Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609,
610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26,
_portrait_.
MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay
1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill,
city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper
Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London
1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the
queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent
Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843)
_portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871).
MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of
the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864
a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode
of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this
picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and
potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in
hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2
portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from
want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg.
and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869).
MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth
house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.;
partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China
merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested
Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6,
contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first
president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman
of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder
of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a
collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art.
_d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.
MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham;
founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus,
the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery,
Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30
Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany.
1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4.
MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras
army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of
hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical
service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860.
MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone
1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to
lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822;
L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24
June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence
of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4
Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug.
1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth
12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church.
_Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878).
MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790;
C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the
government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co.
Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto;
R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14
June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851).
MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the
Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it
many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan
1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a
Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863
and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of
St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions
1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX
1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in
America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided
at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872.
_bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455
(1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_.
MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._
Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847,
M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork
1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute
1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London,
July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857
to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R.
of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884;
author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The
discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R.
Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of
the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman
in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica
1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing
room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881)
71–6.
MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin
24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to
death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11
June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor
of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek
and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral
philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic
idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides
with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton
place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange
cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted
civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb.
1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6.
MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow
1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov.
1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec.
1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct.
1881.
MAHER, JAMES. _b._ Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow
coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte
Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822;
parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and
Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare
1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of
theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of
Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. _d._
Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath.
200 priests were present. _bur._ Carlow Graigue. _Comerford’s
Collections of Kildare_ (1883) 177–8; _Letters of Father Maher_
(1877).
MAHER, JOHN. _b._ 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41;
sheriff of Wexford 1853. _d._ 28 May 1860.
MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) _b._
Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates
of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. _d._ Turtulla near Thurles
18 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p._ 411.
MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding).
_b._ Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869;
M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872;
resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873;
medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875;
medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881;
M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author
of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British
medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph
and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. _d._ of
enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 745,
763 (1884); _Guy’s Hospital Reports_ (1886) 1–10.
MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. _b._ Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon
in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784;
learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at
Cork with an Irish girl, she _d._ about Dec. 1850; carried on a
vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death;
author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the
Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2
ed. 1826, portrait. _d._ 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851.
Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed
kept a fencing academy. _The travels of Deen Mahomed_ 2 _vols._
_Cork_ (1794); _Willis’s Current notes_ (1852) 23; _G.M. xxxv_
444 (1851).
MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son
of Patrick Mahon _d._ 1821). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 17 March
1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of
the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated
for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called
to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and
South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the
Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with
the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China
and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general
under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded
a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army
of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war;
colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with
Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took
part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.
Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with
Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June