MULLINS, Frederick William (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter Mullins, d. 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry 1736–1824). b. 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. d. Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.

MULLINS, James. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of £35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs. Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860, tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death, hanged at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. Central Criminal court trials lii 769–805 (1860); A.R. (1860) 541–64.

MULLOCK, John Thomas. b. Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville; superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York 1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.

MULLOOLY, Joseph. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s, Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of Wales 1859. d. Rome 25 June 1880. bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo 27 June. Times 3 July 1880 p. 12.

MULOCK, Dinah Maria (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). b. Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti 1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852; Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853; Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols. 1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868; Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864; m. 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii 377–84 (1891).

Note.—The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte.

MULREADY, William (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). b. Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater 1827 to death. d. 7 July 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready (1890) 2 portraits; Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready (1867); Sandby’s History of the royal academy i 355–58 (1862); S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists (1871) 15–6; J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A. (1872); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 137–43; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii 224–30, 298–325 (1866); I.L.N. vii 20 (1845) portrait.

MULVANY, Charles Pelham (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister). b. Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850, scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7; surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868; went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872; assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years; curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881; author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant, Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. d. 69 Augusta terrace, Toronto 31 May 1885. David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1892) 171.

MULVANY, George F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A. d. 1852). b. Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy; exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A., succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy 1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847; Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany 1890. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1869.

MUMFORD, Eliza. b. 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. d. Bromley, Kent 3 Feb. 1884.

Note.—Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882.

MUMMERY, Isaac Vale (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). b. Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec. to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. d. 28 High st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. bur. Abney park cemet. 7 Oct. Congregational Mag. (1893) 234.

MUNBY, Giles (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). b. York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges, and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran, Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. d. the Holt near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. Gardener’s Chronicle ii 260–2 (1876) portrait.

MUNDELL, William Adam (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George st. Westminster). b. 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co., solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847, bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar; Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding of assizes and sessions 1857. d. 150 Buckingham palace road, London 15 July 1875. Law Times lix 252 (1875); Solicitor’s Journal xix 736 (1875); Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p. 77.

MUNDY, Charles Fitroy Miller (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, d. 1834). b. 31 March 1815; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15 Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. London 12 July 1888.

MUNDY, George. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs. Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. d. Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.

MUNDY, Sir George (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire d. Oct. 1822). b. Shipley hall 1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec. 1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1819–31. d. 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.

MUNDY, Sir George Rodney (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy d. 1848). b. London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819, captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857; second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863; commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72; admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5; admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23 June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples during the Italian revolution 1863. d. 12 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.

MUNDY, George Valentine (brother of the preceding). b. 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840; captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut. col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in the army 24 April 1860. d. 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 14 May 1863.

MUNDY, Godfrey Charles (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot 6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857 to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. d. London 10 July 1860.

MUNDY, Sir Robert Miller (brother of Sir George Mundy 1777–1861). b. 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut. R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846 with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col. in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut. governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut. governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of £333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.

MUNDY, William (son of Francis Mundy M.P. d. 6 May 1837). b. Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843; M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South Derbyshire 19 July 1865. d. Markeaton 10 April 1877.

MUNRO, Alexander (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). b. 1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A. and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca 1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham; lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself a house and studio at Cannes. d. Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 133–8.

MUNRO, Alexander. b. Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid, Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations to scripture and reason 1856. d. Glasgow Nov. 1892.

MUNRO, Alexander Thompson (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt., d. Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany. 1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18 Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut. col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3 July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug. 1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate. The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July, 8, 24, 26 Aug., 4 Dec. 1843; Annual Register (1843) 79–80, 115, (1847) 111–12; I.L.N. xi 173 (1847) portrait.

MUNRO, Sir Charles, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain, Rossshire, d. 1846). b. Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5 March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war; received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the war of independence in South America, and commanded a division of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9 baronet 2 May 1848. d. Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.

MUNRO, Donald. b. Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar; head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to 1850; F.L.S. 1821. d. 9 April 1853 Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 237 (1855).

MUNRO, Donald. b. 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. d. Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888.

MUNRO, Sir George Gun (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). b. 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. d. 16 Sept. 1852.

MUNRO, Hugh Andrew Johnstone (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). b. Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. d. Rome 30 March 1885. bur. in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. Saturday Review lix 472; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 131–42 (1854).

MUNRO OR McKENZIE, Janet. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. d. Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. bur. Roskeen 19 April. Times 15 May 1852 p. 8.

MUNRO, John (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, d. May 1788). b. June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.

MUNRO, William (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). b. 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. d. Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.

MUNROE, Kate, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). b. New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; m. 1886 Mr. Miles. d. from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and bur. in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 267; Illust. S. & D. News v 321, 327 (1876) portrait; The Theatre ii 169, 208 (1883) portrait.

MUNSEY, Thomas Alexander Augustus. b. 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. d. Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.

MUNSIE, William. b. Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. d. Glasgow 1864. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 235–6 (1886) portrait.

MUNSTER, Henry (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. d. Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894.

MUNSTER, William Felix Laurence (son of Henry Munster, M.P.) b. Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4; resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. d. St. Louis, Missouri 11 April 1877.

MUNTZ, George Frederick (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz, merchant, d. 1811). b. Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov. 1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811; made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of 15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency 1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of the country, 2 ed. 1843. d. Umberslade hall, near Birmingham 30 July 1857. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 86–101; R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors (1881) 93, 170, 206, 225; Dent’s Birmingham 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880) portrait; I.L.N. i 92 (1842) portrait, xiv 196 (1849) portrait; E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 79–88.

MUNTZ, Philip Henry (brother of preceding). b. Selby hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough 1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec. 1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856; presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P. Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. d. Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. bur. Leamington 28 Dec. Biograph iii 47–52 (1880); Times 26 Dec. 1888, p. 4, 29 Dec. p. 7; Dent’s Birmingham 494, 546 (1880); I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36 portrait.

MURCHISON, Charles (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.) b. Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin 1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April 1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death; physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860, physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital 1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P. 1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875; member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer 1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885; On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23 April 1879. bur. Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St. Thomas’s hospital. Proc. of Royal Society xxix 23–5 (1879).

MURCHISON, Kenneth (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale, Eastern Ross 1751–96). b. 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807; lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion 1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and Singapore. d. Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.

MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth Murchison 1793–1854). b. Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb. 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug. 1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14; captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815; attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany. 1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826, Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society 1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president of British Association at York 1846; director general of the geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861; lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains 1845; m. 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 22 Oct. 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R. I. Murchison, 2 vols. (1875) portrait; Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 206–13; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 29–35 (1872); Walford’s Representative Men (1868) portrait No. 13; I.L.N. xlviii 237 (1866) portrait; Graphic iv 411, 429 (1871) portrait; Illust. Times 13 Jany. 1866 p. 17 portrait; Victoria Mag. xii 461–3 (1809) an account of Lady Murchison; Reg. and mag. of biog. i 297–8 (1869).

MURDOCH, George. b. 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany. 1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22 Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired 14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced, the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece to the Admiralty 1866. d. Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.

MURDOCH, John. b. 1767; a baker; the public hangman in Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct. 1851. d. 15 March 1856. Times 28 March 1856 p. 10.

MURDOCH, John. b. Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to death. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.

MURDOCH, Sir Thomas William Clinton (son of Thomas Murdoch, F.R.S.) b. Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842; chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847, retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1 Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. d. 88 St. George’s sq. London 30 Nov. 1891.

MURE, David (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, d. 1831). b. 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1891.

MURE, James (son of James Mure). b. Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. d. 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 311–13.

MURE, William (brother of David Mure 1810–91). b. Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. d. 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. G.M. viii 634–5 (1860).

MURE, William (eld. son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.

MURFITT, Samuel. b. Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. d. Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.

MURLAND, James William. b. 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. Found dead in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. Irish law times xxiv 275 (1890).

MURLY, George Bullock. b. 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. d. Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.

MURPHY, Mr. b. Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. d. of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. Willis’ Current Notes (1857) 34; E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs (1868) 224; F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3rd series ii 23 (1868).

MURPHY, Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). b. Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; m. 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. d. North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. bur. in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. Appleton’s American biography iv 465 (1888); The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp. 659–60.

MURPHY, Edward William. b. Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. d. 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 69–72 (1868) portrait; Medical times i 217 (1877).

MURPHY, Francis. b. Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. d. West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858.

MURPHY, Sir Francis (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). b. Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. d. St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.

Note.—His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. d. Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.

MURPHY, Francis Stack (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). b. Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. d. Kensington, London 17 June 1860. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 464–7; I.L.N. iv 107 (1844) portrait; Law Times xxxv 191 (1860).

MURPHY, George Mollett (son of a shop keeper who d. 1845). b. Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839, became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845; an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52; signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham 1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall, his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling, with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths for religious services during many seasons; minister of the Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’ industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them 1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story, a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 8 Finchley road, Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. bur. Abney park cemet. 22 July. Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy (1888) portrait; The Biograph iv 233–7 (1880).

MURPHY, George Stormont. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870 to death. d. 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1893. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of cabdrivers with their cabs.

MURPHY, James. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. d. 1883.

MURPHY, Jeremiah John (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). b. Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery 1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. d. 50 Upper Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. bur. in Glasnevin cemet. Law mag. and law review iii 206 (1857).

MURPHY, John. b. Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia 1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal; issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. d. Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.

MURPHY, Miles. b. Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept. 1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828; parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50; vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated 10 March 1850. d. Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856. bur. Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856 p. 524, 23 Aug. p. 540.

MURPHY, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. d. Hotel Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.

MURPHY, Timothy. b. Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec. 1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May 1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841; bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept. 1849. d. Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 102 (1876).

MURRAY, Alexander. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut. 18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31 Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. d. London 24 Dec. 1865.

MURRAY, Alexander (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff). b. 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired 1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.

MURRAY, Amelia Matilda (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803, bishop of St. Davids). b. 30 April 1795; had a government pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.; maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847; Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856; Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. d. Glenberrow, near Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.

MURRAY, Andrew (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn, C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43; assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April 1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869. d. Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxvi 270–72 (1873).

MURRAY, Andrew (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June 1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861; began collection of economic entomology for Science and art department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of mammals 1866. d. 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington 10 Jany. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.

MURRAY, Augustus William. b. 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot 28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25 Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4 March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands 4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius 14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. d. Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.

MURRAY, Charles Knight (son of Charles Murray). b. 12 Oct. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr. of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne, Victoria 1852. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.

MURRAY, Daniel (son of a farmer). b. Sheepwalk, near Arklow, co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca 1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823 to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death; took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850; author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed. d. Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. bur. pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. J. D’Alton’s Memoirs of archbishops of Dublin (1838) 488–92; D. Murray’s Sermons, 2 vols. Dublin (1859) portrait; Notices of D. Murray, archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher (1853) memoir pp. 53–142.

MURRAY, Edward (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37; R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. d. Northolt 1 July 1852. G.M. xxxviii 317 (1852).

Note.—He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played for England more than once.