Chapter XLVIII: Part 48

MURRAY, HENRY LEIGH, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother
of Gaston Murray 1826–89). _b._ Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820;
made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at
Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh
till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19
April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with
Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played
Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849;
stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm.
Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7,
at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859;
made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble
heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James
Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts
were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de
Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to
ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit
at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of
his day. _d._ 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. _bur._
Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. _W. Marston’s Our recent actors
ii_ 307–9 (1888); _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1851) 135–7
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part_ 14
_portrait_; _The Players iii_ 399 (1861), _and iv_ 2 (1861);
_Theatrical Times i_ 161 (1847) _portrait_.

MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott
of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership
with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham
st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at
Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms,
and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury
1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton,
Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern
architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and
classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862.
_d._ Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. _Builder xxi_
780, 807, (1863).

MURRAY, SIR JAMES (son of Edward Murray). _b._ co. Londonderry
1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb.
1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin
1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician
to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829,
knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington
1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy
in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid
magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to
suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation
on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on
fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other
epidemics, Dublin 1849. _d._ 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec.
1871. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. _I.L.N. lix_ 618 (1871), _lx_ 15,
16, (1872) _portrait_.

MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826;
assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct.
1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a
year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. _d._ 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19
Feb. 1878.

MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of
five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The
maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. _d._
middle of Aug. 1882. _Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p._ 273.

MURRAY, JAMES ARCHIBALD (son of Charles Murray). _b._ 4 March
1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820;
second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of
the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. _d._
7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.

MURRAY, JOHN (son of James Murray, sea-captain). _b._ Stranraer,
Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of
physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution,
Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819;
F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of
chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments
illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on
atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831
anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833,
and 23 other books. _d._ Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28
June 1851. _bur._ in Inch churchyard. _Mining Journal 12 July
1851 p._ 336.

MURRAY, JOHN. _b._ 1798; succeeded David Laing the original
Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over
the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an
average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar
hotel. _d._ May 1861. _P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna
Green ii_ 91 (1844); _G.M. xi_ 96 (1861).

MURRAY, JOHN (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). _b._ Aberdeen
1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867;
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British
Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist.
physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became
dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist.
physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. _d._ after
an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873.
_bur._ Aberdeen. _British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 476;
_The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 577.

MURRAY, JOHN. _b._ Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear
comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one
solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards
Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in
diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore
with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay
at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12
March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on
the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and
currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the
search for sir J. Franklin 1854. _d._ 2 Feb. 1882. _Min. of
Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi_ 400–407 (1883); _W. H. D. Adams’s
Lighthouses_ (1870) 182–6 _view of the Wear lighthouse_.

MURRAY, JOHN (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843).
_b._ London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ.
of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43;
publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many
books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head,
lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known
as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to
death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891;
F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence
Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract
xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s
Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology
and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ 50
Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. _bur._ in Wimbledon parish
church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. _S.
Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol._ 2 (1891) _passim_;
_Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 159–98; _The Critic xx_ 17 (1860)
_portrait_; _Graphic 9 April 1892) p._ 464 _portrait_; _Saturday
Review lxii_ 834.

MURRAY, SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord
Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). _b._ Midlothian 1779;
ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ.
of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh
review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh
review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the
Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder
of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834
and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with
courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at
St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord
advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury
trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. _d._ 11 Great
Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches_ (1876) 71–7; _Memoirs of Francis Horner_, 2 _vols._
1853, _this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many
letters to him_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 107–9
_portrait_; _Law magazine and law review vii_ 182–7 (1859).

MURRAY, JOHN FISHER (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician
1788–1871). _b._ Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed
to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards
reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled
Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for
the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The
Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols.
1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The
world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols.
London 1845. _d._ Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet.
_C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland_ (1880) 14 _et seq._

NOTE.--He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed. entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.

MURRAY, JOHN O’KANE. _b._ Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847;
went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s
college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New
York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A
popular history of the Catholic church in the United States
1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes
and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints
1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English
literature 1883. _d._ Chicago 30 July 1885.

