Modern English biography

Treasures of art_, _iii_ 332–4 (1854). MEYNELL-INGRAM, HUGO FRANCIS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford 1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to death. _d._ 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 579 (1871). MEYRICK, GEORGE. _b._ 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784; captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794, regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay; lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798; L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. _d._ Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853. MEYSEY-THOMPSON, ALBERT CHILDERS (3 son of sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson baronet _d._ 1874). _b._ 13 July 1848; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary counsel. _d._ 20 March 1894. MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HARRY STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4 dragoons 1771–1853). _b._ Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837; an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal, member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby 1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding, Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. _d._ Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May