MAYHEW, Horace (brother of the preceding). b. July 1818; wrote many farces and tales; sub-editor of Punch under Mark Lemon several years, contributed to Punch to his death; contributed to Cruikshank’s Table Book 1845; his pantomime Plum Pudding produced at Olympic theatre, Dec. 1847; author of The Bal Masqué. By Count Chicard 1848; Change for a shilling 1848; Model men 1848; Model women 1848; A plate of heads 1849; The toothache imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank 1849; Guy Faux 1849; Letters left at the pastry-cooks 1853; edited Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 1848 and 1849; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly News from 1852. d. 33 Addison gardens south, Kensington, London 30 April 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 7 May. J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 19.

MAYHEW, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; student of Lincoln’s inn; started The poor man’s guardian 1847, eight numbers; started The national library; author of A complete history of an action at law 1828; with J. F. A. Bayard and P. Duport wrote Ambition, or Marie Mignot, a drama Haymarket theatre 13 Sep. 1830.

MAYHEW, William. b. 1787; wines and spirit merchant, 106 Fenchurch st. London; M.P. Colchester 12 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Colchester 1830 and 1832. d. at residence of Edward Mayhew surgeon, 7 Park terrace, Victoria park, London 26 April 1855.

MAYNARD, Ambrose, stage name of William Hill. b. 1822; an actor; a comic vocalist at the London and provincial music halls; musical agent Westminster bridge road, London 1857, removed to 6 York road, Lambeth 1864; the oldest musical agent in Great Britain; the writer of the following dramatic pieces, Chickweed and groundsel; Drury lane and Park lane, also known as Extremes of life; Change for a sovereign; The Queen’s birthday; Winkle’s Waxwork; The two shes, a sketch at the South London palace 1888. d. 6 York road 3 Oct. 1888. bur. Nunhead cemetery 6 Oct.

MAYNARD, Frederick W. Secretary to Arundel society, London 1867 to death; author of A descriptive sketch of Arundel Society. d. 27 Aug. 1876.

MAYNARD, George. b. at sea between Liverpool and Dublin 4 Feb. 1812; articled to a solicitor; clerk to John Chappell, theatrical bookseller, Royal Exchange, city of London; acted at Wilmington sq. Rawstone st. and Catherine st. London; appeared at Deptford as Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Easter Monday 1828; at Richmond theatre 1830–1; played at the Pavilion 1839, where he was a favourite in sailors’ characters; one of Penley’s company during his short 9 nights’ season at Lyceum, April 1839; played Guy Fawkes at the Lyceum 1841; acted at T.R. Edinburgh 1845–6; a favourite at the Olympic under George Bolton 1846–7; played leading parts at Adelphi and Surrey; a good melodramatic actor. d. Newcastle 14 Dec. 1851. Theatrical times, ii 105 (1847), portrait.

MAYNARD, Joseph (only son of Joseph Cam Maynard, solicitor). b. London 29 May 1798; solicitor in city of London 1820–70; under-sheriff of London 1838; member of council of Incorporated law society 13 June 1849, vice pres. 1860–1, pres. 1861–2, retired from the council 1870. d. 52 Westbourne terrace, London 9 Jany. 1888.

MAYNARD, Samuel. b. 1790; came from Taunton to London and opened a school in Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town 1810; mathematical bookseller at Earl’s court, Leicester square, London about 1832–62, published 14 catalogues; his books sold by auction in 1200 bundles 1862; author of A commercial perpetual almanac 1846; A table containing useful factors often used in calculation 1846; compiled A key to Mr. Keith’s Complete measurer 1829; A key to Bonnycastle’s Scholar’s guide to arithmetic 1853, and edited 13 other works on mathematics 1829–56. d. Booksellers’ Provident retreat, Abbot’s Langley, Herts. 7 May 1866. The Athenæum 25 Aug. 1866 p. 248.

MAYNE, Henry Blair (2 son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, d. 1841). b. 23 Aug. 1813; ed. Westminster 1826–31 and at Christ Church, Oxf., student 1831–46; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; principal clerk of private bills in house of commons at £1000 a year 1859–70; one of the three best whist players of his day; an habitué of the Arlington and Turf clubs; one of the committee of seven at the Arlington who drew up The laws of whist 1864; author of Sons of Indian officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich 1860; resided at 2 St. James’ place, St. James’ st. London. d. Brighton 17 Jany. 1892.

MAYNE, Henry Otway. Lieut. 6 Madras light cavalry 17 Sep. 1841, captain 31 Dec. 1855 to death; raised the corps of Mayne’s horse, which became first regiment central India horse. d. Allahabad 2 Nov. 1861.

MAYNE, Sir Richard (4 son of Edward Mayne, judge of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). b. Dublin 27 Nov. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818; proceeded to Trin. coll. Cambridge, B.A. Camb. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1822; joint comr. with Charles Rowan of metropolitan police 29 Sep. 1829, chief comr. 1850 to death; illtreated by the mob during Hyde park riots July 1866; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. d. 80 Chester sq. London 26 Dec. 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 30 Dec, where memorial monument was unveiled 25 Jany. 1871. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 113–5, 358 (1869); I.L.N. liv 23, 45 (1869) portrait, lviii 117 (1871).

MAYNE, Richard Charles (son of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton; entered royal navy 1848; served in Baltic expedition 1854 and in the Crimea 1855–6; explored and surveyed in Vancouver island and British Columbia 1857–61; commanded the Eclipse in New Zealand 1863–4; captain 12 Feb. 1864; commanded Nassau on survey of Straits of Magellan 1866–9, commanded Invincible 1874–5; retired R.A. 26 Nov. 1879; F.G.S.; M.P. Pembroke and Haverfordwest 8 July 1886 to death, having contested the seat Nov. 1885; C.B. 13 March 1867; knight of Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie; author of Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver island 1862; Sailing directions for Magellan Strait 1871; had an apoplectic fit when leaving the Mansion house after the Welsh national banquet and d. 101 Queen’s gate, London 29 May 1892. Graphic 4 June 1892 p. 655, portrait; I.L.N. 4 June 1892 p. 683, portrait.

MAYNE, Robert. b. 1811; M.B. Dublin 1838; F.K.Q.C.P. 14 April 1856; censor 1857; lecturer on practice of medicine at Carmichael school 1835 and physician to Adelaide hospital, Dublin; president of Pathological society of Dublin; contributed to Todd’s Cyclopædia and to Dublin Journal of Medical science; author of On spontaneous varicose aneurism 1853. d. 13 Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 27 April 1864. Dublin Medical Press, li 425–6 (1864).

MAYNE, Robert Dawson (son of Sir Richard Mayne 1796–1868). b. 1844; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1869; chief magistrate of Lagos 1872–4; stipendiary justice at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and judge of the petty debt court 1874 to death. d. 10 June 1887.

MAYNE, William (son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, d. 1841). b. 8 Oct. 1818; entered Bengal army 12 June 1837; ensign 37 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 1 Jany. 1845 to death; present in the action at Bolam Pass 4 May 1839; served at siege of Jellalabad 1842; second in command of the governor general’s body guard 10 Feb. 1844 to 2 Jany. 1846, commanded the body guard 19 Jany. 1847 to 12 April 1851; commanded 10th Bengal irregular horse 2 Jany. 1846 to 19 Jany. 1847; hon. A.D.C. to governor general of India 7 Jany. 1848 to death; brigadier in the Nizam’s service April 1851, afterwards called the Hyderabad contingent 27 Jany. 1854 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 Nov. 1855. d. Cairo 23 Dec. 1855. G.M. Feb. 1856 pp. 185–7.

MAYO, Richard Southwell Bourke, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Mayo 1797–1867). b. Dublin 21 Feb. 1822; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1841 but did not reside; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1851, LL.D. 1852; known as Lord Naas 1849–67; M.P. Kildare 1847–52, M.P. Coleraine 1852–7, and M.P. Cockermouth 1857–68; chief sec. for Ireland, March to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and with a seat in the cabinet July 1866 to Sep. 1868; P.C. 15 May 1852; master of Kildare hounds 1857; succeeded as 6 earl 12 Aug. 1867; founded Palmerston breeding association for improving breed of horses in Ireland; viceroy of India 27 Oct. 1868 to death, sworn in 12 Jany. 1869; K.P. 11 Nov. 1868; stabbed in the shoulder at Port Blair, Hopetown, Andaman islands, by a convict named Shere Ali, and expired in a short time 8 Feb. 1872. bur. in Johnstown churchyard near Naas, co. Mayo 25 April, bust in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral; author of St. Petersburgh and Moscow, a visit to the court of the Czar 2 vols. 1846; m. 31 Oct. 1848 Blanche Julia 4 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield, she was b. 21 Nov. 1826, the government awarded her an annuity of £1000 and gave £20,000 to her younger children. W. W. Hunter’s Life of earl Mayo 2 vols. 1875; Nolan’s Illust. history of India, iii 93 (1878), portrait; Jas. Wilson’s Why was lord Mayo assassinated? (1872); N. A. Chick’s In memoriam, of the assassination of the earl of Mayo (1872); Baily’s Mag. xii 163–4 (1867), portrait; I.L.N. xvi 429 (1850) portrait, liii 569 (1868) portrait, lx 151 etc. (1872) portrait, lxviii 34, 37 (1876).

MAYO, Charles (youngest son of Herbert Mayo 1720–1802, R. of St. George’s in the East, London). b. 24 March 1767; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch., probationary scholar St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1785; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1793, B.D. 1798; Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon 1795–1800; Whitehall preacher 1799–1800; F.R.S. 1 March 1827; F.S.A.; morning preacher at St. Michael’s, Highgate 1803–33. d. Colesgroves, Cheshunt, Herts. 10 Dec. 1858. G.M. vi 210 (1859).

MAYO, Charles (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) b. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of Winchester; became blind 1874. d. St. Peter’s st. Winchester 27 Nov. 1876. Medical times and gazette, ii 638–40 (1876) and ii 373–4 (1877); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii 298 (1875).

MAYO, Elizabeth (sister of rev. Charles Mayo, educational reformer 1792–1846). b. 1793; lived with her brother at Cheam, Surrey, helping him in his school 1822–34; resided in Belsize lane, Hampstead 1834–53, and at Oak Hill, Hampstead 1853 to death; worked for the Home and Colonial school society from 1843 onwards; author of Lessons on objects 1837, 16 ed. 1859; Lessons on shells 1832, 3 ed. 1846; Model lessons for infant schools 1838, 4 ed. 1857; Religious instruction for young children 1845, 4 ed. 1858; Lessons on the miracles 1845. d. Malvern 1 Sep. 1865, memorial tablet in schoolroom of Home and Colonial school society’s buildings, Gray’s Inn road, London. F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead (1890) 459.

MAYO, Herbert (3 son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). b. Queen Anne st. London 3 April 1796; pupil of sir Charles Bell 1812–15; entered Middlesex hospital 17 May 1814, house surgeon 1818, surgeon 1827–42; graduated D.M. at Leyden univ. 16 Sep. 1816; M.R.C.S. 1819, F.R.C.S. 1843; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–30, lecturer on anatomy medical school, Great Windmill st. 1826; F.R.S. 17 April 1828, F.G.S. 1832; professor of anatomy King’s college, London 1830–6; professor of physiology and pathological anatomy 1836; founded the medical school at Middlesex hospital 1836, lecturer on surgery at the hospital 1837–43; physician in a hydropathic establishment at Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach; author of Anatomical and physiological commentaries 1822–3; A course of dissections for students 1825; Outlines of human physiology 1827, 4 ed. 1837; Management of the organs of digestion 1837; The philosophy of living 1837; A treatise on syphilis 1840; Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions 1849, 2 ed. 1851. d. Bad Weilbach near Mayence 15 May 1852. History of Mayo family (1882); F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead (1890) 458; Georgian Era, ii 587 (1833).

MAYO, Thomas (eld. son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). b. London 24 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1813 to 1818; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, M.B. 1815, M.D. 1818; physician at Tunbridge Wells 1818–35, at 56 Wimpole st. London 1835–62; F.R.C.P. 1819, censor 1835, 1839 and 1850, an elect 1847, president 5 Jany. 1857 to Jany. 1862, delivered Lumleian lectures 1839 and 1842, Harveian oration 1841 and Croonian lectures 1853; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; phys. to Marylebone infirmary 1841; phys. in ordinary to duke of Sussex; author of An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia 1831; Elements of the pathology of the human mind 1838; Clinical facts and reflections 1847; Medical testimony in cases of lunacy 1854, with supplement 1856. d. Corsham house, Wiltshire 13 Jany. 1871. W. Munk’s Goldheaded Cane (1884) pp. 220–40; W. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 200 (1838).

MAYOR, William. b. 1826; ed. at Hatfield hall, Durham, Barry scholar, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1855–7; V. of Thornley, Durham 1862–90, where he devoted himself to the colliers and arbitrated successfully in a strike; V. of Shotton, Durham 1890 to death; chairman of Castle Eden petty sessions. d. at residence of his nephew, the Principal’s house, St. Mark’s College, Chelsea 8 Nov. 1892. Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p. 1766.

MAYOW, George Wynell. b. 31 Aug. 1808; ensign in the army on h.p. 9 June 1825; captain 4 dragoon guards 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1847; brigade major to light cavalry brigade in the Crimea to 19 Dec. 1854, A.Q.M.G. of cavalry division 20 Dec. 1854 to end of the war; deputy quartermaster general in Ireland 1 Jany. 1868 to July 1872; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. near Misterton 1 Jany. 1873.

MAYWOOD, Robert Campbell (son of Dr. Maywood, leading physician in Isle of Wight many years). b. Edinburgh 1786; first appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 1817 as Shylock; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard the third 1819; played King Lear at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 6 Nov. 1828; manager with Pratt and Rowbotham of Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia, April 1832, manager with them of Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 3 Sep. to 21 Dec. 1832; manager of the Chestnut and Arch st. theatres 1834; relinquished management of the Chestnut st. theatre and took his farewell benefit 9 March 1840. d. Marshall institute, Troy, New York 1 Dec. 1856. Theatrical inquisitor, xi 395–9 (1817), portrait; J. N. Ireland’s New York stage, i 329, 350 (1866).

MAZZINGHI, Thomas John (only son of Dominick Peter Mazzinghi of London). b. 13 Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1842; served under Indian law commission 1865–9; librarian of the William Salt library, Stafford, Feb. 1873 to Dec. 1892; author of A brief notice of some recent researches respecting Dante Alighieri 1844; Index catalogue of the William Salt library 1878; Sanctuaries. Stafford 1878. d. Walton lodge near Stafford 19 Feb. 1893.

MAZZINI, Giuseppe (son of Giacomo Mazzini a physician). b. Strada Lomellini, Genoa 22 June 1805; attempted insurrections in Sardinia 1833–4; expelled from Switzerland 1836; came to London Jany. 1837; wrote literary articles for London reviews; founded and conducted a school for mendicant organ-boys; originated an association of Italian workmen 1840; his letters were opened by the English government 1844; fought under Garibaldi against Austria 1848; dictator at Rome as triumvir with Armelli and Saffi, March 1849 to June 1850; president in London of National Italian committee 1850, through which he promoted the risings of 1852 and 1853; directed preparations for abortive revolution at Genoa 1857, for which he was condemned to death 1857, this sentence was cancelled 1866 but he refused the pardon; edited Pensiero ed Azione. London 1858–60; author of Italy, Austria and the Pope 1845; Two letters to the people of England on the war 1855; The duties of man 1862; Life and writings 6 vols. 1864–70 and 40 other books, there were also 50 books written about him and his career 1848–91. d. Pisa 10 March 1872. bur. Genoa. E. A. Venturi’s Joseph Mazzini (1875), 2 portraits; Joseph Mazzini, his life. New York (1872), portrait; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xv 273 (1856), portrait.

MEAD, Thomas, stage name of Thomas Prescott (son of a Methodist minister). b. Cambridge 22 Aug. 1819; ran away from home and first appeared on the stage as Orozembo in Pizarro at Devonport theatre 1841; played in the provinces 1841–8; first appeared in London at Victoria theatre as sir Giles Overreach 28 Nov. 1848; played at Surrey theatre 1849–52 and leading parts at Drury Lane 1852–4; shared the lead with T. Swinbourne at T.R. Manchester 1854; a prominent member of Mrs. Seymour’s company at St. James’s theatre, played duke of Richmond in Taylor and Reade’s King’s Rival opening night 2 Oct. 1854; played at Queen’s theatre, Edinburgh, Jany. to July 1856; leading actor at New Grecian theatre 1858; played at Sadler’s Wells and Princess’s, where he was the original Isaac Levy in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend 4 Oct. 1865; lessee and manager of Elephant and Castle theatre, London 1873–4 where his pantomime Babes in the wood was produced 26 Dec. 1873; played the leading part in Charles Reade’s drama Rachel the Reaper, at Queen’s theatre 9 March 1874; played in Shakespearian revivals at Lyceum theatre 1875 to death; his two best parts were the Priest in Louis XI. and the Ghost in Hamlet; author of The Coquette, 3 act play produced at Haymarket 8 July 1867; The lady of the Rose and other poems 1881, with portrait. d. New north road, Islington, London 17 Feb. 1889. bur. Highgate lower cemetery 22 Feb. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) part 9, portrait; The Players, i 193 (1860), portrait; Theatre, xiii 172 (1889).

MEADE, James. b. 1822; acted as puisne justice Montserrat 1852, member of executive and legislative council 1861, colonial secretary and treasurer March 1865, member of the legislative council 1867, administered the government 1872; acting president of Montserrat 1882; in 1886 he was treasurer and registrar of the supreme court, registrar of deeds and of shipping and comptroller of customs. d. The Meadow, Montserrat 22 June 1890.

MEADE, Sir Richard John (son of John Meade, captain R.N.) b. 25 Sep. 1821; ensign 65 Bengal N.I. 3 Nov. 1838, major 1 Jany. 1862; served during Indian mutiny 1857–9 and captured the notorious rebel leader Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; agent to governor general in Central India 1861–70; chief comr. Mysore 1870–5; special comr. Baroda 1875; resident Hyderabad 1876–81, chairman Hyderabad state railway company; C.S.I. 24 May 1866, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. d. Hyères, France 20 March 1894.

MEADE, Robert (2 son of 1 earl of Clanwilliam 1744–1800). b. 29 Feb. 1772; ensign 1 foot 7 Nov. 1787; captain 87 foot Sep. 1793; major in Ward’s regiment Oct. 1794 to 10 April 1801; lieut.-col. 31 foot 10 April 1801 to 8 June 1815; commanded the forces in Madeira 1809, was afterwards second in command at Cape of Good Hope; colonel 12 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to death; general 10 Jany. 1837. d. 48 Bryanston sq. London 11 July 1852. I.L.N. xxi 46 (1852).

MEADOWS, Alfred (4 child of Charles Meadows). b. Ipswich 2 June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London, associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B. 1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853; L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884; attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland 1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891; author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. d. 27 George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. bur. Colnbrook, Bucks. Midland medical miscellany ii 65–7 (1883), portrait; British Gynæcological Journal, iii 343 (1887), portrait; Biograph, v 68–76 (1881).

MEADOWS, Drinkwater. b. Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21; first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep. 1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823, Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding 5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828, Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov. 1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5 April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844 and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund; a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard, a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). d. Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. The Era 11 June 1869 p. 11, col. 1.

MEADOWS, George Deare (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.) b. London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb. 1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his speciality being the diseases of women and children. d. St. George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.

MEADOWS, James (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). b. Dublin 1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63. d. 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. bur. Trinity church, Bow road. Era 17 May 1863 p. 10.

MEADOWS, Joseph Kenny (son of James Meadows, retired naval officer). b. Cardigan. bapt. 1 Nov. 1790; designed and lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare 2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1 portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864. d. 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Pancras cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 98–103.

MEAGHER, Thomas (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). b. 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. d. 1874.

