1781–1857). _b._ Easton in Gordano, Somerset 25 Jany. 1816;
ed. at Westminster and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 2 June 1834;
B.A. 1838, M.A. and D.D. 1867; C. of Winwick, Northamptonshire
1839–40; V. of Chaddleworth, Berkshire 1840–51; V. of Lambourn,
Berkshire 1851–62, built a church and schools in the hamlet
of Eastbury and restored the chancel of Lambourn church; V.
of Great Marlow, Bucks. 1862–7; bishop of Calcutta, Jany.
1867 to death, consecrated in Canterbury cathedral 2 Feb.,
landed at Calcutta 31 March, his diocese extended over nearly
a million square miles, received the Kol converts into church
of England 1869; author of Meditations on confirmation 1850;
Life of Torquato Tasso 2 vols. 1850; The love of the atonement
1853; Mitslav, or the conversion of Pomerania 1854; Inkerman,
a poem 1855; Convalescence 1865. _d._ Rawul Pindi, Punjab 15
March 1876. _bur._ there 16 March, monument erected by Indian
government in Calcutta cathedral. _F. M. Milman’s Memoir of
Robert Milman_ (1879); _I.L.N. l_ 313 (1867) _portrait_,
_lxviii_ 267 (1876).
MILN, JAMES (son of James Maud Miln of Woodhill, Barry,
Forfarshire). _b._ 1819; served in the navy in China war 1842;
a merchant in China and India; studied Breton antiquities at
Carnac 1873–80, excavated the hillocks of the Bosseno 1874–6 and
explored three circular sepultures at Kermario, his collections
of antiquities are in the Miln museum at Carnac; F.S.A.
Scotland; author of Excavations at Carnac, Brittany. Edinb.
1877–81; Fouilles faites à Carnac, Brittany, les alignments de
Kermario. Rennes 1881. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1881. _Luco’s J.
Miln et les trois sepultures circulaires. Tours_ (1881).
MILNE, GEORGE. _b._ near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire about 1791;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; partner with A. Guild as writers to
the signet at Dundee, on Guild’s death partner with Robert
Miln; secretary to Society of writers Dundee 1821–8, president
1828; sheriff clerk depute for Dundee district about April
1822; a comr. of police for the fourth district of Dundee 1827;
proprietor and editor of the Dundee Chronicle 1830, which ceased
in about ten months but was revived by Milne in 1832; clerk
to the Harbour trustees 1838 to death; in July 1869 his widow
published a book containing his prayers on the chapters of St.
Luke’s gospel. _d._ Dundee 19 Jany. 1865. _W. Norrie’s Dundee
Celebrities_ (1873) 249–53.
MILNE, JOSHUA. _b._ 1775; actuary to Sun life assurance
15 June 1810, resigned 19 Dec. 1843; published A treatise
on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and
survivorships, on the construction of tables of mortality and
on the probabilities and expectations of life 2 vols. 1815,
his tables were generally adopted by insurance societies; the
first to compute accurately the value of lives; contributed
articles on annuities, bills of mortality and law of mortality
to fourth ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. _d._ Clapton terrace,
Upper Clapton, London 4 Jany. 1851. _J. Miln’s Correspondence
with John Heysham in H. Lonsdale’s Life of John Heysham_ (1870)
137–73.
MILNER, EDWARD (son of Henry Milner). _b._ Hillside, Darley,
Derbyshire 20 Jany. 1819; ed. Bakewell gram. sch.; studied at
Jardin des plantes, Paris; apprentice to and then colleague of
sir Joseph Paxton in his later years in laying out estates and
in landscape gardening; laid out some of the best gardens in the
United Kingdom and on the continent 1850–84; laid out Prince’s
park, Liverpool 1844, Manley hall, Manchester, Highbury park,
Birmingham, Ashtead park, Epsom, and Osmaston, Derbyshire;
principal of Crystal palace school of gardening 1881 to death,
and was succeeded bys son Henry Ernest Milner, partner with his
father 1870–84; landscape gardener 7 Victoria st. London, and
author of The art of landscape gardening 1890. _d._ Hillside,
Kingswood road, Dulwich Wood park, Norwood, Surrey 26 March
1884. _The Gardener’s chronicle_ (1884), _portrait_.
MILNER, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ 1804; ensign 34 foot 1 Jany. 1824;
captain 94 foot 1 May 1828, lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1841 to 29 Dec.
1854 when he retired on full pay as M.G. _d._ Albion hotel,
Plymouth 14 Jany. 1855.
MILNER, MARY. _m._ rev. Joseph Milner, vicar of St. Lawrence,
Appleby, _d._ 1883; edited The christian mother’s magazine 2
vols. 1844, title changed to The Englishwoman’s magazine 9 vols.
1845–54; The people’s gallery of engravings, vols. i to iv and
vol. v, Nos. 1 to 4. London 1848–9; author of The christian
mother or maternal duties exemplified in the Old and New
Testament 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The life of Isaac Milner, dean of
Carlisle 1842; Sketches illustrative of important periods in the
history of the world 1843, Second series 1847; The garden, the
grove and the field, a garland of the months 1852. _d._ Appleby
vicarage, Penrith 10 May 1863.
MILNER, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Milner, safe maker, _d._ 1849
aged 72). With his father a metal manufacturer at Sheffield to
1827, and with him removed to Liverpool in 1827; took out patent
for fire-resisting safes 1840 and 2 other patents; founded
Milner’s Phœnix safe works, Liverpool covering an acre of ground
1852 employing 50 workmen, in 1860 they had 500 hands; the
London depôt was at Moorgate st., City. _Puseley’s Commercial
companion_ (1858) 151, (1860) 130–1.
MILNER, SIR WILLIAM MORDAUNT EDWARD, 5 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Milner, 4 bart. of Bolton Percy, Yorks. _d._ 1855). _b._ Nun
Appleton, Yorkshire 20 June 1820; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1844; M.P. York 1848–57; succeeded 25 March 1855; kept race
horses from 1841. _d._ Nun Appleton 12 Feb. 1867. _Sporting
Review_, _lvii_ 155–6 (1867); _G.M. iii_ 531 (1867).
MILROY, GAVIN. _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at Edinb. high school
and univ., M.D. July 1828; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.P.
London 22 Dec. 1847, F.R.C.P. 1853; a general practitioner
in London; co-editor of Johnson’s Medico-Chirurgical Review
1844–7; superintendent medical inspector general board of
health 1849–50 and 1853–5; sent by colonial office to Jamaica
1851; member of sanitary commission sent out to British army
in the Crimea 1855–6, drew up with John Sutherland the report
of its transactions; medical commissioner in the West Indies
1871–2; one of chief founders of Epidemiological Society 1850;
granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of
Quarantine and the plague 1846; The cholera not to be arrested
by quarantine 1847; The health of the royal navy 1862. _d._ 21
Church road, Richmond, Surrey 11 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet.; bequeathed £2000 to Royal college of physicians for
endowment of a lectureship on state medicine and public health.
MILTON, DANIEL. Disputed the headship of the Christian
Israelites with John Wroe 1857, and again after Wroe’s death
in 1864; sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for defacing the
property of Melbourne house, Wakefield, the property of the
Christian Israelites 14 Dec. 1863. _J. H. Lupton’s Wakefield
Worthies_ (1864) 223–4.
MILTON, SIR JOHN (son of Henry Milton of Heathfield lodge,
Middlesex). _b._ 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; entered war
office 1840; assistant accountant general of the army 1860 and
accountant general 1871–78; C.B. 21 Feb. 1874; knighted at
Windsor castle 27 Nov. 1878. _d._ Bladon terrace, Streatham
common, Surrey 29 Nov. 1880.
MILWARD, CLEMENT (3 son of Clement Milward of Chewton house,
Somerset, admiral). _b._ 20 Aug. 1821; barrister M.T. 6 Nov.
1846, bencher 9 May 1865, treasurer 1880; Q.C. 16 Feb. 1865; one
of leaders of northern circuit; practiced before parliamentary
committees of houses of lords and commons; author of The county
courts act, the amendment act and the extension and amendment
act, with rules and practice 1850. _d._ London 26 Oct. 1890.
MILWARD, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1826; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut.
R.A. 19 June 1844, served in the Crimea 1855; D.A.Q.M.G. in
Chinese war 1860; in Abyssinian campaign 1868; deputy director
of ordnance; inventor and constructor of the light steel guns
for mountain service used in Abyssinia, on the Gold Coast and
in India; colonel 15 Aug. 1868; lieut.-col. R.A. 3 Feb. 1866 to
death; aide de camp to the queen 1868 to death; superintendent
of royal laboratory, Woolwich 1870 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868.
_d._ Woolwich 31 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Charlton. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57,
58 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 92 (1875), _portrait_.
MIMPRISS, ROBERT (son of an official in Deptford dockyard).
_b._ Deptford 14 Jany. 1797; ed. at Blackheath; purser on board
a foreign merchantman 1813; devoted himself to development
of Sunday schools from 1821; devised the Mimpriss system of
graduated simultaneous instruction based on Edward Greswell’s
Harmony of the gospels; engaged in writing books in connection
with his system 1830–50, travelled repeatedly round the country
setting forth its merits and advocating millenarian and teetotal
principles; author of A pictorial, geographical, chronological
and historical chart 1832; Gospel recreations for Sabbath
evenings 1836; The treasury harmony of the four evangelists 2
vols. 1849–51, republished as The gospel treasury, new ed. 1884;
The Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction 1855.
_d._ Clapham, London 20 Dec. 1875. _Robert Mimpriss: a memoir of
his life and work_ (1876), _portrait_.
MINGAYE, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ 1785; entered navy 16 Sep. 1798;
served on shore at capture of Cape of Good Hope, Jany. 1806;
captain 29 Jany. 1822; acting capt. of the Royal George yacht 23
July 1822; commanded the Hyperion 42 guns in Newhaven harbour 8
Jany. 1825 to 1831; pensioned 18 Dec. 1858; admiral on h.p. 27
April 1863. _d._ Hyperion lodge, Rosherville, Kent 30 Nov. 1865.
MINIFIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Devonshire 14 Aug. 1805; an architect
and bookseller at Baltimore, U.S. of America 1828; curator of
Maryland academy of sciences; professor of drawing at Maryland
institute schools of art; author of Text-book of mechanical
drawing. Baltimore 1849; A text-book of geometrical drawing 3
ed. 1851; Essay on the theory and application of color 1854;
Popular lectures on drawing and design 1854. _d._ Baltimore 24
Oct. 1880.
MINTER, JOHN MOOLENBURGH. _b._ 1815; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S.
Eng. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1857; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; F.K.Q.C.P.
Ireland 1868; surgeon R.N. 30 Dec. 1837, surgeon in Implacable
on coast of Syria 1840; surgeon in the field during Burmese war
1851; deputy inspector general 18 April 1859, inspector general
22 March 1872; hon. physician to the queen to death; surgeon
extraordinary to prince of Wales, travelled with him in Egypt
and the Holy Land 1861–2; travelled with prince and princess of
Wales on the continent; deputy inspector naval hospital, Malta;
inspector general naval hospital, Plymouth 1 April 1873, retired
2 April 1875. _d._ Mount Priory, Plympton, Devon 15 Dec. 1891.
MINTO, GILBERT ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 2 Earl of (eld. son
of sir Gilbert Elliot, 1 earl of Minto 1751–1814). _b._ Lyons,
France 16 May or Nov. 1782; ed. Eton and univ. of Edinb.; M.P.
Ashburton 1806–7; M.P. co. Roxburgh 1812 to 21 June 1814;
styled viscount Melgund 1813–4; succeeded as 2 earl 21 June
1814; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to court of Berlin 18
July 1832 to Sep. 1834; P.C. 15 Aug. 1832; G.C.B. 20 Dec. 1834;
F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1836; first lord of the admiralty 15 Sep. 1835
to 3 Sep. 1841; an elder brother of the Trinity house 5 Dec.
1837 to death; lord keeper of the privy seal 6 July 1846 to 27
Feb. 1852; envoy extraord. to Sardinia, Tuscany, Sicily and
Switzerland 4 Sep. 1847 to 1848; governor of naval college,
Portsmouth; assumed additional surname of Murray-Kynynmond
by r.l. _d._ 48 Eaton square, London 31 July 1859. _Doyle’s
Official baronage_, _ii_ 502–3 (1886), _portrait_.
MINTO, WILLIAM HUGH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 3 Earl of. _b._
Minto castle, Roxburghshire 19 March 1814; styled viscount
Melgund 1817–59; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1836; M.P.
Hythe 1837–41; contested Rochester 30 June 1841; M.P. Greenock
1847–52; contested Glasgow 10 July 1852; M.P. Clackmannan
1857–9; chairman of royal commission for survey of Scotland
1857; succeeded as 3 earl of Minto 31 July 1859; K.T. 13 May
1870. _d._ 2 Portman square, London 17 March 1891.
MINTO, EMMA ELEANOR ELIZABETH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYMOND, Countess
of (only dau. of general sir Thomas Hislop, 1 baronet
1764–1843). _b._ 1824; _m._ 20 May 1844 the preceding; author
of A memoir of the right honourable Hugh Elliot. Edinburgh
1868; edited Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl
of Minto from 1751 to 1806, 3 vols. 1874; and Lord Minto in
India: life and letters of Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto,
from 1807 to 1814 while governor-general of India, 1880. _d._
Eaglescliffe, Bournemouth 21 April 1882.
MINTO, WILLIAM (son of James Minto). _b._ near Alford,
Aberdeenshire 10 Oct. 1845; entered Aberdeen univ. 1861, where
he took honours in classics, mathematics and philosophy, an
unprecedented feat, M.A. 1865; was at Merton coll. Oxf. 1866–7;
assistant to A. Bain professor of logic and English literature
Aberdeen univ. 1867–73 and professor 1880 to death; came to
London 1873, edited The Examiner 1874–8 and London Opinion 1880;
a leader-writer on Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette; author
of A manual of English prose literature, biographical and
critical 1872; Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer
to Shirley 1874; The crack of doom 3 vols. 1886; The mediation
of Ralph Hardelot 3 vols. 1888; Was she good or bad 1889;
University extension manual on logic 1893; Plain principles of
prose composition 1893; English literature under the Georges
1894. _d._ Aberdeen 1 March 1893. _W. Minto’s Literature under
the Georges_ (1894), _memoir_; _Athenæum 4 March 1893 p._ 282;
_I.L.N. 11 March 1893 p._ 298, _portrait_.
MINTON, HERBERT (2 son of Thomas Minton, potter 1765–1836). _b._
Stoke on-Trent 4 Feb. 1793; ed. at Audlem school, Cheshire;
partner with his father at Stoke 1817–28; re-entered the
business 1836 and took as partners John Boyle and Mr. Hollins;
Colin Minton Campbell became a partner 1849; introduced
manufacture of hard porcelain, parian, semi transparent
porcelain, encaustic tiles, azulejos or coloured enamel tiles,
mosaics, Delia Robbia ware, majolica and Palissy ware; employed
1500 hands in 1858; lived at Hartshill near Stoke many years,
where he built and endowed a church and schools 1842; the
school of art at Stoke was erected by public subscription as a
memorial to Minton. _d._ Belmont, Torquay 1 April 1858. _bur._
at Hartshill. _Account of a visit to the works of Minions,
Stoke-upon-Trent_ (1884); _Digby Wyatt’s On the influence
exercised on ceramic manufactures by H. Minton_ (1858);
_Fortunes made in business_, _iii_ 63–115 (1887).
MIRANDA, DAVID MYERS. _b._ 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and
Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death.
_d._ Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886.
MITCHEL, JOHN (3 son of John Mitchel of Dromalane, Newry,
presbyterian minister). _b._ Camnish near Dungiven, co.
Londonderry 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin;
solicitor at Banbridge near Newry 1840–5; joined the Repeal
association 1843, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; on the
staff of the Nation newspaper 1845 to Dec. 1847; issued first
number of the United Irishman 12 Feb. 1848 in which he incited
his fellow-countrymen to rebellion; arrested under the treason
felony act 13 May 1848, sentenced at Dublin 27 May 1848 to
14 years’ transportation, granted a ticket-of-leave in Van
Diemen’s Land April 1850, which he resigned 1853, and escaped
to San Francisco Oct. 1853; started The Citizen newspaper at
New York 7 Jany. 1854; conducted the Southern Citizen Oct. 1857
to Aug. 1859; naturalised by supreme court of Columbia 7 May
1860; edited the Enquirer at Richmond; wrote leading articles
for the Examiner; editor of the Daily News at New York; edited
the Irish Citizen at New York 19 Oct. 1867 to 27 July 1872;
contested Tipperary Feb. 1874, elected M.P. for Tipperary 16
Feb. 1875 but declared by house of commons incapable of being
elected 18 Feb., elected again 12 March 1875, the Irish court
of common pleas decided 26 May 1875 that being an alien and a
convicted felon he was not duly elected; author of The life and
times of Aodh O’Neill, prince of Ulster 1846; Jail journals or
five years in British prisons. New York 1854; The last conquest
of Ireland (perhaps). New York 1860; An apology for the British
government in Ireland. Dublin 1860; The history of Ireland from
the treaty of Limerick to the present time. New York 2 vols.
1868 and Dublin 1869. _d._ Dromalane near Newry 20 March 1875.
_bur._ in unitarian cemetery, Newry 23 March where is monument.
_J. G. Hodges’ Report of the trial of John Mitchel_ (1848); _W.
Dillon’s John Mitchel_ (1888), _portrait_; _Sullivan’s Speeches
from the dock_ (1887) 74–96; _O’Shea’s Leaves from the life of
a special correspondent_, _i_ 9–24 (1885); _Sir C. G. Duffy’s
Four years of Irish history_ (1883) 587–605; _Sullivan’s New
Ireland_, _i_ 175–87 (1877); _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Mitchell, inspector-general of
barracks in Ireland). _b._ Dublin 13 April 1780; brickmaker
and builder at Belfast to 1832; patentee of the Mitchell
screw-pile and mooring 1842, first used for foundation of Maplin
Sand lighthouse 1838, applied to many extensive undertakings;
established himself at Belfast, and at 17 Great George st.
Westminster as Mitchell’s Screw-pile and mooring company,
the privy council in 1847 renewed his patent for 14 years;
his improved method of mooring ships was generally adopted;
M.I.C.E. 1848–57; author of Description of a patent screw-pile
battery and lighthouse. Belfast 1843; On submarine foundations,
particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. _d._ Glen Devis
near Belfast 25 June 1868.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1831; ensign grenadier guards
15 Oct. 1850, lieut. 19 Oct. 1854, sold out 7 March 1856;
contested Berwick 29 June 1863; M.P. Berwick 1865–8. _d._ 6
Great Stanhope st. London 16 May 1873.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Ellon, Scotland 18 Oct. 1817;
clerk in a bank at Peterhead; secretary of the Wisconsin marine
and fire insurance company at Milwaukee, U.S. of America 1839,
in 1853 the company was reorganized under the state law as a
bank; first comr. of board of Milwaukee debt commission 1861
to death; president of Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company,
which became Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company and
now owns more miles of track than any other railroad company in
the world; president of Chicago and Northwestern railway company
1869; member of congress 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875; richest
man in the northwest states. _d._ New York 19 April 1887.
MITCHELL, CHARLES. _b._ Norwich 1807; bookseller and
advertisement agent for town and country newspapers at 12 and 13
Red lion court, Fleet st. London about 1836 to death; proprietor
and publisher of The Newspaper press directory 1846, which has
been published annually from 1854. _d._ 1 Edith villas, Edith
grove, West Brompton, London 8 Feb. 1859.
MITCHELL, DAVID WILLIAM (1 son of Alexander Mitchell of Gerard’s
Cross, Bucks., and Cavendish crescent, Bath). _b._ Bath 1813;
ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836; resided at Penzance 1838–42, whence
he contributed information to the 3 edition of Yarrell’s British
birds 1843; an original member of Penzance Natural history soc.
1839; sec. to Zoological soc. Regent’s park, London 1847 to
1859, and a contributor to the Proceedings in 1849 and 1858;
F.L.S. 21 Nov. 1843; author of A popular guide to the gardens of
the Zoological society of London 1852; Guide to the gardens of
the Zoological gardens of London 1858; furnished the plates of
G. R. Gray’s The genera of birds 1844. _d._ Neuilly near Paris 1
Nov. 1859.
MITCHELL, _George_ (son of Jewish parents). _b._ 1794; left
England before 1820; edited an English paper in Brussels; spent
many months with the Carlists in the Pyrenees, imprisoned in
Spain 2 years; settled near Bayonne; naturalised in France;
occupied a high position at the ministry of the interior,
Paris. _d._ the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris 16–23 July 1880. _Morning
Advertiser 28 July 1880 p._ 5.
NOTE.--He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert
Mitchell _b._ Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of
Jacques Offenbach the composer. _Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_,
_xvii p._ 1598.
MITCHELL, James. _b._ 1791; line-engraver; engraved sir David
Wilkie’s Alfred in the neatherd’s cottage 1829, and Rat hunters
1830; engraved The Contadina after sir C. L. Eastlake, and lady
Jane Grey after James Northcote, for the Literary Souvenir of
1827 and 1832, The Secret after Robert Smirke for The Keepsake
1831; produced Edie Ochiltree after sir Edwin Landseer, and five
other illustrations for the author’s edition of Waverley Novels
1829–33; exhibited 6 engravings at Suffolk st. 1824–31. _d._
London 29 Nov. 1852.
MITCHELL, JAMES. An excise officer coming daily in contact with
the makers of alcoholic liquors; became a total abstainer Nov.
1835; vice president of the Western Scottish temperance union;
one of the founders and a gratuitous lecturer of the Scottish
total abstinence society; superintendent of City of Glasgow
temperance mission; paid lecturer of the United Kingdom alliance
for Scotland from June 1856. _d._ 184 Hospital st. Glasgow 18
Jany. 1862. _S. Couling’s Temperance movement_ (1862) 331–3.
MITCHELL, JAMES (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian
minister). _b._ Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed.
Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and
Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the
firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian
church; law agent to Glasgow univ. _d._ Park terrace, Glasgow
3 Nov. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 229–32 (1886),
_portrait_.
MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and
composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a
little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday
1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s
supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all
bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s
got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same
brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where
my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885
he wrote Mika M’ Alister. _d._ St. Vincent’s hospital, New York
12 Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his
own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire;
published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary
observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other
poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs
1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and
other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy
of witchcraft 1839. _d._ Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. _G.M. i_ 388–9
(1856).
MITCHELL, JOHN (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway,
_d._ Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). _b._ Stirlingshire 11 June 1785;
ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803;
lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the
Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1
June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein
1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation
1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and
address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall
of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. _d._ Edinburgh
9 July 1858. _bur._ in the Canongate churchyard. _J. Mitchell’s
Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the
author by Leonhard Schmitz_ (1865) _pp. vii–xvii_.