Chapter XXXVIII: Part 38

MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE (son of Giacomo Mazzini a physician). _b._
Strada Lomellini, Genoa 22 June 1805; attempted insurrections in
Sardinia 1833–4; expelled from Switzerland 1836; came to London
Jany. 1837; wrote literary articles for London reviews; founded
and conducted a school for mendicant organ-boys; originated an
association of Italian workmen 1840; his letters were opened
by the English government 1844; fought under Garibaldi against
Austria 1848; dictator at Rome as triumvir with Armelli and
Saffi, March 1849 to June 1850; president in London of National
Italian committee 1850, through which he promoted the risings
of 1852 and 1853; directed preparations for abortive revolution
at Genoa 1857, for which he was condemned to death 1857, this
sentence was cancelled 1866 but he refused the pardon; edited
Pensiero ed Azione. London 1858–60; author of Italy, Austria and
the Pope 1845; Two letters to the people of England on the war
1855; The duties of man 1862; Life and writings 6 vols. 1864–70
and 40 other books, there were also 50 books written about him
and his career 1848–91. _d._ Pisa 10 March 1872. _bur._ Genoa.
_E. A. Venturi’s Joseph Mazzini_ (1875), 2 _portraits_; _Joseph
Mazzini, his life. New York_ (1872), _portrait_; _Illust. news
of the world_ (1862), _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xv_
273 (1856), _portrait_.

MEAD, THOMAS, stage name of Thomas Prescott (son of a Methodist
minister). _b._ Cambridge 22 Aug. 1819; ran away from home and
first appeared on the stage as Orozembo in Pizarro at Devonport
theatre 1841; played in the provinces 1841–8; first appeared in
London at Victoria theatre as sir Giles Overreach 28 Nov. 1848;
played at Surrey theatre 1849–52 and leading parts at Drury Lane
1852–4; shared the lead with T. Swinbourne at T.R. Manchester
1854; a prominent member of Mrs. Seymour’s company at St.
James’s theatre, played duke of Richmond in Taylor and Reade’s
King’s Rival opening night 2 Oct. 1854; played at Queen’s
theatre, Edinburgh, Jany. to July 1856; leading actor at New
Grecian theatre 1858; played at Sadler’s Wells and Princess’s,
where he was the original Isaac Levy in Charles Reade’s Never
too late to mend 4 Oct. 1865; lessee and manager of Elephant
and Castle theatre, London 1873–4 where his pantomime Babes in
the wood was produced 26 Dec. 1873; played the leading part in
Charles Reade’s drama Rachel the Reaper, at Queen’s theatre 9
March 1874; played in Shakespearian revivals at Lyceum theatre
1875 to death; his two best parts were the Priest in Louis XI.
and the Ghost in Hamlet; author of The Coquette, 3 act play
produced at Haymarket 8 July 1867; The lady of the Rose and
other poems 1881, with portrait. _d._ New north road, Islington,
London 17 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Highgate lower cemetery 22 Feb.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) _part_ 9, _portrait_;
_The Players_, _i_ 193 (1860), _portrait_; _Theatre_, _xiii_ 172
(1889).

MEADE, JAMES. _b._ 1822; acted as puisne justice Montserrat
1852, member of executive and legislative council 1861, colonial
secretary and treasurer March 1865, member of the legislative
council 1867, administered the government 1872; acting president
of Montserrat 1882; in 1886 he was treasurer and registrar
of the supreme court, registrar of deeds and of shipping and
comptroller of customs. _d._ The Meadow, Montserrat 22 June
1890.

MEADE, SIR RICHARD JOHN (son of John Meade, captain R.N.) _b._
25 Sep. 1821; ensign 65 Bengal N.I. 3 Nov. 1838, major 1 Jany.
1862; served during Indian mutiny 1857–9 and captured the
notorious rebel leader Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; lieut.-col.
Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; agent to
governor general in Central India 1861–70; chief comr. Mysore
1870–5; special comr. Baroda 1875; resident Hyderabad 1876–81,
chairman Hyderabad state railway company; C.S.I. 24 May 1866,
K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. _d._ Hyères, France
20 March 1894.

