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MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (son of H. A. Merewether 1780–1864). _b._ 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut 3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán, battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind 1857. _d._ 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. _C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ (1869) _passim_; _I.L.N. liii_ 222, 225 (1868), _portrait_.

MERIVALE, CHARLES (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). _b._ 1808; ed. at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4 in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871; scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow 9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda, Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols. 1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862; Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. _d._ Ely 27 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Ely 2 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Edinburgh Review_, _Oct. 1884 pp._ 545–65.

MERIVALE, HERMAN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Cockwood house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23, captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll. Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary 3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India, May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2 vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol. 2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. _d._ 13 Cornwall gardens, South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. _bur._ Fulham cemet. _Transactions of Devonshire Association_ (1884) 570–80; _A. W. Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed_ (1884); _I.L.N. lxiv_ 163, 168, 170 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 172, 178 (1874), _portrait_.

MERIVALE, JOHN LEWIS (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885 when he retired on a pension. _d._ Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14 Dec. 1886.

MERLE, GIBBONS. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf 1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818, this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in connection with The white dwarf. _d._ Paris 19 Jany. 1855. _G.M. xliii_ 654 (1855).

MERRICK, JOSEPH (son of an engine driver, his mother was knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). _b._ Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla, which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip; exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in 1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the London hospital for life from 1885. _d._ in London hospital, the weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April 1890. _Times 16 April 1890 p._ 6; _British Medical Journal 11 Dec. 1886 pp._ 1188–9, 4 _portraits_; _Trans. Pathological Soc. xxxvi_ 494–8 (1885), 2 _portraits_.

MERRIDEW, HENRY MELVILLE. _b._ 1837; English bookseller at Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886. _d._ Boulogne, April 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 323.

MERRIDEW, JOHN (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). _b._ 1790; bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen and others born or resident in or connected with the county of Warwick 1849. _d._ Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. _Gent. Mag. xiii_ 639 (1862).

MERRIFIELD, CHARLES WATKINS (eld. son of John Merrifield of Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). _b._ London 20 Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton, then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842; assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851 but never practised; of the education department of the privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit. of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington 1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc. 19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission 1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861; Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text books of science 1870 etc. _d._ from the effects of a third attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany. 1884. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi_ 1–3 (1884); _Nature_, _xxix_ 270; _Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884_.

MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834; schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D. 1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891. _bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.

MERRIFIELD, MRS. MARY PHILADELPHIA. Granted civil list pension of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding, dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols. 1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of Brighton 1864. _m._ John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar at M.T. 16 May 1828. _d._ Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.

MERRIMAN, NATHANIEL JAMES (3 son of Thomas Merriman of Marlborough). _b._ 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8; archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions; one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863; dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death, consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. _d._ from effects of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.

MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._ Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from 1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807; hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837; examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833. _d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682, _portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9; _Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).

MERRIMAN, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN (only son of the preceding). _b._ 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B. 1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London. _d._ Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873. _Medical Times 1 March 1873 p._ 238; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. vii_ 228 (1875).

MERRITT, HENRY (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). _b._ Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833; apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder 1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846 where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850; employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house; restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death; lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854; Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his own autobiography; _m._ April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M. Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. _d._ 54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. _bur._ Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life_, _ii_ 232–47 (1892); _H. Merritt, art, criticism, and romance_ 2 _vols._ (1879), _recollections_, _i_ 1–65, _portrait_; _The Times 14 July 1877 p._ 13; _L’ Art. Paris 4 April 1880 pp._ 1–8.

MERRY, JAMES (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). _b._ New Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St. Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart 1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000 guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860. _d._ 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 512, 518–19 (1877), _portrait_; _Rice’s History of the British turf_, _ii_ 332–38 (1879); _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 369 (1865), _portrait_; _Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 13–25; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 357–63 (1861), _portrait_; _W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed._ (1886) 301–25; _Thormanby’s Famous Racing Men_ (1882) _pp._ 100–107, _portrait_.

MERRYWEATHER, MOSES. _b._ 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant 1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt 1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich, covering about three acres were acquired, _d._ Clapham house, Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. _London Figaro 7 June 1894 pp._ 14–16; _Times 5 Oct. 1872 p._ 6.

MERRYWEATHER, RICHARD MOSES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam fire engine. _d._ Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.

MERYON, CHARLES LEWIS (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). _b._ Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802; Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806, M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow 1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec. 1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3 vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with portrait of author. _d._ The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep. 1877. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 234 (1878).

NOTE.--By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon _b._ Paris 23 Nov. 1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was _bur._ in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. _F. S. Ellis’ Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion_ (1880); _Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine Arts club_ (1879); _Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By Philip Burty_ (1879).

MERYON, EDWARD. _b._ 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844; M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the sympathetic system of nerves 1872. _d._ 14 Clarges st. Mayfair, London 8 Nov. 1880.

MESSITER, EDWARD. _b._ 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec. 1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848, of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah 14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col. of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. _d._ 19 Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.

MESSITER, JOHN. _b._ 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823, lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. _d._ Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.

MESSITER, SUSSEX LENNOX AUBREY BEAUCLERK. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov. 1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. _d._ 2 Haymarket, London 20 Sep. 1870.

METCALFE, FREDERICK (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of Gainsborough). _b._ 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849, sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849 to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845 and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. _d._ Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.

METCALFE, JAMES (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846). _b._ 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie 11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters; major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec. 1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. _d._ 44 Harcourt terrace, London 8 March 1888.

METCALFE, SIR THEOPHILUS JOHN, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet _d._ 1853). _b._ Delhi 28 Nov. 1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut 1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi 14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid pension 1866. _d._ Paris 10 Nov. 1883.

METCALFE, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson 1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny paper in Cambridge. _d._ Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888. _Bookseller_, _May 1888 p._ 465.

METCALFE, WILLIAM JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of Foulmire, Cambs., _d._ 1850). _b._ 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. _d._ suddenly in his private room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.

METEYARD, ELIZA (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). _b._ Lime st. Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death; contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal, People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame 3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865; The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols. 1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60, 5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. _d._ Stanley place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. _bur._ Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G. Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 373–5.

METHUEN, FREDERICK HENRY PAUL METHUEN, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 baron Methuen _d._ 1849). _b._ 23 Feb. 1818; cornet royal horse guards 8 Dec. 1837; lieut. 76 foot 3 April 1840; lieut. 71 foot 7 Sep. 1841, sold out 2 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. royal Wiltshire militia 5 May 1846, lieut.-col. commandant 9 Jany. 1859, hon. col. 5 Dec. 1885 to death; militia A.D.C. to the queen 11 Dec. 1860 to death; a lord-in-waiting to the queen June 1859 to July 1866, Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, May 1880 to June 1885 and Feb. to Aug. 1886. _d._ Corsham court near Chippenham 26 Sep. 1891. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 394–9; _I.L.N. xvi_ 92 (1860), _portrait_.

METHUEN, _Rev. Thomas Anthony_ (2 son of Paul Cobb Methuen of Corsham, Wilts., _d._ 1816). _b._ Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 23 May 1781; ed. at Eton 1796–9 and at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1801; C. of Ickham near Canterbury 1805; R. of All Cannings, Wilts. 1809 to death; R of Garsdon, Wilts. 5 Feb. 1814 to death; author of A series of single sheets containing new year addresses. Devizes 1832–68; A memoir of the rev. R. P. Beachcroft 1832; The voice of God in the ears of sabbath breakers, or four young men drowned in the canal 1847. _d._ Cannings’ rectory 15 June 1869. _Autobiography of T. A. Methuen_ (1870), 2 _portraits_.

