MOXON, Edward (son of Michael Moxon). bapt. in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c. author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. d. Putney Heath 3 June 1858. bur. Wimbledon churchyard. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 347–62; Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 229–35 and 257; P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii 46, 458 (1889).
Note.—Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go d.” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 356–92 (1850).
MOXON, Emma (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. d. Cambridge Oct. 1814). b. 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; m. 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. bur. Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 203 portrait; The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter (1870); A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i 341, ii 172, 365 (1888); Law Reports 8, Chancery 881–8 (1873).
MOXON, James Henry Harmar (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). b. Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. d. suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883. Baily’s Mag. xl 415 (1883).
MOXON, Walter (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). b. Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. d. 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic acid. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 July. British medical journal 1886 vol. ii 178, 234, 392, 434.
MOYLAN, Denis. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector general of rates 1870. d. 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.
MOYLE, John Grenfell (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–1828). b. Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board, Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. d. 23 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.
MOYLE, Matthew Paul (2 son of John Moyle). b. Chacewater, Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine 1823. d. Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.
MOYSEY, Charles Abel (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., d. 1831). b. 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. d. Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.
MOZLEY, Anne (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller). b. Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present 1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68, and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley 1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. 1891. d. Derby 27 June 1891. A. Mozley’s Essays from Blackwood (1892) memoir pp. vii–xx; I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p. 3 portrait.