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 * John James Masquerier
 * Earl of Massereene
 * ✅ ✅Viscount Massereene
 * Edward Massey
 * Eyre Massey
 * John Massey
 * William Massey
 * William Nathaniel Massey
 * James William Massie
 * Joseph Massie
 * Thomas Leeke Massie
 * Francis Charles Massingberd
 * Philip Massinger Philip Massinger (1583–1640), dramatist; entered at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1602; came to London, 1606; soon became a famous playwright; collaborated with Nathaniel Field, Robert Daborne, Cyril Tourneur, andDekker; wrote regularly in conjunction with FleMn-r, 1613-25; associated with the king's company of actors, 1616-23 and 1625-40; with the Cockpit company, 16231625; remarkable for his skill in the working out of plots and his insight into stage requirements. Among his patrons were the Herbert family, the Earl of Carnarvon, Sir Warham St. Leger, Sir Francis Foljambe, Sir Thomas Bland, Sir Aston Cokayne, and Lord Mohun; the fifteen plays entirely written by him areThe Duke of Milan 1623, The Unnatural Combat 1639, The Bondman 1624, 'The Renegade 1630,The Parliament of Love(licensed for the Cockpit, 1624),A New Way to pay Old Debt* 1632,The itoruan Actor 1629,The Maid of Honour   163J The Pietuw 1680, "The Great Duke of Florence  The Emperor of the Knit 1631,Believe as 700  lint StationersRegisters 1663), The City Madam  1658,The Guardian 1645, andThe Bashful Lover  H.55. In collaboration with Fletcher be wrote, among  others, portion* of Henry VIII 1617, and ofTwo Noble  ., 1634, in both of which a large *bare It attri to Shakespeare. His political views Inclined to the  popular party; in The Bondmanbe supported the  rn in tu-ir quarrel with Buckingham, whom be  denounced under the guise of Ulsco. Thinly veiled reflec tious on current politics figure in other play*.  f xxxviL 101  MA8SON, FRANCIS (1741-1805), gardener and botanist; sent, by the authorities at Kew Gardens, to collect plant* and bulbs at the Cape, 1779; in 1776 to the Canaries, Axores, Madeira, and the West Indies, and to 1'ortugal and Madeira, 1788; again sent to the Cape, 1786-95, and to North America, 1788; genus Mutonia named after him by Linnaeus.
 * George Joseph Gustave Masson
 * Henri de Massue de Ruvigny
 * John Master
 * Richard Master
 * ✅✅Streynsham Master (Royal Navy)
 * Thomas Master
 * William Master
 * William Master (author)
 * ✅✅Mary Masters
 * Robert Masters
 * Charles Mastertown
 * George Matcham
 * George Matcham
 * Cotton Mather
 * Increase Mather
 * Nathanael Mather
 * Richard Mather
 * Robert Cotton Mather
 * Samuel Mather (minister)
 * William Mather
 * Mathetes
 * Theobald Mathew
 * Charles Mathews
 * Charles James Mathews
 * ✅Lucia Elizabeth Mathews
 * Thomas Mathews
 * Benjamin Williams Mathias
 * Thomas James Mathias
 * ✅Matilda of Flanders
 * ✅Matilda of Scotland
 * Matilda of Boulogne
 * Matilda
 * ✅Matilda
 * Robert Maton
 * ✅✅William George Maton
 * Matthew Paris
 * Matthew Westminster
 * ✅Tobie Matthew
 * ✅Tobie Matthew
 * Henry Matthews
 * John Matthews
 * Lemuel Matthews
 * Marmaduke Matthews
 * Thomas Matthews
 * Thomas Matthews (actor)
 * Augustus Matthiessen
 * Isabella Mattocks
 * Charles Robert Maturin
 * William Maturin
 * Matthew Maty
 * Paul Henry Maty
 * Walter Mauclerk
 * Henry Maudslay
 * Joseph Maudslay
 * Thomas Henry Maudslay
 * Israel Mauduit
 * William Mauduit
 * John Mauduith
 * ✅Mauger of Worcester
 * Robert Maugham
 * Fox Maule
 * Harry Maule
 * ✅James Maule
 * Patrick Maule
 * William Henry Maule
 * William Ramsay Maule
 * John Mauleverer
 * Richard Mauleverer
 * Thomas Mauleverer
 * Sir Thomas Mauleverer
 * Peter de Mauley
 * Benjamin Maund
 * ✅Samuel Maunder
 * Henry Maundrell
 * Andrew Maunsell
 * John Maunsell
 * Henry de Maunsfield
 * Walter Mauny
 * ✅Maurice (bishop)
 * Maurice
 * ✅Maurice of the Palatinate
 * John Frederick Denison Maurice
 * Godfrey Maurice
 * Henry Maurice
 * James Wilkes Maurice
 * Thomas Maurice
 * William Maurice
 * William Fordyce Mavor
 * Sir Joseph Mawbey
 * John Mawe
 * Leonard Mawe
 * ✅Matthias Mawson
 * ✅Friedrich Max Müller Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1 900), orientalist and philologist: son of the poet Wilhelm Miiller (17941827); born at Dessau; educated at Leipzig; Ph.D., 1843; studied under Franz Bopp and Schelling at Berlin and under Eugene Burnouf at Paris; obtained introduction to Baron Bunsen, then Prussian minister in London; came to England, 1846, and was commissioned by board of directors of East India Company to bring out edition of the Sanskrit classic Rigveda with Sayana's commentary (published, 1849-73); settled at Oxford, 1848; deputy Taylorian professor of modern European languages, 1850; hon. M.A. and member of Christ Church, 1851; full M.A. and Taylorian professor, 1854-68; curator of Bodleian Library, 1856-63 and 1881-94; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1858; unsuccessfully opposed (Sir) Monier Monier-Williams as candidate for professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford, 1860; studied comparative philology and was first professor of that subject at Oxford, 1868 till death, though he retired from the active duties of the chair, 1875; devoted much attention to comparative mythology and the comparative study of religions; edited, from 1876, Sacred Books of the East a series of English translations of oriental works of a religious character. He was a privy councillor and obtained numerous honours from British and foreign courts and learned bodies. Though much in his works and methods may already be superseded, his writings exercised an extraordinarily stimulating influence in many fields. They fall under the heads of Sanskrit, Pali, science of religion, comparative mythology, comparative philology, philosophy, biography, and writings in German. A collected edition of his essays entitled Chips from a German Workshop appeared, 1867-75. A full collected edition of his works began to appear in 1898.
 * Anthony Maxey
 * ✅Thomas Maxfield
 * Thomas Maxfield (Methodist)
 * Frederick Augustus Maxse
 * Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse
 * ✅Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Maxwell
 * Sir George Clerk Maxwell
 * James Maxwell (author)
 * James Maxwell (Jacobite)
 * James Maxwell (poet)
 * James Clerk Maxwell
 * Sir John Maxwell
 * ✅John Maxwell
 * ✅John Maxwell
 * ✅John Maxwell (archbishop)
 * John Hall Maxwell
 * Sir Murray Maxwell
 * Sir Peter Benson Maxwell
 * ✅Robert Maxwell
 * Robert Maxwell (writer)
 * William Maxwell
 * ✅William Maxwell
 * William Maxwell (1782–1818)
 * Sir William Edward Maxwell

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 * ✅William Hamilton Maxwell
 * ✅Sir William Stirling Maxwell
 * ✅Winifred Maxwell
 * ✅Margaret Maxwell-Inglis
 * ✅Baptist May
 * George Augustus Chichester May
 * Sir Humphrey May
 * ✅John May (bishop)
 * John May (writer)
 * ✅Thomas May

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 * Sir Thomas Erskine May
 * William May
 * Samuel Mayart
 * Richard Maydestone
 * John Mayer
 * Joseph Mayer
 * Samuel Ralph Townshend Mayer
 * Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne
 * William Frederick Mayers
 * Augustus Septimus Mayhew
 * Edward Mayhew
 * Henry Mayhew
 * Horace Mayhew
 * Henry de Maymysfeld
 * Edward Maynard
 * John Maynard
 * Sir John Maynard
 * John Maynard (1600–1665)
 * ✅John Maynard (MP)
 * Walter Maynard
 * Cuthbert Mayne
 * Jasper Mayne
 * John Mayne
 * Perry Mayne
 * Sir Richard Mayne
 * Richard Charles Mayne
 * Simon Mayne
 * William Mayne
 * Zachary Mayne
 * Arthur Maynwaring
 * Everard Maynwaring
 * Earl of Mayo
 * Charles Mayo (historian)
 * Charles Mayo (educationalist)
 * ✅Charles Mayo (Anglo-Saxon scholar)
 * Charles Mayo (surgeon)
 * Daniel Mayo
 * Elizabeth Mayo
 * Herbert Mayo (1720–1802)
 * Paggen William Mayo
 * Henry Mayo (minister)
 * Herbert Mayo (1720–1802)
 * Herbert Mayo
 * John Mayo
 * Paggen William Mayo
 * ✅Richard Mayo (minister)
 * ✅Thomas Mayo
 * John Mayow
 * Joseph Mazzinghi
 * ✅Joseph Mead
 * Matthew Mead (minister)
 * Richard Mead
 * Robert Mead
 * William Mead
 * John Meade
 * ✅Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade
 * Sir Robert Henry Meade
 * George Wilson Meadley
 * Lords Meadowbank
 * Richard Meadowcourt
 * John Meadowe
 * Alfred Meadows
 * Drinkwater Meadows
 * John Meadows (1622–1697)
 * John Meadows (1676–1757)
 * Joseph Kenny Meadows
 * Sir Philip Meadows the elder
 * Sir Philip Meadows the younger
 * Leonard Meager
 * Thaddeus de Meagher
 * Thomas Francis Meagher
 * Joseph Calrow Means
 * Dermod Meara
 * Edmund Meara
 * John Meares
 * Duncan Mearns
 * John Mears
 * William Mears
 * Lords of Meath
 * John Joseph Mechi
 * Matthew Medbourne
 * Joseph Mede
 * George Medhurst
 * Walter Henry Medhurst
 * Walter Henry Medhurst
 * John Medina
 * Sir John Baptist Medina
 * Thomas Medland
 * Henry Medley
 * John Medley
 * ✅✅Samuel Medley (minister)
 * ✅Samuel Medley
 * Sir William Medows
 * Henry Medwall
 * Thomas Medwin
 * Lord Medwyn
 * Anne Mee
 * Charles Patrick Meehan
 * Sir James Meek
 * Mary Meeke
 * Henry Meen
 * Alfred Meeson
 * Edward Meetkerke
 * John Meggot
 * Christopher Meidel
 * Meigant
 * Andrew Meikle
 * George Meikle
 * Earl of Melfort
 * Pius Melia
 * William of Meliton
 * Davis Mell
 * Count of Mellent
 * John Mellis
 * Sir George Mellish
 * ✅Mellitus
 * Alfred Mellon
 * Harriot Mellon
 * Sir John Mellor
 * Courtney Melmoth
 * William Melmoth
 * William Melmoth the younger
 * James Meikle
 * Mark Anthony Meilan
 * Meilyr Brydydd
 * Mel
 * Brian Melbancke
 * Viscount Melbourne
 * Baron Melcombe
 * Raphael Meldola
 * George Meldrum
 * John Meldrum
 * Earl of Melrose
 * Sir John Melton
 * ✅William de Melton
 * William de Melton (d. 1628)
 * Robert de Melun
 * Henry Melvill
 * Sir James Cosmo Melvill
 * Thomas Melvill
 * ✅Viscounts Melville
 * Andrew Melville Andrew Melville or Melvell (1545–1622), Scottish presbyterian leader and scholar; educated at Montrose grammar school under Pierre de Marsiliers, 1557-9, and St. Mary's College, St. Andrews; went to Paris, 1564; studied Greek, oriental languages, mathematics, and law; influenced by Peter Ramus; went to Poitiers, 1566: helped to defend Poitiers during the siege, 1568; professor of humanity, Geneva, 1568; met Beza, Joseph Scaliger, and Francis Hottomau; returned to Scotland, 1573; appointed head of Glasgow College, 1574; introduced an enlarged curriculum and established chairs in languages, science, philosophy, and divinity, confirmed by royal charter, 1577; assisted in the organisation of the Scottish church in the presbyterian mould, which was set forth in the * second book of discipline sanctioned, 1581; assisted in the reconstitution of Aberdeen University, 1675, and the re-formation of St. Andrews, 1679; became principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, 1680, where he promoted the study of Aristotle, and created a taste for Greek letters; moderator of the general assembly at St. Andrews, 1582, at which the order for the excommunication of Montgomery (whom he prosecuted as a tulchan bishop) caused open war between the assembly and the court; his party placed in power by the raid of Ruthven 1582; charged with treason, 1584; escaped to England, and was well received in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; returned to Scotland on Arran's fall, 1585; effectul a compromise, 1586; rector of St. Andrews University, 1590; unsuccessfully claimed the right to sit in   ! the assembly at Dundee, 1598, and at Montroae, 1600;  I deprived of the rectorship in a visitation of M. Andrew*,  1 but made dean of the faculty of theology, 1199; protested on behalf of the leaden of a general assembly ootutitated at Aberdeen, 105, in defiance of the king summoned to London, 1606, where be made two uncompromising speeches on behalf of the freedom assemblies: confined in the lower for a bitter epigram on Anglican ritual, 1607; his release at last obtained, 1611, I iy Henri de la Tour, due de Bouillon, who wUhed him to  ; become professor of biblical theology in the university of Sedan; wrote controversial prose works; ranked by laaac Walton next to Buchanan as a Latin poet: died at Sedan.
 * Andrew Melville
 * David Melville
 * Elizabeth Melville
 * George Melville
 * Captain George John Whyte-Melville
 * James Melville
 * Sir James Melville
 * Sir John Melville
 * ✅Robert Melville
 * ✅Robert Melville
 * Adah Isaacs Menken
 * Lord Menmuir
 * John Mennes
 * James Melvin
 * Menasseh Ben Israel
 * Fernando Mendes
 * Moses Mendes
 * Joseph Mendham
 * Baron Mendip
 * Daniel Mendoza
 * Joseph de Mendoza y Rios
 * Sir Robert Mends
 * William Robert Mends
 * Earls of Menteith
 * Sir John de Menteith
 * Robert Menteith
 * Archibald Menzies
 * John Menzies (1624–1684)
 * John Menzies (1766–1834)
 * Michael Menzies
 * Simon Meopham
 * John Merbecke
 * Charles Merbury
 * Andrew Mercer
 * Hugh Mercer
 * James Mercer
 * John Mercer
 * William Mercer
 * Lords of Merchiston
 * Earl of Mercia
 * Kings of Mercians
 * Honoré Mercier
 * Philip Mercier
 * Merddin Wyllt (tick}}
 * Edward Meredith
 * Richard Meredith
 * Richard Meredith
 * ✅William Meredith

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 * ✅Meredydd
 * ✅Meredydd ab Bleddyn
 * Baron Meredyth
 * Francis Meres
 * John Meres
 * Sir Thomas Meres
 * Henry Alworth Merewether
 * John Merewether
 * Sir William Lockyer Merewether
 * ✅George Meriton

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 * George Meriton (writer)
 * John Meriton
 * Thomas Meriton
 * Charles Merivale
 * Herman Merivale
 * John Herman Merivale
 * Samuel Merivale
 * Thomas Merke
 * Daniel of Merlac
 * William Merle
 * Merlin Ambrosius
 * ✅Merlin Celidonius
 * Christopher Merret
 * Walter Merrey
 * James Merrick
 * Rice Merrick
 * Charles Watkins Merrifield
 * Brian Merriman
 * John Merriman
 * Nathaniel James Merriman
 * Samuel Merriman
 * Samuel Merriman
 * Thomas Merriot
 * Henry Merritt
 * Robert Merry
 * Dick Merryfellow
 * ✅Lord Mersington
 * Walter de Merton
 * Audley Mervin
 * Sir William Meryck
 * Charles Lewis Meryon
 * Richard Messing
 * William Meston

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 * ✅John Metcalf (civil engineer)
 * ✅Charles Theophilus Metcalfe
 * Frederick Metcalfe
 * James Metcalfe (British Army officer)
 * ✅Nicholas Metcalfe
 * ✅Robert Metcalfe (Hebraist)
 * Theophilus Metcalfe
 * Theophilus John Metcalfe
 * ✅✅Eliza Meteyard
 * ✅William Ellis Metford

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 * Sir William Methold
 * William Methold
 * John Methuen
 * ✅Paul Methuen (reformer)
 * Paul Methuen (clothier)
 * ✅Paul Methuen (diplomat)
 * ✅Baron Methven
 * Meuryg
 * Othowell Meverall
 * Peter Mews
 * William Mey
 * Henry Meyer
 * Jeremiah Meyer
 * Philip James Meyer
 * Charles Methell
 * Sir Gelly Meyrick
 * ✅John Meyrick (bishop)
 * John Meyrick (ambassador)
 * ✅ John Meyrick
 * ✅Rowland Meyrick
 * ✅Samuel Rush Meyrick
 * William Meyrick (judge)
 * Meyrig
 * ✅Edward Miall
 * Blaunpayn Michael
 * ✅John Michel (British Army officer)
 * ✅✅Edward Michelborne
 * Edward Michelborne (poet)
 * John Michelborne
 * Charles Cornwallis Michell
 * Edward Thomas Michell
 * Sir Francis Michell
 * Henry Michell
 * John Michell
 * Matthew Michell
 * Nicholas Michell
 * Richard Michell
 * William Julius Mickle
 * John Micklethwaite
 * Samuel Middiman
 * George Middlemore
 * Earls of Middlesex
 * ✅Charles Middleton
 * Charles Middleton
 * ✅Christopher Middleton (died 1628)
 * ✅Christopher Middleton (navigator)
 * Conyers Middleton
 * David Middleton
 * Erasmus Middleton
 * Henry Middleton (printer)
 * Sir Henry Middliton
 * Hugh Middleton
 * Jane Middleton
 * ✅John Middleton
 * John Middleton (painter)
 * John Henry Middleton
 * Joshua Middleton (Quaker)
 * ✅Marmaduke Middleton
 * Patrick Middleton
 * Richard Middleton (Franciscan)
 * ✅Richard Middleton (clergyman)
 * Thomas Middleton
 * ✅Sir Thomas Middleton
 * Sir Thomas Myddelton (younger) {{tick}
 * Thomas Fanshaw Middleton
 * William of Middleton
 * William Middleton (printer)
 * William Middleton (controversialist)
 * William Middleton
 * Robert Midgley
 * Viscount Midleton
 * Mary Midnight
 * Guy Miege
 * ✅ ✅John Miers (botanist)
 * Mark Milbanke
 * John Milbourn
 * Luke Milbourne (1622–1668)
 * Luke Milbourne {tick}}
 * Milburg
 * Anthony Mildmay
 * Sir Henry Mildmay
 * Sir Walter Mildmay
 * Mildred
 * Miles de Gloucester
 * Charles Popham Miles
 * Edward Miles (painter)
 * George Francis Miles
 * ✅Henry Miles
 * John Miles
 * ✅✅Sibella Elizabeth Miles
 * William Miles
 * William Augustus Miles
 * John Miley
 * Henry Mill
 * Humphrey Mill
 * James Mill (soldier)
 * James Mill
 * John Mill
 * John Stuart Mill
 * Walter Mill
 * William Hodge Mill
 * John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896), painter, and president of Royal Academy; a native of Southampton; lived during various periods of early life In Jersey and Brittany; came to London, 1838: studied art under Henry Bass; entered Royal Academy school*, 1840, and obtained gold medal for painting The Young Men of Benjamin seizing their Brides 1846: first exhibited at Royal Academy Pizarro seizing the Inca of Pen 1846: originated (1848), with Mr. Holman Hunt, the pre-Raphaelite movement, soon joined by Dante Gabriel Rouetti, who exerted influence on some of MUlais's subsequent work; bis most successful pre-Raphaelite picture,Isabella 1849; great hostility aroused by his Christ in the House of his Parents 1850, owing to the unconventional treatment of a scene in the life of the Holy Family; among the most notable of his works at this period areThe Return of the Dove to the Ark and Mariana of the Moated Grange 1861,The Huguenot and Ophelia 1852, The Proscribed Royalist and The Order of Release 1853; A.R.A., 1853; married, 1865, Euphemia Chalmers, daughter of George Gray, who had obtained a decree of the nullity of her marriage with Ruskin: exhibitedAutumn Leavesand concluded 1866,   Sir Isumbras at the Fordand  The Escape of a Heretic 1857, Apple Blossomsand The Vale of Rest 1859; deviated from the pre-Raphaele manner in hisBlack Brunswicker 1860; R.A.,    ite  ; exhibited 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 1863, 'Jephthah 1867, Rosalind and Oelia 1868,The Boyhood of   , tool, nvpoiiuu MM ieuu, ioc, me uoynooa or &bThe Knight Errant 1870, andVictory, O I? Ohill October (his first exhibited pure landscape), 1871; after 1870 devoted himself mainly to portrait and landscape, and to single figures of children and pretty  "NSiSP 6 1 exbibitel    . A Yeoman of the  i, 1877,The Princes In the Tower,* 1878, andThe Elizabeth 1879: painted bin own portrait for ths tflUi Gallery, Florence, 1880; created baronet, 1885;    the last subject picture exhibited by him, The Forerunner: P.R.A, 1896.
 * ✅Andrew Millar
 * ✅Andrew Millar
 * James Millar
 * ✅John Millar (jurist)
 * John Millar (physician)
 * ✅William Millar (British Army officer)
 * Andrew Miller
 * Anna Miller
 * ✅Edward Miller (musician)
 * George Miller
 * Hugh Miller
 * James Miller (playwright)
 * James Miller (surgeon)
 * John Miller (architect)
 * John Miller (engraver)
 * John Gale Miller
 * John Frederick Miller
 * Joseph Miller
 * Josiah Miller
 * Lydia Falconer Miller
 * Patrick Miller
 * Philip Miller
 * Ralph Willett Miller
 * ✅Sir Thomas Miller
 * ✅Thomas Miller (bookseller)
 * ✅Thomas Miller (poet)
 * William Miller (painter)
 * William Miller (soldier)
 * ✅William Miller (British publisher)
 * Sir William Miller
 * William Miller (Peruvian general)
 * ✅William Miller (poet)
 * William Miller
 * William Allen Miller
 * William Hallowes Miller
 * William Henry Miller
 * William Miller (poet)
 * ✅Isaac Milles
 * Jeremiah Milles the younger
 * Jeremiah Milles
 * Thomas Milles (bailiff)
 * Thomas Milles (bishop)
 * Robert Millhouse
 * William Milligan
 * Richard Alfred Milliken
 * James Millingen
 * John Gideon Millingen
 * Julius Michael Millingen
 * Gilbert Millington
 * James Heath Millington
 * ✅John Millington (professor)
 * Thomas Millington
 * William Millington
 * John Millner
 * Alfred Mills
 * ✅Charles Mills (writer)
 * Charles Mills (agent-general)
 * ✅George Mills (artist)
 * George Mills (shipbuilder)
 * John Mills (actor)
 * ✅John Mills (encyclopedist)
 * John Mills (minister)
 * Richard Mills
 * Thomas Millyng