Personalities, Surname M

MacCartie, C F, CIE

A retired Indian civilian attached to Kitchener's Horse.  The son of a Yorkshire parson, he was well known in hunting, sporting, and steeple-chasing circles in India.  He served as Private Secretary to Lord Wenlock, Governor of Madras, and also joined the mounted infantry in the Burmese War, and hunted dacoits with Sir Penn Symons.  At the outbreak of the Boer War he volunteered, and at Driefontein achieved the dearest wish of his heart, “to die in his boots!"

Macdonnell, Errol Napier

Edgar Errol Napier MacDonell CMG was born in 1874, son of Sir Hugh MacDonell PC GCMG CB.  He was educated at Eton until 1891 and then from 1894 to 1897 served with the British Consulate in Lisbon. In 1898 he became Vice-Consul at Chinde and was later Consul at Mozambique and Beira.  During the Boer War he was Acting Consul-General at Lourenco Marques and was one of only three members of the Consular Service to be awarded the QSA.  The medal roll states 'served throughout the war in Consular capacity in Portuguese East Africa, Acting Consul at Beira, occasionally acted as Press Censor, been to Komati Poort on service'.  He remained in Portugese East Africa for many years and served during the Great War as Chief Liaison Officer with the Portuguese forces in German East Africa (awarded CMG, promoted to Colonel, despatches LG 7/3/18, Order of Avis).  He was also Consul at Monrovia (Liberia), Piraeus and Bucharest.  He was Consul-General in Brazil from 1921 until his retirement in 1924.  He died in December 1928.

QSA (0) (Erroll Napier Macdonnell Esq.), BWM, VM & MID, (E Macdonell), Portugal, Order of St. Benedict of Avis, Commander (neck badge).  Collett Jul 06, £1,175.

M'Donnell, Honourable Schomberg Kerr, CB

Mr Schomberg M'Donnell, who was numbered among our noble citizen-soldiers, was born in 1861.  He was the fifth son of the 5th Earl of Antrim, and till the war acted as Principal Private Secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury.

MacFarlane, Lieutenant Colonel George James, CMG, Natal Carbineers

Born at Maritzburg, June 6, 1855. He is son of John Macfarlane, late RM of Natal, and was educated at the High School, PMB. He served in the Zulu War in 1878-9, and was besieged in Ladysmith in 1900. He was Mayor of Maritzburg, 1898-1902; Deputy Mayor for that town, 1903-4; and was made JP in 1902. Colonel MacFarlane has taken keen interest in cricket, football and shooting, and possesses a fine collection of SA big game. He married, Dec, 1888, Mary Maria, daughter of Walter MacFarlane, late Speaker of the Natal Legislative Council,

Machado, Colonel KCMG

Formerly Governor-General of the Province of Mozambique, rendering considerable services to the British troops passing through Portuguese East Africa at the time of the Boer War . He was the recipient of the honour of KCMG on the King's Birthday (1902).

Mackay, Colonel Honourable J A K

This officer commanded the New South Wales Mounted Infantry.

Mackenzie, Colonel Colin John, Seaforth Highlanders. 

Entered 1881; Brevet Major, 1899.  Staff service: Special Service, Burmese Expedition 1887; ADC to Commander in Chief, E Indies, 1890-92; DAAG in Bengal and Bombay, 1892-96; Director of Military Intelligence., South Africa, and Military Governor, Johannesburg, 1900.  War service:  Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Burmese Expedition 1886-88 (medal with 2 clasps); Hazara Expedition 1888 (Despatches; clasp); Hunza-Nagar Expedition 1891-92 (Despatches; Brevet of Major; clasp); Waziristan Expedition 1894-95 (Despatches; clasp); Nile Expedition 1898; Khartoum; Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Mackenzie, Lieutenant Hector Rose

Eldest son of Alexander Mackenzie, Highland Clan historian and founder of the Celtic Magazine and the Scottish Highlander, Inverness, and Emma Sarah, eldest daughter of Thomas Whitaker Rose, of Bath. He was born at Ipswich, Feb 25, 1867 and was educated at the Royal Academy, Raining's College, Inverness, and Glasgow University He commenced his business career as private sec to Dr Charles Fraser Mackintosh MP for Invernessshire. Passing his final examination as a Scots solicitor in 1899, he joined the clerical staff of the Crofters' Commission for twelve months, commencing practice as a solicitor in Inverness in April, 1890. In 1896 he went SA and entered journalism, passing successfully through various stages until he became acting editor of the South Ajrican Telegraph (Cape Town). His other journalistic position include that of sub-editor and acting editor The Press of Pretoria; Assistant editor of The Durban Star; Assistant editor, joint editor, and editor of the Cape Mercury (King Williams Town); subeditor Cape Daily Telegraph (Port Elizabeth); Assistant editor Cape Register (Cape Town); subeditor Times of Natal (Pietermaritzburg); and, finally, Assistant news editor Ran J Daily Mail (Johannesburg). On the outbreak of war he joined the Cape Town Highlanders as private; and rose to the rank of corporal; he served at Kuils River, Mulder's Vlei, Tulbagh Road, Belmont, Douglas and Modder River. In Sep, 1900, he was appointed Assistant Manager at Mafeking of the Western Division of the Imperial Transport Service. For some time during 1901 he was attached to the Army Service Corps at Army Headquarters at Pretoria as shorthand writer to the Director of Supplies. He is now Lieutenant, in the Natal Royal Regiment and on the Reserve of Officers, and has the Boer War (QSA with three clasps). He is the author of Yachting and Electioneering in the Hebrides and Old Inverness; also of several articles and poems in Blackwood's Mag., Chambers' Journal, the Celtic Magazine, the Cape Illustrated Magazine, and other serial publications. He married, July 19, 1892, Barbara Sutherland, eldest surviving daughter of John Anderson, late of the 71st Regiment of Foot (Highland Light Infantry). Issue, one daughter, Janet Dorothy Rose, born June 4, 1894.

MacLaren, James Paterson

Educated at Glasgow University, graduating MA, with double honours in Classics and Philosophy, Gold Medalist in Greek, Wm. Hunter Medalist in Anatomy and Zoology, and Luke Prizeman in History. Dr MacLaren has been House Surgeon in Chesterfield, Leicester, and Moorfields (Royal London Ophthalmic) hospitals; Assistant Eye Surgeon in Middlesex Hospital, and Clinical Assistant in the Chelsea Hospital for Women, Gray's Inn Read, Golden Square Throat Hospital, and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Later he served as Surgeon to HMS Carthage (Hospital ship) in the China Expeditionary Force, and on HMS Nubia. During the Boer War he saw more service as Civil Surgeon with HM Forces, and he now holds the appointments of Immigration Officer of Cape Town, Additional Port Health Officer of Cape Town, Additional District Surgeon of Cape Town, and Medical Officer of Health to the Table Bay Harbour Board.

MacLear, Captain and Brevet Major Percy

Born Oct 22, 1875. He was educated at Bedford and Sandhurst; was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant, to the Royal Dublin Fus. in 1895, promoted Capt in 1900, Brevet Major in 1901. He served throughout the Boer War, 1899-1902 (mentioned in despatches). He was appointed second in command and Adjt. of the Lagos Battn WAFF in 1903, and to the full command 1905.

MacNeece, Lieutenant Colonel J G

Lieutenant Colonel RAMC, August 1898.  War service: Nile Expedition 1898 (medal with clasp; medal); Boer War, 1899-1900.

MacSherry, Right Reverend Hugh, Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope

Son of Arthur MacSherry, of Loughgilly, county Armagh, Ireland. He was born at Loughgilly, Feb 1, 1852, and was educated at the Diocesan Seminary, Armagh, and at Paris, and took the degree of DD He was ordained Feb 7, 1875, and for twenty-one years laboured in various parishes of his native diocese. In 1893 he was appointed Administrator of Dundalk; and in 1896 was nominated by Pope Leo XIII Titular Bishop of Justinianopolis, and consecrated by His Eminence Cardinal Logue on Aug 2 of that year. In December, 1896, he went out to South Africa as successor to the Right Reverend Bishop Strobino and has ever since been actively engaged in the administration and development of the different missions confided to his spiritual care. In his new sphere of labour and of ecclesiastical government those qualities which have endeared him so generally in Ireland quickly made themselves felt. His courtesy, his strength of resolve, and breadth of view, and his contagious zeal for work all have stamped him as eminently fitted to fill with honour to himself and the cause of religion the responsible office he was appointed to occupy by the Holy See. He was mentioned in his last despatches (June 21, 1902) by Lord Kitchener for services to the Army Chaplain's Department during the Boer War, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute in 1902.

Maguire, James Rochfort

Born in 1855, and was educated at Cheltenham and Oxford University He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1883, and represented N Donegal in the House of Commons from 1890 to 1892, when he was elected for West Clare. His Parliamentary career closed in 1895, and some years later, at the instigation of Mr Rhodes, he undertook, in company with Messrs. D Rudd and F H Thompson , a mission to Lobengula, and obtained from that chief the concession ceding the mineral rights over the whole of his territories, This concession was ultimately taken over by the Chartered Company, of which Mr Maguire became a director. He is also on the directorate of the Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, the Exploration Company, and the Rhodesia Railways, Ltd In spite of the difficulties of developing a new country so vast and remote as Rhodesia, considerable progress has been made in railway construction during the fourteen years of its history. There are two railway systems in Rhodesia, the Cape to Cairo Trunk line, and the Eastern system. The Cape to Cairo Trunk line has been constructed by the Rhodesia Railways, Limited, from Vryberg, to which point the railway is the property of the Cape Colony, through Bechuanaland into Rhodesia, and was completed as far as Bulawayo in October, 1897. The construction of the line was then proceeded with to Wankie, and although seriously delayed by the Boer War, the coalfields were reached in Sep, 1903, and was completed to the Victoria Falls on April 25, 1904. The whole line from Bulawayo to the Victoria Falls was opened on June 20, 1904. The next step was the spanning of the Zambesi River by a bridge thrown across the gorge in the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Falls. An aerial cable way was constructed across the river to enable materials to be taken over, and the building of the bridge was carried on from both banks simultaneously. The bridge is the highest in the world and the steel work was erected in the almost record time of six months. The bridge was opened by Professor Darwin, President of the British Assn., on Sep 12, 1905, the fifteenth anniversary of Occupation Day. The construction of a further ninety-five miles north of the Zambesi to Kalomo, the capital of North Western Rhodesia, has recently been completed, and a further section of 265 miles to the rich copper deposits in the Hook of the Kafuc and the Broken Hill country has been commenced by the Mashonaland Railway Company. A branch line leaving the main line at Heany Junction, seventeen miles north of Bulawavo, has been completed, and opened for traffic as far as West Nicholson, in the Gwanda District, a distance of 104 miles. Other lines completed are the Gwelo to Selukwe, twenty-four miles long, opened in August, 1903, and a short line to the Matopos, built by the trustees of late Mr Rhodes. The other railway system of Rhodesia, the East Coast Line, was originally built as a light railway from Beira to Umtali. Opened in 1898, it was widened to a 3ft. 6in. gauge, the standard gauge in Rhodesia, in August, 1900, in order to complete a uniform line from Salisbury to the coast, a 3ft. 6in. line having already been opened between Salisbury and Umtali in May 1899. This line was continued from Salisbury westward to Gwelo, 188 miles, to meet a line which had been commenced from Bulawayo eastward, but upon which construction had been suspended owing to the war. The line from Salisbury to Bulawayo was completed and opened for traffic in June, 1902. Mr Maguire married, in 1895, Julia, daughter of the first Lord Peel, late Speaker of the House of Commons.

Mainwaring, Colonel B B, CMG.

Entered 1871; Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: AAG S District, 1899; AAG South Africa, 1899-1900.  War Service—Ashanti War, 1873-74 (medal); Burmese Expedition 1885-86 (medal with clasp); Hazara Expedition 1891 : Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Mainwaring, Colonel Henry Germain

Born at Barrackpore, Bengal, in 1852, and is the son Major Henry G Mainwaring, late of the 1st Bengal Native Infantry. He was educated privately, and in 1872 was gazetted to the 24th Regiment He served with his regiment in the Kaffir War in 1877-8, including the operations against the Galckas; and also served throughout the Zulu War, afterwards surveying the battlefield of Isandhlwana. He acted as Transport Commissariat and Ordnance Officer, and was on the Camp escort of Lord (then Sir Garnet) Wolseley at Ulundi. Whilst on a big game shooting expedition in Somaliland, he surveyed some hitherto unexplored ground along the southern boundary of Abyssinia. Colonel Mainwaring commanded the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) from 1896-1901. Recreations: Shooting and fishing, having won several prizes at rifle meetings, amongst others, The All Comers at the Caird Rifle Meeting in 1894. He married, Feb 2, 1889, Henrietta, daughter of Henry Wigan.

Malleson, Percy Rodbard

Born at Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1867; was educated at University College School, Lond, and Hertford College, Oxon; was sub-agent in Lord Sudeley's fruit farms in 1889-90; County Council Lecturer on Fruit Growing, 1891 -2; went to SA in 1892, and assisted in starting the first large fruit farm in Cape Colony, and in inaugurating the fruit export trade to Eng. He is now Managing Director of the Cape Orchard Company, of Hex River; Member of Western Province Horticultural Board, the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng., the Royal Horticultural Society of Eng., and the Royal Colonial Inst. During the Boer War he served as an officer of the Hex River DMT, and as Colonial Member of the Protected Horses Board, W District He married, in 1896, Beatrice Mary, daughter of H W Struben, of Cape Town, and Pretoria.

Mansel G, CMG

Chief Commissioner of Natal Police.

Mapleton, Lieutenant Colonel B W, MB, RAMC

Lieutenant Colonel, 1893.  War service: Boer War, 1881; Sudan Expedition 1885 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900; Senior Medical Officer Lines of Communication.

Marlborough (9th Duke), C R J Spencer-Churchill

The Duke of Marlborough, who was the first of the British to greet our prisoners in Pretoria, served with the Yeomanry Cavalry.  As was natural to one of his martial line, he volunteered at the first sniff of battle.  He was a young man, having been born in 1871, but he showed zeal and activity in the affairs, political and military, of the nation.  He owed not a little to America, where, in 1895, he married the daughter of Mr William Vanderbilt of New York.  The Duke was a Conservative, a keen sportsman and polo-player.

Marsden, Lieutenant Cyril, Royston's Horse

He was born in 1882, and first went to South Africa with the Scottish Horse at the time of the Boer War, at the conclusion of which he returned to England. Subsequently, however, he again went out to South Africa, and settled there, and at the time of his death was acting as Lieutenant in Royston's Horse.  He died from wounds received during the action of June 9 in the Zulu rising in 1906

Marshall, Major General G H, Royal Artillery

Transvaal War Album: Major-General George Henry Marshall is the Staff Officer with the First Army Corps commanding the whole. When an Army Corps is employed as a strategical unit, the work of, the officer: who directs the Artillery may be difficult, but that which falls to General Marshall is peculiarly arduous and harassing, owing to the fact that Sir Redvers Buller's Army Corps, with Artillery units, is divided between three distinct theatres of war. General Marshall is an officer of great experience, both in regard to the material of the Royal Artillery and to the tactical working of the artillery arm. He gained his lieutenancy in 1861, and was promoted a brevet-lieutenant-colonel in July, 1891. His great repute as an Artillery Officer had already led to his appointment as Chief Instructor of Horse and Field Artillery at the School of Gunnery, and in addition to his duties at Shoeburyness, it was his work to take charge of the summer operations at Okehampton, where the tactical instruction of our gunners mainly takes place. General Marshall's last appointment was to the command of the Royal Artillery in the Aldershot District.

Marshall, Captain William Thomas, VC, 19th Hussars

Born in 1854. He joined the 19th Hussars in 1873. Served for ten years in ranks; became Honourary Captain 20th January 1895.  War service:  Egyptian Expedition 1882-84 (medal with clasp j bronze star); Sudan, 1884; Battle of Teb and Tamaai (Despatches; 2 clasps; VC) Boer War 1899-1900.  This dashing officer received the Victoria Cross for his conspicuous bravery during the cavalry charge at El-Teb in bringing Lieutenant Colonel P H S Barrow, 19th Hussars, out of action.  That officer, having been severely wounded and his horse killed, was on the ground surrounded by the enemy, when Quartermaster-Sergeant W T Marshall, who stayed behind with him, seized his hand and dragged him through the enemy back to the regiment.  Had Lieutenant Colonel Barrow been left behind he must have been killed.  Served in the Boer War in 1899-1900, taking part in the defence of Ladysmith, and the action at Laing's Nek (medal and four clasps). In 1905 he was appointed Camp Quartermaster to the Aldershot Army Corps.

Marwick, John Sidney

He was employed in the Natal Civil Service from 1892-1895. In 1896 he acted as Zululand Native Agent at Johannesburg, and was thanked by the Cape Govt, for assistance rendered to the Cape Colonial Native Labour Agent in 1898. He planned and conducted the exodus of Natal natives from Johannesburg on the outbreak of hostilities in 1899, and was sent by the Governor of Natal and General Officer commanding the Lines of Communication to the Native Chief Kula, with authority to prevent the natives from looting the town of Pomeroy, after the Boer invasion in 1899; served in the Imperial Guides in the same year, subsequently recruiting a Native Labour Corps, and continued in charge of it until Aug 1900 (despatches, medal and four clasps). In 1900 he acted as Superintendent of Native Affairs for Pretoria and District; acted as Native Commissioner for Pretoria District in 1902, and in 1903 was appointed Assistant Secretary, for Native Affairs in the Transvaal; also acted as Chairman of the Conference on Municipal Native Regulations in 1903.

Master, Brevet Major (Local Lieutenant Colonel) Richard Chester

Born at Cirencester, Aug 29, 1870; is eldest son of Colonel T W Chester Master, of the Abbey, Cirencester, and of Knole Park, Almondebury, Glos., and was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxon He served as Lieutenant, in the 4th Gloucester Militia from 1890 to 1893, when he was gazetted to the King's Royal Rifles. He was ADC to HE the High Commissioner for SA (then Sir Alfred Milncr) from 1898 to 1900, and served in the Boer War in 1899 and 1900 as Captain in Rimington's Corps of Guides, afterwards (in 1901) raising and commanding the Western Province Mounted Rifles for the Cape Colonial Defence Force. Captain Chester Master was mentioned in despatches, received a brevet majority and medal with six clasps. He received his appointment as Commandant General of the Police Forces of S Rhodesia with local rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Sep, 1901, and became Resident Commissioner and Commandant General in S Rhodesia on the combination of these two offices in April, 1905. Colonel Chester Master is fond of all field sports, and was Master of the Cape Hunt Club Foxhounds from 1897 to 1901. He married, Aug, 1901, Geraldine, eldest daughter of John Hungerford Arkwright, Lord-Lieutenant, of Herefordshire, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire.

Matthews, Charles Edward

Served in the Cape Mounted Rifles from 1876-79 (medal), and as Lieutenant with Strachan's Native Levies, afterwards as Adjutant of the Kokstad Mounted Volunteers in the Podomise and Basuto Rebellion. He acted as Assistant Surveyor General and Examiner of Diagrams in British Bechuanaland upon annexation in 1894, and was appointed Clerk in the Surveyor General's Office in 1895.

