MALONE, Joseph. b. 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army; sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. d. 12 July 1883.
MALTBY, Edward (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver and a presbyterian, d. Aug. 1794 aged 64). b. parish of St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792; B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester 1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned 1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London 1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803; Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed. 1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and 20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. d. 4 Upper Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm. Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 386–8.
MALTBY, Mrs. Harriet. b. 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W. Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to the Bath charities. d. Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. The Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p. 4.
MALTBY, William (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion house st. London, wholesale draper). b. London 17 Jany. 1763; ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787; principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus, superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled Porsoniana pp. 295–334. d. London Institution, 11 Finsbury circus 5 Jany. 1854. bur. Norwood cemet. G.M. xli 209–10 (1854).
MAMMATT, Edward. b. 1807; became blind when very young; learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity, geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842; invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. d. Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.
MAN, William (son of William Man). b. Dec. 1818; travelled over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies, Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. d. 16 May 1881. Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii 567 (1881).
MANBY, Charles (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850). b. 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales 1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837, M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56 when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec. 1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal; lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb. 1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton 2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866. d. Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi 327–34 (1885), portrait; Biograph, vi 159 (1881); I.L.N. lxxxv 156 (1884), portrait.
MANBY, George William (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain Welsh fusiliers, d. 1774). b. Denver near Downham Market, Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801; captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth 14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales 1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to Greenland 1822. d. Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov. 1854. G. W. Manby’s Reminiscences (1839); European Mag. July 1813 pp. 3–8, portrait; I.L.N. ii 267 (1843), portrait; G.M. Jany. 1822 pp. 66–70.
MANCHESTER, George Montagu, 6 Duke of (elder son of 5 duke of Manchester 1768–1843). b. Kimbolton castle, St. Neots, Hunts. 9 July 1799; styled viscount Mandeville 1799–1843; entered navy 19 Feb. 1812, lieut. 20 Nov. 1818, commander 19 July 1822, commander on h.p. to his death; M.P. Hunts. 1826–37; succeeded 18 March 1843; founded the National club, London 1845; author of Hints upon prophecy 1830; Horæ Hebraicæ 1835; Things hoped for: second advent 1837; The times of Daniel 1845; The finished mystery 1847; A chapter on the harmonizing gospels. Dublin 1854, anon., and other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 18 Aug. 1855. bur. Kimbolton church 28 Aug.
MANCHESTER, William Drogo Montagu, 7 Duke of Manchester (eld. child of the preceding). b. Kimbolton castle 15 Oct. 1823; styled lord Kimbolton 1823–43; ensign 11 foot 3 Dec. 1841; ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 21 Jany. 1842, lieut. and capt. 1 Dec. 1846; styled viscount Mandeville 1843–55; aide de camp to sir Peregrine Maitland at Cape of Good Hope 1843–4; retired from army 17 Sep. 1850; contested Westminster 30 July 1847; M.P. Bewdley 18 April 1848, accepted the Chiltern hundreds May 1852; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1852–5; lord of bed chamber to prince Albert 1 March to Dec, 1852; succeeded as 7 duke 18 Aug. 1855; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1861; LL.D. of Camb. univ. 3 June 1864; K.P. 3 March 1877; knight of order of Iron Cross of Prussia; president of royal colonial institute; engaged in commercial ventures in Canada and Australia; author of Court and society from Elizabeth to Anne, from the papers at Kimbolton 2 vols. 1864; A letter to prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar from a spectator of the campaign of 1870 etc. 1871. d. Hôtel Royal, Naples 21 March 1890, body embalmed and bur. at Kimbolton. Baily’s Mag. xiv 163–4 (1868), portrait; I.L.N. lxx 245 (1877) portrait, and 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait; Pictorial World 27 March 1890 pp. 390, 408, portrait; Illust. Times 18 May 1861 p. 323, portrait; Times 24 March 1890 p. 10, 27 March p. 4.