Chapter XXXVI: Part 36

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MASSINGBERD, FRANCIS CHARLES (only son of Francis Massingberd,
R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, _d._ 1817). _b._
Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and
Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A.
1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored
the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln
1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec.
1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave;
author of English history of the leaders of the reformation.
1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the
church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church
and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book
1864. _d._ Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. _bur._ South Ormsby.
_Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii_ 272–9 (1885).

MASSINGBERD, VINCENT AMCOTTS (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd,
R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). _b._ 1808; entered navy
21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired
admiral Oct. 1884. _d._ The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth,
Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.

MASSINGHAM, JOHN DEACON. _b._ 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and
D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby
1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul,
Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles
in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of
Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and
found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the
state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. _d._ Chelsea,
London 20 June 1882.

MASSON, ELIZABETH. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano
vocalist and vocal composer. _d._ London, Jany. 1865.

MASSON, GEORGE JOSEPH GUSTAVE. _b._ London 9 March 1819; ed.
at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8
Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons
of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master
at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869;
contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French
literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction
to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre
Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The
Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European
literature, French literature 1888. _d._ while on a visit to Sir
Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.

MASSY, GODFREY (3 son of Hugh Massy _d._ 14 March 1814). _b._
Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll.
Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V.
of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant
orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland.
_d._ Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. _Dawson Massy’s Footprints of
a faithful shepherd_ (1855), _portrait_.

MASSY-BERESFORD, JOHN MAUNSELL (youngest son of John Massy
of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). _b._ 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter,
Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore
1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of
Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. _d._ London 22 Oct. 1886.

MAST, GEORGE CHRISTIAN. _b._ Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8
Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college
148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French
practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A
concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878.
_d._ Jany. 1884.

MASTER, ROBERT AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1824;
major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855,
lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light
cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec.
1861. _d._ Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.

MASTER, ROBERT MOSLEY (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1794; ed.
at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C.
of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec.
1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64;
archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near
Preston 1865 to death. _d._ Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.

MASTER, STREYNSHAM (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of
Croston, Lancs. _d._ 1798). _b._ Croston 10 June 1766; ed.
at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788,
M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. _d._ 19 Jany. 1864.
_Manchester school register_, _ii_ 33–4 (1868).

MASTERS, JOSEPH. _b._ Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax,
bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st.
London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and
publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848;
started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the
Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols.
1842–63. _d._ 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. _Guide to
the church congress_ (1883) 49–50.

MATCHAM, GEORGE (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller
1753–1833). _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B.
1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman
of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed
accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s
Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov.
1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were
reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the
Quarterly Review. _d._ 18 Jany. 1877.

MATHER, CHARLES (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of
Grantham, Lincs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college
1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on
cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting
and dramatic news under name of Exon. _d._ Paulton’s terrace,
Chelsea 1 July 1878.

MATHER, COTTON (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani
at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey
1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to
the New Testament and Psalms 1861. _d._ Junior Garrick club,
London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.

MATHER, ROBERT COTTON (son of James Mather, congregational
minister). _b._ New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at
univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D.
Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833;
went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833;
pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to
1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches;
founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly
journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in
Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of
many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (_m_. Elizabeth
Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she
_d._ Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He _d._ 5 Torrington park,
Finchley, London 21 April 1877. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of
missionaries_ (1877) 96–7; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 325.

MATHESON, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of
Attadale, Rossshire, _d._ 1826 aged 48). _b._ Attadale 6 Jany.
1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for
Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84;
a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May
1882. _d._ 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.

MATHESON, CHARLES (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice,
merchant). _b._ 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and
St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton
Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854,
M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury
1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed.
1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. _d._
Leamington 15 April 1894.

MATHESON, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of
Shinness, Sutherlandshire). _b._ Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796;
ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of
Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when
he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis
in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross
and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his
exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis
with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord
lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846;
the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. _d._
Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_
21 (1879).

MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house
of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor;
chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author
of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. _d._
between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_, _vol ii_ (1886), _portrait_.

MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a
merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of
Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845,
chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853;
general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from
Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman
of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. _d._ 10 May 1882.

MATHESON, THOMAS (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). _b._
Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815,
major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21
Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.

MATHEW, THEOBALD (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron
Llandaff). _b._ Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790;
ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the
convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained
by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the
Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10
April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties
on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to
1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese
for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified
by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted
civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. _d._ Queenstown 8
Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork,
uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890,
another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8
Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central
square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in
National portrait gallery, London. _J. F. Maguire’s Father
Mathew_ (1863), 2 _portraits_; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_, _i_
96–120 (1877); _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 299–306; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _i_
460–520 (1883); _I.L.N. ii_ 53 (1843) _portrait_, _iii_ 85
(1843) _portrait_, _28 June 1890 pp._ 820–2 _several portraits_;
_Sporting Review_, _xl_ 209–10 (1858); _J. Copner’s Sketches
of celibate worthies 2 ed._ (1886) 325–50; _Dublin Univ. mag.
xxxiii_ 694, _portrait_.

MATHEWS, ANNE (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances
Maria Kelly). _b._ 1782 or 1783; _m._ at York 28 March 1803
Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping
Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other
characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July
1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The
mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April
1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles
Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory
recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and
other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. _d._ Chelsea villa, Fulham
near London 12 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct.
_Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxii_ 93 (1847).

MATHEWS, CHARLES JAMES (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian
1776–1835). _b._ Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect
1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district
surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with
F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first
appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked
lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and
Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost
30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March
1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843;
lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted
at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt
4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at
Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s
theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre
de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as
a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863,
at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool
as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in
French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870,
New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety
theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years;
went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877;
made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis
Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts
in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most
successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833,
Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of
Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. _d._ Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29
June. _The life of C. J. Mathews_, _edited by Charles Dickens 2
vols._ (1879), _portraits_; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the
London stage_ (1867), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol.
vi_ 351–53, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 57 (1838),
_portrait_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 57, _portrait_; _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 159–70 (1888); _Theatrical
times_, _i_ 105 (1847), _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane_, _ii_ 123–27 (1881); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_
(1880) 405–10; _J. Hollingshead’s Plain English_ (1880) 111–16;
_Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 423–47
(1855), _iii_ 343–73 (1855); _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_
(1847) 187–98, _portrait_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 205
(1879), _portrait_; _London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp._ 3–7,
_portrait_.

MATHEWS, HELEN. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at
Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s
comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and
Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same
house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in
Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of
Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum
company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour
with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona
and Miranda. _d._ Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _xvi_ 497 (1882), _portrait_.

MATHEWS, JULIA ISABELLA (dau. of James Mathews, artificial
flower maker). _b._ Angel court, Strand, London about 1840;
taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney
2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand
theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess
of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at
Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871;
played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety
theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at
Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla
in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre,
Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe
Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (_m._ at Dunedin, Otago,
New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated
1870). _d._ at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S.
of America 19 May 1876. _London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp._
8–9, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 753 (1867),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 169, 171
(1874); _The Entracte 27 May 1876 p._ 8, _3 June p._ 8; _The Era
28 May 1876 p._ 10.

MATHEWS, LUCIA ELIZABETT or ELIZABETTA, best known as Madame
Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver
1757–1821). _b._ 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned
music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; _m._ 28 Jany. 1813 at St.
Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet
master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817
and _d._ 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer
as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20
July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris
1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français;
first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in
Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success;
played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent
Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the
Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831
to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas
by Planché and Dance; _m._ at Kensington church 18 July 1838
Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with
him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden
1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase
10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace
Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played
with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s
1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced
burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine
through clouds 26 July 1854. _d._ Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug.
1856. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. _Memoirs of the life
of Madame Vestris_ (1826), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _privately printed_; _C. B. Wilson’s
Our actresses_, _ii_ 184–222 (1844), _portrait_; _T. Marshall’s
Lives of actors_ (1847) 37–56, _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic
biography_, _v_ 91 (1826), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_,
_i_ 41–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 41 (1847),
_portrait_; _The dramatic mirror_ (1847) _p._ 60, _portrait_;
_E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 127–29 (1881); _British
stage_, _v_ 1 (1821), _portrait_; _Planché’s Recollections
and reflections 2 vols._ (1872), _passim_; _The Town_, _ii_
(1838–39), _passim_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 37 (1879),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_ 268 (1847), _portrait_.

MATHEWS, WILKINSON (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in
Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). _b._ Whitby 9 March 1784; ed.
at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.;
B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister
L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C.
Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he
retired, _d._ 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866.
_bur._ Leyland, Lancs. _Law Times xci_ 536 (1866).

MATHIAS, GEORGE (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot).
_b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814,
placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed
on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot
8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea
1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death.
_d._ St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.

MATRAVERS, JOHN. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners;
purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from
Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of
Bristol; F.S.A. _d._ London 30 Nov. 1851.

MATSON, EDWARD. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant
general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June
1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of
M.G. _d._ 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.

MATTEI, ANTONIO. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April
1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G.
5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. _d._ at his residence Sliema,
Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.

MATTHEW, WALTER EDMUND (3 son of David Matthew of City of
London, merchant). _b._ 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’
and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and
Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch.
Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo
1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. _d._ 19 Feb. 1889.

MATTHEWS, CHARLES PETER. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co.
brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club,
London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English
paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J.
Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s
Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. _d._ 18 Feb. 1891.

NOTE.--His collection of 125 pictures sold at Christie’s 6 June 1891 for £57,858 12s., being much less than he gave for the pictures. _Times 8 June 1891 p._ 12.

MATTHEWS, EMILIA (dau. of Mr. Apjohn, bandmaster of a regiment).
_b._ 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first
appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty
Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City
theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played
at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus
in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque
Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March
1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride
at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at
St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31
Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct.
1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow
Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in
Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April
1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s
theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May
1869; _m._ Frank Matthews 1807–71. _d._ Brompton, London 27 Aug.
1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the
Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. _Era 31
Aug. 1873 p._ 12, _7 Sep. p._ 11.

MATTHEWS, FRANK. _b._ Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first
appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London
at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1
July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow
in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre
April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80
nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27
Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec.
1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett
in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s
Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr.
Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in
Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for
scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866,
Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at
St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at
Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange
at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s
Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee
crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June
1840 and was lame for life. _d._ 7 Linden grove, Bayswater,
London 24 July 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 29 July. _Planché’s
Extravaganzas_, _iv_ 87 (1879), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1871
p._ 11 _col._ 4.

MATTHEWS, HENRY WILLIAM. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March
1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug.
1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July
1884.

MATTHEWS, JAMES. _b._ 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and
the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure
sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South
Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long
time. _d._ 28 Aug. 1880.

MATTHEWS, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil
of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820;
clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s
Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose;
clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent
Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay
in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3
pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended
production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called
‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury
Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey
pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi,
Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing
Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last
composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859;
played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes;
last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb;
the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and
Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57
Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern
18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton
1866 to death. _d._ 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4
March 1889. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 9 March. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 273
(1847), _portrait_; _Theatre n.s. xiii_ 233 (1889); _The World
21 Dec. 1881 pp._ 5–6 _and ’Xmas number_ 1886, _portrait_; _H.
Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 93–95.

NOTE.--He _m._ at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 28 Oct. 1825 Fanny Maria Casciani dau. of a Florentine sculptor and had three children, Clara who _m._ Mr. Lawrence a clown; Fanny; and a son who died in infancy.

MATTHEWS, RICHARD. Barrister M.T. 25 April 1828; sergeant at law
7 July 1852. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854 aged 57. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM ANTHONY. _b._ Malta 14 Aug. 1813; partner in
firm of Thomas Turton and sons of Sheaf steel works Sheffield;
mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1852–54, being the first to
hold the two offices together. _d._ 19 July 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_
39 (1854), _portrait_.

MATTHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1820; captain of
right wing of 1 European regiment 8 Sep. 1835 to 1 March 1850;
deputy comr. of Assam 1 April 1839 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 33
N.I. 1 March 1850 to 1852, of 30 N.I. 1852–3, of 1 European
fusiliers (right wing) 1853–4, of 17 N.I. 1854–6, of 21 N.I.
1856–9; col. of 2nd European fusiliers 19 Aug. 1859 to death;
M.G. 1 Jany. 1862. _d._ Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood,
London 28 March 1865.

MATTHIESSEN, AUGUSTUS (son of William Matthiessen of 1 Nun’s
court, Coleman st. city of London, merchant). _b._ London 2
Jany. 1831; studied under Will and Buff at Giessen 1852, Ph.D.
Giessen; studied under Bunsen at Heidelberg 1853–7; fitted
up a laboratory at 1 Torrington place, London 1857, where
he investigated the physical properties of pure metals and
alloys; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council, royal medallist
1869; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital 1862–8;
constructed ten electrical standards for the British Association
1862–5; joint lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1868–70, sole lecturer 1870; had a large practice as a
consulting chemist; an editor of Philosophical Mag. Jany. 1869
to June 1870; examiner to Univ. of London 1870; author of 38
scientific papers and of 23 papers with other writers; poisoned
himself with prussic acid at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
6 Oct. 1870. _Nature_, _ii_ 517–18 (1870); _Times 8 Oct. 1870
p._ 5 _col._ 5.

MATTHISON, ARTHUR. _b._ Birmingham, May or June 1826; journalist
in New York; vocalist and lecturer at Hamilton’s Diorama, St.
James’s hall, London 1873; played King Richard in Rebecca 13
Feb. 1875, Owen in The World 31 July 1880, Colonel Dalton in
Youth 6 Aug. 1881, all at Drury Lane theatre; author of Keep
your door locked, farce produced at Adelphi 29 Aug. 1866; Enoch
Arden, a drama 1869; A false step 1879, prohibited by the lord
chamberlain; Brave hearts, drama Criterion 24 Jany. 1881; A
thread of silk, comedy Crystal Palace 3 Nov. 1881; More than
ever, burlesque Gaiety 1 Nov. 1882; author with Clement Scott
of The great divorce case, comedy Criterion 15 April 1876; with
Joseph Hatton of Liz, drama Opera Comique 1 Sep. 1877; and with
Charles Wyndham of Tantalus, Folly 14 Oct. 1878; translated A.
Belgioioso’s Brief observations on singing 1860, and A. Perrin’s
Military studies 1863; author of The state banquet 1862; Half an
hour with a good author 1872; his poem The little hero 1879 was
frequently recited and was set to music by Stephen Adams _i.e._
Michael Maybrick in 1881; composer of The little gold locket,
a song 1879; wrote the words of upwards of 50 songs 1861–80,
of H. Leslie’s cantata The daughter of the Isles 1862, of J.
Barnby’s sacred idyll Rebekah 1872, and of M. W. Balfe’s opera
The Talisman 1874. _d._ 17 Store st. Bedford sq. London 21 May
1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May.

MATURIN, EDWARD (son of Charles Robert Maturin, C. of St.
Peter’s church, Dublin, and novelist 1782–1824). _b._ Dublin
1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832; barrister in
the U.S. of America; professor of Greek in College of South
Carolina; taught Greek and Latin in New York 30 years; revised
the Gospel of St. Mark for the American Bible Union 1850; author
of Montezuma, the last of the Aztecs, a romance 2 vols. New York
1845; Benjamin the Jew of Grenada, a romance 1848; Eva, or the
Isles of life and death 2 vols. 1848; Lyrics of Spain and Erin.
Boston 1850; Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy. New York 1852.
_d._ New York 25 May 1881.

MATURIN, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Dublin 1803; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C.
of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin
1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin
about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week.
Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons
1888. _d._ Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. _bur._ All
Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.

MAUDE, DANIEL (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall,
Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). _b._ 1801; ed.
at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828;
barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for
Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall,
Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate
value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary
magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb.
1874. _d._ 1874. _J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of
Alverthorpe_ (1874).

MAUDE, FRANCIS (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). _b._
17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820,
commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined
the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church
missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen
and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal
naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s
hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. _The
Shipwrecked Mariner_, _xxx_ 21–30 (1883).

MAUDE, FREDERIC PHILIP (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great
George st. Westminster). _b._ London 1818; barrister I.T. 29
Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law
of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The
law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E.
Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various
branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. _d._ 44 St. George’s
road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_ 158
(1870).