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MARSON, Job (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse trainer). b. Belle Vue training stables near Malton, Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847 and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. d. Middleham 11 Sep. 1857. Sporting Review, xxxiii 1–6 (1855), portrait, xxxviii 238–40 (1857); Rice’s History of the British turf, i 267 (1879); I.L.N. xxii 417 (1853), portrait.

MARSTON, Charles Dallas. b. 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5 July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73; V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. d. East Sheen, Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.

MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste Noel). b. Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (m. 1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44; played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864, and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep. 1867. d. 5 March 1887. Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14, portrait; Theatrical times, ii 169, 194 (1847), portrait.

MARSTON, Henry, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a physician). b. Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June 1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840; took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863, Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864, Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. d. 4 Lidlington place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. Tallis’s Drawing room table books, parts 9 and 18, 2 portraits; Theatrical times, i 201 (1847), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xi 280, 318 (1879), portrait.

MARSTON, John Westland (son of Stephen Marston, baptist minister). b. Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. d. at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 159–86 (1844); T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain (1851) 201–206; I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p. 111, portrait; London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p. 6, portrait.

MARSTON, Philip Bourke (only son of the preceding). b. 123 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King, and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. d. 191 Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest (1891) and For a song’s sake (1887); The collected poems of P. B. Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait (1892).

MARTEN, Thomas. b. 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov. 1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825, lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col. 6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837. d. Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, Albinus. b. Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. d. 17 Oct. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 223–26 (1872).

MARTIN, Edward. b. Brenchley, Kent 24 Nov. 1814; played his first match at Lord’s Marylebone v. Hampshire 26 June 1843; played for Kent and Hampshire; generally called The Veteran; dealer in cricketing appliances and keeper of a cricket ground at Oxford. d. 29 Oct. 1869. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 152 (1863).

MARTIN, Francis Offley (4 son of Henry Martin of Colston Basset, Notts., M.P. for Kinsale and master in chancery, who d. 19 July 1839). b. 22 March 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 19 May 1829; assistant tithe comr.; an inspector of charities 1857 to 7 Dec. 1872; second charity comr. for England and Wales 7 Dec. 1872 to death. d. 89 Onslow gardens, London 4 Dec. 1878.

MARTIN, Frederick. b. Geneva 19 Nov. 1830; secretary and amanuensis to Thomas Carlyle from 1856 for some years; started The Statesman, a biographical mag. in which he began an account of Carlyle’s early life; started The statesman’s year book 1864, edited it to Dec. 1882; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; author of The life of John Clare 1865; Stories of banks and bankers 1865; Commercial handbook of France 1867; The story of Alec. Drummond of the 17th lancers 3 vols. 1869; Handbook of contemporary biography 1870. d. 22 Lady Margaret road, Kentish Town, London 27 Jany. 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. 1 Feb.

MARTIN, George (2 son of rev. Joseph Martin of Ham court, Worcs., canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral 1796–1815). b. 1789; ed. at New coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; preb. of Exeter cath. 15 Sep. 1815 to death; chancellor of the diocese 1820 to death; V. of Harberton, South Devon 22 June 1820 to death; principal of training sch. Exeter (the first in England) Oct. 1839, which began Feb. 1840, first stone of new college laid 19 May 1853; cut his throat at Harberton vicarage 27 Aug. 1860. G.M. ix 437 (1860).

MARTIN, George. Proprietor of Royal Oak park grounds, Manchester. d. 21 Oct. 1865 aged 39. Illust. sporting news, iv 533, 545 (1865), portrait.

MARTIN, George. b. 1806; clerk in office of John James, secondary of City of London; clerk in the city solicitors’ office; assistant clerk at Mansion House justice room 1850–55; chief clerk at the Guildhall, June 1855, retired on full salary 1882. d. 2 Cromwell gardens, Kensington, London 30 Dec. 1887.

MARTIN, George Anne. b. 1807 or 1808; L.S.A. 1828; M.R.C.S. 1830; M.D. Edinburgh 1837; L.R.C.P. 1840; practised at Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1838 to death; author of The Undercliff, Isle of Wight: its climate, history and natural productions. 1849. d. Belgrave house, Ventnor 7 Jany. 1867.

MARTIN, George Bohun. b. 21 March 1799; entered navy 11 April 1815; captain 19 April 1828; captain of Victory 101 guns, flag ship at Portsmouth 26 Sep. 1851 to 23 Dec. 1852; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 10 Jany. 1853 to death; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827. d. Nottingham 14 Oct. 1854. G.M. xlii 627 (1854).

MARTIN, George William. b. London 8 March 1828; chorister at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in Jany. 1864 a choir of 1000 voices for the Macbeth music at three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth 23 April 1864; composed Is she not beautiful? 1845 and other glees for which he obtained many prizes. d. Bolingbroke House hospital, Wandsworth, London 16 April 1881. bur. by the parish in Woking cemetery.

MARTIN, Harriet Letitia (dau. of Richard Martin 1754–1834, known as Humanity Martin, M.P. for co. Galway 1801–26). b. London 5 July 1801; when staying in Paris wrote a tale entitled Canvassing, which was appended to Michael Banim’s novel The Mayor of Windgap 1835; author of a novel called The Changeling, a tale of the year ’47, 1848. d. Dublin 12 Jany. 1891.

MARTIN, Henri. b. Marseilles, France 1793; visited London and the provinces as a lion tamer 1831–32, performed at Drury Lane theatre, retired 1840; curator of Rotterdam zoological gardens; figures in several novels of Honore Balzac and Eugene Sue. d. Overschie near Rotterdam, April 1882. I.L.N. 15 April 1882.

MARTIN, Henry (son of Mr. Martin of North st. Brighton, saddler). b. Ringmer, Sussex 10 May 1813; a saddler in Brighton; councillor for the Pavilion ward on the Incorporation of the town May 1854 to death, alderman Jany. 1859 to death, mayor 1865–66, a magistrate 23 Jany. 1873 to death; author of The history of Brighton and environs 1871. d. 5 Powis sq. Brighton 24 April 1885. Sussex Daily News 25 April 1885 p. 6 cols. 3–4.

MARTIN, Henry Austin. b. London 23 July 1824; graduated at Harvard medical school 1845; practised at Boston, Massachusetts; staff surgeon in the Federal army 1861; rose to be surgeon-in-chief of the second corps of army of the Potomac; introduced into U.S. of America the practice of true animal vaccination 1870 which was universally adopted; invented pure rubber bandage for treatment of ulcers 1877; performed operation of tracheotomy without tubes many times; contributed largely to Lancet and other medical journals. d. Boston 7 Dec. 1884.

MARTIN, Sir Henry Byam (2 son of sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773–1854). b. 1803; midshipman on board the ‘Liffey’ 50 guns Oct. 1818; captain 28 April 1827; captain of Duke of Wellington 130 guns, and commodore in the western squadron 1 Feb. 1853 to 4 March 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 10 Oct. 1853 to 13 July 1854; served for a short time as flag officer in Baltic fleet for which he was made K.C.B. 5 July 1856; admiral 15 June 1864. d. Genoa 9 Feb. 1865.

MARTIN, Hugh (son of Alexander Martin). b. Aberdeen 11 Aug. 1822; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A. 1839; B.D. Edinb. April 1872; free church minister at Panbride near Carnoustie 1844–58; minister of Free Greyfriars, Edinb. 1858 to June 1865 when he retired owing to ill health; examiner in mathematics for degree of M.A. in univ. of Edinb. 1866–8; author of Christ’s presence in the gospel history 1860; A study of trilinear co-ordinates 1867; National education 1872; The shadow of Calvary 1875; The Westminster doctrine of the inspiration of scripture 1877, 5 ed. 1877. d. Lasswade near Edinburgh 14 June 1885.

MARTIN, James. Partner in Martins & Co. bankers, 68 Lombard st. London. d. Chiselhurst common, Kent 17 Aug. 1878, personalty under £500,000, 28 Sep. 1878.

MARTIN, Sir James (son of John Martin of Fermoy, Ireland). b. Middleton, co. Cork 14 May 1820; taken to New South Wales 1821; admitted solicitor of the supreme court 10 May 1845; member for Cork and Westmoreland in the legislative assembly 1848–59, member for East Sydney, Orange, the Lachlan, East Sydney and East Macquarie successively 30 Aug. 1859 to 19 Nov. 1873; attorney general 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856 and 7 Sep. 1857 to 8 Nov. 1858; called to the bar of N.S.W. 6 Sep. 1856; Q.C. 1857; prime minister and attorney general 16 Oct. 1863 to 2 Feb. 1865, 22 Jany. 1866 to 26 Oct. 1868 and 15 Dec. 1870 to 13 May 1872; knighted by patent 4 May 1869; chief justice of supreme court of N.S.W. 19 Nov. 1873 to death; author of The Australian Sketch-book. Sydney 1838. d. Clarens near Sydney 4 Nov. 1886. G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) 64–82; Australian portrait gallery (1885) 37, portrait.

MARTIN, Sir James Ranald (son of rev. Donald Martin of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye). b. Kilmuir 1793; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1813–7; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Bengal army 1817; surgeon to governor-general’s body-guard 1821; served in first Burmese war; practised at Calcutta from 1826, presidency surgeon 1830, retired 20 May 1840; practised in Grosvenor st. London 1840; physician to council of India 1859 to death; inspector general of army hospitals; F.R.S. 1845; C.B. 25 April 1860; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860; author of Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta. Calcutta 1837, A brief topographical and historical notice of Calcutta. Privately printed 1847; author with James Johnson of The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions 1841, 8 ed. 1861. d. 37 Upper Brook st. London 27 Nov. 1874. Medical Circular, iv 101–105 (1854), portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865), portrait; Medical times, ii 647–8 (1874); I.L.N. lxv 547, 551, 552 (1874), portrait; Graphic, x 586, 600 (1874), portrait.

MARTIN, John (son of Fenwick Martin, fencing master). b. Haydon Bridge near Hexham, Northumberland 19 July 1789; a painter on china and glass in London 1806; historical and landscape painter; exhibited pictures at the R.A. from 1812; historical painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold 1817; his finest work Belshazzar’s Feast obtained premium of £200 at British Institution 1821, the picture was repeated on glass and exhibited as a transparency in the Strand; an original member of Soc. of British Artists 1824; exhibited The fall of Nineveh at Brussels 1833 which was bought by Belgian government; member of Belgian academy and knight of order of Leopold; many of his works were engraved, some by himself; received sum of £2000 for his illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost; his three large pictures of the Apocalypse were exhibited after his death at the Hall of Commerce, 52 Threadneedle st. city of London, and at chief cities in England. d. Douglas, Isle of Man 17 Feb. 1854. Redgrave’s Century of painters, ii 424–37 (1866); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 120–6.

Note.—His eldest daughter Isabella Mary materially assisted her brother-in-law Joseph Bonomi the curator of the Soane museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, in his official duties during the later years of his life, she died 23 March 1880.

MARTIN, John (son of John Martin of 112 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London, d. 1836). b. 16 Sep. 1791; bookseller at 13 Old Compton st. Soho 1811–15, at 23 Holles st. Cavendish sq. 1815–6, at 46 New Bond st. 1816–9; partner with John Rodwell at 46 New Bond st. 1819–26, retired 1826; secretary to the Artists’ Benevolent fund 1833–45; librarian to duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire 1836 to death; F.S.A. and F.L.S.; edited Gray’s Bard 1837 and Gray’s Elegy 1839 and 1854; author of Bibliographical catalogue of books privately printed 1834, 2 ed. 1854; History and description of Woburn and its abbey 1845; Enquiry into the authority for a statement in Echard’s History of England regarding William, lord Russel. Privately printed 1852, published 1856. d. Froxfield near Woburn 30 Dec. 1855. bur. in Eversholt churchyard. G.M. xlv 317 (1856).

MARTIN, John. b. 1789; physician in city of London some years; laid down meteorological charts representing the varying aspects of months, seasons and years from daily observation; edited An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner several years resident in those islands 2 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818 reprinted as vol. xiii of Constable’s Miscellany. d. Lisbon 8 July 1869.

MARTIN, John. b. near Kennington church, London 10 July 1796; a baker by trade, always called by the reporters the Master of the Rolls; fought and beat George Oliver 18 July 1813; beat Jack Scroggins £100 a side, 65 rounds in 2 hours at Moulsey Hurst 18 Dec. 1818; beaten by Jack Randall at Crawley Downs 4 May 1819; beaten by Randall again £300 a side at same place 11 Sep. 1821; beaten by Edward Turner 100 guineas a side, 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Wallingham common 26 Oct. 1819; beat Jack Strong otherwise Cabbage 100 guineas a side, 75 rounds in 72 minutes at Farnham Royal, Bucks. 28 March 1820; beat Edward Turner £100 a side, 60 rounds in 78 minutes at Crawley 5 June 1821; beaten by Samuel Evans £100 a side, 16 rounds in 71 minutes at Knowl Hill, Berkshire 4 Nov. 1828; won 9 out of 14 fights; landlord of the Crown at Croydon many years; kept the Horns tavern at Kennington, London; retired first to St. Albans and afterwards to Devonshire; became a total abstainer and vegetarian. d. 1871 or 14 Aug. 1868. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, i 395–41 (1880), portrait; The Fancy. By An Operator, i 201–5 (1826), portrait.

MARTIN, John (2 child of Samuel Martin of Longhorne, parish of Donoughmore, co. Down). b. Longhorne 8 Sep. 1812; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; a member of the Repeal Association, expelled having joined the secession of the Young Ireland party; contributed to The United Irishman newspaper; issued The Irish Felon, successor to The United Irishman 24 June 1848 to 22 July 1848, surrendered to the police 8 July 1848, tried for treason-felony and sentenced to 10 years transportation 19 Aug. 1848, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land Nov. 1849, granted a conditional pardon 1854, resided in Paris Oct. 1854 to June 1856 when granted an unconditional pardon; returned to Ireland 1858, established with The O’Donoghue the short-lived National League; contested co. Longford, Dec. 1869; joined the Home government association for Ireland, May 1870; M.P. for co. Meath, Jany. 1871 to death; known in Ireland as Honest John Martin; paid secretary to Home Rule league, hon. sec. 1874. d. Dromalane house near Newry 29 March 1875. P. A. Sillard’s Life and letters of John Martin (1893).

MARTIN, John (eld. son of John Martin of Overbury court, Worcs. 1774–1832). b. 2 Feb. 1805; member of firm of Martins & Co. bankers 68 Lombard st. London; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1832–5 and 1837–59; contested Tewkesbury 6 Jany. 1835. d. the Upper hall, Ledbury 7 March 1880.

MARTIN, John (2 son of rev. Samuel Martin, V. of Warsop, Notts.) b. 10 Oct. 1807; ed. at Rugby; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn, London 1830 to death; founded a national school in Baldwin’s gardens, Holborn; an active member of the Church Association; promoter of great ecclesiastical suit of Martin v. Mackonochie 1867–76, always refused to take any steps to obtain imprisonment of the defendant; chairman of committee of Colonial and Continental church society. d. 9 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 16 May 1885.

MARTIN, John (son of Francis Martin of Davieland, dean of faculty of procurators in Paisley). b. 23 July 1811; a writer to the signet in Edinburgh 6 March 1834; principal clerk of session 1880 to death. d. 19 Chester st. Edinburgh 26 March 1893.

MARTIN, John Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, fellow 1821–9, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1835; R. of Killeshandra, Kilmore 30 May 1831 to death; archdeacon of Ardagh 1854–66; archdeacon of Kilmore, Sep. 1866 to death. d. 17 Jany. 1878.

MARTIN, John Edward (eld. son of John Martin 1791–1855, librarian to Duke of Bedford). b. 1821 or 1822; sub-librarian to Society of Inner Temple 1850; librarian 1856 to Dec. 1882 when his brain gave way; private librarian to Duke of Bedford at Woburn, to Duke of Northumberland, Marquis of Ripon and other owners of extensive collections. d. 20 July 1893. Law Journal 29 July 1893 p. 536.

