studied medicine under his relative Thomas Hugo at Crediton;
with rev. Timothy Kenrick at Exeter 1804 and at York coll.
1805–9; Unitarian minister Churchgate st. chapel, Bury St.
Edmunds 1810; co-pastor of Octagon chapel, Norwich 1811–25;
minister Essex st. chapel, Strand, London 1825 to May 1860;
chaplain to sheriff of London 1857–8; presented with a thousand
guineas and a silver salver May 1860; author of The salvation of
man by the free grace of God asserted 1812, 2 ed. 1815; Lectures
on high church principles 1844; Prayers for morning and evening
1866; Discourses on christian faith and life 1867 and 20 other
works. _d._ 20 Highbury terrace, London 29 Aug. 1870. _bur._
Abney park cemet. 3 Sep. _W. James’ Memoirs of T. Madge_ (1871),
_portrait_; _Diprose’s St. Clements_, _ii_ 27–8 (1868).
MADGE, TRAVERS (son of the preceding). _b._ Thorpe near Norwich
12 Oct. 1823; ed. univ. coll. London, matriculated 1840; student
Manchester coll. 1840; town missionary at Norwich 1845–7; an
itinerant preacher; teacher of the Lower Mosley street schools,
Manchester 1848–50 and 1859–61. _d._ Norwich 23 March 1866. _B.
Hereford’s Travers Madge_ (1867); _W. James’s Memoirs of Thomas
Madge_ (1871) 179–80, 266–8; _J. Evan’s Lancashire authors_
(1880) 161–6.
MADIGAN, EGGIE. One of the best vaulters in the profession;
a principal performer with Hengler’s, Boswell’s, Cooke’s and
Myers’ circuses; well known throughout the continent and India;
met with many accidents during his career. _d._ 2 King Alfred’s
place, Birmingham 7 July 1892 aged 34.
MADOX, HENRY. _b._ 1784; cornet 6 dragoons 14 March 1800,
lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1833, placed on h.p. 1 June 1838; brevet
colonel 28 June 1838; K.H. 1832. _d._ 28 Great Pulteney st. Bath
18 March 1865.
MAEDER, CLARA (4 dau. of George Frederick Fisher, auctioneer).
_b._ London 14 July 1811; singer; first appeared as lord Flimnap
in D. Corri’s version of Garrick’s Lilliput 10 Dec. 1817 at a
London house; acted Richard III in pantomime of Gulliver at
Covent Garden 8 March 1818; first appeared in U.S. America at
Park theatre, New York, as Albina Mandeville in the comedy
of The Will 11 Sep. 1827; acted in operettas, burlesques and
extravaganzas in which she made rapid changes of costume; sang
Scotch heroic songs and ballads throughout the United States,
becoming so popular that children were named after her and young
ladies affected her lisp and manner 1830; (_m._ 6 Dec. 1834 J.
G. Maeder 1809–76); appeared in opera but was a failure 1835;
made her last appearance in New York 1851. _Appleton’s American
biography iii_ 464 (1887).
MAEDER, JAMES GASPARD. _b._ Dublin 1809; went to United States
of America 1833 where he became a distinguished musician,
composer, musical director, teacher and theatrical manager;
composer of The Swiss quadrilles. Dublin 1830; The song of
home. London 1852, 3 ed. 1878; The unwilling bride 1858;
The daughter’s dream, a romance, New York 1864; The fair
enchantress, a barcarolle 1874. _d._ Chelsea, Massachusetts 28
May 1876. _Era 25 June 1876 p._ 11.
MAGEE, DAVID. Founded a brewery in Bolton, Lancs. 1853; erected
the Crown brewery, Bolton 1866. _d._ 1875. _Barnard’s Noted
breweries_, _iv_ 221–6 (1891), _view of brewery_.
MAGEE, JAMES (son of John Magee, Irish journalist and lottery
broker, _d._ Nov. 1809). Editor and proprietor of the Dublin
Evening Post about 1815; a police magistrate at Dublin. _d._
Sep. 1866. _Trial of an action for deceit in which J. Magee was
plaintiff and N. P. O’Gorman defendant. Dublin_ (1816).
MAGEE, JOHN. _b._ Borris, co. Carlow 1812; ed. Carlow coll.
and at Maynooth; professor of theology Carlow coll. 1839–62
and V.P. 1856–62; priest of Stradbally, Queen’s county 1862 to
death. _d._ Stradbally 15 Oct. 1881. _Comerford’s Collections of
Kildare_ (1883) 228.
MAGEE, THOMAS PERCIVAL (son of Wm. Magee 1766–1831, archbishop
of Dublin). Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1827; preb. of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1826; preb. of St.
Patrick’s, Dublin 1826 to death; archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 13
April 1830 to death; R. of St. Thomas’s, Dublin 1843 to death;
author of An enquiry into the nature and origin of the visible
church 1822; A short explanation of the gospel of St. Luke 1823.
_d._ 16 Dec. 1854.
MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR (eld. son of John Magee, V. of Drogheda,
_d._ 1837). _b._ in apartment next library of Cork cathedral
18 Dec. 1821; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1838; B.A 1842, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1860, Donnellan lecturer
1865; C. of St. Thomas, Dublin 1844–6; C. of St. Saviour’s,
Bath 1848–50; chaplain of Octagon chapel, Bath 1850–60; preb.
of Wells cath. May 1859 to 1861; P.C. of Quebec chapel,
London 1860–1; R. of Enniskillen 1861; dean of Cork 1 Feb.
1864 to Oct. 1868; dean of the chapel royal, Dublin 1866–9;
commenced erecting Cork cath.; bishop of Peterborough 14 Oct.
1868, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 15 Nov. 1868; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 21 June 1870; made a noted speech against the
disestablishment of the Irish church; president of the Church
congress at Leicester, Oct. 1880; select preacher univ. of Oxf.
1880–2; archbishop of York 30 Jany. 1891, enthroned in York
minster 17 March; one of the greatest orators of his day; author
of Sermons at St. Saviour’s, Bath 1854; Sermons at the Octagon
chapel, Bath 1852; The gospel and the age 1884; The Atonement
1886 and 40 other works. _d._ at an hotel in Suffolk st. Pall
Mall, London 5 May 1891. _bur._ burial ground Peterborough
cathedral 9 May, a cenotaph bearing his effigy unveiled in
Peterborough cathedral 9 Oct. 1893. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops
and deans_, _ii_ 139–46 (1875); _Contemporary Review_, _Oct.
1892 pp._ 534–46; _Church portrait journal_, _vol. ii_ (1878),
_portrait as frontispiece_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_ 168–80
(1876), _portrait_; _Northamptonshire Biographical notices.
W. C. Magee_ (1892), _portrait_; _The Biograph_, _vi_ 598–606
(1881); _I.L.N. liii_ 401 (1868) _portrait_, _2 Dec. 1893 p._
695, _view of cenotaph_; _Graphic 9 May 1891 p._ 519, _portrait_.
MAGENIS, SIR ARTHUR CHARLES (5 son of col. Richard Magenis of
Warringstown, Downshire 1763–1831, M.P. Enniskillen). _b._
Ireland 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821; attached
to mission at Berlin 26 Aug. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to
Swiss confederation 27 Jany. 1851; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 12 Feb. 1852, to king of Sweden
and Norway 20 May 1854 and to king of Portugal 11 Nov. 1859 to
June 1866 when he retired upon a pension; K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856,
G.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, London 14 Feb. 1867.
MAGENIS, HENRY ARTHUR (brother of preceding). _b._ July 1795;
lieut. 7 foot 4 March 1813; captain 82 foot 30 Sep. 1824, placed
on h.p. 20 Nov. 1827; major 87 foot 25 Feb. 1831, lieut.-col. 18
April 1845; lieut.-col. 27 foot 23 March 1849 to 1 April 1852;
inspecting field officer York recruiting district 1 April 1852.
_d._ York 14 Nov. 1852.
MAGHERAMORNE, SIR JAMES MACNAGHTEN MC GAREL HOGG, 1 Baron (1
son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. _d._ 1876). _b._ Calcutta 3
May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1
life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855,
retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867
and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889;
M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey
division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867;
assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May
1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2
baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co.
Antrim 5 July 1887. _d._ 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June
1890. _bur._ Brompton cemet., personalty sworn at £159,718. _St.
Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609,
610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26,
_portrait_.
MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay
1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill,
city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper
Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London
1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the
queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent
Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843)
_portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871).
MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of
the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864
a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode
of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this
picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and
potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in
hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2
portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from
want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg.
and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869).
MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth
house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.;
partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China
merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested
Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6,
contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first
president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman
of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder
of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a
collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art.
_d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.
MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham;
founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus,
the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery,
Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30
Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany.
1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4.
MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras
army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of
hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical
service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860.
MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone
1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to
lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822;
L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24
June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence
of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4
Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug.
1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth
12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church.
_Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878).
MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790;
C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the
government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co.
Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto;
R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14
June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851).
MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the
Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it
many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan
1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a
Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863
and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of
St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions
1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX
1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in
America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided
at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872.
_bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455
(1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_.
MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._
Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847,
M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork
1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute
1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London,
July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857
to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R.
of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884;
author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The
discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R.
Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of
the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman
in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica
1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing
room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881)
71–6.
MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin
24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to
death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11
June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor
of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek
and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral
philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic
idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides
with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton
place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange
cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted
civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb.
1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6.
MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow
1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov.
1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec.
1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct.
1881.
MAHER, JAMES. _b._ Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow
coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte
Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822;
parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and
Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare
1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of
theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of
Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. _d._
Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath.
200 priests were present. _bur._ Carlow Graigue. _Comerford’s
Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 177–8; _Letters of Father Maher_
(1877).
MAHER, JOHN. _b._ 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41;
sheriff of Wexford 1853. _d._ 28 May 1860.
MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) _b._
Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates
of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. _d._ Turtulla near Thurles
18 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p._ 411.
MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding).
_b._ Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869;
M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872;
resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873;
medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875;
medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881;
M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author
of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British
medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph
and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. _d._ of
enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 745,
763 (1884); _Guy’s Hospital Reports_ (1886) 1–10.
MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. _b._ Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon
in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784;
learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at
Cork with an Irish girl, she _d._ about Dec. 1850; carried on a
vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death;
author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the
Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2
ed. 1826, portrait. _d._ 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851.
Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed
kept a fencing academy. _The travels of Deen Mahomed_ 2 _vols._
_Cork_ (1794); _Willis’s Current notes_ (1852) 23; _G.M. xxxv_
444 (1851).
MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son
of Patrick Mahon _d._ 1821). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 17 March
1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of
the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated
for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called
to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and
South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the
Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with
the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China
and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general
under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded
a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army
of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war;
colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with
Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took
part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.
Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with
Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June
1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. _I.L.N. 27 June
1891 p._ 854, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p._ 832,
_portrait_.
MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805;
major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany.
1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being
disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Brighton 18 March 1851.
MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney,
woollen manufacturer). _b._ Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary
in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome;
prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood,
co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830;
ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at
Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3;
contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6,
many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as
Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor
1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived
in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe
1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz
in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final
reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881),
memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. _d._ at his hotel in the Rue
des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. _bur._ in vaults of Shandon
church, Cork. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
463–88, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_
(1885) 91–4; _S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed._ (1877) 238;
_Dublin Univ. mag. xxx_ 442–52 (1847) _signed Morgan Rattler_;
_I.L.N. xlix_ 137 (1866), _portrait_.
MAHONY, PIERCE. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co.
solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies,
at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug.
1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell
1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court
of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster
declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal
of the Union. _d._ 18 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. iv_ 41, 42 (1814),
_portrait_.
MAHONY, RICHARD JOHN (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee,
Kerry). _b._ Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist,
Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord,
all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A.
Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his
estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of
several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. _d._ 4
Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. _bur._ in family vault
near Dromore castle 27 Dec. _Times 28 Dec. 1892 p._ 4.
MAIDEN, JOSEPH. _b._ close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire
1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to
sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others
at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250
sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at
Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton
1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his
master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. _d._
Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Maer.
_Sporting Review_, _xxxviii_ 383–7 (1857) _portrait_, _lii_ 318,
392 (1864); _The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid_ (1880)
313–18; _Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1877) 211–2.
NOTE.--The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S.
Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.
MAIDLOW, JOHN MOTT (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent).
_b._ 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A.
1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867;
a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on
the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public
therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons
preservation 1867. _d._ 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London
26 Sep. 1893.
MAIDMENT, JAMES (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill,
London). _b._ London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817;
much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter
Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford,
and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73;
principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837;
edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14
vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of
his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. _d._ Edinburgh 26 Oct.
1879. _T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment_ (1883),
_portrait_; _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiii_ 601–3 (1879).
MAIN, DAVID M. (son of a Scottish banker). _b._ 1847; edited
A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations.
Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English
sonnets 1884. _d._ 1888.
MAIN, JOHN FREDERIC. _b._ 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan
gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at
Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London
1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol;
assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South
Kensington. _d._ Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.
MAIN, ROBERT (son of Thomas Main). _b._ Upnor, Kent 12 July
1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation
scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler
1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860;
chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60;
ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41
and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president
1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member
of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860
to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859
etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860;
Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. _d._ Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 9 May 1878. _E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_
(1879) 165–88; _Nature 16 May 1878 pp._ 72–3.