1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St.
Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general
assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in
the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. _d._ 7 Bellevue
crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1851) 55–62.
MAIN, THOMAS JOHN (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). _b._ 1818;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843;
senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A.
1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842,
retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval
college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The
indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam
engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions
on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed.
1863. _d._ 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec.
1885. _Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p._ 233.
MAINE, MISS E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among
strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person
1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3
vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. _d._ Wales 24 Jany. 1891.
MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (son of James Maine, M.D.)
_b._ Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s
hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar
1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first
chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847;
tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law
at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850;
barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to
death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman
law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July
1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov.
1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at
Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863;
elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of
jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll.
Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20
May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June
1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of
Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor
of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of
Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection
with the early history of society and its relation to modern
ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876;
Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other
books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. _d._ Cannes 3 Feb.
1888. _Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with
his speeches_ (1892), _memoir pp._ 1–83, _portrait_; _Bristed’s
Five years at an English university_, _i_ 174, 234, 237, 268–70
(1852); _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 197–204; _The
Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 69–74.
MAINWARING, EDWARD VINCENT. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served
in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at
Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the
Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The
Lancet. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.
MAINWARING, FREDERICK. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June
1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep.
1852, sold out 29 April 1853. _d._ Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.
MAINWARING, GEORGE BYRES. _b._ 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal
N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1
Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed
on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887;
author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists
in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. _d._ Serampore,
Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.
MAINWARING, SIR HENRY MAINWARING, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas
Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). _b._ 25
April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden
was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804.
_d._ Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. _Sporting Review_, _xliii_
83 (1860).
MAINWARING, ROWLAND (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks,
Warwickshire 1745–1815). _b._ 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May
1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798;
commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22
July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive
gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832;
Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal
act. Bath 1838. _d._ Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11
April 1862.
MAINWARING, SWEEDLAND. _b._ 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15
Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov.
1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881.
_d._ Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.
MAINWARING, TOWNSHEND (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring
of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). _b._ Oteley park 16 March
1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov.
1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and
1857–68. _d._ Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.
MAINZER, JOSEPH. _b._ Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise
of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé;
singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account
of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical
editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came
to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848
to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed.
1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony
1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring
counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb.
1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum
1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4,
continued as The musical times 1844. _d._ Manchester 10 Nov.
1851. _A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer_ (1844);
_Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp._ 103–5.
MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. _b._ Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of
W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of
modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in
prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874;
A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar
quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. _drowned_
while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.
MAIR, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital,
London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society;
hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840,
surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served
in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada
1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils.
Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or
total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state
of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. _d._ Kingston
5 Oct. 1877. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867)
246–7.
MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh
hall, Lincs.) _b._ 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of
commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated
baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s
Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list
1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch
and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s
guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872;
Short rules for cribbage 1878. _d._ Osbert house, Skegness,
Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.
MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal
N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war
1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal
infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list
16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the
antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the
procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the
cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing
his skull. _d._ 2 Sep. 1892.
MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull,
_d._ 18 Feb. 1790). _b._ 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793;
captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795,
major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807;
lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on
h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal
and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug.
1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in
Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Wells 18 May 1852. _bur._ in the minster at Ripon.
_I.L.N. xx_ 479 (1852); _G.M. xxxviii_ 92 (1852).
MAITLAND, SIR ALEXANDER CHARLES RAMSAY-GIBSON, 3 Baronet (son
of Alexander M. G. Maitland). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820;
succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant
Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col.
3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed
surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. _d._ Clifton hall,
Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 551 (1876).
MAITLAND, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain
R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828,
_d._ Oct. 1865). _b._ Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and
Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised
at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of
All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire;
C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in
the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome,
illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school
of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the
present time 1849. _d._ London 31 July 1866.
MAITLAND, CHARLES DAVID. _b._ 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall,
Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton
14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the
conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on
the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on
the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and
the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal
son, eight discourses 1844. _d._ Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.
MAITLAND, CHARLES LENNOX BROWNLOW (son of sir Peregrine Maitland
1777–1854). _b._ 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April
1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.;
assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in
Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor
1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884;
col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death;
general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. _d._
Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. _Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p._ 103,
_portrait_.
MAITLAND, EBENEZER FULLER. _b._ 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829;
F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
_d._ Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. _Cautionary hints to testators,
suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a
correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of
Harlow_ 1813.
MAITLAND, EDWARD FRANCIS, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of
Barcaple). _b._ Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and
univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire
9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and
27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session
with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and
assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen
1860. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. _Law mag.
and law review_, _xxix_ 273–4 (1870).
MAITLAND, JOHN (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland,
2 baronet 1755–1848). _b._ 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb.
to death; an organizer of the National security savings’
bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St.
George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund;
accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the
Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built
offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of
National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’
banks self supporting 1847. _d._ Swinton Bank near Peebles 6
Sep. 1865. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 389–96.
MAITLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec.
1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.
MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866).
_b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler
and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842;
barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service
commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author
of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. _d._ 51
Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.
MAITLAND, JULIA CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Barrett). _m._ (1) James
Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who _d._ 6 Jany. 1840;
_m._ (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters
from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843,
another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The
doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs
of the puss and the captain 1854. _d._ Stowe Provost near
Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.
MAITLAND, SIR PEREGRINE (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall,
New Forest, Hants.) _b._ Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1
foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first
brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at
Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut.
governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of
Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief
of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and
commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct.
1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834;
col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to
death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April
1852. _d._ 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. _Hamilton’s
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
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