MELLER, Walter (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill, Surrey). b. 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov. 1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869; lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel 20 Feb. 1867. d. Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.

MELLISH, Sir George (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford, d. 1831). b. Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow 1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48; barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. d. 33 Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. A generation of judges. By Their reporter (1886) 95–111; Law mag. and law review, iii 55–65 (1877); I.L.N. lviii 471, 473 (1870), portrait.

MELLISH, George Lilly (2 son of William Mellish an officer in the army). b. Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll. 1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854; resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. d. Christ Church, Dec. 1881.

MELLISH, Richard Charles. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824; attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830; gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849; sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep. 1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Jany. 1855. d. Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. Foreign office list (1866) 177.

MELLON, Alfred. b. Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society; conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep. 1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865; (m. Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress b. 1824); composer of My pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850; The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published in 1860. d. The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 April. Era 31 March 1867 p. 10 and 7 April p. 11; Illust. sporting news, iv 441 (1865) portrait, v 504 (1866), portrait; Illust. Times 6 April 1867 p. 216, portrait.

MELLON, Henry. b. Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law; leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit; joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864; played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr. Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871. d. Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25 Nov. 1876. Theatrical Times, ii 321, 338 (1847), portrait; E. L. Blanchard’s Life, i 294, 347, ii 393, 462 (1891).

MELLOR, Enoch (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). b. Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870; congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61; minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales 1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867; Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles 1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. d. Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. Congregationalist, ix 617–20 (1880) portrait, x 1000–1011 (1881); E. Mellor’s The hem of Christ’s garment (1882), biographical sketch pp. v–xxxi; Congregational Year book (1882) pp. 315–8.

MELLOR, Sir John (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, d. 1861). b. Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4 years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April 1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July 1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852 and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham 1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired 11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June 1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June 1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation 1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. d. 16 Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. bur. Kingsdown churchyard, Dover 30 April. Law Journal, xxii 250–1, 259–60 (1887); Times 28 April 1887 p. 5.

MELVILL, Henry (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut. governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). b. Pendennis castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32; second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec. 1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London 1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R. of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols. 1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to 1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. d. Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 15 Feb. Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit, ii 1–21 (1839); Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 60–8; Johnson’s Popular Preachers (1863) 189–201; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1856) 210–41; Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 410–13; I.L.N. iv 48 (1844) portrait, lviii 163 (1871); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp. 345–8, 1279–80; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait.

MELVILL, Sir James Cosmo (brother of the preceding). b. Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb. 1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. d. Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23 July 1860.

MELVILL, Sir Maxwell (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871). b. 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin. coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60; assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde 1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883; judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. d. of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5 Aug. 1887. bur. Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s Life of sir M. Melville (1887), portrait; Times 8 Aug. 1887 p. 5, 15 Aug. p. 6.

MELVILL, Teignmouth (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., d. Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). b. 1843; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865, lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ Graphic xix 272 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 277, 282, 554, 560 (1879), portrait; F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C. (1880) 256–7.

MELVILLE, Robert Saunders Dundas, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). b. 14 March 1771; ed. at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings 1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov. 1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to 18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811; lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to 2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St. Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May 1817; F.R.A.S. d. Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851. bur. in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, ii 494 (1886), portrait; G.M. xxxvi 191 (1851); I.L.N xviii 538 (1851); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery (1831) vol. 2, portrait 17 and pp. 8.

MELVILLE, Henry Dundas, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the preceding). b. Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb. 1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31 Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2 Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July 1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9; colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of 32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60 rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president of royal company of archers 1860. d. Melville castle 1 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 167 (1876); J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers (1875) 250, portrait.

MELVILLE, Robert Dundas, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding). b. Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb. 1876. d. Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.

MELVILLE, George John Whyte (only son of John Whyte Melville 1797–1883). b. near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to 1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany. 1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March 1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858; The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6 ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed. 1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely 3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; killed while hunting near Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. Babington’s Records of the Fife foxhounds (1883) 114, portrait; Fores’s Sporting Notes, Oct. 1884 p. 110, portrait; Land and water, xxvi 472, 486 (1878); Baily’s Mag. xiii 55–67 (1867), portrait; Illust. sporting news, vi 569 (1867), portrait; Graphic, xix 52 (1879), portrait.

MELVILLE, Henry Saxelby. b. 1801; formerly printer and publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. d. Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.

MELVILLE, Sir John (eld. son of George Melville of Newington, Edinburgh). b. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood palace 15 Oct. 1859. d. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860. The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p. 2.

MELVILLE, John Whyte (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry, Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). b. 21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18 Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of the St. Andrew’s club 1823. d. Mount Melville near St. Andrews 16 July 1883. Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds (1883) 30, portrait; H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library (1890) pp. 437–40, portrait.

MELVILLE, Michael Linning (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) b. 1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April 1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20 Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842, superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1843. d. 22 June 1878.

MELVILLE, Robert (only son of the preceding). b. 1842; ed. at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. d. suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.

MELVIN, James. b. Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer on humanity (i.e. Latin) at Marischal college, contested professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853; author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin 1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering 6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in univ. library, Aberdeen. d. Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853. Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp. 225–39; Anderson’s Fasti academiæ Mariscallanæ (1889) 527–9.

MENDEL, Samuel. b. Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for £18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at Christies 1875. d. Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17 Sep. 1884.

MENDHAM, Joseph (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London, merchant, d. 1810 aged 77). b. 1769; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield, Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws. 22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology, liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830, Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work 1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. d. Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred years of a family living (1889) 123–30, 166.

MENDS, Herbert. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April 1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830; captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb. 1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army 28 Nov. 1854. d. Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged 87.

MENDS, William Bowen. b. Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29 Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46 guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839; pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. d. Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.

MENELAUS, William. b. Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E. 1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to Cardiff 1881–82. d. Tenby 30 March 1882. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1883) pp. 20–2; Red Dragon, June 1882 pp. 387–92, portrait.

MENKEN, Adah Isaacs, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James McCord a merchant d. 1842). b. Chartrain, afterwards called Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house, New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’ school in New Orleans; m. 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture; m. near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states; first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861; went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865; m. 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4; played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864, where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19 Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868; author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed. 1888. d. Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. bur. Père la Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. A. I. Menken’s Infelicia (1888), memoir and portrait; Les Pirates de la Savane. Par Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris (1867), memoir pp. 1–14; T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 243, portrait; Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 251–3 (1881); The Age, ii 369 (1864), portrait; Illust. sporting news, i 44 (1862) portrait, iv 569 (1865), portrait.

MENZIES, Allan (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). b. 1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs. of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000 for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3 ed. 1863. d. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.

MENZIES, Andrew. b. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had 50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses 1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. d. Glasgow 19 April 1873. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 223–8 (1886), portrait.

MENZIES, Sir Charles (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot). b. Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A. 28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April 1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. d. East hill house, Hastings 22 Aug. 1866.

MENZIES, John. b. 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh; apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh 1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852; Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to Scotland 1852. d. 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879. Publishers’ Circular (1879) 1306; Bookseller, Jany. 1880 p. 7.

MENZIES, Robert Stewart (elder son of Graham Menzies of Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). b. 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. d. Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.

MENZIES, William (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). b. Kincardine on Forth 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’ cottages and of villages 1869. d. Windsor great park 3 May 1878. bur. St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1878. Land and Water, xxv 485 (1878).

MENZIES, William Collier (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866). b. 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 19 Oct. 1881. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.

MERCER, Alexander. b. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825, lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.

MERCER, Alexander Cavalie. b. 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859 to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. d. Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov. 1868.

MERCER, George. b. 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal 1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2 Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct. 1891 p. 805.

MERCER, John (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner, d. 1800). b. Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again 1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs. Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society 1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington 1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850; patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; F.C.S. 1842. d. Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866. bur. Great Harwood. E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer (1886), portrait.

MERCER, Robert (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. d. 1846). b. 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821, retired from business. d. Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov. 1875. bur. East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 173–4, portrait.

MERCER-HENDERSON, Douglas. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. d. Naples 21 March 1854.

MERCIER, Lewis Page (only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). b. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842; assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow, and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49, head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London 1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873 and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855; Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1871–2. d. 2 Nov. 1875.

MEREDITH, Charles (son of George Meredith). b. Poyston lodge, Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840; member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26 Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to 1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873. d. Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.

MEREDITH, Sir William Collis (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of Andrea, co. Tyrone). b. Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854, LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. d. 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.

MEREDYTH, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth, 1 Baronet). b. 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. d. 25 Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.

MEREI, August Schoepf. b. Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia 1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war; a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death, established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of infantile development and rickets 1855. d. 114 Oxford street, Manchester, March 1858.

MEREWETHER, Charles George (son of Francis Merewether, R. of Cole Orton, Leics. d. 1864). b. 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death; contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880; M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire into corrupt practices at elections 1880. d. Inns of court hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.

MEREWETHER, Francis (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) b. 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R. of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick, Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832; Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish 1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. d. Cole Orton rectory 21 July 1864.

MEREWETHER, Henry Alworth (eld. son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) b. 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835; recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs 1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823; author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835. d. Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. Law Times, xxxix 442 (1864).

MEREWETHER, Henry Alworth (eld. son of the preceding). b. 23 April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867, treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5 April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875, leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon, New Zealand and America 1874. d. Bowden hill near Chippenham, Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. Law Times, lxiii 353 (1877).

