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MARSHALL, FRANCIS ALBERT (5 son of Wm. Marshall 1796–1872). _b._ Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1840; ed. at Harrow; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 14 June 1859; clerk in the audit office Somerset House 1862–8; dramatic critic to the London Figaro some years from 1870; author of the following plays, Mad as a hatter, farce produced at Royalty theatre 7 Dec. 1863; Corrupt practices, drama Lyceum 22 Jany. 1870; Q.E.D. or all a mistake, comedietta Court 25 Jany. 1871; False Shame, comedy Globe 4 Nov. 1872, revived at Royalty 19 June 1880; Brighton, comedy Court 25 May 1874, which ran 300 nights; Biorn, 5 act opera Queen’s 17 Jany. 1877; Family Honour, comedy Aquarium 18 May 1878; Lola or the Belle of Baccarato, comic opera Olympic 15 Jany. 1881; author with W. S. Wills of Cora, a drama Globe 28 Feb. 1877; edited the Henry Irving edition of Shakespeare’s works 8 vols. 1887–90; author of A study of Hamlet 1875; Henry Irving actor and manager. By An Irvingite 1883; L.S.D. an unfinished novel brought out in Britannia Magazine; _m._ (1) Imogene, she appeared as Elfrida in his five act opera of Biorn at Queen’s theatre 17 Jany. 1877, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885; _m._ (2) 2 May 1885 Ada Cavendish the actress. _d._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 28 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 12, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 70, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 556, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, GEORGE. _b._ 29 Sep. 1794; banker at Birmingham; numismatist; author of A view of the silver coin and coinage of Great Britain, also an account of the silver coins struck in Scotland 1838. _d._ 25 Feb. 1855.

MARSHALL, HENRY (son of John Marshall). _b._ Kilsyth, Stirlingshire 1775; ed. at Glasgow univ.; surgeon’s mate in royal navy, May 1803; assistant surgeon in Forfarshire militia Jany. 1805 and in 89th foot April 1806; assistant surgeon 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, surgeon 1 Ceylon regiment 1813–21, staff surgeon in North Britain 1821–3 at Chatham 1823–5 and at Dublin 1825–8; deputy-inspector general of hospitals on h.p. 22 July 1830; investigated with Sir A. M. Tulloch statistics of the sickness, &c. of the British army 1835–6; the first hon. M.D. of New York univ. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Notes on the medical topography of the interior of Ceylon 1821; On the enlisting, the discharging and pensioning of soldiers 1832, 2 ed. 1839; Ceylon, a general description of the island 1846. _d._ Edinburgh 5 May 1851. _John Brown’s Horæ Subsecivæ_ (1858) 225–90; _Edinb. Med. and Surg. journal_, _lxxvi_ 489–92 (1851).

MARSHALL, HENRY. _b._ 1795; attorney at Godalming, Surrey 1816 to death; mayor of Godalming 1836 and six times afterwards; clerk of the peace for Surrey, Oct. 1856 to 1872; registrar of Guildford county court 1856–69. _d._ High st. Godalming 23 Sep. 1874. _bur._ Farncombe cemetery near there 28 Sep. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xviii_ 904 (1874).

MARSHALL, HUBERT. _b._ 1804 or 1805; entered Madras army 14 Sep. 1824; lieut. 33 Madras N.I. 11 Nov. 1826, major 5 July 1854; deputy secretary to government military department 1852 to 1869; lieut.-col. 8 Madras N.I. 2 Jany. 1860 to 1861; lieut.-col. 18 Madras N.I. 1861–3; lieut.-col. 33 Madras N.I. 1863–5; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Newton house, Dalkeith 3 May 1880.

MARSHALL, JAMES (son of a doctor at Rothesay, Bute, who _d._ 1806). _b._ Rothesay 23 Feb. 1796; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; minister of Outer high church, Glasgow 1819–28; minister of Tolbooth ch. Edinb. 1828, resigned 29 Sep. 1841; ordained by bishop of Durham as curate of Norham, Durham 19 Dec. 1841; R. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1842–7; secretary to newly founded Lay readers’ association 1845; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Clifton, May 1847 to death; edited Letters of the late Mrs. Isabella Graham of New York 1839; author of Inward revival or motives and hindrances to advancement in holiness. Edinb. 1840; Early piety illustrated in the life and death of a young parishioner. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 29 Aug. 1855. _Memoir by Rev. James Marshall_ (1857); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1 _pt._ 1 _p._ 52 (1866).

MARSHALL, SIR JAMES (2 son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829; lost his right arm through a gun accident; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 3 Feb. 1848; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Little Moorfields, London 1854–7; joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1857; procurator and precentor in R.C. ch. Bayswater, London; classical master at Oratory school, Birmingham 1863; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; practised at Manchester; chief magistrate of the Gold Coast and assessor to the native chiefs May 1873; raised levies in Ashanti war 1874; senior puisne judge of supreme court of the Gold Coast, Nov. 1876, chief justice 1879 to 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 29 June 1882; executive comr. for West African colonies at Colonial exhibition 1886; C.M.G. 28 June 1886; chief justice of territories of royal Niger company 1887; knight commander of St. Gregory the Great, June 1889. _d._ Margate 11 Aug. 1889.

MARSHALL, JAMES. _b._ 1806; founded business of Marshall and Snelgrove, drapers and silk mercers at 11 Vere st. Oxford st. London 10 April 1837, they employed nearly 1800 hands in 1887, in 1800 the largest haberdasher’s shop in London employed only 16 persons; in 1893 they were silk mercers at 10 to 20 Vere st., 334 to 348 and 352 and 354 Oxford st., 14 to 20 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq., 2 to 24 Marylebone lane, and at Scarborough and Leeds. _d._ Goldbeaters, Millhill, Hendon, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1893, leaving personal estate of the net value of £719,116.

MARSHALL, JAMES GARTH (3 son of John Marshall of Headingley, Leeds, M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30). _b._ Leeds 20 Feb. 1802; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; member of firm of Marshall and Co. of Holbeck, Leeds and Shrewsbury, flax spinners, the former of these mills is described in Disraeli’s ‘Sybil’ 1845; M.P. for Leeds 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.G.S. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1860. _d._ Monk Coniston near Ambleside 22 Oct. 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 317–20 (1874).

