Chapter XLV: Part 45

MORLEY, WILLIAM HOOK (son of George Morley barrister). _b._
1815; barrister M.T. 12 Jany. 1838; connected with appeal cases
from India, having a knowledge of Persian and Arabic; edited
The history of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia by Mir Khwand
1848; author of Analytical digest of reported cases decided
in the supreme court of judication in India 2 vols 1849–50,
New Ser. vol. 1 1852 no more published; The administration of
justice in British India, its past and present history 1858;
On the Muhammedan laws prevalent in India; Description of a
planispheric astrolabe constructed by Sháh Husain 1856; A
descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in Arabic and Persian
in the library of the Royal Asiatic society 1854; The coins of
the Atabek princes of Syria and Asia Minor. _d._ 35 Brompton sq.
London 21 May 1860. _Numismatic Chronicle xx Proceeding_ 34–5
(1860).

MORNINGTON, WILLIAM POLE TYLNEY LONG WELLESLY 4 Earl of (only
son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). _b._ 22 May 1788; sec.
of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807;
sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping
forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20;
M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. _d._ at his lodgings
Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. _G.M. iii_ 215
(1857).

NOTE.--He _m._ (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney Long.

At the wedding the lady’s dress cost 700 guineas the bonnet 150, and the veil 200. Her jewellery cost 25,000 guineas. Eight hundred wedding favours were distributed at a cost of a guinea and a half each. She possessed in landed estates alone £1,500,000. He was the second person whom the Court of chancery deprived of paternal rights by withdrawing his children out of his care. His life was insured for about a quarter of a million, but he lived latterly upon an allowance of £10 a week from the duke of Wellington.

MORPHETT, SIR JOHN (son of Nathaniel Morphett, solicitor).
_b._ London 4 May 1809; landed at Kangaroo Island 11 Sept.
1836 and was present at the proclamation of colony of South
Australia 28 Dec. 1836; a general merchant, helped to lay out
the town of Adelaide 1837; member of committee for protection of
aborigines 6 March 1838; founded the Literary Association and
Mechanics’ Institute; treasurer of the corporation of Adelaide
5 Dec. 1840; member of the first legislature of the colony 15
June 1843 to 1857; speaker 20 Aug. 1851 to 1855; member of the
legislative council 1857–73; chief secretary 4 Feb. to 8 Oct.
1861; president of the council March 1865 to 1873; knighted by
patent 30 April 1870. _d._ Cumming, South Australia 7 Nov. 1892.
_I.L.N. xxi_ 141, 142 (1852) _portrait_.

MORPHINOS, NARCISSUS. _b._ 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek
church, London Wall, London 1848–74. _d._ 1 Sutherland place,
Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. _Ritchie’s Religious Life of
London_ (1870) 53–7.

MORRALL, MICHAEL THOMAS. A needle manufacturer at Studley works,
Warwickshire; introduced the grooveless needle into London 1843;
author of History and description of needle making 1852, 5 ed.
1866 portrait.

MORRELL, CHARLES FRANCIS (only son of Thomas Samuel Morrell of
The Grove, Bayons park, Lincolnshire). _b._ 12 March 1853; ed.
Cheltenham coll. and Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1875; barrister
M.T. 13 June 1877; edited Sir R. Lane’s Exchequer Reports
1605–12, 1884; author of The handy book of the law of horses
1881; A popular statement of the law of wills 1882; Probate
and administrations, a handbook for executors 1882; A popular
statement of the law of insurance 1883; A concise statement of
the bankruptcy act 1883, 2 ed. 1884; Reports of cases under
the bankruptcy act 1883 etc. 9 vols. 1885–93; Bankruptcy, a
manual of practical law 1891; Insurance, a manual 1892. _d._ 2
Tavistock place, London 3 Feb. 1894.

MORRELL, FREDERICK JOSEPH (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor
to univ. of Oxford, _d._ 10 April 1854 aged 75). _b._ Oxford
25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor
to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford
churchmen’s union. _d._ 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13
Jany. 1883. _bur._ Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. _Solicitors’
Journal xxvii_ 185, 201 (1883).

MORRELL, JAMES (1 son of James Morrell of Headington hill near
Oxford, _d._ 1855). _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; master of Headington
harriers 1836 to 21 March 1847; master of the Berkshire fox
hounds 1847–57; sold his hounds for 2,600 guineas and his horses
for £3,765 2s. 14 April 1858; sheriff of Berks. Feb. 1853. _d._
Headington hill house 12 Sept. 1863. _Sporting Review xl_ 381–4
(1858) _portrait_, _xlviii_ 436–48 (1862), _l_ 326–8 (1863).

