270; _Sussex Daily News 9 Jany. 1884_.
MERRIFIELD, JOHN. _b._ Peter Tavy near Tavistock 24 Aug. 1834;
schoolmaster at Mary Tavy; founder of a navigation school
Gascoyne place, Plymouth 1860, head master to his death; Ph.D.
1870; member of Plymouth school board 1880 to death; discovered
a method of clearing the lunar distance in finding the longitude
at sea; invented an artificial horizon for use at sea; author
of Magnetism and deviation of the compass 1872; A treatise on
navigation for the use of students 1883; A treatise on nautical
astronomy 1886; and with Henry Evers, Navigation and nautical
astronomy 1868. _d._ 7 Hobart terrace, Plymouth 27 June 1891.
_bur._ Dolvin cemetery, Tavistock 30 June. _The Western Morning
News 29 June 1891 p._ 5, _1 July p._ 3.
MERRIFIELD, MRS. MARY PHILADELPHIA. Granted civil list pension
of £100, 2 May 1857, in consideration of the valuable services
she had rendered to literature and art; translated C. Cennini’s
A treatise on painting 1844; author of The art of fresco
painting. Brighton 1846; Original treatises on the arts of
painting in oil, miniature, mosaic and on glass, of gilding,
dyeing and preparation of colours and artificial gems 2 vols.
1849; Practical directions for portrait painting in water
colours 1851; Dress as a fine art 1854; Handbook of light and
shade with reference to model drawing 1855; Brighton past and
present, a handbook 1857; A sketch of the natural history of
Brighton 1864. _m._ John Merrifield of Tavistock, called to bar
at M.T. 16 May 1828. _d._ Brighton 1 May 1877 aged 88.
MERRIMAN, NATHANIEL JAMES (3 son of Thomas Merriman of
Marlborough). _b._ 1810; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; V. of Street, Somerset 1847–8;
archdeacon of Grahamstown, South Africa 1847–68, the success of
mission work among the natives was largely due to his exertions;
one of the accusers at the trial of bishop J. W. Colenso 1863;
dean of Capetown 1868–71; bishop of Grahamstown 1871 to death,
consecrated 5 Dec. 1871; excommunicated Frederick Henry Williams
dean of Grahamstown 1880; author of The Kaffir, the Hottentot
and the frontier farmer 1854; The bishop’s ride through
Independent Kaffraria to Natal and back 1872. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 16 Aug. 1882.
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL (son of Benjamin Merriman, brewer). _b._
Marlborough 25 Oct. 1771; studied medicine in London from
1784, M.S.A. 1800; partner with Mr. Peregrine in London 1807;
hon. M.D. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1808; phys. accoucheur to
Westminster general dispensary 1808–15; phys. accoucheur to
Middlesex hospital 17 Aug. 1809 to 7 March 1826; lectured on
midwifery 1810–25; practised at 34 Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
1822 to death; treasurer of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1837;
examiner to the Apothecaries’ Society 1831–8, one of the court
of assistants 1838; author of Dissertation on the retroversion
of the womb 1810; A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult
parturition 1814, 4 ed. 1826, translated into Italian, German
and French; The validity of Thoughts on medical reform 1833.
_d._ 34 Brook st. London 22 Nov. 1852. _Lives of British
physicians_ (1857) 342–59; _Lancet 30 Nov. 1850 pp._ 610–5, 682,
_portrait_, _27 Nov. 1852 p._ 498; _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 207–9;
_Medical Circular_, _i_ 462 (1852).
MERRIMAN, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN (only son of the preceding).
_b._ 22 Oct. 1814; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.B.
1836, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1840; physician to Western
general dispensary and then physician accoucheur; retired to
Sandown 1862; author of Arguments against the indiscriminate use
of chloroform in midwifery 1848; resided 34 Brook st. London.
_d._ Marlborough house, Sandown, Isle of Wight 20 Feb. 1873.
_Medical Times 1 March 1873 p._ 238; _Proc. of Med. and Chir.
soc. vii_ 228 (1875).