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 7 Jany. 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Nov. 1818; purchased estate of Curriehill in Midlothian; dean of faculty of advocates March 1852; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 3 Nov. 1852 to Oct. 1868. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 27 Oct. 1868. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 123–4, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, JOHN, LORD CURRIEHILL (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1827; ed. at Edinb. academy and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1851; a member of general council of univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 29 Oct. 1874 to death; chancellor’s assessor of Edinb. univ. court; author of Analysis of titles to land consolidation (Scotland) act 1868. Edinburgh 1869. _d._ Curriehill near Edinb. 5 Nov. 1881.

MARSHALL, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Marshall of Ely, solicitor). _b._ Ely 11 Sep. 1818; studied at Univ. coll. London 1838–44; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849; demonstrator of anatomy at Univ. coll. about 1845, extra assistant surgeon 1847, professor of surgery 1866–85, Emeritus professor 1885 to death; consulting surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1884; member of council of R.C.S. 1873, pres. 1883, representative of the college in general council of medical education 9 June 1881 to death, pres. of the council 10 May 1887 to death; Bradshaw lecturer 1883, Hunterian orator 1885, Morton lecturer 1889; F.R.S. 11 June 1857; pres. of royal medical and chirurgical society of London 1882–3; lectured on anatomy to art students at Marlborough House 1853; professor of anatomy at royal academy 16 May 1873 to death; introduced the galvano-cautery and operation of the excision of varicose veins; Fullerian professor of physiology at the royal institution 4 years; invented system of circular wards for hospitals; author of A description of the human body, its structure and functions 1860, 4 ed. 1883; The outlines of physiology, human and comparative 3 vols. 1867; Anatomy for artists 1878, 3 ed. 1890; A rule of proportion for the human figure 1878. _d._ 92 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1 Jany. 1891. _bur._ at Ely 6 Jany., bust by Thomas Brock, R.A. in Univ. coll. London; memorial painted glass window placed in choir of Ely cathedral by his widow Jany. 1894. _Proc. of royal soc. xlix pp. iv–vii_ (1891); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 77 (1883), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, MARY. _b._ England 1813; played columbine in Barrymore’s pantomime of Davy Jones’s Locker at Drury Lane, Dec. 1830; the original White Cat in J. R. Planché’s extravaganza at Covent Garden, Easter 1842; played Lazarillo to James Wallack’s Don Cæsar de Bazan at Princess’s 8 Oct. 1844; played soubrettes in comedy at Lyceum; played Fortunio in Planché’s burlesque Fortunio at Sadler’s Wells 22 April 1851; acted the leading parts in Frank Talfourd’s burlesques at Strand theatre, May 1851 to May 1852; played at Princess’s under Charles Kean 1853–5; made her début in America at Burton’s theatre, New York 1856; first appeared in Philadelphia at National theatre 6 July 1857; returned to England 11 Sep. 1862; always known as Polly Marshall; _m._ Mr. Zerman. _d._ 1 D’Israeli terrace, Disraeli road, Putney 17 Nov. 1878. _The Era 24 Nov. 1878 p._ 5.

NOTE.--Her brother Joseph Marshall, harlequin at Drury Lane theatre, afterwards ballet master at T.R. Manchester _d._ 30 Nov. 1873.

MARSHALL, MATTHEW. First assistant cashier of Bank of England 1829–35, cashier 1835–64. _d._ Emersham house, Beckenham, Kent 30 June 1873.

MARSHALL, THOMAS FALCON. _b._ Liverpool, Dec. 1818; contributed 4 pictures to Liverpool academy exhibition of 1836; removed to London about 1847; exhibited 60 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and 42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–78; his best works are in South Lancashire; his picture The Coming Footstep 1847 is at South Kensington museum. _d._ 46 Victoria road, Kensington, London 26 March 1878.

MARSHALL, THOMAS HORNCASTLE (3 son of rev. Thomas Horncastle Marshall, V. of Pontefract, Yorkshire, _d._ 1841 aged 84). _b._ Marston 1 March 1800; barrister G.I. 14 Nov. 1821, bencher Jany. 1850 to death, treasurer 1851; revising barrister for north Northumberland 1832; deputy judge and steward of Court of Honor of Pontefract; judge of county courts, circuit No. 14 (Dewsbury, Leeds, Pontefract and Wakefield), March 1847 to death; drew or suggested several sections of County Courts act 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 45 (1846); author of A letter to lord Brougham on county courts, writs of prohibition and certiorari 1855. _d._ St. Leonards 18 Feb. 1875.

NOTE.--He libelled by means of a pamphlet an attorney at Leeds called Barret, for which a jury gave Barret 40/-damages at York assizes April 1856.

MARSHALL, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of John Marshall, government agent for colonising New South Wales). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840; P.C. of Swallowcliffe and Anstey, Wiltshire 1841–5; joined Church of Rome 1845; an inspector of schools 16 Dec. 1848; published Tabulated reports on Roman Catholic schools inspected in the south and east of England and in South Wales 1859; granted cross of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. for his Christian missions, their agents, their method and their results 3 vols. 1862; lectured in the U.S. of America about 1873; LL.D. Georgetown college. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 14 Dec. 1877. _J. Gondon’s Motifs de conversion de dix ministres Anglicans pp_. 20–37; _J. Gondon’s Conversion de cent cinquante ministres Anglicans pp._ 90–102.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (brother of James Garth Marshall 1802–73). _b._ 26 May 1796; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1824; M.P. for Petersfield 1826–30, for Leominster 1830, for Beverley 1831, for Carlisle 1835–47 and for East Cumberland 1847–68. _d._ 32 St. Georges road, Eccleston sq. London 16 May 1872.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music seller). _b._ Oxford 1806; chorister of chapel royal, London; organist to Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1825–46, organist to St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1825–46; Mus. Bac. Oxf. 1826, Mus. Doc. 1840; organist of St. Mary’s, Kidderminster 1846 to death; published Three Canzonets 1825; Cathedral Services. Oxford 1847; author of The art of reading church music Oxford 1842; A collection of anthems used in the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales 1840, 4 ed. 1862; edited with Alfred Bennett A collection of cathedral chants 1829. _d._ Handsworth, Birmingham 24 Aug. 1875.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM. _b._ hamlet of Meadowmore, Perthshire 1807; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1820–2; minister of united secession church, Coupar-Angus, Perthshire 28 Dec. 1830 to death; edited The Dissenter, 12 monthly numbers Jany. to Dec. 1833; secretary of the Voluntary church association; helped to bring about union of relief and secession churches 1847; moderator of united presbyterian synod 1865; D.D. New York univ. June 1865 and Hamilton univ. July 1865; presented with £1500 by his friends 29 Oct. 1872; author of Men of mark in British church history 1875; Historic names in Forfarshire 1875; Historic scenes in Perthshire 1880. _d._ Coupar-Angus 22 Aug. 1880. _Mc Kelvie’s Annals of the United presbyterian church p._ 609.

MARSHALL, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1810; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 12 June 1813, lieut. 1816; captain 35 N.I. 10 Oct. 1825, major 2 April 1834 to 4 Jany. 1841; lieut.-col. of 34 N.I. 4 Jany. 1841 to 1845, of 73 N.I. 1845–46, of 34 N.I. 1846–50, of 32 N.I. 1850–51; col. of 32 N.I. 15 March 1851 to 1861, of 3 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 23 July 1865. _d._ Southport, Lancashire 29 Jany. 1868.

MARSHAM, HENRY SHOVELL JONES. _b._ 28 Jany. 1794; entered navy 17 May 1807; captain 24 Dec. 1833; retired R.A. 21 Oct. 1856; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Hayle place near Maidstone 26 Oct. 1875.

MARSHAM, ROBERT BULLOCK (eld. son of hon. and rev. Jacob Marsham, canon of Windsor 1759–1840). _b._ 17 June 1786; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826; fellow of Merton coll. 1812–26, dean 1824, warden 1826 to death; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; recorder of Rochester to 1826; contested univ. of Oxf. July 1852. _d._ Caversfield house near Bicester 27 Dec. 1880. _bur._ north transept of Merton college chapel 1 Jany. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_; _Law Times_, _lxx_ 161 (1881).

MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK (eld. son of Joshua Marshman, orientalist and missionary 1768–1837). _b._ Aug. 1794; went with his father to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India; founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marshman’s Guide to the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, embracing the history of the Serampore mission 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration 3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. _d._ 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington, London 8 July 1877.

MARSON, JOB (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse trainer). _b._ Belle Vue training stables near Malton, Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847 and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. _d._ Middleham 11 Sep. 1857. _Sporting Review_, _xxxiii_ 1–6 (1855), _portrait_, _xxxviii_ 238–40 (1857); _Rice’s History of the British turf_, _i_ 267 (1879); _I.L.N. xxii_ 417 (1853), _portrait_.

MARSTON, CHARLES DALLAS. _b._ 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5 July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73; V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. _d._ East Sheen, Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.

MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste Noel). _b._ Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (_m._ 1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44; played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864, and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep. 1867. _d._ 5 March 1887. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part_ 14, _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 169, 194 (1847), _portrait_.

MARSTON, HENRY, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a physician). _b._ Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June 1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840; took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863, Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864, Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. _d._ 4 Lidlington place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Tallis’s Drawing room table books_, _parts_ 9 _and_ 18, 2 _portraits_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 201 (1847), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xi_ 280, 318 (1879), _portrait_.

MARSTON, JOHN WESTLAND (son of Stephen Marston, baptist minister). _b._ Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. _d._ at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 159–86 (1844); _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 201–206; _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_; _London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_.

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (only son of the preceding). _b._ 123 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King, and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. _d._ 191 Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. _Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest_ (1891) _and For a song’s sake_ (1887); _The collected poems of P. B. Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait_ (1892).

MARTEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov. 1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825, lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col. 6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837. _d._ Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, ALBINUS. _b._ Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. _d._ 17 Oct. 1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 223–26 (1872).

MARTIN, EDWARD. _b._ Brenchley, Kent 24 Nov. 1814; played his first match at Lord’s Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 26 June 1843; played for Kent and Hampshire; generally called The Veteran; dealer in cricketing appliances and keeper of a cricket ground at Oxford. _d._ 29 Oct. 1869. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _iii_ 152 (1863).

MARTIN, FRANCIS OFFLEY (4 son of Henry Martin of Colston Basset, Notts., M.P. for Kinsale and master in chancery, who _d._ 19 July 1839). _b._ 22 March 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 19 May 1829; assistant tithe comr.; an inspector of charities 1857 to 7 Dec. 1872; second charity comr. for England and Wales 7 Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ 89 Onslow gardens, London 4 Dec. 1878.

MARTIN, FREDERICK. _b._ Geneva 19 Nov. 1830; secretary and amanuensis to Thomas Carlyle from 1856 for some years; started The Statesman, a biographical mag. in which he began an account of Carlyle’s early life; started The statesman’s year book 1864, edited it to Dec. 1882; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; author of The life of John Clare 1865; Stories of banks and bankers 1865; Commercial handbook of France 1867; The story of Alec. Drummond of the 17th lancers 3 vols. 1869; Handbook of contemporary biography 1870. _d._ 22 Lady Margaret road, Kentish Town, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 Feb.

MARTIN, GEORGE (2 son of rev. Joseph Martin of Ham court, Worcs., canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral 1796–1815). _b._ 1789; ed. at New coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; preb. of Exeter cath. 15 Sep. 1815 to death; chancellor of the diocese 1820 to death; V. of Harberton, South Devon 22 June 1820 to death; principal of training sch. Exeter (the first in England) Oct. 1839, which began Feb. 1840, first stone of new college laid 19 May 1853; cut his throat at Harberton vicarage 27 Aug. 1860. _G.M. ix_ 437 (1860).

MARTIN, GEORGE. Proprietor of Royal Oak park grounds, Manchester. _d._ 21 Oct. 1865 aged 39. _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 533, 545 (1865), _portrait_.

MARTIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; clerk in office of John James, secondary of City of London; clerk in the city solicitors’ office; assistant clerk at Mansion House justice room 1850–55; chief clerk at the Guildhall, June 1855, retired on full salary 1882. _d._ 2 Cromwell gardens, Kensington, London 30 Dec. 1887.

MARTIN, GEORGE ANNE. _b._ 1807 or 1808; L.S.A. 1828; M.R.C.S. 1830; M.D. Edinburgh 1837; L.R.C.P. 1840; practised at Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1838 to death; author of The Undercliff, Isle of Wight: its climate, history and natural productions. 1849. _d._ Belgrave house, Ventnor 7 Jany. 1867.

MARTIN, GEORGE BOHUN. _b._ 21 March 1799; entered navy 11 April 1815; captain 19 April 1828; captain of Victory 101 guns, flag ship at Portsmouth 26 Sep. 1851 to 23 Dec. 1852; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 10 Jany. 1853 to death; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827. _d._ Nottingham 14 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 627 (1854).

MARTIN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 8 March 1828; chorister at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in Jany. 1864 a choir of 1000 voices for the Macbeth music at three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth 23 April 1864; composed Is she not beautiful? 1845 and other glees for which he obtained many prizes. _d._ Bolingbroke House hospital, Wandsworth, London 16 April 1881. _bur._ by the parish in Woking cemetery.

MARTIN, HARRIET LETITIA (dau. of Richard Martin 1754–1834, known as Humanity Martin, M.P. for co. Galway 1801–26). _b._ London 5 July 1801; when staying in Paris wrote a tale entitled Canvassing, which was appended to Michael Banim’s novel The Mayor of Windgap 1835; author of a novel called The Changeling, a tale of the year ’47, 1848. _d._ Dublin 12 Jany. 1891.

MARTIN, HENRI. _b._ Marseilles, France 1793; visited London and the provinces as a lion tamer 1831–32, performed at Drury Lane theatre, retired 1840; curator of Rotterdam zoological gardens; figures in several novels of Honore Balzac and Eugene Sue. _d._ Overschie near Rotterdam, April 1882. _I.L.N. 15 April 1882._

MARTIN, HENRY (son of Mr. Martin of North st. Brighton, saddler). _b._ Ringmer, Sussex 10 May 1813; a saddler in Brighton; councillor for the Pavilion ward on the Incorporation of the town May 1854 to death, alderman Jany. 1859 to death, mayor 1865–66, a magistrate 23 Jany. 1873 to death; author of The history of Brighton and environs 1871. _d._ 5 Powis sq. Brighton 24 April 1885. _Sussex Daily News 25 April 1885 p._ 6 _cols._ 3–4.

MARTIN, HENRY AUSTIN. _b._ London 23 July 1824; graduated at Harvard medical school 1845; practised at Boston, Massachusetts; staff surgeon in the Federal army 1861; rose to be surgeon-in-chief of the second corps of army of the Potomac; introduced into U.S. of America the practice of true animal vaccination 1870 which was universally adopted; invented pure rubber bandage for treatment of ulcers 1877; performed operation of tracheotomy without tubes many times; contributed largely to Lancet and other medical journals. _d._ Boston 7 Dec. 1884.

MARTIN, SIR HENRY BYAM (2 son of sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773–1854). _b._ 1803; midshipman on board the ‘Liffey’ 50 guns Oct. 1818; captain 28 April 1827; captain of Duke of Wellington 130 guns, and commodore in the western squadron 1 Feb. 1853 to 4 March 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 10 Oct. 1853 to 13 July 1854; served for a short time as flag officer in Baltic fleet for which he was made K.C.B. 5 July 1856; admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ Genoa 9 Feb. 1865.

MARTIN, HUGH (son of Alexander Martin). _b._ Aberdeen 11 Aug. 1822; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A. 1839; B.D. Edinb. April 1872; free church minister at Panbride near Carnoustie 1844–58; minister of Free Greyfriars, Edinb. 1858 to June 1865 when he retired owing to ill health; examiner in mathematics for degree of M.A. in univ. of Edinb. 1866–8; author of Christ’s presence in the gospel history 1860; A study of trilinear co-ordinates 1867; National education 1872; The shadow of Calvary 1875; The Westminster doctrine of the inspiration of scripture 1877, 5 ed. 1877. _d._ Lasswade near Edinburgh 14 June 1885.

MARTIN, JAMES. Partner in Martins & Co. bankers, 68 Lombard st. London. _d._ Chiselhurst common, Kent 17 Aug. 1878, personalty under £500,000, 28 Sep. 1878.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES (son of John Martin of Fermoy, Ireland). _b._ Middleton, co. Cork 14 May 1820; taken to New South Wales 1821; admitted solicitor of the supreme court 10 May 1845; member for Cork and Westmoreland in the legislative assembly 1848–59, member for East Sydney, Orange, the Lachlan, East Sydney and East Macquarie successively 30 Aug. 1859 to 19 Nov. 1873; attorney general 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856 and 7 Sep. 1857 to 8 Nov. 1858; called to the bar of N.S.W. 6 Sep. 1856; Q.C. 1857; prime minister and attorney general 16 Oct. 1863 to 2 Feb. 1865, 22 Jany. 1866 to 26 Oct. 1868 and 15 Dec. 1870 to 13 May 1872; knighted by patent 4 May 1869; chief justice of supreme court of N.S.W. 19 Nov. 1873 to death; author of The Australian Sketch-book. Sydney 1838. _d._ Clarens near Sydney 4 Nov. 1886. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 64–82; _Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 37, _portrait_.

MARTIN, SIR JAMES RANALD (son of rev. Donald Martin of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye). _b._ Kilmuir 1793; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1813–7; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Bengal army 1817; surgeon to governor-general’s body-guard 1821; served in first Burmese war; practised at Calcutta from 1826, presidency surgeon 1830, retired 20 May 1840; practised in Grosvenor st. London 1840; physician to council of India 1859 to death; inspector general of army hospitals; F.R.S. 1845; C.B. 25 April 1860; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860; author of Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta. Calcutta 1837, A brief topographical and historical notice of Calcutta. Privately printed 1847; author with James Johnson of The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions 1841, 8 ed. 1861. _d._ 37 Upper Brook st. London 27 Nov. 1874. _Medical Circular_, _iv_ 101–105 (1854), _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1865), _portrait_; _Medical times_, _ii_ 647–8 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 547, 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 586, 600 (1874), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Fenwick Martin, fencing master). _b._ Haydon Bridge near Hexham, Northumberland 19 July 1789; a painter on china and glass in London 1806; historical and landscape painter; exhibited pictures at the R.A. from 1812; historical painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold 1817; his finest work Belshazzar’s Feast obtained premium of £200 at British Institution 1821, the picture was repeated on glass and exhibited as a transparency in the Strand; an original member of Soc. of British Artists 1824; exhibited The fall of Nineveh at Brussels 1833 which was bought by Belgian government; member of Belgian academy and knight of order of Leopold; many of his works were engraved, some by himself; received sum of £2000 for his illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost; his three large pictures of the Apocalypse were exhibited after his death at the Hall of Commerce, 52 Threadneedle st. city of London, and at chief cities in England. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 17 Feb. 1854. _Redgrave’s Century of painters_, _ii_ 424–37 (1866); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 120–6.

NOTE.--His eldest daughter Isabella Mary materially assisted her brother-in-law Joseph Bonomi the curator of the Soane museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, in his official duties during the later years of his life, she died 23 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of John Martin of 112 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London, _d._ 1836). _b._ 16 Sep. 1791; bookseller at 13 Old Compton st. Soho 1811–15, at 23 Holles st. Cavendish sq. 1815–6, at 46 New Bond st. 1816–9; partner with John Rodwell at 46 New Bond st. 1819–26, retired 1826; secretary to the Artists’ Benevolent fund 1833–45; librarian to duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire 1836 to death; F.S.A. and F.L.S.; edited Gray’s Bard 1837 and Gray’s Elegy 1839 and 1854; author of Bibliographical catalogue of books privately printed 1834, 2 ed. 1854; History and description of Woburn and its abbey 1845; Enquiry into the authority for a statement in Echard’s History of England regarding William, lord Russel. Privately printed 1852, published 1856. _d._ Froxfield near Woburn 30 Dec. 1855. _bur._ in Eversholt churchyard. _G.M. xlv_ 317 (1856).

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; physician in city of London some years; laid down meteorological charts representing the varying aspects of months, seasons and years from daily observation; edited An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner several years resident in those islands 2 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818 reprinted as vol. xiii of Constable’s Miscellany. _d._ Lisbon 8 July 1869.

MARTIN, JOHN. _b._ near Kennington church, London 10 July 1796; a baker by trade, always called by the reporters the Master of the Rolls; fought and beat George Oliver 18 July 1813; beat Jack Scroggins £100 a side, 65 rounds in 2 hours at Moulsey Hurst 18 Dec. 1818; beaten by Jack Randall at Crawley Downs 4 May 1819; beaten by Randall again £300 a side at same place 11 Sep. 1821; beaten by Edward Turner 100 guineas a side, 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Wallingham common 26 Oct. 1819; beat Jack Strong otherwise Cabbage 100 guineas a side, 75 rounds in 72 minutes at Farnham Royal, Bucks. 28 March 1820; beat Edward Turner £100 a side, 60 rounds in 78 minutes at Crawley 5 June 1821; beaten by Samuel Evans £100 a side, 16 rounds in 71 minutes at Knowl Hill, Berkshire 4 Nov. 1828; won 9 out of 14 fights; landlord of the Crown at Croydon many years; kept the Horns tavern at Kennington, London; retired first to St. Albans and afterwards to Devonshire; became a total abstainer and vegetarian. _d._ 1871 or 14 Aug. 1868. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _i_ 395–41 (1880), _portrait_; _The Fancy. By An Operator_, _i_ 201–5 (1826), _portrait_.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 child of Samuel Martin of Longhorne, parish of Donoughmore, co. Down). _b._ Longhorne 8 Sep. 1812; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; a member of the Repeal Association, expelled having joined the secession of the Young Ireland party; contributed to The United Irishman newspaper; issued The Irish Felon, successor to The United Irishman 24 June 1848 to 22 July 1848, surrendered to the police 8 July 1848, tried for treason-felony and sentenced to 10 years transportation 19 Aug. 1848, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land Nov. 1849, granted a conditional pardon 1854, resided in Paris Oct. 1854 to June 1856 when granted an unconditional pardon; returned to Ireland 1858, established with The O’Donoghue the short-lived National League; contested co. Longford, Dec. 1869; joined the Home government association for Ireland, May 1870; M.P. for co. Meath, Jany. 1871 to death; known in Ireland as Honest John Martin; paid secretary to Home Rule league, hon. sec. 1874. _d._ Dromalane house near Newry 29 March 1875. _P. A. Sillard’s Life and letters of John Martin_ (1893).

MARTIN, JOHN (eld. son of John Martin of Overbury court, Worcs. 1774–1832). _b._ 2 Feb. 1805; member of firm of Martins & Co. bankers 68 Lombard st. London; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1832–5 and 1837–59; contested Tewkesbury 6 Jany. 1835. _d._ the Upper hall, Ledbury 7 March 1880.

MARTIN, JOHN (2 son of rev. Samuel Martin, V. of Warsop, Notts.) _b._ 10 Oct. 1807; ed. at Rugby; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn, London 1830 to death; founded a national school in Baldwin’s gardens, Holborn; an active member of the Church Association; promoter of great ecclesiastical suit of Martin _v._ Mackonochie 1867–76, always refused to take any steps to obtain imprisonment of the defendant; chairman of committee of Colonial and Continental church society. _d._ 9 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 16 May 1885.

MARTIN, JOHN (son of Francis Martin of Davieland, dean of faculty of procurators in Paisley). _b._ 23 July 1811; a writer to the signet in Edinburgh 6 March 1834; principal clerk of session 1880 to death. _d._ 19 Chester st. Edinburgh 26 March 1893.

MARTIN, JOHN CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, fellow 1821–9, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1835; R. of Killeshandra, Kilmore 30 May 1831 to death; archdeacon of Ardagh 1854–66; archdeacon of Kilmore, Sep. 1866 to death. _d._ 17 Jany. 1878.

MARTIN, JOHN EDWARD (eld. son of John Martin 1791–1855, librarian to Duke of Bedford). _b._ 1821 or 1822; sub-librarian to Society of Inner Temple 1850; librarian 1856 to Dec. 1882 when his brain gave way; private librarian to Duke of Bedford at Woburn, to Duke of Northumberland, Marquis of Ripon and other owners of extensive collections. _d._ 20 July 1893. _Law Journal 29 July 1893 p._ 536.

MARTIN, LEOPOLD CHARLES (2 son of John Martin, painter 1789–1854). _b._ 6 Dec. 1817; godson of Leopold afterwards first king of the Belgians; an artist and numismatist; clerk in the Stationery office, London 1836 to 1870; author of Contributions to English literature by the civil servants of the crown and East India company from 1794 to 1863. 1865; author with his elder brother Charles Martin of Civil costumes of England from the conquest to George III. 61 plates 1842, and of Dresses worn at Her Majesty’s Bal Costumé, May 1842. 1842; author with Charles Trubner of The current gold and silver coins of all countries 1862, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1889.

MARTIN, PETER JOHN (son of Peter Patrick Martin, surgeon). _b._ Pulborough, Sussex 1786; M.R.C.S. 1813; practised at Pulborough; F.G.S. 1833; gave 3 lectures in 1833–4, afterwards published, to the Philosophical and literary society of Chichester on A parallel between Shakespeare and Scott and the kindred nature of their genius; wrote often under signature of P.P. in The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841–5; author of Geological memoir on a part of Western Sussex, with some observations upon chalk basins, the Weald denudation and outlines by protrusion 1828. _d._ Pulborough 13 May 1860.

MARTIN, PHILIP WYKEHAM (eld. son of Charles Wykeham-Martin of Leeds castle, Kent 1801–70). _b._ 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 Jany. 1829; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; M.P. for Rochester 8 Feb. 1856 to death; introduced and carried the Sale of spirits amendment act 1862 and the Hotel keepers’ liability act 1863. _d._ in library of House of Commons 31 May 1878, being only member who has died in the House since Spencer Perceval. _bur._ in parish church of Broomfield near Leeds Castle 7 June. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 92, 94 (1858), _portrait_.

MARTIN, ROBERT MONTGOMERY. _b._ co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803; went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India 1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols. 1834; The Marquis of Wellesley’s Indian despatches 5 vols. 1836; History of the antiquities of Eastern India 3 vols. 1838; Statistics of the colonies of the British empire 1840; Ireland before and after the Union 1844, 2 ed. 1848; China, political, commercial and social 2 vols. 1847; The Indian empire 5 vols. 1857. _d._ Wellesley lodge, Sutton, Surrey 6 Sep. 1868.

MARTIN, SAMUEL (son of Wm. Martin, shipwright). _b._ Woolwich 28 April 1817; Congregationalist pastor of Highbury chapel, Cheltenham, Feb. 1839 to 1842; pastor of Independent chapel, Little James st. Westminster 5 July 1842 to death, chapel was rebuilt 1863; chairman of Congregational Union 1862; established day schools and a school for the reformation of criminals in Westminster; took an active part in management of Westminster hospital 1845–72 to which he presented communion plate 1869; author of Discourses to youth 1843; The extra work of a London pastor 1863; edited The useful arts, their birth and development 1851. _d._ 19 Belgrave road, London 5 July 1878. _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 110–7; _Waddington’s Congregational History_, _v_ 593–6 (1880); _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.

MARTIN, SIR SAMUEL (2 son of Samuel Martin of Culmore, Newton Limavady, co. Londonderry). _b._ 23 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1857; special pleader 1828–9; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, bencher 1843 to 1850 and Nov. 1878 to death; Q.C. April or May 1843; M.P. for Pontefract 1847–50; baron of court of exchequer 6 Nov. 1850, retired 22 Jany. 1874; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; common law comr. 30 April 1857, the report is dated 31 July 1857; doctor of laws, Durham, Sep. 1857; tried Franz Müller for murder of Mr. Briggs 27–29 Oct. 1864; P.C. 2 Feb. 1874. _d._ 132 Piccadilly, London 9 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 13 Jany. _A generation of judges. By their reporter_ (1886) 83–94; _Times 10 Jany. 1883 p._ 6 _cols._ 1–2; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 61 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xl_ 173–74 (1883); _Illust. Times 5 Nov. 1864 p._ 289, _portrait_.

MARTIN, SAMUEL DICKINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 June 1803; an engineer and surveyor there 1824 to death; surveyed many railway lines; a leading arbitrator in compensation cases; founded Yorkshire and north of England land agents and surveyors’ association, pres. of it; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. _d._ Harrogate, Yorkshire 26 Sep. 1877.

MARTIN, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. 1810, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; general medical practitioner at Reigate, Surrey; member of the Provincial medical and surgical association; started and edited The Institute: a journal of medical, surgical and obstetrical science and practice and philosophical gazette 2 vols. 1850–1; presented by his admirers at Reigate with his portrait about Aug. 1851. _d._ Reigate 12 Feb. 1867 aged 87. _Medical Circular_, _i_ 45–6 (1852), _portrait_.

MARTIN, THOMAS (son of John Nickleson Martin of Wollaton, Notts.) _b._ 11 Dec. 1787; entered navy March 1799; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ 1 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, SIR THOMAS BYAM (4 son of Henry Martin baronet, comptroller of the navy 1733–94). _b._ Ashstead house, Surrey 25 July 1773; entered navy April 1786; captain 5 Nov. 1793; commanded the Tamar in the West Indies 1797, captured 9 privateers in 5 months; had a large share in capture of the Russian ship Sewolod 26 Aug. 1808, for which he received cross of Swedish order of the Sword; R.A. 1 Aug. 1811; second in command at Plymouth 1813–4; deputy comptroller of the navy Jany. 1815, comptroller 9 Feb. 1816 to 2 Nov. 1831; admiral 22 July 1830, vice admiral of the U.K. 1847, admiral of the fleet 13 Oct. 1849 to death; M.P. for Plymouth 1818–32; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 3 March 1830; one of elder brethren of Trinity house 1833 to death. _d._ the Dockyard, Portsmouth 21 Oct. 1854, portrait in United service club. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 735–6; _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 252 (1833).

MARTIN, WILLIAM (brother of John Martin 1789–1854). _b._ the Twohouse in Haltwhistle, Northumberland 21 June 1772; worked in a ropery at Hawdon dock 1794–5 and 1809–10; served in the Northumberland regiment of militia 1795–1805 and 1810; studied perpetual motion from 1805; went to London 1808, exhibited and sold his patent for perpetual motion; founded the Martinean Society 1814 based upon the negation of Newtonian theory of gravitation; styled himself Anti-Newtonian from 1821; lectured throughout England 1830; designed models for a lifeboat and a lifebuoy, a self-acting railway gate and a design for a high-level bridge over the Tyne; author of Harlequins’ invasion, a new pantomime engraved and published by W.M. 1811; A new system of natural philosophy on the principle of perpetual motion, with a variety of other useful discoveries 1821; W. M.’s Challenge to the whole terrestrial globe as a philosopher and critic and poet and prophet 1829, 2 ed. 1829; A short outline of the philosopher’s life from being a child in frocks to the present day 1833, with portrait; An exposure of a new system of irreligion called the new moral world promulgated by R. Owen, Esq., whose doctrine proves him a child of the devil 1839, and other books. _d._ at his brother’s house, Lindsey house, Chelsea, London 9 Feb. 1851. _G.M. i_ 327–8 (1851), _i_ 433 (1854); _M. A. Richardson’s Local historian’s Table Book_, _iii_ 137–8 (1842), _iv_ 366.

MARTIN, WILLIAM. _b._ Ewell near Epsom 10 March 1750. _d._ St. Pancras parish, London 14 Nov. 1852 aged 102. _bur._ in the old church St. Pancras. _I.L.N. xxi_ 548 (1852).

MARTIN, WILLIAM (natural son of Jane Martin, laundress). _b._ Woodbridge, Suffolk 1801; master in a school at Uxbridge to 1836; returned to Woodbridge 1836, delivered lectures and wrote articles for the magazines; issued Peter Parley’s Annual 1840 to death, six other writers adopted the same pseudonym; author of numerous educational works under name of Peter Parley, a series of Household tracts for the people under name of Old Chatty Cheerful and many under his own name. _d._ Holly lodge, Woodbridge 22 Oct. 1867.

MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM (youngest son of Henry Martin). _b._ Birmingham 1807; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar 1826–31, fellow 1831–8; 26th wrangler, 4th classic and second chancellor’s medallist 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1836; chief justice of New Zealand 5 Feb. 1841, resigned 12 June 1857, the New Zealand government granted him pension of £333 6s. 8d. by special act 10 Aug. 1858; settled at Auckland 1859; D.C.L. Oxford 14 July 1858; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; author of Inquiries concerning the structure of the Semitic language 2 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Torquay 18 Nov. 1880. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 12–14, _portrait_; _Foreign church chronicle_, _March 1881_.

MARTIN, WILLIAM CHARLES LINNÆUS (son of Wm. Martin, naturalist 1767–1810). _b._ 1798; superintendent of museum of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 1830 to 1838; F.L.S.; author of A natural history of quadrupeds 1840; The history of the dog 1845; The history of the horse 1845; An introduction to the study of birds, n.d.; A general history of humming-birds with reference to the collection of J. Gould 1852 and other books. _d._ Dacre park terrace, Lee, Kent 15 Feb. 1864.

MARTIN-LEAKE, STEPHEN (eld. son of Stephen Ralph Martin Leake 1782–1865, assistant secretary to the treasury). _b._ 19 March 1826; ed. at King’s coll. London and St. John’s coll. Camb., 20th wrangler 1848; pupil of Edward Bullen; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1853; author of The elements of the law of contracts 1867, new ed. 1878; Elementary digest of law of property of land 1874; Digest of the law of uses and profits of land 1888; author with Edward Bullen of Precedents of pleadings in actions in the superior courts of common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. _d._ Marshalls, High Cross, Ware, Herts. 7 March 1893. _bur._ Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. _Solicitors’ Journal 25 March 1893 p._ 359.

MARTINEAU, ARTHUR. _b._ 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1831–6, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; V. of Whitkirk near Leeds 1838–63; V. of Alkham with Capel, Kent 1863–4; R. of St. Mildreds, Bread st., with St. Margaret Moyses, London 1864 to death; chap. to Bp. of London, June 1865; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1866 to death; chap. to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of No need of a living infallible guide in matters of faith (four sermons). Leeds 1850; Church history of England from the earliest times down to the Reformation 1853, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ Cannes, France 11 Nov. 1872.

MARTINEAU, HARRIET (youngest child of Thomas Martineau, camlet manufacturer, who _d._ June 1826). _b._ Norwich 12 June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5; awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834 were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America 1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism 1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832, at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45; built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside, Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2 vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and many other books. _d._ The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876. _bur._ beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. _H. Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman_ (1877), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 206–12, _portrait_; _Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller_ (1884); _James Payn’s Some literary recollections_ (1884) 97–136; _W. H. D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers_ (1882) 404–17; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 65–75 (1844), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 739, _portrait_; _J. S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master_ (1851); _Cornhill Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 44, 46 (1876), _portrait_, _xxviii_ 197 (1883), _portrait_; _British medical journal 14 April 1877 p._ 449.

NOTE.--She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.

MARTINEAU, ROBERT BRAITHWAITE (son of Philip Martineau, taxing master to the court of chancery). _b._ 99 Guildford st. London 19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London 1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. _d._ 13 Feb. 1869. _F. T. Palgrave’s Essays on art_ (1865).

MARTINEAU, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Martineau of Birmingham). _b._ 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch., head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham, solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany. 1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor 1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25 March 1887. _d._ Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 28 July 1893. _Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 1–4 (1884), _portrait_; _Law Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p._ 550.

MARTINS, SIR WILLIAM (son of W. Martin). _b._ 1800; one of the gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign 11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840. _d._ 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 595 (1874).

MARTLEY, HENRY. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death. _d._ Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.

MARTON, GEORGE (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray hall near Lancaster, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1800; ed. at Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster 1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1858. _d._ 24 Nov. 1867.

MARTYN, FRANCIS MOUNTJOY. _b._ 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27 Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863; brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to Martyn 1830. _d._ London 24 Jany. 1874.

MARUM, EDWARD PURCELL MULHALLEN (only son of Richard C. Marum of Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). _b._ 1828; ed. at Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co. Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3 Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed to police barracks adjoining the church where he _d._ 21 Sep. 1890. _St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p._ 23, _portrait_.