METZLER, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 1835; proprietor of Saturday musical review, vol. 1, No. 1–42, 1879; partner in firm of Metzler & Co. pianoforte manufacturers and publishers of music at 37 Great Marlborough st. London about 1860 to death; resided Stamore house, 83 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London. _d._ Arrochar, Scotland 1 Sep. 1879.

MEUX, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Meux, 1 baronet 1770–1841). _b._ 28 Dec. 1817; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838; succeeded his father 7 April 1841 as 2 baronet and head of firm of Meux and Co. the Horse shoe brewery, Tottenham court road, London; sheriff of Herts. 1845; M.P. Herts. 1847–59; captain South Herts. yeomanry 21 June 1847 to Sep. 1859; there was an inquiry into his state of mind June 1858. _d._ 36 Grosvenor sq. London 1 Jany. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Noted breweries_, _ii_ 155–68 (1889) _with 6 views_.

MEVES VON SCHROËDER, AUGUSTUS ANTOINE CORNELIUS (son of Augustus Anthony Wm. Meves von Schroëder, miniature painter, _d._ 1 Aug. 1818, who _m._ in 1783 Marianne 2 dau. of Cornelius Crowley, she was a musician and _d._ Conduit st. London, Jany. 1823). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1785; taught the pianoforte by his mother, appeared in Edinburgh as a pianist under name of Mr. Augustus 1805; a volunteer with the Loyal British artificers 1811, became captain; a professor of music to 1818; a stockbroker in London 1818, speculated and lost all his money 1821; claimed to be the dauphin of France, Louis XVII. 1818 and asserted that his alleged father brought him to London for safety in 1792; corresponded with the duchess of Angoulême 1830–1; composer of Once more enchanting girl adieu 1810; L’Aimable, a rondo for the pianoforte and harp 1820; Forty seven preludes for the pianoforte 1827; Romanza for the piano 1843; Jerusalem, recit. et aria 1854; Hail to the chief, a glee 1856, and 100 other pieces of music 1810–56; author of The memoirs of Louis Charles, dauphin of France son of Louis XVI. who personated through supposititious means A. Meves. The memoirs written by the veritable Louis XVII. The compilation by his sons W. and A. Meves 1868. _d._ in a cab while being conveyed to his residence 35 University st. Gower st. London 9 May 1859. _W. A. and A. Meves’ The prisoner of the Temple_ (1860), _portrait_; _W. A. and A. Meves’ Louis XVIIth_ (1867); _Augustus de Bourbon’s Louis XVII. versus The London Times_ (1872), _with the author’s portrait_; _Augustus de Bourbon’s The dauphin, Louis XVII._ (1876), _with the author’s portrait_; _Celebrated claimants_ (1873) 187–92; _J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty_ (1882) 230–5; _The London Figaro 4 Feb. 1880 p._ 6.

NOTE.--He left two sons, 1 William Augustus Meves author and writer of works under name of Augustus de Bourbon; 2 Augustus Meves author and drum player in Weist Hill’s orchestra London, _d._ Jany. 1880.

MEWBURN, FRANCIS. First solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington railway co. 1825; chief bailiff of Darlington 28 Nov. 1846; presented with a service of plate costing £400 by 224 of his friends at the Central hall, Darlington 17 Aug. 1855; author of Observations on the second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the law of real property. Durham 1830, 2 ed. 1830. _d._ 1882. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 337, 341 (1875), _portrait_.

MEXBOROUGH, JOHN SAVILE, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 earl of Mexborough 1761–1830). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 3 July 1783; styled Viscount Pollington till 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; M.P. for Pontefract 1807–26 and 1831–2; succeeded to the peerage 3 Feb. 1830; is described as Methley in A. W. Kinglake’s Eothen or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844; his printed books were sold at Sotheby’s 19–20 Dec. 1860 for £2120, and his manuscripts were sold 6 Feb. 1861 for £3019. _d._ 25 Portman sq. London 25 Dec. 1860.

MEYERS, JOHN HENRY. Apprentice to Edward Colyer, Fenchurch street London 1836–43; printer Hayden sq. Minories 1843–9; bookseller and stationer at Enfield 1849, retired 1887; proprietor of Meyers’ Observer 1859; resided at Hampton 1887, then at Richmond. _d._ Enfieldia, Richmond 9 June 1892.

MEYNELL, CHARLES. _b._ 1828; ed. at Sedgley park, Staffs., and English college, Rome; professor of metaphysics at St. Mary’s college Oscott many years; missioner at Caverswall, North Staffs. 1873 to death; author with rev. J. S. Northcote of The Colenso controversy considered from the Catholic standpoint 1863; author of Short sermons on doctrinal subjects 1866; Padre Liberatore and the Ontologists, a review 1868; Proteus and Amadeus, a correspondence. Edited by Aubrey De Vere 1878, Meynell sustains the part of Amadeus and Wilfrid Blount that of Proteus; Sermons for the spring quarter. Edited by H. I. D. Ryder 1883. _d._ Caverswall, Staffs. 3 May 1882.

MEYNELL, GODFREY (2 son of Godfrey Meynell of Langley, Derbyshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1838 aged 19; rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1840 and 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; practised as a conveyancer at York. _d._ 1858.

MEYNELL, HENRY (2 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., _d._ 1801). _b._ 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 24 June 1803; flag captain of the Newcastle at St. Helena, where he was noticed by Napoleon 1815; captain 10 April 1816; R.A. 29 April 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862; gentleman usher to George IV. 22 March 1820 to 26 June 1830 and to William IV. 24 July 1830 to 23 March 1831; one of grooms of waiting to Victoria, April 1845; M.P. Lisburn, co. Antrim 1826–47. _d._ Paris 24 March 1865. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 528–30; _G.M. xviii_ 663 (1865).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO CHARLES (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., _d._ 1801). _b._ 1784; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826; assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures at Temple Newsam near Leeds. _d._ Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb. 1869. _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 140–41; _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 332–4 (1854).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO FRANCIS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford 1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to death. _d._ 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 579 (1871).

MEYRICK, GEORGE. _b._ 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784; captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794, regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay; lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798; L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. _d._ Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, ALBERT CHILDERS (3 son of sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson baronet _d._ 1874). _b._ 13 July 1848; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary counsel. _d._ 20 March 1894.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HARRY STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4 dragoons 1771–1853). _b._ Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837; an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal, member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby 1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding, Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. _d._ Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 523 (1874), _lxv_ 236; _Journal of royal agricultural society of England_, _2 series x_ 519–41; _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 293–6 (1875).

