Chapter XXXVII: Part 37

MAUDSLAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831).
_b._ London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering
business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which
the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E.
1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine
engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines
for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty;
patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting
annular cylinder screw engine. _d._ 21 Hyde park sq. London 25
Sep. 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 562–9 (1862).

MAUDSLAY, THOMAS HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1792;
member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish
sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed
the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25
years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before
select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831;
made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw;
purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. _d._ Knight’s Hill,
Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. _bur._ at Woolwich, personalty
sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. _Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April
1864 p._ 282.

MAUGHAM, ROBERT. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle
st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of
founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and
secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary
to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June
1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831
and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer
or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec.
1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began
3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for
him by the members of the society, part of which was invested
in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council
12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury
laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825;
A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of
criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law
of real property 1842. _d._ at the Incorporated law society,
Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery 22
July. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _vi_ 727 (1862); _Parliamentary
report on legal education_ (1846) 158–68, _portrait at Incorp.
law soc._

NOTE.--His son Robert Ormond Maugham _b._ 1814, admitted solicitor 1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, _d._ from cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.

MAUGHAN, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I.
6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of
Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and
naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I.
28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June
1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858;
lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. _d._
Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.

MAULE, SIR JOHN BLOSSETT (2 son of George Maule, barrister,
solicitor to the treasury, _d._ 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave
sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). _b._ Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at
Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death,
treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany.
1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1
Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec.
1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace
and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. _d._ 47
Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. _I.L.N.
lxxxi_ 656 (1882) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_ 425 (1889), _portrait_.

MAULE, LAUDERDALE (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). _b._ 25
March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835;
captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24
Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to
death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death.
_d._ Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854.

MAULE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton,
Middlesex, surgeon). _b._ Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler
and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister
L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh
circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of
England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron
of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common
pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted
1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21
July 1855 to death. _d._ 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany.
1858. _E. Leathley’s Memoir of early life of sir W. H. Maule_
(1872); _Law magazine and law review_, _v_ 1–34 (1858); _Law
Times 10 March 1894 pp._ 439–40.

MAULEVERER, JAMES THOMAS. Ensign 61 foot 18 April 1834; captain
30 foot 23 July 1844, lieut.-col. 30 Sep. 1854 to 19 Dec. 1862
when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 30 Sep. 1857; C.B. 5 July
1855. _d._ 14 Craven st. London 26 Oct. 1866.

MAUND, Benjamin. _b._ 1790; chemist, bookseller, printer and
publisher at Bromsgrove, Worcs. to about 1852; F.L.S. 5 June
1827; started a monthly publication entitled The Botanic Garden
1824, issued with it in parts The auctarium of the botanic
garden, The floral register, The fruitist, and A dictionary of
English and Latin terms used in botanical descriptions by J.
S. Henslow, the whole work consisted of 13 vols. 1825–50, it
was partly reissued as The botanic garden and fruitist 3 vols.
1851–4, 2 ed. in 12 vols. appeared in 1878; edited The Botanist
1837–48 and The Naturalist 1837 &c. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight
21 April 1863.

MAUNDER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1832; ed. Totteridge school,
at Guy’s hospital, London, and univs. of Edinb. and Paris;
M.R.C.S. 1854, F.R.C.S. 1857; civil assistant surgeon at
Renkioi hospital, and in the field during Crimean war 1854–5;
demonstrator of anatomy and of operative surgery in Paris;
junior surgeon Great Northern hospital London; demonstrator
of anatomy Guy’s hospital; lecturer on clinical surgery and
demonstrator of operative surgery London hospital; translated
P. Ricord’s Lectures on chancres 1859; edited with sir A. Clark
Clinical lectures 1864 etc.; author of Operative surgery 2 parts
1860–1, 2 ed. 1873; Tumour of lower jaw removed without external
wound 1874; Surgery of the arteries 1875; Fistula in ano 1877;
resided Queen Anne st. London. _d._ from effects of an accident
4 July 1879. _The Lancet 12 July 1879 p._ 67.

MAUNSELL, DANIEL TOLER THOMAS (1 son of rev. Thomas Maunsell
of Fintona, co. Tyrone). _b._ 1835; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
M.B. 1859; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1859; M.R.I.A.; demonstrator of
anatomy, Carmichael school of medicine, Dublin; physician south
city dispensary district, Dublin; lecturer on materia medica and
then on botany, Ledwich school of medicine, Dublin; originator
of Poor-law medical officers’ association; author of To the poor
law medical officers of Ireland, The Irish poor law medical
system, by Dispensarius 3 ed. 1870. _d._ South Richmond st.
Dublin 18 Aug. 1875. _The Lancet_, _ii_ 329, 349, 466, 494, 581,
614, 674 (1875).

MAUNSELL, FREDERICK (6 son of Robert Maunsell, member of supreme
council of Madras, _d._ 1 Feb. 1832 aged 87). _b._ 1794; ensign
18 foot 16 April 1812; captain 85 foot 24 June 1819, lieut.-col.
23 May 1836 to 19 June 1846; inspecting field officer 19 June
1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 53 foot 4 June 1860 to 2 April 1865;
col. 85 foot 2 April 1865 to death; general 9 Aug. 1870. _d._
Bray near Dublin 18 Oct. 1875.

MAUNSELL, GEORGE EDMUND (2 son of Thomas Philip Maunsell
1781–1866). _b._ 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 22 Nov. 1838;
R. of Thorpe Malsor 1842; chaplain to earl of Westmoreland 1842;
author of Poems 1861. d. 112 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 29 Oct.
1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 470 (1875).

MAUNSELL, HENRY. _b._ 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1831; F.R.C.S.I. 1832;
professor of midwifery, Royal college of surgeons, Dublin;
edited with A. Jacob The Dublin medical press 1839 etc.; author
of The Dublin practice of midwifery 1834, 3 ed. 1871; author
with R. T. Evanson of A treatise on the management and diseases
of children 1836, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ Greystones, co. Wicklow 27
Sep. 1879.

MAUNSELL, THOMAS PHILIP. _b._ Oct. 1781; sheriff of
Northamptonshire 1821; M.P. North Northamptonshire 1835–57; col.
Northampton and Rutland militia 2 April 1845 to death. _d._
Thorpe Malsor, Northampton 4 March 1866.

MAUNSELL, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Rushton hall, Northants 1813; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1837; associate of
British archæological assoc. 1852; recorder of Stamford 10 June
1859 to death; author of Church bells and ringing 1861. _d._
Thorpe Malsor 13 March 1862. _Journal of British Archæological
Assoc. xix_ 156 (1863).

MAUNSELL, WILLIAM WRAY (son of Wm. Maunsell, archdeacon of
Kildare). _b._ 1782; priest 24 Aug. 1803; archdeacon of Limerick
1814 to death; precentor of Cloyne 27 May 1822 to death. _d._ 25
July 1860.

MAURICE, JAMES WILKES. _b._ Devonport 10 Feb. 1775; entered navy
as able seaman 1789; commanded the Diamond Rock, Martinique 7
May 1804, yielded to an attack of the French 2 June 1805, tried
by court martial but honorably acquitted; captain 18 Jany.
1809; governor of island of Anholt in the Baltic, July 1810 to
Sep. 1812, defeated an attack of the Danes on the island 27
March 1811; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ East Emma place,
Stonehouse, Plymouth 4 Sep. 1857.

MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (5 child of Michael Maurice
_b._ 1766, Unitarian minister). _b._ Normanston near Lowestoft
29 Aug. 1805; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1823; founder of
the Select essay club known as the Apostles at Camb.; migrated
to Trin. hall Camb. Oct. 1825; an editor of Metropolitan
quarterly mag. Nov. 1825, three numbers; one of purchasers of
London literary chronicle, which he edited from 1 May 1828,
it was amalgamated with the Athenæum 30 July 1828, edited the
latter from 1828 to May 1829; a commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf.
3 Dec. 1829 to 30 June 1837; baptized as a member of Church of
England 29 March 1831; B.A. Oxford 1831, M.A. 1835, hon. M.A.
Camb. 1867; ordained to curacy of Bubbenhall near Leamington 26
Jany. 1834; chaplain to Guy’s hospital Jany. 1836 to June 1846;
one of editors of The Educational Magazine, Sep. 1839, sole
editor 1840–1; professor of English literature and history at
King’s college, London 1840, professor of theology there 1846,
dismissed from both his chairs 27 Oct. 1853; Boyle lecturer
July 1845, Warburton lecturer Aug. 1845; chaplain of Lincoln’s
Inn, June 1846 to 1860; founded in London, Queen’s college for
female education 1848, chairman of the committee to about Nov.
1853; spiritual leader of the Christian socialists; edited with
J. M. Ludlow their first organ called Politics for the People
17 weekly numbers from 6 May 1848; presided at conferences held
with the working classes 1849; drew up a scheme for a Working
Men’s college Feb. 1854, which was started at 31 Red Lion sq.
Holborn 30 Oct. 1854 when he became the principal, the college
was moved to 45 Great Ormond st. 1857; P.C. of St. Peter’s,
Vere st. London 20 July 1860 to 7 Nov. 1869; Knightbridge
professor of casuistry, moral theology and moral philosophy
at Cambridge 25 Oct. 1866 to death; member of commission on
contagious diseases 1870; V. of St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1871 to
death; Cambridge preacher at Whitehall, July 1871; author of
Eustace Conway: or the brother and sister, a novel 3 vols. 1834,
anon.; Subscription no bondage 1835; The kingdom of Christ,
or hints on the ordinances and constitution of the Catholic
church in Letters to a member of the Society of Friends 1838,
3 ed. 1883; What is revelation? 1859; The claims of the Bible
and of science 1863; Moral and metaphysical philosophy 2 vols.
1871–2. _d._ 6 Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 1 April 1872.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 5 April, bust in Cambridge univ. library
and another by Woolner placed in St. John the Baptist’s chapel,
Westminster Abbey, Aug. 1873, portraits in National portrait
gallery, Working Men’s college and Queen’s college. _Life of
F. D. Maurice. Edited by his son F. Maurice_ 2 _vols._ (1884),
2 _portraits_; _Life of Charles Kingsley_ (1877), _passim_;
_J. H. Rigg’s Modern Anglican theology_ (1880) 244–344; _J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 49–60; _J. F. Hurst’s
History of rationalism_ (1867) 375–7; _Illust. Review_,
_iii_ 609–16, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862)
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _v_ 382, 384 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lx_ 339, 353, 358 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In his novel Eustace Conway 3 vols. 1834 the villain is called Captain Marryat, in consequence of this Captain Frederick Marryat the novelist challenged Maurice to a duel which he declined, Maurice had never heard of Captain Marryat the novelist.

MAURICE, PETER (2 son of Hugh Maurice of Greenwich). _b._
1803 or 1804; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829,
B.D. 1837, D.D. 1840; chaplain of New coll. 1828–59; C. of
Kennington, Berkshire 1829–54; chaplain of All Souls’ coll.
1837–58; V. of Yarnton near Oxford 1858 to death; author of
Popery in Oxford 1832, a tract; Popery of Oxford confronted,
repudiated and disavowed 1837, a pamphlet; Key to the Popery of
Oxford 1838; Postscript to the Popery of Oxford 1851; composer
of An evening service in E; With angels and archangels; Choral
harmony, a collection of tunes 1854, Supplement 1858; Tunes
in four parts for congregational worship 1855. _d._ Yarnton
vicarage 30 March 1878.

MAVOR, JOHN (son of Wm. Fordyce Mavor, LL.D., R. of Woodstock,
author of the Spelling book 1758–1837). _b._ 1785; ed. at Wadham
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816; fellow of Lincoln
coll. to 1826, sub-rector 1822, Greek lecturer 1823, claviger
1824; P.C. of Forest hill, Oxon. 1823–48; R. of Hadleigh, Essex
9 Aug. 1825 to death, his living was sequestered about 1843;
confined for debt in Oxford county gaol 1843 or 1844 to death.
_d._ in his cell in county gaol Oxford 19 June 1853.

MAXFIELD, TOM. _b._ Sheffield 16 June 1819; on the Bath road
near Slough ran 20 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes 16 May 1845 in
presence of an immense assemblage; ran 20 miles at Arlington
corner near Hounslow in 1 hour 59 minutes; was known as The
North Star; ran upwards of 50 races against The Welshman, Byrne,
The wonder of the north and Jackson, and with one exception was
the winner; a coalheaver at Windsor to death; fell into great
poverty; _found dead_ in his bed Bier lane, Windsor 28 Nov.
1864, verdict death from natural causes.

MAXSE, SIR HENRY FITZ-HARDINGE BERKELEY (son of James Maxse of
Effingham hall, Surrey, _d._ 1864). _b._ 1832; ensign grenadier
guards 1 June 1849; lieut. coldstream guards 19 Jany. 1855,
placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord
Cardigan in Crimean war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava;
lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863;
lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July
1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the
gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July
1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author
of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den
Gouverneur Maxse 1866. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep.
1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1885), _portrait_.

MAXSE, JAMES (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset).
_b._ 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of
the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn
quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up
hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated
hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner
of well-known yacht Sabrina. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London
3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864.
_Sporting Review_, _li_ 272 (1864).

MAXWELL, ACHESON. _b._ 1760; held various confidential
employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to
China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential
mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public
accounts some years, retired on a pension. _d._ 8 Upper Belgrave
place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.

MAXWELL, ALEXANDER (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire). _b._ 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835,
lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in
the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.;
general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of
honour. _d._ 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.

MAXWELL, CHARLES FRANCIS. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825,
lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. _d._ 1873.

MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet
1779–1838). _b._ 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839,
lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in
the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin
ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught
rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. _d._ 21 Inverkeith
row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.

MAXWELL, GEORGE. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826;
lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired
with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. _d._ Kilucleigh, Langholm,
Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.

MAXWELL, HENRY HAMILTON (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of
Birdstown, Donegal). _b._ 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery
10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec.
1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej
campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20
Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm.
Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore
1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of
field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir
on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for
providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. _d._
Rome 28 May 1892.

MAXWELL, JAMES. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857,
placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in
the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17
Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._ on board the Africa
at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April
1874.

MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (2 child and only son of John Clerk of
Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and _d._ 2
April 1856). _b._ 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at
Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850,
scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow;
2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854;
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club
known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy
at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860;
professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London
1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution
17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of
Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical
laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of
the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society
1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of
electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more
than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of
On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory
of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics
1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2
ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890.
_d._ 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Parton
churchyard, Glenlair. _The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell
and W. Garnett_ (1882), 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xxxiii_ 1–16 (1882); _Nature_, _xxiv_ 601 (1881), _portrait_.

MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell,
7 baronet 1768–1844). _b._ Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire
1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author
of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and
capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for
franchise 1860. _d._ at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865.
_Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 477 (1866).

MAXWELL, JOHN BALFOUR (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain
R.N., C.B., _d._ 1831). _b._ 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812;
commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._
Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.

MAXWELL, JOHN HALL (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1847). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812;
called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to
Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned
9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great
attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected
many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856;
presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17
Jany. 1866. _d._ Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait
by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural
soc. _Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North_ (1870) 3–6.

MAXWELL, SIR PETER BENSON (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell
1824–92). _b._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr.
to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder
of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder
of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits
Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals
of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856;
author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An
introduction to the duties of police magistrate in the Prince of
Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation
of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author
with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the
queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author
with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts
1–5, 1852–4. _d._ Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard,
Fleet st. London, law publisher, who _d._ 1850). _b._ 1817 or
1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published
Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other
important legal works. _d._ Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM JOHN LEIGH. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1838; entered
office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer
Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates
valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871;
A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service
in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley
railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. _d._ on
voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at sea.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM ROBERT (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill
house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served
in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11
Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many
years. _d._ Brighton 21 March 1892.

MAY, ALICE. _b._ 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the
regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company
toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand
Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and
Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and
Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra
28 March 1881; _m._ Louis Raymond. _d._ 16 Aug. 1887. _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp._ 97, 107, _portrait_.

MAY, CHARLES (son of a Friend). _b._ Alton, Hants. 1800;
apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and
millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome
of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an
observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E.
1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed
to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented
compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced
the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. _d._ 3
Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. _Proceedings of royal
society_, _xi_ 10 (1860); _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xx_ 148 (1861).

MAY, EDWARD COLLETT. _b._ Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied
under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at
Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69;
famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal
exercises for daily practice 1853. _d._ about 16 Jany. 1887.
_Life of John Hullah_ (1886).

NOTE.--His daughter Florence May, pianist, is the composer of Six songs for the pianoforte 1880 and other music.

MAY, EDWARD HARRISON (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). _b._
England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied
art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851;
capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war,
and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy
1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy
of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century
club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in
the Metropolitan museum, New York. _d._ Paris 17 May 1887.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iv_ 272 (1888).

MAY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CHICHESTER (son of Edward May, rector of
Belfast). _b._ Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll.
Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany.
1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal
adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov.
1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8
Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of
queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice
1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports.
Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868;
edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series,
vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. _d._ Lisnavagh, co.
Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. _Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p._ 274, _portrait_.

MAY, HENRY WILLIAM (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts.,
_d._ 24 Dec. 1861). _b._ 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford,
B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and
conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author
of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent
conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law
of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited
with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of
decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and
courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th
ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. _d._ Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle
of Wight 30 June 1878.

MAY, HUNTLY, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. _b._
Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very
eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; _m._ 1846
Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road,
Wandsworth in 1881. _d._ Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. _The
Era 22 April 1866 p._ 6, _2 July 1881 p._ 4 _and 9 July 1881 p._
5.

MAY, JOHN. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829,
superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. _d._ 23 Oct.
1855.

MAY, ROBERT CHARLES (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm
of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). _b._ Ampthill, Beds.
5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer
1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864;
consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes;
an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for
railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines,
Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. _d._ Marseilles 20 July
1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 367–8 (1883);
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii_ 180 (1883).

MAY, SIR STEPHEN. _b._ 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted
by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of
Ireland. _d._ Belfast 1851.

MAY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE, 1 Baron Farnborough. _b._ London 8
Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch.
1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister
M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of
petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses
of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856,
clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May
1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov.
1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon.
D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron
Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May
1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges,
proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated
into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese;
The constitutional history of England since the accession of
George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in
Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny
Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, _d._
Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. _bur._ Chippenham churchyard,
Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church,
Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in
house of commons 6 March 1890. _Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._
14–19; _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1110, 1175 (1879), _portrait_;
_Pump Court_, _iii_ 105, 156, _portrait_.

NOTE.--His peerage of Farnborough existed only six days, probably the shortest duration of any peerage; the barony of Marjoribanks lasted 7 days 12 to 19 June 1873.

MAYALL, JOHN EDWIN. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52;
photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in
1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for
cartes de visite of the royal family, _d._ 1867.

MAYD, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield,
Suffolk). _b._ 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll.
Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising
barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to
death, _d._ Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892.

MAYER, JOSEPH. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. 1803; gold
and silversmith and jeweller at 68 and 70 Lord st. Liverpool;
sold his collection of ancient Greek coins to French government
1844; purchased Rev. Dr. Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s
Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of
Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities
valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it
to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and
20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding
the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to
him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he
introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave
many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of
volunteers; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1850; retired from business; author
of A catalogue of the drawings, miniatures, cameos, etc.,
illustrative of the Bonaparte family in the collection of J.
Mayer 1854, 2 ed. 1855; History of art of pottery in Liverpool
1855; A library of national antiquities 2 vols. 1857–73; A
catalogue of engraved gems and rings in the collection of
J. Mayer 1879. _d._ Bebington 18 Jany. 1886. _C. R. Smith’s
Retrospections_, _i_ 67–76, _ii_ 109–10, 300, _iii_ 68, 70
(1883–91); _Illust. Times 10 June 1867 p._ 365, _view of his
collection at Liverpool_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. May 1886 p._
144; _Times 21 Jany. 1886 p._ 7.

MAYER, KARL. Librarian to Prince Consort in England 1847–61.
_d._ Berlin, Dec. 1884.

MAYER, SAMUEL RALPH TOWNSHEND (2 son of Samuel Mayer of
Gloucester, solicitor). _b._ Gloucester, Aug. 1841; contributed
to the Gloucester newspapers; came to London, where he founded
the Free and open church association 1866, secretary till Feb.
1872; edited the first report of the Metropolitan conservative
working men’s association 1868; edited The illustrated review
Jany. to June 1871; The free and open church advocate 3 vols.
1872–7; proprietor and editor of St. James’s Magazine, Jany.
1875; author of Amy Fairfax 1859, a novelette; Fractional
supplement to Hotson’s Ready reckoner 1861; The origin and
growth of Sunday schools in England 1878; Who was the founder of
Sunday schools? being an inquiry 1880. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28
May 1880.

MAYERS, JOHN POLLARD. Barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1799, bencher 1840
to death; agent for island of Barbadoes. _d._ Brasted near
Sevenoaks, Kent 30 Dec. 1853 aged 76.

MAYERS, WILLIAM S. FREDERICK (son of Michael John Mayers, R.
of St. Peter’s, Winchester). _b._ Tasmania 7 Jany. 1831; a
journalist in New York to 1859; interpreter at Canton 7 Feb.
1859 to 1870; vice consul at Kin-kiang 17 Aug. 1871; Chinese
secretary of legation at Pekin 10 Nov. 1871, second sec. to the
legation 20 July 1876; his official report on The famine in the
northern province of China was printed and his Report of an
Expedition to Nang Chang Foo is in Parl. Papers vol. lxviii 213
(1874); F.R.G.S.; member of R. Asiatic soc.; procured for the
British museum one of the few existing copies of the Imperial
encyclopædia of Chinese literature in 5020 volumes; author of
The Anglo-Chinese calendar manual 1869; The Chinese reader’s
manual 1874; Treatise between China and foreign powers 1877; The
Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles 1878, 2 ed. 1886.
_d._ of typhus fever, Shanghai 24 March 1878. _Journal Royal
Asiatic Soc. vol. x_ (1878) _55th Annual Report 20 May 1878 pp.
xii–xiv_; _Athenæum_, _i_ 444 (1878); _Academy_, _i_ 300 (1878);
_Foreign Office List_ 1879 _p._ 214.

MAYHEW, AUGUSTUS SEPTIMUS (youngest son of Joshua Dorset Joseph
Mayhew of 26 Carey st. London, attorney who _d._ 1858). _b._
1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited
1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality
of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861;
Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry
Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a
lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint
author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor
relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the
fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce,
Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand
1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871;
resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. _d._ Richmond infirmary
25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. _Hodder’s Memories of
my time_ (1870) 62–5.

MAYHEW, EDWARD (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–1875). _b._ 1813;
M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle
doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own
farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the
veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The
horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their
management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed.
1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make
your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical
or London directories after 1855. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my
time_ (1870) 58–61.

MAYHEW, HENRY (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–75). _b._ London 25
Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran
away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father;
published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly
paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The
Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London,
weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where
he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to
do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal
Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song
Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However,
a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch
17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it;
author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life
and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin Luther 1865
and many other books; author with John Binny and others of
London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the
Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The
great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The
criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury,
London 25 July 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Fox Bourne’s
English newspapers_, _ii_ 117–20, 155, 238; _F. H. Forshall’s
Westminster School_ (1884) 329–30; _The Mask_ (1868) 65,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s 2-page cartoon called Mr. Punch’s fancy ball 9 Jany. 1847 as the cornet player in the orchestra. On 19 March 1856 he held a meeting of ticket of leave men at National hall, Holborn, the speeches of five of them were fully reported in the newspapers.

MAYHEW, HORACE (brother of the preceding). _b._ July 1818; wrote
many farces and tales; sub-editor of Punch under Mark Lemon
several years, contributed to Punch to his death; contributed
to Cruikshank’s Table Book 1845; his pantomime Plum Pudding
produced at Olympic theatre, Dec. 1847; author of The Bal
Masqué. By Count Chicard 1848; Change for a shilling 1848; Model
men 1848; Model women 1848; A plate of heads 1849; The toothache
imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank
1849; Guy Faux 1849; Letters left at the pastry-cooks 1853;
edited Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 1848 and 1849; contributed to
Lloyd’s Weekly News from 1852. _d._ 33 Addison gardens south,
Kensington, London 30 April 1872. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 7
May. _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 19.

MAYHEW, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1810; student
of Lincoln’s inn; started The poor man’s guardian 1847, eight
numbers; started The national library; author of A complete
history of an action at law 1828; with J. F. A. Bayard and
P. Duport wrote Ambition, or Marie Mignot, a drama Haymarket
theatre 13 Sep. 1830.