MARTIN, Leopold Charles (2 son of John Martin, painter 1789–1854). b. 6 Dec. 1817; godson of Leopold afterwards first king of the Belgians; an artist and numismatist; clerk in the Stationery office, London 1836 to 1870; author of Contributions to English literature by the civil servants of the crown and East India company from 1794 to 1863. 1865; author with his elder brother Charles Martin of Civil costumes of England from the conquest to George III. 61 plates 1842, and of Dresses worn at Her Majesty’s Bal Costumé, May 1842. 1842; author with Charles Trubner of The current gold and silver coins of all countries 1862, 2 ed. 1863. d. London 8 Jany. 1889.

MARTIN, Peter John (son of Peter Patrick Martin, surgeon). b. Pulborough, Sussex 1786; M.R.C.S. 1813; practised at Pulborough; F.G.S. 1833; gave 3 lectures in 1833–4, afterwards published, to the Philosophical and literary society of Chichester on A parallel between Shakespeare and Scott and the kindred nature of their genius; wrote often under signature of P.P. in The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841–5; author of Geological memoir on a part of Western Sussex, with some observations upon chalk basins, the Weald denudation and outlines by protrusion 1828. d. Pulborough 13 May 1860.

MARTIN, Philip Wykeham (eld. son of Charles Wykeham-Martin of Leeds castle, Kent 1801–70). b. 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 Jany. 1829; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; M.P. for Rochester 8 Feb. 1856 to death; introduced and carried the Sale of spirits amendment act 1862 and the Hotel keepers’ liability act 1863. d. in library of House of Commons 31 May 1878, being only member who has died in the House since Spencer Perceval. bur. in parish church of Broomfield near Leeds Castle 7 June. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858), portrait.

MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. b. co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803; went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India 1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols. 1834; The Marquis of Wellesley’s Indian despatches 5 vols. 1836; History of the antiquities of Eastern India 3 vols. 1838; Statistics of the colonies of the British empire 1840; Ireland before and after the Union 1844, 2 ed. 1848; China, political, commercial and social 2 vols. 1847; The Indian empire 5 vols. 1857. d. Wellesley lodge, Sutton, Surrey 6 Sep. 1868.

MARTIN, Samuel (son of Wm. Martin, shipwright). b. Woolwich 28 April 1817; Congregationalist pastor of Highbury chapel, Cheltenham, Feb. 1839 to 1842; pastor of Independent chapel, Little James st. Westminster 5 July 1842 to death, chapel was rebuilt 1863; chairman of Congregational Union 1862; established day schools and a school for the reformation of criminals in Westminster; took an active part in management of Westminster hospital 1845–72 to which he presented communion plate 1869; author of Discourses to youth 1843; The extra work of a London pastor 1863; edited The useful arts, their birth and development 1851. d. 19 Belgrave road, London 5 July 1878. J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed. (1858) 110–7; Waddington’s Congregational History, v 593–6 (1880); Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait.

MARTIN, Sir Samuel (2 son of Samuel Martin of Culmore, Newton Limavady, co. Londonderry). b. 23 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1857; special pleader 1828–9; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, bencher 1843 to 1850 and Nov. 1878 to death; Q.C. April or May 1843; M.P. for Pontefract 1847–50; baron of court of exchequer 6 Nov. 1850, retired 22 Jany. 1874; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; common law comr. 30 April 1857, the report is dated 31 July 1857; doctor of laws, Durham, Sep. 1857; tried Franz Müller for murder of Mr. Briggs 27–29 Oct. 1864; P.C. 2 Feb. 1874. d. 132 Piccadilly, London 9 Jany. 1883. bur. Brompton cemetery 13 Jany. A generation of judges. By their reporter (1886) 83–94; Times 10 Jany. 1883 p. 6 cols. 1–2; I.L.N. lxxxii 61 (1883), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xl 173–74 (1883); Illust. Times 5 Nov. 1864 p. 289, portrait.

MARTIN, Samuel Dickinson. b. Leeds 12 June 1803; an engineer and surveyor there 1824 to death; surveyed many railway lines; a leading arbitrator in compensation cases; founded Yorkshire and north of England land agents and surveyors’ association, pres. of it; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. d. Harrogate, Yorkshire 26 Sep. 1877.

MARTIN, Thomas. M.R.C.S. 1810, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; general medical practitioner at Reigate, Surrey; member of the Provincial medical and surgical association; started and edited The Institute: a journal of medical, surgical and obstetrical science and practice and philosophical gazette 2 vols. 1850–1; presented by his admirers at Reigate with his portrait about Aug. 1851. d. Reigate 12 Feb. 1867 aged 87. Medical Circular, i 45–6 (1852), portrait.

MARTIN, Thomas (son of John Nickleson Martin of Wollaton, Notts.) b. 11 Dec. 1787; entered navy March 1799; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. d. 1 Nov. 1868.

