MOREL, John James. b. Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to 1848. d. Holly Walk, Hampstead 1 May 1852. F. E. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 95–6 portrait.
MOREL, Victor. A cabinet maker in France; came to England about 1849; had a knowledge of the bitumen process of electrotyping, which consisted in producing stereo plates by means of shell and sand, and making them type high by mounting them on arched metal blocks; engaged by James Vizetelly, engraver Peterborough court, London 1849, the bitumen process was discarded owing to the difficulty of repairing the plates; employed by Cassell, Petter and Galpin to erect an electrotyping foundry, where wax was first used for moulding purposes; made many improvements in electrotyping; established a business at 48 Fetter lane, London, sold his business to Dellagana and co. 1875 and retired to the continent. d. Malines, Belgium 9 Feb. 1889.
MORELAND, Joseph. b. 1809 or 1810; a builder at 76 Old st. St. Luke’s, London; member for St. Luke’s of the Metropolitan board of works 1856 to death. d. 4 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 11 July 1875.
MORELL, John Daniel (9 child of Stephen Morell 1773–1852 congregational minister). b. Little Baddow manse, Essex 18 June 1816; ed. at Homerton college 1833–38 and Glasgow univ., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1841; studied under Fichte at Bonn 1841–2; congregational minister at Gosport Aug. 1842 to 1845; an inspector of schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1876, the first inspector appointed; edited The School Magazine 1876; author of An historical and critical view of the speculative philosophy of Europe in the nineteenth century 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1847; The analysis of sentences 1852, 9 ed. 1858; Handbook of logic 1855, 2 ed. 1857; A grammar of the English language 1857; Philosophical fragments 1878, and 20 other books. d. Clevelands, Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 1 April 1891. bur. Folkestone 4 April. R. M. Theobald’s Memorials of J. D. Morell (1891) 3 portraits; I.L.N. 4 April 1891 p. 435 portrait; Black and White 11 April 1891 p. 322 portrait.
MORELLI, Charles Francis. b. 26 Nov. 1800; boy in Sadler’s Wells pantomimes with Joe Grimaldi; played the monkey in ballet drama of La Perouse at Covent Garden 11 Sept. 1811; acted in the provinces; actor, pantomimist and scene painter under G. B. Davidge at Surrey theatre 1833; with Madame Vestris at Covent Garden 1839–42; with Daniel W. Osbaldiston at Victoria theatre 1844; actor and scene painter with Nelson Lee at City of London theatre many years; a subscriber to general theatrical fund 1839–60, one of the directors, an annuitant Aug. 1865 to death. d. London 9 July 1882. bur. Abney park cemetery.
MORESBY, Sir Fairfax (son of Fairfax Moresby of Lichfield). b. Calcutta 1787; entered navy 21 Dec. 1799; commander of the Wizard brig 18 April 1811; served at siege of Trieste Oct. 1813; Knight of order of Maria Theresa 23 May 1814; captain 7 June 1814; organized the colony of Algoa Bay 1820; commanded the Pembroke in the Mediterranean 1837–40, and the Canopus on the home station 1845–8; R.A. 20 Dec. 1849; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 21 Aug. 1850 to 17 Aug. 1853; V.A. 12 Nov. 1856, admiral 12 April 1862, admiral of the fleet 21 Jany. 1870; D.C.L. Oxford 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Bronwylfa near Exmouth 21 Jany. 1877.
MORGAN, Aaron Augustus. b. 6 March 1822; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew univ. scholar 1847; R. of Bradley, Lincs. 1846–55; chaplain to army works corps in Crimea 1855–6; P.C. of St. John the Evangelist, Brighton 1862–79; V. of Casterton Magna, Rutland 1879–83; V. of Grosmont, Monmouth 1882–4; member of Brighton school board 21 Dec. 1871; author of The book of Ecclesiastes metrically paraphrased 1856; The mind of Shakspere as exhibited in his works 1860, 4 ed. 1880. d. Tivoli near Rome 17 Sep. 1888.
MORGAN, Alice Mary (3 dau. of Thomas Havers of Thelton hall, Norfolk, manager of the Falkland Islands, d. 1870). b. 1850; entered school of art South Kensington 1870, gained a free studentship; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1873–80; removed to Paris 1888, where she exhibited two pictures at the Salon 1889; illustrated some of the stories written by her sister Dora Boulger otherwise Theo Gift 1875–90; she also illustrated A book of modern ballads 1892; A book of old ballads 1892; Some old love songs 1892; Odatis, a poem by Lewis Morris 1892; Love and sleep by L. Morris 1893. m. April 1872 Frederick Morgan, an artist, but she was always known as Alice Havers. d. 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26 Aug. 1890.
MORGAN, Arthur (son of Wm. Morgan, actuary of The Equitable 1750–1833), actuary of The Equitable society 2 Dec. 1830, resigned 3 March 1870; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited W. Morgan’s A view of the rise of the Equitable society 1834; author of Equitable society, three addresses 1854. d. 26 New Bridge st. London 10 March 1870. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii 630 (1873).
MORGAN, Charles Augustus Samuel (brother of 1 Baron Tredegar 1792–1875). b. 2 Sep. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 29 April 1829 to death; R. of Machen, co. Monmouth 1831–73; chancellor of Llandaff cathedral 1851 to death. d. Machen 5 Sep. 1875.