Dumfriesshire, _d._ 1803). _b._ Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered
navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts
William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on
the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted
by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28
Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May
1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council
of Royal Geogr. Soc. _d._ Brighton 14 June 1851. _C.R. Low’s
History of the Indian navy_ 2 _vols._ (1877) _i_ 494 _etc._
MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3
Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political
agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.
MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm).
_b._ 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot
20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13
Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of
Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42;
A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death;
general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B.
24 Dec. 1842; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child
of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was _b._ June 1807
and _d._ 29 Oct. 1886). _d._ 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888.
_J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females_, _i_ 43
(1833), _portrait of his wife_.
MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). _b._
1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821,
chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ.
(afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of
Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to
B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical
degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological
Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50,
and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. _d._ 39 Belsize sq. South
Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London.
_Graphic_, _xiv_ 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_; _Testimonials in
favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh
academy_ 1824.
MALDEN, JONAS. _b._ Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at
univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816
to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of
Practical observations on the cow pox. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March
1860.
MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre
Malet, 1 bart. _d._ 24 Jany. 1815). _b._ 23 July 1800; ed. at
Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822;
attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at
Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of
legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836;
sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep.
1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep.
1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23
June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester
school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the
prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with
Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831;
The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou
1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870.
_d._ 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886.
_The Biograph_, _iii_ 458–62 (1880).
MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 Nov. 1806;
ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842;
political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of
Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary
to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of
India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge
of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut
1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the
daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the
Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse
1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book
of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet
family 1885. _d._ 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1888.
MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827,
fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to
death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the
library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. _d._ 2 Richmond hill,
Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.
MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet,
baronet _d._ 1815). _b._ 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay
establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from
Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset
1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John,
Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author
of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849;
The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An
errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome,
Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868;
St. Swithin’s day 1879. _d._ Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.
MALEY, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30
Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours
23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2
hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a
side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat
Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in
44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle,
Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb.
1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in
205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a
side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill
at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov.
1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in
130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his
fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his
style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable;
a capital teacher of boxing. _d._ Coach and Horses public house,
90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. _John Hannan’s Guide
to British boxing_ (1852) 37–9.
MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). _b._ Great Charles st.
Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made
himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt
drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass
work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work;
high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and
maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the
fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he
presented to that institution 1879. _d._ 1882. _Edgbastonia_,
_ii_ 2–4 (1882), _portrait_.
MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.)
_b._ Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42;
Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death,
treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of
vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65;
contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage
settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary
property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor
3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice,
Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867;
P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. _d._ 57
Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Bray
near Maidenhead 21 Jany. _Saturday Review_, _liii_ 76 (1882);
_Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867) _No._ 3 _pp._ 12–13;
_A generation of judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 146–56;
_The bench and the bar_ (1860) _part viii_, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 68 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 85 (1882),
_portrait_; _Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins
on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school_ 1874.
MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. _b._ 1841; conductor at Queen’s
theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic
theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre
under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881;
composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy
queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy
moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison.
Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans
1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in
one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses
a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady
Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in
Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. _d._ 11
Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.
MALLESON, JOHN PHILIP (youngest son of Thomas Malleson,
silversmith and jeweller). _b._ Battersea, London 11 Feb.
1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent
minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov.
1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation
at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day
school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the
New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove
house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library,
London to death. _d._ Croydon 16 March 1869. _bur._ Marylebone
cemetery, Finchley. _J. Martineau’s The Godly man_ (1870)
_memoir pp._ 19–63.
MALLET, SIR LOUIS (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit
office). _b._ London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office
Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private
secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an
assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the
articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860;
employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial
treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany.
1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent
under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep.
1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May
1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate
a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug.
1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled
Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects,
by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. _d._ Bath 16 Feb. 1890.
_Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 205–13; _Pictorial World
27 Feb. 1890 pp._ 260, 283, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p._
262, _portrait_.
MALLET, ROBERT (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder).
_b._ Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which
ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof
of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges
over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford
medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the
Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9;
invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form
the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the
Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London
1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great
exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical
mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of
R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of
Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74
scientific papers. _d._ Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey
5 Nov. 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_ 297–304
(1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_ 54–6 (1882).
MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James
Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). _b._ Spring
Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris
1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June
1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to
the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec.
1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852;
G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868
and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of
lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of
James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of
letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of
Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ Heron court near
Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. _bur._ under the choir of
Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. _The Times 18 May 1889 p._
14; _London sketch book_, _Aug. 1884_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_
248 (1852) _portrait_, _xxxii_ 250, 260 (1858) _portrait_, l
132, 142 (1867) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 365, 366 (1874) _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait of his wife_.
MALONE, JOSEPH. _b._ 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army;
sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to
death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of
Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. _d._ 12 July
1883.
MALTBY, EDWARD (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver
and a presbyterian, _d._ Aug. 1794 aged 64). _b._ parish of
St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich
gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven
scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792;
B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain
to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of
Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to
death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester
1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned
1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London
1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the
truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803;
Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed.
1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and
20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. _d._ 4 Upper
Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm.
Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_
(1842) 386–8.
MALTBY, MRS. HARRIET. _b._ 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W.
Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to
the Bath charities. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. _The
Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p._ 4.
MALTBY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion
house st. London, wholesale draper). _b._ London 17 Jany. 1763;
ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor
with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787;
principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed
and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to
King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus,
superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of
the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled
Porsoniana pp. 295–334. _d._ London Institution, 11 Finsbury
circus 5 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _G.M. xli_ 209–10
(1854).
MAMMATT, EDWARD. _b._ 1807; became blind when very young;
learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity,
geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton
brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842;
invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he
received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. _d._
Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.
MAN, WILLIAM (son of William Man). _b._ Dec. 1818; travelled
over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies,
Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in
the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of
Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. _d._ 16 May 1881.
_Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii_ 567 (1881).
MANBY, CHARLES (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850).
_b._ 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his
father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s
gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry
at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales
1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837,
M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56
when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec.
1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission
for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal;
lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21
Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb.
1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil
engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton
2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866.
_d._ Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July
1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi_ 327–34 (1885),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 159 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 156
(1884), _portrait_.
MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain
Welsh fusiliers, _d._ 1774). _b._ Denver near Downham Market,
Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801;
captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth
14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving
life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at
Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the
United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first
to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the
extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The
history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales
1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties
of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the
preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to
Greenland 1822. _d._ Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov.
1854. _G. W. Manby’s Reminiscences_ (1839); _European Mag. July
1813 pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 267 (1843), _portrait_;
_G.M. Jany. 1822 pp._ 66–70.
MANCHESTER, GEORGE MONTAGU, 6 Duke of (elder son of 5 duke of
Manchester 1768–1843). _b._ Kimbolton castle, St. Neots, Hunts.
9 July 1799; styled viscount Mandeville 1799–1843; entered navy
19 Feb. 1812, lieut. 20 Nov. 1818, commander 19 July 1822,
commander on h.p. to his death; M.P. Hunts. 1826–37; succeeded
18 March 1843; founded the National club, London 1845; author
of Hints upon prophecy 1830; Horæ Hebraicæ 1835; Things hoped
for: second advent 1837; The times of Daniel 1845; The finished
mystery 1847; A chapter on the harmonizing gospels. Dublin 1854,
anon., and other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 Aug. 1855.
_bur._ Kimbolton church 28 Aug.
MANCHESTER, WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU, 7 Duke of Manchester (eld.
child of the preceding). _b._ Kimbolton castle 15 Oct. 1823;
styled lord Kimbolton 1823–43; ensign 11 foot 3 Dec. 1841;
ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 21 Jany. 1842, lieut. and
capt. 1 Dec. 1846; styled viscount Mandeville 1843–55; aide de
camp to sir Peregrine Maitland at Cape of Good Hope 1843–4;
retired from army 17 Sep. 1850; contested Westminster 30 July
1847; M.P. Bewdley 18 April 1848, accepted the Chiltern hundreds
May 1852; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1852–5; lord of bed chamber
to prince Albert 1 March to Dec, 1852; succeeded as 7 duke 18
Aug. 1855; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24
June 1861; LL.D. of Camb. univ. 3 June 1864; K.P. 3 March 1877;
knight of order of Iron Cross of Prussia; president of royal
colonial institute; engaged in commercial ventures in Canada
and Australia; author of Court and society from Elizabeth to
Anne, from the papers at Kimbolton 2 vols. 1864; A letter to
prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar from a spectator of the campaign
of 1870 etc. 1871. _d._ Hôtel Royal, Naples 21 March 1890, body
embalmed and _bur._ at Kimbolton. _Baily’s Mag. xiv_ 163–4
(1868), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 245 (1877) _portrait_, _and 29
March 1890 p._ 390, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890
pp._ 390, 408, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 May 1861 p._ 323,
_portrait_; _Times 24 March 1890 p._ 10, _27 March p._ 4.
MANCHESTER GEORGE VICTOR DROGO MONTAGU, 8 Duke of Manchester
(eldest child of the preceding). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 17
June 1853; styled lord Kimbolton 1853–5 and viscount Mandeville
1855–90; captain Armagh militia 30 April 1877 to May 1889; M.P.
Huntingdonshire 1877–80; contested Huntingdonshire, April 1880;
bankrupt 2 April 1889, bankruptcy annulled 8 Aug. 1889, paid
20s. in the pound 1890–91; succeeded as 8 duke 21 March 1890.
_d._ Tanderagee castle, Armagh 18 Aug. 1892.
MANDERS, MR. Proprietor of a menagerie, employing 60 people
1840–71; toured in America; lived in his travelling caravan for
30 years; was in treaty for selling his animals to the French
government 1871; his wife was a well-known Lion queen, she
carried on the menagerie after her husband’s death. He _d._ in
his caravan near Dumfries, Ayrshire 18 Nov. 1871. _The Era 26
Nov. 1871 p._ 12.
MANDERS, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Powell). _b._ 1801; (_m._ 1820
Thomas Manders 1797–1859); made her first appearance at theatre
royal, Exeter 1825; fell from the flies at Sadler’s Wells and
was much injured 1834; at the Strand, Adelphi and Drury Lane
played old women, and was good as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet;
received a sum of money through an appeal made in The Era 1879.
_d._ 17 April 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 21 April. _The Era 25
April 1880 p._ 6.
MANDERS, THOMAS. _b._ 22 Dec. 1797; engaged in one pound note
department of the Bank of England 1814, one pound notes done
away with and his office abolished 1821 when he was pensioned;
went on the stage and toured through Midland counties; manager
of theatre royal, Exeter 1825; (_m._ 1820 Louisa Powell actress
1801–1880); first appeared in London at City theatre, Milton st.
as Justice Greedy; acted at the Strand and Olympic; was at the
Queen’s theatre about 16 years; kept the marquis of Granby, 11
Middle row, Knightsbridge; kept the Sun tavern, Longacre 1838.
_d._ 28 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Woking cemet. _The Era 6 Nov. 1859 p._
15; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 241 (1838), _portrait_; _Actors by
gaslight_ (1838) 81.
MANDEVILLE, JOHN HENRY. Sec. to the commissary for prisoners
of war in France 1801–2; sec. to the embassy at Vienna 1804–9,
at Brussels 1815 and at Frankfort 1817; paid attaché at Paris
1824; sec. of embassy at Lisbon 1828 and at Constantinople 1831;
minister plenipo. at Constantinople 1831–3 and at Buenos Ayres
1835–45 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 16 March 1861. _F.O.
List_, _July 1861 p._ 157.
MANDRON HARVEY, AUGUSTE. _b._ 1813; B.A.; French master St.
Peter’s collegiate school, Eaton square, London; author of Le
vieux chêne. Par l’ auteur de John Hardy le laquais, traduit par
A. Mandron. London 1852. _d._ 41 Kellett road, Brixton, Surrey
16 Dec. 1879.