Part 27

MAYNE, SIR RICHARD (4 son of Edward Mayne, judge of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 27 Nov. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818; proceeded to Trin. coll. Cambridge, B.A. Camb. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1822; joint comr. with Charles Rowan of metropolitan police 29 Sep. 1829, chief comr. 1850 to death; illtreated by the mob during Hyde park riots July 1866; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. _d._ 80 Chester sq. London 26 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 30 Dec, where memorial monument was unveiled 25 Jany. 1871. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 113–5, 358 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_ 23, 45 (1869) _portrait_, _lviii_ 117 (1871).

MAYNE, RICHARD CHARLES (son of the preceding). _b._ 1835; ed. at Eton; entered royal navy 1848; served in Baltic expedition 1854 and in the Crimea 1855–6; explored and surveyed in Vancouver island and British Columbia 1857–61; commanded the Eclipse in New Zealand 1863–4; captain 12 Feb. 1864; commanded Nassau on survey of Straits of Magellan 1866–9, commanded Invincible 1874–5; retired R.A. 26 Nov. 1879; F.G.S.; M.P. Pembroke and Haverfordwest 8 July 1886 to death, having contested the seat Nov. 1885; C.B. 13 March 1867; knight of Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie; author of Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver island 1862; Sailing directions for Magellan Strait 1871; had an apoplectic fit when leaving the Mansion house after the Welsh national banquet and _d._ 101 Queen’s gate, London 29 May 1892. _Graphic 4 June 1892 p._ 655, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 4 June 1892 p._ 683, _portrait_.

MAYNE, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; M.B. Dublin 1838; F.K.Q.C.P. 14 April 1856; censor 1857; lecturer on practice of medicine at Carmichael school 1835 and physician to Adelaide hospital, Dublin; president of Pathological society of Dublin; contributed to Todd’s Cyclopædia and to Dublin Journal of Medical science; author of On spontaneous varicose aneurism 1853. _d._ 13 Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 27 April 1864. _Dublin Medical Press_, _li_ 425–6 (1864).

MAYNE, ROBERT DAWSON (son of Sir Richard Mayne 1796–1868). _b._ 1844; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1869; chief magistrate of Lagos 1872–4; stipendiary justice at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and judge of the petty debt court 1874 to death. _d._ 10 June 1887.

MAYNE, WILLIAM (son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, _d._ 1841). _b._ 8 Oct. 1818; entered Bengal army 12 June 1837; ensign 37 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 1 Jany. 1845 to death; present in the action at Bolam Pass 4 May 1839; served at siege of Jellalabad 1842; second in command of the governor general’s body guard 10 Feb. 1844 to 2 Jany. 1846, commanded the body guard 19 Jany. 1847 to 12 April 1851; commanded 10th Bengal irregular horse 2 Jany. 1846 to 19 Jany. 1847; hon. A.D.C. to governor general of India 7 Jany. 1848 to death; brigadier in the Nizam’s service April 1851, afterwards called the Hyderabad contingent 27 Jany. 1854 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 Nov. 1855. _d._ Cairo 23 Dec. 1855. _G.M. Feb. 1856 pp._ 185–7.

MAYO, RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Mayo 1797–1867). _b._ Dublin 21 Feb. 1822; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1841 but did not reside; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1851, LL.D. 1852; known as Lord Naas 1849–67; M.P. Kildare 1847–52, M.P. Coleraine 1852–7, and M.P. Cockermouth 1857–68; chief sec. for Ireland, March to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and with a seat in the cabinet July 1866 to Sep. 1868; P.C. 15 May 1852; master of Kildare hounds 1857; succeeded as 6 earl 12 Aug. 1867; founded Palmerston breeding association for improving breed of horses in Ireland; viceroy of India 27 Oct. 1868 to death, sworn in 12 Jany. 1869; K.P. 11 Nov. 1868; stabbed in the shoulder at Port Blair, Hopetown, Andaman islands, by a convict named Shere Ali, and expired in a short time 8 Feb. 1872. _bur._ in Johnstown churchyard near Naas, co. Mayo 25 April, bust in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral; author of St. Petersburgh and Moscow, a visit to the court of the Czar 2 vols. 1846; _m._ 31 Oct. 1848 Blanche Julia 4 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield, she was _b._ 21 Nov. 1826, the government awarded her an annuity of £1000 and gave £20,000 to her younger children. _W. W. Hunter’s Life of earl Mayo_ 2 _vols._ 1875; _Nolan’s Illust. history of India_, _iii_ 93 (1878), _portrait_; _Jas. Wilson’s Why was lord Mayo assassinated?_ (1872); _N. A. Chick’s In memoriam, of the assassination of the earl of Mayo_ (1872); _Baily’s Mag. xii_ 163–4 (1867), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvi_ 429 (1850) _portrait_, _liii_ 569 (1868) _portrait_, _lx_ 151 _etc._ (1872) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 34, 37 (1876).

MAYO, CHARLES (youngest son of Herbert Mayo 1720–1802, R. of St. George’s in the East, London). _b._ 24 March 1767; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch., probationary scholar St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1785; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1793, B.D. 1798; Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon 1795–1800; Whitehall preacher 1799–1800; F.R.S. 1 March 1827; F.S.A.; morning preacher at St. Michael’s, Highgate 1803–33. _d._ Colesgroves, Cheshunt, Herts. 10 Dec. 1858. _G.M. vi_ 210 (1859).

MAYO, CHARLES (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) _b._ Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of Winchester; became blind 1874. _d._ St. Peter’s st. Winchester 27 Nov. 1876. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 638–40 (1876) _and ii_ 373–4 (1877); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 298 (1875).

MAYO, ELIZABETH (sister of rev. Charles Mayo, educational reformer 1792–1846). _b._ 1793; lived with her brother at Cheam, Surrey, helping him in his school 1822–34; resided in Belsize lane, Hampstead 1834–53, and at Oak Hill, Hampstead 1853 to death; worked for the Home and Colonial school society from 1843 onwards; author of Lessons on objects 1837, 16 ed. 1859; Lessons on shells 1832, 3 ed. 1846; Model lessons for infant schools 1838, 4 ed. 1857; Religious instruction for young children 1845, 4 ed. 1858; Lessons on the miracles 1845. _d._ Malvern 1 Sep. 1865, memorial tablet in schoolroom of Home and Colonial school society’s buildings, Gray’s Inn road, London. _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 459.

MAYO, HERBERT (3 son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._ Queen Anne st. London 3 April 1796; pupil of sir Charles Bell 1812–15; entered Middlesex hospital 17 May 1814, house surgeon 1818, surgeon 1827–42; graduated D.M. at Leyden univ. 16 Sep. 1816; M.R.C.S. 1819, F.R.C.S. 1843; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–30, lecturer on anatomy medical school, Great Windmill st. 1826; F.R.S. 17 April 1828, F.G.S. 1832; professor of anatomy King’s college, London 1830–6; professor of physiology and pathological anatomy 1836; founded the medical school at Middlesex hospital 1836, lecturer on surgery at the hospital 1837–43; physician in a hydropathic establishment at Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach; author of Anatomical and physiological commentaries 1822–3; A course of dissections for students 1825; Outlines of human physiology 1827, 4 ed. 1837; Management of the organs of digestion 1837; The philosophy of living 1837; A treatise on syphilis 1840; Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions 1849, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Bad Weilbach near Mayence 15 May 1852. _History of Mayo family_ (1882); _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 458; _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 587 (1833).

MAYO, THOMAS (eld. son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._ London 24 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1813 to 1818; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, M.B. 1815, M.D. 1818; physician at Tunbridge Wells 1818–35, at 56 Wimpole st. London 1835–62; F.R.C.P. 1819, censor 1835, 1839 and 1850, an elect 1847, president 5 Jany. 1857 to Jany. 1862, delivered Lumleian lectures 1839 and 1842, Harveian oration 1841 and Croonian lectures 1853; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; phys. to Marylebone infirmary 1841; phys. in ordinary to duke of Sussex; author of An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia 1831; Elements of the pathology of the human mind 1838; Clinical facts and reflections 1847; Medical testimony in cases of lunacy 1854, with supplement 1856. _d._ Corsham house, Wiltshire 13 Jany. 1871. _W. Munk’s Goldheaded Cane_ (1884) _pp._ 220–40; _W. Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 200 (1838).

MAYOR, WILLIAM. _b._ 1826; ed. at Hatfield hall, Durham, Barry scholar, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1855–7; V. of Thornley, Durham 1862–90, where he devoted himself to the colliers and arbitrated successfully in a strike; V. of Shotton, Durham 1890 to death; chairman of Castle Eden petty sessions. _d._ at residence of his nephew, the Principal’s house, St. Mark’s College, Chelsea 8 Nov. 1892. _Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 1766.

MAYOW, GEORGE WYNELL. _b._ 31 Aug. 1808; ensign in the army on h.p. 9 June 1825; captain 4 dragoon guards 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1847; brigade major to light cavalry brigade in the Crimea to 19 Dec. 1854, A.Q.M.G. of cavalry division 20 Dec. 1854 to end of the war; deputy quartermaster general in Ireland 1 Jany. 1868 to July 1872; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ near Misterton 1 Jany. 1873.

MAYWOOD, ROBERT CAMPBELL (son of Dr. Maywood, leading physician in Isle of Wight many years). _b._ Edinburgh 1786; first appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 1817 as Shylock; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard the third 1819; played King Lear at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 6 Nov. 1828; manager with Pratt and Rowbotham of Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia, April 1832, manager with them of Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 3 Sep. to 21 Dec. 1832; manager of the Chestnut and Arch st. theatres 1834; relinquished management of the Chestnut st. theatre and took his farewell benefit 9 March 1840. _d._ Marshall institute, Troy, New York 1 Dec. 1856. _Theatrical inquisitor_, _xi_ 395–9 (1817), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _i_ 329, 350 (1866).

MAZZINGHI, THOMAS JOHN (only son of Dominick Peter Mazzinghi of London). _b._ 13 Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1842; served under Indian law commission 1865–9; librarian of the William Salt library, Stafford, Feb. 1873 to Dec. 1892; author of A brief notice of some recent researches respecting Dante Alighieri 1844; Index catalogue of the William Salt library 1878; Sanctuaries. Stafford 1878. _d._ Walton lodge near Stafford 19 Feb. 1893.

MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE (son of Giacomo Mazzini a physician). _b._ Strada Lomellini, Genoa 22 June 1805; attempted insurrections in Sardinia 1833–4; expelled from Switzerland 1836; came to London Jany. 1837; wrote literary articles for London reviews; founded and conducted a school for mendicant organ-boys; originated an association of Italian workmen 1840; his letters were opened by the English government 1844; fought under Garibaldi against Austria 1848; dictator at Rome as triumvir with Armelli and Saffi, March 1849 to June 1850; president in London of National Italian committee 1850, through which he promoted the risings of 1852 and 1853; directed preparations for abortive revolution at Genoa 1857, for which he was condemned to death 1857, this sentence was cancelled 1866 but he refused the pardon; edited Pensiero ed Azione. London 1858–60; author of Italy, Austria and the Pope 1845; Two letters to the people of England on the war 1855; The duties of man 1862; Life and writings 6 vols. 1864–70 and 40 other books, there were also 50 books written about him and his career 1848–91. _d._ Pisa 10 March 1872. _bur._ Genoa. _E. A. Venturi’s Joseph Mazzini_ (1875), 2 _portraits_; _Joseph Mazzini, his life. New York_ (1872), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xv_ 273 (1856), _portrait_.

MEAD, THOMAS, stage name of Thomas Prescott (son of a Methodist minister). _b._ Cambridge 22 Aug. 1819; ran away from home and first appeared on the stage as Orozembo in Pizarro at Devonport theatre 1841; played in the provinces 1841–8; first appeared in London at Victoria theatre as sir Giles Overreach 28 Nov. 1848; played at Surrey theatre 1849–52 and leading parts at Drury Lane 1852–4; shared the lead with T. Swinbourne at T.R. Manchester 1854; a prominent member of Mrs. Seymour’s company at St. James’s theatre, played duke of Richmond in Taylor and Reade’s King’s Rival opening night 2 Oct. 1854; played at Queen’s theatre, Edinburgh, Jany. to July 1856; leading actor at New Grecian theatre 1858; played at Sadler’s Wells and Princess’s, where he was the original Isaac Levy in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend 4 Oct. 1865; lessee and manager of Elephant and Castle theatre, London 1873–4 where his pantomime Babes in the wood was produced 26 Dec. 1873; played the leading part in Charles Reade’s drama Rachel the Reaper, at Queen’s theatre 9 March 1874; played in Shakespearian revivals at Lyceum theatre 1875 to death; his two best parts were the Priest in Louis XI. and the Ghost in Hamlet; author of The Coquette, 3 act play produced at Haymarket 8 July 1867; The lady of the Rose and other poems 1881, with portrait. _d._ New north road, Islington, London 17 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Highgate lower cemetery 22 Feb. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) _part_ 9, _portrait_; _The Players_, _i_ 193 (1860), _portrait_; _Theatre_, _xiii_ 172 (1889).

MEADE, JAMES. _b._ 1822; acted as puisne justice Montserrat 1852, member of executive and legislative council 1861, colonial secretary and treasurer March 1865, member of the legislative council 1867, administered the government 1872; acting president of Montserrat 1882; in 1886 he was treasurer and registrar of the supreme court, registrar of deeds and of shipping and comptroller of customs. _d._ The Meadow, Montserrat 22 June 1890.

MEADE, SIR RICHARD JOHN (son of John Meade, captain R.N.) _b._ 25 Sep. 1821; ensign 65 Bengal N.I. 3 Nov. 1838, major 1 Jany. 1862; served during Indian mutiny 1857–9 and captured the notorious rebel leader Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; agent to governor general in Central India 1861–70; chief comr. Mysore 1870–5; special comr. Baroda 1875; resident Hyderabad 1876–81, chairman Hyderabad state railway company; C.S.I. 24 May 1866, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. _d._ Hyères, France 20 March 1894.

MEADE, ROBERT (2 son of 1 earl of Clanwilliam 1744–1800). _b._ 29 Feb. 1772; ensign 1 foot 7 Nov. 1787; captain 87 foot Sep. 1793; major in Ward’s regiment Oct. 1794 to 10 April 1801; lieut.-col. 31 foot 10 April 1801 to 8 June 1815; commanded the forces in Madeira 1809, was afterwards second in command at Cape of Good Hope; colonel 12 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to death; general 10 Jany. 1837. _d._ 48 Bryanston sq. London 11 July 1852. _I.L.N. xxi_ 46 (1852).

MEADOWS, ALFRED (4 child of Charles Meadows). _b._ Ipswich 2 June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London, associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B. 1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853; L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884; attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland 1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891; author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. _d._ 27 George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. _bur._ Colnbrook, Bucks. _Midland medical miscellany ii_ 65–7 (1883), portrait; _British Gynæcological Journal_, _iii_ 343 (1887), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _v_ 68–76 (1881).

MEADOWS, DRINKWATER. _b._ Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21; first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep. 1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823, Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding 5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828, Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov. 1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5 April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844 and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund; a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard, a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). _d._ Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. _The Era 11 June 1869 p._ 11, _col._ 1.

MEADOWS, GEORGE DEARE (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.) _b._ London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb. 1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his speciality being the diseases of women and children. _d._ St. George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.

MEADOWS, JAMES (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). _b._ Dublin 1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63. _d._ 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. _bur._ Trinity church, Bow road. _Era 17 May 1863 p._ 10.

MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (son of James Meadows, retired naval officer). _b._ Cardigan. _bapt._ 1 Nov. 1790; designed and lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare 2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1 portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864. _d._ 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. _bur._ St. Pancras cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 98–103.

MEAGHER, THOMAS (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). _b._ 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. _d._ 1874.

MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS (son of the preceding). _b._ city of Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare, and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol. xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847; contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany. 1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia; organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July 1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853, portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1 July 1867. _M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher_ (1892), _portrait_; _W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New York_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir_ (1863), _portrait_ 51; _Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history_ (1883), _passim_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _iii_ 481 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.

MEAKIN, JOHN. _b._ Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5 feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859 with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side; attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again able to run. _Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p._ 417, _portrait_.

MEANS, JOSEPH CALROW (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood lane, London). _b._ 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; _bapt._ by immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828; preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers 1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st. London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. _d._ London 6 Feb. 1879. _Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 78 _et seq._; _Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 98 _et seq._

MEANY, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Ennis; a constable in Dublin, where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement, a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus 1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt 27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec. to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. _d._ New York 8 Feb. 1888. _bur._ Queenstown. _Newspaper Press_, _i_ 35, 44 (1867); _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _ii_ 617 (1891).

MEARNS, DUNCAN (son of Alexander Mearns, minister of Cluny, Aberdeenshire). _b._ the manse of Cluny 23 Aug. 1779; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. March 1795; studied in the divinity hall 1795–9; D.D.; assistant minister of parish of Tarves 13 Nov. 1799, then minister; professor of divinity Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 12 Oct. 1816 to death; moderator of general assembly 1821; chaplain to the king for Scotland 1825 to death; author of Principles of christian evidence. Edinb. 1818; Report of speech in synod of Aberdeen on the settlement of ministers. Aberdeen 1834, 4 ed. 1840. _d._ 2 March 1852. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1 _part_ 1 _p._ 397 (1866).

MEATH, JOHN CHAMBRE BRABAZON, 10 Earl of (youngest son of 8 earl of Meath 1721–90). _b._ 9 April 1772; succeeded his brother the 9 earl 26 May 1797; K.P. 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of co. Dublin and custos rotulorum of co. Wicklow 1831; created baron Chaworth of Eaton hall, Hereford in peerage of United Kingdom 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1831. _d._ Great Malvern 15 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 547 (1851).

MEATH, WILLIAM BRABAZON, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow 1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851; built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery. _d._ Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. _bur._ at Bray, will proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. _Times 27 May 1887 p._ 6, _3 June p._ 6.

MECHI, JOHN JOSEPH (3 son of Giacomo Mechi). _b._ London 22 May 1802; clerk in a house in Walbrook in the Newfoundland trade 1818–28; a cutler at 130 Leadenhall st. 1828–30, at 4 Leadenhall st. 1830–69, partner with Charles Bazan 1859–69; cutler at 112 Regent st. 1869 to death; made a fortune by his magic razor strop 1830–40; purchased for £3400 a farm of about 130 acres at Tiptree Heath, Essex 1841, where he introduced deep drainage and use of steam power, so that it became a model farm; sheriff of London 1856, alderman for Lime st. ward 1858 to Aug. 1866; failed in business 14 Dec. 1880; author of Letters on agricultural improvements 1844; On the principles which ensure success in trade 1853, another ed. 1856; How to farm profitably 1859, 4 ed. 1864; On the sewerage of towns as it affects British agriculture 1860; Mr. Mechi’s Farm balance sheets, also his lectures and papers on farming 1867 and 12 other books. _d._ Tiptree hall, Essex 26 Dec. 1880. _Biograph_, _i_ 250–4 (1879); _I.L.N. xxx_ 337 (1857) _portrait_, _xxxi_ 317 (1857), _lxxviii_ 37 (1881) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 Jany. 1881 pp._ 355, 361, _portrait_.

