NOTE.--By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narcisse
Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon _b._ Paris 23 Nov.
1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and
etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was
_bur._ in the cemetery of Charenton Saint-Maurice. _F. S. Ellis’
Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion_ (1880);
_Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine
Arts club_ (1879); _Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By
Philip Burty_ (1879).
MERYON, EDWARD. _b._ 1809; ed. univ. of London, M.D. 1844;
M.R.C.S. 1831; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician to
hospital for diseases of nervous system; lecturer on comparative
anatomy St. Thomas’ hospital; author of The physical and
intellectual constitution of man considered 1836; The history
of medicine 1861, volume one only; Practical and pathological
researches on paralysis 1864; On the functions of the
sympathetic system of nerves 1872. _d._ 14 Clarges st. Mayfair,
London 8 Nov. 1880.
MESSITER, EDWARD. _b._ 1804; entered Madras army 1819; lieut.
39 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 7 June 1830, major 8 Dec.
1840 to 7 Sep. 1846; lieut.-col. of 45 N.I. 7 Sep. 1846 to 1848,
of 51 N.I. 1848–54 and of 44 N.I. 1854–8; commandant at Jaulnah
14 March 1856 to 1857; commandant at Thayat Mew 1857–8; col.
of 51 N.I. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1869; general 8 Feb. 1877. _d._ 19
Queenborough terrace, Kensington 18 Feb. 1878.
MESSITER, JOHN. _b._ 1798 or 1799; lieut. 28 foot 3 July 1823,
lieut.-col. 24 Aug. 1842 to 16 July 1852 when he sold out. _d._
Woodton lodge, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Devon 13 Jany. 1882.
MESSITER, SUSSEX LENNOX AUBREY BEAUCLERK. Ensign 28 foot 5 Nov.
1842, captain 29 Dec. 1854, sold out 9 Feb. 1864; one of the
gentlemen at arms 25 April 1864 to death. _d._ 2 Haymarket,
London 20 Sep. 1870.
METCALFE, FREDERICK (5 son of Morehouse Metcalfe of
Gainsborough). _b._ 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; scholar of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll.
Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849,
sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head
master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested professorship of
Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849
to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed.
1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German
literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The Englishman and
the Scandinavian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845
and his Gallus 1844; edited some classical school books. _d._
Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.
METCALFE, JAMES (natural son of 1 baron Metcalfe 1785–1846).
_b._ 1817; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 3 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep.
1836, adjutant 1839–46; A.D.C. to the marquess of Dalhousie
11 April 1848 to 1853; interpreter to sir Colin Campbell the
commander-in-chief during the mutiny 1857–8 and attendant on him
throughout the revolt; A.D.C. and commandant at head quarters;
major 4th European regiment (left wing) 1 Feb. 1858; brevet
lieut.-col. 24 March 1858; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; retired 31 Dec.
1861; resided Aston house, Stevenage, Herts. _d._ 44 Harcourt
terrace, London 8 March 1888.
METCALFE, SIR THEOPHILUS JOHN, 5 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas
Theophilus Metcalfe, 4 baronet _d._ 1853). _b._ Delhi 28 Nov.
1828; ed. at Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil
service 1848; joint-magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut
1857, aided the European inhabitants to escape from Meerut on
outbreak of mutiny, rendered great help at the assault on Delhi
14 Sep. 1857; assistant to agent at Delhi and deputy collector
at Futteypore 1858–9; C.B. 4 Nov. 1864; retired on invalid
pension 1866. _d._ Paris 10 Nov. 1883.
METCALFE, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1803; succeeded his uncle as
a bookseller at Cambridge 1824; became head of the firm of
W. Metcalfe and Son; the first printer of J. W. Colenso’s
mathematical works 1835–53 and of Sonnets by Charles Tennyson
1830; started The Cambridge Express 1868, the first penny
paper in Cambridge. _d._ Park terrace, Cambridge 9 March 1888.
_Bookseller_, _May 1888 p._ 465.
METCALFE, WILLIAM JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Metcalfe, R. of
Foulmire, Cambs., _d._ 1850). _b._ 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 2 May 1845; recorder
of Ipswich, Nov. 1866 to Dec. 1874; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; recorder
of Norwich, Dec. 1874 to death; judge of county courts (circuit
54) Somerset, Oct. 1879 to death. _d._ suddenly in his private
room at Bristol county court 8 Dec. 1892.
METEYARD, ELIZA (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). _b._ Lime st.
Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrewsbury 1818–29, at Thorpe
near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death;
contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal,
People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. &c.; author under pseudonym of
Silverpen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame
3 vols. 1845; Mainstone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865;
The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s
gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols.
1865–6; A group of Englishmen 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a
manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60,
5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. _d._ Stanley
place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. _bur._
Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G.
Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birkenhead.
_Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 373–5.
METHUEN, FREDERICK HENRY PAUL METHUEN, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1
baron Methuen _d._ 1849). _b._ 23 Feb. 1818; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Dec. 1837; lieut. 76 foot 3 April 1840; lieut. 71 foot
7 Sep. 1841, sold out 2 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. royal Wiltshire
militia 5 May 1846, lieut.-col. commandant 9 Jany. 1859, hon.
col. 5 Dec. 1885 to death; militia A.D.C. to the queen 11 Dec.
1860 to death; a lord-in-waiting to the queen June 1859 to
July 1866, Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, May 1880 to June 1885 and
Feb. to Aug. 1886. _d._ Corsham court near Chippenham 26 Sep.