; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter 1833 to 1858, tutor 1835–8, sub-dean Oct. 1841, dean 1844; first principal of diocesan theological coll. Chichester, Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1841; great ally of Dr. Pusey at Oxford 1845; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1850–56; member of the hebdomadal council; set up a printing press at Littlemore 1846; edited with Pusey and Keble A library of the Fathers 1841–55, he edited 24 volumes; the first editor of The literary churchman 5 May 1855, wrote 16 articles in first 7 numbers; supported an establishment called The Universal purveyor, to supply pure articles at a moderate price, in which he lost much money; author of Sermons preached before the University and in other places 2 vols. 1843–50; Hints on private devotion 1848;. Reflections in a Lent reading of the Epistle to the Romans 1849; The co-operative principle not opposed to a true political economy 1855; edited Analecta Christiana 2 parts 1844–8; paralysed 1856, lived with his brother Rev. John Marriott at Bradfield, Berkshire 1856 to death. _d._ Bradfield 15 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Bradfield 20 Sep. _Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 153–93, _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES HANDEL RAND. _b._ London 3 Nov. 1831; played the violin in various orchestras; musical director Highbury Barn, London 1860–5; musical director Cremorne gardens; director of Hastings pier orchestra 1873 to death; musical editor of The young ladies’ journal 1864; composer of La Virginie, varsoviana 1855; C. H. R. Marriott’s Album of dance music 1861; Thy face is always dear to me, words by R. Lejoindre 1874, is said to have brought him in over £2000; Blue Danube quadrilles 1876; Ruth, sacred song 1888; The bard of Avon quadrilles 1888, and upwards of 320 other pieces, songs and dance music 1855–88; he is said to have written about 40 pieces annually for many years. _d._ 7 Wilmot place, Camden Town, London 10 Dec. 1889.

MARRIOTT, FITZHERBERT ADAMS (2 son of George Wharton Marriott of St. Giles’, London). _b._ 1811; ed. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Cottesbach, Leics. 1842–3; archdeacon of Hobart Town and chaplain to bishop of Tasmania 1843–54; V. of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs. 1860 to death; author of Is a penal colony reconcilable with God’s institution of human society and the laws of Christ’s kingdom? a letter to sir W. T. Denison. Hobart Town 1847; Principles of legislation for the church in Ireland, three letters to lord Lyttleton 1869, two editions. _d._ The Close, Exeter 19 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery 23 Oct.

MARRIOTT, FREDERICK. Originated The Death warrant 1843, name changed to The Guide to Life, became The London mercury; started a halfpenny periodical entitled Chat 1848; editor and proprietor of The San Francisco letter. _d._ Oct. 1886. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _ii_ 596 (1891).

MARRIOTT, HARVEY (3 son of William Marriott of Dorking, Surrey 1744–1803). _b._ 23 July 1782; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806; C. of Marston, Worcs. 1807; R. of Claverton, Bath 1808–47; V. of Loddiswell, Devon 1847–62; V. of Wellington, Somerset 1862 to death; author of A course of practical sermons adapted to be read in families 1816, Second course 1819, Third course 1824, Fourth course 1829; Essay on the Madras system of education 1819; Eight sermons on ‘The signs of the times’ 1828; A selection of poetry. Kingsbridge 1859. _d._ Wellington 18 Aug. 1865.

MARRIOTT, HAYES. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 11 Oct. 1833, lieut.-col. 13 July 1860, commandant 21 Nov. 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877; retired 2 Dec. 1877; served in China war 1839–41; in the Crimea 1854–5, at Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol and in the expeditions to Kertch and Kinburn; granted good service pension Oct. 1880. _d._ Ellerslie, Barton Fields, Canterbury 5 Oct. 1892.

MARRIOTT, J. H. _b._ 1799; a reporter on The Times, London; connected with theatres; an optician and mathematical instrument maker at Wellington, New Zealand; an actor at Wellington; managed the amateur military performances in which he took a leading part; helped to build the Olympic theatre, Wellington, executed the scenery and decorations and assisted in manufacturing from whale oil the gas for the lighting 1844, the first gas used in Wellington; author of a volume of poems; he was father of Alice Marriott actress, who married Robert Edgar actor who _d._ 25 May 1871. _d._ Wellington 25 Aug. 1886. _bur._ in the Episcopalian cemetery 29 Aug., when 600 persons attended the funeral.

