_d._ 1805). _b._ 1777; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1799,
M.A. 1802; sinecure R. of Hollingbourne near Maidstone 1801; R.
of Hunton, Kent 1802 to death; sinecure R. of Eynesford near
Dartford 1802; canon residentiary of Canterbury 1804–62; R. of
Latchingdon 1804; principal registrar of the prerogative court
of Canterbury from his boyhood to 1858, drew for 60 years an
income averaging £10,000. _d._ Hunton rectory 5 Sept. 1865,
personalty sworn under £250,000 Oct. 28 1865.
MOORE, ROBERT ROSS ROWAN (eld. son of Wm. Moore). _b._ Dublin 23
Dec. 1811; ed. at Luxemburg school near Dublin, and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1835; barrister G.I. 28 April 1837; member of the
anti-corn law league, devoting his whole time and energy to the
cause 1841–6; the freedom of Cupar was conferred on him Jany.
1844; contested Hastings 30 March 1844; presented with a piece
of plate by working men of Exeter 1845; medallions of his head
in relief, were sold at the anti-corn law league bazaar held
in Covent Garden theatre May 1845. _d._ Bath 6 Aug. 1864. _A.
Prentice’s History of the anti-corn law league_ (1853); _G. J.
Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii_ 228 (1893).
MOORE, ROSS STEWART (son of Hugh Moore of Nootka lodge,
Carlingford, co. Louth). _b._ Carlingford 1809; ed. at Crumlin,
co. Antrim and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to Irish
bar 1833; went north eastern circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; M.P.
Armagh city 9 July 1852 to death; one of editors of Irish law
and equity reports; author with T. K. Lowry of A collection
of the general rules of the queen’s bench, common pleas, and
exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. _d._ Dublin 5 Oct. 1855.
MOORE, SAMUEL JOHNSTON (3 son of James Moore of Clady, Antrim).
ed. Belfast academy and Glasgow univ.; M.D. 1863; L. and
F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1868; pathologist Glasgow royal infirmary
1863–9; medico-legal examiner for the crown for Lower ward of
Lanarkshire 1869; consulting physician to Glasgow opththalmic
institution; wrote on cholera in Glasgow medical journal Jany.
1867. _d._ 15 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 2 April 1894. _Midland
medical miscellany v_ 481 (1886) _portrait_.
MOORE, THOMAS (son of John Moore, grocer and wine merchant).
_b._ 12 Aungier st. Dublin 28 May 1780; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1794, B.A. 1799; went to London and became student at the
Middle Temple 1799; admiralty registrar at Bermuda Aug. 1803,
left his office to a deputy and went to New York April 1804,
returned to England Nov. 1804, his deputy defaulted in 1817 and
left him liable for £6,000, this sum was reduced to £1,000,
which he paid in 1822; challenged Francis Jeffery, editor of
Edinburgh Review, to a duel, but the Bow st. officers interfered
11 Aug. 1806; published his Irish Melodies, with music by sir
John Stevenson, in 10 numbers 1807–34, he received £12,810 for
these 122 songs; Intercepted letters or the twopenny post bag
by Thomas Brown the younger 1812, a collection of his metrical
lampoons on the prince regent; his comic opera M.P. or the
blue stocking produced at the Lyceum theatre 1811; resided at
Mayfield cottage near Ashbourne from 1811, and at Sloperton
cottage near Devizes 1817 to death; became intimate with Lord
Byron 1811; his poem Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance 1817,
for which he received £3,000 from Longmans’, made him famous
in Europe, it was translated into Persian; travelled with lord
John Russell in Italy 1819, when he received from lord Byron
his Memoirs, which Moore sold to John Murray Nov. 1821, but on
17 May 1824 Murray returned them to him when he burned them,
repaying the sum of 2,000 guineas to Murray; granted a literary
pension of £300, 1835; author of The poetical works of the late
Thomas Little, esq. 1801; The lives of the angels 1823; The
memoirs of captain Rock 1824; Memoirs of R. B. Sheridan 1825;
The Epicureans 1827; Letters and journals of lord Byron 2 vols.
1830; The history of Ireland 4 vols. 1839–46. _m._ 25 March 1811
Bessie Dyke an actress, she was granted civil list pension of
£100, 2 March 1850, and _d._ Sloperton cottage 4 Sept. 1865
aged 68. He _d._ Sloperton cottage near Devizes 25 Feb. 1852.
_bur._ Bromham near Devizes. _Earl Russell’s Memoirs of Thomas
Moore_ 8 _vols._ 1853–6 _two portraits_; _Maclise Portrait
gallery_ (1883) 22–30 _portrait_; _T. Moore’s Life of Byron_
(1847) 142 _etc._; _C. Pebody’s Authors at work_ (1872) 304–47;
_F. Chorley’s The authors of England_ (1861) 53–57 _portrait_;
_J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets_
(1873) 226–38; _The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827)
_ii_ 272–323; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery iii_ (1832)
_portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii_,
11 _portrait_; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii_
120–43 (1841); _A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed._ (1877)
1–26.
NOTE.--The inscription on his tombstone says he was born May 28, 1779,
it should be 1780. He is sketched under the name of Mr. Minus by
Theodore Hook in his first novel entitled The man of sorrow. By Alfred
Allendale 3 vols. 1809. More than 1,000 of Moore’s letters to his music
publisher, James Power, dated 1808–36 were sold by Puttick and Simpson
June 1853, the catalogue contains 131 pages.
MOORE, THOMAS. _b._ Stoke near Guildford, Surrey 21 May 1821;
helped Robert Marnock to lay out Regent’s Park garden 1840;
curator of the Apothecaries’ company’s garden at Chelsea 1848
to death; an editor of Gardeners’ magazine of botany 1850
to 1851, of Garden companion and florists’ guide 1852, of
the Floral mag. 1860–1, of Gardeners chronicle 1866–82, of
the Florist and pomologist 1868–74, and of the Orchid album
1881–87; secretary to the floral committee and floral director
of royal horticultural soc. many years; F.L.S. 1851; judge at
many horticultural shows; author of Popular history of British
ferns 1851, 2 ed. 1855; The elements of botany for families and
schools 11 ed. 1875; author with John Lindley of The treasury of
botany 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Chelsea botanical garden
1 Jany. 1887. _Gardeners’ Chronicle i_ 48 (1887) _portrait_;
_Little Journal i_ 373–5 (1885).
MOORE, THOMAS EDWARD LAWS. _b._ 1819; entered navy 19 Oct. 1832;
commanded the Plover in search of the Polar expedition under sir
John Franklin 17 Nov. 1847 to 1850; governor of the Falkland
Islands 1855 to 1862; captain 13 Jany 1852, retired 31 March
1866, retired R.A. 24 May 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, withdrew
from the society 1868. _d._ 5 Victoria place, Stonehouse,
Plymouth 1 May 1872.
MOORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Birmingham 30 March 1790; portrait painter
in London, then at York; worked in oil, water-colours and
pastel. _d._ York 9 Oct. 1851.
MOORE, WILLIAM DANIEL. _b._ Dublin 19 April 1813; ed. Trinity
coll. Dublin, B.A., and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1861; member of court of
examiners of Apothecaries hall Dublin 1837–59, governor 1842–3,
joint examiner in arts 1861; a Dutch and Scandinavian scholar;
hon. fellow of Swedish soc. of physicians 1855; examiner in
materia medica Queen’s univ. Ireland 1865; M.D. Oxf. 1862;
translated L. V. Dahl’s Heller’s pathological chemistry of the
urine 1855; J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On the structure
of the spinal cord 1859; Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On atrophy
of the brain 1861; Rullman’s On the influence of the southern
climatic sanatoria 1861; F. C. Donders’ On the accommodation and
refraction of the eye 1864. _d._ Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 Oct.
1871. _Lancet 11 Nov. 1871 p._ 696; _Barker’s Photographs of
medical men_ (1868) 115–21 _portrait_.
MOORE, WILLIAM DENNIS (son of Dennis Moore, physician). _b._
Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of
Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to
death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country;
helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps
in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March
1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years,
resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. _d._ Union hotel, Penzance, 21
Sept. 1874. _bur._ Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. _Trewman’s
Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874._
MOORE, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE (son of Francis Moore under sec. of
state for war). _b._ Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805
etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John
Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie
from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814
to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5
June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles
26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Montrose house,
Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.
MOORE, WILLIAM YORKE. _b._ Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15
Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of
Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835,
lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856;
served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while
in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high
and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable
collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by
Sotheby and Wilkinson. _d._ 9 Jany. 1890. _Numismatic Chronicle_
(1890) 31.
MOORE, WILLOUGHBY. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6
dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost
on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about
200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854;
his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari
granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she _d._
Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. _G.M. xlii_ 302 (1854); _A.R._ (1854)
91–93.
MOOREHOUSE, WILLIAM SEFTON (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of
Knottingley, Yorkshire). _b._ Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T.
Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident
magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province
1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member
for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley
1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. _d._ Sept. 1881.
MOORSOM, CONSTANTINE RICHARD (eld. son of admiral sir Robert
Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). _b._ 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal
naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809;
commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug.
1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which
was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818;
senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince
Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director
of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852;
chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by
British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and
1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately
printed 1843, published 1846. _d._ Montagu place, Russell sq.
London 26 May 1861.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM. _b._ 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut.
of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain
of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea
during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July
1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore
his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing
the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions
for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and
supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war
and the composition of war fleets 1857. _d._ Vernon terrace,
Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. _Memoir of captain William Moorsom_ 1860,
_privately printed_.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM ROBERT (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1834;
ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir
Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master
general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter
master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain
13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow,
and of the city, are now at the British Museum. _Killed_ during
an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a
monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester
cathedral.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM SCARTH (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861).
_b._ Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign
79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany.
1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832;
visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6;
surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to
Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and
Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at
Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849;
author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the
administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd
Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many
scientific papers. _d._ Great George st. Westminster 3 June
1863. _G.M. xv_ 112, 245 (1863).
MORA, ANTONIO L. (son of Joseph P. Mora), travelled with Adelina
Patti in America; chef d’ orchestre at Her Majesty’s theatre a
short time, where he composed the music for R. Reece and Alfred
Thompson’s pantomime The Yellow Dwarf Dec. 1882; conductor at
South London palace, London 1888 to death; a knight of the
legion of honour and of the iron crown of Vienna; composer of
The birth of Jesus, a christmas song, New York 1864; Believe
me, oh my mother, song, Milan 1874; The gnome’s reverie for the
piano 1879; Ninetta, romance 1879; The villa choir, song and
chorus 1881; Certainly not, song, words by A. Thompson 1883;
Rhoda, comic opera in 3 acts 1889, and 50 other pieces of music
1860–89. _d._ Brook st. Kensington road, London 25 April 1891.
_bur._ Tottenham cemetery 1 May.
MORAN, JOHN HENRY (3 son of Francis Goldsberry Moran, of Kilmore
Moy, co. Sligo). _b._ 1807 or 1808; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1830; chaplain H.M. prison, Portland; chaplain Female
convict prison, Brixton April 1853–66; V. of St. Thomas, liberty
of the rolls, London 1866–86; chaplain National hospital for
paralysed, Queen sq. London 1880 to death; author of The
doctrine and order of the church of England, proved to be in
harmony with the teaching of the Apostles, 2 ed. 1849. _d._ 98a
Southampton row, Holborn, London 12 May, 1892. _bur._ Tooting
churchyard.
MORANT, ALFRED WILLIAM (eld. son of George Morant of London,
decorator). _b._ 17 May 1828; articled to James Simpson, C.E.
1845–50; surveyor to corporation of Great Yarmouth 14 Feb.
1856 to Nov. 1864; engineer to city of Norwich March 1865 to
Dec. 1872; borough engineer and surveyor of Leeds Dec. 1872 to
death; A.I.C.E. 7 Nov. 1854, M.I.C.E. 29 Jan. 1878; president of
Association of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors
1880; edited J. W. Papworth’s Alphabetical dictionary of coats
of arms from p. 696 (1874) and T. D. Whitaker’s History of the
deanery of Craven 1878; author of Sectional view of a first rate
line of battleship 1854; Description of the Leeds sewage works
1876. _d._ Leeds 28 July 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxvi_ 377–9 (1881)].
MORANT, HORATIO HARBORD (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro
Place, Hants.) _b._ 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844,
lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to
the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1
April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to
29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1
April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand
1864–6. _d._ Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.
MORANT, JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON. _b._ 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant
R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour
defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864
to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast
1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras
1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to
the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham
canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian
engineering papers, published at Roorkee. _d._ Melbourne,
Australia 17 June 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxxvi_ 370–4 (1886).
MORE, JOHN SHANK (son of rev. George Moore secession minister
South Shields). _b._ Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar
1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843
to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s
Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s
Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and
illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws
of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland,
2 vols. 1864. _d._ 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861.
_Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 66–7 _portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv_ 492–6 (1862).
MORE-O’ FARRALL, JOHN LEWIS (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of
Balyna, co. Kildare _d._ 1835 aged 83). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827;
comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. _d._ Granite
hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. _Law Times lxx_ 233
(1881).
MOREAU, CÉSAR. _b._ Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain
1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general
in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with
the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8
Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with
all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India
company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and
progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish
produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and
commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation
between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The
past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau
comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du
monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. _d._
Paris 28 Nov. 1861.
MOREHEAD, CHARLES (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of
Easington Yorkshire). _b._ Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb.
univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the
founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in
the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first
principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first
professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical
society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862;
surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the
Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys
as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis
and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on
disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life
of Robert Morehead 1875. _d._ Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug.
1882.
MOREHEAD, WILLIAM AMBROSE (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82).
