Chaise cemetery Aug., her remains and monument were removed to
Mont Parnasse cemetery 21 April 1869. _A. I. Menken’s Infelicia_
(1888), _memoir and portrait_; _Les Pirates de la Savane. Par
Bourgeois et Dugué. Paris_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 1–14; _T. A.
Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 243, _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old
Drury Lane_, _ii_ 251–3 (1881); _The Age_, _ii_ 369 (1864),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _i_ 44 (1862) _portrait_,
_iv_ 569 (1865), _portrait_.
MENZIES, ALLAN (son of Wm. Menzies, minister of Lanark). _b._
1805; a writer to the signet 17 Dec. 1829; clerk to the comrs.
of the signet in management of the Dick bequest of £120,000
for parochial schoolmasters about 1830 to death; professor of
conveyancing in univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1847 to death; author
of Report to the trustees of the bequest of the late J. Dick
esq. 1835; Conveyancing according to the law of Scotland 1856, 3
ed. 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1856.
MENZIES, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 24 Nov. 1822; ed. Glasgow high
sch.; served in a woollen warehouse to 1846; partner with Thomas
Mitchell, carriage hirer and undertaker 1846–51; started a
line of Glasgow city omnibuses 1848, ultimately in 1872 he had
50 omnibuses, each drawn by 3 horses, and starting every two
minutes and a half, with a stud of 500 horses; managing director
of Glasgow tramway co., which purchased his omnibuses and horses
1872; chairman of Barony parochial board 1869–73. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1873. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 223–8 (1886),
_portrait_.
MENZIES, SIR CHARLES (son of Charles Menzies, captain 71 foot).
_b._ Bal Freike, Perthshire 1783; ed. at Stirling; 2 lieut.
R.M. 17 Feb. 1798, lost his right arm; commanded royal marine
artillery 1838–44; col. commandant R.M. 17 Aug. 1848; aide de
camp to the Queen 20 Nov. 1851 to 28 March 1863; colonel R.M.A.
28 March 1863 to death; general 1 July 1857; K.C.B. 19 April
1865; K.H. 4 Sep. 1831; K.T.S. _d._ East hill house, Hastings 22
Aug. 1866.
MENZIES, JOHN. _b._ 1808; ed. at high sch. Edinburgh;
apprenticed to a bookseller; employed by Charles Tilt of Fleet
st. London; bookseller and publisher in Prince’s st. Edinburgh
1833, removed to 2 South Hanover st. Edinb., and then to
number 12 in the same street; established a branch business in
Glasgow; published Menzies’ Pocket guide to Edinburgh 1852;
Pocket guide to the Trosachs 1852; and Tourists’ pocket guide to
Scotland 1852. _d._ 3 Grosvenor crescent, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1879.
_Publishers’ Circular_ (1879) 1306; _Bookseller_, _Jany. 1880
p._ 7.
MENZIES, ROBERT STEWART (elder son of Graham Menzies of
Hallyburton house, co. Forfar). _b._ 1856; ed. at Harrow and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1879; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1882; M.P. East
Perthshire, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor
sq. London 25 Jany. 1889.
MENZIES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Mr. Menzies of Kincardine on
Forth, agent upon lady Keith’s estate). _b._ Kincardine on Forth
1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; articled to a civil engineer and
surveyor in Scotland; deputy surveyor of Windsor forest and
parks 1849 to death; captain of the Windsor park volunteers 21
Jany. 1874 to death; author of The history of Windsor great park
and Windsor forest 1864; A treatise on the sanitary management
and utilisation of sewage 1865; Additional statement on drainage
of towns 1865; The present state of the drainage question
considered 1866; Suggestions for the improvement of labourers’
cottages and of villages 1869. _d._ Windsor great park 3 May