Jesuits’ college, Rome; a missionary priest in Corsica, Tuscany
and other countries; came to England 1848, naturalized 13
Sep. 1849; in charge of mission at St. Leonards, removed to
Walthamstow; almoner of the Italian Benevolent society, London
1863 to death; a member of the Pious society of musicians;
officiated on Sundays at Brentwood and also preached to the
Italians of London on Sunday afternoons; author of Doctrines
of St. Thomas Aquinas on the rulers and members of Christian
states, extracted and explained 1860; The origin, persecution
and doctrines of the Waldenses 1870; Hints and facts on the
origin of man and of his intellectual faculties 1872. _d._
University hospital, London 25 May 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 30 May.
NOTE.--Raphael Melia _b._ Rome, naturalised in England 13 Sep. 1849,
was author of A treatise on auricular confession. London 1865; The
woman blessed by all generations 1868; and The life of V. Pallotti,
founder of The pious society of missions 1871.
MELLER, WALTER (son of Thomas Wm. Meller of Denmark Hill,
Surrey). _b._ 1818; a candidate for Southwark 1860 but did
not go to the poll; M.P. for Stafford, July 1865 to Nov.
1868, elected again Nov. 1868 but unseated on petition 1869;
lieut.-col. 1st Tower Hamlets artillery volunteers, hon. colonel
20 Feb. 1867. _d._ Brighton 10 Jany. 1886.
MELLISH, SIR GEORGE (2 son of Edward Mellish, dean of Hereford,
_d._ 1831). _b._ Tuddenham, Norfolk 19 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton
and Univ. coll. Oxf., Bennet scholar 1833–37, hon. fellow
1872–7; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, D.C.L. 1874; student at Inner
Temple 6 Nov. 1837; practised as a special pleader 1840–48;
barrister I.T. 9 June 1848, bencher 30 April 1861 to death,
reader 1875; went northern circuit, of which he became leader;
Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; lord justice of appeal 4 Aug. 1870 to death;
P.C. 9 Aug. 1870; knighted at Osborn 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 33
Lowndes square, London 15 June 1877. _A generation of judges. By
Their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_
55–65 (1877); _I.L.N. lviii_ 471, 473 (1870), _portrait_.
MELLISH, GEORGE LILLY (2 son of William Mellish an officer in
the army). _b._ Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll.
Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll.
1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854;
resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. _d._
Christ Church, Dec. 1881.
MELLISH, RICHARD CHARLES. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824;
attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830;
gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849;
sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep.
1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance
1 Jany. 1855. _d._ Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. _Foreign
office list_ (1866) 177.
MELLON, ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member
of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a
violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at
Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at
Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at
Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English
opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced
his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society;
conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name
at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep.
1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865;
(_m._ Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress _b._ 1824); composer of My
pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a
glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850;
The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the
ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of
dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published
in 1860. _d._ The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 April. _Era 31 March 1867 p._ 10 and
_7 April p._ 11; _Illust. sporting news_, _iv_ 441 (1865)
_portrait_, _v_ 504 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 6 April
1867 p._ 216, _portrait_.
MELLON, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during
two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law;
leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit;
joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after
played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters
at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and
Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather
in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864;
played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr.
Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25
Jany. 1871. _d._ Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25
Nov. 1876. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 321, 338 (1847), _portrait_;
_E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 294, 347, _ii_ 393, 462 (1891).
MELLOR, ENOCH (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). _b._
Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield
coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870;
congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61;
minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to
death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales
1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The
atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies
were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted
with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867;
Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles
1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. _d._
Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. _Congregationalist_, _ix_
617–20 (1880) _portrait_, _x_ 1000–1011 (1881); _E. Mellor’s
The hem of Christ’s garment_ (1882), _biographical sketch pp.
v–xxxi_; _Congregational Year book_ (1882) _pp._ 315–8.
MELLOR, SIR JOHN (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, _d._
1861). _b._ Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at
Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4
years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to
Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became
leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April
1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July
1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852
and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham
1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired
11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June
1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian
prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur
Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June
1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author
of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation
1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. _d._ 16
Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. _bur._ Kingsdown
churchyard, Dover 30 April. _Law Journal_, _xxii_ 250–1, 259–60
(1887); _Times 28 April 1887 p._ 5.
MELVILL, HENRY (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut.
governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). _b._ Pendennis
castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct.
1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32;
second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent
of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the
Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East
India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec.
1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London
1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death;
canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R.
of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in
London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author
of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of
the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols.
1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to
1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons
preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral
of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. _d._ Amen corner, St. Paul’s
churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 15
Feb. _Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit_, _ii_ 1–21 (1839); _Ritchie’s
London Pulpit_ (1858) 60–8; _Johnson’s Popular Preachers_ (1863)
189–201; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1856) 210–41; _Roose’s
Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 410–13; _I.L.N. iv_ 48 (1844) _portrait_,
_lviii_ 163 (1871); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._
345–8, 1279–80; _Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait_.
MELVILL, SIR JAMES COSMO (brother of the preceding). _b._
Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb.
1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to
H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841;
K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. _d._ Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23
July 1860.
MELVILL, SIR MAXWELL (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin.
coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered
Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60;
assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde
1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883;
judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of
governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E.
15 Feb. 1887. _d._ of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5
Aug. 1887. _bur._ Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. _Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s
Life of sir M. Melville_ (1887), _portrait_; _Times 8 Aug. 1887
p._ 5, _15 Aug. p._ 6.
MELVILL, TEIGNMOUTH (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., _d._
Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). _b._ 1843; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865,
lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at
Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped
around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow
granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed
to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ _Graphic
xix_ 272 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 277, 282, 554, 560
(1879), _portrait_; _F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C._ (1880) 256–7.
MELVILLE, ROBERT SAUNDERS DUNDAS, 2 Viscount (only son of Henry
Dundas, 1 Viscount Melville 1742–1811). _b._ 14 March 1771; ed.
at High school of Edinburgh and Emm. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hastings
1794–6, M.P. Rye 1796–1801; assumed name of Saunders 1796; M.P.
co. of Edinburgh 1801–11; P.C. 26 March 1807; president of board
of control for India 6 April 1807 to 17 July 1809 and 13 Nov.
1809 to 7 April 1812; chief sec. of Ireland 13 April 1809 to
18 Oct. 1809; succeeded his father as 2 viscount 29 May 1811;
lord keeper of privy seal for Scotland 20 July 1811; first lord
of the admiralty with a seat in the cabinet 25 March 1812 to
2 May 1827 and 19 Sep. 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; an elder brother
of the Trinity house 1809 to death; chancellor of univ. of St.
Andrews 7 Feb. 1814 to death; K.T. 17 July 1821; F.R.S. 15 May
1817; F.R.A.S. _d._ Melville castle near Edinb. 10 June 1851.
_bur._ in family vault Lasswade church 17 June. _J. E. Doyle’s_
_Official baronage_, _ii_ 494 (1886), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_
191 (1851); _I.L.N xviii_ 538 (1851); _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery_ (1831) _vol._ 2, _portrait_ 17 _and pp._ 8.
MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 3 Viscount (eld. child of the
preceding). _b._ Melville castle, Lasswade near Edinb. 25 Feb.
1801; ensign coldstream guards 18 Nov. 1819; major 28 foot 31
Jany. 1828 to 3 Dec. 1829; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 Dec. 1829 to 2
Aug. 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. rifle corps 26 July
1844 to 20 June 1854; brigadier Punjaub field force 1848–9;
colonel of 100 foot 22 June 1858 to 28 Sep. 1862; colonel of
32 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to 1 April 1863; colonel commandant 60
rifles 1 April 1863 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; C.B. 30
March 1839, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; succeeded
as 3 viscount 10 June 1851; commander of forces in Scotland and
governor of Edinburgh castle 29 Jany. 1855 to 1860; president
of royal company of archers 1860. _d._ Melville castle 1 Feb.
1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167 (1876); _J. B. Paul’s History of royal
company of archers_ (1875) 250, _portrait_.
MELVILLE, ROBERT DUNDAS, 4 Viscount (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Melville castle near Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1803; deputy
controller of the navy 21 Oct. 1830; store keeper general of the
navy 9 June 1832 to 27 Feb. 1869; succeeded as 4 viscount 1 Feb.
1876. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Feb. 1886.
MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN WHYTE (only son of John Whyte Melville
1797–1883). _b._ near St. Andrews 19 July 1821; ed. at Eton to
1839; ensign 93 highlanders 19 July 1839; ensign Coldstream
guards 11 Sep. 1840, lieut. 29 Dec. 1846, sold out 28 Jany.
1848; joined cavalry of Turkish contingent as major 27 March
1855 and resigned at close of Crimean war 1856; rode with
the Pytchley hounds twenty years; author of Digby Grand, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1853; Tilbury Nogo or passages in the
life of an unsuccessful man 1854, 4 ed. 1866; General Bounce
or the lady and the locusts 2 vols. 1855; Kate Coventry, an
autobiography 1856; The Interpreter, a tale of the war 1858;
The queen’s Maries, a romance of Holyrood 2 vols. 1862; Holmby
house, a tale of Old Northamptonshire 2 vols. 1860; Good for
nothing or all down hill 2 vols. 1861; Market Harborough 1861, 6
ed. 1864; The gladiators, a tale of Rome and Judea 3 vols. 1863,
2 ed. 1864; The true cross, a legend of the church 1873, new ed.
1879; Riding recollections 1878, new ed. 1880; Black but comely
3 vols. 1879 and 20 other books; _killed_ while hunting near
Charlton pond near Malmesbury 5 Dec. 1878. _Babington’s Records
of the Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 114, _portrait_; _Fores’s Sporting
Notes_, _Oct. 1884 p._ 110, _portrait_; _Land and water_, _xxvi_
472, 486 (1878); _Baily’s Mag. xiii_ 55–67 (1867), _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news_, _vi_ 569 (1867), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xix_ 52 (1879), _portrait_.
MELVILLE, HENRY SAXELBY. _b_. 1801; formerly printer and
publisher of Australian papers; author of Narrow guage, speedier
than broad guage railways, as well as cheaper 1846. _d_.
Ladbroke crescent, London 23 Dec. 1873.
MELVILLE, SIR JOHN (eld. son of George Melville of Newington,
Edinburgh). _b_. Kirkcaldy 1802; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a writer
to the signet 6 Dec. 1827; lord provost of Edinb. 1854–9; crown
agent for Scotland 1860; knighted by the queen at Holyrood
palace 15 Oct. 1859. _d_. 15 Heriot row, Edinburgh 5 May 1860.
_The Scotsman 7 May 1860 p._ 2.
MELVILLE, JOHN WHYTE (younger son of John Whyte of Bennochry,
Fifeshire 1755–1813, who assumed surname of Melville 1809). _b._
21 June 1797; cornet 9 lancers 4 Dec. 1817, placed on h.p. 18
Feb. 1819; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1818; joint master of
the Fife fox hounds 1827, master 1838–48 when the hounds were
sold to sir R. Sutton; a golf player for 67 years, captain of
the St. Andrew’s club 1823. _d._ Mount Melville near St. Andrews
16 July 1883. _Babington’s Records of Fife fox hounds_ (1883)
30, _portrait_; _H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf. Badminton library_
(1890) _pp._ 437–40, _portrait_.
MELVILLE, MICHAEL LINNING (son of Robert Melville, M.D.) _b._
1804; registrar to British and foreign courts of commission at
Sierra Leone for suppression of slave trade 7 April 1835 and
sec. to mixed British and Spanish courts of justice 9 April
1836; commissioner of arbitration in slave trade courts 20
Feb. 1841; commissary judge at Sierra Leone 12 April 1842,
superannuated on an allowance 1 Jany. 1849; barrister L.I. 23
Nov. 1843. _d._ 22 June 1878.
MELVILLE, ROBERT (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1842; ed.
at Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; barrister L.I. 17
Nov. 1864; judge of county courts, circuit 27, comprising
Herefordshire and Shropshire, Oct. 1889 to death; gave evidence
in a case at county police court, Ludlow 31 Aug. 1891. _d._
suddenly at Ashford hall near Ludlow at 5 a.m. 1 Sep. 1891.
MELVIN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 21 April 1795; ed. at Aberdeen gr.
sch. and Marischal college, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1834; a master
at Aberdeen gr. sch. 1822–6, rector 1826 to death; lecturer
on humanity (_i.e._ Latin) at Marischal college, contested
professorship of Latin 1839 and 1852; probably most accomplished
Scottish Latinist of his day; a testimonial of £300 in a silver
snuff-box was presented to him by old pupils 18 June 1853;
author of Latin exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin
1857, a supplementary volume or key appeared in 1858, and a
third ed. revised by rev. J. Pirie 1873; his books numbering
6984 were presented to Marischal college in Sep. 1856 by his
sister Agnes Melvin; there is a stained-glass memorial window in
univ. library, Aberdeen. _d._ Belmont st. Aberdeen 29 June 1853.
_Macmillan’s Mag. Jany. 1864 pp._ 225–39; _Anderson’s Fasti
academiæ Mariscallanæ_ (1889) 527–9.
MENDEL, SAMUEL. _b._ Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester
warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in
Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses
and retired from business 1875; built a magnificent residence
Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for
£18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at
Christies 1875. _d._ Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17
Sep. 1884.
NOTE.--He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving
the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign
countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports
of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton
to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.
MENDHAM, JOSEPH (eld. son of Robert Mendham of Walbrook, London,
merchant, _d._ 1810 aged 77). _b._ 1769; ed. at St. Edmund
hall, Oxf., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; C. of Sutton, Coldfield,
Warwickshire 1795; Incumbent of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warws.
22 Aug. 1836; part of his library of controversial theology,
liturgies, breviaries, missals, &c. was presented by the widow
of his nephew rev. John Mendham to the Incorporated law society
Chancery lane, London in 1869; author of An exposition of the
Lord’s prayer 1803; Clavis Apostolica, or a key to the apostolic
writings 1821; An account of indexes, both prohibitory and
expurgatory of the Church of Rome 1826, 2 ed. as The literary
policy of the church of Rome exhibited in her indexes 1830,
Supplement 1836, Additional supplement 1843, 3 ed. of whole work
1844; Memoirs of council of Trent 1834, Supplement 1836. _d._
Sutton Coldfield 1 Nov. 1856. _W. K. Bedford’s Three hundred
years of a family living_ (1889) 123–30, 166.
MENDS, HERBERT. Lieut. royal African colonial corps 25 April
1822, captain 19 March 1829, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1830;
captain 2 West India regt. 25 May 1832, lieut.-col. 14 Feb.
1853, placed on retired full pay 6 Jany. 1854; colonel in army
28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush near London 6 Sep. 1888 aged
87.
MENDS, WILLIAM BOWEN. _b._ Pembrokeshire 27 Jany. 1781; entered
navy Nov. 1794; served in cutting out service in Vigo bay 29
Aug. 1800; captain 26 May 1814; in command of the Blanche 46
guns, senior officer off coast of Peru 1827; commander of
Talavera 74 guns, and senior officer in the Greek waters 1839;
pensioned 17 Oct. 1856; admiral on h.p. 11 Feb. 1861. _d._
Somerset place, Stoke, Devonport 7 Feb. 1864.
MENELAUS, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to
an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fothergill
at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks
at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first
to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel
under the Bessemer process 1874; founder and president of South
Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel
institute 1875–6, awarded the Bessemer medal 1881; M.I.M.E.
1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented
a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to
Cardiff 1881–82. _d._ Tenby 30 March 1882. _Proc. of Instit. of
M.E._ (1883) _pp._ 20–2; _Red Dragon, June 1882 pp._ 387–92,
_portrait_.
MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, formerly Adelaide McCord (dau. of James
McCord a merchant _d._ 1842). _b._ Chartrain, afterwards called
Milneburg in Louisiana 15 June 1835; she and her younger sister
were engaged as the Theodore Sisters, dancers at Opera house,
New Orleans 1849; danced at the Tacon theatre in Havana; played
at Port Zavaca, Texas; worked as a journalist in New Orleans
and Cincinnati; taught French, Greek and Latin at a ladies’
school in New Orleans; _m._ 3 Aug. 1856 Alexander Isaacs Menken
musician, a Jew, whose religion she adopted, divorced from him
in Nashville; acted in Milman’s Fazio at Varieties theatre, New
Orleans 1858; played in the southern states; studied sculpture;
_m._ near New York 3 April 1859 John Camel Heenan the pugilist,
he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862; first appeared in New
York, June 1859; played leading business in the southern states;
first played Mazeppa at Green st. theatre Albany 7 June 1861;
went through a form of marriage with Robert Henry Newell known
as Orpheus C. Kerr, Oct. 1861, divorced from him Oct. 1865;
_m._ 21 Aug. 1866 James Barclay; acted in California 1863–4;
played Mazeppa at Astley’s amphitheatre, London 3 Oct. 1864,
where she cleared £200 a week for four months; played Leon in
Brougham’s Child of the Sun, at Astley’s 9 Oct. 1865; became
intimate with Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne and Charles
Reade in London, and with Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier
in Paris; appeared at the Gaité, Paris in Les Pirates de la
Savane 30 Dec. 1866; played as Mazeppa at Astley’s, London 19
Oct. 1867 and in Black Eyed Susan, Jany. 1868; at the Pavilion
theatre, April 1868; directress of Sadler’s Wells, May 1868;
author of Memories. By Indigena, about 1856, a vol. of poems
not in British Museum library; Infelicia 1868, a vol. of poems
dedicated by permission to Charles Dickens, new illustrated ed.
1888. _d._ Rue Cramartine, Paris 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Père la
Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to
Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. _A. I. Menken’s Infelicia_
(1888), _memoir and portrait_; _Les Pirates de la Savane. Par
Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 1–14; _T. A.
Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 243, _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old
Drury Lane_, _ii_ 251–3 (1881); _The Age_, _ii_ 369 (1864),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 44 (1862) _portrait_,
_iv_ 569 (1865), _portrait_.
MENZIES, ALLAN (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). _b._
1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs.
of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000
for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of
conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author
of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick
esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3
ed. 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.
MENZIES, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high
sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas
Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a
line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had
50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two
minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director
of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses
1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1873. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 223–8 (1886),
_portrait_.