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MUMFORD, ELIZA. _b._ 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected
with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan
Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class
leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale
for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New
packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the
young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for
Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude
Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The
meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. _d._ Bromley,
Kent 3 Feb. 1884.
NOTE.--Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley
in 1882.
MUMMERY, ISAAC VALE (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). _b._
Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at
Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational
minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal
Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the
Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec.
to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. _d._ 28 High
st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 7
Oct. _Congregational Mag._ (1893) 234.
MUNBY, GILES (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). _b._
York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived
in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges,
and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran,
Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable
anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an
original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de
l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria
sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. _d._ the Holt
near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. _Gardener’s Chronicle ii_
260–2 (1876) _portrait_.
MUNDELL, WILLIAM ADAM (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George
st. Westminster). _b._ 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and
Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co.,
solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847,
bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar;
Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess
player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published
A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A
letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding
of assizes and sessions 1857. _d._ 150 Buckingham palace road,
London 15 July 1875. _Law Times lix_ 252 (1875); _Solicitor’s
Journal xix_ 736 (1875); _Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77.
MUNDY, CHARLES FITROY MILLER (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy
of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1815;
ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15
Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of
Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny;
lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881;
placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ London
12 July 1888.
MUNDY, GEORGE. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and
schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary
at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism
contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs.
Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. _d._ Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.
MUNDY, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall
co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire _d._ Oct. 1822). _b._ Shipley hall
1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the
taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the
Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal
George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec.
1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire
1819–31. _d._ 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.
MUNDY, SIR GEORGE RODNEY (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy
_d._ 1848). _b._ London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819,
captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he
fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession
of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the
Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857;
second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the
detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863;
commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72;
admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5;
admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23
June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of
Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation
of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples
during the Italian revolution 1863. _d._ 12 Chesterfield st.
Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.
MUNDY, GEORGE VALENTINE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1819;
ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840;
captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut.
col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in
the army 24 April 1860. _d._ 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London
14 May 1863.
MUNDY, GODFREY CHARLES (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot
6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to
31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New
South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet
colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857
to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal
of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or
residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. _d._ London
10 July 1860.
MUNDY, SIR ROBERT MILLER (brother of Sir George Mundy
1777–1861). _b._ 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut.
R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846
with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col.
in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut.
governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting
governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana
May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut.
governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of
£333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._
Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.
MUNDY, WILLIAM (son of Francis Mundy M.P. _d._ 6 May 1837). _b._
Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843;
M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South
Derbyshire 19 July 1865. _d._ Markeaton 10 April 1877.
MUNRO, ALEXANDER (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). _b._
1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at
Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving
for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A.
and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture
especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca
1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house
of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham;
lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself
a house and studio at Cannes. _d._ Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. _W. B.
Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 133–8.
MUNRO, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of
Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at
Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid,
Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of
St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of
canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from
the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow
school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations
to scripture and reason 1856. _d._ Glasgow Nov. 1892.
MUNRO, ALEXANDER THOMPSON (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt.,
_d._ Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a
private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany.
1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18
Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting
some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut.
col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at
Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when
Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3
July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being
absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal
court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found
guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug.
1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate.
_The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July_, _8, 24,
26 Aug._, _4 Dec. 1843_; _Annual Register_ (1843) 79–80, 115,
(1847) 111–12; _I.L.N. xi_ 173 (1847) _portrait_.
MUNRO, SIR CHARLES, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain,
Rossshire, _d._ 1846). _b._ Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5
March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served
in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war;
received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the
war of independence in South America, and commanded a division
of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish
army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9
baronet 2 May 1848. _d._ Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.
MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar;
head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to
1850; F.L.S. 1821. _d._ 9 April 1853 _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 237
(1855).
MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel
road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for
Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. _d._ Whitehall, Chigwell row,
Essex 18 May 1888.
MUNRO, SIR GEORGE GUN (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield,
co. Cromarty). _b._ 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor
of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13
April 1842. _d._ 16 Sept. 1852.
MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of
Novar, Rossshire). _b._ Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury
and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ.
Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s
medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873;
Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov.
1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published
Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri
sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna
revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text
revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and
elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of
Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient
and modern paintings. _d._ Rome 30 March 1885. _bur._ in
protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and
Elgin academy. _Saturday Review lix_ 472; _Waagen’s Treasures of
art ii_ 131–42 (1854).
MUNRO OR McKENZIE, JANET. Remembered the battle of Culloden
1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life,
and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who
conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by
an unlawful tenure. _d._ Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged
at least 110 years. _bur._ Roskeen 19 April. _Times 15 May 1852
p._ 8.
MUNRO, JOHN (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of
Teaninich, co. Ross, _d._ May 1788). _b._ June 1778; entered
Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800,
major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I.
5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2
Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Muirtown house,
Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.
MUNRO, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke,
Gloucs.). _b._ 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant
colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore
24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol
1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865;
commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to
1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25
June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject
of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the
Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites
in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and
other papers. _d._ Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.
MUNROE, KATE, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr.
Lister). _b._ New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869;
sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities
1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love
Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as
Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian
Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from
10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for
100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100
nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black
Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches
de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux
nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues
at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America
1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April
1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April
1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and
Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; _m._ 1886 Mr.
Miles. _d._ from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London
17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and _bur._ in
Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000.
_Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 267; _Illust. S. & D. News v_
321, 327 (1876) _portrait_; _The Theatre ii_ 169, 208 (1883)
_portrait_.
MUNSEY, THOMAS ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Madras
army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut.
col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry
1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8,
and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light
cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death;
M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.
MUNSIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’
school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he
educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class
of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath
school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons
on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed.
1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64.
_d._ Glasgow 1864. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 235–6 (1886)
_portrait_.
MUNSTER, HENRY (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal,
Jamaica). _b._ 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the
Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to
Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup
race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848;
B.A. Camb. 1858. _d._ Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11
April 1894.
MUNSTER, WILLIAM FELIX LAURENCE (son of Henry Munster, M.P.)
_b._ Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and
at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4;
resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. _d._ St. Louis, Missouri 11
April 1877.
MUNTZ, GEORGE FREDERICK (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz,
merchant, _d._ 1811). _b._ Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov.
1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811;
made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz
metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and
Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with
Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for
the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of
15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress
Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first
M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency
1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of
the country, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Umberslade hall, near Birmingham
30 July 1857. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841)
86–101; _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors_ (1881) 93, 170,
206, 225; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 92 (1842) _portrait_, _xiv_ 196 (1849)
_portrait_; _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_
(1877) 79–88.
MUNTZ, PHILIP HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ Selby
hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant
Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough
1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec.
1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856;
presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P.
Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. _d._
Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. _bur._ Leamington 28 Dec. _Biograph
iii_ 47–52 (1880); _Times 26 Dec. 1888_, _p._ 4, _29 Dec. p._ 7;
_Dent’s Birmingham_ 494, 546 (1880); _I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._
36 _portrait._
MURCHISON, CHARLES (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.)
_b._ Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin
1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb.
1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April
1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical
college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death;
physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on
botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to
King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860,
physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital
1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at
St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P.
1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875;
member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer
1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to
the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers
of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases
of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885;
On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. _d._
suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23
April 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St.
Thomas’s hospital. _Proc. of Royal Society xxix_ 23–5 (1879).
MURCHISON, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale,
Eastern Ross 1751–96). _b._ 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807;
lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran
battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion
1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and
Singapore. _d._ Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.
MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth
Murchison 1793–1854). _b._ Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb.
1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great
Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug.
1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s
Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to
general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14;
captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815;
attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany.
1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826,
Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society
1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus
1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president
of British Association at York 1846; director general of the
geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a
baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861;
lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer
of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair
of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian
system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks
containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von
Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the
Ural Mountains 1845; _m._ 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of
general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she _d._
16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. _d._ 16 Belgrave sq.
London 22 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty
sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. _A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R.
I. Murchison_, 2 _vols._ (1875) _portrait_; _Dunkin’s Obituary
notices of astronomers_ (1879) 206–13; _Quarterly journal of
Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 29–35 (1872); _Walford’s Representative Men_
(1868) _portrait No._ 13; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 237 (1866) _portrait_;
_Graphic iv_ 411, 429 (1871) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 13 Jany.
1866 p._ 17 _portrait_; _Victoria Mag. xii_ 461–3 (1809) _an
account of Lady Murchison_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 297–8
(1869).
MURDOCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany.
1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22
Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired
14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for
which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced,
the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials
of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading
system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece
to the Admiralty 1866. _d._ Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.
MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1767; a baker; the public hangman in
Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct.
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