Chapter XLI: Part 41

MILLS, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (3 son of Wm. Mills of Bitterne,
Hants. M.P. 1750–1820). _b._ Popes, Hatfield 23 Jany. 1792; ed.
at Winchester; a director of H.E.I.Co. 28 Aug. 1822 to 1858;
member of banking firm of Glyn, Mills & Co. London; member of
council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; created baronet 17 Nov.
1868. _d._ Hillingdon court near Uxbridge, Middlesex 4 Oct.
1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 359 (1872).

MILLS, CHARLES JAMES CONWAY (son of major William Mills of
Teddington, Middlesex 1791–1838). _b._ 29 May 1816; ed.
Rugby; ensign 77 foot 26 Dec. 1834; lieut. 52 foot 23 Feb.
1839, lieut.-col. 11 July 1856 to 24 Oct. 1856; served before
Sebastopol 1855; lieut.-col. 94 foot 24 Oct. 1856, placed on
h.p. 18 Feb. 1862; colonel commandant Oxford military brigade
depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 25 June 1878; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._ Howard’s villa,
Cardington, Bedford 12 Feb. 1894.

MILLS, FRANCIS. _b._ 1793; well known in fashionable and
financial society; a frequent contributor to periodicals;
amateur painter; one of founders of the Garrick club 1831. _d._
of apoplexy Spring gardens terrace, St. James’ park, London 21
July 1854.

MILLS, GEORGE (son of Wm. Mills 1776–1857). _b._ 1808; ed.
at univ. of Glasgow; ship-builder with Charles Wood at
Bowling-on-the-Clyde 1835–44, began building iron steamers 1838
and many iron canal boats; a stockbroker 1845–50 and manager of
the Bowling and Balloch railway and of the Loch Lomond steamboat
company; started the Glasgow advertiser and shipping gazette,
the first Glasgow penny paper 1857, which ceased 1858; started
in Aberdeen 1869 a halfpenny paper called The Northern Star,
which ceased 1871; literary critic of the Glasgow Mail many
years; started the Milton chemical works 1866, which he carried
on till his death; published anonymously Craigclutha: a tale of
old Glasgow and the west of Scotland 1857; I remember 1858; and
The beggar’s benison, or a hero without a name but with an aim:
a Clydesdale story 2 vols. 1866. _d._ Glasgow, May 1881.

MILLS, HENRY. _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; recorder of
Buckingham, Jany. 1858 to Nov. 1863; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of
high court of judicature at Calcutta 5 Nov. 1863 to death. _d._
Calcutta 19 March 1864.

MILLS, JOHN (1 son of Wm. Mills of Bisterne, Hants., M.P.
1750–1820). _b._ 11 Aug. 1789; ed. Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 22 Oct. 1807; officer in Coldstream guards; served in the
Peninsula and in Holland; M.P. Rochester 1831–4; a verderer of
the New Forest. _d._ Bisterne 18 Feb. 1871.

MILLS, JOHN (son of Edward Mills). _b._ Llanidloes,
Montgomeryshire 19 Dec. 1812; greatly extended musical culture
in Wales by establishing musical societies in various places;
went to London as a missionary to the Jews on behalf of the
Welsh Calvinistic methodists 1846; visited the Holy Land 1855
and 1859; author of Grammadeg Cerddoriaeth, a grammar of music.
Llanidloes 1838; The British Jews 1853; Palestina. Llanidloes
1858; Three months residence in Nablûs, and an account of the
modern Samaritans 1864. _d._ London 28 July 1873. _Biography of
the Rev. John Mills. By R. Mills and Rev. N. C. Jones, D.D._
(_in Welsh_). _Aberdare_ (1881).

MILLS, JOHN. Resided in Essex; author of The old English
gentleman or the fields and the woods 3 vols. 1841; The stage
coach or the road of life 3 vols. 1843; D’Horsay or the follies
of a day 1844; The English fireside 3 vols. 1844; The old hall
or our hearth and homestead 3 vols. 1845; The sportsman’s
library 1845; Christmas in the olden times 1846; The life of a
foxhound 1848, 3 ed. 1892; A capful of moonshine, or ’tis not
all gold that glitters 1849; Our county 3 vols. 1850; The belle
of the village 3 vols. 1852; The life of a racehorse 1854; The
wheel of life 1855; The flyers of the hunt 1859; Stable secrets
or Puffy Doddles, his sayings and sympathies 1863; Too fast to
last 3 vols. 1881; On the spur of the moment 3 vols. 1884. _d._
about 1885.

MILLS, JOHN. Ed. at Pembroke coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1831,
M.A. 1834; R. of Orton Waterville, Hunts. 1 May 1837 to death;
as senior regent of Cambridge presented a congratulatory address
to the queen on her accession June 1837; a strong supporter of
Church missionary society, had a mangle, a threshing floor and
a flower stall in Peterborough market, the profits of which went
to the missionary fund. _d._ Orton Waterville, Dec. 1892.

MILLS, JOHN REMINGTON. _b._ London 15 Jany. 1798; a silk
manufacturer to 1840 when he retired; contested Leeds 28 March
and 5 June 1857; contested Finsbury 17 Dec. 1861; M.P. Wycombe
1862–8; contested Wycombe 17 Nov. 1868; F.R.G.S. _d._ Kingswood
lodge near Tunbridge Wells 22 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under
£1,200,000, 27 Dec. 1879.

MILLS, PAIXFIELD or PAITFIELD. _b._ 1817; solicitor general of
Nevis 9 Dec. 1847, chief justice of Nevis 1852 or 1853. _d._ of
cholera at Nevis 1 Jany. 1854.

MILLS, RICHARD (youngest son of Thomas Mills, V. of Hillingdon,
Middlesex). _b._ Hillingdon 1785; one of the sworn clerks of
court of chancery to 1842; a taxing master in court of chancery
1842–71. _d._ the Moat, Eltham, Kent 21 April 1880. _Law Times_,
_lxix_ 16 (1880).

MILLS, RICHARD. _b._ Pump farm near Benenden, Kent 16 Feb.
1798; first played at Lord’s in Kent _v._ M.C.C. 2 July 1827;
left handed batsman and bowler; played in the great matches at
Lord’s for many seasons and was one of best players of his day;
with Wenman beat an eleven at double wicket without having any
fieldsmen; a match Kent _v._ Yorkshire given for his benefit at
Cranbrook 1862; a farmer and hop grower at Hawkhurst, Kent 1862.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _ii_ 17 (1862).

MILLS, RICHARD HORNER. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838,
M.A. 1841; professor of political economy in Queen’s college,
Cork 1849 to death; author of The principles of currency and
banking, being five lectures delivered in Queen’s college, Cork
1853. _d._ London 24 Aug. 1893.

MILLS, THOMAS. _b._ 18 Oct. 1794; contested Reading 30 June
1841; M.P. Totnes 8 July 1852 to death. _d._ on the St. Alban’s
road, between Tolmers and Colman Green, Herts. 10 Nov. 1862.

MILLS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Mills of Grove house, Surrey). _b._
17 Nov. 1792; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814; chaplain in ordinary
to the sovereign 1816 to death; R. of Little Henny, Essex 8 May
1821 to death; R. of Stutton, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1821 to death; R.
of Great Saxham, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1829 to death; hon. canon of
Norwich cath. 1859 to death. _d._ Stutton rectory 29 Sep. 1879.

MILLS, WILLIAM. _b._ Lessudden, Roxburghshire 1776; merchant at
Glasgow; raised himself to a position of affluence; established
the first line of steamers betwixt Glasgow and the Mersey 1820;
lord provost of Glasgow 1834 and 1836. _d._ 1857.

MILLS, WILLIAM (2 son of Frederick Russell Mills of Hillingdon,
Middlesex, precis writer to Home office). _b._ Lower Grosvenor
place, London 3 June 1820; ed. at Harrow, where he obtained
a governor’s scholarship; captain of the Harrow eleven 1839;
went to St. John’s coll. Camb., played in the university eleven
1840–3; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847;
revising barrister in South Wales circuit to death; reported
in the Q.B. and Q.B. division 1857 to death; on the staff of
the Law reports 1867 to death; edited with Wm. Markby, Roscoe’s
Digest of the law of evidence in actions at nisi prius 11 ed.
1866. _d._ 1 Brunswick villas, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Sep.
1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 26 Sep. _Law Times_, _lxiii_
385 (1877).

MILLS, WILLIAM (son of rev. W. Mills of Harrow). _b._ 1818; ed.
at Harrow; chief engineer of London, Chatham and Dover railway
from its foundation 1864 to 1891. _d._ 327 Clapham road, Surrey
8 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Norwood 12 Dec.

MILTON, WILLIAM (2 son of Henry Milton of the war office). _b._
Camberwell, Surrey 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1845; C. of Little Marlow 1854–9; C. of Newbury 1859–68;
V. of Little Marlow 1880 to death; author of The sacrificial
vestments, are they legal? 1866; The eucharist illustrated and
cleared from error, sermons 1871; Fancies and fallacies of the
opponents of the Purchas judgment 1875; Church perplexities 5
parts 1877–8; Mr. Parker’s fallacies refuted 1880; The only way
to ritual peace 1881. _d._ 30 Aug. 1882.

MILLTOWN, EDWARD NUGENT LEESON, 6 Earl of (2 son of 4 earl of
Milltown 1799–1866). _b._ 9 Oct. 1835; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1856; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother as
sixth earl 8 April 1871; an Irish representative peer 1881 to
death; hon. commissioner in lunacy 1889; K.P. 7 Feb. 1889; P.C.
Ireland 1888; introduced a bill for amendment of the larceny
act, to permit flogging of burglars using fire-arms 1889; a
well-known chairman of committees of house of lords; president
of the Benevolent soc. of St. Patrick, London. _d._ Russborough
house near Blessinton, Wicklow 31 May 1890. _The London
Figaro 7 June 1890_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p._ 741,
_portrait_; _Graphic 14 June 1890 p._ 663, _portrait_.

MILLWARD, CHARLES. _b._ 1830; in a Greek merchant’s office in
Liverpool; proprietor of The Porcupine, a journal of current
events, social, political and satirical, Liverpool, No. 1
Oct. 6, 1860; hon. sec. of Savage club, London many years;
a monumental mason, 15 Camden road, London; wrote Little
snow white, extravaganza, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1871; Jack and
the beanstalk, burlesque Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; Jack and the
beanstalk, Park theatre 26 Dec. 1877; he was father of Jessie
Millward actress. _d._ 1 Camden st. London 7 June 1892. _bur._
Highgate new cemet. 10 June.

MILMAN, EGERTON CHARLES WILLIAM MILES (1 son of lieut.-general
F. M. Milman _d._ 1856). _b._ 6 Feb. 1819; ensign Coldstream
guards 24 April 1835, capt. 7 April 1848; lieut.-col. 37 foot
30 Nov. 1849 to 9 Nov. 1862; served in Canadian rebellion 1838;
in India during the mutiny; M.G. on the staff at Mauritius 5
Sep. 1866 to death; commander of the forces at Mauritius. _d._
Richmond 23 Oct. 1869.

MILMAN, FRANCIS MILES. _b._ 22 Aug. 1783; ensign Coldstream
guards 3 Dec. 1800, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 8 Aug. 1837
when placed on h.p.; colonel of 82 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death;
L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; severely wounded at battle of Talavera. _d._
9 Berkeley sq. London 9 Dec. 1856.

MILMAN, HENRY HART (3 son of sir Francis Milman, 1 baronet
1746–1821). _b._ Brook st. St. James’s, London 10 Feb. 1791;
ed. at Greenwich, Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxford, fellow 1814,
Newdigate prizeman 1812; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D.
1849; wrote hymns for Reginald Heber’s Hymnal 1827; V. of St.
Mary’s, Reading 1818–35; professor of poetry at Oxford 1821–31;
published a drama entitled Fazio 1815, 2 ed. 1816, which was
produced without his knowledge as The Italian wife at Surrey
theatre, produced as Fazio at Covent Garden 5 Feb. 1818, Ristori
had it translated into Italian for her 1856; Bampton lecturer
1827; canon of Westminster 6 April 1835 to Nov. 1849; R. of St.
Margaret’s, Westminster 1835–49; dean of St. Paul’s cathedral
1 Nov. 1849 to death, inaugurated evening services under the
dome 28 Nov. 1858; author of Samor, lord of the bright city
1818, 2 ed. 1818; The fall of Jerusalem 1820, 5 ed. 1853; The
martyr of Antioch 1822; Belshazzar 1822; Anne Boleyn 1826;
The poetical works of H. H. Milman 3 vols. 1839; The history
of Christianity from the birth of Christ to the abolition of
paganism in the Roman empire 3 vols. 1840; History of Later
Christianity, including that of the popes to the pontificate
of Nicolas the fifth 6 vols. 1854–5, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1867; A
memoir of lord Macaulay 1862; The history of the Jews 3 vols.
1829, 7 ed. 1887; Annals of St. Paul’s cathedral 1868 and 20
other books; edited The works of Q. Horatius Flaccus 1849. _d._
Sunninghill, Berkshire 24 Sep. 1868. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral
1 Oct., monument erected by public subscription in south aisle
of the choir. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 268–73
(1875); _Illustrated Review_, _iv_ 225–32; _Creasy’s Memoirs of
Etonians_ (1876) 593–5; _The living poets of England_ (_Paris_
1827) 406–28; _The church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 51; _The Eton portrait gallery_
(1876) 188–94; _G.M. i_ 859 (1868), _ii_ 582 (1884); _I.L.N. xv_
336 (1849) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 400 (1854) _portrait_, _liii_ 331,
340 (1868) _portrait_; _Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892) 736.

MILMAN, HENRY SALUSBURY (son of Francis Miles Milman 1783–1856).
_b._ 26 Nov. 1821; ed. at Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster
1840–44; fellow of All Souls 1844–58; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848;
barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; an assist. enclosure commissioner
1877–82; an assist. land commissioner 1882; director of the Soc.
of antiquaries 1880–93. _d._ 1 Cranley place, Onslow sq. London
22 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Kensal green 27 Dec.

MILMAN, ROBERT (3 son of sir Wm. George Milman, 2 baronet
1781–1857). _b._ Easton in Gordano, Somerset 25 Jany. 1816;
ed. at Westminster and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 2 June 1834;
B.A. 1838, M.A. and D.D. 1867; C. of Winwick, Northamptonshire
1839–40; V. of Chaddleworth, Berkshire 1840–51; V. of Lambourn,
Berkshire 1851–62, built a church and schools in the hamlet
of Eastbury and restored the chancel of Lambourn church; V.
of Great Marlow, Bucks. 1862–7; bishop of Calcutta, Jany.
1867 to death, consecrated in Canterbury cathedral 2 Feb.,
landed at Calcutta 31 March, his diocese extended over nearly
a million square miles, received the Kol converts into church
of England 1869; author of Meditations on confirmation 1850;
Life of Torquato Tasso 2 vols. 1850; The love of the atonement
1853; Mitslav, or the conversion of Pomerania 1854; Inkerman,
a poem 1855; Convalescence 1865. _d._ Rawul Pindi, Punjab 15
March 1876. _bur._ there 16 March, monument erected by Indian
government in Calcutta cathedral. _F. M. Milman’s Memoir of
Robert Milman_ (1879); _I.L.N. l_ 313 (1867) _portrait_,
_lxviii_ 267 (1876).

MILN, JAMES (son of James Maud Miln of Woodhill, Barry,
Forfarshire). _b._ 1819; served in the navy in China war 1842;
a merchant in China and India; studied Breton antiquities at
Carnac 1873–80, excavated the hillocks of the Bosseno 1874–6 and
explored three circular sepultures at Kermario, his collections
of antiquities are in the Miln museum at Carnac; F.S.A.
Scotland; author of Excavations at Carnac, Brittany. Edinb.
1877–81; Fouilles faites à Carnac, Brittany, les alignments de
Kermario. Rennes 1881. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1881. _Luco’s J.
Miln et les trois sepultures circulaires. Tours_ (1881).

MILNE, GEORGE. _b._ near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire about 1791;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; partner with A. Guild as writers to
the signet at Dundee, on Guild’s death partner with Robert
Miln; secretary to Society of writers Dundee 1821–8, president
1828; sheriff clerk depute for Dundee district about April
1822; a comr. of police for the fourth district of Dundee 1827;
proprietor and editor of the Dundee Chronicle 1830, which ceased
in about ten months but was revived by Milne in 1832; clerk
to the Harbour trustees 1838 to death; in July 1869 his widow
published a book containing his prayers on the chapters of St.
Luke’s gospel. _d._ Dundee 19 Jany. 1865. _W. Norrie’s Dundee
Celebrities_ (1873) 249–53.

MILNE, JOSHUA. _b._ 1775; actuary to Sun life assurance
15 June 1810, resigned 19 Dec. 1843; published A treatise
on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and
survivorships, on the construction of tables of mortality and
on the probabilities and expectations of life 2 vols. 1815,
his tables were generally adopted by insurance societies; the
first to compute accurately the value of lives; contributed
articles on annuities, bills of mortality and law of mortality
to fourth ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. _d._ Clapton terrace,
Upper Clapton, London 4 Jany. 1851. _J. Miln’s Correspondence
with John Heysham in H. Lonsdale’s Life of John Heysham_ (1870)
137–73.

MILNER, EDWARD (son of Henry Milner). _b._ Hillside, Darley,
Derbyshire 20 Jany. 1819; ed. Bakewell gram. sch.; studied at
Jardin des plantes, Paris; apprentice to and then colleague of
sir Joseph Paxton in his later years in laying out estates and
in landscape gardening; laid out some of the best gardens in the
United Kingdom and on the continent 1850–84; laid out Prince’s
park, Liverpool 1844, Manley hall, Manchester, Highbury park,
Birmingham, Ashtead park, Epsom, and Osmaston, Derbyshire;
principal of Crystal palace school of gardening 1881 to death,
and was succeeded bys son Henry Ernest Milner, partner with his
father 1870–84; landscape gardener 7 Victoria st. London, and
author of The art of landscape gardening 1890. _d._ Hillside,
Kingswood road, Dulwich Wood park, Norwood, Surrey 26 March
1884. _The Gardener’s chronicle_ (1884), _portrait_.

MILNER, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ 1804; ensign 34 foot 1 Jany. 1824;
captain 94 foot 1 May 1828, lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1841 to 29 Dec.
1854 when he retired on full pay as M.G. _d._ Albion hotel,
Plymouth 14 Jany. 1855.

MILNER, MARY. _m._ rev. Joseph Milner, vicar of St. Lawrence,
Appleby, _d._ 1883; edited The christian mother’s magazine 2
vols. 1844, title changed to The Englishwoman’s magazine 9 vols.
1845–54; The people’s gallery of engravings, vols. i to iv and
vol. v, Nos. 1 to 4. London 1848–9; author of The christian
mother or maternal duties exemplified in the Old and New
Testament 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The life of Isaac Milner, dean of
Carlisle 1842; Sketches illustrative of important periods in the
history of the world 1843, Second series 1847; The garden, the
grove and the field, a garland of the months 1852. _d._ Appleby
vicarage, Penrith 10 May 1863.

MILNER, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Milner, safe maker, _d._ 1849
aged 72). With his father a metal manufacturer at Sheffield to
1827, and with him removed to Liverpool in 1827; took out patent
for fire-resisting safes 1840 and 2 other patents; founded
Milner’s Phœnix safe works, Liverpool covering an acre of ground
1852 employing 50 workmen, in 1860 they had 500 hands; the
London depôt was at Moorgate st., City. _Puseley’s Commercial
companion_ (1858) 151, (1860) 130–1.

MILNER, SIR WILLIAM MORDAUNT EDWARD, 5 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Milner, 4 bart. of Bolton Percy, Yorks. _d._ 1855). _b._ Nun
Appleton, Yorkshire 20 June 1820; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1844; M.P. York 1848–57; succeeded 25 March 1855; kept race
horses from 1841. _d._ Nun Appleton 12 Feb. 1867. _Sporting
Review_, _lvii_ 155–6 (1867); _G.M. iii_ 531 (1867).

MILROY, GAVIN. _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at Edinb. high school
and univ., M.D. July 1828; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.P.
London 22 Dec. 1847, F.R.C.P. 1853; a general practitioner
in London; co-editor of Johnson’s Medico-Chirurgical Review
1844–7; superintendent medical inspector general board of
health 1849–50 and 1853–5; sent by colonial office to Jamaica
1851; member of sanitary commission sent out to British army
in the Crimea 1855–6, drew up with John Sutherland the report
of its transactions; medical commissioner in the West Indies
1871–2; one of chief founders of Epidemiological Society 1850;
granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of
Quarantine and the plague 1846; The cholera not to be arrested
by quarantine 1847; The health of the royal navy 1862. _d._ 21
Church road, Richmond, Surrey 11 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet.; bequeathed £2000 to Royal college of physicians for
endowment of a lectureship on state medicine and public health.

MILTON, DANIEL. Disputed the headship of the Christian
Israelites with John Wroe 1857, and again after Wroe’s death
in 1864; sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for defacing the
property of Melbourne house, Wakefield, the property of the
Christian Israelites 14 Dec. 1863. _J. H. Lupton’s Wakefield
Worthies_ (1864) 223–4.

MILTON, SIR JOHN (son of Henry Milton of Heathfield lodge,
Middlesex). _b._ 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; entered war
office 1840; assistant accountant general of the army 1860 and
accountant general 1871–78; C.B. 21 Feb. 1874; knighted at
Windsor castle 27 Nov. 1878. _d._ Bladon terrace, Streatham
common, Surrey 29 Nov. 1880.

MILWARD, CLEMENT (3 son of Clement Milward of Chewton house,
Somerset, admiral). _b._ 20 Aug. 1821; barrister M.T. 6 Nov.
1846, bencher 9 May 1865, treasurer 1880; Q.C. 16 Feb. 1865; one
of leaders of northern circuit; practiced before parliamentary
committees of houses of lords and commons; author of The county
courts act, the amendment act and the extension and amendment
act, with rules and practice 1850. _d._ London 26 Oct. 1890.

MILWARD, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1826; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut.
R.A. 19 June 1844, served in the Crimea 1855; D.A.Q.M.G. in
Chinese war 1860; in Abyssinian campaign 1868; deputy director
of ordnance; inventor and constructor of the light steel guns
for mountain service used in Abyssinia, on the Gold Coast and
in India; colonel 15 Aug. 1868; lieut.-col. R.A. 3 Feb. 1866 to
death; aide de camp to the queen 1868 to death; superintendent
of royal laboratory, Woolwich 1870 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868.
_d._ Woolwich 31 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Charlton. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57,
58 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 92 (1875), _portrait_.

MIMPRISS, ROBERT (son of an official in Deptford dockyard).
_b._ Deptford 14 Jany. 1797; ed. at Blackheath; purser on board
a foreign merchantman 1813; devoted himself to development
of Sunday schools from 1821; devised the Mimpriss system of
graduated simultaneous instruction based on Edward Greswell’s
Harmony of the gospels; engaged in writing books in connection
with his system 1830–50, travelled repeatedly round the country
setting forth its merits and advocating millenarian and teetotal
principles; author of A pictorial, geographical, chronological
and historical chart 1832; Gospel recreations for Sabbath
evenings 1836; The treasury harmony of the four evangelists 2
vols. 1849–51, republished as The gospel treasury, new ed. 1884;
The Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction 1855.
_d._ Clapham, London 20 Dec. 1875. _Robert Mimpriss: a memoir of
his life and work_ (1876), _portrait_.

MINGAYE, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ 1785; entered navy 16 Sep. 1798;
served on shore at capture of Cape of Good Hope, Jany. 1806;
captain 29 Jany. 1822; acting capt. of the Royal George yacht 23
July 1822; commanded the Hyperion 42 guns in Newhaven harbour 8
Jany. 1825 to 1831; pensioned 18 Dec. 1858; admiral on h.p. 27
April 1863. _d._ Hyperion lodge, Rosherville, Kent 30 Nov. 1865.

MINIFIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Devonshire 14 Aug. 1805; an architect
and bookseller at Baltimore, U.S. of America 1828; curator of
Maryland academy of sciences; professor of drawing at Maryland
institute schools of art; author of Text-book of mechanical
drawing. Baltimore 1849; A text-book of geometrical drawing 3
ed. 1851; Essay on the theory and application of color 1854;
Popular lectures on drawing and design 1854. _d._ Baltimore 24
Oct. 1880.

MINTER, JOHN MOOLENBURGH. _b._ 1815; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S.
Eng. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1857; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; F.K.Q.C.P.
Ireland 1868; surgeon R.N. 30 Dec. 1837, surgeon in Implacable
on coast of Syria 1840; surgeon in the field during Burmese war
1851; deputy inspector general 18 April 1859, inspector general
22 March 1872; hon. physician to the queen to death; surgeon
extraordinary to prince of Wales, travelled with him in Egypt
and the Holy Land 1861–2; travelled with prince and princess of
Wales on the continent; deputy inspector naval hospital, Malta;
inspector general naval hospital, Plymouth 1 April 1873, retired
2 April 1875. _d._ Mount Priory, Plympton, Devon 15 Dec. 1891.

MINTO, GILBERT ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 2 Earl of (eld. son
of sir Gilbert Elliot, 1 earl of Minto 1751–1814). _b._ Lyons,
France 16 May or Nov. 1782; ed. Eton and univ. of Edinb.; M.P.
Ashburton 1806–7; M.P. co. Roxburgh 1812 to 21 June 1814;
styled viscount Melgund 1813–4; succeeded as 2 earl 21 June
1814; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to court of Berlin 18
July 1832 to Sep. 1834; P.C. 15 Aug. 1832; G.C.B. 20 Dec. 1834;
F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1836; first lord of the admiralty 15 Sep. 1835
to 3 Sep. 1841; an elder brother of the Trinity house 5 Dec.
1837 to death; lord keeper of the privy seal 6 July 1846 to 27
Feb. 1852; envoy extraord. to Sardinia, Tuscany, Sicily and
Switzerland 4 Sep. 1847 to 1848; governor of naval college,
Portsmouth; assumed additional surname of Murray-Kynynmond
by r.l. _d._ 48 Eaton square, London 31 July 1859. _Doyle’s
Official baronage_, _ii_ 502–3 (1886), _portrait_.

MINTO, WILLIAM HUGH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 3 Earl of. _b._
Minto castle, Roxburghshire 19 March 1814; styled viscount
Melgund 1817–59; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1836; M.P.
Hythe 1837–41; contested Rochester 30 June 1841; M.P. Greenock
1847–52; contested Glasgow 10 July 1852; M.P. Clackmannan
1857–9; chairman of royal commission for survey of Scotland
1857; succeeded as 3 earl of Minto 31 July 1859; K.T. 13 May
1870. _d._ 2 Portman square, London 17 March 1891.

MINTO, EMMA ELEANOR ELIZABETH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYMOND, Countess
of (only dau. of general sir Thomas Hislop, 1 baronet
1764–1843). _b._ 1824; _m._ 20 May 1844 the preceding; author
of A memoir of the right honourable Hugh Elliot. Edinburgh
1868; edited Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl
of Minto from 1751 to 1806, 3 vols. 1874; and Lord Minto in
India: life and letters of Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto,
from 1807 to 1814 while governor-general of India, 1880. _d._
Eaglescliffe, Bournemouth 21 April 1882.

MINTO, WILLIAM (son of James Minto). _b._ near Alford,
Aberdeenshire 10 Oct. 1845; entered Aberdeen univ. 1861, where
he took honours in classics, mathematics and philosophy, an
unprecedented feat, M.A. 1865; was at Merton coll. Oxf. 1866–7;
assistant to A. Bain professor of logic and English literature
Aberdeen univ. 1867–73 and professor 1880 to death; came to
London 1873, edited The Examiner 1874–8 and London Opinion 1880;
a leader-writer on Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette; author
of A manual of English prose literature, biographical and
critical 1872; Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer
to Shirley 1874; The crack of doom 3 vols. 1886; The mediation
of Ralph Hardelot 3 vols. 1888; Was she good or bad 1889;
University extension manual on logic 1893; Plain principles of
prose composition 1893; English literature under the Georges
1894. _d._ Aberdeen 1 March 1893. _W. Minto’s Literature under
the Georges_ (1894), _memoir_; _Athenæum 4 March 1893 p._ 282;
_I.L.N. 11 March 1893 p._ 298, _portrait_.

MINTON, HERBERT (2 son of Thomas Minton, potter 1765–1836). _b._
Stoke on-Trent 4 Feb. 1793; ed. at Audlem school, Cheshire;
partner with his father at Stoke 1817–28; re-entered the
business 1836 and took as partners John Boyle and Mr. Hollins;
Colin Minton Campbell became a partner 1849; introduced
manufacture of hard porcelain, parian, semi transparent
porcelain, encaustic tiles, azulejos or coloured enamel tiles,
mosaics, Delia Robbia ware, majolica and Palissy ware; employed
1500 hands in 1858; lived at Hartshill near Stoke many years,
where he built and endowed a church and schools 1842; the
school of art at Stoke was erected by public subscription as a
memorial to Minton. _d._ Belmont, Torquay 1 April 1858. _bur._
at Hartshill. _Account of a visit to the works of Minions,
Stoke-upon-Trent_ (1884); _Digby Wyatt’s On the influence
exercised on ceramic manufactures by H. Minton_ (1858);
_Fortunes made in business_, _iii_ 63–115 (1887).

MIRANDA, DAVID MYERS. _b._ 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and
Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death.
_d._ Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886.

MITCHEL, JOHN (3 son of John Mitchel of Dromalane, Newry,
presbyterian minister). _b._ Camnish near Dungiven, co.
Londonderry 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin;
solicitor at Banbridge near Newry 1840–5; joined the Repeal
association 1843, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; on the
staff of the Nation newspaper 1845 to Dec. 1847; issued first
number of the United Irishman 12 Feb. 1848 in which he incited
his fellow-countrymen to rebellion; arrested under the treason
felony act 13 May 1848, sentenced at Dublin 27 May 1848 to
14 years’ transportation, granted a ticket-of-leave in Van
Diemen’s Land April 1850, which he resigned 1853, and escaped
to San Francisco Oct. 1853; started The Citizen newspaper at
New York 7 Jany. 1854; conducted the Southern Citizen Oct. 1857
to Aug. 1859; naturalised by supreme court of Columbia 7 May
1860; edited the Enquirer at Richmond; wrote leading articles
for the Examiner; editor of the Daily News at New York; edited
the Irish Citizen at New York 19 Oct. 1867 to 27 July 1872;
contested Tipperary Feb. 1874, elected M.P. for Tipperary 16
Feb. 1875 but declared by house of commons incapable of being
elected 18 Feb., elected again 12 March 1875, the Irish court
of common pleas decided 26 May 1875 that being an alien and a
convicted felon he was not duly elected; author of The life and
times of Aodh O’Neill, prince of Ulster 1846; Jail journals or
five years in British prisons. New York 1854; The last conquest
of Ireland (perhaps). New York 1860; An apology for the British
government in Ireland. Dublin 1860; The history of Ireland from
the treaty of Limerick to the present time. New York 2 vols.
1868 and Dublin 1869. _d._ Dromalane near Newry 20 March 1875.
_bur._ in unitarian cemetery, Newry 23 March where is monument.
_J. G. Hodges’ Report of the trial of John Mitchel_ (1848); _W.
Dillon’s John Mitchel_ (1888), _portrait_; _Sullivan’s Speeches
from the dock_ (1887) 74–96; _O’Shea’s Leaves from the life of
a special correspondent_, _i_ 9–24 (1885); _Sir C. G. Duffy’s
Four years of Irish history_ (1883) 587–605; _Sullivan’s New
Ireland_, _i_ 175–87 (1877); _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.

MITCHELL, ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Mitchell, inspector-general of
barracks in Ireland). _b._ Dublin 13 April 1780; brickmaker
and builder at Belfast to 1832; patentee of the Mitchell
screw-pile and mooring 1842, first used for foundation of Maplin
Sand lighthouse 1838, applied to many extensive undertakings;
established himself at Belfast, and at 17 Great George st.
Westminster as Mitchell’s Screw-pile and mooring company,
the privy council in 1847 renewed his patent for 14 years;
his improved method of mooring ships was generally adopted;
M.I.C.E. 1848–57; author of Description of a patent screw-pile
battery and lighthouse. Belfast 1843; On submarine foundations,
particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. _d._ Glen Devis
near Belfast 25 June 1868.

MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1831; ensign grenadier guards
15 Oct. 1850, lieut. 19 Oct. 1854, sold out 7 March 1856;
contested Berwick 29 June 1863; M.P. Berwick 1865–8. _d._ 6
Great Stanhope st. London 16 May 1873.

MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Ellon, Scotland 18 Oct. 1817;
clerk in a bank at Peterhead; secretary of the Wisconsin marine
and fire insurance company at Milwaukee, U.S. of America 1839,
in 1853 the company was reorganized under the state law as a
bank; first comr. of board of Milwaukee debt commission 1861
to death; president of Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company,
which became Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company and
now owns more miles of track than any other railroad company in
the world; president of Chicago and Northwestern railway company
1869; member of congress 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875; richest
man in the northwest states. _d._ New York 19 April 1887.

MITCHELL, CHARLES. _b._ Norwich 1807; bookseller and
advertisement agent for town and country newspapers at 12 and 13
Red lion court, Fleet st. London about 1836 to death; proprietor
and publisher of The Newspaper press directory 1846, which has
been published annually from 1854. _d._ 1 Edith villas, Edith
grove, West Brompton, London 8 Feb. 1859.

MITCHELL, DAVID WILLIAM (1 son of Alexander Mitchell of Gerard’s
Cross, Bucks., and Cavendish crescent, Bath). _b._ Bath 1813;
ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836; resided at Penzance 1838–42, whence
he contributed information to the 3 edition of Yarrell’s British
birds 1843; an original member of Penzance Natural history soc.
1839; sec. to Zoological soc. Regent’s park, London 1847 to
1859, and a contributor to the Proceedings in 1849 and 1858;
F.L.S. 21 Nov. 1843; author of A popular guide to the gardens of
the Zoological society of London 1852; Guide to the gardens of
the Zoological gardens of London 1858; furnished the plates of
G. R. Gray’s The genera of birds 1844. _d._ Neuilly near Paris 1
Nov. 1859.

MITCHELL, _George_ (son of Jewish parents). _b._ 1794; left
England before 1820; edited an English paper in Brussels; spent
many months with the Carlists in the Pyrenees, imprisoned in
Spain 2 years; settled near Bayonne; naturalised in France;
occupied a high position at the ministry of the interior,
Paris. _d._ the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris 16–23 July 1880. _Morning
Advertiser 28 July 1880 p._ 5.

NOTE.--He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert Mitchell _b._ Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of Jacques Offenbach the composer. _Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xvii p._ 1598.

MITCHELL, James. _b._ 1791; line-engraver; engraved sir David
Wilkie’s Alfred in the neatherd’s cottage 1829, and Rat hunters
1830; engraved The Contadina after sir C. L. Eastlake, and lady
Jane Grey after James Northcote, for the Literary Souvenir of
1827 and 1832, The Secret after Robert Smirke for The Keepsake
1831; produced Edie Ochiltree after sir Edwin Landseer, and five
other illustrations for the author’s edition of Waverley Novels
1829–33; exhibited 6 engravings at Suffolk st. 1824–31. _d._
London 29 Nov. 1852.

MITCHELL, JAMES. An excise officer coming daily in contact with
the makers of alcoholic liquors; became a total abstainer Nov.
1835; vice president of the Western Scottish temperance union;
one of the founders and a gratuitous lecturer of the Scottish
total abstinence society; superintendent of City of Glasgow
temperance mission; paid lecturer of the United Kingdom alliance
for Scotland from June 1856. _d._ 184 Hospital st. Glasgow 18
Jany. 1862. _S. Couling’s Temperance movement_ (1862) 331–3.

MITCHELL, JAMES (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian
minister). _b._ Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed.
Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and
Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the
firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian
church; law agent to Glasgow univ. _d._ Park terrace, Glasgow
3 Nov. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 229–32 (1886),
_portrait_.

MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and
composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a
little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday
1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s
supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all
bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s
got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same
brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where
my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885
he wrote Mika M’ Alister. _d._ St. Vincent’s hospital, New York
12 Nov. 1888.

MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his
own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire;
published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary
observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other
poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs
1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and
other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy
of witchcraft 1839. _d._ Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. _G.M. i_ 388–9
(1856).

MITCHELL, JOHN (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway,
_d._ Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). _b._ Stirlingshire 11 June 1785;
ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803;
lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the
Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1
June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein
1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation
1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and
address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall
of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. _d._ Edinburgh
9 July 1858. _bur._ in the Canongate churchyard. _J. Mitchell’s
Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the
author by Leonhard Schmitz_ (1865) _pp. vii–xvii_.

MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ London 21 April 1806; bookseller, publisher
and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged
and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London;
introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir
d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e
Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought
out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842;
gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier
and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with
French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice,
La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet
1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. _d._
10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 18 Dec. _The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p._ 12.

MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22
June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he
retired with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9
Nov. 1888.

MITCHELL, John. _b._ 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel,
Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of
George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. _d._ the
Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. _Daily
Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p._ 8, _portrait_.

MITCHELL, JOHN MITCHELL (2 son of John Mitchell). _b._ Falkirk
1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50
years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland;
fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian
order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation
in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe:
illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb.
1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance.
Edinb. 1864. _d._ Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865.

MITCHELL, JOSEPH (son of John Mitchell, C.E. _d._ 1824). _b._
Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry;
apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824,
M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent
of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed
bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by
the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland;
engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he
constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and
Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3;
partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for
street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for
relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means
of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan
for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the
railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of
railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface
of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. _d._ London 26
Nov. 1883. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi_ 362–8 (1884).

MITCHELL, MUIRHEAD (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras,
London). _b._ London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832,
M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18
Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on
the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. _d._ 50 Pall Mall,
London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876.

MITCHELL, ROBERT (son of James Mitchell 1791–1852). _b._ 19 May
1820; engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, after sir Edwin Landseer
1852 and The parish beauty and The pastor’s pet after Alfred
Rankley 1853 and 1854, and in the mixed style The happy mothers
and The startled twins after Richard Ansdell 1850 and Christ
walking on the sea after R. S. Lander 1854; etched several
plates completed in mezzotint by other engravers; exhibited
at Royal academy 1858. _d._ 8 Rochester place, Widmore lane,
Bromley, Kent 16 May 1873.

MITCHELL, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Mitchell, cutler and edge tool
maker). _b._ Sheffield 13 Feb. 1803; entered his father’s
business, for which he travelled in Norway, Sweden and Russia;
member of Sheffield literary and philosophical soc. Dec.
1822 and a contributor to its transactions, president 1856;
explored with Thomas Bateman the tumulus at Arba Lowe 23 May
1845; collected materials for The history and topography of the
hundreds of wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, of which a
small part was prepared for printing at his death. _d._ The
Mount, Sheffield 1869. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_, _iii_ 108–102
(1891).

MITCHELL, STEPHEN (son of Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer
_d._ 1820). _b._ Linlithgow 19 Sept. 1789; apprentice to J.
Anderson & Co. merchants Leith and London 1805–9; in his
father’s business at Linlithgow 1809, removed the business
to Glasgow 1825, head partner till his retirement in 1859.
_d._ Moffat 21 April 1874; left £66,998 10s. 6d. to found the
Mitchell library in Glasgow, library opened in Nov. 1877, it
contained 58,000 volumes, including special collections of
Burns’ literature and Glasgow books in 1886. _Maclehose’s
Glasgow men ii_ 233–4 (1886) _portrait_.

MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1842; assistant to Groombridge and Sons,
booksellers, London, then to Longmans’, Green, Reader and Dyer;
bookseller at Hastings; architect; author of The stepping stones
to architecture 1869; A rudimentary manual of architecture 1870.
_d._ Hastings 24 Nov. 1872.

MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1821; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845,
M.A. 1848; V. of Long Clawson near Melton-Mowbray 1848 to death;
author of Palestine revisited and other poems 1858, 3 ed. 1881.
_d._ Long Clawson vicarage 5 March 1885.

MITCHELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER (youngest son of John Mitchell,
Russia merchant at Riga and London). _b._ Montrose 1812; ed. at
Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829,
became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad
st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with
Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of
Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. _d._ 50 Charles
st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000.
_I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p._ 144 _portrait_, _27 March 1875 p._ 307.

MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (eld. son of John Mitchell of
Craigend, Stirlingshire). _b._ 16 June 1792; joined the army
in the Peninsula as a volunteer 1808; 2 lieut. rifle brigade
24 July 1811, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1818;
captain 2 foot 25 Jany. 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826;
brevet colonel 20 June 1854; served on the battle fields in
Spain and Portugal, received silver medal with 5 clasps; deputy
surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828 to
death, his survey of the colony was published in three sheets
1835; surveyed northern part of N.S.W. Nov. 1831 to Feb. 1832;
surveyed the course of the river Darling 1835; surveyed the
rivers Murray and Darling and discovered the region called by
him Australia Felix 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17
April 1839; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1839; explored overland route to
gulf of Carpentaria, Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1847; reported on the
Bathurst goldfields 1851; fought a duel with Stuart Alexander
Donaldson 27 Sep. 1851; visited England 1853, and patented a
new screw-propeller for steam vessels called the boomerang;
F.R.G.S.; author of Outlines of a system of surveying for
geographical and military purposes 1827; Three expeditions into
the interior of eastern Australia 2 vols. 1838, 2 ed. 1839;
Journal of an expedition into tropical Australia in search
of a route from Sydney to the gulf of Carpentaria 1848; The
Australian geography 1851; Origin, history and description of
the boomerang propeller 1853; The Lusiad of Camoens closely
translated 1854. _d._ Carthona, Darling Point, N.S.W. 5 Oct.
1855. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1868) 215–18;
_Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 325–6; _W. Howitt’s
History of discovery in Australia_, _i_ 264–310 (1865), _ii_
92–107 (1865); _J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of
Australia i_ 366–94 (1865), _ii_ 121–42.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Billquay, Durham 1799; in a counting
house in Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 years; first appeared on the
stage as a country boy in the Recruiting Officer at Newcastle;
appeared at Strand theatre, London in Professionals puzzled
1831; actor and stage manager Coburg theatre, London 1834;
appeared at National theatre, New York as Jem Baggs in The
Wandering Minstrel 29 Aug. 1836; opened the Olympic theatre, New
York, Dec. 1839, which he conducted till 1850 making money which
he afterward lost; his best known part was Manager Crummles in
Nicholas Nickleby. _d._ in poverty at New York 12 May 1856. _J.
N. Ireland’s Records_, _ii_ 192–3 (1867).

MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM (son of John Mitchell of Modbury, Devon,
a turner in wood and ivory and then a farmer). _b._ Modbury
1811; an apprentice to a printer at Modbury; a journalist
on the True Sun in London 1833; established The shipping and
mercantile gazette, a daily paper 1 Jany. 1836, and was chief
proprietor and editor; introduced an international code of
signals gradually adopted by all maritime countries; established
signal stations for reporting movements of all ships using the
international code; knighted by patent 27 July 1867; knight
commander of Swedish order of St. Olaf 1869; edited A review of
the merchant shipping bill, being a series of leading articles
from the Shipping and mercantile gazette 1869; and Maritime
notes and queries, a record of shipping law and usage 3 vols.
1873–6; published the Mercantile navy list and code of signals
1850. _d._ Strode near Ivybridge, Devon 1 May 1878. _bur._
Modbury churchyard 6 May. _Biograph_, _iii_ 400–409 (1880);
_Men of the West. Part 3 Sir W. Mitchell. March 1877 pp._ 16,
_portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 413 (1878).

NOTE.--He was a performer on the violoncello, bassoon, viola and flute; he procured from Paris the parts and copies for a chorus of 30 voices of Rossini’s Petite Messo Solennelle and produced the work at his residence 6 Hyde Park gate, London in May 1869. _Vanity Fair 22 May 1869 p._ 379. He also produced the Rival Beauties an operetta by Signor Randegger, which he repeated at Plymouth theatre for some charities 13 Aug. 1868.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ in the West of England about 1829; an
assistant in a shop; a clown under the name of Felix Revolti;
ringmaster under Charles Hengler; the Prince of ringmasters his
aim being to act naturally and not to anticipate the Clown’s
jokes; kept a hotel in London a short time; resumed his post of
ringmaster with C. Hengler in Liverpool and London to his death;
sketched the stories for some of C. Hengler’s Christmas pieces;
his brother F. Mitchell was also in the equestrian business.
_d._ in a railway carriage at Caledonian railway station,
Glasgow 6 March 1879. _bur._ Sight Hill cemetery 10 March. _The
Era 16 March 1879 pp._ 4, 5.

MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY FANCOURT (son of George Berkley
Mitchell, V. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1820 to 1840). _b._ 1811;
writer in colonial secretary’s office, Tasmania 2 April 1833,
assistant colonial secretary 1 Aug. 1839; a squatter near
Kyneton and Mount Macedon, Port Philip 1840; chief commissioner
of the police 1 Jany. 1853, restored order in the gold
districts and stamped out bush-ranging; member of legislative
council, Victoria, Sep. 1856 to 1858 and 1860 to death;
postmaster-general 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; comr. of
railways 30 Dec. 1861 to 27 June 1863; chairman of committees
in legislative council March 1869, president of the council
1870 to death; knighted by patent 17 July 1875; chairman of R.
Goldsborough & Co. woolbrokers in Melbourne and London. _d._
Barfold near Kyneton, Victoria 24 Nov. 1884.

MITFORD, JOHN (elder son of John Mitford, commander in the navy
of H.E.I.Co., _d._ 18 May 1806). _b._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug.
1781; ed. at Tunbridge gr. sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804;
C. of Kelsale, Suffolk 1809; V. of Benhall, Suffolk 17 Feb.
1810, reinstituted 5 Feb. 1824 held it to his death; domestic
chaplain to lord Redesdale, Aug. 1815; R. of Weston St. Peter,
Suffolk 22 Aug. 1815, R. of Stratford St. Andrew, Suffolk 1817,
these livings were united 5 Feb. 1824 when he was reinstituted
and held them till his death; contributed to Gent. Mag. from
1833, editor Jany. 1834 to Dec. 1850; composed numerous poems
signed J. M.; edited The poems of Thomas Gray 1814, 7 ed. 1866;
The works of Thomas Gray 2 vols. 1816, 2 ed. 1836; edited for
Pickering’s Aldine edition of the British poets, Cowper 3 vols.
1830, Goldsmith 1831, Milton 3 vols. 1832, Dryden 5 vols.
1832–3, Parnell 1833, Swift 3 vols. 1833–4, Young 2 vols. 1834,
Prior 2 vols. 1835, Butler 2 vols. 1835, Gray 4 vols. 1835–6,
Falconer 1836 and Spencer 5 vols. 1839; edited Sacred specimens
selected from the early English poets 1827, and The works of
Milton in prose and verse 8 vols. 1851; author of Agnes the
Indian captive, with other poems 1811; Miscellaneous poems
1858. _d._ Benhall vicarage 27 April 1859. _bur._ Stratford St.
Andrew. _Mrs. Houstoun’s Letters and reminiscences of the rev.
John Mitford_ (1891); _Mrs. Houstoun’s Woman’s memories_, _i_
122–5, 178–204.

NOTE.--His collection of silver Greek coins, cameos and miniatures was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson 30 June 1859; his engravings and drawings 23–25 July 1859; his Greek and Latin classics 17–24 Dec. 1859 for £1030; his library of English history, plays and poetry was sold 24 April to 6 May 1860 for £2999; and his manuscripts, including 55 vols. of his own recollections on 9 July 1860 producing £817.

MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL (only child of George Mitford or Midford.
_d._ 11 Dec. 1842). _b._ Alresford, Hampshire 16 Dec. 1787;
drew a prize in a lottery worth £20,000, 1797; ed. at Mrs. St.
Quintin’s school 22 Hans place, London 1798 to 1802; one of
114 persons who competed for the poetical address to be spoken
at opening of Drury Lane theatre 10 Oct. 1812; lived at Three
Mile Cross near Reading 1820 to 1851, and at Swallowfield near
Reading 1851 to death; granted civil list pension of £100,
1837; edited Finden’s Tableaux, an annual 1838–41; author of
4 tragedies, Julian produced at Covent Garden 15 March 1823;
Foscari at C.G. 4 Nov. 1826; Rienzi at Drury Lane 9 Oct. 1828;
Charles I. at Victoria theatre 9 July 1834; she also wrote Mary
Queen of Scots, a scena in verse 1831, and an opera libretto
Sadak and Kalasrade produced 1835, her plays were published in
2 vols. 1854; author of Miscellaneous poems 1810, 2 ed. 1811;
Blanch of Castile 1812; Our village, sketches of rural character
and scenery 5 vols. 1824–32, 5 ed. 1856, reprinted from The
Lady’s magazine 1819 &c., which made her famous, children were
named after her village urchins; Dramatic scenes, sonnets and
other poems 1827; Belford Regis or sketches of a country town 3
vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1849; Recollections of a literary life 3 vols.
1852, 4 ed. 1859; Atherton and other tales 3 vols. 1854. _d._
Swallowfield 10 Jany. 1855. _Life of M. R. Mitford_, _edited
by rev. A. G. L’Estrange_ 3 _vols._ (1870); _Friendships of M.
R. Mitford_, _edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange_ (1882); _M. R.
Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life_ (1859), _portrait_;
_James Payn’s Literary recollections_ (1885) 74–97; _H. F.
Chorley’s The authors of England_ (1861) 63–66, _portrait_;
_Yesterdays with authors. By James T. Fields_ (_Boston_ 1873)
261–352; _A book of memories. By S. C. Hall_ (1877) 438–49; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (1876) 353–59; _S. T. Hall’s
Biographical sketches_ (1873) 96–108; _Maclise portrait gallery_
(1883) 355, 379, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 369, 370 (1854)
_portrait_, _xxvi_ 60 (1855).

MITFORD, _William Townley_ (only son of Charles Mitford,
treasurer of Sussex, _d._ 1831). _b._ 29 June 1817; ed. at Eton
and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839; sheriff of Sussex 1848; M.P.
Midhurst, Sussex 1859–74; contested Midhurst 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ 7
Cavendish sq. London 18 April 1889.

MIVART, JAMES EDWARD. _b._ 1781; proprietor of Mivart’s hotel
42–45 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 1816–56, now called
Claridge’s hotel. _d._ 10 College crescent, St. John’s wood,
London 5 Jany. 1856.

MOBERLY, GEORGE (7 son of Edward Moberly of St. Petersburg,
Russia, merchant). _b._ St. Petersburg 20 Oct. 1803; ed. at
Winchester 1816–22 and Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar March 1822,
fellow 1826–34, tutor; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; select
preacher 1833, 1858 and 1863; Bampton lecturer 1868; head
master of Winchester Dec. 1835 to Dec. 1866, fellow Dec. 1866
to 1870; R. of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1866 to 1869;
canon of Chester cathedral Oct. 1868 to Sep. 1869; bishop of
Salisbury 14 Aug. 1869, consecrated 28 Oct. 1869; founded a
diocesan synod; with four other persons he revised and annotated
editions of St. John’s Gospel, and the epistles to the Romans,
Corinthians and Galations 1857–61; author of Practical sermons
1838; The sayings of the great forty days 1844, 6 ed. 1882;
Sermons preached at Winchester college 1844, Second series
with a preface on Fagging 1848; The administration of the Holy
spirit in the body of Christ. Bampton lectures 1868; Brightstone
sermons 1869, 4 ed. 1882; his name is annexed to upwards of
35 works. _d._ Salisbury 6 July 1885. _H. C. Adams’s History
of Winchester College_ (1878) 210–12, 239–48; _I.L.N. lv_ 437
(1869), _portrait_; _Saturday Review_, _lx_ 47.

MOBERLY, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 10 Madras N.I.
15 Oct. 1809; lieut. 25 N.I. 1 Sep. 1818; captain 49 N.I. 1
May 1824, major 9 April 1838 to 18 April 1842; sec. of Madras
military board 1835–43; lieut.-col. 8 N.I. 18 April 1842 to
1843, of 9 N.I. 1843–5, and of 16 N.I. 1845–6; stipendiary
member of military board 17 Nov. 1843 to death; lieut.-col. of
29 N.I. 1846–7, of 8 N.I. 1847–9, and of 22 N.I. 1849 to death.
_d._ Madras 5 July 1852.