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Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886. MORSE, JAMES. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I. 3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut. col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Farley court, Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859. MORSE, SALMI. _b._ Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England; endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883; found _drowned_ in the North river at 88th street, New York 22 Feb. 1884. MORSHEAD, WILLIAM HENRY ANDERSON (son of colonel Henry Anderson Morshead of Widey court, Devon). _b._ 1811; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct. 1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 11 Jany. 1876. _d._ 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886. MORSON, THOMAS NEWBORN ROBERT. _b._ Stratford le bow, London; apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. _d._ 38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 353 (1874). MORT, CHARLES CHESTER. _b._ 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. _d._ Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. _The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p._ 4. MORT, THOMAS SUTCLIFFE. _b._ Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851; established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district 1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney 1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. _d._ Bodalla near Sydney 9 May