Part 30

MOFFAT, ROBERT (son of a custom house officer). _b._ Ormiston, East Lothian 21 Dec. 1795; apprenticed to a gardener 1809–12; under-gardener at Mr. Leigh’s, High Leigh, Cheshire Dec. 1813 to Dec. 1815; a missionary under the London missionary soc. from 1816, arrived at Cape Town 13 Jany. 1817, travelled in Namaqualand 1817–8; superintendent at Lattakoo 1820–5, at Kuruman 1825–70; visited England 1839–43; persuaded Livingstone to undertake the Bakwana mission 1840; was the pioneer of South African missionary work; left Africa for England 10 June 1870; D.D. Edinb. April 1872; presented with upwards of £5,000 by his friends 1873; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’ company 20 Dec. 1877; entertained at the mansion house, London 7 May 1881; (_m._ at St. George’s church, Cape Town 27 Dec. 1819 Mary only dau. of James Smith of Dukinfield near Manchester nursery gardener, she was _b._ at New Windsor, now part of Salford, 1795 and _d._ Brinton, London 9 Jany 1871 after being for 50 years one of the pioneers of South African mission work); author of Translation of the gospel of St. Luke into Sechwana 1830, Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa 1842 and 9 other books. _d._ Leigh near Tunbridge 10 Aug. 1883. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 16 Aug., memorial monument at Ormiston. _J. S. Moffatt’s The lives of Robert and Mary Moffatt_ (1886), _portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Moffatt_; _A. Manning’s Heroes of the desert_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Campbell’s Farewell services of R. Moffatt_ (1843); _I.L.N. lx_ 452 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic xxviii_ 192 (1883), _portrait_.

MOFFITT, ANDREW. _b._ 11 Jany. 1836; assistant surgeon in army 25 May 1858, surgeon 1 March 1873, surgeon major 1 April 1873; principal medical officer of the Ever Victorious army in China 1863; author of A manual of instruction for attendants on sick and wounded in war 1870. _d._ Southampton 3 Feb. 1882. _Graphic_, _xxix_ 244 (1884), _portrait_.

MOFFITT, JOHN M. _b._ England 1837; apprenticed to a sculptor in London 1852; went to U.S. of America at end of his apprenticeship; executed the figures representing the four ages of man on the eastern entrance to Greenwood cemetery, New York; designed many of the altars in New York churches. _d._ London 15 Sep. 1887.

MOGFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1822; landscape painter principally of coast scenes; associate of New Society of Painters in water-colours 1866 and member 1867; lived at 17 Park road, Hampstead 1867 to death; exhibited 32 landscapes at R.A., 28 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1846–79. _d._ 17 Park road, Hampstead, Nov. 1885.

MOGFORD, THOMAS (son of a veterinary surgeon at Northlew, Devonshire). _b._ Exeter 1 May 1809; printer at Exeter to about 1843 when he moved to London; a landscape painter in Guernsey, where he founded a school of painting; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A., 11 at B.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1838–61; his portraits include E. H. Baily, R.A., Samuel Cousins the engraver, and J. C. Adams the astronomer. _d._ Guernsey 1868. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 90–6.

MOGRIDGE, GEORGE (son of Mathias Mogridge of Ashted, Birmingham, canal agent). _b._ Ashted 17 Feb. 1787; an apprentice to a japanner 1801; partner with his elder brother Mathias Mogridge in the Japan trade at Birmingham 1811, his brother retired from the business with a fortune, and he became a bankrupt 1826; commenced a literary life 1826; author of Twelve moral tales by Uncle Newbury 1828; The moral budget of my Aunt Newbury 1835; Ephraim Holding’s Homely hints to Sunday school teachers 1843; Cheerful chapters adapted to youth, by Old Alan Gray 1854; The Chinese, by Uncle Adam 1845; under the names of Old Humphrey 1839 etc., and Peter Parley 1836 etc., he also wrote very numerous books; wrote under his own name The churchyard lyrist, five hundred original inscriptions 1832; Footprints of popery, or places where martyrs have suffered 1843; Amos Armfield or leather covered bibles 1845; Learning to act 1846; Wanderings in the Isle of Wight 1846; Things that have wings 1851; Sunny seasons of boyhood 1859; Who is my neighbour 1868, and 50 other books many of them anonymous; for the Religious Tract soc. he wrote 106 books and tracts; resided at 114 Cornwall road, London. _d._ 4 High Wickham, Hastings 2 Nov. 1854. _C. Williams’s George Mogridge, his life, character and writings_ (1856), _portrait_; _Memoir of Old Humphrey_ (1855), _portrait_.

MOHL, MARY ELIZABETH (dau. of Charles Clarke). _b._ Millbank row, Westminster 1793; placed in a convent school at Toulouse 1801; lived in Paris with her mother; great friend of Madame Récamier for 18 years; _m._ 1847 Julius Mohl the orientalist 1800–76; her receptions in the Rue du Bac, Paris were very popular for nearly 40 years, her friends included Quinet, De Tocqueville, Guizot, Thiers and Renan; author of Madame Récamier, with a sketch of the history of society in France by Madame Mxxx. 1862; Le livre des Rois, par Abou ’lkasim Firdousi traduit et commenté par J. Mohl, Publié par Mme Mohl. 7 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Paris 15 May 1883. _bur._ Père-Lachaise cemetery. _M. C. M. Simpson’s Letters of G. and M. Mohl_ (1887), _portrait_; _K. O’Meara’s Madame Mohl_ (1886), _portrait_; _Contemporary review Aug. 1878 pp._ 1–21; _F. W. Muller’s Biographical Essays_ (1884) 272–310.

MOIR, DAVID MACBETH (son of Robert Moir d. 1817). _b._ Musselburgh near Edinburgh 5 Jany. 1798; studied medicine in Edinburgh, M.R.C.S. 1816; partner with Dr. Brown at Musselburgh 1817 and in practice there to death; wrote jeux d’esprit in Blackwood’s magazine, also essays and serious verse over the signature Δ; wrote for Fraser’s magazine and other periodicals; author of The bombardment of Algiers and other poems 1816, anon.; The legend of Genevieve, with other tales and poems 1824; The autobiography of Mansie Wauch 1828; Outlines of the ancient history of medicine 1831; Proofs of the contagion of malignant cholera 1832; Domestic verses 1843; edited The works of Mrs. Hemans 7 vols. 1839. _d._ King’s Arms inn, Dumfries 6 July 1851. _bur._ at Inveresk, statue by Ritchie erected at Musselburgh 1854. _m._ 8 June 1829 Catherine Elizabeth youngest dau. of Charles Bell of Leith, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853. _The poetical works of D. M. Moir. Ed. by Thomas Aird_ 2 _vols._ _Edinb._ (1852), _memoir i pp. xv–cxxxii_, _portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1851 pp._ 249–50; _Fraser’s Mag. Sep. 1833 p._ 290, _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 198–9, _portrait_.

MOIR, GEORGE (son of George Moir). _b._ Aberdeen 1800; admitted advocate 2 July 1825; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1828; professor of rhetoric and belles lettres in univ. of Edinb. 1 Aug. 1835 to Oct. 1840, professor of Scots law 13 Feb. 1864 to 1865; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1855–8; sheriff of Stirlingshire 1858–68; translated Wallenstein, a dramatic poem by J. C. F. Von Schiller 2 vols. 1827, and The historical works of F. Schiller, Constable’s Miscellany 2 vols. 1828; author of The appellate jurisdiction of Scotch appeals 1851; Magic and witchcraft 1852; Principles of the law of Scotland, containing extracts from lectures of G. Moir 1870, 4 ed. 1886. _d._ Charlotte sq. Edinb. 19 Oct. 1870. _Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 359, 375 (1884); _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xiv_ 618 (1870).

MOIR, JOHN MACRAE. _b._ Waterside of Thornton at the foot of the Grampians in Kincardineshire 1827; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; went to London 1846; associated with journalism 1852; edited the Illustrated Times, London 9 June 1855 for 3 years; secretary of the Scottish corporation 1862 to death; the first editor of the Illustrated news of the world, No. i Feb. 6, 1858; the first editor of the People’s magazine 1867; London correspondent many years of the chief provincial newspapers; one of compilers of Men of the time; nonconformist minister at Worthing, Sussex; barrister M.T. 6 June 1864; often acted as deputy judge in the lord mayor’s court, and as deputy judge in the city of London court and other metropolitan county courts; a candidate for office of town clerk of city of London 1873, and for that of city remembrancer 1878; edited Capital punishment by John Macrae 1865 and Todesstraffe by Professor Mitteemaier 1862. _d._ Braefit, 116 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead 12 July 1881. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 16 July. _The Biograph_, _Jany. 1881 pp._ 9–11; _Law Times_, _lxxi_ 236 (1881).

MOLE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Alnwick, Northumberland 1814; began painting miniatures 1835; painted landscapes and figure subjects in water-colours; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colours 1847, member 1848, contributed to annual exhibitions of the society which became the Royal Institute of painters in water-colours 1884, vice pres. 1884; exhibited 11 figure subjects at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1845–80. _d._ 7 Guildford place, Russell sq. London 13 Dec. 1886.

MOLESWORTH, JOHN EDWARD NASSAU (only son of John Molesworth). _b._ London 4 Feb. 1790; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. and D.D. 1838; C. of Millbrook, Hampshire 1812–28; C. of Wicksworth, Derbyshire 1828 for two months only; V. of St. Martin’s with St. Paul, Canterbury 1829–39; one of the six preachers at Canterbury 1829; V. of Minster-in-Thanet 1839; V. of Rochdale 3 March 1840 to death; promoted the Rochdale vicarage act 1866 by which the 13 chapels of ease were converted into parish churches and their endowments raised; contributed to the British magazine and Encyclopædia Metropolitana; editor of The penny Sunday reader. Canterbury 14 vols. 1835–41, and of Common sense or everybody’s magazine 2 vols. 1842–43; author of The rick-burners, a tale 1830; Overbury, or some advantages of an established church, a tale 1834, 2 ed. 1860; The pulpit pocket companion and liturgical companion 1836; Resistance to church rates, a letter to the people of England 1836, 5 ed. 1854; The domestic chaplain, sermons on family duties 2 vols. 1838; The parish church 1842 and 30 other books. _d._ Rochdale vicarage 21 April 1877. _bur._ St. Martin’s, Castleton Moor, Lancs. _Raines’s Vicars of Rochdale_ (_Chetham Soc._ 1883), _ii_ 325–76.

MOLESWORTH, JAMES THOMAS (brother of 7 Viscount Molesworth 1786–1875). _b._ 1795; lieut. 6 Bombay N.I. 4 April 1816; captain 11 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, retired 24 April 1837; second assistant commissary general 1827–35; author with Thomas and George Candy of Marathee-English and English-Marathee dictionary. Bombay 2 vols. 1831–47, he worked for six years preparing the second edition published 1857; never made use of his designation the honourable. _d._ Clifton 13 July 1872. _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 305–6.

MOLESWORTH, SIR ROBERT (only son of Hickman Blayney Molesworth). _b._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1833; called to the Irish bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1828; emigrated to Adelaide 1852; admitted to the bar of Victoria, Australia 1853, solicitor general 25 Nov. 1855 to 17 June 1856; a puisne judge of the colony 17 June 1856, primary judge in equity 1857, retired 1886; chief judge in court of mines; knighted by patent 9 July 1886. _d._ Edlington, Hawthorne, Melbourne 17 Oct. 1890.

MOLESWORTH, SIR WILLIAM, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7 baronet 1789–1823). _b._ Upper Brook st. London 23 May 1810; entered at Trin. coll. Camb., expelled for challenging his tutor to fight a duel; finished his education at univ. of Edinb.; M.P. East Cornwall 1832–7; projected The London Review, April 1835, which he transferred to J. S. Mill 1837; on the first committee of the Reform club 1836; obtained a parliamentary committee to inquire into the system of transportation 1837 and wrote the report; M.P. Leeds 1837–41; M.P. Southwark 1845 to death; sheriff of Cornwall 1842; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; first comr. of the board of works 5 Jany. 1853 to 2 July 1855; colonial secretary 21 July 1855 to death; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1835; edited The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 11 vols. 1839–45, also Hobbes’s Latin works 5 vols. 1839–45, which cost him £6,000. _d._ 87 Eaton place, London 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 27 Oct. _The philosophical radicals of 1832, comprising the life of Sir W. Molesworth, &c. By Mrs. Grote_ (1866); _Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 416–19, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 341, 342 (1851) _portrait_, _xxvii_ 489, 490 (1855) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ July 1844 Andalusia only dau. of James Bruce Carstairs of county Kinross. She had _m._ (1) Temple West of Mathon lodge, Worcester, who _d._ 13 April 1839. She made her debut as a singer at Drury Lane as Diana Vernon in Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1827 under the stage name of Andalusia Grant. Her last appearance was as Hymen in ‘As you like it’ at Drury lane in 1841. She entertained literary men and others in London and at Pencarrow in Cornwall for many years. _d._ 87 Eaton place, London 16 May 1888.

MOLESWORTH, WILLIAM NASSAU (eld. son of John Edward Nassau Molesworth 1790–1877). _b._ Millbrook near Southampton 8 Nov. 1816; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and St. John’s and Pembroke colleges, Cambridge; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; LL.D. Glasgow 1883; C. of Rochdale 1839–41; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Ancoats, Manchester 1841–4; V. of St. Clement, Spotland near Rochdale 1844–89; hon. canon of Manchester cath. 1881; author of Secular education, an important element of religious education 1857; Essay on the French alliance 1860; Plain lectures on astronomy 1862; The history of the reform bill of 1832. 1864; Prize essay on the great importance of an improved system of education for the upper and middle classes 1867; The history of England from 1830. 3 vols. 1871–3, 5th thousand 1874; History of the church of England from 1660. 1882; edited with his father Common Sense 1842–3. _d._ Rochdale 19 Dec. 1890. _bur._ Spotland. _Biograph_, _vi_ 82–4 (1881); _I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1891 p._ 4, _portrait_.

MOLINEUX, THOMAS. _b._ 1803; double-bass player; a pianoforte manufacturer; invented the Molineux action for pianos patented 28 April 1860; managing director of St. James’ hall, London many years. _d._ London about 31 Jany. 1891.

MOLINI, CHARLES FREDERICK (son of John James Molini). _b._ Haymarket, London 9 Jany. 1789; clerk to Abraham Favenc, merchant and then to S. Dobree and Sons; a bookseller at 14 Paternoster row 1830–41, at 17 King William st. Strand 1841 to death as a dealer in Italian books and an agent for Italian marbles, alabasters, etc.; London agent for his cousin Giuseppe Molini of Florence about 1818 to death. _d._ 17 King William st. London 21 April 1860. _Bookseller_, _July 1860 p._ 417.