MIALL, EDWARD (younger son of Moses Miall, general merchant, _d._ 1829). _b._ Portsmouth 8 May 1809; usher in Saltmarsh’s school, Bocking near Braintree 1827 and then in Waddell’s school at Nayland, Suffolk; independent minister at Ware, Herts. Feb. 1831; minister of Bond st. chapel, Leicester 1834–40; established The Nonconformist, weekly paper in London 14 April 1841, editor 1842 to death; a founder of The National complete suffrage union April 1842; contested Southwark 12 Sep. 1845 and Halifax 30 July 1847; M.P. Rochdale 1852–7; introduced resolutions in favour of the disestablishment of Irish church 27 May 1856; contested Tavistock 4 Sep. 1857 and Banbury 9 Feb. 1859; member of royal commission on education June 1858 to 1861; received a testimonial of £5000 and a service of plate after the sixth triennial conference of the Liberation Society 1862; contested Bradford 16 Oct. 1867 and 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Bradford 1869–74; ten thousand guineas were subscribed for him in 1873; lived at Honor Oak near London 1864–81; author of The nonconformist’s sketch-book 1845, 2 ed. 1867; Views of the voluntary principle 1845; The British churches in relation to the British people 1849, 2 ed. 1850; Bases of belief, an examination of Christianity as a divine revelation 1853, 3 ed. 1861; Title deeds of the Church of England to her parochial endowments 1862, 6 ed. 1865; An editor off the line, or wayside musings 1865; The social influences of the state church 1867. _d._ Greystone lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 29 April 1881. _Arthur Miall’s Life of Edward Miall_ (1884), _portrait_; _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_ (1858) 208–18; _I.L.N. vii_ 176 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxviii_ 443 (1881) _portrait_; _Congregationalist_, _viii_ 441, _portrait_.

MICHAEL, JAMES LIONEL. Solicitor at Grafton, New South Wales; one of the earliest of Australian poets; author of Songs without music. Sydney 1854; John Cumberland. Sydney 1857, a narrative poem; _found drowned_ in the Clarence river 1868. _G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales_ (1868) 218–20.

MICHAEL, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Lewin Michael of Swansea, merchant). _b._ 6 Sep. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1864, bencher 13 Jany. 1882 to death; Q.C. April 1878; author of The sanitary acts 1867; with J. S. Will The law of gas and water supply 1872, 3 ed. 1884; with W. H. Corfield and J. A. Wanklyn A manual of public health 1874; resided 54 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Schloss Labers, Meran in the Tyrol 15 Feb. 1892.

MICHEL, CHARLES EDWARD. _b._ 1810; ensign 66 foot 25 Nov. 1828, major 25 June 1847; lieut.-col. 54 foot 28 July 1857, retired on full pay 21 Sep. 1860 with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 18 Inverness terrace, London 7 Aug. 1893.

MICHEL, SIR JOHN (eld. son of general John Michel _d._ 1844). _b._ 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at Eton; ensign 57 foot 3 April 1823; ensign 64 foot 20 Nov. 1823, captain 15 Feb. 1827; captain 3 foot 20 Feb. 1835; major 6 foot 6 May 1840, lieut.-col. 15 April 1842 to 1 Oct. 1854; A.D.C. to his uncle sir Henry Fane, commander-in-chief East Indies 1835–9; commanded a brigade during Kaffir war 1846–7, and second division of the army in Kaffir war 1852–3; chief of the staff of Turkish contingent during Crimean war 27 March 1855 to April 1856; commanded the Malwa field force in Indian mutiny 1858–9, defeated Tantia Topee at Beorora 15 Sep. 1858, and at Mingrauli 9 Oct., annihilated one wing of his force near Saugor 5 Dec, Tantia Topee was hanged 18 April 1859; commanded the first division in North China, which burned the summer palace at Pekin 18 Oct. 1860; col. of 86 foot 19 Aug. 1862 to death; commanded the troops in the first autumn manœuvres in south of England 1873; commanded the forces in Ireland 1875–80; general 28 March 1874, field marshal 27 March 1885; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 21 March 1859, G.C.B. 20 May 1871, granted service reward 20 Aug. 1852. _d._ at his seat Dewlish, Dorchester 23 May 1886. _Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1860 pp._ 181–94.

MICHELL, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (2 son of Sampson Michell, admiral Portuguese navy 1755–1809). _b._ Exeter 29 March 1793; baptized Charles Collier but known as Charles Cornwallis; ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1807–9; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 Oct. 1809, 1 lieut. 1813, placed on h.p. with rank of captain 4 Sep. 1817; commanded a battery of Portuguese artillery during Peninsular war; attached to staff of marshal Beresford in the Brazils 1820; military drawing master at R.M. college, Sandhurst 25 March 1824; professor of fortification at R.M. academy, Woolwich 27 Sep. 1825 to 1828; surveyor general, civil engineer, and superintendent of works at Cape of Good Hope 1828 to July 1848; A.Q.M.G. in Caffre war of 1833–4, for which he was created K.H. 1836; knight of Portuguese orders of St. Bento d’Avis 1844 and of the Tower and Sword, Sep. 1846. _d._ Eltham, Kent 28 March 1851. _Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 564.

MICHELL, SIR FREDERICK THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Exeter 8 April 1788; entered navy 17 Sep. 1803; captain 22 Feb. 1830; R.A. 9 July 1855, V.A. 16 June 1862, retired admiral 2 April 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ North gate, Totnes 14 Jany. 1873.

MICHELL, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Michell of Huish, Somerset). _b._ 1781; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 March 1798, lieut.-col. 22 July 1830; commanded the R.A. in Canada 1831–36 and at Gibraltar 1844–48; col. commandant 14 June 1856 to death; general 2 June 1864; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ 76 Portland place, London 23 Aug. 1866.

MICHELL, JOHN EDWARD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 16 Sep. 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1846, lieut.-col. 2 Sep. 1870, colonel 17 April 1878 to death; brigadier general Bengal 31 March 1876 to 31 July 1876 and 9 March 1877 to 30 April 1880; C.B. 2 June 1869; M.G. 1 May 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny. _d._ Bishop’s Down, Spa, Tunbridge Wells 7 March 1883.

MICHELL, NICHOLAS (son of John Michell 1774–1868). _b._ Calenick near Truro 4 June 1807; ed. at Truro gr. sch.; employed in his father’s tin smelting works at Calenick; contributed to the Forget-me-not, the Keepsake and other annuals; author of The siege of Constantinople, with other poems 1831; An essay on woman 1833; The fatalist or the fortunes of Godolphin 3 vols. 1840; The traduced, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; Ruins of many lands 1849; Spirits of the past 1853; The poetry of creation 1856; The immortals, or glimpses of paradise 1870; a collected edition of his poems appeared in 1871. _d._ Tehidy terrace, Falmouth 6 April 1880. _bur._ St. Kea churchyard 12 April. _Biograph_, _i_ 46 (1879); _Men of the West_, _April 1877 pp._ 17–20, _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._ 352–4, 1281; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxviii_ 241, 501.

MICHELL, RICHARD (3 son of Edward Michell). _b._ Bruton, Somerset 1805; ed. at Bruton gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1868; a successful private tutor; fellow of Lincoln college 1830, bursar 1832, tutor 1834–48; the first prælector of logic at Oxford 1839–49; public orator of univ. of Oxf. 1849 to death; member of the new hebdomadal council 1854–72; R. of South Moreton, Berkshire 1856 to death; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1848 and principal 5 Feb. 1868, the hall was converted into Hertford college in 1874, principal 10 Oct. 1874 to death; author of The nature and comparative value of the christian evidences considered. Bampton lectures 1849; Orationes Creweianæ 1878. _d._ Hertford college, Oxford 29 March 1877, portrait in Hertford college. _Graphic_, _xv_ 356 (1877), _portrait_.

MICHELL, WILLIAM (1 son of Bennet Michell). _b._ Bodmin 14 Feb. 1796; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1839; M.R.C.S. 1813; in practice at Fore st. Bodmin 1850; M.P. Bodmin 1852–7; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857; M.P. Bodmin 30 April 1859; accepted Chiltern hundreds 5 Aug. 1859; author of On difficult cases of parturition and the use of ergot of rye 1828. _d._ Plymouth 4 Nov. 1872.