MARRIOTT, JOHN (son of John Marriott of Stowmarket, Suffolk, solicitor). _b._ about 1830; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; advocate general of Bombay 1863 to death; an acting puisne justice Bombay 25 Nov. 1873. _d._ Bombay 7 Jany. 1884.

MARRIOTT, THOMAS BECKETT FIELDING. _b._ 25 June 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832, lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1855, colonel 27 June 1863; col. on staff commanding R.A. in Ireland 1866–9; col. commandant 7 Aug. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Avonbank, Pershore 25 Nov. 1880.

MARRIOTT, WHARTON BOOTH (7 son of George Wharton Marriott, barrister). _b._ 32 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Nov. 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–43 and Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1843–6; Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1846 to 22 April 1851; B.C.L. 1851, M.A. 1856, B.D. 1870; select preacher at Oxf. 1868 and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1871; an assistant master at Eton 1850–60; F.S.A. 30 May 1857, member of council 1871; edited The Adelphi of Terence with English notes 1863; Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphosis with English notes 1862, 2 ed. 1868; author of Vestiarium Christianum: the origin of the dress of holy ministry in the church 1868; The vestments of the church, an illustrated lecture 1869. _d._ Eton college 16 Dec. 1871. _Hort’s Memorials of W. B. Marriott_ (1873), _portrait_; _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 195–6.

MARRIOTT, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 4 June 1820; entered Bombay army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut. col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July 1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration; C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political economy 1874. _d._ Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. _Guardian 14 Jany. 1880 p._ 41.

MARRIOTT, _Sir William Marriott Smith-_, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). _b._ Portman st. London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15 Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott 1855. _d._ Horsmonden rectory 4 Oct. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 662 (1864).

MARRYAT, HORACE (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich, _d._ 1824). _b._ 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1790; M.P. Sandwich 1826–35. _d._ Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ the cottage, Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881.

MARRYAT, SAMUEL FRANCIS (youngest son of Frederick Marryat, captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). _b._ 1826; midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California 1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848; Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal, with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. _d._ Kensington Gore, London 12 July 1855.

MARSDEN, ANDREW. _b._ Nottingham; a pugilist 6 feet 1½ inches in height; beat Edward Baldwin or O’Baldwin at Tring, Herts. £50 a side 3 rounds 21 Oct. 1863; fought Joseph Wormald of London for £200 a side and the champion’s belt at Horley 4 Jany. 1865, when Wormald won after 18 rounds in 37 minutes; fought Baldwin again £100 a side, 11 rounds in 16 minutes at Holme station near Peterborough 25 Sep. 1866, the ring was broken into by Marsden’s party and the referee awarded the stakes to Baldwin; turf commission agent at 2 St. Anne’s Valley, Hunger hill, Nottingham to death. _d._ suddenly at Nottingham 21 July 1892. _bur._ General cemet. Nottingham 23 July. _Modern boxing. By Pendragon_ (1879) 83–8; _Illust. sport. news_, _ii_ 284 (1863), _portrait_.

MARSDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 16 March 1773; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Stockport 1793, in London 1796–8, 1816–21 and 1830–3, in Macclesfield 1798–1801, in Manchester 1800–1802 and 1824–7, in Sheffield 1836–9; supernumerary at Glossop 1842 to death; president of the Conference 1821 and 1831; general sec. of Wesleyan missionary soc.; delegate to the Wesleyan ch. in Canada 1833; author of A treatise on the nature and importance of true religion, with an account of the death of some christians and unbelievers 1813. _d._ Hadfield 16 May 1858.

MARSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Kennington, Surrey 1 Oct. 1812; articled to Russell and Son of Southwark, solicitors; admitted solicitor 1835, in practice at 37 Queen st. city of London to death; vestry clerk of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, city of London 1835, and ward clerk of ward of Vintry, city of London 1837; vestry clerk of Camberwell 1850 to 1892 when he was entertained at a public dinner; instrumental in carrying through parliament the Dulwich college act 1858. _d._ 113 The Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 12 May 1893. _bur._ Forest hill cemet. _W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 186, 189, _portrait_.

