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354 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