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MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). _b._
Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr.
sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese
consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a
third class assistant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland
journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and
travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo
17 Jany. 1875, being the first Englishman traversing this
route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China
19 Feb. 1875; _murdered_ at Manwein on the Chinese frontier
21 Feb. 1875. _Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu.
Shanghai_ 1875; _The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to
Bhamo_ (1876), _preface pp. i–xxi_, _portrait_; _J. Anderson’s
Mandalay to Momien_ (1876) 364–449; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 233, 257
(1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 296 (1875), _portrait_.
MARGETTS, CHARLES (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon,
solicitor). _b._ Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818,
solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge
of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847;
registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for
hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and
Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. _d._ Market place,
Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.
MARGOLIOUTH, MOSES (son of Gershon Margoliouth). _b._ Suwalki,
Poland 3 Dec. 1820; _bapt._ at Liverpool a member of the Church
of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany.
1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of
Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare,
Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew,
Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul,
Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of
St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks.
1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian
monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to
June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew
Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of
1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my
fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain
3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the
life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864;
The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books.
_d._ London 25 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Little Linford churchyard.
_M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism
investigated_ (1843) _memoir pp. i–x_; _M. Margoliouth’s
Some triumphs and trophies of the world_ (1882) _memoir pp.
vii–xxii_; _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii_ 220
(1881).
MARGUERITTES, JULIE DE (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville,
physician 1783–1872). _b._ London 1814; _m._ (1) Count de
Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of
the second republic, they went to New York where she supported
him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon
he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and _m._ (2) George
G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known
as Gaslight Foster and _d._ 1850; gave concerts and readings
and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March
1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and
became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia;
_m._ (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The
ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war
of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and
stations 1860. _d._ Philadelphia 21 June 1866.
MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. _b._ Benkendorfe
near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess
nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in
Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882.
_d._ Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_ 25
(1882), _portrait_.
MARIO, GUISEPPE, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo,
Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese
army). _b._ Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin
1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836;
taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable
at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her
Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he
was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots,
Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart;
sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden
nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47
operas; _m._ Giulia Grisi, she _d._ Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having
had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen;
the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London,
Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone
are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at
Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection
of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871
he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La
Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his
retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances
a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London
29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. _d._
176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in cemetery of St.
Lorenzo 13 Dec. _W. Beale’s Light of other days_, _ii_ 1–150
(1890); _L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario_, _ii_ 261–371 (1886); _H.
F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections_, _i_ 275–83 (1862);
_Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp._ 195–202; _Temple Bar_, _March
1884 pp._ 344–59; _I.L.N. lix_ 193, 194 (1871) _portrait_,
_lxxxiii_ 613 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 608 (1883),
_portrait_.
MARJORIBANKS, DAVID ROBERTSON, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John
Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). _b._ Eccles, Berwickshire
2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant
London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks
by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of
Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks
of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. _d._ 56 Upper Brook st.
London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn
under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 619 (1873), _lxiii_
423.
MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees,
Berwickshire 1735–1815). _b._ 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high
sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but
never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas
Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and
senior partner 1837 to death. _d._ Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep.
1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.
MARJORIBANKS, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). _b._ Madras 4 May 1830; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded
1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875.
_d._ Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. _Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p._ 63,
_portrait_.
MARK, BERTRAM VON DER, Doctor of music; opened a college at
Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it
continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a
tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men
1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7
years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile
orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and
an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at
Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the
remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first
performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer
of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or
the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church
service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera;
Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards
of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures,
sonatas, symphonies and dance music. _d._ 8 Great John st.
Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. _bur._ St. Luke’s ch. Chetham.
_Era 2 Feb. 1868 p._ 6; _Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861_,
5 _views_; _Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p._ 5; _The Pianist
by Dr. Mark. Bristol_ (1865), _portrait_.
MARKBY, THOMAS (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford,
Cambs.). _b._ 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849;
ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St.
John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical
lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting
local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two
books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil
and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858;
The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868.
_d._ Cambridge 4 March 1870.
MARKES, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; founder of the Hollywood
whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club
meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden,
London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. _d._ 288
King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. _The Westminster Papers 1
Aug. 1875 p._ 77.
MARKHAM, FREDERIC (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827).
_b._ Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at
Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for
a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col.
22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland
Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March
1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced
each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded
second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan
during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to
the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the
queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur
district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before
Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of
Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in
Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. _d._ Limmer’s
hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. _bur._ at
Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up
by officers of his regiment. _Men of the time_ (1856) 528–9.
MARKHAM, MRS. HANNAH. _b._ St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse
in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of
Marquess of Dufferin. _d._ Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. _Daily
Graphic 4 July 1892 p._ 8 _col._ 2, _portrait_.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). _b._
28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested
Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. _d._ 26 Jany. 1852.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM ORLANDO (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the
peace, Northampton). _b._ 1818; studied medicine at Edinb.,
Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854;
F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London,
and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864;
poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug.
1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was
presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British
medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on
auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the
analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical
practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860;
Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is
it necessary or justifiable? 1866. _d._ 21 Nightingale lane,
Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.