MOLIQUE, WILLIAM BERNHARD (son of M. Molique, stadtmusikus). _b._ Nuremberg 7 Oct. 1803; violinist Vienna; leader of band, Munich 1820, and Stuttgart 1826–49; resided in London 1849–66; retired to Canstadt 1866; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music, nearly all of them published in London, among these were Five sets, each of six German songs 1845–8; Three sacred songs from the Psalms 1849; Six melodies for flute and harp 1851; Flying leaves, six pieces for the concertina 1856; Abraham, oratorio. Op. 65 full score, produced at Norwich festival 1860; Three duets for two violins 1860; On parting, song written by lord Byron 1866; I know thou dost love me, song, words by Hoffman 1873. _d._ Canstadt near Stuttgart 10 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of Biography_, _June 1869 p._ 484.

MOLLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1790; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 5 July 1819, fellow 28 Oct. 1839, treasurer 1847–55, president 1855, 1856; M.D. Edinb.; M.D. Dublin 1839; M.R.I.A.; consulting physician Richmond lunatic asylum. _d._ 60 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 17 Sep. 1877.

MOLLER, JOHANNES. _b._ 1814; miniature painter to king of Denmark. _d._ 21 Warrior gardens, St. Leonards on Sea 30 Oct. 1885.

MOLTANO or MOLTARNO, DELHI. A negro; a tamer of wild beasts many years; when entering the cage of three bears and a hyena in Wombwell and Bailey’s menagerie and circus at Hednesford near Cannock Chase, he slipped down and the animals attacked and worried him for fifteen minutes, taken to the Anglesey hotel where he died the same night 14 March 1892. _bur._ cemetery Burton-on-Trent 18 March.

MOLTENO, SIR JOHN CHARLES (son of John Molteno). _b._ 1814; member of Cape of Good Hope legislative assembly for Beaufort West 1854 to 1883; colonial secretary to government of Cape of Good Hope 1872 to 6 Feb. 1878 and 1881 to 1882; came to England 1876 to confer with secretary of state on public business; K.C.M.G. 18 Aug. 1882. _d._ Claremont house, Cape Town 1 Sep. 1886.

MOLYNEUX, CAPEL (eld. son of John Molyneux of Gavel hill, Salop). _b._ Loseley mansion, Surrey 2 Dec. 1804; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; in the army; C. of St. Mary’s, Woolwich 1842–50; minister of the Lock chapel, Harrow road, London 1850–60; V. of St. Paul’s, Onslow sq. 1860–72; author of Lectures delivered in the Lock chapel. 1852; Gethsemane, lectures delivered in Lent 1854; Broken bread, short comments for family use 1855; Lent sermons 1860; A farewell address to the congregation of St. Paul’s, Onslow square 1872. _d._ Cannes 27 Dec. 1877. _Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860_, 30–31, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862) _portrait_.

MOLYNEUX, ECHLIN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1847; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. _d._ 1878.

MOLYNEUX, SIR JOHN WILLIAM HENRY, 8 Baronet (brother of Capel Molyneux 1804–77). _b._ 28 Jany. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 27 wrangler 1841; B.A. 1841; V. of St. Gregory with St. Peter, Sudbury, Suffolk 1855 to death; hon. canon of Ely cathedral 1875 to death; succeeded his cousin as 8 baronet 24 Jany. 1879; author of What is a christian? 2 ed. 1853; A letter to the bishop of Ely on the rights of all parishioners to the use of the church 1856; Symbolism not formalism 1857, 2 ed. 1857; Preaching the gospel to the working classes impossible under the pew system 1858; The altar and lights on the altar, a correspondence with the bishop of Ely 1865; Vivisection, a speech 1876. _d._ Sudbury vicarage 5 March 1879.

MOLYNEUX, WILLIAM. F.G.S.; author of Burton-on-Trent, its history, its waters and its breweries 1869; to R. Plant’s History of Cheadle, Leek 1881, he contributed The Cheadle coalfield pp. 277–311. _d._ Durban, Natal 24 Oct. 1882.

MOLYNEUX-WILLIAMS, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; midshipman in the navy 1805–11; ensign 4 foot 14 Feb. 1811; lieut. 77 foot 28 Feb. 1812, captain 16 Sep. 1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; took additional surname of Williams 1836; L.G. 31 March 1866; K.H. 1836. _d._ 9 Holles st. Cavendish square, London 10 May 1871.

MOMBACH, ISRAEL LAZARUS, known as Julius L. Mombach (son of rev. Lazarus Mombach, chazan in Plungstadt, Germany). _b._ Plungstadt 1813; brought to England 1823; taught music by rev. Mr. Eliasson; a singer in the Great synagogue, St. James’ place, Aldgate st. London 1828, then director of the choir 1841 to his death; taught singing to the members of the Jews’ college; conducted concerts at Jewish working men’s club; composed music for the German synagogues in England and the colonies. _d._ Armfield’s hotel, South place, Finsbury, London 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ West Ham cemetery. _J. L. Mombach’s Sacred musical compositions_, _edited by Rev. M. Keizer_ (1881), _portrait and memoir_; _Jewish Chronicle 13 March 1880 p._ 7.

MONAHAN, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of Michael Monahan of Heathlawn near Portumna, Galway). _b._ Portumna 1804; ed. at Banagher and Trin. coll. Dublin; passed first in science and took the gold medal 1823; student of Gray’s Inn 4 Feb. 1826; called to Irish bar 1828; became leader of Connaught circuit; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1840; bencher of King’s Inns 1847; solicitor general for Ireland 16 July 1846, attorney general 24 Dec. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1850; M.P. for borough of Galway 17 Feb. to Aug. 1847; contested Clonmel 10 Aug. 1847; P.C. Ireland 1848; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas Oct. 1850, resigned Jany. 1876, presided at special commission for trial of the Fenian prisoners at Cork and Limerick 1867; a comr. of national education 1861; author of The method of law, an essay on the statement and arrangement of the legal standard of conduct 1878. _d._ 5 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 8 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 11 Dec. _The voice of the bar_ (1850); _Irish law times_, _xii_ 605 (1878); _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes_ (1885) 309–12.

MONCK, SIR CHARLES MILES LAMBERT MIDDLETON, 6 Baronet (only son of sir Wm. Middleton, 5 bart. 1738–95). _b._ London 7 April 1779; ed. at Rugby 1787 etc.; succeeded 7 July 1795; changed his name to Monck under will of his grandfather Lawrence Monck 1799; sheriff of Northumberland 1801; M.P. Northumberland 1812–20; built Belsay castle, a Doric structure 1809; owner of race horses; purchased Twinkle, dam of Cast Steel, whose progeny won for him 100 races; his mare Gossamer ran third for the Oaks 1853; won the Chester cup with Vanity 1858; with Gamester won the St. Leger 1859; sold his stud at York in 1860 for 3595 guineas; author of An address to the county of Northumberland on the bills for the reform of the house of commons. Newcastle 1832. _d._ Belsay castle, Northumberland 20 July 1867. _Baily’s Mag. v_ 271–4 (1863), _portrait_; _Sporting Review_, _lviii_ 87–8 (1867).

MONCORVO, VISCOUNT DA TORRE DE. _b._ 13 May 1788; envoy extraord. and minister-plenipo. from Portugal to England 1835 to death. _d._ 57 Upper Seymour st. London 11 Jany. 1851, remains removed to French chapel. _bur._ Chelsea cemetery 18 Jany.

MONCREIFF, SIR HENRY WELLWOOD, 10 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh 21 May 1809; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ. Edinb. 1823; matric. from New coll. Oxf. 5 April 1827, B.A. 1831; president of Union debating soc.; minister of parish of Baldernock, Stirlingshire 1836–7; minister of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire 1837–43; minister of Free East Kilbride 1843–52; minister of Free St. Cuthbert’s, Edinb. 1852 to death; succeeded his father as 10 baronet 4 April 1851; joint principal clerk to free general assembly 1855; D.D. Glasgow 1860; secretary of the Bible board Jany. 1861 to death; moderator of free church assembly 1871; sec. to H.M. master printer in Scotland 1 Jany. 1861; author of Creeds and churches in Scotland 1869; A vindication of the free church claim of right 1877; The free church principle, its character and history, Chalmer lectures 1883. _d._ 6 Murchiston terrace, Edinburgh 4 Nov. 1883. _J. A. Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 419–28, _portrait_; _W. Wilson’s Memorials of R. S. Candlish_ (1880) 225–59; _Biograph_, _iv_ 107–8 (1880).

MONCREIFF, SIR JAMES WELLWOOD, Lord Moncreiff (2 son of rev. sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, 8 baronet and divine 1750–1827). _b._ 13 Sep. 1776; ed. at Edinb. and Glasgow univs.; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 30 Nov. 1793, exhibitioner; B.C.L. 1800; called to Scottish bar 26 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross 7 Feb. 1807; dean of the faculty of advocates 22 Nov. 1826 to 1829; defended the resurrectionist Burke 1828; succeeded his father as 9 baronet 9 Aug. 1827; a judge of court of session with title of lord Moncreiff 24 June 1829 to death. _d._ 47 Moray place, Edinburgh 30 March 1851. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Chambers’s Eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 154–6 (1870), _portrait_; _Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the college of justice_ (1832) 552; _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 157–60, _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _ii_ 557–97 (1829) _xlv_ 261–5 (1851).

MONCREIFFE, SIR THOMAS, 7 Baronet. _b._ Moncreiffe house, Bridge of Earne, Perthshire 9 Jany. 1822; succeeded 20 Nov. 1830; ensign grenadier guards 15 May 1840, sold out 21 Jany. 1842; lieut.-col. of Perthshire militia 1846–55 and hon. col. 30 Oct. 1855 to death. _d._ Moncreiffe house 16 Aug. 1879.

MONCRIEFF, ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Moncrieff, advocate Glasgow). Ed. Glasgow coll.; advocate 1852; advocate depute 1862; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1869. _d._ 22 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 2 June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence July 1870 p._ 376.

MONCRIEFF, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; ensign Scots fusilier guards 8 April 1826, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 14 June 1858; M.G. 14 June 1858, L.G. 27 Dec. 1864. _d._ Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1869.

MONCRIEFF, ROBERT SCOTT WELLWOOD. Treasurer of the Soc. of Scottish antiquaries 1812; great friend of William Henry Murray actor who _d._ 1852; resided at 17 Leopold place, Edinb.; Old dean of guild 297 High st. Edinb.; came into the Garvoch estate on death of Andrew Wellwood about 1842; built a house near Dalmeny which was so ugly that Lord Rosebery bought it and pulled it down. _d._ about 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 169–70, _portrait_.

MONCRIEFF, WILLIAM THOMAS, stage name of W. T. Thomas (son of a tradesman in Newcastle st. Strand, London). _b._ London 24 Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy 18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817, and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, where his equestrian drama. The dandy family ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April 1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog 30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11 Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837, and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers 23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 3 Dec. 1857. _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _ix_ 28–9 (1853), _portrait_; _Era 13 Dec. 1857 p._ 11.

MONCTON, HENRY (eld. son of hon. Edward Moncton of Somerford, co. Stafford 1744–1832, by Sophia natural dau. of George Pigot 1 baron Pigot, governor of Madras). _b._ 11 Sep. 1780; ensign 95 foot 5 March 1795; captain 24 dragoons 20 April 1796, major 24 July 1802, placed on h.p. 1803; major 3 foot 15 May 1806; major 8 light dragoons Jany. 1807; lieut-col. 72 foot 18 June 1807 to 1824 or 1825; general 11 Nov. 1851; served during the Irish rebellion and with the Austrian army in Italy. _d._ Amherst house, Clifton park, Clifton 29 June 1854.

MONEY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1778; cornet 11 dragoons April 1794, major 14 Dec. 1809 to 24 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 2 dragoons 24 May 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Crown point, Trowse, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1858.

MONEY, ROWLAND (son of Wm. Money of Horn house, Hereford). _b._ 28 April 1782; entered navy 21 April 1796; captain 29 March 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; engaged in the attacks on Washington and Baltimore 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; awarded a pension of £250, 16 Feb. 1816. _d._ Cheltenham 21 June 1860.

MONGREDIEN, AUGUSTUS (son of a French officer). _b._ London 1807; ed. at R.C. college, Penn, Bucks.; owner of the first screw steamers to the Levant; member of firm of Hugh and John Johnston, corn merchants, London 1859–64; a corn factor as A. Mongredien and co. 61 Mark lane, London 1864; purchased Heatherside, Surrey 1862; member of National political union 1831; member of the Cobden club 1872; president of London Chess club 1839; granted civil list pension of £100, 28 July 1886; author of Trees and shrubs for English plantations 1870; England’s foreign policy 1871; The Heatherside manual of hardy trees and shrubs 1874–5; Frank Allerton: an autobiography 3 vols. 1878; History of the free-trade movement in England 1881; Wealth creation 1882. _d._ 31 Park road, Forest Hill near London 30 March 1888. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861), _portrait_.

MONINS, EATON (son of John Monins). _b._ Canterbury 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 52 foot 1 Dec. 1814; present at Waterloo; major 69 foot 19 Nov. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1835 to 10 Nov. 1848 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; colonel of 8 foot 3 June 1860 to death. _d._ Wellesley house, Upper Walmer 16 June 1861. _bur._ in St. Mary’s church, Walmer.

MONK, JAMES HENRY (only son of Charles Monk of 40th foot). _b._ Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1 Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822; 7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823; Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822 to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832; R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829 to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July, the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836; edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum, or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. _d._ the palace, Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. _bur._ in north aisle of Westminster abbey 14 June. _G.M. i_ 115–7 (1856); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_ (1833) _vol. iv_, _portrait_ 21; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_ 76–9 (1846); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 398–400.

MONK, JOHN. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder of Manchester. _d._ 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany. 1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 260 (1874).

MONK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Monk). _b._ Brompton, London 16 March 1823; organist of Eaton chapel Pimlico 1841–3, of St. George’s chapel Albemarle st. 1843–5, and of Portman chapel Marylebone 1845–7; choirmaster at King’s college, London 1847, organist 1849, professor of vocal music 1874; professor of music at School for the indigent blind 1851; organist at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1853, where he established a daily choral service; lectured on music at London institution 1850–4; professor in National training school for music 1876 and in Bedford college London 1878; hon. Mus. Doc. Durham 1882; he was musical editor of the following works, The parish choir, from the fortieth number to its close in 1851; Hymns ancient and modern, compiled by sir H. Baker 1862, numerous editions and a sale of 30 million copies; Appendix to Hymns ancient and modern 1869; The holy year, hymns by C. Wordsworth 1865; The Scottish hymnal 1873; The psalter printed for chanting, the harmonies and chants revised 1874; Book of anthems 1875; The children’s hymnal, harmonies 1876; Hymns for mission services 1877; The congregational psalmist hymnal 1886; The book of common prayer, with plain song and music 1891; composer of Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel, arranged 1849; Te Deum laudamus for four voices 1862; The office of holy communion set to music 1884; and the tunes of the hymns Abide with me, and Sweet Saviour bless us ere we go. _d._ Glebe Field, Stoke Newington, London 1 March 1889. _Musical Herald_, _April 1889_, _portrait_; _J. Love’s Scottish church music_ (1891) 214–5.

MONKSWELL, ROBERT PORRETT COLLIER, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Collier 1769–1849, M.P. for Plymouth 1832–41). _b._ Mount Tamar near Plymouth 21 June 1817; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; member of the anti-corn law league; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843, went western circuit, leader of the circuit 1854–63; recorder of Penzance 14 July 1848 to March 1856; M.P. for Plymouth 1852–71; Q.C. July 1854; counsel to Admiralty and judge advocate of the fleet Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1863; solicitor general 2 Oct. 1863 to July 1866; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; attorney general 12 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1871; recorder of Bristol for a few days Oct. 1870; P.C. 3 Nov. 1871; judge of Court of Common Pleas 7 Nov. 1871 where he sat for a few days only; judge of judicial committee of P.C. 22 Nov. 1871 to death; created baron Monkswell of Monkswell, co. Devon 1 July 1885; exhibited 20 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. gallery 1864–80; author of The railways’ clauses, companies clauses and lands clauses consolidation acts, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; A treatise on the law relating to mines 1849; A letter on reform of the superior courts of common law 1851, 2 ed. 1852; translated The oration of Demosthenes on the Crown 1875. _d._ Grasse near Cannes 27 Oct. 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemet. London. _I.L.N. xliii_ 393 (1863) _portrait_, _liv_ 385, 446 (1869) _portrait_; _Saturday Review 30 Oct. 1886 p._ 578; _Law Journal 30 Oct. 1886 pp._ 604, 616, 618.

MONRO, ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Monro anatomist 1733–1817). _b._ Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1773; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ., M.D. 1797; F.R.C.P. 1799; studied in London and Paris; with his father conjoint professor of anatomy in univ. of Edinb. 1798, delivered the whole course of lectures from 1808, and was sole professor 1817–46, and Emeritus professor 1846 to death; author of Observations on crucial hernia 1803; The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach and intestines 1811, 2 ed. 1830; Outlines of the anatomy of the human body 1813, 2 ed. 1825; Engravings of the thoracic and abdominal viscera 1814. _d._ Craiglockhart near Edinburgh 10 March 1859, portrait by K. Macleay in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 175, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv_ 225 (1862).

MONRO, SIR DAVID (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813; educ. Edinb. acad. and univ.; an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand under the N.Z. co.; member of legislative council of province of New Munster 1849; member of the first general assembly of N.Z. 24 May 1854 to 1866; member for Cheviot 1866–70, for Waikonati 1870; speaker of house of representatives 1861 and 1862 and 1866–70; knighted by patent 10 Feb. 1866; the first person unseated on an election petition in N.Z. 1871; studied medicine in Paris, Berlin and Vienna 1866, M.D. _d._ Newstead near Nelson, New Zealand 17 Feb. 1877. _G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand_, _iii_ 7–8 (1883).

MONRO, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Thomas Monro, M.D. 1790–1856). _b._ Gower st. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; P.C. of Harrow Weald, Middlesex 1842–60; V. of St. John’s, Leeds 1860 to death; select preacher at Oxford 1862; established a college for boys called the College of St. Andrews at Harrow Weald; author of The Combatants, an allegory 1848; The dark river 1850; The parish 1853, a poem; Daily studies during Lent 1856; Practical sermons on the characters of the old testament 3 vols. 1855–8; Parochial lectures on English poetry 1856 and 30 other books. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Leeds 13 Dec. 1866. _bur._ Harrow Weald churchyard 20 Dec.

MONRO, EDWARD THOMAS (son of Thomas Monro of Bloomsbury, London, F.R.C.P.) _b._ London 1794; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1814; candidate of college of physicians 22 Dec. 1815, fellow 23 Dec. 1816, censor 1819, 1829 and 1837, Harveian orator 1834, consiliarius 1837, 1846 and 1852, elect 30 Sep. 1842, treasurer 25 June 1845 to 1854; physician to Bethlehem hospital. _d._ Bushy, Herts. 25 Jany. 1856. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 153 (1878).

MONRO, HENRY (brother of Edward Monro 1815–66). _b._ 1817; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1863; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. 1848, censor 1861–3, councillor 1864–5 and 1875–7; physician to Bethlehem hospital 1848; founded the House of Charity in Rose st. Soho 1846; physician to St. Luke’s hospital 1855–82; president of Medical psychological association 1864; painted his own portrait and that of his father and presented them to royal college of physicians; author of A treatise on stammering 1849; Remarks on insanity, its nature and treatment 1850; On improving the condition of the insane 1851; Articles on reform in private asylums 1852. _d._ 14 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 May 1891. _Memoir of H. Monro, by rev. Canon W. Foxley Norris, privately printed_; _Journal of mental science July 1891 pp._ 496–7.

MONROE, MARY. _b._ Derbyshire 1 Feb. 1795; one of the greatest travellers of her time; passed Easter week in Rome as the guest of the Pope 1830; a friend of the marquis de Lafayette; was twice a guest of sir Walter Scott; a friend of the duchess of Kent; travelled 20 weeks in Great Britain and Ireland investigating the condition of the working classes 1865; _m._ an officer in the customs service of the United States. _d._ New York 15 Sep. 1893.

MONSELL, HARRIET (dau. of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet, of Dromoland, co. Clare 1773–1837). _b._ Dromoland 1812; a sister of mercy 29 May 1851; superior of house of mercy at Clewer 30 Nov. 1852, resigned 1875, known afterwards as the Community of St. John the Baptist, planted its first mission in London 1860, it numbered in 1883 over 200 sisters in England, America and India; the chief mover in building St. Andrew’s convalescent hospital, Clewer 1865; _m._ 21 Sep. 1839 rev. Charles Henry Monsell (3 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, _d._ 1846) _b._ 12 June 1815, prebendary of Aghadoe 1840, he _d._ Naples 29 Jany. 1851. She _d._ The Hermitage, Folkestone 25 March 1883. _T. T. Carter’s Harriet Monsell, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.

MONSELL, JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY (2 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, _d._ 20 Nov. 1846). _b._ St. Columb’s, Derry 2 March 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; chaplain to bishop Mant; R. of Dunaghy, Ramoan, co. Antrim; chancellor of diocese of Connor 14 April 1847 to 1853; V. of Egham, Surrey 1853–70; hon. chaplain to the queen 27 Dec. 1872 to death; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1870 to death; rural dean of Emley 1871; wrote many popular hymns, among others God is love, that anthem olden, and Sing to the Lord a joyful song; author of Hymns and miscellaneous poems. Dublin 1837; Parish musings in verse 1850, new ed. 1871; His presence not his memory 1855, poems, 8 ed. 1881; Spiritual songs for the Sundays and holydays 1857, 6 ed. 1875; The passing bell and other poems 1867, 2 ed. 1869; Nursery Carols 1873, and 20 other books. _d._ in consequence of a fall from the roof of his church which was rebuilding, St. Nicholas rectory, Guildford 9 April 1875. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 762; _D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1892) 164; _Wilson’s Singers and songs of the church_ (1869) 515.

MONSON, WILLIAM JOHN MONSON, 6 Baron (only child of col. the hon. Wm. Monson 1760–1807). _b._ Tangore, Madras 14 May 1796; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; F.S.A. 12 Feb. 1818; succeeded his cousin as 6 Baron 7 Oct. 1841; a frequent correspondent of Notes and Queries; author of Extracts from a journal [of tours in Istria, Dalmatia, Sicily, Malta and Calabria] 1820. _d._ Great western hotel, Paddington, London 17 Dec. 1862. _bur._ in family vault at South Carlton 24 Dec. _G.M. xiv_ 234 (1863).

MONTAGU, BASIL (2 natural son of John Montagu, 4 earl of Sandwich 1718–92, by Martha Ray). _b._ 24 April 1770; brought up at Hinchinbrook, Hunts.; ed. at Charterhouse and Christ’s coll. Camb., 6th wrangler 1790; B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793; resided at Cambridge till 1795; barrister Gray’s Inn 19 May 1798; a comr. in bankruptcy 1806; founded the Society for the diffusion of knowledge upon the punishment of death 1809; K.C. June 1835; accountant general in bankruptcy 1836 to 1846, established liability of bank of England to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits; author of A summary of the law of set off 1801, 2 ed. 1828; A digest of the bankrupt laws 4 vols. 1805–7, 2 ed. 1819; A digest of the law of partnership 2 vols. 1815, 2 ed. 1822 and about 50 other works; edited The works of Francis Bacon 16 vols. 1825–34; author with W. Scrope Ayrton of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1833–8. 3 vols. 1834–9, and of The law and practice in bankruptcy 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1844; with Richard Bligh of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1832–3. 1835; with Edward Chitty of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1838–40. 1840; with E. C. Deacon and J. De Gex of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840–44. 3 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Boulogne, France 27 Nov. 1851. _H. Gunning’s Reminiscences of Cambridge_, _i_ 141–47 (1855); _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 551 (1833); _G.M. xxxvii_ 410–3 (1852).

MONTAGU, JAMES. _b._ 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain 17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ Marlborough 9 March 1868.

MONTAGU, JOHN (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). _b._ 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7 Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land 1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and 1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany. 1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death; author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across the Derwent 1841. _m._ April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He _d._ London 4 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. _Biographical memoir of J. Montagu. By W. A. Newman_ (1855) _portrait_.

MONTAGU, JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu, G.C.B. 1750–1829). _b._ 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803, captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. _d._ Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.

MONTAGU, MONTAGU (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham, Surrey). _b._ 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806, lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California broadsides 1850. _d._ Bath 31 July 1863. _G.M. xv_ 383 (1863).

MONTAGU, OLIVER GEORGE POWLETT (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich 1811–84). _b._ 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863; cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881, lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a touching farewell to his old regiment. _d._ Cairo 25 Jany. 1893. _Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p._ 63, _portrait_.

MONTAGU, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1785; entered navy 4 Sep. 1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28 guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40 guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17 Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice admiral 17 Aug. 1851. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 407 (1852).

MONTAGUE, HENRY JAMES, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann _d._ 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70). _b._ about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany. 1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy 27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866, and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre; the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868 which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s; the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s 12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A. Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life, opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts; gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London 27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York; toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America 1878. _d._ San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. _E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 258–61 (1881); _Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ix_ 555, 596 (1878) _portrait_, _x_ 6 (1878) _portrait_; _Theatre_, _ii_ 208 (1878).

MONTALBA, HENRIETTA SKERRETT (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens Montalba). _b._ 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London; the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta; exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year; resided latterly at Venice. _d._ the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere, Venice 14 Sep. 1893. _bur._ near her father in cemetery of St. Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. _Art Journal_, _July 1894 pp._ 215–7, _portrait_; _Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p._ 530, _portrait_; _Queen 7 Oct. 1893_.

MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENÉ, Count de (son of Marc René Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India, _d._ 21 June 1831, _m._ 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of H.E.I.C.) _b._ Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber 1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848; condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded 21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre 1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867; St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow 1874 and 40 other works. _d._ Paris 13 March 1870. _Mrs. Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert_ 2 _vols._ (1872); _English Cyclopædia_, _iv_ 307 (1857), _Supplement 1872 p._ 902; _Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xi_ 484, 485 (1874).

MONTEAGLE, THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick _d._ Sep. 1831). _b._ Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge 1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835 to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839 to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep. 1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the ecclesiastical titles act 1851. _d._ Mount Trenchard near Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.

MONTEATH, ALEXANDER M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857; assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under secretary to government of India, financial and home departments 1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867, retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at Berne 1876. _d._ Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.

MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Monteath). _b._ 1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C. to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to 10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec. 1850. _d._ Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. _I.L.N. liii_ 435, 459, 483 (1868).

MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARRON (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a cousin of sir M. Montefiore). _b._ 1802; in partnership with his brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide, South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London. _d._ 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES HAIM, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias Montefiore _b._ London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, _d._ 11 Jany. 1804). _b._ Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange; partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July 1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855; undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864; admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; _m._ 10 June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she _d._ 24 Sep. 1862. He _d._ East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. _bur._ in a private mausoleum on his estate. _Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe_ (1890), _portrait_; _L. Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore_ (1884), _portrait_; _J. Weston’s Sir M. Montefiore_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 347–58; _J. B. Bailey’s Modern Methusalahs_ (1888) 329–91; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 309 (1859) _portrait_, _xlvi_ 153 (1865) _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 126, 144 (1876) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 409 (1883) _portrait_.

MONTEITH, ALEXANDER EARLE (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles _d._ 1806). _b._ 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife 1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement 1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp. 1–34 portrait. _d._ Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 413–8.

MONTEITH, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Monteith). _b._ Abbey parish, Paisley 22 June 1790; lieut. Madras engineers 18 March 1809, col. 13 May 1839, retired 10 Dec. 1847; commanded a frontier force of cavalry against the Russians 1810–13; present at Persian head quarters in the war against Russia 1826, comr. for payment of indemnity of £400,000 exacted from Persia by Russia 1828; chief engineer at Madras July 1832 to Jany. 1834 and Sep. 1836 to July 1842; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; hon. L.G. 1854; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845, withdrew 1863; F.R.G.S.; a knight of Persian order of the Lion and Sun; author of Kars and Erzeroum, with the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828–9. 1856; translated Capefigue’s The diplomatists of Europe 1845; edited Narrative of the conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808–9. 1854. _d._ 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 April 1864. _Vibart’s Madras sappers_, _ii_ 113–31 (1884).

MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Alexander Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1744–1802). _b._ 30 July 1790; entered navy 27 June 1802; captain 3 Oct. 1820; retired admiral 27 April 1863. _d._ Bridgend, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire 26 Dec. 1863.

MONTGOMERIE, SIR PATRICK (son of Robert Montgomerie of Irvine, Ayrshire, banker). _b._ Irvine 1793; ed. at Ayr academy and Woolwich; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 7 July 1810, col. commandant 7 Oct. 1849 to death, served in India 1817–25 and in China 1840–1; general 1 March 1867; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ 10 Elvaston place, London 5 Oct. 1872.

MONTGOMERIE, PATRICK. _b._ 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist. engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government 1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884; investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. _d._ Waltair near Vizagapatam 8 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi_ 368–70 (1886).

MONTGOMERIE, ROGER (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1789–1852). _b._ Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar 1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire 1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. _d._ at his residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiv_ 601.

MONTGOMERIE, THOMAS GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 23 April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col. 1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to geographical periodicals. _d._ 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany. 1878. _Athenæum_, _i_ 191 (1878).

MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER BARRY. Ensign 1 foot 25 Nov. 1824, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, retired on full pay Jany. 1866; colonel in the army 13 Jany. 1858; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 17 Oct. 1869.

MONTGOMERY, SIR ALEXANDER LESLIE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, 1 baronet 1765–1830). _b._ London 12 March 1807; entered R.N. 7 Oct. 1819; captain 2 July 1846; R.A. 9 Feb. 1864, admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; an officer of Brazilian order of Southern Cross 1845; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 June 1878. _d._ 56 Cadogan place, London 13 June 1888.

MONTGOMERY, FANNY CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield 1787–1869). _b._ 30 May 1820; _m._ 13 Oct. 1842 Alfred 3 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1 baronet, he was a commissioner of inland revenue from 1845 to 1882; edited The German Christmas eve, by A. Flohr 1847; authoress of Truth without prejudice 1842; Early influences 1845; Poems 1846; Ashton hall or self seeking and self denying 1846; The Bucklyn shaig 2 vols. 1865; Mine own familiar friend 3 vols. 1872; The wrong man 2 vols. 1873; On the wing, a southern flight 1875; The eternal year 1877, 2 ed. 1889; The maid of Orleans, her life and mission 1891. _d._ Villa Beatrice, Naples 27 Jany. 1893.

MONTGOMERY, HENRY (youngest child of Archibald Montgomery). _b._ Boltnaconnell house, parish of Killead, co. Antrim 16 Jany. 1788; entered Glasgow college Nov. 1804, M.A. 1807, LL.D. 1833; presbyterian minister of Dunmurry near Belfast 24 Sep. 1809 to death; head master in English school of Belfast academical institution 3 Oct. 1817 to June 1839; moderator of the general synod 30 June 1818; advocated Catholic emancipation from 1813, presented with a service of plate by members of various denominations 18 June 1828; founded the remonstrant synod of Ulster, which first met 25 May 1830; gave lectures to non-subscribing divinity students from 1832; professor of ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838 to death; an original editor of the Bible Christian 1830; contributed to the Irish Unitarian mag. 1846–7 a series of Outlines of the history of presbyterianism in Ireland; author of Letter to D. O’Connell in vindication of the proceedings of the remonstrant presbyterians of Belfast 1831. _d._ the glebe, Dunmurry 18 Dec. 1865, his portrait painted 1835 by J. P. Knight was engraved several times. His widow Eliza and his dau. Lily granted civil list pension of £100, 29 Jany. 1866. _Life of H. Montgomery. By J. A. Crozier_, _vol. i_ (1875), _portrait_; _J. L. Porter’s Life of Henry Cooke_ (1871) 120, 157 _etc._; _C. Porter’s Irish presbyterian biographical sketches_ (1883) 34; _Times 21 Dec. 1865 p._ 9.

MONTGOMERY, SIR HENRY CONYNGHAM, 2 Baronet (eld. brother of sir A. L. Montgomery 1807–1888). _b._ Taunton 10 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; entered Madras civil service 1825; succeeded his father 21 Jany. 1830; collector and magistrate of Tangore 1843; chief secretary to government of Madras 1850–7; member of council Madras 1854–7; resigned the service 29 Oct. 1857; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to Nov. 1876; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876. _d._ 5 Manchester sq. London 24 June 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 June.

MONTGOMERY, JAMES (son of John Montgomery, Moravian minister at Irvine, Ayrshire, _d._ Barbados 27 June 1791). _b._ Irvine 4 Nov. 1771; ed. at Moravian school, Fulneck near Leeds 1777–86; clerk in office of Mr. Gales’ Sheffield Register April 1792, became the working editor of the paper 1794; in partnership with Benjamin Naylor purchased Gales’ newspaper business 1794 and brought out the Sheffield Iris 4 July 1794, proprietor of the paper 1795, retired 4 Nov. 1825; wrote for the Eclectic Review; lectured on poetry at Royal Institution 1830 and 1831, these lectures were published 1833; granted civil list pension of £150, 1835; author of Prison amusements 1796; The whisperer, or tales and speculations. By Gabriel Silvertongue, No. 1 May 28, 1795, No. 24 Nov. 5, 1795, he afterward suppressed this volume; his chief poems are The wanderer of Switzerland 1806, 7 ed. 1815; The West Indies 1810, 7 ed. 1828; The world before the flood 1813, 7 ed. 1826; Greenland 1819; The Pelican island 1826, 2 ed. 1828; wrote many hymns which were collected 1853, more than 100 of them are still used; his collected poems were published in 4 vols. 1841, 9 ed. 1881. _d._ The Mount, Sheffield 30 April 1854. _bur._ Sheffield cemetery 10 May, where is monument by John Bell, full-length portrait by Barber in Sheffield literary and philosophical institute. _J. Holland and J. Everett’s Life of James Montgomery_ 7 _vols._ (1854–6), _four portraits_; _J. W. King’s J. Montgomery_ (1858), _portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Book of memories_ (1883) 81–93; _Papers of the Manchester literary club_ (1889) 385–92, 435–40; _Samuel Ellis’s Life, times and character of James Montgomery_ (1864); _W. Howitt’s Home and haunts_, _ii_ 292–322 (1847), _3 ed._ (1857) 556–77; _Pen and ink sketches 2 ed._ (1847) 209–21; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 417–18, 551 (1854) _portrait_, _xxvii_ 436 (1855); _The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _i_ 476–522; _J. A. Langford’s Prison books_ (1861) 287–315; _G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 313–23; _Chambers’s Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 161–64 (1870), _portrait_.

MONTGOMERY, JOHN JAMES (eldest son of John Montgomery). _b._ Ballymore, co. Westmeath 1832; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s coll. Cork; served under C. B. Lane, C.E. London; private sec. to sir G. Airy at Greenwich observatory; chief assistant to borough engineer Bradford to 1861; borough engineer of Belfast 1861 to death; designed and carried out a scheme of drainage for the borough; diverted the river Blackstaff 1878; M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871; fell ill when travelling in Switzerland, _d._ Airolo, Aug. 1884. _bur._ protestant cemetery, Lucerne. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii_ 436–9 (1884).

MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (natural son of Robt. Gomery, clown at Bath theatre, _d._ 14 June 1853). _b._ Bath 1807; ed. at Dr. Arnot’s school, Bath; took the name of Montgomery; founded a weekly paper at Bath called The Inspector about 1824; matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; ordained at St. Asaph 3 May 1835; C. of Whittington, Shropshire 1835–6; minister of St. Jude’s, Glasgow 1836–43; minister of Percy chapel, St. Pancras, London, Oct. 1843 to death; author of the following poems, The stage coach 1827; The age reviewed, a satire 1827; The omnipresence of the deity 1828, which ran to 8 editions in 8 months, 28 ed. 1855; The Puffiad 1830, a satire; Satan, a poem 1830, 8 ed. 1842; Oxford 1831, 6 ed. 1843; The Messiah 1832, 8 ed. 1842; Woman, the angel of life 1833, 5 ed. 1841; The poetical works of R. Montgomery 3 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ Brighton 3 Dec. 1855. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 233–52 (1844); _Pen and ink sketches 2 ed._ (1847) 209–21; _S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873) 142–54.

NOTE.--He was called by the critics Satan Montgomery from his poem entitled Satan and to distinguish him from James Montgomery the poet; he is immortalised in Montgomery, a poem in the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1853) 159–61.

MONTGOMERY, SIR ROBERT (2 son of Samuel Law Montgomery, rector of Lower Morville, co. Donegal). _b._ Londonderry 1809; entered Bengal civil service 1827; magistrate and collector at Allahabad, June 1839; comr. of the Lahore division of the Punjab 1849, member of the board of administration 1852–3, judicial comr. 1853; disarmed the Bengal sepoys at Lahore on outbreak of the mutiny 13 May 1857; chief comr. of Oudh, June 1858, where he enforced the confiscation proclamation; lieut. governor of the Punjab, March 1859 to Feb. 1865; K.C.B. 19 May 1859; G.C.S.I. 20 Feb. 1866; member of council of secretary of state for India 1868 to death; known in India as Pickwick for his benevolence; author of Abstract principles of laws circulated for the guidance of officers employed in administration of civil justice in the Punjab. Bangalore 1864. _d._ 7 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 28 Dec. 1887. _bur._ family vault Londonderry 3 Jany. 1888. _Illust. news of the world_, _iii_ 228 (1859), _portrait_.

MONTGOMERY, WALTER, stage name of Richard Tomlinson (10 son of Wm. Tomlinson). _b._ Gawennis, Long Island, U.S. of America 25 Aug. 1827; a buyer in the shawl department for Messrs. Shoolbred 1852; played Othello as an amateur at Soho theatre 1852 under name of Young Emery; played at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich and Yarmouth; manager of the new Nottingham theatre; first appeared in London at Princess’s 20 June 1863 as Othello; manager of the Princess’s, played Shylock 22 Aug. 1863; gave readings from Shakespeare &c. at St. James’s hall, London, March 1864; played Leonatus Posthumus 6 March and Cassius April 1865, both at Drury Lane; manager of Haymarket July 1865 to Nov. 1865, where he played Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, King John, Shylock and Iago; the original Lorenzo in W. C. Russell’s tragedy Fra Angelo; played Orlando and Sir Thomas Clifford at Drury Lane, Nov. 1866; played Hamlet at Gaiety theatre 31 July 1871, also Sir Giles Overreach, Louis XI. and Meg Merrilies; _m._ 30 Aug. 1871 Miss Laleah Burpee Bigelow an American; _shot himself_ at 2 Stafford st. Bond st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 5 Sep. Winnetta Montague widow of Walter Montgomery. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 27 May 1877. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 769 (1866), _portrait_; _The Theatre_, _ii_ 12 (1883); _The Era 3 Sep. 1871 p._ 13, _10 Sep. p._ 11, _17 June 1877 p._ 4.

NOTE.--Was Hamlet mad? or the lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson. Melbourne 1867; another ed. Was Hamlet mad? By Archibald Ritchie and others, edited by R. H. Horne. London 1871, a pamphlet on Montgomery’s acting in Australia in 1867.

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM FETHERSTON. _b._ 1797; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar; L.R.C.P. Ireland 1825, F.R.C.P. 1829, president of the college, professor of midwifery there 30 years; collected the Obstetrical museum in the College of physicians, Dublin, since removed to Queen’s college, Galway; a great authority on midwifery in Ireland and on the Continent; author of An exposition of the signs of pregnancy 1837, 2 ed. 1856, and with F. Barker Observations on the Dublin pharmacopæia 1830. _d._ 8 Merrion square north, Dublin 21 Dec. 1859. _Dublin Quart. Journal Medical Science_, _xxxiii_ 250 (1862); _Medical Times_, _xl_ 664 (1859).

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM HENRY. Studied under W. M. Rooke and W. Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862; contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again, ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist 1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song 1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852, twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers; Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler 1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. _d._ Waterloo road, London 12 Sep. 1886. _bur._ Norwood cemet.

MONTI, RAFFAELLE (son of Gaetano Monti of Ravenna, sculptor). _b._ Milan 1818; studied under his father in the imperial academy, Milan, took gold medal for group of Alexander taming Bucephalus; exhibited Ajax defending body of Patroclus 1838; sculptor in Vienna 1838–42, in Milan 1842–6; in England 1846 exhibited The veiled statue, executed for the duke of Devonshire; joined the national party in Italy 1847, fled to England 1848; his chief works in England were The sister angels, The veiled vestal, Eve after the fall, and The sleep of sorrow, the dream of joy exhibited at the International exhibition of 1862; his models of Italy, Truth, Eve, two emblematical fountains and six colossal symbolical figures are at the Crystal palace, Sydenham. _d._ London 16 Oct. 1881. _Art Journal_, _Nov. 1881 p._ 352.

MONTRESOR, FREDERICK BYNG. Entered navy 27 June 1823; captain 29 April 1851; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired 1 April 1870, retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878. _d._ 15 Dec. 1887.

MONTRESOR, SIR THOMAS GAGE (3 son of John Montresor of Belmont, Kent, his majesty’s chief engineer of America). _b._ New York 4 March 1774; ensign 18 foot 13 Oct. 1789; D.A.Q.M.G. in Flanders 1794; brigade major in Ireland during French invasion 1799; in Egypt 1801, in India 1803; lieut.-col. 22 dragoons 2 Jany. 1812 to 1816; commanded the troops of the Paishwa at Poonah 1809–13; colonel of 2 dragoon guards 20 Feb. 1837 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1834. _d._ Dover 26 April 1853.

MONTROSE, JAMES GRAHAM, 4 Duke of (elder son of 3 duke of Montrose 1755–1836). _b._ 16 July 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1819; vice chamberlain of the household 7 Feb. 1821 to 14 April 1827; P.C. 23 Feb. 1821; M.P. Cambridge 1825–32; col. Stirling militia 12 Oct. 1827; comr. for affairs of India 4 Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830; succeeded his father as 4 earl of Graham and 4 duke of Montrose 30 Dec. 1836; chancellor of univ. of Glasgow 1837 to death; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Stirlingshire 27 Feb. 1843 to death; lord steward of queen’s household 27 Feb. 1852 to 4 Jany. 1853; his seat Buchanan house nearly all burnt 22 Jany. 1850; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Feb. 1858 to 22 June 1859; postmaster general 10 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868; resisted the claim of the earl of Crawford and Balcarres to the dukedom of Montrose 1851. _d._ Cannes 30 Dec. 1874. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 313 (1858), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 43 (1875); _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_ 23.

MOODIE, DONALD (son of major James Moodie of Melsetter, Orkney). Entered navy 1808; lieut. 8 Dec. 1816 and placed on h.p.; went to the Cape Colony and entered the civil service there, resident magistrate at Port Francis 20 Feb. 1825 to 1828 and at Graham’s Town 1828–34; protector of slaves in the eastern districts 1830–4; superintendent of the Government bank, Cape Town 1840; secretary to government of Natal 29 Aug. 1845 to 1851; author of The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the native tribes of South Africa. Cape Town 1838–41, discontinued after p. 64 of part iii.; A voice from the Kahlamba, the Natal Kafirs intercourse with Natal. Pietermaritzburg 1857. _d._ Pietermaritzburg 1861. _Colonial services of Donald Moodie._ _Pietermaritzburg_ (1860).

MOODIE, JOHN WEDDERBURN DUNBAR (bro. of the preceding). _b._ Melsetter, Orkney Islands 7 Oct. 1797; 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 Feb. 1813, 1 lieut. 5 May 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1816; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom 8 March 1814; spent ten years in South Africa with his brother 1819–29; emigrated to Upper Canada 1832; captain of militia on Niagara frontier during insurrection of 1837; sheriff of Vittoria now Hastings county, Ontario 1839–63; wrote in Memoirs of the late war 2 vols. 1831, The campaigns in Holland in 1814, ii. 257–314; author of Ten years in South Africa including a description of the wild sports 2 vols. 1835; Scenes and adventures as a soldier and settler during half a century (with portrait). Montreal 1866. _d._ Belleville, Ontario 22 Oct. 1869. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 281.

MOODIE, SUSANNAH (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of Reydon hall, Suffolk, _d._ 1818, and younger sister of Agnes Strickland 1796–1874). _b._ Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; _m._ 1831 the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols. 1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons 2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D. Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Toronto 8 April 1885. _J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes Strickland_ (1887) 85, 192; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 281; _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 376 (1888), _portrait_.

MOODY, JOHN E. _b._ 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. _d._ 27 Euston place, New road, London 7 Nov. 1852.

MOODY, RICHARD CLEMENT (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E. _d._ 1846). _b._ St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13 Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July 1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov. 1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle; lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal boundaries 1868. _d._ Bournemouth 31 March 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc_ 453–5 (1887).

MOODY, STEPHEN. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824, lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I. 26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of 70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct. 1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 42 Porchester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1856.

MOODY, WILLIAM (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, _d._ 1820). _b._ Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831; with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. _d._ 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct. 1867.