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MURRAY, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47; resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; m. Henry John Murray, British consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres 1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She d. San Remo, Italy 8 Dec. 1882. Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii 111–16 (1876).

MURRAY, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager 1765–1836). b. 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept. 1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb. 1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30 Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J. Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868, Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W. Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre; played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20 Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship 16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary 29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in Forget me not; m. at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh Murray, actor, who d. 29 Jany. 1870. She d. 25 May 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 May. Theatrical Times iii 381, 382 (1848) portrait.

MURRAY, Eustace Clare Grenville (natural son of Richard Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). b. 1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851, acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852; vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28 May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869 for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington 1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon; Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette; proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles, 3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols. 1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. d. Passy, near Paris 20 Dec. 1881. bur. Paris 24 Dec. E. Yates’s Recollections ii 309–30 (1884); J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 106–10; Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii 301–11 (1887); Biograph vi 585 (1881); Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp. 24–5; A.R. (1869) 79–82; Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray, Parliamentary Papers 1868–69, No. 4163.

MURRAY, Freeman. b. 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb. 1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major 20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov. 1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept. 1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61; commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot 14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Florence 14 April 1885.

MURRAY, Gaston, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. b. London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life; first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany. 1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859; Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb. 1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr. Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s; played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande 15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4 March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872; treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General theatrical fund 1880–2. d. 8 Aug. 1889. bur. Nunhead cemet. 12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p. 8, 17 Aug. p. 8.

MURRAY, George (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex 1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813; archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814; bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19 March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. d. 77 Chester sq. London 16 Feb. 1860. Portraits of eminent conservatives, 2nd series (1846) portrait 21.

MURRAY, George (son of John Murray of Troquhain). b. Galloway 1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8 March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843; readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge 1866. d. Wimbledon, Surrey 15 Nov. 1883. H. Scott’s Fasti i 697 (1867).

MURRAY, Sir Henry (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of Mansfield 1727–96). b. 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March 1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons 18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont Murray 1859. d. Wimbledon 29 July 1860.

MURRAY, Henry Leigh, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother of Gaston Murray 1826–89). b. Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820; made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19 April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849; stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm. Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7, at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859; made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of his day. d. 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. bur. Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 307–9 (1888); Tallis’s Dramatic magazine (1851) 135–7 portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14 portrait; The Players iii 399 (1861), and iv 2 (1861); Theatrical Times i 161 (1847) portrait.

MURRAY, James. b. Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms, and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury 1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862. d. Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. Builder xxi 780, 807, (1863).

MURRAY, Sir James (son of Edward Murray). b. co. Londonderry 1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb. 1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin 1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829, knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington 1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other epidemics, Dublin 1849. d. 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec. 1871. bur. Glasnevin cemet. I.L.N. lix 618 (1871), lx 15, 16, (1872) portrait.

MURRAY, James. b. 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826; assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct. 1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. d. 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19 Feb. 1878.

MURRAY, James. b. 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. d. middle of Aug. 1882. Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p. 273.

MURRAY, James Archibald (son of Charles Murray). b. 4 March 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820; second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. d. 7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.

MURRAY, John (son of James Murray, sea-captain). b. Stranraer, Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution, Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819; F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831 anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833, and 23 other books. d. Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28 June 1851. bur. in Inch churchyard. Mining Journal 12 July 1851 p. 336.

MURRAY, John. b. 1798; succeeded David Laing the original Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar hotel. d. May 1861. P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green ii 91 (1844); G.M. xi 96 (1861).

MURRAY, John (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). b. Aberdeen 1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist. physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist. physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. d. after an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873. bur. Aberdeen. British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p. 476; The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p. 577.

MURRAY, John. b. Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12 March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the search for sir J. Franklin 1854. d. 2 Feb. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi 400–407 (1883); W. H. D. Adams’s Lighthouses (1870) 182–6 view of the Wear lighthouse.

MURRAY, John (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843). b. London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ. of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43; publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head, lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891; F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. d. 50 Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. bur. in Wimbledon parish church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. S. Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol. 2 (1891) passim; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 159–98; The Critic xx 17 (1860) portrait; Graphic 9 April 1892) p. 464 portrait; Saturday Review lxii 834.

MURRAY, Sir John Archibald (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). b. Midlothian 1779; ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834 and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. d. 11 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 71–7; Memoirs of Francis Horner, 2 vols. 1853, this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many letters to him; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 107–9 portrait; Law magazine and law review vii 182–7 (1859).

MURRAY, John Fisher (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician 1788–1871). b. Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols. 1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols. London 1845. d. Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. bur. Glasnevin cemet. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland (1880) 14 et seq.

Note.—He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed. entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.

MURRAY, John O’Kane. b. Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847; went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A popular history of the Catholic church in the United States 1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints 1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English literature 1883. d. Chicago 30 July 1885.

MURRAY, Mary Frances (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes d. 12 April 1880). b. near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage 1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26 March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July 1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858, Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June 1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house 17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb. 1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G. Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C. Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs. Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick theatre 24 April 1889; m. Gaston Murray, who d. 8 Aug. 1889. d. 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 269; Illust. S. and D. news iii 513, 539 (1875) portrait.

MURRAY, Montagu. b. Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney; a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851; toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia; the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. d. Hay June 1880. The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p. 6.

MURRAY, Nicholas (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). b. Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July 1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary 1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed. 1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed. 1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855; Preachers and preaching 1860. d. Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4 Feb. 1861. S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray (1863) portrait.

MURRAY, Patrick Aloysius. b. Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov. 1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin 1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41, and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000 priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851; Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject; Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. d. Maynooth college 15 Nov. 1882. bur. Maynooth 18 Nov. Irish Monthly xix 337–46 (1891); Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p. 5.

MURRAY, Peter (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of supreme court of Jamaica). b. Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March 1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews 1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802; assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803; practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812 to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. d. Belle Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. bur. Scarborough cemet. 5 March. The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie (1864).

MURRAY, Richard. b. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829 to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827; Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840; Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland 1849. d. Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.

MURRAY, Robert Fuller (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who d. 1886). b. Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso 1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St. Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine, Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown, verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M. Holden 1891. d. Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany. 1894. Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew Lang (1894); Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp. 644–50.

MURRAY, Sir Terence Aubrey (son of Terence Murray, captain 48 foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) b. Limerick 1810; went to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate 1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray, King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858; speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Sydney 22 June 1873. Australian men of mark i 159–64 (1889) portrait.

MURRAY, Thomas. b. parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire 1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford 1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton 1863. d. Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872. Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 77.

MURRAY, Thomas. b. Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st. Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6, eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. d. 7 Royal crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.

MURRAY, Thomas Boyles (son of Charles Murray, solicitor, d. 1847). b. 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London; assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge 1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East 28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March 1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840; An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. d. 30 Brunswick sq. London 24 Sept. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Gent. Mag. ix 556 (1860); I.L.N. xxvi 269 (1855) portrait.

MURRAY, Thomas Graham (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879; member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887, under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb. univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt. to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. d. 11 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. bur. Dean cemetery 14 March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A. 1891. The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p. 7.

MURRAY, William. b. Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor 1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34, practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867; M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. d. 7 Warrior terrace, St. Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p. 14.

MURRAY, William (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st. London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May 1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May 1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road, Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand 12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July, the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide 25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. A.R. (1861) 119–26; J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed. (1876) 606–7; Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p. 46, 27 July pp. 56–9 and 3 Aug. pp. 72–4, portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16 Northumberland st.

MURRAY, William David (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, b. 1806). b. Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21 July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855; lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888 to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about 1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the county road trustees. d. Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.

MURRAY, William Henderson. Apprentice to a shoemaker at Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express, Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples, latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. d. at house of his father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. The Fife Herald 29 July 1858, p. 2.

MURRAY, William Henry Wood (son of Charles Murray, actor and dramatist 1754–1821). b. Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819, which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee 1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July 1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter, a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15 July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany. 1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. d. St. Andrews 5 May 1852. bur. in the cathedral burying ground, portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 170–2 portrait; The Town ii 766, 778 (1839); J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 portrait; The Farewell addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch (1851).

MURRAY, William Powell (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth, Sussex). b. London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829, King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb. 1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841; practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court, Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death. d. Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. bur. Shirley churchyard, Surrey. Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p. 347.

MURRAY-DUNLOP, Alexander Colquhoun Stirling (eld. son of Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). b. Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest” made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July 1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S. of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor law. d. Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. Law Times 10 Sept. 1870 p. 357.

MURRIETA, Cristobal de. b. Spain 1789; a merchant at 5 Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at 7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July 1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. d. 11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.

MURSELL, James (son of the succeeding). b. Leicester 22 July 1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ. Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70; at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel, Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India 1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire 1861. d. Newcastle 28 May 1875. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men (1884) 330–2; The Baptist handbook 1876 pp. 378–80.

MURSELL, James Philippo (son of William Mursell, ironmonger). b. High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600; first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2 ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous ministry, its character and its worth 1857. d. Leicester 2 Nov. 1885. A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell (1886) portrait; The Baptist handbook 1886 pp. 131–3.

MURTON, Frederic (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines, Chatham). b. Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837; resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000; in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. d. 85 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 326–8 (1889).

MUSGRAVE, Anthony. b. Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death; partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in the medical papers. d. Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Anthony (son of the preceding). b. 1828; private secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands 1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St. Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25 May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885; author of Studies in political economy 1875. d. Government house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.

MUSGRAVE, Charles (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge, woollen draper). b. 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March 1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges and sermons 1824–54. d. Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875. The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) portrait 43; Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 111, 519.

MUSGRAVE, Frank. b. 1834; conductor at Strand theatre, London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H. J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad 1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave 1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F. Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1861–84. d. Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 May.

MUSGRAVE, George Musgrave (eld. son of George Musgrave of Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). b. St. Marylebone, London 1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9; R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54; travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions, cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed. 1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer, rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). b. 6 Jany. 1790; succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. d. Whiting bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard Courtenay 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G. Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). b. Eden hall, Penrith, Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland 16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880 to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to death. d. 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.

MUSGRAVE, Thomas (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen draper). b. Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb. 1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7, senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March 1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth 1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany. 1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. d. 41 Belgrave sq. London 4 May 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., portrait in dining room at Bishopthorpe.

MUSGRAVE, Thomas Moore. b. 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham, sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence 1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens, a translation 1826. d. Bath 4 Sept. 1854. Bath Chronicle 14 Sept. 1854 p. 3.

MUSGRAVE, William. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. d. Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.

MUSGRAVE, William Peete. b. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?; The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. d. Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) p. 66.

MUSGROVE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of London, merchant 1763–1820). b. 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet 2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. d. Rusthall house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xvii 357 (1850) portrait.

MUSHET, Robert (2 son of Richard Mushet). b. Dalkeith 1811; second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London 1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844, 2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. d. Haywards Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871.

MUSHET, Robert Forester (youngest son of David Mushet metallurgist 1772–1847). b. Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April 1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford; experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870; author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. d. 10 Sydenham villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. Jeans’s Creators of the age of steel (1884) 60–5; Journal of iron and steel institute (1876) 1–4; Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p. 7 portrait.

MUSPRATT, James (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, d. 1810). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812, but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J. C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom. d. Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. bur. in Walton parish churchyard. J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt, with portrait.

MUSPRATT, James Sheridan (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 8 March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836, and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; m. 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman, American actress, d. 10 May 1859. He d. The Hollies, West Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. Biography of Sheridan Muspratt, by a London barrister-at-law (1852) portrait; J. S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, 2 vols. (1853–61) 2 portraits; W. White’s Biography of S. Muspratt (1869) portrait.

MUSSY, Henri Guéneau de. b. Paris 1814; physician, came to England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859; resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the president and college of physicians of England; representative of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des thèses 1844, vol. viii. d. St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept. 1892. bur. Pére Lachaise cemet. Paris 3 Oct. The Times 4 Oct. 1892 pp. 3, 7.

Note.—He was one of the few foreigners elected to the full fellowship of the royal college of physicians, his coat-of-arms is represented in one of the stained glass windows of the college in Trafalgar square.

MUSTERS, George Chaworth (son of John George Musters of Wiverton hall, Notts., d. 1842). b. Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut. of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June 1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies, who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. London 25 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i 397–8 (1879).

MUSTOXIDI, Sir Andrea. b. Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua 1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823; historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece, published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48. d. Corfu 17 July 1860. G.M. Nov. 1860 p. 554; Didot’s Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi 73 (1863); Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 732 (1874).

MUSURUS, Constantine (son of Paul Musurus). b. Constantinople 18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne he married in 1839, she was b. 1819 and d. in London 19 July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848; minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador 30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston sq. London. d. Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. The Graphic 21 Feb. 1891 p. 209 portrait; I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait; Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p. 241 portrait.

MUTRIE, Annie Feray (sister of the succeeding). b. Ardwick, Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A. and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854; sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the International exhibition of 1862. d. 26 Lower Rock gardens, Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. bur. Brompton cemet. The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 9.

MUTRIE, Martha Darley (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled at Manchester in the cotton trade). b. Ardwick, Manchester 26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. d. 36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p. 75.

MUTTLEBURY, George. b. 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795, captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.

MYBURGH, Philip Albert (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of Cape of Good Hope civil service, d. 21 Jany. 1868). b. 24 Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London 1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886 to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty court, London. d. 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.

MYCROFT, William. b. Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb. 1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3; first played at Lord’s in All England v. the United South 22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G. Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in the Players v. Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877; engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. d. Derby 19 June 1894. Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii 823 (1880).

MYERS, Arthur Thomas (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of Keswick, Cumberland). b. 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887 to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. d. from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq. London 10 Jany. 1894.

MYERS, Frederick (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) b. Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829, Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s, Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in 1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge, Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. d. Clifton 20 July 1851. bur. Keswick churchyard 26 July. The life of Wm. Whewell, By Mrs. Stair Douglas (1881) passim.

MYERS, James Washington. b. Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons 1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses; proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T. Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus 17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris; his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876; opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s circus to death. d. Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. Era 21 Oct. 1882 p. 7, cols. 3–4; Graphic xxvi 501 (1882); Illust. Sp. and Dr. news xviii 145 (1882).

MYERS, William. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C. Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey; was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey. d. Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers, professionally known as Kate Maynard.

MYERS, William. b. Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked 300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in 30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500 hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34 miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10 a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds; beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday 1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose hill, London. Illust. sporting news (1862) 45 portrait.

MYLES, James. b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.

MYLES, Percy Watkins (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of Kilmore, co. Cork). b. Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs. 1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford 1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890, printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy; edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature notes 1890 to death. d. 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7 Oct. 1891. Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p. 335.

MYLNE, Robert William (son of the succeeding). b. 14 June 1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S. 1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin 1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome 1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs 1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied by the waterworks 1856. d. Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts. 2 July 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi (1891); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 317 (1890).

MYLNE, William Chadwell (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect and engineer 1734–1811). b. London 6 April 1781; assistant engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61; designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq. 1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington 1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S. 1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842, member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of engineers 41 years. d. Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. R. S. Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland (1893) 284–98 portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 448–51 (1870).

MYNN, Alfred (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). b. Twisdon lodge, Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’ club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in Gentlemen v. Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen 20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in 1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour; member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846, all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham and then to London. d. Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov. 1861. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 3–11 and 74–6; Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 200–1 (1862); R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 28–32, 203, 3 portraits; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 29 portrait; Illust. sporting news (1862) 137 portrait.

MYNN, Walter Parker (brother of preceding). b. 24 Nov. 1805; member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen v. Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A. Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in consequence; height upwards of six feet. d. 19 South Grove, Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. bur. Forest Hill. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 221 (1862).

MYTTON, Richard Herbert (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, d. 21 Feb. 1828). b. 2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder, or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. d. Garth 12 May 1869.

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NADEN, Constance Caroline Woodhill (only child of Thomas Naden, architect). b. 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June 1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics, chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased 114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed. by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W. Naden 1893. d. from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London 23 Dec. 1889. bur. in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham; Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave her bust in marble to the library 1890. Induction and deduction by C. C. W. Naden (1890) memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait; W. R. Hughes’ C. Naden (1890) portrait; Mason coll. mag. Feb. 1890 pp. 47–55; Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p. 223, March p. 240; Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp. 17–23 portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century, viii 571–8 (1893); E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism (1891); Contemporary review April 1891 pp. 508–22; The Speaker No. 2 Jany. 11 1890 p. 35, by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her Pantheistic song of immortality.

NAFTEL, Maud (only dau. of the succeeding). b. 1 June 1856; studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery 1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5; was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8; author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. d. 76 Elm park road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352, 428–9 (1891).

NAFTEL, Paul Jacob (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). b. Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550 works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870 to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83, and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. d. 1 Walpole gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352–4 (1891).

Note.—His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.

NAGHTEN, Arthur Robert (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). b. 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. d. Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.

NAGLE, James. b. co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. d. 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. Irish Law Times ix 470, 535 (1875).

NAIRN, William Edward (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). b. Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. d. Hobart Town 9 July 1869.

NAIRNE, Charles Murray. b. Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. d. Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.

NAIRNE, Robert. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. d. Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p. 955, 20 Nov. p. 1005.

NAISH, John (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). b. 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. d. Ems 17 Aug. 1890. bur. at Ems. Our judges, By Rhadamanthus (1890) 45–9 portrait; Irish law times xxiv 446–7 (1890); Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p. 514.

NAISH, William (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). b. High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. d. Bath 4 March 1860. bur. Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. J. Smith’s Catalogue ii 210–14 (1867).

Note.—His son Arthur John Naish, b. 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he d. 1889.

NALLY, Patrick W. b. co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. d. Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p. 5, 16 Nov. p. 5.

NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis Napier, 1 Baron (son of Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. d. 1812). b. Colombo, Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling 1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9; civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56 where he carried out important public works; officiating chief engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow 1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857, commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March 1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June, captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany. 1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858, G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon. colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April 1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general 1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany. 1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London 6 Jany. 1887 to death. d. 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age (1870) 308–71; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 228–35; C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) 140 et seq.; E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny iii 71 portrait; I.L.N. li 349, 350 (1867) portrait, 18 July 1891 p. 67 view of statue; Graphic xvii 293 (1878) portrait.

Note.—He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.

NAPIER, Alexander (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk 1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R. of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson, by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron 1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols. 1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878; his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich 1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4; he d. Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. Quarterly Review Oct. 1869 pp. 353–81.

NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). b. Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain 22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833; defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July 1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St. Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839; commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853; commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March 1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P. Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols. 1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841 portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the Baltic campaign 1857. d. Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants. 6 Nov. 1860. bur. at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. E. D. H. E. Napier’s Life of sir C. Napier, 2 vols. (1862) portrait; Men of the time (1857) 558–64; G.M. x 209–16 (1861); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i 310 (1855) portrait; Sporting Review xxxii 205–7 (1854) portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 93–101, 121 portrait; I.L.N. ii 175 (1843) portrait, xxiv 207, 208 (1854) portrait.

NAPIER, Sir Charles James (eld. son of colonel the hon. George Napier 1751–1804). b. Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign 33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27 June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813; commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830; commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843; defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24 March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by volunteers and militia 1852. d. Oaklands, near Portsmouth 29 Aug. 1853. bur. in ground attached to garrison chapel at Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London, unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. (1857) 4 portraits; W. N. Bruce’s Life of general sir C. Napier (1885) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 316–21; E. H. Nolan’s Illust. history of British empire in India ii 669 (1860) portrait; G.M. xl 410–6 (1853); Men of the time (1853) 330–3; I.L.N. ii 255 (1843) portrait, xiv 145, 146 (1849) 2 portraits, xxiii 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) portrait.

Note.—He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist.

NAPIER, David. b. 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier, the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office service 1818; established regular steam communication between Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock, and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom 1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by means of barges. d. 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 23 Nov. 1869. Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp. 4, 5; Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p. 365.

NAPIER, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers (elder son of Edward Elers, lieutenant R.N., d. 1814). b. 1808; took additional name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct. 1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3; obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot 3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct. 1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols. 1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols. 1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2 vols. 1862. d. Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870. Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp. 484–92.

NAPIER, George (son of George Napier, solicitor). b. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute 1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. d. Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.

NAPIER, Sir George Thomas (brother of sir Charles James Napier 1782–1853). b. Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27 June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation; declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E. Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. d. Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body was brought to England July 1881 and bur. in family vault at Cosham near Portsmouth. Passages in the early military life of Sir G. T. Napier (1886) portrait.

NAPIER, George Thomas Conolly (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen 23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6 Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany. 1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10 May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. d. Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.

NAPIER, Henry Alfred (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823). b. 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford. d. Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. I.L.N. lix 531 (1871).

NAPIER, Henry Edward (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806; served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810; commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug. 1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. d. 62 Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.

NAPIER, James. b. Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed. 1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2 ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, James Robert (son of Robert Napier of Shandon 1791–1876). b. Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan 1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years; engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus; took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.; wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis Napier’s Australian notes. d. 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13 Dec. 1879. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 115, 118, 237–40, 243, 270 portrait; Nature xxi 206.

NAPIER, Sir Joseph, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of Belfast, merchant, d. 1830). b. Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov. 1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; revived the Old College historical society, president 1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852; attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854; lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church; vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26 members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868; member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874 to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes, Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2 ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and in St. Patrick’s cathedral. A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph Napier (1887) portrait; O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 293–307; Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures, essays, and letters (1888) portrait; I.L.N. xiv 405 (1849) portrait, xxxiii 394 (1858) portrait; Graphic xxvii 60 (1883) portrait.

NAPIER, Macvey (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. 1807 or 1808; edited Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. d. 7 Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.

NAPIER, Mark (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death; author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters, 2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 2 vols. 1856. d. 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii 652 (1880).

NAPIER, Peter. b. Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815; minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated 1845. d. Glasgow 12 March 1865. H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part 1 p. 35 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 315–22.

NAPIER, Robert (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright). b. Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12; blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold 14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies 1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish, and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856, president 1863–5. d. West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 241–4 portrait; Engineering (1867) 594–7 portrait, (1876) 554–5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv 246–51 (1876) with list of all the vessels engined or built by him; Practical Mag. iii 1 (1874) portrait; Graphic xiv 44 (1876) portrait.

NAPIER, Robert D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). b. Glasgow 1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the velocity of steam and other gases 1866. d. Glasgow 8 May 1885. The Engineer 15 May 1885 p. 387.

NAPIER, Sir Robert John Milliken, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). b. Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818; ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9 June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, Sir Thomas Erskine (brother of sir Charles Napier 1786–1860). b. 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805; captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813, lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general 1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany 1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849. d. Polton house, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 5 July 1863.

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec. 1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot 1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug. 1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal 1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services 29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec. 1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept. 1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6 vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols. 1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1857. d. Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park, London 10 Feb. 1860. bur. Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. H. A. Bruce’s Life of sir W. F. P. Napier, 2 vols. (1864) 2 portraits; H. Martineau’s Biog. Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 199–212; I.L.N. xxxvi 172, 186 (1860) portrait.

NAPLETON, John Charles (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R. of Powderham, Devon, d. 1816). b. 1811; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C. of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. d. Bayswater, London 13 April 1867.

NAPOLEON III, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of Holland). b. Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April 1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common 3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct. 1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25 May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May 1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10 King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc. sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each, prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April 1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848; emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; m. 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, b. 5 May 1826; with the empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace 16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept., deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel 5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. bur. St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany. 1888. Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III, 4 vols. (1874–82) seven portraits; Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit (1852); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 94 portrait: Passing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates; I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp. 364–5 portrait, 23 Dec. 1848 p. 385 portrait, 21 April to 5 May 1855 pp. 371 et seq. portraits, 15 Aug. 1857 p. 154, 25 March 1871 p. 283, 18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p. 65 et seq. portraits; J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament (1843) plates xviii, xx, and xxi; P. Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 819–33 (1874).