_b._ 1807; first appeared on the stage at Plymouth; first
appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Nov. 1829 as Kitty
Sligo in Buckstone’s burlesque Billy Taylor; played at City
theatre, Milton st. Cripplegate, Easter 1831 to 1833; played
at Lyceum, May 1833 and at St. James’s 1839; acted Mrs. Mopus
in Married for money 10 Oct. 1855, Cora in Collins’s burlesque
Pizarro 23 Sep. 1856, Lady Harbottle in The Love Knot 8 March
1858, all at Drury Lane; played Mrs. Harrington in London Pride
at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859, Mrs. Meanly in Friends or Foes at
St. James’s 8 March 1862, Mrs. Mildmay in The merry widow 31
Jany. 1863, Mrs. Colonel Carver in Woodcock’s Little Game 6 Oct.
1864, Mrs. Candour in School for scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Widow
Rachet in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Mrs. Bolton Jones in
Hunted Down 5 Nov. 1866, Madame Paravent in Idalia 25 April
1867, all at St. James’s theatre; last appeared at New Queen’s
theatre as Mrs. Danby in Burnand’s The turn of the tide 29 May
1869; _m._ Frank Matthews 1807–71. _d._ Brompton, London 27 Aug.
1873, portrait in picture entitled Reading a new piece in the
Adelphi green room, exhibited at Royal Academy 1851. _Era 31
Aug. 1873 p._ 12, _7 Sep. p._ 11.
MATTHEWS, FRANK. _b._ Store st. Bedford sq. London 1807; first
appeared on the stage at Cheltenham; first appeared in London
at English opera house as Farmer Waldeck in The bottle imp 1
July 1829; played at Covent Garden and Olympic; played Brownlow
in Oliver Twist at Adelphi, March 1839; acted at Lyceum theatre
April 1844 as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewhit, which ran 80
nights; played Crepin in The wonderful woman at Princess’s 27
Oct. 1855, Squire Russet in Jealous Wife at Princess’s 18 Dec.
1858; played in The dark cloud 2 Jany. 1863, Decimus Dockett
in The merry widow 31 Jany. 1863, Luke Marks in Lady Audley’s
Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Joachim in Sybilla 29 Oct. 1864, Mr.
Babblebrook in A lesson in love 22 Dec. 1864, Major Lennard in
Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, Sir Peter Teazle in School for
scandal 16 Dec. 1865, Hardy in Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866,
Dulcamara in Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, all at
St. James’s theatre; played Mr. Danby in The turn of the tide at
Queen’s theatre 29 May 1869 and Jaspar Gregg in Morden Grange
at same house 4 Dec. 1869; played Mr. Scantlebury in Gilbert’s
Randall’s Thumb at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; got his knee
crushed in a carriage accident returning from Epsom races June
1840 and was lame for life. _d._ 7 Linden grove, Bayswater,
London 24 July 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 29 July. _Planché’s
Extravaganzas_, _iv_ 87 (1879), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1871
p._ 11 _col._ 4.
MATTHEWS, HENRY WILLIAM. Ensign 43 Bengal N.I., major 9 March
1845; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 26 April 1859, col. 16 Aug.
1868; general 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ 8 Sydney place, Bath 15 July
1884.
MATTHEWS, JAMES. _b._ 1819 or 1820; a conjuror in London and
the provinces 1845 to death; one of the first to use pure
sleight-of-hand instead of apparatus; made two tours in South
Africa; performed at Royal Polytechnic institution, London long
time. _d._ 28 Aug. 1880.
MATTHEWS, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1805; favourite pupil
of Joseph Grimaldi the clown; an actor at Olympic theatre 1820;
clown in pantomime called The Hag of the forest at Sadler’s
Wells 26 Dec. 1828; played clown for 50 nights in Mother Goose;
clown in Puss in boots, and three other pantomimes at Covent
Garden; created a sensation at Drury Lane by imitating Duvernay
in La Cachuca; engaged by W. C. Macready for Covent Garden at 3
pounds per week 20 July 1837; played in Edinburgh; superintended
production at the Variétés, Paris, of a pantomime called
‘Arlequin’ Aug. 1842; played in Planché’s Fortunio at Drury
Lane 1843; danced in ballet at Vauxhall 1847; clown in Surrey
pantomime 1848, Marylebone 1851 and Drury Lane 1852; at Adelphi,
Drury Lane, Covent Garden and in the provinces; he used to sing
Hot Codlins, Tippity witchet, and The life of a clown, the last
composed for him by Balfe; gave an entertainment July 1859;
played at Drury Lane in introductions to various pantomimes;
last appeared at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1864 in Hop o’ my thumb;
the last of the old-fashioned clowns; landlord of the Crown and
Cushion, Page walk, Bermondsey 1843–51, of the Rose and Crown 57
Drury lane Aug. 1852 to 1858, and of the Rosemary branch tavern
18 Aberystwyth terrace, Islington 1858–60; lived at Brighton
1866 to death. _d._ 28 Walpole terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton 4
March 1889. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 9 March. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 273
(1847), _portrait_; _Theatre n.s. xiii_ 233 (1889); _The World
21 Dec. 1881 pp._ 5–6 _and ’Xmas number_ 1886, _portrait_; _H.
Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 93–95.
NOTE.--He _m._ at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 28 Oct. 1825 Fanny
Maria Casciani dau. of a Florentine sculptor and had three children,
Clara who _m._ Mr. Lawrence a clown; Fanny; and a son who died in
infancy.
MATTHEWS, RICHARD. Barrister M.T. 25 April 1828; sergeant at law
7 July 1852. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854 aged 57. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
MATTHEWS, WILLIAM ANTHONY. _b._ Malta 14 Aug. 1813; partner in
firm of Thomas Turton and sons of Sheaf steel works Sheffield;
mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1852–54, being the first to
hold the two offices together. _d._ 19 July 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_
39 (1854), _portrait_.
MATTHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered Bengal army 1820; captain of
right wing of 1 European regiment 8 Sep. 1835 to 1 March 1850;
deputy comr. of Assam 1 April 1839 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 33
N.I. 1 March 1850 to 1852, of 30 N.I. 1852–3, of 1 European
fusiliers (right wing) 1853–4, of 17 N.I. 1854–6, of 21 N.I.
1856–9; col. of 2nd European fusiliers 19 Aug. 1859 to death;
M.G. 1 Jany. 1862. _d._ Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood,
London 28 March 1865.
MATTHIESSEN, AUGUSTUS (son of William Matthiessen of 1 Nun’s
court, Coleman st. city of London, merchant). _b._ London 2
Jany. 1831; studied under Will and Buff at Giessen 1852, Ph.D.
Giessen; studied under Bunsen at Heidelberg 1853–7; fitted
up a laboratory at 1 Torrington place, London 1857, where
he investigated the physical properties of pure metals and
alloys; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council, royal medallist
1869; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital 1862–8;
constructed ten electrical standards for the British Association
1862–5; joint lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1868–70, sole lecturer 1870; had a large practice as a
consulting chemist; an editor of Philosophical Mag. Jany. 1869
to June 1870; examiner to Univ. of London 1870; author of 38
scientific papers and of 23 papers with other writers; poisoned
himself with prussic acid at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
6 Oct. 1870. _Nature_, _ii_ 517–18 (1870); _Times 8 Oct. 1870
p._ 5 _col._ 5.
MATTHISON, ARTHUR. _b._ Birmingham, May or June 1826; journalist
in New York; vocalist and lecturer at Hamilton’s Diorama, St.
James’s hall, London 1873; played King Richard in Rebecca 13
Feb. 1875, Owen in The World 31 July 1880, Colonel Dalton in
Youth 6 Aug. 1881, all at Drury Lane theatre; author of Keep
your door locked, farce produced at Adelphi 29 Aug. 1866; Enoch
Arden, a drama 1869; A false step 1879, prohibited by the lord
chamberlain; Brave hearts, drama Criterion 24 Jany. 1881; A
thread of silk, comedy Crystal Palace 3 Nov. 1881; More than
ever, burlesque Gaiety 1 Nov. 1882; author with Clement Scott
of The great divorce case, comedy Criterion 15 April 1876; with
Joseph Hatton of Liz, drama Opera Comique 1 Sep. 1877; and with
Charles Wyndham of Tantalus, Folly 14 Oct. 1878; translated A.
Belgioioso’s Brief observations on singing 1860, and A. Perrin’s
Military studies 1863; author of The state banquet 1862; Half an
hour with a good author 1872; his poem The little hero 1879 was
frequently recited and was set to music by Stephen Adams _i.e._
Michael Maybrick in 1881; composer of The little gold locket,
a song 1879; wrote the words of upwards of 50 songs 1861–80,
of H. Leslie’s cantata The daughter of the Isles 1862, of J.
Barnby’s sacred idyll Rebekah 1872, and of M. W. Balfe’s opera
The Talisman 1874. _d._ 17 Store st. Bedford sq. London 21 May
1883. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May.
MATURIN, EDWARD (son of Charles Robert Maturin, C. of St.
Peter’s church, Dublin, and novelist 1782–1824). _b._ Dublin
1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832; barrister in
the U.S. of America; professor of Greek in College of South
Carolina; taught Greek and Latin in New York 30 years; revised
the Gospel of St. Mark for the American Bible Union 1850; author
of Montezuma, the last of the Aztecs, a romance 2 vols. New York
1845; Benjamin the Jew of Grenada, a romance 1848; Eva, or the
Isles of life and death 2 vols. 1848; Lyrics of Spain and Erin.
Boston 1850; Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy. New York 1852.
_d._ New York 25 May 1881.
MATURIN, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Dublin 1803; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C.
of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin
1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin
about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week.
Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons
1888. _d._ Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. _bur._ All
Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.
MAUDE, DANIEL (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall,
Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). _b._ 1801; ed.
at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828;
barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for
Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall,
Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate
value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary
magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb.
1874. _d._ 1874. _J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of
Alverthorpe_ (1874).
MAUDE, FRANCIS (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). _b._
17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820,
commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined
the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church
missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen
and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal
naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s
hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. _The
Shipwrecked Mariner_, _xxx_ 21–30 (1883).
MAUDE, FREDERIC PHILIP (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great
George st. Westminster). _b._ London 1818; barrister I.T. 29
Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law
of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The
law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E.
Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various
branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. _d._ 44 St. George’s
road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_ 158
(1870).
MAUDSLAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831).
_b._ London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering
business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which
the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E.
1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine
engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines
for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty;
patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting
annular cylinder screw engine. _d._ 21 Hyde park sq. London 25
Sep. 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 562–9 (1862).
MAUDSLAY, THOMAS HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1792;
member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish
sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed
the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25
years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before
select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831;
made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw;
purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. _d._ Knight’s Hill,
Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. _bur._ at Woolwich, personalty
sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. _Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April
1864 p._ 282.
MAUGHAM, ROBERT. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle
st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of
founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and
secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary
to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June
1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831
and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer
or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec.
1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began
3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for
him by the members of the society, part of which was invested
in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council
12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury
laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825;
A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of
criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law
of real property 1842. _d._ at the Incorporated law society,
Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery 22
July. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _vi_ 727 (1862); _Parliamentary
report on legal education_ (1846) 158–68, _portrait at Incorp.
law soc._
NOTE.--His son Robert Ormond Maugham _b._ 1814, admitted solicitor
1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, _d._ from
cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.
MAUGHAN, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I.
6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of
Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and
naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I.
28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June
1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858;
lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. _d._
Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.
MAULE, SIR JOHN BLOSSETT (2 son of George Maule, barrister,
solicitor to the treasury, _d._ 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave
sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). _b._ Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at
Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death,
treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany.
1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1
Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec.
1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace
and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. _d._ 47
Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. _I.L.N.
lxxxi_ 656 (1882) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_ 425 (1889), _portrait_.
MAULE, LAUDERDALE (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). _b._ 25
March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835;
captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24
Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to
death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death.
_d._ Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854.
MAULE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton,
Middlesex, surgeon). _b._ Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler
and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister
L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh
circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of
England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron
of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common
pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted
1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21
July 1855 to death. _d._ 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany.
1858. _E. Leathley’s Memoir of early life of sir W. H. Maule_
(1872); _Law magazine and law review_, _v_ 1–34 (1858); _Law
Times 10 March 1894 pp._ 439–40.
MAULEVERER, JAMES THOMAS. Ensign 61 foot 18 April 1834; captain
30 foot 23 July 1844, lieut.-col. 30 Sep. 1854 to 19 Dec. 1862
when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 30 Sep. 1857; C.B. 5 July
1855. _d._ 14 Craven st. London 26 Oct. 1866.
MAUND, Benjamin. _b._ 1790; chemist, bookseller, printer and
publisher at Bromsgrove, Worcs. to about 1852; F.L.S. 5 June
1827; started a monthly publication entitled The Botanic Garden
1824, issued with it in parts The auctarium of the botanic
garden, The floral register, The fruitist, and A dictionary of
English and Latin terms used in botanical descriptions by J.
S. Henslow, the whole work consisted of 13 vols. 1825–50, it
was partly reissued as The botanic garden and fruitist 3 vols.
1851–4, 2 ed. in 12 vols. appeared in 1878; edited The Botanist
1837–48 and The Naturalist 1837 &c. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight
21 April 1863.
MAUNDER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ 1832; ed. Totteridge school,
at Guy’s hospital, London, and univs. of Edinb. and Paris;
M.R.C.S. 1854, F.R.C.S. 1857; civil assistant surgeon at
Renkioi hospital, and in the field during Crimean war 1854–5;
demonstrator of anatomy and of operative surgery in Paris;
junior surgeon Great Northern hospital London; demonstrator
of anatomy Guy’s hospital; lecturer on clinical surgery and
demonstrator of operative surgery London hospital; translated
P. Ricord’s Lectures on chancres 1859; edited with sir A. Clark
Clinical lectures 1864 etc.; author of Operative surgery 2 parts
1860–1, 2 ed. 1873; Tumour of lower jaw removed without external
wound 1874; Surgery of the arteries 1875; Fistula in ano 1877;
resided Queen Anne st. London. _d._ from effects of an accident
4 July 1879. _The Lancet 12 July 1879 p._ 67.
MAUNSELL, DANIEL TOLER THOMAS (1 son of rev. Thomas Maunsell
of Fintona, co. Tyrone). _b._ 1835; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
M.B. 1859; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1859; M.R.I.A.; demonstrator of
anatomy, Carmichael school of medicine, Dublin; physician south
city dispensary district, Dublin; lecturer on materia medica and
then on botany, Ledwich school of medicine, Dublin; originator
of Poor-law medical officers’ association; author of To the poor
law medical officers of Ireland, The Irish poor law medical
system, by Dispensarius 3 ed. 1870. _d._ South Richmond st.
Dublin 18 Aug. 1875. _The Lancet_, _ii_ 329, 349, 466, 494, 581,
614, 674 (1875).
MAUNSELL, FREDERICK (6 son of Robert Maunsell, member of supreme
council of Madras, _d._ 1 Feb. 1832 aged 87). _b._ 1794; ensign
18 foot 16 April 1812; captain 85 foot 24 June 1819, lieut.-col.
23 May 1836 to 19 June 1846; inspecting field officer 19 June
1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 53 foot 4 June 1860 to 2 April 1865;
col. 85 foot 2 April 1865 to death; general 9 Aug. 1870. _d._
Bray near Dublin 18 Oct. 1875.
MAUNSELL, GEORGE EDMUND (2 son of Thomas Philip Maunsell
1781–1866). _b._ 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 22 Nov. 1838;
R. of Thorpe Malsor 1842; chaplain to earl of Westmoreland 1842;
author of Poems 1861. d. 112 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 29 Oct.
1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 470 (1875).
MAUNSELL, HENRY. _b._ 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1831; F.R.C.S.I. 1832;
professor of midwifery, Royal college of surgeons, Dublin;
edited with A. Jacob The Dublin medical press 1839 etc.; author
of The Dublin practice of midwifery 1834, 3 ed. 1871; author
with R. T. Evanson of A treatise on the management and diseases
of children 1836, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ Greystones, co. Wicklow 27
Sep. 1879.
MAUNSELL, THOMAS PHILIP. _b._ Oct. 1781; sheriff of
Northamptonshire 1821; M.P. North Northamptonshire 1835–57; col.
Northampton and Rutland militia 2 April 1845 to death. _d._
Thorpe Malsor, Northampton 4 March 1866.
MAUNSELL, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Rushton hall, Northants 1813; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1837; associate of
British archæological assoc. 1852; recorder of Stamford 10 June
1859 to death; author of Church bells and ringing 1861. _d._
Thorpe Malsor 13 March 1862. _Journal of British Archæological
Assoc. xix_ 156 (1863).
MAUNSELL, WILLIAM WRAY (son of Wm. Maunsell, archdeacon of
Kildare). _b._ 1782; priest 24 Aug. 1803; archdeacon of Limerick
1814 to death; precentor of Cloyne 27 May 1822 to death. _d._ 25
July 1860.
MAURICE, JAMES WILKES. _b._ Devonport 10 Feb. 1775; entered navy
as able seaman 1789; commanded the Diamond Rock, Martinique 7
May 1804, yielded to an attack of the French 2 June 1805, tried
by court martial but honorably acquitted; captain 18 Jany.
1809; governor of island of Anholt in the Baltic, July 1810 to
Sep. 1812, defeated an attack of the Danes on the island 27
March 1811; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ East Emma place,
Stonehouse, Plymouth 4 Sep. 1857.
MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (5 child of Michael Maurice
_b._ 1766, Unitarian minister). _b._ Normanston near Lowestoft
29 Aug. 1805; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1823; founder of
the Select essay club known as the Apostles at Camb.; migrated
to Trin. hall Camb. Oct. 1825; an editor of Metropolitan
quarterly mag. Nov. 1825, three numbers; one of purchasers of
London literary chronicle, which he edited from 1 May 1828,
it was amalgamated with the Athenæum 30 July 1828, edited the
latter from 1828 to May 1829; a commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf.
3 Dec. 1829 to 30 June 1837; baptized as a member of Church of
England 29 March 1831; B.A. Oxford 1831, M.A. 1835, hon. M.A.
Camb. 1867; ordained to curacy of Bubbenhall near Leamington 26
Jany. 1834; chaplain to Guy’s hospital Jany. 1836 to June 1846;
one of editors of The Educational Magazine, Sep. 1839, sole
editor 1840–1; professor of English literature and history at
King’s college, London 1840, professor of theology there 1846,
dismissed from both his chairs 27 Oct. 1853; Boyle lecturer
July 1845, Warburton lecturer Aug. 1845; chaplain of Lincoln’s
Inn, June 1846 to 1860; founded in London, Queen’s college for
female education 1848, chairman of the committee to about Nov.
1853; spiritual leader of the Christian socialists; edited with
J. M. Ludlow their first organ called Politics for the People
17 weekly numbers from 6 May 1848; presided at conferences held
with the working classes 1849; drew up a scheme for a Working
Men’s college Feb. 1854, which was started at 31 Red Lion sq.
Holborn 30 Oct. 1854 when he became the principal, the college
was moved to 45 Great Ormond st. 1857; P.C. of St. Peter’s,
Vere st. London 20 July 1860 to 7 Nov. 1869; Knightbridge
professor of casuistry, moral theology and moral philosophy
at Cambridge 25 Oct. 1866 to death; member of commission on
contagious diseases 1870; V. of St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1871 to
death; Cambridge preacher at Whitehall, July 1871; author of
Eustace Conway: or the brother and sister, a novel 3 vols. 1834,
anon.; Subscription no bondage 1835; The kingdom of Christ,
or hints on the ordinances and constitution of the Catholic
church in Letters to a member of the Society of Friends 1838,
3 ed. 1883; What is revelation? 1859; The claims of the Bible
and of science 1863; Moral and metaphysical philosophy 2 vols.
1871–2. _d._ 6 Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 1 April 1872.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 5 April, bust in Cambridge univ. library
and another by Woolner placed in St. John the Baptist’s chapel,
Westminster Abbey, Aug. 1873, portraits in National portrait
gallery, Working Men’s college and Queen’s college. _Life of
F. D. Maurice. Edited by his son F. Maurice_ 2 _vols._ (1884),
2 _portraits_; _Life of Charles Kingsley_ (1877), _passim_;
_J. H. Rigg’s Modern Anglican theology_ (1880) 244–344; _J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 49–60; _J. F. Hurst’s
History of rationalism_ (1867) 375–7; _Illust. Review_,
_iii_ 609–16, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862)
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _v_ 382, 384 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lx_ 339, 353, 358 (1872), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In his novel Eustace Conway 3 vols. 1834 the villain is called
Captain Marryat, in consequence of this Captain Frederick Marryat the
novelist challenged Maurice to a duel which he declined, Maurice had
never heard of Captain Marryat the novelist.