Modern English biography

Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 419–28, _portrait_; _W. Wilson’s Memorials of R. S. Candlish_ (1880) 225–59; _Biograph_, _iv_ 107–8 (1880). MONCREIFF, SIR JAMES WELLWOOD, Lord Moncreiff (2 son of rev. sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, 8 baronet and divine 1750–1827). _b._ 13 Sep. 1776; ed. at Edinb. and Glasgow univs.; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 30 Nov. 1793, exhibitioner; B.C.L. 1800; called to Scottish bar 26 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross 7 Feb. 1807; dean of the faculty of advocates 22 Nov. 1826 to 1829; defended the resurrectionist Burke 1828; succeeded his father as 9 baronet 9 Aug. 1827; a judge of court of session with title of lord Moncreiff 24 June 1829 to death. _d._ 47 Moray place, Edinburgh 30 March 1851. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. _Chambers’s Eminent Scotsmen_, _iii_ 154–6 (1870), _portrait_; _Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the college of justice_ (1832) 552; _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 157–60, _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _ii_ 557–97 (1829) _xlv_ 261–5 (1851). MONCREIFFE, SIR THOMAS, 7 Baronet. _b._ Moncreiffe house, Bridge of Earne, Perthshire 9 Jany. 1822; succeeded 20 Nov. 1830; ensign grenadier guards 15 May 1840, sold out 21 Jany. 1842; lieut.-col. of Perthshire militia 1846–55 and hon. col. 30 Oct. 1855 to death. _d._ Moncreiffe house 16 Aug. 1879. MONCRIEFF, ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Moncrieff, advocate Glasgow). Ed. Glasgow coll.; advocate 1852; advocate depute 1862; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1869. _d._ 22 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 2 June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence July 1870 p._ 376. MONCRIEFF, GEORGE. _b._ 1806; ensign Scots fusilier guards 8 April 1826, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 14 June 1858; M.G. 14 June 1858, L.G. 27 Dec. 1864. _d._ Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1869. MONCRIEFF, ROBERT SCOTT WELLWOOD. Treasurer of the Soc. of Scottish antiquaries 1812; great friend of William Henry Murray actor who _d._ 1852; resided at 17 Leopold place, Edinb.; Old dean of guild 297 High st. Edinb.; came into the Garvoch estate on death of Andrew Wellwood about 1842; built a house near Dalmeny which was so ugly that Lord Rosebery bought it and pulled it down. _d._ about 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 169–70, _portrait_. MONCRIEFF, WILLIAM THOMAS, stage name of W. T. Thomas (son of a tradesman in Newcastle st. Strand, London). _b._ London 24 Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy 18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817, and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, where his equestrian drama. The dandy family ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April 1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog 30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11 Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837, and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers 23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 3 Dec. 1857. _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _ix_ 28–9 (1853), _portrait_; _Era 13 Dec. 1857 p._ 11. MONCTON, HENRY (eld. son of hon. Edward Moncton of Somerford, co. Stafford 1744–1832, by Sophia natural dau. of George Pigot 1 baron Pigot, governor of Madras). _b._ 11 Sep. 1780; ensign 95 foot 5 March 1795; captain 24 dragoons 20 April 1796, major 24 July 1802, placed on h.p. 1803; major 3 foot 15 May 1806; major 8 light dragoons Jany. 1807; lieut-col. 72 foot 18 June 1807 to 1824 or 1825; general 11 Nov. 1851; served during the Irish rebellion and with the Austrian army in Italy. _d._ Amherst house, Clifton park, Clifton 29 June 1854. MONEY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1778; cornet 11 dragoons April 1794, major 14 Dec. 1809 to 24 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 2 dragoons 24 May 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Crown point, Trowse, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1858. MONEY, ROWLAND (son of Wm. Money of Horn house, Hereford). _b._ 28 April 1782; entered navy 21 April 1796; captain 29 March 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; engaged in the attacks on Washington and Baltimore 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; awarded a pension of £250, 16 Feb. 1816. _d._ Cheltenham 21 June 1860. MONGREDIEN, AUGUSTUS (son of a French officer). _b._ London 1807; ed. at R.C. college, Penn, Bucks.; owner of the first screw steamers to the Levant; member of firm of Hugh and John Johnston, corn merchants, London 1859–64; a corn factor as A. Mongredien and co. 61 Mark lane, London 1864; purchased Heatherside, Surrey 1862; member of National political union 1831; member of the Cobden club 1872; president of London Chess club 1839; granted civil list pension of £100, 28 July 1886; author of Trees and shrubs for English plantations 1870; England’s foreign policy 1871; The Heatherside manual of hardy trees and shrubs 1874–5; Frank Allerton: an autobiography 3 vols. 1878; History of the free-trade movement in England 1881; Wealth creation 1882. _d._ 31 Park road, Forest Hill near London 30 March 1888. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861), _portrait_. MONINS, EATON (son of John Monins). _b._ Canterbury 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 52 foot 1 Dec. 1814; present at Waterloo; major 69 foot 19 Nov. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1835 to 10 Nov. 1848 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; colonel of 8 foot 3 June 1860 to death. _d._ Wellesley house, Upper Walmer 16 June