Modern English biography
1852. _d._ 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. _Hamilton’s
4545 words | Chapter 335
History of the grenadier guards_, _vols._ 2 _and_ 3 (1874);
_Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war_ (1848).
MAITLAND, SAMUEL ROFFEY (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant).
_b._ King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7
Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at
St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll.
1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll.
10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of
St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7;
travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet
An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of
Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years.
1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’;
librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48;
D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839;
lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49;
contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes
under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents
illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and
Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to
illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth,
tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects
connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40
other books. _d._ Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. _Proc. of royal soc.
xvi_ 31–3 (1868).
NOTE.--Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime
minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In
literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its
cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which
should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from
the invention of printing downwards.
MAITLAND, THOMAS, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland).
_b._ Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called
to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep.
1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire
1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death,
took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by
Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and
Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The
works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov.
1851 and 8 following days. _d._ of paralysis at 31 Melville
st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 111–2, _portrait_.
MAITLAND, WILLIAM FULLER (2 son of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland
1780–1858). _b._ 10 March 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1835, M.A. 1839; lived at Stansted, Essex 1842 to death; made a
collection of pictures, most of which were exhibited at South
Kensington museum after his death, 9 of the best were bought
for the National Gallery; lent pictures to the Old Masters’
exhibitions at the R.A. during many years. _d._ Stansted 15
Feb. 1876. _G. H. Rogers-Harrison’s Genealogical account of the
Maitland family_ (1869); _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 1–7
(1854).
MAJENDIE, ASHURST (eld. son of Lewis Majendie of Hedingham
castle, Essex, _d._ 1833 aged 77). _b._ London 24 April 1784;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; barrister L.I. 12 June 1809; resided
at Penzance 1814–8; one of founders of Geological society of
Cornwall 1814; assist. poor law comr. for Sussex, Kent and part
of Essex 1832; F.R.S. 28 June 1821; F.S.A. _d._ Hedingham castle
7 Oct. 1867. _Law Journal xliii_ 440 (1867).
MAJENDIE, LEWIS ASHURST (eld. son of rev. Henry Lewis Majendie,
V. of Great Dunmow, Essex, _d._ 1863). _b._ Great Dunmow 19 May
1835; ed. at Marlborough and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1860;
a student of Lincoln’s inn 1859; M.P. Canterbury, Feb. 1874 to
April 1879. _d._ Hedingham castle, Essex 22 Oct. 1885.
MAJOR, HENRY ARCHIBALD (son of Mr. Major, compositor, who _d._
Reading, June 1863). _b._ One Bell yard, Strand, London 30
Dec. 1828; employed by J. B. Chamberlain, picture dealer 203
High Holborn 1845–8; a letter carrier in Lincoln’s Inn Fields
post office 4 Dec. 1848 to June 1876 when granted pension of
14 shillings and 7 pence per week; played Doggrass in Francis
Talfourd’s pantomime Black-eyed Susan at Strand theatre 12 weeks
from 24 Dec. 1855, also in his own dramas at Grecian theatre
1871–4; known as “The Postman artist of Lincoln’s Inn Fields”;
his picture of Grapes and butterflies took first-class prize at
Floral hall, Covent Garden 1865; he gained 8 more first-class
prizes at picture shows; presented a large painting of fruit
worth £50 to King’s college hospital 7 Jany. 1870; exhibited
6 fruit pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–73; lived at 14
Brownlow st. Holborn. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement
Danes_, _ii_ 65–7 (1876).
NOTE.--He wrote for the Soho theatre A cure for the gout, farce 1859,
and A sketch from the Louvre, farce 1860, for the Grecian theatre 5
farces namely It never rains but it pours 1862, A Rye House plot 1865,
The expected general 1870, The man of mystery 1870 and The rural poet
1871, and 4 dramas namely Primrose farm 1871, The blind fiddler 1872,
The mystic number 7, 1872, and My pretty Jane 1874, for the Britannia
theatre The Ku Klux Klan drama 1873, and for Croydon theatre The lock
out 1879; he wrote 7 other dramas and 8 other farces which were not
produced; two of his dramas The lock out and The Nondescript, and two
of his farces A Jack of both sides and Irish home rule were printed.
MAJOR, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 1 July 1837;
resided at Londonderry. _d._ 1877.
MAJOR, JOHN RICHARDSON (son of John Major). _b._ London 1797;
ed. at Reading sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1827; D.D. 1838; master of Wisbeach gr. sch. 1826–30; head
master of King’s coll. sch. London 1830 to July 1866; V. of
Wartling, Sussex 1846–51; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1871 to death;
author of Extracts from Virgil and from the Fasti of Ovid 1857,
anon.; ed. The journal of the Photographic soc. 1853; re-edited
many classical and other school books, about 30 in number
1820–57. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 29 Feb. 1876. _Men of the
time_ (1875) 691; _Times 9 March 1876 p._ 11.
MAJOR, JOSHUA. _b._ 1787; landscape gardener at Knostrop near
Leeds; assisted in formation of the first Sunday school in
Leeds, superintendent many years; author of A treatise on the
insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden produce 1829;
The theory and practice of landscape gardening 1852; The ladies’
assistant in the formation of their flower gardens 1861. _d._
Knostrop 26 Jany. 1866. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
609; _Gardeners’ Chronicle 10 Feb. 1866 p._ 128.
MAJOR, RICHARD HENRY (son of Richard Henry Major, surgeon).
_b._ London 3 Oct. 1818; an assistant in department of printed
books in British Museum in charge of the maps and charts Jany.
1844, keeper of department of printed maps and plans Jany. 1867,
resigned Nov. 1880; hon. sec. to Hakluyt Soc. 1849–58; F.S.A. 25
Jany. 1855; made researches on the early history of Australia
1861 etc.; hon. sec. of Royal geogr. soc. 1861–81, vice pres.
1881–4; knight of the Tower and Sword, of the orders of
Santiago, Oct. 1875 and of the Rose of Brazil; knight commander
of Crown of Italy, May 1875; edited for the Hakluyt Soc., Select
letters of Christopher Columbus 1847, 2 ed. 1870, and 9 other
books 1849–58; author of The life of prince Henry of Portugal,
surnamed the navigator 1868 and other books. _d._ 51 Holland
road, Kensington 25 June 1891. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British
Museum_ (1872) 377–80; _I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p._ 3, _portrait_.
MAKELLAR, ANGUS. _b._ Argyllshire 1780; D.D. of univ. of Glasgow
1835; presbyterian minister of Carmunnock near Glasgow 1812–4
and of Pencaitland, Haddington 1814–43; moderator of the general
assembly 1840; Free ch. minister Pencaitland 1843; chairman of
the board of missions, Edinb. Oct. 1843 to death; moderator
1843 and 1852. _d._ Edinburgh 10 May 1859. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) 397–404, _portrait_.
MALAN, CHARLES HENRY (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan _b._
1812). _b._ 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal
fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault
on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14
Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served
in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872
and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. _d._ 42
Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery
20 May.
MALCOLM, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1813; timber merchant at Venice,
leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at
Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the
grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892;
consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon.
representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. _d._ Venice 22
Jany. 1893.
MALCOLM, ANDREW GEORGE. _b._ 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician
Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and
pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal;
author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for
its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an
interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. _d._ Rathmines,
Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.
MALCOLM, SIR CHARLES (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot,
Dumfriesshire, _d._ 1803). _b._ Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered
navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts
William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on
the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted
by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28
Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May
1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council
of Royal Geogr. Soc. _d._ Brighton 14 June 1851. _C.R. Low’s
History of the Indian navy_ 2 _vols._ (1877) _i_ 494 _etc._
MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3
Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political
agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.
MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm).
_b._ 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot
20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13
Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of
Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42;
A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death;
general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B.
24 Dec. 1842; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child
of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was _b._ June 1807
and _d._ 29 Oct. 1886). _d._ 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888.
_J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females_, _i_ 43
(1833), _portrait of his wife_.
MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). _b._
1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821,
chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ.
(afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of
Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to
B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical
degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological
Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50,
and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. _d._ 39 Belsize sq. South
Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London.
_Graphic_, _xiv_ 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_; _Testimonials in
favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh
academy_ 1824.
MALDEN, JONAS. _b._ Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at
univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816
to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of
Practical observations on the cow pox. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March
1860.
MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre
Malet, 1 bart. _d._ 24 Jany. 1815). _b._ 23 July 1800; ed. at
Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822;
attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at
Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of
legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836;
sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep.
1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep.
1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23
June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester
school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the
prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with
Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831;
The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou
1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870.
_d._ 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886.
_The Biograph_, _iii_ 458–62 (1880).
MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 Nov. 1806;
ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842;
political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of
Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary
to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of
India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge
of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut
1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the
daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the
Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse
1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book
of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet
family 1885. _d._ 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1888.
MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827,
fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to
death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the
library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. _d._ 2 Richmond hill,
Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.
MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet,
baronet _d._ 1815). _b._ 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay
establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from
Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset
1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John,
Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author
of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849;
The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An
errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome,
Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868;
St. Swithin’s day 1879. _d._ Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.
MALEY, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30
Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours
23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2
hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a
side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat
Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in
44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle,
Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb.
1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in
205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a
side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill
at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov.
1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in
130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his
fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his
style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable;
a capital teacher of boxing. _d._ Coach and Horses public house,
90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. _John Hannan’s Guide
to British boxing_ (1852) 37–9.
MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). _b._ Great Charles st.
Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made
himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt
drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass
work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work;
high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and
maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the
fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he
presented to that institution 1879. _d._ 1882. _Edgbastonia_,
_ii_ 2–4 (1882), _portrait_.
MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.)
_b._ Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42;
Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death,
treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of
vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65;
contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage
settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary
property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor
3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice,
Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867;
P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. _d._ 57
Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Bray
near Maidenhead 21 Jany. _Saturday Review_, _liii_ 76 (1882);
_Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867) _No._ 3 _pp._ 12–13;
_A generation of judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 146–56;
_The bench and the bar_ (1860) _part viii_, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 85 (1882),
_portrait_; _Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins
on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school_ 1874.
MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. _b._ 1841; conductor at Queen’s
theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic
theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre
under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881;
composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy
queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy
moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison.
Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans
1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in
one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses
a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady
Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in
Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. _d._ 11
Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.
MALLESON, JOHN PHILIP (youngest son of Thomas Malleson,
silversmith and jeweller). _b._ Battersea, London 11 Feb.
1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent
minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov.
1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation
at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day
school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the
New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove
house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library,
London to death. _d._ Croydon 16 March 1869. _bur._ Marylebone
cemetery, Finchley. _J. Martineau’s The Godly man_ (1870)
_memoir pp._ 19–63.
MALLET, SIR LOUIS (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit
office). _b._ London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office
Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private
secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an
assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the
articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860;
employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial
treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany.
1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent
under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep.
1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May
1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate
a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug.
1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled
Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects,
by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. _d._ Bath 16 Feb. 1890.
_Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 205–13; _Pictorial World
27 Feb. 1890 pp._ 260, 283, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p._
262, _portrait_.
MALLET, ROBERT (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder).
_b._ Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which
ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof
of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges
over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford
medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the
Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9;
invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form
the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the
Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London
1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great
exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical
mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of
R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of
Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74
scientific papers. _d._ Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey
5 Nov. 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_ 297–304
(1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_ 54–6 (1882).
MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James
Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). _b._ Spring
Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris
1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June
1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to
the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec.
1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852;
G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868
and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of
lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of
James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of
letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of
Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ Heron court near
Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. _bur._ under the choir of
Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. _The Times 18 May 1889 p._
14; _London sketch book_, _Aug. 1884_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_
248 (1852) _portrait_, _xxxii_ 250, 260 (1858) _portrait_, l
132, 142 (1867) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 365, 366 (1874) _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait of his wife_.
MALONE, JOSEPH. _b._ 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army;
sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to
death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of
Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. _d._ 12 July
1883.
MALTBY, EDWARD (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver
and a presbyterian, _d._ Aug. 1794 aged 64). _b._ parish of
St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich
gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven
scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792;
B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain
to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of
Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to
death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester
1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned
1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London
1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the
truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803;
Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed.
1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and
20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. _d._ 4 Upper
Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm.
Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_
(1842) 386–8.
MALTBY, MRS. HARRIET. _b._ 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W.
Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to
the Bath charities. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. _The
Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p._ 4.
MALTBY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion
house st. London, wholesale draper). _b._ London 17 Jany. 1763;
ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor
with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787;
principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed
and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to
King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus,
superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of
the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled
Porsoniana pp. 295–334. _d._ London Institution, 11 Finsbury
circus 5 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _G.M. xli_ 209–10
(1854).
MAMMATT, EDWARD. _b._ 1807; became blind when very young;
learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity,
geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton
brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842;
invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he
received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. _d._
Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.
MAN, WILLIAM (son of William Man). _b._ Dec. 1818; travelled
over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies,
Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in
the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of
Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. _d._ 16 May 1881.
_Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii_ 567 (1881).
MANBY, CHARLES (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850).
_b._ 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his
father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s
gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry
at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales
1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837,
M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56
when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec.
1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission
for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal;
lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21
Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb.
1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil
engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton
2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866.
_d._ Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July
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