Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse;
entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1
Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822;
7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D.
1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823;
Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822
to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832;
R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829
to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop
of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July,
the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836;
edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis
Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum,
or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited
with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of
The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. _d._ the palace,
Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. _bur._ in north aisle of
Westminster abbey 14 June. _G.M. i_ 115–7 (1856); _Jerdan’s
National portrait gallery_ (1833) _vol. iv_, _portrait_ 21; _W.
C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_ 76–9 (1846); _E.
M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 398–400.
MONK, JOHN. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov.
1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder
of Manchester. _d._ 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany.
1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 260 (1874).
MONK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Monk). _b._ Brompton, London
16 March 1823; organist of Eaton chapel Pimlico 1841–3, of St.
George’s chapel Albemarle st. 1843–5, and of Portman chapel
Marylebone 1845–7; choirmaster at King’s college, London 1847,
organist 1849, professor of vocal music 1874; professor of
music at School for the indigent blind 1851; organist at St.
Matthias, Stoke Newington 1853, where he established a daily
choral service; lectured on music at London institution 1850–4;
professor in National training school for music 1876 and in
Bedford college London 1878; hon. Mus. Doc. Durham 1882; he was
musical editor of the following works, The parish choir, from
the fortieth number to its close in 1851; Hymns ancient and
modern, compiled by sir H. Baker 1862, numerous editions and a
sale of 30 million copies; Appendix to Hymns ancient and modern
1869; The holy year, hymns by C. Wordsworth 1865; The Scottish
hymnal 1873; The psalter printed for chanting, the harmonies
and chants revised 1874; Book of anthems 1875; The children’s
hymnal, harmonies 1876; Hymns for mission services 1877; The
congregational psalmist hymnal 1886; The book of common prayer,
with plain song and music 1891; composer of Acis and Galatea by
G. F. Handel, arranged 1849; Te Deum laudamus for four voices
1862; The office of holy communion set to music 1884; and the
tunes of the hymns Abide with me, and Sweet Saviour bless us ere
we go. _d._ Glebe Field, Stoke Newington, London 1 March 1889.
_Musical Herald_, _April 1889_, _portrait_; _J. Love’s Scottish
church music_ (1891) 214–5.
MONKSWELL, ROBERT PORRETT COLLIER, 1 Baron (eld. son of John
Collier 1769–1849, M.P. for Plymouth 1832–41). _b._ Mount Tamar
near Plymouth 21 June 1817; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; member of the anti-corn law league;
barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843, went western circuit, leader of
the circuit 1854–63; recorder of Penzance 14 July 1848 to March
1856; M.P. for Plymouth 1852–71; Q.C. July 1854; counsel to
Admiralty and judge advocate of the fleet Dec. 1859 to Oct.
1863; solicitor general 2 Oct. 1863 to July 1866; knighted at
Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; attorney general 12 Dec. 1868 to
Nov. 1871; recorder of Bristol for a few days Oct. 1870; P.C.
3 Nov. 1871; judge of Court of Common Pleas 7 Nov. 1871 where
he sat for a few days only; judge of judicial committee of P.C.
22 Nov. 1871 to death; created baron Monkswell of Monkswell,
co. Devon 1 July 1885; exhibited 20 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1864–80; author of The railways’ clauses,
companies clauses and lands clauses consolidation acts, 1845, 2
ed. 1847; A treatise on the law relating to mines 1849; A letter
on reform of the superior courts of common law 1851, 2 ed. 1852;
translated The oration of Demosthenes on the Crown 1875. _d._
Grasse near Cannes 27 Oct. 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemet. London.
_I.L.N. xliii_ 393 (1863) _portrait_, _liv_ 385, 446 (1869)
_portrait_; _Saturday Review 30 Oct. 1886 p._ 578; _Law Journal
30 Oct. 1886 pp._ 604, 616, 618.
MONRO, ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Monro anatomist 1733–1817).
_b._ Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1773; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ.,
M.D. 1797; F.R.C.P. 1799; studied in London and Paris; with his
father conjoint professor of anatomy in univ. of Edinb. 1798,
delivered the whole course of lectures from 1808, and was sole
professor 1817–46, and Emeritus professor 1846 to death; author
of Observations on crucial hernia 1803; The morbid anatomy of
the human gullet, stomach and intestines 1811, 2 ed. 1830;
Outlines of the anatomy of the human body 1813, 2 ed. 1825;
Engravings of the thoracic and abdominal viscera 1814. _d._
Craiglockhart near Edinburgh 10 March 1859, portrait by K.
Macleay in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 175, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of
Edinb. iv_ 225 (1862).
MONRO, SIR DAVID (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813; educ.
Edinb. acad. and univ.; an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand
under the N.Z. co.; member of legislative council of province of
New Munster 1849; member of the first general assembly of N.Z.
24 May 1854 to 1866; member for Cheviot 1866–70, for Waikonati
1870; speaker of house of representatives 1861 and 1862 and
1866–70; knighted by patent 10 Feb. 1866; the first person
unseated on an election petition in N.Z. 1871; studied medicine
in Paris, Berlin and Vienna 1866, M.D. _d._ Newstead near
Nelson, New Zealand 17 Feb. 1877. _G. W. Rusden’s History of New
Zealand_, _iii_ 7–8 (1883).
MONRO, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Thomas Monro, M.D. 1790–1856).
_b._ Gower st. London 1815; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; P.C. of Harrow Weald, Middlesex 1842–60;
V. of St. John’s, Leeds 1860 to death; select preacher at Oxford
1862; established a college for boys called the College of St.
Andrews at Harrow Weald; author of The Combatants, an allegory
1848; The dark river 1850; The parish 1853, a poem; Daily
studies during Lent 1856; Practical sermons on the characters of
the old testament 3 vols. 1855–8; Parochial lectures on English
poetry 1856 and 30 other books. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Leeds
13 Dec. 1866. _bur._ Harrow Weald churchyard 20 Dec.
MONRO, EDWARD THOMAS (son of Thomas Monro of Bloomsbury, London,
F.R.C.P.) _b._ London 1794; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1809, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1814; candidate of college
of physicians 22 Dec. 1815, fellow 23 Dec. 1816, censor 1819,
1829 and 1837, Harveian orator 1834, consiliarius 1837, 1846
and 1852, elect 30 Sep. 1842, treasurer 25 June 1845 to 1854;
physician to Bethlehem hospital. _d._ Bushy, Herts. 25 Jany.
1856. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 153 (1878).
MONRO, HENRY (brother of Edward Monro 1815–66). _b._ 1817; ed.
at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.B. 1844, M.D.
1863; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.
1848, censor 1861–3, councillor 1864–5 and 1875–7; physician
to Bethlehem hospital 1848; founded the House of Charity in
Rose st. Soho 1846; physician to St. Luke’s hospital 1855–82;
president of Medical psychological association 1864; painted his
own portrait and that of his father and presented them to royal
college of physicians; author of A treatise on stammering 1849;
Remarks on insanity, its nature and treatment 1850; On improving
the condition of the insane 1851; Articles on reform in private
asylums 1852. _d._ 14 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 May 1891.
_Memoir of H. Monro, by rev. Canon W. Foxley Norris, privately
printed_; _Journal of mental science July 1891 pp._ 496–7.
MONROE, MARY. _b._ Derbyshire 1 Feb. 1795; one of the greatest
travellers of her time; passed Easter week in Rome as the guest
of the Pope 1830; a friend of the marquis de Lafayette; was
twice a guest of sir Walter Scott; a friend of the duchess
of Kent; travelled 20 weeks in Great Britain and Ireland
investigating the condition of the working classes 1865; _m._ an
officer in the customs service of the United States. _d._ New
York 15 Sep. 1893.
MONSELL, HARRIET (dau. of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet, of
Dromoland, co. Clare 1773–1837). _b._ Dromoland 1812; a sister
of mercy 29 May 1851; superior of house of mercy at Clewer 30
Nov. 1852, resigned 1875, known afterwards as the Community of
St. John the Baptist, planted its first mission in London 1860,
it numbered in 1883 over 200 sisters in England, America and
India; the chief mover in building St. Andrew’s convalescent
hospital, Clewer 1865; _m._ 21 Sep. 1839 rev. Charles Henry
Monsell (3 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell, archdeacon of Derry,
_d._ 1846) _b._ 12 June 1815, prebendary of Aghadoe 1840, he
_d._ Naples 29 Jany. 1851. She _d._ The Hermitage, Folkestone 25
March 1883. _T. T. Carter’s Harriet Monsell, a memoir_ (1884),
_portrait_.
MONSELL, JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY (2 son of Thomas Bewley Monsell,
archdeacon of Derry, _d._ 20 Nov. 1846). _b._ St. Columb’s,
Derry 2 March 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1856; chaplain to bishop Mant; R. of Dunaghy, Ramoan,
co. Antrim; chancellor of diocese of Connor 14 April 1847 to
1853; V. of Egham, Surrey 1853–70; hon. chaplain to the queen
27 Dec. 1872 to death; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1870 to
death; rural dean of Emley 1871; wrote many popular hymns, among
others God is love, that anthem olden, and Sing to the Lord a
joyful song; author of Hymns and miscellaneous poems. Dublin
1837; Parish musings in verse 1850, new ed. 1871; His presence
not his memory 1855, poems, 8 ed. 1881; Spiritual songs for the
Sundays and holydays 1857, 6 ed. 1875; The passing bell and
other poems 1867, 2 ed. 1869; Nursery Carols 1873, and 20 other
books. _d._ in consequence of a fall from the roof of his church
which was rebuilding, St. Nicholas rectory, Guildford 9 April
1875. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 762; _D. J.
O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1892) 164; _Wilson’s Singers and
songs of the church_ (1869) 515.
MONSON, WILLIAM JOHN MONSON, 6 Baron (only child of col. the
hon. Wm. Monson 1760–1807). _b._ Tangore, Madras 14 May 1796;
ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; F.S.A. 12 Feb.
1818; succeeded his cousin as 6 Baron 7 Oct. 1841; a frequent
correspondent of Notes and Queries; author of Extracts from
a journal [of tours in Istria, Dalmatia, Sicily, Malta and
Calabria] 1820. _d._ Great western hotel, Paddington, London 17
Dec. 1862. _bur._ in family vault at South Carlton 24 Dec. _G.M.
xiv_ 234 (1863).
MONTAGU, BASIL (2 natural son of John Montagu, 4 earl of
Sandwich 1718–92, by Martha Ray). _b._ 24 April 1770; brought
up at Hinchinbrook, Hunts.; ed. at Charterhouse and Christ’s
coll. Camb., 6th wrangler 1790; B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793; resided at
Cambridge till 1795; barrister Gray’s Inn 19 May 1798; a comr.
in bankruptcy 1806; founded the Society for the diffusion of
knowledge upon the punishment of death 1809; K.C. June 1835;
accountant general in bankruptcy 1836 to 1846, established
liability of bank of England to pay interest on bankruptcy
deposits; author of A summary of the law of set off 1801, 2 ed.
1828; A digest of the bankrupt laws 4 vols. 1805–7, 2 ed. 1819;
A digest of the law of partnership 2 vols. 1815, 2 ed. 1822 and
about 50 other works; edited The works of Francis Bacon 16 vols.
1825–34; author with W. Scrope Ayrton of Reports of cases in
bankruptcy 1833–8. 3 vols. 1834–9, and of The law and practice
in bankruptcy 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1844; with Richard Bligh
of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1832–3. 1835; with Edward
Chitty of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1838–40. 1840; with
E. C. Deacon and J. De Gex of Reports of cases in bankruptcy
1840–44. 3 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Boulogne, France 27 Nov. 1851.
_H. Gunning’s Reminiscences of Cambridge_, _i_ 141–47 (1855);
_Georgian Era_, _ii_ 551 (1833); _G.M. xxxvii_ 410–3 (1852).
MONTAGU, JAMES. _b._ 10 April 1791; entered navy 1803, captain
17 July 1824, retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ Marlborough 9
March 1868.
MONTAGU, JOHN (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery
H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). _b._ 21 Aug. 1797;
ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign
52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7
Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land
1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and
1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany.
1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death;
author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director
of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across
the Derwent 1841. _m._ April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general
Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil
list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He _d._ London 4 Nov.
1853. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. _Biographical memoir of J.
Montagu. By W. A. Newman_ (1855) _portrait_.
MONTAGU, JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu,
G.C.B. 1750–1829). _b._ 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803,
captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the
Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. _d._
Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.
MONTAGU, MONTAGU (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham,
Surrey). _b._ 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag
lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806,
lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired
with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses
on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California
broadsides 1850. _d._ Bath 31 July 1863. _G.M. xv_ 383 (1863).
MONTAGU, OLIVER GEORGE POWLETT (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich
1811–84). _b._ 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863;
cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881,
lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel
in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign
of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London
society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a
touching farewell to his old regiment. _d._ Cairo 25 Jany. 1893.
_Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p._ 63, _portrait_.
MONTAGU, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1785; entered navy 4 Sep.
1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28
guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40
guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17
Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice
admiral 17 Aug. 1851. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 407 (1852).
MONTAGUE, HENRY JAMES, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of
Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann _d._ 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70).
_b._ about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared
under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel
for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany.
1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot
Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement
Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in
Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy
27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866,
and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre;
the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him
21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868
which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and
Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s;
the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s
12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James
and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A.
Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt
in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe
theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life,
opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts;
gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of
America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London
27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York;
toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America
1878. _d._ San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane_, _ii_ 258–61 (1881); _Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p._
5, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ix_ 555, 596 (1878)
_portrait_, _x_ 6 (1878) _portrait_; _Theatre_, _ii_ 208 (1878).
MONTALBA, HENRIETTA SKERRETT (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens
Montalba). _b._ 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied
sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle
Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London;
the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta;
exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor
gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize
figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the
R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year;
resided latterly at Venice. _d._ the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere,
Venice 14 Sep. 1893. _bur._ near her father in cemetery of St.
Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented
it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. _Art Journal_, _July
1894 pp._ 215–7, _portrait_; _Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p._ 530,
_portrait_; _Queen 7 Oct. 1893_.
MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENÉ, Count de (son of Marc René
Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India,
_d._ 21 June 1831, _m._ 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of
H.E.I.C.) _b._ Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with
James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him
everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais
to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer
of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber
1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848;
condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur
l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded
21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter
to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies
on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements
of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre
1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west
from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion
of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867;
St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in
Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow
1874 and 40 other works. _d._ Paris 13 March 1870. _Mrs.
Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert_ 2 _vols._ (1872);
_English Cyclopædia_, _iv_ 307 (1857), _Supplement 1872 p._ 902;
_Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xi_ 484, 485 (1874).
MONTEAGLE, THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen
Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick _d._ Sep. 1831).
_b._ Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833;
studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge
1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827
to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834;
sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835;
P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835
to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839
to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep.
1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to
death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the
ecclesiastical titles act 1851. _d._ Mount Trenchard near
Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.
MONTEATH, ALEXANDER M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ.,
and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857;
assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under
secretary to government of India, financial and home departments
1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867,
retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at
Berne 1876. _d._ Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.
MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Monteath). _b._
1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4
Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824,
lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment
in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C.
to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov.
1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and
of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to
10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B.
28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec.
1850. _d._ Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. _I.L.N. liii_
435, 459, 483 (1868).
MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARRON (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a
cousin of sir M. Montefiore). _b._ 1802; in partnership with his
brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide,
South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West
London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of
Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London.
_d._ 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.
MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES HAIM, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias
Montefiore _b._ London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, _d._ 11
Jany. 1804). _b._ Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson
Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one
of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange;
partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers
for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made
a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the
united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his
first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a
firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout
Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of
bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July
1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855;
undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864;
admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made
his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; _m._ 10
June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author
of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way
of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she _d._ 24 Sep. 1862.
He _d._ East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. _bur._ in a
private mausoleum on his estate. _Diaries of Sir Moses and
Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe_ (1890), _portrait_; _L.
Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore_ (1884), _portrait_; _J. Weston’s Sir
M. Montefiore_ (1885), _portrait_; _J. Picciotto’s Sketches
of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 347–58; _J. B. Bailey’s
Modern Methusalahs_ (1888) 329–91; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 309 (1859)
_portrait_, _xlvi_ 153 (1865) _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 126, 144
(1876) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 409 (1883) _portrait_.
MONTEITH, ALEXANDER EARLE (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles
_d._ 1806). _b._ 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife
1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports
on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and
on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member
of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement
1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two
letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp.
1–34 portrait. _d._ Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861.
_Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 413–8.