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MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP, eldest son of Alexander Macleay FRS, Speaker, Legislative Council, New South Wales, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Barclay of Urie [county]; b. 30 Jul 1792; adm. 19 Apr 1806; left 1810; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810; BA 1814; MA 1818; attaché, British Embassy, Paris; Secretary to Board for liquidating British claims in France 1815; attached to Mixed British and Spanish Court for abolition of Slave Trade, Havana 1825-37, successively as Commissioner of Arbitration 1825, Commissary Judge 1830, and Judge 1836 – ret 1 Feb 1837; went to live in New South Wales, Australia 1839; a distinguished zoologist; author, Horae Entomologicae, 1819-21, and other works; d. unm. at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jan 1865. DNB.

MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 29 Jul 1809; adm. 8 Jul 1822; family correspondence indicates that he was expelled Feb 1827; went out to Australia 1827; accompanied Sturt on the expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829-30; farmed Brownlow Hill estate, New South Wales 1831-59; member, Legislative Council, New South Wales 1851-6, Legislative Assembly 1856-9; CMG 30 Jun 1869; KCMG 5 Mar 1875; returned to England 1859; subsequently resident in south of France; interested in horticulture, zoology and the fine arts; member, Society of Dilettanti 1869; m. 1st, 1842 Barbara St. Clair, dau. of James Innes, Thrumster, Caithness; m. 2nd, 15 Jan 1890 Augusta Annie, dau. of William Gardner Sams, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; d. at Menton, France 24 Jun 1891. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay.

MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 15 Apr 1811; adm. 8 Jul 1822; KS 1825; family correspondence indicated that he left in Christmas 1827; Secretary to British Legation, Chile 1838; Registrar, Mixed Commission at Cape of Good Hope for Suppression of Slave Trade Jan 1843- May 1858; m. 1837 Amelia Savage; d. 28 Oct 1892. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay. [1881 Census records wife as born Mauritius]

MARSH, GEORGE THOMAS, brother of Matthew Henry Marsh (qv); b. 6 Aug 1812; adm. 11 Jan 1825 (G); KS 1826; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1830, Canoneer Student 1830; BA 1834; MA 1838; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1835, priest (Bath & Wells) 1836; Vicar of Sutton Benger, Wilts., from 1836; Rector of Foxley, Wilts., from 1840; m. Frances Elizabeth, sister of Douglas Macdonald (qv); d. at Nice 24 Feb 1862.

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, FREDERICK, third son of John Markham (adm. 1768, qv); b. 16 Aug 1805; adm. 15 Jun 1814; KS 1820; expelled for a scrape which he got into when boating in Apr 1824 (A Naval Career during the Old War, 1883, pp 275-6); Ensign, 32nd Foot 13 May 1824; Lieut., 22 Oct 1825; Capt., 16 Apr 1829; Maj., 28 Sep 1839; Lieut. -Col., 22 Jul 1842; Brevet Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 2 Aug 1850; Maj. -Gen., 28 Nov 1854; Lieut. -Gen., local rank, 30 Jul 1855; second to Capt. Smyth, 32nd Foot, in his fatal duel with Standish O’Grady 18 Mar 1830, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol; served in Lower Canada during insurrection of 1837, wounded at St. Denis; served in Punjab campaign 1848-9, wounded at siege of Mooltan; CB 5 Jun 1849; Adjutant-Gen., British Army in India Mar – Nov 1854; appointed to command of Peshawar division, but recalled from India in 1854 to proceed to the Crimea; commanded Second Division in attack on the Redan 8 Sep 1855; shortly afterwards invalided home; author, Shooting in the Himalayas, 1854; d. unm. 21 Dec 1855. DNB.

MADDY, E.; b.; at school under Carey (name up School, 1806).

MIDDLETON, HENRY NICHOLAS, second son of Charles Atticus Monck (qv); b. 27 Jul 1845; adm. Jun 1854 (G); rowed v. Eton 2 Aug 1861, 1 Aug 1862; left Aug 1862; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 10 May 1864; Lieut., 1 Aug 1868; retd. Jun 1870; partner in firm Lambton & Co., bankers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from 1880 until the bank’s amalgamation with Lloyds Bank 1908; assumed surname of Middleton in lieu of Monck 12 Feb 1876; DL Northumberland, JP Northumberland 1881; Vice-Chairman, Northumberland County Council; JP Roxburghshire; m. 2 Mar 1872 Sophia Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir William Colles Meredith, Kt, Chief Justice of Quebec; d. 6 Dec 1928.

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.

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.