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MORAN— MOELEY.

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May^ 1876, he was appointed Bishop of Melbourne, in succession to Dr. Perry, resigned. He is the author of "Nature and Revelation," four sermons preached before the Uni- versity of Cambridge, 1861 ; " Our Lord Jesus Christ the Subject of Orowth in Wisdom," being the Hul- sean Lectures for 1865; "Jacob," three sermons before the University of Cambridge ; and various single sermons.

MORAN, The Right Rbv. Pat- BiCK Francis, D.D., Bishop of Os- sory, born at Leighlinbridge, co. Carlow, Ireland, Sept. 16, 1830, was educated at the Irish College of St. Agatha, Rome. He was ap- pointed Vice-president of the Col- lege in 1856, and Professor of Hebrew in the College of Propa- ptnda, Rome. Returning to Ire- land in 1866, he was private secre- tary to his Eminence Cardinal Cul- len. Archbishop of Dublin; was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Ossory on March 5, 1872, and suc- ceeded, a few months later, to that see. Dr. Moran has laboured a great deal to promote the study of Irish history and antiquities. Among other works he has pub- lished : — " Memoir of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett," 1861 ; "Es- says on the Origin, &c., of the Early Irish Church," 186 A; "History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dub- Un," 186A; "Historical Sketch of the Persecutions, &c., under Crom- well and the Puritans," 1865 ; "Acta S. Brendani," 1872; "Monas- ticon Hibemicum," 1873 ; " Spici- legium Ossoriense, being a Collec- tion of Documents to illustrate the History of the Irish Church from the Reformation to the year 1800," 1874.

MORAY, ROSS, and CAITH- NESS, BiSHQP OP. (See Edbn.)

MORIER, Sib Robxbt Bubnbtt David, K.C.B., was born about 1827, and graduated at Balliol Col- lege, Oxford, taking his Bachelor's degree as a second class in classics in 18 i9. He served in the Educa-

tional Department of the Privy Cotmcil Office in 1851-52, and was afterwards successively unpaid At- tach6 at Vienna, and paid Attach^ at Berlin. In 1859 he accompanied Mr. (now Sir Henry) Elliot's special mission to Naples, and in 1860 he acted as assistant private* secretary to Lord John (afterwards Earl) Russell at Coburg, when his Lordship was in attendance on Her Majesty. Mr. Morier was appointed a second secretary in the diplo- matic service in 1862. He was nominated British member of the Mixed Commission at Vienna to inquire into the Austrian tariff in March, 1865, and was promoted to be Secretary of Legation at Athens in September of the same year. He was shortly after transferred to Frankfort, where he subsequently acted as Charg6 d' Affaires. In 1866 he was appointed Secretary of Legation at Darmstadt, he was nominated Charg^ d' Affaires at Stuttgardt in 1871, and was trans- ferred to Munich in 1872. He was promoted to be Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Portugal in 1876, and held that post till 1881, when he was transferred to Madrid.

MORISON, James Cottbb, M.A., was born in London April 20, 1831, and educated at Cholmondly Ghram- mar School, Highgate, and at Lin- coln College, Oxford, where he pro- ceeded to the degree of M.A. He is the author of " Life and Times of St. Bernard," 1863, several times reprinted j " Irish Grievances shortly stated," 1868; "Gibbon" (in "English Men of Letters" series), 1878; "Macaulay," in the same series, 1882 ; and several essays in the Fortnightly and other reviews.

MORLEY, HsNBT, son of Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex, bom m London in 1822, was edu- cated at the Moravian School, Neu- wied-on-the-Rhine, and at King's College, London, of which college he has since been made an honor- 3 F

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