Birkenhead, Cheshire). _b._ 1850; first appeared in London at
Haymarket theatre 1 July 1867 as Mary Meredith in Our American
Cousin; played Mrs. Cadderby in W. S. Gilbert’s farce Allow me
to explain, at Prince of Wales’s 4 Nov. 1867; appeared at George
Wood’s Museum, New York 1 Feb. 1869 as Earl Darnley in burlesque
of The field of the cloth of gold; played in Canada, then at
Wallack’s theatre, New York as the Boy Blue in pantomime of Old
Mother Hubbard 7 June 1869; played Fatima in Byron’s pantomime
of Blue Beard at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1871; played Mrs.
Cumberlidge in C. Scott’s Tears idle tears, at Globe theatre,
London 4 Dec. 1872, Queen Oriana in Albery’s comedy Oriana at
Globe 15 Feb. 1873, Ethel Carlingford in Byron’s comedy Fine
Feathers at Globe 26 April 1873, Pauline in Lady of Lyons at
Globe 16 June 1873; acted in Rip Van Winkle at Covent Garden
theatre 14 Feb. 1874; went to U.S. of America with H. J. Montagu
the jeune premier 1874. _d._ New York 23 July 1883.
MASSEY, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (son of Wm. Massey). _b._ 1809;
barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; recorder of Portsmouth, Jany.
1852 to Aug. 1855; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–7; M.P.
for Salford 1857–65; contested Liverpool 19 Nov. 1868; M.P. for
Tiverton 1872 to death; under secretary for home department
Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; chairman of committees of house of
commons 1859–65; financial member of government of India 1863–8;
ordinary member of council of governor general of India 20 Feb.
1865; P.C. 4 Feb. 1865; author of Common sense versus common
law 1850; History of England under George III. 4 vols. 1855–63,
new ed. 1865–6. _d._ 71 Chester sq. London 25 Oct. 1881. _bur._
Kensal Green cemet. _I.L.N. xlvi_ 237 (1865), _portrait_.
MASSIE, EDWARD (9 son of rev. Richard Massie, R. of St. Bridget,
Chester). _b._ 1805; matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 14 Oct.
1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; fellow and tutor of Univ. coll.
Durham 1841–9; author of Love’s strife with the convent 3 vols.
1864; Sacred odes original and translated on divers subjects
2 vols. 1866–8; translated Schiller’s William Tell, a drama in
English verse 1878. _d._ Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire 21 Jany.
1893.
MASSIE, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1799; a missionary in
India 1822–39; independent minister at Perth, at Dublin and at
Salford; secretary to Home missionary society in London 1848–59;
an advocate of free trade and the anti-slavery movement,
visited the U.S. of America several times; M.R.I.A.; author
of Continental India 2 vols. 1840; Recollections of a tour, a
summer ramble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland 1846; The
evangelical alliance, its origin and development 1847; The
American crisis in relation to the anti-slavery cause 1862. _d._
Kingstown near Dublin 8 May 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_
472, _ii_ 54 (1869).
MASSINGBERD, FRANCIS CHARLES (only son of Francis Massingberd,
R. of Washingborough near Lincoln, _d._ 1817). _b._
Washingborough rectory 3 Dec. 1800; ed. at Rugby 1814–8 and
Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 23 July 1818 to 1824; B.A. 1822, M.A.
1825; R. of South Ormsby, Lincs. 9 Dec. 1825 to death, restored
the church and built a new rectory and schools; preb. of Lincoln
1847–62, chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln 11 Dec.
1862 to death, instituted an afternoon sermon in the nave;
author of English history of the leaders of the reformation.
1842, 4 ed. 1866; The educational and missionary work of the
church in the eighteenth century 1857; The law of the church
and the law of the state 1859; Lectures on the prayer book
1864. _d._ Kensington, London 5 Dec. 1872. _bur._ South Ormsby.
_Bloxam’s Magdalen college register, vii_ 272–9 (1885).
MASSINGBERD, VINCENT AMCOTTS (2 son of rev. Charles Massingberd,
R. of Kettlethorp, Lincs. 1770–1836). _b._ 1808; entered navy
21 June 1822; captain 10 May 1855, retired 1 July 1864, retired
admiral Oct. 1884. _d._ The Priory, Great Milton, Tetsworth,
Oxfordshire 29 Nov. 1889.
MASSINGHAM, JOHN DEACON. _b._ 1826 or 1827; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, LL.B. and LL.D. 1867, B.D. and
D.D. 1869; C. of All Souls, Derby 1851–3; V. of St. Paul, Derby
1853–63; V. of St. Paul, Warrington 1863–72; V. of St. Paul,
Longport, Burslem 1872 to death; wrote sermons and articles
in The Church of England mag., London Pulpit, &c.; author of
Infidel objections to holy scripture weighed in the balance and
found wanting 1854; The church of England in relation to the
state and the people 1853 and many other tracts. _d._ Chelsea,
London 20 June 1882.
MASSON, ELIZABETH. Celebrated teacher of music, mezzo-soprano
vocalist and vocal composer. _d._ London, Jany. 1865.
MASSON, GEORGE JOSEPH GUSTAVE. _b._ London 9 March 1819; ed.
at Tours; Bachelier es Lettres of Université de France 8
Aug. 1837; came to England about 1847 as tutor to two sons
of Captain Trotter of the Woodlands, Harrow; French master
at Harrow school 1855 to 1888, Vaughan librarian from 1869;
contributed frequently to the Athenæum; supplied notes on French
literature to Saturday Review to 1880; author of Introduction
to the literature of French literature. Edinburgh 1860; La Lyre
Française 1867; Early Chronicles of Europe. France 1879; The
Huguenots, a sketch of their history 1881; The dawn of European
literature, French literature 1888. _d._ while on a visit to Sir
Henry Doulton at Ewhurst, Surrey 29 Aug. 1888.
MASSY, GODFREY (3 son of Hugh Massy _d._ 14 March 1814). _b._
Ireland 12 July 1803; ed. at Lismore; pensioner Trin. coll.
Dublin 1820, B.A. 1826; C. of Fedamore, Limerick 1827–31; V.
of Bruff, Limerick 1831 to death; sec. of Limerick protestant
orphan soc. 1837; a champion of the protestant cause in Ireland.
_d._ Bruff vicarage 23 Oct. 1852. _Dawson Massy’s Footprints of
a faithful shepherd_ (1855), _portrait_.
MASSY-BERESFORD, JOHN MAUNSELL (youngest son of John Massy
of Barna, co. Limerick 1779–1869). _b._ 26 Sep. 1823; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; P.C. of Killoughter,
Kilmore 1856; R. of Kinawley, co. Cavan 1870–82; dean of Kilmore
1872, resigned about Sep. 1886; assumed additional surname of
Beresford by r.l. 4 May 1871. _d._ London 22 Oct. 1886.
MAST, GEORGE CHRISTIAN. _b._ Würtemburg; a schoolmaster at 8
Upper Belgrave place, London 1862–8, then at Belgrave college
148 Buckingham palace road 1868 to death; author of French
practice and theory, new and natural method 2 ed. 1873; A
concise history of France, with notes and a vocabulary 1878.
_d._ Jany. 1884.
MASTER, ROBERT AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1824;
major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855,
lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light
cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec.
1861. _d._ Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.
MASTER, ROBERT MOSLEY (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1794; ed.
at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C.
of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec.
1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64;
archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near
Preston 1865 to death. _d._ Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.
MASTER, STREYNSHAM (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of
Croston, Lancs. _d._ 1798). _b._ Croston 10 June 1766; ed.
at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788,
M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. _d._ 19 Jany. 1864.
_Manchester school register_, _ii_ 33–4 (1868).
MASTERS, JOSEPH. _b._ Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax,
bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st.
London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and
publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848;
started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the
Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols.
1842–63. _d._ 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. _Guide to
the church congress_ (1883) 49–50.
MATCHAM, GEORGE (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller
1753–1833). _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B.
1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman
of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed
accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s
Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov.
1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were
reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the
Quarterly Review. _d._ 18 Jany. 1877.
MATHER, CHARLES (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of
Grantham, Lincs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college
1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on
cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting
and dramatic news under name of Exon. _d._ Paulton’s terrace,
Chelsea 1 July 1878.
MATHER, COTTON (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani
at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey
1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to
the New Testament and Psalms 1861. _d._ Junior Garrick club,
London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.
MATHER, ROBERT COTTON (son of James Mather, congregational
minister). _b._ New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at
univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D.
Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833;
went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833;
pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to
1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches;
founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly
journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in
Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of
many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (_m_. Elizabeth
Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she
_d._ Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He _d._ 5 Torrington park,
Finchley, London 21 April 1877. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of
missionaries_ (1877) 96–7; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 325.
MATHESON, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of
Attadale, Rossshire, _d._ 1826 aged 48). _b._ Attadale 6 Jany.
1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for
Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84;
a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May
1882. _d._ 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.
MATHESON, CHARLES (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice,
merchant). _b._ 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and
St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton
Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854,
M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury
1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed.
1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. _d._
Leamington 15 April 1894.
MATHESON, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Donald Matheson of
Shinness, Sutherlandshire). _b._ Laing, Sutherlandshire 1796;
ed. at High sch. and univ. of Edinb.; partner in firm of
Jardine, Matheson and Co. merchants of Hong Kong to 1842 when
he retired; purchased from the Seaforth family island of Lewis
in the Hebrides 1844; M.P. for Ashburton 1843–7, M.P. for Ross
and Cromarty 1847–68; created a baronet 31 Dec. 1850 for his
exertions in providing the inhabitants of the island of Lewis
with food during the famine of 1847 and subsequent years; lord
lieut. of Rossshire 2 July 1866 to death; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1846;
the second largest landed proprietor in the United Kingdom. _d._
Mentone, France 31 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_
21 (1879).
MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 6 Oct. 1817; partner in house
of Wm. Stirling and Sons, turkey red dyers, sole proprietor;
chairman of Glasgow chamber of commerce; F.R.A.S. 1866; author
of England to Delhi: a narrative of Indian travel 1870. _d._
between his office and his house in Glasgow 12 Nov. 1878.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_, _vol ii_ (1886), _portrait_.
MATHESON, JOHN. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1821; employed in a
merchant’s office, Hobart Town 1835–8; clerk in Union bank of
Australia 1838, manager of the branch bank at Geelong 1845,
chief manager of the bank in Australia 1851 to Jany. 1853;
general manager of Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, many years from
Jany. 1853, established the bank’s London office 1859; chairman
of the Associated banks; went to England 1877. _d._ 10 May 1882.
MATHESON, THOMAS (brother of sir James Matheson 1796–1878). _b._
Shinness, Sutherlandshire 1798; 2 lieut. 23 foot 17 Aug. 1815,
major 20 Oct. 1837 to 17 Nov. 1843 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 21
Jany. 1868; M.P. for Ashburton 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Achany, Sutherlandshire 14 Feb. 1873.
MATHEW, THEOBALD (4 son of James Mathew agent for 1 baron
Llandaff). _b._ Thomastown castle near Cashel 10 Oct. 1790;
ed. at Catholic academy, Kilkenny, and at Maynooth; joined the
convent of Franciscans of the capuchin order in Dublin; ordained
by abp. Murray 1811; in charge of a small chapel known as the
Little Friary, Cork; signed the pledge of total abstinence 10
April 1838, many thousands followed his example and the duties
on Irish spirits decreased £600,000 in the 5 years 1839 to
1844; came to London 1843; named by the clergy of the diocese
for vacant bishopric of Cork, but their choice was not ratified
by the Pope; travelled in U.S. of America 1849–51; granted
civil list pension of £300, 4 Oct. 1847. _d._ Queenstown 8
Dec. 1856; memorial statue by J. H. Foley in Patrick st. Cork,
uncovered 10 Oct. 1864, his centenary celebrated at Cork 1890,
another memorial statue unveiled in O’Connell st. Dublin 8
Feb. 1893, a statue of him has been also placed in the central
square of Salem, Massachusetts, portrait by E. D. Leahy in
National portrait gallery, London. _J. F. Maguire’s Father
Mathew_ (1863), 2 _portraits_; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_, _i_
96–120 (1877); _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 299–306; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _i_
460–520 (1883); _I.L.N. ii_ 53 (1843) _portrait_, _iii_ 85
(1843) _portrait_, _28 June 1890 pp._ 820–2 _several portraits_;
_Sporting Review_, _xl_ 209–10 (1858); _J. Copner’s Sketches
of celibate worthies 2 ed._ (1886) 325–50; _Dublin Univ. mag.
xxxiii_ 694, _portrait_.
MATHEWS, ANNE (dau. of Mr. Jackson and half-sister of Frances
Maria Kelly). _b._ 1782 or 1783; _m._ at York 28 March 1803
Charles Mathews, actor 1776–1835; played Emma in Peeping
Tom at Haymarket theatre, London 20 May 1803 and many other
characters; the original Fanny in Killing no murder 1 July
1809; assisted her husband in his entertainment entitled The
mail coach or rambles in Yorkshire, produced at Hull 12 April
1808; retired from the stage 1810; author of Memoirs of Charles
Mathews 4 vols. 1839; Anecdotes of actors, with other desultory
recollections 1844; Tea-table talk, ennobled actresses and
other miscellanies 2 vols. 1857. _d._ Chelsea villa, Fulham
near London 12 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 16 Oct.
_Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxii_ 93 (1847).
MATHEWS, CHARLES JAMES (only child of Charles Mathews, comedian
1776–1835). _b._ Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect
1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district
surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with
F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first
appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked
lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and
Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost
30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March
1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843;
lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted
at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt
4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at
Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s
theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre
de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as
a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863,
at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool
as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in
French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870,
New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety
theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years;
went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877;
made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis
Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts
in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most
successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket 1833,
Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of
Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. _d._ Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29
June. _The life of C. J. Mathews_, _edited by Charles Dickens 2
vols._ (1879), _portraits_; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the
London stage_ (1867), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol.
vi_ 351–53, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 57 (1838),
_portrait_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 57, _portrait_; _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 159–70 (1888); _Theatrical
times_, _i_ 105 (1847), _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane_, _ii_ 123–27 (1881); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_
(1880) 405–10; _J. Hollingshead’s Plain English_ (1880) 111–16;
_Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 423–47
(1855), _iii_ 343–73 (1855); _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_
(1847) 187–98, _portrait_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 205
(1879), _portrait_; _London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp._ 3–7,
_portrait_.
MATHEWS, HELEN. Played Ida in Albery’s comedy The two roses, at
Lyceum theatre 26 Dec. 1881; played Lady Carlyon in S. Grundy’s
comedy In honour bound, at Prince’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884, and
Agnes Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly at same
house 3 March 1884; played Sozel in The Bells and Miss Emily in
Jingle at Lyceum 23 April 1887, and Nerissa in The merchant of
Venice 16 May 1887 at Lyceum; acted with Henry Irving’s Lyceum
company in U.S. of America 1887–8; undertook a provincial tour
with Charles Harbury 1889 in which she played Portia, Desdemona
and Miranda. _d._ Birmingham 26 Jany. 1890. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _xvi_ 497 (1882), _portrait_.
MATHEWS, JULIA ISABELLA (dau. of James Mathews, artificial
flower maker). _b._ Angel court, Strand, London about 1840;
taken to Australia 1853; appeared at Victoria theatre, Sydney
2 Jany. 1855; one of the original living marionettes at Strand
theatre, London; played the title role in The grand duchess
of Gerolstein at Covent Garden theatre 18 Nov. 1867; sang at
Riviere’s promenade concerts at Covent Garden from 19 Aug. 1871;
played Javotte in A. Thompson’s Cinderella the younger at Gaiety
theatre 23 Sep. 1871; Helen in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at
Gaiety 23 Oct. 1871; played the double role of Giroflé-Girofla
in Lecocq’s opera Giroflé-Girofla at Philharmonic theatre,
Islington 3 Oct. 1874; was very good in the opéra-bouffe
Barbe Bleu at Gaiety 24 July 1875; (_m._ at Dunedin, Otago,
New Zealand 23 April 1864 Wm. Mumford from whom she separated
1870). _d._ at a Roman Catholic hospital in St. Louis, U.S.
of America 19 May 1876. _London sketch book 21 Aug. 1874 pp._
8–9, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 753 (1867),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 169, 171
(1874); _The Entracte 27 May 1876 p._ 8, _3 June p._ 8; _The Era
28 May 1876 p._ 10.
MATHEWS, LUCIA ELIZABETT or ELIZABETTA, best known as Madame
Vestris (dau. of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, engraver
1757–1821). _b._ 72 Dean st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1797; learned
music from Dr. Jay and D. Corri; _m._ 28 Jany. 1813 at St.
Martin’s ch. London, Auguste Armand Vestris a dancer and ballet
master at King’s theatre, London, who deserted her 1816 or 1817
and _d._ 1825; appeared at King’s theatre as a contralto singer
as Proserpina in P. Winter’s opera Il Ratto di Proserpina 20
July 1815, sang there again 1816, and at Italian opera, Paris
1816; played Camille to Talma’s Horace at Theatre Français;
first appeared at Drury Lane 19 Feb. 1820; her Don Giovanni in
Moncrieff’s Giovanni in London 30 May 1820 was a great success;
played many comic and some serious parts at Drury Lane, Covent
Garden and the Haymarket; the original Phœbe in Paul Pry at the
Haymarket 13 Sep. 1825; lessee of Olympic theatre 3 Jany. 1831
to 31 May 1839, produced Olympic Revels and other extravaganzas
by Planché and Dance; _m._ at Kensington church 18 July 1838
Charles James Mathews 1803–78, played in U.S. of America with
him 1838–9; played many musical parts in operas at Covent Garden
1839, the original Catherine in Sheridan Knowles’s Love Chase
10 Oct. 1837, Lady Anne in his Old Maids Oct. 1841, and Grace
Harkaway in Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841; played
with Macready at Drury Lane; at Haymarket 1845 and at Princess’s
1846; manager of Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855, produced
burlesques by Planché; last appeared at Lyceum in Sunshine
through clouds 26 July 1854. _d._ Grove lodge, Fulham 8 Aug.
1856. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Aug. _Memoirs of the life
of Madame Vestris_ (1826), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _portrait_; _Memoirs of the life of
Madame Vestris_ (1830), _privately printed_; _C. B. Wilson’s
Our actresses_, _ii_ 184–222 (1844), _portrait_; _T. Marshall’s
Lives of actors_ (1847) 37–56, _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic
biography_, _v_ 91 (1826), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_,
_i_ 41–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 41 (1847),
_portrait_; _The dramatic mirror_ (1847) _p._ 60, _portrait_;
_E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 127–29 (1881); _British
stage_, _v_ 1 (1821), _portrait_; _Planché’s Recollections
and reflections 2 vols._ (1872), _passim_; _The Town_, _ii_
(1838–39), _passim_; _Planché’s Extravaganzas_, _i_ 37 (1879),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_ 268 (1847), _portrait_.
MATHEWS, WILKINSON (eld. son of John Mathews of Stokesley in
Cleveland, Yorkshire, solicitor). _b._ Whitby 9 March 1784; ed.
at Barnard Castle, Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Trin. coll. Camb.;
B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1806–15; barrister
L.I. 23 May 1810, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1859; Q.C.
Jany. 1842; one of Charity commissioners 1818–30 when he
retired, _d._ 64 Brook st. Grosvenor square, London 12 May 1866.
_bur._ Leyland, Lancs. _Law Times xci_ 536 (1866).
MATHIAS, GEORGE (son of James Vincent Mathias, captain 62 foot).
_b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot 19 Aug. 1813, lieut. 22 Sep. 1814,
placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; lieut. 1 foot 23 July 1818, placed
on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; was shipwrecked 3 times; captain 79 foot
8 June 1826, sold out 10 Oct. 1834; studied at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; chaplain to royal hospital, Chelsea
1845–69; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 19 Nov. 1857 to death.
_d._ St. Leonards on Sea 10 March 1884.
MATRAVERS, JOHN. One of H.M.’s Band of Gentlemen pensioners;
purchased Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon in 1830 from
Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt for £4500 and sold it to Wm. Heaven of
Bristol; F.S.A. _d._ London 30 Nov. 1851.
MATSON, EDWARD. Second lieut. R.E. 7 May 1810; deputy adjutant
general to R.E. 15 June 1846 to 10 Sep. 1856; col. R.E. 20 June
1854 to 10 Sep. 1856 when he retired on full pay with rank of
M.G. _d._ 130 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1873.
MATTEI, ANTONIO. Captain royal Malta fencible regiment 11 April
1845, lieut.-col. 12 Nov. 1858, retired with hon. rank of M.G.
5 Sep. 1877; C.M.G. 1 May 1877. _d._ at his residence Sliema,
Malta 17 Sep. 1888 aged 84.
MATTHEW, WALTER EDMUND (3 son of David Matthew of City of
London, merchant). _b._ 25 Feb. 1848; ed. at Merchant Taylors’
and St. John’s coll. Oxf., Casberd scholar 1869, Denyer and
Johnson theol. scholar 1871; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1873; C. of Ch. Ch.
Albany st. London 1871–5; colonial chaplain at Kandy, Colombo
1875; archdeacon of Colombo 1875 to death. _d._ 19 Feb. 1889.
MATTHEWS, CHARLES PETER. Member of firm of Ind, Coope & Co.
brewers; an original member of Burlington fine arts club,
London 1867; formed an important collection of modern English
paintings, including 6 works by Sir F. Leighton, 4 by Sir J.
Millais, 13 by J. C. Hook, 7 by J. F. Lewis, and Holman Hunt’s
Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. _d._ 18 Feb. 1891.
NOTE.--His collection of 125 pictures sold at Christie’s 6 June 1891
for £57,858 12s., being much less than he gave for the pictures. _Times
8 June 1891 p._ 12.