Part 33

MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. _d._ Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. _A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain_ (1866) _portrait_; _F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada_ (1870) 131–86 _portrait_; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 447–8 (1888) _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis_ (1867) 284–7; _I.L.N. xli_ 576, 587 (1862) _portrait_.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). _b._ 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. _bur._ St. John’s cemetery. _Lives of missionaries, North America_ (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). _b._ Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. _d._ Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. _The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p._ 1324.

MOUNT CASHELL, STEPHEN MOORE, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). _b._ St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. _d._ Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 405 (1883) _portrait_.

MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDGCUMBE, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). _b._ Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; _m._ 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was _b._ Jany. 1808 and _d._ Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. _d._ in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. _Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria_ (1845) 37–45 _portrait of the Countess_.

MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. _d._ Boston, Massachusetts 20 April 1885.

MOUNTMORRES, HERVEY DE MONTMORENCY 4 Viscount (only son of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–1833). _b._ Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. _d._ The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 115 (1872).

MOUNTMORRES, WILLIAM BROWNE DE MONTMORENCY, 5 Viscount (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany. 1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. _murdered_ with 6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880. _bur._ Monkstown. _Graphic xxii_ 356 (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 361 (1880) _portrait_.

MOUNTSOY, ANTOINE. _b._ Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. _Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p._ 14 _portrait_.

MOUNT TEMPLE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER TEMPLE, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). _b._ Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. _d._ Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. _The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct._ (1888); _I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp._ 481, 482 _portrait_.

MOUTRIE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLARD. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. _d._ 1869.

MOWAT, JOHN LANCASTER GOUGH (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, _d._ 1881). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. _hung himself_ at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. _The Times 9 Aug. 1894._

MOWATT, ALEXANDER MURRAY. _b._ 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. _d._ Liverpool 21 June 1869. _Newspaper Press iii_ 181 (1869).

MOWATT, ANNA CORA (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, _d._ 1860). _b._ Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; _m._ 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and _d._ Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she _m._ (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who _d._ 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. _Howitt’s Journal iii_ 146, 167, 181 _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York stage ii_, 437–8, 729 (1867); _Tallis’ Drawing room table book_ 1851, _Part_ 2 _pp._ 9–11 _two portraits_; _Theatrical Times iii_ 162, 169 (1848) _portrait_; _A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress_ (1854) _portrait_; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 450 (1888) _portrait_.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED JOSEPH STOURTON, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). _b._ 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. _d._ Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED RICHARD. _b._ Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. _d._ 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Holywell cemet. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) 51.

MOXON, EDWARD (son of Michael Moxon). _bapt._ in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c; author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. _d._ Putney Heath 3 June 1858. _bur._ Wimbledon churchyard. _Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873) 347–62; _Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies_ (1864) 229–35 _and_ 257; _P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii_ 46, 458 (1889).

NOTE.--Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go _d._” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii_ 356–92 (1850).

MOXON, EMMA (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. _d._ Cambridge Oct. 1814). _b._ 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; _m._ 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. _d._ Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 203 _portrait_; _The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter_ (1870); _A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i_ 341, _ii_ 172, 365 (1888); _Law Reports_ 8, _Chancery_ 881–8 (1873).

MOXON, JAMES HENRY HARMAR (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). _b._ Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. _d._ suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883. _Baily’s Mag. xl_ 415 (1883).

MOXON, WALTER (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). _b._ Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. _d._ 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic acid. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 July. _British medical journal 1886 vol. ii_ 178, 234, 392, 434.

MOYLAN, DENIS. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector general of rates 1870. _d._ 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.

MOYLE, JOHN GRENFELL (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–1828). _b._ Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board, Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. _d._ 23 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.

MOYLE, MATTHEW PAUL (2 son of John Moyle). _b._ Chacewater, Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine 1823. _d._ Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.

MOYSEY, CHARLES ABEL (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., _d._ 1831). _b._ 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. _d._ Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

MOZLEY, ANNE (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller). _b._ Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present 1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68, and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley 1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. 1891. _d._ Derby 27 June 1891. _A. Mozley’s Essays from Blackwood_ (1892) _memoir pp. vii–xx_; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3 _portrait_.

MOZLEY, HARRIET ELIZABETH (elder sister of John Henry Newman, cardinal, _d._ 11 Aug. 1890). _m._ at St. Werburgh’s, Derby 27 Sept. 1836 Thomas Mozley, divine and journalist 1806–93; author of The fairy bower or the history of a month 1841; The lost brooch 1841; Louisa, or the bride 1842; Family adventures 1852. _d._ 71 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 17 July 1852.

MOZLEY, JAMES BOWLING (brother of Anne Mozley 1809–91). _b._ Gainsborough 15 Sept. 1813; ed. at Grantham gr. sch. 1822–8; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 1 July 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1871; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1840–56; joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, the organ of the high church party about 1845–55; V. of Old Shoreham, Sussex 1856 to death; select university preacher 1869; canon of Worcester 1869–71; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and canon of Ch. Ch. 7 Oct. 1871 to death; author of On the Augustinian doctrine of predestination 1855, 2 ed. 1878; The primitive doctrine of baptismal regeneration 1856; A review of the baptismal controversy 1862, 2 ed. 1883; Eight lectures on miracles; Bampton lectures 1865, 6 ed. 1883; Ruling ideas in early ages and their relation to the Old Testament faith 1877, 4 ed. 1889; The theory of development, a criticism of Dr. Newman’s essay 1878; Sermons, parochial and occasional 1879, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures and other theological papers 1883. _d._ Old Shoreham vicarage 4 Jany. 1878. _J. B. Mozley’s Essays_, 2 _vols._ (1884) _introduction pp. xi–xlvii_; _J. B. Mozley’s Letters_ (1885) _introduction pp._ 1–30; _I.L.N. lxxii_ 108 (1878) _portrait_.

MOZLEY, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Gainsborough 1806; ed. at Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf.; pupil of John Henry Newman; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; fellow of Oriel April 1829 to 27 Sept. 1836, junior treasurer 1835; C. of Buckland near Oxford 1831; P.C. of Moreton-Pinkney, Northamptonshire 1831–6; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1836–47, rebuilt the church; advocated the tractarian movement from 1833; edited the British Critic 1841–3; wrote leading articles for The Times from 1844 for more than 40 years; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1868–80; rural dean of Plymtree 1874, and of Ottery St. Mary 1876; author of Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel college and the Oxford movement, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1882; Reminiscenses, chiefly of towns, villages and schools, 2 vols. 1885; The Word 1889; The Son 1891; Letters from Rome on the occasion of the Œcumenical council 1869–70, 2 vols. 1891; The creed, or a philosophy 1893, with autobiographical preface. _d._ 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 17 June 1893.

MUDGE, HENRY (son of Thomas Mudge). _b._ Tower Hill house, Bodmin 29 July 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; practised at Bodmin to his death; advocated strict temperance principles; mayor of Bodmin twice; edited The Western temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1838; The Bodmin temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1840–1; The Cornwall and Devon temperance journal, 8 vols. 1851–8; author of An exposure of Odd-fellowship 1845; Rescued texts or teetotalism put under the protection of the gospel 1853, 3 ed. 1856; Alcoholics, a letter to practitioners in medicine By one of themselves 1856; Dialogues against the use of tobacco 1861. d. Fore st. Bodmin 27 June 1874. _Boase & Courteney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 377–8 (1874), _iii_ 1290 (1882).

MUDGE, RICHARD ZACHARIAH (eld. son of major general Wm. Mudge, col. R.A. 1762–1820). _b._ Plymouth 6 Sept. 1790; ed. at Blackheath and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 May 1807, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 7 Sept. 1840; in charge of the drawing department, Tower of London, some years; superintended the ordnance survey of Lincolnshire 1818; appointed comr. by the British government to examine the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 1838, the survey was made by Mr. Featherstonehaugh and himself Aug. to Oct. 1839, the boundary was settled by the treaty of Washington 1842; author of Observations on railways with reference to utility, profit and the obvious necessity of a national system 1837. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 25 Sept. 1854. _bur._ Denbury. _S. R. Flint’s Mudge memoirs_ (_Truro_ 1883) 177–239.

MUDGE, _Zachary_ (son of John Mudge, physician 1721–93). _b._ Plymouth 22 Jany. 1770; entered navy 1 Nov. 1780; captain 15 Nov. 1800; captain of Blanche 32 gun frigate 23 Sept. 1802 in the West Indies, where he captured many French merchant ships and privateers; lost his ship in an action with a French squadron 19 July 1805, tried by court martial 14 Oct. when acquitted of all blame; commanded the Phœnix in the Bay of Biscay 1805–10, and the Valiant, 74 guns 1814–5; admiral 15 Sept. 1849. _d._ Sydney near Plympton 26 Oct. 1852. _bur._ Newton Ferrers. Memorial window in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.

MUDIE, CHARLES EDWARD (son of Thomas Mudie, second-hand bookseller). _b._ Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 Oct. 1818; assisted his father until 1840; stationer and bookseller at 28 Upper King st. (now Southampton row), Bloomsbury; published Poems by James Russell Lowell 1844, and R. W. Emerson’s Man thinking, an oration 1844; commenced lending books 1842; removed to 510 New Oxford st. 1852, where he opened a large new hall and library 17 Dec. 1860; established branches in London, Birmingham and Manchester; made over the library to a limited company 1864, in which he held half the shares and remained manager, there were over 25,000 subscribers to his library; member of London school board for Westminster 1870–3; author of Stray Leaves 1872, a vol. of poems, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 31 Maresfield gardens, Hampstead 28 Oct. 1890. _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 421–32 _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 72–3 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 3 Nov. 1890 p._ 583 _portrait_.

MUDIE, CHARLES HENRY (son of the preceding). _b._ Adelaide road, Haverstock hill 26 Jany. 1850; ed. at Univ. college school, London; took part in management of his father’s business 1871 to death; a good musician, an amateur actor, and a lecturer; he devoted much time to improvement of the poorer classes. _d._ 13 Jany. 1879. _C. H. Mudie_ [_by Mary Mudie his sister_] (1879) _portrait_; _Athenæum i_ 90 (1879).

MUDIE, JAMES. Second lieutenant royal marines 10 May 1799, first lieut. 18 Aug. 1804 to 1810 or 1811; manufactured medals of principal persons engaged in Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns; became insolvent 22 Aug. 1821; in New South Wales July 1822 to March 1836; owner of Castle Forbes station near Maitland, N.S.W. where there was an insurrection of the convicts in 1833, when he was removed from the commission of the peace together with 32 other magistrates; gave evidence in London before select committee appointed to inquire into the system of transportation, April and May 1837; author of An historical and critical account of a grand series of national medals, published under the direction of J. Mudie 1820; The felonry of New South Wales being a picture of the real romance of life in Botany bay 1837. _R. Therry’s Reminiscenses_ (1863) 164–78; _R. Flanagan’s History of New South Wales i_ 478–9, 524 (1862); _Vindication of J. Mudie and J. Larnach from reflections on their conduct relative to treatment of convict servants_ 1834.

MUDIE, THOMAS MOLLISON. _b._ Chelsea 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at royal academy of music from 1823, professor of the pianoforte there 1832–44; organist at Lord Monson’s seat Gatton, Surrey 1834–40; taught music in Edinburgh 1844–63 when he returned to London; his song Lungi dal caro bene was published at cost of the R.A. of music composed symphonies in C and in B flat; at the concerts of the Society of British musicians, were performed his symphony in F 1835, symphony in D 1837, a quintet in E flat for pianoforte and strings 1843, &c.; composer of Remember, a duet 1840; Six songs and two duets 1844; There be none of beauty’s daughters, a song 1845; The songs of Scotland by G. F. Graham, arranged by T. M. Mudie and others, 3 vols. 1848; Airs from Macfarren’s opera She stoops to conquer 1864, two books; Christabel waltz 1874; First Nocturne for the piano 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces 1830–76. _d._ Shaftesbury terrace, London 24 July 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 July.

MUGGERIDGE, SIR HENRY (son of Robert Muggeridge). _b._ Banstead, Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London; common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855, after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London 1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. _d._ West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.

MUIR, EMILY MARGARET (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist). Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre, London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept. 1879. _d._ Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.

MUIR, JAMES (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). _b._ Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London 1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer 1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866. _d._ Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi_ 323–6 (1889).

MUIR, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft, Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God 1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851; Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown court, London 1856. _d._ Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. _Our Scottish clergy, by J. Smith_ (1848) 45–56; _Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p._ 31 (1868).

MUIR, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad 1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur, Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death; chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm. Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India, 5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from Sanskrit writers 1879. _d._ 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7 March 1882. _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 103–4; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 352 (1882) _portrait_.

MUIR, MATTHEW ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production much cheaper. _d._ Glasgow Jany. 1880.

MUIR, MATTHEW ARNOLD. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames; owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891, which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. _d._ 25 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.

MUIR, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). _b._ Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D., 1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow 1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17 May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage; dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit 1842; Metrical meditations 1870. _d._ Ormelie, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 23 June 1869. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 75–7 _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii_ 22–5 (1872).

MUIR, WILLIAM (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). _b._ Catrine, Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67, his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of temperance. _d._ Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery. _R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir_ (1888).

MUIR, SIR WILLIAM MURE (son of Walter Boyd Muir). _b._ Edinburgh 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854, inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny 1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885. _Medical Times and Gazette i_ 800 (1885).

MUIRHEAD, JAMES (son of Claud Muirhead of Gogan park, Midlothian, proprietor of the Edinburgh Advertiser). _b._ 1831; in a merchant’s office in Leith; connected with the Edinburgh Advertiser; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; member of faculty of advocates 1857; professor of civil law in univ. of Edinb. 1862 to death; advocate depute 1874–80; sheriff in chancery 1885; sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannanshire 1886; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1885; edited The institutes of Gaius and rules of Ulpian 1880; author of Historical introduction to the private law of Rome, Edinburgh 1886, a work of authority translated into French and Italian; his law library was purchased by subscription after his death and presented to Owen’s college, Manchester. _d._ Drumsheugh gardens, Edinburgh 8 Nov. 1889. _Juridical Review Jany. 1890 pp._ 27–36 _portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 175–80 _portrait_.

MULCAHY, JOHN. ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1851; professor of mathematics Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; author of Principles of modern geometry, Dublin 1852, 2 ed. 1862. _d._ 1 Dec. 1853.

MULCASTER, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of captain sir William Howe Mulcaster). _b._ 29 Sept. 1820; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1838, major 14 Nov. 1861; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 4 April 1863 to 1 July 1881; served in Afghanistan 1841; in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, and present at Modkee, etc.; served with 7 Irregular cavalry in second Punjab campaign 1848–9, and was present at siege of Mooltan, etc.; commander of 7 Irregular cavalry 14 Jany. 1852 to 26 May 1864, and was present in campaign on North West frontier 1853; brigadier commanding the cavalry in Sitana campaign 1857; brigadier general in Assam 1864, and commanded the Bhootan field force on the Eastern frontier; brigadier general commanding the Mooltan brigade 1865; commanded the Agra brigade to 1867; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ 3 Portland place, Bath 4 Feb. 1887.

MULES, HENRY CHARLES. _b._ 1816; copyhold and enclosure comr. 13 Nov. 1852 to death. _d._ Hill house, Copdock, Suffolk 4 Dec. 1862.

MULHALL, EDWARD. _b._ Queen’s co. Ireland 1812; ordained R.C. priest 1835; professor of humanity at Carlow college from 1835, until his health obliged him to retire. _d._ Mountrath, Queen’s county 9 Sept. 1857.

MULHOLLAND, ANDREW (son of Thomas Mulholland, cotton manufacturer). _b._ Belfast 1791; cotton manufacturer with his brother in York st. Belfast, their mill was burnt down 10 June 1828; produced flax yarns by machinery 1830, in which business he enjoyed almost a monopoly; member of Belfast corporation 1842, mayor 1845; presented the town with the organ in Ulster hall at cost of £3,000, 1845; retired from business 1860; sheriff of Down and Antrim. _d._ Springvale, Ballywalter, co. Down 24 Aug. 1866.

MULL, MATTHIAS. _b._ 1820; manager of a printing establishment in India 1850; manager of Bombay gazette; on staff of Bombay times, purchased the paper, took Robert Knight into partnership, and renamed it The Times of India, when it became the representative journal of Western India, retired 1880; author of Shakespeare 1883, emendations on certain passages; Paradise lost, with notes 1884; Hamlet restored, with notes 1885; Hamlet, supplementary notes 1888; Macbeth, with preface and notes 1889. _d._ Oct. 1893.

MULLANY, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Tipperary 29 June 1847; ed. by the Christian Brethren at Utica, New York 1862; professor of mathematics and English literature Rock hill college, Ellicott city, Maryland 1866, president 1878, charges being made against him he was summoned to Paris and on investigation acquitted; professor of rhetoric at De La Salle institute 1889; established the summer school at Plattsburg, a catholic copy of Chautauqua; contributed to the Contemporary, Fortnightly, American Catholic and North American reviews, and The Forum; author under the name of Azarias, of The development of English literature, the old English period, New York 1879; On thinking, an address 1881; Aristotle and the christian church 1888; Phases of thought and criticism 1892; The history of education from the earliest ages 1893, left unfinished. _d._ Plattsburgh, New York state Sept. 1893.

MULLEN, ROBERT. Ensign 1 foot 25 June 1802, major 8 Aug. 1833 to 16 June 1843; lieut. col. in the army 16 June 1843; K.H. 1835. _d._ at residence of his son, captain Mullen, governor of Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.

MULLENS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept 1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of Missionaries_ (1877) 169–70; _Congregationalist viii_ 969 _portrait_; _Congregational year book_ (1880) 342–4.

MULLER, EDWARD ANGIER GODFREY. _b._ about 1802; ensign 1 foot 3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct. 1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866 to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill, Surrey 22 June 1875.

MÜLLER, FRANZ. _b._ 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja, Ich habe es gethan. _Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp._ 239–63; _Central criminal court, Sessions papers lx_ 461–504 (1864); _Annual register_ (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; _Illust. Times 24 Sept. 1864 p._ 201 _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii_ 448–52 (1884).

NOTE.--This was one of the last of the most celebrated public executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868.

MULLINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter Mullins, _d._ 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry 1736–1824). _b._ 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. _d._ Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.

MULLINS, JAMES. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of £35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs. Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860, tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death, _hanged_ at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. _Central Criminal court trials lii_ 769–805 (1860); _A.R._ (1860) 541–64.

MULLOCK, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville; superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York 1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.

MULLOOLY, JOSEPH. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s, Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of Wales 1859. _d._ Rome 25 June 1880. _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo 27 June. _Times 3 July 1880 p._ 12.

MULOCK, DINAH MARIA (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). _b._ Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti 1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852; Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853; Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols. 1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868; Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864; _m._ 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_ 377–84 (1891).

NOTE.--The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte.

MULREADY, WILLIAM (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater 1827 to death. _d._ 7 July 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready_ (1890) 2 _portraits_; _Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready_ (1867); _Sandby’s History of the royal academy i_ 355–58 (1862); _S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists_ (1871) 15–6; _J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A._ (1872); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 137–43; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_ 224–30, 298–325 (1866); _I.L.N. vii_ 20 (1845) _portrait_.

MULVANY, CHARLES PELHAM (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister). _b._ Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850, scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7; surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868; went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872; assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years; curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881; author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant, Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. _d._ 69 Augusta terrace, Toronto 31 May 1885. _David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1892) 171.

MULVANY, GEORGE F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A. _d._ 1852). _b._ Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy; exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A., succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy 1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847; Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany 1890. _d._ Dublin 6 Feb. 1869.

MUMFORD, ELIZA. _b._ 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. _d._ Bromley, Kent 3 Feb. 1884.

NOTE.--Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882.

MUMMERY, ISAAC VALE (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). _b._ Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec. to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. _d._ 28 High st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 7 Oct. _Congregational Mag._ (1893) 234.

MUNBY, GILES (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). _b._ York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges, and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran, Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. _d._ the Holt near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. _Gardener’s Chronicle ii_ 260–2 (1876) _portrait_.

MUNDELL, WILLIAM ADAM (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George st. Westminster). _b._ 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co., solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847, bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar; Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding of assizes and sessions 1857. _d._ 150 Buckingham palace road, London 15 July 1875. _Law Times lix_ 252 (1875); _Solicitor’s Journal xix_ 736 (1875); _Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77.

MUNDY, CHARLES FITROY MILLER (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1815; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15 Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ London 12 July 1888.

MUNDY, GEORGE. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs. Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. _d._ Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire _d._ Oct. 1822). _b._ Shipley hall 1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec. 1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1819–31. _d._ 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE RODNEY (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy _d._ 1848). _b._ London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819, captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857; second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863; commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72; admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5; admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23 June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples during the Italian revolution 1863. _d._ 12 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.

MUNDY, GEORGE VALENTINE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840; captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut. col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in the army 24 April 1860. _d._ 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 14 May 1863.

MUNDY, GODFREY CHARLES (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot 6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857 to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. _d._ London 10 July 1860.

MUNDY, SIR ROBERT MILLER (brother of Sir George Mundy 1777–1861). _b._ 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut. R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846 with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col. in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut. governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut. governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of £333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.

MUNDY, WILLIAM (son of Francis Mundy M.P. _d._ 6 May 1837). _b._ Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843; M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South Derbyshire 19 July 1865. _d._ Markeaton 10 April 1877.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A. and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca 1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham; lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself a house and studio at Cannes. _d._ Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 133–8.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid, Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations to scripture and reason 1856. _d._ Glasgow Nov. 1892.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER THOMPSON (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt., _d._ Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany. 1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18 Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut. col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3 July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug. 1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate. _The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July_, _8, 24, 26 Aug._, _4 Dec. 1843_; _Annual Register_ (1843) 79–80, 115, (1847) 111–12; _I.L.N. xi_ 173 (1847) _portrait_.

MUNRO, SIR CHARLES, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain, Rossshire, _d._ 1846). _b._ Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5 March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war; received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the war of independence in South America, and commanded a division of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9 baronet 2 May 1848. _d._ Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.

MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar; head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to 1850; F.L.S. 1821. _d._ 9 April 1853 _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 237 (1855).

MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. _d._ Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888.

MUNRO, SIR GEORGE GUN (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). _b._ 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. _d._ 16 Sept. 1852.

MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). _b._ Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. _d._ Rome 30 March 1885. _bur._ in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. _Saturday Review lix_ 472; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_ 131–42 (1854).

MUNRO OR McKENZIE, JANET. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. _d._ Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. _bur._ Roskeen 19 April. _Times 15 May 1852 p._ 8.

MUNRO, JOHN (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, _d._ May 1788). _b._ June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.

MUNRO, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). _b._ 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. _d._ Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.

MUNROE, KATE, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). _b._ New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; _m._ 1886 Mr. Miles. _d._ from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and _bur._ in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 267; _Illust. S. & D. News v_ 321, 327 (1876) _portrait_; _The Theatre ii_ 169, 208 (1883) _portrait_.

MUNSEY, THOMAS ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.

MUNSIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. _d._ Glasgow 1864. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 235–6 (1886) _portrait_.

MUNSTER, HENRY (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). _b._ 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. _d._ Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894.

