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ADY, VENERABLE WILLIAM BRICE (_son of Wm. Ady, comr. of the Gun
Wharf, Devonport_). _b._ 1816; ed. at Eton; entered Ex. coll. Ox.
29 Oct. 1834, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Little Baddow, Essex
1842–57 and Rector 1857 to death; archdeacon of Colchester Dec.
1864 to death. (_m._ 10 April 1844 Emilia 3 and youngest dau. of
Rev. Brook Henry Bridges, R. of Danbury, Essex). _d._ Little
Baddow 21 April 1882. _bur._ Little Baddow churchyard 27 April.
_Statute 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 111, sections 15 and 16._
AFFLECK, SIR GILBERT, 5 Baronet. _b._ 9 June 1804; succeeded 7 May
1851. _d._ Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 18 Nov. 1854.
AFFLECK, REV. SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet. _b._ 27 Jany. 1765; ed. at
Westminster, captain of the school 1782; and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A.
1787, M.A. 1790; Preb. of York cathedral 8 May 1802 to death; V.
of Doncaster 1807–17; V. of Silkstone near Barnsley 1817–37;
succeeded 10 Aug. 1833. _d._ Dalham hall near Newmarket 7 May
1851.
AFFLECK, SIR ROBERT, 6 Baronet. _b._ Retford Notts 28 July 1805;
succeeded 18 Nov. 1854; sheriff of Suffolk 1875. _d._ Dalham hall
9 Oct. 1882.
AGAR, SIR EMANUEL FELIX, lieutenant 1 life guards 15 Nov. 1804;
major 2 life guards 28 April 1814 to April 1815; M.P. for Sudbury
(lib.) 5 May 1807 to 29 Sep. 1812; knighted by the Prince Regent
at Carlton house 18 July 1812. (_m._ 21 Aug. 1811 Margaret
youngest dau. of Edward George Lind of Stratford place, London,
she _d._ 10 Aug. 1863). _d._ 6 Langham st. Marylebone, London 28
Aug. 1866 aged 85.
AGAR, HONORABLE GEORGE CHARLES (_2 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar
1736–1809, 1 Earl of Normanton Abp. of Dublin, by Jane eld. dau.
of Wm. Benson of Downpatrick, she d. 25 Oct. 1826_). _b._ 1 Aug.
1780; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1807; ensign 3 foot
guards 21 Jany. 1804; lieut. 1 June 1809 to 5 Nov. 1811 when he
retired; F.R.S. 7 June 1832. _d._ Ropley house Alresford, Hants 24
Jany. 1856.
AGAR, HONOURABLE AND VENERABLE JAMES (_3 son of Most Rev. Charles
Agar, 1 Earl of Normanton_). _b._ 10 July 1781; ed. at Westminster
and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; preb. of Timothan in St. Patrick’s cathedral,
Dublin 16 Nov. 1805; R. of St. Nicholas without, Dublin 1806; R.
of Caningallen, Leitrim 1809; archdeacon of Kilmore 1810 to death.
(_m._ 7 July 1829 Louisa youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson of
Greenmount, co. Antrim). _d._ 6 Sep. 1866.
AGER, JOSEPH (_son of Joseph Ager of London, apothecary_). _b._
London; entered at Pembroke coll. Ox. 1 April 1800 aged 18,
Ossulston scholar; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, M.B. 1807, M.D. 1810;
fellow of his college; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1811, Gulstonian lecturer
1812, and Censor 1815, 1825 and 1835; delivered the Materia Medica
lectures 1827–28: F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1814; assistant phys.
to Marylebone infirmary many years; greatly assisted Robert
Hooper, M.D. in the formation of his pathological museum. _d._ 85
Great Portland st. London 17 July 1857 in 77 year.
AGLIO, AGOSTINO. _b._ Cremona 15 Dec. 1777; painter at Rome 1797;
went to England, Dec. 1803; painted scenery at the Opera house,
London 1804, and at Drury Lane theatre 1806; largely employed in
decoration of country mansions in England and Ireland; decorated
Pantheon in Oxford st. 1811; ceiling of R.C. chapel in Moorfields
1819 where he also executed the altarpiece; produced many easel
pictures about 1820; exhibited 22 pictures at British Institution,
8 at the Suffolk st. gallery 1825–56, and 13 at the R.A. 1830–46;
painted 2 portraits of the Queen; decorated the Olympic theatre,
which was reopened 26 Dec. 1849; published _Mexican Antiquities_
_9 vols._ 1830–48; drew many works in lithography. _d._ 87
Beresford st. Walworth 30 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.
AGLIONBY, HENRY AGLIONBY. _b._ 28 Dec. 1790; M.P. for Cockermouth
(lib.) 12 Dec. 1832 to death. _d._ The manor house, Caterham,
Surrey 31 July 1854. _I.L.N. vi_, 184 (1845) _portrait_.
AGNESI, LOUIS FERDINAND LEOPOLD, stage name of L. F. L. Agniez. _b._
Erpent, Belgium 17 July 1833; ed. at the Conservatoire, Brussels;
a baritone singer of the first rank; member of Italian opera
company at Drury Lane; sang at the fifth triennial Handel festival
at Crystal palace 19–26 June 1874. _d._ 56 Loudoun road, Hampstead
2 Feb. 1875.
AGNEW, THOMAS. _b._ Liverpool Dec. 1794; fellow student with John
Gibson the sculptor; partner with Vittoria Zannetti of Market st.
lane, Manchester 1816, who was then the only art dealer in the
north of England except Burland of Liverpool; carried on business
in Exchange st. Manchester 1826 to Oct. 1861 when he retired;
published many works of art and not less than 1000 engravings;
alderman of Salford from its incorporation 16 April 1844 and mayor
1850; gave many pictures and prints to the free museum and library
at Peel park, Salford. _d._ Fair Hope, Eccles. Manchester 24 March
1871. _bur._ churchyard of St. Mark’s Worsley 29 March.
AHMUTY, JAMES, 2 Lieut. Bengal artillery 7 Sep. 1791; colonel
commandant 29 Aug. 1824 to death; general 15 Sep. 1855. _d._ 14
Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 12 Jany. 1864 aged 89.
AIKENHEAD, MARY (_eld. child of David Aikenhead of Cork, physician
who d. 28 Dec. 1801, by Mary eld. dau. of Mr. Stacpole of Cork,
merchant, she m._ (2) _Mr. Bernard of Palace Anne and _d._ 1809_).
_b._ Cork 19 Jany. 1787; received into R. C. church 6 June 1802
and confirmed 2 July 1802; took name of Sister Mary Augustine,
June 1812; superior of the first convent of sisters of charity
William st. Dublin Aug. 1815 to 1827; made her perpetual vows 9
Dec. 1816; superior of convent at Sandymount 16 Aug. 1831;
superior general of the Irish foundation of Sisters of charity
1843; lived at convent of Our Lady’s Mount, Harold’s Cross, Dublin
Sep. 1845 to death. _d._ Our Lady’s Mount, 22 July 1858. _Mary
Aikenhead by S.A. 2 ed. revised 1882, portrait._
AIKIN, ARTHUR (_1 son of John Aikin, M.D. of Warrington, Lancs.
1747–1822 by Martha dau. of Arthur Jennings of Harlington,
Bedford, she d. 1830 aged 83_). _b._ Warrington 19 May 1773; ed.
there and at Palgrave in Norfolk; studied classics under Gilbert
Wakefield, and chemistry under Dr. Priestley; settled in London
1796; one of the founders of Geological Society of London 1807,
which was incorporated 23 Apl. 1823; one of the secretaries and a
member of council; lecturer on chemistry at Guy’s hospital
1816–52; secretary of Society for encouragement of arts,
manufactures and commerce 1817–40, where he read more than 40
lectures; chairman of its committee of chemistry 1840; the first
treasurer of Chemical Society 30 March 1841; F.L.S. 1818; the
first hon. sec. of Institution of Civil Engineers 2 Jany. 1818;
one of specially selected members of the Athenæum club; much
employed in drawing specifications of patents for improvements in
chemical manufactures, in which Lord Lyndhurst held him to excel
all other persons; made many chemical analyses for patentees and
public companies; lived at 19 John st. Adelphi 1817–40; at 7
Bloomsbury sq. 1840 to death; edited _The annual review_
1802–1806; author of _Journal of a tour through north Wales, and
part of Shropshire_ 1797; _Manual of mineralogy_ 1814, _2 ed._
1815. _d._ 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 15 April 1854. _J. Kendrick’s
Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_;
_European Mag. lxxv_, 387 (1819) _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan
society, ii_, 304–306 (1855); _Minutes of proceedings of
institution of civil engineers, xiv_, 120–23 (1855).
AIKIN, LUCY (_only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington
1747–1822_). _b._ Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of _Epistles on
women, a poem_ 1810, _Lorimer, a tale_ 1814, _Memoirs of the court
of Queen Elizabeth_, _2 vols._ 1818; _Memoirs of the court of King
James I_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Memoirs of the court of King Charles
I_, _2 vols._ 1833; _Life of Addison_ 1843; lived at Church row,
Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London
1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to
death. _d._ Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. _bur._ near
east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. _Memoirs, miscellanies
and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton_
1864; _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854,
_portrait_.
AIKMAN, JAMES. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of _Poems, chiefly
lyrical_ 1816; _An account of the tournament at Eglinton_ 1839;
_The animal kingdom_ 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper
called _The Star_. _d._ Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81.
AILESBURY, CHARLES BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 1 Marquess of (_3 and youngest
son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife
Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of
honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783_). _b._ Seamore place
Mayfair, London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as
Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19
April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry
1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to
1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake
Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of
Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (_m._ (1) 10 April 1793
Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she _d._ 2
Jany. 1831. _m._ (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of
honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she
was _b._ 27 Oct. 1809). _d._ Tottenham park near Marlborough 4
Jany. 1856. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of Great
Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany.
AILESBURY, GEORGE WM. FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 2 Marquess of
(_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 20
Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts
yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death;
summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July
1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St.
Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de
camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death;
P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859
to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts
25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as
8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (_m._ 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline
2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was
_b._ 22 March 1813). _d._ Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany.
1878. _Baily’s Mag. iv_, 217–20 (1862) _portrait_.
AILSA, ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, 2 Marquess of (_1 son of Archibald
Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau.
of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov.
1832_). _b._ Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep.
1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to
death. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney
Jephson, 1 baronet). _d._ Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March
1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.
AINGER, REV. THOMAS (_youngest son of William Ainger of Whittlesea,
Cambs._) _b._ Whittlesea 1 Aug. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. school
and St. John’s Coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of St. Giles
ch. Reading 1 Sep. 1822; Asst. minister of St. Mary’s, Greenwich
1825; P.C. of Hampstead 28 March 1841 to death; founded in
Hampstead, the Parochial Association in aid of the Society for the
propagation of Gospel 1845; founded the Church Extension
Association 1858; Preb. of St. Paul’s Cath., Aug. 1859; preached
his last sermon Easter day 5 April 1863. (_m._ 4 Aug. 1828 Frances
only dau. of Wm. Barnard of Deptford Green). _d._ the Parsonage,
Hampstead 15 Nov. 1863. _bur._ in churchyard of parish church 20
Nov. _The last sermons of the Rev. Thomas Ainger, M.A., with a
memoir of the author prefixed_ 1864.
