MORTON, John Drummond. b. Manchester 1830; sec. of National reform union; edited Manchester review 1858; wrote critical and political essays. d. Sale Moor, Manchester 9 Feb. 1871. bur. Salford cemet.
MORTON, John Maddison (2 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ. Paris and Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school, Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov. 1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse 15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22 July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Dec. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. J. M. Morton’s Plays for home performance (1889) memoir pp. ix–xv; Theatre xiv 220–1, 255 (1889) portrait; London Figaro 23 Dec. 1891 p. 7 portrait; Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p. 4 portrait; London Society xlix 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886) portrait.
MORTON, Saville. Educ. at Trin. coll. Camb. 22nd wrangler and B.A. 1834; studied architecture and medicine; attached to staff of Daily News from its commencement 21 Jany. 1846; correspondent at Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Vienna and Berlin successively; was Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser in 1852. Stabbed by Harold Elyott Bower, correspondent of Morning Post, at 22 Rue des Capucins, Paris 1 Oct. 1852. bur. Montmartre cemet. Annual Register (1852) 402–7.
Note.—Bower was jealous of Morton, between whom and Mrs. Bower he found there was undue familiarity. Bower was tried on 27 Dec. for murder, but acquitted, he d. at Paris 8 Dec. 1884, aged 69.
MORTON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Morton, dramatist 1764–1838). b. 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. d. 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemet.
MOSCHELES, Ignatz (son of a cloth merchant). b. Prague, 30 May 1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821, gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public performer on the piano; m. 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841 and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846; lived at 3 Chester place, Regent’s park, London 1830–46; professor of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on the Fall of Paris 1820; Polonaise brilliante 1821; Bonbonnière musicale, a set of pieces for the piano 1822; A collection of German melodies 1826; Fifty preludes, in the major and minor keys, for the piano 1827; Souvenir à la Suisse, on Swiss airs 1833; Domestic life, twelve duets 1867; Etudes pour le piano, finishing lessons revised by E. Pauer 1886. d. Leipzig 10 March 1870. C. E. Moscheles’ Life of Moscheles 2 vols. (1873) portrait; Musical Gem (1832) p. 74 portrait.
MOSELEY, Charles. b. Manchester 27 March 1840; member of firm of D. Moseley and sons, Chapelfield works; chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire telephone co.; a director of the Edison electric light co.; a promoter of the Manchester ship canal 1882, and of the Manchester royal jubilee exhibition opened 3 May 1887. d. Grangethorpe, Rusholme, Manchester 1 Oct. 1887. bur. Southern cemet. 5 Oct. The Manchester Guardian 3 Oct. 1887 p. 5, and 9 Oct. p. 5.
MOSELEY, Edwin Charles. b. 1812; editor and proprietor of Nassau Guardian 40 years. d. Nassau, New Providence, Bahama islands 29 May 1885.
MOSELEY, Henry (son of Wm. Willis Moseley, schoolmaster at Newcastle-under-Lyne). b. 9 July 1801; ed. at Newcastle, at Abbeville, France, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; 7th wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1836, LL.D. 1870; C. of West Monkton near Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy and astronomy at King’s college, London 20 Jany. 1831 to 12 Jany. 1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1839; author of A treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed. 1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture 1843, 2 ed. 1855; Astro-theology 2 ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1860; and of about 35 papers on natural philosophy. d., Olveston near Bristol 20 Jany. 1872. Trans. of Instit. of naval architects xiii 328–30 (1872); I.L.N. lx 90 (1872).
MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (son of the preceding). b. St. Ann’s Hill, Wandsworth, London 14 Nov. 1844; ed. at Harrow 1858 etc. and Exeter coll. Oxf. 1864; first class in natural science 1868; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1869; studied at Vienna 1869 and Leipsic 1871; a medical student at Univ. coll. London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon 1871–2; one of the naturalists in the Challenger expedition round the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain lands in California and Oregon 1877; F.R.S. 7 June 1877, member of council, Croonian lecturer 1878, royal medallist 1887; assistant registrar to univ. of London 26 March 1879 to 1881; Linacre professor of human and comparative anatomy at Oxford 25 Nov. 1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881; with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of microscopical science vol. 23 etc. 1852 etc.; author of Oregon, its resources, climate and people 1878; On the structure of the Stylasteridæ, Croonian lecture 1878; Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger 1879, 2 ed. 1892; fell ill in 1887 and never recovered. d. Firwood Clevedon, Somerset 10 Nov. 1891. H. N. Moseley’s Notes by a naturalist 2 ed. (1892) memoir v–xvi and portrait; Biograph vi 387–90 (1881); Graphic 21 Nov. 1891 p. 599 portrait; I.L.N. 28 Nov. 1891 p. 694 portrait.