Modern English biography
1894. _d._ Aberdeen 1 March 1893. _W. Minto’s Literature under
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the Georges_ (1894), _memoir_; _Athenæum 4 March 1893 p._ 282;
_I.L.N. 11 March 1893 p._ 298, _portrait_.
MINTON, HERBERT (2 son of Thomas Minton, potter 1765–1836). _b._
Stoke on-Trent 4 Feb. 1793; ed. at Audlem school, Cheshire;
partner with his father at Stoke 1817–28; re-entered the
business 1836 and took as partners John Boyle and Mr. Hollins;
Colin Minton Campbell became a partner 1849; introduced
manufacture of hard porcelain, parian, semi transparent
porcelain, encaustic tiles, azulejos or coloured enamel tiles,
mosaics, Delia Robbia ware, majolica and Palissy ware; employed
1500 hands in 1858; lived at Hartshill near Stoke many years,
where he built and endowed a church and schools 1842; the
school of art at Stoke was erected by public subscription as a
memorial to Minton. _d._ Belmont, Torquay 1 April 1858. _bur._
at Hartshill. _Account of a visit to the works of Minions,
Stoke-upon-Trent_ (1884); _Digby Wyatt’s On the influence
exercised on ceramic manufactures by H. Minton_ (1858);
_Fortunes made in business_, _iii_ 63–115 (1887).
MIRANDA, DAVID MYERS. _b._ 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and
Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death.
_d._ Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886.
MITCHEL, JOHN (3 son of John Mitchel of Dromalane, Newry,
presbyterian minister). _b._ Camnish near Dungiven, co.
Londonderry 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin;
solicitor at Banbridge near Newry 1840–5; joined the Repeal
association 1843, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; on the
staff of the Nation newspaper 1845 to Dec. 1847; issued first
number of the United Irishman 12 Feb. 1848 in which he incited
his fellow-countrymen to rebellion; arrested under the treason
felony act 13 May 1848, sentenced at Dublin 27 May 1848 to
14 years’ transportation, granted a ticket-of-leave in Van
Diemen’s Land April 1850, which he resigned 1853, and escaped
to San Francisco Oct. 1853; started The Citizen newspaper at
New York 7 Jany. 1854; conducted the Southern Citizen Oct. 1857
to Aug. 1859; naturalised by supreme court of Columbia 7 May
1860; edited the Enquirer at Richmond; wrote leading articles
for the Examiner; editor of the Daily News at New York; edited
the Irish Citizen at New York 19 Oct. 1867 to 27 July 1872;
contested Tipperary Feb. 1874, elected M.P. for Tipperary 16
Feb. 1875 but declared by house of commons incapable of being
elected 18 Feb., elected again 12 March 1875, the Irish court
of common pleas decided 26 May 1875 that being an alien and a
convicted felon he was not duly elected; author of The life and
times of Aodh O’Neill, prince of Ulster 1846; Jail journals or
five years in British prisons. New York 1854; The last conquest
of Ireland (perhaps). New York 1860; An apology for the British
government in Ireland. Dublin 1860; The history of Ireland from
the treaty of Limerick to the present time. New York 2 vols.
1868 and Dublin 1869. _d._ Dromalane near Newry 20 March 1875.
_bur._ in unitarian cemetery, Newry 23 March where is monument.
_J. G. Hodges’ Report of the trial of John Mitchel_ (1848); _W.
Dillon’s John Mitchel_ (1888), _portrait_; _Sullivan’s Speeches
from the dock_ (1887) 74–96; _O’Shea’s Leaves from the life of
a special correspondent_, _i_ 9–24 (1885); _Sir C. G. Duffy’s
Four years of Irish history_ (1883) 587–605; _Sullivan’s New
Ireland_, _i_ 175–87 (1877); _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Mitchell, inspector-general of
barracks in Ireland). _b._ Dublin 13 April 1780; brickmaker
and builder at Belfast to 1832; patentee of the Mitchell
screw-pile and mooring 1842, first used for foundation of Maplin
Sand lighthouse 1838, applied to many extensive undertakings;
established himself at Belfast, and at 17 Great George st.
Westminster as Mitchell’s Screw-pile and mooring company,
the privy council in 1847 renewed his patent for 14 years;
his improved method of mooring ships was generally adopted;
M.I.C.E. 1848–57; author of Description of a patent screw-pile
battery and lighthouse. Belfast 1843; On submarine foundations,
particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. _d._ Glen Devis
near Belfast 25 June 1868.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1831; ensign grenadier guards
15 Oct. 1850, lieut. 19 Oct. 1854, sold out 7 March 1856;
contested Berwick 29 June 1863; M.P. Berwick 1865–8. _d._ 6
Great Stanhope st. London 16 May 1873.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Ellon, Scotland 18 Oct. 1817;
clerk in a bank at Peterhead; secretary of the Wisconsin marine
and fire insurance company at Milwaukee, U.S. of America 1839,
in 1853 the company was reorganized under the state law as a
bank; first comr. of board of Milwaukee debt commission 1861
to death; president of Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company,
which became Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company and
now owns more miles of track than any other railroad company in
the world; president of Chicago and Northwestern railway company
1869; member of congress 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875; richest
man in the northwest states. _d._ New York 19 April 1887.
MITCHELL, CHARLES. _b._ Norwich 1807; bookseller and
advertisement agent for town and country newspapers at 12 and 13
Red lion court, Fleet st. London about 1836 to death; proprietor
and publisher of The Newspaper press directory 1846, which has
been published annually from 1854. _d._ 1 Edith villas, Edith
grove, West Brompton, London 8 Feb. 1859.
MITCHELL, DAVID WILLIAM (1 son of Alexander Mitchell of Gerard’s
Cross, Bucks., and Cavendish crescent, Bath). _b._ Bath 1813;
ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836; resided at Penzance 1838–42, whence
he contributed information to the 3 edition of Yarrell’s British
birds 1843; an original member of Penzance Natural history soc.
1839; sec. to Zoological soc. Regent’s park, London 1847 to
1859, and a contributor to the Proceedings in 1849 and 1858;
F.L.S. 21 Nov. 1843; author of A popular guide to the gardens of
the Zoological society of London 1852; Guide to the gardens of
the Zoological gardens of London 1858; furnished the plates of
G. R. Gray’s The genera of birds 1844. _d._ Neuilly near Paris 1
Nov. 1859.
MITCHELL, _George_ (son of Jewish parents). _b._ 1794; left
England before 1820; edited an English paper in Brussels; spent
many months with the Carlists in the Pyrenees, imprisoned in
Spain 2 years; settled near Bayonne; naturalised in France;
occupied a high position at the ministry of the interior,
Paris. _d._ the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris 16–23 July 1880. _Morning
Advertiser 28 July 1880 p._ 5.
NOTE.--He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert
Mitchell _b._ Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of
Jacques Offenbach the composer. _Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_,
_xvii p._ 1598.
MITCHELL, James. _b._ 1791; line-engraver; engraved sir David
Wilkie’s Alfred in the neatherd’s cottage 1829, and Rat hunters
1830; engraved The Contadina after sir C. L. Eastlake, and lady
Jane Grey after James Northcote, for the Literary Souvenir of
1827 and 1832, The Secret after Robert Smirke for The Keepsake
1831; produced Edie Ochiltree after sir Edwin Landseer, and five
other illustrations for the author’s edition of Waverley Novels
1829–33; exhibited 6 engravings at Suffolk st. 1824–31. _d._
London 29 Nov. 1852.
MITCHELL, JAMES. An excise officer coming daily in contact with
the makers of alcoholic liquors; became a total abstainer Nov.
1835; vice president of the Western Scottish temperance union;
one of the founders and a gratuitous lecturer of the Scottish
total abstinence society; superintendent of City of Glasgow
temperance mission; paid lecturer of the United Kingdom alliance
for Scotland from June 1856. _d._ 184 Hospital st. Glasgow 18
Jany. 1862. _S. Couling’s Temperance movement_ (1862) 331–3.
MITCHELL, JAMES (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian
minister). _b._ Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed.
Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and
Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the
firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian
church; law agent to Glasgow univ. _d._ Park terrace, Glasgow
3 Nov. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 229–32 (1886),
_portrait_.
MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and
composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a
little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday
1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s
supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all
bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s
got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same
brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where
my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885
he wrote Mika M’ Alister. _d._ St. Vincent’s hospital, New York
12 Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his
own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire;
published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary
observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other
poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs
1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and
other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy
of witchcraft 1839. _d._ Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. _G.M. i_ 388–9
(1856).
MITCHELL, JOHN (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway,
_d._ Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). _b._ Stirlingshire 11 June 1785;
ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803;
lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the
Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1
June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein
1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation
1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and
address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall
of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. _d._ Edinburgh
9 July 1858. _bur._ in the Canongate churchyard. _J. Mitchell’s
Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the
author by Leonhard Schmitz_ (1865) _pp. vii–xvii_.
MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ London 21 April 1806; bookseller, publisher
and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged
and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London;
introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir
d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e
Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought
out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842;
gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier
and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with
French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice,
La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet
1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. _d._
10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 18 Dec. _The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p._ 12.
MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22
June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he
retired with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9
Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, John. _b._ 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel,
Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of
George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. _d._ the
Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. _Daily
Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p._ 8, _portrait_.
MITCHELL, JOHN MITCHELL (2 son of John Mitchell). _b._ Falkirk
1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50
years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland;
fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian
order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation
in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe:
illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb.
1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance.
Edinb. 1864. _d._ Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865.
MITCHELL, JOSEPH (son of John Mitchell, C.E. _d._ 1824). _b._
Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry;
apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824,
M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent
of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed
bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by
the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland;
engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he
constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and
Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3;
partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for
street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for
relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means
of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan
for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the
railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of
railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface
of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. _d._ London 26
Nov. 1883. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi_ 362–8 (1884).
MITCHELL, MUIRHEAD (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras,
London). _b._ London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832,
M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18
Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on
the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. _d._ 50 Pall Mall,
London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876.
MITCHELL, ROBERT (son of James Mitchell 1791–1852). _b._ 19 May
1820; engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, after sir Edwin Landseer
1852 and The parish beauty and The pastor’s pet after Alfred
Rankley 1853 and 1854, and in the mixed style The happy mothers
and The startled twins after Richard Ansdell 1850 and Christ
walking on the sea after R. S. Lander 1854; etched several
plates completed in mezzotint by other engravers; exhibited
at Royal academy 1858. _d._ 8 Rochester place, Widmore lane,
Bromley, Kent 16 May 1873.
MITCHELL, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Mitchell, cutler and edge tool
maker). _b._ Sheffield 13 Feb. 1803; entered his father’s
business, for which he travelled in Norway, Sweden and Russia;
member of Sheffield literary and philosophical soc. Dec.
1822 and a contributor to its transactions, president 1856;
explored with Thomas Bateman the tumulus at Arba Lowe 23 May
1845; collected materials for The history and topography of the
hundreds of wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, of which a
small part was prepared for printing at his death. _d._ The
Mount, Sheffield 1869. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_, _iii_ 108–102
(1891).
MITCHELL, STEPHEN (son of Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer
_d._ 1820). _b._ Linlithgow 19 Sept. 1789; apprentice to J.
Anderson & Co. merchants Leith and London 1805–9; in his
father’s business at Linlithgow 1809, removed the business
to Glasgow 1825, head partner till his retirement in 1859.
_d._ Moffat 21 April 1874; left £66,998 10s. 6d. to found the
Mitchell library in Glasgow, library opened in Nov. 1877, it
contained 58,000 volumes, including special collections of
Burns’ literature and Glasgow books in 1886. _Maclehose’s
Glasgow men ii_ 233–4 (1886) _portrait_.
MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1842; assistant to Groombridge and Sons,
booksellers, London, then to Longmans’, Green, Reader and Dyer;
bookseller at Hastings; architect; author of The stepping stones
to architecture 1869; A rudimentary manual of architecture 1870.
_d._ Hastings 24 Nov. 1872.
MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1821; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845,
M.A. 1848; V. of Long Clawson near Melton-Mowbray 1848 to death;
author of Palestine revisited and other poems 1858, 3 ed. 1881.
_d._ Long Clawson vicarage 5 March 1885.
MITCHELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER (youngest son of John Mitchell,
Russia merchant at Riga and London). _b._ Montrose 1812; ed. at
Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829,
became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad
st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with
Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of
Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. _d._ 50 Charles
st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000.
_I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p._ 144 _portrait_, _27 March 1875 p._ 307.
MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (eld. son of John Mitchell of
Craigend, Stirlingshire). _b._ 16 June 1792; joined the army
in the Peninsula as a volunteer 1808; 2 lieut. rifle brigade
24 July 1811, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1818;
captain 2 foot 25 Jany. 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826;
brevet colonel 20 June 1854; served on the battle fields in
Spain and Portugal, received silver medal with 5 clasps; deputy
surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828 to
death, his survey of the colony was published in three sheets
1835; surveyed northern part of N.S.W. Nov. 1831 to Feb. 1832;
surveyed the course of the river Darling 1835; surveyed the
rivers Murray and Darling and discovered the region called by
him Australia Felix 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17
April 1839; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1839; explored overland route to
gulf of Carpentaria, Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1847; reported on the
Bathurst goldfields 1851; fought a duel with Stuart Alexander
Donaldson 27 Sep. 1851; visited England 1853, and patented a
new screw-propeller for steam vessels called the boomerang;
F.R.G.S.; author of Outlines of a system of surveying for
geographical and military purposes 1827; Three expeditions into
the interior of eastern Australia 2 vols. 1838, 2 ed. 1839;
Journal of an expedition into tropical Australia in search
of a route from Sydney to the gulf of Carpentaria 1848; The
Australian geography 1851; Origin, history and description of
the boomerang propeller 1853; The Lusiad of Camoens closely
translated 1854. _d._ Carthona, Darling Point, N.S.W. 5 Oct.
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