MARKLAND, JAMES HEYWOOD (youngest son of Robert Markland,
check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, _d._ 1828). _b._
Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.;
solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright
to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814;
F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S.
28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842
to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for
Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s
church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the
colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848;
distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable
works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons
for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the
sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places
1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering
sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed.
1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing
money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles
to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. _d._ 1
Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath
abbey. _G.M._ (1821) _pt. ii p._ 278, (1865) _pt. i pp._ 649–52.
MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, 5 Duke of (1 son of
4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). _b._ Billhill, parish of
Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland
1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June
1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham
1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke
5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death;
lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March
1845 to death. _d._ Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will
proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art_,
_iii_ 121–32 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 214 (1857); _In the matter of
the duke and duchess of Marlborough_ (1853).
NOTE.--In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan
Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her,
the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman,
soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The
Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a
legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford
were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of
The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. _The Annual
Register_ (1838) 294–6.
MARLBOROUGH, JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, 6 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk
2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June
1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock
1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the
author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for
subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as
6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to
death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C.
10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9
Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov.
1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick
12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the
duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she
collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and
clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May
1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections
which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems
were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author
of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church
of England. Westminster 1856; _found dead_ on floor of his
bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. _bur._ in chapel of
Blenheim palace 10 July. _Antiquarian Mag. i_ 35–8, 78–83, 255–6
(1882), _ii_ 145–6; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield_, _ii_
87 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 404 (1876), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxviii_ 32 (1883), _portrait_; _Times, 6, 7, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 July 1883_.
MARLBOROUGH, GEORGE CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, 8 Duke of (1 son
of the preceding). _b._ Wilmington crescent, London, a residence
of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of
Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at
Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5
June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883;
_m._ (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn,
she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con.
with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself
marchioness of Blandford; _m._ (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow
of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000
a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under
Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures,
books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical
engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and
of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals
attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting.
_d._ suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892.
_bur._ Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. _Baily’s Mag.
xxviii_ 187 (1876), _portrait_; _The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892_.
NOTE.--The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei
Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000.
The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture,
the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the
collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was
sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim
enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.
MARLING, SIR SAMUEL STEPHENS, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling
of Stroud, Gloucs.) _b._ Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810;
a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874,
M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. _d._ in his
counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N.
lxxxiii_ 428 (1883), _portrait_.
MARLOIS, EDOUARD. _b._ in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to
Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and
Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds
and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song
1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le
piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’
voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other
pieces. _d._ 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.
MARLOW, CHARLES. _b._ Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814;
first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race
was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first
jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee
at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for
the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St.
Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks
1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a
high character for honesty but took to drinking. _d._ Devizes
workhouse, Oct. 1882. _bur._ Devizes 28 Oct. _Sporting Review_,
_Jany. 1857 pp._ 1–5, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p._
60; _I.L.N. xxii_ 416 (1853), _portrait_.
MARLOW, WILLIAM BIDDLECOMB. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep.
1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full
pay as M.G. _d._ Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.
MARNOCK, ROBERT. _b._ Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800;
gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield
botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at
Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s
park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener
1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato
near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the
most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The
Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and
land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of
the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and
descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837.
_d._ Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15
Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal
Green 21 Nov. _Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp._ 565,
567, _portrait_; _Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp._ 733, 744,
_portrait_.
MAROCHETTI, CARLO (son of French parents). _b._ Turin 1805;
naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris;
studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of
Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to
city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian
Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of
battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini
in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of
honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue
of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian
statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at
Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace
yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at
R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers
slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton
Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club
1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and
Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. _d._ suddenly
at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near
Paris 29 Dec. 1867. _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 352 (1862);
_I.L.N. xxxvlii_ 176, 178 (1861), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 28
July 1866 p._ 57, _portrait_; _G.M. Feb. 1868 pp._ 249–50.
MARQUIS, JAMES. _b._ 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May
1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb.
1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign
1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of
Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in
Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. _d._ Brookland, Hawke road,
Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.
MARRABLE, FREDERICK (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of
board of green cloth). _b._ 1818; articled to Edward Blore the
architect; architect in London; superintending architect to
Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices
of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club,
13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30
Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary
Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural
designs at R.A. 1843–70. _d._ Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.
MARRAS, GIACINTO (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). _b._ Naples
6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came
to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the
Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842;
sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England
12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house
10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860,
he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India
1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian
operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher
of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong
to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita,
serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839;
12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of
singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent
him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above
1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77;
_m._ a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician
by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. _d._
Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. _bur._ protestant cemetery at Cannes.
_Theatre_, _ii_ 44–5 (1883).
MARRAT, WILLIAM. _b._ Pibsey, Lincolnshire 6 April 1772; printer
and publisher at Boston some years; taught mathematics in New
York 1817–20 and at Liverpool from 1821; mathematical tutor in a
school at Exeter 1833–6; contributed to Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
diary and other mathematical serials 50 years; conducted The
enquirer, Boston, Lincolnshire 1811–12, 3 vols.; author of An
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