MEAGHER, Thomas Francis (son of the preceding). b. city of Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare, and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol. xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847; contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany. 1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia; organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July 1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853, portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1 July 1867. M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher (1892), portrait; W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New York (1870), portrait; F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir (1863), portrait 51; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883), passim; Reynolds’s Miscellany, iii 481 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii 323 (1848), portrait.

MEAKIN, John. b. Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5 feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859 with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side; attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again able to run. Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p. 417, portrait.

MEANS, Joseph Calrow (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood lane, London). b. 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; bapt. by immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828; preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers 1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st. London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. d. London 6 Feb. 1879. Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 78 et seq.; Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 98 et seq.

MEANY, Stephen Joseph. b. Ennis; a constable in Dublin, where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement, a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus 1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt 27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec. to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. d. New York 8 Feb. 1888. bur. Queenstown. Newspaper Press, i 35, 44 (1867); E. L. Blanchard’s Life, ii 617 (1891).

MEARNS, Duncan (son of Alexander Mearns, minister of Cluny, Aberdeenshire). b. the manse of Cluny 23 Aug. 1779; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. March 1795; studied in the divinity hall 1795–9; D.D.; assistant minister of parish of Tarves 13 Nov. 1799, then minister; professor of divinity Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 12 Oct. 1816 to death; moderator of general assembly 1821; chaplain to the king for Scotland 1825 to death; author of Principles of christian evidence. Edinb. 1818; Report of speech in synod of Aberdeen on the settlement of ministers. Aberdeen 1834, 4 ed. 1840. d. 2 March 1852. H. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1 part 1 p. 397 (1866).

MEATH, John Chambre Brabazon, 10 Earl of (youngest son of 8 earl of Meath 1721–90). b. 9 April 1772; succeeded his brother the 9 earl 26 May 1797; K.P. 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of co. Dublin and custos rotulorum of co. Wicklow 1831; created baron Chaworth of Eaton hall, Hereford in peerage of United Kingdom 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1831. d. Great Malvern 15 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 547 (1851).

MEATH, William Brabazon, 11 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 25 Oct. 1803; styled lord Ardee or lord Brabazon 1826–51; M.P. co. Dublin 1830–32 and 1837–41; contested co. Dublin 22 Dec. 1832 and 16 July 1841; sheriff of Wicklow 1848 and lord lieutenant 1869 to death; col. Dublin county militia 10 May 1847 to 1881; succeeded as 11 earl 15 March 1851; built the town hall of Bray at his own expense; Mr. Gladstone on his first visit to Ireland stayed with him at Kilruddery. d. Kilruddery, Bray, Wicklow 26 May 1887. bur. at Bray, will proved Aug. 1887 above £25,000. Times 27 May 1887 p. 6, 3 June p. 6.

MECHI, John Joseph (3 son of Giacomo Mechi). b. London 22 May 1802; clerk in a house in Walbrook in the Newfoundland trade 1818–28; a cutler at 130 Leadenhall st. 1828–30, at 4 Leadenhall st. 1830–69, partner with Charles Bazan 1859–69; cutler at 112 Regent st. 1869 to death; made a fortune by his magic razor strop 1830–40; purchased for £3400 a farm of about 130 acres at Tiptree Heath, Essex 1841, where he introduced deep drainage and use of steam power, so that it became a model farm; sheriff of London 1856, alderman for Lime st. ward 1858 to Aug. 1866; failed in business 14 Dec. 1880; author of Letters on agricultural improvements 1844; On the principles which ensure success in trade 1853, another ed. 1856; How to farm profitably 1859, 4 ed. 1864; On the sewerage of towns as it affects British agriculture 1860; Mr. Mechi’s Farm balance sheets, also his lectures and papers on farming 1867 and 12 other books. d. Tiptree hall, Essex 26 Dec. 1880. Biograph, i 250–4 (1879); I.L.N. xxx 337 (1857) portrait, xxxi 317 (1857), lxxviii 37 (1881) portrait; Pictorial World 29 Jany. 1881 pp. 355, 361, portrait.

MECREDY, Henry Sandys. b. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; solicitor in Dublin 1845; vice president of Irish incorporated law society 1885; governor of Royal Irish academy of music; with C. A. Stanwell edited The Incorporated law society’s calendar. Dublin 1887. d. Colwyn Bay, North Wales 30 July 1891.

MEDHURST, Walter Henry (son of William Medhurst of Ross, Scotland, innkeeper). b. London 29 April 1796; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. from 1807; went to Malacca as a missionary printer in service of London missionary soc. 1816; ordained at Malacca 27 April 1819; missionary in Penang 1820 and Batavia 1822–36; established an orphan asylum at Parapattan; worked in Batavia 1838–42, and at Shanghai 1842–56; D.D. from an American univ. 1843; one of the delegates to revise Chinese version of new testament June 1847 to July 1850 and of old testament 1851–3; edited G. Happart’s Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the Formosan language 1840; translated Ancient China, The Shoo-King or the historical classic 1846; The Chinaman abroad, an account of the Malayan archipelago by Ong-Tae-hae 1849; author of An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary. Batavia 1830; A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the Chinese language. Macao 1832; China, its state and prospects 1838; Chinese and English dictionary 2 vols. Batavia 1842–3, and English and Chinese dictionary 2 vols. Shanghae 1847–8; Chinese dialogues. Shanghae 1844; left Shanghai 10 Sep. 1856, arrived in England 22 Jany. 1857. d. Pimlico, London 24 Jany. 1857. bur. Abney park cemetery 30 Jany. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1877) 41.

MEDHURST, Sir Walter Henry (son of the preceding). b. Batavia, Java 3 Nov. 1822; attached to Sir Henry Pottinger’s suite Aug. 1841; present at taking of Amoy and Chusan; consular interpreter at Shanghai 7 Oct. 1843; consul at Foo-choo-foo 9 Nov. 1854, at Tangchow 21 Dec. 1858, at Hankow 25 Jany. 1864 and at Shanghai 23 July 1868, retired 1 Jany. 1877; knighted at Windsor castle 20 March 1877; helped to form British North Borneo company 1881, organised a system of emigration from China into the company’s territories 1882; author of Curiosities of street literature in China. Shanghai 1871; The foreigner in far Cathay 1872. d. Formosa, Torquay 26 Dec. 1885.

MEDLEY, John (only son of George Medley of Grosvenor place, Chelsea). b. London 19 Dec. 1804; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1845; C. of Southleigh, Devon 1828–31; Inc. of St. John’s, Truro 1831–8; V. of St. Thomas, Exeter 1838–45; preb. of Exeter 8 April 1843 to May 1845; bishop of Frederickton, New Brunswick 24 April 1845 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 4 May 1845, installed in his partly built cathedral 11 June 1845; metropolitan of Canada 11 Jany. 1879 to death; attended the Lambeth Pan-Anglican conference 1889; hon LL.D. Cambridge and D.D. Durham 1888; author of Advice to teachers in Sunday schools 1833; The episcopal form of church government 1835, 2 ed. 1837; Elementary remarks on Chinese architecture 1841; Sermons. Exeter 1845; with H. K. Cornish translated The homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Corinthians 2 vols. 1839. d. Frederickton 9 Sep. 1892. W. Q. Ketchum’s Life of Medley. St. John’s N.B. (1893); Appleton’s American Biography, iv 285 (1888) portrait.

MEDLEY, Julius George. b. 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death; assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849; consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column 1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858; principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec. to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college 1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer; A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United States and Canada 1873. d. on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx 343–7 (1885); I.L.N. lxxxv 292 (1884), portrait.

MEDLEY, Samuel (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99). b. 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University 1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms, 11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C. Branwhite. d. Chatham 10 Aug. 1857.

MEDWIN, Thomas (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). b. Horsham, Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24 light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822; resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824, 5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. 1847. d. in his brother’s house the Carfax, Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. Notes and Queries 5 S. v 161 (1876), 6 S. vi 293 (1882).

MEDWIN, Thomas Rea (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of Greenford, Middlesex). b. 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington, Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2; V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. d. Arlesey vicarage 17 March 1885.

MEE, Anne (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter d. about 1784). b. about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties, many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited 39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (m. Joseph Mee). d. Hammersmith 28 May 1851. The Lady’s monthly museum Jany. 1814, memoir and portrait; A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of the court of George III. (1812), portrait.

