1847). _b._ 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824;
C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London;
assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge
1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East
28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March
1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840;
An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the
anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the
island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city
church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old
and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. _d._ 30 Brunswick sq.
London 24 Sept. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Gent. Mag. ix_
556 (1860); _I.L.N. xxvi_ 269 (1855) _portrait_.
MURRAY, THOMAS GRAHAM (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall,
Perthshire 1782–1847). _b._ Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb.
academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior
partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879;
member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and
on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener
of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887,
under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb.
univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member
for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt.
to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. _d._ 11 Randolph
crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. _bur._ Dean cemetery 14
March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A.
1891. _The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p._ 7.
MURRAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor
1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34,
practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and
F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of
council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867;
M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. _d._ 7 Warrior terrace, St.
Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. _Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p._ 14.
MURRAY, WILLIAM (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st.
London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May
1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May
1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major
in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road,
Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a
money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand
12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July,
the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide
25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria
Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. _A.R._ (1861)
119–26; _J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed._ (1876) 606–7;
_Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p._ 46, 27 _July pp._ 56–9 _and 3
Aug. pp._ 72–4, _portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16
Northumberland st._
MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, _b._
1806). _b._ Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled
viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21
July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855;
lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to
death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888
to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice
lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about
1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee
March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the
county road trustees. _d._ Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.
MURRAY, WILLIAM HENDERSON. Apprentice to a shoemaker at
Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the
Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected
with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express,
Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples,
latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as
printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. _d._ at house of his
father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. _The
Fife Herald 29 July 1858_, _p._ 2.
MURRAY, WILLIAM HENRY WOOD (son of Charles Murray, actor and
dramatist 1754–1821). _b._ Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts
at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as
Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre
royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played
Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819,
which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov.
1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce
No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee
of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee
with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee
1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony
Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July
1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter,
a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15
July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany.
1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and
Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. _d._
St. Andrews 5 May 1852. _bur._ in the cathedral burying ground,
portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery.
_B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 170–2 _portrait_; _The
Town ii_ 766, 778 (1839); _J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh
stage_ (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 _portrait_; _The Farewell
addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch_ (1851).
MURRAY, WILLIAM POWELL (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth,
Sussex). _b._ London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829,
King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb.
1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841;
practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court,
Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death.
_d._ Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. _bur._ Shirley
churchyard, Surrey. _Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p._ 347.
MURRAY-DUNLOP, ALEXANDER COLQUHOUN STIRLING (eld. son of
Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). _b._
Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ.
of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of
Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir
James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of
rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest”
made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free
church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July
1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S.
of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of
John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on
death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor
law. _d._ Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. _Law Times
10 Sept. 1870 p._ 357.
MURRIETA, CRISTOBAL DE. _b._ Spain 1789; a merchant at 5
Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons
Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was
principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at
7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a
limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July
1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. _d._
11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty
sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.
MURSELL, JAMES (son of the succeeding). _b._ Leicester 22 July
1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ.
Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70;
at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel,
Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s
Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India
1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire
1861. _d._ Newcastle 28 May 1875. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men_
(1884) 330–2; _The Baptist handbook_ 1876 _pp._ 378–80.
MURSELL, JAMES PHILIPPO (son of William Mursell, ironmonger).
_b._ High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and
at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at
Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600;
first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder
of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the
Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after
his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of
Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2
ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous
ministry, its character and its worth 1857. _d._ Leicester 2
Nov. 1885. _A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell_ (1886) _portrait_; _The
Baptist handbook_ 1886 _pp._ 131–3.
MURTON, FREDERIC (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines,
Chatham). _b._ Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George
Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837;
resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe
railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon
and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000;
in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to
Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America;
M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. _d._ 85 Addison road, Kensington, London
17 Jany. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 326–8
(1889).
MUSGRAVE, ANTHONY. _b._ Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and
Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical
society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner
with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of
house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death;
partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico
Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow
fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in
the medical papers. _d._ Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.
MUSGRAVE, SIR ANTHONY (son of the preceding). _b._ 1828; private
secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands
1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at
Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis
Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St.
Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of
British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25
May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor
and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and
commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G.
23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885;
author of Studies in political economy 1875. _d._ Government
house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.
MUSGRAVE, CHARLES (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge,
woollen draper). _b._ 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837;
fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select
preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March
1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death;
archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges
and sermons 1824–54. _d._ Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875.
_The church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859)
_portrait_ 43; _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882) 111, 519.
MUSGRAVE, FRANK. _b._ 1834; conductor at Strand theatre,
London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H.
J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the
music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the
first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque
L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime
polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion
train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation
arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad
1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave
1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F.
Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets
1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music
1861–84. _d._ Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May
1888. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 May.
MUSGRAVE, GEORGE MUSGRAVE (eld. son of George Musgrave of
Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). _b._ St. Marylebone, London
1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822;
C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9;
R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54;
travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes
at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and
three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author
of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the
Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts
in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A
pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions,
cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed.
1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and
corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer,
rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols.
1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 13 Grosvenor
place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.
MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher
Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). _b._ 6 Jany. 1790;
succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. _d._ Whiting
bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.
MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD COURTENAY 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G.
Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). _b._ Eden hall, Penrith,
Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold
out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of
Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland
16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880
to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to
death. _d._ 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.
MUSGRAVE, THOMAS (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen
draper). _b._ Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed.
at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb.
1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7,
senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813,
D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior
proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the
Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March
1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth
1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of
York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany.
1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. _d._ 41 Belgrave
sq. London 4 May 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet., portrait in
dining room at Bishopthorpe.
MUSGRAVE, THOMAS MOORE. _b._ 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham,
sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in
sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the
secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired
on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the
mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post
office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a
writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s
Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence
1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective
balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from
the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens,
a translation 1826. _d._ Bath 4 Sept. 1854. _Bath Chronicle 14
Sept. 1854 p._ 3.
MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge
supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. _d._
Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.
MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM PEETE. _b._ 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs.
1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident
canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of
Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden
of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor
of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?;
The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. _d._
Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. _F. T. Havergal’s Fasti
Herefordenses_ (1869) _p._ 66.
MUSGROVE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of
London, merchant 1763–1820). _b._ 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and
house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad
st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London
and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on
occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet
2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. _d._ Rusthall
house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. xvii_ 357 (1850)
_portrait_.
MUSHET, ROBERT (2 son of Richard Mushet). _b._ Dalkeith 1811;
second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London
1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author
of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844,
2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. _d._ Haywards
Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871.
MUSHET, ROBERT FORESTER (youngest son of David Mushet
metallurgist 1772–1847). _b._ Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April
1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford;
experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as
Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the
quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the
Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when
in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel
institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for
manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten
and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870;
author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. _d._ 10 Sydenham
villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. _Jeans’s Creators of the age
of steel_ (1884) 60–5; _Journal of iron and steel institute_
(1876) 1–4; _Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p._ 7 _portrait_.
MUSPRATT, JAMES (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, _d._
1810). _b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale
chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812,
but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash
in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J.
C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble
and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new
works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the
chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom.
_d._ Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. _bur._ in Walton
parish churchyard. _J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt_,
_with portrait_.
MUSPRATT, JAMES SHERIDAN (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 8
March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836,
and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading
partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig
at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before
granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool
college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s
business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated
Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered
a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known
as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative
analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and
analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; _m._ 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman,
American actress, _d._ 10 May 1859. He _d._ The Hollies, West
Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. _Biography of Sheridan Muspratt_,
_by a London barrister-at-law_ (1852) _portrait_; _J. S.
Muspratt’s Chemistry_, 2 _vols._ (1853–61) 2 _portraits_; _W.
White’s Biography of S. Muspratt_ (1869) _portrait_.
MUSSY, HENRI GUÉNEAU DE. _b._ Paris 1814; physician, came to
England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans
family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859;
resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland
about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the
president and college of physicians of England; representative
of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of
Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De
l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des
thèses 1844, vol. viii. _d._ St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept.
1892. _bur._ Pére Lachaise cemet. Paris 3 Oct. _The Times 4 Oct.
1892 pp._ 3, 7.
NOTE.--He was one of the few foreigners elected to the full fellowship
of the royal college of physicians, his coat-of-arms is represented in
one of the stained glass windows of the college in Trafalgar square.
MUSTERS, GEORGE CHAWORTH (son of John George Musters of Wiverton
hall, Notts., _d._ 1842). _b._ Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered
the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black
Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut.
of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June
1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming
at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies,
who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from
Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and
adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul
for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the
Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the
Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. _d._
London 25 Jany. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i_ 397–8 (1879).
MUSTOXIDI, SIR ANDREA. _b._ Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua
1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of
duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative
assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of
municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the
Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823;
historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland
deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many
editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece,
published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48.
_d._ Corfu 17 July 1860. _G.M. Nov. 1860 p._ 554; _Didot’s
Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi_ 73 (1863); _Larousse’s Grand
Dictionnaire xi_ 732 (1874).
MUSURUS, CONSTANTINE (son of Paul Musurus). _b._ Constantinople
18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg
Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne
he married in 1839, she was _b._ 1819 and _d._ in London 19
July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848;
minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador
30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit
to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston
sq. London. _d._ Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. _The Graphic 21
Feb. 1891 p._ 209 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p._ 235
_portrait_; _Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p._ 241 _portrait_.
MUTRIE, ANNIE FERAY (sister of the succeeding). _b._ Ardwick,
Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A.
and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in
his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854;
sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the
International exhibition of 1862. _d._ 26 Lower Rock gardens,
Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _The Times 10
Oct. 1893 p._ 9.
MUTRIE, MARTHA DARLEY (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled
at Manchester in the cotton trade). _b._ Ardwick, Manchester
26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester
Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death;
exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group
of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. _d._
36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. _bur._
Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p._ 75.