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MOREHEAD, Charles (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of Easington Yorkshire). b. Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb. univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862; surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life of Robert Morehead 1875. d. Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug. 1882.
MOREHEAD, William Ambrose (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82). b. 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council 1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras; an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two years. d. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. bur. Dean cemetery, Edinb. portrait in Madras banqueting hall. Memorials of Robert Morehead (1875) 402–4.
MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R. Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York. Huddersfield 1861. d. Jany. 1891. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries xiii 318 (1889–91).
MOREL, John James. b. Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to 1848. d. Holly Walk, Hampstead 1 May 1852. F. E. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 95–6 portrait.
MOREL, Victor. A cabinet maker in France; came to England about 1849; had a knowledge of the bitumen process of electrotyping, which consisted in producing stereo plates by means of shell and sand, and making them type high by mounting them on arched metal blocks; engaged by James Vizetelly, engraver Peterborough court, London 1849, the bitumen process was discarded owing to the difficulty of repairing the plates; employed by Cassell, Petter and Galpin to erect an electrotyping foundry, where wax was first used for moulding purposes; made many improvements in electrotyping; established a business at 48 Fetter lane, London, sold his business to Dellagana and co. 1875 and retired to the continent. d. Malines, Belgium 9 Feb. 1889.
MORELAND, Joseph. b. 1809 or 1810; a builder at 76 Old st. St. Luke’s, London; member for St. Luke’s of the Metropolitan board of works 1856 to death. d. 4 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 11 July 1875.
MORELL, John Daniel (9 child of Stephen Morell 1773–1852 congregational minister). b. Little Baddow manse, Essex 18 June 1816; ed. at Homerton college 1833–38 and Glasgow univ., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1841; studied under Fichte at Bonn 1841–2; congregational minister at Gosport Aug. 1842 to 1845; an inspector of schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1876, the first inspector appointed; edited The School Magazine 1876; author of An historical and critical view of the speculative philosophy of Europe in the nineteenth century 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1847; The analysis of sentences 1852, 9 ed. 1858; Handbook of logic 1855, 2 ed. 1857; A grammar of the English language 1857; Philosophical fragments 1878, and 20 other books. d. Clevelands, Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 1 April 1891. bur. Folkestone 4 April. R. M. Theobald’s Memorials of J. D. Morell (1891) 3 portraits; I.L.N. 4 April 1891 p. 435 portrait; Black and White 11 April 1891 p. 322 portrait.
MORELLI, Charles Francis. b. 26 Nov. 1800; boy in Sadler’s Wells pantomimes with Joe Grimaldi; played the monkey in ballet drama of La Perouse at Covent Garden 11 Sept. 1811; acted in the provinces; actor, pantomimist and scene painter under G. B. Davidge at Surrey theatre 1833; with Madame Vestris at Covent Garden 1839–42; with Daniel W. Osbaldiston at Victoria theatre 1844; actor and scene painter with Nelson Lee at City of London theatre many years; a subscriber to general theatrical fund 1839–60, one of the directors, an annuitant Aug. 1865 to death. d. London 9 July 1882. bur. Abney park cemetery.
MORESBY, Sir Fairfax (son of Fairfax Moresby of Lichfield). b. Calcutta 1787; entered navy 21 Dec. 1799; commander of the Wizard brig 18 April 1811; served at siege of Trieste Oct. 1813; Knight of order of Maria Theresa 23 May 1814; captain 7 June 1814; organized the colony of Algoa Bay 1820; commanded the Pembroke in the Mediterranean 1837–40, and the Canopus on the home station 1845–8; R.A. 20 Dec. 1849; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 21 Aug. 1850 to 17 Aug. 1853; V.A. 12 Nov. 1856, admiral 12 April 1862, admiral of the fleet 21 Jany. 1870; D.C.L. Oxford 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Bronwylfa near Exmouth 21 Jany. 1877.
MORGAN, Aaron Augustus. b. 6 March 1822; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew univ. scholar 1847; R. of Bradley, Lincs. 1846–55; chaplain to army works corps in Crimea 1855–6; P.C. of St. John the Evangelist, Brighton 1862–79; V. of Casterton Magna, Rutland 1879–83; V. of Grosmont, Monmouth 1882–4; member of Brighton school board 21 Dec. 1871; author of The book of Ecclesiastes metrically paraphrased 1856; The mind of Shakspere as exhibited in his works 1860, 4 ed. 1880. d. Tivoli near Rome 17 Sep. 1888.
MORGAN, Alice Mary (3 dau. of Thomas Havers of Thelton hall, Norfolk, manager of the Falkland Islands, d. 1870). b. 1850; entered school of art South Kensington 1870, gained a free studentship; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1873–80; removed to Paris 1888, where she exhibited two pictures at the Salon 1889; illustrated some of the stories written by her sister Dora Boulger otherwise Theo Gift 1875–90; she also illustrated A book of modern ballads 1892; A book of old ballads 1892; Some old love songs 1892; Odatis, a poem by Lewis Morris 1892; Love and sleep by L. Morris 1893. m. April 1872 Frederick Morgan, an artist, but she was always known as Alice Havers. d. 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26 Aug. 1890.
MORGAN, Arthur (son of Wm. Morgan, actuary of The Equitable 1750–1833), actuary of The Equitable society 2 Dec. 1830, resigned 3 March 1870; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited W. Morgan’s A view of the rise of the Equitable society 1834; author of Equitable society, three addresses 1854. d. 26 New Bridge st. London 10 March 1870. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii 630 (1873).
MORGAN, Charles Augustus Samuel (brother of 1 Baron Tredegar 1792–1875). b. 2 Sep. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 29 April 1829 to death; R. of Machen, co. Monmouth 1831–73; chancellor of Llandaff cathedral 1851 to death. d. Machen 5 Sep. 1875.
MORGAN, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Sept. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A, 1825, M.A. 1852; M.P. Monmouthshire 1841 to 1874; read many papers before the Caerleon antiquarian association 1854–66 of which he was president; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; F.S.A. 13 May 1830, vice-president; author of Tables of the annual assay office letters used in the marking of plate 1853; Some account of the monuments in the priory church Abergavenny 1872; Old English plate founded on the papers of C. O. S. Morgan and W. J. Cripps 1878. d. The Friars, Newport 5 Aug. 1888. bur. in family vault at Bassaleg church, Monmouthshire. G. T. Clarke’s Limbus patrum Morganiæ (1886) 313; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 384–6 (1889).
MORGAN, Charles Rodney. b. Rupena house, Glamorgan 2 Dec. 1828; M.P. Brecknock 9 July 1852 to death. d. Marseilles 14 Jany. 1854.
MORGAN, Daniel, assumed name of Samuel Moran. b. Campbeltown, New South Wales about 1828; worked on sheep stations and as a stock-rider; unjustly condemned at Castlemaine to 12 years imprisonment 1854; known as Down-the-River Jack or Bill the native; committed a series of highway robberies 1863, a reward of £500 offered for his apprehension by government of N.S.W. 5 Jany. 1864; shot police-sergeant Mc.Ginnerty June 1864, killed John Mc.Lean and wounded two others at Round Hill a few days later; shot police-sergeant Smith Sept. 1864, the reward was increased to £1500 8 March 1865; stuck up Bowler’s station 1 April 1865; stuck up Bond’s station, Upotipotpa and robbed the Albury mail 4 April; stuck up Peechalba station 7 April. shot at Peechalba station 8 April 1865, his head was cut off and sent to Melbourne, his body was bur. at the Murray, said to be the original of Patrick in Ralph Boldrewood’s (i.e. Thomas Alexander Broun) novel Robbery under arms 3 vols. 1888. Morgan the mail robber or the bandit of the bush (1868). His life was dramatised at the Princess’ theatre, London Oct. 1894.
MORGAN, David Lloyd. b. Rhôsmaen near Llandilo 1823; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1846, F.R.C.S. 1861; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1866; surgeon R.N. 31 Dec. 1846, fleet surgeon 1866; inspector general of hospitals 1877, retired 30 May 1883; served on West coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean and during Crimean war; with the land forces in China; senior medical officer of flag ship Euryalus in Japan and China 1862–5, and of the Royal Alfred in the West Indies; deputy inspector general of Bermuda, Hongkong and Chatham; received Blane medal 1871; C.B. 17 June 1871; inspector general at Plymouth 17 Dec. 1878, and at Haslar hospital 6 Feb. 1880; physician in ordinary to the queen July 1888 to death. d. Rhôsmaen 3 Dec. 1892.
MORGAN, Edward. Draper at Newport, Monmouth; granted civil list pension of £20 9 Sep. 1840 for his services as a special constable during the riots, when he received several wounds. d. 26 March 1856.
MORGAN, Hugh (3 son of Hugh Morgan of Machynlleth, co. Montgomery). b. 1826; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1849; V. of Rhyl 1855 to death; archdeacon of St. Asaph and canon residentiary of St. Asaph cathedral 1877 to death. d. canonry of St. Asaph 8 June 1878.
MORGAN, James (son of Thomas Morgan of Cookstown, co. Tyrone, linen merchant, d. 1835). b. Cookstown 15 June 1799; entered Glasgow univ. Nov. 1814, D.D. 1847; studied at Belfast college 1815–20; presbyterian minister at Carlow Feb. 1820, at Lisburn, co. Antrim 1824–78, and at Fisherwich place chapel, Belfast Nov. 1828 to death; a founder of Ulster temperance society 1829; hon. secretary of the general assembly’s foreign mission 1840 to death; moderator of general assembly 1846; joint editor of The Orthodox Presbyterian; author of Essays on some of the principal doctrines and duties of the Gospel 1837; Lessons for parents and sabbath school teachers 1849; The Lord’s Supper 1849; Rome and the Gospel 1853. d. Belfast 5 Aug. 1873. Thomas Morgan’s Life of Dr. Morgan (1874) portrait.
MORGAN, James (son of a farmer). b. about 1795; assistant whipper-in to Mr. Lloyd of Wintlesham hall, Suffolk; whipper-in to Suffolk Border hounds; huntsman to Cambridgeshire hounds; kennel huntsman and whipper in to the Tickham hounds, Kent 3 years; huntsman to Mr. Conyers 15 years; huntsman to the Essex union 3 years; huntsman to lord Berkeley 1851; huntsman to lord Lonsdale 1854. I.L.N. 29 Dec. 1855 p. 760 portrait.
MORGAN, John. b. 1785; entered Madras army 1800; lieut. 12 Madras N.I. 20 July 1801, captain 7 June 1813; major 24 N.I. 8 Sept. 1826, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1831 to 9 Feb. 1834; lieut. col. of 4 N.I. 9 Feb. 1834, of 28 N.I. 1835 to 1840, of 12 N.I. 1840 to 24 Dec. 1841, and of 52 N.I. 24 Dec. 1841 to 23 Jany. 1843; commander at Masulipatam 21 Dec. 1841 to 19 Feb. 1844; col. of 46 N.I. 23 Jany. 1843 to death; general 27 May 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Swansea 29 March 1869.
MORGAN, John. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1850, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; demonstrator of anatomy at school of surgery under direction of council of royal college of surgeons Ireland 1851–61, professor of surgical and descriptive anatomy 1861 to death; author of Practical lessons on affections produced by contagious diseases 1872; Cure of bent knee and the treatment of contracted joints 1874; Report of cases treated in the Westmoreland Lock hospital 1868. d. 23 St. Stephen’s green, Dublin 4 March 1876.
MORGAN, John Edward (son of rev. Mr. Morgan). b. Gothenburg, Sweden 1829; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860, B.M. 1861, M.D. 1865; M.R.C.P. 1861, F.R.C.P. 1868, consiliarius 1887; professor of medicine Owens college, Victoria univ. Manchester 1873, resigned 1891; author of The danger and deterioration of race from the increase of great cities 1866; Town life among the poorest, the air they breathe and the house they inhabit 1869; University oars, an enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1829–69, 1873; The Victoria university why are there no medical degrees 1881. d. Knutsford near Manchester 4 Sept. 1892.
MORGAN, John Minter (eld. son of John Morgan of 39 Ludgate hill, London, wholesale stationer 1741–1807). b. London 1782; devoted himself to philanthropy; author of Remarks on the practicability of Mr. Owen’s plan to improve the condition of the lower classes 1819; The revolt of the bees 1826; anon. which contained his views on education; The reproof of Brutus, a poem 1830; Hampden in the nineteenth century 1834; Colloquies on religion and religious education 1851; reprinted some of his own and other works under title of The Phœnix Library 13 vols. 1850; founded the National Orphan home near his own residence on Ham Common 1849; tried to raise £50,000 to erect a Church of England self-supporting village 1850. d. 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 26 Dec. 1854. bur. in the church on Ham Common 3 Jany. 1855. G.M. April 1855 pp. 430–1; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 pp. 177–8 with view of his self-supporting village.
MORGAN, Maria. b. Cork 1828; visited Rome where she obtained a commission from king Victor Emmanuel to buy saddle-horses in Ireland; on the regular staff of one of the daily papers in New York, being the reporter of cattle markets and fairs; more than six feet in height and known to her associates as “Midy” Morgan. d. New York July 1892. T. Browne’s Advertisers A.B.C. (1893) p. clxv.
MORGAN, Matthew Somerville (son of Matthew Morgan actor and teacher of music, by Mary Somerville actress and singer). b. Lambeth, London 27 April 1839; articled to Grieve and Telbin scene painters 1853; scene painter Princess’s theatre, London; artist and correspondent on Illust. London News, for which he reported the Austro-Italian war 1859; studied in Paris, Italy and Spain and also in Africa 1858; with F. C. Burnand, W. S. Gilbert and others established Fun 1861, and executed the cartoons; exhibited 2 pictures at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1856–61; drew nearly all the illustrations for The Arrow fortnightly paper, 10 numbers only 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; scene painter Covent Garden 1867–9; an editor and proprietor of The Tomahawk, a Saturday journal of satire, for which he did the cartoons No. 1 May 11, 1867 to No. 160 May 28, 1870, his cartoons attacking the queen were much noticed; went to U.S. of America as a caricaturist on Frank Leslie’s papers 1870; manager of several New York theatres; manager of Strobridge lithographic co. Cincinnati 1880–5; founded the Matt Morgan art pottery co. 1883 and the Cincinnati art students’ league; his panoramic pictures of American civil war exhibited Cincinnati 1886; painted in England, Rotten Row and Behind the Scenes; illustrated Neptune’s Heroes by W. H. D. Adams 1861, and the American war 1874; painted a large canvass Christ entering Jerusalem which was exhibited in the provinces; painted scenes for Mr. Barnes of New York 1889, and the scenery for The Brazilian 1890. d. of lumbago New York 2 June 1890. The Mask (1868) 97 portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 14 June 1890 p. 9 portrait; The Graphic 14 June 1890 p. 663 portrait.
MORGAN, Sir Richard Francis (eld. son of Owen Richard Morgan, port magistrate, Colombo, Ceylon, d. 1821). b. Prince st. Colombo 21 Feb. 1821; ed. at the Colombo academy 1834–9; a law student under sir William O’Carr 1839; a proctor to 1846; barrister at Ceylon 1846; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; district judge of Colombo Oct. 1856; acting puisne justice of supreme court of Ceylon 1857; acting senior puisne justice 1860; queen’s advocate for Ceylon 1863, and 1873 to death; chief justice of Ceylon 1 May 1874 to 1875; knighted by patent 20 July 1874. d. Colombo 27 Jany. 1876. W. Digby’s Forty years of official life of sir R. F. Morgan 2 vols. (1879); Law Times lx 332 (1876).
MORGAN, SYDNEY, Lady Morgan (eld. child of Robert Mac Owen, actor, who changed his name to Owenson 1744–1812). b. Dublin 25 Dec. 1783; an actress as the Infant Prodigy in Ireland about 1788; governess in family of James Fetherstone-Haugh of Bracklyn castle, Westmeath 1798–1800; author of St. Clare or the heiress of Desmond 1804, translated into Dutch; The novice of St. Dominick 4 vols. 1805; The wild Irish girl 1806, 7 ed. 1808; her opera The first attempt, produced at T.R. Dublin 4 March 1807, ran several nights and brought her £400; became a permanent member of household of marquess of Abercorn about 1810; m. 20 Jany. 1812 sir Thomas Charles Morgan of Dublin, surgeon, he d. 28 Aug. 1843; author of O’Donnell, a national tale 3 vols. 1814; Florence M’Carthy 4 vols. 1818; France 1817, 4 ed. 1818; Italy 2 vols. 1821; Life of Salvator Rosa 2 vols. 1824, republished 1855; The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys 4 vols. 1827; The book of the boudoir 2 vols. 1829; France, 2 vols. 1830; Dramatic Scenes 2 vols. 1833; The Princess 3 vols. 1835; Woman and her master 2 vols. 1840; granted civil list pension of £300 14 March 1838, the first pension of the kind given to a woman; removed from Kildare st. Dublin to 11 William st. Albert Gate, London 1839. d. Lowndes sq. London 14 April 1859. bur. in old Brompton cemetery, tomb by Westmacott placed over her grave, bust of her by D’Angers dated 1830 and portrait by Berthen in Irish national gallery. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Lady Morgan, her career literary and personal (1860); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 73, 313–19, 355 portrait; H. F. Chorley’s the authors of England (1861) 42–45 portrait; The Queens of Society 3 ed. (1867) 236–61; A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed. (1877) 214–27; J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters (1863) 285–353; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855) p. 747 portrait; W. H. D. Adams’s Women of fashion i 265–331 (1878); The Critic xix 37 (1859) portrait.
MORGAN, Thomas, entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 17 Oct. 1801, captain 1 Nov. 1817; lieut. col. 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. of 14 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1833, of 13 N.I. 1833, of 7 N.I. 1835, of 17 N.I. 1838, and of First Bombay European regiment, right wing 1839 to 1841; commander at Candeish 4 May 1839 to 1842; col. 17 N.I. 27 Dec. 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. at residence of Mrs. General Morgan, Singleton, Middle Wordfield road, Torquay 6 Dec. 1856.
MORGAN, Thomas. b. 18 April 1819; ed. Eton; merchant London; associate of British archæological association 1845, vice president, hon. treasurer 1875–90, contributed many papers on Roman archæology to the Journal; a Spanish scholar; F.S.A. 1875; author of Romano-British mosaic pavements, a history of their discovery, etc. 1886. d. Hillside house, Streatham, Surrey 13 Jany. 1892. Journal British Archæological soc. xlviii 86–8 (1892).
MORGAN, Sir William. b. Wilshampstead near Bedford 1829; arrived in South Australia Feb. 1849; a gold digger at Bendigo 1851; purchased the grocery store of Messrs. Boord brothers, Adelaide, which became one of the leading mercantile houses in the colony; member of legislative council of South Australia 6 Aug. 1869; chief secretary in the legislative council June 1875 to 25 March 1876 and June 1877 to Oct. 1878; prime minister Oct. 1878 to June 1881; called the Cobden of South Australia; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. d. Brighton 2 Nov. 1883. bur. Wilshampstead.
MORGAN, William Domett. b. 2 Oct. 1821; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 1 April 1841, captain 15 May 1855; commandant of 32 Punjaub Pioneers 7 Dec. 1859 to 1879; lieut. col. Bengal staff corp 12 Dec. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Oct. 1889; was in seven severe actions during Indian mutiny 1857. d. 13 Frant road, Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1892.
MORGAN, William Vaughan. b. Glasbury Breconshire 1826; captain 3 Middlesex infantry militia 27 Aug. 1868; a familiar figure in society; a supporter of the London homœopathic hospital, Great Ormond st. 1858, a director 1866, treasurer 1875, chairman 1885, and a munificent donor to its funds; established the Homœopathic convalescent home at Eastbourne 1888; offered St. George’s hospital £1000 a year for five years for a fair trial of homœopathy in the wards; took part in the discussion in The Times on homœopathy; resided 5 The Boltons, South Kensington. d. Grasse, France Feb. 1892. bur. Cannes.
MORGAN, William Wray, printer 67 Barbican, London; founder, proprietor and editor of the Freemason’s chronicle Jany. 1875. d. New Barnett, Herts. 23 June 1893.
MORI, Francis or Frank (son of Nicolas Mori, violinist 1797–1839). b. 1820; professor of singing at the Crystal palace, Sydenham to death; composer of Despair, nocturne for the P. Forte 1846; Who shall be fairest, a ballad 1857; Twelve songs for voice and piano 1861; The river sprite, a comic opera, written by G. Linley 1865, produced at Covent Garden 9 Feb. 1865; F. Mori’s New songs 1865, nine numbers; The vintager’s evening song, a quartett, in Cramer’s Glees 1874 No. 47; and upwards of 90 other pieces of music 1843–74. d. Chamant near Senlis, France 2 Aug. 1873.
MORIARTY, David (son of David Moriarty). b. Derryvrin, parish of Kilcarah, co. Kerry 18 Aug. 1814; ed. at Maynooth; vice-rector of and professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college at Paris 1839–45; rector of Foreign missionary college of Allhallows, Drumcondra, Dublin 1845–54, president on death of the founder Rev. John Hand; coadjutor bishop of Kerry 8 March 1854, bishop of Kerry 22 July 1856 to death, consecrated in pro-cathedral, Dublin 25 April 1854; many of his pastoral letters and sermons attracted much attention; denounced the Fenian brotherhood and opposed home rule. d. the palace, Killarney 1 Oct. 1877. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 63, 375 (1876); Graphic xvi 372 (1877) portrait.
MORIARTY, Edward Aubrey (son of Christopher Moriarty of Wellington lodge, co. Dublin). b. Cappagh house, Galway 1819; ed. at private sch. Dublin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; studied in Germany 1839–46; professor of English literature, Royal academy of trade, Berlin 1843–6; translated serial works of Charles Dickens into German 1852; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; contributed to Edinburgh review; director general of Cologne and Frankfort railway; author with J.D.F. Neigebaur of London ein handbuch für Reisende 1843. d. 3 Hare court, Inner Temple, London 13 July 1874. bur. Catholic cemetery, Kensal green 16 July. Law Times lvii 275–76 (1874).
MORICE, David Robert (eld. son of Robert Morice of Aberdeen, advocate). b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; admitted member of Society of advocates in Aberdeen 1837; legal assessor to town council of Aberdeen 1866; provost of Old Aberdeen; member of council of procurators, vice president 1872; published A handbook of British maritime law 1857. d. Old Aberdeen 27 March 1876. bur. Wellfield cemetery, Aberdeen. Law Times lx 439 (1876).
MORIER, David Richard (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). b. Smyrna 8 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mission sent by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took entire charge of the mission May 1807; attached to Robert Adair’s embassy 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office 5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederated states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847; author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3 vols. 1857. d. 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.
MORIER, John Philip (brother of the preceding). b. Smyrna 9 Nov. 1776; attached to embassy at Constantinople 5 April 1799; despatched on special service to Egypt 22 Dec. 1799; consul general in Albania 3 Dec. 1803; secretary of legation at Washington 5 April 1810; a comr. in Spanish America Oct. 1811; acting under secretary of state for foreign affairs in London Aug. 1815 to 1816; envoy extraordinary to court of Saxony at Dresden 5 Feb. 1816, retired on pension 5 Jany. 1825; author of Memoir of a campaign with the Ottoman army in Egypt 1801. d. London 20 Aug. 1853.
MORIER. Sir Robert Burnett David (only son of David Richard Morier 1784–1877). b. Paris 31 March 1826; ed at Balliol coll. Oxf. B.A. 1849; a clerk in the education department Jany. 1851 to Oct. 1852; unpaid attaché at Vienna 5 Sept. 1853; paid attaché at Berlin 20 Feb. 1858; second secretary at Vienna 1 Oct. 1862, British comr. for arrangement of tariff 1 March 1865; secretary of legation at Athens 10 Sept. 1865 and at Frankfort 30 Dec. 1865; secretary of legation at Darmstadt 1866–71; chargé d’affaires at Stuttgart 18 July 1871, transferred to Munich 30 Jany. 1872; minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 1 March 1876, transferred to Madrid 22 June 1881; ambassador at St. Petersburg 1 Dec. 1884 to death; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866, K.C.B. 16 Oct. 1882, G.C.B. 30 Sept. 1887; P.C. 27 Jany. 1885; G.C.M.G. 13 Feb. 1886; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1889; hon. LL.D. Edinb.; published in the Cobden Club series, Agrarian legislation of Prussia 1870, and Local government in Germany, England and Prussia 1875. d. Montreux, Lake of Geneva 16 Nov. 1893. Black and White 25 Nov. 1893 p. 663 portrait; Daily Graphic 31 Dec. 1891 p. 9 portrait; I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1893 p. 659 portrait.
Note.—His only son Victor Morier, traveller, died at sea 27 May 1892 aged 25, when proceeding to take up his duties in Manicaland as assistant civil comr. to the Anglo-Portuguese delimitation commission.
MORIER, William (brother of John Philip Morier 1776–1853). b. Smyrna 25 Sept. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy Nov. 1803; served at defence of Cadiz 1810, reduction of island of Ponza 1811 and bombardment of Stonington 1813; commanded the Harrier and Childers sloops successively on the North Sea station 1828; captain 18 Jany. 1830; retired V.A. 16 June 1862. d. Brunswick house, Eastbourne 29 July 1864.
MORISON, Sir Alexander (son of Andrew Morison of Anchorfield near Edinburgh). b. Anchorfield 1 May 1779; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; M.D. 12 Sept. 1799; L.C.P. Edinb. 1800, F.C.P. Edinb. 1801; removed from Edinb. to London 1808; L.R.C.P. London 11 April 1808, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; inspecting physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey 1810; physician to Bethlehem hospital 7 May 1835; physician to princess Charlotte and prince Leopold 1816; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; author of Outlines of lectures on mental diseases 1825; Cases of mental disease with practical observations on the medical treatment 1828; The physiognomy of mental diseases 1840. d. Balerno Hill house near Edinburgh 14 March 1866. bur. Currie churchyard 20 March. Munk’s College of physicians iii 61 (1878).
MORISON, James (son of Robert Morison minister of the united secession church, d. 5 Aug. 1855 aged 74). b. Bathgate, Linlithgowshire 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at univ. of Edinb. and divinity hall of united secession church, Edinb.; ordained minister of Clark’s Lane church, Kilmarnock 29 Sept. 1840, suspended by Kilmarnock presbytery 9 March 1841 for his tract entitled The question “What must I do to be saved” answered by Philanthropos 1840, his suspension was confirmed by the synod 11 June 1841, he declined to recognise the decision and was supported by his congregation; with three other suspended ministers and 9 laymen formed the Evangelical union at a meeting in Kilmarnock 16–18 May 1843; established a theological academy 1843, professor of exegetical theology, and principal 1843 to death; left Kilmarnock for Glasgow 1851, where North Dundas st. church was built for him 1853, retired 1884; edited The Evangelical Repository, a quarterly magazine 1854–67; D.D. of Adrian univ. in Michigan 1862, and of Glasgow 1883; his portrait by R. Gibb, R.S.A., presented to him 1889; author of Not quite a Christian 1840; The nature of the atonement 1841, new ed. 1890; Saving faith 1844, 9 ed. 1850; An exposition of the ninth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1849, new ed. 1888; Commentary on the gospel according to St. Matthew 1870; Mark’s Memoirs of Jesus Christ, a commentary 1873. d. Florentine Bank, Hillhead, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1893. Memorial volume of the ministerial jubilee of principal Morison (1889); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 302–6; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia, Schaff’s ed. i 776 (1881).
MORISON, James Augustus Cotter (4 son of James Morison, the hygeist 1770–1840). b. London 20 April 1832; entered Lincoln college, Oxford March 1850, B.A. and M.A. 1859; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1857; wrote for the Saturday Review; member of Athenæum club and of committee of the London library; member of the Positivist Society, occasionally lectured at Newton hall; author of The Life of St. Bernard 1863, new ed. 1868; Gibbon 1878 and Macaulay 1882 in John Morley’s Men of letters series; Madame de Maintenon, an étude 1885; The service of man, an essay towards the religion of the future 1887. d. Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead 26 Feb. 1888.
MORISON, John (son of John Morison, farmer d. 1833). b. Millseat of Craigston, parish of King Edward, Aberdeenshire 8 July 1791; apprentice to a watchmaker at Banff; studied at Hoxton academy 1811–14; ordained pastor of Union congregational chapel, Sloane st. Chelsea 17 Feb. 1815; pastor of Trevor chapel, Chelsea Dec. 1816 to death; edited the Evangelical Magazine 1824 to 1857; D.D. Glasgow 1830; author of Lectures on the principal obligations of life 1822; Counsels to a newly-wedded pair 1830; An exposition of the book of Psalms, 3 vols. 1832; A tribute of filial sympathy or memories of John Morison of Millseat, Aberdeenshire 1833; A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in the catechetical form 1839; The fathers and founders of the London missionary society, 2 vols. 1840, new ed. 1844; The protestant reformation in all countries 1843. d. 27 Montpelier square, London 13 June 1859. bur. Abney park cemet. 20 June. J. Kennedy’s Memoirs of John Morison (1860); Evangelical Mag. 1859 pp. 513, 608–20.
MORISON, Sir William (2 son of Jones Morison of Greenfield, co. Clackmannan). Cadet Madras establishment 1799; lieut. R.A. 31 Dec. 1800; lieut. col. 17 July 1827; secretary to military board at Madras 1809; formed and directed the Madras commissariat 1810–25; superintended geographical and statistical survey of Madras territory 1811–12; resident at court of Travancore; administered with J. M. Macleod government of Mysore; member of supreme council of India 1834–37, being the first military officer selected for a seat; president of council of India and deputy governor of Bengal during lord Auckland’s absence; col. Madras artillery 13 Aug. 1840 to death; returned to England 1840; major general 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. Clackmannan and Kinross 1842 to death; C.B. 4 Sep. 1821; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 3 March 1842; F.R.A.S. d. 16 Savile row, Piccadilly, London 15 May 1851. G.M. xxxvi 90 (1851).
MORLAND, Sir Henry (3 son of John Morland barrister). b. 9 April 1837; ed. at Haversham and Bromsgrove schools; entered Indian navy 5 June 1852; captain 1877 placed on retired list with rank of hon. lieut. col. 30 April 1863; attached to the Indian marines 1863; transport officer, dockmaster and signal officer at Bombay 1865–79; superintended equipment and despatch of fleet of transports of Abyssinian expedition 1867; conservator of port of Bombay and registrar of shipping 1873; member of Bombay corporation 1868, member of town council 1877, chairman of the corporation 23 June 1886 to death; presented the Bombay jubilee address to the queen at Windsor castle 30 June 1887, when he was knighted; appointed by grand lodge of Scotland provincial grand master for Western India 1870; grand master of all Scottish freemasonry in India 1874; chief founder of the Mahometan lodge, Islam; secretary of Bombay geographical society some years; Assoc. Instit. C.E. 5 Dec. 1882. d. Rampart row, Bombay 28 July 1891.
MORLAND, John (son of Thomas Morland builder and umbrella manufacturer). b. Bridge house place, Newington, Surrey 19 Dec. 1794; wholesale and retail umbrella manufacturer Minories, London, removed to Eastcheap, resided at Croydon 1844 to death; overseer and then an elder among the Friends, long connected with Croydon school, the Spitalfields soup society and the Peace society. d. Croydon 21 Oct. 1867. Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 447–9.
MORLEY, Edmund Parker 2 earl of (2 son of 1 earl of Morley 1772–1840). b. London 10 June 1810; styled viscount Boringdon 1817–40; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830; lord of the bed chamber to Prince Albert 15 Feb. 1840; succeeded 15 March 1840; col. of south Devon militia 8 Jany. 1845 to 1858; a lord in waiting to the queen 24 July 1846 to Feb. 1852. d. Whiteway, Chudleigh, Devon 28 Aug. 1864.
MORLEY, Frances Parker, Countess of (dau. of Thomas Talbot of Wymondham, Norfolk). b. 1781; celebrated as a woman of wit and the “first of talkers”; a painter; m. 23 Aug. 1809, as his second wife, John Parker 1 Earl of Morley, b. 1772, d. 14 March 1840; lithographed the plates in Portraits of the Spruggins family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins 1829; author of The flying burgomaster, a legend of the Black Forest 1832 anon.; The royal intellectual bazaar, a prospectus of a plan for the improvement of the fashionable circle 1832 anon; The man without a name, 2 vols. 1852; edited Dacre, a novel, 3 vols. 1834. d. Saltram, Plympton 6 Dec. 1857. bur. in family vault at Plympton St. Mary.
MORLEY, Atkinson. b. 1781; studied medicine at St. George’s hospital; proprietor of the Burlington hotel 19 and 20 Cork st. and of Morley’s hotel 1–3 Trafalgar sq. London. d. Old Burlington st. London 14 July 1858. Medical Times 24 July 1858 p. 91.
Note.—He left £100,000 with which was founded the Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent hospital. Wimbledon (in connection with St. George’s hospital, London) hospital opened 14 July 1869, receives upwards of 600 patients yearly and contains 80 beds.
MORLEY, Sir Francis Brockman (1 son of George Morley, barrister of Inner Temple). b. Brompton, London 1819; ensign 90 foot 5 April 1839; lieut. 40 foot 27 May 1842, captain 18 Aug. 1848, sold out 23 Dec. 1853; served under sir Charles Napier and lord Gough in India; exon. of H.M.’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 24 Oct. 1868 to death; hon. col. 3 batt. Middlesex regt. militia 1886 to death; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Middlesex 25 July 1869, resigned 1889; K.C.B. 2 Feb. 1886. d. 14 Norland place, Notting hill, London 20 April 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 25 April.
MORLEY, Frederick. b. Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 16 Dec. 1850; a frame work knitter; a left handed batsman and one of the best fast bowlers of his day; engaged by the Notts. commercial club 1869, at Bolton 1870–1; played his first match at Lords 6–8 May 1872; played with the England Eleven 1872–3; engaged at Lords 1874–81; went to Australia with the seventh English team 1882–3. d. 28 Sept. 1884. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 346–7.
MORLEY, George (son of rev. George Morley president of Wesleyan conference 1830, d. 10 Sept. 1843). b. about 1802; ed. at Woodhouse Grove school, Yorkshire; apprenticed to a draper; L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1832; became an eminent surgeon at 18 Park place, Leeds; lectured on chemistry at Leeds school of medicine many years; one of the medical experts at trials of the prisoners Wm. Dove and Wm. Palmer in 1856. d. Jersey 14 Aug. 1867.
MORLEY, Henry (son of Henry Morley of Midhurst, Sussex). b. 100 Hatton garden, London 15 Sept. 1822; ed. at a Moravian school at Neuweid on the Rhine; studied at King’s college, London 1838–43; passed the Apothecaries hall 1843; partner with a doctor at Madeley, Shropshire 1844–8; kept a school at Manchester 1848, and at Liverpool 1848–50; wrote in Household Words and All the year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The Examiner, then editor; English lecturer to evening classes at King’s college, London 1857–65; professor of English language and literature at University college, London 2 Dec. 1865 to 1890; professor of English language and literature at Queen’s college, London 1878–90; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London 1882–90; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1879; lived at 8 Upper Park road, Hampstead 3 May 1858 to 1889; author of Sunrise in Italy 1848; A defence of ignorance 1851; Palissy the Potter 1852, 4 ed. 1878; Jerome Cardan, 2 vols. 1854; Cornelius Agrippa, 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of Bartholomew fair 1859; English writers, 2 vols. 1864–67; English writers, 4 vols. 1887–89; Clement Marot, 2 vols. 1871; A first sketch of English literature 1873, 13 ed. 1886; editor of Cassell’s library of English literature, 5 vols. 1875–81; Morley’s Universal library, 63 vols. 1883–8; Cassell’s National library, 214 vols. 1886–90; The Carisbrooke library, 14 vols. 1889–91; Companion Poets, 9 vols. 1891–2. d. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 14 May 1894. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 375–76; Graphic 19 May 1894 p. 582 portrait.
MORLEY, Sir Isaac (son of Wm. Morley). b. Doncaster 1801; a merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841. d. Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.
MORLEY, Samuel (youngest child of John Morley of Wood st. London, hosier, d. 1848). b. Well st. Hackney 15 Oct. 1809; hosier with his brother John Morley in Wood st. Cheapside, London 1842–55, sole partner 1855; a frame-work knitter at Nottingham 1860; built mills at Loughborough, Leicester, Heanor in Derbyshire, and Daybrook and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; his business was the largest in the textile industries of its class, employing about 8,000 people; took Thomas Hill into partnership 1860; chairman of the dissenters’ parliamentary committee 1847; treasurer of the Ancient Merchants’ lectures 1849–79; organized the Administrative reform association May 1855; treasurer to Home Missionary society 1858; promoted religious services in theatres 1860; chairman of the Bank act and currency reform committee 1861; contributed £6,000 to erection of Congregationalist memorial hall in Farringdon st. London 1875; spent £14,000 in building chapels 1864–70; M.P. Nottingham 1865, unseated on petition 1866; contested Bristol April 1868; M.P. Bristol 16 Nov. 1868 to 18 Nov. 1885; seconded the address in house of commons 1871; member for city of London of London school board Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1876; a great supporter of the temperance movement; refused a peerage 24 June 1885; author of The drinking usages of the commercial room 1862. d. Hall place near Tonbridge 5 Sept. 1886. bur. Abney Park cemet. London, portrait by H. T. Wells R.A. in Library of Congregationalist memorial hall, marble statue of him erected at Bristol. J. C. Harrison’s S. Morley, personal reminiscences (1886); E. Hodder’s Life of S. Morley (1889) portrait; The Congregationalist xv 711–19 (1886); I.L.N. lviii 158–169 (1871) portrait; Biograph v 51–5 (1881).
MORLEY, William. b. 1785; a fitter and setter up of stocking and point net lace frames in Nottingham; introduced the use of a 5-bar tackle on the point net frame; with John Kendall constructed the straight bolt which had great rapidity of movement 1811; invented the circular bolt; invented a machine for making plain net which brought him much profit; became the leading man in Nottingham in the lace trade; in business with Messrs. Boden of Derby, retired 1853. d. 1855. Felkin’s Machine-wrought hosiery (1867) 313–5; Lace in Ure’s Dictionary of Arts iii 32 (1875).
MORLEY, William. b. 1 Jany. 1787; established the first wholesale Manchester warehouse in London at 36 Gutter lane Cheapside 1806; chairman of several railway companies in the early days. d. Windmill house, Blackheath, Kent 10 March 1884.
Note.—His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan asylum. d. April 1883.
MORLEY, William Hook (son of George Morley barrister). b. 1815; barrister M.T. 12 Jany. 1838; connected with appeal cases from India, having a knowledge of Persian and Arabic; edited The history of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia by Mir Khwand 1848; author of Analytical digest of reported cases decided in the supreme court of judication in India 2 vols 1849–50, New Ser. vol. 1 1852 no more published; The administration of justice in British India, its past and present history 1858; On the Muhammedan laws prevalent in India; Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed by Sháh Husain 1856; A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in Arabic and Persian in the library of the Royal Asiatic society 1854; The coins of the Atabek princes of Syria and Asia Minor. d. 35 Brompton sq. London 21 May 1860. Numismatic Chronicle xx Proceeding 34–5 (1860).
MORNINGTON, William Pole Tylney Long Wellesly 4 Earl of (only son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). b. 22 May 1788; sec. of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807; sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20; M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. d. at his lodgings Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. G.M. iii 215 (1857).
Note.—He m. (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney Long.
At the wedding the lady’s dress cost 700 guineas the bonnet 150, and the veil 200. Her jewellery cost 25,000 guineas. Eight hundred wedding favours were distributed at a cost of a guinea and a half each. She possessed in landed estates alone £1,500,000. He was the second person whom the Court of chancery deprived of paternal rights by withdrawing his children out of his care. His life was insured for about a quarter of a million, but he lived latterly upon an allowance of £10 a week from the duke of Wellington.
MORPHETT, Sir John (son of Nathaniel Morphett, solicitor). b. London 4 May 1809; landed at Kangaroo Island 11 Sept. 1836 and was present at the proclamation of colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836; a general merchant, helped to lay out the town of Adelaide 1837; member of committee for protection of aborigines 6 March 1838; founded the Literary Association and Mechanics’ Institute; treasurer of the corporation of Adelaide 5 Dec. 1840; member of the first legislature of the colony 15 June 1843 to 1857; speaker 20 Aug. 1851 to 1855; member of the legislative council 1857–73; chief secretary 4 Feb. to 8 Oct. 1861; president of the council March 1865 to 1873; knighted by patent 30 April 1870. d. Cumming, South Australia 7 Nov. 1892. I.L.N. xxi 141, 142 (1852) portrait.
MORPHINOS, Narcissus. b. 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek church, London Wall, London 1848–74. d. 1 Sutherland place, Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 53–7.
MORRALL, Michael Thomas. A needle manufacturer at Studley works, Warwickshire; introduced the grooveless needle into London 1843; author of History and description of needle making 1852, 5 ed. 1866 portrait.
MORRELL, Charles Francis (only son of Thomas Samuel Morrell of The Grove, Bayons park, Lincolnshire). b. 12 March 1853; ed. Cheltenham coll. and Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1875; barrister M.T. 13 June 1877; edited Sir R. Lane’s Exchequer Reports 1605–12, 1884; author of The handy book of the law of horses 1881; A popular statement of the law of wills 1882; Probate and administrations, a handbook for executors 1882; A popular statement of the law of insurance 1883; A concise statement of the bankruptcy act 1883, 2 ed. 1884; Reports of cases under the bankruptcy act 1883 etc. 9 vols. 1885–93; Bankruptcy, a manual of practical law 1891; Insurance, a manual 1892. d. 2 Tavistock place, London 3 Feb. 1894.
MORRELL, Frederick Joseph (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor to univ. of Oxford, d. 10 April 1854 aged 75). b. Oxford 25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford churchmen’s union. d. 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Jany. 1883. bur. Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. Solicitors’ Journal xxvii 185, 201 (1883).
MORRELL, James (1 son of James Morrell of Headington hill near Oxford, d. 1855). b. 1810; ed. at Eton; master of Headington harriers 1836 to 21 March 1847; master of the Berkshire fox hounds 1847–57; sold his hounds for 2,600 guineas and his horses for £3,765 2s. 14 April 1858; sheriff of Berks. Feb. 1853. d. Headington hill house 12 Sept. 1863. Sporting Review xl 381–4 (1858) portrait, xlviii 436–48 (1862), l 326–8 (1863).
MORRELL, Thomas Baker (5 son of Baker Morrell). b. Oxford 1815; ed. at Balliol coll., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B. and D.D. 1863; R. of Henley on Thames 1852–62; coadjutor bishop of Edinburgh Nov. 1862 to Aug. 1869 when he resigned; author with W. W. How of Psalms and hymns 1854. d. 26 Royal York crescent, Clifton 15 Nov. 1877.
MORRIN, Joseph. b. Dumfriesshire about 1792; studied medicine in Quebec, Edinburgh and London; practised at Quebec, became the leading physician in Lower Canada; one of the three founders of Beaufort asylum; mayor of Quebec twice; the first president of medical board of Lower Canada; gave a large sum of money for erection of a Presbyterian college in Quebec, known as Morrin college. d. Quebec 29 Aug. 1861.
MORRIS, Sir Benjamin (son of George Morris Wall). b. Waterford 1798; ensign 25 foot 29 June 1815, served at Gibraltar and in the West Indies, captain 19 Sep. 1826, sold out 18 Oct. 1833; sheriff of Waterford 1836 and 1854; mayor of Waterford 1845–47 and 1867–68; knighted by the marquess of Normanby 1836. d. the Mall, Waterford 20 Dec. 1875.
MORRIS, Charles D’Urban (6 son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris 1770–1851). b. Charmouth, Dorset 17 Feb. 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf. 1845; scholar Lincoln coll. 1846–50; fellow of Oriel coll. 1851–54; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1853; rector of Trinity school, New York 1853–6; kept a private school for boys at Lake Mohegan; professor in New York univ.; professor of Latin and Greek in the Johns Hopkins univ. Baltimore 1876 to death; author of Principia Latina 1860; A compendious grammar of Attic Greek 1869, 4 ed. 1876; A compendious grammar of the Latin language 1870, 4 ed. 1876; Probatio Latina 1871; Latin reading book 1873. d. Baltimore 7 Feb. 1886. Appleton’s American biography iv 411 (1888); Athenæum 6 March 1886 p. 327.
MORRIS, Charles Henry (4 son of Sir John Morris, 2 baronet 1775–1855). b. 27 Feb. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1842, captain 3 Nov. 1848; military comr. to 2 corps of French army in the Crimea 1855; A.A.G. in Crimea 1855–6; inspector of volunteers 1 March 1860 to April 1865; military attaché Vienna 1874–5; L.G. 1 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855; an officer of the Legion of Honour. d. 6 Portugal st. Park lane, London 12 Oct. 1887.
MORRIS, David. b. 1800; a banker at Carmarthen; M.P. Carmarthen 24 July 1837 to death. d. Carmarthen 30 Sep. 1864.
MORRIS, Sir Edmund Finucane (3 son of Samuel Morris). b. Jamaica 1792; ensign 49 foot 21 June 1810, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1836 to 7 Nov. 1843, when placed on half pay; served in Canada, at the Cape of Good Hope and in Bengal 1821–43, and on his return was only remaining officer who had set out in 1821; aide de camp to the queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; col. 97 foot 14 May 1859 to 15 Dec. 1861; col. 49 foot 15 Dec. 1861 to death; general 13 March 1868; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. St. George’s lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 4 Dec. 1871.
MORRIS, Edward. One of the earliest advocates of temperance in Scotland; author of Henry Bell: The history of temperance and teetotal societies in Glasgow 1855. d. Aug. 1860. S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 334.
MORRIS, Sir Evan (son of Joseph Morris, leather manufacturer). b. Wrexham 1842; ed. at Birmingham and Wrexham; solicitor of firm of Evan Morris and co. at Wrexham 1872 to death; mayor of Wrexham 1889; knighted by the queen at Pale, Llanderfel, North Wales, while on a visit to Wrexham 27 Aug. 1889; captain 1 volunteer batt. royal Welsh fusiliers 25 June 1879; county councillor of Denbighshire; resided at Roseneath, Wrexham. d. Eastbourne 18 April 1890.
MORRIS, Francis Orpen (eld. son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris of Beverley, Yorkshire 1770–1851). b. Cove near Cork 25 March 1810; ed. at Bromsgrove sch. and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834; B.A. Durham 1844; P.C. of Hanging Heaton near Dewsbury 1834; C. of Taxal, Cheshire 1836; C. of Ch. Ch. Doncaster 1836; C. of Ordsall, Notts. 1838; C. of Crambe, Yorkshire 1842; V. of Nafferton near Driffield 1844–54; chaplain to duke of Cleveland 1844; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1854 to death; edited the Naturalist, vols. vi to viii, 1856–8; author of A history of British birds, 6 vols. 1851–7, 3 ed. 1891; A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds, 3 vols. 1853–6, 3 ed. 1892; A history of British butterflies 1853, 3 ed. 1853; A natural history of British moths, 4 vols. 1859–70; Dogs and their doings 1870, 2 ed. 1887; Anecdotes in natural history 1872, 2 ed. 1889; The country seats of noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 5 vols. 1866–80; and about 53 other books. d. Nunburnholme 10 Feb. 1893. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) 106–8; Good Words, September (1893) portrait; Church portrait journal ii, 5 (1881) portrait; The Graphic 25 Feb. 1893 p. 183 portrait.
MORRIS, Sir George (2 son of colonel Samuel Morris of Littleton, Tipperary). b. 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. 2 dragoon guards 13 June 1805; major 3 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 8 July 1819, when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814; served in actions and sieges in the West Indies 1795–1801; on the staff in Portugal and Spain 1808–9; served at Cape of Good Hope, in France, and at Gibraltar; usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1841 to death; knighted by patent 1841. d. 32 Gardiner’s place, Mountjoy square, Dublin, May 1858.
MORRIS, Henry Gage (2 son of Henry Gage Morris, rear admiral 1770–1851). b. 1811; sub-lieut. R.N. 1830; served at battle of Navarino 1827 and in China 1842; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1 July 1866; retired admiral 27 March 1885; author of Forty five predictions of the Old Testament 1855. d. 21 Queen Anne’s gate, London 21 Jany. 1891.
MORRIS, James. b. 1795; head of firm of Morris, Prevost and co. merchants 25 Old Broad st. London; a director of bank of England 1827–80 and governor 1847–48; contested Liverpool 8 Jany. 1835 and Cork 5 July 1841. d. 17 Cadogan place, London 9 May 1882.
MORRIS, J. B. On the Irish turf; came to London; purchased Hungerford from George Osbaldeston for 80 guineas and with him won the Great Yorkshire handicap twice and the Suffolk stakes at Newmarket; bought Kingston from lord Ribblesdale for 2,000 guineas and with him won the Goodwood cup, the Northumberland plate, and the whip at Newmarket; won the Doncaster St. Leger with Knight of St. George and cleared £30,000, 1854; generally known by name of Jelly. Sporting Review xxxix 363–4 (1858).
MORRIS, James Edward Gordon. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 24 Bombay N.I. 1821, captain 9 March 1830, major 10 Nov. 1843 to 3 July 1848; lieut. col. of 12 N.I 3 July 1848 to 1853, of 28 N.I. 1853–4, and of 5 N.I. 1854–7; commandant Baroda 20 May 1854 to 22 Sept. 1856; commandant Hyderabad 22 Sept. 1856 to 18 Feb. 1858; col. of 15 N.I. 2 Dec. 1857 to death; M.G. 13 April 1860. d. 5 Compton terrace, Brighton 10 March 1867.
MORRIS, John (son of John Morris, timber merchant). b. Homerton, London 19 Feb. 1810; ed. at Clifton, Nuneham, and Parson’s Green, Fulham; pharmaceutical chemist at Kensington some years; professor of geology and mineralogy at Univ. college London 1854 to Sept. 1877, emeritus professor 1877 to death, delivered 1100 lectures; lectured at the Coal exchange on coal and coal mining; F.G.S. 1845, Lyell medallist 1876, presented with an address and £600 by Geological soc. 14 July 1870; president of the Geological Association 1877; admitted to freedom of the Turners’ company 7 Feb. 1878; hon. M.A. Cambridge 6 June 1878; with H. Woodward edited The geological magazine, vol. 3 1864; author of A catalogue of British fossils 1843 2 ed. 1854; A new geological chart, showing the stratified rocks 1859, new ed. 1865; A series of large geological diagrams 1878; and upwards of 55 papers in scientific journals. d. 22 Bolton road, St. John’s Wood, London 7 Jany. 1886. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 13 Jany. Geological Mag. (1878) 481–7 portrait, (1886) 95–6; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xlii 44 (1886).
MORRIS, Sir John (son of Edward Morris). b. Wolverhampton 1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton 1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. d. Bycullah park, Enfield, Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.
MORRIS, John (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). b. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July 1826; ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church of Rome 20 May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9; ordained priest Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at Great Marlow; canon of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English college at Rome 1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary to cardinal Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon penitentiary of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus Feb. 1867, took his first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was successively minister at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey, socius to the provincial Father Whitty, first superior of the Oxford mission and professor of ecclesiastical history and canon law in the college of St. Beuno, North Wales to 1877 and 1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879, rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st. Berkeley sq. London 1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author of The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1859, 2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence cardinal Wiseman, 3 ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic forefathers, related by themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of Father John Gerrard, 3 ed. 1881. d. while preaching in the Jesuit church at Wimbledon 22 Oct. 1893.
MORRIS, John Brande (son of rev. John Morris, D.D. schoolmaster). b. New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837, resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church of Rome 16 Jany. 1846, ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior Park near Bath 1851; canon of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853; domestic chaplain to E. R. Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir John Acton of Aldenham hall, Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex 1868; later on he was chaplain to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a convent of nursing nuns at St. Vincent house, 49 Queen st. Hammersmith to death; author of An essay towards the conversion of learned and philosophical Hindus 1843; Nature a parable, a poem 1842; Jesus the son of Mary or the doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha Koomee or the gospel prophecy of our lady’s assumption, a drama 1858; translated for the Library of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Romans 1841; and Select works of St. Ephrem 1846. d. 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9 April 1880. bur. Mortlake.
MORRIS, John Carnac (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of H.E.I. Co.) b. 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered Madras civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10 March 1831; Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832; civil auditor or accountant general 1839; established the Madras government bank 1834, secretary and treasurer 1834, superintendent 1835; edited the Madras journal of literature and science from 1834; civil auditor and superintendent of stamps 1843; left India 1 July 1846 and settled in London; established a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia by way of Panama; promoter and managing director of London and Eastern banking company, chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858; author of Telugu selections, with translations and grammatical analyses, Madras 1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and Teloogoo, 2 vols. Madras 1835. d. Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. bur. St. Heliers. C. C. Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants (1885) 101–2.
MORRIS, Mowbray. b. Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847, and manager about 1848–73; m. 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The Times. d. 21 April 1874. Publisher’s Circular (1874) 308; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; The Times 4 May 1874 p. 1.
MORRIS, Richard. b. 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for rifles, patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death, resided at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. shot himself at 11 Haymarket, London 14 Dec. 1891. The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p. 12.
MORRIS, Richard. b. London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll. Battersea; lecturer on English language and literature King’s coll. school, London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury 1870; C. of Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological soc., president 1874; on council of Early English text soc.; hon. M.A. of Oxf. 1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute for boys, Wood Green July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the Early English text soc. Early English alliterative poems 1864, Sir Gawayne and the Green knight 1864, The story of Genesis and Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English homilies 1868, Chaucer’s translation of Boethius De Consolatione philosophiæ 1868, Legends of the holy rood 1871, An old English miscellany 1872, Cursor mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies 1874; he also edited The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1866, Specimens of Early English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat 1872; Complete works of Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The etymology of local names 1857; Historical outlines of English accidence 1872; English grammar 1875. d. Harold Wood, Essex 12 May 1894. bur. Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. I.L.N. 26 May 1894 p. 643 portrait.
MORRIS, Samuel Sheppard Oakley (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of Llanelly, Carmarthen). b. 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London 1857, scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar 1866–71; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig gr. sch. 1870–2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of Dolgelly 1873–8; naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug. 1878, interpreter in Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor in H.M.S. Victoria which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893, brass memorial tablet placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital Sept. 1893.
MORRIS, William. b. 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842, lieut. 14 May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major 17 Sept. 1857 to death; commanded his regiment at battle of Balaklava; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.
MORRIS, William (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). b. 11 Feb. 1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. d. 14 Dec. 1886.
MORRIS, William (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). b. 9 July 1820; barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming lunacy case 1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen v. Hume 1853, and the Cochrane succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author of The law of railway and other joint stock companies. d. Caversham house, Brixton hill, Surrey, 7 April 1889.
MORRIS, William Placidus. b. London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.; bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy 1832–42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton 1842 to death. d. Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. The Tablet 24 Feb. 1872 pp. 238, 245.
MORRISON, Allan (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). b. 1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April 1861; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862, 1863, and 1865. d. Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.
MORRISON, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1859–61; was umpire at the University boat race 1869–70; purchased Hampworth lodge, Downton near Salisbury from Robert Shafto 1867; sheriff of Wiltshire 1881. d. 4 April 1884.
MORRISON, George Staunton (son of Robert Morrison, oriental scholar 1782–1834). Student interpreter in China 30 June 1847; secretary and registrar at Hong Kong 10 Dec. 1857; consul at Nagasaki in Japan 21 Dec. 1858, retired on a pension 1 Jany. 1864; severely wounded in an attack made on the British legation at Yedo by an armed band of Japanese 5 July 1861. d. Nice 20 Aug. 1893. I.L.N. xxxix 427 (1861) portrait.
MORRISON, James (son of Joseph Morrison who d. 1804). b. Hampshire 1790; partner in general drapery business of Joseph Todd in Fore st. city of London, the firm became known as Morrison, Dillon and co., and was converted into the Fore st. company, limited; made a large fortune; bought land in Berkshire, Bucks, Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Islay, Argyleshire; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1830; M.P. Ipswich 12 Dec. 1832 to 1835; contested Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ipswich 19 June 1835 to 1837; M.P. Inverness burghs 1840–7; made a large collection of pictures of the old masters, Italian and Dutch and of English pictures; author of Rail roads, speech in the House of Commons 1836; Observations illustrative of the defects of the English system of railway legislation 1846; The influence of English railway legislation on trade and industry 1848. d. Basildon park near Reading 30 Oct. 1857, leaving between three and four millions. Puseley’s Commercial companies (1858) p. 146; Waagen’s Cabinets of art (1857) 105–13; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 300–312; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 260–63 (1854); The Town ii 795 (1839).
MORRISON, Sir James William (only son of James Morrison, deputy master and worker of the Mint). b. London 1774; ed. at Loughborough house school and Yverdun in Switzerland; clerk in royal mint 1792; deputy master and worker 1803 to March 1851; knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. d. the hermitage, Snaresbrook, Essex 27 June 1856.
MORRISON, Peter. Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road, London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance co. 1 Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of Deposit at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director there 1853–4 and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were branches in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes, and Dublin; proprietor of the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859, lost £2,480 over it in 2½ years; resided at 44 Porchester sq. Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862. Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp. 4–5, 19 Feb. p. 184.
MORRISON, Richard James, known as Zadkiel (son of Richard Caleb Morrison, gentleman pensioner under George III., who d. 1808). b. London 15 June 1795; entered navy 1806, saw much boat service in the Adriatic, lieut. 3 March 1815; served in the coastguard April 1827 to Oct. 1829, when placed on h.p.; presented to the admiralty a plan for registering merchant seamen 22 April 1824, since adopted in principle, also suggested a plan for providing seamen 6 March 1835; brought out The herald of astrology for the years 1831–34 by Zadkiel the Seer, London 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, four volumes, continued as The astronomical almanac for 1835 by Zadkiel 1834, one volume, continued as Zadkiel’s almanac and herald of astrology for 1836. 1835 and went on to his death; brought an action for libel against sir Edward Belcher in the Queen’s Bench, when he got a verdict with 20/-damages 29 June 1863; author under his own name of Narrative of the loss of the Rothsay Castle in Beaumaris bay, 4 ed. 1831; Observations on Dr. Halley’s great comet, 2 ed. 1835; The solar system as it is and not as it is represented 1857; Explanation of the bell buoy invented by lieut. Morrison 1858; Astronomy in a nutshell 1860; The comet, a map on the course of Encke’s comet 1860; The New Principia or true system of astronomy 1868, 2 ed. 1872; King David triumphant, a letter to the astronomer of Benares 1871; under the name of Zadkiel he also edited The horoscope, a weekly miscellany Liverpool 1834, nineteen numbers; The horoscope, a monthly magazine London 1 vol. 1841; The voice of the stars No. 1 1862; and was author of Zadkiel’s magazine or record of astrology, 2 numbers Jany. and Feb. 1849; The grammar of astrology 1840. 3 ed. 1849; Zadkiel’s legacy, also essays on Hindu astrology and the nativity of the prince of Wales 1842; An essay on love and matrimony 1851; The hand-book of astrology 2 vols 1861–2; On the great first cause, his existence and attributes 1867; Zadkiel’s astronomical ephemeris for 1849 etc., 1848 etc. d. Sunnyside, Knight’s park, Kingston-on-Thames 5 Feb. 1874. Companion to Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1855 with a portrait; A. Steinmetz’s Manual of weather casts (1866) 33; C. Cooke’s Curiosities of occult literature (1863) 4–9, 242; A. D. Morgan’s Budget of paradoxes (1872) 195, 277, 472; British almanac and companion (1867) 119–22; Horace Welby’s Predictions realised (1862) 37–8; A. J. Pearce’s Text book of astrology i 27–8, 207–8, ii 30 etc. (1879–89); Mercurius’s Predicting almanack for 1876 pp. 40–6 portrait; Athenæum vol. i 630, 666, 701 (1874).
Note.—He predicted the death of the Prince Consort in Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1861 thus “The position of Saturn in May will be evil for all persons born upon or near the 26 Aug., among the sufferers I regret to see the worthy prince consort of these realms.” The prince was b. 26 Aug. 1819 and d. at Windsor 14 Dec. 1861.
MORRISON, Robert. b. parish of Moy, Invernessshire 14 Feb. 1822; manager of works of Messrs. Hawthorn at Newcastle 1844–53; manufacturer of engines at Ouseburn from 1853; invented and patented an improved steam hammer, which gained first prize at Exhibition of 1862; made a hammer of 40 tons for Russia 1863; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861. d. 20 Dec. 1869. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi 220–22 (1871).
MORRISSEY, John. b. Templemore, Tipperary 5 Feb. 1831; taken to Lower Canada 1836 and to Troy, New York 3 months later; apprenticed to an iron moulder at Troy; bar-tender at Aleck Hamilton’s house, Troy; an emigrant runner in New York 1849; fought George Thompson on Mare Island 31 Aug. 1852 for 2,000 dollars a side and championship of California and won in 9 rounds; fought Yankee Sullivan at Boston Four-corners, 100 miles from New York 5 Oct. 1853 for 2,000 dollars a side and won in 37 rounds; badly beaten by Wm. Poole in New York 26 July 1854. Poole was killed by Morrissey’s friends 24 Feb. 1855; fought J. C. Heenan at Long Point Island in lake Erie 10 Oct. 1858 for 5,000 dollars a side and the championship of America and won in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; kept a gambling house where he lost 124,000 dollars in one night to Benjamin Wood 1867; opened a large gambling house in Saratoga 1869, made Saratoga a famous summer resort; member of Congress 6 Nov. 1866 to death. d. Saratoga, New York county 1 May 1878. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery, Troy 4 May. W. E. Harding’s John Morrissey, his life, battles and wrangles (1880) portrait; Nation 9 May 1878 pp. 304–5.
MORRITT, William John Sawrey (son of rev. Robert Morritt). b. 12 Sep. 1813; ensign 37 foot 15 March 1831, lieut. 15 March 1833; lieut. 77 foot Feb. 1834, sold out 26 Dec. 1834; came into Rokeby estate, Yorkshire on death of his uncle 1843; started the Four in hand driving club April 1856; crippled by a dog cart accident; M.P. north riding of Yorkshire 1862–5; one of the best coachmen of his day. d. Brighton 13 April 1874. Baily’s mag. xxv 249–54 (1874) portrait.
MORROGH, Leonard. b. county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. Baily’s mag. xxx 373 (1877) portrait li, 132 (1889).
MORSE, Charles (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk 1783–1852). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match at Lords in Marylebone v. Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842; member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug. 1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester v. I. Zingari he scored 145 runs in one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. d. 25 March 1883. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 78 (1863).
MORSE, Francis (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50; C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury 1853; P.C. of St. John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean lecturer at Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to death; preb. of Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell cath. 1885 to death; member of Nottingham sch. board Feb. 1871, then chairman; founded the annual Saturday and Sunday collections for the local hospital; author of Parents, God’s nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9 ed. 1879; Working for God, four sermons 1857; The cleansing blood 1859; Confirmation, nine addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of the church to the sick 1888. d. suddenly at residence of J. Watson, J.P., the Park, Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.
MORSE, James. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I. 3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut. col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Farley court, Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.
MORSE, Salmi. b. Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England; endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883; found drowned in the North river at 88th street, New York 22 Feb. 1884.
MORSHEAD, William Henry Anderson (son of colonel Henry Anderson Morshead of Widey court, Devon). b. 1811; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct. 1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 11 Jany. 1876. d. 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.
MORSON, Thomas Newborn Robert. b. Stratford le bow, London; apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. d. 38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 353 (1874).
MORT, Charles Chester. b. 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. d. Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p. 4.
MORT, Thomas Sutcliffe. b. Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851; established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district 1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney 1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. d. Bodalla near Sydney 9 May 1878. The Australian portrait gallery (1885) 51–6 portrait.
MORTIMER, Favell Lee (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of Barclay, Bevan & co. London). b. London 1802; founded parish schools on her father’s estates; m. in the year 1841 Thomas Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London, who d. 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. d. Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. bur. in churchyard, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. The Family Friend (1878) 183.
MORTIMER, George Ferris Whidborne (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer of Bishopsteignton, Devon). b. Bishopsteignton 22 July 1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823; Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. d. Rose Hill, Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. E. W. Linging’s History of City of London school (1882) 28–9; Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp. 179–80; City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement, portrait.
MORTIMER, John. b. 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. d. Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856.
MORTIMER, William. b. Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc. 1884. d. The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. Bailey’s mag. xx 1 (1871) portrait, xlv 272 (1886).
MORTLOCK, William (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire). b. Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens, never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first played at Lord’s in M.C.C. v. Surrey club 12 June 1854; made good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school, Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon closed them. d. 23 Jany. 1884. bur. Norwood cemet. 28 Jany. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv 588 (1863); Illust. Sporting news iii 345 (1864) portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93 portrait; Cricket Jany. 1884 p. 10.
MORTON, George Sholto Douglas 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut. col. John Douglas 1756–1818). b. London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin 17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4; vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. d. 47 Brook st. London 31 March 1858.
MORTON, Alexander. b. Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820; ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation. d. New York 12 Oct. 1869.
MORTON, Charles (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh, agricultural implement maker). b. 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and 1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other famous cases. d. Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.
MORTON, James. b. Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death; prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta 1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. d. Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. G.M. xix 390 (1865).
MORTON, John (2 son of Robert Morton). b. Ceres, Fifeshire 17 July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton, Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates 1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839; author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843; Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. d. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire 26 July 1864.
MORTON, John Chalmers (son of preceding). b. 11 July 1821; ed. Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners; member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers 1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861, new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other books. d. Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. bur. Harrow ch. yard 9 May. Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv 691–6 (1888); Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p. 428 portrait, 14 May p. 453.
MORTON, John Drummond. b. Manchester 1830; sec. of National reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and political essays. d. Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. bur. Salford cemet.
MORTON, John Maddison (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ. Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school, Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov. 1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse 15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22 July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Dec. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. J. M. Morton’s Plays for home performance (1889) memoir pp. ix–xv; Theatre xiv 220–1, 255 (1889) portrait; London Figaro 23 Dec. 1891 p. 7 portrait; Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p. 4 portrait; London Society xlix 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886) portrait.
MORTON, Saville. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser in 1852. Stabbed by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. bur. Montmartre cemet. Annual Register (1852) 402–7.
Note.—Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for murder, but acquitted, he d. at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69.
MORTON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. d. 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemet.
MOSCHELES, Ignatz (son of a cloth merchant). b. Prague, 30 May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public performer on the piano; m. 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London 1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820; Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827; Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by E. Pauer 1886. d. Leipzig 10 March 1870. C. E. Moscheles’ Life of Moscheles 2 vols. (1873) portrait; Musical Gem (1832) p. 74 portrait.
MOSELEY, Charles. b. Manchester 27 March 1840; member of firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal 1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3 May 1887. d. Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887. bur. Southern cemet. 5 Oct. The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct. 1887 p. 5, and 9 Oct. p. 5.
MOSELEY, Edwin Charles. b. 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. d. Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885.
MOSELEY, Henry (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at Newcastle-under-Lyne). b. 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12 Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology 2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural philosophy. d., Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. Trans. of Instit. of naval architects xiii 328–30 (1872); I.L.N. lx 90 (1872).
MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (son of the preceding). b. St. Ann’s Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc. and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science 1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869; studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S. 7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March 1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852 etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878; On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878; Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell ill in 1887 and never recovered. d. Firwood Clevedon, Somerset 10 Nov. 1891. H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed. (1892) memoir v–xvi and portrait; Biograph vi 387–90 (1881); Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p. 599 portrait; I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891 p. 694 portrait.
MOSELEY, Litchfield. b. 1839; author of Penny readings in prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. d. 16 Wilton road, Dalston, London 21 June 1879.
MOSES, Henry. b. about 1782; engraver, published many sets of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases, altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates 1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3 vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. d. Cowley, Middlesex 28 Feb. 1870.
MOSES, William Stainton (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). b. Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8; assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man 1868–72; English master at University college school, London 1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light 1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878, 2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism 1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. d. at his mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. bur. Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. Light 10 Sept. 1892 p. 439 portrait, 17 Sept. pp. 445–6, 447, 5 Nov. 1892 pp. 529–32 portrait.
MOSLEY, John Ivon. b. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary, prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben Brierly’s Journal. d. Manchester 6 Sept. 1876.
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). b. Morton near Chester 27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837; sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for £200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832; Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history of Tutbury 1863. d. Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May 1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872); I.L.N. lviii 578 (1871).
MOSS, James. b. 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. d. Greenock 14 Nov. 1882.
MOSS, Joseph William. b. Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley, removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. d. Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862.
MOSS, Thomas. b. 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861; Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death; vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. d. Nice 4 Jany. 1881.
MOSS, Sir Thomas Edwards- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss 1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the North-Western bank). b. 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; m. 1847 Amy Charlotte, heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc. 1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 26 April 1890.
MOSS, Tom Cottenham Edwards- (2 son of preceding). b. 7 April 1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley 1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death. M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893.
MOSSMAN, John (son of George Mossman, sculptor). b. London 1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman Macleod. d. Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890.
MOSSMAN, Thomas Wimberley (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). b. Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. d. East Torrington rectory 6 July 1885. Biograph vi 342–9 (1881); Church Times 10 July 1885 p. 531, 17 July p. 555; Tablet 18 July 1885 p. 103.
MOSTYN, Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). b. 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col. commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. d. Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April 1854.
MOSTYN, Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and 1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840; col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for £10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. d. Mostyn hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. Baily’s mag. xlii 197 (1884); I.L.N. xliv 237 (1864) portrait.
MOSTYN, Thomas. b. Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death, his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. d. Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24 Sept.
MOSTYN, Thomas. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810; surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct. 1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7 Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo; served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and 1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. d. Alpha house, Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.