Chapter XLVII: Part 47

MULOCK, DINAH MARIA (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). _b._
Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and
resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love
or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti
1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852;
Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853;
Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols.
1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and
maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868;
Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty
years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864;
_m._ 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature
at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near
Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century
vii_ 377–84 (1891).

NOTE.--The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte.

MULREADY, WILLIAM (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq.
London). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London
1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and
the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books
1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures
at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his
finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South
Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first
penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at
Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater
1827 to death. _d._ 7 July 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _F.
G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready_ (1890) 2 _portraits_;
_Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready_ (1867); _Sandby’s History
of the royal academy i_ 355–58 (1862); _S. Armytage’s Beautiful
pictures by British artists_ (1871) 15–6; _J. Dafforne’s
Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A._ (1872); _W. C. Monkhouse’s
Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 137–43; _Redgrave’s Century
of painters ii_ 224–30, 298–325 (1866); _I.L.N. vii_ 20 (1845)
_portrait_.

MULVANY, CHARLES PELHAM (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister).
_b._ Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850,
scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7;
surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868;
went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872;
assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years;
curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the
Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of
Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881;
author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant,
Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the
north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. _d._ 69 Augusta terrace,
Toronto 31 May 1885. _David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_
(1892) 171.

MULVANY, GEORGE F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A.
_d._ 1852). _b._ Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy;
exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A.,
succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy
1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National
gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts
concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847;
Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with
an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany
1890. _d._ Dublin 6 Feb. 1869.

MUMFORD, ELIZA. _b._ 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected
with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan
Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class
leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale
for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New
packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the
young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for
Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude
Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The
meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. _d._ Bromley,
Kent 3 Feb. 1884.

NOTE.--Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882.

MUMMERY, ISAAC VALE (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). _b._
Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at
Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational
minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal
Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the
Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec.
to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. _d._ 28 High
st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 7
Oct. _Congregational Mag._ (1893) 234.

MUNBY, GILES (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). _b._
York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived
in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges,
and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran,
Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable
anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an
original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de
l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria
sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. _d._ the Holt
near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. _Gardener’s Chronicle ii_
260–2 (1876) _portrait_.

MUNDELL, WILLIAM ADAM (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George
st. Westminster). _b._ 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and
Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co.,
solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847,
bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar;
Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess
player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published
A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A
letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding
of assizes and sessions 1857. _d._ 150 Buckingham palace road,
London 15 July 1875. _Law Times lix_ 252 (1875); _Solicitor’s
Journal xix_ 736 (1875); _Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77.

MUNDY, CHARLES FITROY MILLER (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy
of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1815;
ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15
Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of
Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny;
lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881;
placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ London
12 July 1888.

MUNDY, GEORGE. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and
schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary
at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism
contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs.
Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. _d._ Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall
co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire _d._ Oct. 1822). _b._ Shipley hall
1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the
taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the
Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal
George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec.
1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire
1819–31. _d._ 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE RODNEY (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy
_d._ 1848). _b._ London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819,
captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he
fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession
of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the
Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857;
second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the
detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863;
commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72;
admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5;
admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23
June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of
Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation
of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples
during the Italian revolution 1863. _d._ 12 Chesterfield st.
Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.

MUNDY, GEORGE VALENTINE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1819;
ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840;
captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut.
col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in
the army 24 April 1860. _d._ 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London
14 May 1863.

MUNDY, GODFREY CHARLES (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot
6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to
31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New
South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet
colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857
to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal
of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or
residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. _d._ London
10 July 1860.

MUNDY, SIR ROBERT MILLER (brother of Sir George Mundy
1777–1861). _b._ 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut.
R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846
with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col.
in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut.
governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting
governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana
May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut.
governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of
£333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._
Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.

MUNDY, WILLIAM (son of Francis Mundy M.P. _d._ 6 May 1837). _b._
Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843;
M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South
Derbyshire 19 July 1865. _d._ Markeaton 10 April 1877.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). _b._
1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at
Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving
for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A.
and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture
especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca
1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house
of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham;
lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself
a house and studio at Cannes. _d._ Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. _W. B.
Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 133–8.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of
Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at
Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid,
Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of
St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of
canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from
the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow
school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations
to scripture and reason 1856. _d._ Glasgow Nov. 1892.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER THOMPSON (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt.,
_d._ Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a
private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany.
1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18
Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting
some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut.
col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at
Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when
Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3
July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being
absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal
court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found
guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug.
1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate.
_The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July_, _8, 24,
26 Aug._, _4 Dec. 1843_; _Annual Register_ (1843) 79–80, 115,
(1847) 111–12; _I.L.N. xi_ 173 (1847) _portrait_.

MUNRO, SIR CHARLES, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain,
Rossshire, _d._ 1846). _b._ Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5
March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served
in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war;
received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the
war of independence in South America, and commanded a division
of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish
army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9
baronet 2 May 1848. _d._ Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.

MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar;
head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to
1850; F.L.S. 1821. _d._ 9 April 1853 _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 237
(1855).

MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel
road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for
Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. _d._ Whitehall, Chigwell row,
Essex 18 May 1888.

MUNRO, SIR GEORGE GUN (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield,
co. Cromarty). _b._ 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor
of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13
April 1842. _d._ 16 Sept. 1852.

MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of
Novar, Rossshire). _b._ Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury
and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ.
Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s
medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873;
Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov.
1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published
Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri
sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna
revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text
revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and
elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of
Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient
and modern paintings. _d._ Rome 30 March 1885. _bur._ in
protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and
Elgin academy. _Saturday Review lix_ 472; _Waagen’s Treasures of
art ii_ 131–42 (1854).

MUNRO OR McKENZIE, JANET. Remembered the battle of Culloden
1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life,
and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who
conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by
an unlawful tenure. _d._ Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged
at least 110 years. _bur._ Roskeen 19 April. _Times 15 May 1852
p._ 8.

MUNRO, JOHN (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of
Teaninich, co. Ross, _d._ May 1788). _b._ June 1778; entered
Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800,
major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I.
5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2
Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Muirtown house,
Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.

MUNRO, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke,
Gloucs.). _b._ 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant
colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore
24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol
1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865;
commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to
1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25
June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject
of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the
Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites
in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and
other papers. _d._ Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.

MUNROE, KATE, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr.
Lister). _b._ New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869;
sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities
1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love
Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as
Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian
Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from
10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for
100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100
nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black
Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches
de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux
nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues
at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America
1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April
1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April
1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and
Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; _m._ 1886 Mr.
Miles. _d._ from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London
17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and _bur._ in
Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000.
_Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 267; _Illust. S. & D. News v_
321, 327 (1876) _portrait_; _The Theatre ii_ 169, 208 (1883)
_portrait_.

MUNSEY, THOMAS ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Madras
army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut.
col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry
1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8,
and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light
cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death;
M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.

MUNSIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’
school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he
educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class
of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath
school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons
on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed.
1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64.
_d._ Glasgow 1864. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 235–6 (1886)
_portrait_.

MUNSTER, HENRY (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal,
Jamaica). _b._ 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the
Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to
Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup
race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848;
B.A. Camb. 1858. _d._ Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11
April 1894.

MUNSTER, WILLIAM FELIX LAURENCE (son of Henry Munster, M.P.)
_b._ Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and
at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4;
resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. _d._ St. Louis, Missouri 11
April 1877.

MUNTZ, GEORGE FREDERICK (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz,
merchant, _d._ 1811). _b._ Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov.
1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811;
made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz
metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and
Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with
Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for
the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of
15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress
Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first
M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency
1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of
the country, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Umberslade hall, near Birmingham
30 July 1857. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841)
86–101; _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors_ (1881) 93, 170,
206, 225; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 92 (1842) _portrait_, _xiv_ 196 (1849)
_portrait_; _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_
(1877) 79–88.

MUNTZ, PHILIP HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ Selby
hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant
Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough
1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec.
1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856;
presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P.
Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. _d._
Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. _bur._ Leamington 28 Dec. _Biograph
iii_ 47–52 (1880); _Times 26 Dec. 1888_, _p._ 4, _29 Dec. p._ 7;
_Dent’s Birmingham_ 494, 546 (1880); _I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._
36 _portrait._

MURCHISON, CHARLES (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.)
_b._ Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin
1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb.
1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April
1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical
college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death;
physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on
botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to
King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860,
physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital
1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at
St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P.
1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875;
member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer
1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to
the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers
of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases
of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885;
On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. _d._
suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23
April 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St.
Thomas’s hospital. _Proc. of Royal Society xxix_ 23–5 (1879).

MURCHISON, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale,
Eastern Ross 1751–96). _b._ 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807;
lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran
battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion
1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and
Singapore. _d._ Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.

MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth
Murchison 1793–1854). _b._ Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb.
1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great
Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug.
1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s
Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to
general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14;
captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815;
attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany.
1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826,
Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society
1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus
1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president
of British Association at York 1846; director general of the
geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a
baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861;
lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer
of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair
of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian
system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks
containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von
Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the
Ural Mountains 1845; _m._ 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of
general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she _d._
16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. _d._ 16 Belgrave sq.
London 22 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty
sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. _A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R.
I. Murchison_, 2 _vols._ (1875) _portrait_; _Dunkin’s Obituary
notices of astronomers_ (1879) 206–13; _Quarterly journal of
Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 29–35 (1872); _Walford’s Representative Men_
(1868) _portrait No._ 13; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 237 (1866) _portrait_;
_Graphic iv_ 411, 429 (1871) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 13 Jany.
1866 p._ 17 _portrait_; _Victoria Mag. xii_ 461–3 (1809) _an
account of Lady Murchison_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 297–8
(1869).

MURDOCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany.
1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22
Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired
14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for
which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced,
the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials
of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading
system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece
to the Admiralty 1866. _d._ Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.

MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1767; a baker; the public hangman in
Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct.
1851. _d._ 15 March 1856. _Times 28 March 1856 p._ 10.

MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied
in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of
western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop
of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop
Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to
death. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.

MURDOCH, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM CLINTON (son of Thomas Murdoch,
F.R.S.) _b._ Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at
Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk
May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842;
chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847,
retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1
Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of
America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. _d._ 88 St. George’s sq.
London 30 Nov. 1891.

MURE, DAVID (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1831). _b._ 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one
of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28
Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord
advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session
with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord
justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute
1859–65. _d._ Bournemouth 11 April 1891.

MURE, JAMES (son of James Mure). _b._ Great George st.
Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s
scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820;
barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue
On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for
the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the
play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the
Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club
1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri
Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. _d._ 20 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. _F. H. Forshall’s Westminster
school_ (1884) 311–13.

MURE, WILLIAM (brother of David Mure 1810–91). _b._ Caldwell,
Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs.
of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb.
1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P.
Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8;
author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian
dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of
ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian
islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature
of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for
the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from
the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. _d._ 55 Rutland
gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. _G.M. viii_ 634–5
(1860).

MURE, WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 9 May
1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851;
captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards
13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860;
served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut.
col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested
Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to
death. _d._ 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.

MURFITT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man
in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of
waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly
exhibited down to 1886. _d._ Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.

MURLAND, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman
of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern
railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national
education in Ireland 1865 to death. _Found dead_ in his bed at
Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890.
_Irish law times xxiv_ 275 (1890).

MURLY, GEORGE BULLOCK. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to
death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded
Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849;
founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. _d._
Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.

MURPHY, MR. _b._ Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the
Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in
his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent;
at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress
of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone.
_d._ of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. _Willis’
Current Notes_ (1857) 34; _E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs_
(1868) 224; _F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history_, _3rd
series ii_ 23 (1868).

MURPHY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH MARY ANNUNCIATA (eld. child of Charles
George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). _b._ Portman sq.
London 25 March 1845; _m._ 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an
Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but
finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he
was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge,
New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to
death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly,
The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. _d._ North
Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. _bur._
in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 465 (1888); _The Tablet 23 April 1881
pp._ 659–60.

MURPHY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I.
1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in
hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery
Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848;
president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the
practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed.
1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. _d._ 1 Nottingham place,
Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. _Barker’s Photographs of
medical men i_ 69–72 (1868) _portrait_; _Medical times i_ 217
(1877).

MURPHY, FRANCIS. _b._ Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at
St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826;
missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s,
Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838;
vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of
Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral,
Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in
Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South
Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr.
Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. _d._ West terrace, Adelaide 26
April 1858.

MURPHY, SIR FRANCIS (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the
South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years).
_b._ Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London
1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for
Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on
a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower
in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000
acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray
in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative
assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman
of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the
assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May
1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the
Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services
as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation
1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. _d._ St. Hilda
road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.

NOTE.--His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. _d._ Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.

MURPHY, FRANCIS STACK (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). _b._
Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin,
classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister
L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father
Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces
him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn;
M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842;
received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of
insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit,
many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north
and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench
and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of
cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. _d._
Kensington, London 17 June 1860. _Bates’s Maclise portrait
gallery_ (1883) 464–7; _I.L.N. iv_ 107 (1844) _portrait_; _Law
Times xxxv_ 191 (1860).

MURPHY, GEORGE MOLLETT (son of a shop keeper who _d._ 1845).
_b._ Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839,
became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845;
an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52;
signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson
and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham
1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge
road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall,
his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling,
with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths
for religious services during many seasons; minister of the
Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’
industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a
Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for
the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death
and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The
slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by
An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a
poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them
1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or
speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story,
a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education
of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for
temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 8 Finchley road,
Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 22
July. _Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy_ (1888) _portrait_;
_The Biograph iv_ 233–7 (1880).

MURPHY, GEORGE STORMONT. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent
association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870
to death. _d._ 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb.
1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession
extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of
cabdrivers with their cabs.

MURPHY, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866;
bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. _d._ 1883.

MURPHY, JEREMIAH JOHN (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). _b._
Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17
Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery
1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. _d._ 50 Upper
Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. _bur._ in Glasnevin cemet. _Law
mag. and law review iii_ 206 (1857).

MURPHY, JOHN. _b._ Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to
U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia
1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief
Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic
Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a
translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate
conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal;
issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of
Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary
title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been
bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. _d._
Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.

MURPHY, MILES. _b._ Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept.
1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college
from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828;
parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50;
vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death,
consecrated 10 March 1850. _d._ Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856.
_bur._ Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. _The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856
p._ 524, _23 Aug. p._ 540.

MURPHY, PATRICK. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841;
chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. _d._ Hotel
Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.

MURPHY, TIMOTHY. _b._ Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec.
1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May
1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841;
bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept.
1849. _d._ Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. _Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_
102 (1876).

MURRAY, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut.
18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31
Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the
China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. _d._ London 24 Dec.
1865.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff).
_b._ 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired
1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of
geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological
survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._
Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.

MURRAY, AMELIA MATILDA (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803,
bishop of St. Davids). _b._ 30 April 1795; had a government
pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.;
maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra
woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847;
Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856;
Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive
sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. _d._ Glenberrow, near
Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.

MURRAY, ANDREW (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall,
Perthshire 1782–1847). _b._ Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high
school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn,
C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43;
assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief
engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of
factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April
1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869.
_d._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E.
xxxvi_ 270–72 (1873).

MURRAY, ANDREW (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). _b._
Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June
1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for
one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon
exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical
society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to
Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific
committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861;
began collection of economic entomology for Science and art
department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The
pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s
Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of
mammals 1866. _d._ 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington
10 Jany. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.

MURRAY, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM. _b._ 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot
28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25
Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on
expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4
March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands
4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius
14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service
reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list
with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. _d._
Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.

MURRAY, CHARLES KNIGHT (son of Charles Murray). _b._ 12 Oct.
1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb.
1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr.
of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall
police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and
treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec.
1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne,
Victoria 1852. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.

MURRAY, DANIEL (son of a farmer). _b._ Sheepwalk, near Arklow,
co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca
1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow
to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of
Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of
archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823
to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the
Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president
of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of
Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death;
took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850;
author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of
Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed.
_d._ Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. _bur._
pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble
statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble
bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. _J. D’Alton’s Memoirs
of archbishops of Dublin_ (1838) 488–92; _D. Murray’s Sermons_,
2 _vols._ _Dublin_ (1859) _portrait_; _Notices of D. Murray,
archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher_ (1853) _memoir pp._ 53–142.

MURRAY, EDWARD (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884).
_b._ Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher
of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37;
R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt,
Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848
to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the
annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch
with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. _d._ Northolt 1
July 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 317 (1852).

NOTE.--He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played for England more than once.

MURRAY, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of
British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at
Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide
to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47;
resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of
Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the
Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; _m._ Henry John Murray, British
consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres
1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She _d._ San Remo, Italy
8 Dec. 1882. _Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_
111–16 (1876).

MURRAY, ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager
1765–1836). _b._ 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The
spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her
father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester,
Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as
Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept.
1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady
at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank
Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb.
1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the
original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May
1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30
Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love
knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J.
Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s
Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s
comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played
Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him
21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868,
Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W.
Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school
for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre;
played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at
Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20
Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship
16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in
Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the
original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of
Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s
Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of
Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary
29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at
Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in
Forget me not; _m._ at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh
Murray, actor, who _d._ 29 Jany. 1870. She _d._ 25 May 1892.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 May. _Theatrical Times iii_ 381, 382
(1848) _portrait_.

MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (natural son of Richard
Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). _b._
1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the
Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851,
acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden
to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852;
vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul
general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28
May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first
number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal
entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by
lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869
for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington
1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled
from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where
he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon;
Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette;
proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from
July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The
member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles,
3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third
republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The
Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols.
1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the
lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. _d._ Passy, near Paris
20 Dec. 1881. _bur._ Paris 24 Dec. _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_
309–30 (1884); _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 106–10;
_Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii_ 301–11 (1887); _Biograph
vi_ 585 (1881); _Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp._ 24–5; _A.R._ (1869)
79–82; _Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray_, _Parliamentary Papers
1868–69_, _No._ 4163.

MURRAY, FREEMAN. _b._ 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb.
1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major
20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov.
1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept.
1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61;
commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and
Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot
14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct.
1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Florence 14 April 1885.

MURRAY, GASTON, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. _b._
London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre,
Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life;
first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom
Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s
Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles
Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at
Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany.
1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played
Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859;
Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo
in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played
Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb.
1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr.
Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s;
played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend
at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s
Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque
Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867,
all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s
All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande
15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4
March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in
Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The
Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872;
treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and
Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General
theatrical fund 1880–2. _d._ 8 Aug. 1889. _bur._ Nunhead cemet.
12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. _The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p._
8, _17 Aug. p._ 8.

MURRAY, GEORGE (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884).
_b._ Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex
1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813;
archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and
Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814;
bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19
March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to
Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. _d._ 77 Chester sq.
London 16 Feb. 1860. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd
series_ (1846) _portrait_ 21.

MURRAY, GEORGE (son of John Murray of Troquhain). _b._ Galloway
1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant
and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8
March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843;
readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of
Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the
channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge
1866. _d._ Wimbledon, Surrey 15 Nov. 1883. _H. Scott’s Fasti i_
697 (1867).

MURRAY, SIR HENRY (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of
Mansfield 1727–96). _b._ 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster
school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March
1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812
to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p.
10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7
dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons
18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815,
K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont
Murray 1859. _d._ Wimbledon 29 July 1860.