Modern English biography

_portrait_; _F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada_ (1870) 131–86 _portrait_; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 447–8 (1888) _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis_ (1867) 284–7; _I.L.N. xli_ 576, 587 (1862) _portrait_. MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). _b._ 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. _bur._ St. John’s cemetery. _Lives of missionaries, North America_ (1864) 206–52. MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). _b._ Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. _d._ Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. _The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p._ 1324. MOUNT CASHELL, STEPHEN MOORE, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). _b._ St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. _d._ Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 405 (1883) _portrait_. MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDGCUMBE, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). _b._ Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; _m._ 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was _b._ Jany. 1808 and _d._ Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. _d._ in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept.