Born: 1557/1558, London [died] 1603. London. English composer, organist, and musical theorist. A pupil of W. Bird. After graduating from Oxford University, he became organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1591. In 1592 he served at the Chapel Royal, and in 1598 he obtained the exclusive rights to publish music, publishing many of his own compositions as well as those of his contemporaries. He is said to be the greatest English madrigal composer, and has many works including madrigals, canzonettas, and barrettes. In 1601 he edited a collection of madrigals by 24 composers, entitled The Triumph of Oriana, in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. He also wrote A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practical Musicke (1597), the first comprehensive book on composition theory in England. Molly Maury, Jean Siffrein [Born] June 26, 1746. Vaucluse, Valaire Died May 11, 1817. Rome. French clergyman. Recognized for his eloquence in speeches praising saints and clergy, he was made a member of the Académie Française in 1785. In 1789, he became a member of the Three Estates. When the French Revolution broke out, he remained in France as a defender of absolute monarchy, and in the Constituent National Assembly, he vigorously opposed the confiscation of church property, the "Civil Constitutions of the Clergy," and the establishment of civil equality for Jews. In 1892, he was called by Pope Pius VII to flee to Rome, and in 1894 he became a cardinal and later the ambassador to the Papal States of the Count of Provence (later King Louis XVIII). He returned to Paris (1806) to celebrate the accession of Napoleon I, and was appointed Archbishop of Paris (10), but the Pope refused to ordain him. He fled to Rome with the restoration of the monarchy, and eventually reconciled with the Pope. Molly Maury, Matthew Fontaine Born January 14, 1806 in Spotsylvania, Virginia [Died] February 1, 1873. Lexington, Virginia. American naval officer, oceanographer, and geographer. Joined the navy in 1825, and after being wounded in 1839, was transferred to shore duty and worked in the Naval Hydrographic Service. He conducted statistical surveys of wind direction, wind speed, and ocean currents at sea, the results of which were of great benefit to navigators around the world. In 1855, he produced the world's first ocean depth chart. At the International Congress in Brussels in 1853, he proposed and won approval for regular maritime weather observations by sailing ships. He fought for the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, and later became a professor of meteorology at Virginia Military College (1868-1873). His main work is The Physical Geography of the Sea (85). Molly Morley, Christopher (Darlington) Born May 5, 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania [Died] March 28, 1957. Roslyn Heights, New York. American poet and novelist. Graduated from Haverford College. After editing various newspapers and magazines, he founded Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. He continued to edit the magazine until 1941, while publishing poems, novels, plays, and essays. His representative novels include Parnassus on Wheels (1917), a book about a travelling bookshop, its sequel The Haunted Bookshop (19), and the love story Kitty Foyle (39). Molly Morley, Edward Williams Born January 29, 1838 in Newark, New Jersey. Died: February 24, 1923. American chemist from West Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at a seminary and aspired to become a minister, but his spare time research in chemistry led to his appointment as professor at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1869. He worked on precise measurements of the mass ratio of oxygen to hydrogen. In 1887, together with Albert A. Michelson, he conducted the Michelson-Morley experiment, which ultimately disproved the existence of ether as a medium for electromagnetic waves. Molly Morley, John, Viscount Morley Born: 24 December 1838, Blackburn, Lancashire [Died] September 23, 1923, Wimbledon British biographer and politician. During his term as Secretary of State for India (1905-10), he was active in politics, including carrying out the Morley-Minto Reforms, and was also active as a writer. He wrote biographies of Voltaire, J.-J. Rousseau, E. Burke, R. Cobden, and O. Cromwell, among others, and his most important work is Life of Gladstone (3 volumes, 03). He was created Viscount in 1908. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |