MORAN, John Henry (3 son of Francis Goldsberry Moran, of Kilmore Moy, co. Sligo). b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1830; chaplain H.M. prison, Portland; chaplain Female convict prison, Brixton April 1853–66; V. of St. Thomas, liberty of the rolls, London 1866–86; chaplain National hospital for paralysed, Queen sq. London 1880 to death; author of The doctrine and order of the church of England, proved to be in harmony with the teaching of the Apostles, 2 ed. 1849. d. 98a Southampton row, Holborn, London 12 May, 1892. bur. Tooting churchyard.
MORANT, Alfred William (eld. son of George Morant of London, decorator). b. 17 May 1828; articled to James Simpson, C.E. 1845–50; surveyor to corporation of Great Yarmouth 14 Feb. 1856 to Nov. 1864; engineer to city of Norwich March 1865 to Dec. 1872; borough engineer and surveyor of Leeds Dec. 1872 to death; A.I.C.E. 7 Nov. 1854, M.I.C.E. 29 Jan. 1878; president of Association of municipal and sanitary engineers and surveyors 1880; edited J. W. Papworth’s Alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms from p. 696 (1874) and T. D. Whitaker’s History of the deanery of Craven 1878; author of Sectional view of a first rate line of battleship 1854; Description of the Leeds sewage works 1876. d. Leeds 28 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvi 377–9 (1881)].
MORANT, Horatio Harbord (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro Place, Hants.) b. 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844, lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to 29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand 1864–6. d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.
MORANT, James Law Lushington. b. 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864 to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast 1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian engineering papers, published at Roorkee. d. Melbourne, Australia 17 June 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 370–4 (1886).
MORE, John Shank (son of rev. George Moore secession minister South Shields). b. Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar 1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843 to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland, 2 vols. 1864. d. 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 66–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv 492–6 (1862).
MORE-O’ FARRALL, John Lewis (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of Balyna, co. Kildare d. 1835 aged 83). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827; comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. d. Granite hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. Law Times lxx 233 (1881).
MOREAU, César. b. Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain 1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. d. Paris 28 Nov. 1861.
MOREHEAD, Charles (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of Easington Yorkshire). b. Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb. univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862; surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life of Robert Morehead 1875. d. Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug. 1882.
MOREHEAD, William Ambrose (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82). b. 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council 1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras; an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two years. d. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. bur. Dean cemetery, Edinb. portrait in Madras banqueting hall. Memorials of Robert Morehead (1875) 402–4.
MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R. Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York. Huddersfield 1861. d. Jany. 1891. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries xiii 318 (1889–91).