MALET, John Adam. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827, fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. d. 2 Richmond hill, Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.
MALET, William Wyndham (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, baronet d. 1815). b. 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset 1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John, Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849; The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868; St. Swithin’s day 1879. d. Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.
MALEY, Thomas. b. 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30 Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours 23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2 hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in 44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle, Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb. 1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in 205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov. 1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in 130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable; a capital teacher of boxing. d. Coach and Horses public house, 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing (1852) 37–9.
MALINS, David (son of a brass founder). b. Great Charles st. Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work; high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he presented to that institution 1879. d. 1882. Edgbastonia, ii 2–4 (1882), portrait.
MALINS, Sir Richard (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.) b. Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42; Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death, treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65; contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor 3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice, Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867; P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. d. 57 Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. bur. in churchyard of Bray near Maidenhead 21 Jany. Saturday Review, liii 76 (1882); Pen and ink sketches in chancery (1867) No. 3 pp. 12–13; A generation of judges. By Their Reporter (1886) 146–56; The bench and the bar (1860) part viii, portrait; Graphic, xxv 68 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 85 (1882), portrait; Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school 1874.
MALLANDAINE, John Elliot. b. 1841; conductor at Queen’s theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881; composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison. Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans 1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. d. 11 Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.
MALLESON, John Philip (youngest son of Thomas Malleson, silversmith and jeweller). b. Battersea, London 11 Feb. 1796; ed. at Wymondley house near Hitchin 1812–17; independent minister at Wem, Shropshire 1817; entered univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1817, B.A. April 1819; minister of a presbyterian congregation at Hanover st. chapel, Longacre, London 1819–22; kept a day school at Leeds 1822–9; minister of a unitarian chapel in the New road, Brighton 1829–60; conducted a large school at Hove house, Brighton 1829–60; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s library, London to death. d. Croydon 16 March 1869. bur. Marylebone cemetery, Finchley. J. Martineau’s The Godly man (1870) memoir pp. 19–63.
MALLET, Sir Louis (son of John Lewis Mallet, clerk in audit office). b. London 14 March 1823; clerk in the audit office Aug. 1839, transferred to board of trade Nov. 1847, private secretary to pres. of the board 1848–52 and 1855–7; an assistant comr. for drawing up the tariff in accordance with the articles of the treaty of commerce with France 12 April 1860; employed in negotiations connected with signature of commercial treaty with Austria 1865–7; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; retired from board of trade 25 Jany. 1872; member of council of India in London, Aug. 1872, permanent under-secretary of state for India, Feb. 1874, retired 29 Sep. 1883; a royal comr. on relative value of the precious metals May 1887, and on the copyright laws Oct. 1875; a comr. to negotiate a new commercial treaty with France, March 1877; P.C. 23 Aug. 1883; his occasional writings were collected in a vol. entitled Free Exchange papers on political and economical subjects, by his son Bernard Mallet in 1891. d. Bath 16 Feb. 1890. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 205–13; Pictorial World 27 Feb. 1890 pp. 260, 283, portrait; I.L.N. 1 March 1890 p. 262, portrait.
MALLET, Robert (son of John Mallet of Dublin, iron founder). b. Dublin 3 June 1810; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Dec. 1826, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1862; partner in his father’s works 1831, which ultimately became the largest works in Ireland; raised the roof of St. George’s ch. Dublin; built a number of swivel bridges over the Shannon 1836; A.I.C.E. May 1839, M.I.C.E. 1842, Telford medallist 1859; erected many terminal railway stations, also the Nore viaduct 1845–8; built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse 1848–9; invented the buckled plate, patented it 1852, these plates form the best flooring ever made; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; gave up the Victoria foundry, Dublin 1861; consulting engineer in London 1861; edited The practical mechanics’ journal of the great exhibition 1862; H. Laws’ Civil engineering 1869; The practical mechanics’ journal 4 vols. 1865–9; Cunningham medallist of R.I.A. 1862; Wollaston medallist of Geol. Soc. 1877; author of Great Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. 2 vols. 1862, and of 74 scientific papers. d. Enmore, The Grove, Clapham road, Surrey 5 Nov. 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii 297–304 (1882); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii 54–6 (1882).
MALMESBURY, James Howard Harris, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). b. Spring Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris 1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June 1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. d. Heron court near Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. bur. under the choir of Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. The Times 18 May 1889 p. 14; London sketch book, Aug. 1884, portrait; I.L.N. xx 248 (1852) portrait, xxxii 250, 260 (1858) portrait, l 132, 142 (1867) portrait, lxiv 365, 366 (1874) portrait; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait of his wife.