MEADE, ROBERT (2 son of 1 earl of Clanwilliam 1744–1800). _b._
29 Feb. 1772; ensign 1 foot 7 Nov. 1787; captain 87 foot Sep.
1793; major in Ward’s regiment Oct. 1794 to 10 April 1801;
lieut.-col. 31 foot 10 April 1801 to 8 June 1815; commanded the
forces in Madeira 1809, was afterwards second in command at Cape
of Good Hope; colonel 12 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to death; general 10
Jany. 1837. _d._ 48 Bryanston sq. London 11 July 1852. _I.L.N.
xxi_ 46 (1852).

MEADOWS, ALFRED (4 child of Charles Meadows). _b._ Ipswich 2
June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London,
associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B.
1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853;
L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house
phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases
of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho
square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to
death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884;
attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland
1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the
Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in
grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual
of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into
Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891;
author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases
of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated
Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of
women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. _d._ 27
George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. _bur._ Colnbrook,
Bucks. _Midland medical miscellany ii_ 65–7 (1883), portrait;
_British Gynæcological Journal_, _iii_ 343 (1887), _portrait_;
_Biograph_, _v_ 68–76 (1881).

MEADOWS, DRINKWATER. _b._ Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in
Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21;
first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep.
1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s
Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823,
Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in
Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned
Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding
5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828,
Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in
The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov.
1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5
April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at
Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of
Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844
and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in
Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle
24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund;
a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the
Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion
st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard,
a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). _d._
Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. _The
Era 11 June 1869 p._ 11, _col._ 1.

MEADOWS, GEORGE DEARE (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.)
_b._ London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb.
1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised
at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his
speciality being the diseases of women and children. _d._ St.
George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.

MEADOWS, JAMES (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). _b._ Dublin
1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta
some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic
artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine
pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63.
_d._ 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. _bur._ Trinity
church, Bow road. _Era 17 May 1863 p._ 10.

MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (son of James Meadows, retired naval
officer). _b._ Cardigan. _bapt._ 1 Nov. 1790; designed and
lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s
Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the
people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare
2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the
Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1
portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s
Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by
Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many
other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864.
_d._ 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. _bur._ St. Pancras
cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_
(1870) 98–103.

MEAGHER, THOMAS (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). _b._ 1796;
mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. _d._ 1874.

MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS (son of the preceding). _b._ city of
Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare,
and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings
of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846;
called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol.
xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered
to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847;
contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war
committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith
O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in
Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to
be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted
to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s
Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New
York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped
John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany.
1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number
of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased
July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of
Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served
with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia;
organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first
regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given
him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part
of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at
Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a
Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command
of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July
1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches
on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853,
portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days
of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three
articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat
into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1
July 1867. _M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher_ (1892),
_portrait_; _W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New
York_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir_
(1863), _portrait_ 51; _Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish
history_ (1883), _passim_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _iii_ 481
(1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.

MEAKIN, JOHN. _b._ Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5
feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven
Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at
Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859
with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All
England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s
All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England
handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by
A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side;
attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again
able to run. _Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p._ 417,
_portrait_.

MEANS, JOSEPH CALROW (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood
lane, London). _b._ 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher
at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; _bapt._ by
immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828;
preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his
congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently
to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary
to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers
1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister
of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head
master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st.
London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a
scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny
Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the
S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography.
_d._ London 6 Feb. 1879. _Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 78
_et seq._; _Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp._ 98 _et seq._

MEANY, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Ennis; a constable in Dublin,
where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then
on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s
Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal
agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement,
a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus
1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt
27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department
of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences
Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec.
to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed
to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of
Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. _d._ New York
8 Feb. 1888. _bur._ Queenstown. _Newspaper Press_, _i_ 35, 44
(1867); _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _ii_ 617 (1891).

MEARNS, DUNCAN (son of Alexander Mearns, minister of Cluny,
Aberdeenshire). _b._ the manse of Cluny 23 Aug. 1779; ed. at
King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. March 1795; studied in the divinity
hall 1795–9; D.D.; assistant minister of parish of Tarves 13
Nov. 1799, then minister; professor of divinity Univ. and King’s
coll. Aberdeen 12 Oct. 1816 to death; moderator of general
assembly 1821; chaplain to the king for Scotland 1825 to death;
author of Principles of christian evidence. Edinb. 1818; Report
of speech in synod of Aberdeen on the settlement of ministers.
Aberdeen 1834, 4 ed. 1840. _d._ 2 March 1852. _H. Scott’s
Fasti_, _vol._ 1 _part_ 1 _p._ 397 (1866).

MEATH, JOHN CHAMBRE BRABAZON, 10 Earl of (youngest son of 8 earl
of Meath 1721–90). _b._ 9 April 1772; succeeded his brother the
9 earl 26 May 1797; K.P. 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of co. Dublin
and custos rotulorum of co. Wicklow 1831; created baron Chaworth
of Eaton hall, Hereford in peerage of United Kingdom 10 Sep.
1831; P.C. Ireland 1831. _d._ Great Malvern 15 March 1851. _G.M.
xxxv_ 547 (1851).

MEATH, WILLIAM BRABAZON, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding).
_b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord
Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested
co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow
1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county
militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851;
built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone
on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery.
_d._ Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. _bur._ at Bray, will
proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. _Times 27 May 1887 p._ 6, _3
June p._ 6.

MECHI, JOHN JOSEPH (3 son of Giacomo Mechi). _b._ London 22
May 1802; clerk in a house in Walbrook in the Newfoundland
trade 1818–28; a cutler at 130 Leadenhall st. 1828–30, at 4
Leadenhall st. 1830–69, partner with Charles Bazan 1859–69;
cutler at 112 Regent st. 1869 to death; made a fortune by his
magic razor strop 1830–40; purchased for £3400 a farm of about
130 acres at Tiptree Heath, Essex 1841, where he introduced deep
drainage and use of steam power, so that it became a model farm;
sheriff of London 1856, alderman for Lime st. ward 1858 to Aug.
1866; failed in business 14 Dec. 1880; author of Letters on
agricultural improvements 1844; On the principles which ensure
success in trade 1853, another ed. 1856; How to farm profitably
1859, 4 ed. 1864; On the sewerage of towns as it affects British
agriculture 1860; Mr. Mechi’s Farm balance sheets, also his
lectures and papers on farming 1867 and 12 other books. _d._
Tiptree hall, Essex 26 Dec. 1880. _Biograph_, _i_ 250–4 (1879);
_I.L.N. xxx_ 337 (1857) _portrait_, _xxxi_ 317 (1857), _lxxviii_
37 (1881) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 Jany. 1881 pp._ 355,
361, _portrait_.

MECREDY, HENRY SANDYS. _b._ 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; solicitor in Dublin 1845; vice president
of Irish incorporated law society 1885; governor of Royal Irish
academy of music; with C. A. Stanwell edited The Incorporated
law society’s calendar. Dublin 1887. _d._ Colwyn Bay, North
Wales 30 July 1891.

MEDHURST, WALTER HENRY (son of William Medhurst of Ross,
Scotland, innkeeper). _b._ London 29 April 1796; ed. at St.
Paul’s sch. from 1807; went to Malacca as a missionary printer
in service of London missionary soc. 1816; ordained at Malacca
27 April 1819; missionary in Penang 1820 and Batavia 1822–36;
established an orphan asylum at Parapattan; worked in Batavia
1838–42, and at Shanghai 1842–56; D.D. from an American univ.
1843; one of the delegates to revise Chinese version of new
testament June 1847 to July 1850 and of old testament 1851–3;
edited G. Happart’s Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the
Formosan language 1840; translated Ancient China, The Shoo-King
or the historical classic 1846; The Chinaman abroad, an account
of the Malayan archipelago by Ong-Tae-hae 1849; author of
An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary.
Batavia 1830; A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the
Chinese language. Macao 1832; China, its state and prospects
1838; Chinese and English dictionary 2 vols. Batavia 1842–3, and
English and Chinese dictionary 2 vols. Shanghae 1847–8; Chinese
dialogues. Shanghae 1844; left Shanghai 10 Sep. 1856, arrived
in England 22 Jany. 1857. _d._ Pimlico, London 24 Jany. 1857.
_bur._ Abney park cemetery 30 Jany. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register
of missionaries_ (1877) 41.

