Paisley 22 June 1790; lieut. Madras engineers 18 March 1809,
col. 13 May 1839, retired 10 Dec. 1847; commanded a frontier
force of cavalry against the Russians 1810–13; present at
Persian head quarters in the war against Russia 1826, comr. for
payment of indemnity of £400,000 exacted from Persia by Russia
1828; chief engineer at Madras July 1832 to Jany. 1834 and Sep.
1836 to July 1842; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; hon. L.G. 1854; F.R.S.
13 Feb. 1845, withdrew 1863; F.R.G.S.; a knight of Persian
order of the Lion and Sun; author of Kars and Erzeroum, with
the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828–9. 1856; translated
Capefigue’s The diplomatists of Europe 1845; edited Narrative of
the conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808–9. 1854. _d._
11 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 April 1864. _Vibart’s Madras
sappers_, _ii_ 113–31 (1884).
MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Alexander Montgomerie of Annick
lodge, Ayrshire 1744–1802). _b._ 30 July 1790; entered navy 27
June 1802; captain 3 Oct. 1820; retired admiral 27 April 1863.
_d._ Bridgend, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire 26 Dec. 1863.
MONTGOMERIE, SIR PATRICK (son of Robert Montgomerie of Irvine,
Ayrshire, banker). _b._ Irvine 1793; ed. at Ayr academy and
Woolwich; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 7 July 1810, col. commandant
7 Oct. 1849 to death, served in India 1817–25 and in China
1840–1; general 1 March 1867; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 March
1865. _d._ 10 Elvaston place, London 5 Oct. 1872.
MONTGOMERIE, PATRICK. _b._ 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras
engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist.
engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central
provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore
and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in
public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district
engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government
1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884;
investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery
rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme
in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. _d._ Waltair near Vizagapatam
8 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi_ 368–70
(1886).
MONTGOMERIE, ROGER (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge,
Ayrshire 1789–1852). _b._ Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar
1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire
1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. _d._ at his
residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_,
_xxiv_ 601.
MONTGOMERIE, THOMAS GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 23
April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col.
1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in
India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had
charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of
the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s
medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the
Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended
great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned
to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to
geographical periodicals. _d._ 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany.
1878. _Athenæum_, _i_ 191 (1878).
MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER BARRY. Ensign 1 foot 25 Nov. 1824,
lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, retired on full pay Jany. 1866;
colonel in the army 13 Jany. 1858; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._
Stoke, Devonport 17 Oct. 1869.
MONTGOMERY, SIR ALEXANDER LESLIE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Henry
Conyngham Montgomery, 1 baronet 1765–1830). _b._ London 12 March
1807; entered R.N. 7 Oct. 1819; captain 2 July 1846; R.A. 9 Feb.
1864, admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; an officer of Brazilian order
of Southern Cross 1845; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24
June 1878. _d._ 56 Cadogan place, London 13 June 1888.
MONTGOMERY, FANNY CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron
Leconfield 1787–1869). _b._ 30 May 1820; _m._ 13 Oct. 1842
Alfred 3 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1 baronet, he
was a commissioner of inland revenue from 1845 to 1882; edited
The German Christmas eve, by A. Flohr 1847; authoress of Truth
without prejudice 1842; Early influences 1845; Poems 1846;
Ashton hall or self seeking and self denying 1846; The Bucklyn
shaig 2 vols. 1865; Mine own familiar friend 3 vols. 1872; The
wrong man 2 vols. 1873; On the wing, a southern flight 1875; The
eternal year 1877, 2 ed. 1889; The maid of Orleans, her life and
mission 1891. _d._ Villa Beatrice, Naples 27 Jany. 1893.
MONTGOMERY, HENRY (youngest child of Archibald Montgomery).
_b._ Boltnaconnell house, parish of Killead, co. Antrim 16
Jany. 1788; entered Glasgow college Nov. 1804, M.A. 1807,
LL.D. 1833; presbyterian minister of Dunmurry near Belfast 24
Sep. 1809 to death; head master in English school of Belfast
academical institution 3 Oct. 1817 to June 1839; moderator of
the general synod 30 June 1818; advocated Catholic emancipation
from 1813, presented with a service of plate by members of
various denominations 18 June 1828; founded the remonstrant
synod of Ulster, which first met 25 May 1830; gave lectures
to non-subscribing divinity students from 1832; professor of
ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology to the association
of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838 to death;
an original editor of the Bible Christian 1830; contributed to
the Irish Unitarian mag. 1846–7 a series of Outlines of the
history of presbyterianism in Ireland; author of Letter to D.
