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Admitted 24 January, 1822.

Eldest son of Rev. George Moultrie of Shrewsbury, Salop. He was born in London 30 Dec. 1799. He was educated at Eton, where he was known as the College poet and wit. He was subsequently a contemporary of Macaulay and Austin (q.v.) at Cambridge. In 1825 he forsook the Bar for the Church, and was ordained and presented to the living of Rugby, where he lived during Dr. Arnold's mastership of the school. In 1837 he published a collection of his poems, after which appeared The Dream of Life in 1843, The Black Fence in 1850, and Altars, Hearths and Graves in 1854. He died in 1874, and in 1876 a complete edition of his works, with a Memoir, was published by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge.

MOUNTAIN. See MONTAIGNE.

MOUNTJOY, BARON. See BLOUNT, CHARLES.

Admitted 26 January, 1690-1.

Eldest son of Sir Walter Moyle of Bake, in St. Germans, Cornwall, where he was born on 3 Nov. 1672. Having an ample fortune he did not follow the law professionally, but devoted himself to polite and general literature. He was a friend of Congreve (q.v.), Wycherley, and other wits of the time. He made translations from Lucian and Xenophon, and wrote a number of works on politics, theology, etc. He died in 1721.

His works were collected and published in 1726. Their contents are: An Argument showing that a Standing Army is inconsistent with a Free Government (1697); Translation from Xenophon (1697); The Miracle of the Thundering Legion Examined (1706); Charge to the Grand Jury at Leskard (1706); Letters &hellip; on Criticism and Antiquity; Dissertation upon the Age of Philopatris; Letters on Various Subjects; Remarks on Prideaux's Connection of the Old and New Testament; Select Collection of Tracts; On the Roman Government.

MULGRAVE, EARL OF. See PHIPPS, HENRY.

Admitted 20 January, 1757.

Second son of Richard Murphy of Dublin. His name so appears on the Register of the Inn under the date mentioned; but (though there is no note of it on the books) the fact of his being an actor was considered a bar to his continuing, though his name was not removed. In the following June, however, he succeeded in obtaining entrance to Lincoln's Inn and was there called to the Bar, 21 June, 1762. He was born at Clomquin, Roscommon, 27 Dec. 1727, and educated at the English College at St. Omer. At the time of his admission he had acquired some celebrity as an actor and had produced some Comedies, the most popular of which was The Apprentice, performed at Drury Lane in 1756. After his admission he started a paper called The Test, in opposition to the Con-Test of (q.v.). He also edited a paper