MUTRIE, Martha Darley (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled at Manchester in the cotton trade). b. Ardwick, Manchester 26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. d. 36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p. 75.
MUTTLEBURY, George. b. 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795, captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.
MYBURGH, Philip Albert (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of Cape of Good Hope civil service, d. 21 Jany. 1868). b. 24 Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London 1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886 to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty court, London. d. 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.
MYCROFT, William. b. Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb. 1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3; first played at Lord’s in All England v. the United South 22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G. Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in the Players v. Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877; engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. d. Derby 19 June 1894. Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii 823 (1880).
MYERS, Arthur Thomas (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of Keswick, Cumberland). b. 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887 to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. d. from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq. London 10 Jany. 1894.
MYERS, Frederick (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) b. Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829, Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s, Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in 1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge, Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. d. Clifton 20 July 1851. bur. Keswick churchyard 26 July. The life of Wm. Whewell, By Mrs. Stair Douglas (1881) passim.
MYERS, James Washington. b. Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons 1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses; proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T. Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus 17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris; his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876; opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s circus to death. d. Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. Era 21 Oct. 1882 p. 7, cols. 3–4; Graphic xxvi 501 (1882); Illust. Sp. and Dr. news xviii 145 (1882).
MYERS, William. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C. Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey; was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey. d. Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers, professionally known as Kate Maynard.
MYERS, William. b. Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked 300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in 30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500 hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34 miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10 a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds; beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday 1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose hill, London. Illust. sporting news (1862) 45 portrait.
MYLES, James. b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.