Modern English biography

_Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 285 (1888) _portrait_. MEDLEY, JULIUS GEORGE. _b._ 19 July 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1847, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1871 to death; assist. engineer public works department India 12 March 1849; consulting engineer for government railways; field engineer with force against the Bozdars on Derajat frontier 1857; field engineer before Delhi and leader of first attacking column 1857; field engineer under Outram at siege of Lucknow 1858; principal of civil engineering college, Calcutta; under sec. to government in public works; principal of Roorkee college 1863–71; contributed to professional papers of Thomasson Civil engineering college, Roorkee 1863–73, compiled a Manual of engineering for the students; consulting engineer for guaranteed railways at Lahore during 8 years, then inspecting officer; A.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; major general Jany. 1884; author of A year’s campaigning in India 1858; An autumn tour in the United States and Canada 1873. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Ravenna at Port Said 12 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx_ 343–7 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 292 (1884), _portrait_. MEDLEY, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Medley, baptist minister 1738–99). _b._ 22 March 1769; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. 1792–1805; a stock broker from 1805; one of founders of London University 1826; painted a large group of portraits representing The Medical Society of London, which is in the society’s rooms, 11 Chandos st. Cavendish square, it has been engraved by C. Branwhite. _d._ Chatham 10 Aug. 1857. MEDWIN, THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Charles Medwin). _b._ Horsham, Sussex 20 March 1788; ed. at Sion house, Brentford; cornet 24 light dragoons 18 June 1812, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. on reduction of the regiment 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 1 life guards 1 Feb. 1831, sold out 15 Feb. 1831; served in India; went to Italy 1821, introduced by Shelley to Byron at Pisa where he stayed 20 Nov. 1821 to 15 March 1822 and 18 to 28 Aug. 1822; resided at Heidelberg about 20 years; author of Ahasuerus the wanderer 1823; Journal of the conversations of lord Byron 1824, 5 ed. 1830; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, translated into English verse 1832; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1833; The angler in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen 2 vols. 1834; Lady Singleton, or the world as it is 3 vols. 1843; The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. 1847. _d._ in his brother’s house the Carfax, Horsham 2 Aug. 1869. _Notes and Queries_ 5 _S. v_ 161 (1876), 6 _S. vi_ 293 (1882). MEDWIN, THOMAS REA (eld. son of Thomas Peirce Medwin of Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ 1811; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1826–30; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; C. of Dorsington, Gloucs. 1835–7; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars, London 1837–43; head master of Stratford-on-Avon gr. sch., and chaplain of Holy Cross chapel, Stratford-on-Avon 1843–68; V. of Bearley, Warws. 1871–2; V. of Astwich with Arlesey, Beds. 1881 to death; author of A manual of the history of Greek and Roman literature, translated from the German of Augustus Matthiæ 1841; Sermons preached at Stratford-on-Avon 1851; Latin verse memorials 1868. _d._ Arlesey vicarage 17 March 1885. MEE, ANNE (eld. child of John Foldsone, painter _d._ about 1784). _b._ about 1773; a miniature painter; employed by the prince regent in painting portraits of fashionable beauties, many of these are now at Windsor; some of her portraits were engraved in the Court Magazine and La belle assemblée; exhibited 39 miniatures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1804–37; (_m._ Joseph Mee). _d._ Hammersmith 28 May 1851. _The Lady’s monthly museum Jany. 1814_, _memoir and portrait_; _A. Mee’s Gallery of beauties of the court of George III._ (1812), _portrait_. MEE, JOHN (2 son of John Mee of Nottingham). _b._ 3 May 1824; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., scholar 1846; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; incorporated M.A. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 1879; C. of All Saints, Derby 1849–50; P.C. of Riddings, Derby 1850–4; association secretary of church missionary society for eastern district 1854–7; clerical secretary of British and foreign bible society 1857–61; dean of Grahamstown, South Africa 1861–4; secretary of Church missionary society 1866–9; V. of St. Jude, Southwark 1864–71; R. and V. of Westbourne, Sussex 1871 to death; member for Southwark of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873. _d._ Lochiel Arms hotel, Banavie, Fort William, Scotland 19 Sep. 1883. MEE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kegworth, Leicestershire 1788; inherited a moderate fortune; resided for some years in London, returned to Kegworth about 1820; author of the song ‘Alice Gray’ which became very popular and was set to music by George W. Reeve 1830 and by Virtue Millard 1835; wrote poetry in periodicals under pseudonym of Richard Sparkle. _d._ Shardlow union workhouse, Derbyshire 29 May 1862. NOTE.--In some verses of his which appeared in ‘The Thrasher’ about 1825 he suggested as his epitaph ‘Weep not for Mee.’ In the days of his affluence he drank six tankards of strong ale a day and seven on a Sunday. _Notes and Queries 2 series_, _xii_ 189, 238, 299 (1861), _3 series ii_ 43 (1862). MEEHAN, CHARLES PATRICK. _b._ 141 Great Britain st. Dublin 12 July 1812; studied at Irish Catholic college, Rome 1828–34; ordained priest 1834; C. of Rathdrum, Wicklow 1834; C. at parish ch. of Saints Michael and John, Dublin 1835 to death; M.R.I.A.; author of History of the confederation of Kilkenny 1846, 2 ed. 1860; The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries 1869, 5 ed. 1877; Fate and fortunes of Hugh O’Neill earl of Tyrone and Rory O’Donel earl of Tyrconnel 1870; translated History of the Geraldines, earls of Desmond, from the Latin of O’Daly 1847; Manzoni’s La Monaca di Monza 1847; Life of Francis Kirwan bishop of Killala, from the Latin of Lynch 1848; Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects of the order of Saint Dominic from the Italian of V. Marchese 2 vols. 1852; edited The poets and poetry of Munster 1883. _d._ 14 March 1890. _I.L.N. 22 March 1890 p._ 366, _portrait_; _Catholic World_, _Sep. 1890 pp._ 796–801; _Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473. MEEK, SIR JAMES. _b._ Astbury, Cheshire 1778; paymaster royal navy 25 July 1800; secretary to several flag-officers on Mediterranean station 1803–14; a comr. of victualling board June 1830 to 1832; comptroller of victualling and transport services at the admiralty 1832, retired Dec. 1850; employed by government to collect information of the cost and supply of agricultural produce at various ports in north of Europe 1841, his report was printed in House of Commons Papers vol. xl (1842); knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851; C.B. 1 March 1851. _d._ Ilfracombe, Devon 18 May 1856. MEEK, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ Brompton near Northallerton 13 Feb. 1790; ed. at Northallerton; apprenticed to Joseph Agar of York, currier 1803; currier in Goodramgate, York 1813; resided at Middlethorpe lodge near York to death; chairman of York and north midland railway, and of Newcastle and Berwick railway; sheriff of York 1827, lord mayor 1836, 1849 and 1851. _d._ Middlethorpe lodge near York 13 Dec. 1862. MEEK, SIR JAMES (only son of the preceding). _b._ York 28 June 1815; entered at St. John’s coll. Camb., but left to become a partner in his father’s commercial firms at York; chairman of York city and county banking company many years; lord mayor of York 1855–6, 1865–6 and 1866–7; captain commandant 1st West York rifle volunteers 11 Feb. 1860; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July