Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.
MULLENS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward
college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained
congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept
1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the
native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college
Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary
of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary
March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited
and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy
discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François
Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875.
_d._ Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register
of Missionaries_ (1877) 169–70; _Congregationalist viii_ 969
_portrait_; _Congregational year book_ (1880) 342–4.
MULLER, EDWARD ANGIER GODFREY. _b._ about 1802; ensign 1 foot
3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for
high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major
depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct.
1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866
to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill,
Surrey 22 June 1875.
MÜLLER, FRANZ. _b._ 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old
Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas
Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed
him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near
Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford
arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to
New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to
England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty
and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja,
Ich habe es gethan. _Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp._ 239–63; _Central
criminal court, Sessions papers lx_ 461–504 (1864); _Annual
register_ (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; _Illust. Times 24
Sept. 1864 p._ 201 _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii_ 448–52
(1884).
NOTE.--This was one of the last of the most celebrated public
executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled
in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first
floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from
five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was
Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868.
MULLINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter
Mullins, _d._ 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry
1736–1824). _b._ 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested
Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. _d._ Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.
MULLINS, JAMES. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K
division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of
£35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced
to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester
gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he
forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs.
Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860,
tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death,
_hanged_ at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. _Central Criminal court
trials lii_ 769–805 (1860); _A.R._ (1860) 541–64.
MULLOCK, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville;
superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop
of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s,
Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life
of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on
Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York
1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of
heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. _d._ St.
John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.
MULLOOLY, JOSEPH. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s,
Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered
and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of
St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of
Wales 1859. _d._ Rome 25 June 1880. _bur._ in cemetery of San
Lorenzo 27 June. _Times 3 July 1880 p._ 12.
MULOCK, DINAH MARIA (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). _b._
Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and
resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love
or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti
1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852;
Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853;
Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols.
1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and
maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868;
Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty
years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864;
_m._ 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature
at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near
Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century
vii_ 377–84 (1891).
NOTE.--The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs.
Granville Whyte.
MULREADY, WILLIAM (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq.
London). _b._ Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London
1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and
the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books
1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures
at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his
finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South
Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first
penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at
Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater
1827 to death. _d._ 7 July 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _F.
G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready_ (1890) 2 _portraits_;
_Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready_ (1867); _Sandby’s History
of the royal academy i_ 355–58 (1862); _S. Armytage’s Beautiful
pictures by British artists_ (1871) 15–6; _J. Dafforne’s
Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A._ (1872); _W. C. Monkhouse’s
Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 137–43; _Redgrave’s Century
of painters ii_ 224–30, 298–325 (1866); _I.L.N. vii_ 20 (1845)
_portrait_.
MULVANY, CHARLES PELHAM (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister).
_b._ Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850,
scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7;
surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868;
went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872;
assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years;
curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the
Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of
Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881;
author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant,
Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the
north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. _d._ 69 Augusta terrace,
Toronto 31 May 1885. _David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_
(1892) 171.
MULVANY, GEORGE F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A.
_d._ 1852). _b._ Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy;
exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A.,
succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy
1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National
gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts
concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847;
Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with
an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany