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Dictionary of National Biography


ERRATA IN VOLUME XXXVIII


MILMAN—MORE

N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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3 i 13 Milman, Henry H.: for shifted read sifted
4 i 21 for Lieutenant read Lieutenant-General
35 i 17 Milton, John (1608-1674): for the work read the agreement
40 i 9-7 f.e. for Cambridge were left . . . . died in 1700. read Cambridge, of which the history is very obscure, may have formed part of a donation made to the college by Sir Henry Newton, afterwards Puckering [q. v.].
43 i 36 Milverton, John: after MSS.; insert Gregory's Chronicle (Camden Soc.);
53 i 8 f.e. Misson, Francis M.: for 1798 read 1698
ii 35 for 22 Jan. read 12 Jan.
67 i 11 f.e. Mitchell, Hugh Henry: for (1764? read (1770
10 f.e. after Colonel, insert born 9 June 1770,
95 ii 23-24 Modyford, Sir Thomas: for Charles, the elder, predeceased his father, read Thomas the elder, survived his father little more than a month.
24 for Thomas read Charles
97 ii 39-40 Moffat, Robert: for Stellen-booch read Stellen-bosch
102 i 11 f.e. Moffett, Thomas: for Barnes Elms read Barn Elms
103 i 3 f.e. for he is there described read he is described at the foot of the dedication
107 i 29-34 Mohun, Charles, 5th Baron Mohun: omit His only would-be apologist . . . Own Time, ii. 130).
17 f.e. for and engraved by Cooper, read in 1707 and was engraved by John Faber the younger, in 1732.
111 i 18 f.e. Mohun, Reginald de: for 1146 read 1246
112 ii 5 Mohun, William de: for Dunstan read Dunster
120 i 10 Molesworth, John E. N.: for 1825 read 1815
122 i 17 Molesworth, Robert, 1st Viscount Molesworth: before were issued insert [see Rogers, Thomas, 1660-1694]
123 i 21 f.e. Molesworth, Sir William: for His father . . . . and he read He
15-3 f.e. for and he was sent . . . . at the university. He read With his mother and two sisters he removed during 1824 to Edinburgh, and studied at the university till 1827. In that year he entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, but soon migrated to Trinity. He gave promise of mathematical distinction, but a quarrel with his tutor led to his expulsion from Cambridge in April 1828. He sent his tutor a challenge, and both were bound over by the mayor of Cambridge to keep the peace for a year. Molesworth spent the next few months in the family of Dr. Bekker at Offenbach, near Frankfort, studying German and philosophy. At the end of a year he travelled by coach to Munich to fight the postponed duel with his Cambridge tutor. Lord Queensberry acted as his second. Shots were exchanged, but neither was hurt. Molesworth
l.l. for Naples read Rome and at Naples
ii 10 f.e. after generally, insert He purchased the 'Westminster Review' in 1836 and amalgamated the two.
123 ii 9 f.e. Molesworth, Sir William: for it read the proprietorship
124 i 12 after troubles insert after championing Lord Durham's policy
25 before He was insert He took part in founding the Reform Club in London in the same year.
125 i 10 after Mrs. Grote, insert and on her death it passed to his sister, Mrs. Ford, who presented it to the parliament house at Ottawa, where it now stands in the library,
33 before The Philosophical Radicals insert Mrs. Fawcett's Life of Sir William Molesworth appeared in 1903.
127 i 50-51 Molines, Sir John de: for Mautravers read Maltravers
136 ii 3-2 f.e. Molyneux, Samuel: for the death of Molyneux's widow, on 27 May read the marriage of Molyneux's widow to Nathaniel St. Andre, on 17 May
160 ii 13-14 Monck, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle: for no longer shown to visitors read is in a very decayed condition
21 after 1866. insert A fourth was painted by Dr. Logan, of which, and of two other pictures of Monck, engravings belong to James Falconer, esq.
161 i 33-38 omit A portrait of Monck . . . . James Falconer, esq.
23 f.e. after Albemarle, insert born 25 March 1619 (Sloane MS. 1708, f. 117),
ii 31 for said to be aged 54 read aged nearly 51
167 ii 18 Moncreiff, Sir Henry: for (1738-1767) read (d. 1767)
168 ii 10 Moncreiff, Sir Henry W.: for fifty read fifty-two
202 ii 30 Monson, Sir William (1569-1643): for What appears to be the original manuscript read The original manuscript, corrected for the press by the author and dated 1624, is in Sloane MS. 2496, ff. 113-188. Another manuscript
205 ii 1 Montacute, John de, 3rd Earl of Salisbury: omit baron and after Monthermer insert [q. v.]
213 i 2-1 f.e. Montacute, William de, 1st Earl of Salisbury: for Sir William Grandison read William de Grandison, first Baron Grandison
250 ii 12 f.e. Montagu, Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester: for Sidney, who died in infancy, read Sidney, who, having been admitted fellow-commoner at Christ's College, Cambridge, 20 May 1641, graduated M.A. in that year, entered the Middle Temple 2 Aug. 1642, and died young,
257 i 33 Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich: after first lord, insert Sandwich, however, interested himself in getting Captain Cook's two vessels fitted out adequately in 1778, and Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him.
259 ii 12 f.e. Montagu, Lady Mary W.: for sixth read second
260 ii 3 for 1751 read 1761
295 ii 10 f.e. Montfort, Simon of, Earl of Leicester: for 1891 read 1890
296 i 9 Montfort, Simon of, the younger: for 1265 read 1264
301 ii 10 Montgomerie, Alexander, 9th Earl of Eglington: for Susannah, unmarried. read Susannah (d. 1754) married John Renton of Lamerton, Berwickshire.
311 i 23 f.e. Montgomerie, Robert (d. 1684): for 1661 read 1651 '
314 ii 33 Montgomery, Henry: for 1800 read 1830
323 i 2 f.e. Montgomery, Robert (1807-1855): after 1841. insert The most ambitious of his later works was 'Luther: a Poem' (1842, 8vo, 6th ed. 1851). Of immense length, this volume contains Montgomery's one memorable line, viz. 'the solitary monk that shook the world.'
335 i 21 f.e. Moor, Edward: after bart. insert and afterwards Baron Hatherley and lord Chancellor [q. v.]
350 ii 35 Moore, Sir Garret, Viscount Moore: for Sloane MS. read Addit. MS.
443 i 20-21 More, Sir Thomas: omit and personal liberty is at its zenith
444 ii 26 f.e. after Italian version, insert translated by Hortensio Lando and edited
445 ii 18 f.e. for Barus read Barns
6 f.e. before the anonymous insert Christopher St. German [q. v.]
2-1 f.e. for in an anonymous treatise entitled read by St. German in
446 ii 21 omit Dialogi
22 for festinissimo, read festiuissima
447 i 8 for Mendacjis read Mendacijs
ii 25 f.e. for now belonging read belonging in 1892
21 f.e. after 121-2) insert The MS. figured in the 33rd 'Antiquarischer Katalog' of Heinrich Schoningh of Minister, 1894
449 i 18 omit the Rev.