LYVEDEN, Robert Vernon, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). b. 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873), lxiv 54 (1874).
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MAAS, Joseph. b. Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. d. of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. bur. Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.
MABERLY, Catherine Charlotte (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). b. 1805; (m. 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. d. 7 Feb. 1875.
MABERLEY, Frederick Herbert (son of Stephen Maberley of London). b. 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. d. Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 511 (1860).
MABERLY, William Leader (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). b. 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. d. 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. E. Yates’s Recollections, i 96–100 (1884); A. Trollope’s Autobiography, i 59–63 (1883).
M’ADAM, David. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. d. Edinburgh 10 June 1859. G.M. vii 86 (1859).
MAC ADAM, James. b. Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. d. Belfast 1 June 1861. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii 37 (1862).
MC ADAM, Sir James Nicholl (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). b. 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. d. 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.
MACADAM, John (son of Wm. Macadam). b. Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. d. on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.