MERRITT, HENRY (5 child of Joseph Merritt, tailor). _b._
Oxford 8 June 1822; ed. at Blue coat school 1833–8; sang the
alto and the solo parts in the choir of Carfax church 1833;
apprentice to a carver and gilder 1838, a journeyman gilder
1844; a freed man of the city of Oxford; walked to London 1846
where he lived in much poverty working at his trade to 1850;
employed by Joseph Parrinton to repair pictures 1851; wrote in
The Reasoner under pseudonym of Christopher; published in The
Leader 8 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1853 ten chapters on the Works of
the old masters, their ruin and renovation; contributed to the
Athenæum and the Empire; employed by sir Charles Eastlake on the
restoration of the pictures in the National Gallery; wrote art
notices for the Morning Star for £25 a year 1855; restored the
paintings at Hampton court, and the battle scenes found under
the coats of house paint on the staircases at Marlborough house;
restored the portrait of Richard II. belonging to Westminster
abbey 1865; wrote art notices for The Standard 1865 to death;
lived with G. J. Holyoake at Dymoke lodge, Oval road, Regent’s
park 1847 and at 1 Woburn buildings to 1866; author of Dirt
and pictures separated in the works of the old masters 1854;
Robert Dalby and his world of troubles 1865, anon., being his
own autobiography; _m._ April 1877 at St. Pancras ch. Anna M.
Lea a painter of domestic subjects, who exhibited 10 pictures
at R.A. 1871–6 and 5 more in her married name 1878–80. _d._
54 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 10 July 1877. _bur._
Brompton cemet. body removed to Woking. _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty
years of an agitator’s life_, _ii_ 232–47 (1892); _H. Merritt,
art, criticism, and romance_ 2 _vols._ (1879), _recollections_,
_i_ 1–65, _portrait_; _The Times 14 July 1877 p._ 13; _L’ Art.
Paris 4 April 1880 pp._ 1–8.
MERRY, JAMES (son of James Merry, merchant Glasgow). _b._ New
Monkland, Lanarkshire 1805; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ironmaster
in partnership with Mr. Cunningham in counties of Ayr and
Lanark; kept a large number of game cocks and continually had
cock fights; contested Glasgow 6 March 1857; M.P. Falkirks
burghs, Stirlingshire 1 April 1857 but unseated on petition
July 1857; M.P. Falkirk burghs 3 May 1859 to 1874; commenced
racing at Stirling 1838; kept his horses with George Dawson at
Gullane 1842; with Chanticleer won 14 races in 1848; purchased
Hobbie Noble for 6500 guineas 1852; won Two thousand guineas
with Lord of the Isles 1855 and Macgregor 1870; won the St.
Leger with Sunbeam 1855 and with Marie Stewart 1873; the Derby
with Thormanby 1860 and with Doncaster 1873; the Ascot cup with
Thormanby 1861; and the Oaks and St. Leger with Marie Stewart
1873; retired from the turf 1875; sold Doncaster for 14,000
guineas, the largest price ever given for a racehorse; purchased
lord John Scott’s stud 1857; won £46,000 on the Derby of 1860.
_d._ 68 Eaton sq. London 3 Feb. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news_, _vi_ 512, 518–19 (1877), _portrait_; _Rice’s History of
the British turf_, _ii_ 332–38 (1879); _Illust. sporting news_,
_iv_ 369 (1865), _portrait_; _Henry Corbet’s Tales of sporting
life_ (1864) 13–25; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 357–63 (1861), _portrait_;
_W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed._ (1886) 301–25; _Thormanby’s
Famous Racing Men_ (1882) _pp._ 100–107, _portrait_.
MERRYWEATHER, MOSES. _b._ 1791; apprenticed to Hadley, Simpkin
and Lott, fire engine makers, Longacre, London 1807, assistant
1822, became sole proprietor of the business 1832; introduced
his famous London brigade manual engine shown at Great
Exhibition 1851, this machine had patent metal valves and was
called the Paxton; opened works in York road, Lambeth, where he
built steam fire engines 1859; the house in Longacre was rebuilt
1873 and in 1876 the present works in Greenwich road, Greenwich,
covering about three acres were acquired, _d._ Clapham house,
Clapham Common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1872. _London Figaro 7 June 1894
pp._ 14–16; _Times 5 Oct. 1872 p._ 6.
MERRYWEATHER, RICHARD MOSES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
Longacre, London 1839; partner with his father 1859; invented
with Edward Field ‘Field’s boiler’ which he applied to the steam
fire engine. _d._ Clapham house, Surrey, June 1877.
MERYON, CHARLES LEWIS (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Sussex). _b._
Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802;
Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806,
M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s
hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily
and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow
1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heathcote 1822–7; attended
on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec.
1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in
London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope
as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3
vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with
portrait of author. _d._ The Grove, Hammersmith, London 11 Sep.