Chapter XLIV: Part 44

MOORE, THOMAS. _b._ Stoke near Guildford, Surrey 21 May 1821;
helped Robert Marnock to lay out Regent’s Park garden 1840;
curator of the Apothecaries’ company’s garden at Chelsea 1848
to death; an editor of Gardeners’ magazine of botany 1850
to 1851, of Garden companion and florists’ guide 1852, of
the Floral mag. 1860–1, of Gardeners chronicle 1866–82, of
the Florist and pomologist 1868–74, and of the Orchid album
1881–87; secretary to the floral committee and floral director
of royal horticultural soc. many years; F.L.S. 1851; judge at
many horticultural shows; author of Popular history of British
ferns 1851, 2 ed. 1855; The elements of botany for families and
schools 11 ed. 1875; author with John Lindley of The treasury of
botany 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Chelsea botanical garden
1 Jany. 1887. _Gardeners’ Chronicle i_ 48 (1887) _portrait_;
_Little Journal i_ 373–5 (1885).

MOORE, THOMAS EDWARD LAWS. _b._ 1819; entered navy 19 Oct. 1832;
commanded the Plover in search of the Polar expedition under sir
John Franklin 17 Nov. 1847 to 1850; governor of the Falkland
Islands 1855 to 1862; captain 13 Jany 1852, retired 31 March
1866, retired R.A. 24 May 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, withdrew
from the society 1868. _d._ 5 Victoria place, Stonehouse,
Plymouth 1 May 1872.

MOORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Birmingham 30 March 1790; portrait painter
in London, then at York; worked in oil, water-colours and
pastel. _d._ York 9 Oct. 1851.

MOORE, WILLIAM DANIEL. _b._ Dublin 19 April 1813; ed. Trinity
coll. Dublin, B.A., and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1861; member of court of
examiners of Apothecaries hall Dublin 1837–59, governor 1842–3,
joint examiner in arts 1861; a Dutch and Scandinavian scholar;
hon. fellow of Swedish soc. of physicians 1855; examiner in
materia medica Queen’s univ. Ireland 1865; M.D. Oxf. 1862;
translated L. V. Dahl’s Heller’s pathological chemistry of the
urine 1855; J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On the structure
of the spinal cord 1859; Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On atrophy
of the brain 1861; Rullman’s On the influence of the southern
climatic sanatoria 1861; F. C. Donders’ On the accommodation and
refraction of the eye 1864. _d._ Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 Oct.
1871. _Lancet 11 Nov. 1871 p._ 696; _Barker’s Photographs of
medical men_ (1868) 115–21 _portrait_.

MOORE, WILLIAM DENNIS (son of Dennis Moore, physician). _b._
Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of
Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to
death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country;
helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps
in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March
1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years,
resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. _d._ Union hotel, Penzance, 21
Sept. 1874. _bur._ Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. _Trewman’s
Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874._

MOORE, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE (son of Francis Moore under sec. of
state for war). _b._ Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805
etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John
Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie
from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814
to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5
June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles
26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Montrose house,
Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.

MOORE, WILLIAM YORKE. _b._ Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15
Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of
Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835,
lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856;
served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while
in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high
and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable
collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by
Sotheby and Wilkinson. _d._ 9 Jany. 1890. _Numismatic Chronicle_
(1890) 31.

MOORE, WILLOUGHBY. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6
dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost
on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about
200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854;
his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari
granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she _d._
Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. _G.M. xlii_ 302 (1854); _A.R._ (1854)
91–93.

MOOREHOUSE, WILLIAM SEFTON (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of
Knottingley, Yorkshire). _b._ Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T.
Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident
magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province
1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member
for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley
1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. _d._ Sept. 1881.

MOORSOM, CONSTANTINE RICHARD (eld. son of admiral sir Robert
Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). _b._ 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal
naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809;
commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug.
1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which
was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818;
senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince
Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director
of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852;
chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by
British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and
1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately
printed 1843, published 1846. _d._ Montagu place, Russell sq.
London 26 May 1861.

MOORSOM, WILLIAM. _b._ 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut.
of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain
of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea
during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July
1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore
his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing
the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions
for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and
supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war
and the composition of war fleets 1857. _d._ Vernon terrace,
Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. _Memoir of captain William Moorsom_ 1860,
_privately printed_.

MOORSOM, WILLIAM ROBERT (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1834;
ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir
Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master
general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter
master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain
13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow,
and of the city, are now at the British Museum. _Killed_ during
an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a
monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester
cathedral.

MOORSOM, WILLIAM SCARTH (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861).
_b._ Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign
79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany.
1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832;
visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6;
surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to
Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and
Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at
Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849;
author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the
administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd
Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many
scientific papers. _d._ Great George st. Westminster 3 June
1863. _G.M. xv_ 112, 245 (1863).

MORA, ANTONIO L. (son of Joseph P. Mora), travelled with Adelina
Patti in America; chef d’ orchestre at Her Majesty’s theatre a
short time, where he composed the music for R. Reece and Alfred
Thompson’s pantomime The Yellow Dwarf Dec. 1882; conductor at
South London palace, London 1888 to death; a knight of the
legion of honour and of the iron crown of Vienna; composer of
The birth of Jesus, a christmas song, New York 1864; Believe
me, oh my mother, song, Milan 1874; The gnome’s reverie for the
piano 1879; Ninetta, romance 1879; The villa choir, song and
chorus 1881; Certainly not, song, words by A. Thompson 1883;
Rhoda, comic opera in 3 acts 1889, and 50 other pieces of music
1860–89. _d._ Brook st. Kensington road, London 25 April 1891.
_bur._ Tottenham cemetery 1 May.

MORAN, JOHN HENRY (3 son of Francis Goldsberry Moran, of Kilmore
Moy, co. Sligo). _b._ 1807 or 1808; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1830; chaplain H.M. prison, Portland; chaplain Female
convict prison, Brixton April 1853–66; V. of St. Thomas, liberty
of the rolls, London 1866–86; chaplain National hospital for
paralysed, Queen sq. London 1880 to death; author of The
doctrine and order of the church of England, proved to be in
harmony with the teaching of the Apostles, 2 ed. 1849. _d._ 98a
Southampton row, Holborn, London 12 May, 1892. _bur._ Tooting
churchyard.

MORANT, ALFRED WILLIAM (eld. son of George Morant of London,
decorator). _b._ 17 May 1828; articled to James Simpson, C.E.
1845–50; surveyor to corporation of Great Yarmouth 14 Feb.
1856 to Nov. 1864; engineer to city of Norwich March 1865 to
Dec. 1872; borough engineer and surveyor of Leeds Dec. 1872 to
death; A.I.C.E. 7 Nov. 1854, M.I.C.E. 29 Jan. 1878; president of
Association of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors
1880; edited J. W. Papworth’s Alphabetical dictionary of coats
of arms from p. 696 (1874) and T. D. Whitaker’s History of the
deanery of Craven 1878; author of Sectional view of a first rate
line of battleship 1854; Description of the Leeds sewage works
1876. _d._ Leeds 28 July 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxvi_ 377–9 (1881)].

MORANT, HORATIO HARBORD (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro
Place, Hants.) _b._ 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844,
lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to
the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1
April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to
29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1
April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand
1864–6. _d._ Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.

MORANT, JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON. _b._ 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant
R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour
defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864
to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast
1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras
1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to
the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham
canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian
engineering papers, published at Roorkee. _d._ Melbourne,
Australia 17 June 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxxvi_ 370–4 (1886).

MORE, JOHN SHANK (son of rev. George Moore secession minister
South Shields). _b._ Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar
1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843
to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s
Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s
Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and
illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws
of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland,
2 vols. 1864. _d._ 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861.
_Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 66–7 _portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv_ 492–6 (1862).

MORE-O’ FARRALL, JOHN LEWIS (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of
Balyna, co. Kildare _d._ 1835 aged 83). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827;
comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. _d._ Granite
hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. _Law Times lxx_ 233
(1881).

MOREAU, CÉSAR. _b._ Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain
1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general
in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with
the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8
Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with
all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India
company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and
progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish
produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and
commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation
between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The
past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau
comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du
monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. _d._
Paris 28 Nov. 1861.

MOREHEAD, CHARLES (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of
Easington Yorkshire). _b._ Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb.
univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the
founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in
the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first
principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first
professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical
society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862;
surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the
Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys
as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis
and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on
disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life
of Robert Morehead 1875. _d._ Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug.
1882.

MOREHEAD, WILLIAM AMBROSE (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82).
_b._ 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil
and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court
of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of
governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council
1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras;
an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two
years. _d._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. _bur._ Dean cemetery, Edinb.
portrait in Madras banqueting hall. _Memorials of Robert
Morehead_ (1875) 402–4.

MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R.
Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of
The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York.
Huddersfield 1861. _d._ Jany. 1891. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries
xiii_ 318 (1889–91).

MOREL, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French
at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly
Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to
1848. _d._ Holly Walk, Hampstead 1 May 1852. _F. E. Baines’s
Hampstead_ (1890) 95–6 _portrait_.

MOREL, VICTOR. A cabinet maker in France; came to England about
1849; had a knowledge of the bitumen process of electrotyping,
which consisted in producing stereo plates by means of shell
and sand, and making them type high by mounting them on arched
metal blocks; engaged by James Vizetelly, engraver Peterborough
court, London 1849, the bitumen process was discarded owing to
the difficulty of repairing the plates; employed by Cassell,
Petter and Galpin to erect an electrotyping foundry, where wax
was first used for moulding purposes; made many improvements in
electrotyping; established a business at 48 Fetter lane, London,
sold his business to Dellagana and co. 1875 and retired to the
continent. _d._ Malines, Belgium 9 Feb. 1889.

MORELAND, JOSEPH. _b._ 1809 or 1810; a builder at 76 Old st. St.
Luke’s, London; member for St. Luke’s of the Metropolitan board
of works 1856 to death. _d._ 4 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent
11 July 1875.

MORELL, JOHN DANIEL (9 child of Stephen Morell 1773–1852
congregational minister). _b._ Little Baddow manse, Essex 18
June 1816; ed. at Homerton college 1833–38 and Glasgow univ.,
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1841; studied under Fichte at Bonn 1841–2;
congregational minister at Gosport Aug. 1842 to 1845; an
inspector of schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1876, the first inspector
appointed; edited The School Magazine 1876; author of An
historical and critical view of the speculative philosophy
of Europe in the nineteenth century 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed.
1847; The analysis of sentences 1852, 9 ed. 1858; Handbook
of logic 1855, 2 ed. 1857; A grammar of the English language
1857; Philosophical fragments 1878, and 20 other books. _d._
Clevelands, Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 1 April 1891. _bur._
Folkestone 4 April. _R. M. Theobald’s Memorials of J. D. Morell_
(1891) 3 _portraits_; _I.L.N. 4 April 1891 p._ 435 _portrait_;
_Black and White 11 April 1891 p._ 322 _portrait_.

MORELLI, CHARLES FRANCIS. _b._ 26 Nov. 1800; boy in Sadler’s
Wells pantomimes with Joe Grimaldi; played the monkey in ballet
drama of La Perouse at Covent Garden 11 Sept. 1811; acted in
the provinces; actor, pantomimist and scene painter under G. B.
Davidge at Surrey theatre 1833; with Madame Vestris at Covent
Garden 1839–42; with Daniel W. Osbaldiston at Victoria theatre
1844; actor and scene painter with Nelson Lee at City of London
theatre many years; a subscriber to general theatrical fund
1839–60, one of the directors, an annuitant Aug. 1865 to death.
_d._ London 9 July 1882. _bur._ Abney park cemetery.

MORESBY, SIR FAIRFAX (son of Fairfax Moresby of Lichfield).
_b._ Calcutta 1787; entered navy 21 Dec. 1799; commander of the
Wizard brig 18 April 1811; served at siege of Trieste Oct.
1813; Knight of order of Maria Theresa 23 May 1814; captain 7
June 1814; organized the colony of Algoa Bay 1820; commanded
the Pembroke in the Mediterranean 1837–40, and the Canopus on
the home station 1845–8; R.A. 20 Dec. 1849; commander-in-chief
in the Pacific 21 Aug. 1850 to 17 Aug. 1853; V.A. 12 Nov. 1856,
admiral 12 April 1862, admiral of the fleet 21 Jany. 1870;
D.C.L. Oxford 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B.
28 March 1865. _d._ Bronwylfa near Exmouth 21 Jany. 1877.

MORGAN, AARON AUGUSTUS. _b._ 6 March 1822; ed. at Eton and St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew
univ. scholar 1847; R. of Bradley, Lincs. 1846–55; chaplain
to army works corps in Crimea 1855–6; P.C. of St. John the
Evangelist, Brighton 1862–79; V. of Casterton Magna, Rutland
1879–83; V. of Grosmont, Monmouth 1882–4; member of Brighton
school board 21 Dec. 1871; author of The book of Ecclesiastes
metrically paraphrased 1856; The mind of Shakspere as exhibited
in his works 1860, 4 ed. 1880. _d._ Tivoli near Rome 17 Sep.
1888.

MORGAN, ALICE MARY (3 dau. of Thomas Havers of Thelton hall,
Norfolk, manager of the Falkland Islands, _d._ 1870). _b._ 1850;
entered school of art South Kensington 1870, gained a free
studentship; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st.
1873–80; removed to Paris 1888, where she exhibited two pictures
at the Salon 1889; illustrated some of the stories written
by her sister Dora Boulger otherwise Theo Gift 1875–90; she
also illustrated A book of modern ballads 1892; A book of old
ballads 1892; Some old love songs 1892; Odatis, a poem by Lewis
Morris 1892; Love and sleep by L. Morris 1893. _m._ April 1872
Frederick Morgan, an artist, but she was always known as Alice
Havers. _d._ 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26
Aug. 1890.

MORGAN, ARTHUR (son of Wm. Morgan, actuary of The Equitable
1750–1833), actuary of The Equitable society 2 Dec. 1830,
resigned 3 March 1870; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited W. Morgan’s
A view of the rise of the Equitable society 1834; author of
Equitable society, three addresses 1854. _d._ 26 New Bridge st.
London 10 March 1870. _Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii_ 630
(1873).

MORGAN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS SAMUEL (brother of 1 Baron Tredegar
1792–1875). _b._ 2 Sep. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; chaplain in ordinary to the
sovereign 29 April 1829 to death; R. of Machen, co. Monmouth
1831–73; chancellor of Llandaff cathedral 1851 to death. _d._
Machen 5 Sep. 1875.

MORGAN, CHARLES OCTAVIUS SWINNERTON (brother of the preceding).
_b._ 15 Sept. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A,
1825, M.A. 1852; M.P. Monmouthshire 1841 to 1874; read many
papers before the Caerleon antiquarian association 1854–66 of
which he was president; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; F.S.A. 13 May 1830,
vice-president; author of Tables of the annual assay office
letters used in the marking of plate 1853; Some account of the
monuments in the priory church Abergavenny 1872; Old English
plate founded on the papers of C. O. S. Morgan and W. J. Cripps
1878. _d._ The Friars, Newport 5 Aug. 1888. _bur._ in family
vault at Bassaleg church, Monmouthshire. _G. T. Clarke’s Limbus
patrum Morganiæ_ (1886) 313; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 384–6
(1889).

MORGAN, CHARLES RODNEY. _b._ Rupena house, Glamorgan 2 Dec.
1828; M.P. Brecknock 9 July 1852 to death. _d._ Marseilles 14
Jany. 1854.

MORGAN, DANIEL, assumed name of Samuel Moran. _b._ Campbeltown,
New South Wales about 1828; worked on sheep stations and as
a stock-rider; unjustly condemned at Castlemaine to 12 years
imprisonment 1854; known as Down-the-River Jack or Bill the
native; committed a series of highway robberies 1863, a reward
of £500 offered for his apprehension by government of N.S.W. 5
Jany. 1864; shot police-sergeant Mc.Ginnerty June 1864, killed
John Mc.Lean and wounded two others at Round Hill a few days
later; shot police-sergeant Smith Sept. 1864, the reward was
increased to £1500 8 March 1865; stuck up Bowler’s station 1
April 1865; stuck up Bond’s station, Upotipotpa and robbed the
Albury mail 4 April; stuck up Peechalba station 7 April. _shot_
at Peechalba station 8 April 1865, his head was cut off and
sent to Melbourne, his body was _bur._ at the Murray, said to
be the original of Patrick in Ralph Boldrewood’s (_i.e._ Thomas
Alexander Broun) novel Robbery under arms 3 vols. 1888. _Morgan
the mail robber or the bandit of the bush_ (1868). His life was
dramatised at the Princess’ theatre, London Oct. 1894.

MORGAN, DAVID LLOYD. _b._ Rhôsmaen near Llandilo 1823; studied
at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1846, F.R.C.S. 1861; M.D. St.
Andrew’s 1866; surgeon R.N. 31 Dec. 1846, fleet surgeon 1866;
inspector general of hospitals 1877, retired 30 May 1883; served
on West coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean and during Crimean
war; with the land forces in China; senior medical officer of
flag ship Euryalus in Japan and China 1862–5, and of the Royal
Alfred in the West Indies; deputy inspector general of Bermuda,
Hongkong and Chatham; received Blane medal 1871; C.B. 17 June
1871; inspector general at Plymouth 17 Dec. 1878, and at Haslar
hospital 6 Feb. 1880; physician in ordinary to the queen July
1888 to death. _d._ Rhôsmaen 3 Dec. 1892.

MORGAN, EDWARD. Draper at Newport, Monmouth; granted civil
list pension of £20 9 Sep. 1840 for his services as a special
constable during the riots, when he received several wounds.
_d._ 26 March 1856.

MORGAN, HUGH (3 son of Hugh Morgan of Machynlleth, co.
Montgomery). _b._ 1826; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A.
1849; V. of Rhyl 1855 to death; archdeacon of St. Asaph and
canon residentiary of St. Asaph cathedral 1877 to death. _d._
canonry of St. Asaph 8 June 1878.

MORGAN, JAMES (son of Thomas Morgan of Cookstown, co. Tyrone,
linen merchant, _d._ 1835). _b._ Cookstown 15 June 1799; entered
Glasgow univ. Nov. 1814, D.D. 1847; studied at Belfast college
1815–20; presbyterian minister at Carlow Feb. 1820, at Lisburn,
co. Antrim 1824–78, and at Fisherwich place chapel, Belfast Nov.
1828 to death; a founder of Ulster temperance society 1829; hon.
secretary of the general assembly’s foreign mission 1840 to
death; moderator of general assembly 1846; joint editor of The
Orthodox Presbyterian; author of Essays on some of the principal
doctrines and duties of the Gospel 1837; Lessons for parents and
sabbath school teachers 1849; The Lord’s Supper 1849; Rome and
the Gospel 1853. _d._ Belfast 5 Aug. 1873. _Thomas Morgan’s Life
of Dr. Morgan_ (1874) _portrait_.

MORGAN, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ about 1795; assistant
whipper-in to Mr. Lloyd of Wintlesham hall, Suffolk; whipper-in
to Suffolk Border hounds; huntsman to Cambridgeshire hounds;
kennel huntsman and whipper in to the Tickham hounds, Kent 3
years; huntsman to Mr. Conyers 15 years; huntsman to the Essex
union 3 years; huntsman to lord Berkeley 1851; huntsman to lord
Lonsdale 1854. _I.L.N. 29 Dec. 1855 p._ 760 _portrait_.

MORGAN, JOHN. _b._ 1785; entered Madras army 1800; lieut. 12
Madras N.I. 20 July 1801, captain 7 June 1813; major 24 N.I. 8
Sept. 1826, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1831 to 9 Feb. 1834; lieut. col.
of 4 N.I. 9 Feb. 1834, of 28 N.I. 1835 to 1840, of 12 N.I. 1840
to 24 Dec. 1841, and of 52 N.I. 24 Dec. 1841 to 23 Jany. 1843;
commander at Masulipatam 21 Dec. 1841 to 19 Feb. 1844; col. of
46 N.I. 23 Jany. 1843 to death; general 27 May 1866; C.B. 20
July 1838. _d._ Swansea 29 March 1869.

MORGAN, JOHN. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1853;
L.R.C.S.I. 1850, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; demonstrator of anatomy at
school of surgery under direction of council of royal college of
surgeons Ireland 1851–61, professor of surgical and descriptive
anatomy 1861 to death; author of Practical lessons on affections
produced by contagious diseases 1872; Cure of bent knee and the
treatment of contracted joints 1874; Report of cases treated
in the Westmoreland Lock hospital 1868. _d._ 23 St. Stephen’s
green, Dublin 4 March 1876.

MORGAN, JOHN EDWARD (son of rev. Mr. Morgan). _b._ Gothenburg,
Sweden 1829; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860, B.M.
1861, M.D. 1865; M.R.C.P. 1861, F.R.C.P. 1868, consiliarius
1887; professor of medicine Owens college, Victoria univ.
Manchester 1873, resigned 1891; author of The danger and
deterioration of race from the increase of great cities 1866;
Town life among the poorest, the air they breathe and the house
they inhabit 1869; University oars, an enquiry into the after
health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat
race 1829–69, 1873; The Victoria university why are there no
medical degrees 1881. _d._ Knutsford near Manchester 4 Sept.
1892.

MORGAN, JOHN MINTER (eld. son of John Morgan of 39 Ludgate
hill, London, wholesale stationer 1741–1807). _b._ London 1782;
devoted himself to philanthropy; author of Remarks on the
practicability of Mr. Owen’s plan to improve the condition of
the lower classes 1819; The revolt of the bees 1826; anon. which
contained his views on education; The reproof of Brutus, a poem
1830; Hampden in the nineteenth century 1834; Colloquies on
religion and religious education 1851; reprinted some of his own
and other works under title of The Phœnix Library 13 vols. 1850;
founded the National Orphan home near his own residence on Ham
Common 1849; tried to raise £50,000 to erect a Church of England
self-supporting village 1850. _d._ 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly,
London 26 Dec. 1854. _bur._ in the church on Ham Common 3 Jany.
1855. _G.M. April 1855 pp._ 430–1; _I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 pp._
177–8 _with view of his self-supporting village_.

MORGAN, MARIA. _b._ Cork 1828; visited Rome where she obtained
a commission from king Victor Emmanuel to buy saddle-horses in
Ireland; on the regular staff of one of the daily papers in New
York, being the reporter of cattle markets and fairs; more than
six feet in height and known to her associates as “Midy” Morgan.
_d._ New York July 1892. _T. Browne’s Advertisers A.B.C._ (1893)
_p. clxv_.

MORGAN, MATTHEW SOMERVILLE (son of Matthew Morgan actor and
teacher of music, by Mary Somerville actress and singer). _b._
Lambeth, London 27 April 1839; articled to Grieve and Telbin
scene painters 1853; scene painter Princess’s theatre, London;
artist and correspondent on Illust. London News, for which
he reported the Austro-Italian war 1859; studied in Paris,
Italy and Spain and also in Africa 1858; with F. C. Burnand,
W. S. Gilbert and others established Fun 1861, and executed
the cartoons; exhibited 2 pictures at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk
st. 1856–61; drew nearly all the illustrations for The Arrow
fortnightly paper, 10 numbers only 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; scene
painter Covent Garden 1867–9; an editor and proprietor of
The Tomahawk, a Saturday journal of satire, for which he did
the cartoons No. 1 May 11, 1867 to No. 160 May 28, 1870, his
cartoons attacking the queen were much noticed; went to U.S.
of America as a caricaturist on Frank Leslie’s papers 1870;
manager of several New York theatres; manager of Strobridge
lithographic co. Cincinnati 1880–5; founded the Matt Morgan art
pottery co. 1883 and the Cincinnati art students’ league; his
panoramic pictures of American civil war exhibited Cincinnati
1886; painted in England, Rotten Row and Behind the Scenes;
illustrated Neptune’s Heroes by W. H. D. Adams 1861, and the
American war 1874; painted a large canvass Christ entering
Jerusalem which was exhibited in the provinces; painted scenes
for Mr. Barnes of New York 1889, and the scenery for The
Brazilian 1890. _d._ of lumbago New York 2 June 1890. _The Mask_
(1868) 97 _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 14 June 1890 p._ 9
_portrait_; _The Graphic 14 June 1890 p._ 663 _portrait_.

MORGAN, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (eld. son of Owen Richard Morgan,
port magistrate, Colombo, Ceylon, _d._ 1821). _b._ Prince st.
Colombo 21 Feb. 1821; ed. at the Colombo academy 1834–9; a
law student under sir William O’Carr 1839; a proctor to 1846;
barrister at Ceylon 1846; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; district
judge of Colombo Oct. 1856; acting puisne justice of supreme
court of Ceylon 1857; acting senior puisne justice 1860; queen’s
advocate for Ceylon 1863, and 1873 to death; chief justice of
Ceylon 1 May 1874 to 1875; knighted by patent 20 July 1874. _d._
Colombo 27 Jany. 1876. _W. Digby’s Forty years of official life
of sir R. F. Morgan_ 2 _vols._ (1879); _Law Times lx_ 332 (1876).

MORGAN, SYDNEY, LADY MORGAN (eld. child of Robert Mac Owen,
actor, who changed his name to Owenson 1744–1812). _b._ Dublin
25 Dec. 1783; an actress as the Infant Prodigy in Ireland about
1788; governess in family of James Fetherstone-Haugh of Bracklyn
castle, Westmeath 1798–1800; author of St. Clare or the heiress
of Desmond 1804, translated into Dutch; The novice of St.
Dominick 4 vols. 1805; The wild Irish girl 1806, 7 ed. 1808; her
opera The first attempt, produced at T.R. Dublin 4 March 1807,
ran several nights and brought her £400; became a permanent
member of household of marquess of Abercorn about 1810; _m._ 20
Jany. 1812 sir Thomas Charles Morgan of Dublin, surgeon, he _d._
28 Aug. 1843; author of O’Donnell, a national tale 3 vols. 1814;
Florence M’Carthy 4 vols. 1818; France 1817, 4 ed. 1818; Italy
2 vols. 1821; Life of Salvator Rosa 2 vols. 1824, republished
1855; The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys 4 vols. 1827; The book of
the boudoir 2 vols. 1829; France, 2 vols. 1830; Dramatic Scenes
2 vols. 1833; The Princess 3 vols. 1835; Woman and her master 2
vols. 1840; granted civil list pension of £300 14 March 1838,
the first pension of the kind given to a woman; removed from
Kildare st. Dublin to 11 William st. Albert Gate, London 1839.
_d._ Lowndes sq. London 14 April 1859. _bur._ in old Brompton
cemetery, tomb by Westmacott placed over her grave, bust of her
by D’Angers dated 1830 and portrait by Berthen in Irish national
gallery. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Lady Morgan, her career literary
and personal_ (1860); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 73,
313–19, 355 _portrait_; _H. F. Chorley’s the authors of England_
(1861) 42–45 _portrait_; _The Queens of Society 3 ed._ (1867)
236–61; _A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed._ (1877) 214–27;
_J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters_ (1863) 285–353; _S. J.
Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) _p._ 747 _portrait_; _W. H.
D. Adams’s Women of fashion i_ 265–331 (1878); _The Critic xix_
37 (1859) _portrait_.

MORGAN, THOMAS, entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I.
17 Oct. 1801, captain 1 Nov. 1817; lieut. col. 7 N.I. 4 Sept.
1827 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. of 14 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to
1833, of 13 N.I. 1833, of 7 N.I. 1835, of 17 N.I. 1838, and
of First Bombay European regiment, right wing 1839 to 1841;
commander at Candeish 4 May 1839 to 1842; col. 17 N.I. 27 Dec.
1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ at residence of Mrs.
General Morgan, Singleton, Middle Wordfield road, Torquay 6 Dec.
1856.

MORGAN, THOMAS. _b._ 18 April 1819; ed. Eton; merchant London;
associate of British archæological association 1845, vice
president, hon. treasurer 1875–90, contributed many papers on
Roman archæology to the Journal; a Spanish scholar; F.S.A. 1875;
author of Romano-British mosaic pavements, a history of their
discovery, etc. 1886. _d._ Hillside house, Streatham, Surrey 13
Jany. 1892. _Journal British Archæological soc. xlviii_ 86–8
(1892).

MORGAN, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ Wilshampstead near Bedford 1829;
arrived in South Australia Feb. 1849; a gold digger at Bendigo
1851; purchased the grocery store of Messrs. Boord brothers,
Adelaide, which became one of the leading mercantile houses in
the colony; member of legislative council of South Australia 6
Aug. 1869; chief secretary in the legislative council June 1875
to 25 March 1876 and June 1877 to Oct. 1878; prime minister
Oct. 1878 to June 1881; called the Cobden of South Australia;
K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. _d._ Brighton 2 Nov. 1883. _bur._
Wilshampstead.

MORGAN, WILLIAM DOMETT. _b._ 2 Oct. 1821; ensign 22 Bengal N.I.
1 April 1841, captain 15 May 1855; commandant of 32 Punjaub
Pioneers 7 Dec. 1859 to 1879; lieut. col. Bengal staff corp 12
Dec. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881;
general 22 Oct. 1889; was in seven severe actions during Indian
mutiny 1857. _d._ 13 Frant road, Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1892.

MORGAN, WILLIAM VAUGHAN. _b._ Glasbury Breconshire 1826; captain
3 Middlesex infantry militia 27 Aug. 1868; a familiar figure in
society; a supporter of the London homœopathic hospital, Great
Ormond st. 1858, a director 1866, treasurer 1875, chairman
1885, and a munificent donor to its funds; established the
Homœopathic convalescent home at Eastbourne 1888; offered St.
George’s hospital £1000 a year for five years for a fair trial
of homœopathy in the wards; took part in the discussion in The
Times on homœopathy; resided 5 The Boltons, South Kensington.
_d._ Grasse, France Feb. 1892. _bur._ Cannes.

MORGAN, WILLIAM WRAY, printer 67 Barbican, London; founder,
proprietor and editor of the Freemason’s chronicle Jany. 1875.
_d._ New Barnett, Herts. 23 June 1893.

MORI, FRANCIS or Frank (son of Nicolas Mori, violinist
1797–1839). _b._ 1820; professor of singing at the Crystal
palace, Sydenham to death; composer of Despair, nocturne for
the P. Forte 1846; Who shall be fairest, a ballad 1857; Twelve
songs for voice and piano 1861; The river sprite, a comic opera,
written by G. Linley 1865, produced at Covent Garden 9 Feb.
1865; F. Mori’s New songs 1865, nine numbers; The vintager’s
evening song, a quartett, in Cramer’s Glees 1874 No. 47; and
upwards of 90 other pieces of music 1843–74. _d._ Chamant near
Senlis, France 2 Aug. 1873.

MORIARTY, DAVID (son of David Moriarty). _b._ Derryvrin,
parish of Kilcarah, co. Kerry 18 Aug. 1814; ed. at Maynooth;
vice-rector of and professor of sacred scripture in the Irish
college at Paris 1839–45; rector of Foreign missionary college
of Allhallows, Drumcondra, Dublin 1845–54, president on death
of the founder Rev. John Hand; coadjutor bishop of Kerry 8
March 1854, bishop of Kerry 22 July 1856 to death, consecrated
in pro-cathedral, Dublin 25 April 1854; many of his pastoral
letters and sermons attracted much attention; denounced the
Fenian brotherhood and opposed home rule. _d._ the palace,
Killarney 1 Oct. 1877. _M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_ 63,
375 (1876); _Graphic xvi_ 372 (1877) _portrait_.