MORRELL, THOMAS BAKER (5 son of Baker Morrell). _b._ Oxford
1815; ed. at Balliol coll., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B. and D.D.
1863; R. of Henley on Thames 1852–62; coadjutor bishop of
Edinburgh Nov. 1862 to Aug. 1869 when he resigned; author with
W. W. How of Psalms and hymns 1854. _d._ 26 Royal York crescent,
Clifton 15 Nov. 1877.

MORRIN, JOSEPH. _b._ Dumfriesshire about 1792; studied medicine
in Quebec, Edinburgh and London; practised at Quebec, became the
leading physician in Lower Canada; one of the three founders of
Beaufort asylum; mayor of Quebec twice; the first president of
medical board of Lower Canada; gave a large sum of money for
erection of a Presbyterian college in Quebec, known as Morrin
college. _d._ Quebec 29 Aug. 1861.

MORRIS, SIR BENJAMIN (son of George Morris Wall). _b._ Waterford
1798; ensign 25 foot 29 June 1815, served at Gibraltar and in
the West Indies, captain 19 Sep. 1826, sold out 18 Oct. 1833;
sheriff of Waterford 1836 and 1854; mayor of Waterford 1845–47
and 1867–68; knighted by the marquess of Normanby 1836. _d._ the
Mall, Waterford 20 Dec. 1875.

MORRIS, CHARLES D’URBAN (6 son of rear admiral Henry Gage
Morris 1770–1851). _b._ Charmouth, Dorset 17 Feb. 1827; ed.
Worcester coll. Oxf. 1845; scholar Lincoln coll. 1846–50; fellow
of Oriel coll. 1851–54; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; went to U.S. of
America 1853; rector of Trinity school, New York 1853–6; kept
a private school for boys at Lake Mohegan; professor in New
York univ.; professor of Latin and Greek in the Johns Hopkins
univ. Baltimore 1876 to death; author of Principia Latina
1860; A compendious grammar of Attic Greek 1869, 4 ed. 1876;
A compendious grammar of the Latin language 1870, 4 ed. 1876;
Probatio Latina 1871; Latin reading book 1873. _d._ Baltimore
7 Feb. 1886. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 411 (1888);
_Athenæum 6 March 1886 p._ 327.

MORRIS, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of Sir John Morris, 2 baronet
1775–1855). _b._ 27 Feb. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1842,
captain 3 Nov. 1848; military comr. to 2 corps of French army
in the Crimea 1855; A.A.G. in Crimea 1855–6; inspector of
volunteers 1 March 1860 to April 1865; military attaché Vienna
1874–5; L.G. 1 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank
of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855; an officer of the
Legion of Honour. _d._ 6 Portugal st. Park lane, London 12 Oct.
1887.

MORRIS, DAVID. _b._ 1800; a banker at Carmarthen; M.P.
Carmarthen 24 July 1837 to death. _d._ Carmarthen 30 Sep. 1864.

MORRIS, SIR EDMUND FINUCANE (3 son of Samuel Morris). _b._
Jamaica 1792; ensign 49 foot 21 June 1810, lieut. col. 22 Nov.
1836 to 7 Nov. 1843, when placed on half pay; served in Canada,
at the Cape of Good Hope and in Bengal 1821–43, and on his
return was only remaining officer who had set out in 1821; aide
de camp to the queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; col. 97 foot
14 May 1859 to 15 Dec. 1861; col. 49 foot 15 Dec. 1861 to death;
general 13 March 1868; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867.
_d._ St. George’s lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 4 Dec. 1871.

MORRIS, EDWARD. One of the earliest advocates of temperance
in Scotland; author of Henry Bell: The history of temperance
and teetotal societies in Glasgow 1855. _d._ Aug. 1860. _S.
Couling’s History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 334.

MORRIS, SIR EVAN (son of Joseph Morris, leather manufacturer).
_b._ Wrexham 1842; ed. at Birmingham and Wrexham; solicitor of
firm of Evan Morris and co. at Wrexham 1872 to death; mayor
of Wrexham 1889; knighted by the queen at Pale, Llanderfel,
North Wales, while on a visit to Wrexham 27 Aug. 1889; captain
1 volunteer batt. royal Welsh fusiliers 25 June 1879; county
councillor of Denbighshire; resided at Roseneath, Wrexham. _d._
Eastbourne 18 April 1890.

MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN (eld. son of rear admiral Henry Gage
Morris of Beverley, Yorkshire 1770–1851). _b._ Cove near Cork
25 March 1810; ed. at Bromsgrove sch. and Worcester coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1834; B.A. Durham 1844; P.C. of Hanging Heaton
near Dewsbury 1834; C. of Taxal, Cheshire 1836; C. of Ch. Ch.
Doncaster 1836; C. of Ordsall, Notts. 1838; C. of Crambe,
Yorkshire 1842; V. of Nafferton near Driffield 1844–54; chaplain
to duke of Cleveland 1844; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1854 to
death; edited the Naturalist, vols. vi to viii, 1856–8; author
of A history of British birds, 6 vols. 1851–7, 3 ed. 1891; A
natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds, 3 vols.
1853–6, 3 ed. 1892; A history of British butterflies 1853, 3 ed.
1853; A natural history of British moths, 4 vols. 1859–70; Dogs
and their doings 1870, 2 ed. 1887; Anecdotes in natural history
1872, 2 ed. 1889; The country seats of noblemen and gentlemen of
Great Britain and Ireland, 5 vols. 1866–80; and about 53 other
books. _d._ Nunburnholme 10 Feb. 1893. _F. Ross’s Celebrities
of the Yorkshire wolds_ (1878) 106–8; _Good Words_, _September_
(1893) _portrait_; _Church portrait journal ii_, 5 (1881)
_portrait_; _The Graphic 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 183 _portrait_.

MORRIS, SIR GEORGE (2 son of colonel Samuel Morris of Littleton,
Tipperary). _b._ 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. 2
dragoon guards 13 June 1805; major 3 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 8
July 1819, when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814;
served in actions and sieges in the West Indies 1795–1801; on
the staff in Portugal and Spain 1808–9; served at Cape of Good
Hope, in France, and at Gibraltar; usher of the black rod to
order of St. Patrick 1841 to death; knighted by patent 1841.
_d._ 32 Gardiner’s place, Mountjoy square, Dublin, May 1858.

MORRIS, HENRY GAGE (2 son of Henry Gage Morris, rear admiral
1770–1851). _b._ 1811; sub-lieut. R.N. 1830; served at battle of
Navarino 1827 and in China 1842; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1
July 1866; retired admiral 27 March 1885; author of Forty five
predictions of the Old Testament 1855. _d._ 21 Queen Anne’s
gate, London 21 Jany. 1891.

MORRIS, JAMES. _b._ 1795; head of firm of Morris, Prevost and
co. merchants 25 Old Broad st. London; a director of bank of
England 1827–80 and governor 1847–48; contested Liverpool 8
Jany. 1835 and Cork 5 July 1841. _d._ 17 Cadogan place, London 9
May 1882.

MORRIS, J. B. On the Irish turf; came to London; purchased
Hungerford from George Osbaldeston for 80 guineas and with him
won the Great Yorkshire handicap twice and the Suffolk stakes
at Newmarket; bought Kingston from lord Ribblesdale for 2,000
guineas and with him won the Goodwood cup, the Northumberland
plate, and the whip at Newmarket; won the Doncaster St. Leger
with Knight of St. George and cleared £30,000, 1854; generally
known by name of Jelly. _Sporting Review xxxix_ 363–4 (1858).

MORRIS, JAMES EDWARD GORDON. _b._ 1803; entered Bombay army
1819; lieut. 24 Bombay N.I. 1821, captain 9 March 1830, major 10
Nov. 1843 to 3 July 1848; lieut. col. of 12 N.I 3 July 1848 to
1853, of 28 N.I. 1853–4, and of 5 N.I. 1854–7; commandant Baroda
20 May 1854 to 22 Sept. 1856; commandant Hyderabad 22 Sept. 1856
to 18 Feb. 1858; col. of 15 N.I. 2 Dec. 1857 to death; M.G. 13
April 1860. _d._ 5 Compton terrace, Brighton 10 March 1867.

MORRIS, JOHN (son of John Morris, timber merchant). _b._
Homerton, London 19 Feb. 1810; ed. at Clifton, Nuneham, and
Parson’s Green, Fulham; pharmaceutical chemist at Kensington
some years; professor of geology and mineralogy at Univ.
college London 1854 to Sept. 1877, emeritus professor 1877 to
death, delivered 1100 lectures; lectured at the Coal exchange
on coal and coal mining; F.G.S. 1845, Lyell medallist 1876,
presented with an address and £600 by Geological soc. 14 July
1870; president of the Geological Association 1877; admitted to
freedom of the Turners’ company 7 Feb. 1878; hon. M.A. Cambridge
6 June 1878; with H. Woodward edited The geological magazine,
vol. 3 1864; author of A catalogue of British fossils 1843 2
ed. 1854; A new geological chart, showing the stratified rocks
1859, new ed. 1865; A series of large geological diagrams 1878;
and upwards of 55 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 22 Bolton
road, St. John’s Wood, London 7 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 13 Jany. _Geological Mag._ (1878) 481–7 _portrait_,
(1886) 95–6; _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xlii_ 44 (1886).

MORRIS, SIR JOHN (son of Edward Morris). _b._ Wolverhampton
1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton
1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at
Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bycullah park, Enfield,
Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.

MORRIS, JOHN (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). _b._
Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July
1826; ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted
pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church
of Rome 20 May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9;
ordained priest Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at
Great Marlow; canon of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English
college at Rome 1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary
to cardinal Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon
penitentiary of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus
Feb. 1867, took his first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was
successively minister at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey,
socius to the provincial Father Whitty, first superior of the
Oxford mission and professor of ecclesiastical history and
canon law in the college of St. Beuno, North Wales to 1877 and
1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879, rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10
Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st. Berkeley sq. London
1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author of The life and
martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1859,
2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence cardinal Wiseman, 3
ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic forefathers, related by
themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of Father John Gerrard, 3
ed. 1881. _d._ while preaching in the Jesuit church at Wimbledon
22 Oct. 1893.

MORRIS, JOHN BRANDE (son of rev. John Morris, D.D.
schoolmaster). _b._ New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed.
at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter
coll. 30 June 1837, resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church
of Rome 16 Jany. 1846, ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior
Park near Bath 1851; canon of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853;
domestic chaplain to E. R. Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir
John Acton of Aldenham hall, Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry
Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex 1868; later on he was chaplain
to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a convent of nursing nuns at St.
Vincent house, 49 Queen st. Hammersmith to death; author of An
essay towards the conversion of learned and philosophical Hindus
1843; Nature a parable, a poem 1842; Jesus the son of Mary or
the doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God
the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha Koomee or the gospel prophecy of
our lady’s assumption, a drama 1858; translated for the Library
of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Romans 1841; and
Select works of St. Ephrem 1846. _d._ 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9
April 1880. _bur._ Mortlake.

MORRIS, JOHN CARNAC (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of
H.E.I. Co.) _b._ 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered
Madras civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10
March 1831; Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832;
civil auditor or accountant general 1839; established the
Madras government bank 1834, secretary and treasurer 1834,
superintendent 1835; edited the Madras journal of literature and
science from 1834; civil auditor and superintendent of stamps
1843; left India 1 July 1846 and settled in London; established
a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia
by way of Panama; promoter and managing director of London and
Eastern banking company, chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858;
author of Telugu selections, with translations and grammatical
analyses, Madras 1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and
Teloogoo, 2 vols. Madras 1835. _d._ Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. _bur._
St. Heliers. _C. C. Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants_
(1885) 101–2.

MORRIS, MOWBRAY. _b._ Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.;
barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847,
and manager about 1848–73; _m._ 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest
dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The
Times. _d._ 21 April 1874. _Publisher’s Circular_ (1874) 308;
_The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_; _The Times 4 May 1874 p._ 1.

MORRIS, RICHARD. _b._ 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for
rifles, patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube
ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate
circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death,
resided at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. _shot_ himself at 11
Haymarket, London 14 Dec. 1891. _The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p._ 12.

MORRIS, RICHARD. _b._ London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll.
Battersea; lecturer on English language and literature King’s
coll. school, London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury
1870; C. of Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological
soc., president 1874; on council of Early English text soc.;
hon. M.A. of Oxf. 1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute
for boys, Wood Green July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the
Early English text soc. Early English alliterative poems 1864,
Sir Gawayne and the Green knight 1864, The story of Genesis and
Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English
homilies 1868, Chaucer’s translation of Boethius De Consolatione
philosophiæ 1868, Legends of the holy rood 1871, An old English
miscellany 1872, Cursor mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies
1874; he also edited The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer
1866, Specimens of Early English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat
1872; Complete works of Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The
etymology of local names 1857; Historical outlines of English
accidence 1872; English grammar 1875. _d._ Harold Wood, Essex 12
May 1894. _bur._ Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. _I.L.N. 26 May 1894
p._ 643 _portrait_.

MORRIS, SAMUEL SHEPPARD OAKLEY (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of
Llanelly, Carmarthen). _b._ 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London
1857, scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar
1866–71; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig
gr. sch. 1870–2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of
Dolgelly 1873–8; naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug.
1878, interpreter in Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor
in H.M.S. Victoria which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893,
brass memorial tablet placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital
Sept. 1893.

MORRIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842,
lieut. 14 May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major
17 Sept. 1857 to death; commanded his regiment at battle of
Balaklava; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.

MORRIS, WILLIAM (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). _b._ 11
Feb. 1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister
G.I. 18 Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. _d._ 14
Dec. 1886.

MORRIS, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). _b._ 9 July
1820; barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming
lunacy case 1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen _v._ Hume 1853,
and the Cochrane succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author
of The law of railway and other joint stock companies. _d._
Caversham house, Brixton hill, Surrey, 7 April 1889.

MORRIS, WILLIAM PLACIDUS. _b._ London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the
Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.;
bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy
1832–42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton
1842 to death. _d._ Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. _The Tablet
24 Feb. 1872 pp._ 238, 245.

MORRISON, ALLAN (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). _b._
1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April
1861; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862,
1863, and 1865. _d._ Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.

MORRISON, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1835; ed. at
Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat
against Cambridge 1859–61; was umpire at the University boat
race 1869–70; purchased Hampworth lodge, Downton near Salisbury
from Robert Shafto 1867; sheriff of Wiltshire 1881. _d._ 4 April
1884.

MORRISON, GEORGE STAUNTON (son of Robert Morrison, oriental
scholar 1782–1834). Student interpreter in China 30 June 1847;
secretary and registrar at Hong Kong 10 Dec. 1857; consul at
Nagasaki in Japan 21 Dec. 1858, retired on a pension 1 Jany.
1864; severely wounded in an attack made on the British legation
at Yedo by an armed band of Japanese 5 July 1861. _d._ Nice 20
Aug. 1893. _I.L.N. xxxix_ 427 (1861) _portrait_.

MORRISON, JAMES (son of Joseph Morrison who _d._ 1804). _b._
Hampshire 1790; partner in general drapery business of Joseph
Todd in Fore st. city of London, the firm became known as
Morrison, Dillon and co., and was converted into the Fore
st. company, limited; made a large fortune; bought land in
Berkshire, Bucks, Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Islay,
Argyleshire; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1830; M.P. Ipswich 12 Dec.
1832 to 1835; contested Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ipswich 19
June 1835 to 1837; M.P. Inverness burghs 1840–7; made a large
collection of pictures of the old masters, Italian and Dutch and
of English pictures; author of Rail roads, speech in the House
of Commons 1836; Observations illustrative of the defects of
the English system of railway legislation 1846; The influence
of English railway legislation on trade and industry 1848. _d._
Basildon park near Reading 30 Oct. 1857, leaving between three
and four millions. _Puseley’s Commercial companies_ (1858)
_p._ 146; _Waagen’s Cabinets of art_ (1857) 105–13; _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 300–312; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_
260–63 (1854); _The Town ii_ 795 (1839).

MORRISON, SIR JAMES WILLIAM (only son of James Morrison, deputy
master and worker of the Mint). _b._ London 1774; ed. at
Loughborough house school and Yverdun in Switzerland; clerk in
royal mint 1792; deputy master and worker 1803 to March 1851;
knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._ the hermitage,
Snaresbrook, Essex 27 June 1856.

MORRISON, PETER. Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road,
London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance
co. 1 Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of
Deposit at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director
there 1853–4 and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were
branches in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes,
and Dublin; proprietor of the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859,
lost £2,480 over it in 2½ years; resided at 44 Porchester sq.
Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed
an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862. _Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp._
4–5, _19 Feb. p._ 184.

MORRISON, RICHARD JAMES, known as Zadkiel (son of Richard Caleb
Morrison, gentleman pensioner under George III., who _d._
1808). _b._ London 15 June 1795; entered navy 1806, saw much
boat service in the Adriatic, lieut. 3 March 1815; served in
the coastguard April 1827 to Oct. 1829, when placed on h.p.;
presented to the admiralty a plan for registering merchant
seamen 22 April 1824, since adopted in principle, also suggested
a plan for providing seamen 6 March 1835; brought out The
herald of astrology for the years 1831–34 by Zadkiel the Seer,
London 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, four volumes, continued as The
astronomical almanac for 1835 by Zadkiel 1834, one volume,
continued as Zadkiel’s almanac and herald of astrology for 1836.
1835 and went on to his death; brought an action for libel
against sir Edward Belcher in the Queen’s Bench, when he got
a verdict with 20/-damages 29 June 1863; author under his own
name of Narrative of the loss of the Rothsay Castle in Beaumaris
bay, 4 ed. 1831; Observations on Dr. Halley’s great comet, 2 ed.
1835; The solar system as it is and not as it is represented
1857; Explanation of the bell buoy invented by lieut. Morrison
1858; Astronomy in a nutshell 1860; The comet, a map on the
course of Encke’s comet 1860; The New Principia or true system
of astronomy 1868, 2 ed. 1872; King David triumphant, a letter
to the astronomer of Benares 1871; under the name of Zadkiel he
also edited The horoscope, a weekly miscellany Liverpool 1834,
nineteen numbers; The horoscope, a monthly magazine London 1
vol. 1841; The voice of the stars No. 1 1862; and was author of
Zadkiel’s magazine or record of astrology, 2 numbers Jany. and
Feb. 1849; The grammar of astrology 1840. 3 ed. 1849; Zadkiel’s
legacy, also essays on Hindu astrology and the nativity of
the prince of Wales 1842; An essay on love and matrimony
1851; The hand-book of astrology 2 vols 1861–2; On the great
first cause, his existence and attributes 1867; Zadkiel’s
astronomical ephemeris for 1849 etc., 1848 etc. _d._ Sunnyside,
Knight’s park, Kingston-on-Thames 5 Feb. 1874. _Companion to
Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1855 with a portrait_; _A. Steinmetz’s
Manual of weather casts_ (1866) 33; _C. Cooke’s Curiosities of
occult literature_ (1863) 4–9, 242; _A. D. Morgan’s Budget of
paradoxes_ (1872) 195, 277, 472; _British almanac and companion_
(1867) 119–22; _Horace Welby’s Predictions realised_ (1862)
37–8; _A. J. Pearce’s Text book of astrology i_ 27–8, 207–8,
_ii_ 30 _etc._ (1879–89); _Mercurius’s Predicting almanack for
1876 pp._ 40–6 _portrait_; _Athenæum vol. i_ 630, 666, 701
(1874).

NOTE.--He predicted the death of the Prince Consort in Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1861 thus “The position of Saturn in May will be evil for all persons born upon or near the 26 Aug., among the sufferers I regret to see the worthy prince consort of these realms.” The prince was _b._ 26 Aug. 1819 and _d._ at Windsor 14 Dec. 1861.

MORRISON, ROBERT. _b._ parish of Moy, Invernessshire 14 Feb.
1822; manager of works of Messrs. Hawthorn at Newcastle 1844–53;
manufacturer of engines at Ouseburn from 1853; invented and
patented an improved steam hammer, which gained first prize at
Exhibition of 1862; made a hammer of 40 tons for Russia 1863;
M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861. _d._ 20 Dec. 1869. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 220–22 (1871).

MORRISSEY, JOHN. _b._ Templemore, Tipperary 5 Feb. 1831; taken
to Lower Canada 1836 and to Troy, New York 3 months later;
apprenticed to an iron moulder at Troy; bar-tender at Aleck
Hamilton’s house, Troy; an emigrant runner in New York 1849;
fought George Thompson on Mare Island 31 Aug. 1852 for 2,000
dollars a side and championship of California and won in 9
rounds; fought Yankee Sullivan at Boston Four-corners, 100 miles
from New York 5 Oct. 1853 for 2,000 dollars a side and won in
37 rounds; badly beaten by Wm. Poole in New York 26 July 1854.
Poole was killed by Morrissey’s friends 24 Feb. 1855; fought J.
C. Heenan at Long Point Island in lake Erie 10 Oct. 1858 for
5,000 dollars a side and the championship of America and won
in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; kept a gambling house where
he lost 124,000 dollars in one night to Benjamin Wood 1867;
opened a large gambling house in Saratoga 1869, made Saratoga a
famous summer resort; member of Congress 6 Nov. 1866 to death.
_d._ Saratoga, New York county 1 May 1878. _bur._ St. Peter’s
cemetery, Troy 4 May. _W. E. Harding’s John Morrissey, his
life, battles and wrangles_ (1880) _portrait_; _Nation 9 May
1878 pp._ 304–5.

MORRITT, WILLIAM JOHN SAWREY (son of rev. Robert Morritt). _b._
12 Sep. 1813; ensign 37 foot 15 March 1831, lieut. 15 March
1833; lieut. 77 foot Feb. 1834, sold out 26 Dec. 1834; came into
Rokeby estate, Yorkshire on death of his uncle 1843; started the
Four in hand driving club April 1856; crippled by a dog cart
accident; M.P. north riding of Yorkshire 1862–5; one of the best
coachmen of his day. _d._ Brighton 13 April 1874. _Baily’s mag.
xxv_ 249–54 (1874) _portrait_.

MORROGH, LEONARD. _b._ county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent
Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a
fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord
Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. _Baily’s mag. xxx_ 373
(1877) _portrait li_, 132 (1889).

MORSE, CHARLES (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk
1783–1852). _b._ Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against
Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match
at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842;
member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug.
1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester _v._ I. Zingari he scored 145
runs in one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. _d._ 25 March
1883. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii_ 78 (1863).

MORSE, FRANCIS (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft).
_b._ 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50;
C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury
1853; P.C. of St. John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean
lecturer at Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to
death; preb. of Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell
cath. 1885 to death; member of Nottingham sch. board Feb.
1871, then chairman; founded the annual Saturday and Sunday
collections for the local hospital; author of Parents, God’s
nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9 ed. 1879; Working for God,
four sermons 1857; The cleansing blood 1859; Confirmation, nine
addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of the church to the sick
1888. _d._ suddenly at residence of J. Watson, J.P., the Park,
Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.

MORSE, JAMES. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I.
3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824
to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut.
col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and
of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841
to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and
Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Farley court,
Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.

MORSE, SALMI. _b._ Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England;
endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883;
found _drowned_ in the North river at 88th street, New York 22
Feb. 1884.

MORSHEAD, WILLIAM HENRY ANDERSON (son of colonel Henry Anderson
Morshead of Widey court, Devon). _b._ 1811; entered navy 4 Sep.
1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol
and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct.
1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral
30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year
11 Jany. 1876. _d._ 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.

MORSON, THOMAS NEWBORN ROBERT. _b._ Stratford le bow, London;
apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt
chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist
in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established
a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at
Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate
of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a
medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on
the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. _d._
38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 353
(1874).

MORT, CHARLES CHESTER. _b._ 1804; editor and joint proprietor
with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death;
mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. _d._ Moss Pitt house,
Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. _The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858
p._ 4.

MORT, THOMAS SUTCLIFFE. _b._ Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk
with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer
Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and
ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm
in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851;
established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district
1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in
coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney
1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live
to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected
in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. _d._ Bodalla near Sydney 9 May
1878. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 51–6 _portrait_.

MORTIMER, FAVELL LEE (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of
Barclay, Bevan & co. London). _b._ London 1802; founded parish
schools on her father’s estates; _m._ in the year 1841 Thomas
Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road,
London, who _d._ 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of
the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of
receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon
line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia
and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the
first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon
precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. _d._ Runton near
Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. _bur._ in churchyard, Upper Sheringham,
Norfolk. _The Family Friend_ (1878) 183.

MORTIMER, GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer
of Bishopsteignton, Devon). _b._ Bishopsteignton 22 July
1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823;
Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30;
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head
master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary
school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London
school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were
senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was
voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of
St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at
St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The
immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and
prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. _d._ Rose Hill,
Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. _E. W. Linging’s History of City
of London school_ (1882) 28–9; _Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp._
179–80; _City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement_, _portrait_.

MORTIMER, JOHN. _b._ 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in
the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon
at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of
hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. _d._
Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856.

MORTIMER, WILLIAM. _b._ Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the
Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’
benefit soc. 1884. _d._ The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886.
_Bailey’s mag. xx_ 1 (1871) _portrait_, _xlv_ 272 (1886).

MORTLOCK, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire).
_b._ Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball
maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens,
never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for
only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first
played at Lord’s in M.C.C. _v._ Surrey club 12 June 1854; made
good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team
visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school,
Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing
outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened
the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon
closed them. _d._ 23 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 28 Jany.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv_ 588 (1863); _Illust. Sporting
news iii_ 345 (1864) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._
93 _portrait_; _Cricket Jany. 1884 p._ 10.

MORTON, GEORGE SHOLTO DOUGLAS 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut.
col. John Douglas 1756–1818). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary
of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin
17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded
his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of
Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to
Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4;
vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. _d._ 47
Brook st. London 31 March 1858.

MORTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820;
ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York
city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering
and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation.
_d._ New York 12 Oct. 1869.

MORTON, CHARLES (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh,
agricultural implement maker). _b._ 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the
signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and
1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action
against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other
famous cases. _d._ Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.

MORTON, JAMES. _b._ Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death;
prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford
club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for
the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical
remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta
1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. _d._
Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. _G.M. xix_ 390 (1865).

MORTON, JOHN (2 son of Robert Morton). _b._ Ceres, Fifeshire 17
July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of
the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton,
Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates
1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and
established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the
Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839;
author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843;
Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer
of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties
on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. _d._ Nailsworth,
Gloucestershire 26 July 1864.

MORTON, JOHN CHALMERS (son of preceding). _b._ 11 July 1821; ed.
Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted
his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of
Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural
gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at
Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners;
member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers
1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New
farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for
farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861,
new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other
books. _d._ Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. _bur._ Harrow ch.
yard 9 May. _Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv_ 691–6
(1888); _Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p._ 428 _portrait_, _14
May p._ 453.

MORTON, JOHN DRUMMOND. _b._ Manchester 1830; sec. of National
reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and
political essays. _d._ Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._
Salford cemet.

MORTON, JOHN MADDISON (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist
1764–1838). _b._ Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ.
Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school,
Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his
first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s
theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act
farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw,
Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me
five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at
Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the
most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov.
1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse
15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22
July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going
it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. _d._ the Charterhouse,
London 19 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. _J. M.
Morton’s Plays for home performance_ (1889) _memoir pp. ix–xv_;
_Theatre xiv_ 220–1, 255 (1889) _portrait_; _London Figaro 23
Dec. 1891 p._ 7 _portrait_; _Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p._
4 _portrait_; _London Society xlix_ 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886)
_portrait_.

MORTON, SAVILLE. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and
B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff
of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent
at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin
successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser
in 1852. _Stabbed_ by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of
Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. _bur._
Montmartre cemet. _Annual Register_ (1852) 402–7.

NOTE.--Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for murder, but acquitted, he _d._ at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69.

MORTON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838).
_b._ 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama
Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a
drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April
1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the
shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848;
Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom,
a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a
comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another
retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also
wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and
with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters
is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on
the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. _d._ 8 St. John’s
sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. _bur._ Kensal
green cemet.