Matthews, Maynard Reginald Nelson, JP

Born in India, March 1, 1865, and entered the Civil Service of Natal in 1878, rising from a Junior Clerkship in the Durban Court to the office of a Magistrate for the Colony in 1895, being stationed successively at Verulam, Weenen, Durban, Newcastle, and Dundee, where he is at present Magistrate. He served as Intelligence Officer during the Boer War (medal), and takes a keen interest in fishing, golf, and other forms of sport. He married, in 1889, Sadie, eldest daughter of the Reverend J Goodwin, Vicar of Lower Umgeni, near Durban.

Maugham, William Fraser

Born at Grahamstown, in 1877, and is son of Thomas Maugham, of Grahamstown. He acted as Correspondent during the Boer War with the Colonial Division, under General Brabant, and was present at the Siege of Wepener. In 1902 he joined Mr Edgar Wallace when that gentleman organised the Rand Daily Mail, and was his news editor for nearly two years, resigning to take up the appointment which he now holds on the Editorial Staff of the Transvaal Leader; he also acts as Transvaal Correspondent for several London papers, and watches the Chinese labour experiments on the Rand in the interests of Northern and Southern Chinese papers. He married, Jan 27, 1904, Ivy, eldest daughter of W Dewey, Mayor of Alice, and Editor of the Alice Times and Peddie Gazette.

Maxwell-Lyte, John Maxwell

Born May 10,1875; is son of Sir Henry C Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, and was educated at Radley College and Merton College, Oxford. He went to South Africa in 1898, studying fruit culture on the Cape Colony, and has been since April, 1903, Manager of the Transvaal Government Experimental Orchard, under the Colonial Office. When the Boer War broke out he joined Roberts' Horse, transferred as Lieutenant, in Northumberland Fusiliers in May, 1900, taking part in the Relief of Kimberley, and the operations at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Zand River, and Sanna's Post. Lieutenant Maxwell-Lyte also filled some Staff appointments, and joined the Reserve of Officers in Aug, 1905. At Oxford he was a member of the University Swimming team which beat Cambridge in 1896, and he also rowed in the 'Varsity Torpids in that year. Recreation: Photography.

May, Arthur John

Born in London, Feb 27, 1856, is eldest son of Baron May, Consul General for the Netherlands in London, and was educated at Lancing Coll, and Trinity College, Dublin. He entered the Colonial Civil Service in the Attorney General's Department at Cape Town in 1881, transferring to the Imperial service in the War Office Department at Cape Town, Dec, 1881, to Dec, 1882. At the beginning of 1883 he was again employed under the Colonial Civil Service at the High Court at Kimberley, of which he was appointed Assistant-Registrar in March, 1883, resigning in 1886. He married, in 1885, Adelaide, youngest daughter of Admiral T V Anson, cousin of the 2nd Earl of Lichfield.

McCallum, Sir Henry Edward, RE, GCMG

Born in Cornwall, Oct 28, 1852, his father being a Major in the RMLI. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1869, passing first out of 152 cadets in 1871 into the Royal Engineers. A few years afterwards he went to Singapore, where he acted as Private Secretary, to the Governor for a couple of years, taking part in the Perak Expedition of 1875-6 (medal with clasp). Then he became Superintendent of Admiralty Works at Hong Kong, Singapore, and Woolwich, returning to the East in 1880 as Deputy Colonial Engineer at Penang, afterwards becoming Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General for the Straits Settlements, with a seat on the Executive and Legislative Councils. In 1897 Sir Henry went to Lagos as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and in the following year was dispatched on a mission to the Hinterland on account of French aggression in that region (medal and clasp). From 1898 to 1901 he was Governor of England's oldest colony, Newfoundland, and in the latter year he returned to Africa as Governor of Natal, receiving the QSA with 4 clasps in connection with his services during the War. A man who enters the public service, and especially one who has held high office for a number of years under one political party, must be well aware of the treatment to which he may be liable at the moment he finds himself drawn into the vortex of party strife. Whether he be soldier, administrator, or diplomatist, a change of Government may make him a useful scapegoat, and in the case of the trial and condemnation of the native murderers of two Natal policemen in March, 1906, no one wondered, though all sympathised, when Sir Henry McCallum was practically held responsible by Sir H Campbell Bannerman's Government for the deplorable interference of the Colonial Office, which led to the immediate resignation of the Natal Ministry. The Natal Governor, however, tactfully succeeded in inducing the Premier of the Colony to temporarily remain in office, and when the Colonial Secretary, "climbed down" (at Sir H McCallum's expense), Mr Smythe withdrew his resignation. (See Lord Elgin.) Sir Henry is understood to be about to retire from his post. Sir Henry was knighted in 1898 for his services in connection with the construction of the fortifications of Singapore. He became GCMG in 1904, having previously been appointed ADC to the Sovereign. He has been twice married; first to the daughter, of Admiral Johnson, and afterwards, in 1897, to Maud ( Dolly), a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Fitzmaurice Creighton, of the RMU. Princess Christian was sponsor for Lady McCallum's daughter, born in 1905.

McClintock, Captain Frederick William

Born at Dublin, Aug 10, 1864. He is the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel T E McClintock, of the Army Pay Department, and nephew of the famous Arctic explorer, Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock. Captain McClintock was educated at the Public High School, Dublin, and proceeded to SA at the ago of 21, joining the Education Department of the Natal Civil Service. He subsequently took up an appointment in the Cape Forestry Department; went to the Transvaal in 1895, where he acted as Secretary, to some mining groups, and became identified with the Krugersdorp branch of the SA League. At the outbreak of the Boer War he joined the Prince Alfred's Guards as Sec. Lieutenant, this being the only permanent Colonial Corps which is entitled to carry its colours into action—a privilege obtained for the regiment by Duke of Edinburgh, after whom it is named. At the close of hostilities, he retired with the permanent rank of Captain, in recognition of services rendered during the Anglo-Boer War . He then returned to the Transvaal, where he is engaged in secretarial duties in connection with the Commission investigating Burgher Claims upon the Imperial Government, ultimately taking up an appointment in the Mines Department, of the Transvaal Civil Service. Captain McClintock is the author of Hints: A Handbookfor South African Volunteers. He married, Aug 10, 1896, Miss F L Soundy, daughter of J T Soundy, of Cradock, Cape Colony.

Mellor, Lieutenant Colonel L S, Liverpool Regiment

Entered 1873; Lieutenant Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces, 1886-91.  War service: Afghan War, 1878-79 (medal with clasp); Boer War, 1899-1900; Ladysmith.

Menzies, Major M

This officer served with the Ceylon Mounted Infantry.

Merriman, Honourable John Xavier

Mr Merriman was the son of Bishop N J Merriman, of Grahamstown.  He entered the Cape Parliament as Member for Aliwal North in 1869; strongly opposed Responsible Government; joined Mr Molteno's administration in 1875 as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works.  He was dismissed by Sir Bartle Frere, February 1878, and returned to office as Commissioner under Sir Thomas Scanlen in 1881.  He retired in 1884; sat for Namaqualand since 1878; turned Transvaaler and manager of the Langlaagte Estate in 1889; a few months later he became once more a colonist; joined the Rhodes' Ministry as Treasurer-General in 1890, and helped to smash it in 1893.

Michau, Jan Johan

Born at Cradock, Cape Colony, June 9, 1863; is son of Hon, W J Michau, MLC, and was educated at Victoria College, Stellenbosch. He is by profession an Attorney at Law and Notary Public. As partner in the firm of Haarhoff and Michau he was for over ten years the legal adviser in Kimberley to the De Beers Company, which he retained until he left Kimberley at the end of 1899. He then commenced practice in Cape Town under the style of Michau and De Villiers. Mr Michau is a prominent Bondsman; he is, and has been for many years, Assistant Secretary of the Bond; at the general election in 1904 he was returned unopposed as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Riversdale Division in the Bond interest. He is a true son of the soil, and as such commands great influence among his fellow Africanders. Mr Michau has always taken a keen interest in municipal matters. For several years he was a member of the Municipal or Borough Council of Kimberley, where he acted as Deputy Mayor; and for three years he was the Mayor of Somerset Strand, which is about thirty miles by rail from Cape Town, and is one of the best seaside resorts of the Colony. Mr Michau was the Attorney to the Princess Radziwill , and defended her throughout her troubles in connection with the Rhodes forgeries. He married, in 1885, Miss A M Oosthuizen.

Michell, Sir Lewis

A descendant of an old Cornish family. He was born at Plymouth in 1842, and was educated at Christ's Hospital and under private tutor. He was for many years, until June 30, 1902, General Manager of the most important banking institution in South Africa, viz., the Standard Bank of South Africa, Ltd. He represented the Cape Colony at the Mint Conference at Pretoria in 1893, and Rhodesia at the Company Law Conference at Johannesburg in 1902, and at Customs Conference at Bloemfontein in 1903. He was for three years Chairman of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, and is now a Director of the British South Africa Company, and of the Rhodesia Railways (see J R Maguire), in connection with which he undertook a tour through Rhodesia in the autumn of 1902 with Mr Beit , Dr Jameson, and Mr J F Jones—a tour which resulted in many difficulties of the northern settlers being greatly ameliorated. Sir Lewis was elected to fill one of the vacant scats for Cape Town in the Progressive interest in the Cape House of Assembly at the latter end of 1902, and at the general election in Feb, 1904, was returned for the electoral division of Wynberg, entering Dr Jameson's Ministry without portfolio, but resigned in 1905 to reside in London. He was JP for Cape Town and District, President of the SA Progressive Association, and a prominent member of various local societies. He was also a frequent lecturer in Cape Town, and closely associated with every movement tending towards political, commercial, and social progress in the colony. During the Boer War he acted as President of the Martial Law Board and Treasurer of the Mansion House Relief Committee at Cape Town. He is one of the trustees of Cecil Rhodes, and was knighted on the occasion of the King's birthday in 1902. He married, in 1870, Maria Agnes, daughter of Edward Philpots, Civil Commissioner of the Cape Service. His eldest son was killed in the Matabele Rebellion while with the BSA Police, and he also lost a son-in-law, Major Scott-Turner, in the siege of Kimberley.

Mildmay, F B, MP

This patriotic politician and notable polo player and sportsman, born in 1864, was the son of Mr H B Mildmay, Shoreham, Kent, and Flete, Devon.  He was originally a Liberal, but after 1886 became a Liberal Unionist.

Miller, Allister Mitchell, JP

Born in Singapore, April 30, 1865 is son of Alexander and Agnes Miller, of Wick, Caithness, NB, and was educated privately and at the Liverpool College After being on the staff of the Liverpool Mercury, which he joined in 1884, he went to SA in 1887 as sub-ed. of the Cape Argus ; became cd. of the Gold Fields Times at Barberton, June, 1885, and in the following Aug was appointed Government Secretary, to the first White Committee elected under charter in Swaziland, later being appointed Secretary, and Agent to King Umbandine, a well as a member of the Committee and Magistrate. On the death of Umbandine, he took up farming until 1891, when he became Manager of the Swaziland Corporation, Ltd.  During the Boer War he served as Secretary, to the Resident Commissioner for Swaziland, attached to the 18th Brigade, and was afterwards second in command of a corps of scouts with rank of Lieutenant. He is a FRGS, FSA, FRCI, and Fellow of the Geological Society of SA. He has written A Short History of Swaziland, and numerous papers on that country. He married, November 21, 1891, Beatrice Mary, daughter of John Thorburn.

Miller, Lieutenant Edward Henry

Son of Roger Woods Miller, LCM, and was educated at the City of London School and at Neuweid, Prussia, and Paris. He served on the Medical Staff of the BSA Police during the Matabele War of 1896, and again saw-fighting in the Boer War, 1899-1900, and is an officer of the S Rhodesia Volunteers. He is librarian of the Bulawayo Public Library; Secretary, of the Rhodesia Museum; and Hon Secretary, of the Rhodesia Scientific Assoc. He published papers on entomology, bibliography, etc., and is now-compiling a Bibliography of Rhodesia, being his section of the Bibliography of South Africa. He married, in 1904, Faith, youngest daughter of Thomas Dawson, of Umlilo, Natal.

Miller, Sir James P, 2nd Battalion Yeomanry Cavalry. 

Sir James, born 1864, was formerly in the I4th Hussars.  He retired in 1892, but promptly got into harness when his services were required.  He is Master of the Berwickshire Hunt, and won the Derby with "Sainfoin" in 1890.  In 1893 he married the daughter of 4th Baron Scarsdale.

Milner, Sir Alfred Milner, GCMG, KCB

Born on March 23rd, 1854, and is the only son of Charles Milner, MD, and of Mary, daughter of Major General Ready, sometime Governor of the Isle of Man. He was educated at Tubingen, in Germany, where his father was for many years resident, and subsequently at King's College, London; and at the age of eighteen was elected to a scholarship at Balliol, where he was more or less contemporary with Mr Asquith, Mr St John Brodrick, Dr Gore (the Bishop of Birmingham), Sir Thomas Raleigh, and many other men since distinguished in public life. He has been a Fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1877. At Oxford he carried off the Hertford, Craven, Eldon, and Derby Scholarships, in addition to obtaining Firsts in Moderations and Greats. He was successively Treasurer and President of the Union Debating Society—then in its palmiest days— and a weighty contributor to its debates. As an undergraduate he was a Liberal tempered with the Imperial sentiment, and was an intimate friend of Arnold Toynbee, of whose career he has written a charming monograph. Following upon his Oxford days, a period of indecision came as to his future. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, and for three or four years—from 1882 to 1885—was principally engaged in journalism, under such stimulating editors as Mr John Morley and Mr W T Stead, from whom Lord Milner now differs so completely on political lines of thought. But although journalism attracted him more than the Bar, Milner was altogether too big a man to be bound by the limitations of the Press. At the General Election in 1885 he unsuccessfully contested the Harrow Division as a Liberal, and in Jan, 1887—on the occasion when Lord Randolph Churchill forgot Goschen—he became private secretary to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had heard and admired young Milner as an undergraduate at the Union. The Right Hon G J Goschen, as he then was, was not a man to place his confidence recklessly but when once he did so it was done unreservedly, and in the result he formed the highest opinion of Milner, who, in return, repaid his chief by the most devoted service, in the course of which time the subject of our sketch received many flattering offers of advancement, which he only refused out of loyalty to his chief. During this period Lord Goschen conceived and carried out his famous conversion scheme, which gave the name of 'Goschens' to a large part of the British Public Debt. His health becoming impaired, Lord Milner in 1889 entered the Egyptian service as Under-Secretary of State for Finance. Three years of administrative experience in Egypt supplied him with the material of his well-known book, England in Egypt, published at the end of 1892, to the later editions of which his friend Sir Clinton Dawkins, who succeeded him in Egypt, and subsequently Sir Eldon Gorst, contributed appendices. The work went through many editions, and is still regarded as one of the most valuable contributions to Anglo African literature, and one that has completely altered the views of Britons as regards the work of their countrymen on the Nile. It is written in a fine literary style, with a brilliancy of local colouring, and displays a close insight into matters of high polities and finance, with a keen appreciation of England's mission in what the author called the Land of Paradox, engendering a healthy confidence in the faculty possessed by Englishmen of doing good work under the most untoward circumstances. In 1892 Mr Milner (as he still was) was appointed Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, in succession to Lord Iddesleigh and Sir Algernon West, and in that important position he rendered valuable assistance to Sir William Harcourt, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, in rearranging the Death Duties. In 1897 the Colonial Secretary was called upon to find some one to succeed Lord Rosmead in the dual office of Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for South Africa—one of the most arduous, responsible, and difficult positions in the gift of the Crown, and a position which demanded sagacity above the average asked of colonial administrators, foresight, courage, tenacity of purpose, and impartiality, tempered with a conciliatory, but at the same time resolute, spirit. These high qualities Mr Chamberlain found in Sir Alfred Milner, who had been knighted some two years previously. Men of all shades of opinion united at the outset in commending Mr Chamberlain's choice, and the High Commissioner received a singular proof of his popularity in the shape of a dinner given in his honour under the presidency of Mr Asquith. Nominally the feast was private and personal, but, to use Mr Balfour's phrase on another occasion at the Athenaeum, the gathering was one of such undiluted distinction that the light thereof could not be hid under a bushel. There were no fewer than fifteen former Presidents of the Oxford Union present, the guest himself being the sixteenth. Mr Balfour, Mr Chamberlain, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Mr John Morley, and even Mr Leonard Courtney—who was afterwards to describe Milner as a lost mind— were there. The exciting days of the raid were not long passed, and a still more eventful epoch awaited Lord Milner's arrival at Table Bay. A careful study of the South African problem on the spot led the High Commissioner to arrive at certain conclusions, which were not altogether to the taste of the Afrikander Bond, or of a section of the Radical party in England. The abortive Bloemfontein Conference with President Kruger took place in the summer of 1899—a time when matters in the Transvaal were particularly complicated. Sir Alfred Milner took a very grave view of the issues which were at stake. The policy of President Kruger appeared to him to threaten the total extinction of British influence in South Africa. He made, however, every effort to secure a peaceful solution, short of surrendering what he regarded as the vital interests of his country. But after four months of ceaseless and harassing negotiations an agreement with the Beer Republic proved impracticable, and in October, 1899, the Transvaal and Orange Free State put an end to further discussion by abruptly presenting Great Britain with an aggressive ultimatum, and after forty-eight hours' notice invading Cape Colony and Natal. During the war which followed Lord Milner's administrative ability was strained to the utmost in dealing with the internal affair of Cape Colony, where a large section of the population were in sympathy with the enemy while some 10,000 of them went into open rebellion. Lord Roberts has borne eloquent testimony to the great assistance which he received from the High Commissioner in the conduct of the war. Early in 1901, while the war was still in progress, Sir Alfred Milner was transferred from the Governorship of Cape Colony to that of the newly annexed Boer States henceforward known as the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, while retaining the office of High Commissioner. From that time onwards till his departure from South Africa four years later his headquarters were at Johannesburg. During a visit to England in the summer of 1901, which he paid nominally on leave, but mainly in order to confer with the Government on the future conduct of affairs in the newly annexed but not yet completely subdued States, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milner and made a member of the Privy Council. He returned to Johannesburg in August, 1901, and in the following May he conducted, together with Lord Kitchener, the negotiations with the Boar leaders which resulted in the surrender of all the Boer forces and the termination of the war (May, 1902). In connection with these events he was raised to the rank of Viscount. No sooner was the war ended than Lord Milner Vi as called upon to undertake the difficult and delicate work, first of repatriation, end then of national reconstruction, in the new colonies. The fhree years which followed were even more arduous than those immediately preceding. All the threads of administration centered in Lord Milner's hands, and he had at one and the same time to provide for the restoration of the whole Boer population, who had been driven from their homes during the war, and were mostly in a state of complete destitution, for the introduction of British settlers, and for the creation of a completely new system of government on British lines. Finance, public works, education, the reform of the Statute Book, the establishment of Courts of Justice and of a new Civil Service in all its branches, railway development, native administration, the creation of a Customs Union to embrace all the South African States, and a number of other weighty matters, all demanded his constant care. In the teeth of the sullen hostility of the leaders of the conquered people and of much criticism from various sections of the British population, he went doggedly on, and, whatever may be said in derogation of certain aspects of his policy, it is incontrovertible that he displayed extraordinary energy in creating order out of chaos and in establishing the new system on such sure foundations that it was found possible before his departure from South Africa to grant a large measure of self-government to the Transvaal, which the present British Ministry converted, within a year of his resignation, into complete responsible Government. Lord Milner himself declared, after his return to England, that the latter step had been taken too soon. But the mere fact that it was possible even to think of it is a testimony to the success of his work in restoring perfect tranquility and a large measure of prosperity to a country which he had taken over a few years previously as a complete wreck, devastated by war, and devoid even of the rudiments of civil administration and orderly government. Lord Milner's health suffered severely from the strain of these years of incessant labour. In the autumn of 1903 he had to take a few months' leave to visit a German watering place. It was during this time that Mr Chamberlain resigned the office of Colonial Secretary, and Lord Milner was suddenly summoned to England and asked to fill the vacant post. It is recounted of him that he found the greatest difficulty in resisting the persuasiveness with which Mr Balfour, then Prime Minister, urged him to accept office as his colleague. But, in spite of all the pressure brought to bear upon him, Lord Milner felt bound to return to his unfinished work in South Africa, which he did in November of that year (1903). After another eighteen months of bard work, however, he considered that sufficient progress bed been made to justify his retirement, and, his health still suffering, he succeeded, not without difficulty, in inducing the Govt, to accept his resignation, and left South Africa for good in April, 1905, being replaced as Governor of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony and High Commissioner by the Earl of Selborne. Lord Milner's speech at the farewell banquet given to him in Johannesburg struck strongly the chord which was the dominant feature of his character. He may have deliberately bent the Boers to his will for the achievement of a great end, but he is unmeasured in his respect for their sterling qualities. "Neither oppress nor kowtow to the Dutch", was his last word to the Uitlanders. "Politics will divide, but common work in the cause of material prosperity will unite. Do not gird at the Boers for an absence of friendliness which they cannot feel. Absolute sympathy must be the growth of years." These are the words of a strong and broadminded man, and in them may be discerned the perfect round of Lord Milner's policy which aimed at the great ideal of imperial unity, the goal of all our hopes. Alfred Milner has received almost as many flattering marks of distinction from his country and countrymen who believe in him as he has marks of censure from that section at home and abroad who revile his works. He was made a CB in 1894, a KCB a year later. The GCMG was conferred upon him in 1897, and the GCB in 1901. His advancement to the rank of Baron, Privy Councillor, and Viscount has been referred to above. To few men can it have been vouchsafed from the very out set of their public career to receive so many public and private testimonials of gratitude and admiration. But possibly the one most prized by Lord Milner is the National Address, containing over 370,000 signatures, expressing appreciation of his great services to South Africa and the Empire, which was forwarded to him by the Duke of Somerset as Chairman of the committee appointed for that purpose in July, 1906. The moment was ripe. An amendment moved by Mr Churchill virtually censuring one of the greatest servants of the Crown for a single (and admitted) error of judgment had been voted by the House of Commons in March, and although Lord Milner's conduct had been approved by the House of Lords, public opinion was aflame at the ingratitude of a Government which, according to long tradition, is bound to support the servants of the State when unjustly attacked. But Lord Milner is not the only great Imperialist whose actions have been condemned when they should have exalted him to a place beside the ablest of Englishmen. The immortal Marlborough, whose descendant was one of the foremost to attack Lord Milner, was dismissed from public employment on a cruel charge, his prosecution being ordered by the House of Commons. Clive was examined by the House as if he had been a sheep stealer, and died by his own hand in disgust at his country's ingratitude. Warren Hastings bravely bore for seven years the persecution of the most eloquent combination of men that Parliament has ever produced at one time, and, later, Sir Bartle Frere broke his heart after serving his country with the single-minded devotion of a knight of romance in South Africa. It is the fame of these men that now remains secure, while the memory of their detractors must still suffer. After all, it is persecution which is the hallmark of commanding capacity—the persecution of the great by the little, who thus avow their impotence to sway the verdict of Time. And now, having retired from the public service, though his voice is still heard in the House of Lords and occasionally on the public platform, Lord Milner is settled down at the old Kentish house, Sturry Court, which is an historical estate, comprising about 160 acres, and an old Elizabethan farmstead, just outside Canterbury, on the northern bank of the Stour. The property is supposed to have been originally an Augustinian convent, the manor being a gift from King Ethelbert. The abbot, during his residence there, threw a stone bridge across the river. After the Reformation it was presented by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Smythe, a noted City merchant and farmer of the Customs, who was grandfather to the first Viscount Strangford. In 1906 Lord Milner joined the Board of Directors of the London and Joint Stock Bank. He is also a Director of the Northern Assurance Company and of the Bank of Egypt.

Mills, John Saxon

Son of James and Martha Mills of Ashton, and was born at Ashton-under-Lyne. At the beginning of the Boer War he was on editorial staff of the Daily News under Mr E T Cook; had been an active worker of the Eighty Club, and took part in organising Liberal Imperialist sentiment in the Liberal party. He was joint founder of the Liberal Imperial Council in opposition to the pro-Boer and little-England section of the party, the Council being ultimately merged into the Liberal League. At the beginning of 1901, the Daily News being bought by the pro-Boer section, Mr Saxon Mills proceeded to South Africa as Editor of the Cape Times, a position which he held until several months after the close of the war. He was incidentally one of the party on the train which carried Mr Rhodes to burial in the Matoppos. On returning to England he joined Mr Chamberlain's movement in favour of the economic union of the Empire, and wrote and spoke much on the question. Has contributed to Westminster Gazette, Globe, and many other journals including the Times, Fortnightly, National and Empire Reviews. He married Miss Grace Keeler in 1901.

Milton (Viscount), W Charles de Meuron Wentworth Fitzwilliam, MP

Among the gallant volunteers who have served with the Imperial Yeomanry.  He was the son of Viscount Milton, MP, and a daughter of Lord Charles Beauclerk.  He was born in 1872, and married in 1896 the daughter of the Marquis of Zetland.

Mockler-Ferryman, Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Ferryman

He was born in Dublin, Dec 25, 1856. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the RMC, Sandhurst; joined the 43rd Light Infantry in 1877; acted as Private Secretary to HBM's Special Commissioner to the Niger in 1889-90; was appointed Instructor in Fortification at the RMC, Sandhurst, from 1892-7; Instructor in Mil. Topography there from 1897-1900, and Professor in 1900-03. He was employed at the War Office from 1903-5 in assisting to write the official history of the Boer War ; author of Up the Niger: a narrative of Major Claude MacDonald's Mission to the Niger and Benue Rivers, W Africa; British W Africa, The Bedfordshire Light Infantry in South Africa, British Nigeria, Hemmed In: a tale of the W Sudan, and numerous other works. He married, July 14, 1891, Evelyn, daughter of Chas. Whitehead, JP, DL, of Barming, Kent.

Molyneux, A J C

Son of William Molyneux, of Burton-on-Trent. He served in the Matabele War in 1893 as Staff Officer of the Victoria Column with Major Wilson (medal), and afterwards commanded a troop in the Rhodesia Horse. He is interested in scientific research; has been President, 1902-3, of the Rhodesia Scientific Association; is a trustee of the Rhodesian Museum, and author of several geological and geographical papers.

Money, Lieutenant Colonel C G C, CB, 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. 

Entered 1872; Lieutenant Colonel, 1897.  Staff service: Employed with Army Pay Department, 1885-89; Adjutant Volunteers, 1889-94.  War service: Nile Expedition 1898 (Despatches; CB; Egyptian medal with clasp; medal); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Money, Captain Charles Francis Lethbridge

Born Sep 26, 1869, and is son of Reverend Canon Money. He was educated at Cheltenham Coll, and Corpus Christi College, Cambs. In 1892 he went to Canada and joined the North-West Mounted Police, but left in 1895 and went to South Africa in the following year, arriving at Salisbury a week before the Mashonaland Rebellion broke out, in which he served, first as a burgher in the Salisbury Laager; afterwards as Troop Sergeant Major in the Salisbury Field Force, and Paymaster Sergeant to the Volunteer Forces; subsequently being promoted to Lieutenant, and Paymaster in the same year (medal and clasp). He was appointed to the district Paymastership of the British South Africa Police for Mashonaland in 1897; and occupied the same position for Rhodesia in 1903. He received his captaincy in 1901; wears the King's and QSAs and three clasps for the Boer War, and is a JP for S Rhodesia. Recreations: Golf and tennis. He played Rugby football and cricket for the College XV and XL in 1889-91. He married, Feb 14, 1900 Lily, daughter of T Spunner, of Kildare.

Monypenny, William Flavelle

Was born in County Armagh, Ireland, Aug 7, 1866. He is descended from a collateral branch, settled in Ireland, of a Scotch family whose headquarters are at Pitmilly, in Fife. He was educated at the Royal School, Duncannon, at Trinity College, Dublin, where He graduated BA, and at Balliol College, Oxon After leaving the University he contributed for a time to the Spectator; joined the staff of the Times as Assistant-Editor in 1893, and was appointed Editor of the Johannesburg Star early in 1899, and in that capacity and as correspondent of the Times he incurred the displeasure of the Boer Government, who, in the beginning of Sep, attempted to arrest him on a charge of high treason, but he escaped to British territory. On the outbreak of the Boer War he obtained a commission in the ILH, and served with that regiment through the siege of Ladysmith. He was afterwards Director of Civil Supplies in Johannesburg during Colonel Colin Mackenzie's tenure of office as Military Governor, and he resumed the editorial control of the Johannesburg Star when that paper reappeared at the beginning of 1902. Owing to his disagreement with the policy of introducing Chinese labour into South Africa he resigned the editorship of the Star in Dec, 1903, and returned to England, where he is now engaged in writing a life of Lord Beaconsfield from the original papers bequeathed to Lord Rowton.

Morris, Brevet Major Edmund Merritt

He was born in Canada in 1868, and was educated at the RMC there. He served with the Devonshire Regiment in Egypt and India, and in the campaign on the NW Frontier of India in 1897-8 (medal and two clasps); went to South Africa with his regiment, and was appointed Adjt. to Thorneycroft's MI, which corps he assisted to raise. He became Sub Divisional Commander in the South African Constabulary in 1901, and on the continuation of the war he raised and took command of a Mounted Corps of 600 Burghers, known as the Farmers' Guard, which Corps he commanded till the end of the war (QSA and six clasps, KSA and two clasps, mentioned in despatches). He remained in the SAC until 1904, when he was selected by Lord Milner to raise a Volunteer Force in the ORC, and to command it; owing in the lack of funds, however, the movement was postponed. He married a daughter of Major General Shakespear.

Morris, Edward Walter Henry

Served in the artillery troop of the Frontier Armed and Mounted Police during the Gaika-Galeka and Moirosi campaigns (medal with clasp), and as lieutenant in the Herschel native contingent during the Basuto War. He was temporarily employed in the resident magistrate's office at Grahamstown in 1882; was appointed clerk to the resident magistrate at Kokstad in 1882, and at Tsolo in 1893; acted as clerk to the registrar of native servants at Kimberley in 1895. He was appointed deputy registrar of births and deaths at Kimberley in 1898.

Morrison, Lieutenant Colonel R H, 18th Hussars

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hobart Morrison, Commissioned Lieutenant 18th Hussars, 1874; Captain 1882; Major 1889; Lieutenant-Colonel 1898; Assistant-Provost Marshall, 8th Division, South Africa Field Force 1900.  Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison married Louise de Ricci, the daughter of Assistant Commissiary R S de Ricci, and they had three sons, Major Richard Fielding Morrison, M.C., Robert Grant Morrison, and Major Charles Colquhoun Morrison.

QSA (2) CC Witt (Lt: Col. R.H. Morrison. 18/ Hussars), KSA (2) (Lt. Col. R.H. Morrison. Genl. Staff.).  Spink Nov 06.

Mortimer, Colonel W H

Colonel, 1899.  War Service: Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900; Chief Paymaster (Maritzburg).

Moses, William, JP

Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Apr 28, 1854, and is the second son of John Moses, of Cumberland. He was educated at Durham University, and in 1870 became an articled pupil in the Earl of Durham's collieries; from 1875-81 He was engaged in the management of the same. He acted as Assistant-Manager of the Marquess of Londonderry's collieries from 1881-3; at the end of that time he became Manager of Sir Mark Palmer's Wardley Collieries. He also owned the Hetton and Chatton Collieries in Northumberland from 1881-92. In 1889 he was Mining Engineer to the Chinese Government at Pekin; subsequently becoming Manager of the Kimberley Diamond Mines and De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1892. He held the post of General Manager of the Transvaal Coal Trust from 1897-1900, when he became Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal. He married, April 8, 1879, Mary, daughter of John Leith, of London and New York.

Mohle, Lieutenant Louis Horsford D'Oyly

He was born in India, Oct 31, 1876; is son of H D Moule, CSI, and was educated at Exeter. He served with the CMR in the Boer War, being appointed to a Commission in the East Lancashire Regiment in May, 1900 (QSA with three clasps, KSA with two clasps). He subsequently saw active service with the S Nigeria Regiment, to which he was appointed in 1903 (African General Service medal with one clasp).

Munro, Sir Hector Munro, Baronet, Hon Lieutenant Colonel 3rd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

Embodied December 1899.

Murray, Captain C A

Commanded an Australian section of the Scottish Horse in the Boer War, and took charge of the contingent which was entertained in England on the occasion of the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902.