MATTHEWS, Richard. Barrister M.T. 25 April 1828; sergeant at law 7 July 1852. d. 24 Feb. 1854 aged 57. bur. Highgate cemet.

MATTHEWS, William Anthony. b. Malta 14 Aug. 1813; partner in firm of Thomas Turton and sons of Sheaf steel works Sheffield; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1852–54, being the first to hold the two offices together. d. 19 July 1872. I.L.N. xxiv 39 (1854), portrait.

MATTHIE, James. b. 1806; entered Bengal army 1820; captain of right wing of 1 European regiment 8 Sep. 1835 to 1 March 1850; deputy comr. of Assam 1 April 1839 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 33 N.I. 1 March 1850 to 1852, of 30 N.I. 1852–3, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1853–4, of 17 N.I. 1854–6, of 21 N.I. 1856–9; col. of 2nd European fusiliers 19 Aug. 1859 to death; M.G. 1 Jany. 1862. d. Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 28 March 1865.

MATTHIESSEN, Augustus (son of William Matthiessen of 1 Nun’s court, Coleman st. city of London, merchant). b. London 2 Jany. 1831; studied under Will and Buff at Giessen 1852, Ph.D. Giessen; studied under Bunsen at Heidelberg 1853–7; fitted up a laboratory at 1 Torrington place, London 1857, where he investigated the physical properties of pure metals and alloys; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council, royal medallist 1869; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital 1862–8; constructed ten electrical standards for the British Association 1862–5; joint lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1868–70, sole lecturer 1870; had a large practice as a consulting chemist; an editor of Philosophical Mag. Jany. 1869 to June 1870; examiner to Univ. of London 1870; author of 38 scientific papers and of 23 papers with other writers; poisoned himself with prussic acid at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 6 Oct. 1870. Nature, ii 517–18 (1870); Times 8 Oct. 1870 p. 5 col. 5.

MATTHISON, Arthur. b. Birmingham, May or June 1826; journalist in New York; vocalist and lecturer at Hamilton’s Diorama, St. James’s hall, London 1873; played King Richard in Rebecca 13 Feb. 1875, Owen in The World 31 July 1880, Colonel Dalton in Youth 6 Aug. 1881, all at Drury Lane theatre; author of Keep your door locked, farce produced at Adelphi 29 Aug. 1866; Enoch Arden, a drama 1869; A false step 1879, prohibited by the lord chamberlain; Brave hearts, drama Criterion 24 Jany. 1881; A thread of silk, comedy Crystal Palace 3 Nov. 1881; More than ever, burlesque Gaiety 1 Nov. 1882; author with Clement Scott of The great divorce case, comedy Criterion 15 April 1876; with Joseph Hatton of Liz, drama Opera Comique 1 Sep. 1877; and with Charles Wyndham of Tantalus, Folly 14 Oct. 1878; translated A. Belgioioso’s Brief observations on singing 1860, and A. Perrin’s Military studies 1863; author of The state banquet 1862; Half an hour with a good author 1872; his poem The little hero 1879 was frequently recited and was set to music by Stephen Adams i.e. Michael Maybrick in 1881; composer of The little gold locket, a song 1879; wrote the words of upwards of 50 songs 1861–80, of H. Leslie’s cantata The daughter of the Isles 1862, of J. Barnby’s sacred idyll Rebekah 1872, and of M. W. Balfe’s opera The Talisman 1874. d. 17 Store st. Bedford sq. London 21 May 1883. bur. Brompton cemetery 24 May.

MATURIN, Edward (son of Charles Robert Maturin, C. of St. Peter’s church, Dublin, and novelist 1782–1824). b. Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832; barrister in the U.S. of America; professor of Greek in College of South Carolina; taught Greek and Latin in New York 30 years; revised the Gospel of St. Mark for the American Bible Union 1850; author of Montezuma, the last of the Aztecs, a romance 2 vols. New York 1845; Benjamin the Jew of Grenada, a romance 1848; Eva, or the Isles of life and death 2 vols. 1848; Lyrics of Spain and Erin. Boston 1850; Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy. New York 1852. d. New York 25 May 1881.

MATURIN, William (brother of preceding). b. Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C. of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin 1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week. Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons 1888. d. Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. bur. All Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.

MAUDE, Daniel (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall, Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). b. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall, Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb. 1874. d. 1874. J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of Alverthorpe (1874).

MAUDE, Francis (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). b. 17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820, commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. The Shipwrecked Mariner, xxx 21–30 (1883).

MAUDE, Frederic Philip (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great George st. Westminster). b. London 1818; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E. Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. d. 44 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. Law Times, xlix 158 (1870).

MAUDSLAY, Joseph (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831). b. London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E. 1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty; patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting annular cylinder screw engine. d. 21 Hyde park sq. London 25 Sep. 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 562–9 (1862).

MAUDSLAY, Thomas Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25 years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831; made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw; purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. d. Knight’s Hill, Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. bur. at Woolwich, personalty sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April 1864 p. 282.

MAUGHAM, Robert. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June 1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831 and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec. 1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began 3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for him by the members of the society, part of which was invested in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council 12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825; A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law of real property 1842. d. at the Incorporated law society, Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. bur. Nunhead cemetery 22 July. Solicitors’ Journal, vi 727 (1862); Parliamentary report on legal education (1846) 158–68, portrait at Incorp. law soc.

MAUGHAN, Thomas. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June 1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. d. Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.

MAULE, Sir John Blossett (2 son of George Maule, barrister, solicitor to the treasury, d. 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). b. Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death, treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany. 1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1 Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec. 1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. d. 47 Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. I.L.N. lxxxi 656 (1882) portrait, lxxxvii 425 (1889), portrait.

MAULE, Lauderdale (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). b. 25 March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835; captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24 Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death. d. Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854.

MAULE, Sir William Henry (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton, Middlesex, surgeon). b. Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted 1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21 July 1855 to death. d. 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany. 1858. E. Leathley’s Memoir of early life of sir W. H. Maule (1872); Law magazine and law review, v 1–34 (1858); Law Times 10 March 1894 pp. 439–40.

MAULEVERER, James Thomas. Ensign 61 foot 18 April 1834; captain 30 foot 23 July 1844, lieut.-col. 30 Sep. 1854 to 19 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 30 Sep. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 14 Craven st. London 26 Oct. 1866.

MAUND, Benjamin. b. 1790; chemist, bookseller, printer and publisher at Bromsgrove, Worcs. to about 1852; F.L.S. 5 June 1827; started a monthly publication entitled The Botanic Garden 1824, issued with it in parts The auctarium of the botanic garden, The floral register, The fruitist, and A dictionary of English and Latin terms used in botanical descriptions by J. S. Henslow, the whole work consisted of 13 vols. 1825–50, it was partly reissued as The botanic garden and fruitist 3 vols. 1851–4, 2 ed. in 12 vols. appeared in 1878; edited The Botanist 1837–48 and The Naturalist 1837 &c. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 April 1863.

MAUNDER, Charles Frederick. b. 1832; ed. Totteridge school, at Guy’s hospital, London, and univs. of Edinb. and Paris; M.R.C.S. 1854, F.R.C.S. 1857; civil assistant surgeon at Renkioi hospital, and in the field during Crimean war 1854–5; demonstrator of anatomy and of operative surgery in Paris; junior surgeon Great Northern hospital London; demonstrator of anatomy Guy’s hospital; lecturer on clinical surgery and demonstrator of operative surgery London hospital; translated P. Ricord’s Lectures on chancres 1859; edited with sir A. Clark Clinical lectures 1864 etc.; author of Operative surgery 2 parts 1860–1, 2 ed. 1873; Tumour of lower jaw removed without external wound 1874; Surgery of the arteries 1875; Fistula in ano 1877; resided Queen Anne st. London. d. from effects of an accident 4 July 1879. The Lancet 12 July 1879 p. 67.

MAUNSELL, Daniel Toler Thomas (1 son of rev. Thomas Maunsell of Fintona, co. Tyrone). b. 1835; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1859; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1859; M.R.I.A.; demonstrator of anatomy, Carmichael school of medicine, Dublin; physician south city dispensary district, Dublin; lecturer on materia medica and then on botany, Ledwich school of medicine, Dublin; originator of Poor-law medical officers’ association; author of To the poor law medical officers of Ireland, The Irish poor law medical system, by Dispensarius 3 ed. 1870. d. South Richmond st. Dublin 18 Aug. 1875. The Lancet, ii 329, 349, 466, 494, 581, 614, 674 (1875).

MAUNSELL, Frederick (6 son of Robert Maunsell, member of supreme council of Madras, d. 1 Feb. 1832 aged 87). b. 1794; ensign 18 foot 16 April 1812; captain 85 foot 24 June 1819, lieut.-col. 23 May 1836 to 19 June 1846; inspecting field officer 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 53 foot 4 June 1860 to 2 April 1865; col. 85 foot 2 April 1865 to death; general 9 Aug. 1870. d. Bray near Dublin 18 Oct. 1875.

MAUNSELL, George Edmund (2 son of Thomas Philip Maunsell 1781–1866). b. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 22 Nov. 1838; R. of Thorpe Malsor 1842; chaplain to earl of Westmoreland 1842; author of Poems 1861. d. 112 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 29 Oct. 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 470 (1875).

MAUNSELL, Henry. b. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1831; F.R.C.S.I. 1832; professor of midwifery, Royal college of surgeons, Dublin; edited with A. Jacob The Dublin medical press 1839 etc.; author of The Dublin practice of midwifery 1834, 3 ed. 1871; author with R. T. Evanson of A treatise on the management and diseases of children 1836, 2 ed. 1847. d. Greystones, co. Wicklow 27 Sep. 1879.

MAUNSELL, Thomas Philip. b. Oct. 1781; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1821; M.P. North Northamptonshire 1835–57; col. Northampton and Rutland militia 2 April 1845 to death. d. Thorpe Malsor, Northampton 4 March 1866.

MAUNSELL, William Thomas (eld. son of the preceding). b. Rushton hall, Northants 1813; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1837; associate of British archæological assoc. 1852; recorder of Stamford 10 June 1859 to death; author of Church bells and ringing 1861. d. Thorpe Malsor 13 March 1862. Journal of British Archæological Assoc. xix 156 (1863).

MAUNSELL, William Wray (son of Wm. Maunsell, archdeacon of Kildare). b. 1782; priest 24 Aug. 1803; archdeacon of Limerick 1814 to death; precentor of Cloyne 27 May 1822 to death. d. 25 July 1860.

MAURICE, James Wilkes. b. Devonport 10 Feb. 1775; entered navy as able seaman 1789; commanded the Diamond Rock, Martinique 7 May 1804, yielded to an attack of the French 2 June 1805, tried by court martial but honorably acquitted; captain 18 Jany. 1809; governor of island of Anholt in the Baltic, July 1810 to Sep. 1812, defeated an attack of the Danes on the island 27 March 1811; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. East Emma place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 4 Sep. 1857.

MAURICE, John Frederick Denison (5 child of Michael Maurice b. 1766, Unitarian minister). b. Normanston near Lowestoft 29 Aug. 1805; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1823; founder of the Select essay club known as the Apostles at Camb.; migrated to Trin. hall Camb. Oct. 1825; an editor of Metropolitan quarterly mag. Nov. 1825, three numbers; one of purchasers of London literary chronicle, which he edited from 1 May 1828, it was amalgamated with the Athenæum 30 July 1828, edited the latter from 1828 to May 1829; a commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf. 3 Dec. 1829 to 30 June 1837; baptized as a member of Church of England 29 March 1831; B.A. Oxford 1831, M.A. 1835, hon. M.A. Camb. 1867; ordained to curacy of Bubbenhall near Leamington 26 Jany. 1834; chaplain to Guy’s hospital Jany. 1836 to June 1846; one of editors of The Educational Magazine, Sep. 1839, sole editor 1840–1; professor of English literature and history at King’s college, London 1840, professor of theology there 1846, dismissed from both his chairs 27 Oct. 1853; Boyle lecturer July 1845, Warburton lecturer Aug. 1845; chaplain of Lincoln’s Inn, June 1846 to 1860; founded in London, Queen’s college for female education 1848, chairman of the committee to about Nov. 1853; spiritual leader of the Christian socialists; edited with J. M. Ludlow their first organ called Politics for the People 17 weekly numbers from 6 May 1848; presided at conferences held with the working classes 1849; drew up a scheme for a Working Men’s college Feb. 1854, which was started at 31 Red Lion sq. Holborn 30 Oct. 1854 when he became the principal, the college was moved to 45 Great Ormond st. 1857; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Vere st. London 20 July 1860 to 7 Nov. 1869; Knightbridge professor of casuistry, moral theology and moral philosophy at Cambridge 25 Oct. 1866 to death; member of commission on contagious diseases 1870; V. of St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1871 to death; Cambridge preacher at Whitehall, July 1871; author of Eustace Conway: or the brother and sister, a novel 3 vols. 1834, anon.; Subscription no bondage 1835; The kingdom of Christ, or hints on the ordinances and constitution of the Catholic church in Letters to a member of the Society of Friends 1838, 3 ed. 1883; What is revelation? 1859; The claims of the Bible and of science 1863; Moral and metaphysical philosophy 2 vols. 1871–2. d. 6 Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 1 April 1872. bur. Highgate cemet. 5 April, bust in Cambridge univ. library and another by Woolner placed in St. John the Baptist’s chapel, Westminster Abbey, Aug. 1873, portraits in National portrait gallery, Working Men’s college and Queen’s college. Life of F. D. Maurice. Edited by his son F. Maurice 2 vols. (1884), 2 portraits; Life of Charles Kingsley (1877), passim; J. H. Rigg’s Modern Anglican theology (1880) 244–344; J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed. (1858) 49–60; J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism (1867) 375–7; Illust. Review, iii 609–16, portrait; Illust. news of the world (1862) portrait; Graphic, v 382, 384 (1872), portrait; I.L.N. lx 339, 353, 358 (1872), portrait.

MAURICE, Peter (2 son of Hugh Maurice of Greenwich). b. 1803 or 1804; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1837, D.D. 1840; chaplain of New coll. 1828–59; C. of Kennington, Berkshire 1829–54; chaplain of All Souls’ coll. 1837–58; V. of Yarnton near Oxford 1858 to death; author of Popery in Oxford 1832, a tract; Popery of Oxford confronted, repudiated and disavowed 1837, a pamphlet; Key to the Popery of Oxford 1838; Postscript to the Popery of Oxford 1851; composer of An evening service in E; With angels and archangels; Choral harmony, a collection of tunes 1854, Supplement 1858; Tunes in four parts for congregational worship 1855. d. Yarnton vicarage 30 March 1878.

MAVOR, John (son of Wm. Fordyce Mavor, LL.D., R. of Woodstock, author of the Spelling book 1758–1837). b. 1785; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816; fellow of Lincoln coll. to 1826, sub-rector 1822, Greek lecturer 1823, claviger 1824; P.C. of Forest hill, Oxon. 1823–48; R. of Hadleigh, Essex 9 Aug. 1825 to death, his living was sequestered about 1843; confined for debt in Oxford county gaol 1843 or 1844 to death. d. in his cell in county gaol Oxford 19 June 1853.

MAXFIELD, Tom. b. Sheffield 16 June 1819; on the Bath road near Slough ran 20 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes 16 May 1845 in presence of an immense assemblage; ran 20 miles at Arlington corner near Hounslow in 1 hour 59 minutes; was known as The North Star; ran upwards of 50 races against The Welshman, Byrne, The wonder of the north and Jackson, and with one exception was the winner; a coalheaver at Windsor to death; fell into great poverty; found dead in his bed Bier lane, Windsor 28 Nov. 1864, verdict death from natural causes.

MAXSE, Sir Henry Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley (son of James Maxse of Effingham hall, Surrey, d. 1864). b. 1832; ensign grenadier guards 1 June 1849; lieut. coldstream guards 19 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord Cardigan in Crimean war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava; lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863; lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July 1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July 1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den Gouverneur Maxse 1866. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 333 (1885), portrait.

MAXSE, James (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset). b. 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner of well-known yacht Sabrina. d. Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864. Sporting Review, li 272 (1864).

MAXWELL, Acheson. b. 1760; held various confidential employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public accounts some years, retired on a pension. d. 8 Upper Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.

MAXWELL, Alexander (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel, Renfrewshire). b. 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.; general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of honour. d. 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.

MAXWELL, Charles Francis. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825, lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. d. 1873.

MAXWELL, Edward Herbert (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet 1779–1838). b. 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20 May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. d. 21 Inverkeith row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.

MAXWELL, George. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826; lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. d. Kilucleigh, Langholm, Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.

MAXWELL, Henry Hamilton (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of Birdstown, Donegal). b. 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery 10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec. 1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20 Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm. Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. d. Rome 28 May 1892.

MAXWELL, James. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857, placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17 Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. d. on board the Africa at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April 1874.

MAXWELL, James Clerk (2 child and only son of John Clerk of Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and d. 2 April 1856). b. 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse, Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850, scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow; 2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London 1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution 17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society 1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics 1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890. d. 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. bur. Parton churchyard, Glenlair. The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell and W. Garnett (1882), 2 portraits; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii 1–16 (1882); Nature, xxiv 601 (1881), portrait.

MAXWELL, Sir John, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell, 7 baronet 1768–1844). b. Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire 1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for franchise 1860. d. at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865. Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v 477 (1866).

MAXWELL, John Balfour (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain R.N., C.B., d. 1831). b. 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812; commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7; captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.

MAXWELL, John Hall (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel, Renfrewshire, d. 1847). b. Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812; called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned 9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17 Jany. 1866. d. Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural soc. Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North (1870) 3–6.

MAXWELL, Sir Peter Benson (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell 1824–92). b. Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr. to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An introduction to the duties of police magistrate in the Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts 1–5, 1852–4. d. Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893.

MAXWELL, William (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard, Fleet st. London, law publisher, who d. 1850). b. 1817 or 1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other important legal works. d. Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882.

MAXWELL, William John Leigh. b. Dublin 24 May 1838; entered office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871; A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. d. on voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. bur. at sea.

MAXWELL, William Robert (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11 Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many years. d. Brighton 21 March 1892.

MAY, Alice. b. 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra 28 March 1881; m. Louis Raymond. d. 16 Aug. 1887. Illust. sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp. 97, 107, portrait.

MAY, Charles (son of a Friend). b. Alton, Hants. 1800; apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E. 1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. d. 3 Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. Proceedings of royal society, xi 10 (1860); Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx 148 (1861).

MAY, Edward Collett. b. Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69; famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal exercises for daily practice 1853. d. about 16 Jany. 1887. Life of John Hullah (1886).

MAY, Edward Harrison (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). b. England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851; capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war, and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy 1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in the Metropolitan museum, New York. d. Paris 17 May 1887. Appleton’s American Biog. iv 272 (1888).

MAY, George Augustus Chichester (son of Edward May, rector of Belfast). b. Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll. Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany. 1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov. 1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice 1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868; edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. d. Lisnavagh, co. Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p. 274, portrait.

MAY, Henry William (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts., d. 24 Dec. 1861). b. 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford, B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. d. Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 30 June 1878.

MAY, Huntly, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. b. Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; m. 1846 Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road, Wandsworth in 1881. d. Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. The Era 22 April 1866 p. 6, 2 July 1881 p. 4 and 9 July 1881 p. 5.

MAY, John. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829, superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. d. 23 Oct. 1855.

MAY, Robert Charles (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). b. Ampthill, Beds. 5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer 1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864; consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes; an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines, Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. d. Marseilles 20 July 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii 367–8 (1883); Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii 180 (1883).

MAY, Sir Stephen. b. 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of Ireland. d. Belfast 1851.

MAY, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1 Baron Farnborough. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch. 1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856, clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov. 1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges, proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese; The constitutional history of England since the accession of George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, d. Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. bur. Chippenham churchyard, Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in house of commons 6 March 1890. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–19; New monthly mag. cxvi 1110, 1175 (1879), portrait; Pump Court, iii 105, 156, portrait.

MAYALL, John Edwin. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52; photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in 1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for cartes de visite of the royal family, d. 1867.

MAYD, William (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield, Suffolk). b. 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to death, d. Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892.

MAYER, Joseph. b. Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. 1803; gold and silversmith and jeweller at 68 and 70 Lord st. Liverpool; sold his collection of ancient Greek coins to French government 1844; purchased Rev. Dr. Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and 20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of volunteers; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1850; retired from business; author of A catalogue of the drawings, miniatures, cameos, etc., illustrative of the Bonaparte family in the collection of J. Mayer 1854, 2 ed. 1855; History of art of pottery in Liverpool 1855; A library of national antiquities 2 vols. 1857–73; A catalogue of engraved gems and rings in the collection of J. Mayer 1879. d. Bebington 18 Jany. 1886. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 67–76, ii 109–10, 300, iii 68, 70 (1883–91); Illust. Times 10 June 1867 p. 365, view of his collection at Liverpool; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. May 1886 p. 144; Times 21 Jany. 1886 p. 7.

MAYER, Karl. Librarian to Prince Consort in England 1847–61. d. Berlin, Dec. 1884.

MAYER, Samuel Ralph Townshend (2 son of Samuel Mayer of Gloucester, solicitor). b. Gloucester, Aug. 1841; contributed to the Gloucester newspapers; came to London, where he founded the Free and open church association 1866, secretary till Feb. 1872; edited the first report of the Metropolitan conservative working men’s association 1868; edited The illustrated review Jany. to June 1871; The free and open church advocate 3 vols. 1872–7; proprietor and editor of St. James’s Magazine, Jany. 1875; author of Amy Fairfax 1859, a novelette; Fractional supplement to Hotson’s Ready reckoner 1861; The origin and growth of Sunday schools in England 1878; Who was the founder of Sunday schools? being an inquiry 1880. d. Richmond, Surrey 28 May 1880.

MAYERS, John Pollard. Barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1799, bencher 1840 to death; agent for island of Barbadoes. d. Brasted near Sevenoaks, Kent 30 Dec. 1853 aged 76.

MAYERS, William S. Frederick (son of Michael John Mayers, R. of St. Peter’s, Winchester). b. Tasmania 7 Jany. 1831; a journalist in New York to 1859; interpreter at Canton 7 Feb. 1859 to 1870; vice consul at Kin-kiang 17 Aug. 1871; Chinese secretary of legation at Pekin 10 Nov. 1871, second sec. to the legation 20 July 1876; his official report on The famine in the northern province of China was printed and his Report of an Expedition to Nang Chang Foo is in Parl. Papers vol. lxviii 213 (1874); F.R.G.S.; member of R. Asiatic soc.; procured for the British museum one of the few existing copies of the Imperial encyclopædia of Chinese literature in 5020 volumes; author of The Anglo-Chinese calendar manual 1869; The Chinese reader’s manual 1874; Treatise between China and foreign powers 1877; The Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles 1878, 2 ed. 1886. d. of typhus fever, Shanghai 24 March 1878. Journal Royal Asiatic Soc. vol. x (1878) 55th Annual Report 20 May 1878 pp. xii–xiv; Athenæum, i 444 (1878); Academy, i 300 (1878); Foreign Office List 1879 p. 214.

MAYHEW, Augustus Septimus (youngest son of Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew of 26 Carey st. London, attorney who d. 1858). b. 1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited 1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861; Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce, Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand 1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871; resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. d. Richmond infirmary 25 Dec. 1875. bur. Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 62–5.

MAYHEW, Edward (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–1875). b. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed. 1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical or London directories after 1855. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 58–61.

MAYHEW, Henry (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–75). b. London 25 Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father; published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London, weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However, a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it; author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin Luther 1865 and many other books; author with John Binny and others of London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury, London 25 July 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Fox Bourne’s English newspapers, ii 117–20, 155, 238; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster School (1884) 329–30; The Mask (1868) 65, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.