_b._ 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil
and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court
of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of
governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council
1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras;
an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two
years. _d._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. _bur._ Dean cemetery, Edinb.
portrait in Madras banqueting hall. _Memorials of Robert
Morehead_ (1875) 402–4.
MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R.
Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of
The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York.
Huddersfield 1861. _d._ Jany. 1891. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries
xiii_ 318 (1889–91).
MOREL, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French
at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly
Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to
1848. _d._ Holly Walk, Hampstead 1 May 1852. _F. E. Baines’s
Hampstead_ (1890) 95–6 _portrait_.
MOREL, VICTOR. A cabinet maker in France; came to England about
1849; had a knowledge of the bitumen process of electrotyping,
which consisted in producing stereo plates by means of shell
and sand, and making them type high by mounting them on arched
metal blocks; engaged by James Vizetelly, engraver Peterborough
court, London 1849, the bitumen process was discarded owing to
the difficulty of repairing the plates; employed by Cassell,
Petter and Galpin to erect an electrotyping foundry, where wax
was first used for moulding purposes; made many improvements in
electrotyping; established a business at 48 Fetter lane, London,
sold his business to Dellagana and co. 1875 and retired to the
continent. _d._ Malines, Belgium 9 Feb. 1889.
MORELAND, JOSEPH. _b._ 1809 or 1810; a builder at 76 Old st. St.
Luke’s, London; member for St. Luke’s of the Metropolitan board
of works 1856 to death. _d._ 4 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent
11 July 1875.
MORELL, JOHN DANIEL (9 child of Stephen Morell 1773–1852
congregational minister). _b._ Little Baddow manse, Essex 18
June 1816; ed. at Homerton college 1833–38 and Glasgow univ.,
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1841; studied under Fichte at Bonn 1841–2;
congregational minister at Gosport Aug. 1842 to 1845; an
inspector of schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1876, the first inspector
appointed; edited The School Magazine 1876; author of An
historical and critical view of the speculative philosophy
of Europe in the nineteenth century 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed.
1847; The analysis of sentences 1852, 9 ed. 1858; Handbook
of logic 1855, 2 ed. 1857; A grammar of the English language
1857; Philosophical fragments 1878, and 20 other books. _d._
Clevelands, Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 1 April 1891. _bur._
Folkestone 4 April. _R. M. Theobald’s Memorials of J. D. Morell_
(1891) 3 _portraits_; _I.L.N. 4 April 1891 p._ 435 _portrait_;
_Black and White 11 April 1891 p._ 322 _portrait_.
MORELLI, CHARLES FRANCIS. _b._ 26 Nov. 1800; boy in Sadler’s
Wells pantomimes with Joe Grimaldi; played the monkey in ballet
drama of La Perouse at Covent Garden 11 Sept. 1811; acted in
the provinces; actor, pantomimist and scene painter under G. B.
Davidge at Surrey theatre 1833; with Madame Vestris at Covent
Garden 1839–42; with Daniel W. Osbaldiston at Victoria theatre
1844; actor and scene painter with Nelson Lee at City of London
theatre many years; a subscriber to general theatrical fund
1839–60, one of the directors, an annuitant Aug. 1865 to death.
_d._ London 9 July 1882. _bur._ Abney park cemetery.
MORESBY, SIR FAIRFAX (son of Fairfax Moresby of Lichfield).
_b._ Calcutta 1787; entered navy 21 Dec. 1799; commander of the
Wizard brig 18 April 1811; served at siege of Trieste Oct.
1813; Knight of order of Maria Theresa 23 May 1814; captain 7
June 1814; organized the colony of Algoa Bay 1820; commanded
the Pembroke in the Mediterranean 1837–40, and the Canopus on
the home station 1845–8; R.A. 20 Dec. 1849; commander-in-chief
in the Pacific 21 Aug. 1850 to 17 Aug. 1853; V.A. 12 Nov. 1856,
admiral 12 April 1862, admiral of the fleet 21 Jany. 1870;
D.C.L. Oxford 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B.
28 March 1865. _d._ Bronwylfa near Exmouth 21 Jany. 1877.
MORGAN, AARON AUGUSTUS. _b._ 6 March 1822; ed. at Eton and St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew
univ. scholar 1847; R. of Bradley, Lincs. 1846–55; chaplain
to army works corps in Crimea 1855–6; P.C. of St. John the
Evangelist, Brighton 1862–79; V. of Casterton Magna, Rutland
1879–83; V. of Grosmont, Monmouth 1882–4; member of Brighton
school board 21 Dec. 1871; author of The book of Ecclesiastes
metrically paraphrased 1856; The mind of Shakspere as exhibited
in his works 1860, 4 ed. 1880. _d._ Tivoli near Rome 17 Sep.
1888.