Chapter XXXII: Part 32
MAGHERAMORNE, SIR JAMES MACNAGHTEN MC GAREL HOGG, 1 Baron (1
son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. _d._ 1876). _b._ Calcutta 3
May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1
life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855,
retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867
and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889;
M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey
division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867;
assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May
1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2
baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co.
Antrim 5 July 1887. _d._ 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June
1890. _bur._ Brompton cemet., personalty sworn at £159,718. _St.
Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609,
610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26,
_portrait_.
MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay
1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill,
city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper
Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London
1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the
queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent
Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843)
_portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871).
MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of
the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864
a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode
of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this
picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and
potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in
hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2
portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from
want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg.
and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869).
MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth
house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.;
partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China
merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested
Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6,
contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first
president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman
of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder
of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a
collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art.
_d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.
MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham;
founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus,
the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery,
Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30
Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany.
1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4.
MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras
army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of
hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical
service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860.
MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone
1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to
lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822;
L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24
June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence
of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4
Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug.
1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth
12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church.
_Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878).
MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790;
C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the
government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co.
Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto;
R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14
June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851).
MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the
Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it
many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan
1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a
Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863
and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of
St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions
1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX
1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in
America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided
at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872.
_bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455
(1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_.
MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._
Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847,
M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork
1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute
1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London,
July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857
to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R.
of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884;
author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The
discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R.
Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of
the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman
in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica
1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing
room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881)
71–6.
MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin
24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to
death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11
June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor
of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek
and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral
philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic
idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides
with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton
place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange
cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted
civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb.
1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6.
MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow
1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov.
1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec.
1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct.
1881.
MAHER, JAMES. _b._ Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow
coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte
Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822;
parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and
Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare
1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of
theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of
Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. _d._
Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath.
200 priests were present. _bur._ Carlow Graigue. _Comerford’s
Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 177–8; _Letters of Father Maher_
(1877).
MAHER, JOHN. _b._ 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41;
sheriff of Wexford 1853. _d._ 28 May 1860.
MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) _b._
Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates
of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. _d._ Turtulla near Thurles
18 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p._ 411.
MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding).
_b._ Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869;
M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872;
resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873;
medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875;
medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881;
M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author
of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British
medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph
and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. _d._ of
enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 745,
763 (1884); _Guy’s Hospital Reports_ (1886) 1–10.
MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. _b._ Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon
in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784;
learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at
Cork with an Irish girl, she _d._ about Dec. 1850; carried on a
vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death;
author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the
Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2
ed. 1826, portrait. _d._ 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851.
Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed
kept a fencing academy. _The travels of Deen Mahomed_ 2 _vols._
_Cork_ (1794); _Willis’s Current notes_ (1852) 23; _G.M. xxxv_
444 (1851).
MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son
of Patrick Mahon _d._ 1821). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 17 March
1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of
the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated
for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called
to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and
South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the
Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with
the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China
and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general
under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded
a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army
of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war;
colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with
Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took
part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.
Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with
Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June
1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. _I.L.N. 27 June
1891 p._ 854, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p._ 832,
_portrait_.
MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805;
major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany.
1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being
disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Brighton 18 March 1851.
MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney,
woollen manufacturer). _b._ Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary
in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome;
prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood,
co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830;
ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at
Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3;
contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6,
many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as
Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor
1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived
in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe
1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz
in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final
reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881),
memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. _d._ at his hotel in the Rue
des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. _bur._ in vaults of Shandon
church, Cork. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
463–88, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_
(1885) 91–4; _S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed._ (1877) 238;
_Dublin Univ. mag. xxx_ 442–52 (1847) _signed Morgan Rattler_;
_I.L.N. xlix_ 137 (1866), _portrait_.
MAHONY, PIERCE. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co.
solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies,
at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug.
1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell
1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court
of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster
declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal
of the Union. _d._ 18 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. iv_ 41, 42 (1814),
_portrait_.
MAHONY, RICHARD JOHN (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee,
Kerry). _b._ Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist,
Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord,
all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A.
Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his
estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of
several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. _d._ 4
Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. _bur._ in family vault
near Dromore castle 27 Dec. _Times 28 Dec. 1892 p._ 4.
MAIDEN, JOSEPH. _b._ close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire
1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to
sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others
at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250
sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at
Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton
1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his
master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. _d._
Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Maer.
_Sporting Review_, _xxxviii_ 383–7 (1857) _portrait_, _lii_ 318,
392 (1864); _The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid_ (1880)
313–18; _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 211–2.
NOTE.--The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S. Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.
MAIDLOW, JOHN MOTT (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent).
_b._ 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A.
1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867;
a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on
the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public
therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons
preservation 1867. _d._ 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London
26 Sep. 1893.
MAIDMENT, JAMES (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill,
London). _b._ London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817;
much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter
Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford,
and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73;
principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837;
edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14
vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of
his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. _d._ Edinburgh 26 Oct.
1879. _T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment_ (1883),
_portrait_; _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiii_ 601–3 (1879).
MAIN, DAVID M. (son of a Scottish banker). _b._ 1847; edited
A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations.
Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English
sonnets 1884. _d._ 1888.
MAIN, JOHN FREDERIC. _b._ 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan
gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at
Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London
1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol;
assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South
Kensington. _d._ Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.
MAIN, ROBERT (son of Thomas Main). _b._ Upnor, Kent 12 July
1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation
scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler
1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860;
chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60;
ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41
and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president
1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member
of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860
to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859
etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860;
Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. _d._ Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 9 May 1878. _E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_
(1879) 165–88; _Nature 16 May 1878 pp._ 72–3.
MAIN, THOMAS. _b._ 1806; presbyterian minister Kilmarnock
1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St.
Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general
assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in
the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. _d._ 7 Bellevue
crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1851) 55–62.
MAIN, THOMAS JOHN (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). _b._ 1818;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843;
senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A.
1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842,
retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval
college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The
indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam
engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions
on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed.
1863. _d._ 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec.
1885. _Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p._ 233.
MAINE, MISS E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among
strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person
1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3
vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. _d._ Wales 24 Jany. 1891.
MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (son of James Maine, M.D.)
_b._ Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s
hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar
1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first
chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847;
tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law
at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850;
barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to
death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman
law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July
1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov.
1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at
Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863;
elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of
jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll.
Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20
May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June
1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of
Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor
of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of
Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection
with the early history of society and its relation to modern
ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876;
Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other
books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. _d._ Cannes 3 Feb.
1888. _Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with
his speeches_ (1892), _memoir pp._ 1–83, _portrait_; _Bristed’s
Five years at an English university_, _i_ 174, 234, 237, 268–70
(1852); _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 197–204; _The
Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 69–74.
MAINWARING, EDWARD VINCENT. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served
in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at
Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the
Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The
Lancet. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.
MAINWARING, FREDERICK. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June
1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep.
1852, sold out 29 April 1853. _d._ Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.
MAINWARING, GEORGE BYRES. _b._ 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal
N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1
Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed
on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887;
author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists
in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. _d._ Serampore,
Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.
MAINWARING, SIR HENRY MAINWARING, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas
Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). _b._ 25
April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden
was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804.
_d._ Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. _Sporting Review_, _xliii_
83 (1860).
MAINWARING, ROWLAND (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks,
Warwickshire 1745–1815). _b._ 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May
1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798;
commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22
July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive
gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832;
Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal
act. Bath 1838. _d._ Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11
April 1862.
MAINWARING, SWEEDLAND. _b._ 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15
Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov.
1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881.
_d._ Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.
MAINWARING, TOWNSHEND (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring
of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). _b._ Oteley park 16 March
1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov.
1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and
1857–68. _d._ Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.
MAINZER, JOSEPH. _b._ Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise
of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé;
singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account
of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical
editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came
to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848
to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed.
1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony
1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring
counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb.
1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum
1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4,
continued as The musical times 1844. _d._ Manchester 10 Nov.
1851. _A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer_ (1844);
_Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp._ 103–5.
MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. _b._ Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of
W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of
modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in
prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874;
A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar
quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. _drowned_
while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.
MAIR, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital,
London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society;
hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840,
surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served
in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada
1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils.
Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or
total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state
of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. _d._ Kingston
5 Oct. 1877. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867)
246–7.
MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh
hall, Lincs.) _b._ 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of
commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated
baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s
Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list
1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch
and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s
guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872;
Short rules for cribbage 1878. _d._ Osbert house, Skegness,
Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.
MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal
N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war
1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal
infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the
antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the
procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the
cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing
his skull. _d._ 2 Sep. 1892.
MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull,
_d._ 18 Feb. 1790). _b._ 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793;
captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795,
major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807;
lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on
h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal
and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug.
1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in
Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Wells 18 May 1852. _bur._ in the minster at Ripon.
_I.L.N. xx_ 479 (1852); _G.M. xxxviii_ 92 (1852).
MAITLAND, SIR ALEXANDER CHARLES RAMSAY-GIBSON, 3 Baronet (son
of Alexander M. G. Maitland). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820;
succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant
Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col.
3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed
surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. _d._ Clifton hall,
Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 551 (1876).
MAITLAND, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain
R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828,
_d._ Oct. 1865). _b._ Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and
Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised
at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of
All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire;
C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in
the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome,
illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school
of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the
present time 1849. _d._ London 31 July 1866.
MAITLAND, CHARLES DAVID. _b._ 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall,
Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton
14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the
conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on
the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on
the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and
the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal
son, eight discourses 1844. _d._ Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.
MAITLAND, CHARLES LENNOX BROWNLOW (son of sir Peregrine Maitland
1777–1854). _b._ 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April
1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.;
assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in
Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor
1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884;
col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death;
general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. _d._
Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. _Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p._ 103,
_portrait_.
MAITLAND, EBENEZER FULLER. _b._ 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829;
F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
_d._ Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. _Cautionary hints to testators,
suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a
correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of
Harlow_ 1813.
MAITLAND, EDWARD FRANCIS, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of
Barcaple). _b._ Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and
univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire
9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and
27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session
with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and
assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen
1860. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. _Law mag.
and law review_, _xxix_ 273–4 (1870).
MAITLAND, JOHN (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland,
2 baronet 1755–1848). _b._ 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb.
to death; an organizer of the National security savings’
bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St.
George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund;
accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the
Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built
offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of
National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’
banks self supporting 1847. _d._ Swinton Bank near Peebles 6
Sep. 1865. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 389–96.
MAITLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec.
1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.
MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866).
_b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler
and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842;
barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service
commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author
of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. _d._ 51
Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.
MAITLAND, JULIA CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Barrett). _m._ (1) James
Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who _d._ 6 Jany. 1840;
_m._ (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters
from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843,
another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The
doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs
of the puss and the captain 1854. _d._ Stowe Provost near
Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.
MAITLAND, SIR PEREGRINE (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall,
New Forest, Hants.) _b._ Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1
foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first
brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at
Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut.
governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of
Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief
of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and
commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct.
1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834;
col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to
death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April
1852. _d._ 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. _Hamilton’s
History of the grenadier guards_, _vols._ 2 _and_ 3 (1874);
_Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war_ (1848).
MAITLAND, SAMUEL ROFFEY (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant).
_b._ King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7
Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at
St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll.
1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll.
10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of
St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7;
travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet
An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of
Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years.
1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’;
librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48;
D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839;
lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49;
contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes
under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents
illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and
Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to
illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth,
tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects
connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40
other books. _d._ Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. _Proc. of royal soc.
xvi_ 31–3 (1868).
NOTE.--Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from the invention of printing downwards.
MAITLAND, THOMAS, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland).
_b._ Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called
to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep.
1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire
1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death,
took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by
Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and
Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The
works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov.
1851 and 8 following days. _d._ of paralysis at 31 Melville
st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 111–2, _portrait_.
MAITLAND, WILLIAM FULLER (2 son of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland
1780–1858). _b._ 10 March 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1835, M.A. 1839; lived at Stansted, Essex 1842 to death; made a
collection of pictures, most of which were exhibited at South
Kensington museum after his death, 9 of the best were bought
for the National Gallery; lent pictures to the Old Masters’
exhibitions at the R.A. during many years. _d._ Stansted 15
Feb. 1876. _G. H. Rogers-Harrison’s Genealogical account of the
Maitland family_ (1869); _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 1–7
(1854).
MAJENDIE, ASHURST (eld. son of Lewis Majendie of Hedingham
castle, Essex, _d._ 1833 aged 77). _b._ London 24 April 1784;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; barrister L.I. 12 June 1809; resided
at Penzance 1814–8; one of founders of Geological society of
Cornwall 1814; assist. poor law comr. for Sussex, Kent and part
of Essex 1832; F.R.S. 28 June 1821; F.S.A. _d._ Hedingham castle
7 Oct. 1867. _Law Journal xliii_ 440 (1867).
MAJENDIE, LEWIS ASHURST (eld. son of rev. Henry Lewis Majendie,
V. of Great Dunmow, Essex, _d._ 1863). _b._ Great Dunmow 19 May
1835; ed. at Marlborough and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1860;
a student of Lincoln’s inn 1859; M.P. Canterbury, Feb. 1874 to
April 1879. _d._ Hedingham castle, Essex 22 Oct. 1885.