MECREDY, HENRY SANDYS. _b._ 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; solicitor in Dublin 1845; vice president of Irish incorporated law society 1885; governor of Royal Irish academy of music; with C. A. Stanwell edited The Incorporated law society’s calendar. Dublin 1887. _d._ Colwyn Bay, North Wales 30 July 1891.

MEDHURST, WALTER HENRY (son of William Medhurst of Ross, Scotland, innkeeper). _b._ London 29 April 1796; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. from 1807; went to Malacca as a missionary printer in service of London missionary soc. 1816; ordained at Malacca 27 April 1819; missionary in Penang 1820 and Batavia 1822–36; established an orphan asylum at Parapattan; worked in Batavia 1838–42, and at Shanghai 1842–56; D.D. from an American univ. 1843; one of the delegates to revise Chinese version of new testament June 1847 to July 1850 and of old testament 1851–3; edited G. Happart’s Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the Formosan language 1840; translated Ancient China, The Shoo-King or the historical classic 1846; The Chinaman abroad, an account of the Malayan archipelago by Ong-Tae-hae 1849; author of An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary. Batavia 1830; A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the Chinese language. Macao 1832; China, its state and prospects 1838; Chinese and English dictionary 2 vols. Batavia 1842–3, and English and Chinese dictionary 2 vols. Shanghae 1847–8; Chinese dialogues. Shanghae 1844; left Shanghai 10 Sep. 1856, arrived in England 22 Jany. 1857. _d._ Pimlico, London 24 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 30 Jany. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries_ (1877) 41.

MEDHURST, SIR WALTER HENRY (son of the preceding). _b._ Batavia, Java 3 Nov. 1822; attached to Sir Henry Pottinger’s suite Aug. 1841; present at taking of Amoy and Chusan; consular interpreter at Shanghai 7 Oct. 1843; consul at Foo-choo-foo 9 Nov. 1854, at Tangchow 21 Dec. 1858, at Hankow 25 Jany. 1864 and at Shanghai 23 July 1868, retired 1 Jany. 1877; knighted at Windsor castle 20 March 1877; helped to form British North Borneo company 1881, organised a system of emigration from China into the company’s territories 1882; author of Curiosities of street literature in China. Shanghai 1871; The foreigner in far Cathay 1872. _d._ Formosa, Torquay 26 Dec. 1885.

MEDLEY, JOHN (only son of George Medley of Grosvenor place, Chelsea). _b._ London 19 Dec. 1804; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1845; C. of Southleigh, Devon 1828–31; Inc. of St. John’s, Truro 1831–8; V. of St. Thomas, Exeter 1838–45; preb. of Exeter 8 April 1843 to May 1845; bishop of Frederickton, New Brunswick 24 April 1845 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 4 May 1845, installed in his partly built cathedral 11 June 1845; metropolitan of Canada 11 Jany. 1879 to death; attended the Lambeth Pan-Anglican conference 1889; hon LL.D. Cambridge and D.D. Durham 1888; author of Advice to teachers in Sunday schools 1833; The episcopal form of church government 1835, 2 ed. 1837; Elementary remarks on Chinese architecture 1841; Sermons. Exeter 1845; with H. K. Cornish translated The homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Corinthians 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Frederickton 9 Sep. 1892. _W. Q. Ketchum’s Life of Medley. St. John’s N.B._ (1893); _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 285 (1888) _portrait_.

MEDLEY, JULIUS GEORGE. _b._ 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death; assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849; consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column 1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858; principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec. to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college 1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer; A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United States and Canada 1873. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx_ 343–7 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 292 (1884), _portrait_.

MEDLEY, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99). _b._ 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University 1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms, 11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C. Branwhite. _d._ Chatham 10 Aug. 1857.

MEDWIN, THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). _b._ Horsham, Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24 light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822; resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824, 5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. 1847. _d._ in his brother’s house the Carfax, Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. _Notes and Queries_ 5 _S. v_ 161 (1876), 6 _S. vi_ 293 (1882).

MEDWIN, THOMAS REA (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington, Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2; V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. _d._ Arlesey vicarage 17 March 1885.

MEE, ANNE (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter _d._ about 1784). _b._ about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties, many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited 39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (_m._ Joseph Mee). _d._ Hammersmith 28 May 1851. _The Lady’s monthly museum Jany. 1814_, _memoir and portrait_; _A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of the court of George III._ (1812), _portrait_.