MARVIN, CHARLES THOMAS (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of engineering works on the Neva, Russia). _b._ Plumstead, Kent 1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till 1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months; a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876, transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May 1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26 June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to 20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England and America, and 12 other books. _d._ Grosvenor house, Plumstead Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. _Times 17 July 1878 p._ 11, _5 Dec. 1890 p._ 6; _London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p._ 11, _portrait_.

MARWOOD, WILLIAM. _b._ Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln 1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful; hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb. 1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov. 1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. _d._ Church lane, Horncastle 4 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Trinity ch. 6 Sep. _The life of W. Marwood_ (1883), _portrait_; _Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp._ 9, 20, _facsimile of his letter_; _Entracte Annual_ (1882) 26–7; _Law Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 490.

NOTE.--His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’; this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep. 1883.

MARWOOD-ELTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, _d._ 4 Dec. 1827). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l. 16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838 with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. _d._ 18 April 1884.

MARX, KARL. _b._ Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845, settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848, after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till his death; chief founder and director of the International 1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. _d._ 41 Maitland park road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times. New York_ (1883); _Progress_, _May and June 1883_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 329 (1883), _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _March 1875 pp._ 382–91.

MASFEN, JOHN. _b._ Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death; the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general practices in the kingdom. _d._ Stafford 7 June 1854.

MASHEDER, RICHARD. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica 1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review 1865, 2 ed. 1865. _d._ Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.

MASKELL, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond., Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C. of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. _d._ Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.

MASKELL, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 1825). _b._ Bath 1814; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe, Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay 1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850; F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut. 1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3 ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M. 1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. _d._ Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. _E. G. K. Browne’s Annals of the tractarian movement_ (1861) 193–200, 214; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 140 (1891).

MASON, CHARLES KEMBLE. _b._ Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre; played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April 1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of Music, Philadelphia 1869. _Ireland’s Records of New York stage_, _ii_ 105–6 (1867).

MASON, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America, July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. _d._ Eastbourne 27 May 1853. _G.M. xl_ 91–2 (1853).

MASON, FRANCIS (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Walingate, York 2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53 and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852; D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. _d._ Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. _Francis Mason’s The story of a working-man’s life. New York_ (1870).

MASON, FRANCIS (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant of Wood st. Cheapside, London). _b._ Islington 21 July 1837; matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college, London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson; M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6, surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres. 1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877; On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). _d._ 5 June 1886. _bur._ Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St. Thomas’s hospital. _St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv_ 249 (1886).

MASON, FREDERICK. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841; beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany. 1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. _d._ St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 20 Oct. 1860. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 309–14 (1881).

MASON, GEORGE HEMING (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) _b._ Fenton park 11 March 1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England, married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe, is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington fine arts club 1873. _d._ 7 Theresa terrace, Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.

MASON, GEORGE HENRY MONCK (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain R.N.) _b._ 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut. 3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11 May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state 1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. _G.M. i_ 105–6 (1858).

MASON, HENRY JOSEPH MONCK (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason of Dublin). _b._ Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800; examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51; correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839; The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843; Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. _d._ Dargle cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. _bur._ in the old cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. _H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev. John O’Hanlon_ (1891).

MASON, HUGH (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne). _b._ Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne; mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885, contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. _d._ 2 Feb. 1886.

MASON, JAMES WOOD (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of Horsley court, Gloucs.) _b._ 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. _d._ on board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6 March 1893.

MASON, JOHN CHARLES (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the H.E.I.Co.’s home service). _b._ London, March 1798; clerk in the secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office 1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired April 1867; represented government of India on committee on Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An analysis of the constitution of the East India company and of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. _d._ 12 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.

MASON, SIR JOSIAH (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). _b._ Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker, then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster; manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker 1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed 1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R. Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000, 1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868; knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880. _d._ Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. _J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason, a biography_ (1882); _Fortunes made in business_, _i_ 129–83 (1884); _Biograph_, _iii_ 119–25 (1880); _Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, _with views of_ _College and Orphanage_; _Edgbastonia_, _i_ 48–49 (1881); _I.L.N. lv_ 247, 248 (1869), _portrait_; _Illust. midland news_, _i_ 8 (1869), _portrait_; _Practical Mag. i_ 162 (1873), _portrait_.

MASON, STEPHEN (son of David Mason). _b._ Kennoway, Fifeshire 1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. _d._ 4 Thornton villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.

MASON, THOMAS MONCK (only son of William Monck Mason of Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000 in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17 hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English, and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. _d._ about 16 Sep. 1889. _T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of aerostation_ (1838), _portrait_.

MASON, WILLIAM HAYLEY. Author of Goodwood: its house, park and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. _d._ East street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.

MASON, WILLIAM MONCK (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel R.E.) _b._ Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary collections and historical and philological compositions 1858; author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of Ireland 1825. _d._ Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey 6 March 1859.

MASON, WILLIAM SHAW. _b._ Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805 remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy 3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana. Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him for Sir R. Peel. _d._ Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.

MASQUERIER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London, completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits 1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death. _d._ 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855. _G.M. xliii_ 540 (1855).

MASSEREENE, JOHN FOSTER-SKEFFINGTON, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard _d._ 18 Jany. 1843, by lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness Loughneagh, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831). _b._ Dublin 30 Nov. 1812; succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831; assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858, new ed. 1860. _d._ from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co. Antrim 28 April 1863.

MASSEY, JAMES. _b._ 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct. 1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100 a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847; beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes 26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852 and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854; fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856; won 13 out of 17 fights. _d._ 1864. _Illust. sporting news 9 Jany. 1864 p._ 385, _portrait_.

MASSEY, RICHARD. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837 to 1877. _d._ 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged 84.

MASSEY, ROSE M. (dau. of Joseph T. Massey of Hamilton square, Birkenhead, Cheshire). _b._ 1850; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs. Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre, London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu the jeune premier 1874. _d._ New York 23 July 1883.

MASSEY, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (son of Wm. Massey). _b._ 1809; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany. 1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P. for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8; ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb. 1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63, new ed. 1865–6. _d._ 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _I.L.N. xlvi_ 237 (1865), _portrait_.

MASSIE, EDWARD (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget, Chester). _b._ 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll. Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols. 1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects 2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in English verse 1878. _d._ Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany. 1893.

MASSIE, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1799; a missionary in India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59; an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement, visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 472, _ii_ 54 (1869).