MEREWETHER, Sir William Lockyer (son of H. A. Merewether 1780–1864). b. 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut 3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán, battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind 1857. d. 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) passim; I.L.N. liii 222, 225 (1868), portrait.

MERIVALE, Charles (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). b. 1808; ed. at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4 in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871; scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow 9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda, Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols. 1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862; Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. d. Ely 27 Dec. 1893. bur. Ely 2 Jany. 1894. I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p. 5, portrait; Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1884 pp. 545–65.

MERIVALE, Herman (brother of the preceding). b. Cockwood house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23, captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll. Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary 3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India, May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2 vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol. 2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. d. 13 Cornwall gardens, South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. bur. Fulham cemet. Transactions of Devonshire Association (1884) 570–80; A. W. Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed (1884); I.L.N. lxiv 163, 168, 170 (1874), portrait; Graphic, ix 172, 178 (1874), portrait.

MERIVALE, John Lewis (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885 when he retired on a pension. d. Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14 Dec. 1886.

MERLE, Gibbons. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf 1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818, this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in connection with The white dwarf. d. Paris 19 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 654 (1855).

MERRICK, Joseph (son of an engine driver, his mother was knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). b. Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla, which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip; exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in 1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the London hospital for life from 1885. d. in London hospital, the weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April 1890. Times 16 April 1890 p. 6; British Medical Journal 11 Dec. 1886 pp. 1188–9, 4 portraits; Trans. Pathological Soc. xxxvi 494–8 (1885), 2 portraits.

MERRIDEW, Henry Melville. b. 1837; English bookseller at Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886. d. Boulogne, April 1879. Publishers’ Circular (1879) 323.

MERRIDEW, John (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). b. 1790; bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen and others born or resident in or connected with the county of Warwick 1849. d. Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. Gent. Mag. xiii 639 (1862).

MERRIFIELD, Charles Watkins (eld. son of John Merrifield of Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). b. London 20 Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton, then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842; assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851 but never practised; of the education department of the privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit. of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington 1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc. 19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission 1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861; Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text books of science 1870 etc. d. from the effects of a third attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany. 1884. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi 1–3 (1884); Nature, xxix 270; Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884.

MERRIFIELD, John. b. Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834; schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D. 1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical astronomy 1868. d. 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891. bur. Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. The Western Morning News 29 June 1891 p. 5, 1 July p. 3.

MERRIFIELD, Mrs. Mary Philadelphia. Granted civil list pension of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding, dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols. 1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of Brighton 1864. m. John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar at M.T. 16 May 1828. d. Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.

MERRIMAN, Nathaniel James (3 son of Thomas Merriman of Marlborough). b. 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8; archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions; one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863; dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death, consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. d. from effects of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.

MERRIMAN, Samuel (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). b. Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from 1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807; hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837; examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833. d. 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. Lives of British physicians (1857) 342–59; Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp. 610–5, 682, portrait, 27 Nov. 1852 p. 498; G.M. Feb. 1853 pp. 207–9; Medical Circular, i 462 (1852).

MERRIMAN, Samuel William John (only son of the preceding). b. 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B. 1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London. d. Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873. Medical Times 1 March 1873 p. 238; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. vii 228 (1875).

MERRITT, Henry (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). b. Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833; apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder 1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846 where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850; employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house; restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death; lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854; Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his own autobiography; m. April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M. Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. d. 54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. bur. Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life, ii 232–47 (1892); H. Merritt, art, criticism, and romance 2 vols. (1879), recollections, i 1–65, portrait; The Times 14 July 1877 p. 13; L’ Art. Paris 4 April 1880 pp. 1–8.

MERRY, James (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). b. New Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St. Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart 1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000 guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860. d. 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. Illust. sp. and dr. news, vi 512, 518–19 (1877), portrait; Rice’s History of the British turf, ii 332–38 (1879); Illust. sporting news, iv 369 (1865), portrait; Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 13–25; Baily’s mag. ii 357–63 (1861), portrait; W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed. (1886) 301–25; Thormanby’s Famous Racing Men (1882) pp. 100–107, portrait.

MERRYWEATHER, Moses. b. 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant 1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt 1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich, covering about three acres were acquired, d. Clapham house, Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. London Figaro 7 June 1894 pp. 14–16; Times 5 Oct. 1872 p. 6.

MERRYWEATHER, Richard Moses (eld. son of the preceding). b. Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam fire engine. d. Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.

MERYON, Charles Lewis (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). b. Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802; Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806, M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow 1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec. 1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3 vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with portrait of author. d. The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep. 1877. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 234 (1878).