MEE, JOHN (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). _b._ 3 May 1824; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4; association secretary of church missionary society for eastern district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4; secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude, Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873. _d._ Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William, Scotland 19 Sep. 1883.

MEE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830 and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. _d._ Shardlow union workhouse, Derbyshire 29 May 1862.

NOTE.--In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about 1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a Sunday. _Notes and Queries 2 series_, _xii_ 189, 238, 299 (1861), _3 series ii_ 43 (1862).

MEEHAN, CHARLES PATRICK. _b._ 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12 July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34; ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.; author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed. 1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries 1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852; edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. _d._ 14 March 1890. _I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p._ 366, _portrait_; _Catholic World_, _Sep. 1890 pp._ 796–801; _Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.

MEEK, SIR JAMES. _b._ Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June 1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. _d._ Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856.

MEEK, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ Brompton near Northallerton 13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813; resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851. _d._ Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862.

MEEK, SIR JAMES (only son of the preceding). _b._ York 28 June 1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869. _d._ Cheltenham 10 Jany. 1891.

MEEK, ROBERT. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. by abp. of Canterbury 1838; R. of Brixton Deverill, Wilts. 1834; P.C. of Hill Deverill, Wilts. 1837; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1838–43; R. of Sutton Bonnington, Notts. 1843 to death; author of The mutual recognition of glorified saints 1830, 3 ed. 1837; The church of England a faithful witness against the errors and corruptions of the church of Rome 1834; Passion week, a practical exposition 1835; Heavenly things or the blessed hope 1854; The martyr of Allahabad. Memorials of ensign A. M. H. Clark 1857; Ministering angels 1864. _d._ 1866.

MEEKING, CHARLES (son of Charles Meeking of London). _b._ London 1800; draper and linen draper at 1 Broadway, Westminster 1823, moved to 62 Holborn Hill 1827, one of the first of the drapers to conduct a retail business on a thorough system; draper and outfitter Holborn Circus to death, having one of the largest establishments in London; J.P. for Bucks.; purchased Richings manor near Iver, Bucks., from John Sullivan in 1855. _d._ Richings park, Bucks. 7 Dec. 1872, personalty sworn under £250,000, 1 Feb. 1873.

MEERES, NATHANIEL. _b._ 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1840; C. of Cradley, Worcs. 1844–7; R. of Little Stambridge, Essex 1847 to death; author of Sermons preached at Somer’s chapel, St. Pancras 1843; Original psalms and hymns for the use of churches. Coventry 1845; School cyclopædia in verse 1851; Sermons 2 vols. 1851. _d._ at residence of rev. H. Meeres, Haddenham vicarage, Bucks. 26 March 1863.

MEESON, ALFRED (son of Edward Meeson). _b._ 67 Aldermanbury, London 4 April 1808; architect and surveyor at Wakefield, Yorkshire; assisted sir Charles Barry as superintendent of constructional and engineering details of houses of parliament 1842 to completion; engineer in charge of houses of parliament residing in the building 1853; practised at 58 Pall Mall, London; employed on international exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 and on the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1858 and the Albert hall 1872; architect of the first Alexandra palace on Muswell hill 1873, palace was destroyed by fire 9 June 1873, joint architect of the second palace 1875; author with J. C. Boys of Thames sewage disposal scheme 1867. _d._ 4 Harley road, South Hampstead, London 12 Jany. 1885.

MELBOURNE, FREDERICK JAMES LAMB, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount Melbourne 1745–1828). _b._ Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London 17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec. 1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of £1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20 April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848; G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. _d._ Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853. _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 28, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 309, 338 (1853); _Greville’s Journal_, _vol. i pt._ 3 _pp._ 35–7 (1874).

MELDON, CHARLES HENRY (3 son of James Dillon Meldon). _b._ 5 June 1841; ed. at Stonyhurst and Ushaw colleges, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1862, LL.B. and LL.D. 1874; member of senate of Dublin univ.; called to Irish bar 1863; had a large practice on the Home circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1877; M.P. for co. Kildare 1874–85; first whip to the Home Rule party 1874–9. _d._ Dublin 15 May 1892.

MELIA, PIUS. _b._ Rome 1800; professor of belles lettres, Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13 Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London 1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians; officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. _d._ University hospital, London 25 May 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 30 May.

NOTE.--Raphael Melia _b._ Rome, naturalised in England 13 Sep. 1849, was author of A treatise on auricular confession. London 1865; The woman blessed by all generations 1868; and The life of V. Pallotti, founder of The pious society of missions 1871.

MELLER, WALTER (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill, Surrey). _b._ 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov. 1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869; lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel 20 Feb. 1867. _d._ Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.

MELLISH, SIR GEORGE (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford, _d._ 1831). _b._ Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow 1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48; barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 33 Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. _A generation of judges. By Their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_ 55–65 (1877); _I.L.N. lviii_ 471, 473 (1870), _portrait_.

