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LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St.
Austin’s, Hants.) _b._ 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798;
took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed
for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. _d._
Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.
LYONS, JOHN CHARLES (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96,
captain 12 light dragoons). _b._ 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from
Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author
of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a
catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845;
A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in
the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The
grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853.
_d._ Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. _bur._ in churchyard of
Mullingar, co. Westmeath.
LYONS, LOUISA, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who
kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828).
_b._ about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon
for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of
music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian
opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the
Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis
of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London,
at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre
before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards
under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid
style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. _Baron
Nicholson’s Autobiography_ (1860) 53, 250.
LYONS, ROBERT SPENCER DYER (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858).
_b._ Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and
M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to
lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief
pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded
Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep.
1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging
at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of
Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s
hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university
medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals;
a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony
prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of
French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ.
1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of
the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of
An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital
practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe
and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. _d._ 89
Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. _Midland medical miscellany
1 Feb. 1884 pp._ 33–5, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 396–400
(1880).
LYONS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). _b._
Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of
Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’
yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. _d._ 27 Dec. 1858.
LYSAGHT, ARTHUR. _b._ 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795;
captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18
June 1857. _d._ Twickenham 19 March 1859.
LYSLEY, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of William Lysley _d._ 1792).
_b._ 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of
Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12
July 1865; F.S.A. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.
LYSONS, SAMUEL (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer
1762–1834). _b._ 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A.
1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built
St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April
1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester
cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of
Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his
family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land
of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia
and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant
of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British
ancestors, who and what they were 1865. _d._ Hempsted court,
Gloucester 27 March 1877. _Gloucestershire Notes and Queries_,
_ii_ 514–6, 533.
LYSTER, JAMES (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield,
co. Roscommon, _d._ 1841). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; C. of
Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny,
Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon.
LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of
Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent
of parishioners. _d._ Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep.
1891.
LYSTER, WILLIAM SAURIN (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of
Greenane, Queen’s co.). _b._ Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in
the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New
Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very
well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in
Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the
new Opera House opened 1872. _d._ Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.
LYTH, JOHN. _b._ York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister
1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at
Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4,
at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan
missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.;
author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of
spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols.
1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical
commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to
Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. _d._
Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March
1886.
LYTH, RICHARD BURDSALL. _b._ York 1810; ed. for medical
profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to
the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of
Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also
composed hymns; established a training institution for native
agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland,
New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. _d._
Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.
LYTHGOE, THOMAS. _b._ Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan
gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful
ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal
palace about 1860. _d._ Hertford, April 1893.
LYTTELTON, GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3
baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). _b._ Saville row, London 31 March
1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist
and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D.
1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to
death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first
pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder
of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley
opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for
the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury
Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New
Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z.
was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861;
chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840;
chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C.
15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess
association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume
of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in
memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited
several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels
and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and
the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes
affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera
Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury
colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18
Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. _bur._ Hagley churchyard
22 April. _British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp._ 542–3;
_I.L.N. xxvii_ 44 (1855), _portrait_, _lxviii_ 421, 430 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Walford’s
Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_ 12; _Illust. Midland
news_, _i_ 61 (1869), _portrait_.
LYTTELTON, SPENCER (brother of the preceding). _b._ Saville
row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy;
ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841;
attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal
of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he
resigned. _d._ 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.
LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76).
_b._ 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A.
1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley,
Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to
1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise
and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture
revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated
from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament,
2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2
ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine
and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. _d._ Malvern 24 July
1884.
LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1 Baron
(youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk,
general 1757–1807). _b._ 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed.
at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.,
chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D.
1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19
Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829;
edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives,
Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln
1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la
Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and
pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839,
all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright,
produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The
rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec.
1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so
bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company
at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created
baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb.
1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June
1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland
separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is
named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and
1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866;
P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an
Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures
of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B.
3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last
days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes
3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night
and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the
children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The
Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols.
1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The
coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library
edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. _d._ Argyll
lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Edmund’s chapel,
Westminster abbey 25 Jany. _Life, letters and literary remains.
By his Son_ 2 _vols._ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _Lord Lytton, a
biography by Thomson Cooper_ (1873); _The Derby ministry_. _By
Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent_ (1858) 143–94; _Illustrated
Review 15 June 1871 pp._ 551–5, _portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_
(1873) 1–5, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_
(1870) 243–56; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_
189–214 (1844), _portrait_; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and
novelists_, _ii_ 198–220 (1858); _Madden’s Literary life of
Countess of Blessington_, _iii_ 27–63 (1855); _Graphic_, _vii_
70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 _portraits_.
NOTE.--He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for
retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of
the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29
July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray
in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton
Bulwig. _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).
LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, 1 Earl of (only son of
the preceding). _b._ 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed.
at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence
1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858,
at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation
at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary
to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople
1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1
March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined
governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876
to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen
was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I.
12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1
Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl
of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887;
ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his
father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography
1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863;
Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool
of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2
vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875;
Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and
under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The
Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861;
Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2
vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of
Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of
the bards, a poem 1861. _d._ at the British embassy, Paris 24
Nov. 1891. _bur._ in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. _T.
H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 189–96; _C. Brown’s
Life of Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 28 (1882), _portrait_; _Army and
navy mag. iii_ 99 (1882), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. June
1876 pp._ 654–68, _portrait_; _Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p._
707, _portrait_.
LYTTON, ROSINA ANNE DOYLE (youngest dau. of Francis Massy
Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). _b._ Ballywhire near
Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents
having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and
Caen; _m._ at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward
George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they
executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance
being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed
dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed
her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by
her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge,
Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74,
at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man
of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the
woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols.
1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The
prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841;
Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The
peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and
the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s
Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854;
Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of
women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel
3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will
there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876.
_d._ Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. _bur._ churchyard
of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. _Life of Rosina,
lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey_ (1887), _portrait_; _Letters of
lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey_ (1884), _this
book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885_;
_Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums_ (1858) 47–9; _Lady
Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English
public_ (1857), _3 ed._ (1857); _The life of E. B. lord Lytton,
by his son_, _ii_ 33 _etc._; _You have heard of them. By Q._
(1854), 31–6; _Daily News 16 March 1882 p._ 5.
LYVEDEN, ROBERT VERNON, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith
of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India).
_b._ 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P.
Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the
treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control
21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6
March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep.
1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith
by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb.
1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859;
G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of
Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone,
Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000,
17 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873), _lxiv_ 54 (1874).
M
MAAS, JOSEPH. _b._ Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in
Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied
singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s
hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent
Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and
Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America;
principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain
1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884,
in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the
part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at
Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios
and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885.
_d._ of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood,
London 16 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead,
marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20
Feb. 1887.
MABERLY, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of the hon. Francis
Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). _b._
1805; (_m._ 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of
Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match
3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici
3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3
vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3
ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and
the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora
3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ 7 Feb. 1875.
MABERLEY, FREDERICK HERBERT (son of Stephen Maberley of London).
_b._ 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van
all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his
pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called
Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed
lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of
lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman
Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829;
author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an
address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14
May 1834 to death. _d._ Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_
511 (1860).
MABERLY, WILLIAM LEADER (son of John Maberly of Shirley house
near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). _b._ 7 May 1798;
lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on
h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826;
lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col.
76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1
July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30,
M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested
Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12
Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr.
of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29
Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed
all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April
1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional
pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867.
_d._ 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. _E.
Yates’s Recollections_, _i_ 96–100 (1884); _A. Trollope’s
Autobiography_, _i_ 59–63 (1883).
M’ADAM, DAVID. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27
May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854
when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than
70 times under fire. _d._ Edinburgh 10 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 86
(1859).
MAC ADAM, JAMES. _b._ Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders
of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast
1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at
Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant
and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. _d._
Belfast 1 June 1861. _Quarterly journal of Geological soc.
xviii_ 37 (1862).
MC ADAM, SIR JAMES NICHOLL (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam,
introducer of system of road making that bears his name
1756–1836). _b._ 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike
roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834
instead of his father who declined the honour. _d._ 17 Finchley
road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.
MACADAM, JOHN (son of Wm. Macadam). _b._ Northbank near Glasgow,
May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow;
lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college,
Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria,
secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal
society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions
vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of
Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861;
lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government
officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. _d._
on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.
MC ADAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam _d._ 23 Feb. 1836
the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). _b._ 1803; surveyor
general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. _d._
the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. _Observations sur les routes dites
Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam
etc._ 1861.
MACALESTER, CHARLES ARCHIBALD (son of colonel Archibald
Macalester). _b._ 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13
June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12
Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium
and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands;
chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H.
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