1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton
1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at
Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bycullah park, Enfield,
Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.
MORRIS, JOHN (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). _b._
Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July
1826; ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted
pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church
of Rome 20 May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9;
ordained priest Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at
Great Marlow; canon of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English
college at Rome 1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary
to cardinal Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon
penitentiary of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus
Feb. 1867, took his first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was
successively minister at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey,
socius to the provincial Father Whitty, first superior of the
Oxford mission and professor of ecclesiastical history and
canon law in the college of St. Beuno, North Wales to 1877 and
1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879, rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10
Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st. Berkeley sq. London
1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author of The life and
martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1859,
2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence cardinal Wiseman, 3
ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic forefathers, related by
themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of Father John Gerrard, 3
ed. 1881. _d._ while preaching in the Jesuit church at Wimbledon
22 Oct. 1893.
MORRIS, JOHN BRANDE (son of rev. John Morris, D.D.
schoolmaster). _b._ New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed.
at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter
coll. 30 June 1837, resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church
of Rome 16 Jany. 1846, ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior
Park near Bath 1851; canon of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853;
domestic chaplain to E. R. Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir
John Acton of Aldenham hall, Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry
Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex 1868; later on he was chaplain
to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a convent of nursing nuns at St.
Vincent house, 49 Queen st. Hammersmith to death; author of An
essay towards the conversion of learned and philosophical Hindus
1843; Nature a parable, a poem 1842; Jesus the son of Mary or
the doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God
the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha Koomee or the gospel prophecy of
our lady’s assumption, a drama 1858; translated for the Library
of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Romans 1841; and
Select works of St. Ephrem 1846. _d._ 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9
April 1880. _bur._ Mortlake.
MORRIS, JOHN CARNAC (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of
H.E.I. Co.) _b._ 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered
Madras civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10
March 1831; Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832;
civil auditor or accountant general 1839; established the
Madras government bank 1834, secretary and treasurer 1834,
superintendent 1835; edited the Madras journal of literature and
science from 1834; civil auditor and superintendent of stamps
1843; left India 1 July 1846 and settled in London; established
a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia
by way of Panama; promoter and managing director of London and
Eastern banking company, chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858;
author of Telugu selections, with translations and grammatical
analyses, Madras 1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and
Teloogoo, 2 vols. Madras 1835. _d._ Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. _bur._
St. Heliers. _C. C. Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants_
(1885) 101–2.
MORRIS, MOWBRAY. _b._ Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.;
barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847,
and manager about 1848–73; _m._ 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest
dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The
Times. _d._ 21 April 1874. _Publisher’s Circular_ (1874) 308;
_The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_; _The Times 4 May 1874 p._ 1.
MORRIS, RICHARD. _b._ 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for
rifles, patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube
ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate
circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death,
resided at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. _shot_ himself at 11
Haymarket, London 14 Dec. 1891. _The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p._ 12.
MORRIS, RICHARD. _b._ London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll.
Battersea; lecturer on English language and literature King’s
coll. school, London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury
1870; C. of Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological
soc., president 1874; on council of Early English text soc.;
hon. M.A. of Oxf. 1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute
for boys, Wood Green July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the
Early English text soc. Early English alliterative poems 1864,
Sir Gawayne and the Green knight 1864, The story of Genesis and
Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English
homilies 1868, Chaucer’s translation of Boethius De Consolatione
philosophiæ 1868, Legends of the holy rood 1871, An old English
miscellany 1872, Cursor mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies
1874; he also edited The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer
1866, Specimens of Early English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat
1872; Complete works of Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The
etymology of local names 1857; Historical outlines of English
accidence 1872; English grammar 1875. _d._ Harold Wood, Essex 12
May 1894. _bur._ Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. _I.L.N. 26 May 1894
p._ 643 _portrait_.
MORRIS, SAMUEL SHEPPARD OAKLEY (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of
Llanelly, Carmarthen). _b._ 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London
1857, scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar
1866–71; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig
gr. sch. 1870–2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of
Dolgelly 1873–8; naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug.
1878, interpreter in Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor
in H.M.S. Victoria which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893,
brass memorial tablet placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital
Sept. 1893.
MORRIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842,
lieut. 14 May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major
17 Sept. 1857 to death; commanded his regiment at battle of
Balaklava; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.
