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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mull    
First Name(s)  Mathias    
Birth Year  ?    
Death Year  1886    
Entry  Printer : went out to Bombay about 1850-5, to take charge as manager of the Bombay Education Society's (official) Press : became manager (with his relative, Craig) of the local Standard and Telegraph newspaper, and afterwards of the Bombay Gazette ; subsequently of the Times of India, as part proprietor with the late Robert Knight, holding this position until 1873 : returned home 1879 : after his retirement, Mull, who was a thoroughly skilled typographer and a Milton enthusiast, published a revised edition of Paradise Lost, correcting, according to his view, the punctuation throughout, also some few readings of the existing text : he afterwards essayed the more formidable task of revising the punctuation, besides criticizing and readjusting the many doubtful passages, in Macbeth and some other Shakespearian dramas : he had a good knowledge of musical science and the construction of organs : he died at home in or about 1886.     
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