_b._ Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut.
R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine
artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de
camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A.
28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April
1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. _d._ East hill house, Hastings 22
Aug. 1866.
MENZIES, JOHN. _b._ 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh;
apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet
st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh
1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to
number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in
Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852;
Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to
Scotland 1852. _d._ 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879.
_Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 1306; _Bookseller_, _Jany. 1880
p._ 7.
MENZIES, ROBERT STEWART (elder son of Graham Menzies of
Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). _b._ 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East
Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor
sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.
MENZIES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on
Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). _b._ Kincardine on Forth
1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and
surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and
parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21
Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park
and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management
and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage
of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question
considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’
cottages and of villages 1869. _d._ Windsor great park 3 May
1878. _bur._ St. Jude’s cemetery, Englefield Green. Margaret
Emmeline his widow granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June
1878. _Land and Water_, _xxv_ 485 (1878).
MENZIES, WILLIAM COLLIER (son of sir Charles Menzies 1783–1866).
_b._ 4 Oct. 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 20 Oct. 1869;
L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 19 Oct. 1881. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 31 March 1890.
MERCER, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; lieut.
27 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; lieut. 70 N.I. 13 May 1825,
lieut.-col. 19 March 1847 to 1849; lieut.-col. of 1 European
regiment, right wing 1849–50, and of 63 N.I. 1850 to death; C.B.
9 June 1849. _d._ York st. London 12 Nov. 1852.
MERCER, ALEXANDER CAVALIE. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec.
1799; colonel R.A. 1 April 1846; col. commandant 16 Jany. 1859
to death; general 9 Feb. 1865. _d._ Cowley near Exeter 9 Nov.
1868.
MERCER, GEORGE. _b._ 1818; solicitor at Deal, Kent 1840 to
death; town clerk of Deal 1840 to death; coroner for Deal
1844 to death; shot himself while lying in bed at his house 2
Victoria road, Deal 5 Oct. 1891. _Solicitors’ Journal 17 Oct.
1891 p._ 805.
MERCER, JOHN (son of Robert Mercer, hand-loom cotton-spinner,
_d._ 1800). _b._ Dean near Blackburn 21 Feb. 1791; a dyer at
Great Harwood 1807–9; a hand-loom weaver 1810; a dyer again
1813, discovered a method of fixing orange sulphide of antimony
on cotton-cloth 1817; a chemist in the colour-shop of Messrs.
Fort Brothers at Oakenshaw, Lancs. 1818, a partner in the
business 1825–48; propounded the first rational theory of the
so-called catalytic action 1842; joined the Chemical society
1847; partner with Robert Hargreaves of Broadoak near Accrington
1845; discovered the process known as ‘mercerising’ 1850;
patented the preparation of parchment paper 1850; F.R.S. 3 June
1852; F.C.S. 1842. _d._ Oakenshaw near Accrington 30 Nov. 1866.
_bur._ Great Harwood. _E. A. Parnell’s Life of John Mercer_
(1886), _portrait_.
MERCER, ROBERT (son of James Mercer, keeper of the abbreviates
of adjudication, general register office, Edinb. _d._ 1846).
_b._ 1797; writer to the signet 20 India st. Edinb. 5 July 1821,
retired from business. _d._ Ramsay lodge, Portobello 3 Nov.
1875. _bur._ East Preston st. cemetery, Newington. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_.
MERCER-HENDERSON, DOUGLAS. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803,
lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G.
11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after
that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. _d._ Naples 21 March 1854.
MERCIER, LEWIS PAGE (only son of Francis Michael Jacob
Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). _b._ 1820; ed.
at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A.
1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842;
assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow,
and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master
Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49,
head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London
1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873
and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of
A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon
and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855;
Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic
feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2
vols. 1871–2. _d._ 2 Nov. 1875.
MEREDITH, CHARLES (son of George Meredith). _b._ Poyston lodge,
Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a
squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840;
member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26
Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to
1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873.
_d._ Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain
placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885.
MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM COLLIS (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of
Andrea, co. Tyrone). _b._ Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at
Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province
of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same
province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84;
knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854,
LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. _d._ 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894.
MEREDYTH, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth,
1 Baronet). _b._ 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded
his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for
Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. _d._ 25
Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859.
MEREI, AUGUST SCHOEPF. _b._ Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia
1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of
the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of
medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian
medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war;
a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death,
established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms
and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of
infantile development and rickets 1855. _d._ 114 Oxford street,
Manchester, March 1858.
MEREWETHER, CHARLES GEORGE (son of Francis Merewether, R. of
Cole Orton, Leics. _d._ 1864). _b._ 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C.
14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death;
contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880;
M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire
into corrupt practices at elections 1880. _d._ Inns of court
hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884.
NOTE.--He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms
in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling
authority on the subject.
MEREWETHER, FRANCIS (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.)
_b._ 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R.
of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick,
Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters
to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case
between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal
in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832;
Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his
apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants
of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish
1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. _d._ Cole Orton
rectory 21 July 1864.
MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of Henry Merewether of
Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister
I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent
of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835;
recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen
Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his
death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when
he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new
system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs
1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823;
author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and
municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835.
_d._ Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. _Law Times_,
_xxxix_ 442 (1864).
MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 23
April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister
I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867,
treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5
April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875,
leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of
By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon,
New Zealand and America 1874. _d._ Bowden hill near Chippenham,
Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. _Law Times_, _lxiii_ 353 (1877).
MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (son of H. A. Merewether
1780–1864). _b._ 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at
Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut
3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col.
Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the
frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán,
battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military
secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at
Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay
against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in
Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to
death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report
relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind
1857. _d._ 31 Linden gardens, Kensington 4 Oct. 1880. _C. R.
Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ (1869) _passim_;
_I.L.N. liii_ 222, 225 (1868), _portrait_.
MERIVALE, CHARLES (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). _b._ 1808; ed.
at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4
in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat
race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871;
scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow
9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher
before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at Whitehall
1839–41; R. of Lawford, Essex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at
Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to
speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to
death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary
of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda,
Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History
of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols.
1865; Keatsii Hyperionis libri 1, 2, Latine reddidit 1862;
Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four
lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. _d._ Ely 27
Dec. 1893. _bur._ Ely 2 Jany. 1894. _I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p._ 5,
_portrait_; _Edinburgh Review_, _Oct. 1884 pp._ 545–65.
MERIVALE, HERMAN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Cockwood
house, Dawlish, Devon 8 Nov. 1806; ed. at Harrow 1817–23,
captain of the school 1822–3; began residence at Oriel coll.
Oxf. Jany. 1824; open scholar at Trin. coll. 1825–8; the first
Ireland scholar 1825, Eldon scholar 1831; fellow of Balliol
coll. Dec. 1828–34; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1870; barrister
I.T. 16 Nov. 1832, bencher 1865 to death; Drummond professor of
political economy at Oxford 2 March 1837 to 1842, his lectures
upon the colonies 1840–2 made a great impression; recorder of
Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1841–8; assistant under-secretary
of state for the colonies Nov. 1847, permanent under-secretary
3 May 1848 to May 1860; permanent under-secretary for India,
May 1860 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; wrote 66 articles in
Edinburgh Review 1832–74; author of The character of Socrates
as drawn by Xenophon and Plato 1830; An introductory lecture on
political economy 1837; Introduction to a course of lectures on
colonisation 1839; Lectures on colonisation and the colonies 2
vols. 1841–2, 2 ed. 1861; Historical studies 1865; Memoirs of
sir Philip Francis 1867; The life of sir Henry Lawrence, vol.
2, 1872; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases in the
court of queen’s bench and upon writs of error to the exchequer
chamber 1843–1844, 1 vol. 1844. _d._ 13 Cornwall gardens,
South Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1874. _bur._ Fulham cemet.
_Transactions of Devonshire Association_ (1884) 570–80; _A. W.
Merivale’s Family Memorials. Privately printed_ (1884); _I.L.N.
lxiv_ 163, 168, 170 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 172, 178
(1874), _portrait_.
MERIVALE, JOHN LEWIS (5 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton
place, Devon). b. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; clerk in chancery registrar’s office
Aug. 1841, senior registrar in supreme court 1882 to June 1885
when he retired on a pension. _d._ Seagrove, Dawlish, Devon 14
Dec. 1886.
MERLE, GIBBONS. Edited London Courier; correspondent in London
of Journal des Debats; editor and publisher of The white dwarf
1817–18, thirteen numbers; one of editors of Galignani’s
Messenger 1830 to death; Paris correspondent of the Globe
about 1829 to death; author of The domestic dictionary and
housekeepers’ manual 1842; Letter to lord Sidmouth 2 ed. 1818,
this letter denounced Sidmouth’s conduct to the author in
connection with The white dwarf. _d._ Paris 19 Jany. 1855. _G.M.
xliii_ 654 (1855).
MERRICK, JOSEPH (son of an engine driver, his mother was
knocked down in a circus by an elephant when bearing him). _b._
Leicester 1857; known as the Elephant man, having bony exostoses
on his frontal bone, and a deformity of the superior maxilla,
which gave a trunk-like appearance to the nose and upper lip;
exhibited in the Whitechapel road, London 1884; taken abroad by
an Austrian adventurer who after exhibiting him on the continent
decamped, taking with him all Merrick’s savings namely £50 in
1885; the public gave sufficient to pay his expenses in the
London hospital for life from 1885. _d._ in London hospital, the
weight of his head suffocating him while he was asleep 11 April
1890. _Times 16 April 1890 p._ 6; _British Medical Journal 11
Dec. 1886 pp._ 1188–9, 4 _portraits_; _Trans. Pathological Soc.
xxxvi_ 494–8 (1885), 2 _portraits_.
MERRIDEW, HENRY MELVILLE. _b._ 1837; English bookseller at
Boulogne; rendered great service to the French ambulances during
the German war 1870–1, superintended the unloading of the seed
corn for the peasants on the conclusion of the war; author of
Merridew’s Visitor’s guide to Boulogne-sur-Mer 1864, 8 ed. 1886.
_d._ Boulogne, April 1879. _Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 323.
MERRIDEW, JOHN (eld. son of Nathaniel Merridew of Cross
Cheaping, Coventry, printer and bookseller). _b._ 1790;
bookseller and printer in High st. Warwick about 1820, removed
to Leamington, afterwards to Coventry; retired from business and
returned to Leamington about 1853; author of Merridew’s Improved
edition of Moncrieff’s original guide to Leamington Spa 1837; A
catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen
and others born or resident in or connected with the county of
Warwick 1849. _d._ Leamington Spa 26 June 1862. _Gent. Mag.
xiii_ 639 (1862).
MERRIFIELD, CHARLES WATKINS (eld. son of John Merrifield of
Tavistock, conveyancing barrister at Brighton). _b._ London 20
Oct. 1827; educ. at Warwick house and Tamworth house, Brighton,
then under Dr. Morris and Dr. Turrell at Brighton to 1842;
assisted his mother Mary P. Merrifield in researches on behalf
of the British government in the libraries of Paris and Italy
on the methods of painting 1844–5; barrister M.T. 31 Jany.
1851 but never practised; of the education department of the
privy council office, Whitehall 1847; examiner in the education
department 1851–67 and 1873 to May 1883; hon. sec. of E. Instit.
of naval architecture 1864 to 1875, contributed 100 papers to
the Transactions; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; principal of school of
naval architecture and marine engineering at South Kensington
1867–73; vice president of mechanical section, British
association 1875 and 1876, drew up the report on Babbage’s
analytical machine 1878; member of London mathematical soc.
19 March 1866, president 1878–80; an assessor to Mr. Rothery
in the wreck court; acted on the unseaworthy ships commission
1869; author of Miscellaneous memoirs on pure mathematics 1861;
Technical arithmetic and mensuration 1872; edited Longmans’ Text
books of science 1870 etc. _d._ from the effects of a third
attack of paralysis at 45 Church road, Hove, Brighton 1 Jany.
1884. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxvi_ 1–3 (1884); _Nature_, _xxix_
270; _Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884_.
MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834;
schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school
Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D.
1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered
a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude
at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author
of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on
navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical
astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical
astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891.
_bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning
News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.
MERRIFIELD, MRS. MARY PHILADELPHIA. Granted civil list pension
of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services
she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s
A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco
painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of
painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding,
dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols.
1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water
colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and
shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and
present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of
Brighton 1864. _m._ John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar
at M.T. 16 May 1828. _d._ Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.
MERRIMAN, NATHANIEL JAMES (3 son of Thomas Merriman of
Marlborough). _b._ 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8;
archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of
mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions;
one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863;
dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death,
consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams
dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot
and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through
Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._
Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from
1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807;
hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to
Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to
Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on
midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837;
examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court
of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion
of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult
parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German
and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833.
_d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British
physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682,
_portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9;
_Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN (only son of the preceding).
_b._ 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B.
1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western
general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to
Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use
of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London.
_d._ Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873.
_Medical Times 1 March 1873 p._ 238; _Proc. of Med. and Chir.
soc. vii_ 228 (1875).
MERRITT, HENRY (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). _b._
Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the
alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833;
apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder
1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846
where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850;
employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in
The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The
Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of
the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the
Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the
restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art
notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the
paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under
the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house;
restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster
abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death;
lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s
park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt
and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854;
Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his
own autobiography; _m._ April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M.
Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures
at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. _d._
54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. _bur._
Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty
years of an agitator’s life_, _ii_ 232–47 (1892); _H. Merritt,
art, criticism, and romance_ 2 _vols._ (1879), _recollections_,
_i_ 1–65, _portrait_; _The Times 14 July 1877 p._ 13; _L’ Art.
Paris 4 April 1880 pp._ 1–8.