Stanley Muttlebury
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Stanley Duff Muttlebury (29 April 1866 – 3 May 1933) was an English rower notable in the annals of rowing
and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
.
, British India; died in 1915, aged 80), daughter of Major Duff, 37th Regiment, Madras Native Infantry (The Grenadiers
). He was baptised according the rites of the Church of England
on 4 September 1866 in Holy Trinity, Paddington
, London, England. His father, who was by profession a barrister
, was trained in Toronto
and called to the Bar of Upper Canada as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada
. He practised in Toronto, Canada West (now Ontario
), but by 1851 returned to his birthplace Walcot
, Bath, Somerset, and by 1856 migrated to the antipodes
where he was a solicitor in St Kilda's
, Melbourne
, Victoria
, Australia. There he made his fortune, becoming a director of the National Bank of Australasia. He returned to England by 1862, for he was married in Kew
that year, and the subject was born in London four years later. Financially able to retire, he lived the life of an annuitant
gentleman
, dying in Geneva
, Switzerland in 1886, when Muttlebury was a freshman
Cambridge
undergraduate.
Muttlebury's paternal grandfather was Dr James Muttlebury (1773–1832), M.D.
, F.R.S.E.(1818), a medical graduate of St Andrews
and Inspector-General of Hospitals (18 September 1795 to 25 June 1818), in the British Army
, whose own mother resided at Close Hall, Wells
in Somerset
in 1798, and at Taunton
, Somerset
shire, at the time of her death in 1825. After retiring as an Army doctor, in 1820, he settled nearby at Bath, Somerset, where he joined the hospital board.
In the spring of 1832, he emigrated from England to Upper Canada
, in British North America
, arriving on 7 May after a 67-day journey which had involved sailing from Portsmouth
, England to New York City, and then travelling overland for a month. He bought land in Upper Canada, in York township
along Yonge street
, near the capital, York
, now Toronto
, where, accompanied by two of his eight sons, the eldest, Rutherford, 18, and Augustus, 12, he met the leading citizens, including the governor, Sir John Colborne
. The latter made him a member of the provincial, that is, colonial, medical board, and he received a 640 acres (2.6 km²) land grant at Blandford township
in the Brock district commensurate with his former military rank. Unfortunately, on 14 August 1832, he died at his new farm during a cholera epidemic after visiting local hospitals filled with the infected. His widow, Elizabeth Margaret "Eliza", eldest daughter of John Rutherford, of Sue River plantation, Jamaica
, accompanied by the rest of their sons, and their three daughters (Eliza, Fanny Maria, and new-born Jane Isabella Charlotte), arrived in the colony after landing at New York on 19 November 1832. There she managed to send six of her fatherless sons to Upper Canada College
(enrolled 1832: Frederick, Augustus, James; 1833: John; 1837: Francis, 1838: Francis (again) and Henry), eventually launching them on careers in the Law, Army, and Medicine.
According to the 1854 obituary
(in The Gentleman's Magazine) of the rower's great uncle, this nineteenth century Muttlebury family was descended from an old, armigerous
, English landed family settled at Jordans (or Jordaynes) near Ilminster
, Somerset
, whose pedigree
was recorded in the heraldic Visitation of Somerset in 1623, and again, in 1672 as of Jordans in Ashill in Com Somersett. The blazon
for the coat-of-arms borne by them is found in Burke's General Armory (p. 719, col. 2), under the rubric Muttlebury (Jourdaine, Co. Somerset) Ermine on a bend gules, three round buckles or, a border of the second. Crest—A hare courant argent.
Catholic Record Society
publications reveal the family's long adherence to Roman Catholic recusancy
. It is likely that this loyalty contributed to the family's eventual ruin as heavy payments levied on them for their religious nonconformity to the Church of England
took their financial toll. Suspicion of the Catholic church has become a legacy for many members of the Muttlebury family who remained loyally Church of England.
The history of the English Benedictine Congregation
includes three known members of the family: Dom Placid, O.S.B. who was professed a monk at St Laurence, Dieulwart, Lorraine, France in circa 1610-11. He is described as the former Muttlebury, George (Placid), O.S.B., born in Somerset
shire: whilst a priest on the mission came to Dieulwart to petition for the habit of a monk; here, says F.[ather] Weldon, his pleasing qualities rendered him highly grateful to all his brethren of that house, amongst whom he happily ended his life in a good old age, 6 July 1632 (see Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion George Oliver
, 1857, p. 632); Dom Francis Muttlebury, of Somersetshire, professed 13 November 1658, later Vicar to the Abbess of Cambray in James II's reign; and a lay member, Sister Dorothy Muttlebury, of St John-Baptist, who died 2 October 1704.
Some sources claim that the family were forced to sell their estates in the reign of Charles I
, possibly for their habitual Catholicism. Opposing this is the fact that, in 1685, one John Muttlebury was sentenced in the Bloody Assizes
at Wells to be transported to the Caribbean for his part in the Monmouth rebellion
, an uprising for the Protestant bastard son of Charles II of Great Britain, James, Duke of Monmouth
, against the Catholic Duke of York, later James II. The obituary states that it was through this latter event that Jordans was forfeited to the crown in consequence of the adherence of the Colonel's ancestor to the unfortunate Monmouth. It may be that their own membership in the Established Church by nineteenth century members of the family favoured this particular interpretation of events.
Whether in the reign of Charles I, or that of his son, James II, it is, nonetheless, clear that in the seventeenth century, the old West Country
Muttlebury family went into a decline in social status and wealth which apparently lasted until the second half of the eighteenth century.
It was then that opportunity arose through the rewards bestowed upon the subject's great-grandmother, Frances, wife of James Muttlebury, gent., of Creech St Michael, Somerset, and later of Brighthelmstone, Sussex, who served as wetnurse to Princess Charlotte, The Princess Royal
, eldest daughter of King George III
, and later to his son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Queen Victoria
's father. This post was considered a plum appointment only suitable for a vigorous gentlewoman, and proven mother of healthy offspring. It gave the recipient an unusually intimate relationship within the royal circle, and at her 1798 marriage, Mrs Muttlebury's own daughter, the royal namesake, Charlotte Muttlebury, was referred to as the fostersister of her mother's former royal charge who had herself by now become the Duchess (later Queen) of Württemberg
. This close Court connexion doubtless had led to her daughter's having been baptised with the name Charlotte (in 1771, St Nicholas', Brighton
, Sussex
; and, from 1798, the wife of Francis Richardson, to whom she was married at Fivehead
, near Langport
, Somerset). It also helped launch two of her younger sons (James, baptised 1773, and, George, baptised 1776, who were both also christened in Brighton, then fast becoming a royal haunt) on respectable careers in one of the classic professions for gentlemen, the British Army.
According to Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses, Mrs Muttlebury's older son, the Rev. John Muttlebury, was educated at the expense of the Queen (Charlotte
, wife of George III), first at Manchester Grammar School
, and later at Cambridge University
's St John's College
, before being ordained a clergyman of the Church of England
, as the following extract reveals:
Admitted pensioner at ST JOHN'S, July 3, 1783. Of Somerset. [S. of James, of Brighthelmstone, Sussex.] School, Manchester (supported there by the Queen). Matric. Michs. 1783; Scholar, 1783; B.A. 1787; M.A. 1790. Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1792-5. Rector of Cowley, Gloucs., 1795. He can have held the living for but a short time, since George Martin was instituted rector, June 6, 1796. His education at the expense of the Queen is explained by this notice: ‘died lately at Wilton, near Taunton in her 90th year, Mrs Muttlebury, foster-mother to the Princess-Royal of England, the present Queen of Wurtemberg.’ (Manchester Gr. Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm. IV. 393.) (In fact, he married Grace Hancock on 24 April 1796, at All Hallows, London Wall, in London, and their daughter, Frances Elizabeth Muttlebury, was baptised at Broadwinsor, Dorset, on 15 July 1798. See also his estate papers: Abstract of Administration of John Muttlebury, Clerk of Saint James, Gloucestershire. Proved in the Court of Bristol. Date May 13, 1808 TNA Catalogue reference IR 26/295)
The rise of the family star continued through the career successes that both younger sons, the subject's grandfather and great-uncle, achieved after benefiting from this same royal patronage. They appear to have needed what help they could get as their own father died in India when they were both children (see Will of James Muttlebury, Gentleman and now Cadet in the Honourable East India Company's Service at Pondicherry on the Coast Coromandel in India of Brighton, Sussex proved 3 July 1782, TNA Catalogue reference PROB 11/1093).
With his large family, it seems likely, however, that through emigration to Upper Canada, and in taking up the large land grants, and additional career opportunites, on offer to veteran British officers, Dr Muttlebury probably sought not only to increase his income, but to economise the better to rear his eleven offspring on his small Army pension. After his untimely death, however, it was left to his sons, notably the subject's father, to advance the family's fortunes.
in the Easter term of 1880 at the age of thirteen. His tutor was the Rev. S. A. Donaldson, and he settled in quickly as a successful sportsman. Winning the school pulling in 1883, and the school sculling and hurdles in 1884, he moved on to row for the Eton Eight (1884), when Eton won the Ladies' Plate at Henley
(beating Radley
by seven lengths). Stanley also played in the Oppidan and mixed wall games.
At Cambridge University, he was admitted to Trinity College
. His entry in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses
reveals some important details:
There he excelled above all others as a fine rower. Muttle, as he was called at the varsity and later in life, soon gained the title of a Great Name in rowing circles, and was esteemed as The finest oarsman to have ever sat in a boat. In 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890, Stanley rowed in the Boat Race; an unsurpassed five times, only losing the 1890 race. Winning four Boat Races successively set him apart as a record holder in the history of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
Contemporaries writing to The Times to add to his obituary notice called attention to his extraordinary physical prowess and natural aptitude for rowing, traits accompanied by his extraordinary mildness, good manners, and natural kindness (compare Dom Placid Muttlebury above):
Muttlebury had a natural aptitude which amounted to a genius for rowing, and, as he was not only massively large and full of courage but herculean in muscular strength, it was inevitable that he should be an outstanding exponent of oarsmanship. Added to this, he came to his prime when rowing was in a transitional stage, when the old methods of the straight back and the body catch, suited to the fixed seat and the short slide, had necessarily to be superseded by methods required by the long-slide. I consider that long-slide rowing sprang suddenly to perfection in Muttlebury, that on him this new (or partially new) art was built...
With regard to the man himself ...[he] had the most charming "good manners." It was a trait natural to him which all must have noticed... [W]ith this, somewhat unusually, went a refusal to hurt. I have never known "Muttle" to speak unkindly of anyone; and I have never known him [to] swagger.
was under repair. This gave the crew only a few inches to spare should the two crews shoot the bridge abreast. Oxford won the toss and chose the Surrey side, but Cambridge immediately moved in front. Cambridge maintained a spurt when three lengths down at Barnes Bridge, and won by two thirds of a length in a time of 22 minutes 29 seconds. Stanley had every reason to remember his first success in the Boat Race.
, a post he held for three successive terms. This year, at the Boat Race, the Cambridge crew won the toss, and chose the Surrey station. The light blues were rated as one of the fastest ever to have appeared at Putney Bridge
. They won handily by seven lengths in a time of 20 minutes 48 seconds.
crew for the Stewards' Challenge Cup
in 1894. Stanley Muttlebury exhibited an almost faultless style: he used his weight and strength to the utmost.
Muttlebury was also involved in other university-level watergoing sports including water polo
as is evinced in the following extract from the Cambridge Review of October 15, 1891:
The Inter-Varsity water polo match, is fixed for next Friday, at the Crown Baths, Kennington Oval, at 7.20 pm. Owing to the want of a covered swimming bath at Cambridge, Water Polo can only be played at the sheds, and at the close of a bad season like the present men are necessarily very much out of practice. Our team will feel the loss of Muttlebury, who is unable to play, and our opponents have a strong team.
, London, England. The bride's birth was registered in the Fylde division of Lancashire
in the March quarter of 1875. She was the elder daughter of Major General C.F. Parkinson of Bays Hill Court, Cheltenham
, Gloucestershire, and granddaughter of Mrs Nicholson, of Lancaster Gate. The children of the marriage were Ralph Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1903 in Paddington, London, England, and Eileen Joyce Muttlebury (from 1935, Joyce, Mrs William Dalrymple Tennant), who was born in 1905 in Paddington, London, England. In 1926, Ralph married Gwen Parsons (from the Parsons Shipbuilding family), of Melcombe court, Dorset Square, London, and had a son, Peter George Stanley Muttlebury, born on 3 June 1929 (died at home in Yorkshire
, 24 August 1975). In 1952, Peter married Gillian Joan Hoare, daughter of W.D.N. Hoare (a descendant of the banking profession's Henry Hoare II). Peter Muttlebury enjoyed a successful advertising career in partnership (MCR Advertising) with John Ritchie, father to Guy Ritchie. Peter and Gillian had a son, Edward Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1953, and died in April 2008. The youngest scion of Stanley's descendants to bear his surname is Rebecca Gwendolen Adele Muttlebury whose birth was registered in November 1988 in the Plymouth
registration district of Devon
. She is the only daughter of Edward Stanley Muttlebury and his wife, the former Ruth E. Snell (Ruth Muttlebury BA (Hons) President of Plymouth Proprietary Library), whose marriage was registered in August 1987 in the St Germans registration district, Cornwall
, England.
at the Inner Temple
in 1886, ultimately chose a career as a stockbroker rather than pursuing that of a barrister after coming down from Cambridge. Characteristically perhaps, he seems to have arrived in that profession as a result of his involvement in rowing:
Mr. S.H. [sic] Muttlebury, the world-famous coach, is a member of the House. Twenty-five years ago a Stock Exchange crew met the London Rowing Club in a match on Thames; it was there that we captured the Mighty Muttle for the business.
His funeral, conducted by the Venerable the Archdeacon of London, in St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, was widely attended by rowing greats, including former Oxford University Boat Club
members such as Guy Nickalls, Harcourt Gold, and R. P. P. Rowe. Such was the measure of the man that many of his chief rivals sought to honour him at his passing. To this day, his name is legendary in the sport of rowing. His body lies buried in Putney Vale
cemetery, London, England. His widow, who later resided in Basingstoke
, Hampshire
, survived him until 9 July 1971, when she died, according to The Times, a great-grandmother, in her 97th year.
at the 153rd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. It was a momentous occasion for a young member of a very old family, especially as Cambridge won that day. The conditions were perfectly bright and sunny, yet included a cool wind ideal for rowing. Nonetheless, appropriately, Oxford lost, leaving Muttlebury's old crew victorious in a race witnessed by his modern namesake.
(Founder of The Granta Magazine (Cambridge University) comic writer, rower, barrister, and Liberal MP) and Douglas Jardine, Captain of the England Cricket team. Lehmann paid a warm tribute to his good friend in his book, In Cambridge Courts, describing him as The Mighty Muttle, and that brawny king of men.
Yet, it is understood this inspiration was covertly used by Mark Twain
for his famous book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
. Family knowledge revealed that when Mark Twain was on one of his many tours of Europe, his study of English life led him to meet Stanley Muttlebury, and it is believed they rowed together on several occasions. Mark Twain spoke with a southern drawl which softened the crisp English Received Pronunciation
of Muttlebury. As a result, he started to call Stanley, Hucklebury, as it was easier to say, and Mark Twain enjoyed word-play with friends' names. Waxing intimate, he told Stanley that one day he would write a book about his English friend, and it is believed that the character of Hucklebury Finn was the result - with Finn being a reference to the blade or oar which Stanley used to achieve his greatest real-life successes. Interestingly, Mark Twain was, for a time, a mining prospector in Nevada
, U.S.A., where, in Pershing county in that state, exist areas called Muttlebury Mines, Muttlebury Well and Muttlebury Springs.