O’Connell in vindication of the proceedings of the remonstrant
presbyterians of Belfast 1831. _d._ the glebe, Dunmurry 18 Dec.
1865, his portrait painted 1835 by J. P. Knight was engraved
several times. His widow Eliza and his dau. Lily granted civil
list pension of £100, 29 Jany. 1866. _Life of H. Montgomery. By
J. A. Crozier_, _vol. i_ (1875), _portrait_; _J. L. Porter’s
Life of Henry Cooke_ (1871) 120, 157 _etc._; _C. Porter’s Irish
presbyterian biographical sketches_ (1883) 34; _Times 21 Dec.
1865 p._ 9.
MONTGOMERY, SIR HENRY CONYNGHAM, 2 Baronet (eld. brother of
sir A. L. Montgomery 1807–1888). _b._ Taunton 10 June 1803;
ed. at Eton and Haileybury; entered Madras civil service 1825;
succeeded his father 21 Jany. 1830; collector and magistrate of
Tangore 1843; chief secretary to government of Madras 1850–7;
member of council Madras 1854–7; resigned the service 29 Oct.
1857; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to Nov. 1876;
P.C. 28 Nov. 1876. _d._ 5 Manchester sq. London 24 June 1878.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 June.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES (son of John Montgomery, Moravian minister at
Irvine, Ayrshire, _d._ Barbados 27 June 1791). _b._ Irvine 4
Nov. 1771; ed. at Moravian school, Fulneck near Leeds 1777–86;
clerk in office of Mr. Gales’ Sheffield Register April 1792,
became the working editor of the paper 1794; in partnership
with Benjamin Naylor purchased Gales’ newspaper business 1794
and brought out the Sheffield Iris 4 July 1794, proprietor of
the paper 1795, retired 4 Nov. 1825; wrote for the Eclectic
Review; lectured on poetry at Royal Institution 1830 and 1831,
these lectures were published 1833; granted civil list pension
of £150, 1835; author of Prison amusements 1796; The whisperer,
or tales and speculations. By Gabriel Silvertongue, No. 1 May
28, 1795, No. 24 Nov. 5, 1795, he afterward suppressed this
volume; his chief poems are The wanderer of Switzerland 1806,
7 ed. 1815; The West Indies 1810, 7 ed. 1828; The world before
the flood 1813, 7 ed. 1826; Greenland 1819; The Pelican island
1826, 2 ed. 1828; wrote many hymns which were collected 1853,
more than 100 of them are still used; his collected poems
were published in 4 vols. 1841, 9 ed. 1881. _d._ The Mount,
Sheffield 30 April 1854. _bur._ Sheffield cemetery 10 May, where
is monument by John Bell, full-length portrait by Barber in
Sheffield literary and philosophical institute. _J. Holland and
J. Everett’s Life of James Montgomery_ 7 _vols._ (1854–6), _four
portraits_; _J. W. King’s J. Montgomery_ (1858), _portrait_;
_S. C. Hall’s Book of memories_ (1883) 81–93; _Papers of the
Manchester literary club_ (1889) 385–92, 435–40; _Samuel Ellis’s
Life, times and character of James Montgomery_ (1864); _W.
Howitt’s Home and haunts_, _ii_ 292–322 (1847), _3 ed._ (1857)
556–77; _Pen and ink sketches 2 ed._ (1847) 209–21; _I.L.N.
xxiv_ 417–18, 551 (1854) _portrait_, _xxvii_ 436 (1855); _The
living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _i_ 476–522; _J. A.
Langford’s Prison books_ (1861) 287–315; _G. Gilfillan’s A
second gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 313–23; _Chambers’s
Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 161–64 (1870),
_portrait_.
MONTGOMERY, JOHN JAMES (eldest son of John Montgomery). _b._
Ballymore, co. Westmeath 1832; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast
and Queen’s coll. Cork; served under C. B. Lane, C.E. London;
private sec. to sir G. Airy at Greenwich observatory; chief
assistant to borough engineer Bradford to 1861; borough
engineer of Belfast 1861 to death; designed and carried out
a scheme of drainage for the borough; diverted the river
Blackstaff 1878; M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871; fell ill when travelling
in Switzerland, _d._ Airolo, Aug. 1884. _bur._ protestant
cemetery, Lucerne. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii_
436–9 (1884).
MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (natural son of Robt. Gomery, clown at
Bath theatre, _d._ 14 June 1853). _b._ Bath 1807; ed. at Dr.
Arnot’s school, Bath; took the name of Montgomery; founded a
weekly paper at Bath called The Inspector about 1824; matric.
from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838;
ordained at St. Asaph 3 May 1835; C. of Whittington, Shropshire
1835–6; minister of St. Jude’s, Glasgow 1836–43; minister of
Percy chapel, St. Pancras, London, Oct. 1843 to death; author
of the following poems, The stage coach 1827; The age reviewed,
a satire 1827; The omnipresence of the deity 1828, which ran
to 8 editions in 8 months, 28 ed. 1855; The Puffiad 1830, a
satire; Satan, a poem 1830, 8 ed. 1842; Oxford 1831, 6 ed. 1843;
The Messiah 1832, 8 ed. 1842; Woman, the angel of life 1833, 5
ed. 1841; The poetical works of R. Montgomery 3 vols. 1839, 2
ed. 1853. _d._ Brighton 3 Dec. 1855. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit
of the age_, _ii_ 233–52 (1844); _Pen and ink sketches 2 ed._
(1847) 209–21; _S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873)
142–54.
NOTE.--He was called by the critics Satan Montgomery from his poem
entitled Satan and to distinguish him from James Montgomery the poet;
he is immortalised in Montgomery, a poem in the Bon Gaultier Ballads
(1853) 159–61.
MONTGOMERY, SIR ROBERT (2 son of Samuel Law Montgomery, rector
of Lower Morville, co. Donegal). _b._ Londonderry 1809;
entered Bengal civil service 1827; magistrate and collector at
Allahabad, June 1839; comr. of the Lahore division of the Punjab
1849, member of the board of administration 1852–3, judicial
comr. 1853; disarmed the Bengal sepoys at Lahore on outbreak of
the mutiny 13 May 1857; chief comr. of Oudh, June 1858, where he
enforced the confiscation proclamation; lieut. governor of the
Punjab, March 1859 to Feb. 1865; K.C.B. 19 May 1859; G.C.S.I.
20 Feb. 1866; member of council of secretary of state for India
1868 to death; known in India as Pickwick for his benevolence;
author of Abstract principles of laws circulated for the
guidance of officers employed in administration of civil justice
in the Punjab. Bangalore 1864. _d._ 7 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s
gate, London 28 Dec. 1887. _bur._ family vault Londonderry 3
Jany. 1888. _Illust. news of the world_, _iii_ 228 (1859),
_portrait_.
MONTGOMERY, WALTER, stage name of Richard Tomlinson (10 son of
Wm. Tomlinson). _b._ Gawennis, Long Island, U.S. of America 25
Aug. 1827; a buyer in the shawl department for Messrs. Shoolbred
1852; played Othello as an amateur at Soho theatre 1852 under
name of Young Emery; played at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham,
Norwich and Yarmouth; manager of the new Nottingham theatre;
first appeared in London at Princess’s 20 June 1863 as Othello;
manager of the Princess’s, played Shylock 22 Aug. 1863; gave
readings from Shakespeare &c. at St. James’s hall, London, March
1864; played Leonatus Posthumus 6 March and Cassius April 1865,
both at Drury Lane; manager of Haymarket July 1865 to Nov. 1865,
where he played Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, King John, Shylock
and Iago; the original Lorenzo in W. C. Russell’s tragedy Fra
Angelo; played Orlando and Sir Thomas Clifford at Drury Lane,
Nov. 1866; played Hamlet at Gaiety theatre 31 July 1871, also
Sir Giles Overreach, Louis XI. and Meg Merrilies; _m._ 30 Aug.
1871 Miss Laleah Burpee Bigelow an American; _shot himself_ at
2 Stafford st. Bond st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 5 Sep. Winnetta Montague widow of Walter Montgomery. _d._
Brooklyn, New York 27 May 1877. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 769
(1866), _portrait_; _The Theatre_, _ii_ 12 (1883); _The Era 3
Sep. 1871 p._ 13, _10 Sep. p._ 11, _17 June 1877 p._ 4.
NOTE.--Was Hamlet mad? or the lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown,
Jones and Robinson. Melbourne 1867; another ed. Was Hamlet mad? By
Archibald Ritchie and others, edited by R. H. Horne. London 1871, a
pamphlet on Montgomery’s acting in Australia in 1867.
MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM FETHERSTON. _b._ 1797; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin 1817, scholar; L.R.C.P. Ireland 1825, F.R.C.P. 1829,
president of the college, professor of midwifery there 30 years;
collected the Obstetrical museum in the College of physicians,
Dublin, since removed to Queen’s college, Galway; a great
authority on midwifery in Ireland and on the Continent; author
of An exposition of the signs of pregnancy 1837, 2 ed. 1856, and
with F. Barker Observations on the Dublin pharmacopæia 1830.
_d._ 8 Merrion square north, Dublin 21 Dec. 1859. _Dublin Quart.
Journal Medical Science_, _xxxiii_ 250 (1862); _Medical Times_,
_xl_ 664 (1859).
MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM HENRY. Studied under W. M. Rooke and W.
Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director
at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at
the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed
and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote
the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862;
contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria
music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again,
ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist
1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song
1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852,
twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s
Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake
varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy
minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish
melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for
the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s
Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers;
Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler
1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s
Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three
series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and
he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. _d._ Waterloo
road, London 12 Sep. 1886. _bur._ Norwood cemet.
MONTI, RAFFAELLE (son of Gaetano Monti of Ravenna, sculptor).
_b._ Milan 1818; studied under his father in the imperial
academy, Milan, took gold medal for group of Alexander taming
Bucephalus; exhibited Ajax defending body of Patroclus 1838;
sculptor in Vienna 1838–42, in Milan 1842–6; in England
1846 exhibited The veiled statue, executed for the duke of
Devonshire; joined the national party in Italy 1847, fled to
England 1848; his chief works in England were The sister angels,
The veiled vestal, Eve after the fall, and The sleep of sorrow,
the dream of joy exhibited at the International exhibition
of 1862; his models of Italy, Truth, Eve, two emblematical
fountains and six colossal symbolical figures are at the Crystal
palace, Sydenham. _d._ London 16 Oct. 1881. _Art Journal_, _Nov.
1881 p._ 352.
MONTRESOR, FREDERICK BYNG. Entered navy 27 June 1823; captain 29
April 1851; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired 1 April 1870, retired
admiral 26 Sep. 1878. _d._ 15 Dec. 1887.
MONTRESOR, SIR THOMAS GAGE (3 son of John Montresor of Belmont,
Kent, his majesty’s chief engineer of America). _b._ New York 4
March 1774; ensign 18 foot 13 Oct. 1789; D.A.Q.M.G. in Flanders
1794; brigade major in Ireland during French invasion 1799; in
Egypt 1801, in India 1803; lieut.-col. 22 dragoons 2 Jany. 1812
to 1816; commanded the troops of the Paishwa at Poonah 1809–13;
colonel of 2 dragoon guards 20 Feb. 1837 to death; knighted at
St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H.
1834. _d._ Dover 26 April 1853.
MONTROSE, JAMES GRAHAM, 4 Duke of (elder son of 3 duke of
Montrose 1755–1836). _b._ 16 July 1799; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1819; vice chamberlain of the household 7 Feb. 1821
to 14 April 1827; P.C. 23 Feb. 1821; M.P. Cambridge 1825–32;
col. Stirling militia 12 Oct. 1827; comr. for affairs of India
4 Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830; succeeded his father as 4 earl of
Graham and 4 duke of Montrose 30 Dec. 1836; chancellor of univ.
of Glasgow 1837 to death; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of
Stirlingshire 27 Feb. 1843 to death; lord steward of queen’s
household 27 Feb. 1852 to 4 Jany. 1853; his seat Buchanan house
nearly all burnt 22 Jany. 1850; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster
26 Feb. 1858 to 22 June 1859; postmaster general 10 July 1866
to 9 Dec. 1868; resisted the claim of the earl of Crawford
and Balcarres to the dukedom of Montrose 1851. _d._ Cannes 30
Dec. 1874. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 313 (1858), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 43
(1875); _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846),
_portrait_ 23.
MOODIE, DONALD (son of major James Moodie of Melsetter, Orkney).
Entered navy 1808; lieut. 8 Dec. 1816 and placed on h.p.; went
to the Cape Colony and entered the civil service there, resident
magistrate at Port Francis 20 Feb. 1825 to 1828 and at Graham’s
Town 1828–34; protector of slaves in the eastern districts
1830–4; superintendent of the Government bank, Cape Town 1840;
secretary to government of Natal 29 Aug. 1845 to 1851; author
of The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the
native tribes of South Africa. Cape Town 1838–41, discontinued
after p. 64 of part iii.; A voice from the Kahlamba, the Natal
Kafirs intercourse with Natal. Pietermaritzburg 1857. _d._
Pietermaritzburg 1861. _Colonial services of Donald Moodie._
_Pietermaritzburg_ (1860).
MOODIE, JOHN WEDDERBURN DUNBAR (bro. of the preceding). _b._
Melsetter, Orkney Islands 7 Oct. 1797; 2 lieut. 21 foot 24
Feb. 1813, 1 lieut. 5 May 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1816;
severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom 8 March 1814; spent ten years
in South Africa with his brother 1819–29; emigrated to Upper
Canada 1832; captain of militia on Niagara frontier during
insurrection of 1837; sheriff of Vittoria now Hastings county,
Ontario 1839–63; wrote in Memoirs of the late war 2 vols.
1831, The campaigns in Holland in 1814, ii. 257–314; author of
Ten years in South Africa including a description of the wild
sports 2 vols. 1835; Scenes and adventures as a soldier and
settler during half a century (with portrait). Montreal 1866.
_d._ Belleville, Ontario 22 Oct. 1869. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca
Canadensis_ (1867) 281.
MOODIE, SUSANNAH (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of
Reydon hall, Suffolk, _d._ 1818, and younger sister of Agnes
Strickland 1796–1874). _b._ Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; _m._ 1831
the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of
Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus
the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols.
1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more
about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an
eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons
2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George
Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D.
Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852.
_d._ Toronto 8 April 1885. _J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes
Strickland_ (1887) 85, 192; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) 281; _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 376 (1888),
_portrait_.
MOODY, JOHN E. _b._ 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars
and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of
Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. _d._ 27 Euston place,
New road, London 7 Nov. 1852.
MOODY, RICHARD CLEMENT (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E.
_d._ 1846). _b._ St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13
Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863,
retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor
of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July
1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of
the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into
Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal
Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov.
1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle;
lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and
founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded
R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme
Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal
boundaries 1868. _d._ Bournemouth 31 March 1887. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xc_ 453–5 (1887).
MOODY, STEPHEN. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I.
24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824,
lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I.
26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of
70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct.
1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 42 Porchester sq. Hyde
park, London 28 Nov. 1856.
MOODY, WILLIAM (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, _d._
1820). _b._ Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and
Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow
of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing
counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan,
Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin
Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831;
with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi
prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration
from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. _d._ 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct.
1867.
MOON, SIR FRANCIS GRAHAM, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Christopher
Moon, gold and silver smith). _b._ 4 Holborn Bars, Holborn,
London 28 Oct. 1796; employed by Edward Tugwell book and print
seller, 55 Threadneedle st., purchased the business on Tugwell’s
death 1817; became the leading print publisher in London;
purchased stock of Hurst, Robinson and Co. print publishers
1825; member of firm of Moon, Boys and Graves, Pall Mall 1825;
carried on his own business at corner of Finch lane; reproduced
some of the finest works of sir D. Wilkie, sir C. Eastlake, sir
E. Landseer, D. Roberts, S. Prout, C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield
and G. Cattermole; published at cost of £50,000 David Roberts’
Sketches in the Holy Land 1842; invited by Louis Philippe as
a guest to St. Cloud; common councilman for Broad st. ward,
city of London 1830–44; sheriff of London 1843–4; alderman of
Portsoken ward 1844–71 and of Bridge Without 1871; lord mayor
1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Guildhall
19 April 1855; created baronet 4 May 1855; a chevalier of legion
of honour; F.S.A. 9 June 1853; resided 35 Portman sq. London.
_d._ Western house, Brighton 13 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Fetcham
churchyard, Surrey 20 Oct. _I.L.N. xxv_ 460 (1854) _portrait_,
_lix_ 387, 399, 401 (1871) _portrait_; _The City Press 21 Oct.
1871 p._ 2, _28 Oct. p._ 2.
MOORE, ADOLPHUS WARBURTON (son of major John Arthur Moore a
director of H.E.I.C.) Ed. Harrow 1855 etc.; junior clerk in
secretary’s office India house Aug. 1858, in the financial
department 1860, senior clerk June 1867, reading clerk to the
council 1871–5, joined the political department 1874, assist.
secretary Feb. 1875, retired 1885; acting political sec. 1876–8;
private sec. to Lord Randolph Churchill 1885, sec. to the
chancellor of the exchequer and private sec. to sec. of state
for India 1886; political and secret sec. India house Jany. 1887
to death; C.B. 1886; one of the ablest members of the civil
service. _d._ Monte Carlo 2 Feb. 1887. _The Times 3 Feb. 1887
p._ 6.