MAINZER, Joseph. b. Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé; singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848 to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed. 1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony 1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb. 1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum 1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4, continued as The musical times 1844. d. Manchester 10 Nov. 1851. A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer (1844); Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp. 103–5.
MAIR, James Allan. b. Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874; A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. drowned while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.
MAIR, John. b. Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society; hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840, surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada 1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils. Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. d. Kingston 5 Oct. 1877. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 246–7.
MAIR, Robert Henry (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh hall, Lincs.) b. 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list 1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872; Short rules for cribbage 1878. d. Osbert house, Skegness, Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.
MAISEY, Frederick Charles. b. 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war 1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing his skull. d. 2 Sep. 1892.
MAISTER, John (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull, d. 18 Feb. 1790). b. 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793; captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795, major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807; lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug. 1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. Wells 18 May 1852. bur. in the minster at Ripon. I.L.N. xx 479 (1852); G.M. xxxviii 92 (1852).
MAITLAND, Sir Alexander Charles Ramsay-Gibson, 3 Baronet (son of Alexander M. G. Maitland). b. Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820; succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col. 3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. d. Clifton hall, Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 551 (1876).
MAITLAND, Charles (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828, d. Oct. 1865). b. Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire; C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome, illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the present time 1849. d. London 31 July 1866.
MAITLAND, Charles David. b. 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton 14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal son, eight discourses 1844. d. Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.
MAITLAND, Charles Lennox Brownlow (son of sir Peregrine Maitland 1777–1854). b. 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April 1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.; assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor 1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884; col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death; general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. d. Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p. 103, portrait.