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MURRAY, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD, fourth son of David Murray, 5th Viscount Stormont (S), and Margery, only child of David Scott, Scotstarvet, Fifeshire; b. 2 Mar 1704/5; adm. May 1718; for his journey from Scotland to Westminster on back of his pony, and for some curious items in the account of monies disbursed on his behalf before and after admission, see Lord Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices, ii, 313-6; KS (Capt. ) 1719; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 – void 29 Jun 1737; BA 1727; MA 1730; defeated William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) in competition for prize offered by University for a Latin poem on the death of George I; Grand Tour; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Apr 1724, called to bar 23 Nov 1730, Bencher 15 Dec 1742, Treasurer 1744; practised in Court of Chancery, and within two years of call had appeared in three appeal cases before House of Lords; KC 1742; Solicitor-Gen., 27 Nov 1742 – Apr 1754; MP Boroughbridge 29 Nov 1742 – 8 Nov 1756; his success in the House of Commons was as brilliant as his success at the bar, and he came to be regarded as the ablest government spokesman in the House; to discredit him, an old story was raked up about his toasting the Pretender in the company of James Johnson (adm. 1717/8, qv) and Andrew Stone (qv), but the Privy Council reported that there was no foundation for the charge; it was subsequently the subject of a debate in the House of Lords on 22 Mar 1753, but the Duke of Bedford’s motion for the production of the proceedings before the Privy Council was rejected by 122 votes to 5, and no further enquiry was made (Campbell, ii, 370-6; Walpole, Letters, ed. Toynbee, iii, 148; the papers relating to the charge of toasting are in the British Library, Newcastle MSS 33050, ff. 200-368); Attorney-Gen., 9 Apr 1754 – Nov 1756; defended the Duke of Newcastle’s administration against attacks by Pitt in the House of Commons; on the death in 1756 of Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice, Murray claimed the vacant post and a peerage; Lord Chief Justice of England 8 Nov 1756 – 4 Jun 1788; created Baron Mansfield 8 Nov 1756; Privy Councillor 19 Nov 1756; held seals of Chancellor of the Exchequer Apr – Jun 1757, Sep – Dec 1767; accepted cabinet seat in Duke of Newcastle’s second administration, without office but with disposal of the Scottish patronage, Jul 1757; created Earl of Mansfield 31 Oct 1776, with special remainder to Louisa, wife of his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (qv); owing to his approval of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1778, his house in Bloomsbury Square was sacked and burned by the Gordon Rioters 7 Jun 1780; the loss of his library and MSS was lamented by William Cowper (qv) in some charming verses (Works, ed. Southey, viii, 322-3); spoke for last time in House of Lords 23 Mar 1784; after 1788 lived in retirement at Caen Wood, Highgate; received a new creation as Earl of Mansfield 1 Aug 1792, with special remainder to his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (qv); the position which he held for many years as a Cabinet minister was anomalous; in Feb 1775 he stated in the House of Lords that “he had been a Cabinet Minister part of the late reign, and the whole of the present”, but that he had ceased “to act as an efficient Cabinet minister” shortly before the formation of the Rockingham ministry (Parliamentary History, xviii, 274-5); twice refused post of Lord Chancellor, but acted as Speaker of House of Lords Jan 1770 – Jan 1771 and Feb – Dec 1783; as a parliamentary speaker Pitt was his only rival; by birth a Jacobite and by association a Tory, his politics were more or less dominated by his legal interests; his reputation as a statesman is somewhat blurred by his support of the coercing of the American colonies; as an advocate known as “the silver-tongued Murray”; his ascendancy as Lord Chief Justice is indicated by the claim that during the thirty-two years that he held office there were only two cases in which his opinion was not unanimously adopted by his colleagues, and that only two of his judgments were reversed on appeal (Campbell, ii, 395-6); Mansfield’s charges to juries on the law of libel made him unpopular with contemporary public opinion, and he was violently attacked by Junius; the founder of modern commercial law and one of the greatest of common law judges; as a young man a friend of Pope, who dedicated to him his Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace, and cdelebrated his charms in Book IV, Ode I; Busby Trustee 25 Feb 1741/2; m. 20 Sep 1738 Lady Elizabeth Finch, seventh dau. of Daniel Finch, 6th Earl of Winchilsea and 2nd Earl of Nottingham (qv); d. 20 Mar 1793. Buried North Transept, Westminster Abbey (monument), having expressed a desire in his will to be buried there on account of “the love I bear to the place of my early education”. DNB.

MURRAY, WILLIAM POWELL, seventh son of Charles Murray, Petworth, Sussex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Riviere Knight; b. 23 Mar 1817; adm. 30 Jun 1829 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; BA 1839; MA 1842; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Nov 1836, called to bar 23 Nov 1841; practised at Chancery bar; a Registrar, Court of Bankruptcy, in Manchester 26 Mar 1863 and in London from 1863; m. 27 Jul 1854 Georgina Charlotte Daysh, only dau. of Cdr. Hon. Arthur Richard Turnour, Royal Navy; d. 20 Aug 1885.

MURE, REGINALD JAMES, eldest son of James Mure (adm. 1807, qv), and his second wife; b. 22 Dec 1842; adm. 22 May 1856 (James'); QS 1857; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1861, matr. 23 May 1861; BA 1866; MA 1873; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Oct 1866, called to bar 17 Nov 1869; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; Secretary to Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, Bart. (qv) 1878-83; Treasurer, Elizabethan Club 1872-95; Busby Trustee 22 May 1900; joint editor with James Gow and John Sargeaunt of Lusus Alteri Westmonasterienses iii, 1906; m. 23 Dec 1878 Anna Charlotte, dau. of Sheffield Neave, Oakhill, Hampstead, Middlesex; d. 23 Dec 1908.

MURE, PHILIP WILLIAM, brother of Alexander James Mure (qv); b. 19 Jan 1802; adm. Midsummer 1815; KS 1815; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1819, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1819; BA 1823; MA 1825; a malt distiller at Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex; m. 5 Feb 1833 Louisa, dau. of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (qv); d. 28 Jun 1867.

MURE, ARTHUR HENRY, son of James Mure (adm. 1807, qv), and his second wife; b. 22 Jul 1847; adm. 30 May 1861 (James'); QS 1862; left May 1866; a brewer at Hampstead, firm Mure, Warner, & Co.; m. 4 Feb 1875 Georgina Frederica, dau. of Capt. George Frederick Dawson, Royal Engineers; d. 12 Feb 1931.

MOYSEY, FREDERICK LUTTRELL, third son of Charles Abel Moysey (qv), and his first wife; b. 9 Nov 1815; adm. 9 Jun 1828 (G); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834; rowed v. Cambridge 1836; BA 1838; MA 1861; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1838, priest (Bath and Wells) 1840; Curate, Holy Trinity, Bath 1838; Assistant Minister, Margaret’s Chapel, Bath 1839; Rector of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset 1840-61; Vicar of Sidmouth, Devon 1861-5; m. 29 May 1839 Arabella, eldest dau. of Hon. John Petty Ward; d. 13 Aug 1906.

MORRIS, THOMAS EDWARD, son of Rev. John Morris DD, Rector of Elstree, Herts.; b. 1 Sep 1813; adm. 1 Oct 1827 (Singleton's); KS (Capt. ) 1828; Capt. of the School 1831; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1832, matr. 7 Jun 1832, Westminster Student (still 1847), Tutor 1838-45; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 21 May 1837, priest (Oxford) 10 Jun 1838; Curate, Hambleden, Bucks.; Vicar of Carleton in Craven, Yorks., from 1854; m. (by 1859) Amelia J. --- (1881 Census); d. 14 Dec 1885.

MORDAUNT, CHARLES, 3RD EARL OF PETERBOROUGH and 1ST EARL OF MONMOUTH, eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, and Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Thomas Carey; b.; at school under Busby (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1727/8); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1674, aged 16; succeeded father as 2nd Viscount Mordaunt 5 Jun 1675; served as volunteer with British fleet in Mediterranean 1674-7, 1678-9, and at Tangier 1680; associated with Essex, Russell and Sidney in 1682; said to have been the first to press the Prince of Orange (William III) “to undertake the business of England”; commanded a small Dutch squadron in West Indies 1687; attended William III on his landing at Torbay Nov 1688; Privy Councillor 14 Feb 1688/9; a Gentleman of the Bedchamber 1 Mar 1688/9 – Apr 1697; First Lord of the Treasury 8 Apr 1689 – Mar 1690/1; created Earl of Monmouth 9 Apr 1689; one of Queen’s Council of Nine 1689; went with King to Netherlands 1691, 1692; quarrelled with William III over conduct of war Dec 1692, and went into fierce opposition; imprisoned in Tower of London for his conduct in Fenwick’s case, and struck off Privy Council 21 Jan 1696/7; released 30 Mar 1697; succeeded uncle as 3rd Earl of Peterborough 19 Jun 1697; helped Somers to translate the Olynthiacs of Demosthenes 1702; restored to favour at Court on avccession of Anne; appointed Captain-Gen. and Governor of Jamaica 22 Dec 1702, but appointment cancelled as he declined to undertake an expedition against the Spanish settlements in the West Indies without the help of the Dutch; readmitted to Privy Council 29 Mar 1705; appointed with Sir Clowdesley Shovell to joint command of expedition to Spain May 1705; surprised Montjuich and captured Barcelona; entered Valencia 24 Jan 1705/6; proceeded to Genoa to arrange with the Duke of Savoy for a combined attack on Toulon; negotiated a loan at an exorbitant rate of interest without authority; returned to Valencia and recalled to England to give an account of his conduct of the war 11 Feb 1706/7; did not return until Aug 1707; employed John Friend (qv) to write An Account of the Earl of Peterborough’s Conduct in Spain; after two investigations by House of Lords, he received a vote of thanks 10 Feb 1710/1; Ambassador Extraordinary in Vienna, Turin, Frankfurt and Naples 1711-3; Col., Royal Horse Guards 19 Aug 1712 – 13 Jun 1715; KG 3 Aug 1713; Ambassador Exraordinary to Italian Princes Nov 1713; Governor of Minorca Mar 1714; recalled on accession of Whigs to power on accession of George I; General of Marine Forces in Great Britain 24 May 1722; Lord Lieut., Northamptonshire 30 May 1689 – 21 Jul 1715; a brilliant but untrustworthy man, of untiring energy and a craving for novelty and excitement; patron of literature and science; m. 1st, Carey, half-sister of Charles Fraser (qv); m. 2nd, Anastasia (Anastasia Robinson, singer), dau. of Thomas Brown, portrait painter; d. on his yacht off Lisbon 25 Oct 1735. DNB.

MONTAGU, CHARLES, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX, fourth son of Hon. George Montagu MP, Horton, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Anthony Irby, Kt, Boston, Lincs.; b. 16 Apr 1661; adm. 1675; KS (Capt. ) 1677; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 8 Nov 1679; MA 1682; LLD 1705; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1683 – c. 1689; High Steward, Cambridge Univ., from 1697; wrote with Matthew Prior (qv) The Hind and the Panther transvers’d to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse, 1687; MP Maldon 1689-95, Westminster 1695 – 13 Dec 1700; a Clerk of the Privy Council 1689-92; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 21 Mar 1692 – Apr 1698; his proposal of 15 Dec 1692 to raise a million pounds by life annuities was the origin of the National Debt; his bill to establish the Bank of England became law 1694; Chancellor of the Exchequer 30 Apr 1694 – May 1699; Privy Councillor 10 May 1694; introduced the Recoinage Bill, and instituted the Window Tax to pay for the expense of the recoinage; issued the first Exchequer Bills and carried his bill for the formation of a consolidated fund to meet interest on the various government loans; First Lord of the Treasury 1 May 1697 – Nov 1699; Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer 17 Nov 1699 – 30 Sep 1714; created Baron Halifax 13 Dec 1700; impeached by the House of Lords for obtaining grants from the King in the names of others for himself, and for his share in the Partition Treaty, but the impeachment was dismissed for want of prosecution 24 Jun 1701; charged by House of Commons for neglect of his duties as Auditor of the Exchequer, but his conduct as such was unanimously approved by the House of Lords 1703; successfully moved the rejection of the Occasional Conformity Bill 14 Dec 1703; a Commissioner for negotiating the Union with Scotland 10 Apr 1706; acted as one of the Lords Justices from Queen Anne’s death until the arrival of George I; First Lord of the Treasury from 11 Oct 1714; KG 16 Oct 1714; created Earl of Halifax 19 Oct 1714; Lord Lieutenant, Surrey, from 24 Dec 1714; a great parliamentary orator and brilliant financier; the lifelong friend of Sir Isaac Newton and a munificent patron of literature; FRS 30 Nov 1695, President 30 Nov 1695 – 30 Nov 1698; his collected poems were published in 1715; [? m. 1st, 3 Sep 1685 Elisabeth, dau. of Francis Forster, South Bailey, Durham]; m. Feb 1688 Anne, widow of his cousin Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, and dau. of Sir Christopher Yelverton, Bart.; d. 19 May 1715. Buried in Duke of Albemarle’s vault, Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

MILMAN, WILLIAM HENRY, eldest son of Very Rev. Henry Hart Milman DD, Dean of St. Paul’s, and Mary Anne, youngest dau. of Lieut. -Gen. William Cockell, Sandleford Lodge, Berks.; b. 25 Apr 1825; adm. 5 Oct 1835; QS 1839; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1843, matr. 9 Jun 1843, Westminster Student 1843-58; BA 1847; MA 1850; rowed v. Cambridge 1845, 1846; President, OUBC 1846; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1849, priest (London) 1850; Curate, Christ Church, Regent’s Park, London, subsequently Hoxton, Middlesex; Librarian, Sion Coll., 1856; Rector of St. Augustine with St. Faith, City of London, from 31 Jan 1857; Minor Canon of St. Paul’s from 17 Feb 1859, Senior Cardinal from 1875; m. 13 Dec 1884 Juliet Margaret, elder dau. of Sir George Campbell KCSI MP; d. 9 Jun 1908.