Modern English biography

MASTER, ROBERT MOSLEY (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1794; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C. of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec. 1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64; archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near Preston 1865 to death. _d._ Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867. MASTER, STREYNSHAM (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of Croston, Lancs. _d._ 1798). _b._ Croston 10 June 1766; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. _d._ 19 Jany. 1864. _Manchester school register_, _ii_ 33–4 (1868). MASTERS, JOSEPH. _b._ Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax, bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st. London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848; started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols. 1842–63. _d._ 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) 49–50. MATCHAM, GEORGE (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller 1753–1833). _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov. 1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the Quarterly Review. _d._ 18 Jany. 1877. MATHER, CHARLES (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of Grantham, Lincs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college 1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting and dramatic news under name of Exon. _d._ Paulton’s terrace, Chelsea 1 July 1878. MATHER, COTTON (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey 1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to the New Testament and Psalms 1861. _d._ Junior Garrick club, London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48. MATHER, ROBERT COTTON (son of James Mather, congregational minister). _b._ New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D. Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833; went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833; pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to 1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches; founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (_m_. Elizabeth Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she _d._ Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He _d._ 5 Torrington park, Finchley, London 21 April 1877. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries_ (1877) 96–7; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 325. MATHESON, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of Attadale, Rossshire, _d._ 1826 aged 48). _b._ Attadale 6 Jany. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84; a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May