Modern English biography

_Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp._ 103–5. MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. _b._ Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874; A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. _drowned_ while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875. MAIR, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society; hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840, surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada 1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils. Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. _d._ Kingston 5 Oct. 1877. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 246–7. MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh hall, Lincs.) _b._ 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list 1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872; Short rules for cribbage 1878. _d._ Osbert house, Skegness, Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888. MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war 1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing his skull. _d._ 2 Sep. 1892. MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull, _d._ 18 Feb. 1790). _b._ 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793; captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795, major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807; lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug. 1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov.