Dictionary of National Biography, 1904 errata/Volume 37
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N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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3 | i | 38 | Massey, Sir Edward: for Bruckthorpe read Brookthorpe |
ii | 4-5 | omit But his success . . . . failure. | |
7 | for was retaken read was reoccupied by the royalists but Massey returned on 14 Oct. and | ||
9-11 | for a musket; Monmouth . . . . the royalists read a musket, succeeded in dislodging the enemy, killing 30 and capturing 230 | ||
14 | for Lydney read Sir John Winter's house, near Lydney | ||
4 | ii | 34-35 | for does not seem to have gone read did not go |
24 | ii | 3 f.e. | Master, William: for Rudler's read Rudder's |
85 | ii | 15-25 | Maule, Fox, 2nd Baron Panmure: for and again under Lord Aberdeen . . . . the fall of Sebastopol. read When Lord Palmer ston formed an administration in Feb. 1855 Panmure took office as secretary for war, and it was thus under his direction that the Crimean war reached its termination. Although he was in no way responsible for the errors for which his predecessor in the department, the duke of Newcastle, was severely blamed by the press, all Panmure's acts were rigorously scrutinised. |
88 | i | 19 | Maule, Sir William H.: for 1810 Maule entered read 1806 Maule came into residence |
91 | i | 21 | Mauley, Peter de: for It was he read It was probably he |
20 f.e. | for Peter IV read Peter III | ||
96 | ii | 8-9 | Maurice, Prince: for the Earl of Forth read the Earl of Brentford and Forth |
99 | i | 22 | Maurice, Frederick D.: for the October following read November 1881 |
102 | i | 30 | omit in Great Ormond Street, Queen Square, |
31 | after pupils insert in Red Lion Square, afterwards removing to Great Ormond Street | ||
111 | ii | 10 f.e. | Mawson, Matthias: for Greene read Green |
114 | ii | 2 f.e. | Maxse, Sir Henry B. F.: for 1813 read 1873 |
121 | ii | 32 | Maxwell, James C.: for Jeens's engraving read G. J. Stodart's engraving |
138 | i | 18 f.e. | Maxwell, William H.: for Appleby read Apperley |
152 | i | 36 | Mayerne, Sir Theodore T. de: for 1661 read 1653 |
155 | i | 7-6 f.e. | Maynard, Sir John (1592-1658): for Estaines Parva read Little Easton |
ii | 24 | for Colne read Calne | |
160 | ii | 8 f.e. | Maynard, Sir John (1602-1690): for Adlington read Addington |
175 | i | 20 | Mayow, John: for (1643 read (1640 |
24 | for in May 1643 read on 24 May 1640 (Sloane MS. 1708, f. 117) | ||
184 | i | 4 | Mead, Richard: for son read nephew |
193 | ii | 2-1 f.e. | Meadows, Sir Philip: for one married Sir Thomas Powis, read Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Powys [q. v.], |
200 | ii | 9-8 f.e. | Mechi, John J.: for his affairs were put read Mechi was forced to place his affairs |
204 | i | 6 f.e. | Medland, Thomas: for (fl. 1777-1822) read (d. 1833) |
ii | 28 | after 1822. insert He died at Hertford 30 Oct. 1833 (Gent. Mag. 1833, ii. 476). | |
205 | i | 25 | Medley, John: for entered the church read was ordained deacon |
7 f.e. | for 1035 read 1835 | ||
225 | ii | 26 f.e. | Melmoth, William (1710-1799): for he read she |
229 | i | 12 f.e. | Melton, William de: after preacher insert and was for some time tutor to Fisher (cf. De Veritate Corporis, p. 327) |
8 f.e. | after Library, insert His wills and inventories are printed in 'Testamenta Eboracensia' (Surtees Soc.), pp. 251-63 | ||
ii | 20 | after p. 696 insert Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, viii. 291 | |
265 | ii | 6 f.e. | Mercer, John: for cotton-spinner read weaver |
273 | i | 23 | Meres, Francis: for (ib.) read (ib.; Yorkshire Record Series, vol. ii.) |
30 | after son insert Francis | ||
35 | for He seems to have had a son read The son | ||
36 | omit who | ||
274 | i | 13 f.e. | after presented insert for the speakership |
275 | i | 28 | Meres, John: after l. 28). insert He compiled a useful catalogue of English plays (London, 1713, 4to, with continuation, 1715). |
276 | ii | 15-14 f.e. | Merewether, Sir William L.: for he commanded . . . . Sind horse, read he was second in command of Sir George Malcolm's detachment of Sind horse, |
282 | i | 16 | Merivale, John H.: for the Rev. H. J. T. Drury read the Rev. Joseph Drury |
20 | for is read was | ||
21 | omit the present | ||
295 | ii | 37 | Merry, Robert: for Cambridge, read Cambridge, being admitted there 2 April 1771. |
40 | for was entered of Lincoln's Inn read studied at Lincoln's Inn, where he had been entered 5 Nov. 1770, | ||
303 | ii | 29 | Metcalf, John: for Boynes's read Boyne's |
305 | ii | 30-31 | Metcalfe, Charles T., Baron Metcalfe: for is in the Kingston town-hall, Jamaica, read by a Canadian artist, named Bradish, is in the court house at Falmouth, Jamaica. |
327 | ii | 24 | Michel, Sir John: for (now Sir Henry) read (afterwards Sir Harry) |
336 | i | 14 | Michell, Richard: after children, insert One daughter, Mary, married the third duke of Sutherland and subsequently Sir Albert Bollit, M.P. |
346 | i | 8 f.e. | Middleton, Conyers: for thus read then |
347 | i | 36 | for 'Letter to Rome' read 'Letter from Rome' |
352 | ii | 10 f.e. | Middleton, John, 1st Earl of Middleton: for 1673) read 1674) |
354 | i | 35 | for 1673 read June 1674 (Sloane MS. 3512, f. 79) |
357 | i | 18-19 | Middleton, Richard: for William Middleton, a D.D. of Paris read William of Meliton [q. v.] |
364 | i | 17 | Middleton, Thomas F.: for Sharpe read Sharp |
366 | i | 6 f.e. | Midgeley, Robert: after Spy,' insert has been doubtfully identified with the Robert Midgeley who was |
ii | 1 | for and removing to Christ's College, read The alleged author of the 'Turkish Spy' seems more probably identical with another Robert Midgeley (son of Samuel Midgeley) who, born at Adle, near Leeds, was admitted a sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge, 27 June 1671, aged 16, | |
369 | i | 4 | Miers, John: for his father, who was a jeweller; read his father, John Miers, a jeweller and miniaturist, who executed a portrait of Robert Burns; |
377 | ii | 8 f.e. | Miles, George F.: omit Edward l'Anson |
388 | ii | 7 | Mill, James: after 1808. insert Spence replied in 'Agriculture the Source of the Wealth of Britain.' |
399 | i | 32 | Mill, John Stuart: for H. R. L. Mansel's read H. L. Mansel's |
401 | i | 20 f.e. | Millar, Andrew: for (No. 4053) read (No. 4059) |
5 f.e. | Millar, James: for (d. 1827) read (1762-1827) | ||
4 f.e. | after writer, insert born at Ayr on 4 Feb. 1762, | ||
l.l. | after science, insert He acted for some years as a tutor in Jamaica, and afterwards as chaplain to the University of Glasgow. | ||
ii | 6 | for in July read on 13 July | |
403 | i | 18 | Millar, John (1735-1801) for Allan Thomson read Dr. John Thomson, by whom she was mother of Allan Thomson |
406 | i | 28 30 |
Miller, Edward: for 1731 read 1730 |
34 | after Lynn insert His brother Thomas is noticed separately. | ||
410 | i | 10 f.e. | Miller, Hugh: for 2 Dec. read 23 Dec. |
411 | i | 10-1 f.e. | Miller, James (1706-1744): omit 'Mister Taste, . . . . Hogarth, 1833, p. 176). |
ii | 3 | after 1735 insert (this piece must be distinguished from another also called 'The Man of Taste,' which was published in 1733, being a reissue with a new title of 'Mister Taste, the Poetical Fop': or, the Modes of the Court,' a comedy [1732]; 'Mister Taste,' for which Hogarth designed a satirical frontispiece, was an insolent attack on Pope) | |
414 | ii | 18-19 | Miller, John C.: for collected 5,000l. read organised simultaneous collections on a given Sunday in the churches of Birmingham, by which means the sum of 5,000l. was raised, and the first foundation laid of Hospital Sunday. |
36 | after issue, insert The Miller Hospital of Greenwich, grafted upon the Royal Kent Dispensary, was opened in December 1884 as a memorial to Miller. | ||
7 f.e. | before Christian Cabinet insert John Poland's Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary, 1893; | ||
419 | i | 17 f.e. 11 f.e. |
Miller, Patrick: for Andrew read William |
423 | ii | 8 f.e. | Miller, Thomas (1731-1804): after pavior insert and brother of Edward Miller [q. v.] |
424 | ii | 1-2 | Miller, Thomas (1807-1874): for Harrison Ainsworth read W. H. Harrison |
427 | ii | 27 | Miller, William (1795-1861): after (Chicago, 1892); insert Basil Hall's Journal in Chili, part i. ch. iii.; |
437 | i | 29 34 |
Millhouse, Robert: for J. B. Briscoe read J. P. Briscoe |