Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1851–54; migrated to Queen’s coll.
Camb.; Hulsean prizeman 1858, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assistant
master at Marlborough 1865; author of Essays, verses, etc. by
H. M. Moule and others, Fordington Times soc. 1859; Christian
oratory, an inquiry into its history 1859; The Roman republic, a
review of the salient points in its history 1860. _d._ 1873.
MOULE, JOHN. _b._ 1794; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 4
Bengal N.I. 1 June 1812, lieut. 19 Jany. 1816; captain 23 N.I.
29 April 1826, major 30 June 1840 to 1 April 1846; lieut. col.
46 N.I. 1 April 1846–49, of 5 N.I. 1849–51, of 10 N.I. 1851–2,
of 11 N.I. 1852–5, of 67 N.I. 1855–6, of 33 N.I. 1856–61, and
of 4 N.I. 1861 to death; commandant at Sealkote 11 May 1855, at
Ferozepore 2 July 1856 to 18 Dec. 1857; M.G. 27 Jany. 1858. _d._
Belmont, Melksham, Wiltshire 4 April 1867.
MOULE, JOSEPH (son of John Moule). _b._ 23 Jany. 1797; ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s sch.; superintending president of general post
office, Edinburgh June 1822, retired Feb. 1855; sergeant at arms
in H.M.’s household 1822 to death; author of Two letters to the
members of the congregation of St. James’s chapel, Edinburgh
with reference to D. T. K. Drummond, 2 pamphlets 1843, and of
Memoirs of celebrated authors prefixed to the Naturalist’s
Library, 40 volumes 1843. _d._ Maismore sq. Peckham, Surrey 23
June 1855.
MOULE, THOMAS. _b._ St. Marylebone, London 14 Jany. 1784;
bookseller in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. 1816–23; a clerk in
the general post office, where he was inspector of blind
letters, retired after 44 years service; chamber-keeper in the
lord chamberlain’s department 1822 to death; member of the
Numismatic Society; author of A table of dates for the use of
genealogists and antiquaries 1820 anon; Bibliotheca heraldica
Magnæ Britanniæ, an analytical catalogue of books in genealogy,
heraldry, &c. 1822; Antiquities in Westminster abbey 1825; The
English counties delineated, or a topographical description of
England, 2 vols. 1837; Heraldry of Fish 1842; contributed the
letter-press to Hewetson’s Views of noble mansions in Hampshire
1825. _d._ Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, London 14 June 1851.
_G.M. xxxvi_ 210 (1851).
MOULLIN, ELISE (dau. of M. Greillard). _b._ Caen, Normandy; fled
to England after the coup d’etat of 1852; published anonymously
a brochure Le Berceau du communisme en Perse, etudes historiques
et philosophiques; wrote essays in English periodicals; _m._ M.
Moullin. _d._ 8 Dec. 1855.
MOULTRIE, GERARD (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the
succeeding). _b._ Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby
and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and
chaplain at Shrewsbury school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of
Brinfield, Berks 1860; chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney,
Bristol 1864–9; V. of Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden
of St. James’s college, Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The
primer set forth at large for the use of the faithful in family
and private prayer 1864; author of Hymns and lyrics for the
seasons and saints’ days of the church 1867; The espousals of
St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. _d._ St. James’s college,
Southleigh 25 April 1885. _Church Times 1 May 1885 p._ 345;
_Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892) 771–2.
MOULTRIE, JOHN (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury
Mortimer, Shropshire). _b._ 31 Great Portland st. London, the
residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19,
where he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under
pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian
1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822;
Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby
10 June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to
reside 1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3
ed. 1852; The dream of life, lays of the English church and
other poems 1843; The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4
ed. 1851; St. Mary, the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths,
and graves 1854; wrote many hymns, most of which are in B. H.
Kennedy’s Hymnologia Christiana 1863. _d._ Rugby rectory 26 Dec.
1874. bur. in parish church, to which an aisle was added in his
memory. _John Moultrie’s Poems_, 2 _vols._ (1876) _memoir by
rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp. v–lxxxiv_; _Creasy’s Memoirs
of eminent Etonians_ (1876) 620–4; _Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892)
772.
