MARGETTS, Charles (3 son of Wm. Margetts of Huntingdon, solicitor). b. Huntingdon 1795; admitted attorney 1818, solicitor 1843; practised at Huntingdon 1818 to death; judge of the old local court for the liberty of Huntingdon to 1847; registrar of Huntingdon county court 1847–67; coroner for hundred of Hunts. many years; undersheriff for Cambs. and Hunts. several times; mayor of Huntingdon. d. Market place, Huntingdon 15 Oct. 1881.
MARGOLIOUTH, Moses (son of Gershon Margoliouth). b. Suwalki, Poland 3 Dec. 1820; bapt. at Liverpool a member of the Church of England 13 April 1838; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Jany. 1840; C. of St. Augustine, Liverpool 30 June 1844; incumb. of Glasnevin near Dublin and exam. chaplain to bishop of Kildare, Sep. 1844; C. of Tranmere, Cheshire; C. of St. Bartholomew, Salford; C. of Wybunbury, Cheshire 1853–5; C. of St. Paul, Haggerstone, London 1864–7; C. of Wyton, Hunts. 1861–3; C. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. London 1871–3; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1877 to death; Ph. D. Erlangen 1857; started a Hebrew Christian monthly mag. entitled The Star of Jacob 6 numbers Jany. to June 1847; conducted a quarterly periodical called The Hebrew Christian witness and prophetic investigator 1872 to end of 1877 except one year; author of A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers 2 vols. 1858; The history of the Jews in Great Britain 3 vols. 1851; The curates of Riversdale, recollections in the life of a clergyman 3 vols. 1860; The spirit of prophecy 1864; The poetry of the Hebrew pentateuch 1871 and 25 other books. d. London 25 Feb. 1881. bur. Little Linford churchyard. M. Margoliouth’s Fundamental principles of modern Judaism investigated (1843) memoir pp. i–x; M. Margoliouth’s Some triumphs and trophies of the world (1882) memoir pp. vii–xxii; Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxvii 220 (1881).
MARGUERITTES, Julie de (dau. of Augustus Bozzi Granville, physician 1783–1872). b. London 1814; m. (1) Count de Marguerittes who was expelled from France on establishment of the second republic, they went to New York where she supported him by writing, when Marguerittes was recalled by Louis Napoleon he abandoned her, she obtained a divorce and m. (2) George G. Foster an author and publisher of New York, he was known as Gaslight Foster and d. 1850; gave concerts and readings and appeared on the stage at Broadway theatre, New York 9 March 1852 in the opera of La Gazza Ladra; retired from the stage and became dramatic critic of the Sunday Transcript, Philadelphia; m. (3) Samuel J. Rea, journalist, Philadelphia; author of The ins and outs of Paris. Philadelphia 1855; Italy and the war of 1859. 1859; Parisian pickings, or Paris in all states and stations 1860. d. Philadelphia 21 June 1866.
MARIAN, stage name of Maria Elizabeth Wedde. b. Benkendorfe near Halle-au-der-Saale, Prussia 31 Jany. 1866; a giantess nearly eight feet high; exhibited as the ‘Amazon Queen’ in Babil and Bijou at the Alhambra theatre, London, Sep. 1882. d. Berlin 22 Jany. 1884. Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii 25 (1882), portrait.
MARIO, Guiseppe, stage name of Giovanni Battista Matteo, Cavaliere di Candia (son of General di Candia of the Piedmontese army). b. Cagliari, Sardinia 1808; ed. military acad. Turin 1821 and was in the army 1829–36; a refugee in France 1836; taught by Meyerbeer in Paris 1838; appeared as Robert le diable at the Grand opera, Paris 4 Dec. 1838; appeared in London at Her Majesty’s theatre as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia 6 June 1839; he was most successful in the leading tenor roles in Les Huguenots, Faust, Il Barbiere and in certain operas of Verdi and Mozart; sang at Her Majesty’s 1839–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden nearly every season up to 1871 and took the tenor parts in 47 operas; m. Giulia Grisi, she d. Berlin 29 Nov. 1869 having had 6 daughters one born in London and 2 married to Englishmen; the earnings of Mario and Grisi during the seasons in London, Paris and St. Petersburg were enormous, his salaries alone are said to have been a quarter of a million; they resided at Salviate near Florence from 1853 where he had a fine collection of art treasures which he was obliged to sell in 1867; in 1871 he removed to Rome; his last appearance was as Fernando in La Favorita at Covent Garden 19 July 1871, for six years before his retirement his voice was gone; being in distressed circumstances a concert for his benefit was given at St. James’ hall, London 29 May 1878; visited England the last time in Aug. 1881. d. 176 Via di Ripetta, Rome 11 Dec. 1883. bur. in cemetery of St. Lorenzo 13 Dec. W. Beale’s Light of other days, ii 1–150 (1890); L. Engel’s Mozart to Mario, ii 261–371 (1886); H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years recollections, i 275–83 (1862); Tinsley’s Mag. Feb. 1884 pp. 195–202; Temple Bar, March 1884 pp. 344–59; I.L.N. lix 193, 194 (1871) portrait, lxxxiii 613 (1883) portrait; Graphic, xxviii 608 (1883), portrait.
MARJORIBANKS, David Robertson, 1 Baron (youngest son of sir John Marjoribanks, 1 baronet 1763–1833). b. Eccles, Berwickshire 2 April 1797; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; merchant London; assumed surname of Robertson in lieu of Marjoribanks by r.l. 2 Sep. 1834; M.P. Berwickshire 1859–73; lord lieut. of Berwickshire 10 Dec. 1860 to death; created baron Marjoribanks of Ladykirk, co. Berwick 12 June 1873. d. 56 Upper Brook st. London 19 June 1873 when title became extinct; personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. lxii 619 (1873), lxiii 423.
MARJORIBANKS, Edward (4 son of Edward Marjoribanks of Lees, Berwickshire 1735–1815). b. 31 May 1776; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; obtained an exhibition at Balliol coll. Oxf. but never went into residence; learnt banking in house of Thomas Coutts, Strand, London; junior partner in Coutts’ bank 1797 and senior partner 1837 to death. d. Greenlands, Bucks. 17 Sep. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000, 5 Dec. 1868.
MARJORIBANKS, Sir John, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Marjoribanks, 2 bart. 1792–1834). b. Madras 4 May 1830; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1865; succeeded 1834; master of Northumberland and Berwickshire hounds 1875. d. Netherby 18 Nov. 1884. Baily’s Mag. March 1877 p. 63, portrait.
MARK, Bertram Von der, Doctor of music; opened a college at Bristol for teaching music under a system of his own 1841, it continued till 1851; took a number of his youngest pupils on a tour, the company became known as Dr. Mark and his little men 1851; his boys were apprenticed to him for periods of 3, 5 or 7 years; he had 4 bands of juvenile performers, namely a juvenile orchestra, a royal rifle corps band, a drum and fife band, and an orchestra of little men; opened the royal college of music at Bridge st. Manchester 1858, which failed in 1861, he spent the remainder of his life in endeavours to pay off his debts; first performed in London at St. James’ hall 12 Jany. 1861; composer of Six indispensable studies for musicians; The Revelations or the second coming of Christ, an oratorio; A complete church service; Six concert pieces; The bridge of Messina, an opera; Class book for the pianoforte. Manchester 1859; and upwards of 100 other pieces consisting of hymns, marches, overtures, sonatas, symphonies and dance music. d. 8 Great John st. Manchester 2 Jany. 1868 aged 52. bur. St. Luke’s ch. Chetham. Era 2 Feb. 1868 p. 6; Illust. news of the world 9 Feb. 1861, 5 views; Manchester Courier 7 Jany. 1868 p. 5; The Pianist by Dr. Mark. Bristol (1865), portrait.
MARKBY, Thomas (1 son of rev. W. H. Markby, R. of Duxford, Cambs.). b. 1824; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; ordained 1848; head master of proprietary college school, St. John’s Wood, London 1854–61; private tutor at Camb.; classical lecturer at Trinity hall; sec. to the syndicate for conducting local examinations 1867 to death; edited F. Bacon’s The two books of the proficiency of learning 1852, and The essays, civil and moral 1853; author of The life and poetry of Chaucer 1858; The man Christ Jesus 1862; Practical essays on education 1868. d. Cambridge 4 March 1870.