MEE, John (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). b. 3 May 1824; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4; association secretary of church missionary society for eastern district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4; secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude, Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873. d. Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William, Scotland 19 Sep. 1883.

MEE, William. b. Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830 and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. d. Shardlow union workhouse, Derbyshire 29 May 1862.

MEEHAN, Charles Patrick. b. 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12 July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34; ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.; author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed. 1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries 1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852; edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. d. 14 March 1890. I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p. 366, portrait; Catholic World, Sep. 1890 pp. 796–801; Tablet 22 March 1890 p. 473.

MEEK, Sir James. b. Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June 1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. d. Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856.

MEEK, James (son of a farmer). b. Brompton near Northallerton 13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813; resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851. d. Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862.

MEEK, Sir James (only son of the preceding). b. York 28 June 1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869. d. Cheltenham 10 Jany. 1891.

MEEK, Robert. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. by abp. of Canterbury 1838; R. of Brixton Deverill, Wilts. 1834; P.C. of Hill Deverill, Wilts. 1837; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1838–43; R. of Sutton Bonnington, Notts. 1843 to death; author of The mutual recognition of glorified saints 1830, 3 ed. 1837; The church of England a faithful witness against the errors and corruptions of the church of Rome 1834; Passion week, a practical exposition 1835; Heavenly things or the blessed hope 1854; The martyr of Allahabad. Memorials of ensign A. M. H. Clark 1857; Ministering angels 1864. d. 1866.

MEEKING, Charles (son of Charles Meeking of London). b. London 1800; draper and linen draper at 1 Broadway, Westminster 1823, moved to 62 Holborn Hill 1827, one of the first of the drapers to conduct a retail business on a thorough system; draper and outfitter Holborn Circus to death, having one of the largest establishments in London; J.P. for Bucks.; purchased Richings manor near Iver, Bucks., from John Sullivan in 1855. d. Richings park, Bucks. 7 Dec. 1872, personalty sworn under £250,000, 1 Feb. 1873.

MEERES, Nathaniel. b. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1840; C. of Cradley, Worcs. 1844–7; R. of Little Stambridge, Essex 1847 to death; author of Sermons preached at Somer’s chapel, St. Pancras 1843; Original psalms and hymns for the use of churches. Coventry 1845; School cyclopædia in verse 1851; Sermons 2 vols. 1851. d. at residence of rev. H. Meeres, Haddenham vicarage, Bucks. 26 March 1863.

MEESON, Alfred (son of Edward Meeson). b. 67 Aldermanbury, London 4 April 1808; architect and surveyor at Wakefield, Yorkshire; assisted sir Charles Barry as superintendent of constructional and engineering details of houses of parliament 1842 to completion; engineer in charge of houses of parliament residing in the building 1853; practised at 58 Pall Mall, London; employed on international exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 and on the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1858 and the Albert hall 1872; architect of the first Alexandra palace on Muswell hill 1873, palace was destroyed by fire 9 June 1873, joint architect of the second palace 1875; author with J. C. Boys of Thames sewage disposal scheme 1867. d. 4 Harley road, South Hampstead, London 12 Jany. 1885.

MELBOURNE, Frederick James Lamb, 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount Melbourne 1745–1828). b. Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London 17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec. 1827; ambassador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; ambassador to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of £1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20 April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848; G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. d. Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 28, portrait; G.M. xxxix 309, 338 (1853); Greville’s Journal, vol. i pt. 3 pp. 35–7 (1874).

MELDON, Charles Henry (3 son of James Dillon Meldon). b. 5 June 1841; ed. at Stonyhurst and Ushaw colleges, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1862, LL.B. and LL.D. 1874; member of senate of Dublin univ.; called to Irish bar 1863; had a large practice on the Home circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1877; M.P. for co. Kildare 1874–85; first whip to the Home Rule party 1874–9. d. Dublin 15 May 1892.

MELIA, Pius. b. Rome 1800; professor of belles lettres, Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13 Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London 1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians; officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. d. University hospital, London 25 May 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 30 May.