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MARGETTS, CHARLES (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon,
solicitor). _b._ Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818,
solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge
of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847;
registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for
hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and
Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. _d._ Market place,
Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.

MARGOLIOUTH, MOSES (son of Gershon Margoliouth). _b._ Suwalki,
Poland 3 Dec. 1820; _bapt._ at Liverpool a member of the Church
of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany.
1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of
Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare,
Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew,
Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul,
Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of
St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks.
1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian
monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to
June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew
Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of
1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my
fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain
3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the
life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864;
The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books.
_d._ London 25 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Little Linford churchyard.
_M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism
investigated_ (1843) _memoir pp. i–x_; _M. Margoliouth’s
Some triumphs and trophies of the world_ (1882) _memoir pp.
vii–xxii_; _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii_ 220
(1881).

MARGUERITTES, JULIE DE (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville,
physician 1783–1872). _b._ London 1814; _m._ (1) Count de
Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of
the second republic, they went to New York where she supported
him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon
he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and _m._ (2) George
G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known
as Gaslight Foster and _d._ 1850; gave concerts and readings
and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March
1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and
became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia;
_m._ (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The
ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war
of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and
stations 1860. _d._ Philadelphia 21 June 1866.

MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. _b._ Benkendorfe
near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess
nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in
Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882.
_d._ Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_ 25
(1882), _portrait_.

MARIO, GUISEPPE, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo,
Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese
army). _b._ Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin
1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836;
taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable
at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her
Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he
was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots,
Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart;
sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden
nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47
operas; _m._ Giulia Grisi, she _d._ Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having
had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen;
the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London,
Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone
are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at
Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection
of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871
he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La
Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his
retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances
a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London
29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. _d._
176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in cemetery of St.
Lorenzo 13 Dec. _W. Beale’s Light of other days_, _ii_ 1–150
(1890); _L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario_, _ii_ 261–371 (1886); _H.
F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections_, _i_ 275–83 (1862);
_Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp._ 195–202; _Temple Bar_, _March
1884 pp._ 344–59; _I.L.N. lix_ 193, 194 (1871) _portrait_,
_lxxxiii_ 613 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 608 (1883),
_portrait_.

MARJORIBANKS, DAVID ROBERTSON, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John
Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). _b._ Eccles, Berwickshire
2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant
London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks
by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of
Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks
of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. _d._ 56 Upper Brook st.
London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn
under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 619 (1873), _lxiii_
423.

MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees,
Berwickshire 1735–1815). _b._ 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high
sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but
never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas
Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and
senior partner 1837 to death. _d._ Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep.
1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.

MARJORIBANKS, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). _b._ Madras 4 May 1830; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded
1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875.
_d._ Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. _Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p._ 63,
_portrait_.

MARK, BERTRAM VON DER, Doctor of music; opened a college at
Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it
continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a
tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men
1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7
years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile
orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and
an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at
Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the
remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first
performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer
of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or
the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church
service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera;
Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards
of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures,
sonatas, symphonies and dance music. _d._ 8 Great John st.
Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. _bur._ St. Luke’s ch. Chetham.
_Era 2 Feb. 1868 p._ 6; _Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861_,
5 _views_; _Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p._ 5; _The Pianist
by Dr. Mark. Bristol_ (1865), _portrait_.

MARKBY, THOMAS (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford,
Cambs.). _b._ 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849;
ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St.
John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical
lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting
local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two
books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil
and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858;
The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868.
_d._ Cambridge 4 March 1870.

MARKES, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; founder of the Hollywood
whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club
meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden,
London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. _d._ 288
King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. _The Westminster Papers 1
Aug. 1875 p._ 77.

MARKHAM, FREDERIC (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827).
_b._ Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at
Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for
a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col.
22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland
Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March
1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced
each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded
second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan
during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to
the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the
queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur
district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before
Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of
Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in
Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. _d._ Limmer’s
hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. _bur._ at
Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up
by officers of his regiment. _Men of the time_ (1856) 528–9.

MARKHAM, MRS. HANNAH. _b._ St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse
in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of
Marquess of Dufferin. _d._ Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. _Daily
Graphic 4 July 1892 p._ 8 _col._ 2, _portrait_.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). _b._
28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested
Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. _d._ 26 Jany. 1852.

MARKHAM, WILLIAM ORLANDO (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the
peace, Northampton). _b._ 1818; studied medicine at Edinb.,
Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854;
F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London,
and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864;
poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug.
1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was
presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British
medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on
auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the
analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical
practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860;
Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is
it necessary or justifiable? 1866. _d._ 21 Nightingale lane,
Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.

MARKLAND, JAMES HEYWOOD (youngest son of Robert Markland,
check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, _d._ 1828). _b._
Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.;
solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright
to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814;
F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S.
28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842
to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for
Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s
church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the
colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848;
distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable
works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons
for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the
sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places
1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering
sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed.
1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing
money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles
to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. _d._ 1
Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath
abbey. _G.M._ (1821) _pt. ii p._ 278, (1865) _pt. i pp._ 649–52.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, 5 Duke of (1 son of
4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). _b._ Billhill, parish of
Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland
1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June
1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham
1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke
5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death;
lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March
1845 to death. _d._ Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will
proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art_,
_iii_ 121–32 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 214 (1857); _In the matter of
the duke and duchess of Marlborough_ (1853).

NOTE.--In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her, the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman, soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. _The Annual Register_ (1838) 294–6.

MARLBOROUGH, JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, 6 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk
2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June
1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock
1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the
author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for
subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as
6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to
death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C.
10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9
Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov.
1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick
12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the
duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she
collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and
clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May
1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections
which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems
were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author
of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church
of England. Westminster 1856; _found dead_ on floor of his
bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. _bur._ in chapel of
Blenheim palace 10 July. _Antiquarian Mag. i_ 35–8, 78–83, 255–6
(1882), _ii_ 145–6; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield_, _ii_
87 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 404 (1876), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxviii_ 32 (1883), _portrait_; _Times, 6, 7, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 July 1883_.

MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, 8 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Wilmington crescent, London, a residence
of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of
Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at
Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5
June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883;
_m._ (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn,
she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con.
with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself
marchioness of Blandford; _m._ (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow
of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000
a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under
Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures,
books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical
engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and
of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals
attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting.
_d._ suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892.
_bur._ Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. _Baily’s Mag.
xxviii_ 187 (1876), _portrait_; _The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892_.

NOTE.--The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000. The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture, the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.

MARLING, SIR SAMUEL STEPHENS, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling
of Stroud, Gloucs.) _b._ Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810;
a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874,
M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. _d._ in his
counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N.
lxxxiii_ 428 (1883), _portrait_.

MARLOIS, EDOUARD. _b._ in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to
Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and
Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds
and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song
1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le
piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’
voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other
pieces. _d._ 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.

MARLOW, CHARLES. _b._ Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814;
first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race
was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first
jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee
at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for
the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St.
Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks
1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a
high character for honesty but took to drinking. _d._ Devizes
workhouse, Oct. 1882. _bur._ Devizes 28 Oct. _Sporting Review_,
_Jany. 1857 pp._ 1–5, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p._
60; _I.L.N. xxii_ 416 (1853), _portrait_.

MARLOW, WILLIAM BIDDLECOMB. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep.
1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full
pay as M.G. _d._ Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.

MARNOCK, ROBERT. _b._ Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800;
gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield
botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at
Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s
park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener
1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato
near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the
most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The
Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and
land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of
the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and
descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837.
_d._ Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15
Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal
Green 21 Nov. _Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp._ 565,
567, _portrait_; _Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp._ 733, 744,
_portrait_.

MAROCHETTI, CARLO (son of French parents). _b._ Turin 1805;
naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris;
studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of
Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to
city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian
Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of
battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini
in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of
honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue
of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian
statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at
Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace
yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at
R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers
slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton
Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club
1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and
Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. _d._ suddenly
at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near
Paris 29 Dec. 1867. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 352 (1862);
_I.L.N. xxxvlii_ 176, 178 (1861), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 28
July 1866 p._ 57, _portrait_; _G.M. Feb. 1868 pp._ 249–50.

MARQUIS, JAMES. _b._ 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May
1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb.
1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign
1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of
Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in
Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. _d._ Brookland, Hawke road,
Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.

MARRABLE, FREDERICK (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of
board of green cloth). _b._ 1818; articled to Edward Blore the
architect; architect in London; superintending architect to
Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices
of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club,
13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30
Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary
Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural
designs at R.A. 1843–70. _d._ Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.

MARRAS, GIACINTO (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). _b._ Naples
6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came
to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the
Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842;
sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England
12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house
10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860,
he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India
1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian
operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher
of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong
to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita,
serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839;
12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of
singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent
him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above
1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77;
_m._ a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician
by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. _d._
Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. _bur._ protestant cemetery at Cannes.
_Theatre_, _ii_ 44–5 (1883).

MARRAT, WILLIAM. _b._ Pibsey, Lincolnshire 6 April 1772; printer
and publisher at Boston some years; taught mathematics in New
York 1817–20 and at Liverpool from 1821; mathematical tutor in a
school at Exeter 1833–6; contributed to Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
diary and other mathematical serials 50 years; conducted The
enquirer, Boston, Lincolnshire 1811–12, 3 vols.; author of An
introduction to the theory and practice of mechanics. Boston
1810; The history of Lincolnshire 3 vols. 1814–16; Historical
description of Stamford. Lincoln 1816; An historical description
of Grantham 1816. _d._ Liverpool 26 March 1853. _Trans. Historic
Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 1861–62 p._ 35.

MARRECO, ALGERNON FREIRE-. _b._ North Shields 1835; ed. at the
Ecola Polytechnica, Lisbon; connected with Durham univ. from
1859, professor of chemistry both in the college of medicine and
the college of physical science Durham 1871 to death, examiner
for the medical and science degrees Durham; one of the best
analysts in the north of England. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 27 Feb.
1882. _Lancet_, _i_ 409, 670 (1882).

MARRETT, THOMAS. _b._ 1786; entered Madras army 1802; lieut. 9
Madras N.I. 26 May 1804, captain 30 April 1814; lieut.-col. 11
N.I. 18 June 1828 to 1831, of 44 N.I. 1831 to 10 Oct. 1833, of
11 N.I. 10 Oct. 1833 to 15 May 1834, of 43 N.I. 15 May 1834 to
1835, of 46 N.I. 1835 to 1836, of 6 N.I. 1836 to 1837, of 10
N.I. 1837 to 1838, of 2 N.I. 1838 to 1839, of 5 N.I. 1839 to 19
April 1841; col. of 2 N.I. 19 April 1841 to 1853, of 40 N.I.
1853 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Bath 5 Sep. 1862.

MARRIAN, THOMAS. _b._ Birmingham; brewer at Oxford; founded the
Burton Weir brewery, Sheffield 1830, his beer had a large sale
in the colonies; took his sons Thomas and Francis Marrian and F.
M. Tindall into partnership 1875; business turned into a private
limited company; a town councillor of Sheffield. _d._ Thurcroft
hall, Rotherham 15 Aug. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Breweries_, _iii_
317–8 (1890), _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES (3 son of rev. John Marriott, poet 1780–1825).
_b._ Church Lawford near Rugby 24 Aug. 1811; ed. at Rugby
1825–9; entered Exeter coll. Oxf. 4 March 1829; scholar of
Balliol coll. Oct. 1829 to 1833; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter
1833 to 1858, tutor 1835–8, sub-dean Oct. 1841, dean 1844; first
principal of diocesan theological coll. Chichester, Feb. 1839
to Oct. 1841; great ally of Dr. Pusey at Oxford 1845; V. of
St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1850–56; member of the hebdomadal
council; set up a printing press at Littlemore 1846; edited with
Pusey and Keble A library of the Fathers 1841–55, he edited 24
volumes; the first editor of The literary churchman 5 May 1855,
wrote 16 articles in first 7 numbers; supported an establishment
called The Universal purveyor, to supply pure articles at a
moderate price, in which he lost much money; author of Sermons
preached before the University and in other places 2 vols.
1843–50; Hints on private devotion 1848;. Reflections in a Lent
reading of the Epistle to the Romans 1849; The co-operative
principle not opposed to a true political economy 1855; edited
Analecta Christiana 2 parts 1844–8; paralysed 1856, lived with
his brother Rev. John Marriott at Bradfield, Berkshire 1856 to
death. _d._ Bradfield 15 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Bradfield 20 Sep.
_Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891) 153–93, _portrait_.

MARRIOTT, CHARLES HANDEL RAND. _b._ London 3 Nov. 1831; played
the violin in various orchestras; musical director Highbury
Barn, London 1860–5; musical director Cremorne gardens; director
of Hastings pier orchestra 1873 to death; musical editor of The
young ladies’ journal 1864; composer of La Virginie, varsoviana
1855; C. H. R. Marriott’s Album of dance music 1861; Thy face is
always dear to me, words by R. Lejoindre 1874, is said to have
brought him in over £2000; Blue Danube quadrilles 1876; Ruth,
sacred song 1888; The bard of Avon quadrilles 1888, and upwards
of 320 other pieces, songs and dance music 1855–88; he is said
to have written about 40 pieces annually for many years. _d._ 7
Wilmot place, Camden Town, London 10 Dec. 1889.

MARRIOTT, FITZHERBERT ADAMS (2 son of George Wharton Marriott
of St. Giles’, London). _b._ 1811; ed. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Cottesbach, Leics. 1842–3; archdeacon of
Hobart Town and chaplain to bishop of Tasmania 1843–54; V. of
Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs. 1860 to death; author of Is a penal
colony reconcilable with God’s institution of human society and
the laws of Christ’s kingdom? a letter to sir W. T. Denison.
Hobart Town 1847; Principles of legislation for the church in
Ireland, three letters to lord Lyttleton 1869, two editions.
_d._ The Close, Exeter 19 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery
23 Oct.

MARRIOTT, FREDERICK. Originated The Death warrant 1843, name
changed to The Guide to Life, became The London mercury; started
a halfpenny periodical entitled Chat 1848; editor and proprietor
of The San Francisco letter. _d._ Oct. 1886. _E. L. Blanchard’s
Life_, _ii_ 596 (1891).

MARRIOTT, HARVEY (3 son of William Marriott of Dorking, Surrey
1744–1803). _b._ 23 July 1782; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1806; C. of Marston, Worcs. 1807; R. of Claverton, Bath
1808–47; V. of Loddiswell, Devon 1847–62; V. of Wellington,
Somerset 1862 to death; author of A course of practical sermons
adapted to be read in families 1816, Second course 1819, Third
course 1824, Fourth course 1829; Essay on the Madras system of
education 1819; Eight sermons on ‘The signs of the times’ 1828;
A selection of poetry. Kingsbridge 1859. _d._ Wellington 18 Aug.
1865.

MARRIOTT, HAYES. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 11 Oct. 1833,
lieut.-col. 13 July 1860, commandant 21 Nov. 1865; general 1
Oct. 1877; retired 2 Dec. 1877; served in China war 1839–41; in
the Crimea 1854–5, at Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol and
in the expeditions to Kertch and Kinburn; granted good service
pension Oct. 1880. _d._ Ellerslie, Barton Fields, Canterbury 5
Oct. 1892.

MARRIOTT, J. H. _b._ 1799; a reporter on The Times, London;
connected with theatres; an optician and mathematical
instrument maker at Wellington, New Zealand; an actor at
Wellington; managed the amateur military performances in which
he took a leading part; helped to build the Olympic theatre,
Wellington, executed the scenery and decorations and assisted in
manufacturing from whale oil the gas for the lighting 1844, the
first gas used in Wellington; author of a volume of poems; he
was father of Alice Marriott actress, who married Robert Edgar
actor who _d._ 25 May 1871. _d._ Wellington 25 Aug. 1886. _bur._
in the Episcopalian cemetery 29 Aug., when 600 persons attended
the funeral.

MARRIOTT, JOHN (son of John Marriott of Stowmarket, Suffolk,
solicitor). _b._ about 1830; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1851; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; advocate general of
Bombay 1863 to death; an acting puisne justice Bombay 25 Nov.
1873. _d._ Bombay 7 Jany. 1884.

MARRIOTT, THOMAS BECKETT FIELDING. _b._ 25 June 1813; 2 lieut.
R.A. 20 Dec. 1832, lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1855, colonel 27 June
1863; col. on staff commanding R.A. in Ireland 1866–9; col.
commandant 7 Aug. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
Avonbank, Pershore 25 Nov. 1880.

MARRIOTT, WHARTON BOOTH (7 son of George Wharton Marriott,
barrister). _b._ 32 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Nov. 1823;
ed. at Eton 1838–43 and Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1843–6;
Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1846 to 22 April 1851;
B.C.L. 1851, M.A. 1856, B.D. 1870; select preacher at Oxf. 1868
and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1871; an assistant
master at Eton 1850–60; F.S.A. 30 May 1857, member of council
1871; edited The Adelphi of Terence with English notes 1863;
Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphosis with English notes 1862, 2
ed. 1868; author of Vestiarium Christianum: the origin of the
dress of holy ministry in the church 1868; The vestments of the
church, an illustrated lecture 1869. _d._ Eton college 16 Dec.
1871. _Hort’s Memorials of W. B. Marriott_ (1873), _portrait_;
_Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 195–6.

MARRIOTT, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 4 June 1820; entered Bombay
army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut.
col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July
1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration;
C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s
testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political
economy 1874. _d._ Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. _Guardian 14 Jany. 1880
p._ 41.

MARRIOTT, _Sir William Marriott Smith-_, 4 Baronet (2 son of
sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). _b._ Portman st.
London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15
Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to
baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The
olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott
1855. _d._ Horsmonden rectory 4 Oct. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 662
(1864).

MARRYAT, HORACE (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich,
_d._ 1824). _b._ 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the
Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden,
including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. _d._
Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1790; M.P. Sandwich
1826–35. _d._ Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862;
retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ the cottage,
Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881.

MARRYAT, SAMUEL FRANCIS (youngest son of Frederick Marryat,
captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). _b._ 1826;
midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California
1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian
archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848;
Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal,
with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. _d._ Kensington
Gore, London 12 July 1855.

MARSDEN, ANDREW. _b._ Nottingham; a pugilist 6 feet 1½ inches in
height; beat Edward Baldwin or O’Baldwin at Tring, Herts. £50
a side 3 rounds 21 Oct. 1863; fought Joseph Wormald of London
for £200 a side and the champion’s belt at Horley 4 Jany. 1865,
when Wormald won after 18 rounds in 37 minutes; fought Baldwin
again £100 a side, 11 rounds in 16 minutes at Holme station near
Peterborough 25 Sep. 1866, the ring was broken into by Marsden’s
party and the referee awarded the stakes to Baldwin; turf
commission agent at 2 St. Anne’s Valley, Hunger hill, Nottingham
to death. _d._ suddenly at Nottingham 21 July 1892. _bur._
General cemet. Nottingham 23 July. _Modern boxing. By Pendragon_
(1879) 83–8; _Illust. sport. news_, _ii_ 284 (1863), _portrait_.

MARSDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 16 March 1773; Wesleyan
Methodist minister at Stockport 1793, in London 1796–8, 1816–21
and 1830–3, in Macclesfield 1798–1801, in Manchester 1800–1802
and 1824–7, in Sheffield 1836–9; supernumerary at Glossop 1842
to death; president of the Conference 1821 and 1831; general
sec. of Wesleyan missionary soc.; delegate to the Wesleyan
ch. in Canada 1833; author of A treatise on the nature and
importance of true religion, with an account of the death of
some christians and unbelievers 1813. _d._ Hadfield 16 May 1858.

MARSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Kennington, Surrey 1 Oct. 1812;
articled to Russell and Son of Southwark, solicitors; admitted
solicitor 1835, in practice at 37 Queen st. city of London to
death; vestry clerk of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, city of
London 1835, and ward clerk of ward of Vintry, city of London
1837; vestry clerk of Camberwell 1850 to 1892 when he was
entertained at a public dinner; instrumental in carrying through
parliament the Dulwich college act 1858. _d._ 113 The Grove,
Camberwell, Surrey 12 May 1893. _bur._ Forest hill cemet. _W. H.
Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 186, 189, _portrait_.

MARSDEN, ISAAC MOSES. Founder of firm of E. Moses and Son,
slopsellers, 137 Ratcliff highway, London 1832; tailors and
outfitters at 154, 155, 156 and 157 Minories, and at 83, 84, 85,
86 Aldgate, city of London from 1846; the firm published the
following books, The past the present and the future. A public
address on the opening of the new establishment of Elias Moses
and Son 1846; Fashions. Price lists 1849–57; The growth of an
important branch of British industry. The readymade clothing
system 1860; Gossip on dress 1863; The philosophy of dress 1864;
The tercentenary of William Shakespeare 1864; A popular history
of London 1866 part i. _d._ 4 Kensington gardens terrace, London
26 July 1884.

MARSDEN, JOHN BUXTON. _b._ Liverpool 1803; sizar of St. John’s
coll. Camb. 10 April 1823; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Burslem,
Staffs. 1827; C. of Harrow; R. of Lower Tooting, Surrey 1833–44;
V. of Great Missenden, Bucks. 1844–51; P.C. of St. Peter, Dale
End, Birmingham 1851 to death; edited The Christian Observer
1859–69; author of The history of the early Puritans 1850;
The history of the later Puritans 1852; History of Christian
churches and sects 2 vols. 1856, new ed. 1858. _d._ 37 Highfield
road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16 June 1870. _Christian Observer_,
_Aug. 1870 pp._ 633–4.

MARSDEN, JOHN HOWARD (1 son of rev. Wm. Marsden, vicar of
Eccles, Lancs.) _b._ Wigan 1803; entered Manchester school
6 Aug. 1817, head scholar 1822, exhibitioner to St. John’s
coll. Camb. 1822, fellow 1827–41, Bell univ. scholar 1823;
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; F.R.S.L.; Seatonian prizeman
1829; select preacher at Camb. 1834, 1837 and 1847; R. of Great
Oakley, Essex 1840–89; Hulsean lecturer 1843 and 1844; Disney
professor of archæology, Camb. 1851–65; residentiary canon of
Manchester cath. 1858–71; member of Numismatic soc. 1863; author
of Philomorus Notes on the Latin poems of sir Thomas More 1842;
An examination of certain passages in our Lord’s conversation
with Nicodemus. Eight Hulsean lectures 1844; The evils which
have resulted from a misapprehension of our Lord’s miracles.
Eight Hulsean lectures 1845; Two lectures upon archæology 1852;
A brief memoir of lieut.-col. W. M. Leake 1864; College life in
the time of James the first, diary of Sir Simon d’ Ewes 1851.
_d._ Grey’s Friars, Colchester 24 Jany. 1891. _The Numismatic
Chronicle_ 1891. Proceedings p._ 22; _The Times 26 Jany. 1891
p._ 6; _Manchester school register_, _iii_ 126–7 (1874).

MARSDEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. C.C. coll. Camb., Mawson
scholar, B.A. 1834; V. of Child-Wickham, Gloucs. 1843–57; R. of
Burstow, Surrey 1858–74; R. of St. John, Horsleydown, London
1874–81; chaplain of St. Olave’s workhouse, Southwark 1874–80;
resided at 115 Paulet road, Camberwell; author of The sacred
steps of creation, or the revealed genetic theology illustrated
by geology and astronomy 1865. _d._ Leigh Bank, Sutton, Surrey
13 Dec. 1890.

MARSDEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Sheffield, Aug. 1796; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1827; M.D. Erlangen 1848;
established in 1828 a small dispensary in Greville st. Hatton
Garden, to which the poor were admitted without any formality,
the only hospital in London which received cholera patients
1832, it was moved into Gray’s Inn road 1843, on this site was
built the royal free hospital and Marsden became senior surgeon;
opened a small house in Cannon row, Westminster, for reception
of cancer patients 1851, this became the Cancer hospital,
Brompton in 1861, of which Marsden was senior surgeon; author
of Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhœa better known
by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera 1834, 4 ed. 1871;
translated A treatise on cancer of the breast by A. A. L. M.
Velpeau 1856. _d._ 65 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 16 Jany.
1867. _bur._ Norwood cemet., portraits of him at royal free
hospital and at cancer hospital. _The Hospital 14 May 1887 p._
103.

MARSH, CHARLES WILLIAMS. Originated Shakespearian jesting in
the circus ring; clown with Wm. Batty and Joseph Holloway
many years; played clown in pantomime of Crotchet and Quaver
at Covent garden theatre Christmas 1844; attached to the Vine
hotel, Great college st. Liverpool. _d._ Vine hotel, Liverpool,
July 1866. _Era 5 Aug. 1866 p._ 10.

MARSH, EDWARD GARRARD (son of John Marsh of St. Thomas’,
Salisbury). _b._ 1783; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf. 1800–4; fellow of
Oriel 1804–14; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; Bampton lecturer 1848;
P.C. of North Hincksey, Berks. 1820–8; prebendary of Southwell,
Notts. 18 Oct. 1821 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 1828–34;
V. of Yardley, Herts. 1828–34; R. of Waltham, Lincs. 1834–41;
V. of Aylesford, Kent 1841 to death; translated The book of
psalms 1832; The treatise of John Chrysostom on the priesthood
1844; author of Eight sermons preached before the university of
Oxford 1814; A brief summary of the evidence of the christian
religion 1829; Seven sermons on the ten commandments 1832; Two
hundred and ten psalms and hymns adapted to seventy tunes 1837;
Essays on some of the prophecies 1844; The christian doctrine of
sanctification. Bampton lectures 1848. _d._ Aylesford 20 Sep.
1862.

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of rev. Robert Marsh). _b._
Loughrea, co. Galway 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1812, M.D. 1840; apprenticed to sir Philip Crampton, surgeon
1814–18; M.R.C.P. Dublin 1818, pres. 1841, 1842, 1845 and 1846;
assistant phys. to Stevens’ hospital, Dublin 1820; professor
of medicine at college of surgeons, Dublin 1827–32; F.K.Q.C.P.
Dublin 28 Oct. 1839; phys. in ordinary to queen in Ireland 1837;
created baronet 26 Feb. 1839; author of Cases of jaundice with
dissections 1822; The evolution of light from the living human
subject 1842; Clinical lectures with observations on practical
medicine, edited by J. S. Hughes 1869. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. Dublin
1 Dec. 1860, marble bust by J. H. Foley in King’s and Queen’s
College of physicians in Dublin. _Dublin univ. mag. xviii_ 688
_and lvii_ 222; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_ 338 (1861).

MARSH, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet. _b._ Charlemont st. Dublin 1821;
cornet 3 dragoon guards 5 Aug. 1842, major 24 July 1857, sold
out 17 May 1861; succeeded 1 Dec. 1860. _d._ 6 Victoria square,
Westminster 27 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 570 (1868).

MARSH, JOHN BARLING. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; lieut. R.N. 2
Feb. 1830; commander of the Heroine on coast of Africa 1849–51;
captain 21 Feb. 1856; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879. _d._ 74A
Lansdowne road, Kensington park, London 12 July 1879. _The Times
17 July 1879 p._ 11.

MARSH, JOHN FINCH (son of Thomas Marsh). _b._ Chatham, Kent 4
March 1789; linen draper Whitechapel, London 1818–28; a minister
of the Friends 1818; visited all the meetings in England 1822
etc.; visited Friends in Ireland 1837, 1856 and 1865; with Sarah
Harris and Mary B. Brown went to Holland and Germany. _d._ Park
lane, Croydon 7 Oct. 1873. _A memoir of J. F. Marsh, by his
daughter P. Pitt_ (1873).

MARSH, JOHN FITCHETT (son of John Marsh, solicitor). _b._ Wigan
24 Oct. 1818; solicitor at Warrington 1839 to 1873 and town
clerk 1847–58; resided at Chepstow 1873 to death; contributed
to the Historical society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘On some
correspondence of Dr. Priestley’ 1855 and 4 other articles;
author of Notes of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton
widow of the poet 1855; On the engraved portraits and pretended
portraits of Milton 1860; Annals of Chepstow castle 1883. _d._
Hardwick house, Chepstow 24 June 1880. _Palatine note book_,
_ii_ 168–72 (1882).

MARSH, JOHN WILLIAM (son of rev. Edward Garrard Marsh
1783–1862). _b._ 1822; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A.
1856; C. of Aylesford near Maidstone 1845–8; V. of Bleasby,
Notts. 1848–74; R. of St. Michael, Winchester 1874 to death;
author of A memoir of A. F. Gardiner 1857; First fruits of the
South American mission 1873; Narrative of the progress of the
South American mission 1883. _d._ Downside, Winchester 14 Dec.
1882.

MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY (eld. son of rev. Matthew Marsh, chancellor
of diocese of Salisbury). _b._ Winterslow near Salisbury 12
Sep. 1810; ed. at Westminster 1822–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; went to New South
Wales 1840 where he farmed sheep on a very extensive scale for
14 years; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1851–54; M.P.
Salisbury 1857–68; F.R.G.S.; author of Overland from Southampton
to Queensland 1867. _d._ Bournemouth 26 Jany. 1881. _Solicitors’
Journal xxv_ 300 (1881).

MARSH, ROBERT. Receiver-general of Westminster abbey 1844 to
death. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 June 1865 aged
66. _bur._ North cloisters 21 June.

MARSH, WILLIAM (3 son of colonel sir Charles Marsh of Reading).
_b._ 20 July 1775; ed. at Reading and St. Edmund hall Oxf.,
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1839; C. of St. Lawrence,
Reading, Dec. 1800; C. of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1801–2; V. of
Basildon and Ashampton, Berkshire 1802–14; R. of St. Peters,
Colchester 1814–29; R. of St. Thomas, Birmingham, Oct. 1829 to
1839, where from frequent subject of his sermons he came to be
known as Millennial Marsh; principal official and commissary of
royal peculiar of deanery of Bridgnorth 1837; Inc. of St. Mary,
Leamington 1839–51; hon. canon of Worcester 1848 to death; R. of
Beddington, Surrey 1860 to death; author of A short catechism
on the collects. Colchester 1821, 3 ed. 1824; Select passages
from the sermons and conversations of a clergyman 1823, another
ed. 1828; A few plain thoughts on prophecy, particularly as
it relates to the latter days. Colchester 1840, 3 ed. 1843;
The last warning, a commentary on the 21st chapter of St. Luke
1848, and 45 other works. _d._ Beddington rectory 24 Aug. 1864.
_Life of Rev. W. Marsh. By his daughter_ (1868), _portrait_;
_Colvile’s Warwickshire Worthies_ (1869) 529–33.

MARSH-CALDWELL, ANNE (3 dau. of James Caldwell of Linley Wood
near Lawton, Staffs. _d._ 16 Jany. 1838). _b._ Linley Wood 1791;
_m._ July 1817 Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, latterly of Eastbury
lodge, Herts., he _d._ 23 Dec. 1849; succeeded to estate of
Linley Wood 1858, resumed by r.l. surname of Caldwell in
addition to that of Marsh 18 May 1860; author of the following
books, first editions all anonymous, Tales of the woods and
fields 1836; Two old men’s tales 3 vols. 1843; Triumphs of time
3 vols. 1844; Aubrey 3 vols. 1845; Mount Sorel 2 vols. 1845;
Emilia Wyndham 3 vols. 1846; Father Darcy, an historical romance
2 vols. 1846; The protestant reformation in France, or the
history of the Huguenots 2 vols. 1847; Norman’s bridge or the
modern Midas 3 vols. 1847; The previsions of Lady Evelyn 1847;
Angela or the captain’s daughter 3 vols. 1848; Mordaunt Hall
3 vols. 1849; The Wilmingtons 3 vols. 1850; Lettice Arnold 2
vols. 1850; Time the avenger 3 vols. 1851; Ravenscliffe 3 vols.
1851; Castle Avon 3 vols. 1852; The heiress of Haughton 3 vols.
1855; Evelyn Marston 1856; The rose of Ashurst 3 vols. 1857;
translated from Vitet, The song of Roland as chanted before
the battle of Hastings by the minstrel Taillefer 1854. _d._
Linley Wood, Staffs. 5 Oct. 1874. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record
2 ed._ (1855) 735, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv_ 575;
_Athenæum_, _ii_ 512 (1874).

MARSHALL, ANTHONY. _b._ 6 Aug. 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1808,
lieut.-col. 19 Feb. 1841, retired on full pay 12 July 1845;
commanded R.E. Cape of Good Hope, June 1842 to 12 July 1845;
L.G. 20 April 1861. _d._ Plymouth 25 May 1865.

MARSHALL, ARTHUR MILNES (2 son of Wm. P. Marshall of Stroud,
sec. to institution of mechanical engineers). _b._ Birmingham 8
June 1852; graduated B.A. London 1870, B.Sc. 1873, D.Sc. 1877;
entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1871, fellow 1877–85; B.A.
1875, M.A. 1878, M.D. 1882; assistant to professor F. M. Balfour
in organizing the classes of comparative morphology at Cambridge
1875; at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1877; professor of zoology
at Owen’s college, Manchester, July 1879 to death; F.R.S. 1885;
as secretary and as chairman he took part in organizing the
course of studies for the Victoria univ. Manchester; edited
Studies from the biological laboratories, Owen’s college 1886;
author of The frog, an introduction to anatomy and histology.
Manchester 1882, 4 ed. 1891; The Manchester Museum, Outline
classification of the animal kingdom 1891, and Catalogue of
the embryological models 1891 in 2 volumes; A text book of
vertebrate embryology 1893; with C. Herbert Hurst A junior
course of practical zoology 1887, 3 ed. 1892; fell from Scafell,
Cumberland, and rolling down 130 feet was _killed_ on the spot
31 Dec. 1893, inquest at Wasdale head inn, verdict accidental
death. _bur._ the Old cemetery, Birmingham 4 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N.
13 Jany. 1894 p._ 38, _portrait_.

MARSHALL, _Sir Chapman_ (only son of Anthony Marshall of
Peterborough). _b._ Peterborough 1786; a wholesale grocer at 179
Upper Thames st. London; sheriff of London 1830; knighted at St.
James’s palace 9 March 1831; alderman of ward of Bridge Within
1832–59, lord mayor 1839–40. _d._ 17 Pembridge crescent, Notting
hill, London 9 Jany. 1862, portrait at Innholders’ hall.

MARSHALL, _Sir Charles_ (only son of Samuel Marshall,
serjeant-at-law). _b._ London 24 May 1788; ed. at Westminster
sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T.
24 Nov. 1815; chief justice of Ceylon 17 July 1832 to 1836;
knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1832; author of Reports
of cases in the court of common pleas 1813 to 1816. 2 vols.
1815–17; A treatise on the law of insurance by Samuel Marshall
with additions 1823. _d._ 5 Kensington gardens terrace, London 5
Feb. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 162 (1873).

MARSHALL, CHARLES. Ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836;
C. of St. Antholin, London, and lecturer of St. Margaret’s,
Lothbury 1840–6; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1846 to
death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. 1856 to death; hon.
sec. of city of London national schools; author with William
Wilkinson of The Latin prayers of Charles II. or an account of
the liturgia of dean Durel. Oxford 1882. _d._ 29 Jany. 1883.
_I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854), _portrait_.

MARSHALL, CHARLES (son of Nathan Marshall). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;
scene painter at Surrey theatre and other London theatres;
scene painter at Covent Garden and Drury Lane under W. C.
Macready’s management 1837 etc.; painted scenery for The
Tempest and As you like it, and for Lord Lytton’s plays 1838
etc.; introduced the limelight on the stage and originated and
developed the transformation scene; scene painter to the opera
at Her Majesty’s theatre 1844 to about 1858 when he retired;
exhibited 52 landscapes at R.A., 52 at B.I. and 139 at Suffolk
st. 1828–79; painted some panoramas of Napoleon’s battles.
The Overland Route, &c; contributed a diorama to illustrate
coronation of Wm. IV. 1831; published Select illustrated
topography of thirty miles round London by W. E. Trotter, from
drawings of C. Marshall 1839. _d._ 7 Lewisham road, Highgate 8
March 1890. _Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 59–64
(1880).

MARSHALL, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; principal stage comedian
under Andrew Ducrow at Astley’s several seasons; played at the
Coburg; acted with Edmund Kean, Macready and other celebrities;
acted under Edmund Glover in Glasgow; stage manager of Bath and
Bristol theatres under J. H. Chute 7 years 1856 etc.; manager
of the Brighton theatre and of the Liver theatre, Liverpool;
last played in London at Princess’s theatre 1871; last appeared
on the stage as the Grandfather in the Old Curiosity shop at
Nottingham theatre for benefit of his son Frederick Marshall 9
June 1873. _d._ Bristol 6 March 1879.

MARSHALL, CHARLES WARD (son of Wm. Marshall of Oxford, music
seller). _b._ 1808; a tenor singer on the London stage under
stage name of Manvers about 1835; successful as a concert and
oratorio singer 1842–9 when he retired. _d._ Islington 22 Feb.
1876.

MARSHALL, DUNCAN. _b._ near Holy Loch, Argyleshire 1785; a
fisherman; built a hermitage at the foot of Rushfield hill,
a mile and a half from the head of Holy Loch or Kilmun, and
became known as the hermit of Kilmun, his only companions being
a few goats; during the summer received a large number of
visitors; his health failing, he was removed to Dunoon 1862.
_d._ Dunoon, Feb. 1865. _bur._ underneath a flat on Rushfield
hill 21 Feb. 1865. _Times 24 Feb. 1865 p._ 12.

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.

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