MEYNELL, Godfrey (2 son of Godfrey Meynell of Langley, Derbyshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1838 aged 19; rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1840 and 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; practised as a conveyancer at York. d. 1858.
MEYNELL, Henry (2 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., d. 1801). b. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 24 June 1803; flag captain of the Newcastle at St. Helena, where he was noticed by Napoleon 1815; captain 10 April 1816; R.A. 29 April 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862; gentleman usher to George IV. 22 March 1820 to 26 June 1830 and to William IV. 24 July 1830 to 23 March 1831; one of grooms of waiting to Victoria, April 1845; M.P. Lisburn, co. Antrim 1826–47. d. Paris 24 March 1865. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 528–30; G.M. xviii 663 (1865).
MEYNELL-INGRAM, Hugo Charles (1 son of Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, Staffs., d. 1801). b. 1784; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1816 to death; sheriff of Staffs. 1826; assumed surname of Ingram by r.l. 25 Oct. 1841 in compliance with viscount Irwin’s will; had a fine collection of pictures at Temple Newsam near Leeds. d. Hoar Cross hall 25 Feb. 1869. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 140–41; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 332–4 (1854).
MEYNELL-INGRAM, Hugo Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1821; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 May 1839; M.P. West Stafford 1868 to death; master of the Hoar Cross fox hounds 1869 to death. d. 30 Wilton crescent, London 26 May 1871. I.L.N. lviii 579 (1871).
MEYRICK, George. b. 1767; ensign 24 foot 21 April 1784; captain 91 foot 30 Oct. 1793; major 130 foot 14 June 1794, regiment was reduced 1794 but he was retained on it on full pay; lieut.-col. 130 foot 19 March 1796, placed on half pay 1798; L.G. 12 Aug. 1819. d. Dawlish, Devonshire 8 Jany. 1853.
MEYSEY-THOMPSON, Albert Childers (3 son of sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson baronet d. 1874). b. 13 July 1848; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1871; student of Lincoln’s inn 1869; barrister I.T. 6 June 1872; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1892; a well known parliamentary counsel. d. 20 March 1894.
MEYSEY-THOMPSON, Sir Harry Stephen, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Richard John Thompson of Kirby hall, Yorkshire, captain 4 dragoons 1771–1853). b. Newby park, Yorkshire 11 Aug. 1809; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; farmed his own estates; chief founder of Yorkshire agricultural society 1837; an original member of royal agricultural society 1838, chairman of the Journal committee, and a contributor to the Journal, member of the council to Dec. 1873, president 1867; chairman of York and north midland railway co. 1849, of North Eastern railway co. 1854 to Feb. 1874, and of United railways company’s association 1867–73; sheriff of Yorkshire 1856; M.P. Whitby 1859–65; contested Whitby 12 July 1865; contested West Riding, Yorks. Eastern division 25 Nov. 1868; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; cr. baronet 26 March 1874; discoverer of the power inherent in the soil of absorbing and assimilating ammonia; assumed by r.l. surname of Meysey 1874. d. Kirby hall, Yorkshire 17 May 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 523 (1874), lxv 236; Journal of royal agricultural society of England, 2 series x 519–41; Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix 293–6 (1875).
MIALL, Edward (younger son of Moses Miall, general merchant, d. 1829). b. Portsmouth 8 May 1809; usher in Saltmarsh’s school, Bocking near Braintree 1827 and then in Waddell’s school at Nayland, Suffolk; independent minister at Ware, Herts. Feb. 1831; minister of Bond st. chapel, Leicester 1834–40; established The Nonconformist, weekly paper in London 14 April 1841, editor 1842 to death; a founder of The National complete suffrage union April 1842; contested Southwark 12 Sep. 1845 and Halifax 30 July 1847; M.P. Rochdale 1852–7; introduced resolutions in favour of the disestablishment of Irish church 27 May 1856; contested Tavistock 4 Sep. 1857 and Banbury 9 Feb. 1859; member of royal commission on education June 1858 to 1861; received a testimonial of £5000 and a service of plate after the sixth triennial conference of the Liberation Society 1862; contested Bradford 16 Oct. 1867 and 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Bradford 1869–74; ten thousand guineas were subscribed for him in 1873; lived at Honor Oak near London 1864–81; author of The nonconformist’s sketch-book 1845, 2 ed. 1867; Views of the voluntary principle 1845; The British churches in relation to the British people 1849, 2 ed. 1850; Bases of belief, an examination of Christianity as a divine revelation 1853, 3 ed. 1861; Title deeds of the Church of England to her parochial endowments 1862, 6 ed. 1865; An editor off the line, or wayside musings 1865; The social influences of the state church 1867. d. Greystone lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 29 April 1881. Arthur Miall’s Life of Edward Miall (1884), portrait; J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 208–18; I.L.N. vii 176 (1845) portrait, lxxviii 443 (1881) portrait; Congregationalist, viii 441, portrait.
MICHAEL, James Lionel. Solicitor at Grafton, New South Wales; one of the earliest of Australian poets; author of Songs without music. Sydney 1854; John Cumberland. Sydney 1857, a narrative poem; found drowned in the Clarence river 1868. G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales (1868) 218–20.
MICHAEL, William Henry (1 son of Lewin Michael of Swansea, merchant). b. 6 Sep. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1864, bencher 13 Jany. 1882 to death; Q.C. April 1878; author of The sanitary acts 1867; with J. S. Will The law of gas and water supply 1872, 3 ed. 1884; with W. H. Corfield and J. A. Wanklyn A manual of public health 1874; resided 54 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London. d. Schloss Labers, Meran in the Tyrol 15 Feb. 1892.