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MOSTYN, EDWARD LLOYD-MOSTYN, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding).
_b._ Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and
1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname
of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks
and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840;
col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North
Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for
£10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. _d._ Mostyn
hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. _Baily’s mag. xlii_ 197 (1884);
_I.L.N. xliv_ 237 (1864) _portrait_.

MOSTYN, THOMAS. _b._ Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor
Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to
death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death,
his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. _d._
Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24
Sept.

MOSTYN, THOMAS. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810;
surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct.
1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7
Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death;
served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo;
served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and
1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. _d._ Alpha house,
Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.

MOSTYN, THOMAS EDWARD MOSTYN-LLOYD (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn
1795–1884). _b._ Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and
Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death.
_d._ Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP. _b._ Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S.
of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin
and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in
London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860,
LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of
The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History
of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death
of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. _d._
Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. _bur._
Kensal green cemet. 4 June. _J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W.
Holmes_ (1878); _Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history_ (1879)
_pp._ 195–252; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 438–40 (1888)
_portrait_; _Graphic xv_ 549 (1877) _portrait_.

MOTT, CHARLES. Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his
report was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble
about the Keighley union and was removed from his office;
manager of lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South
Lancashire poor law district to his death, where he suffered
from the defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published
Report from the poor law commissioners relative to statements
concerning management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838.
_d._ of paralysis 12 May 1851.

MOTTERAM, JAMES (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston,
Birmingham, merchant). _b._ 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull
gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to
death; Q.C. 28 June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21
(Birmingham, &c.) June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse
dau. of Auguste Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list
pension of £75 24 May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend,
and if so, how far the civil jurisdiction of local courts, read
at Social Science Congress 1882; The jurisdiction of local
courts, and other pamphlets. _d._ Maney house near Sutton
Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.

MOTTERSHEAD, THOMAS. _b._ 1826; a silk weaver, London; a member
of the radical party in London; contested Preston 5 Feb. 1874;
the radical candidate for the new borough of Clerkenwell 1884,
fractured his skull by falling down stairs at the offices of the
Liberty and defence league, 4 Westminster chambers and _died_
the same day at the Westminster hospital 5 Dec. 1884.

MOTTRAM, CHARLES. _b._ 9 April 1807; engraved plates in the line
manner after sir Edwin Landseer and others; engraved mezzotint
plates after T. J. Barker and others; engraved many plates in
the mixed style after W. H. Hunt, sir E. Landseer, Rosa Bonheur
and others; exhibited 7 engravings at R.A. 1861–77. _d._ 92 High
st. Camden Town, London 30 Aug. 1876.

MOULD, JACOB WREY. _b._ Chiselhurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s
college, London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen
Jones, architect, studying the Alhambra; designed with him
Moresque-Turkish divan of Buckingham palace and the decorations
of the great exhibition of 1851; designed and built All Soul’s
church, New York 1853; assistant architect of public works
New York 1857, chief architect 1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874,
but returned after a few years; translated the libretti of La
Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville 1856, Hernani 1857,
Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula 1865; illustrated vol. 2
of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and assisted him in his Grammar
of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions of Gray’s Elegy in a
country churchyard 1846, and The book of common prayer 1849.
_d._ New York 14 June 1886.

MOULD, JAMES. _b._ Bodmin 1814; contributed to the Falmouth
newspapers 1833; on the Ipswich press 1837; on parliamentary
staff of London Morning Herald 1841, and of the Standard to
1887; manager of Standard parliamentary staff and summary writer
1865–87; author of Lives of and politics of British statesmen
1854 anon. _d._ 19 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 5 Jany.
1889.

MOULE, HENRY (6 son of George Moule of Melksham, Wiltshire,
solicitor). _b._ Melksham 27 Jany. 1801; ed. at Marlborough and
St. John’s coll. Camb., foundation scholar; B.A. 1821, M.A.
1826; C. of Melksham 1823; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1825–9; V.
of Fordington, Dorset 1829 to death; chaplain to the troops in
Dorchester barracks some years, for whose use he built in 1846 a
church known as Ch. Ch. West Fordington; invented the dry earth
closet system, which process he patented with James Bannehr 28
May 1860, his system has been adopted in military camps, in many
hospitals, and extensively in India; author of Barrack sermons
preached at Dorchester 1847; Manure for the million, to the
cottage gardeners of England 1861, eleventh thousand 1870; The
advantages of the dry earth system 1868; National health and
wealth promoted by the general adoption of the dry earth system
1873. _d._ Fordington vicarage 3 Feb. 1880. _H. C. G. Moule’s
Sermons on the death of H. Moule_ (1880) 5–13; _Chambers’s
Encyclopædia x_ 731–3 (1874).

MOULE, HORACE MOSLEY (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 1832; ed.
Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1851–54; migrated to Queen’s coll.
Camb.; Hulsean prizeman 1858, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assistant
master at Marlborough 1865; author of Essays, verses, etc. by
H. M. Moule and others, Fordington Times soc. 1859; Christian
oratory, an inquiry into its history 1859; The Roman republic, a
review of the salient points in its history 1860. _d._ 1873.

MOULE, JOHN. _b._ 1794; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 4
Bengal N.I. 1 June 1812, lieut. 19 Jany. 1816; captain 23 N.I.
29 April 1826, major 30 June 1840 to 1 April 1846; lieut. col.
46 N.I. 1 April 1846–49, of 5 N.I. 1849–51, of 10 N.I. 1851–2,
of 11 N.I. 1852–5, of 67 N.I. 1855–6, of 33 N.I. 1856–61, and
of 4 N.I. 1861 to death; commandant at Sealkote 11 May 1855, at
Ferozepore 2 July 1856 to 18 Dec. 1857; M.G. 27 Jany. 1858. _d._
Belmont, Melksham, Wiltshire 4 April 1867.

MOULE, JOSEPH (son of John Moule). _b._ 23 Jany. 1797; ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s sch.; superintending president of general post
office, Edinburgh June 1822, retired Feb. 1855; sergeant at arms
in H.M.’s household 1822 to death; author of Two letters to the
members of the congregation of St. James’s chapel, Edinburgh
with reference to D. T. K. Drummond, 2 pamphlets 1843, and of
Memoirs of celebrated authors prefixed to the Naturalist’s
Library, 40 volumes 1843. _d._ Maismore sq. Peckham, Surrey 23
June 1855.

MOULE, THOMAS. _b._ St. Marylebone, London 14 Jany. 1784;
bookseller in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. 1816–23; a clerk in
the general post office, where he was inspector of blind
letters, retired after 44 years service; chamber-keeper in the
lord chamberlain’s department 1822 to death; member of the
Numismatic Society; author of A table of dates for the use of
genealogists and antiquaries 1820 anon; Bibliotheca heraldica
Magnæ Britanniæ, an analytical catalogue of books in genealogy,
heraldry, &c. 1822; Antiquities in Westminster abbey 1825; The
English counties delineated, or a topographical description of
England, 2 vols. 1837; Heraldry of Fish 1842; contributed the
letter-press to Hewetson’s Views of noble mansions in Hampshire
1825. _d._ Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, London 14 June 1851.
_G.M. xxxvi_ 210 (1851).

MOULLIN, ELISE (dau. of M. Greillard). _b._ Caen, Normandy; fled
to England after the coup d’etat of 1852; published anonymously
a brochure Le Berceau du communisme en Perse, etudes historiques
et philosophiques; wrote essays in English periodicals; _m._ M.
Moullin. _d._ 8 Dec. 1855.

MOULTRIE, GERARD (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the
succeeding). _b._ Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby
and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and
chaplain at Shrewsbury school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of
Brinfield, Berks 1860; chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney,
Bristol 1864–9; V. of Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden
of St. James’s college, Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The
primer set forth at large for the use of the faithful in family
and private prayer 1864; author of Hymns and lyrics for the
seasons and saints’ days of the church 1867; The espousals of
St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. _d._ St. James’s college,
Southleigh 25 April 1885. _Church Times 1 May 1885 p._ 345;
_Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892) 771–2.

MOULTRIE, JOHN (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury
Mortimer, Shropshire). _b._ 31 Great Portland st. London, the
residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19,
where he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under
pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian
1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822;
Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby
10 June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to
reside 1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3
ed. 1852; The dream of life, lays of the English church and
other poems 1843; The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4
ed. 1851; St. Mary, the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths,
and graves 1854; wrote many hymns, most of which are in B. H.
Kennedy’s Hymnologia Christiana 1863. _d._ Rugby rectory 26 Dec.
1874. bur. in parish church, to which an aisle was added in his
memory. _John Moultrie’s Poems_, 2 _vols._ (1876) _memoir by
rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp. v–lxxxiv_; _Creasy’s Memoirs
of eminent Etonians_ (1876) 620–4; _Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892)
772.

MOUNSEY, AUGUSTUS HENRY. Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover
1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2
sec. and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of
commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June
1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé
d’ affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul
general at Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris
14 Sept. 1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at
Athens 22 July 1878; minister resident and consul general at
Bogota 26 April 1881; author of A journey through the Caucasus
and the interior of Persia 1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an
episode of Japanese history 1879. _d._ Bogota, Colombia 10 April
1882. _Foreign Office List_ 1882 _p._ 151.

MOUNTAIN, ARMINE SIMCOE HENRY (5 son of Jacob Mountain
1749–1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). _b._ Quebec 4
Feb. 1797; ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec.
1818; travelled in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy
1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24 April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May
1825; brevet major 30 Dec. 1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828,
lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8 March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot
8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850; military secretary on staff of
sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March 1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to
lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4; deputy adjutant general
to the land forces sent from India to China during the war
1840–2, and was present at all the chief engagements; A.D.C.
to the queen June 1845; military secretary to lord Dalhousie,
governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded a brigade in
the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla and
Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed
chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian,
Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. _d._ Futtyghur,
Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at
Futtyghur. _Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain_, _edited by
Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain_ (1857) _portrait_.

MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). _b._
Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810,
D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R.
of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817;
archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb.
1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec,
had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada
was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until
1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in
1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college,
Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853;
author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit
to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission
1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a
visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of
Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. _d._ Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany.
1863. _A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain_ (1866)
_portrait_; _F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by
the crown for the church of Canada_ (1870) 131–86 _portrait_;
_Appleton’s American biography iv_ 447–8 (1888) _portrait_;
_Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis_ (1867) 284–7; _I.L.N. xli_
576, 587 (1862) _portrait_.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain
1788–1872). _b._ 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton
school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll.
Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1;
B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near
Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847;
dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college,
Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland
to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death.
_d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. _bur._ St. John’s
cemetery. _Lives of missionaries, North America_ (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain
1789–1863). _b._ Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln
cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs.
1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St.
Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46;
R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to
the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for
death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834;
Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius
1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to
History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The
history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters
i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian
1853, chapter vi. _d._ Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. _The
Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p._ 1324.

MOUNT CASHELL, STEPHEN MOORE, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl
of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). _b._ St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812;
styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father;
an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. _d._ Oxford
terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 405
(1883) _portrait_.

MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDGCUMBE, 3 Earl of (2 son
of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). _b._ Richmond Hill,
Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30
March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo
medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey
1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P.
Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’
militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and
to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at
her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839;
special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; _m._ 3 Dec.
1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she
was _b._ Jany. 1808 and _d._ Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881;
author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic
church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the
commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850;
On the militia bill 1855. _d._ in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept.
1861. _Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria_ (1845) 37–45
_portrait of the Countess_.

MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at
Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went
to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism;
author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life
1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and
life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy,
or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. _d._ Boston,
Massachusetts 20 April 1885.

MOUNTMORRES, HERVEY DE MONTMORENCY 4 Viscount (only son
of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres
1756–1833). _b._ Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed.
Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4
viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany.
1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant
of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties
and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the
articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. _d._ The Grove,
Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 115 (1872).

MOUNTMORRES, WILLIAM BROWNE DE MONTMORENCY, 5 Viscount (1 son of
the preceding). _b._ Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany.
1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations
with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. _murdered_ with
6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept.
1880. _bur._ Monkstown. _Graphic xxii_ 356 (1880) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxvii_ 361 (1880) _portrait_.

MOUNTSOY, ANTOINE. _b._ Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an
English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into
English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen
Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went
whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village
of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. _Daily Graphic 15 Dec.
1891 p._ 14 _portrait_.

MOUNT TEMPLE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER TEMPLE, 1 Baron (2 son of
5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). _b._ Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811;
ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet
capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime
minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire
1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty
1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home
department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855
to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of
committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice
president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to
Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr.
baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed
by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the
Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of
The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. _d._ Broadlands
near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. _The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23
Oct._ (1888); _I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp._ 481, 482 _portrait_.

MOUTRIE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLARD. Pianoforte maker at 4 King
st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at
133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at
77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical
instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these
distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord
Palmerston Oct. 1853. _d._ 1869.

MOWAT, JOHN LANCASTER GOUGH (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan
minister, _d._ 1881). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846;
educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869,
M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer,
senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death;
proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also
bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June
1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian;
completely explored the line of the Roman wall between
England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma
Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary
1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along
the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire
domesday 1892. _hung himself_ at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894,
inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. _The
Times 9 Aug. 1894._

MOWATT, ALEXANDER MURRAY. _b._ 1838; on the press in Aberdeen;
connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in
repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the
Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. _d._ Liverpool
21 June 1869. _Newspaper Press iii_ 181 (1869).

MOWATT, ANNA CORA (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of
New York, _d._ 1860). _b._ Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17
children; _m._ 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier
and publisher, who became bankrupt and _d._ Green st. Grosvenor
sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she _m._ (2) 7 June 1854
William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who _d._ 1868;
appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845;
played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at
the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at
the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced
her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18
Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at
Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune
hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion,
or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and
behind the curtain 1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870.
_Howitt’s Journal iii_ 146, 167, 181 _portrait_; _Ireland’s New
York stage ii_, 437–8, 729 (1867); _Tallis’ Drawing room table
book_ 1851, _Part_ 2 _pp._ 9–11 _two portraits_; _Theatrical
Times iii_ 162, 169 (1848) _portrait_; _A. C. Mowatt’s
Autobiography of an actress_ (1854) _portrait_; _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 450 (1888) _portrait_.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED JOSEPH STOURTON, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron
Stourton 1802–72). _b._ 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry
cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872;
summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord
Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been
terminated in his favour. _d._ Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St.
Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED RICHARD. _b._ Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered
St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock,
then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church,
lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher
at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death;
organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was
master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission;
author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters
and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869;
The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873;
A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873;
Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. _d._ 30 St. John st.
Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Holywell cemet. _Guide to the church
congress_ (1883) 51.

MOXON, EDWARD (son of Michael Moxon). _bapt._ in Wakefield
parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller
1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London
1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s
churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44
Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s
Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles
Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads
1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch
1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello
1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a
series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c; author
of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829;
Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871,
Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. _d._ Putney Heath 3 June 1858.
_bur._ Wimbledon churchyard. _Curwen’s History of booksellers_
(1873) 347–62; _Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies_ (1864) 229–35 _and_
257; _P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii_ 46, 458
(1889).

NOTE.--Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go _d._” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii_ 356–92 (1850).

MOXON, EMMA (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of
languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire
bedel. 1797. _d._ Cambridge Oct. 1814). _b._ 1809; first met
C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school
girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by
Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary
Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold;
governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All
Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; _m._ 30 July 1833 Lamb’s
friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847,
she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E.
Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and
allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. _d._ Brighton 2
Feb. 1891. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891
p._ 203 _portrait_; _The correspondence of C. Lamb with an
essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the
author’s adopted daughter_ (1870); _A. Ainger’s Letters of C.
Lamb i_ 341, _ii_ 172, 365 (1888); _Law Reports_ 8, _Chancery_
881–8 (1873).

MOXON, JAMES HENRY HARMAR (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover
terrace, Regent’s park, London). _b._ Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed.
at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand
challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s
gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a
teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating
association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge
1878. _d._ suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May
1883. _Baily’s Mag. xl_ 415 (1883).

MOXON, WALTER (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset
house). _b._ Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a
merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854;
M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s
1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy
1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica,
physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882;
F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate
his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by
the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875;
Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. _d._ 6 Finsbury
circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic
acid. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 July. _British medical journal
1886 vol. ii_ 178, 234, 392, 434.

MOYLAN, DENIS. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant
at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862;
collector general of rates 1870. _d._ 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25
July 1878.

MOYLE, JOHN GRENFELL (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon
1756–1828). _b._ Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.;
assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany.
1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board,
Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. _d._ 23
Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.

MOYLE, MATTHEW PAUL (2 son of John Moyle). _b._ Chacewater,
Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote
papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of
a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently
of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841;
author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations
and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently
been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s
Philosophical Magazine 1823. _d._ Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.

MOYSEY, CHARLES ABEL (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., _d._
1831). _b._ 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer
1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts.
1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near
Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839;
prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic
stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined,
Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of
doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures
on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. _d._ Batheaston court,
Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

MOZLEY, ANNE (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller).
_b._ Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then
at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published
anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or
christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or
church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present
1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68,
and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for
Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley
1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2
vols. 1891. _d._ Derby 27 June 1891. _A. Mozley’s Essays from
Blackwood_ (1892) _memoir pp. vii–xx_; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3
_portrait_.

MOZLEY, HARRIET ELIZABETH (elder sister of John Henry Newman,
cardinal, _d._ 11 Aug. 1890). _m._ at St. Werburgh’s, Derby 27
Sept. 1836 Thomas Mozley, divine and journalist 1806–93; author
of The fairy bower or the history of a month 1841; The lost
brooch 1841; Louisa, or the bride 1842; Family adventures 1852.
_d._ 71 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 17 July 1852.

MOZLEY, JAMES BOWLING (brother of Anne Mozley 1809–91). _b._
Gainsborough 15 Sept. 1813; ed. at Grantham gr. sch. 1822–8;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 1 July 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A.
1838, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1871; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1840–56;
joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, the organ of the
high church party about 1845–55; V. of Old Shoreham, Sussex
1856 to death; select university preacher 1869; canon of
Worcester 1869–71; regius professor of divinity at Oxford
and canon of Ch. Ch. 7 Oct. 1871 to death; author of On the
Augustinian doctrine of predestination 1855, 2 ed. 1878; The
primitive doctrine of baptismal regeneration 1856; A review of
the baptismal controversy 1862, 2 ed. 1883; Eight lectures on
miracles; Bampton lectures 1865, 6 ed. 1883; Ruling ideas in
early ages and their relation to the Old Testament faith 1877, 4
ed. 1889; The theory of development, a criticism of Dr. Newman’s
essay 1878; Sermons, parochial and occasional 1879, 2 ed. 1882;
Lectures and other theological papers 1883. _d._ Old Shoreham
vicarage 4 Jany. 1878. _J. B. Mozley’s Essays_, 2 _vols._ (1884)
_introduction pp. xi–xlvii_; _J. B. Mozley’s Letters_ (1885)
_introduction pp._ 1–30; _I.L.N. lxxii_ 108 (1878) _portrait_.

MOZLEY, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Gainsborough
1806; ed. at Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf.; pupil of John
Henry Newman; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; fellow of Oriel April 1829
to 27 Sept. 1836, junior treasurer 1835; C. of Buckland near
Oxford 1831; P.C. of Moreton-Pinkney, Northamptonshire 1831–6;
R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1836–47, rebuilt the church;
advocated the tractarian movement from 1833; edited the British
Critic 1841–3; wrote leading articles for The Times from 1844
for more than 40 years; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1868–80; rural
dean of Plymtree 1874, and of Ottery St. Mary 1876; author
of Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel college and the Oxford
movement, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1882; Reminiscenses, chiefly of
towns, villages and schools, 2 vols. 1885; The Word 1889; The
Son 1891; Letters from Rome on the occasion of the Œcumenical
council 1869–70, 2 vols. 1891; The creed, or a philosophy
1893, with autobiographical preface. _d._ 7 Lansdowne terrace,
Cheltenham 17 June 1893.

MUDGE, HENRY (son of Thomas Mudge). _b._ Tower Hill house,
Bodmin 29 July 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London;
L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; practised at Bodmin to his death;
advocated strict temperance principles; mayor of Bodmin twice;
edited The Western temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1838; The
Bodmin temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1840–1; The Cornwall and
Devon temperance journal, 8 vols. 1851–8; author of An exposure
of Odd-fellowship 1845; Rescued texts or teetotalism put under
the protection of the gospel 1853, 3 ed. 1856; Alcoholics, a
letter to practitioners in medicine By one of themselves 1856;
Dialogues against the use of tobacco 1861. d. Fore st. Bodmin 27
June 1874. _Boase & Courteney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 377–8 (1874),
_iii_ 1290 (1882).

MUDGE, RICHARD ZACHARIAH (eld. son of major general Wm. Mudge,
col. R.A. 1762–1820). _b._ Plymouth 6 Sept. 1790; ed. at
Blackheath and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 May
1807, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 7 Sept.
1840; in charge of the drawing department, Tower of London,
some years; superintended the ordnance survey of Lincolnshire
1818; appointed comr. by the British government to examine the
boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 1838, the survey was
made by Mr. Featherstonehaugh and himself Aug. to Oct. 1839,
the boundary was settled by the treaty of Washington 1842;
author of Observations on railways with reference to utility,
profit and the obvious necessity of a national system 1837. _d._
Teignmouth, Devon 25 Sept. 1854. _bur._ Denbury. _S. R. Flint’s
Mudge memoirs_ (_Truro_ 1883) 177–239.

MUDGE, _Zachary_ (son of John Mudge, physician 1721–93). _b._
Plymouth 22 Jany. 1770; entered navy 1 Nov. 1780; captain 15
Nov. 1800; captain of Blanche 32 gun frigate 23 Sept. 1802
in the West Indies, where he captured many French merchant
ships and privateers; lost his ship in an action with a French
squadron 19 July 1805, tried by court martial 14 Oct. when
acquitted of all blame; commanded the Phœnix in the Bay of
Biscay 1805–10, and the Valiant, 74 guns 1814–5; admiral 15
Sept. 1849. _d._ Sydney near Plympton 26 Oct. 1852. _bur._
Newton Ferrers. Memorial window in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.

MUDIE, CHARLES EDWARD (son of Thomas Mudie, second-hand
bookseller). _b._ Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 Oct. 1818; assisted
his father until 1840; stationer and bookseller at 28 Upper
King st. (now Southampton row), Bloomsbury; published Poems by
James Russell Lowell 1844, and R. W. Emerson’s Man thinking, an
oration 1844; commenced lending books 1842; removed to 510 New
Oxford st. 1852, where he opened a large new hall and library
17 Dec. 1860; established branches in London, Birmingham and
Manchester; made over the library to a limited company 1864, in
which he held half the shares and remained manager, there were
over 25,000 subscribers to his library; member of London school
board for Westminster 1870–3; author of Stray Leaves 1872, a
vol. of poems, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 31 Maresfield gardens, Hampstead
28 Oct. 1890. _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 421–32 _portrait_;
_Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 72–3 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 3 Nov. 1890
p._ 583 _portrait_.

MUDIE, CHARLES HENRY (son of the preceding). _b._ Adelaide road,
Haverstock hill 26 Jany. 1850; ed. at Univ. college school,
London; took part in management of his father’s business 1871
to death; a good musician, an amateur actor, and a lecturer; he
devoted much time to improvement of the poorer classes. _d._ 13
Jany. 1879. _C. H. Mudie_ [_by Mary Mudie his sister_] (1879)
_portrait_; _Athenæum i_ 90 (1879).

MUDIE, JAMES. Second lieutenant royal marines 10 May 1799, first
lieut. 18 Aug. 1804 to 1810 or 1811; manufactured medals of
principal persons engaged in Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns;
became insolvent 22 Aug. 1821; in New South Wales July 1822
to March 1836; owner of Castle Forbes station near Maitland,
N.S.W. where there was an insurrection of the convicts in
1833, when he was removed from the commission of the peace
together with 32 other magistrates; gave evidence in London
before select committee appointed to inquire into the system of
transportation, April and May 1837; author of An historical and
critical account of a grand series of national medals, published
under the direction of J. Mudie 1820; The felonry of New South
Wales being a picture of the real romance of life in Botany bay
1837. _R. Therry’s Reminiscenses_ (1863) 164–78; _R. Flanagan’s
History of New South Wales i_ 478–9, 524 (1862); _Vindication
of J. Mudie and J. Larnach from reflections on their conduct
relative to treatment of convict servants_ 1834.

MUDIE, THOMAS MOLLISON. _b._ Chelsea 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at
royal academy of music from 1823, professor of the pianoforte
there 1832–44; organist at Lord Monson’s seat Gatton, Surrey
1834–40; taught music in Edinburgh 1844–63 when he returned
to London; his song Lungi dal caro bene was published at cost
of the R.A. of music composed symphonies in C and in B flat;
at the concerts of the Society of British musicians, were
performed his symphony in F 1835, symphony in D 1837, a quintet
in E flat for pianoforte and strings 1843, &c.; composer of
Remember, a duet 1840; Six songs and two duets 1844; There be
none of beauty’s daughters, a song 1845; The songs of Scotland
by G. F. Graham, arranged by T. M. Mudie and others, 3 vols.
1848; Airs from Macfarren’s opera She stoops to conquer 1864,
two books; Christabel waltz 1874; First Nocturne for the piano
1872; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces 1830–76. _d._
Shaftesbury terrace, London 24 July 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
28 July.

MUGGERIDGE, SIR HENRY (son of Robert Muggeridge). _b._ Banstead,
Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London;
common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman
of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and
Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855,
after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London
1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord
mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. _d._
West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.

MUIR, EMILY MARGARET (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist).
Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre,
London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our
babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in
Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont
in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta
in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept.
1879. _d._ Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.

MUIR, JAMES (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). _b._
Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London
1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer
1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the
company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director
until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866.
_d._ Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi_
323–6 (1889).

MUIR, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft,
Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to
death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God
1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851;
Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown
court, London 1856. _d._ Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. _Our Scottish
clergy, by J. Smith_ (1848) 45–56; _Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p._
31 (1868).

MUIR, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow).
_b._ Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury
college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad
1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college
at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur,
Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death;
chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of
Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit
and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm.
Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the
Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch
of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in
Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine
revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and
English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts
of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit
texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India,
5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from
Sanskrit writers 1879. _d._ 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7
March 1882. _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 103–4; _I.L.N.
lxxx_ 352 (1882) _portrait_.

MUIR, MATTHEW ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the
Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous
patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production
much cheaper. _d._ Glasgow Jany. 1880.

MUIR, MATTHEW ARNOLD. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames;
owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in
Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891,
which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member
of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. _d._ 25 Gloucester
terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.

MUIR, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). _b._
Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D.,
1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow
1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of
St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17
May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage;
dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain
in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of
univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to
the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit
1842; Metrical meditations 1870. _d._ Ormelie, Murrayfield,
Edinburgh 23 June 1869. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 75–7
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii_ 22–5 (1872).

MUIR, WILLIAM (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). _b._ Catrine,
Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas
Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and
Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah
and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with
Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in
Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger
premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the
Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a
maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67,
his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of
temperance. _d._ Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery.
_R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir_ (1888).

MUIR, SIR WILLIAM MURE (son of Walter Boyd Muir). _b._ Edinburgh
24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s
hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854,
inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director
general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout
the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny
1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to
the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in
the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B.
24 May 1873. _d._ Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885.
_Medical Times and Gazette i_ 800 (1885).

MUIRHEAD, JAMES (son of Claud Muirhead of Gogan park,
Midlothian, proprietor of the Edinburgh Advertiser). _b._ 1831;
in a merchant’s office in Leith; connected with the Edinburgh
Advertiser; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; member of faculty of
advocates 1857; professor of civil law in univ. of Edinb. 1862
to death; advocate depute 1874–80; sheriff in chancery 1885;
sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannanshire 1886; hon.
LL.D. Glasgow 1885; edited The institutes of Gaius and rules of
Ulpian 1880; author of Historical introduction to the private
law of Rome, Edinburgh 1886, a work of authority translated
into French and Italian; his law library was purchased by
subscription after his death and presented to Owen’s college,
Manchester. _d._ Drumsheugh gardens, Edinburgh 8 Nov. 1889.
_Juridical Review Jany. 1890 pp._ 27–36 _portrait_; _W. Hole’s
Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 175–80 _portrait_.

MULCAHY, JOHN. ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, LL.B. 1850,
LL.D. 1851; professor of mathematics Queen’s college, Galway
1849 to death; author of Principles of modern geometry, Dublin
1852, 2 ed. 1862. _d._ 1 Dec. 1853.

MULCASTER, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of captain sir William Howe
Mulcaster). _b._ 29 Sept. 1820; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 31 May
1838, major 14 Nov. 1861; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861,
lieut. col. 4 April 1863 to 1 July 1881; served in Afghanistan
1841; in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, and present at Modkee, etc.;
served with 7 Irregular cavalry in second Punjab campaign
1848–9, and was present at siege of Mooltan, etc.; commander
of 7 Irregular cavalry 14 Jany. 1852 to 26 May 1864, and was
present in campaign on North West frontier 1853; brigadier
commanding the cavalry in Sitana campaign 1857; brigadier
general in Assam 1864, and commanded the Bhootan field force on
the Eastern frontier; brigadier general commanding the Mooltan
brigade 1865; commanded the Agra brigade to 1867; general 1 Oct.
1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._
3 Portland place, Bath 4 Feb. 1887.

MULES, HENRY CHARLES. _b._ 1816; copyhold and enclosure comr.
13 Nov. 1852 to death. _d._ Hill house, Copdock, Suffolk 4 Dec.
1862.

MULHALL, EDWARD. _b._ Queen’s co. Ireland 1812; ordained R.C.
priest 1835; professor of humanity at Carlow college from 1835,
until his health obliged him to retire. _d._ Mountrath, Queen’s
county 9 Sept. 1857.

MULHOLLAND, ANDREW (son of Thomas Mulholland, cotton
manufacturer). _b._ Belfast 1791; cotton manufacturer with his
brother in York st. Belfast, their mill was burnt down 10 June
1828; produced flax yarns by machinery 1830, in which business
he enjoyed almost a monopoly; member of Belfast corporation
1842, mayor 1845; presented the town with the organ in Ulster
hall at cost of £3,000, 1845; retired from business 1860;
sheriff of Down and Antrim. _d._ Springvale, Ballywalter, co.
Down 24 Aug. 1866.

MULL, MATTHIAS. _b._ 1820; manager of a printing establishment
in India 1850; manager of Bombay gazette; on staff of Bombay
times, purchased the paper, took Robert Knight into partnership,
and renamed it The Times of India, when it became the
representative journal of Western India, retired 1880; author
of Shakespeare 1883, emendations on certain passages; Paradise
lost, with notes 1884; Hamlet restored, with notes 1885; Hamlet,
supplementary notes 1888; Macbeth, with preface and notes 1889.
_d._ Oct. 1893.

MULLANY, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Tipperary 29 June 1847; ed. by
the Christian Brethren at Utica, New York 1862; professor of
mathematics and English literature Rock hill college, Ellicott
city, Maryland 1866, president 1878, charges being made against
him he was summoned to Paris and on investigation acquitted;
professor of rhetoric at De La Salle institute 1889; established
the summer school at Plattsburg, a catholic copy of Chautauqua;
contributed to the Contemporary, Fortnightly, American Catholic
and North American reviews, and The Forum; author under the name
of Azarias, of The development of English literature, the old
English period, New York 1879; On thinking, an address 1881;
Aristotle and the christian church 1888; Phases of thought and
criticism 1892; The history of education from the earliest ages
1893, left unfinished. _d._ Plattsburgh, New York state Sept.
1893.

MULLEN, ROBERT. Ensign 1 foot 25 June 1802, major 8 Aug. 1833
to 16 June 1843; lieut. col. in the army 16 June 1843; K.H.
1835. _d._ at residence of his son, captain Mullen, governor of
Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.

MULLENS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward
college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained
congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept
1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the
native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college
Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary
of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary
March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited
and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy
discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François
Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875.
_d._ Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register
of Missionaries_ (1877) 169–70; _Congregationalist viii_ 969
_portrait_; _Congregational year book_ (1880) 342–4.

MULLER, EDWARD ANGIER GODFREY. _b._ about 1802; ensign 1 foot
3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for
high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major
depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct.
1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866
to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill,
Surrey 22 June 1875.

MÜLLER, FRANZ. _b._ 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old
Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas
Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed
him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near
Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford
arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to
New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to
England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty
and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja,
Ich habe es gethan. _Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp._ 239–63; _Central
criminal court, Sessions papers lx_ 461–504 (1864); _Annual
register_ (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; _Illust. Times 24
Sept. 1864 p._ 201 _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii_ 448–52
(1884).

NOTE.--This was one of the last of the most celebrated public executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868.

MULLINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter
Mullins, _d._ 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry
1736–1824). _b._ 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested
Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. _d._ Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.

MULLINS, JAMES. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K
division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of
£35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced
to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester
gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he
forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs.
Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860,
tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death,
_hanged_ at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. _Central Criminal court
trials lii_ 769–805 (1860); _A.R._ (1860) 541–64.

MULLOCK, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville;
superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop
of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s,
Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life
of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on
Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York
1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of
heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. _d._ St.
John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.

MULLOOLY, JOSEPH. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s,
Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered
and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of
St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of
Wales 1859. _d._ Rome 25 June 1880. _bur._ in cemetery of San
Lorenzo 27 June. _Times 3 July 1880 p._ 12.

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