Modern English biography

MORTIMER, FAVELL LEE (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of Barclay, Bevan & co. London). _b._ London 1802; founded parish schools on her father’s estates; _m._ in the year 1841 Thomas Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London, who _d._ 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. _d._ Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. _bur._ in churchyard, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. _The Family Friend_ (1878) 183. MORTIMER, GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer of Bishopsteignton, Devon). _b._ Bishopsteignton 22 July 1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823; Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. _d._ Rose Hill, Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. _E. W. Linging’s History of City of London school_ (1882) 28–9; _Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp._ 179–80; _City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement_, _portrait_. MORTIMER, JOHN. _b._ 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. _d._ Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856. MORTIMER, WILLIAM. _b._ Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc. 1884. _d._ The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. _Bailey’s mag. xx_ 1 (1871) _portrait_, _xlv_ 272 (1886). MORTLOCK, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire). _b._ Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens, never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first played at Lord’s in M.C.C. _v._ Surrey club 12 June 1854; made good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school, Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon closed them. _d._ 23 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 28 Jany. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv_ 588 (1863); _Illust. Sporting news iii_ 345 (1864) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93 _portrait_; _Cricket Jany. 1884 p._ 10. MORTON, GEORGE SHOLTO DOUGLAS 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut. col. John Douglas 1756–1818). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin 17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4; vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. _d._ 47 Brook st. London 31 March 1858. MORTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820; ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation. _d._ New York 12 Oct. 1869. MORTON, CHARLES (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh, agricultural implement maker). _b._ 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and 1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other famous cases. _d._ Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892. MORTON, JAMES. _b._ Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death; prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta 1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. _d._ Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. _G.M. xix_ 390 (1865). MORTON, JOHN (2 son of Robert Morton). _b._ Ceres, Fifeshire 17 July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton, Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates 1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839; author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843; Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. _d._ Nailsworth, Gloucestershire 26 July 1864. MORTON, JOHN CHALMERS (son of preceding). _b._ 11 July 1821; ed. Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners; member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers 1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861, new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other books. _d._ Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. _bur._ Harrow ch. yard 9 May. _Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv_ 691–6 (1888); _Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p._ 428 _portrait_, _14 May p._ 453. MORTON, JOHN DRUMMOND. _b._ Manchester 1830; sec. of National reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and political essays. _d._ Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. _bur._ Salford cemet. MORTON, JOHN MADDISON (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). _b._ Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ. Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school, Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov. 1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse 15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22 July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 19 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. _J. M. Morton’s Plays for home performance_ (1889) _memoir pp. ix–xv_; _Theatre xiv_ 220–1, 255 (1889) _portrait_; _London Figaro 23 Dec. 1891 p._ 7 _portrait_; _Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p._ 4 _portrait_; _London Society xlix_ 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886) _portrait_. MORTON, SAVILLE. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser in 1852. _Stabbed_ by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. _bur._ Montmartre cemet. _Annual Register_ (1852) 402–7. NOTE.--Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for murder, but acquitted, he _d._ at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69. MORTON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). _b._ 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. _d._ 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green cemet. MOSCHELES, IGNATZ (son of a cloth merchant). _b._ Prague, 30 May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public performer on the piano; _m._ 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London 1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820; Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827; Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by E. Pauer 1886. _d._ Leipzig 10 March 1870. _C. E. Moscheles’ Life of Moscheles_ 2 _vols._ (1873) _portrait_; _Musical Gem_ (1832) _p._ 74 _portrait_. MOSELEY, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester 27 March 1840; member of firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal 1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3 May 1887. _d._ Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Southern cemet. 5 Oct. _The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct. 1887 p._ 5, _and 9 Oct. p._ 5. MOSELEY, EDWIN CHARLES. _b._ 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. _d._ Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885. MOSELEY, HENRY (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at Newcastle-under-Lyne). _b._ 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12 Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology 2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural philosophy. _d._, Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. _Trans. of Instit. of naval architects xiii_ 328–30 (1872); _I.L.N. lx_ 90 (1872). MOSELEY, HENRY NOTTIDGE (son of the preceding). _b._ St. Ann’s Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc. and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science 1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869; studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S. 7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March 1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852 etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878; On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878; Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell ill in 1887 and never recovered. _d._ Firwood Clevedon, Somerset 10 Nov. 1891. _H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed._ (1892) _memoir v–xvi and portrait_; _Biograph vi_ 387–90 (1881); _Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 599 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891 p._ 694 _portrait_. MOSELEY, LITCHFIELD. _b._ 1839; author of Penny readings in prose and verse 1872, in which is included his best known piece The Charity Dinner pp. 162–70. _d._ 16 Wilton road, Dalston, London 21 June 1879. MOSES, HENRY. _b._ about 1782; engraver, published many sets of plates of sculpture and antiquities; one of the engravers employed upon the official publication Ancient marbles in the British Museum 1812–45; engraved The gallery of pictures painted by B. West, 12 plates 1811; A collection of antique vases, altars, &c. from various museums and collections. 170 plates 1814; Picturesque views of Ramsgate 1817; Works of Canova, 3 vols. 1824–8; Sketches of shipping 1837. _d._ Cowley, Middlesex 28 Feb. 1870. MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (eld. son of Wm. Stainton Moses). _b._ Donington, Lincs. 1839; ed. at Bedford and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; C. of Maughold, Isle of Man 1863–8; assistant chaplain of St. George’s, Douglas, Isle of Man 1868–72; English master at University college school, London 1872–88; a founder of the London spiritualist alliance; vice president of Society for Psychical research; editor of Light 1881; a medium, published his spiritual revelations under the title of Spirit Teachings 1883; author under initials M.A. Oxon of following works, Carpentarian criticism, being a reply to an article by Dr. W. B. Carpenter 1877; Psychography, or a treatise on the objective forms of psychia, or spiritual phenomena 1878, 2 ed. 1882; Spirit identity 1879; Higher aspects of spiritualism 1880; Spiritualism at the Church congress 1881. _d._ at his mother’s house, 30 St. Peters, Bedford 5 Sept. 1892. _bur._ Bedford cemet. 9 Sept. _Light 10 Sept. 1892 p._ 439 _portrait_, _17 Sept. pp._ 445–6, 447, _5 Nov. 1892 pp._ 529–32 _portrait_. MOSLEY, JOHN IVON. _b._ Piccadilly, Manchester 7 Dec. 1830; a compositor and a printers’ reader at Manchester; a self taught linguist; a contributor to An English and Manx dictionary, prepared from Dr. Kelly’s by W. Gill and J. T. Clarke, Manx society 1866; wrote Gipsy songs and other pieces in Ben Brierly’s Journal. _d._ Manchester 6 Sept. 1876. MOSLEY, SIR OSWALD, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Oswald Mosley of Bolesworth castle, Cheshire 1761–89). _b._ Morton near Chester 27 March 1785; ed. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., M.A. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; succeeded his grandfather 29 Sept. 1798; M.P. for North Staffs. 1832–7; contested North Staffs. 3 Aug. 1837; sold the manorial rights of Manchester to the corporation for £200,000 24 March 1845; author of History of Tutbury 1832; Family memoirs 1849; Gleanings on horticulture 1851; A short account of the ancient British church 1858; The natural history of Tutbury 1863. _d._ Rolleston hall near Burton-on-Trent 24 May 1871; personalty sworn under £350,000 8 July 1871. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 309 (1872); _I.L.N. lviii_ 578 (1871). MOSS, JAMES. _b._ 1833; a comic singer; proprietor of Lorne music hall 1 Argylle st. Greenock 1872 to death, changed name of his hall to Moss’s Varieties 1875. _d._ Greenock 14 Nov. 1882. MOSS, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Dudley 1803; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, M.B. 1829; practised medicine at Dudley, removed to Longdon near Lichfield 1847, to Upton Bishop near Ross 1848, and to Wells 1853; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1830; author of The manual of classical bibliography 2 vols. 1825, 2 ed. 1837. _d._ Hill Grove house, Wells, Somerset 23 May 1862. MOSS, THOMAS. _b._ 1836; called to bar of Upper Canada 1861; Q.C. 1872; M.P. Canada Nov. 1873 to Oct. 1875; puisne judge of court of error and appeal Oct. 1875; president of court of appeal Nov. 1877; chief justice of Ontario Nov. 1878 to death; vice chancellor of univ. of Toronto. _d._ Nice 4 Jany. 1881. MOSS, SIR THOMAS EDWARDS- 1 Baronet (1 son of John Moss 1782–1858, founder of a bank at Liverpool which became the North-Western bank). _b._ 17 July 1811; ed. Eton 1828, captain of the boats 1828; a banker, Liverpool; _m._ 1847 Amy Charlotte, heiress of Richard Edwards of Roby hall, assumed by R.L. name of Edwards 26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional assoc. 1866; chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc. 1879; created baronet 23 Dec. 1868. _d._ Otterspool near Liverpool 26 April 1890. MOSS, TOM COTTENHAM EDWARDS- (2 son of preceding). _b._ 7 April 1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge races 1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley 1878; twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire hussars yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death. M.P. Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. _d._ Otterspool near Liverpool 16 Dec. 1893. MOSSMAN, JOHN (son of George Mossman, sculptor). _b._ London 1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman Macleod. _d._ Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890. MOSSMAN, THOMAS WIMBERLEY (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). _b._ Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. _d._ East Torrington rectory 6 July