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MONCREIFFE, Sir Thomas, 7 Baronet. b. Moncreiffe house, Bridge of Earne, Perthshire 9 Jany. 1822; succeeded 20 Nov. 1830; ensign grenadier guards 15 May 1840, sold out 21 Jany. 1842; lieut.-col. of Perthshire militia 1846–55 and hon. col. 30 Oct. 1855 to death. d. Moncreiffe house 16 Aug. 1879.

MONCRIEFF, Alexander (eld. son of Hugh Moncrieff, advocate Glasgow). Ed. Glasgow coll.; advocate 1852; advocate depute 1862; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1869. d. 22 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 2 June 1870. Journal of jurisprudence July 1870 p. 376.

MONCRIEFF, George. b. 1806; ensign Scots fusilier guards 8 April 1826, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 14 June 1858; M.G. 14 June 1858, L.G. 27 Dec. 1864. d. Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1869.

MONCRIEFF, Robert Scott Wellwood. Treasurer of the Soc. of Scottish antiquaries 1812; great friend of William Henry Murray actor who d. 1852; resided at 17 Leopold place, Edinb.; Old dean of guild 297 High st. Edinb.; came into the Garvoch estate on death of Andrew Wellwood about 1842; built a house near Dalmeny which was so ugly that Lord Rosebery bought it and pulled it down. d. about 1854. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 169–70, portrait.

MONCRIEFF, William Thomas, stage name of W. T. Thomas (son of a tradesman in Newcastle st. Strand, London). b. London 24 Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy 18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817, and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, where his equestrian drama. The dandy family ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April 1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog 30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11 Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837, and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers 23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. d. the Charterhouse, London 3 Dec. 1857. Reynolds’s Miscellany, ix 28–9 (1853), portrait; Era 13 Dec. 1857 p. 11.

MONCTON, Henry (eld. son of hon. Edward Moncton of Somerford, co. Stafford 1744–1832, by Sophia natural dau. of George Pigot 1 baron Pigot, governor of Madras). b. 11 Sep. 1780; ensign 95 foot 5 March 1795; captain 24 dragoons 20 April 1796, major 24 July 1802, placed on h.p. 1803; major 3 foot 15 May 1806; major 8 light dragoons Jany. 1807; lieut-col. 72 foot 18 June 1807 to 1824 or 1825; general 11 Nov. 1851; served during the Irish rebellion and with the Austrian army in Italy. d. Amherst house, Clifton park, Clifton 29 June 1854.

MONEY, Archibald. b. 1778; cornet 11 dragoons April 1794, major 14 Dec. 1809 to 24 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 2 dragoons 24 May 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Crown point, Trowse, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1858.

MONEY, Rowland (son of Wm. Money of Horn house, Hereford). b. 28 April 1782; entered navy 21 April 1796; captain 29 March 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; engaged in the attacks on Washington and Baltimore 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; awarded a pension of £250, 16 Feb. 1816. d. Cheltenham 21 June 1860.

MONGREDIEN, Augustus (son of a French officer). b. London 1807; ed. at R.C. college, Penn, Bucks.; owner of the first screw steamers to the Levant; member of firm of Hugh and John Johnston, corn merchants, London 1859–64; a corn factor as A. Mongredien and co. 61 Mark lane, London 1864; purchased Heatherside, Surrey 1862; member of National political union 1831; member of the Cobden club 1872; president of London Chess club 1839; granted civil list pension of £100, 28 July 1886; author of Trees and shrubs for English plantations 1870; England’s foreign policy 1871; The Heatherside manual of hardy trees and shrubs 1874–5; Frank Allerton: an autobiography 3 vols. 1878; History of the free-trade movement in England 1881; Wealth creation 1882. d. 31 Park road, Forest Hill near London 30 March 1888. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait.

MONINS, Eaton (son of John Monins). b. Canterbury 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 52 foot 1 Dec. 1814; present at Waterloo; major 69 foot 19 Nov. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1835 to 10 Nov. 1848 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; colonel of 8 foot 3 June 1860 to death. d. Wellesley house, Upper Walmer 16 June 1861. bur. in St. Mary’s church, Walmer.

MONK, James Henry (only son of Charles Monk of 40th foot). b. Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1 Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822; 7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823; Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822 to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832; R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829 to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July, the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836; edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum, or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. d. the palace, Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. bur. in north aisle of Westminster abbey 14 June. G.M. i 115–7 (1856); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery (1833) vol. iv, portrait 21; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii 76–9 (1846); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 398–400.

MONK, John. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder of Manchester. d. 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany. 1874. Law Times, lvi 260 (1874).

MONK, William Henry (son of Wm. Monk). b. Brompton, London 16 March 1823; organist of Eaton chapel Pimlico 1841–3, of St. George’s chapel Albemarle st. 1843–5, and of Portman chapel Marylebone 1845–7; choirmaster at King’s college, London 1847, organist 1849, professor of vocal music 1874; professor of music at School for the indigent blind 1851; organist at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1853, where he established a daily choral service; lectured on music at London institution 1850–4; professor in National training school for music 1876 and in Bedford college London 1878; hon. Mus. Doc. Durham 1882; he was musical editor of the following works, The parish choir, from the fortieth number to its close in 1851; Hymns ancient and modern, compiled by sir H. Baker 1862, numerous editions and a sale of 30 million copies; Appendix to Hymns ancient and modern 1869; The holy year, hymns by C. Wordsworth 1865; The Scottish hymnal 1873; The psalter printed for chanting, the harmonies and chants revised 1874; Book of anthems 1875; The children’s hymnal, harmonies 1876; Hymns for mission services 1877; The congregational psalmist hymnal 1886; The book of common prayer, with plain song and music 1891; composer of Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel, arranged 1849; Te Deum laudamus for four voices 1862; The office of holy communion set to music 1884; and the tunes of the hymns Abide with me, and Sweet Saviour bless us ere we go. d. Glebe Field, Stoke Newington, London 1 March 1889. Musical Herald, April 1889, portrait; J. Love’s Scottish church music (1891) 214–5.

MONKSWELL, Robert Porrett Collier, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Collier 1769–1849, M.P. for Plymouth 1832–41). b. Mount Tamar near Plymouth 21 June 1817; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; member of the anti-corn law league; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843, went western circuit, leader of the circuit 1854–63; recorder of Penzance 14 July 1848 to March 1856; M.P. for Plymouth 1852–71; Q.C. July 1854; counsel to Admiralty and judge advocate of the fleet Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1863; solicitor general 2 Oct. 1863 to July 1866; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; attorney general 12 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1871; recorder of Bristol for a few days Oct. 1870; P.C. 3 Nov. 1871; judge of Court of Common Pleas 7 Nov. 1871 where he sat for a few days only; judge of judicial committee of P.C. 22 Nov. 1871 to death; created baron Monkswell of Monkswell, co. Devon 1 July 1885; exhibited 20 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. gallery 1864–80; author of The railways’ clauses, companies clauses and lands clauses consolidation acts, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; A treatise on the law relating to mines 1849; A letter on reform of the superior courts of common law 1851, 2 ed. 1852; translated The oration of Demosthenes on the Crown 1875. d. Grasse near Cannes 27 Oct. 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. London. I.L.N. xliii 393 (1863) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; Saturday Review 30 Oct. 1886 p. 578; Law Journal 30 Oct. 1886 pp. 604, 616, 618.

MONRO, Alexander (son of Alexander Monro anatomist 1733–1817). b. Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1773; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ., M.D. 1797; F.R.C.P. 1799; studied in London and Paris; with his father conjoint professor of anatomy in univ. of Edinb. 1798, delivered the whole course of lectures from 1808, and was sole professor 1817–46, and Emeritus professor 1846 to death; author of Observations on crucial hernia 1803; The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach and intestines 1811, 2 ed. 1830; Outlines of the anatomy of the human body 1813, 2 ed. 1825; Engravings of the thoracic and abdominal viscera 1814. d. Craiglockhart near Edinburgh 10 March 1859, portrait by K. Macleay in National portrait gallery, Edinb. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 175, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv 225 (1862).

MONRO, Sir David (4 son of the preceding). b. 1813; educ. Edinb. acad. and univ.; an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand under the N.Z. co.; member of legislative council of province of New Munster 1849; member of the first general assembly of N.Z. 24 May 1854 to 1866; member for Cheviot 1866–70, for Waikonati 1870; speaker of house of representatives 1861 and 1862 and 1866–70; knighted by patent 10 Feb. 1866; the first person unseated on an election petition in N.Z. 1871; studied medicine in Paris, Berlin and Vienna 1866, M.D. d. Newstead near Nelson, New Zealand 17 Feb. 1877. G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand, iii 7–8 (1883).

MONRO, Edward (eld. son of Edward Thomas Monro, M.D. 1790–1856). b. Gower st. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; P.C. of Harrow Weald, Middlesex 1842–60; V. of St. John’s, Leeds 1860 to death; select preacher at Oxford 1862; established a college for boys called the College of St. Andrews at Harrow Weald; author of The Combatants, an allegory 1848; The dark river 1850; The parish 1853, a poem; Daily studies during Lent 1856; Practical sermons on the characters of the old testament 3 vols. 1855–8; Parochial lectures on English poetry 1856 and 30 other books. d. St. John’s vicarage, Leeds 13 Dec. 1866. bur. Harrow Weald churchyard 20 Dec.

MONRO, Edward Thomas (son of Thomas Monro of Bloomsbury, London, F.R.C.P.) b. London 1794; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1814; candidate of college of physicians 22 Dec. 1815, fellow 23 Dec. 1816, censor 1819, 1829 and 1837, Harveian orator 1834, consiliarius 1837, 1846 and 1852, elect 30 Sep. 1842, treasurer 25 June 1845 to 1854; physician to Bethlehem hospital. d. Bushy, Herts. 25 Jany. 1856. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 153 (1878).

MONRO, Henry (brother of Edward Monro 1815–66). b. 1817; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1863; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. 1848, censor 1861–3, councillor 1864–5 and 1875–7; physician to Bethlehem hospital 1848; founded the House of Charity in Rose st. Soho 1846; physician to St. Luke’s hospital 1855–82; president of Medical psychological association 1864; painted his own portrait and that of his father and presented them to royal college of physicians; author of A treatise on stammering 1849; Remarks on insanity, its nature and treatment 1850; On improving the condition of the insane 1851; Articles on reform in private asylums 1852. d. 14 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 May 1891. Memoir of H. Monro, by rev. Canon W. Foxley Norris, privately printed; Journal of mental science July 1891 pp. 496–7.

MONROE, Mary. b. Derbyshire 1 Feb. 1795; one of the greatest travellers of her time; passed Easter week in Rome as the guest of the Pope 1830; a friend of the marquis de Lafayette; was twice a guest of sir Walter Scott; a friend of the duchess of Kent; travelled 20 weeks in Great Britain and Ireland investigating the condition of the working classes 1865; m. an officer in the customs service of the United States. d. New York 15 Sep. 1893.

MONSELL, Harriet (dau. of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet, of Dromoland, co. Clare 1773–1837). b. Dromoland 1812; a sister of mercy 29 May 1851; superior of house of mercy at Clewer 30 Nov. 1852, resigned 1875, known afterwards as the Community of St. John the Baptist, planted its first mission in London 1860, it numbered in 1883 over 200 sisters in England, America and India; the chief mover in building St. Andrew’s convalescent hospital, Clewer 1865; m. 21 Sep. 1839 rev. Charles Henry Monsell (3 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, d. 1846) b. 12 June 1815, prebendary of Aghadoe 1840, he d. Naples 29 Jany. 1851. She d. The Hermitage, Folkestone 25 March 1883. T. T. Carter’s Harriet Monsell, a memoir (1884), portrait.

MONSELL, John Samuel Bewley (2 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry, d. 20 Nov. 1846). b. St. Columb’s, Derry 2 March 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; chaplain to bishop Mant; R. of Dunaghy, Ramoan, co. Antrim; chancellor of diocese of Connor 14 April 1847 to 1853; V. of Egham, Surrey 1853–70; hon. chaplain to the queen 27 Dec. 1872 to death; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1870 to death; rural dean of Emley 1871; wrote many popular hymns, among others God is love, that anthem olden, and Sing to the Lord a joyful song; author of Hymns and miscellaneous poems. Dublin 1837; Parish musings in verse 1850, new ed. 1871; His presence not his memory 1855, poems, 8 ed. 1881; Spiritual songs for the Sundays and holydays 1857, 6 ed. 1875; The passing bell and other poems 1867, 2 ed. 1869; Nursery Carols 1873, and 20 other books. d. in consequence of a fall from the roof of his church which was rebuilding, St. Nicholas rectory, Guildford 9 April 1875. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 762; D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1892) 164; Wilson’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 515.

MONSON, William John Monson, 6 Baron (only child of col. the hon. Wm. Monson 1760–1807). b. Tangore, Madras 14 May 1796; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; F.S.A. 12 Feb. 1818; succeeded his cousin as 6 Baron 7 Oct. 1841; a frequent correspondent of Notes and Queries; author of Extracts from a journal [of tours in Istria, Dalmatia, Sicily, Malta and Calabria] 1820. d. Great western hotel, Paddington, London 17 Dec. 1862. bur. in family vault at South Carlton 24 Dec. G.M. xiv 234 (1863).

MONTAGU, Basil (2 natural son of John Montagu, 4 earl of Sandwich 1718–92, by Martha Ray). b. 24 April 1770; brought up at Hinchinbrook, Hunts.; ed. at Charterhouse and Christ’s coll. Camb., 6th wrangler 1790; B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793; resided at Cambridge till 1795; barrister Gray’s Inn 19 May 1798; a comr. in bankruptcy 1806; founded the Society for the diffusion of knowledge upon the punishment of death 1809; K.C. June 1835; accountant general in bankruptcy 1836 to 1846, established liability of bank of England to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits; author of A summary of the law of set off 1801, 2 ed. 1828; A digest of the bankrupt laws 4 vols. 1805–7, 2 ed. 1819; A digest of the law of partnership 2 vols. 1815, 2 ed. 1822 and about 50 other works; edited The works of Francis Bacon 16 vols. 1825–34; author with W. Scrope Ayrton of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1833–8. 3 vols. 1834–9, and of The law and practice in bankruptcy 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1844; with Richard Bligh of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1832–3. 1835; with Edward Chitty of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1838–40. 1840; with E. C. Deacon and J. De Gex of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840–44. 3 vols. 1842–5. d. Boulogne, France 27 Nov. 1851. H. Gunning’s Reminiscences of Cambridge, i 141–47 (1855); Georgian Era, ii 551 (1833); G.M. xxxvii 410–3 (1852).

MONTAGU, James. b. 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain 17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Marlborough 9 March 1868.

MONTAGU, John (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). b. 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7 Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land 1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and 1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany. 1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death; author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across the Derwent 1841. m. April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He d. London 4 Nov. 1853. bur. Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. Biographical memoir of J. Montagu. By W. A. Newman (1855) portrait.

MONTAGU, John William (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu, G.C.B. 1750–1829). b. 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803, captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.

MONTAGU, Montagu (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham, Surrey). b. 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806, lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California broadsides 1850. d. Bath 31 July 1863. G.M. xv 383 (1863).

MONTAGU, Oliver George Powlett (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich 1811–84). b. 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863; cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881, lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a touching farewell to his old regiment. d. Cairo 25 Jany. 1893. Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p. 63, portrait.

MONTAGU, Sir William Augustus. b. 1785; entered navy 4 Sep. 1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28 guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40 guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17 Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice admiral 17 Aug. 1851. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii 407 (1852).

MONTAGUE, Henry James, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann d. 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70). b. about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany. 1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy 27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866, and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre; the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868 which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s; the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s 12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A. Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life, opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts; gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London 27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York; toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America 1878. d. San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 258–61 (1881); Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p. 5, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ix 555, 596 (1878) portrait, x 6 (1878) portrait; Theatre, ii 208 (1878).

MONTALBA, Henrietta Skerrett (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens Montalba). b. 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London; the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta; exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year; resided latterly at Venice. d. the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere, Venice 14 Sep. 1893. bur. near her father in cemetery of St. Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. Art Journal, July 1894 pp. 215–7, portrait; Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p. 530, portrait; Queen 7 Oct. 1893.

MONTALEMBERT, Charles Forbes René, Count de (son of Marc René Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India, d. 21 June 1831, m. 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of H.E.I.C.) b. Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber 1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848; condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded 21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre 1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867; St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow 1874 and 40 other works. d. Paris 13 March 1870. Mrs. Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert 2 vols. (1872); English Cyclopædia, iv 307 (1857), Supplement 1872 p. 902; Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire, xi 484, 485 (1874).

MONTEAGLE, Thomas Spring-Rice, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick d. Sep. 1831). b. Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge 1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835 to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839 to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep. 1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the ecclesiastical titles act 1851. d. Mount Trenchard near Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.

MONTEATH, Alexander M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857; assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under secretary to government of India, financial and home departments 1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867, retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at Berne 1876. d. Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.

MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Monteath). b. 1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C. to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to 10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec. 1850. d. Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. liii 435, 459, 483 (1868).

MONTEFIORE, Joseph Barron (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a cousin of sir M. Montefiore). b. 1802; in partnership with his brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide, South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London. d. 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.

MONTEFIORE, Sir Moses Haim, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias Montefiore b. London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, d. 11 Jany. 1804). b. Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange; partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July 1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855; undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864; admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; m. 10 June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she d. 24 Sep. 1862. He d. East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. bur. in a private mausoleum on his estate. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe (1890), portrait; L. Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore (1884), portrait; J. Weston’s Sir M. Montefiore (1885), portrait; J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 347–58; J. B. Bailey’s Modern Methusalahs (1888) 329–91; I.L.N. xxxiv 309 (1859) portrait, xlvi 153 (1865) portrait; Graphic xii 126, 144 (1876) portrait, xxviii 409 (1883) portrait.

MONTEITH, Alexander Earle (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles d. 1806). b. 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife 1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement 1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp. 1–34 portrait. d. Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 413–8.

MONTEITH, William (son of Wm. Monteith). b. Abbey parish, Paisley 22 June 1790; lieut. Madras engineers 18 March 1809, col. 13 May 1839, retired 10 Dec. 1847; commanded a frontier force of cavalry against the Russians 1810–13; present at Persian head quarters in the war against Russia 1826, comr. for payment of indemnity of £400,000 exacted from Persia by Russia 1828; chief engineer at Madras July 1832 to Jany. 1834 and Sep. 1836 to July 1842; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; hon. L.G. 1854; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845, withdrew 1863; F.R.G.S.; a knight of Persian order of the Lion and Sun; author of Kars and Erzeroum, with the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828–9. 1856; translated Capefigue’s The diplomatists of Europe 1845; edited Narrative of the conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808–9. 1854. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 April 1864. Vibart’s Madras sappers, ii 113–31 (1884).

MONTGOMERIE, Alexander (2 son of Alexander Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1744–1802). b. 30 July 1790; entered navy 27 June 1802; captain 3 Oct. 1820; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Bridgend, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire 26 Dec. 1863.

MONTGOMERIE, Sir Patrick (son of Robert Montgomerie of Irvine, Ayrshire, banker). b. Irvine 1793; ed. at Ayr academy and Woolwich; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 7 July 1810, col. commandant 7 Oct. 1849 to death, served in India 1817–25 and in China 1840–1; general 1 March 1867; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 10 Elvaston place, London 5 Oct. 1872.

MONTGOMERIE, Patrick. b. 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist. engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government 1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884; investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Waltair near Vizagapatam 8 Jany. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 368–70 (1886).

MONTGOMERIE, Roger (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1789–1852). b. Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar 1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire 1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. d. at his residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. Journal of jurisprudence, xxiv 601.

MONTGOMERIE, Thomas George (brother of the preceding). b. 23 April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col. 1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to geographical periodicals. d. 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany. 1878. Athenæum, i 191 (1878).

MONTGOMERY, Alexander Barry. Ensign 1 foot 25 Nov. 1824, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, retired on full pay Jany. 1866; colonel in the army 13 Jany. 1858; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Stoke, Devonport 17 Oct. 1869.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Alexander Leslie, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, 1 baronet 1765–1830). b. London 12 March 1807; entered R.N. 7 Oct. 1819; captain 2 July 1846; R.A. 9 Feb. 1864, admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; an officer of Brazilian order of Southern Cross 1845; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 June 1878. d. 56 Cadogan place, London 13 June 1888.

MONTGOMERY, Fanny Charlotte (2 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield 1787–1869). b. 30 May 1820; m. 13 Oct. 1842 Alfred 3 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1 baronet, he was a commissioner of inland revenue from 1845 to 1882; edited The German Christmas eve, by A. Flohr 1847; authoress of Truth without prejudice 1842; Early influences 1845; Poems 1846; Ashton hall or self seeking and self denying 1846; The Bucklyn shaig 2 vols. 1865; Mine own familiar friend 3 vols. 1872; The wrong man 2 vols. 1873; On the wing, a southern flight 1875; The eternal year 1877, 2 ed. 1889; The maid of Orleans, her life and mission 1891. d. Villa Beatrice, Naples 27 Jany. 1893.

MONTGOMERY, Henry (youngest child of Archibald Montgomery). b. Boltnaconnell house, parish of Killead, co. Antrim 16 Jany. 1788; entered Glasgow college Nov. 1804, M.A. 1807, LL.D. 1833; presbyterian minister of Dunmurry near Belfast 24 Sep. 1809 to death; head master in English school of Belfast academical institution 3 Oct. 1817 to June 1839; moderator of the general synod 30 June 1818; advocated Catholic emancipation from 1813, presented with a service of plate by members of various denominations 18 June 1828; founded the remonstrant synod of Ulster, which first met 25 May 1830; gave lectures to non-subscribing divinity students from 1832; professor of ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838 to death; an original editor of the Bible Christian 1830; contributed to the Irish Unitarian mag. 1846–7 a series of Outlines of the history of presbyterianism in Ireland; author of Letter to D. O’Connell in vindication of the proceedings of the remonstrant presbyterians of Belfast 1831. d. the glebe, Dunmurry 18 Dec. 1865, his portrait painted 1835 by J. P. Knight was engraved several times. His widow Eliza and his dau. Lily granted civil list pension of £100, 29 Jany. 1866. Life of H. Montgomery. By J. A. Crozier, vol. i (1875), portrait; J. L. Porter’s Life of Henry Cooke (1871) 120, 157 etc.; C. Porter’s Irish presbyterian biographical sketches (1883) 34; Times 21 Dec. 1865 p. 9.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Henry Conyngham, 2 Baronet (eld. brother of sir A. L. Montgomery 1807–1888). b. Taunton 10 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; entered Madras civil service 1825; succeeded his father 21 Jany. 1830; collector and magistrate of Tangore 1843; chief secretary to government of Madras 1850–7; member of council Madras 1854–7; resigned the service 29 Oct. 1857; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to Nov. 1876; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876. d. 5 Manchester sq. London 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 June.

MONTGOMERY, James (son of John Montgomery, Moravian minister at Irvine, Ayrshire, d. Barbados 27 June 1791). b. Irvine 4 Nov. 1771; ed. at Moravian school, Fulneck near Leeds 1777–86; clerk in office of Mr. Gales’ Sheffield Register April 1792, became the working editor of the paper 1794; in partnership with Benjamin Naylor purchased Gales’ newspaper business 1794 and brought out the Sheffield Iris 4 July 1794, proprietor of the paper 1795, retired 4 Nov. 1825; wrote for the Eclectic Review; lectured on poetry at Royal Institution 1830 and 1831, these lectures were published 1833; granted civil list pension of £150, 1835; author of Prison amusements 1796; The whisperer, or tales and speculations. By Gabriel Silvertongue, No. 1 May 28, 1795, No. 24 Nov. 5, 1795, he afterward suppressed this volume; his chief poems are The wanderer of Switzerland 1806, 7 ed. 1815; The West Indies 1810, 7 ed. 1828; The world before the flood 1813, 7 ed. 1826; Greenland 1819; The Pelican island 1826, 2 ed. 1828; wrote many hymns which were collected 1853, more than 100 of them are still used; his collected poems were published in 4 vols. 1841, 9 ed. 1881. d. The Mount, Sheffield 30 April 1854. bur. Sheffield cemetery 10 May, where is monument by John Bell, full-length portrait by Barber in Sheffield literary and philosophical institute. J. Holland and J. Everett’s Life of James Montgomery 7 vols. (1854–6), four portraits; J. W. King’s J. Montgomery (1858), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of memories (1883) 81–93; Papers of the Manchester literary club (1889) 385–92, 435–40; Samuel Ellis’s Life, times and character of James Montgomery (1864); W. Howitt’s Home and haunts, ii 292–322 (1847), 3 ed. (1857) 556–77; Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; I.L.N. xxiv 417–18, 551 (1854) portrait, xxvii 436 (1855); The living poets of England (Paris 1827) i 476–522; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 287–315; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 313–23; Chambers’s Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen, iii 161–64 (1870), portrait.

MONTGOMERY, John James (eldest son of John Montgomery). b. Ballymore, co. Westmeath 1832; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s coll. Cork; served under C. B. Lane, C.E. London; private sec. to sir G. Airy at Greenwich observatory; chief assistant to borough engineer Bradford to 1861; borough engineer of Belfast 1861 to death; designed and carried out a scheme of drainage for the borough; diverted the river Blackstaff 1878; M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871; fell ill when travelling in Switzerland, d. Airolo, Aug. 1884. bur. protestant cemetery, Lucerne. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii 436–9 (1884).

MONTGOMERY, Robert (natural son of Robt. Gomery, clown at Bath theatre, d. 14 June 1853). b. Bath 1807; ed. at Dr. Arnot’s school, Bath; took the name of Montgomery; founded a weekly paper at Bath called The Inspector about 1824; matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; ordained at St. Asaph 3 May 1835; C. of Whittington, Shropshire 1835–6; minister of St. Jude’s, Glasgow 1836–43; minister of Percy chapel, St. Pancras, London, Oct. 1843 to death; author of the following poems, The stage coach 1827; The age reviewed, a satire 1827; The omnipresence of the deity 1828, which ran to 8 editions in 8 months, 28 ed. 1855; The Puffiad 1830, a satire; Satan, a poem 1830, 8 ed. 1842; Oxford 1831, 6 ed. 1843; The Messiah 1832, 8 ed. 1842; Woman, the angel of life 1833, 5 ed. 1841; The poetical works of R. Montgomery 3 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1853. d. Brighton 3 Dec. 1855. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 233–52 (1844); Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 142–54.

Note.—He was called by the critics Satan Montgomery from his poem entitled Satan and to distinguish him from James Montgomery the poet; he is immortalised in Montgomery, a poem in the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1853) 159–61.

MONTGOMERY, Sir Robert (2 son of Samuel Law Montgomery, rector of Lower Morville, co. Donegal). b. Londonderry 1809; entered Bengal civil service 1827; magistrate and collector at Allahabad, June 1839; comr. of the Lahore division of the Punjab 1849, member of the board of administration 1852–3, judicial comr. 1853; disarmed the Bengal sepoys at Lahore on outbreak of the mutiny 13 May 1857; chief comr. of Oudh, June 1858, where he enforced the confiscation proclamation; lieut. governor of the Punjab, March 1859 to Feb. 1865; K.C.B. 19 May 1859; G.C.S.I. 20 Feb. 1866; member of council of secretary of state for India 1868 to death; known in India as Pickwick for his benevolence; author of Abstract principles of laws circulated for the guidance of officers employed in administration of civil justice in the Punjab. Bangalore 1864. d. 7 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 28 Dec. 1887. bur. family vault Londonderry 3 Jany. 1888. Illust. news of the world, iii 228 (1859), portrait.

MONTGOMERY, Walter, stage name of Richard Tomlinson (10 son of Wm. Tomlinson). b. Gawennis, Long Island, U.S. of America 25 Aug. 1827; a buyer in the shawl department for Messrs. Shoolbred 1852; played Othello as an amateur at Soho theatre 1852 under name of Young Emery; played at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich and Yarmouth; manager of the new Nottingham theatre; first appeared in London at Princess’s 20 June 1863 as Othello; manager of the Princess’s, played Shylock 22 Aug. 1863; gave readings from Shakespeare &c. at St. James’s hall, London, March 1864; played Leonatus Posthumus 6 March and Cassius April 1865, both at Drury Lane; manager of Haymarket July 1865 to Nov. 1865, where he played Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, King John, Shylock and Iago; the original Lorenzo in W. C. Russell’s tragedy Fra Angelo; played Orlando and Sir Thomas Clifford at Drury Lane, Nov. 1866; played Hamlet at Gaiety theatre 31 July 1871, also Sir Giles Overreach, Louis XI. and Meg Merrilies; m. 30 Aug. 1871 Miss Laleah Burpee Bigelow an American; shot himself at 2 Stafford st. Bond st. London 1 Sep. 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 5 Sep. Winnetta Montague widow of Walter Montgomery. d. Brooklyn, New York 27 May 1877. Illust. sporting news, v 769 (1866), portrait; The Theatre, ii 12 (1883); The Era 3 Sep. 1871 p. 13, 10 Sep. p. 11, 17 June 1877 p. 4.

Note.—Was Hamlet mad? or the lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson. Melbourne 1867; another ed. Was Hamlet mad? By Archibald Ritchie and others, edited by R. H. Horne. London 1871, a pamphlet on Montgomery’s acting in Australia in 1867.

MONTGOMERY, William Fetherston. b. 1797; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar; L.R.C.P. Ireland 1825, F.R.C.P. 1829, president of the college, professor of midwifery there 30 years; collected the Obstetrical museum in the College of physicians, Dublin, since removed to Queen’s college, Galway; a great authority on midwifery in Ireland and on the Continent; author of An exposition of the signs of pregnancy 1837, 2 ed. 1856, and with F. Barker Observations on the Dublin pharmacopæia 1830. d. 8 Merrion square north, Dublin 21 Dec. 1859. Dublin Quart. Journal Medical Science, xxxiii 250 (1862); Medical Times, xl 664 (1859).

MONTGOMERY, William Henry. Studied under W. M. Rooke and W. Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862; contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again, ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist 1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song 1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852, twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers; Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler 1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. d. Waterloo road, London 12 Sep. 1886. bur. Norwood cemet.

MONTI, Raffaelle (son of Gaetano Monti of Ravenna, sculptor). b. Milan 1818; studied under his father in the imperial academy, Milan, took gold medal for group of Alexander taming Bucephalus; exhibited Ajax defending body of Patroclus 1838; sculptor in Vienna 1838–42, in Milan 1842–6; in England 1846 exhibited The veiled statue, executed for the duke of Devonshire; joined the national party in Italy 1847, fled to England 1848; his chief works in England were The sister angels, The veiled vestal, Eve after the fall, and The sleep of sorrow, the dream of joy exhibited at the International exhibition of 1862; his models of Italy, Truth, Eve, two emblematical fountains and six colossal symbolical figures are at the Crystal palace, Sydenham. d. London 16 Oct. 1881. Art Journal, Nov. 1881 p. 352.

MONTRESOR, Frederick Byng. Entered navy 27 June 1823; captain 29 April 1851; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired 1 April 1870, retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878. d. 15 Dec. 1887.

MONTRESOR, Sir Thomas Gage (3 son of John Montresor of Belmont, Kent, his majesty’s chief engineer of America). b. New York 4 March 1774; ensign 18 foot 13 Oct. 1789; D.A.Q.M.G. in Flanders 1794; brigade major in Ireland during French invasion 1799; in Egypt 1801, in India 1803; lieut.-col. 22 dragoons 2 Jany. 1812 to 1816; commanded the troops of the Paishwa at Poonah 1809–13; colonel of 2 dragoon guards 20 Feb. 1837 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1834. d. Dover 26 April 1853.

MONTROSE, James Graham, 4 Duke of (elder son of 3 duke of Montrose 1755–1836). b. 16 July 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1819; vice chamberlain of the household 7 Feb. 1821 to 14 April 1827; P.C. 23 Feb. 1821; M.P. Cambridge 1825–32; col. Stirling militia 12 Oct. 1827; comr. for affairs of India 4 Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830; succeeded his father as 4 earl of Graham and 4 duke of Montrose 30 Dec. 1836; chancellor of univ. of Glasgow 1837 to death; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Stirlingshire 27 Feb. 1843 to death; lord steward of queen’s household 27 Feb. 1852 to 4 Jany. 1853; his seat Buchanan house nearly all burnt 22 Jany. 1850; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Feb. 1858 to 22 June 1859; postmaster general 10 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868; resisted the claim of the earl of Crawford and Balcarres to the dukedom of Montrose 1851. d. Cannes 30 Dec. 1874. I.L.N. xxxii 313 (1858), portrait, lxvi 43 (1875); Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait 23.

MOODIE, Donald (son of major James Moodie of Melsetter, Orkney). Entered navy 1808; lieut. 8 Dec. 1816 and placed on h.p.; went to the Cape Colony and entered the civil service there, resident magistrate at Port Francis 20 Feb. 1825 to 1828 and at Graham’s Town 1828–34; protector of slaves in the eastern districts 1830–4; superintendent of the Government bank, Cape Town 1840; secretary to government of Natal 29 Aug. 1845 to 1851; author of The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the native tribes of South Africa. Cape Town 1838–41, discontinued after p. 64 of part iii.; A voice from the Kahlamba, the Natal Kafirs intercourse with Natal. Pietermaritzburg 1857. d. Pietermaritzburg 1861. Colonial services of Donald Moodie. Pietermaritzburg (1860).

MOODIE, John Wedderburn Dunbar (bro. of the preceding). b. Melsetter, Orkney Islands 7 Oct. 1797; 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 Feb. 1813, 1 lieut. 5 May 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1816; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom 8 March 1814; spent ten years in South Africa with his brother 1819–29; emigrated to Upper Canada 1832; captain of militia on Niagara frontier during insurrection of 1837; sheriff of Vittoria now Hastings county, Ontario 1839–63; wrote in Memoirs of the late war 2 vols. 1831, The campaigns in Holland in 1814, ii. 257–314; author of Ten years in South Africa including a description of the wild sports 2 vols. 1835; Scenes and adventures as a soldier and settler during half a century (with portrait). Montreal 1866. d. Belleville, Ontario 22 Oct. 1869. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 281.

MOODIE, Susannah (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of Reydon hall, Suffolk, d. 1818, and younger sister of Agnes Strickland 1796–1874). b. Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; m. 1831 the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols. 1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons 2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D. Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852. d. Toronto 8 April 1885. J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes Strickland (1887) 85, 192; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 281; Appleton’s American Biography, iv 376 (1888), portrait.

MOODY, John E. b. 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. d. 27 Euston place, New road, London 7 Nov. 1852.

MOODY, Richard Clement (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E. d. 1846). b. St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13 Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July 1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov. 1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle; lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal boundaries 1868. d. Bournemouth 31 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc 453–5 (1887).

MOODY, Stephen. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824, lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I. 26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of 70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct. 1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. 42 Porchester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1856.

MOODY, William (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, d. 1820). b. Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831; with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. d. 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct. 1867.

MOON, Sir Francis Graham, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Christopher Moon, gold and silver smith). b. 4 Holborn Bars, Holborn, London 28 Oct. 1796; employed by Edward Tugwell book and print seller, 55 Threadneedle st., purchased the business on Tugwell’s death 1817; became the leading print publisher in London; purchased stock of Hurst, Robinson and Co. print publishers 1825; member of firm of Moon, Boys and Graves, Pall Mall 1825; carried on his own business at corner of Finch lane; reproduced some of the finest works of sir D. Wilkie, sir C. Eastlake, sir E. Landseer, D. Roberts, S. Prout, C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield and G. Cattermole; published at cost of £50,000 David Roberts’ Sketches in the Holy Land 1842; invited by Louis Philippe as a guest to St. Cloud; common councilman for Broad st. ward, city of London 1830–44; sheriff of London 1843–4; alderman of Portsoken ward 1844–71 and of Bridge Without 1871; lord mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Guildhall 19 April 1855; created baronet 4 May 1855; a chevalier of legion of honour; F.S.A. 9 June 1853; resided 35 Portman sq. London. d. Western house, Brighton 13 Oct. 1871. bur. Fetcham churchyard, Surrey 20 Oct. I.L.N. xxv 460 (1854) portrait, lix 387, 399, 401 (1871) portrait; The City Press 21 Oct. 1871 p. 2, 28 Oct. p. 2.