MURRAY, MARY FRANCES (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi
theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes _d._ 12 April
1880). _b._ near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage
1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first
appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in
The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s
Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26
March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July
1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858,
Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in
Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace
Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in
Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the
Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s
penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s
Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted
in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The
pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June
1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house
17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool
as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb.
1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An
American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874;
Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona
in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in
C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G.
Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss
Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in
C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C.
Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs.
Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick
theatre 24 April 1889; _m._ Gaston Murray, who _d._ 8 Aug. 1889.
_d._ 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic List_ (1880) 269; _Illust. S. and D. news iii_ 513, 539
(1875) _portrait_.

MURRAY, MONTAGU. _b._ Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port
Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the
emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the
survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played
Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres
he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney;
a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and
managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851;
toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia;
the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among
the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol
Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with
his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. _d._ Hay June 1880.
_The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p._ 6.

MURRAY, NICHOLAS (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). _b._
Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July
1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at
Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary
1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New
Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of
the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he
wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop
of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed.
1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism
at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed.
1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several
replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical
and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things
as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855;
Preachers and preaching 1860. _d._ Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4
Feb. 1861. _S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray_ (1863) _portrait_.

MURRAY, PATRICK ALOYSIUS. _b._ Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov.
1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin
1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41,
and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000
priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to
death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The
Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851;
Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia
Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject;
Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. _d._ Maynooth
college 15 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Maynooth 18 Nov. _Irish Monthly
xix_ 337–46 (1891); _Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p._ 5.

MURRAY, PETER (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of
supreme court of Jamaica). _b._ Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March
1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews
1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802;
assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803;
practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812
to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. _d._ Belle
Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. _bur._ Scarborough cemet. 5
March. _The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie_ (1864).

MURRAY, RICHARD. _b._ 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829
to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827;
Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840;
Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland
1849. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.

MURRAY, ROBERT FULLER (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury
in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who _d._ 1886). _b._
Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso
1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and
Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with
a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New
college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called
College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St.
Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews
May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to
about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine,
Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown,
verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M.
Holden 1891. _d._ Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany.
1894. _Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew
Lang_ (1894); _Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp._ 644–50.

MURRAY, SIR TERENCE AUBREY (son of Terence Murray, captain 48
foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) _b._ Limerick 1810; went
to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate
1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray,
King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member
for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the
Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug.
1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858;
speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of
legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to
death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. _d._ Sydney 22 June 1873.
_Australian men of mark i_ 159–64 (1889) _portrait_.

MURRAY, THOMAS. _b._ parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire
1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the
established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir
David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh
Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of
Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George
st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the
firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired
about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The
literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford
1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John
Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton
1863. _d._ Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872.
_Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 77.

MURRAY, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas
Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st.
Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before
his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray
published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6,
eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. _d._ 7 Royal
crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.

MURRAY, THOMAS BOYLES (son of Charles Murray, solicitor, _d._
1847). _b._ 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824;
C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London;
assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge
1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East
28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March
1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840;
An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the
anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the
island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city
church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old
and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. _d._ 30 Brunswick sq.
London 24 Sept. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Gent. Mag. ix_
556 (1860); _I.L.N. xxvi_ 269 (1855) _portrait_.

MURRAY, THOMAS GRAHAM (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall,
Perthshire 1782–1847). _b._ Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb.
academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior
partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879;
member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and
on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener
of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887,
under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb.
univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member
for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt.
to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. _d._ 11 Randolph
crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. _bur._ Dean cemetery 14
March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A.
1891. _The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p._ 7.

MURRAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor
1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34,
practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and
F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of
council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867;
M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. _d._ 7 Warrior terrace, St.
Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. _Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p._ 14.

MURRAY, WILLIAM (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st.
London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May
1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May
1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major
in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road,
Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a
money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand
12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July,
the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide
25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria
Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. _A.R._ (1861)
119–26; _J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed._ (1876) 606–7;
_Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p._ 46, 27 _July pp._ 56–9 _and 3
Aug. pp._ 72–4, _portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16
Northumberland st._

MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, _b._
1806). _b._ Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled
viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21
July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855;
lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to
death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888
to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice
lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about
1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee
March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the
county road trustees. _d._ Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.

MURRAY, WILLIAM HENDERSON. Apprentice to a shoemaker at
Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the
Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected
with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express,
Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples,
latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as
printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. _d._ at house of his
father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. _The
Fife Herald 29 July 1858_, _p._ 2.

MURRAY, WILLIAM HENRY WOOD (son of Charles Murray, actor and
dramatist 1754–1821). _b._ Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts
at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as
Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre
royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played
Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819,
which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov.
1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce
No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee
of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee
with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee
1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony
Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July
1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter,
a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15
July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany.
1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and
Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. _d._
St. Andrews 5 May 1852. _bur._ in the cathedral burying ground,
portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery.
_B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 170–2 _portrait_; _The
Town ii_ 766, 778 (1839); _J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh
stage_ (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 _portrait_; _The Farewell
addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch_ (1851).

MURRAY, WILLIAM POWELL (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth,
Sussex). _b._ London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829,
King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb.
1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841;
practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court,
Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death.
_d._ Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. _bur._ Shirley
churchyard, Surrey. _Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p._ 347.

MURRAY-DUNLOP, ALEXANDER COLQUHOUN STIRLING (eld. son of
Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). _b._
Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ.
of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of
Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir
James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of
rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest”
made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free
church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July
1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S.
of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of
John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on
death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor
law. _d._ Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. _Law Times
10 Sept. 1870 p._ 357.

MURRIETA, CRISTOBAL DE. _b._ Spain 1789; a merchant at 5
Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons
Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was
principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at
7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a
limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July
1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. _d._
11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty
sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.

MURSELL, JAMES (son of the succeeding). _b._ Leicester 22 July
1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ.
Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70;
at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel,
Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s
Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India
1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire
1861. _d._ Newcastle 28 May 1875. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men_
(1884) 330–2; _The Baptist handbook_ 1876 _pp._ 378–80.

MURSELL, JAMES PHILIPPO (son of William Mursell, ironmonger).
_b._ High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and
at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at
Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600;
first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder
of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the
Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after
his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of
Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2
ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous
ministry, its character and its worth 1857. _d._ Leicester 2
Nov. 1885. _A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell_ (1886) _portrait_; _The
Baptist handbook_ 1886 _pp._ 131–3.

MURTON, FREDERIC (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines,
Chatham). _b._ Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George
Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837;
resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe
railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon
and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000;
in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to
Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America;
M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. _d._ 85 Addison road, Kensington, London
17 Jany. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 326–8
(1889).

MUSGRAVE, ANTHONY. _b._ Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and
Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical
society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner
with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of
house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death;
partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico
Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow
fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in
the medical papers. _d._ Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.

MUSGRAVE, SIR ANTHONY (son of the preceding). _b._ 1828; private
secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands
1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at
Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis
Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St.
Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of
British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25
May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor
and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and
commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G.
23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885;
author of Studies in political economy 1875. _d._ Government
house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.

MUSGRAVE, CHARLES (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge,
woollen draper). _b._ 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837;
fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select
preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March
1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death;
archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges
and sermons 1824–54. _d._ Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875.
_The church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859)
_portrait_ 43; _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882) 111, 519.

MUSGRAVE, FRANK. _b._ 1834; conductor at Strand theatre,
London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H.
J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the
music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the
first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque
L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime
polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion
train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation
arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad
1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave
1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F.
Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets
1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music
1861–84. _d._ Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May
1888. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 May.

MUSGRAVE, GEORGE MUSGRAVE (eld. son of George Musgrave of
Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). _b._ St. Marylebone, London
1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822;
C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9;
R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54;
travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes
at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and
three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author
of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the
Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts
in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A
pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions,
cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed.
1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and
corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer,
rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols.
1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 13 Grosvenor
place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.

MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher
Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). _b._ 6 Jany. 1790;
succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. _d._ Whiting
bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.

MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD COURTENAY 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G.
Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). _b._ Eden hall, Penrith,
Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold
out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of
Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland
16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880
to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to
death. _d._ 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.

MUSGRAVE, THOMAS (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen
draper). _b._ Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed.
at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb.
1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7,
senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813,
D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior
proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the
Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March
1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth
1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of
York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany.
1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. _d._ 41 Belgrave
sq. London 4 May 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet., portrait in
dining room at Bishopthorpe.

MUSGRAVE, THOMAS MOORE. _b._ 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham,
sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in
sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the
secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired
on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the
mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post
office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a
writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s
Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence
1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective
balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from
the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens,
a translation 1826. _d._ Bath 4 Sept. 1854. _Bath Chronicle 14
Sept. 1854 p._ 3.

MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge
supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. _d._
Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.

MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM PEETE. _b._ 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs.
1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident
canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of
Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden
of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor
of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?;
The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. _d._
Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. _F. T. Havergal’s Fasti
Herefordenses_ (1869) _p._ 66.

MUSGROVE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of
London, merchant 1763–1820). _b._ 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and
house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad
st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London
and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on
occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet
2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. _d._ Rusthall
house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. xvii_ 357 (1850)
_portrait_.

MUSHET, ROBERT (2 son of Richard Mushet). _b._ Dalkeith 1811;
second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London
1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author
of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844,
2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. _d._ Haywards
Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871.

MUSHET, ROBERT FORESTER (youngest son of David Mushet
metallurgist 1772–1847). _b._ Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April
1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford;
experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as
Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the
quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the
Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when
in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel
institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for
manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten
and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870;
author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. _d._ 10 Sydenham
villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. _Jeans’s Creators of the age
of steel_ (1884) 60–5; _Journal of iron and steel institute_
(1876) 1–4; _Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p._ 7 _portrait_.

MUSPRATT, JAMES (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, _d._
1810). _b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale
chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812,
but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash
in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J.
C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble
and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new
works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the
chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom.
_d._ Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. _bur._ in Walton
parish churchyard. _J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt_,
_with portrait_.

MUSPRATT, JAMES SHERIDAN (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 8
March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836,
and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading
partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig
at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before
granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool
college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s
business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated
Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered
a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known
as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative
analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and
analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; _m._ 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman,
American actress, _d._ 10 May 1859. He _d._ The Hollies, West
Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. _Biography of Sheridan Muspratt_,
_by a London barrister-at-law_ (1852) _portrait_; _J. S.
Muspratt’s Chemistry_, 2 _vols._ (1853–61) 2 _portraits_; _W.
White’s Biography of S. Muspratt_ (1869) _portrait_.

MUSSY, HENRI GUÉNEAU DE. _b._ Paris 1814; physician, came to
England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans
family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859;
resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland
about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the
president and college of physicians of England; representative
of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of
Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De
l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des
thèses 1844, vol. viii. _d._ St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept.
1892. _bur._ Pére Lachaise cemet. Paris 3 Oct. _The Times 4 Oct.
1892 pp._ 3, 7.

NOTE.--He was one of the few foreigners elected to the full fellowship of the royal college of physicians, his coat-of-arms is represented in one of the stained glass windows of the college in Trafalgar square.

MUSTERS, GEORGE CHAWORTH (son of John George Musters of Wiverton
hall, Notts., _d._ 1842). _b._ Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered
the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black
Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut.
of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June
1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming
at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies,
who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from
Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and
adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul
for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the
Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the
Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. _d._
London 25 Jany. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i_ 397–8 (1879).

MUSTOXIDI, SIR ANDREA. _b._ Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua
1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of
duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative
assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of
municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the
Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823;
historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland
deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many
editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece,
published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48.
_d._ Corfu 17 July 1860. _G.M. Nov. 1860 p._ 554; _Didot’s
Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi_ 73 (1863); _Larousse’s Grand
Dictionnaire xi_ 732 (1874).

MUSURUS, CONSTANTINE (son of Paul Musurus). _b._ Constantinople
18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg
Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne
he married in 1839, she was _b._ 1819 and _d._ in London 19
July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848;
minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador
30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit
to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston
sq. London. _d._ Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. _The Graphic 21
Feb. 1891 p._ 209 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p._ 235
_portrait_; _Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p._ 241 _portrait_.

MUTRIE, ANNIE FERAY (sister of the succeeding). _b._ Ardwick,
Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A.
and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in
his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854;
sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the
International exhibition of 1862. _d._ 26 Lower Rock gardens,
Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _The Times 10
Oct. 1893 p._ 9.

MUTRIE, MARTHA DARLEY (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled
at Manchester in the cotton trade). _b._ Ardwick, Manchester
26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester
Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death;
exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group
of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. _d._
36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. _bur._
Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p._ 75.

MUTTLEBURY, GEORGE. _b._ 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795,
captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col.
10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot
again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._
Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.

MYBURGH, PHILIP ALBERT (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of
Cape of Good Hope civil service, _d._ 21 Jany. 1868). _b._ 24
Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London
1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886
to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel
in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty
court, London. _d._ 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.

MYCROFT, WILLIAM. _b._ Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb.
1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at
Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3;
first played at Lord’s in All England _v._ the United South
22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G.
Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in
the Players _v._ Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877;
engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex
players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. _d._ Derby 19 June
1894. _Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii_ 823 (1880).

MYERS, ARTHUR THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of
Keswick, Cumberland). _b._ 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond.
1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical
registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887
to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. _d._
from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq.
London 10 Jany. 1894.

MYERS, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor
of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) _b._
Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829,
Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew
scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s,
Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately
printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of
Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in
1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge,
Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. _d._ Clifton 20
July 1851. _bur._ Keswick churchyard 26 July. _The life of Wm.
Whewell_, _By Mrs. Stair Douglas_ (1881) _passim_.

MYERS, JAMES WASHINGTON. _b._ Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of
America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons
1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses;
proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United
States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T.
Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at
Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus
17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces
and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris;
his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876;
opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold
his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at
North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s
circus to death. _d._ Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. _Era 21 Oct. 1882 p._
7, _cols._ 3–4; _Graphic xxvi_ 501 (1882); _Illust. Sp. and Dr.
news xviii_ 145 (1882).

MYERS, WILLIAM. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under
Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under
Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and
Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in
Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C.
Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey;
was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William
in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey.
_d._ Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers,
professionally known as Kate Maynard.

MYERS, WILLIAM. _b._ Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked
300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in
30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500
hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34
miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10
a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds;
beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday
1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose
hill, London. _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 45 _portrait_.

MYLES, JAMES. _b._ parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a
mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights;
bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast
of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of
Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from
Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches
in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier;
issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire
telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. _d._
Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. _W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities_ (1873)
132–3.

MYLES, PERCY WATKINS (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of
Kilmore, co. Cork). _b._ Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs.
1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of
Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford
1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of
Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy
institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890,
printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy;
edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature
notes 1890 to death. _d._ 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7
Oct. 1891. _Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p._ 335.

MYLNE, ROBERT WILLIAM (son of the succeeding). _b._ 14 June
1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to
Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water
from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the
Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S.
1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of
On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin
1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome
1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the
metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs
1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and
its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied
by the waterworks 1856. _d._ Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts.
2 July 1890. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi_ (1891);
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 317 (1890).

MYLNE, WILLIAM CHADWELL (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect
and engineer 1734–1811). _b._ London 6 April 1781; assistant
engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61;
designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for
Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes
near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq.
1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington
1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S.
1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842,
member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of
engineers 41 years. _d._ Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. _R. S.
Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland_ (1893) 284–98
_portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 448–51 (1870).

MYNN, ALFRED (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). _b._ Twisdon lodge,
Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother
at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’
club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in
Gentlemen _v._ Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen
20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in
1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being
twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour;
member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England
match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most
runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion
single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas
Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846,
all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed
bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham
and then to London. _d._ Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov.
1861. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 3–11 _and_ 74–6; _Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores ii_ 200–1 (1862); _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_
(1893) 28–32, 203, 3 _portraits_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891)
29 _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 137 _portrait_.

MYNN, WALTER PARKER (brother of preceding). _b._ 24 Nov. 1805;
member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in
first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen _v._
Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A.
Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in
consequence; height upwards of six feet. _d._ 19 South Grove,
Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. _bur._ Forest Hill. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores ii_ 221 (1862).

MYTTON, RICHARD HERBERT (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of
Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, _d._ 21 Feb. 1828). _b._
2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder,
or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of
Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. _d._ Garth
12 May 1869.

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