Modern English biography

_I.L.N. lxxvii_ 361 (1880) _portrait_. MOUNTSOY, ANTOINE. _b._ Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. _Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p._ 14 _portrait_. MOUNT TEMPLE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER TEMPLE, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). _b._ Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. _d._ Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. _The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct._ (1888); _I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp._ 481, 482 _portrait_. MOUTRIE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLARD. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. _d._ 1869. MOWAT, JOHN LANCASTER GOUGH (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, _d._ 1881). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. _hung himself_ at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. _The Times 9 Aug. 1894._ MOWATT, ALEXANDER MURRAY. _b._ 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. _d._ Liverpool 21 June 1869. _Newspaper Press iii_ 181 (1869). MOWATT, ANNA CORA (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, _d._ 1860). _b._ Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; _m._ 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and _d._ Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she _m._ (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who _d._ 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. _Howitt’s Journal iii_ 146, 167, 181 _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York stage ii_, 437–8, 729 (1867); _Tallis’ Drawing room table book_ 1851, _Part_ 2 _pp._ 9–11 _two portraits_; _Theatrical Times iii_ 162, 169 (1848) _portrait_; _A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress_ (1854) _portrait_; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 450 (1888) _portrait_. MOWBRAY, ALFRED JOSEPH STOURTON, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). _b._ 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. _d._ Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893. MOWBRAY, ALFRED RICHARD. _b._ Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. _d._ 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Holywell cemet. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) 51. MOXON, EDWARD (son of Michael Moxon). _bapt._ in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c; author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. _d._ Putney Heath 3 June 1858. _bur._ Wimbledon churchyard. _Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873) 347–62; _Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies_ (1864) 229–35 _and_ 257; _P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii_ 46, 458 (1889). NOTE.--Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go _d._” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii_ 356–92 (1850). MOXON, EMMA (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. _d._ Cambridge Oct. 1814). _b._ 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; _m._ 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. _d._ Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. _bur._ Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 203 _portrait_; _The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter_ (1870); _A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i_ 341, _ii_ 172, 365 (1888); _Law Reports_ 8, _Chancery_ 881–8 (1873). MOXON, JAMES HENRY HARMAR (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). _b._ Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge