ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York
city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering
and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation.
_d._ New York 12 Oct. 1869.
MORTON, CHARLES (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh,
agricultural implement maker). _b._ 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the
signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and
1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action
against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other
famous cases. _d._ Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.
MORTON, JAMES. _b._ Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death;
prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford
club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for
the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical
remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta
1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. _d._
Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. _G.M. xix_ 390 (1865).
MORTON, JOHN (2 son of Robert Morton). _b._ Ceres, Fifeshire 17
July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of
the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton,
Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates
1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and
established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the
Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839;
author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843;
Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer
of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties
on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. _d._ Nailsworth,
Gloucestershire 26 July 1864.
MORTON, JOHN CHALMERS (son of preceding). _b._ 11 July 1821; ed.
Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted
his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of
Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural
gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at
Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners;
member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers
1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New
farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for
farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861,
new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other
books. _d._ Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. _bur._ Harrow ch.
yard 9 May. _Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv_ 691–6
(1888); _Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p._ 428 _portrait_, _14
May p._ 453.
MORTON, JOHN DRUMMOND. _b._ Manchester 1830; sec. of National
reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and
political essays. _d._ Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._
Salford cemet.
MORTON, JOHN MADDISON (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist
1764–1838). _b._ Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ.
Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school,
Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his
first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s
theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act
farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw,
Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me
five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at
Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the
most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov.
1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse
15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22
July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going
it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. _d._ the Charterhouse,
London 19 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. _J. M.
Morton’s Plays for home performance_ (1889) _memoir pp. ix–xv_;
_Theatre xiv_ 220–1, 255 (1889) _portrait_; _London Figaro 23
Dec. 1891 p._ 7 _portrait_; _Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p._
4 _portrait_; _London Society xlix_ 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886)
_portrait_.
MORTON, SAVILLE. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and
B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff
of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent
at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin
successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser
in 1852. _Stabbed_ by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of
Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. _bur._
Montmartre cemet. _Annual Register_ (1852) 402–7.
NOTE.--Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he
found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for
murder, but acquitted, he _d._ at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69.
MORTON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838).
_b._ 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama
Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a
drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April
1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the
shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848;
Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom,
a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a
comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another
retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also
wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and
with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters
is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on
the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. _d._ 8 St. John’s
sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. _bur._ Kensal
green cemet.
MOSCHELES, IGNATZ (son of a cloth merchant). _b._ Prague, 30
May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May
1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to
England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a
public performer on the piano; _m._ 1 March 1825 at Hamburg,
Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832,
conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at
Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London
1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct.
1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly
variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his
compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820;
Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces
for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty
preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827;
Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve
duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by
E. Pauer 1886. _d._ Leipzig 10 March 1870. _C. E. Moscheles’
Life of Moscheles_ 2 _vols._ (1873) _portrait_; _Musical Gem_
(1832) _p._ 74 _portrait_.
MOSELEY, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester 27 March 1840; member of
firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of
Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison
electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal
1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3
May 1887. _d._ Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887.
_bur._ Southern cemet. 5 Oct. _The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct.
1887 p._ 5, _and 9 Oct. p._ 5.
MOSELEY, EDWIN CHARLES. _b._ 1812; editor and proprietor of
Nassau Guardian 40 years. _d._ Nassau, New Providence, Bahama
islands 29 May 1885.
MOSELEY, HENRY (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at
Newcastle-under-Lyne). _b._ 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at
Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler
1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near
Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy
and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12
Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833;
an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident
canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston,
Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14
May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise
on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise
on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures
on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of
engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology
2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural
philosophy. _d._, Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. _Trans.
of Instit. of naval architects xiii_ 328–30 (1872); _I.L.N. lx_
90 (1872).
MOSELEY, HENRY NOTTIDGE (son of the preceding). _b._ St. Ann’s
Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc.
and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science
1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869;
studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at
Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition
to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger
expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow
of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English
company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S.
7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal
medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March
1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy
at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882;
F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited
Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852
etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878;
On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878;
Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell
ill in 1887 and never recovered. _d._ Firwood Clevedon, Somerset
10 Nov. 1891. _H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed._
(1892) _memoir v–xvi and portrait_; _Biograph vi_ 387–90 (1881);
_Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 599 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891
p._ 694 _portrait_.
MOSELEY, LITCHFIELD. _b._ 1839; author of Penny readings in
prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece
The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. _d._ 16 Wilton road, Dalston,
London 21 June 1879.
MOSES, HENRY. _b._ about 1782; engraver, published many sets
of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers
employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the
British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted
by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases,
altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates
1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3
vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. _d._ Cowley, Middlesex
28 Feb. 1870.
MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). _b._
Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8;
assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man
1868–72; English master at University college school, London
1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice
president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light
1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the
title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon
of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an
article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise
on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878,
2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism
1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. _d._ at his
mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. _bur._
Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. _Light 10 Sept. 1892 p._ 439 _portrait_,
_17 Sept. pp._ 445–6, 447, _5 Nov. 1892 pp._ 529–32 _portrait_.
MOSLEY, JOHN IVON. _b._ Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a
compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught
linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary,
prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx
society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben
Brierly’s Journal. _d._ Manchester 6 Sept. 1876.
MOSLEY, SIR OSWALD, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of
Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). _b._ Morton near Chester
27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806,
D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for
North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837;
sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for
£200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832;
Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short
account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history
of Tutbury 1863. _d._ Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May
1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 309 (1872); _I.L.N. lviii_ 578
(1871).
MOSS, JAMES. _b._ 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne
music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of
his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. _d._ Greenock 14 Nov. 1882.
MOSS, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley,
removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near
Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The
manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. _d._
Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862.
MOSS, THOMAS. _b._ 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861;
Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge
of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of
appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death;
vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. _d._ Nice 4 Jany. 1881.
MOSS, SIR THOMAS EDWARDS- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss
1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the
North-Western bank). _b._ 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain
of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; _m._ 1847 Amy Charlotte,
heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name
of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional
assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc.
1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. _d._ Otterspool near
Liverpool 26 April 1890.
MOSS, TOM COTTENHAM EDWARDS- (2 son of preceding). _b._ 7 April
1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge
races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley
1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur
championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford
oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire
hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death.
M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. _d._ Otterspool near
Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893.
MOSSMAN, JOHN (son of George Mossman, sculptor). _b._ London
1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti;
exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow
statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and
Dr. Norman Macleod. _d._ Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept.
1890.
MOSSMAN, THOMAS WIMBERLEY (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman,
schoolmaster). _b._ Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed.
at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain
and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V.
of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West
Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the
Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders,
at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of
Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon.
D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme
ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one
of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was
received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal
Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words
used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy
scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus
Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second
century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St.
Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of
Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various
scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. _d._ East Torrington rectory 6 July
1885. _Biograph vi_ 342–9 (1881); _Church Times 10 July 1885 p._
531, _17 July p._ 555; Tablet _18 July 1885 p._ 103.
MOSTYN, EDWARD PRYCE LLOYD, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of
Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). _b._ 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded
his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint
boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff
for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col.
commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn
co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. _d._ Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April
1854.
MOSTYN, EDWARD LLOYD-MOSTYN, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding).
_b._ Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and
1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname
of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks
and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840;
col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North
Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for
£10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. _d._ Mostyn
hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. _Baily’s mag. xlii_ 197 (1884);
_I.L.N. xliv_ 237 (1864) _portrait_.
MOSTYN, THOMAS. _b._ Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor
Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to
death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death,
his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. _d._
Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24
Sept.
MOSTYN, THOMAS. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810;
surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct.
1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7
Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death;
served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo;
served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and
1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. _d._ Alpha house,
Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.
MOSTYN, THOMAS EDWARD MOSTYN-LLOYD (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn
1795–1884). _b._ Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and
Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death.
_d._ Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.
MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP. _b._ Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S.
of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin
and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in
London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860,
LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of
The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History
of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death
of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. _d._
Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. _bur._
Kensal green cemet. 4 June. _J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W.
Holmes_ (1878); _Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history_ (1879)
_pp._ 195–252; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 438–40 (1888)
_portrait_; _Graphic xv_ 549 (1877) _portrait_.
MOTT, CHARLES. Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his
report was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble
about the Keighley union and was removed from his office;
manager of lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South
Lancashire poor law district to his death, where he suffered
from the defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published
Report from the poor law commissioners relative to statements
concerning management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838.
_d._ of paralysis 12 May 1851.
MOTTERAM, JAMES (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston,
Birmingham, merchant). _b._ 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull
gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to
death; Q.C. 28 June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21
(Birmingham, &c.) June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse
dau. of Auguste Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list
pension of £75 24 May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend,
and if so, how far the civil jurisdiction of local courts, read
at Social Science Congress 1882; The jurisdiction of local
courts, and other pamphlets. _d._ Maney house near Sutton
Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.
MOTTERSHEAD, THOMAS. _b._ 1826; a silk weaver, London; a member
of the radical party in London; contested Preston 5 Feb. 1874;
the radical candidate for the new borough of Clerkenwell 1884,
fractured his skull by falling down stairs at the offices of the
Liberty and defence league, 4 Westminster chambers and _died_
the same day at the Westminster hospital 5 Dec. 1884.
MOTTRAM, CHARLES. _b._ 9 April 1807; engraved plates in the line
manner after sir Edwin Landseer and others; engraved mezzotint
plates after T. J. Barker and others; engraved many plates in
the mixed style after W. H. Hunt, sir E. Landseer, Rosa Bonheur
and others; exhibited 7 engravings at R.A. 1861–77. _d._ 92 High
st. Camden Town, London 30 Aug. 1876.
MOULD, JACOB WREY. _b._ Chiselhurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s
college, London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen
Jones, architect, studying the Alhambra; designed with him
Moresque-Turkish divan of Buckingham palace and the decorations
of the great exhibition of 1851; designed and built All Soul’s
church, New York 1853; assistant architect of public works
New York 1857, chief architect 1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874,
but returned after a few years; translated the libretti of La
Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville 1856, Hernani 1857,
Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula 1865; illustrated vol. 2
of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and assisted him in his Grammar
of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions of Gray’s Elegy in a
country churchyard 1846, and The book of common prayer 1849.
_d._ New York 14 June 1886.
MOULD, JAMES. _b._ Bodmin 1814; contributed to the Falmouth
newspapers 1833; on the Ipswich press 1837; on parliamentary
staff of London Morning Herald 1841, and of the Standard to
1887; manager of Standard parliamentary staff and summary writer
1865–87; author of Lives of and politics of British statesmen
1854 anon. _d._ 19 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 5 Jany.
1889.
MOULE, HENRY (6 son of George Moule of Melksham, Wiltshire,
solicitor). _b._ Melksham 27 Jany. 1801; ed. at Marlborough and
St. John’s coll. Camb., foundation scholar; B.A. 1821, M.A.
1826; C. of Melksham 1823; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1825–9; V.
of Fordington, Dorset 1829 to death; chaplain to the troops in
Dorchester barracks some years, for whose use he built in 1846 a
church known as Ch. Ch. West Fordington; invented the dry earth
closet system, which process he patented with James Bannehr 28
May 1860, his system has been adopted in military camps, in many
hospitals, and extensively in India; author of Barrack sermons
preached at Dorchester 1847; Manure for the million, to the
cottage gardeners of England 1861, eleventh thousand 1870; The
advantages of the dry earth system 1868; National health and
wealth promoted by the general adoption of the dry earth system
1873. _d._ Fordington vicarage 3 Feb. 1880. _H. C. G. Moule’s
Sermons on the death of H. Moule_ (1880) 5–13; _Chambers’s
Encyclopædia x_ 731–3 (1874).