Modern English biography

MARCET, FRANÇOIS (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 25 May 1803; lived greater part of his life in canton of Geneva where he was professor of physics in the academy; member of Geneva legislature and government; resided at 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 1873 to death; member of council of Univ. college, London; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Dissertation sur cette question, convient’il d’ accorder un dédommagement au prévenu absous? Genève 1825; Cours de physique experimentale. Genève 1836; edited and revised Conversations on natural philosophy by Jane Marcet 1872. _d._ 14 Stratton st. London 12 April 1883. MARCET, JANE (only dau. of Francis Haldimand, Swiss merchant). _b._ London 1769; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1799 Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, physician, London, _d._ 19 Oct. 1822 aged 52); author of Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained 2 vols. 1806, 16 ed. 1853; Conversations on political economy 1816, 5 ed. 1824; Conversations on natural philosophy 1819, 14 ed. 1872; The game of grammar, with 290 small cards and 24 counters 1842; Rich and poor 1851, and 15 other books for children. _d._ 14 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1858. _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 368–92; _S. J. Hale’s Women’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) 732. MARCH, CHARLES (son of Richard March, weaver of woollen yarn). _b._ Boutport st. Barnstaple 15 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Dec. 1807, present at bombardment of Algiers; in the merchant service 1824–32; an agent of the Bible soc.; a shipping agent with Mr. Bird at Gloucester 1835; commander R.N. July 1864. _d._ Gloucester 17 March 1865. _Memorials of Charles March by his nephew Septimus March_ (1867), _portrait_. MARCH, WILLIAM HENRY. Second lieut. R.M. 20 Nov. 1830; served in Spain 1836–40; fought at Balaclava, wounded at Inkerman; in command at Shanghai 1860 when he repulsed two attacks of the Chinese; col. R.M. 16 May 1862, col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864; retired on full pay as hon. major general 20 Nov. 1865; received a general officer’s good service pension of £200 in 1890; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of legion of honour and of Medjidie. _d._ 73 Cambridge terrace, London 5 Jany. 1892. MARCHANT, FREDERICK. _b._ 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats, drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb, pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec. 1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18 Sep. 1874. _d._ London 17 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 Dec. MARCHANT, W. T. _b._ 1836; editor of the British Mail and universal trade review; author of Betrothals and bridals, with a chat about wedding cakes 1879; In praise of ale, or songs relating to beer, malt and hops 1888. _d._ Acacia cottage, Balham road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 31 Dec. 1888. MARCON, WALTER (4 son of John Marcon of Swaffham, Norfolk). _b._ Swaffham 28 March 1824; ed. at Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846; in Eton eleven 1841 and 1842, and in Oxford eleven 1843 and 1844; the fastest bowler known, the pace was terrific always requiring two long stops, nor was a wicket keeper of the slightest use; bowled 4 wickets in succession in match Swaffham _v._ Attleborough 4 July 1850; R. of Edgefield, Holt, Norfolk 1848–76. _d._ 1881. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 40 (1863). MARCUS, LEWIS. Ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; head master Holbeach gram. sch.; C. of Biggleswade 1827–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Finsbury 1846 to death; professor of Latin in city of London college for ladies, Finsbury; author of A Latin grammar 1861; Elementary Latin, a delectus of exercises 2 parts 1862–4. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Bunhill row, Finsbury 12 June 1879. MARCUS, OTTO CHARLES. _b._ 1825; assistant in University library, Cambridge; author of Marcus’s Conversation guide or dialogues in English, French, German, Russian, Polish and Swedish languages 1855. _d._ Cambridge 11 May 1865. MARDON, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1792; ed. York coll. and Glasgow univ., M.A.; Unitarian minister Glasgow 9 years; minister of General Baptist chapel, Worship st. Finsbury sq. London 26 years; member of British Archæol. Assoc. 1845, wrote on The burial place of the widow of Milton in Journal 1850 pp. 322–6, 418; author of A letter to Dr. Chalmers occasioned by his notice of unitarians 1818; The truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1822; The apostle Paul, an unitarian 1826; Christianity identified with unitarianism 1835; The catholic epistle of John the apostle, translated from the Greek 1853; resided at Sidmouth. _d._ Exeter 15 April 1866. MARDON, EDWARD RUSSELL. Billiard player; a frequenter of Newmarket; a great opponent of P.P. (play or pay) betting; resided at Brighton; author of Billiards, game 500 up, played at Brighton on 18th January 1844. Brighton 1844, 3 ed. 1858; On P.P. betting. _Sporting Review_, _May 1858 p._ 365. MARDYN, MRS. (dau. of poor parents). _b._ Ireland or Chichester 1789 or 1795; a servant in an inn and a helper in the bar; _m._ 1811 Mr. Mardyn an actor on the Portsmouth circuit, from whom she separated, when she allowed him two pounds a week, he died about 1819; an actress and dancer in the provinces and at the West London theatre, London (now the Marylebone) 1811; educated under W. Dimond manager of the Bath theatre 1813–14; played at Crow st. theatre, Dublin; first appeared at Drury Lane as Amelia Wildenheim in Lovers’ Vows 26 Sep. 1815; some attention paid her by Lord Byron was one of the causes of his disagreement with his wife 1815, she was then hissed at Drury Lane by a fashionable clique but she appealed to the audience who took her part; she was good in Albina Mandeville in The Will 17 Oct. 1815, and as Peggy in The Country Girl 7 Nov. 1815; played Jacintha in the Suspicious Husband 11 Oct. 1819; made her last appearance at Drury Lane as Miss Wooburn in Every one has his faults 19 June 1820; _m._ 1821 a foreign gentleman who soon after purchased the title of Baron R----. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _i_ 269–80 (1826), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_ 198–207 (1844); _Georgian Era_, _iv_ 573–4 (1834); _T. Medwin’s Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron. New York_ (1824) 24, 28; _T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847) 284. MARETT, SIR ROBERT PIPON (son of Peter Daniel Marett, major Madras army). _b._ 20 Nov. 1820; ed. at Caen and the Sorbonne, Paris; advocate of royal court of Jersey 1840; constable of St. Helier 1856; solicitor general of Jersey 19 Feb. 1858, attorney general 1866 to 10 March 1880, and bailiff 10 March 1880 to death; knighted by patent 31 May 1880; edited Les manuscrits de P. L. Geyt 1846; author of several poems in the Jersey patois published in Rimes et poësies Jersiaises edited by Abraham Mourant 1865 and in the Patois poems of the Channel Islands edited by J. L. Pitts 1883. _d._ St. Aubin’s, Jersey 10 Nov.