camlet manufacturer, who _d._ June 1826). _b._ Norwich 12
June 1802; ed. at rev. Isaac Perry’s sch. Norwich 1813–5;
awarded 45 guineas by Central Unitarian Association for three
essays intended to convert the Catholics, the Jews and the
Mahommedans, Sep. 1830 and May 1831; her Illustrations of
political economy 9 vols. 25 numbers Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1834
were very successful; suggested and managed Thomas Carlyle’s
first course of lectures 1837; travelled the U.S. of America
1834–6; given a testimonial by her friends 1843; cured of a
serious illness by mesmerism 1844 and mesmerised patients
herself, gave an account of her case in Letters on mesmerism
1845 first published in the Athenæum; lived at Norwich to 1832,
at 17 Fludyer st. Westminster 1833–9, at Newcastle 1839–45;
built a house called The Knoll at Clappersgate near Ambleside,
Westmoreland 1845–6, lived in it 7 April 1846 to death;
travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1846–7; wrote for Charles
Knight The history of England during the thirty years peace 2
vols. 1848–9; published Letters on the laws of man’s social
nature and development, Jany. 1851, chiefly written by her
friend Henry G. Atkinson; wrote upwards of 1600 articles for the
Daily News 1852–66, also some articles for the Edinburgh Review
after 1859; author of Society in America 1837; Retrospect of
western travel 1838; Deerbrook, a novel 1839; The philosophy
of Comte, freely translated and condensed 2 vols. 1853, and
many other books. _d._ The Knoll, Clappersgate 27 June 1876.
_bur._ beside her mother in the old cemetery, Birmingham. _H.
Martineau’s Autobiography, with memorials by M. W. Chapman_
(1877), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 206–12,
_portrait_; _Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller_ (1884);
_James Payn’s Some literary recollections_ (1884) 97–136; _W. H.
D. Adams’s Celebrated women travellers_ (1882) 404–17; _R. H.
Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 65–75 (1844), _portrait_;
_S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 739, _portrait_; _J.
S. Bushnan’s Miss Martineau and her master_ (1851); _Cornhill
Mag. Jany. and Feb. 1884_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 44, 46 (1876),
_portrait_, _xxviii_ 197 (1883), _portrait_; _British medical
journal 14 April 1877 p._ 449.
NOTE.--She had no sense of taste or smell, she bequeathed her head to
the Phrenological society, there was a statue of her unveiled in the
South meeting house Boston, U.S. of America 26 Dec. 1883.
MARTINEAU, ROBERT BRAITHWAITE (son of Philip Martineau, taxing
master to the court of chancery). _b._ 99 Guildford st. London
19 Jany. 1826; ed. at Univ. coll. London; articled to a
solicitor 1842–6; student at the R.A. 1848; pupil of W. Holman
Hunt; exhibited 11 pictures at the R.A. 1852–67; his large
picture entitled The last day in the old home, was exhibited at
International exhibition, London 1862, re-exhibited in London
1864 and reproduced as a large photograph; an exhibition of his
pictures and drawings was held in summer of 1869 at Cosmopolitan
club, 30 Charles st. Berkeley sq. _d._ 13 Feb. 1869. _F. T.
Palgrave’s Essays on art_ (1865).
MARTINEAU, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Martineau of
Birmingham). _b._ 1828; ed. at Edgbaston proprietary sch.,
head of the school; articled to Arthur Ryland of Birmingham,
solicitor 1846–51, partner with Ryland to his death; member of
Birmingham law society, chairman; retired from practice 1 Jany.
1893; member of town council 1876 to death, alderman 1883, mayor
1884–7; received the Queen on her laying the foundation stone of
Victoria law courts 23 March 1887; knighted at Windsor Castle 25
March 1887. _d._ Westhill, Augustus road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
28 July 1893. _Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 1–4 (1884), _portrait_; _Law
Journal 5 Aug. 1893 p._ 550.
MARTINS, SIR WILLIAM (son of W. Martin). _b._ 1800; one of the
gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters in ordinary to the sovereign
11 March 1829 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb.
1840. _d._ 3 Hyde park gardens, London 5 June 1874, personalty
sworn under £350,000 22 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 595 (1874).
MARTLEY, HENRY. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832;
called to Irish bar Easter term 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher
of King’s Inns, Jany. 1854 to death; chief comr. of encumbered
estates court at salary of £3000 a year, Feb. 1857 to death.
_d._ Sherrington near Bray 3 March 1859.