MEDHURST, SIR WALTER HENRY (son of the preceding). _b._ Batavia,
Java 3 Nov. 1822; attached to Sir Henry Pottinger’s suite Aug.
1841; present at taking of Amoy and Chusan; consular interpreter
at Shanghai 7 Oct. 1843; consul at Foo-choo-foo 9 Nov. 1854, at
Tangchow 21 Dec. 1858, at Hankow 25 Jany. 1864 and at Shanghai
23 July 1868, retired 1 Jany. 1877; knighted at Windsor castle
20 March 1877; helped to form British North Borneo company 1881,
organised a system of emigration from China into the company’s
territories 1882; author of Curiosities of street literature in
China. Shanghai 1871; The foreigner in far Cathay 1872. _d._
Formosa, Torquay 26 Dec. 1885.

MEDLEY, JOHN (only son of George Medley of Grosvenor place,
Chelsea). _b._ London 19 Dec. 1804; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1845; C. of Southleigh,
Devon 1828–31; Inc. of St. John’s, Truro 1831–8; V. of St.
Thomas, Exeter 1838–45; preb. of Exeter 8 April 1843 to
May 1845; bishop of Frederickton, New Brunswick 24 April
1845 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 4 May
1845, installed in his partly built cathedral 11 June 1845;
metropolitan of Canada 11 Jany. 1879 to death; attended the
Lambeth Pan-Anglican conference 1889; hon LL.D. Cambridge and
D.D. Durham 1888; author of Advice to teachers in Sunday schools
1833; The episcopal form of church government 1835, 2 ed. 1837;
Elementary remarks on Chinese architecture 1841; Sermons. Exeter
1845; with H. K. Cornish translated The homilies of St. John
Chrysostom on Corinthians 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Frederickton 9 Sep.
1892. _W. Q. Ketchum’s Life of Medley. St. John’s N.B._ (1893);
_Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 285 (1888) _portrait_.

MEDLEY, JULIUS GEORGE. _b._ 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal
engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death;
assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849;
consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer
with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field
engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column
1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858;
principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec.
to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college
1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil
engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of
engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed
railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer;
A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A
year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United
States and Canada 1873. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna
at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxx_ 343–7 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 292 (1884), _portrait_.

MEDLEY, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99).
_b._ 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a
stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University
1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The
Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms,
11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C.
Branwhite. _d._ Chatham 10 Aug. 1857.

MEDWIN, THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). _b._ Horsham,
Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24
light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on
h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life
guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went
to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he
stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822;
resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the
wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824,
5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English
verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler
in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady
Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B.
Shelley 2 vols. 1847. _d._ in his brother’s house the Carfax,
Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. _Notes and Queries_ 5 _S. v_ 161 (1876), 6
_S. vi_ 293 (1882).

MEDWIN, THOMAS REA (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of
Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf.,
bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington,
Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head
master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross
chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2;
V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A
manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated
from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at
Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. _d._ Arlesey
vicarage 17 March 1885.

MEE, ANNE (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter _d._ about
1784). _b._ about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the
prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties,
many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were
engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited
39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (_m._ Joseph Mee).
_d._ Hammersmith 28 May 1851. _The Lady’s monthly museum Jany.
1814_, _memoir and portrait_; _A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of
the court of George III._ (1812), _portrait_.

MEE, JOHN (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). _b._ 3 May 1824;
ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A.
1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of
All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4;
association secretary of church missionary society for eastern
district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible
society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4;
secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude,
Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to
death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870
to Nov. 1873. _d._ Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William,
Scotland 19 Sep. 1883.

MEE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a
moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned
to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which
became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830
and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under
pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. _d._ Shardlow union workhouse,
Derbyshire 29 May 1862.

NOTE.--In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about 1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a Sunday. _Notes and Queries 2 series_, _xii_ 189, 238, 299 (1861), _3 series ii_ 43 (1862).

MEEHAN, CHARLES PATRICK. _b._ 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12
July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34;
ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish
ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.;
author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed.
1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries
1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of
Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated
History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of
O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis
Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of
the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order
of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852;
edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. _d._ 14 March 1890.
_I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p._ 366, _portrait_; _Catholic World_,
_Sep. 1890 pp._ 796–801; _Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.

MEEK, SIR JAMES. _b._ Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal
navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on
Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June
1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services
at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government
to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural
produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report
was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted
at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. _d._
Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856.

MEEK, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ Brompton near Northallerton
13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar
of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813;
resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of
York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick
railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851.
_d._ Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862.

MEEK, SIR JAMES (only son of the preceding). _b._ York 28 June
1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a
partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of
York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of
York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York
rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July
1869. _d._ Cheltenham 10 Jany. 1891.

MEEK, ROBERT. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. by abp. of
Canterbury 1838; R. of Brixton Deverill, Wilts. 1834; P.C. of
Hill Deverill, Wilts. 1837; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1838–43;
R. of Sutton Bonnington, Notts. 1843 to death; author of The
mutual recognition of glorified saints 1830, 3 ed. 1837;
The church of England a faithful witness against the errors
and corruptions of the church of Rome 1834; Passion week, a
practical exposition 1835; Heavenly things or the blessed hope
1854; The martyr of Allahabad. Memorials of ensign A. M. H.
Clark 1857; Ministering angels 1864. _d._ 1866.

MEEKING, CHARLES (son of Charles Meeking of London). _b._
London 1800; draper and linen draper at 1 Broadway, Westminster
1823, moved to 62 Holborn Hill 1827, one of the first of the
drapers to conduct a retail business on a thorough system;
draper and outfitter Holborn Circus to death, having one of the
largest establishments in London; J.P. for Bucks.; purchased
Richings manor near Iver, Bucks., from John Sullivan in 1855.
_d._ Richings park, Bucks. 7 Dec. 1872, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 1 Feb. 1873.

MEERES, NATHANIEL. _b._ 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.D. 1840; C. of Cradley, Worcs. 1844–7; R. of Little
Stambridge, Essex 1847 to death; author of Sermons preached at
Somer’s chapel, St. Pancras 1843; Original psalms and hymns for
the use of churches. Coventry 1845; School cyclopædia in verse
1851; Sermons 2 vols. 1851. _d._ at residence of rev. H. Meeres,
Haddenham vicarage, Bucks. 26 March 1863.

MEESON, ALFRED (son of Edward Meeson). _b._ 67 Aldermanbury,
London 4 April 1808; architect and surveyor at Wakefield,
Yorkshire; assisted sir Charles Barry as superintendent of
constructional and engineering details of houses of parliament
1842 to completion; engineer in charge of houses of parliament
residing in the building 1853; practised at 58 Pall Mall,
London; employed on international exhibitions of 1851 and 1862
and on the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1858 and the Albert
hall 1872; architect of the first Alexandra palace on Muswell
hill 1873, palace was destroyed by fire 9 June 1873, joint
architect of the second palace 1875; author with J. C. Boys of
Thames sewage disposal scheme 1867. _d._ 4 Harley road, South
Hampstead, London 12 Jany. 1885.

MELBOURNE, FREDERICK JAMES LAMB, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount
Melbourne 1745–1828). _b._ Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London
17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to
Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec.
1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador
to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of
£1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20
April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848;
G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. _d._ Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853.
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 28, _portrait_; _G.M.
xxxix_ 309, 338 (1853); _Greville’s Journal_, _vol. i pt._ 3
_pp._ 35–7 (1874).

MELDON, CHARLES HENRY (3 son of James Dillon Meldon). _b._ 5
June 1841; ed. at Stonyhurst and Ushaw colleges, and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1862, LL.B. and LL.D. 1874; member of senate of
Dublin univ.; called to Irish bar 1863; had a large practice
on the Home circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1877; M.P. for co. Kildare
1874–85; first whip to the Home Rule party 1874–9. _d._ Dublin
15 May 1892.

MELIA, PIUS. _b._ Rome 1800; professor of belles lettres,
Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany
and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13
Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to
Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London
1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians;
officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the
Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines
of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian
states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution
and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the
origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. _d._
University hospital, London 25 May 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 30 May.

NOTE.--Raphael Melia _b._ Rome, naturalised in England 13 Sep. 1849, was author of A treatise on auricular confession. London 1865; The woman blessed by all generations 1868; and The life of V. Pallotti, founder of The pious society of missions 1871.

MELLER, WALTER (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill,
Surrey). _b._ 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did
not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov.
1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869;
lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel
20 Feb. 1867. _d._ Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.

MELLISH, SIR GEORGE (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford,
_d._ 1831). _b._ Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton
and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow
1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner
Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48;
barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death,
reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader;
Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death;
P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 33
Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. _A generation of judges. By
Their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_
55–65 (1877); _I.L.N. lviii_ 471, 473 (1870), _portrait_.

MELLISH, GEORGE LILLY (2 son of William Mellish an officer in
the army). _b._ Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll.
Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll.
1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854;
resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. _d._
Christ Church, Dec. 1881.

MELLISH, RICHARD CHARLES. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824;
attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830;
gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849;
sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep.
1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance
1 Jany. 1855. _d._ Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. _Foreign
office list_ (1866) 177.

MELLON, ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member
of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a
violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at
Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at
Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at
Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English
opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced
his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society;
conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name
at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep.
1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865;
(_m._ Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress _b._ 1824); composer of My
pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a
glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850;
The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the
ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of
dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published
in 1860. _d._ The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 April. _Era 31 March 1867 p._ 10 and
_7 April p._ 11; _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 441 (1865)
_portrait_, _v_ 504 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 6 April
1867 p._ 216, _portrait_.

MELLON, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during
two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law;
leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit;
joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after
played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters
at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and
Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather
in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864;
played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr.
Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25
Jany. 1871. _d._ Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25
Nov. 1876. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 321, 338 (1847), _portrait_;
_E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 294, 347, _ii_ 393, 462 (1891).

MELLOR, ENOCH (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). _b._
Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield
coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870;
congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61;
minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to
death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales
1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The
atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies
were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted
with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867;
Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles
1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. _d._
Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. _Congregationalist_, _ix_
617–20 (1880) _portrait_, _x_ 1000–1011 (1881); _E. Mellor’s
The hem of Christ’s garment_ (1882), _biographical sketch pp.
v–xxxi_; _Congregational Year book_ (1882) _pp._ 315–8.

MELLOR, SIR JOHN (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, _d._
1861). _b._ Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at
Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4
years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to
Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became
leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April
1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July
1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852
and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham
1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired
11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June
1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian
prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur
Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June
1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author
of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation
1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. _d._ 16
Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. _bur._ Kingsdown
churchyard, Dover 30 April. _Law Journal_, _xxii_ 250–1, 259–60
(1887); _Times 28 April 1887 p._ 5.

MELVILL, HENRY (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut.
governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). _b._ Pendennis
castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct.
1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32;
second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent
of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the
Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East
India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec.
1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London
1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death;
canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R.
of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in
London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author
of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of
the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols.
1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to
1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons
preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral
of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. _d._ Amen corner, St. Paul’s
churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 15
Feb. _Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit_, _ii_ 1–21 (1839); _Ritchie’s
London Pulpit_ (1858) 60–8; _Johnson’s Popular Preachers_ (1863)
189–201; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1856) 210–41; _Roose’s
Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 410–13; _I.L.N. iv_ 48 (1844) _portrait_,
_lviii_ 163 (1871); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._
345–8, 1279–80; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.

MELVILL, SIR JAMES COSMO (brother of the preceding). _b._
Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb.
1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to
H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841;
K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. _d._ Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23
July 1860.

MELVILL, SIR MAXWELL (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin.
coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered
Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60;
assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde
1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883;
judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of
governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E.
15 Feb. 1887. _d._ of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5
Aug. 1887. _bur._ Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. _Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s
Life of sir M. Melville_ (1887), _portrait_; _Times 8 Aug. 1887
p._ 5, _15 Aug. p._ 6.

MELVILL, TEIGNMOUTH (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., _d._
Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). _b._ 1843; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865,
lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at
Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped
around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow
granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed
to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ _Graphic
xix_ 272 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 277, 282, 554, 560
(1879), _portrait_; _F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C._ (1880) 256–7.

MELVILLE, ROBERT SAUNDERS DUNDAS, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry
Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). _b._ 14 March 1771; ed.
at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings
1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P.
co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board
of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov.
1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to
18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811;
lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord
of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to
2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother
of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St.
Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May
1817; F.R.A.S. _d._ Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851.
_bur._ in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. _J. E. Doyle’s_
_Official baronage_, _ii_ 494 (1886), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_
191 (1851); _I.L.N xviii_ 538 (1851); _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery_ (1831) _vol._ 2, _portrait_ 17 _and pp._ 8.

MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the
preceding). _b._ Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb.
1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31
Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2
Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July
1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9;
colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of
32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60
rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30
March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded
as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and
governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president
of royal company of archers 1860. _d._ Melville castle 1 Feb.
1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167 (1876); _J. B. Paul’s History of royal
company of archers_ (1875) 250, _portrait_.

MELVILLE, ROBERT DUNDAS, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy
controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the
navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb.
1876. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.

MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN WHYTE (only son of John Whyte Melville
1797–1883). _b._ near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to
1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream
guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany.
1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March
1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with
the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the
life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce
or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an
autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858;
The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby
house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for
nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6
ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863,
2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed.
1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely
3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; _killed_ while hunting near
Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. _Babington’s Records
of the Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 114, _portrait_; _Fores’s Sporting
Notes_, _Oct. 1884 p._ 110, _portrait_; _Land and water_, _xxvi_
472, 486 (1878); _Baily’s Mag. xiii_ 55–67 (1867), _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 569 (1867), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xix_ 52 (1879), _portrait_.

MELVILLE, HENRY SAXELBY. _b_. 1801; formerly printer and
publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier
than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. _d_.
Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.

MELVILLE, SIR JOHN (eld. son of George Melville of Newington,
Edinburgh). _b_. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer
to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown
agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood
palace 15 Oct. 1859. _d_. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860.
_The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p._ 2.

MELVILLE, JOHN WHYTE (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry,
Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). _b._
21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18
Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of
the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were
sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of
the St. Andrew’s club 1823. _d._ Mount Melville near St. Andrews
16 July 1883. _Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds_ (1883)
30, _portrait_; _H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library_
(1890) _pp._ 437–40, _portrait_.

MELVILLE, MICHAEL LINNING (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) _b._
1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at
Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and
sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April
1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20
Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842,
superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23
Nov. 1843. _d._ 22 June 1878.

MELVILLE, ROBERT (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1842; ed.
at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17
Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising
Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence
in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. _d._
suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.

MELVIN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr.
sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master
at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer
on humanity (_i.e._ Latin) at Marischal college, contested
professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished
Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver
snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853;
author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin
1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a
third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering
6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his
sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in
univ. library, Aberdeen. _d._ Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853.
_Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp._ 225–39; _Anderson’s Fasti
academiæ Mariscallanæ_ (1889) 527–9.

MENDEL, SAMUEL. _b._ Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester
warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in
Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses
and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence
Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for
£18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at
Christies 1875. _d._ Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17
Sep. 1884.

NOTE.--He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.

MENDHAM, JOSEPH (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London,
merchant, _d._ 1810 aged 77). _b._ 1769; ed. at St. Edmund
hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield,
Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws.
22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology,
liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow
of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society
Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the
Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic
writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and
expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary
policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830,
Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work
1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. _d._
Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. _W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred
years of a family living_ (1889) 123–30, 166.

MENDS, HERBERT. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April
1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830;
captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb.
1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army
28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged
87.

MENDS, WILLIAM BOWEN. _b._ Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered
navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29
Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46
guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of
Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839;
pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. _d._
Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.

MENELAUS, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to
an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill
at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks
at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first
to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel
under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South
Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel
institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E.
1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented
a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to
Cardiff 1881–82. _d._ Tenby 30 March 1882. _Proc. of Instit. of
M.E._ (1883) _pp._ 20–2; _Red Dragon, June 1882 pp._ 387–92,
_portrait_.

MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James
McCord a merchant _d._ 1842). _b._ Chartrain, afterwards called
Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister
were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house,
New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played
at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans
and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’
school in New Orleans; _m._ 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken
musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him
in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New
Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture;
_m._ near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist,
he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New
York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states;
first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861;
went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known
as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865;
_m._ 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4;
played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864,
where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in
Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became
intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles
Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier
in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la
Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19
Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion
theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868;
author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems
not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems
dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed.
1888. _d._ Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Père la
Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to
Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. _A. I. Menken’s Infelicia_
(1888), _memoir and portrait_; _Les Pirates de la Savane. Par
Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 1–14; _T. A.
Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 243, _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old
Drury Lane_, _ii_ 251–3 (1881); _The Age_, _ii_ 369 (1864),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 44 (1862) _portrait_,
_iv_ 569 (1865), _portrait_.