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Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609, 610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26, _portrait_. MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay 1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill, city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London 1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843) _portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871). MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864 a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2 portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869). MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6, contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art. _d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891. MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham; founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus, the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery, Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30 Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany. 1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4. MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860. MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone 1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822; L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24 June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth 12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878). MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co. Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto; R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14 June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851). MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant). _b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan 1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863 and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions 1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX 1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872. _bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_. MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._ Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork 1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute 1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London, July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857 to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R. of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884; author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R. Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica 1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 71–6. MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin 24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb. 1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6. MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow 1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov. 1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct. 1881. MAHER, JAMES. _b._ Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822; parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare 1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. _d._ Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath. 200 priests were present. _bur._ Carlow Graigue. _Comerford’s Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 177–8; _Letters of Father Maher_ (1877). MAHER, JOHN. _b._ 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41; sheriff of Wexford 1853. _d._ 28 May 1860. MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) _b._ Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. _d._ Turtulla near Thurles 18 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p._ 411. MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding). _b._ Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869; M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872; resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873; medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875; medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881; M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. _d._ of enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 745, 763 (1884); _Guy’s Hospital Reports_ (1886) 1–10. MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. _b._ Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784; learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at Cork with an Irish girl, she _d._ about Dec. 1850; carried on a vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death; author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2 ed. 1826, portrait. _d._ 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851. Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed kept a fencing academy. _The travels of Deen Mahomed_ 2 _vols._ _Cork_ (1794); _Willis’s Current notes_ (1852) 23; _G.M. xxxv_ 444 (1851). MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son of Patrick Mahon _d._ 1821). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 17 March 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war; colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P. Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June