and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged
and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London;
introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir
d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e
Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought
out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842;
gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier
and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with
French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice,
La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet
1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. _d._
10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 18 Dec. _The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p._ 12.
MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22
June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he
retired with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9
Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, John. _b._ 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel,
Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of
George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. _d._ the
Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. _Daily
Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p._ 8, _portrait_.
MITCHELL, JOHN MITCHELL (2 son of John Mitchell). _b._ Falkirk
1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50
years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland;
fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian
order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation
in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe:
illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb.
1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance.
Edinb. 1864. _d._ Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865.
MITCHELL, JOSEPH (son of John Mitchell, C.E. _d._ 1824). _b._
Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry;
apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824,
M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent
of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed
bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by
the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland;
engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he
constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and
Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3;
partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for
street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for
relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means
of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan
for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the
railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of
railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface
of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. _d._ London 26
Nov. 1883. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi_ 362–8 (1884).
MITCHELL, MUIRHEAD (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras,
London). _b._ London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832,
M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18
Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on
the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. _d._ 50 Pall Mall,
London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876.
MITCHELL, ROBERT (son of James Mitchell 1791–1852). _b._ 19 May
1820; engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, after sir Edwin Landseer
1852 and The parish beauty and The pastor’s pet after Alfred
Rankley 1853 and 1854, and in the mixed style The happy mothers
and The startled twins after Richard Ansdell 1850 and Christ
walking on the sea after R. S. Lander 1854; etched several
plates completed in mezzotint by other engravers; exhibited
at Royal academy 1858. _d._ 8 Rochester place, Widmore lane,
Bromley, Kent 16 May 1873.
MITCHELL, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Mitchell, cutler and edge tool
maker). _b._ Sheffield 13 Feb. 1803; entered his father’s
business, for which he travelled in Norway, Sweden and Russia;
member of Sheffield literary and philosophical soc. Dec.
1822 and a contributor to its transactions, president 1856;
explored with Thomas Bateman the tumulus at Arba Lowe 23 May
1845; collected materials for The history and topography of the
hundreds of wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, of which a
small part was prepared for printing at his death. _d._ The
Mount, Sheffield 1869. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_, _iii_ 108–102
(1891).
MITCHELL, STEPHEN (son of Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer
_d._ 1820). _b._ Linlithgow 19 Sept. 1789; apprentice to J.
Anderson & Co. merchants Leith and London 1805–9; in his
father’s business at Linlithgow 1809, removed the business
to Glasgow 1825, head partner till his retirement in 1859.
_d._ Moffat 21 April 1874; left £66,998 10s. 6d. to found the
Mitchell library in Glasgow, library opened in Nov. 1877, it
contained 58,000 volumes, including special collections of
Burns’ literature and Glasgow books in 1886. _Maclehose’s
Glasgow men ii_ 233–4 (1886) _portrait_.
MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1842; assistant to Groombridge and Sons,
booksellers, London, then to Longmans’, Green, Reader and Dyer;
bookseller at Hastings; architect; author of The stepping stones
to architecture 1869; A rudimentary manual of architecture 1870.
_d._ Hastings 24 Nov. 1872.
MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1821; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845,
M.A. 1848; V. of Long Clawson near Melton-Mowbray 1848 to death;
author of Palestine revisited and other poems 1858, 3 ed. 1881.
_d._ Long Clawson vicarage 5 March 1885.
MITCHELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER (youngest son of John Mitchell,
Russia merchant at Riga and London). _b._ Montrose 1812; ed. at
Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829,
became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad
st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with
Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of
Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. _d._ 50 Charles
st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000.
_I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p._ 144 _portrait_, _27 March 1875 p._ 307.
MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (eld. son of John Mitchell of
Craigend, Stirlingshire). _b._ 16 June 1792; joined the army
in the Peninsula as a volunteer 1808; 2 lieut. rifle brigade
24 July 1811, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1818;
captain 2 foot 25 Jany. 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826;
brevet colonel 20 June 1854; served on the battle fields in
Spain and Portugal, received silver medal with 5 clasps; deputy
surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828 to
death, his survey of the colony was published in three sheets
1835; surveyed northern part of N.S.W. Nov. 1831 to Feb. 1832;
surveyed the course of the river Darling 1835; surveyed the
rivers Murray and Darling and discovered the region called by
him Australia Felix 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17
April 1839; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1839; explored overland route to
gulf of Carpentaria, Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1847; reported on the
Bathurst goldfields 1851; fought a duel with Stuart Alexander
Donaldson 27 Sep. 1851; visited England 1853, and patented a
new screw-propeller for steam vessels called the boomerang;
F.R.G.S.; author of Outlines of a system of surveying for
geographical and military purposes 1827; Three expeditions into
the interior of eastern Australia 2 vols. 1838, 2 ed. 1839;
Journal of an expedition into tropical Australia in search
of a route from Sydney to the gulf of Carpentaria 1848; The
Australian geography 1851; Origin, history and description of
the boomerang propeller 1853; The Lusiad of Camoens closely
translated 1854. _d._ Carthona, Darling Point, N.S.W. 5 Oct.
1855. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1868) 215–18;
_Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 325–6; _W. Howitt’s
History of discovery in Australia_, _i_ 264–310 (1865), _ii_
92–107 (1865); _J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of
Australia i_ 366–94 (1865), _ii_ 121–42.
MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Billquay, Durham 1799; in a counting
house in Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 years; first appeared on the
stage as a country boy in the Recruiting Officer at Newcastle;
appeared at Strand theatre, London in Professionals puzzled
1831; actor and stage manager Coburg theatre, London 1834;
appeared at National theatre, New York as Jem Baggs in The
Wandering Minstrel 29 Aug. 1836; opened the Olympic theatre, New
York, Dec. 1839, which he conducted till 1850 making money which
he afterward lost; his best known part was Manager Crummles in
Nicholas Nickleby. _d._ in poverty at New York 12 May 1856. _J.
N. Ireland’s Records_, _ii_ 192–3 (1867).
MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM (son of John Mitchell of Modbury, Devon,
a turner in wood and ivory and then a farmer). _b._ Modbury
1811; an apprentice to a printer at Modbury; a journalist
on the True Sun in London 1833; established The shipping and
mercantile gazette, a daily paper 1 Jany. 1836, and was chief
proprietor and editor; introduced an international code of
signals gradually adopted by all maritime countries; established
signal stations for reporting movements of all ships using the
international code; knighted by patent 27 July 1867; knight
commander of Swedish order of St. Olaf 1869; edited A review of
the merchant shipping bill, being a series of leading articles
from the Shipping and mercantile gazette 1869; and Maritime
notes and queries, a record of shipping law and usage 3 vols.
1873–6; published the Mercantile navy list and code of signals
1850. _d._ Strode near Ivybridge, Devon 1 May 1878. _bur._
Modbury churchyard 6 May. _Biograph_, _iii_ 400–409 (1880);
_Men of the West. Part 3 Sir W. Mitchell. March 1877 pp._ 16,
_portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 413 (1878).
NOTE.--He was a performer on the violoncello, bassoon, viola and flute;
he procured from Paris the parts and copies for a chorus of 30 voices
of Rossini’s Petite Messo Solennelle and produced the work at his
residence 6 Hyde Park gate, London in May 1869. _Vanity Fair 22 May
1869 p._ 379. He also produced the Rival Beauties an operetta by Signor
Randegger, which he repeated at Plymouth theatre for some charities 13
Aug. 1868.
MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ in the West of England about 1829; an
assistant in a shop; a clown under the name of Felix Revolti;
ringmaster under Charles Hengler; the Prince of ringmasters his
aim being to act naturally and not to anticipate the Clown’s
jokes; kept a hotel in London a short time; resumed his post of
ringmaster with C. Hengler in Liverpool and London to his death;
sketched the stories for some of C. Hengler’s Christmas pieces;
his brother F. Mitchell was also in the equestrian business.
_d._ in a railway carriage at Caledonian railway station,
Glasgow 6 March 1879. _bur._ Sight Hill cemetery 10 March. _The
Era 16 March 1879 pp._ 4, 5.
MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY FANCOURT (son of George Berkley
Mitchell, V. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1820 to 1840). _b._ 1811;
writer in colonial secretary’s office, Tasmania 2 April 1833,
assistant colonial secretary 1 Aug. 1839; a squatter near
Kyneton and Mount Macedon, Port Philip 1840; chief commissioner
of the police 1 Jany. 1853, restored order in the gold
districts and stamped out bush-ranging; member of legislative
council, Victoria, Sep. 1856 to 1858 and 1860 to death;
postmaster-general 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; comr. of
railways 30 Dec. 1861 to 27 June 1863; chairman of committees
in legislative council March 1869, president of the council
1870 to death; knighted by patent 17 July 1875; chairman of R.
Goldsborough & Co. woolbrokers in Melbourne and London. _d._
Barfold near Kyneton, Victoria 24 Nov. 1884.
MITFORD, JOHN (elder son of John Mitford, commander in the navy
of H.E.I.Co., _d._ 18 May 1806). _b._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug.
1781; ed. at Tunbridge gr. sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804;
C. of Kelsale, Suffolk 1809; V. of Benhall, Suffolk 17 Feb.
1810, reinstituted 5 Feb. 1824 held it to his death; domestic
chaplain to lord Redesdale, Aug. 1815; R. of Weston St. Peter,
Suffolk 22 Aug. 1815, R. of Stratford St. Andrew, Suffolk 1817,
these livings were united 5 Feb. 1824 when he was reinstituted
and held them till his death; contributed to Gent. Mag. from
1833, editor Jany. 1834 to Dec. 1850; composed numerous poems
signed J. M.; edited The poems of Thomas Gray 1814, 7 ed. 1866;
The works of Thomas Gray 2 vols. 1816, 2 ed. 1836; edited for
Pickering’s Aldine edition of the British poets, Cowper 3 vols.
1830, Goldsmith 1831, Milton 3 vols. 1832, Dryden 5 vols.
1832–3, Parnell 1833, Swift 3 vols. 1833–4, Young 2 vols. 1834,
Prior 2 vols. 1835, Butler 2 vols. 1835, Gray 4 vols. 1835–6,
Falconer 1836 and Spencer 5 vols. 1839; edited Sacred specimens
selected from the early English poets 1827, and The works of
Milton in prose and verse 8 vols. 1851; author of Agnes the
Indian captive, with other poems 1811; Miscellaneous poems
1858. _d._ Benhall vicarage 27 April 1859. _bur._ Stratford St.
Andrew. _Mrs. Houstoun’s Letters and reminiscences of the rev.
John Mitford_ (1891); _Mrs. Houstoun’s Woman’s memories_, _i_
122–5, 178–204.
NOTE.--His collection of silver Greek coins, cameos and miniatures
was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson 30 June 1859; his engravings and
drawings 23–25 July 1859; his Greek and Latin classics 17–24 Dec. 1859
for £1030; his library of English history, plays and poetry was sold 24
April to 6 May 1860 for £2999; and his manuscripts, including 55 vols.
of his own recollections on 9 July 1860 producing £817.
MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL (only child of George Mitford or Midford.
_d._ 11 Dec. 1842). _b._ Alresford, Hampshire 16 Dec. 1787;
drew a prize in a lottery worth £20,000, 1797; ed. at Mrs. St.
Quintin’s school 22 Hans place, London 1798 to 1802; one of
114 persons who competed for the poetical address to be spoken
at opening of Drury Lane theatre 10 Oct. 1812; lived at Three
Mile Cross near Reading 1820 to 1851, and at Swallowfield near
Reading 1851 to death; granted civil list pension of £100,
1837; edited Finden’s Tableaux, an annual 1838–41; author of
4 tragedies, Julian produced at Covent Garden 15 March 1823;
Foscari at C.G. 4 Nov. 1826; Rienzi at Drury Lane 9 Oct. 1828;
Charles I. at Victoria theatre 9 July 1834; she also wrote Mary
Queen of Scots, a scena in verse 1831, and an opera libretto
Sadak and Kalasrade produced 1835, her plays were published in
2 vols. 1854; author of Miscellaneous poems 1810, 2 ed. 1811;
Blanch of Castile 1812; Our village, sketches of rural character
and scenery 5 vols. 1824–32, 5 ed. 1856, reprinted from The
Lady’s magazine 1819 &c., which made her famous, children were
named after her village urchins; Dramatic scenes, sonnets and
other poems 1827; Belford Regis or sketches of a country town 3
vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1849; Recollections of a literary life 3 vols.
1852, 4 ed. 1859; Atherton and other tales 3 vols. 1854. _d._
Swallowfield 10 Jany. 1855. _Life of M. R. Mitford_, _edited
by rev. A. G. L’Estrange_ 3 _vols._ (1870); _Friendships of M.
R. Mitford_, _edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange_ (1882); _M. R.
Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life_ (1859), _portrait_;
_James Payn’s Literary recollections_ (1885) 74–97; _H. F.
Chorley’s The authors of England_ (1861) 63–66, _portrait_;
_Yesterdays with authors. By James T. Fields_ (_Boston_ 1873)
261–352; _A book of memories. By S. C. Hall_ (1877) 438–49; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (1876) 353–59; _S. T. Hall’s
Biographical sketches_ (1873) 96–108; _Maclise portrait gallery_
(1883) 355, 379, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 369, 370 (1854)
_portrait_, _xxvi_ 60 (1855).