MUNSTER, WILLIAM FELIX LAURENCE (son of Henry Munster, M.P.) _b._ Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4; resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. _d._ St. Louis, Missouri 11 April 1877.

MUNTZ, GEORGE FREDERICK (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz, merchant, _d._ 1811). _b._ Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov. 1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811; made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of 15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency 1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of the country, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Umberslade hall, near Birmingham 30 July 1857. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841) 86–101; _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors_ (1881) 93, 170, 206, 225; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 92 (1842) _portrait_, _xiv_ 196 (1849) _portrait_; _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_ (1877) 79–88.

MUNTZ, PHILIP HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ Selby hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough 1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec. 1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856; presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P. Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. _d._ Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. _bur._ Leamington 28 Dec. _Biograph iii_ 47–52 (1880); _Times 26 Dec. 1888_, _p._ 4, _29 Dec. p._ 7; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 494, 546 (1880); _I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._ 36 _portrait._

MURCHISON, CHARLES (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.) _b._ Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin 1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April 1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death; physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860, physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital 1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P. 1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875; member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer 1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885; On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23 April 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St. Thomas’s hospital. _Proc. of Royal Society xxix_ 23–5 (1879).

MURCHISON, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale, Eastern Ross 1751–96). _b._ 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807; lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion 1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and Singapore. _d._ Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.

MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth Murchison 1793–1854). _b._ Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb. 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug. 1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14; captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815; attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany. 1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826, Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society 1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president of British Association at York 1846; director general of the geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861; lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains 1845; _m._ 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she _d._ 16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. _d._ 16 Belgrave sq. London 22 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. _A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R. I. Murchison_, 2 _vols._ (1875) _portrait_; _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 206–13; _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 29–35 (1872); _Walford’s Representative Men_ (1868) _portrait No._ 13; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 237 (1866) _portrait_; _Graphic iv_ 411, 429 (1871) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 13 Jany. 1866 p._ 17 _portrait_; _Victoria Mag. xii_ 461–3 (1809) _an account of Lady Murchison_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 297–8 (1869).

MURDOCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany. 1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22 Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired 14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced, the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece to the Admiralty 1866. _d._ Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.

MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1767; a baker; the public hangman in Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct. 1851. _d._ 15 March 1856. _Times 28 March 1856 p._ 10.

MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to death. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.

MURDOCH, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM CLINTON (son of Thomas Murdoch, F.R.S.) _b._ Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842; chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847, retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1 Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. _d._ 88 St. George’s sq. London 30 Nov. 1891.

MURE, DAVID (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, _d._ 1831). _b._ 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. _d._ Bournemouth 11 April 1891.

MURE, JAMES (son of James Mure). _b._ Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. _d._ 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. _F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school_ (1884) 311–13.

MURE, WILLIAM (brother of David Mure 1810–91). _b._ Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. _d._ 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. _G.M. viii_ 634–5 (1860).

MURE, WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.

MURFITT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. _d._ Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.

MURLAND, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. _Found dead_ in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. _Irish law times xxiv_ 275 (1890).

MURLY, GEORGE BULLOCK. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. _d._ Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.

MURPHY, MR. _b._ Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. _d._ of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. _Willis’ Current Notes_ (1857) 34; _E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs_ (1868) 224; _F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history_, _3rd series ii_ 23 (1868).

MURPHY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH MARY ANNUNCIATA (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). _b._ Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; _m._ 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. _d._ North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. _bur._ in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 465 (1888); _The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp._ 659–60.

MURPHY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. _d._ 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men i_ 69–72 (1868) _portrait_; _Medical times i_ 217 (1877).

MURPHY, FRANCIS. _b._ Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. _d._ West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858.

MURPHY, SIR FRANCIS (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). _b._ Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. _d._ St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.

NOTE.--His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. _d._ Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.

MURPHY, FRANCIS STACK (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). _b._ Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. _d._ Kensington, London 17 June 1860. _Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 464–7; _I.L.N. iv_ 107 (1844) _portrait_; _Law Times xxxv_ 191 (1860).