railway. He was held in esteem for his integrity and liberality, was a governor of McGill university, and one of its principal benefactors. He built the library, convocation hall, and other buildings for this institution, and, with his brothers John and Thomas, endowed the chair of English literature.
MOLYNEUX, Richard, clergyman, b. in London, England, 26 March, 1696; d. in Bonham, England, 18 May, 1766. He was sent to Maryland as
superior of the Jesuits in 1736, and was reappointed
in 1743. The Pennsylvania authorities availed
themselves of his influence with the Indians on
their western frontier, when the savages, under
French influence, threatened the exposed settle-
ments. He was with the Indians at Lancaster just
before the treaty that was made there in June and
July, 1744. As the purpose of his visit was kept
secret by the Pennsylvanian government, it was
suspected in Maryland " that his business was no
other than to dissuade ye Indians from making
peace." He returned to England in 1749.
MOMBERGER, William, artist, b. in Frank-
fort-on-Main, Germany, 7 June, 1829. He was the
son of a merchant and received a liberal education,
being graduated at the Frankfort gymnasium in
1845. He was subsequently apprenticed to learn
chromo-lithography, and in 1847 received the first
prize from the senate of Frankfort for an original
composition on stone. He also studied drawing
and painting under Prof. Jacob Becker, of the
Diisseldorf school, and was taught modelling and
anatomy by Van Der Launitz and Prof. Zwerger,
of Frankfort. In 1848 Momberger was compelled
to leave Germany on account of his participation
in the revolutionary movements of that year, and
came to the United States. Here he again turned
his attention to chromo-lithography. Later he
devoted mach time to the illustration of newspa-
pers and books, and also to making sketches and
drawing vignettes for bank-notes. He assisted in
illustrating works on the civil war, made all the
drawings tor Duyckinck's '• Cyclopaedia of American Literature," and the majority of those contained in the " Gallery of American Landscape
Artists." He built a studio at Morrisania, N. Y.,
where he has painted several landscapes, among
them " Sugar-Loaf Mountain, near Winona, Wis.,"
" A Recitation on Indian Rock, in the Catskills,"
" Through the Woods," " Harvest Moon," and " Island on the Susquehanna River." He was a found-
er of the Gotham art students' club.
MOMBERT, Jacob Isidor, author, b. in Cassel, Germany, 6 Nov., 1829. He went to England
while still young, engaged in business, and pursued his studies there and afterward at Leipsic and
Heidelberg. He took orders in the Church of England in 1857, acting as curate in Quebec, Canada,
for two years. He became assistant in 1859, and
soon afterward rector of St. James's church, Lancaster, Pa. After ten years' service he accepted the American chaplaincy at Dresden, Saxony, which
he held till 1875. JHe was rector of St. John's,
Passaic, N. J., from 1880 till 1882. Since that time
he has devoted himself chiefly to literary work.
He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1866. He has translated
Tholuck's " Commentary on the Psalms " (Philadelphia, 1856); "Commentary on the Catholic Epistles," in the Lange series (1867) ; edited, with prolegomena, Tyndale's " Five Books of Moses," from
the edition of 1530, in the Lenox library, New York
city, together with the Pentateuch in the Vulgate,
Luther's, and Matthew's Bible (New York, 1884).
He is author of " Faith Victorious, an Account of
the Venerable Dr. Johann Ebel, late Archdeacon
of the Old Town -Church of Konigsberg, Prussia "
(1882) : " Handbook of the English Versions of the
Bible," with comparative tables, etc. (1883) ; and
" Great Lives, a Course of History in Biographies "
(New York and Boston, 1886). He has also complet-
ed in manuscript an extended life of Charlemagne.
MOMPESSON, Roger, jurist, b. in England;
d. in New York or New Jersey in March, 1715.
He is supposed to have been the son of Rev. William Mompesson, who was rector of Eyam, Derbyshire, England, during the plague of 1666. Roger
became a barrister-at-law, and served as recorder
of Southampton and as a member of two parliaments. Becoming involved, it is said, by engagements to pay some of his father's debts, he found
it convenient, in April, 1703, to accept from the
king the appointment of judge of the vice-admiralty for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and
thus commissioned, early in 1704, came to Pennsylvania in company with the younger William Penn
and Gov. Evans. He was almost immediately
thereafter appointed one of the councillors of
Pennsylvania, and later in the same year became
the seventh chief justice of New York and shortly
afterward chief justice of New Jersey. In 1705 he
entered the provincial councils of both New York
and New Jersey, retaining office in the former
colony until his death. In 1706 he was appointed
chief justice of Pennsylvania, but it is doubtful
whether he ever presided there. He was a warm
partisan of Lord Cornbury, as such made himself
obnoxious to the people of New Jersey, and in
1709 resigned the office of chief justice rather
than be removed, but later in the same year he
was restored to the office by his old friend. Gov.
Ingolsby. In 1710 he surrendered his commission
to Gov. Hunter, but retained the chief justiceship
of New York until his death. Mompesson was a.
lawyer of ability, and as a jurist was no doubt one
of the ablest of his time. Gov. Hunter wrote of
him as being " a person of ability and great Iniowl-
edge of the laws." while at a later period he charged
him with ingratitude. In 1709, in a petition to
the lords of trade, he claimed that he had " brought
the courts of said province [New York] more formable to the practice of Westminster hall than any
other of her majesty's plantations in America."
Mompesson married a daughter of William Pin-
horne, his colleague on the bench in New York.
MONAGAS, Jacinto, South American soldier,
b. in Venezuela in 1785 ; d. in Boyaca, New Grenada,.
8 Aug., 1819. When Francisco Miranda and Simon Bolivar raised the standard of independence,
he was one of the first to join their cause. After
their capitulation in July, 1812, he assisted in organizing in the provinces north of New Grenada, bodies of mounted guerillas, which were known as
the "Tartars of America." The rapidity and force of their movements dismayed the royal army, of which they captured entire detachments. In 1815
Monagas surrounded Angostura and drove the royalists from Guiana and Cumana, but was afterward defeated by Cevallos, governor of Coro,
Venezuela. He escaped by leaving his horse and jumping from the rocks. After receiving re-enforcements lie participated in the bloody cain-
paignsof 1817-18, contributing to the defeat of the Spaniards, but was mortally wounded in the battle of Bovaca, which secured liberty to Colombia.
MONAGAS, Jose Tadeo (riio-nah'-gas), Venezuelan soldier, b. in Maturin, 28 Oct., 1784; d. in El Valle, near Caracas, 18 Nov., 1868. When Gen. Mariiio {q. v.) invaded the coast of Guiria. Monagas joined his forces. During 1814 he took
