Note.—His portrait was drawn by Gustave Doré, the day Wainwright was executed 21 Dec. 1875 in the picture called ‘L’Execution à Londres’; this picture (which Marwood sold for £75) was sold again at Drouot’s auction mart, Paris, for £12 the very day of Marwood’s death 4 Sep. 1883.
MARWOOD-ELTON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Marwood Elton, sheriff of Devon 1815, d. 4 Dec. 1827). b. 1801; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; assumed surname of Marwood by r.l. 16 June 1830; sheriff of Devon 1858; created baronet 1 Aug. 1838 with remainder to his 3 brothers, who all died before him. d. 18 April 1884.
MARX, Karl. b. Treves, Prussia 5 May 1818; ed. at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; editor of the democratic organ the Rhenish Gazette 1842; went to Paris 1843, expelled from France 1845, settled at Brussels, where he reorganised with Engels the Communist league and wrote for it his famous Manifesto which was circulated in almost every European language 1848; took an active part in the revolutionary movement on the Rhine 1848, after its failure came to London 1849 and lived there till his death; chief founder and director of the International 1864; chief controller of the social-democratic movement in Germany after Lassalle’s death 1864. d. 41 Maitland park road, Haverstock Hill, London 14 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. R. T. Ely’s French and German socialism in modern times. New York (1883); Progress, May and June 1883; Graphic, xxvii 329 (1883), portrait; Fortnightly Review, March 1875 pp. 382–91.
MASFEN, John. b. Cannock, Staffs. Sep. 1795; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; partner with Somerville at Stafford; surgeon to Staffs. general dispensary 1823 to death; the first mayor of Stafford; had one of most extensive general practices in the kingdom. d. Stafford 7 June 1854.
MASHEDER, Richard. Ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 1865; district judge of Port Antonio, Jamaica 1867 to death; author of Dissent and democracy; their mutual relations 1864; William Ewart Gladstone: a political review 1865, 2 ed. 1865. d. Morant’s Bay, Jamaica 5 Jany. 1869.
MASKELL, Rev. Joseph. b. 1829; ed. at King’s coll. Lond., Theol. assoc. 1852; C. of Allington, Dorset 1852–5; C. of West Lulworth 1855–6; C. of All Hallows, Barking 1860–9; master and chaplain of Emmanuel hospital, Westminster 1869 to death; C. of St. James the Less, Westminster 1883 to death; hon. sec. to City of London coll. 1861–8; wrote in Notes and Queries, the Antiquarian mag. &c.; author of Notes on the sepulchral brasses of All Hallows, Barking 1861; Collections towards history of All Hallows 1864; Westminster in relation to literature 1880. d. Emmanuel hospital 30 Nov. 1890.
MASKELL, William (only son of Wm. Maskell, solicitor at Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 1825). b. Bath 1814; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 9 June 1832; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; R. of Corscombe, Dorset 29 July 1842 to 1843; V. of St. Mary Church near Torquay 1847–50; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1847–9; conducted examination of rev. G. C. Gorham touching his views on baptism Dec. 1847 and March 1848; received into Church of Rome 1850; F.S.A. 15 Nov. 1855; J.P. for Cornwall 1865 and deputy lieut. 1876; his collection of English rituals and service books and another of carvings in ivory were purchased by the British Museum; author of Ancient liturgy of the church of England according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford and the modern Roman liturgy arranged in parallel columns 1844, 3 ed. 1882; A history of the Martin Marprelate controversy in the time of Queen Elizabeth 1845; Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 3 vols. 1846, 2 ed. Oxford 1882; Holy baptism, a dissertation 1848; An enquiry into the doctrine of the church of England upon absolution 1848; Budehaven: a pen and ink sketch: with portraits of the principal inhabitants. By W.M. 1863; Ivories, ancient and mediæval 1875, and other books. d. Alexandra terrace, Penzance 12 April 1890. E. G. K. Browne’s Annals of the tractarian movement (1861) 193–200, 214; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 140 (1891).
MASON, Charles Kemble. b. Peterborough, Nov. 1805; first appeared in London as Young Norval at Covent Garden theatre; played Macbeth at Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 21 April 1834, and Beverley at Park theatre, New York same year; visited California, Aug. 1857; played the Ghost in Hamlet 100 nights at Winter Garden theatre, New York 1864–5; acted at Academy of Music, Philadelphia 1869. Ireland’s Records of New York stage, ii 105–6 (1867).
MASON, Sir Francis. b. Bow, Middlesex 10 Feb. 1779; entered navy 13 May 1793; captain 22 Jany. 1806; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 24 Aug. 1841; commander in chief in South America, July 1834 to Feb. 1835; extra naval aide de camp to William IV. 1833–7, to Victoria 1837–8; vice admiral 9 May 1849. d. Eastbourne 27 May 1853. G.M. xl 91–2 (1853).
MASON, Francis (son of a shoemaker). b. Walingate, York 2 April 1799; went to U.S. of America 1818, worked as a shoemaker at various places to 1825; a licensed Baptist preacher Oct. 1827; a missionary at Tavoy in Burmah 1831–53 and at Toungoo 1853–72; member of Royal Asiatic Society 1852; D.D. Brown univ. 1854; he could converse or preach in most of the dialects of Farther India; published a grammar of the Pali language and various translations; author of Burma, its people and productions 1852, 4 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Rangoon, Burmah 3 March 1874. Francis Mason’s The story of a working-man’s life. New York (1870).