MARTIN, Sir Thomas Byam (4 son of Henry Martin baronet, comptroller of the navy 1733–94). b. Ashstead house, Surrey 25 July 1773; entered navy April 1786; captain 5 Nov. 1793; commanded the Tamar in the West Indies 1797, captured 9 privateers in 5 months; had a large share in capture of the Russian ship Sewolod 26 Aug. 1808, for which he received cross of Swedish order of the Sword; R.A. 1 Aug. 1811; second in command at Plymouth 1813–4; deputy comptroller of the navy Jany. 1815, comptroller 9 Feb. 1816 to 2 Nov. 1831; admiral 22 July 1830, vice admiral of the U.K. 1847, admiral of the fleet 13 Oct. 1849 to death; M.P. for Plymouth 1818–32; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 3 March 1830; one of elder brethren of Trinity house 1833 to death. d. the Dockyard, Portsmouth 21 Oct. 1854, portrait in United service club. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 735–6; Georgian Era, ii 252 (1833).

MARTIN, William (brother of John Martin 1789–1854). b. the Twohouse in Haltwhistle, Northumberland 21 June 1772; worked in a ropery at Hawdon dock 1794–5 and 1809–10; served in the Northumberland regiment of militia 1795–1805 and 1810; studied perpetual motion from 1805; went to London 1808, exhibited and sold his patent for perpetual motion; founded the Martinean Society 1814 based upon the negation of Newtonian theory of gravitation; styled himself Anti-Newtonian from 1821; lectured throughout England 1830; designed models for a lifeboat and a lifebuoy, a self-acting railway gate and a design for a high-level bridge over the Tyne; author of Harlequins’ invasion, a new pantomime engraved and published by W.M. 1811; A new system of natural philosophy on the principle of perpetual motion, with a variety of other useful discoveries 1821; W. M.’s Challenge to the whole terrestrial globe as a philosopher and critic and poet and prophet 1829, 2 ed. 1829; A short outline of the philosopher’s life from being a child in frocks to the present day 1833, with portrait; An exposure of a new system of irreligion called the new moral world promulgated by R. Owen, Esq., whose doctrine proves him a child of the devil 1839, and other books. d. at his brother’s house, Lindsey house, Chelsea, London 9 Feb. 1851. G.M. i 327–8 (1851), i 433 (1854); M. A. Richardson’s Local historian’s Table Book, iii 137–8 (1842), iv 366.

MARTIN, William. b. Ewell near Epsom 10 March 1750. d. St. Pancras parish, London 14 Nov. 1852 aged 102. bur. in the old church St. Pancras. I.L.N. xxi 548 (1852).

MARTIN, William (natural son of Jane Martin, laundress). b. Woodbridge, Suffolk 1801; master in a school at Uxbridge to 1836; returned to Woodbridge 1836, delivered lectures and wrote articles for the magazines; issued Peter Parley’s Annual 1840 to death, six other writers adopted the same pseudonym; author of numerous educational works under name of Peter Parley, a series of Household tracts for the people under name of Old Chatty Cheerful and many under his own name. d. Holly lodge, Woodbridge 22 Oct. 1867.

MARTIN, Sir William (youngest son of Henry Martin). b. Birmingham 1807; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar 1826–31, fellow 1831–8; 26th wrangler, 4th classic and second chancellor’s medallist 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1836; chief justice of New Zealand 5 Feb. 1841, resigned 12 June 1857, the New Zealand government granted him pension of £333 6s. 8d. by special act 10 Aug. 1858; settled at Auckland 1859; D.C.L. Oxford 14 July 1858; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; author of Inquiries concerning the structure of the Semitic language 2 vols. 1876–8. d. Torquay 18 Nov. 1880. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886) 12–14, portrait; Foreign church chronicle, March 1881.

MARTIN, William Charles Linnæus (son of Wm. Martin, naturalist 1767–1810). b. 1798; superintendent of museum of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 1830 to 1838; F.L.S.; author of A natural history of quadrupeds 1840; The history of the dog 1845; The history of the horse 1845; An introduction to the study of birds, n.d.; A general history of humming-birds with reference to the collection of J. Gould 1852 and other books. d. Dacre park terrace, Lee, Kent 15 Feb. 1864.

MARTIN-LEAKE, Stephen (eld. son of Stephen Ralph Martin Leake 1782–1865, assistant secretary to the treasury). b. 19 March 1826; ed. at King’s coll. London and St. John’s coll. Camb., 20th wrangler 1848; pupil of Edward Bullen; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1853; author of The elements of the law of contracts 1867, new ed. 1878; Elementary digest of law of property of land 1874; Digest of the law of uses and profits of land 1888; author with Edward Bullen of Precedents of pleadings in actions in the superior courts of common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. d. Marshalls, High Cross, Ware, Herts. 7 March 1893. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. Solicitors’ Journal 25 March 1893 p. 359.

MARTINEAU, Arthur. b. 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1831–6, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; V. of Whitkirk near Leeds 1838–63; V. of Alkham with Capel, Kent 1863–4; R. of St. Mildreds, Bread st., with St. Margaret Moyses, London 1864 to death; chap. to Bp. of London, June 1865; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1866 to death; chap. to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of No need of a living infallible guide in matters of faith (four sermons). Leeds 1850; Church history of England from the earliest times down to the Reformation 1853, 2 ed. 1854. d. Cannes, France 11 Nov. 1872.

MARTINEAU, Harriet (youngest child of Thomas Martineau, camlet manufacturer, who d. June 1826). b. Norwich 12 June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5; awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834 were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America 1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism 1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832, at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45; built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside, Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2 vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and many other books. d. The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876. bur. beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. H. Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman (1877), portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 206–12, portrait; Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller (1884); James Payn’s Some literary recollections (1884) 97–136; W. H. D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers (1882) 404–17; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 65–75 (1844), portrait; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855) 739, portrait; J. S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master (1851); Cornhill Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884; Graphic, xiv 44, 46 (1876), portrait, xxviii 197 (1883), portrait; British medical journal 14 April 1877 p. 449.

Note.—She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.

MARTINEAU, Robert Braithwaite (son of Philip Martineau, taxing master to the court of chancery). b. 99 Guildford st. London 19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London 1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. d. 13 Feb. 1869. F. T. Palgrave’s Essays on art (1865).

MARTINEAU, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Robert Martineau of Birmingham). b. 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch., head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham, solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany. 1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor 1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25 March 1887. d. Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 28 July 1893. Edgbastonia, iv 1–4 (1884), portrait; Law Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p. 550.

MARTINS, Sir William (son of W. Martin). b. 1800; one of the gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign 11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840. d. 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 595 (1874).

MARTLEY, Henry. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death. d. Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.

MARTON, George (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray hall near Lancaster, d. 1834). b. 31 March 1800; ed. at Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster 1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1858. d. 24 Nov. 1867.

MARTYN, Francis Mountjoy. b. 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27 Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863; brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to Martyn 1830. d. London 24 Jany. 1874.

MARUM, Edward Purcell Mulhallen (only son of Richard C. Marum of Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). b. 1828; ed. at Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co. Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3 Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed to police barracks adjoining the church where he d. 21 Sep. 1890. St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p. 23, portrait.

MARVIN, Charles Thomas (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of engineering works on the Neva, Russia). b. Plumstead, Kent 1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till 1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months; a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876, transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May 1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26 June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to 20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England and America, and 12 other books. d. Grosvenor house, Plumstead Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. Times 17 July 1878 p. 11, 5 Dec. 1890 p. 6; London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p. 11, portrait.

MARWOOD, William. b. Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln 1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful; hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb. 1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov. 1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. d. Church lane, Horncastle 4 Sep. 1883. bur. Trinity ch. 6 Sep. The life of W. Marwood (1883), portrait; Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp. 1–2, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp. 9, 20, facsimile of his letter; Entracte Annual (1882) 26–7; Law Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p. 490.

Note.—His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’; this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep. 1883.

MARWOOD-ELTON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, d. 4 Dec. 1827). b. 1801; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l. 16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838 with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. d. 18 April 1884.

MARX, Karl. b. Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845, settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848, after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till his death; chief founder and director of the International 1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. d. 41 Maitland park road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times. New York (1883); Progress, May and June 1883; Graphic, xxvii 329 (1883), portrait; Fortnightly Review, March 1875 pp. 382–91.

MASFEN, John. b. Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death; the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general practices in the kingdom. d. Stafford 7 June 1854.

MASHEDER, Richard. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica 1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review 1865, 2 ed. 1865. d. Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.

MASKELL, Rev. Joseph. b. 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond., Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C. of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. d. Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.

MASKELL, William (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 1825). b. Bath 1814; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe, Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay 1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850; F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut. 1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3 ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M. 1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. d. Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. E. G. K. Browne’s Annals of the tractarian movement (1861) 193–200, 214; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 140 (1891).

MASON, Charles Kemble. b. Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre; played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April 1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of Music, Philadelphia 1869. Ireland’s Records of New York stage, ii 105–6 (1867).

MASON, Sir Francis. b. Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America, July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. d. Eastbourne 27 May 1853. G.M. xl 91–2 (1853).

MASON, Francis (son of a shoemaker). b. Walingate, York 2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53 and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852; D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. Francis Mason’s The story of a working-man’s life. New York (1870).

MASON, Francis (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant of Wood st. Cheapside, London). b. Islington 21 July 1837; matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college, London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson; M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6, surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres. 1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877; On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). d. 5 June 1886. bur. Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St. Thomas’s hospital. St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv 249 (1886).

MASON, Frederick. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841; beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany. 1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. d. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 20 Oct. 1860. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 309–14 (1881).

MASON, George Heming (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) b. Fenton park 11 March 1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England, married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe, is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington fine arts club 1873. d. 7 Theresa terrace, Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.

MASON, George Henry Monck (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain R.N.) b. 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut. 3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11 May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state 1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. G.M. i 105–6 (1858).

MASON, Henry Joseph Monck (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason of Dublin). b. Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800; examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51; correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839; The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843; Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. d. Dargle cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. bur. in the old cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev. John O’Hanlon (1891).

MASON, Hugh (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne; mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885, contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. d. 2 Feb. 1886.

MASON, James Wood (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of Horsley court, Gloucs.) b. 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. d. on board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6 March 1893.

MASON, John Charles (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the H.E.I.Co.’s home service). b. London, March 1798; clerk in the secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office 1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired April 1867; represented government of India on committee on Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An analysis of the constitution of the East India company and of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. d. 12 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.

MASON, Sir Josiah (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). b. Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker, then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster; manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker 1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed 1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R. Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000, 1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868; knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880. d. Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason, a biography (1882); Fortunes made in business, i 129–83 (1884); Biograph, iii 119–25 (1880); Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, with views of College and Orphanage; Edgbastonia, i 48–49 (1881); I.L.N. lv 247, 248 (1869), portrait; Illust. midland news, i 8 (1869), portrait; Practical Mag. i 162 (1873), portrait.

MASON, Stephen (son of David Mason). b. Kennoway, Fifeshire 1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. d. 4 Thornton villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.

MASON, Thomas Monck (only son of William Monck Mason of Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000 in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17 hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English, and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. d. about 16 Sep. 1889. T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of aerostation (1838), portrait.

MASON, William Hayley. Author of Goodwood: its house, park and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. d. East street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.

MASON, William Monck (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel R.E.) b. Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary collections and historical and philological compositions 1858; author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of Ireland 1825. d. Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey 6 March 1859.

MASON, William Shaw. b. Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805 remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy 3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana. Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him for Sir R. Peel. d. Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.

MASQUERIER, John James. b. Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London, completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits 1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death. d. 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855. G.M. xliii 540 (1855).

MASSEREENE, John Foster-Skeffington, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard d. 18 Jany. 1843, by lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness Loughneagh, she d. 2 Jany. 1831). b. Dublin 30 Nov. 1812; succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831; assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858, new ed. 1860. d. from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co. Antrim 28 April 1863.

MASSEY, James. b. 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct. 1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100 a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847; beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes 26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852 and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854; fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856; won 13 out of 17 fights. d. 1864. Illust. sporting news 9 Jany. 1864 p. 385, portrait.

MASSEY, Richard. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837 to 1877. d. 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged 84.

MASSEY, Rose M. (dau. of Joseph T. Massey of Hamilton square, Birkenhead, Cheshire). b. 1850; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs. Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre, London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu the jeune premier 1874. d. New York 23 July 1883.

MASSEY, William Nathaniel (son of Wm. Massey). b. 1809; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany. 1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P. for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8; ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb. 1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63, new ed. 1865–6. d. 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. I.L.N. xlvi 237 (1865), portrait.

MASSIE, Edward (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget, Chester). b. 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll. Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols. 1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects 2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in English verse 1878. d. Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany. 1893.

MASSIE, James William. b. Ireland 1799; a missionary in India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59; an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement, visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. d. Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 472, ii 54 (1869).

MASSINGBERD, Francis Charles (only son of Francis Massingberd, R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, d. 1817). b. Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln 1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec. 1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave; author of English history of the leaders of the reformation. 1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book 1864. d. Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. bur. South Ormsby. Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii 272–9 (1885).

MASSINGBERD, Vincent Amcotts (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd, R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). b. 1808; entered navy 21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired admiral Oct. 1884. d. The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.

MASSINGHAM, John Deacon. b. 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby 1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul, Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. d. Chelsea, London 20 June 1882.

MASSON, Elizabeth. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano vocalist and vocal composer. d. London, Jany. 1865.

MASSON, George Joseph Gustave. b. London 9 March 1819; ed. at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8 Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869; contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European literature, French literature 1888. d. while on a visit to Sir Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.

MASSY, Godfrey (3 son of Hugh Massy d. 14 March 1814). b. Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V. of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland. d. Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. Dawson Massy’s Footprints of a faithful shepherd (1855), portrait.

MASSY-BERESFORD, John Maunsell (youngest son of John Massy of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). b. 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter, Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore 1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. d. London 22 Oct. 1886.

MAST, George Christian. b. Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8 Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college 148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878. d. Jany. 1884.

MASTER, Robert Augustus. b. 1806; entered Bengal army 1824; major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855, lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.

MASTER, Robert Mosley (son of the succeeding). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C. of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec. 1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64; archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near Preston 1865 to death. d. Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.

MASTER, Streynsham (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of Croston, Lancs. d. 1798). b. Croston 10 June 1766; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. d. 19 Jany. 1864. Manchester school register, ii 33–4 (1868).

MASTERS, Joseph. b. Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax, bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st. London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848; started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols. 1842–63. d. 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. Guide to the church congress (1883) 49–50.

MATCHAM, George (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller 1753–1833). b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov. 1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the Quarterly Review. d. 18 Jany. 1877.

MATHER, Charles (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of Grantham, Lincs.) b. 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college 1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting and dramatic news under name of Exon. d. Paulton’s terrace, Chelsea 1 July 1878.

MATHER, Cotton (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey 1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to the New Testament and Psalms 1861. d. Junior Garrick club, London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.

MATHER, Robert Cotton (son of James Mather, congregational minister). b. New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D. Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833; went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833; pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to 1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches; founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (m. Elizabeth Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she d. Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He d. 5 Torrington park, Finchley, London 21 April 1877. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1877) 96–7; Congregational year book (1878) 325.

MATHESON, Sir Alexander, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of Attadale, Rossshire, d. 1826 aged 48). b. Attadale 6 Jany. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84; a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May 1882. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.

MATHESON, Charles (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice, merchant). b. 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury 1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed. 1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. d. Leamington 15 April 1894.

MATHESON, Sir James, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of Shinness, Sutherlandshire). b. Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796; ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846; the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. d. Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. Proc. of royal society, xxix 21 (1879).

MATHESON, John. b. Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor; chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. d. between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men, vol ii (1886), portrait.

MATHESON, John. b. Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845, chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853; general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. d. 10 May 1882.

MATHESON, Thomas (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). b. Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815, major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.

MATHEW, Theobald (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron Llandaff). b. Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790; ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10 April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to 1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. d. Queenstown 8 Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork, uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890, another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in National portrait gallery, London. J. F. Maguire’s Father Mathew (1863), 2 portraits; Sullivan’s New Ireland, i 96–120 (1877); H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed. (1876) 299–306; S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, i 460–520 (1883); I.L.N. ii 53 (1843) portrait, iii 85 (1843) portrait, 28 June 1890 pp. 820–2 several portraits; Sporting Review, xl 209–10 (1858); J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies 2 ed. (1886) 325–50; Dublin Univ. mag. xxxiii 694, portrait.

MATHEWS, Anne (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances Maria Kelly). b. 1782 or 1783; m. at York 28 March 1803 Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July 1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April 1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. d. Chelsea villa, Fulham near London 12 Oct. 1869. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxii 93 (1847).

MATHEWS, Charles James (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian 1776–1835). b. Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect 1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost 30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843; lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt 4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863, at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870, New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years; went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877; made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833, Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. d. Queen’s hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 29 June. The life of C. J. Mathews, edited by Charles Dickens 2 vols. (1879), portraits; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage (1867), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. vi 351–53, portrait; Actors by daylight, i 57 (1838), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) p. 57, portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, ii 159–70 (1888); Theatrical times, i 105 (1847), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 123–27 (1881); C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 405–10; J. Hollingshead’s Plain English (1880) 111–16; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii 423–47 (1855), iii 343–73 (1855); T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1847) 187–98, portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas, i 205 (1879), portrait; London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp. 3–7, portrait.

MATHEWS, Helen. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona and Miranda. d. Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dr. news, xvi 497 (1882), portrait.

MATHEWS, Julia Isabella (dau. of James Mathews, artificial flower maker). b. Angel court, Strand, London about 1840; taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney 2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871; played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre, Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (m. at Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated 1870). d. at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S. of America 19 May 1876. London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp. 8–9, portrait; Illust. sporting news, vi 753 (1867), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, ii 169, 171 (1874); The Entracte 27 May 1876 p. 8, 3 June p. 8; The Era 28 May 1876 p. 10.

MATHEWS, Lucia Elizabett or Elizabetta, best known as Madame Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver 1757–1821). b. 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; m. 28 Jany. 1813 at St. Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817 and d. 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20 July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris 1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français; first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success; played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831 to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas by Planché and Dance; m. at Kensington church 18 July 1838 Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden 1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase 10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s 1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine through clouds 26 July 1854. d. Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug. 1856. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1826), portrait; Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1830), portrait; Memoirs of the life of Madame Vestris (1830), privately printed; C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, ii 184–222 (1844), portrait; T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1847) 37–56, portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, v 91 (1826), portrait; Actors by daylight, i 41–2 (1838), portrait; Theatrical times, i 41 (1847), portrait; The dramatic mirror (1847) p. 60, portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 127–29 (1881); British stage, v 1 (1821), portrait; Planché’s Recollections and reflections 2 vols. (1872), passim; The Town, ii (1838–39), passim; Planché’s Extravaganzas, i 37 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. xi 268 (1847), portrait.

MATHEWS, Wilkinson (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). b. Whitby 9 March 1784; ed. at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C. Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he retired, d. 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866. bur. Leyland, Lancs. Law Times xci 536 (1866).

MATHIAS, George (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot 8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea 1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death. d. St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.

MATRAVERS, John. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners; purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of Bristol; F.S.A. d. London 30 Nov. 1851.

MATSON, Edward. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June 1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. d. 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.

MATTEI, Antonio. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April 1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. d. at his residence Sliema, Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.

MATTHEW, Walter Edmund (3 son of David Matthew of City of London, merchant). b. 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch. Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo 1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. d. 19 Feb. 1889.

MATTHEWS, Charles Peter. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co. brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club, London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J. Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. d. 18 Feb. 1891.

Note.—His collection of 125 pictures sold at Christie’s 6 June 1891 for £57,858 12s., being much less than he gave for the pictures. Times 8 June 1891 p. 12.

MATTHEWS, Emilia (dau. of Mr. Apjohn, bandmaster of a regiment). b. 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March 1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct. 1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May 1869; m. Frank Matthews 1807–71. d. Brompton, London 27 Aug. 1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. Era 31 Aug. 1873 p. 12, 7 Sep. p. 11.

MATTHEWS, Frank. b. Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1 July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80 nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec. 1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr. Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June 1840 and was lame for life. d. 7 Linden grove, Bayswater, London 24 July 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 29 July. Planché’s Extravaganzas, iv 87 (1879), portrait; Era 30 July 1871 p. 11 col. 4.

MATTHEWS, Henry William. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March 1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug. 1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. d. 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July 1884.

MATTHEWS, James. b. 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long time. d. 28 Aug. 1880.

MATTHEWS, John Thomas. b. London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820; clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose; clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3 pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called ‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi, Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859; played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes; last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb; the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57 Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern 18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton 1866 to death. d. 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4 March 1889. bur. Brighton cemet. 9 March. Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 268 (1874), portrait; Theatrical times, i 273 (1847), portrait; Theatre n.s. xiii 233 (1889); The World 21 Dec. 1881 pp. 5–6 and ’Xmas number 1886, portrait; H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain (1848) 93–95.

Note.—He m. at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 28 Oct. 1825 Fanny Maria Casciani dau. of a Florentine sculptor and had three children, Clara who m. Mr. Lawrence a clown; Fanny; and a son who died in infancy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Note.—His son Robert Ormond Maugham b. 1814, admitted solicitor 1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, d. from cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.