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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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MELLOWES, William Joseph (M.P. for East Galway from 1918; also elected for North Meath, 1918, and for Galway Co. in Parliament of Southern Ireland, 1921).

MEREDITH, Prof. Hugh Owen, M.A. (Cantab); M.Com. (Manchester); O.B.E. (1919); Professor of Economics, Queen's University, Belfast, from 1911. Educ.: Shrewsbury; King's College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Economic History and Commerce, Manchester University, 1905-8; Girdler's Lecturer in Economics, Cambridge University, 1908-1911; attached Ministry of Munitions, 1916-18; Ministry of Labour, 1918-19. Pubns. Protection in France, 1904; Outlines of English Economic History, 1908; Week-day Poems, 1911; Son of Thomas Meredith; b. 1878; m. and has issue three sons and two daus. Res.: Queen's University, Belfast.

MEREDITH, Richard, C.S.I. (1919), C.I.E. (1914); entered Indian Telegraphic Dept., 1889; Supt., 1901-11; Director of Telegraphs E. Bengal and Assam, 1911-13; Director of Construction, 1913-14; Dep. Director-Gen., 1914-16; Chief Engineer, 1916: son of late Sir Jas. Creed Meredith, LL.D., of Dublin; b. 1867: m. 1892, Ada (d. 1920), youngest dau. of A. H. Middleton, of Athgoe Park, Shanklin, Co. Dublin. Res.: Simla, India.

MEREDYTH, Sir Henry Bayly, Baronet (Irld., 1795); late Lieut. W. Somerset Yeo. Cav., formerly Lieut. 4th Brig. N. Irish Div. R.A.; J.P., Co. Kilkenny; elder son of Henry William Meredyth (d. 1878) (son of Sir Henry, 4th Bart.), and Harriet Anne, eldest dau. of the late Rev. William and Lady Louisa Le Poer Trench; b. 14th Jan., 1863; s. his grandfather. Sir Henry, 5th Bart., 4th August, 1889: m., 1st, 1886, Kathleen (mar. diss., 1894), dau. of late Robert Patrick O'Hara, B.L.: 2nd, 1897, Beatrice (d. 1912), dau. of Edmund Liebert, late 18th Hussars, and has issue by 2nd mar. one dau. Res.: Pipewell Hall, Kettering.

MERRIMAN, Patrick, M A. (R.U.I.): Professor of History and Registrar of University College, Cork, 1909-20; President of University College, Cork, from 1920; Pro-Vice-Chancellor National University of Ireland; b. 1870. Res.: University College, Cork.

MEYER, Sir Robert, Knt. (1921): Town Clerk of Belfast from 1909: son of late Rev. Robert Jacob Meyer; b. 1858: m. 1892, Isabella Bowman, dau. of Joseph Thompson Boyd, of Larne, Co. Antrim Res. St. Clair, Windsor Avenue, Belfast. Ulster Reform Club. Belfast.

MICKS, William Lawson; a Permanent Member of the Congested Districts Board since Jan., 1910; b. 25th Jan., 1851; son of late Sir Robert Micks, of Cavan, Secretary to Board of Inland Revenue, London, and of Ellen, dau. of James Lawson, of Waterford; m. Isabel, dau. of late Rev. Canon Meyrick, Rector of Blessington, Co. Wicklow; three sons, one dau. Educ.: Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin. Entered Irish Church Temporalities Commission as Clerk, 1872; Registrar, 1878; Assistant Secretary Irish Land Commission on its formation, 1881; transferred to temporary post of Comptroller under the Arrears of Rent (Ireland) Act, 1882; reverted to former post, 1883; appointed General Inspector under Local Government Board for Ireland, 1885; Acted as a Commissioner on the County Donegal Light Railway Commission, 1890; Appointed first Secretary of Congested Districts Board, 1891. Was seconded to act as Chairman of the Viceregal Poor Law Reform Commission for Ireland in 1903 which reported in 1906; nominated to be a member of the Viceregal Committee of Inquiry into the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, and the administration of that Act: dissented from his Colleagues on the Committee, and submitted a Minority Report, 1907. Was appointed a Permanent Member of the Congested Districts Board, 1910. Res: 3 Palmerston Villas, Palmerston Park, Dublin. Club: University, Dublin.

MIDLETON, Earl of, and Viscount Dunsford (Unit. Kgd., 1920), Viscount Midleton. 1717; Baron Broderick, 1715 (Irld.); Baron Brodrick (Gt. Brit., 1796), William St. John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl, M.A. (Oxon.); K.P. (1916); P.C. (1897); Financial Secretary to the War Office. 1886-92; Under Secretary of State for War. 1895-8; for Foreign Affairs, 1898-1900: Secretary of State for War, 1900-03: Secretary of State for India, 1903-1905; M.P. for Surrey, Guilford, 1880-1906; J.P., D.L. for Surrey; J.P. for Co. Cork; was sometime Lieut. 2nd Surrey Militia; Hon. Col. Surrey Yeo.; Alderman London County Council, 1907-13; Member of the Irish Convention, 1917-18; eldest son of William, 8th Viscount, and Hon. Augusta (d. 1903), dau. of 1st Baron Cottesloe; b. 14th Dec, 1856; s. his father 18th April, 1907: m., 1st, 4th Dec, 1880, Lady Hilda Charteris (d. 1901), third dau. of 9th Earl of Wemyss and March; 2nd, 5th Jan., 1903, Madeleine Cecilia Carlyle, eldest dau. of the late Col. the Hon. J. C. Stanley, and has issue three sons and three daus. Res.: 34 Portland Place, S.W.: Peper Harow, Godalming, Surrey: Ballyanna Lodge, Midleton, Co. Cork; Carlton and Athenæum Clubs, S.W. Kildare Street Club, Dublin.

MILLER Rear-Admiral Charles Blois, C.B. (1916), R.N.; Naval A.D.C. to H.M. Educ: Lockers Park, Hemel Hempstead; entered H.M.S. Britannia, 1880; served in H.M.S. Northumberland