MEADOWS, Alfred (4 child of Charles Meadows). b. Ipswich 2 June 1833; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and King’s coll. London, associate, then fellow; matric. at Univ. of London 1853, M.B. 1857, M.D. 1858; entered King’s coll. medical sch. Oct. 1853; L.S.A. 1856; M.R.C.S. 1856; M.R.C.P. 1862, F.R.C.P. 1873; house phys. King’s coll. hospital 1856, assistant phys. for diseases of women and children 1860; phys. to hospital for women, Soho square 1863–74; phys. accoucheur St. Mary’s hospital 1871 to death; the first president of British Gynæcological Soc. 1884; attended crown prince of Sweden at Hopetoun house, Scotland 1878, commander of Swedish order of Wasa 1881; provost of the Guild of St. Luke; an energetic freemason and an officer in grand lodge; edited London Medical Review 1860; author of Manual of midwifery 1862, 4 ed. 1881, the 2 ed. was translated into Japanese 1875; The prescriber’s companion 1864, 6 ed. 1891; author with T. H. Tanner of A practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood 2 ed. 1870, 3 ed. 1879; translated Bernutz and Goupil’s Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women, for the New Sydenham Soc. vols. 1 and 2, 1866. d. 27 George st. Hanover sq. London 18 April 1887. bur. Colnbrook, Bucks. Midland medical miscellany ii 65–7 (1883), portrait; British Gynæcological Journal, iii 343 (1887), portrait; Biograph, v 68–76 (1881).
MEADOWS, Drinkwater. b. Yorkshire or Wales 1799; acted in Westmoreland and Yorkshire; played at Bath theatre 1817–21; first appeared in London as Scrub at Covent Garden 28 Sep. 1821; the original Timothy Quaint in Howard Payne’s Soldier’s Daughter, Nimpedo in Clari or the Maid of Milan 8 May 1823, Spado in Pride shall have a fall 11 March 1824, Robin in Poole’s Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825, Raubvogel in Planché’s Returned Killed 31 Oct. 1826, Salewit in Planché’s Merchant’s Wedding 5 Feb. 1828, Oliver in Moncrieff’s Somnambulist 19 Feb. 1828, Bronze in Pocock’s Home sweet home 19 March 1829, Torpid in The night before the wedding and The wedding night 17 Nov. 1829; the original Fathom in Sheridan Knowles’s Hunchback 5 April 1832, and Bartolo in his The Wife 24 April 1833, both at Covent Garden; the original Philippe in Lovell’s Provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; acted at Lyceum from 1844 and at Princess’s to 1862 when he retired; the original Boaz in Douglas Jerrold’s Prisoner of war, first given at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1851; secretary to Covent Garden theatrical fund; a portrait of him as Raubvogel in Returned Killed is in the Matthews’ collection at the Garrick club; lived in White lion st. near High st. Islington many years; wrote William Blanchard, a sketch in Life of E. L. Blanchard, ii 645–54 (1891). d. Prairie cottage, The Green, Barnes, Surrey 12 June 1869. The Era 11 June 1869 p. 11, col. 1.
MEADOWS, George Deare (son of Dixon Meadows, captain H.E.I.Co.) b. London; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.S.A. 1824, M.D. Edinb. 1824; member of royal medical society of Edinb. 1820; practised at Portsmouth many years as a partner with Dr. John Porter, his speciality being the diseases of women and children. d. St. George’s square, Portsea 22 April 1853.
MEADOWS, James (son of Wm. Meadows, comedian). b. Dublin 1798; an officer of the ship Kent 1818; resided in Calcutta some years, where he was well known as an amateur actor; scenic artist to many of the London theatres; exhibited 21 marine pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1854–63. d. 12 Coborn st. Bow road, London 5 May 1863. bur. Trinity church, Bow road. Era 17 May 1863 p. 10.
MEADOWS, Joseph Kenny (son of James Meadows, retired naval officer). b. Cardigan. bapt. 1 Nov. 1790; designed and lithographed the plates for Planché’s Costume of Shakespeare’s Historical tragedy of King John 1823, and for The heads of the people 1838–40; illustrated B. Cornwall’s ed. of Shakespeare 2 vols. 1839–43; illustrated many children’s books and the Christmas numbers of the Illustrated London News; exhibited 1 portrait at R.A. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; illustrated Hall’s Book of British ballads 1842; Punch’s Complete letter writer by Douglas Jerrold 1845; The illustrated Byron 1854–6, and many other books; granted civil list pension of £80, June 1864. d. 458 King’s road, Chelsea 19 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Pancras cemetery at Finchley 24 Aug. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 98–103.
MEAGHER, Thomas (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford). b. 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. d. 1874.
