LYNDON, Patrick Francis. b. Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary, Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish, Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul, south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston school committee 7 years. d. Boston 19 April 1878. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1878 (1883) p. 641.

LYNE, Charles (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). b. Castle hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V. of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31 March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. d. Colby villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, Francis (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon 1766–1823). b. Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of Father Ignatius 1881. d. 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

LYNE, Lewis Clifton (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker 1790–1861). b. 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie, a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. d. 38 East st. Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. bur. Woking cemetery.

LYNN, Samuel Ferris. b. Belfast 1836; student at the R.A. 1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865 p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in Dublin and Manchester. d. Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, Henry. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal 27 Sep. 1847. d. St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, Francis. b. 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851, lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he died same day. I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp. 303, 304, portrait.

LYON, Henry (son of a house agent). b. St. Luke’s, London 15 March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp, and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. The life of Henry Lyon (1865).

LYON, Thomas Eaton. b. Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug. 1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund 1839. d. White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 Jany. 1869. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. Era 31 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

LYON, William (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland place, London). b. 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823, captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859, Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (m. 1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). d. Goring hall near Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, Edmund Lyons, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). b. Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (m. 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she d. 10 March 1852). He d. Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia, i 398 (1857), portrait; Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p. 164, portrait.

LYONS, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). b. Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817; midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington 13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb. 1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19 May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris 6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C. 9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented his being created an earl. d. Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. bur. Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, Francis. b. Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822 but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. d. 1865.

LYONS, Humphry. b. 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827 to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1 European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of 23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859; lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. d. Widmore, Bromley, Kent 27 May 1873.

LYONS, James Gilborne. b. England; ordained in the church of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia 1861. d. Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, John (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) b. 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, John Charles (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). b. 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. d. Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. bur. in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, Louisa, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). b. about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, Robert Spencer Dyer (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). b. Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. d. 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp. 33–5, portrait; Biograph, iii 396–400 (1880).

LYONS, Sir William (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. d. 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, Arthur. b. 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. d. Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, William John (only son of William Lysley d. 1792). b. 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. d. St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, Samuel (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). b. 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. d. Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, ii 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, James (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, d. 1841). b. 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. d. Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.

LYSTER, William Saurin (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). b. Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. d. Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, John. b. York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. d. Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.

LYTH, Richard Burdsall. b. York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. d. Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, Thomas. b. Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. d. Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, George William Lyttelton, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait, lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news, i 61 (1869), portrait.

LYTTELTON, Spencer (brother of the preceding). b. Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. d. 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, William Henry (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). b. 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. d. Malvern 24 July 1884.

LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). b. 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. d. Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper (1873); The Derby ministry. By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent (1858) 143–94; Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp. 551–5, portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 1–5, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 243–56; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 189–214 (1844), portrait; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists, ii 198–220 (1858); Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, iii 27–63 (1855); Graphic, vii 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 portraits.

LYTTON, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. d. at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. bur. in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 189–96; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii 28 (1882), portrait; Army and navy mag. iii 99 (1882), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp. 654–68, portrait; Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p. 707, portrait.

LYTTON, Rosina Anne Doyle (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). b. Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; m. at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. d. Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. bur. churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey (1887), portrait; Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey (1884), this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885; Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 47–9; Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public (1857), 3 ed. (1857); The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son, ii 33 etc.; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854), 31–6; Daily News 16 March 1882 p. 5.

LYVEDEN, Robert Vernon, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). b. 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873), lxiv 54 (1874).

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MAAS, Joseph. b. Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. d. of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. bur. Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, Catherine Charlotte (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). b. 1805; (m. 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. d. 7 Feb. 1875.

MABERLEY, Frederick Herbert (son of Stephen Maberley of London). b. 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. d. Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 511 (1860).

MABERLY, William Leader (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). b. 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. d. 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. E. Yates’s Recollections, i 96–100 (1884); A. Trollope’s Autobiography, i 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, David. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. d. Edinburgh 10 June 1859. G.M. vii 86 (1859).

MAC ADAM, James. b. Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. d. Belfast 1 June 1861. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, Sir James Nicholl (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). b. 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. d. 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, John (son of Wm. Macadam). b. Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. d. on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, William (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam d. 23 Feb. 1836 the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). b. 1803; surveyor general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. d. the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. Observations sur les routes dites Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam etc. 1861.

MACALESTER, Charles Archibald (son of colonel Archibald Macalester). b. 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12 Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands; chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H. 1833. d. Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, Arthur. b. Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor; solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6; secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866; premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields 28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1; colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G. 13 March 1876. d. at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside, Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, Robert Whitaker (son of Robert Stephens M’All, independent minister, d. 1838). b. 1821; independent minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’ Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society; received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission 1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer chapel, Sunderland 1853. d. Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893. The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission. By H. Bonar (1879); A cry from the land of Calvin and Voltaire (1887).

MC CALL, Samuel (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). b. St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel, Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed. entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. d. 2 Goulton road, Clapton, London 9 March 1888. Congregational Year book (1889) 198–201.

MC ALPIN, William. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy of Egypt 25 years, d. 1 May 1865 aged 61. bur. Highgate cemetery.

MACAN, George. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14 N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2 June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. d. 1 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, Henry. b. 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856; general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. 31 Craven road, Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, John. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; found dead in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, James. b. Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till 1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province 1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. d. from effects of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 269–70, portrait.

M’ARDLE, John Francis. b. Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce, and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug. 1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March 1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque, Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal 6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield, May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house, Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other songs. d. at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, Regina (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857. d. in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, David Charteris. b. 1809; in service of North British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868, retired from active service 1885, local director of the Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the imprest system 1854. d. Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, Duncan. b. Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27 April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10 Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany. 1855. Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, Sir Edward (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834, of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool industry). b. Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809, captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60; acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of 100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July 1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. d. 27 Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, Hannibal Hawkins (son of the succeeding). b. Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805; assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. d. Norwood, Surrey 6 March 1861.

MACARTHUR, James (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). b. Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood 1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its present state and future prospects 1837. d. Sydney 21 April 1867.

MACARTHUR, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct. 1882. A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir, i 246–9 (1870).

M’ARTHUR, Sir William (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan minister, d. 1840). b. Malin, barony of Innishowen, co. Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from 15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857; contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. d. in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. bur. Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate in the colonies. T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 448 (1880), portrait; Graphic xxii 436 (1880), portrait; J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 85–95.

MACARTHY or CARTER, John or Thomas, known as Macarte and Massarti. b. Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st. Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany. 1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. d. in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. bur. Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. Times 17 Nov. 1862 p. 12; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 209 (1874); Baily’s Mag. xliii 16–17, 20 (1885); T. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 293–6.

MACAULAY, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1 Baron (eld. child of Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). b. Rothley Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ. scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death; contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds 1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856; a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England, March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep. 1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July 1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848, installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ. of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy 1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep. 1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11 May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856 to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols. 1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England 5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. d. in his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec. 1859. bur. in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860 where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. G. O. Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay 2 vols. (1876), portrait; Men of the time (1857) 489–93; Illustrated Review, iv 1–11 (1873), portrait; Peter Anton’s Masters in history (1884) 123–94; Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By J. H. Stirling (1868) 112–71; Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of Lord Macaulay (1862); R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age, ii 33–50 (1844); D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties, ii 113–35 (1859); Proc. of royal society, xi 11–26 (1860); Traits of character. By A Contemporary, ii 1–26 (1860); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 121, portrait.

MACAULAY, Beata Elizabeth. b. 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay; contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. d. Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight 15 Jany. 1883.

MACAULAY, Charles Zachary. b. 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office 1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of £1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology. London 1871. d. 7 Aug. 1886.

MACAULAY, Colin Campbell (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of Rothley). b. Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor 1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society, president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions. d. Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. bur. family vault Rothley. G.M. xl 644 (1853).

MACAULAY, Sir James Buchanan (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector general of hospitals). b. Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec. 1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles 1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego, Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America; admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench 1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856 when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal 1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. d. Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.

MACAULAY, Kenneth (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). b. Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864, treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P. borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. Law Times, xliii 224 (1867); I.L.N. xxii 152 (1853), portrait.

MC AULEY, Jeremiah. b. Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. d. New York 18 Sep. 1884. Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York (1885), portraits of himself and wife.

MACBAIN, Sir James (youngest son of Smith Macbain of Invergordon). b. Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business 1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80; member for the Central province, to the legislative council 1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884; chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres. of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. d. Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.

MACBEAN, Archibald. b. 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810, lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. d. 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1871.

MACBEAN, Frederick. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May 1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815; major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. d. 15 March 1865 aged 78.

M’BEAN, James. b. 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. d. 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26 April 1886.

MACBEAN, Sir William (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col. 6 foot). b. Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct. 1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7 Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2 Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. d. St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24 May 1855.

M’BEAN, William. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29 Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16 Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June 1878. I.L.N. lxiii 4 (1878), portrait; Graphic, xviii 116 (1878), portrait.

MACBEAN, William Forbes. b. 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.

MACBETH, James. b. Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 266–71.

MACBETH, Norman (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). b. Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. d. 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888.

MACBRIDE, John Alexander Paterson (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). b. Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. d. Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. Graphic 3 May 1890 p. 508, portrait.

MACBRIDE, John David (only son of John Macbride, admiral, d. 1800). b. Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. d. Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.

M’BRIDGE, James. b. 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. d. Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p. 76.

M’CABE, Edward. b. Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. d. 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin. Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop (1879); Saturday Review, lix 243; Graphic, xxv 521 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 372 (1882), portrait.

MACCABE, Joseph. b. Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (m. 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. d. of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany.