Chapter XXXIX: Part 39

MENZIES, ALLAN (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). _b._
1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs.
of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000
for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of
conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author
of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick
esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3
ed. 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.

MENZIES, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high
sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas
Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a
line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had
50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two
minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director
of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses
1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1873. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 223–8 (1886),
_portrait_.

MENZIES, SIR CHARLES (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot).
_b._ Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut.
R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine
artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de
camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A.
28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April
1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. _d._ East hill house, Hastings 22
Aug. 1866.

MENZIES, JOHN. _b._ 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh;
apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet
st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh
1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to
number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in
Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852;
Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to
Scotland 1852. _d._ 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879.
_Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 1306; _Bookseller_, _Jany. 1880
p._ 7.

MENZIES, ROBERT STEWART (elder son of Graham Menzies of
Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). _b._ 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East
Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor
sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.

MENZIES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on
Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). _b._ Kincardine on Forth
1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and
surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and
parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21
Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park
and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management
and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage
of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question
considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’
cottages and of villages 1869. _d._ Windsor great park 3 May
1878. _bur._ St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret
Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June
1878. _Land and Water_, _xxv_ 485 (1878).

MENZIES, WILLIAM COLLIER (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866).
_b._ 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869;
L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 19 Oct. 1881. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.

MERCER, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut.
27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825,
lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European
regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B.
9 June 1849. _d._ York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.

MERCER, ALEXANDER CAVALIE. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec.
1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859
to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. _d._ Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov.
1868.

MERCER, GEORGE. _b._ 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to
death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal
1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2
Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. _Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct.
1891 p._ 805.

MERCER, JOHN (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner,
_d._ 1800). _b._ Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at
Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again
1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony
on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs.
Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the
business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the
so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society
1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington
1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850;
patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June
1852; F.C.S. 1842. _d._ Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866.
_bur._ Great Harwood. _E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer_
(1886), _portrait_.

MERCER, ROBERT (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates
of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. _d._ 1846).
_b._ 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821,
retired from business. _d._ Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov.
1875. _bur._ East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_.

MERCER-HENDERSON, DOUGLAS. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803,
lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G.
11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after
that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. _d._ Naples 21 March 1854.

MERCIER, LEWIS PAGE (only son of Francis Michael Jacob
Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). _b._ 1820; ed.
at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A.
1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842;
assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow,
and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master
Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49,
head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London
1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873
and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of
A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon
and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855;
Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic
feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2
vols. 1871–2. _d._ 2 Nov. 1875.

MEREDITH, CHARLES (son of George Meredith). _b._ Poyston lodge,
Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a
squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840;
member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26
Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to
1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873.
_d._ Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain
placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.

MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM COLLIS (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of
Andrea, co. Tyrone). _b._ Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at
Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province
of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same
province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84;
knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854,
LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. _d._ 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.

MEREDYTH, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth,
1 Baronet). _b._ 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded
his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for
Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. _d._ 25
Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.

MEREI, AUGUST SCHOEPF. _b._ Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia
1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of
the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of
medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian
medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war;
a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death,
established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms
and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of
infantile development and rickets 1855. _d._ 114 Oxford street,
Manchester, March 1858.

MEREWETHER, CHARLES GEORGE (son of Francis Merewether, R. of
Cole Orton, Leics. _d._ 1864). _b._ 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C.
14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death;
contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880;
M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire
into corrupt practices at elections 1880. _d._ Inns of court
hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.

NOTE.--He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling authority on the subject.

MEREWETHER, FRANCIS (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.)
_b._ 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R.
of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick,
Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters
to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case
between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal
in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832;
Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his
apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants
of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish
1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. _d._ Cole Orton
rectory 21 July 1864.

MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of Henry Merewether of
Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister
I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent
of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835;
recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen
Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his
death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when
he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new
system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs
1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823;
author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and
municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835.
_d._ Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. _Law Times_,
_xxxix_ 442 (1864).

MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 23
April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister
I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867,
treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5
April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875,
leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of
By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon,
New Zealand and America 1874. _d._ Bowden hill near Chippenham,
Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. _Law Times_, _lxiii_ 353 (1877).

MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (son of H. A. Merewether
1780–1864). _b._ 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at
Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut
3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col.
Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the
frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán,
battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military
secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at
Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay
against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in
Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to
death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report
relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind
1857. _d._ 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. _C. R.
Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ (1869) _passim_;
_I.L.N. liii_ 222, 225 (1868), _portrait_.

MERIVALE, CHARLES (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). _b._ 1808; ed.
at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4
in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat
race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871;
scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow
9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher
before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall
1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at
Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to
speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to
death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary
of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda,
Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History
of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols.
1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862;
Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four
lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. _d._ Ely 27
Dec. 1893. _bur._ Ely 2 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p._ 5,
_portrait_; _Edinburgh Review_, _Oct. 1884 pp._ 545–65.

MERIVALE, HERMAN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Cockwood
house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23,
captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll.
Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first
Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol
coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister
I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of
political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures
upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of
Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary
of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary
3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India,
May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in
Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates
as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on
political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on
colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2
vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of
sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol.
2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the
court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer
chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. _d._ 13 Cornwall gardens,
South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. _bur._ Fulham cemet.
_Transactions of Devonshire Association_ (1884) 570–80; _A. W.
Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed_ (1884); _I.L.N.
lxiv_ 163, 168, 170 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 172, 178
(1874), _portrait_.

MERIVALE, JOHN LEWIS (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office
Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885
when he retired on a pension. _d._ Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14
Dec. 1886.

MERLE, GIBBONS. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London
of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf
1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s
Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe
about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and
housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818,
this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in
connection with The white dwarf. _d._ Paris 19 Jany. 1855. _G.M.
xliii_ 654 (1855).

MERRICK, JOSEPH (son of an engine driver, his mother was
knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). _b._
Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses
on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla,
which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip;
exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by
an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent
decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in
1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the
London hospital for life from 1885. _d._ in London hospital, the
weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April
1890. _Times 16 April 1890 p._ 6; _British Medical Journal 11
Dec. 1886 pp._ 1188–9, 4 _portraits_; _Trans. Pathological Soc.
xxxvi_ 494–8 (1885), 2 _portraits_.

MERRIDEW, HENRY MELVILLE. _b._ 1837; English bookseller at
Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during
the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed
corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of
Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886.
_d._ Boulogne, April 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 323.

MERRIDEW, JOHN (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross
Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). _b._ 1790;
bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed
to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and
returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved
edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A
catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen
and others born or resident in or connected with the county of
Warwick 1849. _d._ Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. _Gent. Mag.
xiii_ 639 (1862).

MERRIFIELD, CHARLES WATKINS (eld. son of John Merrifield of
Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). _b._ London 20
Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton,
then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842;
assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf
of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy
on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany.
1851 but never practised; of the education department of the
privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education
department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit.
of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to
the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of
naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington
1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British
association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s
analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc.
19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery
in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission
1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861;
Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text
books of science 1870 etc. _d._ from the effects of a third
attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany.
1884. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi_ 1–3 (1884); _Nature_, _xxix_
270; _Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884_.

MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834;
schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school
Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D.
1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered
a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude
at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author
of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on
navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical
astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical
astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891.
_bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning
News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.

MERRIFIELD, MRS. MARY PHILADELPHIA. Granted civil list pension
of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services
she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s
A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco
painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of
painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding,
dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols.
1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water
colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and
shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and
present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of
Brighton 1864. _m._ John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar
at M.T. 16 May 1828. _d._ Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.

MERRIMAN, NATHANIEL JAMES (3 son of Thomas Merriman of
Marlborough). _b._ 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8;
archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of
mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions;
one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863;
dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death,
consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams
dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot
and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through
Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.

MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._
Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from
1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807;
hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to
Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to
Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on
midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837;
examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court
of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion
of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult
parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German
and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833.
_d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British
physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682,
_portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9;
_Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).

MERRIMAN, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN (only son of the preceding).
_b._ 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B.
1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western
general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to
Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use
of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London.
_d._ Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873.
_Medical Times 1 March 1873 p._ 238; _Proc. of Med. and Chir.
soc. vii_ 228 (1875).

MERRITT, HENRY (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). _b._
Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the
alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833;
apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder
1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846
where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850;
employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in
The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The
Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of
the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the
Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the
restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art
notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the
paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under
the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house;
restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster
abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death;
lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s
park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt
and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854;
Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his
own autobiography; _m._ April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M.
Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures
at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. _d._
54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. _bur._
Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty
years of an agitator’s life_, _ii_ 232–47 (1892); _H. Merritt,
art, criticism, and romance_ 2 _vols._ (1879), _recollections_,
_i_ 1–65, _portrait_; _The Times 14 July 1877 p._ 13; _L’ Art.
Paris 4 April 1880 pp._ 1–8.

MERRY, JAMES (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). _b._ New
Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster
in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and
Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had
cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks
burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition
July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced
racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at
Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased
Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas
with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St.
Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby
with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with
Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart
1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000
guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased
lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860.
_d._ 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _vi_ 512, 518–19 (1877), _portrait_; _Rice’s History of
the British turf_, _ii_ 332–38 (1879); _Illust. sporting news_,
_iv_ 369 (1865), _portrait_; _Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting
life_ (1864) 13–25; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 357–63 (1861), _portrait_;
_W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed._ (1886) 301–25; _Thormanby’s
Famous Racing Men_ (1882) _pp._ 100–107, _portrait_.

MERRYWEATHER, MOSES. _b._ 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin
and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant
1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced
his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great
Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was
called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he
built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt
1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich,
covering about three acres were acquired, _d._ Clapham house,
Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. _London Figaro 7 June 1894
pp._ 14–16; _Times 5 Oct. 1872 p._ 6.

MERRYWEATHER, RICHARD MOSES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented
with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam
fire engine. _d._ Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.

MERYON, CHARLES LEWIS (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). _b._
Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802;
Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806,
M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s
hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily
and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow
1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended
on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec.
1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in
London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope
as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3
vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with
portrait of author. _d._ The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep.
1877. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 234 (1878).

NOTE.--By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon _b._ Paris 23 Nov. 1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was _bur._ in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. _F. S. Ellis’ Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion_ (1880); _Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine Arts club_ (1879); _Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By Philip Burty_ (1879).

MERYON, EDWARD. _b._ 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844;
M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to
hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative
anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and
intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history
of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological
researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the
sympathetic system of nerves 1872. _d._ 14 Clarges st. Mayfair,
London 8 Nov. 1880.

MESSITER, EDWARD. _b._ 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut.
39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec.
1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848,
of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah
14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col.
of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. _d._ 19
Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.

MESSITER, JOHN. _b._ 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823,
lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. _d._
Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.

MESSITER, SUSSEX LENNOX AUBREY BEAUCLERK. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov.
1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the
gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. _d._ 2 Haymarket,
London 20 Sep. 1870.

METCALFE, FREDERICK (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of
Gainsborough). _b._ 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll.
Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849,
sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head
master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of
Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849
to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed.
1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German
literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and
the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845
and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. _d._
Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.

METCALFE, JAMES (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846).
_b._ 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep.
1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie
11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the
commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him
throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters;
major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet
lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec.
1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. _d._ 44 Harcourt
terrace, London 8 March 1888.

METCALFE, SIR THEOPHILUS JOHN, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas
Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet _d._ 1853). _b._ Delhi 28 Nov.
1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil
service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut
1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on
outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi
14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector
at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid
pension 1866. _d._ Paris 10 Nov. 1883.

METCALFE, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as
a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of
W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s
mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson
1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny
paper in Cambridge. _d._ Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888.
_Bookseller_, _May 1888 p._ 465.

METCALFE, WILLIAM JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of
Foulmire, Cambs., _d._ 1850). _b._ 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder
of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder
of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit
54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. _d._ suddenly in his private
room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.

METEYARD, ELIZA (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). _b._ Lime st.
Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe
near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death;
contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal,
People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of
Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame
3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865;
The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s
gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols.
1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a
manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60,
5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. _d._ Stanley
place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. _bur._
Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G.
Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead.
_Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 373–5.

METHUEN, FREDERICK HENRY PAUL METHUEN, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1
baron Methuen _d._ 1849). _b._ 23 Feb. 1818; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Dec. 1837; lieut. 76 foot 3 April 1840; lieut. 71 foot
7 Sep. 1841, sold out 2 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. royal Wiltshire
militia 5 May 1846, lieut.-col. commandant 9 Jany. 1859, hon.
col. 5 Dec. 1885 to death; militia A.D.C. to the queen 11 Dec.
1860 to death; a lord-in-waiting to the queen June 1859 to
July 1866, Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, May 1880 to June 1885 and
Feb. to Aug. 1886. _d._ Corsham court near Chippenham 26 Sep.
1891. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 394–9; _I.L.N. xvi_ 92
(1860), _portrait_.

METHUEN, _Rev. Thomas Anthony_ (2 son of Paul Cobb Methuen of
Corsham, Wilts., _d._ 1816). _b._ Chandos st. Cavendish sq.
London 23 May 1781; ed. at Eton 1796–9 and at Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1801; C. of
Ickham near Canterbury 1805; R. of All Cannings, Wilts. 1809 to
death; R of Garsdon, Wilts. 5 Feb. 1814 to death; author of A
series of single sheets containing new year addresses. Devizes
1832–68; A memoir of the rev. R. P. Beachcroft 1832; The voice
of God in the ears of sabbath breakers, or four young men
drowned in the canal 1847. _d._ Cannings’ rectory 15 June 1869.
_Autobiography of T. A. Methuen_ (1870), 2 _portraits_.

METZLER, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 1835; proprietor of Saturday
musical review, vol. 1, No. 1–42, 1879; partner in firm of
Metzler & Co. pianoforte manufacturers and publishers of music
at 37 Great Marlborough st. London about 1860 to death; resided
Stamore house, 83 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London. _d._
Arrochar, Scotland 1 Sep. 1879.

MEUX, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Meux, 1 baronet
1770–1841). _b._ 28 Dec. 1817; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1838; succeeded his father 7 April 1841 as 2 baronet and
head of firm of Meux and Co. the Horse shoe brewery, Tottenham
court road, London; sheriff of Herts. 1845; M.P. Herts.
1847–59; captain South Herts. yeomanry 21 June 1847 to Sep.
1859; there was an inquiry into his state of mind June 1858.
_d._ 36 Grosvenor sq. London 1 Jany. 1883. _A. Barnard’s Noted
breweries_, _ii_ 155–68 (1889) _with 6 views_.

MEVES VON SCHROËDER, AUGUSTUS ANTOINE CORNELIUS (son of Augustus
Anthony Wm. Meves von Schroëder, miniature painter, _d._ 1 Aug.
1818, who _m._ in 1783 Marianne 2 dau. of Cornelius Crowley,
she was a musician and _d._ Conduit st. London, Jany. 1823).
_b._ London 16 Feb. 1785; taught the pianoforte by his mother,
appeared in Edinburgh as a pianist under name of Mr. Augustus
1805; a volunteer with the Loyal British artificers 1811,
became captain; a professor of music to 1818; a stockbroker in
London 1818, speculated and lost all his money 1821; claimed to
be the dauphin of France, Louis XVII. 1818 and asserted that
his alleged father brought him to London for safety in 1792;
corresponded with the duchess of Angoulême 1830–1; composer
of Once more enchanting girl adieu 1810; L’Aimable, a rondo
for the pianoforte and harp 1820; Forty seven preludes for
the pianoforte 1827; Romanza for the piano 1843; Jerusalem,
recit. et aria 1854; Hail to the chief, a glee 1856, and 100
other pieces of music 1810–56; author of The memoirs of Louis
Charles, dauphin of France son of Louis XVI. who personated
through supposititious means A. Meves. The memoirs written by
the veritable Louis XVII. The compilation by his sons W. and A.
Meves 1868. _d._ in a cab while being conveyed to his residence
35 University st. Gower st. London 9 May 1859. _W. A. and A.
Meves’ The prisoner of the Temple_ (1860), _portrait_; _W. A.
and A. Meves’ Louis XVIIth_ (1867); _Augustus de Bourbon’s
Louis XVII. versus The London Times_ (1872), _with the author’s
portrait_; _Augustus de Bourbon’s The dauphin, Louis XVII._
(1876), _with the author’s portrait_; _Celebrated claimants_
(1873) 187–92; _J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty_ (1882)
230–5; _The London Figaro 4 Feb. 1880 p._ 6.

NOTE.--He left two sons, 1 William Augustus Meves author and writer of works under name of Augustus de Bourbon; 2 Augustus Meves author and drum player in Weist Hill’s orchestra London, _d._ Jany. 1880.

MEWBURN, FRANCIS. First solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington
railway co. 1825; chief bailiff of Darlington 28 Nov. 1846;
presented with a service of plate costing £400 by 224 of his
friends at the Central hall, Darlington 17 Aug. 1855; author of
Observations on the second report of the commissioners appointed
to inquire into the law of real property. Durham 1830, 2 ed.
1830. _d._ 1882. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 337, 341 (1875), _portrait_.

MEXBOROUGH, JOHN SAVILE, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 earl of
Mexborough 1761–1830). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 3
July 1783; styled Viscount Pollington till 1830; ed. at Trin.
coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; M.P. for Pontefract 1807–26 and 1831–2;
succeeded to the peerage 3 Feb. 1830; is described as Methley in
A. W. Kinglake’s Eothen or traces of travel brought home from
the East 1844; his printed books were sold at Sotheby’s 19–20
Dec. 1860 for £2120, and his manuscripts were sold 6 Feb. 1861
for £3019. _d._ 25 Portman sq. London 25 Dec. 1860.

MEYERS, JOHN HENRY. Apprentice to Edward Colyer, Fenchurch
street London 1836–43; printer Hayden sq. Minories 1843–9;
bookseller and stationer at Enfield 1849, retired 1887;
proprietor of Meyers’ Observer 1859; resided at Hampton 1887,
then at Richmond. _d._ Enfieldia, Richmond 9 June 1892.

MEYNELL, CHARLES. _b._ 1828; ed. at Sedgley park, Staffs., and
English college, Rome; professor of metaphysics at St. Mary’s
college Oscott many years; missioner at Caverswall, North
Staffs. 1873 to death; author with rev. J. S. Northcote of The
Colenso controversy considered from the Catholic standpoint
1863; author of Short sermons on doctrinal subjects 1866;
Padre Liberatore and the Ontologists, a review 1868; Proteus
and Amadeus, a correspondence. Edited by Aubrey De Vere 1878,
Meynell sustains the part of Amadeus and Wilfrid Blount that
of Proteus; Sermons for the spring quarter. Edited by H. I. D.
Ryder 1883. _d._ Caverswall, Staffs. 3 May 1882.

MEYNELL, GODFREY (2 son of Godfrey Meynell of Langley,
Derbyshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1838
aged 19; rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1840
and 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845;
practised as a conveyancer at York. _d._ 1858.

MEYNELL, HENRY (2 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs.,
_d._ 1801). _b._ 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 24 June
1803; flag captain of the Newcastle at St. Helena, where he was
noticed by Napoleon 1815; captain 10 April 1816; R.A. 29 April
1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862; gentleman
usher to George IV. 22 March 1820 to 26 June 1830 and to William
IV. 24 July 1830 to 23 March 1831; one of grooms of waiting to
Victoria, April 1845; M.P. Lisburn, co. Antrim 1826–47. _d._
Paris 24 March 1865. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
528–30; _G.M. xviii_ 663 (1865).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO CHARLES (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar
Cross, Staffs., _d._ 1801). _b._ 1784; master of the Hoar
Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826;
assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance
with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures
at Temple Newsam near Leeds. _d._ Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb.
1869. _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 140–41; _Waagen’s
Treasures of art_, _iii_ 332–4 (1854).

MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO FRANCIS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford
1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to
death. _d._ 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. _I.L.N.
lviii_ 579 (1871).

MEYRICK, GEORGE. _b._ 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784;
captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794,
regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay;
lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798;
L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. _d._ Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, ALBERT CHILDERS (3 son of sir Harry Stephen
Meysey-Thompson baronet _d._ 1874). _b._ 13 July 1848; ed. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister
I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary
counsel. _d._ 20 March 1894.

MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HARRY STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of
Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4
dragoons 1771–1853). _b._ Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809;
fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own
estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837;
an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman
of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal,
member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman
of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern
railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s
association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby
1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding,
Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866;
cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent
in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by
r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. _d._ Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May
1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 523 (1874), _lxv_ 236; _Journal of royal
agricultural society of England_, _2 series x_ 519–41; _Minutes
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 293–6 (1875).

MIALL, EDWARD (younger son of Moses Miall, general merchant,
_d._ 1829). _b._ Portsmouth 8 May 1809; usher in Saltmarsh’s
school, Bocking near Braintree 1827 and then in Waddell’s school
at Nayland, Suffolk; independent minister at Ware, Herts.
Feb. 1831; minister of Bond st. chapel, Leicester 1834–40;
established The Nonconformist, weekly paper in London 14 April
1841, editor 1842 to death; a founder of The National complete
suffrage union April 1842; contested Southwark 12 Sep. 1845
and Halifax 30 July 1847; M.P. Rochdale 1852–7; introduced
resolutions in favour of the disestablishment of Irish church
27 May 1856; contested Tavistock 4 Sep. 1857 and Banbury 9
Feb. 1859; member of royal commission on education June 1858
to 1861; received a testimonial of £5000 and a service of
plate after the sixth triennial conference of the Liberation
Society 1862; contested Bradford 16 Oct. 1867 and 18 Nov. 1868;
M.P. Bradford 1869–74; ten thousand guineas were subscribed
for him in 1873; lived at Honor Oak near London 1864–81;
author of The nonconformist’s sketch-book 1845, 2 ed. 1867;
Views of the voluntary principle 1845; The British churches
in relation to the British people 1849, 2 ed. 1850; Bases of
belief, an examination of Christianity as a divine revelation
1853, 3 ed. 1861; Title deeds of the Church of England to her
parochial endowments 1862, 6 ed. 1865; An editor off the line,
or wayside musings 1865; The social influences of the state
church 1867. _d._ Greystone lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 29 April
1881. _Arthur Miall’s Life of Edward Miall_ (1884), _portrait_;
_J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_ (1858) 208–18; _I.L.N. vii_
176 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxviii_ 443 (1881) _portrait_;
_Congregationalist_, _viii_ 441, _portrait_.

MICHAEL, JAMES LIONEL. Solicitor at Grafton, New South Wales;
one of the earliest of Australian poets; author of Songs
without music. Sydney 1854; John Cumberland. Sydney 1857, a
narrative poem; _found drowned_ in the Clarence river 1868. _G.
B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales_ (1868)
218–20.

MICHAEL, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Lewin Michael of Swansea,
merchant). _b._ 6 Sep. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1864,
bencher 13 Jany. 1882 to death; Q.C. April 1878; author of The
sanitary acts 1867; with J. S. Will The law of gas and water
supply 1872, 3 ed. 1884; with W. H. Corfield and J. A. Wanklyn
A manual of public health 1874; resided 54 Cornwall gardens,
Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Schloss Labers, Meran in the Tyrol 15
Feb. 1892.

MICHEL, CHARLES EDWARD. _b._ 1810; ensign 66 foot 25 Nov. 1828,
major 25 June 1847; lieut.-col. 54 foot 28 July 1857, retired on
full pay 21 Sep. 1860 with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 18 Inverness
terrace, London 7 Aug. 1893.

MICHEL, SIR JOHN (eld. son of general John Michel _d._ 1844).
_b._ 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at Eton; ensign 57 foot 3 April 1823;
ensign 64 foot 20 Nov. 1823, captain 15 Feb. 1827; captain 3
foot 20 Feb. 1835; major 6 foot 6 May 1840, lieut.-col. 15
April 1842 to 1 Oct. 1854; A.D.C. to his uncle sir Henry Fane,
commander-in-chief East Indies 1835–9; commanded a brigade
during Kaffir war 1846–7, and second division of the army in
Kaffir war 1852–3; chief of the staff of Turkish contingent
during Crimean war 27 March 1855 to April 1856; commanded the
Malwa field force in Indian mutiny 1858–9, defeated Tantia Topee
at Beorora 15 Sep. 1858, and at Mingrauli 9 Oct., annihilated
one wing of his force near Saugor 5 Dec, Tantia Topee was hanged
18 April 1859; commanded the first division in North China,
which burned the summer palace at Pekin 18 Oct. 1860; col. of 86
foot 19 Aug. 1862 to death; commanded the troops in the first
autumn manœuvres in south of England 1873; commanded the forces
in Ireland 1875–80; general 28 March 1874, field marshal 27
March 1885; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 21 March 1859, G.C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 20 Aug. 1852. _d._ at his seat
Dewlish, Dorchester 23 May 1886. _Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1860
pp._ 181–94.

