MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Matthew Marsh, Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Margaret, dau. of Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, Rector of Winterslow, Wilts.; b. 12 Sep 1810; adm. 3 Jun 1822 (G); KS 1824; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1828, matr. 16 May 1828, Westminster Student, subsequently Faculty Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; adm. Inner Temple 25 Jan 1833, called to bar 29 Apr 1836; KC Duchy of Lancaster Dec 1837 – Jan 1840; emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1840, where he made a large fortune and was a member of the Legislative Council 1851-5; returned to England 1855; MP (Liberal) Salisbury 1857-68; DL JP Wiltshire; m. 25 Jul 1844 Eliza Mary Anne, sister of Sir William Lockyer Merewether (qv); d. 26 Jan 1881.
MARKHAM, OSBORNE, son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 27 May 1769; adm. 30 Mar 1778; KS (Capt. ) 1783; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – Feb 1797, Faculty Student 2 Feb 1797 – Jun 1806; BA 1791; MA 1794; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Jun 1790, called to bar 2 Jul 1794; Chancellor, Diocese of York 1795-1818; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1796-1804; Commissioner of the Navy 24 Aug 1803 – May 1805; MP Calne 17 Feb 1806 – Mar 1807; Commissioner of Barracks Apr 1807-16, Comptroller from 1816; m. 1st, 10 Jun 1806 Lady Mary Thynne, dau. of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquis of Bath KG PC; m. 2nd, 28 Jun 1821 Martha Honora Georgina, dau. of Capt. William Henry Jervis Ricketts, Royal Navy; d. 22 Oct 1827.
MARKHAM, JOHN, second son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 13 Jun 1761; adm. 2 Jun 1768; entered Royal Navy on HMS Rodney 11 Mar 1775; served on American and West Indian stations; nearly wrecked and killed while in charge of a prize 1777; acting Lieut., 14 May 1781, confirmed Jan 1783; cashiered for firing on a cartel when in command of Volcano fireship, but reinstated by Rodney 1782; Post Capt., 3 Jan 1783; took part in reduction of Martinique 1794, capture of Minorca 1798 and blockade of Brest 1800; Rear Adm., 23 Apr 1804; Vice-Adm. 25 Oct 1809; Adm., 12 Aug 1819; a Lord of the Admiralty Feb 1801 – May 1804, Jan 1806 – Mar 1807; MP Portsmouth 12 Nov 1801-18, 1820-6; selections from his correspondence for the years 1801-4, 1806-7 were edited by Sir Clements Robert Markham (qv) and published by the Navy Record Society, 1904; m. 27 Nov 1796 Hon. Maria Rice, sister of George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dinevor (qv); d. at Naples 13 Feb 1827. DNB.
MARKHAM, SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT, son of David Frederick Markham (qv); b. 20 Jul 1830; adm. 26 May 1842 (Benthall); Min. Can. 1843; left Jun 1844; Cadet, Royal Navy 18 Jul 1844; Midshipman 28 Jun 1846; served in Capt. Austin’s Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin May 1850 – Oct 1851; left Navy 28 Dec 1851; travelled in Peru 1852-3; Clerk, Legacy Duty Office, Inland Revenue Dec 1853 – Jul 1854; Clerk, Board of Control Jul 1854; Clerk, Correspondence Dept., India Office; Private Secretary to T. G. Baring MP when Parliamentary Under-Secretary, India Office 1862-4; Assistant Secretary, Public Works Dept., India Office 1867-71, Judicial Public and Revenue Dept. 1871-7; CB 17 May 1871; KCB 20 May 1896; introduced the cultivation of cinchona into British India from Peru 1859-61; geographer with British Army in Ethiopia 1867-8; took an active interest in Polar expedition and largely responsible for the despatch of Sir George Nares’s expedition in 1874 and that of Capt. R. F. Scott in 1901; Secretary, Hakluyt Society 1858-86, President 1886-1909; Secretary to Royal Geographical Society 1863-88, Gold Medallist 1888, President 1893-1905; President, International Geographical Congress, London 1895; FSA 12 Dec 1861; FRS 12 Jun 1873; DSc Cambridge 12 Jun 1907, Leeds 11 Jun 1910; an enthusiastic Old Westminster; acted as Secretary to OW Crimean and Indian Memorial Committee, and Chairman of the Committee for the decoration of the School walls with the arms of distinguished OWW; contemplated writing his reminiscences of the School, and left in MS his recollections as a small boy up Benthall’s in 1842-4; President, Elizabethan Club 1898-1912; Busby Trustee from 16 May 1899; a Governor of the School 16 Nov 1899 – 28 Jul 1913; a voluminous writer on Peru and the history of geographical discovery; m. 23 Apr 1857 Mary Anne (Minna), dau. of Rev. James Hamilton John Chichester, Rector of Arlington, Devon; d. 30 Jan 1916, after a shock from a fire in his room by which he was seriously injured. DNB.
MANSEL, BUSSY, 3rd BARON MANSEL, third son of Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel, and Martha, dau. of Francis Millington, Newick Place, Sussex; b.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1717, aged 16; MP Cardiff Boroughs 31 Jan 1727-34, Glamorgan 9 Mar 1737- 26 Nov 1744; of Briton Ferry, Glamorgan; succ. brother as 4th Baron Mansel 26 Nov 1744; m. 1st, 17 May 1724 Lady Elizabeth Hervey, sister of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); m. 2nd, 13 Mar 1729 Lady Barbara Villiers, widow of Sir William Blackett, Bart., MP, and dau., of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey; d. 29 Nov 1750. [Whitmore, “see new slip”, but citing no evidence]]
MANNERS, JOHN, eldest natural son of Lord William Manners MP, and Corbetta, dau. of William Smyth, Shrewsbury, apothecary; b. 27 Sep 1730; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1740/1; left 1747; MP Newark 1754-74; Housekeeper at Whitehall from 1756; of Grantham Grange, Lincs.; m. Aug 1765 Lady Louisa Tollemache, subsequently Countess of Dysart (S), elder dau. of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (S) (qv); d. 23 Sep 1792.
MAGENNIS, RICHARD; b.; adm. 15 Sep 1778. [Perhaps Richard Magenis, eldest son of Richard Magenis MP (I), Waringstown, co. Down, Ireland, Clerk of Ordnance (I), and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Col. William Berkeley; b. c. 1763; MP (I) Enniskillen 1790-7; Collector, Cavan 1797-1801; Commissioner of Accounts (I) 1800-12; MP Enniskillen 1812 – 29 Jan 1828; of Chanter Hill, near Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh; Lieut. -Col., Fermanagh Militia 23 Jul 1803 (still 1808); m. 1st, 6 Sep 1788 Lady Elizabeth Anne Cole, dau. of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (I); m. 2nd, 19 Apr 1815 Elizabeth, widow of Col. George Dashwood [check regt. ], and dau. of James Callender (afterwards Sir James Campbell, Bart. ), Craigforth, Stirlingshire; d. 6 Mar 1831]. [perhaps Cornet, 13th Dragoons 29 Jun 1780]
MACLEAN, SIR FRANCIS AUBREY DE VERE WILLIAMS, third son of Alexander Maclean, Carshalton, Surrey, and Maria, dau. of Joseph Lightfoot, Walworth, Surrey; b. 13 Dec 1844; adm. 8 May 1859 (G); left 1862 (with Triplett); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1862; BA 1866; MA 1871; adm. Inner Temple 17 Jan 1879, called to bar 30 Apr 1868, Bencher 25 Nov 1892; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jan 1879; QC 1886; MP (Lib) Mid Oxfordshire 1885-6 (LU) 1886-91; a Master in Lunacy 1891-6; Assistant Chief Justice, Bengal Jul 1896, Chief Justice 9 Nov 1896 – Mar 1909; knighted 12 Oct 1896; KCIE 11 Jan 1898; Kaisar-i-Hind medal, 1st class 23 May 1900; Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta Univ., 1898-1900; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1913; m. 10 Aug 1869 Mattie, second dau. of John Sowerby, Benwell Tower, Northumberland; d. 11 Nov 1913.
MACKWORTH, SIR HERBERT, BART., son of Herbert Evans Mackworth (at school under Knipe, qv); b. 1 Jan 1736/7; adm. Oct 1748 (Watts'); in school list 1752; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1753; BA 1757; MA 1760; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Mar 1754, called to bar 27 Jun 1759; MP Cardiff 2 Jan 1766-90; created baronet 16 Sep 1776; Col. Glamorgan Militia 31 Jul 1780, with rank of Col. in Army 19 Aug 1780; FSA 10 Nov 1774; FRS 9 Jan 1777; m. 13 May 1761 Eliza, dau. of Robert Trefusis (qv); d. 25 Oct 1791.
MACKWORTH, HERBERT EVANS, eldest son of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, Kt MP, Gnoll, Glamorgan, colliery proprietor, and Mary, dau. of Sir Herbert Evans, Kt, Neath, Glamorgan; b. 7 Sep 1687 [or 1689 ?]; at school under Knipe (name occurs in list of OW Members of Parliament, Chapter Muniments); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Oct 1704; DCL 8 Jul 1756; adm. Inner Temple 1708; High Sheriff, Glamorgan 1733; MP Cardiff from 16 Feb 1738/9; m. 24 Apr 1730 Hon. Juliana Digby, second dau. of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby; d. 20 Aug 1765.