Chapter XLII: Part 42

MOFFATT, GEORGE (son of William Moffatt of London). _b._ 1810;
wholesale tea dealer in London and Liverpool; chairman of Lhynvi
iron and coal co.; contested Ipswich 3 June 1842 and Dartmouth
27 Dec 1844; M.P. Dartmouth 1845–52; M.P. Ashburton 1852–9;
M.P. Honiton 1860–5; M.P. Southampton 1865–8; author of The
Bankruptcy law of England. _d._ Torquay 20 Feb. 1878; personalty
under £350,000, 27 April 1878. _Sir Henry Cole’s Life_, _i_ 36,
_ii_ 101 (1884).

MOFFAT, ROBERT (son of a custom house officer). _b._ Ormiston,
East Lothian 21 Dec. 1795; apprenticed to a gardener 1809–12;
under-gardener at Mr. Leigh’s, High Leigh, Cheshire Dec. 1813
to Dec. 1815; a missionary under the London missionary soc.
from 1816, arrived at Cape Town 13 Jany. 1817, travelled in
Namaqualand 1817–8; superintendent at Lattakoo 1820–5, at
Kuruman 1825–70; visited England 1839–43; persuaded Livingstone
to undertake the Bakwana mission 1840; was the pioneer of South
African missionary work; left Africa for England 10 June 1870;
D.D. Edinb. April 1872; presented with upwards of £5,000 by his
friends 1873; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’
company 20 Dec. 1877; entertained at the mansion house, London
7 May 1881; (_m._ at St. George’s church, Cape Town 27 Dec. 1819
Mary only dau. of James Smith of Dukinfield near Manchester
nursery gardener, she was _b._ at New Windsor, now part of
Salford, 1795 and _d._ Brinton, London 9 Jany 1871 after being
for 50 years one of the pioneers of South African mission work);
author of Translation of the gospel of St. Luke into Sechwana
1830, Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa 1842
and 9 other books. _d._ Leigh near Tunbridge 10 Aug. 1883.
_bur._ Norwood cemet. 16 Aug., memorial monument at Ormiston.
_J. S. Moffatt’s The lives of Robert and Mary Moffatt_ (1886),
_portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Moffatt_; _A. Manning’s Heroes of the
desert_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Campbell’s Farewell services of
R. Moffatt_ (1843); _I.L.N. lx_ 452 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic
xxviii_ 192 (1883), _portrait_.

MOFFITT, ANDREW. _b._ 11 Jany. 1836; assistant surgeon in
army 25 May 1858, surgeon 1 March 1873, surgeon major 1 April
1873; principal medical officer of the Ever Victorious army in
China 1863; author of A manual of instruction for attendants
on sick and wounded in war 1870. _d._ Southampton 3 Feb. 1882.
_Graphic_, _xxix_ 244 (1884), _portrait_.

MOFFITT, JOHN M. _b._ England 1837; apprenticed to a sculptor
in London 1852; went to U.S. of America at end of his
apprenticeship; executed the figures representing the four ages
of man on the eastern entrance to Greenwood cemetery, New York;
designed many of the altars in New York churches. _d._ London 15
Sep. 1887.

MOGFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1822; landscape painter principally of coast
scenes; associate of New Society of Painters in water-colours
1866 and member 1867; lived at 17 Park road, Hampstead 1867 to
death; exhibited 32 landscapes at R.A., 28 at B.I. and 20 at
Suffolk st. 1846–79. _d._ 17 Park road, Hampstead, Nov. 1885.

MOGFORD, THOMAS (son of a veterinary surgeon at Northlew,
Devonshire). _b._ Exeter 1 May 1809; printer at Exeter to about
1843 when he moved to London; a landscape painter in Guernsey,
where he founded a school of painting; exhibited 43 pictures at
R.A., 11 at B.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1838–61; his portraits
include E. H. Baily, R.A., Samuel Cousins the engraver, and J.
C. Adams the astronomer. _d._ Guernsey 1868. _G. Pycroft’s Art
in Devonshire_ (1883) 90–6.

MOGRIDGE, GEORGE (son of Mathias Mogridge of Ashted, Birmingham,
canal agent). _b._ Ashted 17 Feb. 1787; an apprentice to a
japanner 1801; partner with his elder brother Mathias Mogridge
in the Japan trade at Birmingham 1811, his brother retired from
the business with a fortune, and he became a bankrupt 1826;
commenced a literary life 1826; author of Twelve moral tales by
Uncle Newbury 1828; The moral budget of my Aunt Newbury 1835;
Ephraim Holding’s Homely hints to Sunday school teachers 1843;
Cheerful chapters adapted to youth, by Old Alan Gray 1854; The
Chinese, by Uncle Adam 1845; under the names of Old Humphrey
1839 etc., and Peter Parley 1836 etc., he also wrote very
numerous books; wrote under his own name The churchyard lyrist,
five hundred original inscriptions 1832; Footprints of popery,
or places where martyrs have suffered 1843; Amos Armfield or
leather covered bibles 1845; Learning to act 1846; Wanderings
in the Isle of Wight 1846; Things that have wings 1851; Sunny
seasons of boyhood 1859; Who is my neighbour 1868, and 50
other books many of them anonymous; for the Religious Tract
soc. he wrote 106 books and tracts; resided at 114 Cornwall
road, London. _d._ 4 High Wickham, Hastings 2 Nov. 1854. _C.
Williams’s George Mogridge, his life, character and writings_
(1856), _portrait_; _Memoir of Old Humphrey_ (1855), _portrait_.

MOHL, MARY ELIZABETH (dau. of Charles Clarke). _b._ Millbank
row, Westminster 1793; placed in a convent school at Toulouse
1801; lived in Paris with her mother; great friend of Madame
Récamier for 18 years; _m._ 1847 Julius Mohl the orientalist
1800–76; her receptions in the Rue du Bac, Paris were very
popular for nearly 40 years, her friends included Quinet,
De Tocqueville, Guizot, Thiers and Renan; author of Madame
Récamier, with a sketch of the history of society in France
by Madame Mxxx. 1862; Le livre des Rois, par Abou ’lkasim
Firdousi traduit et commenté par J. Mohl, Publié par Mme Mohl.
7 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Paris 15 May 1883. _bur._ Père-Lachaise
cemetery. _M. C. M. Simpson’s Letters of G. and M. Mohl_ (1887),
_portrait_; _K. O’Meara’s Madame Mohl_ (1886), _portrait_;
_Contemporary review Aug. 1878 pp._ 1–21; _F. W. Muller’s
Biographical Essays_ (1884) 272–310.

MOIR, DAVID MACBETH (son of Robert Moir d. 1817). _b._
Musselburgh near Edinburgh 5 Jany. 1798; studied medicine in
Edinburgh, M.R.C.S. 1816; partner with Dr. Brown at Musselburgh
1817 and in practice there to death; wrote jeux d’esprit in
Blackwood’s magazine, also essays and serious verse over the
signature Δ; wrote for Fraser’s magazine and other periodicals;
author of The bombardment of Algiers and other poems 1816,
anon.; The legend of Genevieve, with other tales and poems
1824; The autobiography of Mansie Wauch 1828; Outlines of the
ancient history of medicine 1831; Proofs of the contagion of
malignant cholera 1832; Domestic verses 1843; edited The works
of Mrs. Hemans 7 vols. 1839. _d._ King’s Arms inn, Dumfries 6
July 1851. _bur._ at Inveresk, statue by Ritchie erected at
Musselburgh 1854. _m._ 8 June 1829 Catherine Elizabeth youngest
dau. of Charles Bell of Leith, she was granted civil list
pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853. _The poetical works of D. M. Moir.
Ed. by Thomas Aird_ 2 _vols._ _Edinb._ (1852), _memoir i pp.
xv–cxxxii_, _portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag. Aug. 1851 pp._ 249–50;
_Fraser’s Mag. Sep. 1833 p._ 290, _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait
gallery_ (1883) 198–9, _portrait_.

MOIR, GEORGE (son of George Moir). _b._ Aberdeen 1800; admitted
advocate 2 July 1825; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from
1828; professor of rhetoric and belles lettres in univ. of
Edinb. 1 Aug. 1835 to Oct. 1840, professor of Scots law 13 Feb.
1864 to 1865; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1855–8; sheriff of
Stirlingshire 1858–68; translated Wallenstein, a dramatic poem
by J. C. F. Von Schiller 2 vols. 1827, and The historical works
of F. Schiller, Constable’s Miscellany 2 vols. 1828; author of
The appellate jurisdiction of Scotch appeals 1851; Magic and
witchcraft 1852; Principles of the law of Scotland, containing
extracts from lectures of G. Moir 1870, 4 ed. 1886. _d._
Charlotte sq. Edinb. 19 Oct. 1870. _Grant’s Story of Univ. of
Edinburgh_, _ii_ 359, 375 (1884); _Journal of jurisprudence_,
_xiv_ 618 (1870).

MOIR, JOHN MACRAE. _b._ Waterside of Thornton at the foot of the
Grampians in Kincardineshire 1827; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.;
went to London 1846; associated with journalism 1852; edited the
Illustrated Times, London 9 June 1855 for 3 years; secretary of
the Scottish corporation 1862 to death; the first editor of the
Illustrated news of the world, No. i Feb. 6, 1858; the first
editor of the People’s magazine 1867; London correspondent many
years of the chief provincial newspapers; one of compilers of
Men of the time; nonconformist minister at Worthing, Sussex;
barrister M.T. 6 June 1864; often acted as deputy judge in
the lord mayor’s court, and as deputy judge in the city of
London court and other metropolitan county courts; a candidate
for office of town clerk of city of London 1873, and for that
of city remembrancer 1878; edited Capital punishment by John
Macrae 1865 and Todesstraffe by Professor Mitteemaier 1862. _d._
Braefit, 116 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead 12 July 1881.
_bur._ Hampstead cemet. 16 July. _The Biograph_, _Jany. 1881
pp._ 9–11; _Law Times_, _lxxi_ 236 (1881).

MOLE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Alnwick, Northumberland 1814; began
painting miniatures 1835; painted landscapes and figure
subjects in water-colours; associate of New Soc. of painters
in water-colours 1847, member 1848, contributed to annual
exhibitions of the society which became the Royal Institute of
painters in water-colours 1884, vice pres. 1884; exhibited 11
figure subjects at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1845–80.
_d._ 7 Guildford place, Russell sq. London 13 Dec. 1886.

MOLESWORTH, JOHN EDWARD NASSAU (only son of John Molesworth).
_b._ London 4 Feb. 1790; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Oxf.;
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. and D.D. 1838; C. of Millbrook,
Hampshire 1812–28; C. of Wicksworth, Derbyshire 1828 for two
months only; V. of St. Martin’s with St. Paul, Canterbury
1829–39; one of the six preachers at Canterbury 1829; V. of
Minster-in-Thanet 1839; V. of Rochdale 3 March 1840 to death;
promoted the Rochdale vicarage act 1866 by which the 13 chapels
of ease were converted into parish churches and their endowments
raised; contributed to the British magazine and Encyclopædia
Metropolitana; editor of The penny Sunday reader. Canterbury
14 vols. 1835–41, and of Common sense or everybody’s magazine
2 vols. 1842–43; author of The rick-burners, a tale 1830;
Overbury, or some advantages of an established church, a tale
1834, 2 ed. 1860; The pulpit pocket companion and liturgical
companion 1836; Resistance to church rates, a letter to the
people of England 1836, 5 ed. 1854; The domestic chaplain,
sermons on family duties 2 vols. 1838; The parish church 1842
and 30 other books. _d._ Rochdale vicarage 21 April 1877.
_bur._ St. Martin’s, Castleton Moor, Lancs. _Raines’s Vicars of
Rochdale_ (_Chetham Soc._ 1883), _ii_ 325–76.

MOLESWORTH, JAMES THOMAS (brother of 7 Viscount Molesworth
1786–1875). _b._ 1795; lieut. 6 Bombay N.I. 4 April 1816;
captain 11 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, retired 24 April 1837;
second assistant commissary general 1827–35; author with Thomas
and George Candy of Marathee-English and English-Marathee
dictionary. Bombay 2 vols. 1831–47, he worked for six years
preparing the second edition published 1857; never made use of
his designation the honourable. _d._ Clifton 13 July 1872. _J.
J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 305–6.

MOLESWORTH, SIR ROBERT (only son of Hickman Blayney Molesworth).
_b._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826,
M.A. 1833; called to the Irish bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1828;
emigrated to Adelaide 1852; admitted to the bar of Victoria,
Australia 1853, solicitor general 25 Nov. 1855 to 17 June
1856; a puisne judge of the colony 17 June 1856, primary judge
in equity 1857, retired 1886; chief judge in court of mines;
knighted by patent 9 July 1886. _d._ Edlington, Hawthorne,
Melbourne 17 Oct. 1890.

MOLESWORTH, SIR WILLIAM, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir Arscott
Ourry Molesworth, 7 baronet 1789–1823). _b._ Upper Brook st.
London 23 May 1810; entered at Trin. coll. Camb., expelled for
challenging his tutor to fight a duel; finished his education
at univ. of Edinb.; M.P. East Cornwall 1832–7; projected The
London Review, April 1835, which he transferred to J. S. Mill
1837; on the first committee of the Reform club 1836; obtained
a parliamentary committee to inquire into the system of
transportation 1837 and wrote the report; M.P. Leeds 1837–41;
M.P. Southwark 1845 to death; sheriff of Cornwall 1842; P.C. 28
Dec. 1852; first comr. of the board of works 5 Jany. 1853 to
2 July 1855; colonial secretary 21 July 1855 to death; F.R.S.
26 Nov. 1835; edited The English works of Thomas Hobbes of
Malmesbury 11 vols. 1839–45, also Hobbes’s Latin works 5 vols.
1839–45, which cost him £6,000. _d._ 87 Eaton place, London 22
Oct. 1855. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 27 Oct. _The philosophical
radicals of 1832, comprising the life of Sir W. Molesworth, &c.
By Mrs. Grote_ (1866); _Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
416–19, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 341, 342 (1851) _portrait_,
_xxvii_ 489, 490 (1855) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ July 1844 Andalusia only dau. of James Bruce Carstairs of county Kinross. She had _m._ (1) Temple West of Mathon lodge, Worcester, who _d._ 13 April 1839. She made her debut as a singer at Drury Lane as Diana Vernon in Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1827 under the stage name of Andalusia Grant. Her last appearance was as Hymen in ‘As you like it’ at Drury lane in 1841. She entertained literary men and others in London and at Pencarrow in Cornwall for many years. _d._ 87 Eaton place, London 16 May 1888.

MOLESWORTH, WILLIAM NASSAU (eld. son of John Edward Nassau
Molesworth 1790–1877). _b._ Millbrook near Southampton 8 Nov.
1816; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and St. John’s and Pembroke
colleges, Cambridge; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; LL.D. Glasgow 1883;
C. of Rochdale 1839–41; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Ancoats,
Manchester 1841–4; V. of St. Clement, Spotland near Rochdale
1844–89; hon. canon of Manchester cath. 1881; author of Secular
education, an important element of religious education 1857;
Essay on the French alliance 1860; Plain lectures on astronomy
1862; The history of the reform bill of 1832. 1864; Prize essay
on the great importance of an improved system of education for
the upper and middle classes 1867; The history of England from
1830. 3 vols. 1871–3, 5th thousand 1874; History of the church
of England from 1660. 1882; edited with his father Common Sense
1842–3. _d._ Rochdale 19 Dec. 1890. _bur._ Spotland. _Biograph_,
_vi_ 82–4 (1881); _I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1891 p._ 4, _portrait_.

MOLINEUX, THOMAS. _b._ 1803; double-bass player; a pianoforte
manufacturer; invented the Molineux action for pianos patented
28 April 1860; managing director of St. James’ hall, London many
years. _d._ London about 31 Jany. 1891.

MOLINI, CHARLES FREDERICK (son of John James Molini). _b._
Haymarket, London 9 Jany. 1789; clerk to Abraham Favenc,
merchant and then to S. Dobree and Sons; a bookseller at 14
Paternoster row 1830–41, at 17 King William st. Strand 1841 to
death as a dealer in Italian books and an agent for Italian
marbles, alabasters, etc.; London agent for his cousin Giuseppe
Molini of Florence about 1818 to death. _d._ 17 King William st.
London 21 April 1860. _Bookseller_, _July 1860 p._ 417.

MOLIQUE, WILLIAM BERNHARD (son of M. Molique, stadtmusikus).
_b._ Nuremberg 7 Oct. 1803; violinist Vienna; leader of band,
Munich 1820, and Stuttgart 1826–49; resided in London 1849–66;
retired to Canstadt 1866; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of
music, nearly all of them published in London, among these were
Five sets, each of six German songs 1845–8; Three sacred songs
from the Psalms 1849; Six melodies for flute and harp 1851;
Flying leaves, six pieces for the concertina 1856; Abraham,
oratorio. Op. 65 full score, produced at Norwich festival 1860;
Three duets for two violins 1860; On parting, song written
by lord Byron 1866; I know thou dost love me, song, words by
Hoffman 1873. _d._ Canstadt near Stuttgart 10 May 1869. _Reg.
and mag. of Biography_, _June 1869 p._ 484.

MOLLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1790; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 5 July 1819,
fellow 28 Oct. 1839, treasurer 1847–55, president 1855, 1856;
M.D. Edinb.; M.D. Dublin 1839; M.R.I.A.; consulting physician
Richmond lunatic asylum. _d._ 60 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 17 Sep.
1877.

MOLLER, JOHANNES. _b._ 1814; miniature painter to king of
Denmark. _d._ 21 Warrior gardens, St. Leonards on Sea 30 Oct.
1885.

MOLTANO or MOLTARNO, DELHI. A negro; a tamer of wild beasts many
years; when entering the cage of three bears and a hyena in
Wombwell and Bailey’s menagerie and circus at Hednesford near
Cannock Chase, he slipped down and the animals attacked and
worried him for fifteen minutes, taken to the Anglesey hotel
where he died the same night 14 March 1892. _bur._ cemetery
Burton-on-Trent 18 March.

MOLTENO, SIR JOHN CHARLES (son of John Molteno). _b._ 1814;
member of Cape of Good Hope legislative assembly for Beaufort
West 1854 to 1883; colonial secretary to government of Cape of
Good Hope 1872 to 6 Feb. 1878 and 1881 to 1882; came to England
1876 to confer with secretary of state on public business;
K.C.M.G. 18 Aug. 1882. _d._ Claremont house, Cape Town 1 Sep.
1886.

MOLYNEUX, CAPEL (eld. son of John Molyneux of Gavel hill,
Salop). _b._ Loseley mansion, Surrey 2 Dec. 1804; ed. at
Ch. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; in the army; C. of St. Mary’s,
Woolwich 1842–50; minister of the Lock chapel, Harrow road,
London 1850–60; V. of St. Paul’s, Onslow sq. 1860–72; author
of Lectures delivered in the Lock chapel. 1852; Gethsemane,
lectures delivered in Lent 1854; Broken bread, short comments
for family use 1855; Lent sermons 1860; A farewell address to
the congregation of St. Paul’s, Onslow square 1872. _d._ Cannes
27 Dec. 1877. _Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860_,
30–31, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862) _portrait_.

MOLYNEUX, ECHLIN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1847; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. _d._ 1878.

MOLYNEUX, SIR JOHN WILLIAM HENRY, 8 Baronet (brother of Capel
Molyneux 1804–77). _b._ 28 Jany. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb., 27 wrangler 1841; B.A. 1841; V. of St. Gregory with
St. Peter, Sudbury, Suffolk 1855 to death; hon. canon of Ely
cathedral 1875 to death; succeeded his cousin as 8 baronet 24
Jany. 1879; author of What is a christian? 2 ed. 1853; A letter
to the bishop of Ely on the rights of all parishioners to the
use of the church 1856; Symbolism not formalism 1857, 2 ed.
1857; Preaching the gospel to the working classes impossible
under the pew system 1858; The altar and lights on the altar,
a correspondence with the bishop of Ely 1865; Vivisection, a
speech 1876. _d._ Sudbury vicarage 5 March 1879.

MOLYNEUX, WILLIAM. F.G.S.; author of Burton-on-Trent, its
history, its waters and its breweries 1869; to R. Plant’s
History of Cheadle, Leek 1881, he contributed The Cheadle
coalfield pp. 277–311. _d._ Durban, Natal 24 Oct. 1882.

MOLYNEUX-WILLIAMS, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; midshipman in the navy
1805–11; ensign 4 foot 14 Feb. 1811; lieut. 77 foot 28 Feb.
1812, captain 16 Sep. 1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; took
additional surname of Williams 1836; L.G. 31 March 1866; K.H.
1836. _d._ 9 Holles st. Cavendish square, London 10 May 1871.

MOMBACH, ISRAEL LAZARUS, known as Julius L. Mombach (son of
rev. Lazarus Mombach, chazan in Plungstadt, Germany). _b._
Plungstadt 1813; brought to England 1823; taught music by rev.
Mr. Eliasson; a singer in the Great synagogue, St. James’ place,
Aldgate st. London 1828, then director of the choir 1841 to
his death; taught singing to the members of the Jews’ college;
conducted concerts at Jewish working men’s club; composed music
for the German synagogues in England and the colonies. _d._
Armfield’s hotel, South place, Finsbury, London 8 Feb. 1880.
_bur._ West Ham cemetery. _J. L. Mombach’s Sacred musical
compositions_, _edited by Rev. M. Keizer_ (1881), _portrait and
memoir_; _Jewish Chronicle 13 March 1880 p._ 7.

MONAHAN, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of Michael Monahan of Heathlawn
near Portumna, Galway). _b._ Portumna 1804; ed. at Banagher and
Trin. coll. Dublin; passed first in science and took the gold
medal 1823; student of Gray’s Inn 4 Feb. 1826; called to Irish
bar 1828; became leader of Connaught circuit; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1840;
bencher of King’s Inns 1847; solicitor general for Ireland 16
July 1846, attorney general 24 Dec. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1850; M.P.
for borough of Galway 17 Feb. to Aug. 1847; contested Clonmel
10 Aug. 1847; P.C. Ireland 1848; chief justice of Irish court
of common pleas Oct. 1850, resigned Jany. 1876, presided at
special commission for trial of the Fenian prisoners at Cork and
Limerick 1867; a comr. of national education 1861; author of The
method of law, an essay on the statement and arrangement of the
legal standard of conduct 1878. _d._ 5 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin
8 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 11 Dec. _The voice of the
bar_ (1850); _Irish law times_, _xii_ 605 (1878); _O. J. Burke’s
Anecdotes_ (1885) 309–12.

MONCK, SIR CHARLES MILES LAMBERT MIDDLETON, 6 Baronet (only son
of sir Wm. Middleton, 5 bart. 1738–95). _b._ London 7 April
1779; ed. at Rugby 1787 etc.; succeeded 7 July 1795; changed
his name to Monck under will of his grandfather Lawrence Monck
1799; sheriff of Northumberland 1801; M.P. Northumberland
1812–20; built Belsay castle, a Doric structure 1809; owner of
race horses; purchased Twinkle, dam of Cast Steel, whose progeny
won for him 100 races; his mare Gossamer ran third for the
Oaks 1853; won the Chester cup with Vanity 1858; with Gamester
won the St. Leger 1859; sold his stud at York in 1860 for 3595
guineas; author of An address to the county of Northumberland
on the bills for the reform of the house of commons. Newcastle
1832. _d._ Belsay castle, Northumberland 20 July 1867. _Baily’s
Mag. v_ 271–4 (1863), _portrait_; _Sporting Review_, _lviii_
87–8 (1867).

MONCORVO, VISCOUNT DA TORRE DE. _b._ 13 May 1788; envoy
extraord. and minister-plenipo. from Portugal to England 1835 to
death. _d._ 57 Upper Seymour st. London 11 Jany. 1851, remains
removed to French chapel. _bur._ Chelsea cemetery 18 Jany.

MONCREIFF, SIR HENRY WELLWOOD, 10 Baronet (eld. son of the
succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh 21 May 1809; ed. at Edinb. high sch.
and univ. Edinb. 1823; matric. from New coll. Oxf. 5 April 1827,
B.A. 1831; president of Union debating soc.; minister of parish
of Baldernock, Stirlingshire 1836–7; minister of East Kilbride,
Lanarkshire 1837–43; minister of Free East Kilbride 1843–52;
minister of Free St. Cuthbert’s, Edinb. 1852 to death; succeeded
his father as 10 baronet 4 April 1851; joint principal clerk
to free general assembly 1855; D.D. Glasgow 1860; secretary
of the Bible board Jany. 1861 to death; moderator of free
church assembly 1871; sec. to H.M. master printer in Scotland
1 Jany. 1861; author of Creeds and churches in Scotland 1869;
A vindication of the free church claim of right 1877; The free
church principle, its character and history, Chalmer lectures
1883. _d._ 6 Murchiston terrace, Edinburgh 4 Nov. 1883. _J. A.
Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 419–28, _portrait_; _W.
Wilson’s Memorials of R. S. Candlish_ (1880) 225–59; _Biograph_,
_iv_ 107–8 (1880).

MONCREIFF, SIR JAMES WELLWOOD, Lord Moncreiff (2 son of rev.
sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, 8 baronet and divine 1750–1827).
_b._ 13 Sep. 1776; ed. at Edinb. and Glasgow univs.; matric.
from Balliol coll. Oxf. 30 Nov. 1793, exhibitioner; B.C.L. 1800;
called to Scottish bar 26 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Clackmannan
and Kinross 7 Feb. 1807; dean of the faculty of advocates 22
Nov. 1826 to 1829; defended the resurrectionist Burke 1828;
succeeded his father as 9 baronet 9 Aug. 1827; a judge of court
of session with title of lord Moncreiff 24 June 1829 to death.
_d._ 47 Moray place, Edinburgh 30 March 1851. _bur._ in the Dean
cemetery, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Chambers’s
Eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 154–6 (1870), _portrait_; _Brunton
and Haig’s Senators of the college of justice_ (1832) 552; _B.
W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 157–60, _portrait_; _Law
Magazine_, _ii_ 557–97 (1829) _xlv_ 261–5 (1851).

MONCREIFFE, SIR THOMAS, 7 Baronet. _b._ Moncreiffe house, Bridge
of Earne, Perthshire 9 Jany. 1822; succeeded 20 Nov. 1830;
ensign grenadier guards 15 May 1840, sold out 21 Jany. 1842;
lieut.-col. of Perthshire militia 1846–55 and hon. col. 30 Oct.
1855 to death. _d._ Moncreiffe house 16 Aug. 1879.

MONCRIEFF, ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Moncrieff, advocate
Glasgow). Ed. Glasgow coll.; advocate 1852; advocate depute
1862; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1869. _d._ 22 Abercromby
place, Edinburgh 2 June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence July
1870 p._ 376.

MONCRIEFF, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; ensign Scots fusilier guards 8
April 1826, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 14 June 1858; M.G. 14
June 1858, L.G. 27 Dec. 1864. _d._ Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1869.

MONCRIEFF, ROBERT SCOTT WELLWOOD. Treasurer of the Soc. of
Scottish antiquaries 1812; great friend of William Henry Murray
actor who _d._ 1852; resided at 17 Leopold place, Edinb.; Old
dean of guild 297 High st. Edinb.; came into the Garvoch estate
on death of Andrew Wellwood about 1842; built a house near
Dalmeny which was so ugly that Lord Rosebery bought it and
pulled it down. _d._ about 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 169–70, _portrait_.

MONCRIEFF, WILLIAM THOMAS, stage name of W. T. Thomas (son of
a tradesman in Newcastle st. Strand, London). _b._ London 24
Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer
of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote
theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a
working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at
Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy
18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817,
and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s
Amphitheatre, where his equestrian drama. The dandy family
ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama
the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane
theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The
cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April
1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title
of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi
theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The
bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles
Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with
John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey
theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog
30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11
Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced
at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837,
and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers
23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the
Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences
in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his
dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New
minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa
of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections
from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. _d._ the Charterhouse,
London 3 Dec. 1857. _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _ix_ 28–9 (1853),
_portrait_; _Era 13 Dec. 1857 p._ 11.

MONCTON, HENRY (eld. son of hon. Edward Moncton of Somerford,
co. Stafford 1744–1832, by Sophia natural dau. of George Pigot 1
baron Pigot, governor of Madras). _b._ 11 Sep. 1780; ensign 95
foot 5 March 1795; captain 24 dragoons 20 April 1796, major 24
July 1802, placed on h.p. 1803; major 3 foot 15 May 1806; major
8 light dragoons Jany. 1807; lieut-col. 72 foot 18 June 1807
to 1824 or 1825; general 11 Nov. 1851; served during the Irish
rebellion and with the Austrian army in Italy. _d._ Amherst
house, Clifton park, Clifton 29 June 1854.

MONEY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1778; cornet 11 dragoons April 1794,
major 14 Dec. 1809 to 24 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; colonel
of 2 dragoons 24 May 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22
June 1815. _d._ Crown point, Trowse, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1858.

MONEY, ROWLAND (son of Wm. Money of Horn house, Hereford).
_b._ 28 April 1782; entered navy 21 April 1796; captain 29
March 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; engaged in the attacks
on Washington and Baltimore 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; awarded a
pension of £250, 16 Feb. 1816. _d._ Cheltenham 21 June 1860.

MONGREDIEN, AUGUSTUS (son of a French officer). _b._ London
1807; ed. at R.C. college, Penn, Bucks.; owner of the first
screw steamers to the Levant; member of firm of Hugh and John
Johnston, corn merchants, London 1859–64; a corn factor as
A. Mongredien and co. 61 Mark lane, London 1864; purchased
Heatherside, Surrey 1862; member of National political union
1831; member of the Cobden club 1872; president of London
Chess club 1839; granted civil list pension of £100, 28 July
1886; author of Trees and shrubs for English plantations 1870;
England’s foreign policy 1871; The Heatherside manual of hardy
trees and shrubs 1874–5; Frank Allerton: an autobiography 3
vols. 1878; History of the free-trade movement in England 1881;
Wealth creation 1882. _d._ 31 Park road, Forest Hill near London
30 March 1888. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861),
_portrait_.

MONINS, EATON (son of John Monins). _b._ Canterbury 1795; ed. at
Charterhouse; ensign 52 foot 1 Dec. 1814; present at Waterloo;
major 69 foot 19 Nov. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1835 to 10 Nov.
1848 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; colonel of 8 foot 3
June 1860 to death. _d._ Wellesley house, Upper Walmer 16 June
1861. _bur._ in St. Mary’s church, Walmer.

MONK, JAMES HENRY (only son of Charles Monk of 40th foot). _b._
Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse;
entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1
Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822;
7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D.
1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823;
Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822
to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832;
R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829
to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop
of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July,
the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836;
edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis
Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum,
or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited
with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of
The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. _d._ the palace,
Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. _bur._ in north aisle of
Westminster abbey 14 June. _G.M. i_ 115–7 (1856); _Jerdan’s
National portrait gallery_ (1833) _vol. iv_, _portrait_ 21; _W.
C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_ 76–9 (1846); _E.
M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 398–400.

MONK, JOHN. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov.
1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder
of Manchester. _d._ 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany.
1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 260 (1874).

MONK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Monk). _b._ Brompton, London
16 March 1823; organist of Eaton chapel Pimlico 1841–3, of St.
George’s chapel Albemarle st. 1843–5, and of Portman chapel
Marylebone 1845–7; choirmaster at King’s college, London 1847,
organist 1849, professor of vocal music 1874; professor of
music at School for the indigent blind 1851; organist at St.
Matthias, Stoke Newington 1853, where he established a daily
choral service; lectured on music at London institution 1850–4;
professor in National training school for music 1876 and in
Bedford college London 1878; hon. Mus. Doc. Durham 1882; he was
musical editor of the following works, The parish choir, from
the fortieth number to its close in 1851; Hymns ancient and
modern, compiled by sir H. Baker 1862, numerous editions and a
sale of 30 million copies; Appendix to Hymns ancient and modern
1869; The holy year, hymns by C. Wordsworth 1865; The Scottish
hymnal 1873; The psalter printed for chanting, the harmonies
and chants revised 1874; Book of anthems 1875; The children’s
hymnal, harmonies 1876; Hymns for mission services 1877; The
congregational psalmist hymnal 1886; The book of common prayer,
with plain song and music 1891; composer of Acis and Galatea by
G. F. Handel, arranged 1849; Te Deum laudamus for four voices
1862; The office of holy communion set to music 1884; and the
tunes of the hymns Abide with me, and Sweet Saviour bless us ere
we go. _d._ Glebe Field, Stoke Newington, London 1 March 1889.
_Musical Herald_, _April 1889_, _portrait_; _J. Love’s Scottish
church music_ (1891) 214–5.

MONKSWELL, ROBERT PORRETT COLLIER, 1 Baron (eld. son of John
Collier 1769–1849, M.P. for Plymouth 1832–41). _b._ Mount Tamar
near Plymouth 21 June 1817; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; member of the anti-corn law league;
barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843, went western circuit, leader of
the circuit 1854–63; recorder of Penzance 14 July 1848 to March
1856; M.P. for Plymouth 1852–71; Q.C. July 1854; counsel to
Admiralty and judge advocate of the fleet Dec. 1859 to Oct.
1863; solicitor general 2 Oct. 1863 to July 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; attorney general 12 Dec. 1868 to
Nov. 1871; recorder of Bristol for a few days Oct. 1870; P.C.
3 Nov. 1871; judge of Court of Common Pleas 7 Nov. 1871 where
he sat for a few days only; judge of judicial committee of P.C.
22 Nov. 1871 to death; created baron Monkswell of Monkswell,
co. Devon 1 July 1885; exhibited 20 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1864–80; author of The railways’ clauses,
companies clauses and lands clauses consolidation acts, 1845, 2
ed. 1847; A treatise on the law relating to mines 1849; A letter
on reform of the superior courts of common law 1851, 2 ed. 1852;
translated The oration of Demosthenes on the Crown 1875. _d._
Grasse near Cannes 27 Oct. 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemet. London.
_I.L.N. xliii_ 393 (1863) _portrait_, _liv_ 385, 446 (1869)
_portrait_; _Saturday Review 30 Oct. 1886 p._ 578; _Law Journal
30 Oct. 1886 pp._ 604, 616, 618.

MONRO, ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Monro anatomist 1733–1817).
_b._ Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1773; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ.,
M.D. 1797; F.R.C.P. 1799; studied in London and Paris; with his
father conjoint professor of anatomy in univ. of Edinb. 1798,
delivered the whole course of lectures from 1808, and was sole
professor 1817–46, and Emeritus professor 1846 to death; author
of Observations on crucial hernia 1803; The morbid anatomy of
the human gullet, stomach and intestines 1811, 2 ed. 1830;
Outlines of the anatomy of the human body 1813, 2 ed. 1825;
Engravings of the thoracic and abdominal viscera 1814. _d._
Craiglockhart near Edinburgh 10 March 1859, portrait by K.
Macleay in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 175, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of
Edinb. iv_ 225 (1862).

MONRO, SIR DAVID (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813; educ.
Edinb. acad. and univ.; an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand
under the N.Z. co.; member of legislative council of province of
New Munster 1849; member of the first general assembly of N.Z.
24 May 1854 to 1866; member for Cheviot 1866–70, for Waikonati
1870; speaker of house of representatives 1861 and 1862 and
1866–70; knighted by patent 10 Feb. 1866; the first person
unseated on an election petition in N.Z. 1871; studied medicine
in Paris, Berlin and Vienna 1866, M.D. _d._ Newstead near
Nelson, New Zealand 17 Feb. 1877. _G. W. Rusden’s History of New
Zealand_, _iii_ 7–8 (1883).

MONRO, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Thomas Monro, M.D. 1790–1856).
_b._ Gower st. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; P.C. of Harrow Weald, Middlesex 1842–60;
V. of St. John’s, Leeds 1860 to death; select preacher at Oxford
1862; established a college for boys called the College of St.
Andrews at Harrow Weald; author of The Combatants, an allegory
1848; The dark river 1850; The parish 1853, a poem; Daily
studies during Lent 1856; Practical sermons on the characters of
the old testament 3 vols. 1855–8; Parochial lectures on English
poetry 1856 and 30 other books. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Leeds
13 Dec. 1866. _bur._ Harrow Weald churchyard 20 Dec.

MONRO, EDWARD THOMAS (son of Thomas Monro of Bloomsbury, London,
F.R.C.P.) _b._ London 1794; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1809, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1814; candidate of college
of physicians 22 Dec. 1815, fellow 23 Dec. 1816, censor 1819,
1829 and 1837, Harveian orator 1834, consiliarius 1837, 1846
and 1852, elect 30 Sep. 1842, treasurer 25 June 1845 to 1854;
physician to Bethlehem hospital. _d._ Bushy, Herts. 25 Jany.
1856. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 153 (1878).

MONRO, HENRY (brother of Edward Monro 1815–66). _b._ 1817; ed.
at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.B. 1844, M.D.
1863; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.
1848, censor 1861–3, councillor 1864–5 and 1875–7; physician
to Bethlehem hospital 1848; founded the House of Charity in
Rose st. Soho 1846; physician to St. Luke’s hospital 1855–82;
president of Medical psychological association 1864; painted his
own portrait and that of his father and presented them to royal
college of physicians; author of A treatise on stammering 1849;
Remarks on insanity, its nature and treatment 1850; On improving
the condition of the insane 1851; Articles on reform in private
asylums 1852. _d._ 14 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 May 1891.
_Memoir of H. Monro, by rev. Canon W. Foxley Norris, privately
printed_; _Journal of mental science July 1891 pp._ 496–7.

MONROE, MARY. _b._ Derbyshire 1 Feb. 1795; one of the greatest
travellers of her time; passed Easter week in Rome as the guest
of the Pope 1830; a friend of the marquis de Lafayette; was
twice a guest of sir Walter Scott; a friend of the duchess
of Kent; travelled 20 weeks in Great Britain and Ireland
investigating the condition of the working classes 1865; _m._ an
officer in the customs service of the United States. _d._ New
York 15 Sep. 1893.

MONSELL, HARRIET (dau. of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet, of
Dromoland, co. Clare 1773–1837). _b._ Dromoland 1812; a sister
of mercy 29 May 1851; superior of house of mercy at Clewer 30
Nov. 1852, resigned 1875, known afterwards as the Community of
St. John the Baptist, planted its first mission in London 1860,
it numbered in 1883 over 200 sisters in England, America and
India; the chief mover in building St. Andrew’s convalescent
hospital, Clewer 1865; _m._ 21 Sep. 1839 rev. Charles Henry
Monsell (3 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry,
_d._ 1846) _b._ 12 June 1815, prebendary of Aghadoe 1840, he
_d._ Naples 29 Jany. 1851. She _d._ The Hermitage, Folkestone 25
March 1883. _T. T. Carter’s Harriet Monsell, a memoir_ (1884),
_portrait_.

MONSELL, JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY (2 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell,
archdeacon of Derry, _d._ 20 Nov. 1846). _b._ St. Columb’s,
Derry 2 March 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1856; chaplain to bishop Mant; R. of Dunaghy, Ramoan,
co. Antrim; chancellor of diocese of Connor 14 April 1847 to
1853; V. of Egham, Surrey 1853–70; hon. chaplain to the queen
27 Dec. 1872 to death; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1870 to
death; rural dean of Emley 1871; wrote many popular hymns, among
others God is love, that anthem olden, and Sing to the Lord a
joyful song; author of Hymns and miscellaneous poems. Dublin
1837; Parish musings in verse 1850, new ed. 1871; His presence
not his memory 1855, poems, 8 ed. 1881; Spiritual songs for the
Sundays and holydays 1857, 6 ed. 1875; The passing bell and
other poems 1867, 2 ed. 1869; Nursery Carols 1873, and 20 other
books. _d._ in consequence of a fall from the roof of his church
which was rebuilding, St. Nicholas rectory, Guildford 9 April
1875. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 762; _D. J.
O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1892) 164; _Wilson’s Singers and
songs of the church_ (1869) 515.

MONSON, WILLIAM JOHN MONSON, 6 Baron (only child of col. the
hon. Wm. Monson 1760–1807). _b._ Tangore, Madras 14 May 1796;
ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; F.S.A. 12 Feb.
1818; succeeded his cousin as 6 Baron 7 Oct. 1841; a frequent
correspondent of Notes and Queries; author of Extracts from
a journal [of tours in Istria, Dalmatia, Sicily, Malta and
Calabria] 1820. _d._ Great western hotel, Paddington, London 17
Dec. 1862. _bur._ in family vault at South Carlton 24 Dec. _G.M.
xiv_ 234 (1863).

MONTAGU, BASIL (2 natural son of John Montagu, 4 earl of
Sandwich 1718–92, by Martha Ray). _b._ 24 April 1770; brought
up at Hinchinbrook, Hunts.; ed. at Charterhouse and Christ’s
coll. Camb., 6th wrangler 1790; B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793; resided at
Cambridge till 1795; barrister Gray’s Inn 19 May 1798; a comr.
in bankruptcy 1806; founded the Society for the diffusion of
knowledge upon the punishment of death 1809; K.C. June 1835;
accountant general in bankruptcy 1836 to 1846, established
liability of bank of England to pay interest on bankruptcy
deposits; author of A summary of the law of set off 1801, 2 ed.
1828; A digest of the bankrupt laws 4 vols. 1805–7, 2 ed. 1819;
A digest of the law of partnership 2 vols. 1815, 2 ed. 1822 and
about 50 other works; edited The works of Francis Bacon 16 vols.
1825–34; author with W. Scrope Ayrton of Reports of cases in
bankruptcy 1833–8. 3 vols. 1834–9, and of The law and practice
in bankruptcy 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1844; with Richard Bligh
of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1832–3. 1835; with Edward
Chitty of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1838–40. 1840; with
E. C. Deacon and J. De Gex of Reports of cases in bankruptcy
1840–44. 3 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Boulogne, France 27 Nov. 1851.
_H. Gunning’s Reminiscences of Cambridge_, _i_ 141–47 (1855);
_Georgian Era_, _ii_ 551 (1833); _G.M. xxxvii_ 410–3 (1852).

MONTAGU, JAMES. _b._ 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain
17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ Marlborough 9
March 1868.

MONTAGU, JOHN (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery
H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). _b._ 21 Aug. 1797;
ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign
52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7
Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land
1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and
1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany.
1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death;
author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director
of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across
the Derwent 1841. _m._ April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general
Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil
list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He _d._ London 4 Nov.
1853. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. _Biographical memoir of J.
Montagu. By W. A. Newman_ (1855) _portrait_.

MONTAGU, JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu,
G.C.B. 1750–1829). _b._ 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803,
captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the
Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. _d._
Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.

MONTAGU, MONTAGU (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham,
Surrey). _b._ 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag
lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806,
lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired
with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses
on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California
broadsides 1850. _d._ Bath 31 July 1863. _G.M. xv_ 383 (1863).

MONTAGU, OLIVER GEORGE POWLETT (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich
1811–84). _b._ 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863;
cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881,
lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel
in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign
of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London
society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a
touching farewell to his old regiment. _d._ Cairo 25 Jany. 1893.
_Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p._ 63, _portrait_.

MONTAGU, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1785; entered navy 4 Sep.
1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28
guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40
guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17
Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice
admiral 17 Aug. 1851. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 407 (1852).

MONTAGUE, HENRY JAMES, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of
Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann _d._ 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70).
_b._ about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared
under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel
for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany.
1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot
Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement
Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in
Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy
27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866,
and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre;
the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him
21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868
which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and
Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s;
the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s
12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James
and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A.
Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt
in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe
theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life,
opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts;
gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of
America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London
27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York;
toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America
1878. _d._ San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane_, _ii_ 258–61 (1881); _Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p._
5, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ix_ 555, 596 (1878)
_portrait_, _x_ 6 (1878) _portrait_; _Theatre_, _ii_ 208 (1878).

MONTALBA, HENRIETTA SKERRETT (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens
Montalba). _b._ 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied
sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle
Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London;
the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta;
exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor
gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize
figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the
R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year;
resided latterly at Venice. _d._ the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere,
Venice 14 Sep. 1893. _bur._ near her father in cemetery of St.
Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented
it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. _Art Journal_, _July
1894 pp._ 215–7, _portrait_; _Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p._ 530,
_portrait_; _Queen 7 Oct. 1893_.

MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENÉ, Count de (son of Marc René
Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India,
_d._ 21 June 1831, _m._ 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of
H.E.I.C.) _b._ Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with
James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him
everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais
to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer
of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber
1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848;
condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur
l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded
21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter
to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies
on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements
of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre
1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west
from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion
of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867;
St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in
Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow
1874 and 40 other works. _d._ Paris 13 March 1870. _Mrs.
Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert_ 2 _vols._ (1872);
_English Cyclopædia_, _iv_ 307 (1857), _Supplement 1872 p._ 902;
_Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xi_ 484, 485 (1874).

MONTEAGLE, THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen
Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick _d._ Sep. 1831).
_b._ Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833;
studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge
1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827
to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834;
sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835;
P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835
to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839
to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep.
1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to
death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the
ecclesiastical titles act 1851. _d._ Mount Trenchard near
Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.

MONTEATH, ALEXANDER M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ.,
and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857;
assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under
secretary to government of India, financial and home departments
1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867,
retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at
Berne 1876. _d._ Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.

MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Monteath). _b._
1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4
Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824,
lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment
in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C.
to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov.
1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and
of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to
10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B.
28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec.
1850. _d._ Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. _I.L.N. liii_
435, 459, 483 (1868).

MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARRON (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a
cousin of sir M. Montefiore). _b._ 1802; in partnership with his
brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide,
South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West
London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of
Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London.
_d._ 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES HAIM, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias
Montefiore _b._ London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, _d._ 11
Jany. 1804). _b._ Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson
Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one
of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange;
partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers
for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made
a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the
united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his
first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a
firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout
Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of
bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July
1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855;
undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864;
admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made
his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; _m._ 10
June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author
of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way
of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she _d._ 24 Sep. 1862.
He _d._ East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. _bur._ in a
private mausoleum on his estate. _Diaries of Sir Moses and
Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe_ (1890), _portrait_; _L.
Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore_ (1884), _portrait_; _J. Weston’s Sir
M. Montefiore_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Picciotto’s Sketches
of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 347–58; _J. B. Bailey’s
Modern Methusalahs_ (1888) 329–91; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 309 (1859)
_portrait_, _xlvi_ 153 (1865) _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 126, 144
(1876) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 409 (1883) _portrait_.

MONTEITH, ALEXANDER EARLE (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles
_d._ 1806). _b._ 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife
1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports
on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and
on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member
of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement
1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two
letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp.
1–34 portrait. _d._ Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861.
_Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 413–8.