MAYHEW, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; wines and spirit merchant, 106
Fenchurch st. London; M.P. Colchester 12 May 1831 to 3 Dec.
1832; contested Colchester 1830 and 1832. _d._ at residence of
Edward Mayhew surgeon, 7 Park terrace, Victoria park, London 26
April 1855.

MAYNARD, AMBROSE, stage name of William Hill. _b._ 1822; an
actor; a comic vocalist at the London and provincial music
halls; musical agent Westminster bridge road, London 1857,
removed to 6 York road, Lambeth 1864; the oldest musical agent
in Great Britain; the writer of the following dramatic pieces,
Chickweed and groundsel; Drury lane and Park lane, also known as
Extremes of life; Change for a sovereign; The Queen’s birthday;
Winkle’s Waxwork; The two shes, a sketch at the South London
palace 1888. _d._ 6 York road 3 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Nunhead
cemetery 6 Oct.

MAYNARD, FREDERICK W. Secretary to Arundel society, London 1867
to death; author of A descriptive sketch of Arundel Society.
_d._ 27 Aug. 1876.

MAYNARD, GEORGE. _b._ at sea between Liverpool and Dublin 4
Feb. 1812; articled to a solicitor; clerk to John Chappell,
theatrical bookseller, Royal Exchange, city of London; acted at
Wilmington sq. Rawstone st. and Catherine st. London; appeared
at Deptford as Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Easter
Monday 1828; at Richmond theatre 1830–1; played at the Pavilion
1839, where he was a favourite in sailors’ characters; one of
Penley’s company during his short 9 nights’ season at Lyceum,
April 1839; played Guy Fawkes at the Lyceum 1841; acted at T.R.
Edinburgh 1845–6; a favourite at the Olympic under George Bolton
1846–7; played leading parts at Adelphi and Surrey; a good
melodramatic actor. _d._ Newcastle 14 Dec. 1851. _Theatrical
times_, _ii_ 105 (1847), _portrait_.

MAYNARD, JOSEPH (only son of Joseph Cam Maynard, solicitor).
_b._ London 29 May 1798; solicitor in city of London 1820–70;
under-sheriff of London 1838; member of council of Incorporated
law society 13 June 1849, vice pres. 1860–1, pres. 1861–2,
retired from the council 1870. _d._ 52 Westbourne terrace,
London 9 Jany. 1888.

MAYNARD, SAMUEL. _b._ 1790; came from Taunton to London
and opened a school in Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town 1810;
mathematical bookseller at Earl’s court, Leicester square,
London about 1832–62, published 14 catalogues; his books
sold by auction in 1200 bundles 1862; author of A commercial
perpetual almanac 1846; A table containing useful factors
often used in calculation 1846; compiled A key to Mr. Keith’s
Complete measurer 1829; A key to Bonnycastle’s Scholar’s guide
to arithmetic 1853, and edited 13 other works on mathematics
1829–56. _d._ Booksellers’ Provident retreat, Abbot’s Langley,
Herts. 7 May 1866. _The Athenæum 25 Aug. 1866 p._ 248.

MAYNE, HENRY BLAIR (2 son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield,
Surrey, _d._ 1841). _b._ 23 Aug. 1813; ed. Westminster 1826–31
and at Christ Church, Oxf., student 1831–46; B.A. 1835, M.A.
1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; principal clerk of private
bills in house of commons at £1000 a year 1859–70; one of the
three best whist players of his day; an habitué of the Arlington
and Turf clubs; one of the committee of seven at the Arlington
who drew up The laws of whist 1864; author of Sons of Indian
officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich 1860; resided at 2 St. James’
place, St. James’ st. London. _d._ Brighton 17 Jany. 1892.

NOTE. He always played for pound points and made it a rule not to play again at the same sitting after he had lost two rubbers running. One of his sayings was ‘He who leads trumps oftenest, he oftenest will win the most rubbers.’

MAYNE, HENRY OTWAY. Lieut. 6 Madras light cavalry 17 Sep. 1841,
captain 31 Dec. 1855 to death; raised the corps of Mayne’s
horse, which became first regiment central India horse. _d._
Allahabad 2 Nov. 1861.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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