Note.—The National gallery purchased from him Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna for £75,000 and Vandyck’s Charles I. on horseback for £12,000. The Berlin museum bought a Sebastiano del Piombo and another picture, the Paris Rothschilds three works of Rubens, and the rest of the collection was sold at Christies 1884–5. The Sunderland library was sold by Puttick and Simpson 1881 and 1883 for £56,581, and the Blenheim enamels fetched above £73,000 in 1883.
MARLING, Sir Samuel Stephens, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Marling of Stroud, Gloucs.) b. Woodchester, Gloucs. 10 April 1810; a woollen cloth manufacturer; M.P. West Gloucs. 1868 to 1874, M.P. Stroud 1875–80; created a baronet 10 May 1882. d. in his counting house at Ebley Mills, Stroud 22 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 428 (1883), portrait.
MARLOIS, Edouard. b. in France 1847; acted as répétiteur to Marie Roze and other singers; director of music at Adelphi and Covent Garden theatre; wrote short pieces for the German Reeds and other entertainments; composer of The flower’s fate, a song 1877; Behind the stars, a song 1877; Six pièces intimes pour le piano 1878; Ave Maria, trio, published in Choruses for ladies’ voices, No. 52, 1880; Serenado pour le piano 1880, and 25 other pieces. d. 209 Euston road, London 21 Jany. 1881.
MARLOW, Charles. b. Hoar Cross near Newborough, Staffs. 1814; first rode at Houghton meeting 1828; his first winning race was on Gab for the Sherborne stakes at Cheltenham 1831; first jockey to Mr. Alderman Copeland 1837; on Combermere won the Dee at Chester 1842; rode Lord Eglington’s horse Eagles’ Plume for the Derby 1848; on the Flying Dutchman won the Derby and the St. Leger 1849; with Mr. Wauchope’s Catharine Hayes took the Oaks 1853; broke his leg when riding Nettle for the Oaks 1855; had a high character for honesty but took to drinking. d. Devizes workhouse, Oct. 1882. bur. Devizes 28 Oct. Sporting Review, Jany. 1857 pp. 1–5, portrait; Baily’s Mag. Dec. 1882 p. 60; I.L.N. xxii 416 (1853), portrait.
MARLOW, William Biddlecomb. b. 1795; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. 25 Nov. 1857 to 26 March 1862 when he retired on full pay as M.G. d. Anglesey lodge near Gosport 4 Jany. 1864.
MARNOCK, Robert. b. Kintore, Aberdeenshire 12 March 1800; gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener 1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the most successful landscape gardener of his time; edited The Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and land stewards’ journal 1845 &c.; author with Richard Deakin of the first vol. of Florigraphia Britannica, or engravings and descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837. d. Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15 Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal Green 21 Nov. Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp. 565, 567, portrait; Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp. 733, 744, portrait.
MAROCHETTI, Carlo (son of French parents). b. Turin 1805; naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris; studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club 1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. d. suddenly at residence of his sister-in-law Countess de Sade at Passy near Paris 29 Dec. 1867. Sandby’s Royal Academy, ii 352 (1862); I.L.N. xxxvlii 176, 178 (1861), portrait; Illust. Times 28 July 1866 p. 57, portrait; G.M. Feb. 1868 pp. 249–50.
MARQUIS, James. b. 5 March 1824; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 29 May 1841, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1867; served in Bundelcund campaign 1842–3 and in Punjab campaign 1848–9; second in command of Punjab infantry at siege and storm of Delhi 1857; served in Bhootan campaign 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 17 Feb. 1886; L.G. 22 Jany. 1887. d. Brookland, Hawke road, Norwood 5 Dec. 1891.
MARRABLE, Frederick (son of sir Thomas Marrable, secretary of board of green cloth). b. 1818; articled to Edward Blore the architect; architect in London; superintending architect to Metropolitan board of works 1856–62; designed and built offices of the board 10–14 Spring Gardens 1860; designed Garrick club, 13 and 15 Garrick st. 1862, archbishop Tenison’s school 30 Leicester sq. 1872, St. Peter’s church, Deptford, and St. Mary Magdalen’s church at St. Leonards; exhibited 12 architectural designs at R.A. 1843–70. d. Witley, Surrey 22 June 1872.
MARRAS, Giacinto (son of Giovanni Marras, painter). b. Naples 6 July 1810; studied at Real collegio di musica Naples; came to England 1835 and sang at the Philharmonic society, the Antient concerts, &c.; made a concert tour in Russia 1842; sang in Vienna, Naples and Paris 1844; naturalised in England 12 Jany. 1850; his Monday Après-midis musicales at his house 10 Hyde park gate, London, met with great success about 1860, he resumed them in 1873; made a professional tour in India 1870–3; sang the leading tenor parts in most of the Italian operas in vogue during his career; very successful as a teacher of singing; an able pianist, his numerous compositions belong to the pure Italian school; composer of Cara di notte tacita, serenata a due voci 1835; Ah se tu fossi meco, barcarola 1839; 12 Lezioni di canto 1849; L’abborito romanza 1854; Elements of singing. Elementi vocali 1850, for which the king of Naples sent him a gold medal; Edenland, song 1871; Oh! were I blest above 1877, and upwards of 110 other compositions, London 1839–77; m. a dau. of major Stephenson, a brilliant amateur musician by whom he had a dau. Madame Schulz a well known singer. d. Monte Carlo 8 May 1883. bur. protestant cemetery at Cannes. Theatre, ii 44–5 (1883).