Modern English biography

MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to death. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865. MURDOCH, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM CLINTON (son of Thomas Murdoch, F.R.S.) _b._ Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842; chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847, retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1 Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. _d._ 88 St. George’s sq. London 30 Nov. 1891. MURE, DAVID (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, _d._ 1831). _b._ 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. _d._ Bournemouth 11 April 1891. MURE, JAMES (son of James Mure). _b._ Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. _d._ 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. _F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school_ (1884) 311–13. MURE, WILLIAM (brother of David Mure 1810–91). _b._ Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. _d._ 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. _G.M. viii_ 634–5 (1860). MURE, WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880. MURFITT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. _d._ Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887. MURLAND, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. _Found dead_ in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. _Irish law times xxiv_ 275 (1890). MURLY, GEORGE BULLOCK. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. _d._ Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887. MURPHY, MR. _b._ Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. _d._ of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. _Willis’ Current Notes_ (1857) 34; _E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs_ (1868) 224; _F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history_, _3rd series ii_ 23 (1868). MURPHY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH MARY ANNUNCIATA (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). _b._ Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; _m._ 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. _d._ North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. _bur._ in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 465 (1888); _The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp._ 659–60. MURPHY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. _d._ 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men i_ 69–72 (1868) _portrait_; _Medical times i_ 217 (1877). MURPHY, FRANCIS. _b._ Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. _d._ West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858. MURPHY, SIR FRANCIS (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). _b._ Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. _d._ St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891. NOTE.--His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. _d._ Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year. MURPHY, FRANCIS STACK (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). _b._ Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. _d._ Kensington, London 17 June 1860. _Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 464–7; _I.L.N. iv_ 107 (1844) _portrait_; _Law Times xxxv_ 191 (1860). MURPHY, GEORGE MOLLETT (son of a shop keeper who _d._ 1845). _b._ Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839, became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845; an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52; signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham 1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall, his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling, with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths for religious services during many seasons; minister of the Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’ industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them 1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story, a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 8 Finchley road, Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 22 July. _Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy_ (1888) _portrait_; _The Biograph iv_ 233–7 (1880). MURPHY, GEORGE STORMONT. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870 to death. _d._ 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb.