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Chapter 02

The U.S. Economy

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to measure what a country produces, we:

A. Summarize total output in physical terms.

B. Count units of output.

C. Count the weight of different products.

D. Summarize the monetary value of output.

2. GDP can be found by:

A. Adding the monetary value of all final goods and services produced during a given period of

time.

B. Adding the physical amount of all final goods and services produced during a given period of

time.

C. Taking the difference between exports and imports during a given period of time.

D. Adding the value of all final output produced and measuring it in constant prices during a given
period of time.

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3. Ceteris paribus GDP most closely measures:

A. Output per worker.

B. A summary of the world's output.

C. The total value of all final goods and services produced within a nation's borders in a given year.

D. The rate of change in capital stock.

4. The output of cell phones can be added to the output of refrigerators in order to compute GDP

by:

A. Multiplying the output of each by the corresponding prices and adding these dollar values.

B. Dividing the output of each by price and adding these dollar values.

C. Adding up the physical number of cell phones and refrigerators produced.

D. Dividing dollar values of output for each by price and adding the results.

5. Country's GDP is:

A. The sum of the physical amounts of goods and services in the economy.

B. A dollar measure of output produced within a nation's borders during a given time period.

C. A measure of the per capita economic growth rate of the economy.

D. A physical measure of the capital stock of the economy.

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6. Which of the following is NOT included in U.S. GDP?

A. Toys produced by a U.S. firm located in China.

B. Beer brewed in Colorado and purchased by a German tourist.

C. A car made by a Japanese auto producer in Kansas.

D. Corn grown in Iowa and exported to Africa.

7. Which of the following is NOT included in U.S. GDP?

A. The construction of new homes to replace those destroyed by fires in California.

B. The salary of the President of the United States.

C. Shoes produced abroad and imported by a U.S. company.

D. The purchase of U.S. soybeans by a food manufacturer in Canada.

8. The value of output produced in the United States in current prices measures:

A. GDP growth.

B. Real GDP.

C. Per capita GDP.

D. Nominal GDP.

9. Nominal GDP measures the:

A. Inflation-adjusted value of output.

B. Real value of output per worker.

C. Value of output produced in current prices.

D. Value of output produced in constant prices.

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1794; studied music at Vienna; arrived in England 28 May 1821,
gave a concert at the Argyle rooms 4 July 1821; came to England
again 1822, where he became a teacher of music and a public
performer on the piano; m. 1 March 1825 at Hamburg, Charlotte
Emden; a director of the Philharmonic soc. 1832, conductor 1841
and 1845; conducted the musical festival at Birmingham 1846;
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of music at Leipzig conservatoire 21 Oct. 1846 to death; his name is
attached to 140 compositions, chiefly variations on popular airs for
the piano 1820–70; among his compositions are Grand variations on
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May 1885.
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Taunton 1827; professor of natural and experimental philosophy
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1841, chaplain of the college 31 Oct. 1831 to 8 Nov. 1833; an
inspector of normal schools 12 Jany. 1844 to 1853; resident canon
of Bristol cathedral June 1853 to death; V. of Olveston, Gloucs.
1854 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 14 May 1855 to
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hydrodynamics, Cambridge 1830; A treatise on mechanics applied
to the arts 1834, 3 ed. 1847; Lectures on astronomy 1839, 4 ed.
1854; The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture
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London; member of government Eclipse expedition to Ceylon
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the world 21 Dec. 1872 to 24 May 1876; fellow of Exeter coll. 30
June 1876 to 1882; reported for an English company on certain
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1881; fellow of Merton coll. Oxf. 1882; F.L.S. 1880; F.R.G.S. 1881;
with A. Sedgwick and others edited Quarterly journal of
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1828; a banker, Liverpool; m. 1847 Amy Charlotte, heiress of
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26 March 1851; chairman of Liverpool constitutional assoc. 1866;
chairman of South Lancashire conservative assoc. 1879; created
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MOSS, T C E - (2 son of preceding). b. 7 April
1855; ed. Eton 1868, captain of the boats 1873; at Brasenose coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; rowed in Oxford and Cambridge races
1875–8; with W. A. Ellison took silver goblets at Henley 1878;
twice gained diamond sculls 1877–8; contested amateur
championship of England 1877; coached many of the Oxford
oarsmen; president of Oxf. univ. boat club; lieut. Lancashire hussars
yeomanry cavalry 18 May 1881, captain 1891 to death. M.P.
Widnes division of Lancs. 1885–92. d. Otterspool near Liverpool 16
Dec. 1893.
MOSSMAN, J (son of George Mossman, sculptor). b. London 1816
or 1817; ed. at Leith; a pupil of baron Carlo Marochetti; exhibited 6
figures at R.A. London 1868–79; executed in Glasgow statues of sir
Robert Peel, Dr. Livingstone, Thomas Campbell and Dr. Norman
Macleod. d. Port Bannatyne near Glasgow 22 Sept. 1890.
MOSSMAN, T W (eld. son of Robert Hume Mossman,
schoolmaster). b. Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire 1826; ed. at St.
Edmund hall, Oxf., B.A. 1849; C. of Donington-on-Bain and
Market Stainton, Lincs. 1849; C. of Panton Dec. 1851; V. of Ranby,
Lincs. 1854; R. of East Torrington and V. of West Torrington, Lincs.
1859 to death; founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer for
poor students wishing to take holy orders, at Torrington 1866, it was
not approved of by the bishop of Lincoln, removed to Newcastle-
on-Tyne where it collapsed; hon. D.D. Univ. of the Southern States
of America 1881; an extreme ritualist, member of the Order of
Corporate Reunion, being one of its prelates and assuming the title
of bishop of Selby; was received into R.C. church during his last
illness by cardinal Manning 1885; author of A glossary of the
principal words used in a figurative, typical or mystical sense in the
holy scriptures 1854; A history of the Catholic church of Jesus
Christ from the death of St. John to the middle of the second
century 1873, further parts never published; The primacy of St.
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Cornelius á Lapide, translated with the assistance of various
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July p. 555; Tablet 18 July 1885 p. 103.
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his grand uncle as 2 baronet 26 May 1795; M.P. for the Flint
boroughs 1806–7 and 1812–31; M.P. for Beaumaris 1808–12;
sheriff for counties of Flint, Carnarvon and Merioneth; lieut. col.
commandant Flintshire militia; created baron Mostyn of Mostyn co.
Flint 10 Sept. 1831. d. Pengwern near St. Asaph 3 April 1854.
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by R.L. 9 May 1831; with Queen of Trumps won the Oaks and the
St. Leger 1835; lord lieut. of Merioneth 25 Jany. 1840; col. of
Merioneth county militia 1847–52; vice admiral of North Wales
1854; purchased lord George Bentinck’s entire stud for £10,000
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crown and treasury solicitor for Ireland 1859 to death; grand
treasurer to grand lodge of Ireland 1859 to death, his portrait is in
masonic hall, Molesworth st. Dublin. d. Killiney 19 Sept. 1868. bur.
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 24 Sept.
MOSTYN, T . Hospital assistant in the army 19 Nov. 1810;
surgeon 27 foot 6 Oct. 1825 to 12 May 1857; surgeon major 1 Oct.
1858; placed on half pay as honorary deputy inspector general 7
Dec. 1858; honorary surgeon to the queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death;
served in the Peninsula Jany. 1811 to 1814, and at Waterloo; served
in American war 1814, and in Kaffir wars 1834–5 and 1846–7;
received the war medals with 8 clasps. d. Alpha house, Fairview,
Dublin 6 July 1871.
MOSTYN, T E M -L (1 son of 2 baron Mostyn
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May 1869, recalled Nov. 1870; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1860, LL.D.
Cambridge; resided in England 1868 to death; author of The rise of
the Dutch republic, a history 3 vols. 1855; History of the United
Netherlands 4 vols. 1860–8; The life and death of John of
Barneveld, advocate of Holland 2 vols. 1874. d. Kingston Russell
near Dorchester, England 29 May 1877. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4
June. J. L. Motley, a memoir By O. W. Holmes (1878); Rev. Peter
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MOTT, C . Assistant poor law comr. at Bolton, where his report
was criticised by Dr. J. Bowring, M.P., got into trouble about the
Keighley union and was removed from his office; manager of
lunatic asylum at Haydock lodge; auditor of the South Lancashire
poor law district to his death, where he suffered from the
defalcations of the collector at Hyde; published Report from the
poor law commissioners relative to statements concerning
management of the workhouse at Eye, Suffolk 1838. d. of paralysis
12 May 1851.
MOTTERAM, J (son of Charles Motteram of Edgbaston,
Birmingham, merchant). b. 16 May 1817; ed. at Solihull gr. sch.;
barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851, bencher June 1880 to death; Q.C. 28
June 1875; judge of county courts, circuit 21 (Birmingham, &c.)
June 1876 to death; his widow Augusta Thérèse dau. of Auguste
Colbrant of Fontainbleau, was granted civil list pension of £75 24
May 1890; author of Is it desirable to extend, and if so, how far the
civil jurisdiction of local courts, read at Social Science Congress
1882; The jurisdiction of local courts, and other pamphlets. d.
Maney house near Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 20 Sept. 1884.
MOTTERSHEAD, T . b. 1826; a silk weaver, London; a member
of the radical party in London; contested Preston 5 Feb. 1874; the
radical candidate for the new borough of Clerkenwell 1884,
fractured his skull by falling down stairs at the offices of the Liberty
and defence league, 4 Westminster chambers and died the same day
at the Westminster hospital 5 Dec. 1884.
MOTTRAM, C . b. 9 April 1807; engraved plates in the line
manner after sir Edwin Landseer and others; engraved mezzotint
plates after T. J. Barker and others; engraved many plates in the
mixed style after W. H. Hunt, sir E. Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and
others; exhibited 7 engravings at R.A. 1861–77. d. 92 High st.
Camden Town, London 30 Aug. 1876.
MOULD, J W . b. Chiselhurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s college,
London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen Jones, architect,
studying the Alhambra; designed with him Moresque-Turkish divan
of Buckingham palace and the decorations of the great exhibition of
1851; designed and built All Soul’s church, New York 1853;
assistant architect of public works New York 1857, chief architect
1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874, but returned after a few years;
translated the libretti of La Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville
1856, Hernani 1857, Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula
1865; illustrated vol. 2 of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and
assisted him in his Grammar of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions
of Gray’s Elegy in a country churchyard 1846, and The book of
common prayer 1849. d. New York 14 June 1886.
MOULD, J . b. Bodmin 1814; contributed to the Falmouth
newspapers 1833; on the Ipswich press 1837; on parliamentary staff
of London Morning Herald 1841, and of the Standard to 1887;
manager of Standard parliamentary staff and summary writer 1865–
87; author of Lives of and politics of British statesmen 1854 anon.
d. 19 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 5 Jany. 1889.
MOULE, H (6 son of George Moule of Melksham, Wiltshire,
solicitor). b. Melksham 27 Jany. 1801; ed. at Marlborough and St.
John’s coll. Camb., foundation scholar; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; C.
of Melksham 1823; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1825–9; V. of
Fordington, Dorset 1829 to death; chaplain to the troops in
Dorchester barracks some years, for whose use he built in 1846 a
church known as Ch. Ch. West Fordington; invented the dry earth
closet system, which process he patented with James Bannehr 28
May 1860, his system has been adopted in military camps, in many
hospitals, and extensively in India; author of Barrack sermons
preached at Dorchester 1847; Manure for the million, to the cottage
gardeners of England 1861, eleventh thousand 1870; The
advantages of the dry earth system 1868; National health and wealth
promoted by the general adoption of the dry earth system 1873. d.
Fordington vicarage 3 Feb. 1880. H. C. G. Moule’s Sermons on the
death of H. Moule (1880) 5–13; Chambers’s Encyclopædia x 731–3
(1874).
MOULE, H M (4 son of the preceding). b. 1832; ed. Trin.
coll. Oxf., scholar 1851–54; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb.;
Hulsean prizeman 1858, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assistant master at
Marlborough 1865; author of Essays, verses, etc. by H. M. Moule
and others, Fordington Times soc. 1859; Christian oratory, an
inquiry into its history 1859; The Roman republic, a review of the
salient points in its history 1860. d. 1873.
MOULE, J . b. 1794; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 4 Bengal
N.I. 1 June 1812, lieut. 19 Jany. 1816; captain 23 N.I. 29 April
1826, major 30 June 1840 to 1 April 1846; lieut. col. 46 N.I. 1 April
1846–49, of 5 N.I. 1849–51, of 10 N.I. 1851–2, of 11 N.I. 1852–5,
of 67 N.I. 1855–6, of 33 N.I. 1856–61, and of 4 N.I. 1861 to death;
commandant at Sealkote 11 May 1855, at Ferozepore 2 July 1856 to
18 Dec. 1857; M.G. 27 Jany. 1858. d. Belmont, Melksham,
Wiltshire 4 April 1867.
MOULE, J (son of John Moule). b. 23 Jany. 1797; ed. at Merchant
Taylor’s sch.; superintending president of general post office,
Edinburgh June 1822, retired Feb. 1855; sergeant at arms in H.M.’s
household 1822 to death; author of Two letters to the members of
the congregation of St. James’s chapel, Edinburgh with reference to
D. T. K. Drummond, 2 pamphlets 1843, and of Memoirs of
celebrated authors prefixed to the Naturalist’s Library, 40 volumes
1843. d. Maismore sq. Peckham, Surrey 23 June 1855.
MOULE, T . b. St. Marylebone, London 14 Jany. 1784; bookseller
in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. 1816–23; a clerk in the general post
office, where he was inspector of blind letters, retired after 44 years
service; chamber-keeper in the lord chamberlain’s department 1822
to death; member of the Numismatic Society; author of A table of
dates for the use of genealogists and antiquaries 1820 anon;
Bibliotheca heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ, an analytical catalogue of
books in genealogy, heraldry, &c. 1822; Antiquities in Westminster
abbey 1825; The English counties delineated, or a topographical
description of England, 2 vols. 1837; Heraldry of Fish 1842;
contributed the letter-press to Hewetson’s Views of noble mansions
in Hampshire 1825. d. Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, London 14
June 1851. G.M. xxxvi 210 (1851).
MOULLIN, E (dau. of M. Greillard). b. Caen, Normandy; fled to
England after the coup d’etat of 1852; published anonymously a
brochure Le Berceau du communisme en Perse, etudes historiques
et philosophiques; wrote essays in English periodicals; m. M.
Moullin. d. 8 Dec. 1855.
MOULTRIE, G (eld. son of rev. John Moultrie, the succeeding). b.
Rugby rectory 16 Sept. 1829; ed. at Rugby and Exeter coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856; 3 master and chaplain at Shrewsbury
school; C. of Brightwaltham 1859; C. of Brinfield, Berks 1860;
chaplain to donative of Barrow Gurney, Bristol 1864–9; V. of
Southleigh, Oxfordshire 1869; warden of St. James’s college,
Southleigh 1873 to death; edited The primer set forth at large for the
use of the faithful in family and private prayer 1864; author of
Hymns and lyrics for the seasons and saints’ days of the church
1867; The espousals of St. Dorothea and other verses 1870. d. St.
James’s college, Southleigh 25 April 1885. Church Times 1 May
1885 p. 345; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 771–2.
MOULTRIE, J (eld. son of George Moultrie rector of Cleobury
Mortimer, Shropshire). b. 31 Great Portland st. London, the
residence of Mrs. Fendall 30 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–19, where
he edited Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving contributed under
pseudonym of Gerard Montgomery, his best verses to The Etonian
1820–1; a commoner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822;
Bell’s Univ. scholar 1828; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Rugby 10
June 1825 to death, had the parsonage rebuilt and went to reside
1828; canon of Worcester 1864; author of Poems 1837, 3 ed. 1852;
The dream of life, lays of the English church and other poems 1843;
The black fence, a lay of modern Rome 1850, 4 ed. 1851; St. Mary,
the virgin and wife 1850; Altars, hearths, and graves 1854; wrote
many hymns, most of which are in B. H. Kennedy’s Hymnologia
Christiana 1863. d. Rugby rectory 26 Dec. 1874. bur. in parish
church, to which an aisle was added in his memory. John Moultrie’s
Poems, 2 vols. (1876) memoir by rev. Derwent Coleridge vol. i pp.
v–lxxxiv; Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians (1876) 620–4;
Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 772.
MOUNSEY, A H . Attaché at Lisbon 1857, at Hanover
1861, and at Vienna 1862; 3 sec. in diplomatic service 1862, 2 sec.
and transferred to Teheran 1865; sec. to British member of
commission at Vienna on the Austrian tariff 1 March to 30 June
1865; sec. at Florence 1868, and at Vienna 1870; acting chargé d’
affaires at Vienna 31 Jany. to 26 Feb. 1873; acting consul general at
Buda-Pesth 22 Oct. 1873 to 5 Jany. 1874, and at Paris 14 Sept.
1875; sec. of legation at Yedo 10 Feb. 1876, and at Athens 22 July
1878; minister resident and consul general at Bogota 26 April 1881;
author of A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia
1872; The Satsuma rebellion, an episode of Japanese history 1879.
d. Bogota, Colombia 10 April 1882. Foreign Office List 1882 p.
151.
MOUNTAIN, A S H (5 son of Jacob Mountain 1749–
1825, first protestant bishop of Quebec). b. Quebec 4 Feb. 1797;
ensign 97 foot 20 July 1815; lieut. on h.p. 3 Dec. 1818; travelled in
Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy 1820–3; lieut. 52 foot 24
April 1823; captain 76 foot 26 May 1825; brevet major 30 Dec.
1826; major 26 foot 25 Dec. 1828, lieut. col. 23 June 1840 to 8
March 1848; lieut. col. 29 foot 8 March 1848 to 8 Feb. 1850;
military secretary on staff of sir Colin Halkett at Bombay 21 March
1832 to 1833; A.D.C. to lord Wm. Bentinck at Bombay 1833–4;
deputy adjutant general to the land forces sent from India to China
during the war 1840–2, and was present at all the chief
engagements; A.D.C. to the queen June 1845; military secretary to
lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India, Aug. 1847; commanded
a brigade in the second Sikh war; present at battles of Chillianwalla
and Guzerat; adjutant general at Simla, March 1849; contributed
chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian,
Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. d. Futtyghur, Bengal
18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at
Futtyghur. Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain, edited by Mrs. A.
S. H. Mountain (1857) portrait.
MOUNTAIN, G J (brother of the preceding). b.
Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D.
1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of
Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817;
archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb.
1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had
charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was
made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850;
bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the
Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville
for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The
journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church
missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed.
1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a
portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847;
Sermons 1865. d. Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. A. W. Mountain’s
Memoir of G. J. Mountain (1866) portrait; F. Taylor’s The last three
bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada (1870)
131–86 portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 447–8 (1888)
portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis (1867) 284–7; I.L.N. xli
576, 587 (1862) portrait.
MOUNTAIN, J G (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain
1788–1872). b. 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school,
Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41;
rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A.
1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went
to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay
1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to
death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of
cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. d. St. John’s,
Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. bur. St. John’s cemetery. Lives of
missionaries, North America (1864) 206–52.
MOUNTAIN, J H B (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–
1863). b. Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810,
M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March
1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham,
Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of
Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany.
1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A
tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of
Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A
summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia
Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters
ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to
Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman
empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. d. Blunham rectory 8 Sept.
1872. The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p. 1324.
MOUNT CASHELL, S M , 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of
Mount Cashell 1770–1822). b. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug.
1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord
Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish
representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. d. Oxford terrace,
Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 405 (1883)
portrait.
MOUNT EDGCUMBE, E A E , 3 Earl of (2 son
of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill,
Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30
March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo
medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–
26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P.
Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia
17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to
Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her
coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special
deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831
Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b.
Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of
Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of
Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement
of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill
1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court
of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Countess.
MOUNTFORD, W . b. Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at
Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went
to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author
of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846;
Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life
therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy
talks towards the end of life 1874. d. Boston, Massachusetts 20
April 1885.
MOUNTMORRES, H D M 4 Viscount (only son of
Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–
1833). b. Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin
univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount
23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of
Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany.
1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the
established church and subscription to the articles especially in
relation to Ireland 1842. d. The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23
Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 115 (1872).
MOUNTMORRES, W B D M , 5 Viscount
(1 son of the preceding). b. Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832;
ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany.
1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations
with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. murdered with 6
bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880.
bur. Monkstown. Graphic xxii 356 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 361
(1880) portrait.
MOUNTSOY, A . b. Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English
war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy
where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at
bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off
the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield
in Dec. 1891. Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p. 14 portrait.
MOUNT TEMPLE, W F C T , 1 Baron (2 son
of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811;
ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt.
1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister
1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a
lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany.
1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855;
president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept.
1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council
on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade
and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public
works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount
Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname
of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of
viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill
explained 1858. d. Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888.
The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct. (1888); I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp.
481, 482 portrait.
MOUTRIE, W F C . Pianoforte maker at 4 King st.
High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133
Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77
Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical
instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these
distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord
Palmerston Oct. 1853. d. 1869.
MOWAT, J L G (3 son of rev. James Mowat,
wesleyan minister, d. 1881). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846;
educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869,
M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior
bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885;
curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln
coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a
botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the
Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota
Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-
botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864;
A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the
Oxfordshire domesday 1892. hung himself at Pembroke college 7
Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity.
The Times 9 Aug. 1894.
MOWATT, A M . b. 1838; on the press in Aberdeen;
connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in
repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow
Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. d. Liverpool 21 June 1869.
Newspaper Press iii 181 (1869).
MOWATT, A C (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New
York, d. 1860). b. Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; m. 6
Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who
became bankrupt and d. Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb.
1851 aged 45; she m. (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of
Richmond, Virginia, who d. 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park
theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal,
Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as
Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the
Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18
Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice;
her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3
June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley
1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy
1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. d.
Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. Howitt’s Journal iii 146, 167, 181
portrait; Ireland’s New York stage ii, 437–8, 729 (1867); Tallis’
Drawing room table book 1851, Part 2 pp. 9–11 two portraits;
Theatrical Times iii 162, 169 (1848) portrait; A. C. Mowatt’s
Autobiography of an actress (1854) portrait; Appleton’s American
biography iv 450 (1888) portrait.
MOWBRAY, A J S , 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron
Stourton 1802–72). b. 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry
cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872;
summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord
Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been
terminated in his favour. d. Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré,
Paris 18 Apl. 1893.
MOWBRAY, A R . b. Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St.
Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at
Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at
Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2
Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a
branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on
a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican
missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for
illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the
reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of
illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer
triptych, a card 1879. d. 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. bur.
Holywell cemet. Guide to the church congress (1883) 51.
MOXON, E (son of Michael Moxon). bapt. in Wakefield parish
church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in
the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7;
employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard
1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st.
1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April
1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album
Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s
Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834;
Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840;
Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series
of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c. author of The
Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets,
two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles
Lamb, By E. M. 1835. d. Putney Heath 3 June 1858. bur.
Wimbledon churchyard. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873)
347–62; Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 229–35 and 257; P.W.
Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii 46, 458 (1889).
N .—Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s
works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go d.” The
jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. W. C. Townsend’s Modern
state trials ii 356–92 (1850).

MOXON, E (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of


Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. d.
Cambridge Oct. 1814). b. 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs.
Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and
was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb
taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown
maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson
Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds
1829; m. 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58;
after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s
savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock
purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an
annuity of £250 a year. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. bur. Brighton
cemet. 5 Feb. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 203 portrait; The
correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell,
aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter (1870); A.
Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i 341, ii 172, 365 (1888); Law Reports
8, Chancery 881–8 (1873).
MOXON, J H H (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover
terrace, Regent’s park, London). b. Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand
challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold
medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher
of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association;
author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. d.
suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883.
Baily’s Mag. xl 415 (1883).
MOXON, W (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). b.
Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in
London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D.
1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant
physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on
pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the
hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian
lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical
medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures
on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers
1887. d. 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a
dose of hydrocyanic acid. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 July. British
medical journal 1886 vol. ii 178, 234, 392, 434.
MOYLAN, D . Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9
and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector
general of rates 1870. d. 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.
MOYLE, J G (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–
1828). b. Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant
surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820,
superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board,
Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. d. 23 Blomfield
terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.
MOYLE, M P (2 son of John Moyle). b. Chacewater,
Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote
papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a
paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any
engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with
Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and
experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been
made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s
Philosophical Magazine 1823. d. Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.
MOYSEY, C A (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., d.
1831). b. 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C.
of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of
Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39;
archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of
Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839;
author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures
1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice
from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to
the Romans 1830. d. Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

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