MORRIS, WILLIAM (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). _b._ 11
Feb. 1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister
G.I. 18 Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. _d._ 14
Dec. 1886.
MORRIS, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). _b._ 9 July
1820; barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming
lunacy case 1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen _v._ Hume 1853,
and the Cochrane succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author
of The law of railway and other joint stock companies. _d._
Caversham house, Brixton hill, Surrey, 7 April 1889.
MORRIS, WILLIAM PLACIDUS. _b._ London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the
Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.;
bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy
1832–42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton
1842 to death. _d._ Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. _The Tablet
24 Feb. 1872 pp._ 238, 245.
MORRISON, ALLAN (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). _b._
1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April
1861; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862,
1863, and 1865. _d._ Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.
MORRISON, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1835; ed. at
Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat
against Cambridge 1859–61; was umpire at the University boat
race 1869–70; purchased Hampworth lodge, Downton near Salisbury
from Robert Shafto 1867; sheriff of Wiltshire 1881. _d._ 4 April
1884.
MORRISON, GEORGE STAUNTON (son of Robert Morrison, oriental
scholar 1782–1834). Student interpreter in China 30 June 1847;
secretary and registrar at Hong Kong 10 Dec. 1857; consul at
Nagasaki in Japan 21 Dec. 1858, retired on a pension 1 Jany.
1864; severely wounded in an attack made on the British legation
at Yedo by an armed band of Japanese 5 July 1861. _d._ Nice 20
Aug. 1893. _I.L.N. xxxix_ 427 (1861) _portrait_.
MORRISON, JAMES (son of Joseph Morrison who _d._ 1804). _b._
Hampshire 1790; partner in general drapery business of Joseph
Todd in Fore st. city of London, the firm became known as
Morrison, Dillon and co., and was converted into the Fore
st. company, limited; made a large fortune; bought land in
Berkshire, Bucks, Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Islay,
Argyleshire; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1830; M.P. Ipswich 12 Dec.
1832 to 1835; contested Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ipswich 19
June 1835 to 1837; M.P. Inverness burghs 1840–7; made a large
collection of pictures of the old masters, Italian and Dutch and
of English pictures; author of Rail roads, speech in the House
of Commons 1836; Observations illustrative of the defects of
the English system of railway legislation 1846; The influence
of English railway legislation on trade and industry 1848. _d._
Basildon park near Reading 30 Oct. 1857, leaving between three
and four millions. _Puseley’s Commercial companies_ (1858)
_p._ 146; _Waagen’s Cabinets of art_ (1857) 105–13; _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 300–312; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_
260–63 (1854); _The Town ii_ 795 (1839).
MORRISON, SIR JAMES WILLIAM (only son of James Morrison, deputy
master and worker of the Mint). _b._ London 1774; ed. at
Loughborough house school and Yverdun in Switzerland; clerk in
royal mint 1792; deputy master and worker 1803 to March 1851;
knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._ the hermitage,
Snaresbrook, Essex 27 June 1856.
MORRISON, PETER. Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road,
London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance
co. 1 Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of
Deposit at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director
there 1853–4 and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were
branches in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes,
and Dublin; proprietor of the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859,
lost £2,480 over it in 2½ years; resided at 44 Porchester sq.
Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed
an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862. _Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp._
4–5, _19 Feb. p._ 184.
MORRISON, RICHARD JAMES, known as Zadkiel (son of Richard Caleb
Morrison, gentleman pensioner under George III., who _d._
1808). _b._ London 15 June 1795; entered navy 1806, saw much
boat service in the Adriatic, lieut. 3 March 1815; served in
the coastguard April 1827 to Oct. 1829, when placed on h.p.;
presented to the admiralty a plan for registering merchant
seamen 22 April 1824, since adopted in principle, also suggested
a plan for providing seamen 6 March 1835; brought out The
herald of astrology for the years 1831–34 by Zadkiel the Seer,
London 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, four volumes, continued as The
astronomical almanac for 1835 by Zadkiel 1834, one volume,
continued as Zadkiel’s almanac and herald of astrology for 1836.
1835 and went on to his death; brought an action for libel
against sir Edward Belcher in the Queen’s Bench, when he got
a verdict with 20/-damages 29 June 1863; author under his own
name of Narrative of the loss of the Rothsay Castle in Beaumaris
bay, 4 ed. 1831; Observations on Dr. Halley’s great comet, 2 ed.
1835; The solar system as it is and not as it is represented
1857; Explanation of the bell buoy invented by lieut. Morrison
1858; Astronomy in a nutshell 1860; The comet, a map on the
course of Encke’s comet 1860; The New Principia or true system
of astronomy 1868, 2 ed. 1872; King David triumphant, a letter
to the astronomer of Benares 1871; under the name of Zadkiel he
also edited The horoscope, a weekly miscellany Liverpool 1834,
nineteen numbers; The horoscope, a monthly magazine London 1
vol. 1841; The voice of the stars No. 1 1862; and was author of
Zadkiel’s magazine or record of astrology, 2 numbers Jany. and
Feb. 1849; The grammar of astrology 1840. 3 ed. 1849; Zadkiel’s
legacy, also essays on Hindu astrology and the nativity of
the prince of Wales 1842; An essay on love and matrimony
1851; The hand-book of astrology 2 vols 1861–2; On the great
first cause, his existence and attributes 1867; Zadkiel’s
astronomical ephemeris for 1849 etc., 1848 etc. _d._ Sunnyside,
Knight’s park, Kingston-on-Thames 5 Feb. 1874. _Companion to
Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1855 with a portrait_; _A. Steinmetz’s
Manual of weather casts_ (1866) 33; _C. Cooke’s Curiosities of
occult literature_ (1863) 4–9, 242; _A. D. Morgan’s Budget of
paradoxes_ (1872) 195, 277, 472; _British almanac and companion_
(1867) 119–22; _Horace Welby’s Predictions realised_ (1862)
37–8; _A. J. Pearce’s Text book of astrology i_ 27–8, 207–8,
_ii_ 30 _etc._ (1879–89); _Mercurius’s Predicting almanack for
1876 pp._ 40–6 _portrait_; _Athenæum vol. i_ 630, 666, 701
(1874).
NOTE.--He predicted the death of the Prince Consort in Zadkiel’s
Almanac for 1861 thus “The position of Saturn in May will be evil for
all persons born upon or near the 26 Aug., among the sufferers I regret
to see the worthy prince consort of these realms.” The prince was _b._
26 Aug. 1819 and _d._ at Windsor 14 Dec. 1861.
MORRISON, ROBERT. _b._ parish of Moy, Invernessshire 14 Feb.
1822; manager of works of Messrs. Hawthorn at Newcastle 1844–53;
manufacturer of engines at Ouseburn from 1853; invented and
patented an improved steam hammer, which gained first prize at
Exhibition of 1862; made a hammer of 40 tons for Russia 1863;
M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861. _d._ 20 Dec. 1869. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 220–22 (1871).
MORRISSEY, JOHN. _b._ Templemore, Tipperary 5 Feb. 1831; taken
to Lower Canada 1836 and to Troy, New York 3 months later;
apprenticed to an iron moulder at Troy; bar-tender at Aleck
Hamilton’s house, Troy; an emigrant runner in New York 1849;
fought George Thompson on Mare Island 31 Aug. 1852 for 2,000
dollars a side and championship of California and won in 9
rounds; fought Yankee Sullivan at Boston Four-corners, 100 miles
from New York 5 Oct. 1853 for 2,000 dollars a side and won in
37 rounds; badly beaten by Wm. Poole in New York 26 July 1854.
Poole was killed by Morrissey’s friends 24 Feb. 1855; fought J.
C. Heenan at Long Point Island in lake Erie 10 Oct. 1858 for
5,000 dollars a side and the championship of America and won
in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; kept a gambling house where
he lost 124,000 dollars in one night to Benjamin Wood 1867;
opened a large gambling house in Saratoga 1869, made Saratoga a
famous summer resort; member of Congress 6 Nov. 1866 to death.
_d._ Saratoga, New York county 1 May 1878. _bur._ St. Peter’s
cemetery, Troy 4 May. _W. E. Harding’s John Morrissey, his
life, battles and wrangles_ (1880) _portrait_; _Nation 9 May
1878 pp._ 304–5.
MORRITT, WILLIAM JOHN SAWREY (son of rev. Robert Morritt). _b._
12 Sep. 1813; ensign 37 foot 15 March 1831, lieut. 15 March
1833; lieut. 77 foot Feb. 1834, sold out 26 Dec. 1834; came into
Rokeby estate, Yorkshire on death of his uncle 1843; started the
Four in hand driving club April 1856; crippled by a dog cart
accident; M.P. north riding of Yorkshire 1862–5; one of the best
coachmen of his day. _d._ Brighton 13 April 1874. _Baily’s mag.
xxv_ 249–54 (1874) _portrait_.
MORROGH, LEONARD. _b._ county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent
Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a
fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord
Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. _Baily’s mag. xxx_ 373
(1877) _portrait li_, 132 (1889).
MORSE, CHARLES (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk
1783–1852). _b._ Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against
Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match
at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842;
member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug.
1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester _v._ I. Zingari he scored 145
runs in one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. _d._ 25 March
1883. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii_ 78 (1863).
MORSE, FRANCIS (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft).
_b._ 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50;
C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury
1853; P.C. of St. John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean
lecturer at Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to
death; preb. of Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell
cath. 1885 to death; member of Nottingham sch. board Feb.
1871, then chairman; founded the annual Saturday and Sunday
collections for the local hospital; author of Parents, God’s
nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9 ed. 1879; Working for God,
four sermons 1857; The cleansing blood 1859; Confirmation, nine
addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of the church to the sick
1888. _d._ suddenly at residence of J. Watson, J.P., the Park,
Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.
MORSE, JAMES. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I.
3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824
to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut.
col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and
of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841
to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and
Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Farley court,
Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.
MORSE, SALMI. _b._ Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England;
endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883;
found _drowned_ in the North river at 88th street, New York 22
Feb. 1884.
MORSHEAD, WILLIAM HENRY ANDERSON (son of colonel Henry Anderson
Morshead of Widey court, Devon). _b._ 1811; entered navy 4 Sep.
1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol
and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct.
1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral
30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year
11 Jany. 1876. _d._ 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.
MORSON, THOMAS NEWBORN ROBERT. _b._ Stratford le bow, London;
apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt
chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist
in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established
a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at
Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate
of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a
medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on
the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. _d._
38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 353
(1874).
MORT, CHARLES CHESTER. _b._ 1804; editor and joint proprietor
with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death;
mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. _d._ Moss Pitt house,
Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. _The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858
p._ 4.
MORT, THOMAS SUTCLIFFE. _b._ Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk
with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer
Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and
ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm
in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851;
established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district
1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in
coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney
1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live
to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected
in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. _d._ Bodalla near Sydney 9 May
1878. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 51–6 _portrait_.
MORTIMER, FAVELL LEE (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of
Barclay, Bevan & co. London). _b._ London 1802; founded parish
schools on her father’s estates; _m._ in the year 1841 Thomas
Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road,
London, who _d._ 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of
the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of
receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon
line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia
and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the
first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon
precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. _d._ Runton near
Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. _bur._ in churchyard, Upper Sheringham,
Norfolk. _The Family Friend_ (1878) 183.
MORTIMER, GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer
of Bishopsteignton, Devon). _b._ Bishopsteignton 22 July
1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823;
Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30;
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head
master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary
school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London
school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were
senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was
voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of
St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at
St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The
immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and
prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. _d._ Rose Hill,
Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. _E. W. Linging’s History of City
of London school_ (1882) 28–9; _Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp._
179–80; _City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement_, _portrait_.
MORTIMER, JOHN. _b._ 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in
the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon
at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of
hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. _d._
Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856.
MORTIMER, WILLIAM. _b._ Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the
Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’
benefit soc. 1884. _d._ The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886.
_Bailey’s mag. xx_ 1 (1871) _portrait_, _xlv_ 272 (1886).
MORTLOCK, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire).
_b._ Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball
maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens,
never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for
only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first
played at Lord’s in M.C.C. _v._ Surrey club 12 June 1854; made
good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team
visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school,
Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing
outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened
the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon
closed them. _d._ 23 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 28 Jany.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv_ 588 (1863); _Illust. Sporting
news iii_ 345 (1864) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._
93 _portrait_; _Cricket Jany. 1884 p._ 10.
MORTON, GEORGE SHOLTO DOUGLAS 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut.
col. John Douglas 1756–1818). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary
of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin
17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded
his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of
Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to
Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4;
vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. _d._ 47
Brook st. London 31 March 1858.