MOULTRIE, Gerard (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the succeeding). b. Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and chaplain at Shrewsbury school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of Brinfield, Berks 1860; chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney, Bristol 1864–9; V. of Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden of St. James’s college, Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The primer set forth at large for the use of the faithful in family and private prayer 1864; author of Hymns and lyrics for the seasons and saints’ days of the church 1867; The espousals of St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. d. St. James’s college, Southleigh 25 April 1885. Church Times 1 May 1885 p. 345; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 771–2.
MOULTRIE, John (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire). b. 31 Great Portland st. London, the residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19, where he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian 1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby 10 June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to reside 1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3 ed. 1852; The dream of life, lays of the English church and other poems 1843; The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4 ed. 1851; St. Mary, the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths, and graves 1854; wrote many hymns, most of which are in B. H. Kennedy’s Hymnologia Christiana 1863. d. Rugby rectory 26 Dec. 1874. bur. in parish church, to which an aisle was added in his memory. John Moultrie’s Poems, 2 vols. (1876) memoir by rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp. v–lxxxiv; Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians (1876) 620–4; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 772.
MOUNSEY, Augustus Henry. Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover 1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2 sec. and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June 1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul general at Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris 14 Sept. 1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at Athens 22 July 1878; minister resident and consul general at Bogota 26 April 1881; author of A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia 1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an episode of Japanese history 1879. d. Bogota, Colombia 10 April 1882. Foreign Office List 1882 p. 151.
MOUNTAIN, Armine Simcoe Henry (5 son of Jacob Mountain 1749–1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). b. Quebec 4 Feb. 1797; ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec. 1818; travelled in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy 1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24 April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May 1825; brevet major 30 Dec. 1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828, lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8 March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot 8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850; military secretary on staff of sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March 1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4; deputy adjutant general to the land forces sent from India to China during the war 1840–2, and was present at all the chief engagements; A.D.C. to the queen June 1845; military secretary to lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded a brigade in the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla and Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian, Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. d. Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain, edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain (1857) portrait.
MOUNTAIN, George Jehoshaphat (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. d. Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain (1866) portrait; F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada (1870) 131–86 portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 447–8 (1888) portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis (1867) 284–7; I.L.N. xli 576, 587 (1862) portrait.
MOUNTAIN, Jacob George (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). b. 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. bur. St. John’s cemetery. Lives of missionaries, North America (1864) 206–52.
MOUNTAIN, Jacob Henry Brooke (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). b. Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. d. Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p. 1324.
MOUNT CASHELL, Stephen Moore, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). b. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. d. Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 405 (1883) portrait.
MOUNT EDGCUMBE, Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b. Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Countess.
MOUNTFORD, William. b. Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. d. Boston, Massachusetts 20 April 1885.