MARTON, GEORGE (eld. son of George Richard Marton of Capernwray
hall near Lancaster, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1800; ed. at
Westminster 1815–7 and Trin. hall, Camb.; M.P. for Lancaster
1837–47; gentleman of the privy chamber 1843; sheriff of
Lancashire 1858. _d._ 24 Nov. 1867.
MARTYN, FRANCIS MOUNTJOY. _b._ 1809; cornet 2 life guards 27
Dec. 1827, lieut.-col. 27 Nov. 1857, sold out 6 March 1863;
brevet colonel 29 Aug. 1858; changed his name from Martin to
Martyn 1830. _d._ London 24 Jany. 1874.
MARUM, EDWARD PURCELL MULHALLEN (only son of Richard C. Marum of
Aharney house, Ballyraggat, co. Kilkenny). _b._ 1828; ed. at
Carlow college; B.A. London 1844, LL.B. 1848; called to Irish
bar 1846; contested Kilkenny city, April 1875; M.P. for co.
Kilkenny, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. for North Kilkenny 3
Dec. 1885 to death; seized with an attack of heart disease while
attending mass at Listowel parish church 21 Sep. 1890, removed
to police barracks adjoining the church where he _d._ 21 Sep.
1890. _St. Stephen’s Review 12 April 1890 p._ 23, _portrait_.
MARVIN, CHARLES THOMAS (son of Mr. Marvin, assistant manager of
engineering works on the Neva, Russia). _b._ Plumstead, Kent
1854; joined his father in Russia 1870 where he remained till
1876; correspondent of The Globe at St. Petersburg 18 months;
a temporary writer in the custom house, London 10 Jany. 1876,
transferred to inland revenue department, Somerset House, May
1876 and thence to the post office, returned to the custom
house; entered the foreign office 16 July 1877; arrested 26
June 1878 for furnishing The Globe with a summary of the
secret treaty with Russia 29 May 1878, discharged 16 July as
he had committed no offence known to the law; contributed to
20 publications during the Russo-Turkish war 1878; sent to
Russia by Joseph Cowen, M.P., to interview principal generals
and statesmen on the Russo-Indian question; explored the
Russian petroleum region in the Caucasus 1883; author of The
eye-witnesses account of the disastrous campaign against the
Akhal Tekke Turcomans 1880; Merv the queen of the world and the
scourge of the man-stealing Turcomans 1881; The Russians at the
gates of Herat 1885, of which 65,000 copies were sold in England
and America, and 12 other books. _d._ Grosvenor house, Plumstead
Common, Kent 4 Dec. 1890. _Times 17 July 1878 p._ 11, _5 Dec.
1890 p._ 6; _London Figaro 13 Dec. 1890 p._ 11, _portrait_.
MARWOOD, WILLIAM. _b._ Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1820; a cobbler
at Horncastle; first employed as public executioner at Lincoln
1871; his long-drop system of hanging was very successful;
hanged Henry Wainwright 21 Dec. 1875, Charles Peace 25 Feb.
1879, Kate Webster 29 July 1879, Percy Lefroy Mapleton 29 Nov.
1881, G. H. Lamson 28 April 1882. _d._ Church lane, Horncastle
4 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Trinity ch. 6 Sep. _The life of W. Marwood_
(1883), _portrait_; _Illust. police news 15 Sep. 1883 pp._
1–2, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 3 Nov. 1883 pp._ 9, 20,
_facsimile of his letter_; _Entracte Annual_ (1882) 26–7; _Law
Journal 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 490.
NOTE.--His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was
executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’;
this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s
auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep.
1883.
MARWOOD-ELTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood
Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, _d._ 4 Dec. 1827). _b._ 1801;
ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l.
16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838
with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. _d._
18 April 1884.
MARX, KARL. _b._ Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of
Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish
Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845,
settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the
Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which
was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an
active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848,
after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till
his death; chief founder and director of the International
1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in
Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. _d._ 41 Maitland park
road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times.
New York_ (1883); _Progress_, _May and June 1883_; _Graphic_,
_xxvii_ 329 (1883), _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _March
1875 pp._ 382–91.
MASFEN, JOHN. _b._ Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at
Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death;
the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general
practices in the kingdom. _d._ Stafford 7 June 1854.
MASHEDER, RICHARD. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859;
barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica
1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual
relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review
1865, 2 ed. 1865. _d._ Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.
MASKELL, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond.,
Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West
Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and
chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C.
of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to
City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the
Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses
of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All
Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. _d._
Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.
MASKELL, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton
Mallet, Somerset to 1825). _b._ Bath 1814; matric. from Univ.
coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe,
Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay
1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted
examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism
Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850;
F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut.
1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and
another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British
Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England
according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and
the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3
ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in
the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ
Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a
dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church
of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink
sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M.
