MARWOOD-ELTON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, d. 4 Dec. 1827). b. 1801; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l. 16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838 with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. d. 18 April 1884.

MARX, Karl. b. Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845, settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848, after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till his death; chief founder and director of the International 1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. d. 41 Maitland park road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times. New York (1883); Progress, May and June 1883; Graphic, xxvii 329 (1883), portrait; Fortnightly Review, March 1875 pp. 382–91.

MASFEN, John. b. Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death; the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general practices in the kingdom. d. Stafford 7 June 1854.

MASHEDER, Richard. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica 1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review 1865, 2 ed. 1865. d. Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.

MASKELL, Rev. Joseph. b. 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond., Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C. of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. d. Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.

MASKELL, William (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 1825). b. Bath 1814; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe, Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay 1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850; F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut. 1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3 ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M. 1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. d. Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. E. G. K. Browne’s Annals of the tractarian movement (1861) 193–200, 214; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 140 (1891).

MASON, Charles Kemble. b. Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre; played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April 1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of Music, Philadelphia 1869. Ireland’s Records of New York stage, ii 105–6 (1867).

MASON, Sir Francis. b. Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America, July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. d. Eastbourne 27 May 1853. G.M. xl 91–2 (1853).

MASON, Francis (son of a shoemaker). b. Walingate, York 2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53 and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852; D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. Francis Mason’s The story of a working-man’s life. New York (1870).

MASON, Francis (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant of Wood st. Cheapside, London). b. Islington 21 July 1837; matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college, London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson; M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6, surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres. 1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877; On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). d. 5 June 1886. bur. Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St. Thomas’s hospital. St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv 249 (1886).

MASON, Frederick. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841; beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany. 1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. d. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 20 Oct. 1860. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 309–14 (1881).

MASON, George Heming (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) b. Fenton park 11 March 1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England, married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe, is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington fine arts club 1873. d. 7 Theresa terrace, Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.

MASON, George Henry Monck (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain R.N.) b. 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut. 3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11 May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state 1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. G.M. i 105–6 (1858).

MASON, Henry Joseph Monck (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason of Dublin). b. Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800; examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51; correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839; The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843; Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. d. Dargle cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. bur. in the old cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev. John O’Hanlon (1891).

MASON, Hugh (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne; mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885, contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. d. 2 Feb. 1886.

MASON, James Wood (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of Horsley court, Gloucs.) b. 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. d. on board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6 March 1893.

MASON, John Charles (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the H.E.I.Co.’s home service). b. London, March 1798; clerk in the secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office 1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired April 1867; represented government of India on committee on Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An analysis of the constitution of the East India company and of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. d. 12 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.

MASON, Sir Josiah (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). b. Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker, then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster; manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker 1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed 1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R. Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000, 1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868; knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880. d. Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason, a biography (1882); Fortunes made in business, i 129–83 (1884); Biograph, iii 119–25 (1880); Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, with views of College and Orphanage; Edgbastonia, i 48–49 (1881); I.L.N. lv 247, 248 (1869), portrait; Illust. midland news, i 8 (1869), portrait; Practical Mag. i 162 (1873), portrait.

MASON, Stephen (son of David Mason). b. Kennoway, Fifeshire 1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. d. 4 Thornton villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.

MASON, Thomas Monck (only son of William Monck Mason of Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000 in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17 hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English, and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. d. about 16 Sep. 1889. T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of aerostation (1838), portrait.

MASON, William Hayley. Author of Goodwood: its house, park and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. d. East street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.

MASON, William Monck (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel R.E.) b. Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary collections and historical and philological compositions 1858; author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of Ireland 1825. d. Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey 6 March 1859.

MASON, William Shaw. b. Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805 remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy 3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana. Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him for Sir R. Peel. d. Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.

MASQUERIER, John James. b. Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London, completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits 1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death. d. 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855. G.M. xliii 540 (1855).

MASSEREENE, John Foster-Skeffington, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard d. 18 Jany. 1843, by lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness Loughneagh, she d. 2 Jany. 1831). b. Dublin 30 Nov. 1812; succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831; assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858, new ed. 1860. d. from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co. Antrim 28 April 1863.

MASSEY, James. b. 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct. 1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100 a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847; beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes 26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852 and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854; fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856; won 13 out of 17 fights. d. 1864. Illust. sporting news 9 Jany. 1864 p. 385, portrait.

MASSEY, Richard. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837 to 1877. d. 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged 84.