MITFORD, _William Townley_ (only son of Charles Mitford,
treasurer of Sussex, _d._ 1831). _b._ 29 June 1817; ed. at Eton
and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839; sheriff of Sussex 1848; M.P.
Midhurst, Sussex 1859–74; contested Midhurst 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ 7
Cavendish sq. London 18 April 1889.
MIVART, JAMES EDWARD. _b._ 1781; proprietor of Mivart’s hotel
42–45 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 1816–56, now called
Claridge’s hotel. _d._ 10 College crescent, St. John’s wood,
London 5 Jany. 1856.
MOBERLY, GEORGE (7 son of Edward Moberly of St. Petersburg,
Russia, merchant). _b._ St. Petersburg 20 Oct. 1803; ed. at
Winchester 1816–22 and Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar March 1822,
fellow 1826–34, tutor; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; select
preacher 1833, 1858 and 1863; Bampton lecturer 1868; head
master of Winchester Dec. 1835 to Dec. 1866, fellow Dec. 1866
to 1870; R. of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1866 to 1869;
canon of Chester cathedral Oct. 1868 to Sep. 1869; bishop of
Salisbury 14 Aug. 1869, consecrated 28 Oct. 1869; founded a
diocesan synod; with four other persons he revised and annotated
editions of St. John’s Gospel, and the epistles to the Romans,
Corinthians and Galations 1857–61; author of Practical sermons
1838; The sayings of the great forty days 1844, 6 ed. 1882;
Sermons preached at Winchester college 1844, Second series
with a preface on Fagging 1848; The administration of the Holy
spirit in the body of Christ. Bampton lectures 1868; Brightstone
sermons 1869, 4 ed. 1882; his name is annexed to upwards of
35 works. _d._ Salisbury 6 July 1885. _H. C. Adams’s History
of Winchester College_ (1878) 210–12, 239–48; _I.L.N. lv_ 437
(1869), _portrait_; _Saturday Review_, _lx_ 47.
MOBERLY, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 10 Madras N.I.
15 Oct. 1809; lieut. 25 N.I. 1 Sep. 1818; captain 49 N.I. 1
May 1824, major 9 April 1838 to 18 April 1842; sec. of Madras
military board 1835–43; lieut.-col. 8 N.I. 18 April 1842 to
1843, of 9 N.I. 1843–5, and of 16 N.I. 1845–6; stipendiary
member of military board 17 Nov. 1843 to death; lieut.-col. of
29 N.I. 1846–7, of 8 N.I. 1847–9, and of 22 N.I. 1849 to death.
_d._ Madras 5 July 1852.
MOFFATT, GEORGE (son of William Moffatt of London). _b._ 1810;
wholesale tea dealer in London and Liverpool; chairman of Lhynvi
iron and coal co.; contested Ipswich 3 June 1842 and Dartmouth
27 Dec 1844; M.P. Dartmouth 1845–52; M.P. Ashburton 1852–9;
M.P. Honiton 1860–5; M.P. Southampton 1865–8; author of The
Bankruptcy law of England. _d._ Torquay 20 Feb. 1878; personalty
under £350,000, 27 April 1878. _Sir Henry Cole’s Life_, _i_ 36,
_ii_ 101 (1884).
MOFFAT, ROBERT (son of a custom house officer). _b._ Ormiston,
East Lothian 21 Dec. 1795; apprenticed to a gardener 1809–12;
under-gardener at Mr. Leigh’s, High Leigh, Cheshire Dec. 1813
to Dec. 1815; a missionary under the London missionary soc.
from 1816, arrived at Cape Town 13 Jany. 1817, travelled in
Namaqualand 1817–8; superintendent at Lattakoo 1820–5, at
Kuruman 1825–70; visited England 1839–43; persuaded Livingstone
to undertake the Bakwana mission 1840; was the pioneer of South
African missionary work; left Africa for England 10 June 1870;
D.D. Edinb. April 1872; presented with upwards of £5,000 by his
friends 1873; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’
company 20 Dec. 1877; entertained at the mansion house, London
7 May 1881; (_m._ at St. George’s church, Cape Town 27 Dec. 1819
Mary only dau. of James Smith of Dukinfield near Manchester
nursery gardener, she was _b._ at New Windsor, now part of
Salford, 1795 and _d._ Brinton, London 9 Jany 1871 after being
for 50 years one of the pioneers of South African mission work);
author of Translation of the gospel of St. Luke into Sechwana
1830, Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa 1842
and 9 other books. _d._ Leigh near Tunbridge 10 Aug. 1883.
_bur._ Norwood cemet. 16 Aug., memorial monument at Ormiston.