MICHELL, WILLIAM EDWARDS (only son of William Michell 1805–69, registrar of the stannaries). _b._ Truro 14 March 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Jany. 1861; capt. royal Cornwall and Devon miners’ artillery militia 12 Feb. 1870; lieut.-col. commanding 2 brigade western division royal artillery militia 4 April 1883 to death; F.R.A.S. _d._ Woolwich 5 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Newquay.

MICKLETHWAITE, FREDERICK NATHANIEL (3 son of Nathaniel Micklethwaite of Taverham hall, Norwich 1784–1856). _b._ 1817; ed. Eton and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; his first match at Lord’s, Harrow _v._ Eton 31 July 1834; the best bat in the Eton eleven; played for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s 23–4 June 1836, afterwards played for I. Zingari; on committee of Marylebone club; barrister I.T. 29 April 1842. _d._ Taverham hall, Norwich 18 Oct. 1878. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 279 (1862).

MICKLETHWAITE, THOMAS. _b._ 4 Sep. 1813; editor and proprietor of Sheffield Patriot 1841; proprietor and editor of Wakefield Journal and examiner 1841 to Nov. 1852; poor law auditor for west Yorkshire audit district 28 June 1851 to death; a town councillor of Wakefield; chairman of board of guardians 1849–51; high chief ranger of ancient order of Foresters 1849; barrister G.I. 30 April 1853. _d._ Wakefield 23 May 1857. _bur._ in the vicarage croft 27 May. _Wakefield Journal 29 May 1857 p._ 5.

MIDDLEMIST, ROBERT. _b._ 29 Feb. 1808; a computer at Nautical almanac office, London 1831; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1834; mathematical master in royal naval school, Greenwich; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. as an undergraduate 1838, scholar, 27th wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; C. of Ufford, Northamptonshire 1843–5; senior assistant mathematical master at Harrow 1845 to death; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1860 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1877. _bur._ at Harrow 18 Jany. _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 202–205.

MIDDLEMORE, RICHARD (son of Richard Middlemore of The Davids, Northfield). _b._ 12 Oct. 1804; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827; an ophthalmic surgeon at Temple Row, Birmingham 1827, retired 1879; assist. surgeon Birmingham and Midland eye hospital 1828, and hon. surgeon 1835–49, gave £1000 for an annual lecture there 1888; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of the blind asylum at Edgbaston 1848 which he endowed with £2000 in 1889; founded a prize for an essay on improvements in ophthalmic medicine and surgery, to be awarded by British Medical assoc. 1877; author of A treatise on diseases of the eye and its appendages 2 vols. 1835. _d._ The Limes, Bristol road, Birmingham 1 March 1891. _Lancet 7 March 1891 p._ 579.

MIDDLEMORE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1802; leather merchant Birmingham and a government contractor, retired; a town councillor of Birmingham 1839; gave and laid out a recreation ground of four acres in the centre of the town; a benefactor to the Baptist cause; gave £500 towards price of Aston hall and park 1863; a liberal donor to the school of art 1844 and to the art gallery; chairman of Birmingham wagon co. _d._ 38 Elvetham road, Birmingham 15 Jany. 1887.

MIDDLETON, SIR HENRY WILLOUGHBY, 8 Baron (1 son of Henry Willoughby, M.P. 1780–1849). _b._ Apsley hall, Notts. 28 Aug. 1817; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; succeeded his cousin as 8 baron 5 Nov. 1856; capt. South Notts. yeomanry cavalry 1861; hon. col. 1 brigade East Riding artillery volunteers 1862; bought the Middleton pack from sir Tatton Sykes 1853, hunted 5 days a week at his sole expense to 1860, spending £20,000, a guarantee fund of £2,000 was raised in 1860, master of the hounds to his death; presented with a testimonial and his portrait by Henry T. Wells, R.A. Dec. 1877; bought the parish of West Bruton, Notts. 941 acres March 1857. _d._ Settrington house, Birdsall, Yorks. 20 Dec. 1877. _Times 21 Dec. 1877 p._ 3; _Baily’s Mag. x_ 269–71 (1865), _portrait_.

MIDDLETON, CHARLES. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot 19 Sep. 1804; captain 22 light dragoons 25 Feb. 1810, placed on h.p. 25 Sep. 1820; captain 2 dragoon guards 10 Jany. 1822; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 3 Dec. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1851; commandant of cavalry depot, Maidstone 1 Jany. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; major 72 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Rockey hill terrace, Maidstone 23 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xliii_ 84 (1855).

MIDDLETON, SIR GEORGE NATHANIEL BROKE, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke 1776–1841, 1 Baronet). _b._ Plymouth 26 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1821 etc.; entered R.N. 16 Aug. 1825; captain 18 Dec. 1845; commander of the Gladiator 1854; at attack on Bomarsund, then in the Black Sea 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 Feb. 1855; assumed name of Middleton by r.l. 17 July 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1864; admiral 22 Jany. 1877; rode to hounds when over seventy; a liberal supporter of Suffolk sports. _d._ Shrublands near Ipswich 14 Jany. 1887. _Baily’s Mag. xlvii_ 129 (1887).

MIDDLETON, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 1827; landscape painter at Norwich; his landscapes were noted for their effective rendering of the seasons of the year; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. and 15 at B.I. 1847–55. _d._ of consumption at Surrey st. Norwich 11 Nov. 1856.

MIDDLETON, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 1817; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1844, LL.D. 1849; member of college of doctors of the law 2 Nov. 1849; steward of doctors’ commons 1860 to death; reported in the Court of probate and divorce, his reports are comprised in The Law Reports, Courts of probate and divorce vols. 1–3 (1869–75) and Probate division vols. 1–3 (1876–8). _d._ Marine lodge, Southend 6 March 1878. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxii_ 394 (1878).

MIDDLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Wm. Middleton, solicitor, _d._ 1885). _b._ Leeds 1838; solicitor at Leeds 1860 to death; a founder of Leeds and county conservative club; vice president of Incorporated law society, Leeds 1881, president 1882 and 1883; member of council of Incorporated law society of the United Kingdom 1883 to death. _d._ Fairfield, Far Headingley near Leeds 16 July 1887. _bur._ Chapel Allerton ch. near Leeds 19 July. _Law Times 6 Aug. 1887 p._ 266.

MIDDLETON, JOSEPH (younger son of Joseph Middleton of Grove house near Leeds). _b._ 28 March 1818; pupil of Thomas Chitty; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843; went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough, June 1865 to death; author of Hyacinth, a poem and lyrics 1840; Stanhope, a domestic novel 1845; Marmaduke Lorrimer 3 vols. 1850; Love versus law, or marriage with a deceased wife’s sister 3 vols. 1855. _d._ Gibton grove, Roundhay near Leeds 24 Dec. 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xvi_ 162 (1872).

MIDDLETON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Second lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1839, colonel 10 Nov. 1868 to death; deputy adjutant general R.A. 1 Oct. 1870 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board royal mail steamer Douro, bound for Lisbon 13 April 1875.

MIDDLETON, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of George Middleton). _b._ 1846; cornet 12 lancers 9 May 1865, captain 4 Jany. 1871 to 11 July 1874 when he sold out; extra A.D.C. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1870–4; first whip to the 12th lancers harriers 1865–6 and hunted the drag hounds at Ballincolley, co. Cork 1866–8; rode his first steeple chase at Cork 1867; his horse Lord of the Harem won 29 races; won the Irish grand military cup on Waterford at Punchestown 1873 and 1874; the best rider to hounds since James Mason; acted as pilot across country to the empress of Austria during her 4 hunting visits to England and Ireland 1876 and 1878–80; a cricketer and member of I. Zingari; known as “Bay Middleton”; _killed_ while riding in the Midland sportsman’s cup steeplechase at Herd Hill farm near Kineton, Warwickshire 9 April 1892. _bur._ Haselbeck, Northamptonshire 14 April. _Baily’s Mag. xlv_ 1–2 (1886) _portrait_, _lvii_ 350 (1892); _Sporting Mirror_, _v_ 13 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 16 April 1892 p._ 479, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 23 April 1892 p._ 209, _portrait_.

MIDLETON, WILLIAM JOHN BRODRICK, 7 Viscount (3 son of hon. Charles Brodrick, abp. of Cashel 1761–1822). _b._ 8 July 1798; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Ashstead, Surrey 1822–25; R. of Castle Rising, Norfolk 1825–39; R. of Bath 1839–54; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; raised to rank of a viscount’s son by royal warrant 1849; canon of Wells 1855–63; dean of Exeter 2 April 1863 resigned Nov. 1867; succeeded his brother as 7 viscount 2 Dec. 1863; author of Facts and documents, the negotiation between the rector of Bath and the committee of the Weymouth house school. Bath 1840. _d._ Peper Harow 29 Aug. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 283, 363 (1870); _Mayor’s Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 197.

MIDWINTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Forest of Dean, Gloucs. 19 June 1852; went to Australia; learnt cricket at Bendigo, Victoria; played for Victoria against New South Wales in 9 matches 1875–87; came to England 1877; played for Gloucestershire 1877–81; member of the United South of England eleven; played for English team in Australia 1881–2; played for Australian team in England 1884; lessee of various hotels in Melbourne; went out of his mind 1889. _d._ Kew asylum near Melbourne 3 Dec. 1890. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 170, _portrait_.

MIERS, JOHN (son of a jeweller). _b._ London 25 Aug. 1789; developed the mineral resources of Chili with lord Cochrane 1819–25; studied botany in England 1825; resided at Buenos Ayres 1826–31 where he erected a mint for the government; an engineer in Rio Janeiro 1831–8 where he also erected a mint for the government; resided in London 1838 to death; F.L.S. 1839, wrote nearly 80 papers in its Transactions, chiefly on South American plants; F.R.S. 9 March 1843; received grand cross of order of Rose of Brazil; Lindley dedicated to him the genus Miersia, a Chilian group of plants; author of Travels in Chili and La Plata 2 vols. 1825; Illustrations of South American plants 2 vols. 1850–7; Contributions to botany 3 vols. 1861–71; On the apocynaceæ of South America 1878; bequeathed his botanical collection to British Museum. _d._ 84 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Oct. 1879. _Journal of botany_ (1880) 33–6, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Society_, _xxix_ 22–3 (1879).

MIGNAN, ROBERT. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. first European regiment 3 May 1820, captain 11 Sep. 1830, major of the right wing 15 Aug. 1847 to death; brevet lieut.-col. 7 June 1849; author of Travels in Chaldæa, including a journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon performed on foot 1829; A winter journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia in Koordistan 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Poonah 3 June 1852.

MIGNOT, LOUIS RÉMY (son of a confectioner at Baltimore). _b._ Charleston, South Carolina 1831; studied art in Holland; opened a studio in New York about 1855; painted tropical scenes in South America; associate member of Academy of design 1858, an academician 1859; came to London 1862; exhibited 8 landscapes at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1863–71; his picture The source of Susquehannah was exhibited at Paris exposition 1867; a collection of his paintings was exhibited in London after his death. _d._ Brighton, Sep. 1870.

MILANO, JOHN, stage name of John Millingham (son of John Millingham _d._ 18 Nov. 1874 aged 95). _b._ 1825; dancer at Grecian saloon, London; harlequin at Sadler’s Wells theatre 7 Dec. 1851, at Surrey Dec. 1852, at Drury Lane Dec. 1853 and Dec. 1854, at Haymarket Dec. 1855 and Dec. 1856, at Drury Lane Dec. 1857, Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859, at Princess’s Dec. 1862; ballet master and arranger of ballets at many London theatres; wrote with H. T. Arden, Harlequin prince Happy-go-lucky produced at Alhambra palace London 26 Dec. 1871; _m._ (1) 1849 Thérese Cushnie dancer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, she _d._ 22 Aug. 1857; _m._ (2) Minnie Sidney actress, she _d._ 9 Feb. 1873. _d._ 191 Kennington road, London 20 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 24 Aug. _Era 23 Aug. 1874 p._ 4.

MILBANK, MARK (1 son of Wm. Milbank of Thorp Perrow, Yorks. _d._ 1802). _b._ 2 May 1795; ed. Harrow, matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 6 Nov. 1813; M.P. Camelford 1818–31; sheriff North riding of Yorkshire 1837. _d._ Barningham park near Greta Bridge, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1881.

MILBANKE-HUSKISSON, SIR JOHN RALPH, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Peniston Milbanke of Halnaby, Yorks. 1776–1850). _b._ 5 Nov. or Dec. 1800; clerk in Foreign office 10 Oct. 1823; sec. of legation at Frankfort 6 Sep. 1826; sec. of embassy at St. Petersburg 28 Oct. 1835, and at Vienna 2 Oct. 1838; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. Munich 14 Nov. 1843 and at the Hague 28 Oct. 1862, retired on a pension 29 Sep. 1867; succeeded as 8 baronet 27 July 1850; assumed by r.l. surname of Huskisson in compliance with will of Eliza Emily widow of rt. hon. William Huskisson 5 Jany. 1866. _d._ Eartham house near Chichester 30 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 p._ 110; _F.O. List_, _Jany. 1869 p._ 188.

MILDMAY, CAREW ANTHONY ST. JOHN (9 son of sir Henry Paulet St. John, 3 Baronet, who assumed surname of Mildmay by r.l. 8 Dec. 1790, _d._ 11 Nov. 1808). _b._ Winchester 2 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; student of Inner Temple 1822; V. of Dogmersfield 1824; R. of the sinecure rectory of Shorewell, Isle of Wight 1824 to death; V. of Burnham, Essex 1827–58; R. of Chelmsford 1826 to death; chaplain to bishop Wigram 1860; archdeacon of Essex 1861 to death; author of Sermons 1879, which contain an In Memoriam pp. ix–xxiii. _d._ Homburg 13 July 1878. _bur._ Chelmsford.

MILES, CHARLES POPHAM (4 son of William Augustus Miles, political writer, _d._ 1817). _b._ 1810; ed. at Morpeth gr. sch.; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co.; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1851; C. of St. Ann, Limehouse, and chaplain of Sailors’ home, Wells st. London 1838–9; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1839–41; C. of Bishopwearmouth 1841–3; incumbent of St. Jude’s, Glasgow, Nov. 1843, his benefice was withdrawn from episcopal jurisdiction after a controversy between him and his bishop 1844; principal of Malta protestant college 1858–67; V. of Monkwearmouth, Durham 1867–83; hon. canon of Durham 1872; F.L.S.; author of Lectures on the book of the prophet Daniel 2 parts 1840–41; The voice of the reformation, an apology for evangelical doctrines 1844; The Cyclopædia of religious denominations 1853; The Scottish episcopal church, antagonistic to the church of England in Scotland. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Great Chesterford, Essex 10 July 1891. _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 126–32.

MILES, GEORGE FRANCIS, known as Frank Miles (youngest son of Robert Henry Wm. Miles, rector of Bingham, Notts.). _b._ 22 April 1852; studied art on the continent; worked in Wales some time; painted portraits of princess of Wales and some members of her family; best known for a series of portrait studies of female heads, which had a great sale; introduced many Japanese flowers into England; exhibited 8 portraits at R.A. 1874–80; confined in Brislington asylum near Bristol 27 Dec. 1887 to death. _d._ Brislington asylum 15 July 1891. _bur._ Almondsbury near Bristol.

MILES, HENRY DOWNES. _b._ 1806; sub-editor of The Constitution 1833, which was started in opposition to The Times; subsequently on The Crown; ring reporter to the London daily press and Bell’s Life in London many years, retired 1871; edited The Sporting Magazine; translated M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1846 and The Wandering Jew 1846; edited The licensed victuallers’ year book 1873, and The sportsman’s companion 1863–4, twelve parts only; author of The life of J. Grimaldi 1838; Dick Turpin 4 ed. 1845; Claude du Val 1850; The Anglo-Indian word book 1858; The book of field sports and library of veterinary knowledge 1860–63; Miles’ Modern practical farrier 1863–64; English country life 1868–69; Pugilistica, being one hundred and forty-four years of the history of British boxing 3 vols. 1880–81. _d._ Wood Green, Middlesex, Feb. 1889.

MILES, JOHN. _b._ Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 16 March 1813; entered house of Simpkin and Marshall, booksellers, Stationers’ hall court 1829, admitted a partner 1836, became senior partner, retired Oct. 1883; a vice president of the Booksellers’ provident institution; master of the Stationers’ company 1883; governor of the New River co. to his death; built and endowed All Saints’ church, Friern Barnet, Middlesex at a cost of £15,000. _d._ Manor house, Friern Barnet, May 1886. _Bookseller_, _June 1886 p._ 518.

MILES, JOHN WILLIAM (6 child of Philip John Miles of Leigh court 1774–1845). _b._ 21 June 1817; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1865; banker at Bristol; M.P. city of Bristol 30 April 1868, unseated June 1868. _d._ Underdown near Ledbury, Herefordshire 5 Nov. 1878.

MILES, JOSEPH JOHNSON (son of John Miles, partner in Simpkin, Marshall and co., booksellers). _b._ London 1811; entered house of Hamilton and Adams 1826, became a partner 1832; chairman of Mudie’s library co.; almoner of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 4 years; a director of the Improved industrial dwellings co. 1863; a great philanthropist for many years; master of the Stationers’ co. 1882. _d._ Highgate 1 Nov. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 6 Nov. _Sunday Mag. May 1885 pp._ 294–8, _portrait_.

MILES, SIR PHILIP JOHN WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Miles 1797–1878). _b._ 2 Sep. 1825; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 17 lancers 27 June 1845, lieut. 11 June 1847, sold out 13 Oct. 1848; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 17 June 1878; M.P. East Somerset 1878–85; partner in banking house of sir W. Miles, Corn st. Bristol; sheriff of Bristol 1853. _d._ 75 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s Gate, London 5 June 1888.

MILES, PHILIP WILLIAM SKINNER (5 child of Philip John Miles 1774–1845). _b._ 15 May 1816; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1834; M.P. Bristol 1837–52; sheriff of Gloucester 1863. _d._ King’s Weston house near Bristol 1 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. viii_ 120 (1846) _portrait_, _xx_ 277 (1852) _portrait_.

MILES, SIBELLA ELIZABETH (dau. of John Westby Hatfield, auctioneer in West Cornwall _d._ 1839 aged 72). _b._ Falmouth 28 Sep. 1800; kept a girls’ boarding school at Penzance to 1833; _m._ 13 Aug. 1833 at Madron, West Cornwall, Alfred Miles commander R.N., he edited Horsburgh’s Indian directory 1841 and 1852, and _d._ Lympston, South Devon 28 Nov. 1851; author of The wanderer of Scandinavia 2 vols. 1826; Moments of loneliness 1829; Fruits of solitude 1831; Essay on the factory question 1844, anon.; Leisure evenings or records of the past 1860; The grotto of Neptune 1864; and some of the poems in part 2 of Original Cornish ballads 1846. _d._ 54 South Lambeth road, London 29 March 1882. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 355–6, 1282.

MILES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Miles, captain West Middlesex militia, _d._ 1820). Cadet Bombay army 1799; ensign 1 Bombay N.I. 6 March 1800; lieut.-col. 1 Bombay European regiment 1 May 1824; commanded his regiment in Tenasserim during first Burmese war and captured Merjui; political resident at Palampore 1829–31; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 5 June 1829 to 28 July 1834; comr. at Baroda 1831–2; retired M.G. 28 July 1834; translated The Shajrat Ul Atrak or genealogical tree of the Turks and Tartars 1838; translated for the Oriental translation fund two works by Ali Kirmānā Husain namely History of Hydur Naik 1842 and History of the reign of Tipú Sultan 1844. _d._ North villa, Regent’s park, London 21 May 1860.

MILES, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (brother of Philip Wm. Skinner Miles 1816–81). _b._ 18 May 1797; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1815; student of Lincoln’s inn 1818; M.P. Chippenham 1818–20; M.P. New Romney 1830–31; contested East Somerset 1832; M.P. East Somerset 1834–65; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions 1836–70; presented at the crown court Wells, Oct. 1861, with his portrait by Frank Grant, R.A.; colonel of north Somerset yeomanry cavalry 9 Aug. 1843 to Jany. 1867; created baronet 19 April 1859. _d._ Leigh court, Bristol 17 June 1878.

MILEY, JOHN. _b._ co. Kildare about 1805; ed. at Maynooth and Rome; R.C. curate of Dublin parish 1835; attended Daniel O’Connell in Richmond Bridewell, Dublin, May 1844; went with Daniel O’Connell to Genoa as his private chaplain March 1847, O’Connell died 15 May 1847, Miley placed his heart in church of St. Agatha, Rome, conveyed his body to Glasnevin cemetery, Ireland, and preached his funeral sermon in Marlborough st. church Dublin 4 Aug.; rector of the Irish college, Paris 1849–59; parish priest of Bray 1859 to death; author of Rome under Paganism and the popes 1848; History of the papal states 3 vols. 1850; The temporal sovereignty of the popes 1856, vol. 1 only; L’Empereur Napoléon III. et la Papauté 1859. _d._ Bray 18 April 1861. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell_, _ii_ 36, 457 (1888).

MILFORD, SAMUEL FREDERICK (eld. son of Samuel Frederick Milford of Heavitree near Exeter). _b._ Exeter 16 Sep. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 10 May 1822; judge of diocesan ecclesiastical court Bristol; master in equity of New South Wales and chief comr. of insolvent estates Sep. 1842 to Jany. 1856; resident judge in district of Moreton Bay (now Queensland) Jany. 1856 to Feb. 1859; judge of supreme court of New South Wales at Sydney, judge of the court of vice-admiralty and primary judge in equity Feb. 1859 to death. _d._ Maitland, N.S.W. 26 May 1865.

MILL, JAMES. Educ. at Edinb. univ.; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; a surgeon at Wick 1827–47; at Thurso 1847 to death; provost of Thurso 1852–60 and 1865; sheriff depute; presented with a carriage, a time piece and a silver tea service 1872. _d._ Thurso 27 June 1873. _Medical times_, _ii_ 81 (1873).

MILL, JOHN. _b._ St. Gennys, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1815; ed. at Edinb. univ.; M.D.; editor of the Phrenological and physiological library; sec. of the proposed National university for technical and industrial training 1871; assisted R. A. Caplin in her Women in the reign of queen Victoria 1876; author of The fossil spirit, a boy’s dream of geology 1854; The claims of Swedenborg, an oration 1856–7; The use of clairvoyance in medicine 1858; Disraeli the author, orator and statesman 1863; Primary, industrial and technical education, What to teach and how to teach it 1871; The Ottomans in Europe or Turkey in the present crisis with the Secret societies’ maps 1876. _d._ Camberwell, London 26 June 1881. _Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 566.

MILL, SIR JOHN BARKER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Barker of Wareham, Dorset). _b._ 1803; ed. at Downing coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; V. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 14 May 1831 to 1836; assumed name of Mill by r.l. 1835; created a baronet 16 March 1836. _d._ Mottisfont abbey near Romsey 20 Feb. 1860. _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 232–5.

MILL, JOHN STUART (eld. child of James Mill, philosopher 1773–1836). _b._ 13 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 20 May 1806; ed. by his father; lived with sir Samuel Bentham in France 1820–1; a junior clerk in examiner’s office, India house 21 May 1823, an assistant 1828, chief of the office with £2000 a year 1856, retired with pension of £1500 a year on dissolution of East India co. 1858; founded the Utilitarian society, winter of 1822–3, the society read essays and discussed questions, it lasted till 1826; wrote in the Westminster Review 1824–8; edited Bentham’s Treatise upon evidence 5 vols. 1826; member of the Speculative society 1826–9; proprietor of Westminster Review 1837–40; M.P. Westminster 1865–8; contested Westminster 18 Nov. 1868; chairman of the Jamaica committee to promote prosecution of governor Eyre 1866; rector of Univ. of St. Andrews 1866; author of A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive 2 vols. 1843, 11 ed. 1891; Essays on some unsettled questions of political economy 1844, 2 ed. 1874; Principles of political economy 2 vols. 1848, 6 ed. 1865; On liberty 1859; Dissertations and discussions 4 vols. 1859–75. _d._ Avignon, France 8 May 1873. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1867); _A. Bain’s J. S. Mill, a criticism_ (1882); _J. Morley’s Miscellanies_, _ii_ 239–327 (1877); _Caroline Fox’s Memories of old friends_ 2 _vols._ (1882), _passim_; _W. L. Courtney’s Life of J. S. Mill_ (1889); _I.L.N. xlviii_ 280, 281 (1886) _portrait_, _lxii_ 455, 456 (1873) _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 28 April 1866 p._ 264, _portrait_; _English psychology translated from the French of Th. Ribot_ (1873) 78–123; _Mind_, _No._ 14, _March 1879 p._ 211; _The Examiner 17 May 1873 pp._ 502–18; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. viii_ 259–73 (1875); _Charles Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living_ (1877) 14–18; _J. S. Mill and Abraham Hayward, by W. D. Christie_ (1873).

MILL, WILLIAM HODGE (son of John Mill of Dundee). _b._ Hackney near London 18 July 1792; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1 Oct. 1814; 6 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; D.D. Oxf. 1839; the first principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1820–38; member of Bengal Asiatic society, vice pres. 1833–7; chaplain to Wm. Howley, abp. of Canterbury 1839; Christian advocate at Cambridge 1839; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb. and canon of Ely Oct. 1848 to death; R. of Brasted, Kent 1843 to death; author of Christa Sangita or the sacred history of our Lord Jesus Christ in Sanscrit verse. Book 1, the infancy. Calcutta 1831, and of A Sanskrit translation of the Sermon on the Mount; Observations on the attempted application of pantheistic principles to the criticism of the gospel 2 parts 1840–44, 2 ed. 1861, and of many theological lectures and sermons. _d._ Brasted 25 Dec. 1853. _bur._ Ely cathedral 31 Dec., bust in rooms of Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta. _G.M. xli_ 205–6 (1854).

MILLAR, REV. JAMES. Chaplain of Edinburgh Castle 16 May 1850 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1875.

MILLAR, JOHN, LORD CRAIGHILL (son of John Hepburn Millar of Glasgow, merchant). _b._ 1817; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; LL.D. Glasgow; called to bar 1842; advocate depute 1858, 1859 and 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 6 March 1867 and 4 March 1874; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; a lord of session 15 July 1874, took courtesy title of Lord Craighill; a lord justiciary 4 March 1876. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1888. _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 508 (1888).

MILLARD, JOHN. Elocution master at city of London school 21 years; professor of elocution at Royal academy of music and Royal college of music to death; author of A grammar of elocution 1869, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ 63 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1893. _John Millard’s Shakespeare for recitation_ (1893).

MILLER, DAVID PRINCE. _b._ Mansfield, Notts. 1808; apprenticed to a draper in Tottenham Court road, London; clerk in chambers of Mr. Booth, barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; ran away from home, employed in Richardson’s theatre at Portsmouth and at other fairs 1832; a strolling conjuror at fairs in Great Britain 1832–39 and from 1848; first appeared at Glasgow fair July 1839; erected a wooden building for theatrical performances at Glasgow 1839, when J. H. Alexander proceeded against him for infringement of the Theatre royal patent, Miller was detained in gaol 13 weeks; opened the Royal Adelphi theatre Glasgow 21 Dec. 1842, rebuilt the house at cost of £2000 and opened it again 3 Oct. 1847; lessee of Queen’s theatre, Manchester for a short time; gave an entertainment entitled The ups and downs of life, at Concert hall, Liverpool, and at the National hall, Holborn, London; contributed to Henry Mayhew’s London labour and the London poor at salary of £2 per week 1850; a showman at the great fair at Bayswater during Great Exhibition of 1851, the fair was a failure; author of The life of a showman and the managerial struggles of D. P. Miller, originally published in 12 parts April 1842 &c., 2 ed. 1849. _d._ Kent road, Glasgow 24 May 1873.

MILLER, FIENNES SANDERSON. _b._ 16 May 1783; major 6 dragoons 25 May 1809 to 15 May 1817; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Radway Grange, Warws. 12 Sep. 1862.

MILLER, FREDERIC PEEL. _b._ Clapham, Surrey 29 July 1828; first played with Dulwich and Streatham clubs; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Surrey 2 June 1851; in the Surrey eleven 1853; came into a fortune and gave large sums for the publication of Lillywhite’s cricket scores vols. 1–4 (1863), which but for him would have broken down; president of the United All England eleven some seasons to 1857; in Australia and New Zealand for his health 1870–2; retired into Somerset 1873; one of the most wonderful run getters; on committee of the Surrey club and managed many of the great matches at the Oval. _d._ Chilworthy near Chard 22 Nov. 1875. _Baily’s Mag. xxviii_ 7–10 (1876); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 236 (1863); _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 38, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_.

MILLER, HENRY (2 son of Edward Miller). _b._ Radway, Warwickshire 7 March 1828; matric. from Worcester coll. Oxf. 6 Feb. 1846; demy of Magd. coll. 1846–58, fellow 1858–61; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; C. of Littleham with Exmouth 1854; R. of Radway, Warwickshire 1858–60; V. of Ashbury, Berkshire 1860 to death; author of The question of interpretation plainly stated in reference to certain views put forth by the authors of Essays and Reviews 1861; Some account of the parish of Ashbury 1877. _d._ 4 Feb. 1892. _J. R. Bloxam’s Magdalen college, Oxford_, _vii_ 378 (1881).

MILLER, HUGH (son of Hugh Miller, lost in his trading-sloop in the Moray firth 9 Nov. 1807). _b._ Cromarty 10 Oct. 1802; apprenticed to a stonemason 1819–22; a journeyman mason in different parts of Scotland 1822–34; accountant in branch of Commercial bank at Cromarty, Dec. 1834 to Jany. 1840; edited The Witness, an Edinburgh bi-weekly paper, organ of the non-intrusionists Jany. 1840 to death; his part in the free church movement 1839 to 1843 was only second to that of Chalmers; author of Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason 1829; The old red sandstone or new walks in an old field 1841, 2 ed. 1842; First impressions of England and its people 1847, 3 ed. 1861; Footprints of the creator, or the Asterolepis of Stromness 1849, 2 ed. 1861; The testimony of the rocks 1857; The cruise of the Betsey 1858; _shot himself_ at Portobello near Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1856. _bur._ in the Grange cemetery, bust by Wm. Brodie in national portrait gallery, Edinburgh. _P. Bayne’s Life and letters of Hugh Miller_ (1871), 2 _portraits_; _H. Miller’s My schools and schoolmasters_ (1852); _H. Miller’s Footprints of the creator_ (1861), _memoir by L. Agassiz pp. iii–xxxvii_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 405–12, _portrait_.

MILLER, JAMES (3 son of rev. James Miller 1777–1860). _b._ the manse, Essie, Forfarshire 2 April 1812; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–7; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1832, F.R.C.S. Edinb.; assistant to Robert Liston 1832–4, succeeded to his practice in Edinb. 1834; professor of surgery in univ. of Edinb. 30 July 1842 to death; surgeon in ordinary, Scotland to prince Albert 8 July 1847 and to the Queen 17 April 1848; surgeon to royal infirmary, Edinb.; professor of pictorial anatomy to school of design at royal institution, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Principles of surgery 1844 and Practice of surgery 1846, they were amalgamated into A system of surgery 1864; Surgical experience of chloroform 1848; Prostitution in relation to its cause and cure 1859. _d._ Pinkhill near Edinburgh 17 June 1864. _bur._ in Grange cemetery Edinb. 22 June, bust by sir John Steell in Medical mission house 56 George sq. Edinb. _Proc. of Royal Soc. v_ 298 (1866); _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, _July 1864 pp._ 92–6; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_; _Catalogue of Surgeon-general’s office. Washington ix_ 311–12 (1888).

MILLER, JOHN (3 son of rev. Peter Miller of Bockleton, Worcester, and Leysters, Herefordshire). _b._ Bockleton 20 Jany. 1787; ed. at St. Paul’s, London and Worcs. coll. Oxf., scholar 6 June 1806, fellow 4 June 1810; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; select preacher 1814; C. of Croft and Yarpole, Herefordshire 1814–18; Bampton lecturer 1817; C. of Bishopston, Wilts. 1818–21; R. of Benefield, Norths. 1822, resigned 1842; C. of Bockleton 1851 to May 1855, P.C. of Bockleton, May 1855 to death; author of The divine authority of holy scripture asserted, Bampton lectures 1817; A christian guide for plain people, especially for the poor, six sermons. Oxford 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Sermons to show a sober application of scriptural principles to the realities of life 1830; Conspectus of the Hampden case at Oxford 1836; Thoughts for the labouring classes among christians 1831, 3 ed. 1836; A safe path for humble churchmen, six sermons 1850. _d._ Bockleton 18 Jany. 1858. _J. M. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies_ (1875) 23–42; _Coleridge’s Memoir of Keble 2 ed._ (1869) _i_ 23–29; _G.M. iv_ 441–44 (1858).

MILLER, JOHN. _b._ 5 Nov. 1810; bookseller at 27 Rathbone place, London 1833–6, at 404 Oxford st. 1836–47, at 361 Oxford st. 1847–8, at Chandos st. 1848–65 and at Green st. 1865 to death; published R. H. Horne’s famous farthing epic Orion 1843 and other books. _d._ London 10 Jany. 1873.

MILLER, JOHN (son of James Miller, builder). _b._ Ayr 26 July 1805; in a solicitor’s office, Ayr 1818–23; in office of Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, Edinb. 1823, who took him into partnership 1825; constructed roads in Scotland and Ireland 1829–31; engineer of Dundee and Arbroath railway, of the Glasgow, Ayr and Kilmarnock and of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 1835; engineer of North British railway, of direct Northern railway from London to York, and of northern half of Great Northern railway; constructed many of finest viaducts in Great Britain, especially the Lugar viaduct; retired 1850; A.I.C.E. June 1830, M.I.C.E. May 1832; F.R.S. Edinb. 1841; M.P. city of Edinburgh 1868–74; purchased estates of Leithenhopes, Peebleshire, and Drumlithie, Kincardineshire. _d._ 2 Melville crescent, Edinburgh 7 May 1883. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv_ 286–9 (1883).

MILLER, JOHN BIRMINGHAM. _b._ 1778; called to Irish bar 1811; Q.C. 1 July 1837. _d._ Kildare 1 Jany. 1855.

MILLER, JOHN CALE (only son of John Miller). _b._ Margate, Kent 11 Oct. 1814; ed. Brompton gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Oxf.; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1834–6; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1857; C. of Bexley, Kent 1837; assistant curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1839, curate 1841–6; R. of St. Martin’s, Birmingham, June 1846 to March 1866; established a working men’s assoc. 1854; began special services in St. Martin’s ch. for the labouring classes Nov. 1856; V. of Greenwich 7 March 1866 to death; hon. canon of Worcester, Aug. 1852, canon and treasurer 31 Oct. 1871 to 1873; select preacher at Oxford 1867; canon of Rochester 1873 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Rochester 1877 to death; member for Greenwich of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to March 1872; author of Subjection, no not for an hour, a warning to protestant christians in behalf of the truth of the gospel as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines of the tractarian heresy 1850, 5 ed. 1850, which evoked several replies; Bible inspiration vindicated, an essay on “Essays and Reviews” 1861; A hymn book for church of England Sunday schools 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Letters to a young clergyman 1878 and 40 other books. _d._ Park place, Maze Hill, East Greenwich 11 July 1880. _bur._ Shooter’s Hill cemet. 16 July. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait No. 35_; _Drawing-room portrait gallery 4th series_ (1860), _portrait No. x_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 199–208.

MILLER, JOHN FLETCHER. _b._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 20 June 1816; commenced keeping a meteorological register 1831; made experiments on the fall of rain in the Lake district 1844, erected pluviometers on the mountains 1846; his paper On the meteorology of the Lake district sent to Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1 May 1854; had a grant from Royal Soc. of London towards costs of his observations 1847, F.R.S. 6 June 1850; founded an observatory 1849 and sent results of his observations to Astronomische Nachrichten, Altona; A.I.C.E. 1851; entered Guy’s hospital, London, Oct. 1855; Ph.D. and M.A. Göttingen; F.R.A.S.; collected materials for a Physical geography of the English lake and mountain district. _d._ 14 July 1856. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 166–70 (1857); _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_, _vi_ 189–216 (1875).

MILLER, JOHN MOODIE. _b._ near Stirling 1826; printer at Leith; issued The Edinburgh Times 1857; bookseller at Lindsay place, Edinb. to death; published many books. _d._ Edinburgh 28 June 1884.