MELLISH, GEORGE LILLY (2 son of William Mellish an officer in the army). _b._ Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll. 1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854; resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. _d._ Christ Church, Dec. 1881.

MELLISH, RICHARD CHARLES. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824; attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830; gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849; sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep. 1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Jany. 1855. _d._ Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. _Foreign office list_ (1866) 177.

MELLON, ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society; conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep. 1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865; (_m._ Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress _b._ 1824); composer of My pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850; The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published in 1860. _d._ The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 April. _Era 31 March 1867 p._ 10 and _7 April p._ 11; _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 441 (1865) _portrait_, _v_ 504 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 6 April 1867 p._ 216, _portrait_.

MELLON, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law; leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit; joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864; played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr. Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871. _d._ Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25 Nov. 1876. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 321, 338 (1847), _portrait_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 294, 347, _ii_ 393, 462 (1891).

MELLOR, ENOCH (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). _b._ Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870; congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61; minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales 1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867; Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles 1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. _d._ Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. _Congregationalist_, _ix_ 617–20 (1880) _portrait_, _x_ 1000–1011 (1881); _E. Mellor’s The hem of Christ’s garment_ (1882), _biographical sketch pp. v–xxxi_; _Congregational Year book_ (1882) _pp._ 315–8.

MELLOR, SIR JOHN (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, _d._ 1861). _b._ Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4 years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April 1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July 1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852 and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham 1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired 11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June 1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June 1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation 1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. _d._ 16 Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. _bur._ Kingsdown churchyard, Dover 30 April. _Law Journal_, _xxii_ 250–1, 259–60 (1887); _Times 28 April 1887 p._ 5.

MELVILL, HENRY (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut. governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). _b._ Pendennis castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32; second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec. 1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London 1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R. of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols. 1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to 1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. _d._ Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 15 Feb. _Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit_, _ii_ 1–21 (1839); _Ritchie’s London Pulpit_ (1858) 60–8; _Johnson’s Popular Preachers_ (1863) 189–201; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1856) 210–41; _Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 410–13; _I.L.N. iv_ 48 (1844) _portrait_, _lviii_ 163 (1871); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._ 345–8, 1279–80; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.

MELVILL, SIR JAMES COSMO (brother of the preceding). _b._ Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb. 1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. _d._ Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23 July 1860.

MELVILL, SIR MAXWELL (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871). _b._ 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin. coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60; assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde 1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883; judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. _d._ of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. _Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s Life of sir M. Melville_ (1887), _portrait_; _Times 8 Aug. 1887 p._ 5, _15 Aug. p._ 6.

MELVILL, TEIGNMOUTH (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., _d._ Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). _b._ 1843; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865, lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ _Graphic xix_ 272 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 277, 282, 554, 560 (1879), _portrait_; _F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C._ (1880) 256–7.

MELVILLE, ROBERT SAUNDERS DUNDAS, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). _b._ 14 March 1771; ed. at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings 1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov. 1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to 18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811; lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to 2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St. Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May 1817; F.R.A.S. _d._ Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851. _bur._ in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. _J. E. Doyle’s_ _Official baronage_, _ii_ 494 (1886), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_ 191 (1851); _I.L.N xviii_ 538 (1851); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_ (1831) _vol._ 2, _portrait_ 17 _and pp._ 8.

MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the preceding). _b._ Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb. 1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31 Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2 Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July 1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9; colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of 32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60 rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president of royal company of archers 1860. _d._ Melville castle 1 Feb. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167 (1876); _J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers_ (1875) 250, _portrait_.

MELVILLE, ROBERT DUNDAS, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding). _b._ Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb. 1876. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.

MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN WHYTE (only son of John Whyte Melville 1797–1883). _b._ near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to 1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany. 1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March 1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858; The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6 ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed. 1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely 3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; _killed_ while hunting near Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. _Babington’s Records of the Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 114, _portrait_; _Fores’s Sporting Notes_, _Oct. 1884 p._ 110, _portrait_; _Land and water_, _xxvi_ 472, 486 (1878); _Baily’s Mag. xiii_ 55–67 (1867), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 569 (1867), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xix_ 52 (1879), _portrait_.

MELVILLE, HENRY SAXELBY. _b_. 1801; formerly printer and publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. _d_. Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.

MELVILLE, SIR JOHN (eld. son of George Melville of Newington, Edinburgh). _b_. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood palace 15 Oct. 1859. _d_. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860. _The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p._ 2.

MELVILLE, JOHN WHYTE (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry, Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). _b._ 21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18 Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of the St. Andrew’s club 1823. _d._ Mount Melville near St. Andrews 16 July 1883. _Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds_ (1883) 30, _portrait_; _H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library_ (1890) _pp._ 437–40, _portrait_.

MELVILLE, MICHAEL LINNING (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) _b._ 1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April 1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20 Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842, superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1843. _d._ 22 June 1878.

MELVILLE, ROBERT (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1842; ed. at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. _d._ suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.

MELVIN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer on humanity (_i.e._ Latin) at Marischal college, contested professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853; author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin 1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering 6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in univ. library, Aberdeen. _d._ Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853. _Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp._ 225–39; _Anderson’s Fasti academiæ Mariscallanæ_ (1889) 527–9.

MENDEL, SAMUEL. _b._ Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for £18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at Christies 1875. _d._ Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17 Sep. 1884.

NOTE.--He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.

MENDHAM, JOSEPH (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London, merchant, _d._ 1810 aged 77). _b._ 1769; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield, Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws. 22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology, liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830, Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work 1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. _d._ Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. _W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred years of a family living_ (1889) 123–30, 166.

MENDS, HERBERT. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April 1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830; captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb. 1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged 87.

MENDS, WILLIAM BOWEN. _b._ Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29 Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46 guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839; pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.

MENELAUS, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E. 1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to Cardiff 1881–82. _d._ Tenby 30 March 1882. _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._ (1883) _pp._ 20–2; _Red Dragon, June 1882 pp._ 387–92, _portrait_.

MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James McCord a merchant _d._ 1842). _b._ Chartrain, afterwards called Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house, New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’ school in New Orleans; _m._ 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture; _m._ near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states; first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861; went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865; _m._ 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4; played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864, where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19 Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868; author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed. 1888. _d._ Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Père la Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. _A. I. Menken’s Infelicia_ (1888), _memoir and portrait_; _Les Pirates de la Savane. Par Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 1–14; _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 243, _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 251–3 (1881); _The Age_, _ii_ 369 (1864), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 44 (1862) _portrait_, _iv_ 569 (1865), _portrait_.

MENZIES, ALLAN (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). _b._ 1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs. of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000 for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3 ed. 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.

MENZIES, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had 50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses 1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. _d._ Glasgow 19 April 1873. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 223–8 (1886), _portrait_.

MENZIES, SIR CHARLES (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot). _b._ Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A. 28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April 1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. _d._ East hill house, Hastings 22 Aug. 1866.

MENZIES, JOHN. _b._ 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh; apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh 1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852; Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to Scotland 1852. _d._ 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 1306; _Bookseller_, _Jany. 1880 p._ 7.

MENZIES, ROBERT STEWART (elder son of Graham Menzies of Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). _b._ 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.

MENZIES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). _b._ Kincardine on Forth 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’ cottages and of villages 1869. _d._ Windsor great park 3 May 1878. _bur._ St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1878. _Land and Water_, _xxv_ 485 (1878).

MENZIES, WILLIAM COLLIER (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866). _b._ 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 19 Oct. 1881. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.

MERCER, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825, lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.

MERCER, ALEXANDER CAVALIE. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859 to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. _d._ Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov. 1868.

MERCER, GEORGE. _b._ 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal 1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2 Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. _Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct. 1891 p._ 805.

MERCER, JOHN (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner, _d._ 1800). _b._ Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again 1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs. Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society 1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington 1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850; patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; F.C.S. 1842. _d._ Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866. _bur._ Great Harwood. _E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer_ (1886), _portrait_.

MERCER, ROBERT (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. _d._ 1846). _b._ 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821, retired from business. _d._ Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov. 1875. _bur._ East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_.

MERCER-HENDERSON, DOUGLAS. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. _d._ Naples 21 March 1854.

MERCIER, LEWIS PAGE (only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). _b._ 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842; assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow, and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49, head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London 1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873 and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855; Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1871–2. _d._ 2 Nov. 1875.

MEREDITH, CHARLES (son of George Meredith). _b._ Poyston lodge, Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840; member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26 Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to 1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873. _d._ Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.

MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM COLLIS (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of Andrea, co. Tyrone). _b._ Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854, LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. _d._ 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.

MEREDYTH, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth, 1 Baronet). _b._ 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. _d._ 25 Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.

MEREI, AUGUST SCHOEPF. _b._ Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia 1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war; a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death, established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of infantile development and rickets 1855. _d._ 114 Oxford street, Manchester, March 1858.

MEREWETHER, CHARLES GEORGE (son of Francis Merewether, R. of Cole Orton, Leics. _d._ 1864). _b._ 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death; contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880; M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire into corrupt practices at elections 1880. _d._ Inns of court hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.

NOTE.--He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling authority on the subject.

MEREWETHER, FRANCIS (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R. of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick, Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832; Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish 1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. _d._ Cole Orton rectory 21 July 1864.

MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835; recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs 1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823; author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835. _d._ Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. _Law Times_, _xxxix_ 442 (1864).

MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 23 April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867, treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5 April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875, leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon, New Zealand and America 1874. _d._ Bowden hill near Chippenham, Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. _Law Times_, _lxiii_ 353 (1877).