Modern English biography

the Georges_ (1894), _memoir_; _Athenæum 4 March 1893 p._ 282; _I.L.N. 11 March 1893 p._ 298, _portrait_. MINTON, HERBERT (2 son of Thomas Minton, potter 1765–1836). _b._ Stoke on-Trent 4 Feb. 1793; ed. at Audlem school, Cheshire; partner with his father at Stoke 1817–28; re-entered the business 1836 and took as partners John Boyle and Mr. Hollins; Colin Minton Campbell became a partner 1849; introduced manufacture of hard porcelain, parian, semi transparent porcelain, encaustic tiles, azulejos or coloured enamel tiles, mosaics, Delia Robbia ware, majolica and Palissy ware; employed 1500 hands in 1858; lived at Hartshill near Stoke many years, where he built and endowed a church and schools 1842; the school of art at Stoke was erected by public subscription as a memorial to Minton. _d._ Belmont, Torquay 1 April 1858. _bur._ at Hartshill. _Account of a visit to the works of Minions, Stoke-upon-Trent_ (1884); _Digby Wyatt’s On the influence exercised on ceramic manufactures by H. Minton_ (1858); _Fortunes made in business_, _iii_ 63–115 (1887). MIRANDA, DAVID MYERS. _b._ 1836; tenor singer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; vocalist and teacher at Melbourne 1871 to death. _d._ Northcote, Australia 21 March 1886. MITCHEL, JOHN (3 son of John Mitchel of Dromalane, Newry, presbyterian minister). _b._ Camnish near Dungiven, co. Londonderry 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Newry and Trin. coll. Dublin; solicitor at Banbridge near Newry 1840–5; joined the Repeal association 1843, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; on the staff of the Nation newspaper 1845 to Dec. 1847; issued first number of the United Irishman 12 Feb. 1848 in which he incited his fellow-countrymen to rebellion; arrested under the treason felony act 13 May 1848, sentenced at Dublin 27 May 1848 to 14 years’ transportation, granted a ticket-of-leave in Van Diemen’s Land April 1850, which he resigned 1853, and escaped to San Francisco Oct. 1853; started The Citizen newspaper at New York 7 Jany. 1854; conducted the Southern Citizen Oct. 1857 to Aug. 1859; naturalised by supreme court of Columbia 7 May 1860; edited the Enquirer at Richmond; wrote leading articles for the Examiner; editor of the Daily News at New York; edited the Irish Citizen at New York 19 Oct. 1867 to 27 July 1872; contested Tipperary Feb. 1874, elected M.P. for Tipperary 16 Feb. 1875 but declared by house of commons incapable of being elected 18 Feb., elected again 12 March 1875, the Irish court of common pleas decided 26 May 1875 that being an alien and a convicted felon he was not duly elected; author of The life and times of Aodh O’Neill, prince of Ulster 1846; Jail journals or five years in British prisons. New York 1854; The last conquest of Ireland (perhaps). New York 1860; An apology for the British government in Ireland. Dublin 1860; The history of Ireland from the treaty of Limerick to the present time. New York 2 vols. 1868 and Dublin 1869. _d._ Dromalane near Newry 20 March 1875. _bur._ in unitarian cemetery, Newry 23 March where is monument. _J. G. Hodges’ Report of the trial of John Mitchel_ (1848); _W. Dillon’s John Mitchel_ (1888), _portrait_; _Sullivan’s Speeches from the dock_ (1887) 74–96; _O’Shea’s Leaves from the life of a special correspondent_, _i_ 9–24 (1885); _Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history_ (1883) 587–605; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_, _i_ 175–87 (1877); _I.L.N. xii_ 323 (1848), _portrait_. MITCHELL, ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Mitchell, inspector-general of barracks in Ireland). _b._ Dublin 13 April 1780; brickmaker and builder at Belfast to 1832; patentee of the Mitchell screw-pile and mooring 1842, first used for foundation of Maplin Sand lighthouse 1838, applied to many extensive undertakings; established himself at Belfast, and at 17 Great George st. Westminster as Mitchell’s Screw-pile and mooring company, the privy council in 1847 renewed his patent for 14 years; his improved method of mooring ships was generally adopted; M.I.C.E. 1848–57; author of Description of a patent screw-pile battery and lighthouse. Belfast 1843; On submarine foundations, particularly the screw-pile and moorings 1848. _d._ Glen Devis near Belfast 25 June 1868. MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1831; ensign grenadier guards 15 Oct. 1850, lieut. 19 Oct. 1854, sold out 7 March 1856; contested Berwick 29 June 1863; M.P. Berwick 1865–8. _d._ 6 Great Stanhope st. London 16 May 1873. MITCHELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Ellon, Scotland 18 Oct. 1817; clerk in a bank at Peterhead; secretary of the Wisconsin marine and fire insurance company at Milwaukee, U.S. of America 1839, in 1853 the company was reorganized under the state law as a bank; first comr. of board of Milwaukee debt commission 1861 to death; president of Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company, which became Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company and now owns more miles of track than any other railroad company in the world; president of Chicago and Northwestern railway company 1869; member of congress 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875; richest man in the northwest states. _d._ New York 19 April 1887. MITCHELL, CHARLES. _b._ Norwich 1807; bookseller and advertisement agent for town and country newspapers at 12 and 13 Red lion court, Fleet st. London about 1836 to death; proprietor and publisher of The Newspaper press directory 1846, which has been published annually from 1854. _d._ 1 Edith villas, Edith grove, West Brompton, London 8 Feb. 1859. MITCHELL, DAVID WILLIAM (1 son of Alexander Mitchell of Gerard’s Cross, Bucks., and Cavendish crescent, Bath). _b._ Bath 1813; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836; resided at Penzance 1838–42, whence he contributed information to the 3 edition of Yarrell’s British birds 1843; an original member of Penzance Natural history soc. 1839; sec. to Zoological soc. Regent’s park, London 1847 to 1859, and a contributor to the Proceedings in 1849 and 1858; F.L.S. 21 Nov. 1843; author of A popular guide to the gardens of the Zoological society of London 1852; Guide to the gardens of the Zoological gardens of London 1858; furnished the plates of G. R. Gray’s The genera of birds 1844. _d._ Neuilly near Paris 1 Nov. 1859. MITCHELL, _George_ (son of Jewish parents). _b._ 1794; left England before 1820; edited an English paper in Brussels; spent many months with the Carlists in the Pyrenees, imprisoned in Spain 2 years; settled near Bayonne; naturalised in France; occupied a high position at the ministry of the interior, Paris. _d._ the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris 16–23 July 1880. _Morning Advertiser 28 July 1880 p._ 5. NOTE.--He was the father of Isidore Hyacinthe Marie Louis Robert Mitchell _b._ Bayonne 21 May 1839 deputy, and of a dau. the wife of Jacques Offenbach the composer. _Pierre Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xvii p._ 1598. MITCHELL, James. _b._ 1791; line-engraver; engraved sir David Wilkie’s Alfred in the neatherd’s cottage 1829, and Rat hunters 1830; engraved The Contadina after sir C. L. Eastlake, and lady Jane Grey after James Northcote, for the Literary Souvenir of 1827 and 1832, The Secret after Robert Smirke for The Keepsake 1831; produced Edie Ochiltree after sir Edwin Landseer, and five other illustrations for the author’s edition of Waverley Novels 1829–33; exhibited 6 engravings at Suffolk st. 1824–31. _d._ London 29 Nov. 1852. MITCHELL, JAMES. An excise officer coming daily in contact with the makers of alcoholic liquors; became a total abstainer Nov. 1835; vice president of the Western Scottish temperance union; one of the founders and a gratuitous lecturer of the Scottish total abstinence society; superintendent of City of Glasgow temperance mission; paid lecturer of the United Kingdom alliance for Scotland from June 1856. _d._ 184 Hospital st. Glasgow 18 Jany. 1862. _S. Couling’s Temperance movement_ (1862) 331–3. MITCHELL, JAMES (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian minister). _b._ Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian church; law agent to Glasgow univ. _d._ Park terrace, Glasgow 3 Nov. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 229–32 (1886), _portrait_. MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday 1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885 he wrote Mika M’ Alister. _d._ St. Vincent’s hospital, New York 12 Nov. 1888. MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire; published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs 1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy of witchcraft 1839. _d._ Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. _G.M. i_ 388–9 (1856). MITCHELL, JOHN (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway, _d._ Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). _b._ Stirlingshire 11 June 1785; ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803; lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1 June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein 1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation 1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. _d._ Edinburgh 9 July 1858. _bur._ in the Canongate churchyard. _J. Mitchell’s Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the author by Leonhard Schmitz_ (1865) _pp. vii–xvii_. MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ London 21 April 1806; bookseller, publisher and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London; introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842; gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice, La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet 1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. _d._ 10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 18 Dec. _The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p._ 12. MITCHELL, JOHN. _b._ 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22 June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9 Nov. 1888. MITCHELL, John. _b._ 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. _d._ the Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. _Daily Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p._ 8, _portrait_. MITCHELL, JOHN MITCHELL (2 son of John Mitchell). _b._ Falkirk 1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50 years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland; fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe: illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb. 1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance. Edinb. 1864. _d._ Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865. MITCHELL, JOSEPH (son of John Mitchell, C.E. _d._ 1824). _b._ Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry; apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824, M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland; engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3; partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867; F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. _d._ London 26 Nov. 1883. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi_ 362–8 (1884). MITCHELL, MUIRHEAD (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras, London). _b._ London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18 Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. _d._ 50 Pall Mall, London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876. MITCHELL, ROBERT (son of James Mitchell 1791–1852). _b._ 19 May 1820; engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, after sir Edwin Landseer 1852 and The parish beauty and The pastor’s pet after Alfred Rankley 1853 and 1854, and in the mixed style The happy mothers and The startled twins after Richard Ansdell 1850 and Christ walking on the sea after R. S. Lander 1854; etched several plates completed in mezzotint by other engravers; exhibited at Royal academy 1858. _d._ 8 Rochester place, Widmore lane, Bromley, Kent 16 May 1873. MITCHELL, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Mitchell, cutler and edge tool maker). _b._ Sheffield 13 Feb. 1803; entered his father’s business, for which he travelled in Norway, Sweden and Russia; member of Sheffield literary and philosophical soc. Dec. 1822 and a contributor to its transactions, president 1856; explored with Thomas Bateman the tumulus at Arba Lowe 23 May 1845; collected materials for The history and topography of the hundreds of wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, of which a small part was prepared for printing at his death. _d._ The Mount, Sheffield 1869. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_, _iii_ 108–102 (1891). MITCHELL, STEPHEN (son of Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer _d._ 1820). _b._ Linlithgow 19 Sept. 1789; apprentice to J. Anderson & Co. merchants Leith and London 1805–9; in his father’s business at Linlithgow 1809, removed the business to Glasgow 1825, head partner till his retirement in 1859. _d._ Moffat 21 April 1874; left £66,998 10s. 6d. to found the Mitchell library in Glasgow, library opened in Nov. 1877, it contained 58,000 volumes, including special collections of Burns’ literature and Glasgow books in 1886. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 233–4 (1886) _portrait_. MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1842; assistant to Groombridge and Sons, booksellers, London, then to Longmans’, Green, Reader and Dyer; bookseller at Hastings; architect; author of The stepping stones to architecture 1869; A rudimentary manual of architecture 1870. _d._ Hastings 24 Nov. 1872. MITCHELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1821; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; V. of Long Clawson near Melton-Mowbray 1848 to death; author of Palestine revisited and other poems 1858, 3 ed. 1881. _d._ Long Clawson vicarage 5 March 1885. MITCHELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER (youngest son of John Mitchell, Russia merchant at Riga and London). _b._ Montrose 1812; ed. at Wiesbaden and Heidelberg; entered his father’s business 1829, became the head of the firm of Mitchell, Yeames & Co. New Broad st. London; travelled frequently in Russia; connected with Bridport in business; M.P. Bridport 1841 to death; chairman of Chartered bank of India, Australia and China. _d._ 50 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1875, left more than £100,000. _I.L.N. 15 Feb. 1851 p._ 144 _portrait_, _27 March 1875 p._ 307. MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (eld. son of John Mitchell of Craigend, Stirlingshire). _b._ 16 June 1792; joined the army in the Peninsula as a volunteer 1808; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 July 1811, lieut. 16 Sep. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1818; captain 2 foot 25 Jany. 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; served on the battle fields in Spain and Portugal, received silver medal with 5 clasps; deputy surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828 to death, his survey of the colony was published in three sheets 1835; surveyed northern part of N.S.W. Nov. 1831 to Feb. 1832; surveyed the course of the river Darling 1835; surveyed the rivers Murray and Darling and discovered the region called by him Australia Felix 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 April 1839; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1839; explored overland route to gulf of Carpentaria, Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1847; reported on the Bathurst goldfields 1851; fought a duel with Stuart Alexander Donaldson 27 Sep. 1851; visited England 1853, and patented a new screw-propeller for steam vessels called the boomerang; F.R.G.S.; author of Outlines of a system of surveying for geographical and military purposes 1827; Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia 2 vols. 1838, 2 ed. 1839; Journal of an expedition into tropical Australia in search of a route from Sydney to the gulf of Carpentaria 1848; The Australian geography 1851; Origin, history and description of the boomerang propeller 1853; The Lusiad of Camoens closely translated 1854. _d._ Carthona, Darling Point, N.S.W. 5 Oct.