MORDAUNT, HON. HARRY, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (qv); b. 29 Mar 1663; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1676; tried at the Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with David Jones and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for murder of a bailiff, but acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 – void 1687; BA 1684; Lieut. of a corps of Christ Church and other men who trained privately in Peckwater Quadrangle during the panic caused by Monmouth’s rebellion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cii-ciii); adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1673/4; Col. of a Regt. of Foot 25 Apr 1694; Commander in Chief, Guernsey 1 Apr 1697; Treasurer of the Ordnance 8 Jun 1699 – Jun 1702, 28 May 1705 – Jun 1712, and from 2 Dec 1714; Brig. -Gen., 29 Aug 1704; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1706; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1709; MP Brackley Jan 1691/2-8, Jan 1700/1-2, 1705-8, Richmond from 1708; m. 1st, Margaret, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart.; m. 2nd, Penelope, dau. of William Tipping, Ewelme, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1719/20 (M. I. Dauntsey, Wilts. ).
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MORGAN, SIR CHARLES, BART., elder son of King Gould, Westminster, Deputy Judge Advocate Gen., and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Shaw, Besthorpe, Norfolk; b. 25 Apr 1726; adm. Sep 1735; KS 1739; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – Feb 1753, Faculty Student 1 Feb 1753 – res 22 Dec 1757; BA 1747; MA 1750; DCL 8 Jul 1773; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jan 1742/3, called to bar 20 Nov 1750; Deputy Judge Advocate Gen. 1754-69, Judge Advocate Gen. 1769 – res Feb 1806; Chancellor, Diocese of Salisbury 1772-99; MP Brecon Apr 1778 – Jun 1787, Breconshire Jun 1787-1806; knighted 5 May 1779; created baronet 15 Nov 1792; assumed surname of Morgan in lieu of Gould 16 Nov 1792, on his wife inheriting estates of Morgan family in South Wales; Privy Councillor 22 Sep 1802; m. 18 Feb 1758 Jane, eldest dau. of Thomas Morgan MP, Ruperra, Glamorgan, Lord Lieut., Monmouthshire and Breconshire; d. 7 Dec 1806. DNB.
MORGAN, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (qv); b. 4 Feb 1760; adm. 1 Feb 1771; KS 1774; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 21 Nov 1777; Lieut. and Capt., 22 Mar 1781; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 14 May 1790; retd. 4 Dec 1792; served in American war, and taken prisoner at Yorktown; MP Brecon Dec 1787-96, Monmouthshire 1796-1831; assumed surname and arms of Morgan in lieu of Gould 20 Nov 1792; succ. father as 2nd baronet 6 Dec 1806; DCL Oxford 13 Jun 1834; “a staunch supporter of the agricultural interest of Monmouthshire”; m. 6 Apr 1791 Mary Magdalene, only child of Capt. George Stoney, Royal Navy; d. 5 Dec 1846.
MOSTYN, JOHN, brother of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1722; KS 1723; Capt. of the School 1727; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 – deprived 10 Dec 1734 (absence); Ensign, 16th Foot 29 Feb 1732; Capt., 6 Nov 1736; Capt. -Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 2 Sep 1742; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2 Apr 1743; wounded at battle of Fontenoy 1745; Brevet Col. and ADC to George II 3 Dec 1747 (listed as ADC, Chamberlayne 1748); Col., 7th Foot (Royal Fusiliers) 26 Jan 1751 – Jul 1754, 13th Dragoons 8 Jul 1754 – Oct 1758; Maj. -Gen., 8 Jul 1757; Col., 5th Dragoons 18 Oct 1758 – Aug 1760; Lieut. -Gen., 8 Apr 1759; Col., 7th Dragoons 18 Aug 1760 – May 1763, 1st Dragoon Guards, from 13 May 1763; Gen., 25 May 1772; MP Malton 30 Dec 1741-68; Groom of the Bedchamber from 20 Jan 1746; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Minorca, from 2 Mar 1768; defendant in 1773 in an action successfully brought by Anthony Fabrigas, who he had banished from the island (Howell, State Trials, xx, 81-238); d. 13 Feb 1779. DNB.
MOYSEY, ABEL, son of Abel Moysey MD, Bath, and Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, medical practitioner, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Fortrie, Vicar of Washington, Sussex; b. 23 Aug 1743; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 12) 1756; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1760, matr. 9 Jun 1760, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1760 – void 25 Jun 1774; BA 1764; MA 1767; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Feb 1758, called to bar 31 Mar 1767, Bencher 18 Jun 1802, Treasurer 1811; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1771-4; Second Justice of Brecon 1777-1819; Deputy to King’s Remembrancer, Exchequer 16 Jun 1795-1824; one of the four Registrars of Deeds, Middlesex 1796-1813; MP Bath 1774-90; m. 26 Dec 1774 Charlotte, fourth dau. of Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Bart. MP; d. 3 Jul 1831.
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.
MYLLES, JOHN, fourth son of Francis Mylles, Bitterne, Hampshire, Clerk of the Privy Seal, and Alice, dau. of Richard James, Newport, Isle of Wight; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1620, matr. 12 Oct 1621, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1644; BA 6 Feb 1623/4; MA 1626; BCL 1631; DCL 5 Jan 1648/9; adm. Middle Temple 19 Mar 1640/1; Judge Advocate-Gen. of Parliamentary Army 1644-51 and Jan – Dec 1660; one of Parliamentary Commissioners for surrender of Oxford 1646; a Parliamentary Visitor of University of Oxford 1 May 1647; one of the twenty Delegates appointed by the Proctors 19 May 1648; Canon of Christ Church (although not in holy orders) 12 Apr 1648 – ejection Jan 1650/1, for refusing to take the Engagement; restored to Canonry by Parliament 13 Mar 1659/60, but deprived by King’s Delegates Jul 1660; advocate, Doctors’ Commons 3 Jul 1650; MP Oxford University 1659-60; Chancellor, Diocese of Norwich, from 1661; d. Mar 1676.
NEWDIGATE, SIR ROGER, BART., brother of Sir Edward Newdigate, Bart. (qv); b. 30 May 1719; adm. Oct 1727; KS (Capt. ) 1732; succ. brother as 5th baronet 4 Apr 1734; left Jan 1736; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Apr 1736; MA 1738; DCL 13 Apr 1749; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1738-40; of Harefield Place, Middlesex, and Arbury, Warwickshire; MP Middlesex 5 Aug 1742-7, Oxford University 31 Jan 1751-80; again travelling in Europe 1774-6; a staunch Tory, described in 1767 by Horace Walpole as a “half-converted Jacobite”; interested in architecture and classical sculpture; a benefactor of University Coll. and of the Radcliffe Library; founded Newdigate Prize for English verse at Oxford Univ. 1806; m. 1st, 31 May 1743 Sophia, dau. of Edward Conyers MP, Copped Hall, Epping, Essex; m. 2nd, 3 Jun 1776 Hester Margaretta, dau. of Edward Mundy, Shipley, Derbs.; d. 20 Nov 1806. DNB.
NORRIS, SIR WILLIAM, BART., second son of Thomas Norris MP, Speke, Lancashire, and Catherine, dau. of Sir Henry Garroway, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; b.; adm.; KS in 1672; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1675, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1675, scholar 1676; BA 1678/9; MA 1682; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1681 – c. 1690, Tutor 1687; took part in struggle with James II against the admission of Roman Catholics to Cambridge Univ. 1687; MP Liverpool 1695 – Nov 1701; a Commissioner of Public Accounts 1697; created baronet 3 Dec 1698; sent out to India as King’s Commissioner to obtain trading privileges from the Mogul Emperor for the New General Society (otherwise English Company); landed at Masulipatam Sep 1699, but was not able to secure an audience with the Emperor Aurungzeb until 28 Apr 1701; after repeated interviews Norris left the Mogul camp in Nov 1701 without having achieved the objects of his mission; was forcibly detained for two months at Burhampuri, and not allowed to proceed until Feb 1701/2; sailed for England in ship Scipio 5 May 1702; lic. to m. 13 Dec 1689 Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas Pollexfen and of Isaac Meynell, both of London, and dau. of Robert Reade, Cheshunt, Herts.; d. 10 Oct 1702 on voyage back from India, and was buried at sea. DNB.
NOWELL, LAURENCE, son of Alexander Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and Grace, dau. of Rafe Catherall, Mitton, Lancs.; a kinsman of Alexander Nowell, Head Master; b. c. 1531 (aged 19 at 12 Apr 1550); adm.; KS; left 1549 (Chapter Muniments); Christ Church, Oxford, residing 1550-3, Student in 1552-3 (name in college buttery books to 24 Dec 1554); BA 1552; studying and travelling in France and Flanders 1553-4; tutor to “Mr. Harringeton’s sons” (perhaps sons of Sir James Harington, Exton, Rutland) in France and at Padua, Italy, before Dec 1558; probably the individual of this name who was MP Knaresborough Jan – May 1559; joined household of William Cecil c. 1562; a pioneer cartographer and one of the earliest scholars to take a serious interest in manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period; left England 25 Mar 1567; subsequent travels on the European continent took him to Paris, Venice, Padua, Vienna, Basel, Leipzig (by Aug 1569) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Oct 1569); not subsequently heard of; his chattels in England had been left by him in the possession of his close friend and fellow antiquary William Lambarde, who was asked to hand them over to Nowell’s family in a complaint filed in the Court of Requests in 1571; his Vocabularium Saxonicum, surviving in manuscript, was first published in 1952; William Camden describes him as “vir rara doctrina insignis, & qui Saxonicam maiorum nostrorum linguam … primus nostra aetate resuscitavit”; for his career and scholarly achievement see Carl T. Berkhout, “Laurence Nowell (1530 – ca. 1570)”, in Helen Damico (and others) (ed), Medieval scholarship, Biographical, Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, New York, 1998.