Modern English biography

Glasgow prison 7 July 1851. MULLENS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept 1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of Missionaries_ (1877) 169–70; _Congregationalist viii_ 969 _portrait_; _Congregational year book_ (1880) 342–4. MULLER, EDWARD ANGIER GODFREY. _b._ about 1802; ensign 1 foot 3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct. 1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866 to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill, Surrey 22 June 1875. MÜLLER, FRANZ. _b._ 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja, Ich habe es gethan. _Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp._ 239–63; _Central criminal court, Sessions papers lx_ 461–504 (1864); _Annual register_ (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; _Illust. Times 24 Sept. 1864 p._ 201 _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii_ 448–52 (1884). NOTE.--This was one of the last of the most celebrated public executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868. MULLINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter Mullins, _d._ 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry 1736–1824). _b._ 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. _d._ Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854. MULLINS, JAMES. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of £35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs. Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860, tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death, _hanged_ at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. _Central Criminal court trials lii_ 769–805 (1860); _A.R._ (1860) 541–64. MULLOCK, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville; superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York 1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869. MULLOOLY, JOSEPH. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s, Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of Wales 1859. _d._ Rome 25 June 1880. _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo 27 June. _Times 3 July 1880 p._ 12. MULOCK, DINAH MARIA (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). _b._ Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti 1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852; Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853; Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols. 1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868; Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864; _m._ 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_ 377–84 (1891). NOTE.--The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte. MULREADY, WILLIAM (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater 1827 to death. _d._ 7 July 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready_ (1890) 2 _portraits_; _Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready_ (1867); _Sandby’s History of the royal academy i_ 355–58 (1862); _S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists_ (1871) 15–6; _J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A._ (1872); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 137–43; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_ 224–30, 298–325 (1866); _I.L.N. vii_ 20 (1845) _portrait_. MULVANY, CHARLES PELHAM (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister). _b._ Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850, scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7; surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868; went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872; assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years; curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881; author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant, Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. _d._ 69 Augusta terrace, Toronto 31 May 1885. _David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1892) 171. MULVANY, GEORGE F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A. _d._ 1852). _b._ Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy; exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A., succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy 1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847; Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany