MASTER, Robert Augustus. b. 1806; entered Bengal army 1824; major 7 Bengal light cavalry 20 Dec. 1851 to 17 Sep. 1855, lieut.-col. 5 May 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. 2 European light cavalry 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 March 1858; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Bilbrook house, Cheltenham 27 Jany. 1865.
MASTER, Robert Mosley (son of the succeeding). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; P.C. of Burnley, Lancs. 1826–55; hon. canon of Manchester 12 Dec. 1850 to death; P.C. of St. James’s, Leyland, Lancs. 1855–64; archdeacon of Manchester 1854 to death; R. of Croston near Preston 1865 to death. d. Blackpool, Lancs. 1 July 1867.
MASTER, Streynsham (eld. son of rev. Robert Master, R. of Croston, Lancs. d. 1798). b. Croston 10 June 1766; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; R. of Croston 1798 to death. d. 19 Jany. 1864. Manchester school register, ii 33–4 (1868).
MASTERS, Joseph. b. Lichfield 1795; employed by T. G. Lomax, bookseller 1810–24; stationer and printer at 173 Aldersgate st. London 1827, removed to 33 Aldersgate st. 1838, a bookseller and publisher there to his death; also at 78 New Bond st. from 1848; started The Churchman’s Companion 1847; as publisher to the Cambridge Camden society brought out The Ecclesiologist 20 vols. 1842–63. d. 33 Aldersgate st. London 25 Aug. 1863. Guide to the church congress (1883) 49–50.
MATCHAM, George (eld. son of George Matcham, traveller 1753–1833). b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814, LL.D. 1820; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 1820–30; chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions 1836 to April 1867; contributed accounts of the hundreds of Downton and Frustfield to Hoare’s Modern history of Wilts. 1843; contributed to The Times 6 Nov. 1861 Notes on the character of admiral lord Nelson, which were reprinted 1861 together with Observations on No. ccxxi of the Quarterly Review. d. 18 Jany. 1877.
MATHER, Charles (youngest son of Robert Mather, M.R.C.S. of Grantham, Lincs.) b. 1836 or 1837; ed. at Brighton college 1850–2; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 29 May 1855; wrote on cricket in Bell’s Life in London and The Illustrated sporting and dramatic news under name of Exon. d. Paulton’s terrace, Chelsea 1 July 1878.
MATHER, Cotton (son of the succeeding). Lecturer in Hindustani at Indian civil engineering college, Cooper’s Hill near Chertsey 1870 to death; author of Glossary of Hindustani and English to the New Testament and Psalms 1861. d. Junior Garrick club, London 21 Feb. 1882 aged 48.
MATHER, Robert Cotton (son of James Mather, congregational minister). b. New Windsor, Manchester 8 Nov. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow and at Homerton college; LL.D. Glasgow 1862; ordained at Lendal chapel, York 10 June 1833; went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Soc. 1833; pastor at Benares 7 Sep. 1834; pastor at Mirzapore, May 1838 to 1873; established a new mission, built schools and churches; founded the orphan school press and started and edited a monthly journal in Hindustani; revised and edited the entire Bible in Hindustani; author of Christian missions in India 1858 and of many treatises and tracts in Hindu and Urdu; (m. Elizabeth Sewell, author of a Hindustani dictionary of the Bible, she d. Mirzapore 29 March 1879). He d. 5 Torrington park, Finchley, London 21 April 1877. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1877) 96–7; Congregational year book (1878) 325.
MATHESON, Sir Alexander, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Matheson of Attadale, Rossshire, d. 1826 aged 48). b. Attadale 6 Jany. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant in China; M.P. for Inverness 1847–68; M.P. for counties Ross and Cromarty 1868–84; a director of bank of England 1848–78; created baronet 15 May 1882. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 26 July 1886.
MATHESON, Charles (3 son of Charles Matheson of Berbice, merchant). b. 27 Sep. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Oxf., fellow 1850–62; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1851, Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1855; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; head master of Clergy orphan school, Canterbury 1867–91; author of A practical Greek accidence 1863, 2 ed. 1864, re-edited as Principles of Greek 1882, 4 ed. 1886. d. Leamington 15 April 1894.