These areas are likely to have been named after one or other of Stanley's seven paternal uncles who, settling originally in what is now southern Ontario
, Canada, later travelled across North America mostly as military doctors and lawyers. The likeliest candidate, however, is Stanley's uncle Henry Muttlebury (born in England in September 1827, who went to US from Canada in 1850, and became a miner first in California (by 1860), Nevada (by 1875), and Oregon (by 1900), at which latter date he was a naturalised American citizen, and still single at age 72. Without blood offspring, it may be that the names of these few, remote localities are his only legacy.
by 1851 (an inconvenient absence for his articled clerk as recorded in the Statutes of the Province of Canada, 1852, p. 254), the rest of the 1832 emigrant couples' eleven children appear to have made their mark in North America, primarily in Canada.
One uncle, Captain William [recte George] Muttlebury, was, along with Captain James Perrier, one of the first white men to assist in the formation of a voluntary black militia in the Windsor area of Upper Canada
during the 1838 rebellion. (Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. XXVII, 1931, pp. 381–3).
Another uncle, the eldest brother of the subject's father, Rutherford Muttlebury, was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
almost a year before the family emigrated from England, but Venn's brief entry reveals that he did not fulfil the academic requirement to live in college, and he quite likely did not attend the university at all, given the later evidence as to his movements, viz.:
Rutherford. Muttlebury. Admitted sizar
at TRINITY, May 18, 1831. Did not reside.
Instead, aged 18, with his father, Dr Muttlebury, and one brother, Augustus, 13, he sailed from Portsmouth, England to New York City, early in 1832, arriving in that port on 9 April. Thence the small family party travelled to Upper Canada, arriving in York (now Toronto) on 7 May 1832. Following his father's untimely death that August, his mother, 6 remaining brothers, and 3 sisters, also left England for Upper Canada the same year, after landing in the same port on 19 November 1832.
In 1844, Rutherford Muttlebury married Hannah Foster Ellah, in St James's Church of England cathedral
, Toronto
. Also a barrister, he died in 1849, when still relatively young, leaving a daughter, Charlotte Amy Rutherford Muttlebury, later wife of Toronto attorney, George St John Hallen, whose son, George Muttlebury Hallen (1882–1958), also a lawyer, eventually settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Descendants remain in Neepawa and other parts of that province. Rutherford Muttlebury's son, George Augustus Muttlebury, born 1 December 1847, in Toronto, also went West to Winnipeg, where he was practising as a barrister when he returned to Toronto for his 20 Jan. 1881 marriage to marry Fannie Lucretia Wynne Gillespie, of that city, in the same church where his parents had married in 1844. He eventually retired to Vancouver, British Columbia where he died, aged 89, in 1936. His son, Charles Robert Muttlebury, of Winnipeg, San Diego and Los Angeles, California, and latterly, of Victoria, British Columbia
on Vancouver Island
(where he died, aged 77, on 10 September 1961), was married in 1914 to Scottish-born Clyna Elizabeth Wood Hogg (1888–1962), and had a son, George John Muttlebury, born 21 July 1918 in Winnipeg, who was, like his earlier kinsman at Cambridge, a varsity sportsman. In 1938, George Muttlebury was undefeated heavyweight boxer of Montreal
's own McGill University
Boxing, Wrestling and Fencing Club. When he died on 19 November 1993, his death, aged 74 [sic], was reported by the Royal Canadian Legion
's Trafalgar branch, of Victoria, British Columbia in their magazine, The Last Post. As of 1973, he had never married. He had two married sisters, Elizabeth Anne Muttlebury (born 1 August 1915), and Barbara Jean Muttlebury (born 8 September 1920), but no brothers.
and K.W., 69th Regiment of Foot (The South Lincolnshire's)(b. Brighton
, Sussex
, 1776; d. 1854, Maida Hill), who served at the Battle of Waterloo
. On the battlefield, Major Muttlebury of the 69th's 2nd Battalion (later to become a lieutenant-colonel as he was promoted in brevet) took over command following the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Morice, making the best of a difficult situation. Conflicting orders from the Prince of Orange
left the men of the 5th Brigade in a vulnerable position at Quatre Bras
, where there were heavy losses and hand-to-hand fighting in the squares (square formations then employed in the British Army). The Colonel's coolness under fire was subsequently recognised by the British government. He was also made a Knight Commander, fourth class, of the newly instituted Willem's Order, by the King of The Low Countries (Gentleman's Magazine, 1815, p. 451, col. 2; and Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1820, p. 1450), according to a despatch from the Duke of Wellington
writing from Paris on 8 October 1815.
Colonel Muttlebury was twice married, first, by licence, at Eling
, Hampshire, in 1799 to Ann Barclay (d. 1825 Gentleman's Magazine), by whom he had three children all baptised at Chatham, Kent: James Eyre Muttlebury (1800), Ann Margaret Muttlebury (1802), and Frances Muttlebury (1808). Next, on 31 October 1828, at Christ Church, St Marylebone, London, when he resided in St Pancras
, London, he wed, also by licence, the widowed Catherine Brown, of Cavendish place, Bath (Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1828, p. 462, col. 1. N.B. groom's name spelt Mattlebury, in error) By this second wife (who died 3 February 1862, aged 83 The Annual Register, p. 473), he had a son George Augustus Muttlebury (born 1830; died 1893, Bristol
, Gloucestershire
) who played for Lansdown (1852–1863) the Marylebone Cricket Club
(1860–1861). In the latter club's Lord's match of 21 May 1860, Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies, from 1746 to 1826 (p. 358) erroneously cites him as G.A. Nuttlebury [sic], of Major Boothby's side. In fact, the name Nuttlebury is a fictional one appearing both in Thomas Hardy
's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, as a place name, and in Charles Dickens
's Mrs Lirriper, as the name of a character.
Another discrepancy appears in the official record as to how Col. Muttlebury was style
d. His will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury referred to him as though he were accorded the accolade of a British knight, viz.:
Will of Sir George Muttlebury, Lieutenant Colonel late of Her Majesty's sixty ninth Regiment, of the City of Bath, Somerset, proved 3 February 1854 (TNA Catalogue reference PROB 11/2186)
N.B. Some confusion does exist in the style of honours granted to citizens of one nation by the government of another. So despite Sir George Muttlebury and his wife Lady Catherine Muttlebury being recognized and addressed in some European quarters (predominantly the Dutch) by such titles, the honour - not having come from the British government - carried no automatic right to the descendants.
www.blackdominion.org/blackhistory.php?top_id=64 (for the story of Capt. William [sic, recte George] Muttlebury)
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and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
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Parentage and family background
Muttlebury was born 29 April 1866 in London, England, the only child of James William Muttlebury, and his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Stanley Duff (born in MadrasChennai
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, British India; died in 1915, aged 80), daughter of Major Duff, 37th Regiment, Madras Native Infantry (The Grenadiers
The Grenadiers
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). He was baptised according the rites of the Church of England
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on 4 September 1866 in Holy Trinity, Paddington
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, London, England. His father, who was by profession a barrister
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, was trained in Toronto
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and called to the Bar of Upper Canada as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada
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. He practised in Toronto, Canada West (now Ontario
Ontario
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), but by 1851 returned to his birthplace Walcot
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, Bath, Somerset, and by 1856 migrated to the antipodes
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where he was a solicitor in St Kilda's
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, Melbourne
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, Victoria
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, Australia. There he made his fortune, becoming a director of the National Bank of Australasia. He returned to England by 1862, for he was married in Kew
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that year, and the subject was born in London four years later. Financially able to retire, he lived the life of an annuitant
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gentleman
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, dying in Geneva
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, Switzerland in 1886, when Muttlebury was a freshman
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Cambridge
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undergraduate.
Muttlebury's paternal grandfather was Dr James Muttlebury (1773–1832), M.D.
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, F.R.S.E.(1818), a medical graduate of St Andrews
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and Inspector-General of Hospitals (18 September 1795 to 25 June 1818), in the British Army
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, whose own mother resided at Close Hall, Wells
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in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
in 1798, and at Taunton
Taunton
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
shire, at the time of her death in 1825. After retiring as an Army doctor, in 1820, he settled nearby at Bath, Somerset, where he joined the hospital board.
In the spring of 1832, he emigrated from England to Upper Canada
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...
, in British North America
British North America
British North America is a historical term. It consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary War and the recognition of American independence in 1783.At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775 the British...
, arriving on 7 May after a 67-day journey which had involved sailing from Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
, England to New York City, and then travelling overland for a month. He bought land in Upper Canada, in York township
York Township
-Illinois:* York Township, Carroll County, Illinois* York Township, Clark County, Illinois* York Township, DuPage County, Illinois-Indiana:* York Township, Benton County, Indiana* York Township, Dearborn County, Indiana* York Township, Elkhart County, Indiana...
along Yonge street
Yonge Street
Yonge Street is a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at , and the construction of Yonge Street is designated an "Event of...
, near the capital, York
York, Ontario
York is a dissolved municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York and east of Etobicoke, where it is bounded by the Humber River. Formerly a separate city, it was one of six municipalities that amalgamated in 1998 to form...
, now Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, where, accompanied by two of his eight sons, the eldest, Rutherford, 18, and Augustus, 12, he met the leading citizens, including the governor, Sir John Colborne
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton
Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, GCB, GCMG, GCH, PC was a British field marshal and colonial governor.-Early service:...
. The latter made him a member of the provincial, that is, colonial, medical board, and he received a 640 acres (2.6 km²) land grant at Blandford township
Blandford-Blenheim, Ontario
Blandford-Blenheim is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Oxford County. The township had a population of 7,149 in the Canada 2006 Census.Its government consists of a mayor and four councillors...
in the Brock district commensurate with his former military rank. Unfortunately, on 14 August 1832, he died at his new farm during a cholera epidemic after visiting local hospitals filled with the infected. His widow, Elizabeth Margaret "Eliza", eldest daughter of John Rutherford, of Sue River plantation, Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, accompanied by the rest of their sons, and their three daughters (Eliza, Fanny Maria, and new-born Jane Isabella Charlotte), arrived in the colony after landing at New York on 19 November 1832. There she managed to send six of her fatherless sons to Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College , located in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is an independent elementary and secondary school for boys between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The secondary school segment is divided into ten houses; eight are...
(enrolled 1832: Frederick, Augustus, James; 1833: John; 1837: Francis, 1838: Francis (again) and Henry), eventually launching them on careers in the Law, Army, and Medicine.
According to the 1854 obituary
Obituary
An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral. In large cities and larger newspapers, obituaries are written only for people considered significant...
(in The Gentleman's Magazine) of the rower's great uncle, this nineteenth century Muttlebury family was descended from an old, armigerous
Heraldry
Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...
, English landed family settled at Jordans (or Jordaynes) near Ilminster
Ilminster
Ilminster is a country town and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 4,781. Bypassed a few years ago, the town now lies just east of the intersection of the A303 and the A358...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, whose pedigree
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
was recorded in the heraldic Visitation of Somerset in 1623, and again, in 1672 as of Jordans in Ashill in Com Somersett. The blazon
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
for the coat-of-arms borne by them is found in Burke's General Armory (p. 719, col. 2), under the rubric Muttlebury (Jourdaine, Co. Somerset) Ermine on a bend gules, three round buckles or, a border of the second. Crest—A hare courant argent.
Catholic Record Society
Catholic Record Society
The Catholic Record Society , "the premier Catholic historical society in the United Kingdom", founded in 1904, is a scholarly society devoted to the study of Reformation and post-Reformation Catholicism in England and Wales. Particularly active members in its early years were Joseph Gillow, J. H....
publications reveal the family's long adherence to Roman Catholic recusancy
Recusancy
In the history of England and Wales, the recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services. The individuals were known as "recusants"...
. It is likely that this loyalty contributed to the family's eventual ruin as heavy payments levied on them for their religious nonconformity to the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
took their financial toll. Suspicion of the Catholic church has become a legacy for many members of the Muttlebury family who remained loyally Church of England.
The history of the English Benedictine Congregation
English Benedictine Congregation
The English Benedictine Congregation comprises autonomous Roman Catholic Benedictine communities of monks and nuns and is technically the oldest of the 21 congregations that are affiliated in the Benedictine Confederation....
includes three known members of the family: Dom Placid, O.S.B. who was professed a monk at St Laurence, Dieulwart, Lorraine, France in circa 1610-11. He is described as the former Muttlebury, George (Placid), O.S.B., born in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
shire: whilst a priest on the mission came to Dieulwart to petition for the habit of a monk; here, says F.[ather] Weldon, his pleasing qualities rendered him highly grateful to all his brethren of that house, amongst whom he happily ended his life in a good old age, 6 July 1632 (see Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion George Oliver
George Oliver (historian)
George Oliver was an English Roman Catholic priest and historian of the Exeter area.-Life:He was born at Newington, Surrey, on 9 February 1781, and was educated, first at Sedgley Park School, Staffordshire, and afterwards at Stonyhurst College...
, 1857, p. 632); Dom Francis Muttlebury, of Somersetshire, professed 13 November 1658, later Vicar to the Abbess of Cambray in James II's reign; and a lay member, Sister Dorothy Muttlebury, of St John-Baptist, who died 2 October 1704.
Some sources claim that the family were forced to sell their estates in the reign of Charles I
Charles I of England
Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...
, possibly for their habitual Catholicism. Opposing this is the fact that, in 1685, one John Muttlebury was sentenced in the Bloody Assizes
Bloody Assizes
The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25 August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England....
at Wells to be transported to the Caribbean for his part in the Monmouth rebellion
Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion,The Revolt of the West or The West Country rebellion of 1685, was an attempt to overthrow James II, who had become King of England, King of Scots and King of Ireland at the death of his elder brother Charles II on 6 February 1685. James II was a Roman Catholic, and some...
, an uprising for the Protestant bastard son of Charles II of Great Britain, James, Duke of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC , was an English nobleman. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter...
, against the Catholic Duke of York, later James II. The obituary states that it was through this latter event that Jordans was forfeited to the crown in consequence of the adherence of the Colonel's ancestor to the unfortunate Monmouth. It may be that their own membership in the Established Church by nineteenth century members of the family favoured this particular interpretation of events.
Whether in the reign of Charles I, or that of his son, James II, it is, nonetheless, clear that in the seventeenth century, the old West Country
West Country
The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region. It is often defined to encompass the historic counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset and the City of Bristol, while the counties of...
Muttlebury family went into a decline in social status and wealth which apparently lasted until the second half of the eighteenth century.
It was then that opportunity arose through the rewards bestowed upon the subject's great-grandmother, Frances, wife of James Muttlebury, gent., of Creech St Michael, Somerset, and later of Brighthelmstone, Sussex, who served as wetnurse to Princess Charlotte, The Princess Royal
Charlotte, Princess Royal
The Princess Charlotte, Princess Royal was a member of the British Royal Family, the eldest daughter of George III. She was later the Queen Consort of Frederick of Württemberg...
, eldest daughter of King George III
George III of the United Kingdom
George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...
, and later to his son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
's father. This post was considered a plum appointment only suitable for a vigorous gentlewoman, and proven mother of healthy offspring. It gave the recipient an unusually intimate relationship within the royal circle, and at her 1798 marriage, Mrs Muttlebury's own daughter, the royal namesake, Charlotte Muttlebury, was referred to as the fostersister of her mother's former royal charge who had herself by now become the Duchess (later Queen) of Württemberg
Württemberg
Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....
. This close Court connexion doubtless had led to her daughter's having been baptised with the name Charlotte (in 1771, St Nicholas', Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
, Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
; and, from 1798, the wife of Francis Richardson, to whom she was married at Fivehead
Fivehead
Fivehead is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Fivehead River, miles east of Taunton in the South Somerset district...
, near Langport
Langport
Langport is a small town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated west of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The town has a population of 1,067. The parish includes the hamlets of Bowdens and Combe...
, Somerset). It also helped launch two of her younger sons (James, baptised 1773, and, George, baptised 1776, who were both also christened in Brighton, then fast becoming a royal haunt) on respectable careers in one of the classic professions for gentlemen, the British Army.
According to Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses, Mrs Muttlebury's older son, the Rev. John Muttlebury, was educated at the expense of the Queen (Charlotte
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of King George III...
, wife of George III), first at Manchester Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
The Manchester Grammar School is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK . It is based in Manchester, England...
, and later at Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
's St John's College
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
, before being ordained a clergyman of the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
, as the following extract reveals:
Admitted pensioner at ST JOHN'S, July 3, 1783. Of Somerset. [S. of James, of Brighthelmstone, Sussex.] School, Manchester (supported there by the Queen). Matric. Michs. 1783; Scholar, 1783; B.A. 1787; M.A. 1790. Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1792-5. Rector of Cowley, Gloucs., 1795. He can have held the living for but a short time, since George Martin was instituted rector, June 6, 1796. His education at the expense of the Queen is explained by this notice: ‘died lately at Wilton, near Taunton in her 90th year, Mrs Muttlebury, foster-mother to the Princess-Royal of England, the present Queen of Wurtemberg.’ (Manchester Gr. Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm. IV. 393.) (In fact, he married Grace Hancock on 24 April 1796, at All Hallows, London Wall, in London, and their daughter, Frances Elizabeth Muttlebury, was baptised at Broadwinsor, Dorset, on 15 July 1798. See also his estate papers: Abstract of Administration of John Muttlebury, Clerk of Saint James, Gloucestershire. Proved in the Court of Bristol. Date May 13, 1808 TNA Catalogue reference IR 26/295)
The rise of the family star continued through the career successes that both younger sons, the subject's grandfather and great-uncle, achieved after benefiting from this same royal patronage. They appear to have needed what help they could get as their own father died in India when they were both children (see Will of James Muttlebury, Gentleman and now Cadet in the Honourable East India Company's Service at Pondicherry on the Coast Coromandel in India of Brighton, Sussex proved 3 July 1782, TNA Catalogue reference PROB 11/1093).
With his large family, it seems likely, however, that through emigration to Upper Canada, and in taking up the large land grants, and additional career opportunites, on offer to veteran British officers, Dr Muttlebury probably sought not only to increase his income, but to economise the better to rear his eleven offspring on his small Army pension. After his untimely death, however, it was left to his sons, notably the subject's father, to advance the family's fortunes.
Education at Eton and Cambridge: A Rower through it all
Stanley became a new boy at EtonEton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
in the Easter term of 1880 at the age of thirteen. His tutor was the Rev. S. A. Donaldson, and he settled in quickly as a successful sportsman. Winning the school pulling in 1883, and the school sculling and hurdles in 1884, he moved on to row for the Eton Eight (1884), when Eton won the Ladies' Plate at Henley
Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta is a rowing event held every year on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. The Royal Regatta is sometimes referred to as Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage...
(beating Radley
Radley
Radley is a village and civil parish about northwest of the centre of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Lower Radley on the River Thames. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire....
by seven lengths). Stanley also played in the Oppidan and mixed wall games.
At Cambridge University, he was admitted to Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
. His entry in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses
Alumni Cantabrigienses
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is a biographical register of former members of Cambridge University which was edited by John Venn and his son John Archibald Venn and...
reveals some important details:
There he excelled above all others as a fine rower. Muttle, as he was called at the varsity and later in life, soon gained the title of a Great Name in rowing circles, and was esteemed as The finest oarsman to have ever sat in a boat. In 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890, Stanley rowed in the Boat Race; an unsurpassed five times, only losing the 1890 race. Winning four Boat Races successively set him apart as a record holder in the history of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
Contemporaries writing to The Times to add to his obituary notice called attention to his extraordinary physical prowess and natural aptitude for rowing, traits accompanied by his extraordinary mildness, good manners, and natural kindness (compare Dom Placid Muttlebury above):
Muttlebury had a natural aptitude which amounted to a genius for rowing, and, as he was not only massively large and full of courage but herculean in muscular strength, it was inevitable that he should be an outstanding exponent of oarsmanship. Added to this, he came to his prime when rowing was in a transitional stage, when the old methods of the straight back and the body catch, suited to the fixed seat and the short slide, had necessarily to be superseded by methods required by the long-slide. I consider that long-slide rowing sprang suddenly to perfection in Muttlebury, that on him this new (or partially new) art was built...
With regard to the man himself ...[he] had the most charming "good manners." It was a trait natural to him which all must have noticed... [W]ith this, somewhat unusually, went a refusal to hurt. I have never known "Muttle" to speak unkindly of anyone; and I have never known him [to] swagger.
Race of 1886
As a freshman, Stanley occupied the sixth position in the Cambridge shell in the Boat Race. That year, Hammersmith BridgeHammersmith Bridge
Hammersmith Bridge is a crossing of the River Thames in west London, just south of the Hammersmith town centre area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on the north side of the river. It allows road traffic and pedestrians to cross to Barnes on the south side of the river...
was under repair. This gave the crew only a few inches to spare should the two crews shoot the bridge abreast. Oxford won the toss and chose the Surrey side, but Cambridge immediately moved in front. Cambridge maintained a spurt when three lengths down at Barnes Bridge, and won by two thirds of a length in a time of 22 minutes 29 seconds. Stanley had every reason to remember his first success in the Boat Race.
Race of 1887
After winning the Boat Race of 1886, Cambridge College crews swept the board at Henley, and since College crews were the hatcheries from which University material is provided, the strength of the crew for the Boat Race in 1887 was considerable. Stanley again rowed at six and won his second race by nearly three lengths in 20 minutes 52 seconds.Race of 1888
In 1888, Stanley Muttlebury became the President of the Cambridge University Boat ClubCambridge University Boat Club
The Cambridge University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Cambridge, England, located on the River Cam at Cambridge, although training primarily takes place on the River Great Ouse at Ely. The club was founded in 1828...
, a post he held for three successive terms. This year, at the Boat Race, the Cambridge crew won the toss, and chose the Surrey station. The light blues were rated as one of the fastest ever to have appeared at Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge is a bridge crossing of the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north. Putney Bridge tube station is located near the north side of the bridge.-History:...
. They won handily by seven lengths in a time of 20 minutes 48 seconds.
Race of 1889
1889 saw Stanley in his second year as boat club President for Cambridge. He had an easy time selecting his shell-mates as exactly the same crew was available to him this year as the one prior, the cox excepted: a unique situation before and since. He maintained not only their names, but their order in the boat. Once again Cambridge won the toss for sides of the river. In a record time of 20 mintes 14 seconds, Cambridge beat Oxford by three lengths.Race of 1890
The 1890 competition was the most important race in Stanley's rowing career. He started off at a disadvantage due to his being the only Old Blue in residence at the beginning of training. Furthermore, he had no one to stroke the crew. Eventually, he persuaded the stroke of the previous year to come up and perform that important role. On Race day, the toss was won by Cambridge, and they elected to row on the Surrey side. Cambridge lost the race by one length; but it was one length which stood between Stanley and his becoming an unmatched rowing immortal. This was the first race Stanley lost. Nonetheless, his name went down in rowing history as the first man to win four intervarsity Boat Races in a row.Additional Rowing and Aquatic Sporting Endeavours
In other rowing events at Cambridge, he won the pairs in 1886, 1887, 1889 and 1890, and the Colquhoun Sculls in 1888. At Henley he won the Silver Goblets in 1886, 1887, and 1889, as well as being a member of the winning Thames Rowing ClubThames Rowing Club
Thames Rowing Club is a rowing club situated on the River Thames in Putney, London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1860.-Club colours:Red, white and black in stripes, the white stripe lying between the red and black and being of half their width....
crew for the Stewards' Challenge Cup
Stewards' Challenge Cup
The Stewards' Challenge Cup is a rowing event for men's coxless fours at the annual Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England. It is open to male crews from all eligible rowing clubs. Two or more clubs may combine to make an entry....
in 1894. Stanley Muttlebury exhibited an almost faultless style: he used his weight and strength to the utmost.
Muttlebury was also involved in other university-level watergoing sports including water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
as is evinced in the following extract from the Cambridge Review of October 15, 1891:
The Inter-Varsity water polo match, is fixed for next Friday, at the Crown Baths, Kennington Oval, at 7.20 pm. Owing to the want of a covered swimming bath at Cambridge, Water Polo can only be played at the sheds, and at the close of a bad season like the present men are necessarily very much out of practice. Our team will feel the loss of Muttlebury, who is unable to play, and our opponents have a strong team.
Family
Stanley Duff Muttlebury married Christina Augusta Parkinson on 30 April 1902 in an Anglican ceremony at Christ Church, Lancaster GateLancaster Gate
Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater district of west central London, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens. It consists of two long terraces of houses overlooking the park, with a wide gap between them opening onto a square containing a church. Further...
, London, England. The bride's birth was registered in the Fylde division of Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
in the March quarter of 1875. She was the elder daughter of Major General C.F. Parkinson of Bays Hill Court, Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
, Gloucestershire, and granddaughter of Mrs Nicholson, of Lancaster Gate. The children of the marriage were Ralph Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1903 in Paddington, London, England, and Eileen Joyce Muttlebury (from 1935, Joyce, Mrs William Dalrymple Tennant), who was born in 1905 in Paddington, London, England. In 1926, Ralph married Gwen Parsons (from the Parsons Shipbuilding family), of Melcombe court, Dorset Square, London, and had a son, Peter George Stanley Muttlebury, born on 3 June 1929 (died at home in Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, 24 August 1975). In 1952, Peter married Gillian Joan Hoare, daughter of W.D.N. Hoare (a descendant of the banking profession's Henry Hoare II). Peter Muttlebury enjoyed a successful advertising career in partnership (MCR Advertising) with John Ritchie, father to Guy Ritchie. Peter and Gillian had a son, Edward Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1953, and died in April 2008. The youngest scion of Stanley's descendants to bear his surname is Rebecca Gwendolen Adele Muttlebury whose birth was registered in November 1988 in the Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
registration district of Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
. She is the only daughter of Edward Stanley Muttlebury and his wife, the former Ruth E. Snell (Ruth Muttlebury BA (Hons) President of Plymouth Proprietary Library), whose marriage was registered in August 1987 in the St Germans registration district, Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
, England.
Post-University Career
Stanley Muttlebury, who was first called to the BarCall to the bar
The Call to the Bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party, and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received a "call to the bar"...
at the Inner Temple
Inner Temple
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns...
in 1886, ultimately chose a career as a stockbroker rather than pursuing that of a barrister after coming down from Cambridge. Characteristically perhaps, he seems to have arrived in that profession as a result of his involvement in rowing:
Mr. S.H. [sic] Muttlebury, the world-famous coach, is a member of the House. Twenty-five years ago a Stock Exchange crew met the London Rowing Club in a match on Thames; it was there that we captured the Mighty Muttle for the business.
Death
Muttlebury died on 3 May 1933 at his home in Westbourne Cresent, London, at the age of 67. In his obituary, printed in The Times on Friday, 5 May 1933, Stanley was described as "The greatest oar ever produced by Cambridge".His funeral, conducted by the Venerable the Archdeacon of London, in St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, was widely attended by rowing greats, including former Oxford University Boat Club
Oxford University Boat Club
The Oxford University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in the early 19th century....
members such as Guy Nickalls, Harcourt Gold, and R. P. P. Rowe. Such was the measure of the man that many of his chief rivals sought to honour him at his passing. To this day, his name is legendary in the sport of rowing. His body lies buried in Putney Vale
Putney Vale
Putney Vale is a small community at the foot of Roehampton Vale, just off the A3. It is part of the Roehampton Ward of the London Borough of Wandsworth.The area is bordered by:* Roehampton* Putney* Putney Heath* Kingston* Richmond Park* Wimbledon Common...
cemetery, London, England. His widow, who later resided in Basingstoke
Basingstoke
Basingstoke is a town in northeast Hampshire, in south central England. It lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon. It is southwest of London, northeast of Southampton, southwest of Reading and northeast of the county town, Winchester. In 2008 it had an estimated population of...
, Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
, survived him until 9 July 1971, when she died, according to The Times, a great-grandmother, in her 97th year.
His Family's Continuing Rowing Legacy: Back to the Future
In 2007, Stanley's great-great-granddaughter, Rebecca Muttlebury of Plymouth, was a guest of the Cambridge University Boat ClubCambridge University Boat Club
The Cambridge University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Cambridge, England, located on the River Cam at Cambridge, although training primarily takes place on the River Great Ouse at Ely. The club was founded in 1828...
at the 153rd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. It was a momentous occasion for a young member of a very old family, especially as Cambridge won that day. The conditions were perfectly bright and sunny, yet included a cool wind ideal for rowing. Nonetheless, appropriately, Oxford lost, leaving Muttlebury's old crew victorious in a race witnessed by his modern namesake.
British and American Literature and North American Place Names
Stanley Muttlebury was an inspiration to many people. His wide circle of friends included Rudolph LehmannR. C. Lehmann
Rudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.Lehmann was born in...
(Founder of The Granta Magazine (Cambridge University) comic writer, rower, barrister, and Liberal MP) and Douglas Jardine, Captain of the England Cricket team. Lehmann paid a warm tribute to his good friend in his book, In Cambridge Courts, describing him as The Mighty Muttle, and that brawny king of men.
Yet, it is understood this inspiration was covertly used by Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
for his famous book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by...
. Family knowledge revealed that when Mark Twain was on one of his many tours of Europe, his study of English life led him to meet Stanley Muttlebury, and it is believed they rowed together on several occasions. Mark Twain spoke with a southern drawl which softened the crisp English Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation , also called the Queen's English, Oxford English or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms...
of Muttlebury. As a result, he started to call Stanley, Hucklebury, as it was easier to say, and Mark Twain enjoyed word-play with friends' names. Waxing intimate, he told Stanley that one day he would write a book about his English friend, and it is believed that the character of Hucklebury Finn was the result - with Finn being a reference to the blade or oar which Stanley used to achieve his greatest real-life successes. Interestingly, Mark Twain was, for a time, a mining prospector in Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, U.S.A., where, in Pershing county in that state, exist areas called Muttlebury Mines, Muttlebury Well and Muttlebury Springs.
These areas are likely to have been named after one or other of Stanley's seven paternal uncles who, settling originally in what is now southern Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada, later travelled across North America mostly as military doctors and lawyers. The likeliest candidate, however, is Stanley's uncle Henry Muttlebury (born in England in September 1827, who went to US from Canada in 1850, and became a miner first in California (by 1860), Nevada (by 1875), and Oregon (by 1900), at which latter date he was a naturalised American citizen, and still single at age 72. Without blood offspring, it may be that the names of these few, remote localities are his only legacy.
Canadian Connexions
While Muttlebury's grandfather perished of cholera early in his Canadian sojourn, and his father had left TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
by 1851 (an inconvenient absence for his articled clerk as recorded in the Statutes of the Province of Canada, 1852, p. 254), the rest of the 1832 emigrant couples' eleven children appear to have made their mark in North America, primarily in Canada.
One uncle, Captain William [recte George] Muttlebury, was, along with Captain James Perrier, one of the first white men to assist in the formation of a voluntary black militia in the Windsor area of Upper Canada
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...
during the 1838 rebellion. (Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. XXVII, 1931, pp. 381–3).
Another uncle, the eldest brother of the subject's father, Rutherford Muttlebury, was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
almost a year before the family emigrated from England, but Venn's brief entry reveals that he did not fulfil the academic requirement to live in college, and he quite likely did not attend the university at all, given the later evidence as to his movements, viz.:
Rutherford. Muttlebury. Admitted sizar
Sizar
At Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is a student who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined job....
at TRINITY, May 18, 1831. Did not reside.
Instead, aged 18, with his father, Dr Muttlebury, and one brother, Augustus, 13, he sailed from Portsmouth, England to New York City, early in 1832, arriving in that port on 9 April. Thence the small family party travelled to Upper Canada, arriving in York (now Toronto) on 7 May 1832. Following his father's untimely death that August, his mother, 6 remaining brothers, and 3 sisters, also left England for Upper Canada the same year, after landing in the same port on 19 November 1832.
In 1844, Rutherford Muttlebury married Hannah Foster Ellah, in St James's Church of England cathedral
Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto)
Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto, Canada is the home of the oldest congregation in the city. The parish was established in 1797. The Cathedral was begun in 1850 and completed in 1853, was at the time one of the largest buildings in the city...
, Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. Also a barrister, he died in 1849, when still relatively young, leaving a daughter, Charlotte Amy Rutherford Muttlebury, later wife of Toronto attorney, George St John Hallen, whose son, George Muttlebury Hallen (1882–1958), also a lawyer, eventually settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Descendants remain in Neepawa and other parts of that province. Rutherford Muttlebury's son, George Augustus Muttlebury, born 1 December 1847, in Toronto, also went West to Winnipeg, where he was practising as a barrister when he returned to Toronto for his 20 Jan. 1881 marriage to marry Fannie Lucretia Wynne Gillespie, of that city, in the same church where his parents had married in 1844. He eventually retired to Vancouver, British Columbia where he died, aged 89, in 1936. His son, Charles Robert Muttlebury, of Winnipeg, San Diego and Los Angeles, California, and latterly, of Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
on Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...
(where he died, aged 77, on 10 September 1961), was married in 1914 to Scottish-born Clyna Elizabeth Wood Hogg (1888–1962), and had a son, George John Muttlebury, born 21 July 1918 in Winnipeg, who was, like his earlier kinsman at Cambridge, a varsity sportsman. In 1938, George Muttlebury was undefeated heavyweight boxer of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
's own McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
Boxing, Wrestling and Fencing Club. When he died on 19 November 1993, his death, aged 74 [sic], was reported by the Royal Canadian Legion
Royal Canadian Legion
The Royal Canadian Legion is a non-profit Canadian ex-service organization founded in 1925, with more than 400,000 members worldwide. Membership includes people who have served as current and former military, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, provincial and municipal police, direct relatives of...
's Trafalgar branch, of Victoria, British Columbia in their magazine, The Last Post. As of 1973, he had never married. He had two married sisters, Elizabeth Anne Muttlebury (born 1 August 1915), and Barbara Jean Muttlebury (born 8 September 1920), but no brothers.
Waterloo
Stanley Muttlebury was also a great-nephew of Colonel George Muttlebury, C.B.Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
and K.W., 69th Regiment of Foot (The South Lincolnshire's)(b. Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
, Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, 1776; d. 1854, Maida Hill), who served at the Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
. On the battlefield, Major Muttlebury of the 69th's 2nd Battalion (later to become a lieutenant-colonel as he was promoted in brevet) took over command following the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Morice, making the best of a difficult situation. Conflicting orders from the Prince of Orange
Prince of Orange
Prince of Orange is a title of nobility, originally associated with the Principality of Orange, in what is now southern France. In French it is la Principauté d'Orange....
left the men of the 5th Brigade in a vulnerable position at Quatre Bras
Quatre Bras
Quatre Bras is a common name given to a crossroad in French.More specifically it refers to the crossroad of the Charleroi-Brussels road and the Nivelles-Namur road South of Genappe in Wallonia, Belgium...
, where there were heavy losses and hand-to-hand fighting in the squares (square formations then employed in the British Army). The Colonel's coolness under fire was subsequently recognised by the British government. He was also made a Knight Commander, fourth class, of the newly instituted Willem's Order, by the King of The Low Countries (Gentleman's Magazine, 1815, p. 451, col. 2; and Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1820, p. 1450), according to a despatch from the Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS , was an Irish-born British soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century...
writing from Paris on 8 October 1815.
Colonel Muttlebury was twice married, first, by licence, at Eling
Totton and Eling
Totton and Eling is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, UK, with a population of around 28,000 people. It is situated on the eastern edge of the New Forest and on the River Test, close to the city of Southampton and part of the city's urban area...
, Hampshire, in 1799 to Ann Barclay (d. 1825 Gentleman's Magazine), by whom he had three children all baptised at Chatham, Kent: James Eyre Muttlebury (1800), Ann Margaret Muttlebury (1802), and Frances Muttlebury (1808). Next, on 31 October 1828, at Christ Church, St Marylebone, London, when he resided in St Pancras
St Pancras, London
St Pancras is an area of London. For many centuries the name has been used for various officially-designated areas, but now is used informally and rarely having been largely superseded by several other names for overlapping districts.-Ancient parish:...
, London, he wed, also by licence, the widowed Catherine Brown, of Cavendish place, Bath (Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1828, p. 462, col. 1. N.B. groom's name spelt Mattlebury, in error) By this second wife (who died 3 February 1862, aged 83 The Annual Register, p. 473), he had a son George Augustus Muttlebury (born 1830; died 1893, Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
) who played for Lansdown (1852–1863) the Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
(1860–1861). In the latter club's Lord's match of 21 May 1860, Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies, from 1746 to 1826 (p. 358) erroneously cites him as G.A. Nuttlebury [sic], of Major Boothby's side. In fact, the name Nuttlebury is a fictional one appearing both in Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, as a place name, and in Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
's Mrs Lirriper, as the name of a character.
Another discrepancy appears in the official record as to how Col. Muttlebury was style
Style (manner of address)
A style of office, or honorific, is a legal, official, or recognized title. A style, by tradition or law, precedes a reference to a person who holds a post or political office, and is sometimes used to refer to the office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal...
d. His will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury referred to him as though he were accorded the accolade of a British knight, viz.:
Will of Sir George Muttlebury, Lieutenant Colonel late of Her Majesty's sixty ninth Regiment, of the City of Bath, Somerset, proved 3 February 1854 (TNA Catalogue reference PROB 11/2186)
N.B. Some confusion does exist in the style of honours granted to citizens of one nation by the government of another. So despite Sir George Muttlebury and his wife Lady Catherine Muttlebury being recognized and addressed in some European quarters (predominantly the Dutch) by such titles, the honour - not having come from the British government - carried no automatic right to the descendants.
Sources
- Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790 to 1850 Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford, and John Stevenson, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 281 (for the career and emigration to Upper Canada of the grandfather and uncles, including Rutherford of the subject, Stanley Duff Muttlebury, who is erroneously called Frederick Duff Muttlebury in footnote 81, ibid.)
- Alumni Cantabrigienses, Venn, J. A., comp., London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. (lists the subject and his uncle, Rutherford Muttlebury, and great-uncle, the Rev. John Muttlebury, as the only members of the family to have attended that institution) N.B. Ralph Muttlebury (the only son of Stanley Muttlebury) also attended Cambridge University and did row in the trial eight; although he was never as powerful a rower as his father. He was also on the committee of the Cambridge Footlights Review.
- Chronological Notes Containing The Rise, Growth And Present State Of The English Congregation of the Order of St Benedict, Ralph Weldon, 1881, pp. 15, 21, 28, 29, 33, 42, and 227.
- Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, 1887, p. 69 (re Mrs Muttlebury at Court)
- Descendants of John and Mary Jane (Cunningham) Gillespie Paul Wesley Prindle, printed by Van Dyck Print. Co., 1973, p. 62-63 (re Rutherford Muttlebury's son, George Augustus Muttlebury (1847–1936), grandson, Charles Robert Muttlebury (1883–1961), his wife Clyna, and great-grandson, George John Muttlebury (1918–1993), B.Eng., 1941, of McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., and Victoria, B.C.)
- A Dictionary of Universal Biography by Albert Montefiore HyamsonAlbert Montefiore HyamsonAlbert Montefiore Hyamson OBE was a British zionist and historian who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1934....
, p. 452, col. 1 (for the lifespan dates of Lt-Col. George Muttlebury, C.B. & K.W.) - Directory of Geographic Names Cartography & Graphics Section, Nevada Department of Transportation, 1981, 93 pp. (for the Nevada places which include the Muttlebury surname)
- Edward of Kent: The Life Story of Queen Victoria's Father David Duff, 1973, p. 61 (for Mrs Muttlebury's role as his wetnurse)
- English and Welsh Priests, 1558-1800: A Working List, Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Downside Abbey, 1984 (p. 186, cites the Dom Placid as John rather than George Muttlebury and supplies his lifespan dates as 1563-1632, while Dom Francis lived 1610-1697)
- A full and circumstantial account of the Battle of Waterloo: The Second Restoration of Louis XVIII; and the Deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Island of St Helena, and every recent particular relative to his conduct and mode of his life in his exile. Together with an interesting account of the affairs of France and Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Waterloo Heroes, Christopher Kelly, London, 1818, p. 95 (for the conduct of Col. George Muttlebury at Waterloo)
- The Gentleman's Magazine, 1825, p. 285, col. 2 (for Mrs Muttlebury's role as wetnurse or foster-mother to Princess Charlotte, later the Queen of Württemberg, in reporting the former's death, at Wilton, near Taunton, in her 90th year)
- The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 56, New Series 196, London, 1854 (January to June inclusive), ed. Sylvanus Urban, p. 202-203 (lengthy obituary detailing the military career and birthplace of Col. George Muttlebury, C.B. & K.W.)
- A history of Upper Canada College, 1829-1892: with contributions by Old Upper Canada Boys, Lists of Head-Boys, Exhibitioners, University Scholars and Medallists, and a Roll of the School, George Dickson and G. Mercer Adam, comp. and ed., Toronto: Rowsell and Hutchison, 1893, pp. 296–297.
- An Index to Printed Pedigrees Contained in County and Local Histories, the Herald's Visitations and in the more important Genealogical Collections Charles Bridger, London: John Russell Smith, 1867, p. 112 (refers to the pedigree of Muttlebury of Jurdens, another variant of the name of their Somerset estate, as being printed on p. 120 of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart's 1838 private edition of the consequently scarce Visitation of Somerset, 1623. With additions from earlier Visitations and Continuations by R. Mundy)
- Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 2000, by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England), p. 274 (which claims that it was Captain George Muttlebury who in 1838 raised a "coloured company" at Chatham, Kent county, Ontario)
- Marriage Notices of Ontario 1813-1854, William D. Reid, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000, p. 263 (excerpting the "Toronto Herald", 1842-1848 (for the 1844 marriage notice of Dr James Muttlebury's second eldest son, George Muttlebury to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr Justice Gahan, Nassau, New Providence, Peterborough county, Canada West (now Ontario), in which the relationship between the groom's father, the late James Muttlebury, M.D., F.R.S.E., Inspector General of Hospitals, to Lt. Col. George Muttlebury, C.B., K.W., late 69th Regiment, is revealed as that of brothers, for the groom is described as the latter's nephew)
- McGill Graduates Directory, 1890–1965, p. 466, col. 2 (for the varsity sportsman Muttlebury, George J., BEng41, 1157 Johnson St, Victoria, BC)
- McGill University: Old McGill Yearbook, Class of 1938, p. 239 (THE BOXING WRESTLING AND FENCING CLUB THE close of the 1937-38 session finds the B. W. and F. Club with an enhanced reputation among Montreal fans of the manly art of self defense. The strong turn outs at the beginning of the year enabled the coaches to fashion one of the best Assault at Arms teams that McGill has had for several years. As usual many of those who turned up at the field house three times a week for Bert Light's famous conditioning exercises, were drawn to that most colourful of sports, boxing. From these and the veterans of last year's team, an excellent squad of fighters was formed. Bouts were run off weekly at the field house throughout the year and Red Boxers were entered in local exhibi- tion bouts and boxing tournaments. Our two most outstanding performers were Bob Brown who took the Provincial Junior Championship in the 175 lb. class by two knockouts, and George Muttlebury, the undefeated McGill heavyweight, who won a decision over Weibusch, Montreal heavyweight champion.
- The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850: an historical narrative with original documents relating to the profession, including some brief biographies, pp. 530–535 (for James Muttlebury, M.D., as father of Rutherford Muttlebury and James William Muttlebury, and via the latter the grandfather of the subject)
- Medical Times and Gazette, 1869, p. 535 (for the parentage and death of Elizabeth Margaret Rutherford wife of Dr James Muttlebury, and grandmother of the subject)(see also " The Military [afterw. Royal military] panorama Or, Officer's Companion", April 1813, p. 294, for details of her marriage to James Muttlebury, Esq., M.D., Dep-Gen-Insp. of Hospitals, on 13 March 1813 at Spanish Town, Jamaica)
- The Monmouth Rebels, 1685, W. MacDonald Wigfield, p. 120 (contains an entry for MUTTLEBURY, John, tried at Wells; transported for Howard (JR) Oct. 25, on the Port Royal Merchant to Jamaica (SL).)
- The Monthly Magazine, 1798, p. 76. (which described Mrs Muttlebury's daughter Charlotte, Mrs Richardson, as the fostersister of the Dutchess of Wirtemberg [sic] , late Princess Royal of England.)
- Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1830-1832 Elizabeth Petty Bentley, p. 727 (for the arrival of James Muttlebury,M.D., 50 [sic] and his sons Rutherford, 18, and Augustus, 13, aboard the Ontario on 9 April 1832; and of his widow, Elizabeth M. Muttlebury, 40, and children Eliza C., 12, and John, 8, in the President on 19 November 1832 at the Port of New York from England; the first April party claim to be destined for the U.S., and the second for Canada, though other printed material in this list shows that both went to Canada)
- Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria, 1850-1880, Paul de Serville, Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 423 (for the Australian career of the subject's father, James William Muttlebury)
- The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, William MunkWilliam MunkWilliam Munk was an English physician, now remembered for his work as a medical historian and "Munk's Roll", a biographical reference work on the Royal College of Physicians.-Life:...
, Royal College of Physicians of London, p. 234 (re Dr James Muttlebury, subject's grandfather) - The Scandalmonger, Terence Hanbury White, 1952, p. 51 (re Princess Charlotte's relationship to Mrs Muttlebury)
- Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, P.L. Simmonds, Simmonds and Ward, 1844, p. 249, col.2.
- The Story of the Stock Exchange: Its History and Position Charles Duguid, 1901, p. 367
- The Town of York, 1815-1834: A Further Collection of Documents of Early Toronto, Edith G. Firth, Published by Champlain Society for Government of Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1966, p. 239. (re Dr Muttlebury's arrival in Upper Canada in May 1832 and his demise there that August).
- The Visitation of Somerset and the City of Bristol, 1672: Made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knight, Clarenceux King of Arms, Edward ByssheEdward ByssheSir Edward Bysshe FRS was an English barrister, politician and officer of arms. He sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1679 and was Garter King of Arms during the Commonwealth period.-Life:...
, George Drewry Squibb (ed.), Harleian Society Publications, London: 1992, p. 42, mentions what may be an anterior reference to THOMAS MUTTLEBURY of Jordans in Ashill in Com Somersett Esq)
External links
- The Rowers of Vanity Fair/Muttlebury S D - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks at en.wikibooks.org
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/old9.htm (for the 1844 marriage of Rutherford Muttlebury, the subject's uncle, and the 1881 marriage of George Augustus Muttlebury, son of Rutherford, at St James's Anglican Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=168-xnl&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 (for the evidence linking the husband of the royal wetnurse to Creech St Michael, Somerset, and Brighthelmstone, Sussex)
- http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/lastpost/details.asp?alpha=M&offset=14350&LastPostData_ID=185456 (1993 death George J. Muttlebury, of Victoria, B.C.)
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abwcobit/Data/Papers/1914C/Marriage1914CPage9.html (Calgary Herald notice of C.R. Muttlebury's 1914 marriage to Clyna Hogg, see also 1921)
www.blackdominion.org/blackhistory.php?top_id=64 (for the story of Capt. William [sic, recte George] Muttlebury)
- http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17935.html (for the Cricketing career of G.A. Muttlebury, first cousin of the subject's father)
- http://google.com/search?q=cache:2wgdYVjBEfsJ:bbb.cricketworld.com/Players/37/37371/all_teams.html+%22George+Muttlebury%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=ca (additional cricket career info. for G.A. Muttlebury)
- http://www.archive.org/stream/paxchronological00welduoft/paxchronological00welduoft_djvu.txt (for the Roman Catholic religious members of the Muttlebury family)
- http://www.familysearch.org (for baptismal, marital, and other genealogical information on the Muttlebury family; also indexed under Mattlebury, Mattelbury, Muddlebury, Mutleberry, Mutlebury, Muttelbury, Muttellberry, Muttleberrie, Muttlebery, and Muttleberry. The Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Records Office, Henry VI, p. 384, contains the form Muttilbury, while Somerset Medieval Wills, Frederic William Weaver, 2008, p. 201 contains the 1557 will of Alexander Muttilberye or Muttilburye of Jurdayn in the peculier and parish of Ashehill)