Modern English biography

MUMFORD, ELIZA. _b._ 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. _d._ Bromley, Kent 3 Feb. 1884. NOTE.--Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882. MUMMERY, ISAAC VALE (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). _b._ Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec. to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. _d._ 28 High st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 7 Oct. _Congregational Mag._ (1893) 234. MUNBY, GILES (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). _b._ York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges, and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran, Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. _d._ the Holt near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. _Gardener’s Chronicle ii_ 260–2 (1876) _portrait_. MUNDELL, WILLIAM ADAM (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George st. Westminster). _b._ 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co., solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847, bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar; Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding of assizes and sessions 1857. _d._ 150 Buckingham palace road, London 15 July 1875. _Law Times lix_ 252 (1875); _Solicitor’s Journal xix_ 736 (1875); _Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p._ 77. MUNDY, CHARLES FITROY MILLER (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, _d._ 1834). _b._ 31 March 1815; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15 Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ London 12 July 1888. MUNDY, GEORGE. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs. Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. _d._ Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853. MUNDY, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire _d._ Oct. 1822). _b._ Shipley hall 1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec. 1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1819–31. _d._ 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861. MUNDY, SIR GEORGE RODNEY (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy _d._ 1848). _b._ London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819, captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857; second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863; commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72; admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5; admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23 June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples during the Italian revolution 1863. _d._ 12 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884. MUNDY, GEORGE VALENTINE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840; captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut. col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in the army 24 April 1860. _d._ 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 14 May 1863. MUNDY, GODFREY CHARLES (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot 6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857 to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. _d._ London 10 July 1860. MUNDY, SIR ROBERT MILLER (brother of Sir George Mundy 1777–1861). _b._ 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut. R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846 with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col. in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut. governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut. governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of £333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892. MUNDY, WILLIAM (son of Francis Mundy M.P. _d._ 6 May 1837). _b._ Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843; M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South Derbyshire 19 July 1865. _d._ Markeaton 10 April 1877. MUNRO, ALEXANDER (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A. and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca 1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham; lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself a house and studio at Cannes. _d._ Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 133–8. MUNRO, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid, Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations to scripture and reason 1856. _d._ Glasgow Nov. 1892. MUNRO, ALEXANDER THOMPSON (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt., _d._ Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany. 1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18 Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut. col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3 July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug. 1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate. _The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July_, _8, 24, 26 Aug._, _4 Dec. 1843_; _Annual Register_ (1843) 79–80, 115, (1847) 111–12; _I.L.N. xi_ 173 (1847) _portrait_. MUNRO, SIR CHARLES, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain, Rossshire, _d._ 1846). _b._ Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5 March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war; received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the war of independence in South America, and commanded a division of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9 baronet 2 May 1848. _d._ Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886. MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar; head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to 1850; F.L.S. 1821. _d._ 9 April 1853 _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 237 (1855). MUNRO, DONALD. _b._ 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. _d._ Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888. MUNRO, SIR GEORGE GUN (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). _b._ 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. _d._ 16 Sept. 1852. MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). _b._ Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. _d._ Rome 30 March 1885. _bur._ in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. _Saturday Review lix_ 472; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_ 131–42 (1854). MUNRO OR McKENZIE, JANET. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. _d._ Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. _bur._ Roskeen 19 April. _Times 15 May 1852 p._ 8. MUNRO, JOHN (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, _d._ May 1788). _b._ June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858. MUNRO, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). _b._ 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. _d._ Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880. MUNROE, KATE, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). _b._ New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; _m._ 1886 Mr. Miles. _d._ from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and _bur._ in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 267; _Illust. S. & D. News v_ 321, 327 (1876) _portrait_; _The Theatre ii_ 169, 208 (1883) _portrait_. MUNSEY, THOMAS ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 Jany. 1867. MUNSIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. _d._ Glasgow 1864. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 235–6 (1886) _portrait_. MUNSTER, HENRY (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). _b._ 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. _d._ Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894. MUNSTER, WILLIAM FELIX LAURENCE (son of Henry Munster, M.P.) _b._ Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4; resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. _d._ St. Louis, Missouri 11 April 1877. MUNTZ, GEORGE FREDERICK (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz, merchant, _d._ 1811). _b._ Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov. 1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811; made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of 15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency 1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of the country, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Umberslade hall, near Birmingham 30 July 1857. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841) 86–101; _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors_ (1881) 93, 170, 206, 225; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 92 (1842) _portrait_, _xiv_ 196 (1849) _portrait_; _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_ (1877) 79–88. MUNTZ, PHILIP HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ Selby hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough 1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec. 1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856; presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P. Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. _d._ Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. _bur._ Leamington 28 Dec. _Biograph iii_ 47–52 (1880); _Times 26 Dec. 1888_, _p._ 4, _29 Dec. p._ 7; _Dent’s Birmingham_ 494, 546 (1880); _I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._ 36 _portrait._ MURCHISON, CHARLES (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.) _b._ Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin 1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April 1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death; physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860, physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital 1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P. 1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875; member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer 1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885; On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23 April 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St. Thomas’s hospital. _Proc. of Royal Society xxix_ 23–5 (1879). MURCHISON, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale, Eastern Ross 1751–96). _b._ 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807; lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion 1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and Singapore. _d._ Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854. MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth Murchison 1793–1854). _b._ Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb. 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug. 1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14; captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815; attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany. 1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826, Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society 1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president of British Association at York 1846; director general of the geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861; lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains 1845; _m._ 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she _d._ 16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. _d._ 16 Belgrave sq. London 22 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. _A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R. I. Murchison_, 2 _vols._ (1875) _portrait_; _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 206–13; _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 29–35 (1872); _Walford’s Representative Men_ (1868) _portrait No._ 13; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 237 (1866) _portrait_; _Graphic iv_ 411, 429 (1871) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 13 Jany. 1866 p._ 17 _portrait_; _Victoria Mag. xii_ 461–3 (1809) _an account of Lady Murchison_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 297–8 (1869). MURDOCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany. 1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22 Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired 14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced, the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece to the Admiralty 1866. _d._ Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888. MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1767; a baker; the public hangman in Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct.