MUGGERIDGE, Sir Henry (son of Robert Muggeridge). b. Banstead, Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London; common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855, after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London 1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. d. West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.
MUIR, Emily Margaret (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist). Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre, London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept. 1879. d. Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.
MUIR, James (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). b. Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London 1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer 1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi 323–6 (1889).
MUIR, John. b. Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft, Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God 1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851; Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown court, London 1856. d. Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. Our Scottish clergy, by J. Smith (1848) 45–56; Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 31 (1868).
MUIR, John (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad 1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur, Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death; chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm. Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India, 5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from Sanskrit writers 1879. d. 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7 March 1882. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 103–4; I.L.N. lxxx 352 (1882) portrait.
MUIR, Matthew Andrew. b. Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production much cheaper. d. Glasgow Jany. 1880.
MUIR, Matthew Arnold. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames; owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891, which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. d. 25 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.
MUIR, William (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D., 1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow 1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17 May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage; dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit 1842; Metrical meditations 1870. d. Ormelie, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 23 June 1869. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 75–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 22–5 (1872).
MUIR, William (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). b. Catrine, Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67, his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of temperance. d. Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery. R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir (1888).
MUIR, Sir William Mure (son of Walter Boyd Muir). b. Edinburgh 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854, inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny 1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885. Medical Times and Gazette i 800 (1885).