MEAGHER, Thomas Francis (son of the preceding). b. city of Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare, and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol. xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847; contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848; a member of war committee of Irish Confederation 21 July 1848, went with Smith O’Brien through Ireland to organize a revolution, arrested in Tipperary 13 Aug., tried at Clonmel Oct. 1848 and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 23 Oct. 1848, sentence commuted to penal servitude for life 26 Oct., transported to Van Diemen’s Land July 1849, made his escape 4 Jany. 1852, arrived at New York 26 May 1852; lectured in the United States 1852–4; helped John Mitchell to found the Citizen newspaper in New York 7 Jany. 1854; admitted to New York bar Sep. 1855; published first number of the Irish News in New York 12 April 1856, the paper ceased July 1860; explored Central America 1857; raised a company of Zouaves for the 69th New York volunteers April 1861 and served with the army of the North in the first campaign in Virginia; organised the Irish brigade Nov. 1861, colonel of the first regiment, the command of entire brigade was subsequently given him Dec. 1861; brigadier general 3 Feb. 1862, lost greater part of his men at Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, the rest of them at Chancellorsville 2 May 1863, resigned 14 May 1863; enrolled a Fenian 1863; brigadier general of volunteers 1864 and in command of the Etowah district; secretary of Montana territory July 1865, temporary governor Sep. 1866 to death; author of Speeches on the legislative independence of Ireland. New York 1853, portrait; Recollections of Ireland and the Irish; The last days of the 69th in Virginia. New York 1862, portrait, and of three articles in Harper’s New monthly mag.; fell from a steamboat into the Missouri and was drowned near Fort Benton, Montana 1 July 1867. M. Cavanagh’s Memoirs of T. F. Meagher (1892), portrait; W. F. Lyons’s Brigadier-General T. F. Meagher. New York (1870), portrait; F. J. Bramhall’s Military Souvenir (1863), portrait 51; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883), passim; Reynolds’s Miscellany, iii 481 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii 323 (1848), portrait.
MEAKIN, John. b. Carlton near Nottingham 22 Dec. 1829; 5 feet 10½ inches high, running weight 12 stone; beat Steven Davy 100 yards 1843; enlisted in 95 foot May 1854, present at Sebastopol 1855, in India 1858, discharged at Chatham 8 May 1859 with a pension of 6d. a day for nine months; won Hospool’s All England handicap 140 yards £10, Dec. 1860; won J. Boothroyde’s All England handicap 115 yards £10, Oct. 1861; won All England handicap at Sheffield 220 yards £20, Dec. 1861; was beaten by A. Grinrod of Oldham 110 yards for the champion cup £25 a side; attacked by some men and kicked over the ankle and was not again able to run. Illust. Sporting News 31 Jany. 1863 p. 417, portrait.
MEANS, Joseph Calrow (son of John Means, wine merchant, Rood lane, London). b. 29 Mark lane, London 20 May 1801; a teacher at Worship st. Finsbury sq. Sunday school 1818; bapt. by immersion at Deptford 1822; studied at Univ. coll. London 1828; preacher to afternoon congregation at Worship st. 1829, his congregation removed to Trinity place Oct. 1829 and subsequently to Coles st. Southwark, ceased to be preacher 1839; secretary to general baptist assembly 1831, one of their messengers 1834; edited The General Baptist Advocate 1831–6; minister of general baptist congregation at Chatham, Kent 1843; head master of Chatham proprietary school; minister at Worship st. London 1855 to Oct. 1874; author of Jesus the mercy seat: or a scriptural view of atonement 1838, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Christian Reformer, Inquirer, Biog. Dict. of the S.P.C.K. and Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. d. London 6 Feb. 1879. Christian Life 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 78 et seq.; Inquirer 15 Feb. 1879 pp. 98 et seq.
MEANY, Stephen Joseph. b. Ennis; a constable in Dublin, where he was dismissed; reporter on the Clare Journal, then on the Limerick Chronicle and afterwards on the Freeman’s Journal; travelling companion of Daniel O’Connell during repeal agitation; left O’Connell and joined the Young Ireland movement, a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol; editor of the Drogheda Argus 1854; started at Liverpool the Lancashire Free press; bankrupt 27 April 1860; connected with the foreign refreshment department of the Exhibition of 1862; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Middlesex sessions for obtaining goods under false pretences Oct. 1882; went to America and joined the Fenians; private sec. to Head-Centre Stephens, returned to London and was committed to Richmond gaol, Dublin for high treason Dec. 1886; author of Shreds of fancy, a volume of poems. Ennis 1841. d. New York 8 Feb. 1888. bur. Queenstown. Newspaper Press, i 35, 44 (1867); E. L. Blanchard’s Life, ii 617 (1891).