MORTON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. d. 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemet.

MOSCHELES, Ignatz (son of a cloth merchant). b. Prague, 30 May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public performer on the piano; m. 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London 1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820; Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827; Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by E. Pauer 1886. d. Leipzig 10 March 1870. C. E. Moscheles’ Life of Moscheles 2 vols. (1873) portrait; Musical Gem (1832) p. 74 portrait.

MOSELEY, Charles. b. Manchester 27 March 1840; member of firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal 1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3 May 1887. d. Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887. bur. Southern cemet. 5 Oct. The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct. 1887 p. 5, and 9 Oct. p. 5.

MOSELEY, Edwin Charles. b. 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. d. Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885.

MOSELEY, Henry (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at Newcastle-under-Lyne). b. 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12 Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology 2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural philosophy. d., Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. Trans. of Instit. of naval architects xiii 328–30 (1872); I.L.N. lx 90 (1872).

MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (son of the preceding). b. St. Ann’s Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc. and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science 1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869; studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S. 7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March 1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852 etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878; On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878; Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell ill in 1887 and never recovered. d. Firwood Clevedon, Somerset 10 Nov. 1891. H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed. (1892) memoir v–xvi and portrait; Biograph vi 387–90 (1881); Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p. 599 portrait; I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891 p. 694 portrait.

MOSELEY, Litchfield. b. 1839; author of Penny readings in prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. d. 16 Wilton road, Dalston, London 21 June 1879.

MOSES, Henry. b. about 1782; engraver, published many sets of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases, altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates 1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3 vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. d. Cowley, Middlesex 28 Feb. 1870.

MOSES, William Stainton (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). b. Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8; assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man 1868–72; English master at University college school, London 1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light 1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878, 2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism 1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. d. at his mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. bur. Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. Light 10 Sept. 1892 p. 439 portrait, 17 Sept. pp. 445–6, 447, 5 Nov. 1892 pp. 529–32 portrait.

MOSLEY, John Ivon. b. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary, prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben Brierly’s Journal. d. Manchester 6 Sept. 1876.

MOSLEY, Sir Oswald, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). b. Morton near Chester 27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837; sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for £200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832; Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history of Tutbury 1863. d. Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May 1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872); I.L.N. lviii 578 (1871).

MOSS, James. b. 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. d. Greenock 14 Nov. 1882.

MOSS, Joseph William. b. Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley, removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. d. Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862.

MOSS, Thomas. b. 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861; Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death; vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. d. Nice 4 Jany. 1881.

MOSS, Sir Thomas Edwards- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss 1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the North-Western bank). b. 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; m. 1847 Amy Charlotte, heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc. 1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 26 April 1890.

MOSS, Tom Cottenham Edwards- (2 son of preceding). b. 7 April 1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley 1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death. M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893.

MOSSMAN, John (son of George Mossman, sculptor). b. London 1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman Macleod. d. Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890.

MOSSMAN, Thomas Wimberley (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). b. Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. d. East Torrington rectory 6 July 1885. Biograph vi 342–9 (1881); Church Times 10 July 1885 p. 531, 17 July p. 555; Tablet 18 July 1885 p. 103.

MOSTYN, Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). b. 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col. commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. d. Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April 1854.

MOSTYN, Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and 1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840; col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for £10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. d. Mostyn hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. Baily’s mag. xlii 197 (1884); I.L.N. xliv 237 (1864) portrait.

MOSTYN, Thomas. b. Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death, his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. d. Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24 Sept.

MOSTYN, Thomas. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810; surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct. 1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7 Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo; served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and 1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. d. Alpha house, Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.

MOSTYN, Thomas Edward Mostyn-Lloyd (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn 1795–1884). b. Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death. d. Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.

MOTLEY, John Lothrop. b. Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S. of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860, LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. d. Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W. Holmes (1878); Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history (1879) pp. 195–252; Appleton’s American biography iv 438–40 (1888) portrait; Graphic xv 549 (1877) portrait.

MOTT, Charles. Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his report was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble about the Keighley union and was removed from his office; manager of lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South Lancashire poor law district to his death, where he suffered from the defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published Report from the poor law commissioners relative to statements concerning management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838. d. of paralysis 12 May 1851.

MOTTERAM, James (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston, Birmingham, merchant). b. 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to death; Q.C. 28 June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21 (Birmingham, &c.) June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse dau. of Auguste Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list pension of £75 24 May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend, and if so, how far the civil jurisdiction of local courts, read at Social Science Congress 1882; The jurisdiction of local courts, and other pamphlets. d. Maney house near Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.

MOTTERSHEAD, Thomas. b. 1826; a silk weaver, London; a member of the radical party in London; contested Preston 5 Feb. 1874; the radical candidate for the new borough of Clerkenwell 1884, fractured his skull by falling down stairs at the offices of the Liberty and defence league, 4 Westminster chambers and died the same day at the Westminster hospital 5 Dec. 1884.

MOTTRAM, Charles. b. 9 April 1807; engraved plates in the line manner after sir Edwin Landseer and others; engraved mezzotint plates after T. J. Barker and others; engraved many plates in the mixed style after W. H. Hunt, sir E. Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and others; exhibited 7 engravings at R.A. 1861–77. d. 92 High st. Camden Town, London 30 Aug. 1876.

MOULD, Jacob Wrey. b. Chiselhurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s college, London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen Jones, architect, studying the Alhambra; designed with him Moresque-Turkish divan of Buckingham palace and the decorations of the great exhibition of 1851; designed and built All Soul’s church, New York 1853; assistant architect of public works New York 1857, chief architect 1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874, but returned after a few years; translated the libretti of La Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville 1856, Hernani 1857, Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula 1865; illustrated vol. 2 of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and assisted him in his Grammar of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions of Gray’s Elegy in a country churchyard 1846, and The book of common prayer 1849. d. New York 14 June 1886.

MOULD, James. b. Bodmin 1814; contributed to the Falmouth newspapers 1833; on the Ipswich press 1837; on parliamentary staff of London Morning Herald 1841, and of the Standard to 1887; manager of Standard parliamentary staff and summary writer 1865–87; author of Lives of and politics of British statesmen 1854 anon. d. 19 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 5 Jany. 1889.

MOULE, Henry (6 son of George Moule of Melksham, Wiltshire, solicitor). b. Melksham 27 Jany. 1801; ed. at Marlborough and St. John’s coll. Camb., foundation scholar; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; C. of Melksham 1823; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1825–9; V. of Fordington, Dorset 1829 to death; chaplain to the troops in Dorchester barracks some years, for whose use he built in 1846 a church known as Ch. Ch. West Fordington; invented the dry earth closet system, which process he patented with James Bannehr 28 May 1860, his system has been adopted in military camps, in many hospitals, and extensively in India; author of Barrack sermons preached at Dorchester 1847; Manure for the million, to the cottage gardeners of England 1861, eleventh thousand 1870; The advantages of the dry earth system 1868; National health and wealth promoted by the general adoption of the dry earth system 1873. d. Fordington vicarage 3 Feb. 1880. H. C. G. Moule’s Sermons on the death of H. Moule (1880) 5–13; Chambers’s Encyclopædia x 731–3 (1874).

MOULE, Horace Mosley (4 son of the preceding). b. 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1851–54; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb.; Hulsean prizeman 1858, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assistant master at Marlborough 1865; author of Essays, verses, etc. by H. M. Moule and others, Fordington Times soc. 1859; Christian oratory, an inquiry into its history 1859; The Roman republic, a review of the salient points in its history 1860. d. 1873.

MOULE, John. b. 1794; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 1 June 1812, lieut. 19 Jany. 1816; captain 23 N.I. 29 April 1826, major 30 June 1840 to 1 April 1846; lieut. col. 46 N.I. 1 April 1846–49, of 5 N.I. 1849–51, of 10 N.I. 1851–2, of 11 N.I. 1852–5, of 67 N.I. 1855–6, of 33 N.I. 1856–61, and of 4 N.I. 1861 to death; commandant at Sealkote 11 May 1855, at Ferozepore 2 July 1856 to 18 Dec. 1857; M.G. 27 Jany. 1858. d. Belmont, Melksham, Wiltshire 4 April 1867.

