Dictionary of National Biography, 1904 errata/Volume 38
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. |