MOUNSEY, AUGUSTUS HENRY. Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover
1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2
sec. and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of
commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June
1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé
d’ affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul
general at Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris
14 Sept. 1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at
Athens 22 July 1878; minister resident and consul general at
Bogota 26 April 1881; author of A journey through the Caucasus
and the interior of Persia 1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an
episode of Japanese history 1879. _d._ Bogota, Colombia 10 April
1882. _Foreign Office List_ 1882 _p._ 151.
MOUNTAIN, ARMINE SIMCOE HENRY (5 son of Jacob Mountain
1749–1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). _b._ Quebec 4
Feb. 1797; ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec.
1818; travelled in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy
1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24 April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May
1825; brevet major 30 Dec. 1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828,
lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8 March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot
8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850; military secretary on staff of
sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March 1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to
lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4; deputy adjutant general
to the land forces sent from India to China during the war
1840–2, and was present at all the chief engagements; A.D.C.
to the queen June 1845; military secretary to lord Dalhousie,
governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded a brigade in
the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla and
Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed
chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian,
Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. _d._ Futtyghur,
Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at
Futtyghur. _Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain_, _edited by
Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain_ (1857) _portrait_.
MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). _b._
Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810,
D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R.
of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817;
archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb.
1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec,
had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada
was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until
1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in
1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college,
Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853;
author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit
to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission
1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a
visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of
Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. _d._ Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany.
1863. _A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain_ (1866)
_portrait_; _F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by
the crown for the church of Canada_ (1870) 131–86 _portrait_;
_Appleton’s American biography iv_ 447–8 (1888) _portrait_;
_Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis_ (1867) 284–7; _I.L.N. xli_
576, 587 (1862) _portrait_.
MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain
1788–1872). _b._ 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton
school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll.
Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1;
B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near
Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847;
dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college,
Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland
to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death.
_d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. _bur._ St. John’s
cemetery. _Lives of missionaries, North America_ (1864) 206–52.
MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain
1789–1863). _b._ Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln
cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs.
1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St.
Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46;
R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to
the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for
death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834;
Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius
1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to
History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The
history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters
i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian
1853, chapter vi. _d._ Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. _The
Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p._ 1324.
MOUNT CASHELL, STEPHEN MOORE, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl
of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). _b._ St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812;
styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father;
an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. _d._ Oxford
terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 405
(1883) _portrait_.
MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDGCUMBE, 3 Earl of (2 son
of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). _b._ Richmond Hill,
Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30
March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo
medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey
1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P.
Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’
militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and
to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at
her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839;
special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; _m._ 3 Dec.
1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she
was _b._ Jany. 1808 and _d._ Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881;
author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic
church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the
commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850;
On the militia bill 1855. _d._ in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept.
1861. _Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria_ (1845) 37–45
_portrait of the Countess_.
MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at
Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went
to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism;
author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life
1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and
life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy,
or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. _d._ Boston,
Massachusetts 20 April 1885.
MOUNTMORRES, HERVEY DE MONTMORENCY 4 Viscount (only son
of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres
1756–1833). _b._ Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed.
Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4
viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany.
1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant
of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties
and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the
articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. _d._ The Grove,
Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 115 (1872).
MOUNTMORRES, WILLIAM BROWNE DE MONTMORENCY, 5 Viscount (1 son of
the preceding). _b._ Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany.
1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations
with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. _murdered_ with
6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept.
1880. _bur._ Monkstown. _Graphic xxii_ 356 (1880) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxvii_ 361 (1880) _portrait_.
MOUNTSOY, ANTOINE. _b._ Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an
English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into
English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen
Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went
whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village
of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. _Daily Graphic 15 Dec.
1891 p._ 14 _portrait_.
MOUNT TEMPLE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER TEMPLE, 1 Baron (2 son of
5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). _b._ Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811;
ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet
capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime
minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire
1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty
1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home
department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855
to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of
committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice
president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to
Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr.
baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed
by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the
Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of
The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. _d._ Broadlands
near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. _The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23
Oct._ (1888); _I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp._ 481, 482 _portrait_.
MOUTRIE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLARD. Pianoforte maker at 4 King
st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at
133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at
77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical
instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these
distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord
Palmerston Oct. 1853. _d._ 1869.
MOWAT, JOHN LANCASTER GOUGH (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan
minister, _d._ 1881). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846;
educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869,
M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer,
senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death;
proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also
bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June
1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian;
completely explored the line of the Roman wall between
England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma
Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary
1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along
the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire
domesday 1892. _hung himself_ at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894,
inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. _The
Times 9 Aug. 1894._
MOWATT, ALEXANDER MURRAY. _b._ 1838; on the press in Aberdeen;
connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in
repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the
Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. _d._ Liverpool
21 June 1869. _Newspaper Press iii_ 181 (1869).
MOWATT, ANNA CORA (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of
New York, _d._ 1860). _b._ Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17
children; _m._ 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier
and publisher, who became bankrupt and _d._ Green st. Grosvenor
sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she _m._ (2) 7 June 1854
William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who _d._ 1868;
appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845;
played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at
the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at
the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced
her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18
Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at
Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune
hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion,
or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and
behind the curtain 1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870.
_Howitt’s Journal iii_ 146, 167, 181 _portrait_; _Ireland’s New
York stage ii_, 437–8, 729 (1867); _Tallis’ Drawing room table
book_ 1851, _Part_ 2 _pp._ 9–11 _two portraits_; _Theatrical
Times iii_ 162, 169 (1848) _portrait_; _A. C. Mowatt’s
Autobiography of an actress_ (1854) _portrait_; _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 450 (1888) _portrait_.
MOWBRAY, ALFRED JOSEPH STOURTON, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron
Stourton 1802–72). _b._ 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry
cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872;
summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord
Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been
terminated in his favour. _d._ Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St.
Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.
MOWBRAY, ALFRED RICHARD. _b._ Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered
St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock,
then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church,
lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher
at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death;
organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was
master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission;
author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters
and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869;
The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873;
A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873;
Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. _d._ 30 St. John st.
Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Holywell cemet. _Guide to the church
congress_ (1883) 51.
MOXON, EDWARD (son of Michael Moxon). _bapt._ in Wakefield
parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller
1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London
1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s
churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44
Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s
Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles
Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads
1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch
1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello
1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a
series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c; author
of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829;
Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871,
Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. _d._ Putney Heath 3 June 1858.
_bur._ Wimbledon churchyard. _Curwen’s History of booksellers_
(1873) 347–62; _Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies_ (1864) 229–35 _and_
257; _P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii_ 46, 458
(1889).
NOTE.--Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for
selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the
Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go _d._” The jury found him guilty, but
he was not sentenced to any punishment. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state
trials ii_ 356–92 (1850).
MOXON, EMMA (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of
languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire
bedel. 1797. _d._ Cambridge Oct. 1814). _b._ 1809; first met
C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school
girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by
Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary
Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold;
governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All
Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; _m._ 30 July 1833 Lamb’s
friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847,
she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E.
Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and
allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. _d._ Brighton 2
Feb. 1891. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891
p._ 203 _portrait_; _The correspondence of C. Lamb with an
essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the
author’s adopted daughter_ (1870); _A. Ainger’s Letters of C.
Lamb i_ 341, _ii_ 172, 365 (1888); _Law Reports_ 8, _Chancery_
881–8 (1873).
MOXON, JAMES HENRY HARMAR (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover
terrace, Regent’s park, London). _b._ Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed.
at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand
challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s
gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a
teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating
association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge
1878. _d._ suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May
1883. _Baily’s Mag. xl_ 415 (1883).
MOXON, WALTER (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset
house). _b._ Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a
merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854;
M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s
1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy
1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica,
physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882;
F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate
his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by
the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875;
Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. _d._ 6 Finsbury
circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic
acid. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 July. _British medical journal
1886 vol. ii_ 178, 234, 392, 434.
MOYLAN, DENIS. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant
at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862;
collector general of rates 1870. _d._ 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25
July 1878.
MOYLE, JOHN GRENFELL (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon
1756–1828). _b._ Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.;
assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany.
1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board,
Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. _d._ 23
Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.
MOYLE, MATTHEW PAUL (2 son of John Moyle). _b._ Chacewater,
Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote
papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of
a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently
of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841;
author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations
and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently
been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s
Philosophical Magazine 1823. _d._ Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.
MOYSEY, CHARLES ABEL (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., _d._
1831). _b._ 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer
1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts.
1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near
Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839;
prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic
stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined,
Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of
doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures
on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. _d._ Batheaston court,
Bath 17 Dec. 1859.