MAJOR, HENRY ARCHIBALD (son of Mr. Major, compositor, who _d._
Reading, June 1863). _b._ One Bell yard, Strand, London 30
Dec. 1828; employed by J. B. Chamberlain, picture dealer 203
High Holborn 1845–8; a letter carrier in Lincoln’s Inn Fields
post office 4 Dec. 1848 to June 1876 when granted pension of
14 shillings and 7 pence per week; played Doggrass in Francis
Talfourd’s pantomime Black-eyed Susan at Strand theatre 12 weeks
from 24 Dec. 1855, also in his own dramas at Grecian theatre
1871–4; known as “The Postman artist of Lincoln’s Inn Fields”;
his picture of Grapes and butterflies took first-class prize at
Floral hall, Covent Garden 1865; he gained 8 more first-class
prizes at picture shows; presented a large painting of fruit
worth £50 to King’s college hospital 7 Jany. 1870; exhibited
6 fruit pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–73; lived at 14
Brownlow st. Holborn. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement
Danes_, _ii_ 65–7 (1876).
NOTE.--He wrote for the Soho theatre A cure for the gout, farce 1859, and A sketch from the Louvre, farce 1860, for the Grecian theatre 5 farces namely It never rains but it pours 1862, A Rye House plot 1865, The expected general 1870, The man of mystery 1870 and The rural poet 1871, and 4 dramas namely Primrose farm 1871, The blind fiddler 1872, The mystic number 7, 1872, and My pretty Jane 1874, for the Britannia theatre The Ku Klux Klan drama 1873, and for Croydon theatre The lock out 1879; he wrote 7 other dramas and 8 other farces which were not produced; two of his dramas The lock out and The Nondescript, and two of his farces A Jack of both sides and Irish home rule were printed.
MAJOR, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 1 July 1837;
resided at Londonderry. _d._ 1877.
MAJOR, JOHN RICHARDSON (son of John Major). _b._ London 1797;
ed. at Reading sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1827; D.D. 1838; master of Wisbeach gr. sch. 1826–30; head
master of King’s coll. sch. London 1830 to July 1866; V. of
Wartling, Sussex 1846–51; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1871 to death;
author of Extracts from Virgil and from the Fasti of Ovid 1857,
anon.; ed. The journal of the Photographic soc. 1853; re-edited
many classical and other school books, about 30 in number
1820–57. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 29 Feb. 1876. _Men of the
time_ (1875) 691; _Times 9 March 1876 p._ 11.
MAJOR, JOSHUA. _b._ 1787; landscape gardener at Knostrop near
Leeds; assisted in formation of the first Sunday school in
Leeds, superintendent many years; author of A treatise on the
insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden produce 1829;
The theory and practice of landscape gardening 1852; The ladies’
assistant in the formation of their flower gardens 1861. _d._
Knostrop 26 Jany. 1866. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
609; _Gardeners’ Chronicle 10 Feb. 1866 p._ 128.
MAJOR, RICHARD HENRY (son of Richard Henry Major, surgeon).
_b._ London 3 Oct. 1818; an assistant in department of printed
books in British Museum in charge of the maps and charts Jany.
1844, keeper of department of printed maps and plans Jany. 1867,
resigned Nov. 1880; hon. sec. to Hakluyt Soc. 1849–58; F.S.A. 25
Jany. 1855; made researches on the early history of Australia
1861 etc.; hon. sec. of Royal geogr. soc. 1861–81, vice pres.
1881–4; knight of the Tower and Sword, of the orders of
Santiago, Oct. 1875 and of the Rose of Brazil; knight commander
of Crown of Italy, May 1875; edited for the Hakluyt Soc., Select
letters of Christopher Columbus 1847, 2 ed. 1870, and 9 other
books 1849–58; author of The life of prince Henry of Portugal,
surnamed the navigator 1868 and other books. _d._ 51 Holland
road, Kensington 25 June 1891. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British
Museum_ (1872) 377–80; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3, _portrait_.
MAKELLAR, ANGUS. _b._ Argyllshire 1780; D.D. of univ. of Glasgow
1835; presbyterian minister of Carmunnock near Glasgow 1812–4
and of Pencaitland, Haddington 1814–43; moderator of the general
assembly 1840; Free ch. minister Pencaitland 1843; chairman of
the board of missions, Edinb. Oct. 1843 to death; moderator
1843 and 1852. _d._ Edinburgh 10 May 1859. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) 397–404, _portrait_.
MALAN, CHARLES HENRY (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan _b._
1812). _b._ 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal
fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault
on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14
Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served
in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872
and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. _d._ 42
Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery
20 May.
MALCOLM, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1813; timber merchant at Venice,
leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at
Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the
grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892;
consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon.
representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. _d._ Venice 22
Jany. 1893.
MALCOLM, ANDREW GEORGE. _b._ 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician
Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and
pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal;
author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for
its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an
interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. _d._ Rathmines,
Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.
MALCOLM, SIR CHARLES (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot,
Dumfriesshire, _d._ 1803). _b._ Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered
navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts
William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on
the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted
by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28
Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May
1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council
of Royal Geogr. Soc. _d._ Brighton 14 June 1851. _C.R. Low’s
History of the Indian navy_ 2 _vols._ (1877) _i_ 494 _etc._
MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3
Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political
agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.
MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm).
_b._ 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot
20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13
Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of
Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42;
A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death;
general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B.
24 Dec. 1842; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child
of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was _b._ June 1807
and _d._ 29 Oct. 1886). _d._ 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888.
_J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females_, _i_ 43
(1833), _portrait of his wife_.
MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). _b._
1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821,
chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ.
(afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of
Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to
B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical
degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological
Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50,
and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. _d._ 39 Belsize sq. South
Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London.
_Graphic_, _xiv_ 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_; _Testimonials in
favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh
academy_ 1824.
MALDEN, JONAS. _b._ Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at
univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816
to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of
Practical observations on the cow pox. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March
1860.
MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre
Malet, 1 bart. _d._ 24 Jany. 1815). _b._ 23 July 1800; ed. at
Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822;
attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at
Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of
legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836;
sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep.
1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep.
1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23
June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester
school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the
prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with
Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831;
The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou
1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870.
_d._ 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886.
_The Biograph_, _iii_ 458–62 (1880).
MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 Nov. 1806;
ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842;
political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of
Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary
to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of
India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge
of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut
1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the
daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the
Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse
1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book
of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet
family 1885. _d._ 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1888.
MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827,
fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to
death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the
library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. _d._ 2 Richmond hill,
Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.
MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet,
baronet _d._ 1815). _b._ 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay
establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from
Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset
1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John,
Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author
of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849;
The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An
errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome,
Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868;
St. Swithin’s day 1879. _d._ Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.
MALEY, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30
Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours
23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2
hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a
side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat
Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in
44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle,
Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb.
1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in
205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a
side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill
at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov.
1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in
130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his
fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his
style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable;
a capital teacher of boxing. _d._ Coach and Horses public house,
90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. _John Hannan’s Guide
to British boxing_ (1852) 37–9.
MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). _b._ Great Charles st.
Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made
himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt
drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass
work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work;
high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and
maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the
fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he
presented to that institution 1879. _d._ 1882. _Edgbastonia_,
_ii_ 2–4 (1882), _portrait_.
MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.)
_b._ Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42;
Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death,
treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of
vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65;
contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage
settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary
property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor
3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice,
Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867;
P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. _d._ 57
Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Bray
near Maidenhead 21 Jany. _Saturday Review_, _liii_ 76 (1882);
_Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867) _No._ 3 _pp._ 12–13;
_A generation of judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 146–56;
_The bench and the bar_ (1860) _part viii_, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 85 (1882),
_portrait_; _Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins
on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school_ 1874.
MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. _b._ 1841; conductor at Queen’s
theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic
theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre
under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881;
composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy
queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy
moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison.
Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans
1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in
one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses
a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady
Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in
Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. _d._ 11
Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.
MALLESON, JOHN PHILIP (youngest son of Thomas Malleson,
silversmith and jeweller). _b._ Battersea, London 11 Feb.
1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent
minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov.
1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation
at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day
school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the
New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove
house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library,
London to death. _d._ Croydon 16 March 1869. _bur._ Marylebone
cemetery, Finchley. _J. Martineau’s The Godly man_ (1870)
_memoir pp._ 19–63.
MALLET, SIR LOUIS (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit
office). _b._ London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office
Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private
secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an
assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the
articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860;
employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial
treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany.
1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent
under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep.
1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May
1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate
a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug.
1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled
Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects,
by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. _d._ Bath 16 Feb. 1890.
_Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 205–13; _Pictorial World
27 Feb. 1890 pp._ 260, 283, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p._
262, _portrait_.
MALLET, ROBERT (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder).
_b._ Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which
ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof
of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges
over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford
medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the
Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9;
invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form
the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the
Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London
1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great
exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical
mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of
R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of
Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74
scientific papers. _d._ Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey
5 Nov. 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_ 297–304
(1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_ 54–6 (1882).
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