MASSEY, Rose M. (dau. of Joseph T. Massey of Hamilton square, Birkenhead, Cheshire). b. 1850; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs. Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre, London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu the jeune premier 1874. d. New York 23 July 1883.

MASSEY, William Nathaniel (son of Wm. Massey). b. 1809; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany. 1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P. for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8; ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb. 1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63, new ed. 1865–6. d. 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. I.L.N. xlvi 237 (1865), portrait.

MASSIE, Edward (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget, Chester). b. 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll. Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols. 1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects 2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in English verse 1878. d. Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany. 1893.

MASSIE, James William. b. Ireland 1799; a missionary in India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59; an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement, visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. d. Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 472, ii 54 (1869).

MASSINGBERD, Francis Charles (only son of Francis Massingberd, R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, d. 1817). b. Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln 1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec. 1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave; author of English history of the leaders of the reformation. 1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book 1864. d. Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. bur. South Ormsby. Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii 272–9 (1885).

MASSINGBERD, Vincent Amcotts (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd, R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). b. 1808; entered navy 21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired admiral Oct. 1884. d. The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.

MASSINGHAM, John Deacon. b. 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby 1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul, Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. d. Chelsea, London 20 June 1882.

MASSON, Elizabeth. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano vocalist and vocal composer. d. London, Jany. 1865.

MASSON, George Joseph Gustave. b. London 9 March 1819; ed. at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8 Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869; contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European literature, French literature 1888. d. while on a visit to Sir Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.

MASSY, Godfrey (3 son of Hugh Massy d. 14 March 1814). b. Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V. of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland. d. Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. Dawson Massy’s Footprints of a faithful shepherd (1855), portrait.

MASSY-BERESFORD, John Maunsell (youngest son of John Massy of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). b. 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter, Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore 1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. d. London 22 Oct. 1886.

MAST, George Christian. b. Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8 Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college 148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878. d. Jany. 1884.

MASTER, Robert Augustus. b. 1806; entered Bengal army 1824; major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855, lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.

MASTER, Robert Mosley (son of the succeeding). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C. of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec. 1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64; archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near Preston 1865 to death. d. Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.

MASTER, Streynsham (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of Croston, Lancs. d. 1798). b. Croston 10 June 1766; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. d. 19 Jany. 1864. Manchester school register, ii 33–4 (1868).

MASTERS, Joseph. b. Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax, bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st. London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848; started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols. 1842–63. d. 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. Guide to the church congress (1883) 49–50.

MATCHAM, George (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller 1753–1833). b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov. 1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the Quarterly Review. d. 18 Jany. 1877.

MATHER, Charles (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of Grantham, Lincs.) b. 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college 1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting and dramatic news under name of Exon. d. Paulton’s terrace, Chelsea 1 July 1878.

MATHER, Cotton (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey 1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to the New Testament and Psalms 1861. d. Junior Garrick club, London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.

MATHER, Robert Cotton (son of James Mather, congregational minister). b. New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D. Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833; went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833; pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to 1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches; founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (m. Elizabeth Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she d. Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He d. 5 Torrington park, Finchley, London 21 April 1877. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1877) 96–7; Congregational year book (1878) 325.

MATHESON, Sir Alexander, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of Attadale, Rossshire, d. 1826 aged 48). b. Attadale 6 Jany. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84; a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May 1882. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.

MATHESON, Charles (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice, merchant). b. 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury 1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed. 1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. d. Leamington 15 April 1894.

MATHESON, Sir James, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of Shinness, Sutherlandshire). b. Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796; ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846; the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. d. Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. Proc. of royal society, xxix 21 (1879).

MATHESON, John. b. Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor; chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. d. between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men, vol ii (1886), portrait.

MATHESON, John. b. Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845, chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853; general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. d. 10 May 1882.

MATHESON, Thomas (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). b. Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815, major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.

MATHEW, Theobald (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron Llandaff). b. Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790; ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10 April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to 1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. d. Queenstown 8 Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork, uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890, another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in National portrait gallery, London. J. F. Maguire’s Father Mathew (1863), 2 portraits; Sullivan’s New Ireland, i 96–120 (1877); H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed. (1876) 299–306; S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, i 460–520 (1883); I.L.N. ii 53 (1843) portrait, iii 85 (1843) portrait, 28 June 1890 pp. 820–2 several portraits; Sporting Review, xl 209–10 (1858); J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies 2 ed. (1886) 325–50; Dublin Univ. mag. xxxiii 694, portrait.

MATHEWS, Anne (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances Maria Kelly). b. 1782 or 1783; m. at York 28 March 1803 Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July 1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April 1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. d. Chelsea villa, Fulham near London 12 Oct. 1869. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxii 93 (1847).

MATHEWS, Charles James (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian 1776–1835). b. Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect 1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost 30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843; lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt 4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863, at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870, New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years; went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877; made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833, Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. d. Queen’s hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 29 June. The life of C. J. Mathews, edited by Charles Dickens 2 vols. (1879), portraits; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage (1867), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. vi 351–53, portrait; Actors by daylight, i 57 (1838), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) p. 57, portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, ii 159–70 (1888); Theatrical times, i 105 (1847), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 123–27 (1881); C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 405–10; J. Hollingshead’s Plain English (1880) 111–16; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii 423–47 (1855), iii 343–73 (1855); T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1847) 187–98, portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas, i 205 (1879), portrait; London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp. 3–7, portrait.

MATHEWS, Helen. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona and Miranda. d. Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dr. news, xvi 497 (1882), portrait.

MATHEWS, Julia Isabella (dau. of James Mathews, artificial flower maker). b. Angel court, Strand, London about 1840; taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney 2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871; played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre, Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (m. at Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated 1870). d. at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S. of America 19 May 1876. London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp. 8–9, portrait; Illust. sporting news, vi 753 (1867), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, ii 169, 171 (1874); The Entracte 27 May 1876 p. 8, 3 June p. 8; The Era 28 May 1876 p. 10.

MATHEWS, Lucia Elizabett or Elizabetta, best known as Madame Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver 1757–1821). b. 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; m. 28 Jany. 1813 at St. Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817 and d. 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20 July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris 1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français; first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success; played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831 to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas by Planché and Dance; m. at Kensington church 18 July 1838 Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden 1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase 10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s 1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine through clouds 26 July 1854. d. Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug. 1856. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1826), portrait; Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1830), portrait; Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1830), privately printed; C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, ii 184–222 (1844), portrait; T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1847) 37–56, portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, v 91 (1826), portrait; Actors by daylight, i 41–2 (1838), portrait; Theatrical times, i 41 (1847), portrait; The dramatic mirror (1847) p. 60, portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 127–29 (1881); British stage, v 1 (1821), portrait; Planché’s Recollections and reflections 2 vols. (1872), passim; The Town, ii (1838–39), passim; Planché’s Extravaganzas, i 37 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. xi 268 (1847), portrait.

MATHEWS, Wilkinson (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). b. Whitby 9 March 1784; ed. at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C. Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he retired, d. 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866. bur. Leyland, Lancs. Law Times xci 536 (1866).

MATHIAS, George (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot 8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea 1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death. d. St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.

MATRAVERS, John. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners; purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of Bristol; F.S.A. d. London 30 Nov. 1851.

MATSON, Edward. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June 1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. d. 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.

MATTEI, Antonio. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April 1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. d. at his residence Sliema, Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.

MATTHEW, Walter Edmund (3 son of David Matthew of City of London, merchant). b. 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch. Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo 1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. d. 19 Feb. 1889.

MATTHEWS, Charles Peter. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co. brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club, London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J. Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. d. 18 Feb. 1891.

MATTHEWS, Emilia (dau. of Mr. Apjohn, bandmaster of a regiment). b. 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March 1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct. 1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May 1869; m. Frank Matthews 1807–71. d. Brompton, London 27 Aug. 1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. Era 31 Aug. 1873 p. 12, 7 Sep. p. 11.

MATTHEWS, Frank. b. Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1 July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80 nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec. 1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr. Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June 1840 and was lame for life. d. 7 Linden grove, Bayswater, London 24 July 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 29 July. Planché’s Extravaganzas, iv 87 (1879), portrait; Era 30 July 1871 p. 11 col. 4.

MATTHEWS, Henry William. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March 1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug. 1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. d. 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July 1884.

MATTHEWS, James. b. 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long time. d. 28 Aug. 1880.

MATTHEWS, John Thomas. b. London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820; clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose; clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3 pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called ‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi, Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859; played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes; last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb; the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57 Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern 18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton 1866 to death. d. 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4 March 1889. bur. Brighton cemet. 9 March. Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 268 (1874), portrait; Theatrical times, i 273 (1847), portrait; Theatre n.s. xiii 233 (1889); The World 21 Dec. 1881 pp. 5–6 and ’Xmas number 1886, portrait; H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain (1848) 93–95.