MOSSMAN, John (son of George Mossman, sculptor). b. London 1816 or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6 figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman Macleod. d. Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890.
MOSSMAN, Thomas Wimberley (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman, schoolmaster). b. Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby, Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs. 1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St. Peter by C. A. Lapide, translated 1870; The great commentary of Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various scholars, 5 vols. 1876–86. d. East Torrington rectory 6 July 1885. Biograph vi 342–9 (1881); Church Times 10 July 1885 p. 531, 17 July p. 555; Tablet 18 July 1885 p. 103.
MOSTYN, Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1 Baron (eld. son of Bell Lloyd of Bodfach, co. Montgomery 1729–93). b. 17 Sept. 1768; succeeded his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12; sheriff for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col. commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn co. Flint 10 Sept. 1831. d. Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April 1854.
MOSTYN, Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Mostyn, Holywell, Flintshire 13 Jany. 1795; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 28 Jany. 1813; M.P. Flintshire 1831–7, 1841–2 and 1847–54; M.P. Lichfield 1846–7; assumed the additional surname of Mostyn by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks and the St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840; col. of Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North Wales 1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for £10,000 1846, and transferred it to lord Clifden. d. Mostyn hall, Flintshire 17 March 1884. Baily’s mag. xlii 197 (1884); I.L.N. xliv 237 (1864) portrait.
MOSTYN, Thomas. b. Sligo; admitted attorney and solicitor Jany. 1836; crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to death; grand treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death, his portrait is in masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. d. Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24 Sept.
MOSTYN, Thomas. Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810; surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct. 1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7 Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo; served in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and 1846–7; received the war medals with 8 clasps. d. Alpha house, Fairview, Dublin 6 July 1871.
MOSTYN, Thomas Edward Mostyn-Lloyd (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn 1795–1884). b. Pengwern, St. Asaph 23 Jany. 1830; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1851; M.P. Flintshire 8 May 1854 to death. d. Birling manor, Kent 8 May 1861.
MOTLEY, John Lothrop. b. Dorchester now part of Boston, U.S. of America 15 April 1814; studied at univs. of Harvard, Berlin and Gottingen; United States’ minister at Vienna 1861–7, and in London May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860, LL.D. Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of The rise of the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History of the United Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. d. Kingston Russell near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W. Holmes (1878); Rev. Peter Antons Masters in history (1879) pp. 195–252; Appleton’s American biography iv 438–40 (1888) portrait; Graphic xv 549 (1877) portrait.
MOTT, Charles. Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his report was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble about the Keighley union and was removed from his office; manager of lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South Lancashire poor law district to his death, where he suffered from the defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published Report from the poor law commissioners relative to statements concerning management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838. d. of paralysis 12 May 1851.
MOTTERAM, James (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston, Birmingham, merchant). b. 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to death; Q.C. 28 June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21 (Birmingham, &c.) June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse dau. of Auguste Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list pension of £75 24 May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend, and if so, how far the civil jurisdiction of local courts, read at Social Science Congress 1882; The jurisdiction of local courts, and other pamphlets. d. Maney house near Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.