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GB-2014-WSA-12097 · Person · 1867-1937

MCCANCE, HENRY MOUTRAY JONES, youngest son of James Law McCance, Kingstown, co. Dublin, Resident Magistrate of Newry, and Jeanette, eldest dau. of Frederic William Macaulay, Belfast; b. 11 Mar 1867; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (G); left Aug 1883; 2nd Lieut., 1st bn . Royal Scots 8 May 1888; Lieut., 13 Sep 1891; retd. 1894; Capt., Reserve of Officers 2 May 1900-2; attached to General Staff, War Office 1914-9; Military Intelligence Directorate; OBE 3 Jun 1919; served Zululand 1888; author, Regimental Records of the Royal Scots, 1st or Royal Regiment of Foot, 1916; m. 1st, 8 Feb 1893 Jean Isabella Erskine, elder dau. of Joseph Bell MD FRCS (Ed), Melville Crescent, Edinburgh; m. 2nd, 1 Dec 1924 Amy, younger dau. of Rev. Richard Bower, Canon of Carlisle; d. 26 Aug 1937.

GB-2014-WSA-12096 · Person · 1932-1981

McCallum, William John, son of John McCallum MB ChB, of Lee, Kent, and Nancy Edith, d. of William Parry Jackson; b. 4 Oct. 1932; adm. May 1946 (A); left July 1951; a chartered accountant, ACA 1958, FCA; ATII; practised in London; m. 4 Oct. 1958 Erica Margaret Elizabeth, d. of Charles Arthur McKay of Eastbourne, Sussex; d. after a road accident 26 Nov. 1981.

GB-2014-WSA-12095 · Person · 1904-1974

McBride, Walter Nelson, son of Walter Sydney McBride, of Croydon, by Alice Mary, daughter of Thomas Oliver, of Croydon; b. Nov. 27, 1904; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (G); left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1924; B.A. 1928, M.A. 1931; played football against Cambridge 1927; played cricket against Cambridge 1926, and for Rants 1925-9; became an asst. master at Canford School; a director of Davies's, the London tutors, 1948; m. Dec. 9, 1948, Molly Josephine, daughter of Joseph Francis Baily, of Wimborne, Dorset; d. 30 Jan. 1974.

GB-2014-WSA-12094 · Person · 1903-?

McBrain, Richard Freeman, son of R.S.F. McBrain of Shanghai; b. 16 Sept. 1903; adm. Sept. 1919 (H); left July 1921.

GB-2014-WSA-12093 · Person · 1850-1930

MAYOW, MAYOW WYNELL, second son of Rev. Mayow Wynell Mayow, Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., and Caroline Kate, second dau. of Rev. Alfred Smith, Old Park, Devizes, Wilts.; b. 13 Jan 1850; adm. 25 Sep 1862 (G); QS 1865; left Easter 1868; RMA Woolwich 1868; Lieut., Royal Artillery 4 Jan 1871; Capt., 26 Jan 1881; Maj., 8 Sep 1886; retd. 15 Jan 1890; served on Burmese expedition 1886; d. 3 Apr 1930.

Mayor, Richard Percy, 1909-?
GB-2014-WSA-12092 · Person · 1909-?

Mayor, Richard Percy, son of Ernest Meyer of Hampstead; b. 3 May 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1926; a textile manufacturer; assumed the name of Mayor in lieu of Meyer; m. June 1939 Doris Maud Moss.

Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871
GB-2014-WSA-12091 · Person · 1790-1871

MAYO, THOMAS, eldest son of John Mayo MD FRCP, Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Thomas Cock, Tottenham, Middlesex; b. 24 Jan 1790; in school list 1803; promised his father that he would obtain a Fellowship at Oriel “provided he would permit me to escape the “foundation” of Westminster School and its peculiar training, which combined with a very fair proportion of Latin and Greek, occasional aerostation in a blanket” (Munk, Roll of the Royal Coll. of Physicians, iii, 200 note); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Jun 1807; 1st cl. Classics 1811; BA 1811; MA 1814; MB 1815; MD 1818; Fellow, Oriel Coll. 23 Apr 1813; succeeded to his father’s practice at Tunbridge Wells 1818; settled in London 1835, practising there to 1862; FRCP 1819, Censor 1835, 1839, 1850, Harveian Orator 1841, Elect 1847, President 1857-62; FRS 4 Jun 1835; author, several medical treatises; m. 1st, 28 Nov 1817 Lydia Jane, youngest dau. of John Bill MD, Farley Hall, Staffs.; m. 2nd, 6 Nov 1861 Susan Mary, widow of Rear-Adm. Sir William Symonds, Royal Navy, and dau. of Rev. John Briggs, Fellow of Eton Coll.; d. 13 Jan 1871. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-12090 · Person · ca. 1775-1843

MAYNE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Mayne MP, Upper Gatton, Surrey, banker and merchant, and his second wife Sarah, second dau. of Francis Otway (qv); b.; adm. 27 Jun 1787; Ensign, Queen’s Rangers 21 Mar 1792; Lieut., Independent Co., 3 Feb 1795; Capt. -Lieut. and Capt., Queen’s Rangers 4 Feb 1795; Capt., 14 Apr 1798; Maj., 21st Light Dragoons 17 May 1798; retd. 29 Jul 1802; served in North America 1797; Lieut. -Col., Loyal Lusitanian Legion, Portugal Dec 1808 – Oct 1809, under command of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); Commandant, Almeida 1809; re-entered Army as Cornet, 12th Light Dragoons 27 Jun 1811; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 26 Sep 1811; Capt., 14 Dec 1815; 7th Light Dragoons 8 Mar 1820; retd. 29 Mar 1820; present at battle of Waterloo; m. 17 Jan 1805 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Taylor, Bart., Lysson Hall, Jamaica; d. at Brussels 11 Dec 1843, aged 68.