MICHELL, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (2 son of Sampson Michell, admiral
Portuguese navy 1755–1809). _b._ Exeter 29 March 1793; baptized
Charles Collier but known as Charles Cornwallis; ed. at R.M.
academy, Woolwich 1807–9; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 Oct. 1809, 1 lieut.
1813, placed on h.p. with rank of captain 4 Sep. 1817;
commanded a battery of Portuguese artillery during Peninsular
war; attached to staff of marshal Beresford in the Brazils 1820;
military drawing master at R.M. college, Sandhurst 25 March
1824; professor of fortification at R.M. academy, Woolwich
27 Sep. 1825 to 1828; surveyor general, civil engineer, and
superintendent of works at Cape of Good Hope 1828 to July 1848;
A.Q.M.G. in Caffre war of 1833–4, for which he was created K.H.
1836; knight of Portuguese orders of St. Bento d’Avis 1844 and
of the Tower and Sword, Sep. 1846. _d._ Eltham, Kent 28 March
1851. _Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 564.

MICHELL, SIR FREDERICK THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._
Exeter 8 April 1788; entered navy 17 Sep. 1803; captain 22 Feb.
1830; R.A. 9 July 1855, V.A. 16 June 1862, retired admiral 2
April 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ North
gate, Totnes 14 Jany. 1873.

MICHELL, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Michell of Huish, Somerset).
_b._ 1781; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 March 1798,
lieut.-col. 22 July 1830; commanded the R.A. in Canada 1831–36
and at Gibraltar 1844–48; col. commandant 14 June 1856 to death;
general 2 June 1864; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 28 June 1861.
_d._ 76 Portland place, London 23 Aug. 1866.

MICHELL, JOHN EDWARD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 16 Sep.
1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1846, lieut.-col. 2 Sep. 1870,
colonel 17 April 1878 to death; brigadier general Bengal 31
March 1876 to 31 July 1876 and 9 March 1877 to 30 April 1880;
C.B. 2 June 1869; M.G. 1 May 1880; served in the Crimean war and
Indian mutiny. _d._ Bishop’s Down, Spa, Tunbridge Wells 7 March
1883.

MICHELL, NICHOLAS (son of John Michell 1774–1868). _b._ Calenick
near Truro 4 June 1807; ed. at Truro gr. sch.; employed in his
father’s tin smelting works at Calenick; contributed to the
Forget-me-not, the Keepsake and other annuals; author of The
siege of Constantinople, with other poems 1831; An essay on
woman 1833; The fatalist or the fortunes of Godolphin 3 vols.
1840; The traduced, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; Ruins
of many lands 1849; Spirits of the past 1853; The poetry of
creation 1856; The immortals, or glimpses of paradise 1870; a
collected edition of his poems appeared in 1871. _d._ Tehidy
terrace, Falmouth 6 April 1880. _bur._ St. Kea churchyard 12
April. _Biograph_, _i_ 46 (1879); _Men of the West_, _April 1877
pp._ 17–20, _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._
352–4, 1281; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxviii_ 241, 501.

MICHELL, RICHARD (3 son of Edward Michell). _b._ Bruton,
Somerset 1805; ed. at Bruton gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1868; a successful
private tutor; fellow of Lincoln college 1830, bursar 1832,
tutor 1834–48; the first prælector of logic at Oxford 1839–49;
public orator of univ. of Oxf. 1849 to death; member of the new
hebdomadal council 1854–72; R. of South Moreton, Berkshire 1856
to death; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1848 and principal
5 Feb. 1868, the hall was converted into Hertford college in
1874, principal 10 Oct. 1874 to death; author of The nature and
comparative value of the christian evidences considered. Bampton
lectures 1849; Orationes Creweianæ 1878. _d._ Hertford college,
Oxford 29 March 1877, portrait in Hertford college. _Graphic_,
_xv_ 356 (1877), _portrait_.

MICHELL, WILLIAM (1 son of Bennet Michell). _b._ Bodmin 14 Feb.
1796; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1839; M.R.C.S.
1813; in practice at Fore st. Bodmin 1850; M.P. Bodmin 1852–7;
contested Bodmin 28 March 1857; M.P. Bodmin 30 April 1859;
accepted Chiltern hundreds 5 Aug. 1859; author of On difficult
cases of parturition and the use of ergot of rye 1828. _d._
Plymouth 4 Nov. 1872.

MICHELL, WILLIAM EDWARDS (only son of William Michell 1805–69,
registrar of the stannaries). _b._ Truro 14 March 1840; matric.
from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Jany. 1861; capt. royal Cornwall and Devon
miners’ artillery militia 12 Feb. 1870; lieut.-col. commanding 2
brigade western division royal artillery militia 4 April 1883 to
death; F.R.A.S. _d._ Woolwich 5 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Newquay.

MICKLETHWAITE, FREDERICK NATHANIEL (3 son of Nathaniel
Micklethwaite of Taverham hall, Norwich 1784–1856). _b._ 1817;
ed. Eton and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; his first
match at Lord’s, Harrow _v._ Eton 31 July 1834; the best bat in
the Eton eleven; played for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s
23–4 June 1836, afterwards played for I. Zingari; on committee
of Marylebone club; barrister I.T. 29 April 1842. _d._ Taverham
hall, Norwich 18 Oct. 1878. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_ii_ 279 (1862).

MICKLETHWAITE, THOMAS. _b._ 4 Sep. 1813; editor and proprietor
of Sheffield Patriot 1841; proprietor and editor of Wakefield
Journal and examiner 1841 to Nov. 1852; poor law auditor for
west Yorkshire audit district 28 June 1851 to death; a town
councillor of Wakefield; chairman of board of guardians 1849–51;
high chief ranger of ancient order of Foresters 1849; barrister
G.I. 30 April 1853. _d._ Wakefield 23 May 1857. _bur._ in the
vicarage croft 27 May. _Wakefield Journal 29 May 1857 p._ 5.

MIDDLEMIST, ROBERT. _b._ 29 Feb. 1808; a computer at Nautical
almanac office, London 1831; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1834;
mathematical master in royal naval school, Greenwich; entered
Christ’s coll. Camb. as an undergraduate 1838, scholar,
27th wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; C. of Ufford,
Northamptonshire 1843–5; senior assistant mathematical master
at Harrow 1845 to death; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1860 to
death. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1877. _bur._ at Harrow 18 Jany.
_Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 202–205.

MIDDLEMORE, RICHARD (son of Richard Middlemore of The Davids,
Northfield). _b._ 12 Oct. 1804; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827; an
ophthalmic surgeon at Temple Row, Birmingham 1827, retired 1879;
assist. surgeon Birmingham and Midland eye hospital 1828, and
hon. surgeon 1835–49, gave £1000 for an annual lecture there
1888; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of the blind asylum at
Edgbaston 1848 which he endowed with £2000 in 1889; founded a
prize for an essay on improvements in ophthalmic medicine and
surgery, to be awarded by British Medical assoc. 1877; author
of A treatise on diseases of the eye and its appendages 2 vols.
1835. _d._ The Limes, Bristol road, Birmingham 1 March 1891.
_Lancet 7 March 1891 p._ 579.

MIDDLEMORE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1802;
leather merchant Birmingham and a government contractor,
retired; a town councillor of Birmingham 1839; gave and laid out
a recreation ground of four acres in the centre of the town;
a benefactor to the Baptist cause; gave £500 towards price of
Aston hall and park 1863; a liberal donor to the school of art
1844 and to the art gallery; chairman of Birmingham wagon co.
_d._ 38 Elvetham road, Birmingham 15 Jany. 1887.