MARSDEN, ISAAC MOSES. Founder of firm of E. Moses and Son, slopsellers, 137 Ratcliff highway, London 1832; tailors and outfitters at 154, 155, 156 and 157 Minories, and at 83, 84, 85, 86 Aldgate, city of London from 1846; the firm published the following books, The past the present and the future. A public address on the opening of the new establishment of Elias Moses and Son 1846; Fashions. Price lists 1849–57; The growth of an important branch of British industry. The readymade clothing system 1860; Gossip on dress 1863; The philosophy of dress 1864; The tercentenary of William Shakespeare 1864; A popular history of London 1866 part i. _d._ 4 Kensington gardens terrace, London 26 July 1884.

MARSDEN, JOHN BUXTON. _b._ Liverpool 1803; sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 April 1823; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Burslem, Staffs. 1827; C. of Harrow; R. of Lower Tooting, Surrey 1833–44; V. of Great Missenden, Bucks. 1844–51; P.C. of St. Peter, Dale End, Birmingham 1851 to death; edited The Christian Observer 1859–69; author of The history of the early Puritans 1850; The history of the later Puritans 1852; History of Christian churches and sects 2 vols. 1856, new ed. 1858. _d._ 37 Highfield road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16 June 1870. _Christian Observer_, _Aug. 1870 pp._ 633–4.

MARSDEN, JOHN HOWARD (1 son of rev. Wm. Marsden, vicar of Eccles, Lancs.) _b._ Wigan 1803; entered Manchester school 6 Aug. 1817, head scholar 1822, exhibitioner to St. John’s coll. Camb. 1822, fellow 1827–41, Bell univ. scholar 1823; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; F.R.S.L.; Seatonian prizeman 1829; select preacher at Camb. 1834, 1837 and 1847; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1840–89; Hulsean lecturer 1843 and 1844; Disney professor of archæology, Camb. 1851–65; residentiary canon of Manchester cath. 1858–71; member of Numismatic soc. 1863; author of Philomorus Notes on the Latin poems of sir Thomas More 1842; An examination of certain passages in our Lord’s conversation with Nicodemus. Eight Hulsean lectures 1844; The evils which have resulted from a misapprehension of our Lord’s miracles. Eight Hulsean lectures 1845; Two lectures upon archæology 1852; A brief memoir of lieut.-col. W. M. Leake 1864; College life in the time of James the first, diary of Sir Simon d’ Ewes 1851. _d._ Grey’s Friars, Colchester 24 Jany. 1891. _The Numismatic Chronicle_ 1891. Proceedings p._ 22; _The Times 26 Jany. 1891 p._ 6; _Manchester school register_, _iii_ 126–7 (1874).

MARSDEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. C.C. coll. Camb., Mawson scholar, B.A. 1834; V. of Child-Wickham, Gloucs. 1843–57; R. of Burstow, Surrey 1858–74; R. of St. John, Horsleydown, London 1874–81; chaplain of St. Olave’s workhouse, Southwark 1874–80; resided at 115 Paulet road, Camberwell; author of The sacred steps of creation, or the revealed genetic theology illustrated by geology and astronomy 1865. _d._ Leigh Bank, Sutton, Surrey 13 Dec. 1890.

MARSDEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Sheffield, Aug. 1796; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1827; M.D. Erlangen 1848; established in 1828 a small dispensary in Greville st. Hatton Garden, to which the poor were admitted without any formality, the only hospital in London which received cholera patients 1832, it was moved into Gray’s Inn road 1843, on this site was built the royal free hospital and Marsden became senior surgeon; opened a small house in Cannon row, Westminster, for reception of cancer patients 1851, this became the Cancer hospital, Brompton in 1861, of which Marsden was senior surgeon; author of Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhœa better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera 1834, 4 ed. 1871; translated A treatise on cancer of the breast by A. A. L. M. Velpeau 1856. _d._ 65 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 16 Jany. 1867. _bur._ Norwood cemet., portraits of him at royal free hospital and at cancer hospital. _The Hospital 14 May 1887 p._ 103.

MARSH, CHARLES WILLIAMS. Originated Shakespearian jesting in the circus ring; clown with Wm. Batty and Joseph Holloway many years; played clown in pantomime of Crotchet and Quaver at Covent garden theatre Christmas 1844; attached to the Vine hotel, Great college st. Liverpool. _d._ Vine hotel, Liverpool, July 1866. _Era 5 Aug. 1866 p._ 10.

MARSH, EDWARD GARRARD (son of John Marsh of St. Thomas’, Salisbury). _b._ 1783; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf. 1800–4; fellow of Oriel 1804–14; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; Bampton lecturer 1848; P.C. of North Hincksey, Berks. 1820–8; prebendary of Southwell, Notts. 18 Oct. 1821 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 1828–34; V. of Yardley, Herts. 1828–34; R. of Waltham, Lincs. 1834–41; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1841 to death; translated The book of psalms 1832; The treatise of John Chrysostom on the priesthood 1844; author of Eight sermons preached before the university of Oxford 1814; A brief summary of the evidence of the christian religion 1829; Seven sermons on the ten commandments 1832; Two hundred and ten psalms and hymns adapted to seventy tunes 1837; Essays on some of the prophecies 1844; The christian doctrine of sanctification. Bampton lectures 1848. _d._ Aylesford 20 Sep. 1862.

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of rev. Robert Marsh). _b._ Loughrea, co. Galway 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.D. 1840; apprenticed to sir Philip Crampton, surgeon 1814–18; M.R.C.P. Dublin 1818, pres. 1841, 1842, 1845 and 1846; assistant phys. to Stevens’ hospital, Dublin 1820; professor of medicine at college of surgeons, Dublin 1827–32; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 28 Oct. 1839; phys. in ordinary to queen in Ireland 1837; created baronet 26 Feb. 1839; author of Cases of jaundice with dissections 1822; The evolution of light from the living human subject 1842; Clinical lectures with observations on practical medicine, edited by J. S. Hughes 1869. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Dec. 1860, marble bust by J. H. Foley in King’s and Queen’s College of physicians in Dublin. _Dublin univ. mag. xviii_ 688 _and lvii_ 222; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_ 338 (1861).

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet. _b._ Charlemont st. Dublin 1821; cornet 3 dragoon guards 5 Aug. 1842, major 24 July 1857, sold out 17 May 1861; succeeded 1 Dec. 1860. _d._ 6 Victoria square, Westminster 27 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 570 (1868).

MARSH, JOHN BARLING. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; lieut. R.N. 2 Feb. 1830; commander of the Heroine on coast of Africa 1849–51; captain 21 Feb. 1856; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879. _d._ 74A Lansdowne road, Kensington park, London 12 July 1879. _The Times 17 July 1879 p._ 11.

MARSH, JOHN FINCH (son of Thomas Marsh). _b._ Chatham, Kent 4 March 1789; linen draper Whitechapel, London 1818–28; a minister of the Friends 1818; visited all the meetings in England 1822 etc.; visited Friends in Ireland 1837, 1856 and 1865; with Sarah Harris and Mary B. Brown went to Holland and Germany. _d._ Park lane, Croydon 7 Oct. 1873. _A memoir of J. F. Marsh, by his daughter P. Pitt_ (1873).

MARSH, JOHN FITCHETT (son of John Marsh, solicitor). _b._ Wigan 24 Oct. 1818; solicitor at Warrington 1839 to 1873 and town clerk 1847–58; resided at Chepstow 1873 to death; contributed to the Historical society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘On some correspondence of Dr. Priestley’ 1855 and 4 other articles; author of Notes of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton widow of the poet 1855; On the engraved portraits and pretended portraits of Milton 1860; Annals of Chepstow castle 1883. _d._ Hardwick house, Chepstow 24 June 1880. _Palatine note book_, _ii_ 168–72 (1882).

MARSH, JOHN WILLIAM (son of rev. Edward Garrard Marsh 1783–1862). _b._ 1822; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; C. of Aylesford near Maidstone 1845–8; V. of Bleasby, Notts. 1848–74; R. of St. Michael, Winchester 1874 to death; author of A memoir of A. F. Gardiner 1857; First fruits of the South American mission 1873; Narrative of the progress of the South American mission 1883. _d._ Downside, Winchester 14 Dec. 1882.

MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY (eld. son of rev. Matthew Marsh, chancellor of diocese of Salisbury). _b._ Winterslow near Salisbury 12 Sep. 1810; ed. at Westminster 1822–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; went to New South Wales 1840 where he farmed sheep on a very extensive scale for 14 years; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1851–54; M.P. Salisbury 1857–68; F.R.G.S.; author of Overland from Southampton to Queensland 1867. _d._ Bournemouth 26 Jany. 1881. _Solicitors’ Journal xxv_ 300 (1881).

MARSH, ROBERT. Receiver-general of Westminster abbey 1844 to death. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 June 1865 aged 66. _bur._ North cloisters 21 June.

MARSH, WILLIAM (3 son of colonel sir Charles Marsh of Reading). _b._ 20 July 1775; ed. at Reading and St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading, Dec. 1800; C. of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1801–2; V. of Basildon and Ashampton, Berkshire 1802–14; R. of St. Peters, Colchester 1814–29; R. of St. Thomas, Birmingham, Oct. 1829 to 1839, where from frequent subject of his sermons he came to be known as Millennial Marsh; principal official and commissary of royal peculiar of deanery of Bridgnorth 1837; Inc. of St. Mary, Leamington 1839–51; hon. canon of Worcester 1848 to death; R. of Beddington, Surrey 1860 to death; author of A short catechism on the collects. Colchester 1821, 3 ed. 1824; Select passages from the sermons and conversations of a clergyman 1823, another ed. 1828; A few plain thoughts on prophecy, particularly as it relates to the latter days. Colchester 1840, 3 ed. 1843; The last warning, a commentary on the 21st chapter of St. Luke 1848, and 45 other works. _d._ Beddington rectory 24 Aug. 1864. _Life of Rev. W. Marsh. By his daughter_ (1868), _portrait_; _Colvile’s Warwickshire Worthies_ (1869) 529–33.

MARSH-CALDWELL, ANNE (3 dau. of James Caldwell of Linley Wood near Lawton, Staffs. _d._ 16 Jany. 1838). _b._ Linley Wood 1791; _m._ July 1817 Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, latterly of Eastbury lodge, Herts., he _d._ 23 Dec. 1849; succeeded to estate of Linley Wood 1858, resumed by r.l. surname of Caldwell in addition to that of Marsh 18 May 1860; author of the following books, first editions all anonymous, Tales of the woods and fields 1836; Two old men’s tales 3 vols. 1843; Triumphs of time 3 vols. 1844; Aubrey 3 vols. 1845; Mount Sorel 2 vols. 1845; Emilia Wyndham 3 vols. 1846; Father Darcy, an historical romance 2 vols. 1846; The protestant reformation in France, or the history of the Huguenots 2 vols. 1847; Norman’s bridge or the modern Midas 3 vols. 1847; The previsions of Lady Evelyn 1847; Angela or the captain’s daughter 3 vols. 1848; Mordaunt Hall 3 vols. 1849; The Wilmingtons 3 vols. 1850; Lettice Arnold 2 vols. 1850; Time the avenger 3 vols. 1851; Ravenscliffe 3 vols. 1851; Castle Avon 3 vols. 1852; The heiress of Haughton 3 vols. 1855; Evelyn Marston 1856; The rose of Ashurst 3 vols. 1857; translated from Vitet, The song of Roland as chanted before the battle of Hastings by the minstrel Taillefer 1854. _d._ Linley Wood, Staffs. 5 Oct. 1874. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 735, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv_ 575; _Athenæum_, _ii_ 512 (1874).

MARSHALL, ANTHONY. _b._ 6 Aug. 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1808, lieut.-col. 19 Feb. 1841, retired on full pay 12 July 1845; commanded R.E. Cape of Good Hope, June 1842 to 12 July 1845; L.G. 20 April 1861. _d._ Plymouth 25 May 1865.

MARSHALL, ARTHUR MILNES (2 son of Wm. P. Marshall of Stroud, sec. to institution of mechanical engineers). _b._ Birmingham 8 June 1852; graduated B.A. London 1870, B.Sc. 1873, D.Sc. 1877; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1871, fellow 1877–85; B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878, M.D. 1882; assistant to professor F. M. Balfour in organizing the classes of comparative morphology at Cambridge 1875; at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1877; professor of zoology at Owen’s college, Manchester, July 1879 to death; F.R.S. 1885; as secretary and as chairman he took part in organizing the course of studies for the Victoria univ. Manchester; edited Studies from the biological laboratories, Owen’s college 1886; author of The frog, an introduction to anatomy and histology. Manchester 1882, 4 ed. 1891; The Manchester Museum, Outline classification of the animal kingdom 1891, and Catalogue of the embryological models 1891 in 2 volumes; A text book of vertebrate embryology 1893; with C. Herbert Hurst A junior course of practical zoology 1887, 3 ed. 1892; fell from Scafell, Cumberland, and rolling down 130 feet was _killed_ on the spot 31 Dec. 1893, inquest at Wasdale head inn, verdict accidental death. _bur._ the Old cemetery, Birmingham 4 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 13 Jany. 1894 p._ 38, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, _Sir Chapman_ (only son of Anthony Marshall of Peterborough). _b._ Peterborough 1786; a wholesale grocer at 179 Upper Thames st. London; sheriff of London 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 March 1831; alderman of ward of Bridge Within 1832–59, lord mayor 1839–40. _d._ 17 Pembridge crescent, Notting hill, London 9 Jany. 1862, portrait at Innholders’ hall.

MARSHALL, _Sir Charles_ (only son of Samuel Marshall, serjeant-at-law). _b._ London 24 May 1788; ed. at Westminster sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1815; chief justice of Ceylon 17 July 1832 to 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1832; author of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas 1813 to 1816. 2 vols. 1815–17; A treatise on the law of insurance by Samuel Marshall with additions 1823. _d._ 5 Kensington gardens terrace, London 5 Feb. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 162 (1873).

MARSHALL, CHARLES. Ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of St. Antholin, London, and lecturer of St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–6; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1846 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. 1856 to death; hon. sec. of city of London national schools; author with William Wilkinson of The Latin prayers of Charles II. or an account of the liturgia of dean Durel. Oxford 1882. _d._ 29 Jany. 1883. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, CHARLES (son of Nathan Marshall). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806; scene painter at Surrey theatre and other London theatres; scene painter at Covent Garden and Drury Lane under W. C. Macready’s management 1837 etc.; painted scenery for The Tempest and As you like it, and for Lord Lytton’s plays 1838 etc.; introduced the limelight on the stage and originated and developed the transformation scene; scene painter to the opera at Her Majesty’s theatre 1844 to about 1858 when he retired; exhibited 52 landscapes at R.A., 52 at B.I. and 139 at Suffolk st. 1828–79; painted some panoramas of Napoleon’s battles. The Overland Route, &c; contributed a diorama to illustrate coronation of Wm. IV. 1831; published Select illustrated topography of thirty miles round London by W. E. Trotter, from drawings of C. Marshall 1839. _d._ 7 Lewisham road, Highgate 8 March 1890. _Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 59–64 (1880).

MARSHALL, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; principal stage comedian under Andrew Ducrow at Astley’s several seasons; played at the Coburg; acted with Edmund Kean, Macready and other celebrities; acted under Edmund Glover in Glasgow; stage manager of Bath and Bristol theatres under J. H. Chute 7 years 1856 etc.; manager of the Brighton theatre and of the Liver theatre, Liverpool; last played in London at Princess’s theatre 1871; last appeared on the stage as the Grandfather in the Old Curiosity shop at Nottingham theatre for benefit of his son Frederick Marshall 9 June 1873. _d._ Bristol 6 March 1879.

MARSHALL, CHARLES WARD (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller). _b._ 1808; a tenor singer on the London stage under stage name of Manvers about 1835; successful as a concert and oratorio singer 1842–9 when he retired. _d._ Islington 22 Feb. 1876.

MARSHALL, DUNCAN. _b._ near Holy Loch, Argyleshire 1785; a fisherman; built a hermitage at the foot of Rushfield hill, a mile and a half from the head of Holy Loch or Kilmun, and became known as the hermit of Kilmun, his only companions being a few goats; during the summer received a large number of visitors; his health failing, he was removed to Dunoon 1862. _d._ Dunoon, Feb. 1865. _bur._ underneath a flat on Rushfield hill 21 Feb. 1865. _Times 24 Feb. 1865 p._ 12.