_J. S. Moffatt’s The lives of Robert and Mary Moffatt_ (1886),
_portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Moffatt_; _A. Manning’s Heroes of the
desert_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Campbell’s Farewell services of
R. Moffatt_ (1843); _I.L.N. lx_ 452 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic
xxviii_ 192 (1883), _portrait_.
MOFFITT, ANDREW. _b._ 11 Jany. 1836; assistant surgeon in
army 25 May 1858, surgeon 1 March 1873, surgeon major 1 April
1873; principal medical officer of the Ever Victorious army in
China 1863; author of A manual of instruction for attendants
on sick and wounded in war 1870. _d._ Southampton 3 Feb. 1882.
_Graphic_, _xxix_ 244 (1884), _portrait_.
MOFFITT, JOHN M. _b._ England 1837; apprenticed to a sculptor
in London 1852; went to U.S. of America at end of his
apprenticeship; executed the figures representing the four ages
of man on the eastern entrance to Greenwood cemetery, New York;
designed many of the altars in New York churches. _d._ London 15
Sep. 1887.
MOGFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1822; landscape painter principally of coast
scenes; associate of New Society of Painters in water-colours
1866 and member 1867; lived at 17 Park road, Hampstead 1867 to
death; exhibited 32 landscapes at R.A., 28 at B.I. and 20 at
Suffolk st. 1846–79. _d._ 17 Park road, Hampstead, Nov. 1885.
MOGFORD, THOMAS (son of a veterinary surgeon at Northlew,
Devonshire). _b._ Exeter 1 May 1809; printer at Exeter to about
1843 when he moved to London; a landscape painter in Guernsey,
where he founded a school of painting; exhibited 43 pictures at
R.A., 11 at B.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1838–61; his portraits
include E. H. Baily, R.A., Samuel Cousins the engraver, and J.
C. Adams the astronomer. _d._ Guernsey 1868. _G. Pycroft’s Art
in Devonshire_ (1883) 90–6.
MOGRIDGE, GEORGE (son of Mathias Mogridge of Ashted, Birmingham,
canal agent). _b._ Ashted 17 Feb. 1787; an apprentice to a
japanner 1801; partner with his elder brother Mathias Mogridge
in the Japan trade at Birmingham 1811, his brother retired from
the business with a fortune, and he became a bankrupt 1826;
commenced a literary life 1826; author of Twelve moral tales by
Uncle Newbury 1828; The moral budget of my Aunt Newbury 1835;
Ephraim Holding’s Homely hints to Sunday school teachers 1843;
Cheerful chapters adapted to youth, by Old Alan Gray 1854; The
Chinese, by Uncle Adam 1845; under the names of Old Humphrey
1839 etc., and Peter Parley 1836 etc., he also wrote very
numerous books; wrote under his own name The churchyard lyrist,
five hundred original inscriptions 1832; Footprints of popery,
or places where martyrs have suffered 1843; Amos Armfield or
leather covered bibles 1845; Learning to act 1846; Wanderings
in the Isle of Wight 1846; Things that have wings 1851; Sunny
seasons of boyhood 1859; Who is my neighbour 1868, and 50
other books many of them anonymous; for the Religious Tract
soc. he wrote 106 books and tracts; resided at 114 Cornwall
road, London. _d._ 4 High Wickham, Hastings 2 Nov. 1854. _C.
Williams’s George Mogridge, his life, character and writings_
(1856), _portrait_; _Memoir of Old Humphrey_ (1855), _portrait_.
MOHL, MARY ELIZABETH (dau. of Charles Clarke). _b._ Millbank
row, Westminster 1793; placed in a convent school at Toulouse
1801; lived in Paris with her mother; great friend of Madame
Récamier for 18 years; _m._ 1847 Julius Mohl the orientalist
1800–76; her receptions in the Rue du Bac, Paris were very
popular for nearly 40 years, her friends included Quinet,
De Tocqueville, Guizot, Thiers and Renan; author of Madame
Récamier, with a sketch of the history of society in France
by Madame Mxxx. 1862; Le livre des Rois, par Abou ’lkasim
Firdousi traduit et commenté par J. Mohl, Publié par Mme Mohl.
7 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Paris 15 May 1883. _bur._ Père-Lachaise
cemetery. _M. C. M. Simpson’s Letters of G. and M. Mohl_ (1887),
_portrait_; _K. O’Meara’s Madame Mohl_ (1886), _portrait_;
_Contemporary review Aug. 1878 pp._ 1–21; _F. W. Muller’s
Biographical Essays_ (1884) 272–310.