MERYON, Edward. b. 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844; M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the sympathetic system of nerves 1872. d. 14 Clarges st. Mayfair, London 8 Nov. 1880.
MESSITER, Edward. b. 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec. 1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848, of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah 14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col. of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. d. 19 Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.
MESSITER, John. b. 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823, lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. d. Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.
MESSITER, Sussex Lennox Aubrey Beauclerk. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov. 1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. d. 2 Haymarket, London 20 Sep. 1870.
METCALFE, Frederick (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of Gainsborough). b. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849, sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849 to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845 and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. d. Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.
METCALFE, James (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846). b. 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie 11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters; major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec. 1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. d. 44 Harcourt terrace, London 8 March 1888.
METCALFE, Sir Theophilus John, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet d. 1853). b. Delhi 28 Nov. 1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut 1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi 14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid pension 1866. d. Paris 10 Nov. 1883.
METCALFE, William. b. 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson 1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny paper in Cambridge. d. Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888. Bookseller, May 1888 p. 465.
METCALFE, William James (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of Foulmire, Cambs., d. 1850). b. 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. d. suddenly in his private room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.
METEYARD, Eliza (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). b. Lime st. Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death; contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal, People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame 3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865; The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols. 1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60, 5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. d. Stanley place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. bur. Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G. Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 373–5.