1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. _d._
Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. _E. G. K. Browne’s
Annals of the tractarian movement_ (1861) 193–200, 214; _Proc.
of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 140 (1891).
MASON, CHARLES KEMBLE. _b._ Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first
appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre;
played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April
1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited
California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights
at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of
Music, Philadelphia 1869. _Ireland’s Records of New York stage_,
_ii_ 105–6 (1867).
MASON, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered
navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America,
July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William
IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. _d._
Eastbourne 27 May 1853. _G.M. xl_ 91–2 (1853).
MASON, FRANCIS (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Walingate, York
2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a
shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist
preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53
and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852;
D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most
of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the
Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its
people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. _d._
Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. _Francis Mason’s The story of a
working-man’s life. New York_ (1870).
MASON, FRANCIS (youngest son of Nicholas Mason, lace merchant
of Wood st. Cheapside, London). _b._ Islington 21 July 1837;
matric. at London univ.; studied medicine at King’s college,
London, hon. fellow; private assistant to sir Wm. Fergusson;
M.R.C.S. 1858, F.R.C.S. 1862; house surgeon at King’s college
hospital 1859–60, assistant surgeon 1863; surgeon to St. Pancras
and Northern dispensary 1863; assistant surgeon to and lecturer
on anatomy at Westminster hospital 1867, surgeon 1871; assistant
surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871–6,
surgeon and lecturer on practical surgery 1876; orator of
Medical society of London 1870, Lettsonian lecturer 1878, pres.
1882, treasurer; author of On harelip and cleft palate 1877;
On the surgery of the face 1878; edited St. Thomas’s hospital
reports, vols. ix–xiv (1879–86). _d._ 5 June 1886. _bur._
Highgate cemet., portrait in medical committee room at St.
Thomas’s hospital. _St. Thomas’s hospital reports n.s. xv_ 249
(1886).
MASON, FREDERICK. Pugilist weighing 9 stone 8 lbs., always known
as The Bulldog; beat Wm. Jones 31 March 1840 and 17 Aug. 1841;
beat Stephen Puttock 11 May 1841; beaten by John Walker £60 a
side, 62 rounds in 78 minutes at Hanniker, Bagshot 18 Jany.
1842; beat Collinson 27 July 1842; beaten by Harry Broome (who
became champion 1851) £50 a side, 39 rounds in 81 minutes near
Northfleet 11 Oct. 1843. _d._ St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
20 Oct. 1860. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 309–14 (1881).
MASON, GEORGE HEMING (eld. son of George Miles Mason of Fenton
park, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs.) _b._ Fenton park 11 March
1818; articled to W. R. Watts, surgeon, Birmingham 1834; walked
to Rome 1843–5 where he took a studio; arrested and narrowly
escaped death during siege of Rome; painted three fine pictures
of the Campagna, namely Ploughing in the Campagna; In the salt
marshes 1856 and A fountain with figures; returned to England,
married and settled at Wetley abbey near the Potteries 1858; the
grandest of English idyllic painters; A.R.A. 1869; exhibited
25 pictures at R.A. 1857–72; completed his largest picture The
harvest moon, just before his death; his picture The cast shoe,
is in the National Gallery; an exhibition of his works was held
at Burlington fine arts club 1873. _d._ 7 Theresa terrace,
Hammersmith 22 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 Oct.
MASON, GEORGE HENRY MONCK (son of Thomas Monck Mason, captain
R.N.) _b._ 1825; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, lieut.
3 Oct. 1845 to death; assistant to agent at Rajpootana 11
May 1847; political agent at Kerowlee, a small Rajpoot state
1849–57; resident at Jodpore, March 1857 to death; shot dead by
the mutineers near the fort of Ahwa 18 Sep. 1857. _G.M. i_ 105–6
(1858).
MASON, HENRY JOSEPH MONCK (son of lieut.-col. Henry Monck Mason
of Dublin). _b._ Powerscourt, co. Wicklow 15 July 1778; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin 7 Oct. 1793, scholar 1796, gold medallist
and B.A. 1798, LL.B. and LL.D. 1817; called to Irish bar 1800;
examiner to the prerogative court; began a catalogue of the
manuscripts of Trinity coll. Dublin about 1810; assistant
librarian of King’s Inns, Dublin 1814, chief librarian 1815–51;
correspondent with Robert Southey 1814–34; founded with bishop
Daly the Irish society 1818; M.R.I.A. 22 June 1812; author of
An essay on the antiquity and constitution of parliaments in
Ireland 1820; A grammar of the Irish language 1830, 2 ed. 1839;
The life of William Bedell, D.D., lord bishop of Kilmore 1843;
Memoir of the Irish version of the Bible 1854. _d._ Dargle
cottage near Bray, co. Wicklow 14 April 1858. _bur._ in the old
cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. _H. J. M. Mason’s Essay on the
parliaments in Ireland, with life of the author. By Very Rev.
John O’Hanlon_ (1891).
MASON, HUGH (son of Thomas Mason of Groby lodge,
Ashton-under-Lyne). _b._ Stalybridge, Lancs. 1820; a cotton
spinner: proprietor of the Oxford mills, Ashton-under-Lyne;
mayor of Ashton 1858–61; president of Manchester chamber of
commerce 1871–3; M.P. for Ashton, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885,
contested Ashton, Nov. 1885. _d._ 2 Feb. 1886.
MASON, JAMES WOOD (eld. son of Joseph Wood Mason, M.D. of
Horsley court, Gloucs.) _b._ 1845 or 1846; superintendent of the
Indian museum, Calcutta, and professor of comparative anatomy
and physiology at Medical college, Bengal to death. _d._ on
board P. and O. steamship Ganges off the coast of Portugal 6
March 1893.
MASON, JOHN CHARLES (only son of Alexander Way Mason of the
H.E.I.Co.’s home service). _b._ London, March 1798; clerk in the
secretary’s office at the East India house April 1817; secretary
of the newly created marine branch of the secretary’s office
1837 to Sep. 1858 when he retired; arranged for the transport
of 50,000 troops to India 1857; secretary of the marine and
transport department at the East India house Jany. 1859, retired
April 1867; represented government of India on committee on
Indian overland troop transport service 1865; author of An
analysis of the constitution of the East India company and
of the laws passed by parliament for the government of their
affairs at home and abroad 1825–6. _d._ 12 Pembridge gardens,
Bayswater, London 21 Dec. 1881.
MASON, SIR JOSIAH (2 son of Josiah Mason, carpet-weaver). _b._
Mill st. Kidderminster 23 Feb. 1795; worked as a shoemaker,
then as a baker and next as a carpet-weaver at Kidderminster;
manager for Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, split-ring maker
1824, purchased the business for £500, 1825; invented a plan
for making split key-rings by machinery; made steel pens for
James Perry, stationer of Red Lion sq. Holborn, London many
years from 1830, these pens bore the name of Perry, employed
1000 persons in 1874 and made more than four million pens every
week; partner with the Brothers Elkington in electro-plating
spoons, forks and other articles 1844–56; established with G. R.
Elkington copper-smelting works at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, and
became a nickel smelter; sold his pen manufactory to a limited
liability company, Dec. 1875; founded in village of Erdington
near Birmingham, almshouses for 30 aged women and an orphanage
for 50 girls 1858, erected a new orphanage at cost of £60,000,
1860–8, transferred the edifice with an endowment in land and
buildings valued at £200,000 to a body of 7 trustees Aug. 1868;
knighted by patent 30 Nov. 1872; founded the Mason Scientific
college, Birmingham at cost of £180,000, opened 1 Oct. 1880.
_d._ Norwood house, Erdington 16 June 1881, statue in front of
Mason college unveiled 1 Oct. 1885. _J. T. Bunce’s Josiah Mason,
a biography_ (1882); _Fortunes made in business_, _i_ 129–83
(1884); _Biograph_, _iii_ 119–25 (1880); _Dent’s Birmingham_
(1880) 524, 570, 591–3, 604, _with views of_ _College and
Orphanage_; _Edgbastonia_, _i_ 48–49 (1881); _I.L.N. lv_ 247,
248 (1869), _portrait_; _Illust. midland news_, _i_ 8 (1869),
_portrait_; _Practical Mag. i_ 162 (1873), _portrait_.
MASON, STEPHEN (son of David Mason). _b._ Kennoway, Fifeshire
1832; a merchant at Glasgow; pres. of Glasgow chamber of
commerce 1880; M.P. for Mid Lanarkshire 1885–8. _d._ 4 Thornton
villas, Streatham hill, London 21 April 1890.
MASON, THOMAS MONCK (only son of William Monck Mason of
Stillorgan, co. Wicklow). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
spent several years abroad studying music; one of the best flute
players of the day; lessee of Her Majesty’s theatre, London
1832, introduced some noted artistes, lost upwards of £60,000
in one year; author of many operatic works; equerry to the Duke
of Sussex some time; on 7 Nov. 1836 he ascended from Vauxhall
Gardens in the Nassau balloon, reaching Weilberg in Nassau in 17
hours; he wrote an account of this trip in French and English,
and is mentioned in the poem called The monster balloon in the
Ingoldsby legends; author of Creation by the immediate agency
of God 1845; Work and the word, or dealings of God 1862. _d._
about 16 Sep. 1889. _T. M. Mason’s Aeronautica, or sketches of
aerostation_ (1838), _portrait_.
MASON, WILLIAM HAYLEY. Author of Goodwood: its house, park
and grounds: with a catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the
gallery of His Grace the Duke of Richmond 1839. _d._ East
street, Chichester 24 Jany. 1864.
MASON, WILLIAM MONCK (eld. son of Henry Monck Mason, colonel
R.E.) _b._ Dublin 7 Sep. 1775; land waiter for exports in
revenue department Dublin 1796 to 1826 when granted pension on
abolition of office; travelled on the continent 1826–48; his
large library sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1852 and his literary
collections and historical and philological compositions 1858;
author of The history and antiquities of the collegiate and
cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin from its foundation
in 1190 to the year 1819, 1819; began a vol. on Christ Church
cathedral, Dublin, but work was not printed; published
Suggestions relative to the project of a survey and valuation of
Ireland 1825. _d._ Coombe lodge, Victoria road, Surbiton, Surrey
6 March 1859.
MASON, WILLIAM SHAW. _b._ Ireland 1774; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1796; appointed by patent with two others in 1805
remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits and twentieth
parts in Ireland; secretary to comrs. for public records in
Ireland, Sep. 1810; author of A statistical account or parochial
survey of Ireland drawn up from the communications of the clergy
3 vols. 1814–9; Survey, valuation and census of the barony of
Portnahinch in Queen’s county 1821; Bibliotheca Hibernicana.
Dublin 1823, being a catalogue of Irish books collected by him
for Sir R. Peel. _d._ Camden st. Dublin 11 March 1853.
MASQUERIER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Chelsea, Oct. 1778; learnt drawing
at Vincent’s school near the Tuileries, Paris, and at Royal
academy, London 1789–93; pupil of John Hoffner, R.A., in London,
completed many of his pictures; painted more than 400 portraits
1795–1823; exhibited his only original composition in oil ‘The
incredulity of St. Thomas’ 1796, it was the altar piece of the
chapel in Duke st. Westminster; exhibited the first genuine
likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte in Piccadilly 1801, which brought
him in £1000; retired 1823; resided at Brighton 1823 to death.
_d._ 10 Western cottages, Western road, Brighton 13 March 1855.
_G.M. xliii_ 540 (1855).
MASSEREENE, JOHN FOSTER-SKEFFINGTON, 10 Viscount (eld. child of
Thomas Henry Foster, 2 viscount Ferrard _d._ 18 Jany. 1843, by
lady Harriet Skeffington viscountess Massereene and baroness
Loughneagh, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831). _b._ Dublin 30 Nov. 1812;
succeeded his mother as 10 viscount Massereene 2 Jany. 1831;
assumed additional name of Skeffington 1843; lieut.-col. of
Louth militia Nov. 1847 to Dec. 1854; K.P. 3 July 1851; author
of O’Sullivan the bandit chief, a legend of Killarney, in six
cantos 1844; Church Melodies 1847; The love of God, a poem 1858,
new ed. 1860. _d._ from effects of a fall at Antrim castle, co.
Antrim 28 April 1863.
MASSEY, JAMES. _b._ 1824; pugilist weighing 8 st. 4 lbs.; beat
Patsey Clay £50 a side, 20 May 1845; beat E. Horridge £50 a
side, 16 June 1846; beaten by Young Reid £50 a side, 27 Oct.
1846; beat James Welsh £100 a side, 89 rounds in 135 minutes at
Long Reach 19 Jany. 1847; beat George Hall alias Norley £100
a side, 68 rounds in 105 minutes at Greenhithe 13 April 1847;
beaten by James Edwards £100 a side, 52 rounds in 194 minutes
26 April 1848; fought a drawn battle with Jeremiah Noon £100 a
side, 88 rounds in 178 minutes 19 Nov. 1850; beat James Welsh
£100 a side, 28 July 1851; beat M’Nulty £100 a side 6 April 1852
and again £100 a side, 76 rounds in 154 minutes 4 Sep. 1854;
fought a drawn battle with Wm. Hayes £100 a side 17 June 1856;
won 13 out of 17 fights. _d._ 1864. _Illust. sporting news 9
Jany. 1864 p._ 385, _portrait_.
MASSEY, RICHARD. Organist of chapel royal, Whitehall, April 1837
to 1877. _d._ 63 Priory grove, South Lambeth 21 April 1883 aged
84.