MAIN, Thomas John (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). b. 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842, retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed. 1863. d. 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec. 1885. Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p. 233.
MAINE, Miss E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person 1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3 vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. d. Wales 24 Jany. 1891.
MAINE, Sir Henry James Sumner (son of James Maine, M.D.) b. Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar 1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847; tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850; barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July 1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov. 1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863; elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876; Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. d. Cannes 3 Feb. 1888. Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with his speeches (1892), memoir pp. 1–83, portrait; Bristed’s Five years at an English university, i 174, 234, 237, 268–70 (1852); Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 197–204; The Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 69–74.
MAINWARING, Edward Vincent. b. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The Lancet. d. of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.
MAINWARING, Frederick. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep. 1852, sold out 29 April 1853. d. Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.
MAINWARING, George Byres. b. 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887; author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. d. Serampore, Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.
MAINWARING, Sir Henry Mainwaring, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). b. 25 April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804. d. Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. Sporting Review, xliii 83 (1860).
MAINWARING, Rowland (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks, Warwickshire 1745–1815). b. 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May 1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798; commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22 July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832; Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act. Bath 1838. d. Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11 April 1862.
MAINWARING, Sweedland. b. 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15 Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881. d. Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.
MAINWARING, Townshend (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). b. Oteley park 16 March 1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and 1857–68. d. Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.