MORIARTY, EDWARD AUBREY (son of Christopher Moriarty of
Wellington lodge, co. Dublin). _b._ Cappagh house, Galway 1819;
ed. at private sch. Dublin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839;
studied in Germany 1839–46; professor of English literature,
Royal academy of trade, Berlin 1843–6; translated serial works
of Charles Dickens into German 1852; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849;
contributed to Edinburgh review; director general of Cologne and
Frankfort railway; author with J.D.F. Neigebaur of London ein
handbuch für Reisende 1843. _d._ 3 Hare court, Inner Temple,
London 13 July 1874. _bur._ Catholic cemetery, Kensal green 16
July. _Law Times lvii_ 275–76 (1874).

MORICE, DAVID ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Morice of Aberdeen,
advocate). _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal
coll. Aberdeen; admitted member of Society of advocates in
Aberdeen 1837; legal assessor to town council of Aberdeen 1866;
provost of Old Aberdeen; member of council of procurators,
vice president 1872; published A handbook of British maritime
law 1857. _d._ Old Aberdeen 27 March 1876. _bur._ Wellfield
cemetery, Aberdeen. _Law Times lx_ 439 (1876).

MORIER, DAVID RICHARD (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of
the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). _b._ Smyrna 8
Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mission sent
by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish
governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took
entire charge of the mission May 1807; attached to Robert
Adair’s embassy 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at
Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris
Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office
5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederated
states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847;
author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis
of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3
vols. 1857. _d._ 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.

MORIER, JOHN PHILIP (brother of the preceding). _b._ Smyrna
9 Nov. 1776; attached to embassy at Constantinople 5 April
1799; despatched on special service to Egypt 22 Dec. 1799;
consul general in Albania 3 Dec. 1803; secretary of legation at
Washington 5 April 1810; a comr. in Spanish America Oct. 1811;
acting under secretary of state for foreign affairs in London
Aug. 1815 to 1816; envoy extraordinary to court of Saxony at
Dresden 5 Feb. 1816, retired on pension 5 Jany. 1825; author of
Memoir of a campaign with the Ottoman army in Egypt 1801. _d._
London 20 Aug. 1853.

MORIER. SIR ROBERT BURNETT DAVID (only son of David Richard
Morier 1784–1877). _b._ Paris 31 March 1826; ed at Balliol
coll. Oxf. B.A. 1849; a clerk in the education department Jany.
1851 to Oct. 1852; unpaid attaché at Vienna 5 Sept. 1853; paid
attaché at Berlin 20 Feb. 1858; second secretary at Vienna 1
Oct. 1862, British comr. for arrangement of tariff 1 March 1865;
secretary of legation at Athens 10 Sept. 1865 and at Frankfort
30 Dec. 1865; secretary of legation at Darmstadt 1866–71; chargé
d’affaires at Stuttgart 18 July 1871, transferred to Munich 30
Jany. 1872; minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 1 March 1876,
transferred to Madrid 22 June 1881; ambassador at St. Petersburg
1 Dec. 1884 to death; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866, K.C.B. 16 Oct. 1882,
G.C.B. 30 Sept. 1887; P.C. 27 Jany. 1885; G.C.M.G. 13 Feb.
1886; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1889; hon. LL.D. Edinb.; published in
the Cobden Club series, Agrarian legislation of Prussia 1870,
and Local government in Germany, England and Prussia 1875. _d._
Montreux, Lake of Geneva 16 Nov. 1893. _Black and White 25 Nov.
1893 p._ 663 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 31 Dec. 1891 p._ 9
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1893 p._ 659 _portrait_.

NOTE.--His only son Victor Morier, traveller, died at sea 27 May 1892 aged 25, when proceeding to take up his duties in Manicaland as assistant civil comr. to the Anglo-Portuguese delimitation commission.

MORIER, WILLIAM (brother of John Philip Morier 1776–1853). _b._
Smyrna 25 Sept. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy Nov. 1803;
served at defence of Cadiz 1810, reduction of island of Ponza
1811 and bombardment of Stonington 1813; commanded the Harrier
and Childers sloops successively on the North Sea station 1828;
captain 18 Jany. 1830; retired V.A. 16 June 1862. _d._ Brunswick
house, Eastbourne 29 July 1864.

MORISON, SIR ALEXANDER (son of Andrew Morison of Anchorfield
near Edinburgh). _b._ Anchorfield 1 May 1779; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; M.D. 12 Sept. 1799; L.C.P. Edinb.
1800, F.C.P. Edinb. 1801; removed from Edinb. to London 1808;
L.R.C.P. London 11 April 1808, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; inspecting
physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey 1810; physician to
Bethlehem hospital 7 May 1835; physician to princess Charlotte
and prince Leopold 1816; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
1838; author of Outlines of lectures on mental diseases 1825;
Cases of mental disease with practical observations on the
medical treatment 1828; The physiognomy of mental diseases 1840.
_d._ Balerno Hill house near Edinburgh 14 March 1866. _bur._
Currie churchyard 20 March. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_
61 (1878).

MORISON, JAMES (son of Robert Morison minister of the united
secession church, _d._ 5 Aug. 1855 aged 74). _b._ Bathgate,
Linlithgowshire 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at univ. of Edinb. and
divinity hall of united secession church, Edinb.; ordained
minister of Clark’s Lane church, Kilmarnock 29 Sept. 1840,
suspended by Kilmarnock presbytery 9 March 1841 for his tract
entitled The question “What must I do to be saved” answered
by Philanthropos 1840, his suspension was confirmed by the
synod 11 June 1841, he declined to recognise the decision and
was supported by his congregation; with three other suspended
ministers and 9 laymen formed the Evangelical union at a meeting
in Kilmarnock 16–18 May 1843; established a theological academy
1843, professor of exegetical theology, and principal 1843 to
death; left Kilmarnock for Glasgow 1851, where North Dundas
st. church was built for him 1853, retired 1884; edited The
Evangelical Repository, a quarterly magazine 1854–67; D.D. of
Adrian univ. in Michigan 1862, and of Glasgow 1883; his portrait
by R. Gibb, R.S.A., presented to him 1889; author of Not quite
a Christian 1840; The nature of the atonement 1841, new ed.
1890; Saving faith 1844, 9 ed. 1850; An exposition of the ninth
chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1849, new ed. 1888;
Commentary on the gospel according to St. Matthew 1870; Mark’s
Memoirs of Jesus Christ, a commentary 1873. _d._ Florentine
Bank, Hillhead, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1893. _Memorial volume of
the ministerial jubilee of principal Morison_ (1889); _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 302–6; _Herzog’s Religious
Encyclopædia_, _Schaff’s ed. i_ 776 (1881).

MORISON, JAMES AUGUSTUS COTTER (4 son of James Morison, the
hygeist 1770–1840). _b._ London 20 April 1832; entered Lincoln
college, Oxford March 1850, B.A. and M.A. 1859; a student of
Lincoln’s inn 1857; wrote for the Saturday Review; member of
Athenæum club and of committee of the London library; member of
the Positivist Society, occasionally lectured at Newton hall;
author of The Life of St. Bernard 1863, new ed. 1868; Gibbon
1878 and Macaulay 1882 in John Morley’s Men of letters series;
Madame de Maintenon, an étude 1885; The service of man, an essay
towards the religion of the future 1887. _d._ Fitzjohn’s Avenue,
Hampstead 26 Feb. 1888.

MORISON, JOHN (son of John Morison, farmer _d._ 1833). _b._
Millseat of Craigston, parish of King Edward, Aberdeenshire
8 July 1791; apprentice to a watchmaker at Banff; studied at
Hoxton academy 1811–14; ordained pastor of Union congregational
chapel, Sloane st. Chelsea 17 Feb. 1815; pastor of Trevor
chapel, Chelsea Dec. 1816 to death; edited the Evangelical
Magazine 1824 to 1857; D.D. Glasgow 1830; author of Lectures
on the principal obligations of life 1822; Counsels to a
newly-wedded pair 1830; An exposition of the book of Psalms, 3
vols. 1832; A tribute of filial sympathy or memories of John
Morison of Millseat, Aberdeenshire 1833; A commentary on the
Acts of the Apostles in the catechetical form 1839; The fathers
and founders of the London missionary society, 2 vols. 1840, new
ed. 1844; The protestant reformation in all countries 1843. _d._
27 Montpelier square, London 13 June 1859. _bur._ Abney park
cemet. 20 June. _J. Kennedy’s Memoirs of John Morison_ (1860);
_Evangelical Mag. 1859 pp._ 513, 608–20.

MORISON, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Jones Morison of Greenfield, co.
Clackmannan). Cadet Madras establishment 1799; lieut. R.A. 31
Dec. 1800; lieut. col. 17 July 1827; secretary to military board
at Madras 1809; formed and directed the Madras commissariat
1810–25; superintended geographical and statistical survey of
Madras territory 1811–12; resident at court of Travancore;
administered with J. M. Macleod government of Mysore; member
of supreme council of India 1834–37, being the first military
officer selected for a seat; president of council of India and
deputy governor of Bengal during lord Auckland’s absence; col.
Madras artillery 13 Aug. 1840 to death; returned to England
1840; major general 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. Clackmannan and Kinross
1842 to death; C.B. 4 Sep. 1821; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 3
March 1842; F.R.A.S. _d._ 16 Savile row, Piccadilly, London 15
May 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 90 (1851).

MORLAND, SIR HENRY (3 son of John Morland barrister). _b._ 9
April 1837; ed. at Haversham and Bromsgrove schools; entered
Indian navy 5 June 1852; captain 1877 placed on retired list
with rank of hon. lieut. col. 30 April 1863; attached to
the Indian marines 1863; transport officer, dockmaster and
signal officer at Bombay 1865–79; superintended equipment and
despatch of fleet of transports of Abyssinian expedition 1867;
conservator of port of Bombay and registrar of shipping 1873;
member of Bombay corporation 1868, member of town council 1877,
chairman of the corporation 23 June 1886 to death; presented
the Bombay jubilee address to the queen at Windsor castle 30
June 1887, when he was knighted; appointed by grand lodge of
Scotland provincial grand master for Western India 1870; grand
master of all Scottish freemasonry in India 1874; chief founder
of the Mahometan lodge, Islam; secretary of Bombay geographical
society some years; Assoc. Instit. C.E. 5 Dec. 1882. _d._
Rampart row, Bombay 28 July 1891.

MORLAND, JOHN (son of Thomas Morland builder and umbrella
manufacturer). _b._ Bridge house place, Newington, Surrey 19
Dec. 1794; wholesale and retail umbrella manufacturer Minories,
London, removed to Eastcheap, resided at Croydon 1844 to death;
overseer and then an elder among the Friends, long connected
with Croydon school, the Spitalfields soup society and the Peace
society. _d._ Croydon 21 Oct. 1867. _Biographical catalogue of
lives of Friends_ (1888) 447–9.

MORLEY, EDMUND PARKER 2 earl of (2 son of 1 earl of Morley
1772–1840). _b._ London 10 June 1810; styled viscount Boringdon
1817–40; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830; lord of the bed chamber
to Prince Albert 15 Feb. 1840; succeeded 15 March 1840; col. of
south Devon militia 8 Jany. 1845 to 1858; a lord in waiting to
the queen 24 July 1846 to Feb. 1852. _d._ Whiteway, Chudleigh,
Devon 28 Aug. 1864.

MORLEY, FRANCES PARKER, Countess of (dau. of Thomas Talbot of
Wymondham, Norfolk). _b._ 1781; celebrated as a woman of wit
and the “first of talkers”; a painter; _m._ 23 Aug. 1809, as
his second wife, John Parker 1 Earl of Morley, _b._ 1772, _d._
14 March 1840; lithographed the plates in Portraits of the
Spruggins family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins
1829; author of The flying burgomaster, a legend of the Black
Forest 1832 anon.; The royal intellectual bazaar, a prospectus
of a plan for the improvement of the fashionable circle 1832
anon; The man without a name, 2 vols. 1852; edited Dacre, a
novel, 3 vols. 1834. _d._ Saltram, Plympton 6 Dec. 1857. _bur._
in family vault at Plympton St. Mary.

MORLEY, ATKINSON. _b._ 1781; studied medicine at St. George’s
hospital; proprietor of the Burlington hotel 19 and 20 Cork
st. and of Morley’s hotel 1–3 Trafalgar sq. London. _d._ Old
Burlington st. London 14 July 1858. _Medical Times 24 July 1858
p._ 91.

NOTE.--He left £100,000 with which was founded the Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent hospital. Wimbledon (in connection with St. George’s hospital, London) hospital opened 14 July 1869, receives upwards of 600 patients yearly and contains 80 beds.

MORLEY, SIR FRANCIS BROCKMAN (1 son of George Morley, barrister
of Inner Temple). _b._ Brompton, London 1819; ensign 90 foot 5
April 1839; lieut. 40 foot 27 May 1842, captain 18 Aug. 1848,
sold out 23 Dec. 1853; served under sir Charles Napier and lord
Gough in India; exon. of H.M.’s body guard of yeomen of the
guard 24 Oct. 1868 to death; hon. col. 3 batt. Middlesex regt.
militia 1886 to death; chairman of court of quarter sessions,
Middlesex 25 July 1869, resigned 1889; K.C.B. 2 Feb. 1886. _d._
14 Norland place, Notting hill, London 20 April 1892. _bur._
Brompton cemet. 25 April.

MORLEY, FREDERICK. _b._ Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 16 Dec. 1850;
a frame work knitter; a left handed batsman and one of the best
fast bowlers of his day; engaged by the Notts. commercial club
1869, at Bolton 1870–1; played his first match at Lords 6–8 May
1872; played with the England Eleven 1872–3; engaged at Lords
1874–81; went to Australia with the seventh English team 1882–3.
_d._ 28 Sept. 1884. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 346–7.

MORLEY, GEORGE (son of rev. George Morley president of Wesleyan
conference 1830, _d._ 10 Sept. 1843). _b._ about 1802; ed. at
Woodhouse Grove school, Yorkshire; apprenticed to a draper;
L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1832; became an eminent surgeon at 18
Park place, Leeds; lectured on chemistry at Leeds school of
medicine many years; one of the medical experts at trials of the
prisoners Wm. Dove and Wm. Palmer in 1856. _d._ Jersey 14 Aug.
1867.

MORLEY, HENRY (son of Henry Morley of Midhurst, Sussex). _b._
100 Hatton garden, London 15 Sept. 1822; ed. at a Moravian
school at Neuweid on the Rhine; studied at King’s college,
London 1838–43; passed the Apothecaries hall 1843; partner
with a doctor at Madeley, Shropshire 1844–8; kept a school at
Manchester 1848, and at Liverpool 1848–50; wrote in Household
Words and All the year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The
Examiner, then editor; English lecturer to evening classes at
King’s college, London 1857–65; professor of English language
and literature at University college, London 2 Dec. 1865 to
1890; professor of English language and literature at Queen’s
college, London 1878–90; principal of University hall, Gordon
sq. London 1882–90; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1879; lived at 8 Upper
Park road, Hampstead 3 May 1858 to 1889; author of Sunrise in
Italy 1848; A defence of ignorance 1851; Palissy the Potter
1852, 4 ed. 1878; Jerome Cardan, 2 vols. 1854; Cornelius
Agrippa, 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of Bartholomew fair 1859;
English writers, 2 vols. 1864–67; English writers, 4 vols.
1887–89; Clement Marot, 2 vols. 1871; A first sketch of English
literature 1873, 13 ed. 1886; editor of Cassell’s library of
English literature, 5 vols. 1875–81; Morley’s Universal library,
63 vols. 1883–8; Cassell’s National library, 214 vols. 1886–90;
The Carisbrooke library, 14 vols. 1889–91; Companion Poets,
9 vols. 1891–2. _d._ Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 14 May 1894.
_Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 375–76; _Graphic 19 May 1894 p._ 582
_portrait_.

MORLEY, SIR ISAAC (son of Wm. Morley). _b._ Doncaster 1801; a
merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841.
_d._ Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.

MORLEY, SAMUEL (youngest child of John Morley of Wood st.
London, hosier, _d._ 1848). _b._ Well st. Hackney 15 Oct. 1809;
hosier with his brother John Morley in Wood st. Cheapside,
London 1842–55, sole partner 1855; a frame-work knitter at
Nottingham 1860; built mills at Loughborough, Leicester, Heanor
in Derbyshire, and Daybrook and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.;
his business was the largest in the textile industries of its
class, employing about 8,000 people; took Thomas Hill into
partnership 1860; chairman of the dissenters’ parliamentary
committee 1847; treasurer of the Ancient Merchants’ lectures
1849–79; organized the Administrative reform association May
1855; treasurer to Home Missionary society 1858; promoted
religious services in theatres 1860; chairman of the Bank act
and currency reform committee 1861; contributed £6,000 to
erection of Congregationalist memorial hall in Farringdon st.
London 1875; spent £14,000 in building chapels 1864–70; M.P.
Nottingham 1865, unseated on petition 1866; contested Bristol
April 1868; M.P. Bristol 16 Nov. 1868 to 18 Nov. 1885; seconded
the address in house of commons 1871; member for city of London
of London school board Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1876; a great supporter
of the temperance movement; refused a peerage 24 June 1885;
author of The drinking usages of the commercial room 1862.
_d._ Hall place near Tonbridge 5 Sept. 1886. _bur._ Abney Park
cemet. London, portrait by H. T. Wells R.A. in Library of
Congregationalist memorial hall, marble statue of him erected at
Bristol. _J. C. Harrison’s S. Morley, personal reminiscences_
(1886); _E. Hodder’s Life of S. Morley_ (1889) _portrait_; _The
Congregationalist xv_ 711–19 (1886); _I.L.N. lviii_ 158–169
(1871) _portrait_; _Biograph v_ 51–5 (1881).

MORLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; a fitter and setter up of stocking
and point net lace frames in Nottingham; introduced the use
of a 5-bar tackle on the point net frame; with John Kendall
constructed the straight bolt which had great rapidity of
movement 1811; invented the circular bolt; invented a machine
for making plain net which brought him much profit; became the
leading man in Nottingham in the lace trade; in business with
Messrs. Boden of Derby, retired 1853. _d._ 1855. _Felkin’s
Machine-wrought hosiery_ (1867) 313–5; _Lace in Ure’s Dictionary
of Arts iii_ 32 (1875).

MORLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1 Jany. 1787; established the first
wholesale Manchester warehouse in London at 36 Gutter lane
Cheapside 1806; chairman of several railway companies in the
early days. _d._ Windmill house, Blackheath, Kent 10 March 1884.

NOTE.--His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan asylum. _d._ April 1883.