lxvi_ 377–9 (1881)].
MORANT, HORATIO HARBORD (5 son of George Morant of Farnboro
Place, Hants.) _b._ 4 Dec. 1824; ensign 68 foot 20 Aug. 1844,
lieut. col. 2 Dec. 1862, placed on h.p. 30 Aug. 1866; A.D.C. to
the Queen 12 Nov. 1870 to 1881; lieut. col. of brigade depôt 1
April 1873 to 1 April 1878; lieut. col. 27 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to
29 Jany. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1
April 1885; served in Crimean war 1854–5, and in New Zealand
1864–6. _d._ Blendworth lodge, Horndean, Hants 27 Dec. 1888.
MORANT, JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON. _b._ 17 Nov. 1839; lieutenant
R.E. 10 June 1859, in Madras 1862; engaged in new harbour
defences of Bombay 1863; executive engineer 4 grade Jany. 1864
to Dec. 1865; in charge of new road from Belgaum to the coast
1866–9; engaged in public works on the Neilgherry hills, Madras
1869–80; engineer of the first grade 1880; civil architect to
the government 1883–4; superintendent of works on the Buckingham
canal 1884–6; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1872; a contributor to the Indian
engineering papers, published at Roorkee. _d._ Melbourne,
Australia 17 June 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxxvi_ 370–4 (1886).
MORE, JOHN SHANK (son of rev. George Moore secession minister
South Shields). _b._ Shields 1784; called to the Scotch bar
1806; professor of Scots law in univ. of Edinb. 2 Dec. 1843
to death; had a library of 15,000 volumes; edited Erskine’s
Principles of the law of Scotland 1827, and Lord Stair’s
Institutions of the law of Scotland 1832; furnished notes and
illustrations to J. Dalrymple’s The institutions of the laws
of Scotland 1832; author of Lectures on the law of Scotland,
2 vols. 1864. _d._ 19 Great King st. Edinburgh 12 July 1861.
_Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 66–7 _portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal Soc. of Edinburgh iv_ 492–6 (1862).
MORE-O’ FARRALL, JOHN LEWIS (2 son of Ambrose More-O’ Farrall of
Balyna, co. Kildare _d._ 1835 aged 83). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827;
comr. of metropolitan police, Dublin 1836 to death. _d._ Granite
hall, Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 Jany. 1881. _Law Times lxx_ 233
(1881).
MOREAU, CÉSAR. _b._ Marseilles 1791; with the army in Spain
1810, and in Germany 1813–4; attached to consulate general
in London 1816; vice consul in London 1825–9; connected with
the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris 1829, etc.; F.R.S. 8
Feb. 1827; author of State of the trade of Great Britain with
all parts of the world 1822, French edition 1822; East India
company’s records founded on official documents 1825; Rise and
progress of the silk trade in England 1826; British and Irish
produce exported 1826; Chronological records of the royal and
commercial navy 1827; Past and present state of the navigation
between Great Britain and all parts of the world 1827; The
past and present statistical state of Ireland 1827; Tableau
comparatif du commerce de France avec toutes les parties du
monde 1827; Chronological records of British finance 1828. _d._
Paris 28 Nov. 1861.
MOREHEAD, CHARLES (2 son of Robert Morehead 1777–1842 R. of
Easington Yorkshire). _b._ Edinburgh 1807; ed. at Edinb.
univ. M.D., F.R.C.P.; entered Bombay medical service 1829; the
founder of native medical education in Western India; worked in
the European and native general hospitals of Bombay; the first
principal of the Grant Medical college Bombay, and the first
professor of medicine 1845; the first physician of the Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy hospital; originated Bombay Medical and physical
society; also the Grant college medical society; retired 1862;
surgeon major 13 Jany. 1860; C.I.E. 1881; hon. surgeon to the
Queen 6 Sept. 1861; author of Bright’s disease of the kidneys
as observed at Bombay 1851; Notes on pericarditis, endocarditis
and disease of the heart and aorta 1852; Clinical researches on
disease in India 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Memorials of the life
of Robert Morehead 1875. _d._ Wilton Castle, Yorkshire 2 Aug.
1882.
MOREHEAD, WILLIAM AMBROSE (brother of Charles Morehead 1807–82).
_b._ 17 Oct. 1805; entered Madras civil service 1825; civil
and sessions judge at Chingleput, 1843; puisne judge of court
of Sudr Adawlut 1846, chief judge 1857; member of council of
governor of Madras, 1857; governor and president in council
1860, retired 29 Oct. 1862; twice acted as governor of Madras;
an original fellow of univ. of Madras vice chancellor two
years. _d._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1863. _bur._ Dean cemetery, Edinb.
portrait in Madras banqueting hall. _Memorials of Robert
Morehead_ (1875) 402–4.
MOREHOUSE, H. J. contributed A brief sketch of the life of R.
Meeke, to Extracts from the diary of R. Meeke 1874; author of
The history of the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York.
Huddersfield 1861. _d._ Jany. 1891. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries
xiii_ 318 (1889–91).
MOREL, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Normandy 10 Jany. 1766; taught French
at Hampstead 1796; founder of R.C. church of St. Mary in Holly
Place, Hampstead 17 Aug. 1816, minister of the church to