Modern English biography

MONTROSE, JAMES GRAHAM, 4 Duke of (elder son of 3 duke of Montrose 1755–1836). _b._ 16 July 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1819; vice chamberlain of the household 7 Feb. 1821 to 14 April 1827; P.C. 23 Feb. 1821; M.P. Cambridge 1825–32; col. Stirling militia 12 Oct. 1827; comr. for affairs of India 4 Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830; succeeded his father as 4 earl of Graham and 4 duke of Montrose 30 Dec. 1836; chancellor of univ. of Glasgow 1837 to death; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Stirlingshire 27 Feb. 1843 to death; lord steward of queen’s household 27 Feb. 1852 to 4 Jany. 1853; his seat Buchanan house nearly all burnt 22 Jany. 1850; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Feb. 1858 to 22 June 1859; postmaster general 10 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868; resisted the claim of the earl of Crawford and Balcarres to the dukedom of Montrose 1851. _d._ Cannes 30 Dec. 1874. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 313 (1858), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 43 (1875); _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_ 23. MOODIE, DONALD (son of major James Moodie of Melsetter, Orkney). Entered navy 1808; lieut. 8 Dec. 1816 and placed on h.p.; went to the Cape Colony and entered the civil service there, resident magistrate at Port Francis 20 Feb. 1825 to 1828 and at Graham’s Town 1828–34; protector of slaves in the eastern districts 1830–4; superintendent of the Government bank, Cape Town 1840; secretary to government of Natal 29 Aug. 1845 to 1851; author of The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the native tribes of South Africa. Cape Town 1838–41, discontinued after p. 64 of part iii.; A voice from the Kahlamba, the Natal Kafirs intercourse with Natal. Pietermaritzburg 1857. _d._ Pietermaritzburg 1861. _Colonial services of Donald Moodie._ _Pietermaritzburg_ (1860). MOODIE, JOHN WEDDERBURN DUNBAR (bro. of the preceding). _b._ Melsetter, Orkney Islands 7 Oct. 1797; 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 Feb. 1813, 1 lieut. 5 May 1814, placed on h.p. 25 March 1816; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom 8 March 1814; spent ten years in South Africa with his brother 1819–29; emigrated to Upper Canada 1832; captain of militia on Niagara frontier during insurrection of 1837; sheriff of Vittoria now Hastings county, Ontario 1839–63; wrote in Memoirs of the late war 2 vols. 1831, The campaigns in Holland in 1814, ii. 257–314; author of Ten years in South Africa including a description of the wild sports 2 vols. 1835; Scenes and adventures as a soldier and settler during half a century (with portrait). Montreal 1866. _d._ Belleville, Ontario 22 Oct. 1869. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 281. MOODIE, SUSANNAH (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of Reydon hall, Suffolk, _d._ 1818, and younger sister of Agnes Strickland 1796–1874). _b._ Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; _m._ 1831 the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols. 1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons 2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D. Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Toronto 8 April 1885. _J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes Strickland_ (1887) 85, 192; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 281; _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 376 (1888), _portrait_. MOODY, JOHN E. _b._ 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. _d._ 27 Euston place, New road, London 7 Nov. 1852. MOODY, RICHARD CLEMENT (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E. _d._ 1846). _b._ St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13 Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July 1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov. 1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle; lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal boundaries 1868. _d._ Bournemouth 31 March 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc_ 453–5 (1887). MOODY, STEPHEN. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824, lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I. 26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of 70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct. 1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 42 Porchester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1856. MOODY, WILLIAM (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, _d._ 1820). _b._ Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831; with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. _d._ 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct. 1867. MOON, SIR FRANCIS GRAHAM, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Christopher Moon, gold and silver smith). _b._ 4 Holborn Bars, Holborn, London 28 Oct. 1796; employed by Edward Tugwell book and print seller, 55 Threadneedle st., purchased the business on Tugwell’s death 1817; became the leading print publisher in London; purchased stock of Hurst, Robinson and Co. print publishers 1825; member of firm of Moon, Boys and Graves, Pall Mall 1825; carried on his own business at corner of Finch lane; reproduced some of the finest works of sir D. Wilkie, sir C. Eastlake, sir E. Landseer, D. Roberts, S. Prout, C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield and G. Cattermole; published at cost of £50,000 David Roberts’ Sketches in the Holy Land 1842; invited by Louis Philippe as a guest to St. Cloud; common councilman for Broad st. ward, city of London 1830–44; sheriff of London 1843–4; alderman of Portsoken ward 1844–71 and of Bridge Without 1871; lord mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Guildhall 19 April 1855; created baronet 4 May 1855; a chevalier of legion of honour; F.S.A. 9 June 1853; resided 35 Portman sq. London. _d._ Western house, Brighton 13 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Fetcham churchyard, Surrey 20 Oct. _I.L.N. xxv_ 460 (1854) _portrait_, _lix_ 387, 399, 401 (1871) _portrait_; _The City Press 21 Oct. 1871 p._ 2, _28 Oct. p._ 2. MOORE, ADOLPHUS WARBURTON (son of major John Arthur Moore a director of H.E.I.C.) Ed. Harrow 1855 etc.; junior clerk in secretary’s office India house Aug. 1858, in the financial department 1860, senior clerk June 1867, reading clerk to the council 1871–5, joined the political department 1874, assist. secretary Feb. 1875, retired 1885; acting political sec. 1876–8; private sec. to Lord Randolph Churchill 1885, sec. to the chancellor of the exchequer and private sec. to sec. of state for India 1886; political and secret sec. India house Jany. 1887 to death; C.B. 1886; one of the ablest members of the civil service. _d._ Monte Carlo 2 Feb. 1887. _The Times 3 Feb. 1887 p._ 6. MOORE, ALBERT JOSEPH (13 son and 14 child of Wm. Moore, portrait painter 1790–1851). _b._ York 4 Sep. 1841; ed. at Kensington gr. sch. 1855–8; studied in art school of the R.A. 1858; designed pictorial figures for architects in ceilings &c.; painted decorative pictures from 1865; executed the proscenium of the Queen’s theatre, Long Acre 1867; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1857–79; his pictures are in the public collections of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; an exhibition of his works was held at the Grafton gallery, London