MOORE, Adolphus Warburton (son of major John Arthur Moore a director of H.E.I.C.) Ed. Harrow 1855 etc.; junior clerk in secretary’s office India house Aug. 1858, in the financial department 1860, senior clerk June 1867, reading clerk to the council 1871–5, joined the political department 1874, assist. secretary Feb. 1875, retired 1885; acting political sec. 1876–8; private sec. to Lord Randolph Churchill 1885, sec. to the chancellor of the exchequer and private sec. to sec. of state for India 1886; political and secret sec. India house Jany. 1887 to death; C.B. 1886; one of the ablest members of the civil service. d. Monte Carlo 2 Feb. 1887. The Times 3 Feb. 1887 p. 6.

MOORE, Albert Joseph (13 son and 14 child of Wm. Moore, portrait painter 1790–1851). b. York 4 Sep. 1841; ed. at Kensington gr. sch. 1855–8; studied in art school of the R.A. 1858; designed pictorial figures for architects in ceilings &c.; painted decorative pictures from 1865; executed the proscenium of the Queen’s theatre, Long Acre 1867; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1857–79; his pictures are in the public collections of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; an exhibition of his works was held at the Grafton gallery, London 1894. d. 2 Spenser st. Victoria st. Westminster 25 Sep. 1893. bur. Highgate cemet. Temple Bar, liii 342–6 (1878); The Portfolio, i 5–6 (1870); I.L.N. 3 Feb. 1894, supplement pp. 1–4, portrait and 15 views of his paintings; St. James’s Budget 29 Sep. 1893 p. 3, portrait.

MOORE, Alexander. b. 1809; a shipwright’s apprentice; master shipwright, then chief instructor Devonport dockyard 1865–78. d. Dockyard terrace, Devonport 1 April 1878. Report Devonshire Association, x 57–8 (1878).

MOORE, Alfred William. b. Guernsey 1823; known as fatty Moore; ed. at London hospital, L.S.A. 1849; M.R.C.S. 1850; under a special diet lost 3 stone in weight 1846, William Banting and John Harvey disputed his claim to the invention of the system; surgeon accoucheur Provident medical institute, Pimlico road, London; author of The dietary of corpulence 1856; Corpulency i.e. fat or embonpoint in excess. Letters to the Medical Times and Gazette explaining his newly discovered diet system to reduce the weight 1856; resided 2 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London. d. 24 March 1882. Sporting Review lii 398–400 (1864).

MOORE, Aubrey Lackington (2 son of Daniel Moore, V. of Holy Trinity, Paddington since 1866, prebendary of St. Paul’s since 1880). b. Camberwell 1848; ed. at St. Paul’s school 1860–7 and Ex. coll. Oxf. 1867, B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1872–6, lecturer and tutor 1874; assistant tutor at Magd. coll. 1875; R. of Frenchay near Bristol 1876–81; tutor of Keble coll. 1881; exam. chaplain to bishop Mackarness 1878 and to bishop Stubbs 1888; select preacher at Oxford 1885–6; Whitehall preacher 1887–8; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1887; wrote in The Guardian 1883 to death; author of An essay on The Christian doctrine of God in Lux Mundi 1889; Science and the faith, essays on apologetic subjects 1889; Lectures on the reformation in England and on the continent 1890; From Advent to Advent, sermons 2 ed. 1894. d. 2 Keble road, Oxford 17 Jany. 1890; Aubrey Moore studentship founded 1890, portrait by C. W. Furse placed in Keble college hall 1892. A. L. Moore’s Essays, scientific and philosophical (1890) memoir pp. xi–xxxvi; London Figaro 25 Jany. 1890 p. 4, portrait.

MOORE, Beaufoy Alfred. b. 1821; proprietor of the Old Cheshire Cheese chop house, 16 Wine Office court, Fleet st. London 1856 to death. d. 58 Maida Vale, London 5 Feb. 1886.

MOORE, Carter William Daking. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; C. of Barton on Humber 1841–3; C. in charge of Flordon, Norfolk 1848–53; committed to Norwich castle 21 March 1852 for cursing a magistrate at Flordon railway station the day before; C. of Leyton, Essex 1867–9; C. of Woking 1869–71; author of Lights and shades in the life of a curate; and of works on ritualism and confirmation, also of poetry, sermons &c., none of his books are in the British Museum library. d. 1884.

MOORE, Charles (1 son of J. Arthur Moore of Liverpool d. 1830). b. Ireland 17 June 1804; head of firm of C. Moore and co. shipowners, Liverpool, then of London; owned large estates in Ireland; purchased a country seat Mooresfort, Tipperary 1865; M.P. co. Tipperary 1865 to death; purchased the estate of Balleycohey relieving the tenants of the Scully proprietorship, and became very popular. d. 19 Grafton st. Piccadilly, London 15 Aug. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biography, Sep. 1869 p. 150.

MOORE, Charles (2 son of John Moore, printer d. 1844). b. Ilminster, Somerset 8 June 1815; employed by Mr. Meyler, bookseller, Bath 1837–44; printer and bookseller at Ilminster 1844–53; lived at Bath 1853 to death; a councillor for Syncombe and Widcombe ward 1 Sep. 1868, alderman 11 Sep. 1874; made the collection which now forms the Geological museum of the Bath royal literary and scientific institute; F.G.S. 1854; announced at meeting of British Assoc. in Bath 1864 his discovery of existence in England of the Rhætic beds previously overlooked; author of 30 papers on geological subjects. d. Bath 8 Dec. 1881. Proc. of Bath Natural history soc. vii 232–69 (1892); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii 51–2 (1882).

MOORE, Charles Hewett. b. Plymouth 12 June 1821; house pupil to F. C. Skey surgeon 1837; M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1848; demonstrator of anatomy Middlesex hospital school 1847, lecturer on anatomy 1848, assist. surgeon 1848 then surgeon, conjoint lecturer on surgery with Mr. De Morgan 1869; F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1848, librarian 1858, surgical sec. 1859–62, a councillor 1864–5, vice-president 1866–7, and treasurer 1868–9; translated C. Rokitansky’s A manual of pathological anatomy 1854; wrote on Cancer, and wounds of vessels, in T. Holmes’ System of surgery i 508–69, 650–702 (1860), and in iii 259–83 on Diseases of the absorbent system; author of The antecedents of cancer 1865; Rodent cancer 1867; On going to sleep 1868; and with A. Shaw and others Report of the staff at Middlesex hospital on treatment of cancerous diseases 1857. d. at residence of his brother William Foster Moore, Friary st. Plymouth 6 June 1870. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. vi 351–3 (1871).

MOORE, David. b. Dundee 1807; assistant to Dr. J. T. Mackay, director of Dublin univ. botanic garden 1828–38; changed his name from Muir to Moore 1828; director of botanic garden at Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1838 to death; an authority on the mosses and hepaticæ of Ireland; wrote many papers in the Phytologist, Natural history review, Seeman’s journal of botany and other periodicals; author of Concise notices of British grasses best suited for agriculture, 2 ed. 1850; with A. G. More of Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland 1866. d. Glasnevin, co. Dublin 9 June 1879. Journal of botany (1879) 224.

MOORE, Edmund Fitz (youngest son of Richard Moore of Hampton Court palace). b. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827, bencher 1869; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; authorised reporter of the judicial committee; member of Royal Botanical society; author of Reports of cases determined by the privy council on appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny courts 1836–72, 14 vols. 1838–73; Reports of cases determined by judicial committee of privy council 1836–62, 15 vols. 1840–67, New Series 9 vols. 1862–73; The case of the rev. G. C. Gorham against the bishop of Exeter 1852; Reports of cases before the privy council by J. W. Knapp 3 vols. 1831–6, Moore completed vol. 3; The case of Westerton against Liddell in the consistory court 1857; In The Law Reports, English and Irish appeal cases by C. Clark 6 vols. 1866–73, Moore reported the Privy council appeals. d. 112 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 11 Aug. 1873. Law Times lv 317 (1873).

MOORE, Edward. b. 1811; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; V. of Weston, St. Mary, Lincoln 1835–66; V. of Whaplode-Drove, Lincoln 1837–66; chaplain of Wykeham-in-Spalding 1835 to death; P.C. of Spalding 1866 to death; canon of Lincoln 1870 to death; president of Holland bench of magistrates, Lincolnshire; president of Spalding conservative association; F.S.A. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Spalding 13 June 1889. Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xlii 138 (1889).

MOORE, Eleanora. b. 1844; played in Manchester; first appeared in London at St. James’s theatre as the original Winifred in Leicester Buckingham’s Cupid’s Ladder 29 Oct 1859; the original Margaret Lovell in Tom Taylor’s Up at the hills, at St. James’s 29 Oct. 1860; played Venus in Burnand’s Venus and Adonis at Haymarket 29 March 1864; the original Ada Ingot in Robertson’s David Garrick 30 April 1864; played Venus in Planché’s Orpheus in the Haymarket 26 Dec. 1865; the original Lucy Lorrington in Marston’s Favourite of fortune 2 April 1866, and Maud in G. à Becket’s Diamonds and hearts 4 March 1867; played Mabel in Slous’s True to the core at Princess’s 15 June 1867; played Nancy in Oliver Twist at the Queen’s 11 April 1868; the original Marian Beck in Simpson and Dale’s Time and the hour 29 June, and Ruth Kirby in Byron’s Lancashire Lass 24 July, both at the Queen’s; always known as Nelly Moore. d. Soho sq. London 22 Jany. 1869. bur. Brompton cemet. 1 Feb. Illust. Sporting News vi 417 (1867) portrait; Life of E. L. Blanchard (1891) 228, 717.

Note.—Nelly Moore’s performances at the Haymarket are mentioned in H. S. Leigh’s verses called Chateaux d’ Espagne in Carols of Crockayne (1869) 195–8.

MOORE, Edwin (eld. son of Wm. Moore 1790–1851). b. Birmingham 29 Jany. 1813; pupil of David Cox and Samuel Prout the water-colour painters; employed many years as a teacher of painting in water-colours at York, especially in the schools of the Society of Friends, from whom he received a pension after 57 years work; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A. 1855–73. d. York 27 July 1893.

MOORE, Miss Frances. b. 1789 or 1790; author of Manners, a novel, 3 vols. 1817, anon; A year and a day, a novel in two volumes by Madame Panache, author of Manners 1818; Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples and countess of Provence, 2 vols. London 1824, anon. d. Exeter 6 June 1881. Times 13 June 1881 p. 1; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 15 June 1881 p. 5.

MOORE, Francis. Ensign 28 foot 30 Sept. 1787, captain 22 June 1793; major in Lord Belvedere’s corps 20 July 1794; lieut. col. 128 foot 20 Dec. 1794; brigadier general on the staff in Great Britain 25 July 1804 to 24 June 1806; brigadier general on the staff in North America 3 Dec. 1807; commander of the forces in Newfoundland 25 April 1808; L.G. 4 June 1813; general 22 July 1830; the senior general in the British army. d. Bath 22 Aug. 1861, aged 93.

MOORE, George. b. 1791; entered Bombay army 1807, ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 26 March 1809, lieut. 7 July 1813; captain 18 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 19 Aug. 1831 to 28 June 1838; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1840, of 11 N.I. 1840 to 1843, of 19 N.I. 1843 to 1844, of 25 N.I. 1845–46, and of 26 N.I. 1846–8; military auditor general 9 Dec. 1846 to 18 Feb. 1853; lieut. col. of 3 N.I. 1848–9; col. of 8 N.I. 9 July 1849 to death; general 19 Oct. 1868. d. Oxford st. London 18 Aug. 1869.

MOORE, George (2nd son of John Moore of Mealsgate, Cumberland, statesman). b. Mealsgate 9 April 1806; apprenticed to Messenger of Wigtown, draper, 4 years; arrived in London 1 April 1825; assistant at Flint, Ray & Co.’s Grafton house, Newport Market April 1825; assistant and traveller at Fisher, Stroud and Robinson’s Watling st. Jany. 1826 to June 1830; entered as partner firm of Groucock and Copestake 62 Friday st. London June 1830; removed the business to Bow churchyard 1834; established a branch of the firm at Nottingham end of 1844, erected a lace factory there 1845; picked as sheriff of London June 1852, paid the fine of £400 not to serve; removed from Oxford terrace to Kensington palace gardens 1854; purchased the Whitehall estate, Cumberland Oct. 1858; freeman of the Fishmongers’ Co. 1856, prime warden June 1868; built church and schools in Somer’s Town, London 1869; with col. Stuart Wortley dispensed city of London relief Fund at Paris Feb. 1871; sheriff of Cumberland 1872–73; chairman of commission to inquire into money order system of the post office 1876; declined to stand as candidate to parliament for Nottingham, Marylebone, city of London, Surrey, Cumberland and Middlesex; knocked down by a horse 20 Nov. and d. the Grey Goat inn, Carlisle 21 Nov. 1876. bur. in mortuary chapel in church of All Hallows’ near Whitehall, Cumberland 25 Nov. personalty sworn under £400,000. George Moore merchant and philanthropist by S. Smiles (1878) portrait; I.L.N. lxix 530, 533 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiv 541, 542 (1876) portrait; J. Burnley’s Sir Titus Salt and George Moore (1885) 67–128 portrait.

MOORE, George (son of the dispenser at Plymouth infirmary). b. Plymouth 11 March 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris, M.R.C.S. 1829, L.S.A. 1830, M.D. St. Andrew’s 1841, L.R.C.P. 1843, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Camberwell, London 1830–8, and at Hastings 1838–48, and 1857 to about 1875; author of The minstrel’s tale and other poems 1826; Infant baptism reconsidered 1840; The power of the soul over the body 1845, 6 ed. 1868; The use of the body in relation to the mind 1846, 3 ed. 1852; Man and his motives 1848, 3 ed. 1852; The lost tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West with new views of Buddhism 1861. d. Hastings 30 Oct. 1880.

MOORE, George. b. 1834; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1855; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1861; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1862; in practice at Salford, Manchester 1855; removed to Skelton, near Stoke-on-Trent 1860, and to London 1870; a specialist in throat and chest affections; attended the princess of Wales for 20 years; invented a nose inhaler for hay fever and catarrh 1883; treated asthma by means of sprays; author of On some diseases of the nose, throat, air tubes and lungs 1867; Summer catarrh or hay fever, its causes and treatment 1870. d. 37 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 8 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World 30 Jany. 1890 p. 132 portrait; Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7; Lancet 18 Jany. 1890 p. 174.

MOORE, George Bolton. b. 1806; drawing master at royal military academy Woolwich, and at univ. coll. London; a practical artist in perspective; exhibited 32 landscapes at R. A., 31 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1830–70; author of Perspective, its principles and practice, two parts, 1850; The principles of colour applied to decorative art 1851. d. Nov. 1875.

MOORE, George Henry (son of George Moore of Moore hall, co. Mayo). b. Moore hall 1811; entered Oscott college Birmingham about 1817; an editor of the Oscotian, the college magazine, contributed poems to it and to the Dublin and London Mag.; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. 1827; M.P. co. Mayo 1847–57 and 1868 to death; one of the leaders of the tenant-right movement, and the best orator of his party; sheriff of Mayo 1867. d. Moore hall, Ballyglass 19 April 1870. Sir C. G. Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 135, 227–8; The Nation 8 Aug. 1868 portrait, and 23 April 1870.

MOORE, Hans Garrett. b. 31 March 1834; ensign 59 foot 7 June 1855; ensign 88 foot 13 July 1855, adjutant 1863–72, capt. 19 June 1872; major on h.p. 6 June 1878; major 93 foot 15 March 1879; served in Indian mutiny 1857, and received a medal with clasp; in Ashantee war 1873–4, medal with clasp; in Caffre war 1877–8; awarded Victoria cross 27 June 1879 for endeavouring to save life of private Giese in action at Gaikas 29 Dec. 1877; provost-marshall at head quarters during Egyptian war 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; lieut.-col. 1 Jany. 1884, retired as colonel, drowned in Lough Derg, Ireland 6 Oct. 1889.

MOORE, Henry. b. 1793 or 1794; ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Tachbrook, Warwickshire 1819–22; V. of Eccleshall, Staffs. 1822–56; V. of Dunchurch, Warws. 1822–36; V. of Penn St. Bartholomew’s, Staffs. 1836–56; archdeacon of Stafford 1855 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1856–65; canon and precentor of Lichfield 1865 to death; author of Psalms and hymns adapted 1830. d. Tettenhall Wood house, near Wolverhampton 18 July 1876. Charges, speeches, etc. by H. Moore (1877).

MOORE, Hildebrand Ogle (youngest son of Thomas Moore, LL.D., precentor of Clogher). b. June 1851; ed. Marlborough 1866–9 and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. Dublin 1876; a runner and football and tennis player; head of the cricketing department of The Field 1878 to death. d. Addlestone near Weybridge 10 Nov. 1890. bur. Ottershaw cemet. 13 Nov. The Field 15 Nov. 1890 p. 730.

MOORE, Isaac. Ensign 97 foot 20 Feb. 1835, adjutant 20 Feb. 1835 to 23 Sept. 1845, lieut. col. 30 Nov. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. depôt battalion 27 Aug. 1857 to death; brevet colonel 13 Sept. 1861. d. 14 Oct. 1868.

MOORE, John (son of admiral sir Graham Moore d. 1843). b. Malta 16 Jany. 1822; entered navy 7 Feb. 1834; commanded the Harlequin 7 guns in the Mediterranean 1846 etc.; captain 22 Nov. 1848; a naval aide de camp to the queen 16 Jany. 1864 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Brook farm, near Cobham, Surrey 20 Jany. 1866. bur. Cobham churchyard.

MOORE, John Arthur. b. Ireland 1791; in the navy; major H.E.I. Company; military sec. to the commanding officer in the Himalayas; a director of H.E.I. Company 1 May 1850 to April 1851; member of British Archæological assoc. and vice president; F.S.A.; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846. d. 19 Portland place, London 7 July 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 180 (1861).

MOORE, John Bramley (son of Thomas Moore of Leeds). b. Pontefract 1800; lived at Rio Janiero to 1835; assumed name of Bramley 1840; a merchant at Liverpool 1835; alderman 1841–65; chairman of Liverpool docks 1846, made an advantageous arrangement with the earl of Derby for the land, the Albert dock opened by prince Albert 1846; declined the honour of knighthood; the docks extend about 2 miles along the Mersey; mayor of Liverpool 1849; contested Hull 8 July 1852; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Maldon 1854–9; contested Lymington 30 April 1859; M.P. Lincoln 1862–5; made a speech on the relations between England and Brazil 1863, received imperial order of the Rose from the emperor. d. 116 Marine parade, Brighton 19 Nov. 1886.

MOORE, John Collingham (son of Wm. Moore 1790–1851). b. Gainsborough 12 March 1829; water colour painter; exhibited 60 pictures at the R.A. 1853–80; best known by his portraits of children and landscape views in or near Rome and Florence. d. 4 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 12 July 1880.

MOORE, John Lewis. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1829 to death, vice provost 1867 to death; B.A. Dublin 1820, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1839, regius professor of laws 1844–50, professor of modern history 1850 to 1860. d. 25 Nov. 1876.

MOORE, Joseph. b. Shelsley-Beauchamp, Worcs. 1766; learnt die-sinking at Birmingham; a button maker; planned the Birmingham musical festival 1799, chief director of the festivals 1802–49, the net profits of them amounted to £51,756; established the Birmingham oratorio choral society; agitated for erection of the town hall which was first used 1834; went to Berlin and induced Mendelssohn to compose the oratorio of St. Paul for the festival of 1837, and that of Elijah for festival of 1846. d. Crescent, Birmingham 19 April 1851. bur. church of England cemetery, memorial monument erected by subscriptions. J. T. Bunce’s Birmingham general hospital (1873) pp. 106–9; G.M. June 1851 pp. 670–1.

MOORE, Joseph, ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A., M.D. 1814 and Edinb. univ.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; a friend of Dr. J. G. Spurzheim; M.R.C.S., resigned the membership; M.R.C.P.; had a large practice at 10 Savile row, London in midwifery, especially in instrumental cases; an opponent of Dr. John Elliotson and mesmerism; consulting physician to queen Charlotte’s hospital; a writer in The Lancet and Med. Chirur. trans. d. Burch house, Rosherville, Kent 17 June 1855. bur. Highgate cemet. Medical Circular iii 89–90 (1853) portrait.

MOORE, Joseph (son of Edwin Moore, builder of hothouses). b. Eastbourne, Sussex 1817; engaged at Birmingham many years in production of dies chiefly for buttons; carried on business with John Allen as Allen and Moore in Great Hampton road 1844–56; a die-sinker in Summer lane, Birmingham 1856, afterwards in Pitsford st. till his death; executed many prize and commemoration medals, a selection of which he presented to the corporation art gallery of Birmingham; the first president of the Midland Art club; a member of the church of the Messiah at Birmingham. d. 13 Pitsford street, Birmingham 7 Sept. 1892. bur. Key Hill cemetery. Birmingham Weekly Post 10 Sept. 1892 p. 4.

MOORE, Joseph Christian (1 son of James Moore of Douglas, Isle of Man). b. 1802; ed. St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Measham, Derbyshire 1830–44; R. of Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man 1844 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Man 22 March 1844 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Sodor and Man 1877. d. Andreas rectory 26 Feb. 1886.

MOORE, Lionel (son of Niven Moore d. 1889). b. 1830; 6th paid attaché at Constantinople 14 Dec. 1852, the 4th 1857, the 2nd 1858, and the 1st 1859; 2nd secretary 1862; in attendance on the Sultan in England July 1867; went with sir H. Elliot on his mission to Egypt Oct. 1869 on opening of Suez canal; acting consul general at Alexandria 31 May to 28 Oct. 1871; received an allowance for knowledge of Turkish language; some time in foreign office; retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1877; a student of Egyptology. d. Kendall 4 Oct. 1892. Foreign office list (1893) 228.

MOORE, Morris. b. 1812; took part in the war for Greek independence 1830; lived at Rome 1830 to death; great student of Raphael; author of The abuses of the National Gallery. By Verax 1847; Apollo e Marsias opera di Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Milan 1860; Revival of vandalism at the National gallery 1853; Raphael’s Apollo and Marsyas, a European scandal, Edinb. 1884, 2 ed. Rome 1885. d. Rome 28 Dec. 1885.

MOORE, Niven, cancellier to the embassy at Constantinople 17 Nov. 1822; consul at Beyrout 1835–41, and again 27 Nov. 1841; at Aleppo 15 May 1841; acting consul general in Syria 5 Dec. 1848 to 12 June 1850, consul 13 Dec. 1853; C.B. 30 Oct. 1860; received naval medal for Syria, the Turkish decoration of Nishan Iftihar set in diamonds and the Turkish gold medal for Acre for his services in Syria 1840–1; retired upon a pension 30 Nov. 1862. d. 10 Onslow square, London 15 Feb. 1889.

MOORE, Richard (2 son of Steven Moore of Grenane, co. Waterford). b. 1783; called to bar in Ireland 1807; K.C. 1827; solicitor general for Ireland 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sep. 1841; attorney general 16 July 1846 to 13 Dec. 1847; a judge of Irish court of queen’s bench 13 Dec. 1847 to death; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1857. I.L.N. xii 346 (1848) portrait.

MOORE, Richard. b. London 16 Oct. 1810; a wood-carver; member of the National convention which met to promote the passing of the Peoples’ charter 1839; joined Lovett in the Working men’s association 1842; treasurer of the People’s charter union formed 10 April 1848; permanent chairman of the committee for the abolition of newspaper stamps formed 7 March 1849, which met 473 times 1849–61; took part in almost every advanced radical movement; a wood carver 23 Marchmont st., Brunswick sq., London to death; lived in Finsbury, London 1832 to death. d. London 7 Dec. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 12 Dec. C. D. Collet’s Life of Richard Moore (1879); Century Mag. Jany. 1882 p. 428 portrait.

MOORE, Richard (son of Glover Moore of Halsall, Lancs. b. 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; C. of Kirkham, Lancs. 1815–17; C. of Whittington, Lancs. 1817–20; V. of Lund near Preston 12 April 1820 to death, more than 66 years. d. 19 April 1886.

MOORE, Richard Cornwallis. b. 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 17 June 1824; col. commandant 6 Oct. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 6 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Dec, 1879.

MOORE, Robert (3 son of John Moore, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1805). b. 1777; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; sinecure R. of Hollingbourne near Maidstone 1801; R. of Hunton, Kent 1802 to death; sinecure R. of Eynesford near Dartford 1802; canon residentiary of Canterbury 1804–62; R. of Latchingdon 1804; principal registrar of the prerogative court of Canterbury from his boyhood to 1858, drew for 60 years an income averaging £10,000. d. Hunton rectory 5 Sept. 1865, personalty sworn under £250,000 Oct. 28 1865.

MOORE, Robert Ross Rowan (eld. son of Wm. Moore). b. Dublin 23 Dec. 1811; ed. at Luxemburg school near Dublin, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; barrister G.I. 28 April 1837; member of the anti-corn law league, devoting his whole time and energy to the cause 1841–6; the freedom of Cupar was conferred on him Jany. 1844; contested Hastings 30 March 1844; presented with a piece of plate by working men of Exeter 1845; medallions of his head in relief, were sold at the anti-corn law league bazaar held in Covent Garden theatre May 1845. d. Bath 6 Aug. 1864. A. Prentice’s History of the anti-corn law league (1853); G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 228 (1893).

MOORE, Ross Stewart (son of Hugh Moore of Nootka lodge, Carlingford, co. Louth). b. Carlingford 1809; ed. at Crumlin, co. Antrim and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to Irish bar 1833; went north eastern circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; M.P. Armagh city 9 July 1852 to death; one of editors of Irish law and equity reports; author with T. K. Lowry of A collection of the general rules of the queen’s bench, common pleas, and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Dublin 5 Oct. 1855.

MOORE, Samuel Johnston (3 son of James Moore of Clady, Antrim). ed. Belfast academy and Glasgow univ.; M.D. 1863; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1868; pathologist Glasgow royal infirmary 1863–9; medico-legal examiner for the crown for Lower ward of Lanarkshire 1869; consulting physician to Glasgow opththalmic institution; wrote on cholera in Glasgow medical journal Jany. 1867. d. 15 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 2 April 1894. Midland medical miscellany v 481 (1886) portrait.

MOORE, Thomas (son of John Moore, grocer and wine merchant). b. 12 Aungier st. Dublin 28 May 1780; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1794, B.A. 1799; went to London and became student at the Middle Temple 1799; admiralty registrar at Bermuda Aug. 1803, left his office to a deputy and went to New York April 1804, returned to England Nov. 1804, his deputy defaulted in 1817 and left him liable for £6,000, this sum was reduced to £1,000, which he paid in 1822; challenged Francis Jeffery, editor of Edinburgh Review, to a duel, but the Bow st. officers interfered 11 Aug. 1806; published his Irish Melodies, with music by sir John Stevenson, in 10 numbers 1807–34, he received £12,810 for these 122 songs; Intercepted letters or the twopenny post bag by Thomas Brown the younger 1812, a collection of his metrical lampoons on the prince regent; his comic opera M.P. or the blue stocking produced at the Lyceum theatre 1811; resided at Mayfield cottage near Ashbourne from 1811, and at Sloperton cottage near Devizes 1817 to death; became intimate with Lord Byron 1811; his poem Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance 1817, for which he received £3,000 from Longmans’, made him famous in Europe, it was translated into Persian; travelled with lord John Russell in Italy 1819, when he received from lord Byron his Memoirs, which Moore sold to John Murray Nov. 1821, but on 17 May 1824 Murray returned them to him when he burned them, repaying the sum of 2,000 guineas to Murray; granted a literary pension of £300, 1835; author of The poetical works of the late Thomas Little, esq. 1801; The lives of the angels 1823; The memoirs of captain Rock 1824; Memoirs of R. B. Sheridan 1825; The Epicureans 1827; Letters and journals of lord Byron 2 vols. 1830; The history of Ireland 4 vols. 1839–46. m. 25 March 1811 Bessie Dyke an actress, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 March 1850, and d. Sloperton cottage 4 Sept. 1865 aged 68. He d. Sloperton cottage near Devizes 25 Feb. 1852. bur. Bromham near Devizes. Earl Russell’s Memoirs of Thomas Moore 8 vols. 1853–6 two portraits; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 22–30 portrait; T. Moore’s Life of Byron (1847) 142 etc.; C. Pebody’s Authors at work (1872) 304–47; F. Chorley’s The authors of England (1861) 53–57 portrait; J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets (1873) 226–38; The living poets of England (Paris 1827) ii 272–323; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery iii (1832) portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 11 portrait; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii 120–43 (1841); A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed. (1877) 1–26.

Note.—The inscription on his tombstone says he was born May 28, 1779, it should be 1780. He is sketched under the name of Mr. Minus by Theodore Hook in his first novel entitled The man of sorrow. By Alfred Allendale 3 vols. 1809. More than 1,000 of Moore’s letters to his music publisher, James Power, dated 1808–36 were sold by Puttick and Simpson June 1853, the catalogue contains 131 pages.

MOORE, Thomas. b. Stoke near Guildford, Surrey 21 May 1821; helped Robert Marnock to lay out Regent’s Park garden 1840; curator of the Apothecaries’ company’s garden at Chelsea 1848 to death; an editor of Gardeners’ magazine of botany 1850 to 1851, of Garden companion and florists’ guide 1852, of the Floral mag. 1860–1, of Gardeners chronicle 1866–82, of the Florist and pomologist 1868–74, and of the Orchid album 1881–87; secretary to the floral committee and floral director of royal horticultural soc. many years; F.L.S. 1851; judge at many horticultural shows; author of Popular history of British ferns 1851, 2 ed. 1855; The elements of botany for families and schools 11 ed. 1875; author with John Lindley of The treasury of botany 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Chelsea botanical garden 1 Jany. 1887. Gardeners’ Chronicle i 48 (1887) portrait; Little Journal i 373–5 (1885).

MOORE, Thomas Edward Laws. b. 1819; entered navy 19 Oct. 1832; commanded the Plover in search of the Polar expedition under sir John Franklin 17 Nov. 1847 to 1850; governor of the Falkland Islands 1855 to 1862; captain 13 Jany 1852, retired 31 March 1866, retired R.A. 24 May 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, withdrew from the society 1868. d. 5 Victoria place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 1 May 1872.

MOORE, William. b. Birmingham 30 March 1790; portrait painter in London, then at York; worked in oil, water-colours and pastel. d. York 9 Oct. 1851.

MOORE, William Daniel. b. Dublin 19 April 1813; ed. Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A., and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1861; member of court of examiners of Apothecaries hall Dublin 1837–59, governor 1842–3, joint examiner in arts 1861; a Dutch and Scandinavian scholar; hon. fellow of Swedish soc. of physicians 1855; examiner in materia medica Queen’s univ. Ireland 1865; M.D. Oxf. 1862; translated L. V. Dahl’s Heller’s pathological chemistry of the urine 1855; J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On the structure of the spinal cord 1859; Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On atrophy of the brain 1861; Rullman’s On the influence of the southern climatic sanatoria 1861; F. C. Donders’ On the accommodation and refraction of the eye 1864. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 Oct. 1871. Lancet 11 Nov. 1871 p. 696; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1868) 115–21 portrait.

MOORE, William Dennis (son of Dennis Moore, physician). b. Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country; helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March 1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years, resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. d. Union hotel, Penzance, 21 Sept. 1874. bur. Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874.

MOORE, Sir William George (son of Francis Moore under sec. of state for war). b. Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805 etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5 June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles 26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Montrose house, Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.

MOORE, William Yorke. b. Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15 Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835, lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856; served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson. d. 9 Jany. 1890. Numismatic Chronicle (1890) 31.

MOORE, Willoughby. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6 dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about 200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854; his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she d. Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. G.M. xlii 302 (1854); A.R. (1854) 91–93.

MOOREHOUSE, William Sefton (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of Knottingley, Yorkshire). b. Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T. Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province 1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley 1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. d. Sept. 1881.

MOORSOM, Constantine Richard (eld. son of admiral sir Robert Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). b. 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809; commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818; senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852; chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and 1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately printed 1843, published 1846. d. Montagu place, Russell sq. London 26 May 1861.

MOORSOM, William. b. 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut. of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July 1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war and the composition of war fleets 1857. d. Vernon terrace, Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. Memoir of captain William Moorsom 1860, privately printed.

MOORSOM, William Robert (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1834; ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain 13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow, and of the city, are now at the British Museum. Killed during an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester cathedral.

MOORSOM, William Scarth (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861). b. Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany. 1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832; visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6; surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849; author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many scientific papers. d. Great George st. Westminster 3 June 1863. G.M. xv 112, 245 (1863).

MORA, Antonio L. (son of Joseph P. Mora), travelled with Adelina Patti in America; chef d’ orchestre at Her Majesty’s theatre a short time, where he composed the music for R. Reece and Alfred Thompson’s pantomime The Yellow Dwarf Dec. 1882; conductor at South London palace, London 1888 to death; a knight of the legion of honour and of the iron crown of Vienna; composer of The birth of Jesus, a christmas song, New York 1864; Believe me, oh my mother, song, Milan 1874; The gnome’s reverie for the piano 1879; Ninetta, romance 1879; The villa choir, song and chorus 1881; Certainly not, song, words by A. Thompson 1883; Rhoda, comic opera in 3 acts 1889, and 50 other pieces of music 1860–89. d. Brook st. Kensington road, London 25 April 1891. bur. Tottenham cemetery 1 May.

MORAN, John Henry (3 son of Francis Goldsberry Moran, of Kilmore Moy, co. Sligo). b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1830; chaplain H.M. prison, Portland; chaplain Female convict prison, Brixton April 1853–66; V. of St. Thomas, liberty of the rolls, London 1866–86; chaplain National hospital for paralysed, Queen sq. London 1880 to death; author of The doctrine and order of the church of England, proved to be in harmony with the teaching of the Apostles, 2 ed. 1849. d. 98a Southampton row, Holborn, London 12 May, 1892. bur. Tooting churchyard.

MORANT, Alfred William (eld. son of George Morant of London, decorator). b. 17 May 1828; articled to James Simpson, C.E. 1845–50; surveyor to corporation of Great Yarmouth 14 Feb. 1856 to Nov. 1864; engineer to city of Norwich March 1865 to Dec. 1872; borough engineer and surveyor of Leeds Dec. 1872 to death; A.I.C.E. 7 Nov. 1854, M.I.C.E. 29 Jan. 1878; president of Association of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors 1880; edited J. W. Papworth’s Alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms from p. 696 (1874) and T. D. Whitaker’s History of the deanery of Craven 1878; author of Sectional view of a first rate line of battleship 1854; Description of the Leeds sewage works 1876. d. Leeds 28 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvi 377–9 (1881)].

MORANT, Horatio Harbord (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro Place, Hants.) b. 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844, lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to 29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand 1864–6. d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.

MORANT, James Law Lushington. b. 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864 to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast 1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian engineering papers, published at Roorkee. d. Melbourne, Australia 17 June 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 370–4 (1886).

MORE, John Shank (son of rev. George Moore secession minister South Shields). b. Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar 1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843 to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland, 2 vols. 1864. d. 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 66–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv 492–6 (1862).

MORE-O’ FARRALL, John Lewis (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of Balyna, co. Kildare d. 1835 aged 83). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827; comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. d. Granite hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. Law Times lxx 233 (1881).

MOREAU, César. b. Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain 1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. d. Paris 28 Nov. 1861.