MOULE, Joseph (son of John Moule). b. 23 Jany. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch.; superintending president of general post office, Edinburgh June 1822, retired Feb. 1855; sergeant at arms in H.M.’s household 1822 to death; author of Two letters to the members of the congregation of St. James’s chapel, Edinburgh with reference to D. T. K. Drummond, 2 pamphlets 1843, and of Memoirs of celebrated authors prefixed to the Naturalist’s Library, 40 volumes 1843. d. Maismore sq. Peckham, Surrey 23 June 1855.

MOULE, Thomas. b. St. Marylebone, London 14 Jany. 1784; bookseller in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. 1816–23; a clerk in the general post office, where he was inspector of blind letters, retired after 44 years service; chamber-keeper in the lord chamberlain’s department 1822 to death; member of the Numismatic Society; author of A table of dates for the use of genealogists and antiquaries 1820 anon; Bibliotheca heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ, an analytical catalogue of books in genealogy, heraldry, &c. 1822; Antiquities in Westminster abbey 1825; The English counties delineated, or a topographical description of England, 2 vols. 1837; Heraldry of Fish 1842; contributed the letter-press to Hewetson’s Views of noble mansions in Hampshire 1825. d. Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, London 14 June 1851. G.M. xxxvi 210 (1851).

MOULLIN, Elise (dau. of M. Greillard). b. Caen, Normandy; fled to England after the coup d’etat of 1852; published anonymously a brochure Le Berceau du communisme en Perse, etudes historiques et philosophiques; wrote essays in English periodicals; m. M. Moullin. d. 8 Dec. 1855.

MOULTRIE, Gerard (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the succeeding). b. Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and chaplain at Shrewsbury school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of Brinfield, Berks 1860; chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney, Bristol 1864–9; V. of Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden of St. James’s college, Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The primer set forth at large for the use of the faithful in family and private prayer 1864; author of Hymns and lyrics for the seasons and saints’ days of the church 1867; The espousals of St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. d. St. James’s college, Southleigh 25 April 1885. Church Times 1 May 1885 p. 345; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 771–2.

MOULTRIE, John (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire). b. 31 Great Portland st. London, the residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19, where he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian 1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby 10 June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to reside 1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3 ed. 1852; The dream of life, lays of the English church and other poems 1843; The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4 ed. 1851; St. Mary, the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths, and graves 1854; wrote many hymns, most of which are in B. H. Kennedy’s Hymnologia Christiana 1863. d. Rugby rectory 26 Dec. 1874. bur. in parish church, to which an aisle was added in his memory. John Moultrie’s Poems, 2 vols. (1876) memoir by rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp. v–lxxxiv; Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians (1876) 620–4; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 772.

MOUNSEY, Augustus Henry. Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover 1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2 sec. and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June 1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul general at Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris 14 Sept. 1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at Athens 22 July 1878; minister resident and consul general at Bogota 26 April 1881; author of A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia 1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an episode of Japanese history 1879. d. Bogota, Colombia 10 April 1882. Foreign Office List 1882 p. 151.

MOUNTAIN, Armine Simcoe Henry (5 son of Jacob Mountain 1749–1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). b. Quebec 4 Feb. 1797; ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec. 1818; travelled in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy 1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24 April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May 1825; brevet major 30 Dec. 1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828, lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8 March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot 8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850; military secretary on staff of sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March 1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4; deputy adjutant general to the land forces sent from India to China during the war 1840–2, and was present at all the chief engagements; A.D.C. to the queen June 1845; military secretary to lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded a brigade in the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla and Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian, Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. d. Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain, edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain (1857) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, George Jehoshaphat (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. d. Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain (1866) portrait; F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada (1870) 131–86 portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 447–8 (1888) portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis (1867) 284–7; I.L.N. xli 576, 587 (1862) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, Jacob George (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). b. 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. bur. St. John’s cemetery. Lives of missionaries, North America (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, Jacob Henry Brooke (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). b. Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. d. Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p. 1324.

MOUNT CASHELL, Stephen Moore, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). b. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. d. Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 405 (1883) portrait.

MOUNT EDGCUMBE, Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b. Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Countess.

MOUNTFORD, William. b. Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. d. Boston, Massachusetts 20 April 1885.

MOUNTMORRES, Hervey De Montmorency 4 Viscount (only son of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–1833). b. Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. d. The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 115 (1872).

MOUNTMORRES, William Browne De Montmorency, 5 Viscount (1 son of the preceding). b. Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany. 1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. murdered with 6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880. bur. Monkstown. Graphic xxii 356 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 361 (1880) portrait.

MOUNTSOY, Antoine. b. Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p. 14 portrait.

MOUNT TEMPLE, William Francis Cowper Temple, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. d. Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct. (1888); I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp. 481, 482 portrait.

MOUTRIE, William Francis Collard. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. d. 1869.

MOWAT, John Lancaster Gough (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, d. 1881). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. hung himself at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. The Times 9 Aug. 1894.

MOWATT, Alexander Murray. b. 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. d. Liverpool 21 June 1869. Newspaper Press iii 181 (1869).

MOWATT, Anna Cora (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, d. 1860). b. Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; m. 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and d. Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she m. (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who d. 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. Howitt’s Journal iii 146, 167, 181 portrait; Ireland’s New York stage ii, 437–8, 729 (1867); Tallis’ Drawing room table book 1851, Part 2 pp. 9–11 two portraits; Theatrical Times iii 162, 169 (1848) portrait; A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress (1854) portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 450 (1888) portrait.

MOWBRAY, Alfred Joseph Stourton, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). b. 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. d. Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.

MOWBRAY, Alfred Richard. b. Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. d. 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. bur. Holywell cemet. Guide to the church congress (1883) 51.

MOXON, Edward (son of Michael Moxon). bapt. in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c. author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. d. Putney Heath 3 June 1858. bur. Wimbledon churchyard. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 347–62; Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 229–35 and 257; P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii 46, 458 (1889).

MOXON, Emma (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. d. Cambridge Oct. 1814). b. 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; m. 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. bur. Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 203 portrait; The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter (1870); A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i 341, ii 172, 365 (1888); Law Reports 8, Chancery 881–8 (1873).

MOXON, James Henry Harmar (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). b. Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. d. suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883. Baily’s Mag. xl 415 (1883).

MOXON, Walter (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). b. Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. d. 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic acid. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 July. British medical journal 1886 vol. ii 178, 234, 392, 434.

MOYLAN, Denis. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector general of rates 1870. d. 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.

MOYLE, John Grenfell (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–1828). b. Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board, Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. d. 23 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.

MOYLE, Matthew Paul (2 son of John Moyle). b. Chacewater, Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine 1823. d. Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.

MOYSEY, Charles Abel (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., d. 1831). b. 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. d. Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

MOZLEY, Anne (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller). b. Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present 1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68, and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley 1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. 1891. d. Derby 27 June 1891. A. Mozley’s Essays from Blackwood (1892) memoir pp. vii–xx; I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p. 3 portrait.

MOZLEY, Harriet Elizabeth (elder sister of John Henry Newman, cardinal, d. 11 Aug. 1890). m. at St. Werburgh’s, Derby 27 Sept. 1836 Thomas Mozley, divine and journalist 1806–93; author of The fairy bower or the history of a month 1841; The lost brooch 1841; Louisa, or the bride 1842; Family adventures 1852. d. 71 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 17 July 1852.

MOZLEY, James Bowling (brother of Anne Mozley 1809–91). b. Gainsborough 15 Sept. 1813; ed. at Grantham gr. sch. 1822–8; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 1 July 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1871; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1840–56; joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, the organ of the high church party about 1845–55; V. of Old Shoreham, Sussex 1856 to death; select university preacher 1869; canon of Worcester 1869–71; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and canon of Ch. Ch. 7 Oct. 1871 to death; author of On the Augustinian doctrine of predestination 1855, 2 ed. 1878; The primitive doctrine of baptismal regeneration 1856; A review of the baptismal controversy 1862, 2 ed. 1883; Eight lectures on miracles; Bampton lectures 1865, 6 ed. 1883; Ruling ideas in early ages and their relation to the Old Testament faith 1877, 4 ed. 1889; The theory of development, a criticism of Dr. Newman’s essay 1878; Sermons, parochial and occasional 1879, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures and other theological papers 1883. d. Old Shoreham vicarage 4 Jany. 1878. J. B. Mozley’s Essays, 2 vols. (1884) introduction pp. xi–xlvii; J. B. Mozley’s Letters (1885) introduction pp. 1–30; I.L.N. lxxii 108 (1878) portrait.

MOZLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Gainsborough 1806; ed. at Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf.; pupil of John Henry Newman; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; fellow of Oriel April 1829 to 27 Sept. 1836, junior treasurer 1835; C. of Buckland near Oxford 1831; P.C. of Moreton-Pinkney, Northamptonshire 1831–6; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1836–47, rebuilt the church; advocated the tractarian movement from 1833; edited the British Critic 1841–3; wrote leading articles for The Times from 1844 for more than 40 years; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1868–80; rural dean of Plymtree 1874, and of Ottery St. Mary 1876; author of Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel college and the Oxford movement, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1882; Reminiscenses, chiefly of towns, villages and schools, 2 vols. 1885; The Word 1889; The Son 1891; Letters from Rome on the occasion of the Œcumenical council 1869–70, 2 vols. 1891; The creed, or a philosophy 1893, with autobiographical preface. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 17 June 1893.

MUDGE, Henry (son of Thomas Mudge). b. Tower Hill house, Bodmin 29 July 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; practised at Bodmin to his death; advocated strict temperance principles; mayor of Bodmin twice; edited The Western temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1838; The Bodmin temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1840–1; The Cornwall and Devon temperance journal, 8 vols. 1851–8; author of An exposure of Odd-fellowship 1845; Rescued texts or teetotalism put under the protection of the gospel 1853, 3 ed. 1856; Alcoholics, a letter to practitioners in medicine By one of themselves 1856; Dialogues against the use of tobacco 1861. d. Fore st. Bodmin 27 June 1874. Boase & Courteney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 377–8 (1874), iii 1290 (1882).

MUDGE, Richard Zachariah (eld. son of major general Wm. Mudge, col. R.A. 1762–1820). b. Plymouth 6 Sept. 1790; ed. at Blackheath and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 May 1807, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 7 Sept. 1840; in charge of the drawing department, Tower of London, some years; superintended the ordnance survey of Lincolnshire 1818; appointed comr. by the British government to examine the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 1838, the survey was made by Mr. Featherstonehaugh and himself Aug. to Oct. 1839, the boundary was settled by the treaty of Washington 1842; author of Observations on railways with reference to utility, profit and the obvious necessity of a national system 1837. d. Teignmouth, Devon 25 Sept. 1854. bur. Denbury. S. R. Flint’s Mudge memoirs (Truro 1883) 177–239.

MUDGE, Zachary (son of John Mudge, physician 1721–93). b. Plymouth 22 Jany. 1770; entered navy 1 Nov. 1780; captain 15 Nov. 1800; captain of Blanche 32 gun frigate 23 Sept. 1802 in the West Indies, where he captured many French merchant ships and privateers; lost his ship in an action with a French squadron 19 July 1805, tried by court martial 14 Oct. when acquitted of all blame; commanded the Phœnix in the Bay of Biscay 1805–10, and the Valiant, 74 guns 1814–5; admiral 15 Sept. 1849. d. Sydney near Plympton 26 Oct. 1852. bur. Newton Ferrers. Memorial window in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.

MUDIE, Charles Edward (son of Thomas Mudie, second-hand bookseller). b. Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 Oct. 1818; assisted his father until 1840; stationer and bookseller at 28 Upper King st. (now Southampton row), Bloomsbury; published Poems by James Russell Lowell 1844, and R. W. Emerson’s Man thinking, an oration 1844; commenced lending books 1842; removed to 510 New Oxford st. 1852, where he opened a large new hall and library 17 Dec. 1860; established branches in London, Birmingham and Manchester; made over the library to a limited company 1864, in which he held half the shares and remained manager, there were over 25,000 subscribers to his library; member of London school board for Westminster 1870–3; author of Stray Leaves 1872, a vol. of poems, 2 ed. 1872. d. 31 Maresfield gardens, Hampstead 28 Oct. 1890. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 421–32 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 72–3 portrait; I.L.N. 3 Nov. 1890 p. 583 portrait.

MUDIE, Charles Henry (son of the preceding). b. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill 26 Jany. 1850; ed. at Univ. college school, London; took part in management of his father’s business 1871 to death; a good musician, an amateur actor, and a lecturer; he devoted much time to improvement of the poorer classes. d. 13 Jany. 1879. C. H. Mudie [by Mary Mudie his sister] (1879) portrait; Athenæum i 90 (1879).

MUDIE, James. Second lieutenant royal marines 10 May 1799, first lieut. 18 Aug. 1804 to 1810 or 1811; manufactured medals of principal persons engaged in Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns; became insolvent 22 Aug. 1821; in New South Wales July 1822 to March 1836; owner of Castle Forbes station near Maitland, N.S.W. where there was an insurrection of the convicts in 1833, when he was removed from the commission of the peace together with 32 other magistrates; gave evidence in London before select committee appointed to inquire into the system of transportation, April and May 1837; author of An historical and critical account of a grand series of national medals, published under the direction of J. Mudie 1820; The felonry of New South Wales being a picture of the real romance of life in Botany bay 1837. R. Therry’s Reminiscenses (1863) 164–78; R. Flanagan’s History of New South Wales i 478–9, 524 (1862); Vindication of J. Mudie and J. Larnach from reflections on their conduct relative to treatment of convict servants 1834.

MUDIE, Thomas Mollison. b. Chelsea 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at royal academy of music from 1823, professor of the pianoforte there 1832–44; organist at Lord Monson’s seat Gatton, Surrey 1834–40; taught music in Edinburgh 1844–63 when he returned to London; his song Lungi dal caro bene was published at cost of the R.A. of music composed symphonies in C and in B flat; at the concerts of the Society of British musicians, were performed his symphony in F 1835, symphony in D 1837, a quintet in E flat for pianoforte and strings 1843, &c.; composer of Remember, a duet 1840; Six songs and two duets 1844; There be none of beauty’s daughters, a song 1845; The songs of Scotland by G. F. Graham, arranged by T. M. Mudie and others, 3 vols. 1848; Airs from Macfarren’s opera She stoops to conquer 1864, two books; Christabel waltz 1874; First Nocturne for the piano 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces 1830–76. d. Shaftesbury terrace, London 24 July 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 28 July.

MUGGERIDGE, Sir Henry (son of Robert Muggeridge). b. Banstead, Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London; common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855, after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London 1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. d. West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.

MUIR, Emily Margaret (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist). Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre, London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept. 1879. d. Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.

MUIR, James (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). b. Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London 1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer 1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi 323–6 (1889).

MUIR, John. b. Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft, Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God 1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851; Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown court, London 1856. d. Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. Our Scottish clergy, by J. Smith (1848) 45–56; Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 31 (1868).

MUIR, John (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad 1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur, Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death; chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm. Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India, 5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from Sanskrit writers 1879. d. 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7 March 1882. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 103–4; I.L.N. lxxx 352 (1882) portrait.

MUIR, Matthew Andrew. b. Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production much cheaper. d. Glasgow Jany. 1880.

MUIR, Matthew Arnold. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames; owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891, which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. d. 25 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.

MUIR, William (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D., 1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow 1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17 May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage; dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit 1842; Metrical meditations 1870. d. Ormelie, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 23 June 1869. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 75–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 22–5 (1872).

MUIR, William (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). b. Catrine, Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67, his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of temperance. d. Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery. R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir (1888).

MUIR, Sir William Mure (son of Walter Boyd Muir). b. Edinburgh 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854, inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny 1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885. Medical Times and Gazette i 800 (1885).

MUIRHEAD, James (son of Claud Muirhead of Gogan park, Midlothian, proprietor of the Edinburgh Advertiser). b. 1831; in a merchant’s office in Leith; connected with the Edinburgh Advertiser; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; member of faculty of advocates 1857; professor of civil law in univ. of Edinb. 1862 to death; advocate depute 1874–80; sheriff in chancery 1885; sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannanshire 1886; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1885; edited The institutes of Gaius and rules of Ulpian 1880; author of Historical introduction to the private law of Rome, Edinburgh 1886, a work of authority translated into French and Italian; his law library was purchased by subscription after his death and presented to Owen’s college, Manchester. d. Drumsheugh gardens, Edinburgh 8 Nov. 1889. Juridical Review Jany. 1890 pp. 27–36 portrait; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 175–80 portrait.

MULCAHY, John. ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1851; professor of mathematics Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; author of Principles of modern geometry, Dublin 1852, 2 ed. 1862. d. 1 Dec. 1853.

MULCASTER, William Edward (1 son of captain sir William Howe Mulcaster). b. 29 Sept. 1820; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1838, major 14 Nov. 1861; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 4 April 1863 to 1 July 1881; served in Afghanistan 1841; in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, and present at Modkee, etc.; served with 7 Irregular cavalry in second Punjab campaign 1848–9, and was present at siege of Mooltan, etc.; commander of 7 Irregular cavalry 14 Jany. 1852 to 26 May 1864, and was present in campaign on North West frontier 1853; brigadier commanding the cavalry in Sitana campaign 1857; brigadier general in Assam 1864, and commanded the Bhootan field force on the Eastern frontier; brigadier general commanding the Mooltan brigade 1865; commanded the Agra brigade to 1867; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. 3 Portland place, Bath 4 Feb. 1887.

MULES, Henry Charles. b. 1816; copyhold and enclosure comr. 13 Nov. 1852 to death. d. Hill house, Copdock, Suffolk 4 Dec. 1862.

MULHALL, Edward. b. Queen’s co. Ireland 1812; ordained R.C. priest 1835; professor of humanity at Carlow college from 1835, until his health obliged him to retire. d. Mountrath, Queen’s county 9 Sept. 1857.

MULHOLLAND, Andrew (son of Thomas Mulholland, cotton manufacturer). b. Belfast 1791; cotton manufacturer with his brother in York st. Belfast, their mill was burnt down 10 June 1828; produced flax yarns by machinery 1830, in which business he enjoyed almost a monopoly; member of Belfast corporation 1842, mayor 1845; presented the town with the organ in Ulster hall at cost of £3,000, 1845; retired from business 1860; sheriff of Down and Antrim. d. Springvale, Ballywalter, co. Down 24 Aug. 1866.

MULL, Matthias. b. 1820; manager of a printing establishment in India 1850; manager of Bombay gazette; on staff of Bombay times, purchased the paper, took Robert Knight into partnership, and renamed it The Times of India, when it became the representative journal of Western India, retired 1880; author of Shakespeare 1883, emendations on certain passages; Paradise lost, with notes 1884; Hamlet restored, with notes 1885; Hamlet, supplementary notes 1888; Macbeth, with preface and notes 1889. d. Oct. 1893.

MULLANY, Patrick Francis. b. Tipperary 29 June 1847; ed. by the Christian Brethren at Utica, New York 1862; professor of mathematics and English literature Rock hill college, Ellicott city, Maryland 1866, president 1878, charges being made against him he was summoned to Paris and on investigation acquitted; professor of rhetoric at De La Salle institute 1889; established the summer school at Plattsburg, a catholic copy of Chautauqua; contributed to the Contemporary, Fortnightly, American Catholic and North American reviews, and The Forum; author under the name of Azarias, of The development of English literature, the old English period, New York 1879; On thinking, an address 1881; Aristotle and the christian church 1888; Phases of thought and criticism 1892; The history of education from the earliest ages 1893, left unfinished. d. Plattsburgh, New York state Sept. 1893.

MULLEN, Robert. Ensign 1 foot 25 June 1802, major 8 Aug. 1833 to 16 June 1843; lieut. col. in the army 16 June 1843; K.H. 1835. d. at residence of his son, captain Mullen, governor of Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.

MULLENS, Joseph. b. London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept 1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of Missionaries (1877) 169–70; Congregationalist viii 969 portrait; Congregational year book (1880) 342–4.

MULLER, Edward Angier Godfrey. b. about 1802; ensign 1 foot 3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct. 1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866 to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill, Surrey 22 June 1875.

MÜLLER, Franz. b. 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja, Ich habe es gethan. Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp. 239–63; Central criminal court, Sessions papers lx 461–504 (1864); Annual register (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; Illust. Times 24 Sept. 1864 p. 201 portrait; A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii 448–52 (1884).