MOSCHELES, IGNATZ (son of a cloth merchant). _b._ Prague, 30
May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May
1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to
England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a
public performer on the piano; _m._ 1 March 1825 at Hamburg,
Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832,
conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at
Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London
1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct.
1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly
variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his
compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820;
Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces
for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty
preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827;
Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve
duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by
E. Pauer 1886. _d._ Leipzig 10 March 1870. _C. E. Moscheles’
Life of Moscheles_ 2 _vols._ (1873) _portrait_; _Musical Gem_
(1832) _p._ 74 _portrait_.

MOSELEY, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester 27 March 1840; member of
firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of
Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison
electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal
1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3
May 1887. _d._ Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887.
_bur._ Southern cemet. 5 Oct. _The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct.
1887 p._ 5, _and 9 Oct. p._ 5.

MOSELEY, EDWIN CHARLES. _b._ 1812; editor and proprietor of
Nassau Guardian 40 years. _d._ Nassau, New Providence, Bahama
islands 29 May 1885.

MOSELEY, HENRY (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at
Newcastle-under-Lyne). _b._ 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at
Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler
1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near
Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy
and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12
Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833;
an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident
canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston,
Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14
May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise
on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise
on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures
on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of
engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology
2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural
philosophy. _d._, Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. _Trans.
of Instit. of naval architects xiii_ 328–30 (1872); _I.L.N. lx_
90 (1872).

MOSELEY, HENRY NOTTIDGE (son of the preceding). _b._ St. Ann’s
Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc.
and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science
1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869;
studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at
Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition
to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger
expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow
of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English
company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S.
7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal
medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March
1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy
at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882;
F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited
Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852
etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878;
On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878;
Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell
ill in 1887 and never recovered. _d._ Firwood Clevedon, Somerset
10 Nov. 1891. _H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed._
(1892) _memoir v–xvi and portrait_; _Biograph vi_ 387–90 (1881);
_Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 599 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891
p._ 694 _portrait_.

MOSELEY, LITCHFIELD. _b._ 1839; author of Penny readings in
prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece
The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. _d._ 16 Wilton road, Dalston,
London 21 June 1879.

MOSES, HENRY. _b._ about 1782; engraver, published many sets
of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers
employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the
British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted
by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases,
altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates
1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3
vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. _d._ Cowley, Middlesex
28 Feb. 1870.

MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). _b._
Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8;
assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man
1868–72; English master at University college school, London
1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice
president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light
1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the
title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon
of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an
article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise
on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878,
2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism
1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. _d._ at his
mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. _bur._
Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. _Light 10 Sept. 1892 p._ 439 _portrait_,
_17 Sept. pp._ 445–6, 447, _5 Nov. 1892 pp._ 529–32 _portrait_.

MOSLEY, JOHN IVON. _b._ Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a
compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught
linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary,
prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx
society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben
Brierly’s Journal. _d._ Manchester 6 Sept. 1876.

MOSLEY, SIR OSWALD, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of
Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). _b._ Morton near Chester
27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806,
D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for
North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837;
sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for
£200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832;
Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short
account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history
of Tutbury 1863. _d._ Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May
1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 309 (1872); _I.L.N. lviii_ 578
(1871).

MOSS, JAMES. _b._ 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne
music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of
his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. _d._ Greenock 14 Nov. 1882.

MOSS, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley,
removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near
Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The
manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. _d._
Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862.

MOSS, THOMAS. _b._ 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861;
Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge
of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of
appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death;
vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. _d._ Nice 4 Jany. 1881.

MOSS, SIR THOMAS EDWARDS- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss
1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the
North-Western bank). _b._ 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain
of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; _m._ 1847 Amy Charlotte,
heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name
of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional
assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc.
1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. _d._ Otterspool near
Liverpool 26 April 1890.

MOSS, TOM COTTENHAM EDWARDS- (2 son of preceding). _b._ 7 April
1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge
races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley
1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur
championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford
oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire
hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death.
M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. _d._ Otterspool near
Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893.

MOSSMAN, JOHN (son of George Mossman, sculptor). _b._ London
1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti;
exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow
statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and
Dr. Norman Macleod. _d._ Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept.
1890.

MOSSMAN, THOMAS WIMBERLEY (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman,
schoolmaster). _b._ Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed.
at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain
and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V.
of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West
Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the
Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders,
at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of
Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon.
D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme
ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one
of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was
received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal
Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words
used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy
scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus
Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second
century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St.
Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of
Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various
scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. _d._ East Torrington rectory 6 July
1885. _Biograph vi_ 342–9 (1881); _Church Times 10 July 1885 p._
531, _17 July p._ 555; Tablet _18 July 1885 p._ 103.

MOSTYN, EDWARD PRYCE LLOYD, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of
Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). _b._ 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded
his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint
boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff
for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col.
commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn
co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. _d._ Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April
1854.