MOUNTMORRES, Hervey De Montmorency 4 Viscount (only son of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–1833). b. Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. d. The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 115 (1872).
MOUNTMORRES, William Browne De Montmorency, 5 Viscount (1 son of the preceding). b. Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany. 1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. murdered with 6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880. bur. Monkstown. Graphic xxii 356 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 361 (1880) portrait.
MOUNTSOY, Antoine. b. Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p. 14 portrait.
MOUNT TEMPLE, William Francis Cowper Temple, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. d. Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct. (1888); I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp. 481, 482 portrait.
MOUTRIE, William Francis Collard. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. d. 1869.
MOWAT, John Lancaster Gough (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, d. 1881). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. hung himself at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. The Times 9 Aug. 1894.
MOWATT, Alexander Murray. b. 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. d. Liverpool 21 June 1869. Newspaper Press iii 181 (1869).
MOWATT, Anna Cora (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, d. 1860). b. Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; m. 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and d. Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she m. (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who d. 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. Howitt’s Journal iii 146, 167, 181 portrait; Ireland’s New York stage ii, 437–8, 729 (1867); Tallis’ Drawing room table book 1851, Part 2 pp. 9–11 two portraits; Theatrical Times iii 162, 169 (1848) portrait; A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress (1854) portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 450 (1888) portrait.
MOWBRAY, Alfred Joseph Stourton, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). b. 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. d. Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.
MOWBRAY, Alfred Richard. b. Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. d. 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. bur. Holywell cemet. Guide to the church congress (1883) 51.