MORGAN, William Vaughan. b. Glasbury Breconshire 1826; captain 3 Middlesex infantry militia 27 Aug. 1868; a familiar figure in society; a supporter of the London homœopathic hospital, Great Ormond st. 1858, a director 1866, treasurer 1875, chairman 1885, and a munificent donor to its funds; established the Homœopathic convalescent home at Eastbourne 1888; offered St. George’s hospital £1000 a year for five years for a fair trial of homœopathy in the wards; took part in the discussion in The Times on homœopathy; resided 5 The Boltons, South Kensington. d. Grasse, France Feb. 1892. bur. Cannes.
MORGAN, William Wray, printer 67 Barbican, London; founder, proprietor and editor of the Freemason’s chronicle Jany. 1875. d. New Barnett, Herts. 23 June 1893.
MORI, Francis or Frank (son of Nicolas Mori, violinist 1797–1839). b. 1820; professor of singing at the Crystal palace, Sydenham to death; composer of Despair, nocturne for the P. Forte 1846; Who shall be fairest, a ballad 1857; Twelve songs for voice and piano 1861; The river sprite, a comic opera, written by G. Linley 1865, produced at Covent Garden 9 Feb. 1865; F. Mori’s New songs 1865, nine numbers; The vintager’s evening song, a quartett, in Cramer’s Glees 1874 No. 47; and upwards of 90 other pieces of music 1843–74. d. Chamant near Senlis, France 2 Aug. 1873.
MORIARTY, David (son of David Moriarty). b. Derryvrin, parish of Kilcarah, co. Kerry 18 Aug. 1814; ed. at Maynooth; vice-rector of and professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college at Paris 1839–45; rector of Foreign missionary college of Allhallows, Drumcondra, Dublin 1845–54, president on death of the founder Rev. John Hand; coadjutor bishop of Kerry 8 March 1854, bishop of Kerry 22 July 1856 to death, consecrated in pro-cathedral, Dublin 25 April 1854; many of his pastoral letters and sermons attracted much attention; denounced the Fenian brotherhood and opposed home rule. d. the palace, Killarney 1 Oct. 1877. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 63, 375 (1876); Graphic xvi 372 (1877) portrait.
MORIARTY, Edward Aubrey (son of Christopher Moriarty of Wellington lodge, co. Dublin). b. Cappagh house, Galway 1819; ed. at private sch. Dublin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; studied in Germany 1839–46; professor of English literature, Royal academy of trade, Berlin 1843–6; translated serial works of Charles Dickens into German 1852; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; contributed to Edinburgh review; director general of Cologne and Frankfort railway; author with J.D.F. Neigebaur of London ein handbuch für Reisende 1843. d. 3 Hare court, Inner Temple, London 13 July 1874. bur. Catholic cemetery, Kensal green 16 July. Law Times lvii 275–76 (1874).
MORICE, David Robert (eld. son of Robert Morice of Aberdeen, advocate). b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; admitted member of Society of advocates in Aberdeen 1837; legal assessor to town council of Aberdeen 1866; provost of Old Aberdeen; member of council of procurators, vice president 1872; published A handbook of British maritime law 1857. d. Old Aberdeen 27 March 1876. bur. Wellfield cemetery, Aberdeen. Law Times lx 439 (1876).
MORIER, David Richard (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). b. Smyrna 8 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mission sent by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took entire charge of the mission May 1807; attached to Robert Adair’s embassy 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office 5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederated states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847; author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3 vols. 1857. d. 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.
MORIER, John Philip (brother of the preceding). b. Smyrna 9 Nov. 1776; attached to embassy at Constantinople 5 April 1799; despatched on special service to Egypt 22 Dec. 1799; consul general in Albania 3 Dec. 1803; secretary of legation at Washington 5 April 1810; a comr. in Spanish America Oct. 1811; acting under secretary of state for foreign affairs in London Aug. 1815 to 1816; envoy extraordinary to court of Saxony at Dresden 5 Feb. 1816, retired on pension 5 Jany. 1825; author of Memoir of a campaign with the Ottoman army in Egypt 1801. d. London 20 Aug. 1853.
MORIER. Sir Robert Burnett David (only son of David Richard Morier 1784–1877). b. Paris 31 March 1826; ed at Balliol coll. Oxf. B.A. 1849; a clerk in the education department Jany. 1851 to Oct. 1852; unpaid attaché at Vienna 5 Sept. 1853; paid attaché at Berlin 20 Feb. 1858; second secretary at Vienna 1 Oct. 1862, British comr. for arrangement of tariff 1 March 1865; secretary of legation at Athens 10 Sept. 1865 and at Frankfort 30 Dec. 1865; secretary of legation at Darmstadt 1866–71; chargé d’affaires at Stuttgart 18 July 1871, transferred to Munich 30 Jany. 1872; minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 1 March 1876, transferred to Madrid 22 June 1881; ambassador at St. Petersburg 1 Dec. 1884 to death; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866, K.C.B. 16 Oct. 1882, G.C.B. 30 Sept. 1887; P.C. 27 Jany. 1885; G.C.M.G. 13 Feb. 1886; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1889; hon. LL.D. Edinb.; published in the Cobden Club series, Agrarian legislation of Prussia 1870, and Local government in Germany, England and Prussia 1875. d. Montreux, Lake of Geneva 16 Nov. 1893. Black and White 25 Nov. 1893 p. 663 portrait; Daily Graphic 31 Dec. 1891 p. 9 portrait; I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1893 p. 659 portrait.
Note.—His only son Victor Morier, traveller, died at sea 27 May 1892 aged 25, when proceeding to take up his duties in Manicaland as assistant civil comr. to the Anglo-Portuguese delimitation commission.