AINSLIE, FREDERICK GEORGE. 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 April 1828; lieut.
col. 23 April 1852 to death. _d._ on board the “Andes” in Scutari
harbour 14 Nov. 1854 aged 45, of wounds received at battle of
Inkerman 5 Nov.
AINSLIE, REV. GILBERT (_youngest son of Henry Ainslie, M.D. of Hall
Garth Lancashire, he was senior wrangler 1781 and d. 1834, by
Agnes dau. of Wm. Ford of Coniston Water Head_). _b._ 1793; ed. at
Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Cam. 8 wrangler and B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; foundation fellow of his college 1816; treasurer, tutor,
bursar and lecturer; laid first stones of university library at
Cam. Sep. 1837, and of the Fitzwilliam museum 2 Nov. 1837; Master
of his college 15 Aug. 1828 to death; Vice Chancellor of the Univ.
1828 and 1836. (_m._ 2 Dec. 1829 Emily 2 dau. of Wm. Coxhead Marsh
of Park hall, Essex). _d._ Pembroke college lodge 9 Jany. 1870.
_bur._ at Over Kellet, Lancs. 14 Jany.
AINSLIE, HUGH. _b._ Bargeny Mains, parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 5
April 1792; emigrated to New York 1822; established several
breweries, mills and factories in the western States; author of _A
pilgrimaqe to the land of Burns_ 1822; _Scottish songs, ballads
and poems_ 1855. _d._ Louisville Kentucky 11 March 1878.
AINSLIE, SIR ROBERT SHARP, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Mitchell,
Cornwall 6 July 1802 to 24 Oct. 1806; succeeded 22 July 1812. _d._
Chingford, Essex 14 March 1858.
AINSWORTH, JAMES (_son of Jeremiah Ainsworth of Manchester_). _b._
Manchester 5 March 1783; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch. and by
Rev. Joshua Brookes; apprenticed at the infirmary Manchester 1798;
studied at Univ. of Edin.; surgeon to the infirmary Manchester
1806; the first to commence anatomical lectures in Manchester; one
of the ablest operators of his day, and the first who tied the
internal iliac artery successfully; one of the founders of Natural
history society, and of Botanical and horticultural society;
member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jany. 1805
to death; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843. _d._ Cliff point, Higher Broughton
near Manchester 28 Oct. 1853. _Admission Register of Manchester
school ii_, 202–204 (1868).
AINSWORTH, PETER, _b._ 24 Nov. 1790; M.P. for Bolton, (radical) 9
Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Smithills hall, Bolton 18 Jany.
1870.
AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (_elder son of Thomas Ainsworth of
Manchester, solicitor 1778–1824, by Ann Harrison 1778–1842 eld.
dau. of Rev. Ralph Harrison of Manchester, Presbyterian
minister_). _b._ King st. Manchester 4 Feb. 1805; ed. at the free
gr. sch. 1817–22; articled 1821 to Alexander Kay of Manchester,
solicitor; a publisher in London 1826–27; edited _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, March 1839 to Dec. 1841; author of _Jack Sheppard_,
_3 vols._ 1839 which was produced in dramatic form simultaneously,
at Adelphi, Queen’s, Sadler’s Wells, Victoria and Pavilion
theatres in London, Oct. 1839; received £1000 from the ‘_Sunday
Times_’ for ‘_Old St. Paul’s_’ 1841, and another £1000 for the
‘_Lancashire Witches_’ 1848; edited _Ainsworth’s Magazine_, Feb.
1842 to 1854; purchased _New monthly magazine_ from Henry Colburn
1845; purchased _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1854 and combined with it
Ainsworth’s Magazine, Jany. 1855; gave the flitch of bacon at
Dunmow in Essex 19 July 1855 and 25 July 1857; granted a civil
list pension of £100 a year 10 Dec. 1868; entertained at a banquet
in the town hall, Manchester by the mayor, Thomas Baker 15 Sep.
1881; lived at the Elms, Kilburn; at Kensal manor house; at
Brighton; at Tunbridge Wells; at Reigate. (_m._ 11 Oct. 1826 Anne
Frances younger dau. of John Ebers of John st. London, publisher,
she _d._ 6 March 1838). _d._ St. Mary’s road, Reigate 3 Jany.
1882. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 9 Jany. _Manchester quarterly_,
_i_, 136–55 (1882) _portrait_; _Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
256–62, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_
(1870) 257–72; _Illustrated Review_, _ii_, 321–23 (1872)
_portrait_; _Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_, 215–22 (1844).
NOTE.—His novel _Mervyn Clitheroe_ is autobiographical; in
March 1878 he presented a life size portrait of himself,
painted by H. W. Pickersgill, about 1841 to the Chetham
Library Manchester; the best portrait of him is the figure in
the vignette by Cruikshank, which forms the standing title to
monthly editorial gossip in early numbers of Ainsworth’s
magazine. He was caricatured unmercifully by Thackeray in
Punch. His books and the MSS. of 18 of his novels were sold by
Sotheby in London for £463, 21–22 Aug. 1882. He was the author
of upwards of 40 works of fiction.
AIRD, DAVID MITCHELL. Compositor at The Sun newspaper office,
London; started a bimonthly magazine called _The Student_ which
lasted 6 months; edited _The Mirror_ 1843; printed for the
Countess de Brunetiere Tallien the first daily French paper
published in England 1851 which failed; barrister M.T. 11 June
1867; wrote several books under pseudonym of Pamphilius. _d._ 2
Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1876. _Head and Heart
legacy by Pamphilius_ 1861, _portrait_.
AIRD, THOMAS (_2 child of James Aird of Bowden, Roxburghshire,
portioner or farmer who d. aged 86, by Isabella Paisley, she d.
aged 86_) _b._ Bowden 28 Aug. 1802; ed. there, at Melrose and at
Univ. of Edinburgh; edited _Edinburgh Weekly Journal_ 1833;
_Dumfriesshire and Galloway herald_ at Dumfries 1835–63; presided
at Scott centenary at Dumfries 9 Aug. 1871; author of _The old
bachelor in the Scottish village_ 1845; _Poetical works_ 1848, _5
ed._ 1878; contributed poetry and prose to _Blackwood’s Magazine_,
_d._ Dumfries 25 April 1876. _bur._ near Robert Burns in St.
Michael’s churchyard 1 May. _Poetical works of T. Aird with a
memoir by Rev. J. Wallace_, _5 ed._ 1878, _portrait_.
AIREY, RICHARD AIREY, 1 Baron, _b._ Newcastle April 1803; ed. at
Sandhurst; ensign 34 foot 15 March 1821; lieut. col. 10 Feb. 1838
to 12 Feb. 1847 when placed on half pay; military sec. to
commander in chief 1 Oct. 1852 to 17 April 1854; quartermaster
general in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854 to Nov. 1855; quartermaster
general of the forces 26 Dec. 1855 to 31 Oct. 1865; governor and
commander in chief at Gibraltar 10 Nov. 1856 to 4 Sep. 1870; col.
17 foot 20 July 1860 to 1 May 1868; col. 7 foot 1 May 1868 to
death; adjutant general 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 Oct. 1876; general 9
April 1871; pres. of commission of inquiry into results of new
short service system 1879; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March
1867; created Baron Airey of Killingworth, Northumberland 29 Nov.
1876. _d._ the Grange, Leatherhead 13 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemetery 17 Sep. _A. W. Kinglake’s History of the war in the
Crimea_ (1863–75); _Sir A. M. Tulloch’s The Crimean commission_
1881; _I.L.N. lxix_, 500, (1876), _portrait_.
AIRLIE, DAVID GRAHAM DRUMMOND, 5 or 7 Earl of. _b._ London 4 May
1826; succeeded 20 Aug. 1849; a representative peer for Scotland
18 March 1850 to death; F.R.G.S. 1859; K.T. 12 March 1862; high
comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1872–73. _d._ at
an hotel in Denver city, Colorado 25 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Cortachy,
Forfarshire 3 Nov.
AITCHISON, GEORGE. _b._ Leyton, Essex 21 Dec. 1792; student at Royal
academy; clerk of the works to St. Katherine’s dock company 1827,
docks were opened 25 Oct. 1828; A.I.C.E. 1828; district surveyor
of Woolwich 1844. _d._ Muscovy court, Trinity square, London 12
June 1861. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 569–71
(1862).
AITCHISON, SIR JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East
Lothian, by Jane eld. dau. of James Mylne of Langridge, East
Lothian_). _b._ 1789; ensign Scots fusilier guards 25 Oct. 1805;
lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded Mysore
division of Madras army 2 June 1845 to 1851; col. 72 foot 29 Dec.
1851 to 27 Aug. 1870; general 30 July 1860; col. Scots fusilier
guards 27 Aug. 1870 to death; K.C.B. 21 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 March
1867. (_m._ 31 Oct. 1857 Ellen Elizabeth youngest dau. of Thomas
Mayhew of Fairfield house, Suffolk). _d._ 4 Devonshire place,
London 13 May 1875.
AITKEN, DAVID. Educ. high school and univ. of Edinburgh; D.D. 8 July
1843; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 28 March 1821; minister of
parish of Minto 14 Sep. 1827 to 16 Nov. 1864; lived in Edin. 1866
to death; corresponded with Georg Hegel the German philosopher;
offered chair of church history in univ. of Edin. 1843; wrote an
article on German literature in Edinb. Review, xlvi, 304–51
(1827); F.R.S. Edin. 1868. _d._ Charlotte square, Edin. 27 March
1875.
AITKEN, JOHN. Member of Manchester geological society 1863, pres.
twice; author of part of _Thomas Newbigging’s History of the
forest of Rossendale_ 1868, and of many papers in geological
periodicals. _d._ Clifton villas, Urmston 29 July 1884 aged 64.
AITKEN, REV. ROBERT (_son of Robert Aitken_). _b._ Crailing near
Jedburgh 22 Jany. 1800; a schoolmaster in Sunderland; ordained
deacon by Bishop Van Mildert 1823; minister of Wesleyan Zion
chapel, Waterloo road, Liverpool to 20 Dec. 1840; C. of
Perranuthnoe, Cornwall 1842–44; domestic chaplain to Earl of
Caithness 1844–64; minister of Episcopalian church, Coatbridge
about Oct. 1847 to 1848 or 1849; V. of Pendeen, Cornwall 1849 to
death; the church, of which he was the architect, was built for
him by his parishioners 1854; domestic chaplain to Earl of
Seafield 1864 to death; well known throughout England as a
preacher of almost unrivalled fervour; author of many sermons and
pamphlets. _d._ on platform of Great Western railway station,
Paddington 11 July 1873. _bur._ Pendeen 18 July. _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis i_, 2 _and iii_, 1025; _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Series_ 80–87 (1849); _Church Times
6 Aug. to 24 Sep. 1875_.
AITKEN, ROBERT DICKSON. _b._ Hawick, Roxburghshire 8 May 1801; a
gardener, then a horsebreaker; left Hawick 1857; purchased estate
of Reston Mains, Berwickshire, worth many thousands; tried in the
sheriff court at Greenlaw 31 May 1860, for making people of Dunse
believe he was heir to a large estate, when found guilty and
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour; his career
was dramatised by George Duckenfield, theatrical manager; he
played the chief part in this drama at Berwick and other border
towns; delivered a lecture in Hawick 31 May 1864 entitled “How I
did the Dunse dunces.” _d._ the poor house, Hawick 30 April 1879.
AITKEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Dunbar 1814; kept a school at
Ashton-under-Lyne; went to the United States 1842; grand master of
the Odd-fellows there 1846; author of _A journey up the Mississipi
river_; and of articles in the _Quarterly magazine of
Odd-fellows_; committed suicide at Ashton 27 Sep. 1869. _Quarterly
magazine of Odd-fellows i_, 129–32 (1858) _portrait_.
AITKEN, WILLIAM COSTEN. _b._ Dumfries 3 March 1817; worked for R. W.
Winfield of Birmingham, brassfounder 1844–64; took out a patent
for ornamenting cornice poles, &c. with porcelain or glass which
was much used; manager at Skidmore’s Art manufacturing company,
Coventry, retired 1872; chief organiser of Industrial Exhibition
at Bingley house, Birmingham 1849, from which Prince Albert took
the idea of Exhibition of 1851; contributed descriptive notes
signed W.C.A. to Illustrated catalogue of Great Exhibition 1851;
wrote about a third of _Birmingham and the Midland hardware
district_ 1865; wrote in the _Art Journal_. _d._ Birmingham 23
March 1875. _Birmingham Daily Post 24 March 1875_.
AITON, JOHN (_youngest son of Wm. Aiton 1760–1848, sheriff
substitute of Lanarkshire_). _b._ Strathaven, June 1797; studied
theology at univ. of Edinburgh; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton
30 Nov. 1819; minister of parish of Dolphington 14 April 1825 to
death; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; author of _Life and times of
Alexander Henderson_ 1836; _Clerical Economics_ 1842, _2 ed._
1846; _The lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope_ 1852;
_Manual of domestic economy_ 1857. _d._ Pyrgo park, Havering,
Essex 15 May 1863.
AITON, JOHN TOWNSEND. Gardener at Kensington palace 1831 to death.
_d._ Kensington palace 4 July 1851 aged 74.
AKERMAN, JOHN YONGE (_son of John Akerman of St. Mary Newington,
Surrey who d. 2 Nov. 1835 aged 50_). _b._ London 12 June 1806;
F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1834; started the _Numismatic Journal_ June 1836,
the first English periodical devoted to the illustration of coins;
one of the secretaries of Numismatic society 1836–60, the first
regular meeting was held 22 Dec. 1836; edited _Journal of
Numismatic Society_ 1837–60; and _Numismatic Chronicle_ 1838–60;
gold medallist of French Institute; joint sec. with Sir Henry
Ellis of Society of Antiquaries 2 May 1848 and sole sec. 1853–24
June 1860; lived at Abingdon 1860 to death; author of _Numismatic
Manual 1832_; _Descriptive catalogue of rare Roman coins, 2 vols._
1834; _Legends of old London_ 1853 and 18 other books; author of
many papers in the _Archæologia_ and _Numismatic Journal_. _d._
Abingdon 18 Nov. 1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiv_, 13–19 (1874).
AKHURST, WILLIAM. _b._ Hammersmith 29 Dec. 1822; went to Australia
1850; sub-editor and musical critic on the _Argus_ daily paper in
Melbourne; wrote 14 pantomimes; wrote _The siege of Troy_
burlesque which was performed 60 nights, a run without precedent
in Australia; returned to England 1870; wrote pantomimes for
Astley’s, Pavilion, and Elephant and Castle theatres. _d._ on
board the “Patriarch” on his voyage to Sydney 7 June 1878.
ALABASTER, HARRY. Interpreter in consulate Bangkok Siam 30 Nov. 1864
to 31 Dec. 1871; author of _The modern Buddhist, translated by
H.A._ 1870; _The wheel of the law, Buddhism, illustrated from
Siamese sources_ 1871. _d._ Bangkok Siam 8 Aug. 1884.
ALBANO, BENEDETTO. _b._ in kingdom of Naples about 1796; fled to
England at the Bourbon restoration 1815; employed by Messrs.
Rennie in London; naturalised by 1 & 2 Vict. cap. 42, 9 May 1838;
converted Covent garden theatre into an opera house at a cost of
nearly £30,000, 1846; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 1840. _d._ 75
Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. 7 Nov. 1881.
ALBANY, LEOPOLD GEORGE DUNCAN ALBERT, 1 Duke of (_8 child and 4 son
of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham palace 7 April 1853. K.G. 24
May 1869, K.T. 24 May 1871; matric. at Univ. of Ox. (Ch. Ch.)
1872; D.C.L. 1876; P.C. 1874; admitted by patrimony to freedom of
city of London 25 Oct. 1875; a younger brother of the Trinity
House 1875; an elder brother 1878; G.C.S.I. 25 Jany. 1877; a
bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 18 June 1877; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1880;
created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow 24 May
1881. _d._ Villa Nevada, Cannes at 2 a._m._ 28 March 1884. _bur._
royal tomb, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 5 April. _Graphic_,
_xxix_, 317–22 and 341–61 (1884) 2 _portraits_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_,
313–29 (1884), 4 _portraits_.
ALBEMARLE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK KEPPEL, 5 Earl of. _b._ 2 June 1794;
M.P. for Arundel (whig) as Viscount Bury 8 March 1820 to 2 June
1826; succeeded as 5 Earl 30 Oct. 1849, but never took his seat in
House of Lords; declared to be of unsound mind on an inquisition
Dec. 1849. _d._ Blacklands house asylum, King’s Road, Chelsea 15
March 1851.
ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. _b._ the Rosenau near
Coburg 26 Aug. 1819; baptised in the Marble hall at the Rosenau 19
Sep. 1819 when he received the following names in the order in
which they are given, Franz Karl August Albrecht Immanuel; ed. at
Brussels and Bonn 1836–38; invested with the order of the Garter
at Gotha 23 Jany. 1840; received the title of Royal Highness by
patent 6 Feb. 1840; naturalized by act of parliament 3 and 4 Vict.
cap. 2, 7 Feb. 1840; Field Marshal 8 Feb. 1840. _m._ at the chapel
royal, St. James’s Palace, London 10 Feb. 1840 Queen Victoria;
G.C.B. 6 March 1840, acting great master 31 May 1843; Colonel 11
Hussars 30 April 1840 to 25 April 1842; appointed Regent 4 Aug.
1840; admitted to the freedom of city of London 28 Aug. 1840; P.C.
11 Sep. 1840; ranger of Windsor park 6 April 1841; pres. of fine
arts commission 22 Nov. 1841; lord warden of the Stannaries, and
chief steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon 16 April 1842;
colonel Scots Fusilier guards 25 April 1842 to 25 Sep. 1852;
governor and constable of Windsor castle 18 May 1843 to death;
captain general and colonel of the Artillery company 20 Sep. 1843;
elected chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 27 Feb. 1847, by a majority of
112 over Earl Powis, installed chancellor 6 July 1847; organised
the Great Exhibition of 1851; colonel in chief of 60th or King’s
Royal rifle corps 15 Aug. 1850 to 23 Sep. 1852; of the Rifle
brigade 23 Sep. 1852 to death; master of the Trinity house 19 Oct.
1852 to death; colonel of Grenadier guards 23 Sep. 1852 to death;
created Prince Consort by patent 25 June 1857; pres. of British
Association at Aberdeen 14 Sep. 1859; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861;
composed many songs and chorales; the “Athalie” and “Œdipus” of
Mendelssohn were first performed in this country at Windsor castle
by his command. _d._ at Windsor castle at 10.50 p._m._ 14 Dec.
1861. _The life of The Prince Consort by Theodore Martin 5 vols._
1874–80, 5 _portraits_; _The early homes of Prince Albert by
Alfred Rimmer_ 1883; _Medical Times and Gazette ii_, 638–42
(1861).
ALCHIN, WILLIAM TURNER. _b._ St. Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate, London
1790; a solicitor at Winchester; compiled indexes to
ecclesiastical registers of Winchester and Salisbury; librarian of
Guildhall library, London 1845 to death; compiled indexes to the
ancient records of the corporation of London; and calendar of the
wills enrolled in the court of Hustings of London. _d._ Chelsea 3
Feb. 1865.
ALCOCK, THOMAS SAINT LEGER. Major 95 foot 2 Feb. 1844 to 21 April
1846 when placed on half pay; lieut. colonel 1 or royal East
Middlesex militia 30 Jany. 1851 to 21 July 1871; colonel 21 July
1871 to death. _d._ 22 Somerset st. Portman sq. 7 Aug. 1882.
ALDBOROUGH, BENJAMIN O’NEALE STRATFORD, 6 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 10
June 1808; succeeded 4 Oct. 1849; took out 5 patents for
Improvements in aerial navigation 1854–57. _d._ Alicante, Spain 19
Dec. 1875.
ALDER, JOSHUA (_son of Mr. Alder of Newcastle, provision merchant
who d. Nov. 1808_). _b._ Dean st. Newcastle 7 April 1792; ed. at
Tanfield school; member of Literary and Philosophical society of
Newcastle Feb. 1815; a provision merchant at Newcastle to 1840;
collected the large museum of shells and zoophytes which with his
library was presented by Sir Wm. Armstrong to Natural history
society of Northumberland and Durham; this society founded in 1839
and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club founded in 1846 owed very
much to Alder, pres. of this club 1849; granted a civil list
pension of £70 18 June 1863; author with Albany Hancock of the
great monograph _On the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca_ 1845–55
(Ray, Society); wrote more than 50 papers all zoological in the
chief natural history periodicals. _d._ Newcastle 21 Jany. 1867.
_Natural history trans. of Northumberland and Durham i_, 324–37
(1867), _portrait_.
ALDERSON, SIR EDWARD HALL (_eld. son of Robert Alderson, recorder of
Norwich who d. 4 Dec. 1833 aged 80, by a dau. of Samuel Hurry of
Yarmouth, she d. 1791_). _b._ Yarmouth 11 Sep. 1787; ed. at
Scarning Norfolk, the Charterhouse, and Caius coll. Cam.; Browne’s
medallist 1807; senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and first
chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; fellow of
his college 1809–23; barrister I. T. 28 June 1811; a comr. for
amendment of the law 1828; sergeant at law 11 Nov. 1830; justice
of court of Common Pleas 12 Nov. 1830; knighted by William iv at
St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; baron of court of Exchequer 29
April 1834 to death; published with R. V. Barnewall _Reports of
cases in court of King’s Bench_, _5 vols._ 1818–22. (_m._ 1823
Georgina 3 dau. of Rev. Edward Drewe of the Grange near Honiton,
Devon, she _d._ 1871). _d._ Beechwood park Hemel Hempstead, Herts
27 Jany. 1857. _bur._ churchyard of Risby near Bury, Suffolk.
_Selections from the charges of Baron Alderson by C. Alderson_
1858.
ALDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Alderson, M.D. of Hull 1758–1829
by Sarah dau. of Christopher Scott_). _b._ Hull 1800; ed. at Hull
and Pembroke coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of his college 1823; incorporated M.A. at Magdalen hall,
Ox. 1826; B.M. 1826, D.M. 1829, D.C.L. 1870; inceptor candidate
college of physicians 26 June 1826; candidate 30 Sep. 1829; fellow
30 Sep. 1830; senior censor 1848 and 1856; treasurer 1854–67;
pres. 1867–70; physician at Hull 1829–45; in London 1845 to death;
F.R.S. 17 June 1841; senior physician of St. Mary’s hospital,
Paddington 1851–67; consulting physician 1867; representative of
Royal college of physicians at the general medical council 27
Jany. 1864 to 13 May 1867; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle
11 Nov. 1869; one of Her Majesty’s physicians extraordinary 30
Aug. 1875; _Lumleian_ lecturer 1852 and 1853; delivered Harveian
oration 1854 and 1867; author of _Diseases of the Stomach and
alimentary canal_ 1847. (_m._ 24 June 1828 Mary Anne dau. of Peter
Berthon of Glenadda, Carnarvon, she _d._ 5 March 1877). _d._ 17
Berkeley sq. London 13 Sep. 1882. _Medical Circular i_, 27 (1852)
_portrait_.
ALDHAM, WILLIAM CORNWALLIS. _b._ 21 Sep. 1809; Captain R.N. 9 May
1853; captain Greenwich hospital 12 Jan. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1865;
retired V.A. 30 July 1875; C.B. 22 Sep. 1858. _d._ Assoint Upper
Nile 27 Feb. 1878.
ALDIS, SIR CHARLES (_7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of
Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776;
apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s
hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for
prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at
Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon
New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for
the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820,
surgeon there. _d._ 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863.
_Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis_,
_privately printed_ 1852, _portrait_.
ALDIS, CHARLES JAMES BERRIDGE (_eldest son and survivor of 14
infants of the preceding_). _b._ London 16 Jany. 1808; admitted
into St. Paul’s school 9 May 1815; exhibitioner to Trinity coll.
Cam. July 1827; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1832, M.A. and L.M. 1834, M.D.
1837; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; F.R.C.P. 1838,
member of council, delivered Harveian oration 1859; physician to
London dispensary 1839; lectured at Charlotte st. school of
medicine 1841; phys. to Surrey dispensary 1843; physician to St.
Paul and St. Barnabas dispensary which was founded 1848; medical
officer of health for St. George’s Hanover square 1855 to death;
superintended Hunterian school of medicine several years; invented
an instrument for examination of the chest. (_m._ 9 Nov. 1835
Emily Arabella dau. of Rev. John Brome of Trinity college
Cambridge). _d._ 45b Chester sq. London 26 July 1872.
_Biographical memoirs of Sir C. Aldis_ 1852, _portrait_.
ALDRIDGE, IRA FREDERICK, known as the African Roscius (_son of Rev.
Daniel Aldridge, minister of Calvinistic chapel, Green st. New
York who d. Sep. 1840_). _b._ Bell Air, Harford, Maryland 1804;
ed. at Schenectady college near New York and the Univ. of Glasgow;
made his first appearance on the stage at the Royalty theatre
London as Othello 1826; played 7 weeks at the Coburg theatre
London in 1826, then in the provinces Scotland and Ireland; acted
Othello at Covent garden 10 April 1833; acted Aaron in Titus
Andronicus at Britannia theatre 15 March 1852, first time acted
since 1721; played with great success in Germany 1852–55; received
large gold medal of Art and Science from the King of Prussia 25
Jany. 1853, the only other persons who had been so distinguished
being Humboldt, Spontini and Liszt; played in Sweden 1857, made
several tours in Russia; naturalised in England 7 Nov. 1863. _d._
Lodez, Poland 7 Aug. 1867. _Theatrical times iii_, 121–23 (1848),
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 15–16, 2
_portraits_; _N. and Q. 4 series x_, 132, 373 (1872).
ALEX, EPHRAIM. _b._ Cheltenham Dec. 1800; a dentist at 35 Brook st.
Grosvenor sq. London; founded Jewish board of guardians for the
relief of Jewish poor 1859; the first pres. of it 1859–69, this
board was really the pioneer of charitable organisation societies
in England; warden of the great synagogue. _d._ 5 Chichester st.
Harrow road, London 13 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Willesden cemetery 16
Nov.
ALEXANDER, ALEXANDER (_only son of Wm. Humphrys of Birmingham,
merchant, who d. 1 May 1807, by Hannah youngest child of Rev. John
Alexander of Dublin, presbyterian clergyman, she d. 12 Sep.
1814_). _b._ 21 June 1783; went abroad with his father 1802;
detained prisoner in France till 1814; kept a school called
Netherton house academy near Worcester 1815; assumed name of
Alexander by royal license 8 March 1824; took title of Earl of
Stirling and Dovan 7 Feb. 1826; tried at Edinburgh 29 April to 4
May 1839 for forging documents to prove his title, when acquitted.
(_m._ 4 Jany. 1812 Fortunata Maria Gertrude only dau. of Giovanni
Bartoletti of Naples). _d._ 1859. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state
trials i_, 403–68 (1859).
ALEXANDER, ANDREW. Professor of Greek in the University of St.
Andrews 1820 to death; M.A. St. Andrews 1846. _d._ St. Andrews 5
June 1859.
ALEXANDER, CHARLES CARSON. 2nd lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813;
superintended exhuming body of Napoleon at St. Helena 15 Oct.
1840; lieut. col. R.E. 2 Feb. 1848 to death; commanded the R.E. in
the Crimea 22 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in his tent
before Sebastopol 19 Oct. 1854.
ALEXANDER, CHARLES REVANS, Educ. at Eton; M.R.C.S. 1840; constructed
many chess problems. _d._ 6 Cork st. London 9 Sep. 1871.
ALEXANDER, HENRY. M.R.C.S. 1805, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R. Med. and Chir.
soc. 1813; surgeon to the Eye infirmary Cork st. London; surgeon
oculist to Queen Victoria 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847.
_d._ 6 Cork st. London 17 Jany. 1859 aged 76.
ALEXANDER, HENRY. _b._ 9 April 1787; a director of the H.E.I.Co. 8
March 1826; M.P. for Barnstaple (tory) 10 June 1826 to 24 July
1830. _d._ Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.
ALEXANDER, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Wm. Alexander_). _b._ Lancaster
19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was
built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31
May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons
entitled _The preacher from the press, 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Norwich
31 July 1868. _bur._ the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. _The
Congregational year book 1869_, _pp._ 234–36.
NOTE.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to
Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool.
ALEXANDER, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s
theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh
1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of
Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle;
manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle
and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of
Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which
he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except
Charles Mackay. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851.
NOTE.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to
escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread
that it was on fire.
ALEXANDER, JOHN HOBHOUSE INGLIS. _b._ 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug.
1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B.
30 Nov. 1864. _d._ Mentone 22 Nov. 1875.
ALEXANDER, NATHANIEL. _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P.
for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853.
ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted
_Clydesdale journal_ at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the
_Western luminary_ at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the _Watchman_
in London; managed the _Morning journal_ to 1830, when he was
prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in
Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the _Liverpool
Standard_; founded the _Liverpool Mail_ 1836, edited it 1836 to
death. _d._ Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59
year. _G.M. xli_, 429–30 (1854).
ALEXANDER, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809.
_d._ 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859.
ALEXANDER, ROBERT. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June
1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I.
16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877.
_d._ 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year.
ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service
1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug.
1882.
ALEXANDER, THOMAS. _b._ Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army
medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova
Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada;
had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war;
inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of
army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the
Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (_m._ Mary Alice
eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince
Edward island, she _d._ 12 April 1881). _d._ 26 Norfolk square
Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860.
NOTE.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at
Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849
to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851.
ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk,
Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802;
pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10;
ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at
Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. _d._ Southport 23 Jany. 1855.
_Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander_ 1856;
_Evangelical mag. March 1823_, _portrait_.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819;
principal clerk and registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec.
1849 to death; author of _Abridgment of acts of Sederunt_ 1838;
_An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland_ 1841; _Plan and
description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the
inventor_ 1851. _d._ 21 Dec. 1859.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to
the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool
nearly 50 years. _d._ 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb.
1884, in 97 year.
ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM JOHN, 3 Baronet _b._ 1 April 1797; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp.
B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford
circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney
general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1
Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. _d._
22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. _I.L.N. xlii_, 400
(1863) _portrait_.
ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM LINDSAY. _b._ Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at
univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire
college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years;
pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall
of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament
revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles _Moral philosophy,
Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica_;
F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. _Our
Scottish clergy, 2 series_ 1849, _pp._ 199–204.
ALFORD, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St.
Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799_). _b._ Curry Rivell
Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton
schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow
of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec
chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R.
of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston
Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (_m._ (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah
Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker.
_m._ (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of
Stukeley, Hunts). _d._ Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. _Memorial of Rev.
Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D._ 1855.
ALFORD, VERY REV. HENRY (_only child of the preceding by his first
wife_). _b._ 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed.
at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from
Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March
1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D.
1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton,
Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained
priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold
Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42;
examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57;
minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper
Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857;
dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of
the New Testament; edited _Contemporary Review_ Dec. 1866; author
of _Poems and poetical fragments_ 1831; _Chapters on the poets of
Greece_ 1841; _Greek Testament_ _5 vols._ 1849–61, and 40 more
volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (_m._ 10 March 1835
Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney,
Somerset, she _d._ 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). _d._ The Deanery,
Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. _bur._ churchyard of St. Martin’s,
Canterbury 17 Jany. _Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow_
1873, _portrait_; _Illustrated Review i_, 295–98, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855), _lviii_, 67 (1871), _portrait_.
NOTE.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west
front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871.
ALFORD, STEPHEN SHUTE. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844;
hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation for control and
cure of habitual drunkards; author of _A few words on drink
craving_; _Dipsomania its prevalence, causes and treatment_. _d._
61 Haverstock hill, London 5 July 1881 aged 60.
ALICE MAUD MARY, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland (_3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham
palace 25 April 1843. _m._ at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm.
Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt,
he was _b._ 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing
the sick and wounded in war called after her name. _d._ the palace
Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. _bur._ in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near
Darmstadt 18 Dec. _Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical
sketch of_ 1884, _2 portraits_; _Martin’s Life of the Prince
Consort v_, 252 (1880), _portrait_.
ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Rev. Archibald
Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum_). _b._ Kenley, Salop 29 Dec.
1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute
1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842;
sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house
near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college,
Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of
Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852;
D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of _History of Europe during
the French revolution_, _10 vols._ 1833–42, _7 ed._ _20 vols._
1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; _The military life of
John Duke of Marlborough_ 1848, _2 ed._ _2 vols._ 1852. _d._
Possil house at 11.30 p._m._ 23 May 1867. _bur._ Dean cemetery,
Edinburgh 30 May. _Some account of my life and writings by Sir A.
Alison, edited by Lady Alison_, _2 vols._ 1883, _2 portraits_.
NOTE.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy.
ALISON, CHARLES. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran,
Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. _d._ Tehran 29 April 1872.
ALISON, SOMERVILLE SCOTT. _b._ Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P.
1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840
to death; author of _Inquiry into propagation of contagious
poisons_ 1839; _Medication of the larynx and trachea_ 1853;
_Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption_ 1869. _d._ 85 Park st.
Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877.
ALISON, WILLIAM PULTENEY (_elder son of Rev. Archibald Alison
1757–1839_). _b._ Boroughmuirhead near Edin. 1790; M.D. Edin.
1811; ascended Mont Blanc 1814; professor of medical jurisprudence
in Univ. of Edin. 1820–22, of institutes of medicine 1822–42; and
of practice of physic 1842–56; physician to the Queen in Scotland
3 Feb. 1847; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1850; granted civil list pension
of £100, 10 Nov. 1856; presided over meeting of British Medical
Association at Edin. Aug. 1858; author of _Outlines of physiology_
1831; _Outlines of pathology_ 1833; _Observations on the
management of the poor in Scotland_ 1840, this book caused the
appointment of the Board of Supervision under the act of 1845.
(_m._ 11 Aug. 1832 Margaret dau. of James Gregory, M.D. of
Edinburgh). _d._ Woodville, Colington, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1859.
_Edin. Medical Journal v_, 469–86 and 597–603 (1860).
ALLAN, ALEXANDER STEWART. _b._ 1822; employed in financial
department, Bengal 1859–73; supplied many of the notes to the
publications of the Grampian club; wrote many articles in _Notes
and Queries_, signed A.S.A. _d._ Kincardine, Richmond, Surrey 20
Dec. 1881.
ALLAN, BRYCE. _b._ Greenock; founded at Liverpool a branch of the
Allan shipping company with his brothers Alexander and James (who
_d._ Skelmorlie 1 Sep. 1880 aged 71). _d._ 16 Holly road
Fairfield, Liverpool 24 May 1874.
NOTE.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874.
ALLAN, SIR HUGH (_2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships
trading between the Clyde and Montreal_). _b._ Saltcoats, Ayrshire
29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29;
partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners
1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a
line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal
Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by
patent 24 July 1871. (_m._ 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of
John Smith of Montreal, she _d._ 11 June 1881 aged 63). _d._ 27
St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Montreal 27 Dec. _H.
J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians_ 1862, _pp._ 669–74;
_W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv_, 260–64 (1876).
ALLAN, JAMES. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when
placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war
1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9
Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838.
_d._ Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853.
ALLAN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation
company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran
steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer
despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of
Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing
directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. _d._ Camp’s hill,
Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 283–85 (1875).
ALLARDICE, ROBERT BRIDGES BARCLAY, known as Captain Barclay (_eld.
son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of
town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776_). _b._ Ury
25 Aug. 1779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from
London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799;
walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March
1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned;
lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000
successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at
Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed
hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for
his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28
Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the
Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith
1840. (_m._ 19 July 1819 Mary dau. of Alexander Dalgarno of Wales
st. Aberdeen, she _d._ 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his
bed at Ury 1 May 1854. _bur._ in family burying ground called the
Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. _H.
H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North)_ 1865 _pp._ 196–210;
_Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i_, 435–39 (1880), _portrait_;
_Pedestrianism_ [_by Walter Thom_] _Aberdeen_ 1813, _portrait_;
_The eccentric mag. i_, 133–50 (1812), _portrait_.
NOTE.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of
the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the
fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it
performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first
journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat
has never been performed by any other man, although many
persons are _stated_ to have done it.
ALLASON, THOMAS. _b._ London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817;
employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan
Sewers; author of _Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in
Istria_ 1819. _d._ 9 April 1852.
ALLCROFT, JEREMIAH MACKLIN. _b._ 1791; partner in firm of Dent,
Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers;
chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. _d._ Worcester 6 July 1867.
ALLEN, CHARLES, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart,
Count d’Albanie (_only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880_).
Col. in the Austrian army. (_m._ 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3
and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was _b._ 7 July
1835 and _d._ 7 June 1881.) _d._ 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending
this dynasty of modern pretenders.
ALLEN, CHARLES. _b._ 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta;
alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke
1876. _d._ Tenby 5 Nov. 1884.
ALLEN, CHARLES MANNING, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count
d’Albanie (_younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by
Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming,
Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie
and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender
by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern_). _b._ Versailles 4
June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at
Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name
to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John
at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness;
author with his brother John of _The costume of the clans_ 1845;
_Tales of the century_ 1847; _Lays of the deer forest_, _2 vols._
1848. (_m._ 9 Oct. 1822 Anne dau. of John Beresford, M.P. for co.
Waterford, and widow of Charles Gardiner). _d._ on board the
Rainbow steamer at Pauillac near Bordeaux 25 Dec. 1880. _J. H.
Ingram’s Claimants to royalty_ (1882) 252–59; _Quarterly Review
lxxxi_, 57–85 (1847); _Edinburgh Review cxiv_, 145–82 (1861);
_Western Antiquary Sep. 1884_, 67–72; _Doran’s London in Jacobite
times ii_, 390–412 (1877).
ALLEN, GEORGE. _b._ London Nov. 1800; attorney and solicitor of
supreme court at Sydney 1822; mayor of Sydney 1844; member of
legislative council N.S.W. 1845 and 1856 to death; chairman of
committees 1856–73. _d._ Toxteth park, Glebe, N.S.W. 3 Nov. 1877.
ALLEN, GEORGE JOHN (_eld. son of Right Rev. Joseph Allen, bishop of
Ely who d. 20 March 1845 aged 75_). _b._ 1810; warden of the
college of God’s Gift in Dulwich 1843 to 31 Dec. 1857 when that
Corporation was dissolved by 20 and 21 Vict. c. 84, and he was
granted an annuity of £1015. _d._ The Mount, Budleigh Salterton,
Devon 19 July 1883.
ALLEN, HENRY ROBINSON. _b._ Cork 1809; ed. at R.A. of Music; made
his début at the English Opera as Elvino in La Sonnambula;
A.R.A.M.; tenor vocalist and ballad composer, his song “Maid of
Athens” was much sung. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 Nov. 1876.
ALLEN, REV. HUGH. _b._ Cork July 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.;
scholar 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1861; minister of an
episcopal chapel at Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 1835; C. of St.
John’s ch. Bury, Lancs. 1838–48; Inc. of St. Jude’s Whitechapel
1848–59; lecturer of St. Olave’s, Old Jewry 1856–59; R. of St.
George the Martyr Southwark 1859 to death; edited the _London
Messenger_ 1862. _d._ 231 New Kent road, London 20 June 1877.
NOTE.—He was the Sunday afternoon lecturer at church of St.
George-in-the-East, London where disturbances began 21 Aug.
1859 in consequence of the Rector the Rev. Bryan King adopting
an elaborate ritual and refusing to allow time for the
lecture, the riots lasted till 25 June 1860.
ALLEN, JAMES BAYLIS. _b._ Birmingham 18 April 1803; employed by W.
and E. Finden, engravers in London 1824; engraved many of Turner’s
water colour drawings 1830–45, and many large views for the Art
Journal. _d._ Camden Town, London 11 Jany. 1876.
ALLEN, JAMES MOUNTFORD (_son of Rev. John Allen, V. of Bleddington,
Gloucs._) _b._ Crewkerne, Somerset 14 Aug. 1809; an architect in
London to 1856, at Crewkerne 1856 to death; built many churches,
rectory houses and schools. _d._ 27 Feb. 1883.
ALLEN, JAMES PEARCE. Spent 5 years in India 1836–41; a publisher in
London 1855 to death. _d._ Grove lodge, Clapham Common 2 Nov. 1878
in 61 year.
ALLEN, JOHN (_elder son of Admiral John Carter Allen who d. 2 Oct.
1800_). _b._ 1774; captain R.N. 29 April 1802; admiral on h. p. 30
July 1852. _d._ Torpoint near Plymouth 4 June 1853.
ALLEN, JOHN. _b._ Dublin; a woollen draper at 36 College green;
committed to Tower of London on a charge of high treason 6 March
1798, tried at Maidstone 21 and 22 May 1798 when acquitted; an
associate of Robert Emmett in the insurrection of 23 July 1803;
fled to France and became sous-lieutenant in the army Dec. 1803;
led the storming party at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 10
July 1810; chef de bataillon March 1814; retired on half pay after
the Irish regiment was disbanded Sep. 1815; lived at Tours then at
Caen. _d._ Caen 10 Feb. 1855. _R. R. Madden’s The united Irishmen,
3rd series iii_, 135–39 (1846); _Howell’s State Trials xxvi_,
1193–1432 (1819), and _xxvii_, 1–142 (1820).
ALLEN, JOHN. _b._ Liskeard, Cornwall 26 Sep. 1790; author of _State
churches and the kingdom of Christ_ 1853; _History of the borough
of Liskeard and its vicinity_ 1856. _d._ Liskeard 15 Feb. 1859.
_Annual Monitor for 1860_ _pp._ 3–26.
ALLEN, JOHN CARTER HAY, calling himself John Sobieski Stolberg
Stuart (_elder son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851_). Said to
have received cross of the Légion d’honneur from hands of Napoleon
for bravery on field of Waterloo; lived with his brother Charles
at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author
of _Poems_ 1822; edited the _Vestiarium Scoticum_ 1842. (_m._ 29
Oct. 1845 Georgiana eld. dau. of Edward Kendall of Cheltenham).
_d._ 52 Stanley st. St. George’s Hanover sq. 13 Feb. 1872.
ALLEN, JOHN ROY (_elder son of John Allen of Lyngford, Somerset_).
_b._ 1799; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825;
barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; recorder of Taunton, Andover and
Bridgwater. _d._ Weston super Mare 10 March 1875.
ALLEN, JOSEPH. Chairman of Brighton bench of magistrates many years;
one of the gentlemen of H.M. privy chamber 1838 to death. _d._
Podstream house Wivelsfield, Sussex 9 Dec. 1851 aged 78.
ALLEN, JOSEPH. Military superintendent of halls, &c. at Greenwich
hospital 1 Sep. 1833 to death; edited Allen’s “New Navy List”;
newspaper writer on professional topics. _d._ Greenwich Hospital
21 Oct. 1864 aged 54.
ALLEN, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Paradise row, Lambeth 1803; usher at a
school at Taunton; theatrical scene painter in London; a founder
of “The Society of British Artist” 1823; professor of drawing at
city of London school from its opening 2 Feb. 1837 to death. _d._
Hammersmith 26 Aug. 1852.
ALLEN, PETER. _b._ Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand
Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St.
Mary’s hospital; author of _Practical observations on deafness_
1853; _Aural Catarrh_ 1870. _d._ 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq.
London 18 Jany. 1874.
ALLEN, ROBERT (_3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris_). An
actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford
circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of
precedence. _d._ Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.
ALLEN, REV. SAMUEL JAMES. _b._ near Tower of London 16 June 1798;
ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold,
Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed _Whitaker’s History of
Richmondshire_ 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely
written by him; author of _Lectures in defence of the church of
England_. _d._ Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.
ALLEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805;
accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832;
returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors;
commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42;
captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835,
F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of _The narrative of expedition sent
to river Niger_ 1848; _The Dead Sea, a new route to India_ 1855;
exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. _d._ Bank
house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.
ALLEN, WILLIAM FERNELEY (_son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London,
publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67_). _b._ 31 Oct. 1816; a
publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for
ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. _d._ 13
Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. _bur._ in family vault at
Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. _I.L.N. li_, 517 (1867), _portrait_.
ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal
of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. _d._ 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.
ALLEN, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ near town of Tipperary April 1848; a
carpenter in Cork, Dublin and Chester; helped to rescue Colonel
Kelly the Fenian from a prison van at Manchester 18 Sep. 1867; in
the mêlée, a police sergeant named Brett was killed; executed at
the old prison Manchester 23 Nov. 1867. _Speeches from the dock._
_Dublin_ 1868.
ALLEYNE, SIR REYNOLD ABEL, 2 Baronet. _b._ 10 June 1789; ed. at
Eton; succeeded his father 1801; member of council in Barbados 30
years; col. of 2 regiment of militia there. _d._ Burton under
Needwood 14 Feb. 1870.
ALLEYNE, SARAH FRANCES. _b._ Clifton 15 Oct. 1836; organised courses
of lectures for women; member of council of Clifton high school
for girls; sec. of Oxford local examination at Clifton; translated
E. Zeller’s _Plato and the older Academy_ 1876 and M. Duncker’s
_History of Greece_ 1883. _d._ London 16 Aug. 1884. _bur._ Redland
Green churchyard 21 Aug.
ALLIES, JABEZ (_2 son of Wm. Allies of Alfrick in Lusley co.
Worcester_). _b._ Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London;
author of _The causes of planetary motion_ 1838; _The antiquities
and folk lore of Worcestershire_ _2 ed._ 1852, the best work on
local field names ever published. _d._ Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29
Jany. 1856.
ALLIOTT, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of
congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham_). _b._ 1 Sep
1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840;
assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40;
ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York
road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth
1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of
Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of
dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill
college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at
Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of _Psychology
and Theology_ 1854. _d._ Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.
ALLMAN, THOMAS. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at
Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. _d._ 2 Clifton villas,
Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.
ALLOCK, JON JUNIM. _b._ China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow
the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London
as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and
America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived
at Glasgow about 1845 to death. _d._ Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged
nearly 80.
ALLOM, THOMAS. _b._ London 13 March 1804; articled to Francis
Goodwin, architect; furnished the drawings for many illustrated
works published by Virtue & Co. and Heath and Co.; exhibited
drawings at the R.A.; made for Sir Charles Barry the drawings of
new Houses of Parliament which were presented to Nicholas Czar of
Russia. _d._ 1 Lonsdale road, Barnes, Surrey 21 Oct. 1872.
ALLSOP, THOMAS. _b._ Stainsborough hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire
10 April 1795; a stockbroker in London; the favourite disciple of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge; great friend of Charles Lamb, Robert Owen
and other eminent men; author of _Letters, conversations and
recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols._ 1836; _California and
its gold mines in 1852–3_. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 12 April 1880.
_bur._ Woking cemetery 17 April. _Dictionary of national biography
i_, 337–39 (1885).
ALMOND, EMMA (_dau. of Mr. Romer_). _b._ 1814; first appeared on
stage at Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1830 as Donna Clara in _The
Duenna_; the original Zerlina in Auber’s opera _Fra Diavolo_ at
C.G. 3 Nov. 1831; original singer of title parts in Barnett’s
_Mountain Sylph_ and _Fair Rosamond_; chief singer at English
opera house; sang at Westminster Abbey festival 1834; sang at
Drury Lane 1836; manager of the Surrey theatre 1852, where she
brought out a series of operas in English. (_m._ 1836 George
Almond of Bond st. hatter, he _d._ Nov. 1863). _d._ Clifton
terrace, Margate 14 April 1868. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 21 April.
_Actors by daylight ii_, 57 (1839), _portrait_.
ALSBURY, GEORGE. Stipendiary magistrate and pres. of island of
Anguilla, Caribbee islands 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Jany. 1868. _d._ St.
Heliers, Jersey 10 Nov. 1879.
ALSTON, EDWARD GRAHAM. Ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1857; registrar general of
Vancouver island Feb. 1861, of British Columbia 1 June 1870;
attorney general of Sierra Leone 13 May 1871 to death, and Queen’s
advocate July 1871 to death. _d._ Sierra Leone 12 Sep. 1872 in 40
year.
ALSTON, EDWARD RICHARD. _b._ Stockbriggs near Lesmahagow 1 Dec.
1845; zoological sec. of Linnæan society 1880 to death;
contributed to the _Proceedings of Zoological society_ 1874–80;
author of the division Mammalia in Salvin and Godman’s _Biologia
Centrali-Americana_ 1879. _d._ 14 Maddox st. London 7 March 1881.
ALTHANS, JOHN (_son of Henry Althans the friend of popular
education_). Connected with Religious tract society 47 years and
trade manager the last 6 years. _d._ West lodge, White Hart lane,
Tottenham 15 Dec. 1882 aged 66.
ALVANLEY, RICHARD PEPPER ARDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ the Rolls house,
Chancery lane, 8 Dec. 1792; major 84 foot 26 Sep. 1822 to 30 Oct.
1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 9 Nov. 1849. _d._
12 Bruton st. London 24 June 1857.
NOTE.—His library was sold by Sotheby 15–20 Feb. 1858.
ALVES, JOHN. _b._ Elgin 1787; captain 74 foot 2 Nov. 1830 to 17 Aug.
1841 when placed on half pay; granted a service reward 27 Jany.
1854; M.G. 5 Dec. 1856; sergeant at arms to the Queen 1855 to
death. _d._ 14 King st. St. James’s, London 18 Sep. 1860.
AMBROSE, GEORGE JAMES. Lieut. col. 3 Foot 31 Dec. 1857 to death;
C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brislington 19 July 1862 aged 38.
AMCOTTS, WESTON CRACROFT. _b._ 9 March 1815; ed. at Eton; sheriff of
Lincolnshire 1861; M.P. for Mid-Lincolnshire (Lib.) 1868–74. _d._
Harrogate 14 July 1883.
AMESBURY, JOSEPH (_youngest child of Joseph Amesbury of Huntspill,
Somerset who d. about 1802_). _b._ Huntspill 15 Oct. 1795;
M.R.C.S. 4 Aug. 1820; a surgeon in London 1820–58; opened a
private spinal establishment at 59 Burton crescent 1838; lived at
26 Fitzroy sq. 1847–58; invented apparatus for cure of stiff
joints, spinal curvature, and other deformities for which he took
out 3 patents; author of _Practical remarks on nature and
treatment of fractures of the trunk and extremities_ 2 vols. 1831.
_d._ 93 Lansdowne place, Brighton 27 March 1864.
AMEUNEY, ANTONIUS GEORGE (_son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia_).
_b._ Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s
college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus
1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the
U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859;
professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death;
author of _Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on
behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family_ 1860. _d._ 87 Seymour
st. London 16 Sep. 1881.
AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT AMHERST, 1 Earl of (_only son of Wm. Amherst
1732–81, governor of Newfoundland_). _b._ Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2
Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec.
1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July
1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of
India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah
24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of
Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor
general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of
£3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Knole house near Sevenoaks 13
March 1857. _bur._ in Sevenoaks church. _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery vol. 1_ (1830), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries
of art_ (1857) 337–41; _Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the
late embassy to China_ 1817; _Mill’s History of British India, by
H. H. Wilson, vol. iii_, 1848.
AMHERST, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS KERRIL (_eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst
of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis
Fortescue Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester_). _b._ London 21
March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6
June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the
mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton
14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at
pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa
1880; author of _Lenten thoughts_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1880. _d._
Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. _bur._ R.C. cathedral,
Northampton 28 Aug.
AMHERST, G. A. _b._ London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July
1817 in _The blue devils_ at Haymarket theatre; visited United
states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his
début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in _Mazeppa_ 2 April 1838;
author of many plays. _d._ in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug.
1851.
AMOS, ANDREW (_son of James Amos of Devonshire sq. London, Russian
merchant_). _b._ India 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; 5
wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; fellow of his college
1815–23; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1818; went Midland circuit
1818–37; professor of English law in Univ. of London 1829–37;
recorder of Banbury, Nottingham and Oxford; member of first
criminal law commission 1834–43; 4th ordinary member of supreme
council of India 11 Oct. 1837 to 15 Feb. 1843; judge of county
courts for Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone, circuit 44, March
1847 to Sep. 1852; Downing professor of laws of England in Univ.
of Cam. 1848 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of
fixtures_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1883; _The English constitution in the
reign of Charles ii_, 1857; _Martial and the Moderns_ 1858. (_m._
1 Aug. 1826 Margaret eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Lax Lowndes professor
of astronomy at Cambridge, she _d._ 13 April 1882). _d._ Downing
college, Cambridge 18 April 1860. _Law Times_ xxxv, 117–18 (1860).
NOTE.—There is a marble bust of him in University college,
London.
AMOS, CHARLES EDWARDS. _b._ March, Cambs. 27 Nov. 1805; a millwright
at Wandsworth, Surrey 1835–66; patented several inventions in
manufacture of paper; invented dynamometer brought out and
designed for Atlantic cable 1857; M.I.C.E. 22 May 1855. _d._
Cedars road, Clapham common 12 Aug. 1882. _Minutes of proc. of
instit. of C.E. lxxi_, 387–95 (1883).
AMOTT, JOHN. Organist at Gloucester cathedral 1832 to death. _d._
College Green, Gloucester 3 Feb. 1865 in 67 year.
AMPHLETT, SIR RICHARD PAUL (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Holmden
Amphlett, R. of Hadsor, Worcs., who d. 8 March 1842 in 60 year_).
_b._ Salop 24 May 1809; ed. at Brewood gr. sch. and St. Peter’s
coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his
college 1832–40; hon. fellow 6 Nov. 1882; student of L.I. 5 Feb.
1831, barrister 6 June 1834, bencher, Jany. 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858;
M.P. for East Worcester (Conserv.) 24 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1874;
pres. of Legal education association, Oct. 1872; serjeant at law,
and baron of Court of Exchequer 24 Jany. 1874; knighted by the
Queen at Osborne 27 Jany. 1874; judge of court of appeal 27 Oct.
1876 to Nov. 1877; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876; struck with paralysis 3
April 1877. _d._ 32 Wimpole st. London 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ at
Hadsor 13 Dec. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 120, 129 (1874) _portrait_.
NOTE.—His was the first instance of nomination of an equity
practitioner to a common law judgeship since the appointment
of Sir Robert Rolfe in Nov. 1839.
AMPTHILL, ODO WILLIAM LEOPOLD RUSSELL, 1 Baron (_youngest son of
Lord George Wm. Russell, G.C.B._) _b._ Florence 20 Feb. 1829; ed.
at Westminster; attaché at Vienna 15 March 1849; employed on
special service at Rome, Nov. 1860 to 9 Aug. 1870; ambassador
extraord. and plenipo. at Berlin 16 Oct. 1871 to death; P.C. 5
Feb. 1872, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1874, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created
Baron Ampthill of Ampthill, Beds. 7 March 1881. _d._ Potsdam 25
Aug. 1884. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of St. Michael,
Chenies, Bucks 3 Sep. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 220 (1884) _portrait_.
AMSINCK, HENRY. _b._ 1798; served in navy 1811–44; retired commander
22 March 1876; sec. to the Railway commission 1844; went to
Melbourne 1853; M.P. for West Bourke. _d._ Hawthorne, Victoria 17
Dec 1878.
ANCELL, HENRY (_son of Mr. Ancell of Carshalton, Surrey, cotton
miller_). _b._ Croydon 23 Jany. 1802; walked through the United
States 1823–25; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1831; surgeon to
Metropolitan police; lectured at Lane’s school next St. George’s
hospital 1837; sec. to National association of general
practitioners 1845–47; author of _A treatise on Tuberculosis_
1852; _Lectures on the blood and Commentaries on Liebig_. _d._ 3
Norfolk crescent Hyde Park 19 Nov. 1863.
ANDERDON, JAMES HUGHES. _b._ 1790; collected many pictures of
British School; bought Hogarth’s Sigismunda for £56 (which he
bequeathed to National Gallery), and his _portrait_ of Sarah
Malcolm the murderess. _d._ 23 Upper Grosvenor st. London 24 Jany.
1879.
ANDERDON, JOHN LAVICOUNT (_3 son of John Proctor Anderdon_). _b._
Bristol 5 April 1792; ed. at Ealing and Harrow; a West India
merchant in London 1816–54; contested Penryn 1818; author of _The
river Dove_ 1847; _The life of bishop Ken, by a Layman 2 vols._
1851; _The Messiah_ 1861. (_m._ 4 March 1816 Anna Maria 2 dau. of
Wm. Manning, M.P., she _d._ 1 May 1880 in 84 year). _d._ Brighton
8 March 1874. _Geron, the old man in search of paradise, by J. L.
Anderdon with a biographical notice, by Rev. G. Williams_ 1877.
ANDERDON, THOMAS OLIVER. Barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1822; equity
draftsman; Q.C. 1841; bencher of his inn 1841. _d._ Horsendon
house Bucks 31 July 1856 aged 70.
ANDERSON, ADAM, Lord Anderson (_2 son of Samuel Anderson of Moredun,
co. Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1797; ed. at Univ. of Edin; advocate
1818; solicitor general Nov. 1834 to April 1835; sheriff of
Perthshire 1835–1842; solicitor general for Scotland 8 Nov. 1842
to 1846; Dean of Faculty of Advocates 28 Feb. 1852; Advocate for
Scotland 28 Feb. 1852; one of Lords of Session and of Justiciary
18 May 1852 to death. _d._ 55 Upper Brook st. London 28 Sep. 1853.
_bur._ under St. John’s episcopal chapel Edin. _B. W. Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 112, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Stirling 1762; assistant surgeon R.N.
1784; served in North America and West Indies; surgeon 15 Oct.
1790; retired on h.p. 1803; practised at Knightsbridge, London
1803–35; the last medical officer who belonged to Lord Nelson’s
fleet. _d._ Clarence terrace, New Hampton, Middlesex 6 Sep. 1859.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 7 May 1807; 2 Lieut. R.M. 13 May 1823;
col. commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B.
2 June 1869. _d._ St. Alban’s place, St. James’s London 21 Nov.
1877.
ANDERSON, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Peterhead 1808; ed. at St. Andrew’s;
founder and head of Chanonry house school (the Gymnasium) Old
Aberdeen. _d._ Aboyne 25 Oct. 1884.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER DUNLOP (_son of Andrew Anderson of Greenock,
merchant_). _b._ Greenock 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816, M.D. Edin. 1819;
asst. surgeon 49 foot 22 June 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on
half pay; practised in Glasgow; surgeon to royal infirmary 1822
and phys. 1837; pres. of faculty of phys. and surgeons 1852–55;
pres. of Med. Chir. society of Glasgow. _d._ 159 St. Vincent st.
Glasgow 13 May 1871.
ANDERSON, ALFRED. Celebrated Australian pianist. _m._ at Sydney 29
Dec. 1875 Ilma de Murska, the “Hungarian nightingale.” _d._
Melbourne 22 March 1876 aged 28.
ANDERSON, ANDREW. A stocking weaver. Champion draught player of
Scotland; author of _The Game of Draughts_ 1848, _2 ed._ 1852, 3
ed. 1878. _d._ Braidwood near Carluke, Lanarkshire 1 March 1861.
ANDERSON, ARTHUR (_eld. son of Robert Anderson of Grimaster,
Shetland_). _b._ Grimaster, Feb. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1810; a
merchant in London 1823; superintended naval portion of expedition
to Portugal under Don Pedro 1831–32; started a line of steamers to
the Peninsula 1836; formed fishery establishment in Orkney and
Shetland 1838; member of Anti-corn law league formed at Manchester
18 Sep. 1838, took an active part in it; a founder of Peninsular
and Oriental steam navigation company incorporated 1840; their
first boat the Hindostan was started Sep. 1842; chairman of the
company; chairman of Union steamship company and of Crystal palace
company; M.P. for Orkney (lib.) 1 Sep. 1847 to 1 July 1852;
F.S.A.; author of _Communication with India, China, &c._ 1843;
_National defence_ 1852. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Feb. 1868.
_I.L.N. xviii_, 232 (1851), _portrait_.
ANDERSON, CHARLES ABERCROMBY. Inspector general of hospitals and
fleets 12 April 1869 to death; C.B. 17 June 1871. _d._ London 25
Feb. 1872.
ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER (_youngest son of William Anderson of Edin.
ironmonger 1744–1804_). _b._ West Bow, Edin. 19 Feb. 1782; clerk
in the Friendly Insurance Office 1800–1804; ordained pastor of
English baptists in Edin. 21 Jany. 1808; originated the Edinburgh
Bible Society Oct. 1810, the Gaelic School Society Nov. 1810;
author of _The annals of the English bible, 2 vols._ 1845, _2 ed._
1862. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1852. _The life and letters of
Christopher Anderson, by his nephew Hugh Anderson_ 1854,
_portrait_.
ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (_son of John Anderson_). _b._ 1804 or
1805; admitted attorney in Bahama 1827; speaker of House of
Assembly, Bahama 1831 to 1868; attorney general 1837; knighted by
patent 16 Sep. 1874; chief justice 11 Oct. 1875; president of
legislative council 1875; acting chief justice, Ceylon 1875–77;
chief justice of Leeward islands 27 March 1877–1880. _d._
Kingston, Jamaica 1 March 1884.
ANDERSON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ Carlton palace, London 1793; member
of royal private band 1819, conductor 1847–48; master of the Music
1848–70; band changed by Prince Albert from a mere wind band to a
full orchestra 24 Dec. 1840; treasurer of Philharmonic society,
and of Royal Society of musicians. (_m._ 1820 Lucy Philpot). _d._
34 Nottingham place, London 14 Dec. 1876. _bur._ Kensal Green 20
Dec.
ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (_son of Robert Anderson of London,
merchant_). _b._ London 1791; ed. at Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1806; senior judge of the Sudder Dewanee 1833;
member of council 8 March 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841
to 28 July 1842, of the Mauritius 9 Feb. 1849 to Oct. 1850, of
Ceylon Oct. 1850 to Feb. 1855; knighted by the Queen at St.
James’s palace 22 Feb. 1849; C.B. 22 March 1849, K.C.B. 22 Nov.
1850. (_m._ (1) 1813 Caroline 2 dau. of John Proby Kensington of
Lime Grove, Putney. _m._ (2) 1833 Jane dau. of Archibald Wight of
Ormiston, East Lothian). _d._ 99 Westbourne terrace, London 17
March 1857. _G. M. ii_, 493–94 (1857).
ANDERSON, SIR HENRY LACON (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Surat,
East Indies 1817; ed. at St. Paul’s, at St. John’s coll. Ox. and
Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1840; judge of Kandeish
1853; sec. to government of Bombay in political and judicial
departments 1854; chief sec. to government 1860; mem. of council
of India for making laws and regulations 1863–1865, when he
retired; sec. to India Board in judicial, public and sanitary
departments 1866; K.C.S.I. for long service in Bombay 24 May 1867.
(_m._ 1841 Anne Grace 4 dau. of Hope Stewart of Ballechin,
Perthshire, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885). _d._ 46 Leinster gardens,
London 7 April 1879 aged 62.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ Newburgh; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.;
B.D., D.D.; author of _The Course of creation_ 1846; _Dura Den, a
monograph_ 1859. _d._ Nice 16 March 1864 aged 65.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Anderson of Stirling, merchant_).
_b._ Stirling 1800; a manufacturer at Glasgow; lord provost
1848–49; knighted by the Queen at Glasgow 14 Aug. 1849; M.P. for
Stirling (lib.) 13 July 1852 to 23 April 1859. (_m._ 1831 Janet
only dau. of Robert Hood of Glasgow). _d._ Blairvadick,
Dumbartonshire 8 May 1864.
ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ Cumberland; went to Rome before 1839; became
well known there as a photographer under name of Isaac Atkinson.
_d._ Rome 28 Feb. 1877. _Law Reports xxi Chancery division_
100–104 (1882).
ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ 1797; entered navy 17 Sep. 1808; captain 1
Nov. 1849; retired admiral 21 March 1878. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 7
March 1882 in 85 year.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen; lived at Morpeth
1844 to death; the first moderator of Presbyterian church of
England; D.D. St. Andrew’s 12 Feb. 1878. _d._ The Manse, Morpeth
17 May 1882 in 87 year.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES CALEB, 1 Baronet (_elder son of John Anderson of
Fermoy co. Cork, merchant, by his 2 wife Elizabeth only dau. of
James Semple, of Waterford, she d. 3 April 1830_). _b._ Waterford
21 July 1792; created a baronet 22 March 1813 as a mark of
approbation of the services rendered to Ireland by his father, who
advanced the civilization of Ireland fully 50 years; improved
steam locomotion. (_m._ 1815 Caroline 4 dau. of Robert Shaw of
Dublin, she _d._ 1859). _d._ London 4 April 1861. _D. O. Madden’s
Revelations of Ireland_ (1848) 268–85.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES EGLINTON (_eld. son of W. Anderson of Glasgow,
merchant, by a dau. of James Eglinton_). _b._ 1788; ed. Univ. of
Glasgow; M.D. Edin. and Dublin; entered medical department of the
navy 1808; surgeon 19 Aug. 1811; Surgeon to one of royal yachts
1827 to Nov. 1833, when he retired from the service; M.R.C.P.;
Physician in ord. to Lord Lieut. of Ireland; knighted by him 1829;
M.R.I.A. (_m._ 1819 Jane 3 dau. of Rev. W. Learmont of Luce Abbey,
she _d._ 20 Sep. 1857). _d._ 7 Harley st. London 29 Feb. 1856.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES STUART MURRAY. ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1821, M.A. 1823; P.C. of St. George’s, Brighton 1831–51; chaplain
in ord. to the Queen 1844; preacher of Lincoln’s Inn 1844–1859; R.
of Tormarton, Gloucs. 1851; hon. canon of Bristol 1856; British
chaplain at Bonn 1859; author of _The history of the church of
England in the colonies and foreign dependencies of the British
empire, 3 vols._ 1845–56, _2 ed._ 1856; _Addresses on
miscellaneous subjects_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858, and many sermons. _d._
Bonn 22 Sep. 1869. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855) _portrait_.
ANDERSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Craig farm, parish of Kilpatrick-Durham,
Galloway 23 May 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin; ordained a minister of
church of Scotland 13 July 1836; sent out to Madras as a
missionary 1836; baptised his first converts 20 June 1841; joined
the Free Church at the disruption 1 July 1843; the mission was
then carried on in connection with that church; established many
schools both for boys and girls; published the _Native Herald_, a
bimonthly periodical 2 Oct. 1841. _d._ Madras 25 March 1855. _Rev.
John Braidwood’s True Yoke-fellows in the mission field_ 1862,
_portrait_.
ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 43 Madras N.I. 7 Jan. 1843 to 7 Feb. 1848; col.
37 Madras N.I. 7 Feb. 1848 to death; L.G. 23 Sep. 1857. _d._
Folkestone 22 July 1858.
ANDERSON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Anderson of Green st. London, horse
dealer_). Partner with his father many years; the first man to
direct attention to the value of action in horses; Anderson’s
Steppers were known all over Europe; kept steppers in Green st.,
hacks in Bryanston st. and hunters at Mapesbury farm, Willesden
lane, which is minutely described in Edmund Yates’s first novel;
_Broken to harness_ 1865. _d._ Jany. 1864 aged 55. _Sporting
Gazette 11 Feb. 1865_, _p._ 113.
NOTE.—His horses were sold 7–9 Feb. 1865 for sum of £20898
average £205 each horse, which exceeded in value any previous
sale of horses in this country.
ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 61 Bengal N.I. 7 July 1842 to death; General 14
Jan. 1864. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 25 April 1866 aged 84.
ANDERSON, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Oakham 4 July 1841; Wesleyan
Methodist minister 1862 to death. _d._ on board the “Lorraine” in
latitude 28°31 S. longitude 61°46 E. in the Indian ocean 3 Jany.
1880. _Memorials of Rev. J. H. Anderson_ 1882, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, JOHN HENRY, known as Professor Anderson the Wizard of the
North (_eld. child of Mr. Anderson of Aberdeen, mason_). _b._
estate of Craigmyle parish of Kincardine, Aberdeenshire 14 July
1814; call boy in Ryder’s theatrical company in Scotland 1824;
first performed as a conjuror in small towns of north of Scotland
1831; performed in Waterloo rooms, Edinburgh 100 nights in 1837;
erected a building called The Temple of Magic at Glasgow, seated
for 2000 spectators, and performed in it 200 nights in 1838 and
1839; first appeared in London at Strand theatre 1840, when he
displayed finest collection of apparatus that had ever been seen
in London, performed there 4 months; converted St. James’s bazaar
in St. James’s street, into a Temple of Magic 1840; performed in
Ireland 1840; built theatre at Glasgow which was burnt; performed
at Alexandrisky theatre, St. Petersburg, and in all chief cities
of central Europe; at Covent Garden 1846, at the Strand 1848; in
America 1851–53; before the Queen at Balmoral 1853; lessee of
Lyceum theatre, London, Sep. 1855; of Covent Garden 24 Dec. 1855
where he produced a pantomime and the drama of Rob Roy in which he
acted Rob Roy; the theatre was burnt down 5 March 1856; performed
at Sadler’s Wells 1856; abroad 1856–64, at St. James’s hall,
London 1864–65; went to India and Australia. _d._ Fleece hotel,
Darlington 3 Feb. 1874. _bur._ St. Nicholas churchyard, Aberdeen 7
Feb. _Frost’s Lives of the conjurors_ (1876) 228–60; _The Era 8
Feb. 1874, p. 4, col. 1_; _15 Feb. p. 4, col. 3_.
ANDERSON, JOSEPH JOCELYN. _b._ 1789; ensign 78 foot 27 June 1805;
served in Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 50 foot 1 April 1841 to
19 Sep. 1848 when he sold out; military commander and civil
superintendent of convicts Norfolk Island; commanded a brigade in
Gwalior campaign 1843; a squatter on the Goulburn Victoria; member
of legislative council 1852; K.H. 1837, C.B. 2 May 1844. _d._
Fairlie house, South Yarra 18 July 1877. _bur._ St. Kilda cemetery
21 July. _I.L.N. lxxi_, 347, 348 (1877), _portrait_.
ANDERSON, LUCY (_dau. of John Philpot of Bath_). _b._ Bath Dec.
1790; made her début at Philharmonic Society’s concerts 1822;
Pianist to Queen Adelaide 1832; Pianist to Queen Victoria 1837;
gave her last concert 30 May 1862 in Her Majesty’s theatre;
granted a civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840. (_m._ 1820
George Frederick Anderson). _d._ 34 Nottingham place, London 24
Dec. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 31 Dec. _I.L.N. xli_, 77
(1862), _portrait_.
ANDERSON, PAUL (_2 son of James Anderson of Grace Dieu, co.
Waterford, by Susanna youngest dau. of Christmas Paul_). _b._ 29
March 1767; ensign 51 foot 31 March 1788; lieut. col. 60 foot 14
Jany. 1808 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; commander of
Gravesend and Tilbury forts 1 Dec. 1827, of Pendennis castle 23
July 1832; col. 78 foot 9 Feb. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov.
1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C. _d._ Bath 17 Dec. 1851.
ANDERSON, REV. PHILIP (_son of Mr. Anderson, captain H.E.I.Co._)
Entered St. Paul’s school 7 Oct. 1824 aged 8; Pauline exhibitioner
C.C. coll. Cam. 1834; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1849; chaplain at Colaba,
Bombay Nov. 1849 to death; began _Bombay quarterly magazine_ 1850;
edited _Bombay quarterly review_ Jany. 1855; author of _The
English in Western India_ 1854. _d._ Malabar hill, Bombay 13 Dec.
1857.
ANDERSON, REV. RICHARD. _b._ 16 Jany. 1792; ed. at Linc. coll Ox.,
B.A. 1815; V. of Burreston, Yorkshire 1834–54; P.C. of Leeming,
Yorkshire 1868–79; chairman of Leeming school board to 1879. _d._
Aisken house near Bedale 24 Oct. 1884.
NOTE.—He was the survivor of the celebrated trio of hardriding
Yorkshire clergymen mentioned by “Nimrod” in his _Sporting
Tour_ as hunting with the Earl of Darlington’s hounds.
ANDERSON, ROBERT. _b._ Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire; assistant surgeon
R.N. 1838; surgeon of the Investigator and Enterprise in the
Arctic seas 1848–55; made a large collection illustrative of
natural history of Arctic regions, zoological specimens were sent
to British Museum, dried plants to Kew, and fossil remains to
Geological society. _d._ June 1856 aged 38.
NOTE.—Anderson bay on Victoria land is named after him.
ANDERSON, ROBERT STERLING HORE. _b._ near Coleraine; ed. at Belfast
academy and Dublin Univ.; solicitor in Dublin 1846, in Melbourne,
Victoria 1854; M.P. for Emerald Hill 1855; comr. of customs
1860–61, 1862–63 and 1875–77; repres. of Eastern province in
legislative council; minister for justice. _d._ Melbourne 26 Oct.
1883 aged 62.
ANDERSON, SAMUEL. _b._ London 15 Nov. 1839; secretary to American
land boundary commission 1869; chief astronomer to North American
boundary commission 14 June 1872; returned to England 30 June
1875; comr. for demarcation of frontier of Servia 1 April 1879;
major R.E. 13 Sep. 1879 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._
Dalhousie grange, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian 11 Sep. 1881.
ANDERSON, THOMAS. Colonel 3 Madras light cavalry 21 Dec. 1859 to
death; M.G. 21 April 1863. _d._ 9 Thurloe square, London 27 May
1864.
ANDERSON, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Anderson, sec. to National
bank of Scotland_). _b._ Edin. 26 Feb. 1832; M.D. Edin. 1853; in
Bengal medical service 1854 to death; surgeon 20 May 1866; had
medical charge of Hodson’s Horse during the mutiny; superintendent
of forest department 1864–66; director of Calcutta botanic garden
1869 to death; worked out the flora of India; author of _Florula
Adenensis_ 1860 and more than 20 other papers in journal of
Linnæan society, &c. _d._ Edin. 26 Oct. 1870. _Trans. Bot. Soc.
Edin. ii_, 41–45 (1873).
ANDERSON, THOMAS. _b._ 2 July 1819; M.D. Edin. 1841; F.R.S. Edin.
1845, Keith medallist 1855; chemist to Highland and Agricultural
society of Scotland 1848–73; regius professor of chemistry in
Univ. of Glasgow 1852; pres. of Glasgow philosophical society
1859; pres. of chemical section of British Association at Dundee
1867; royal medallist of Royal Society 1872. _d._ Chiswick near
London 2 Nov. 1874. _Journal of chemical society of London_ (1875)
1309–13.
ANDERSON, THOMAS. Ensign 78 foot 1845, served with it 18 years
chiefly in India; captain 17 Aug. 1857 to 24 March 1863 when he
sold out; Persian interpreter to Sir Willoughby Cotton and Sir
John Grey commanders in chief at Bombay; adjutant general of
militia in New Brunswick; commanded the frontier field force there
during threatened Fenian invasion 1866. _d._ Westward Ho,
Devonshire 11 Feb. 1876 aged 48.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM (_son of James Anderson of Oban, Argyleshire,
supervisor of excise who d. 1812._) _b._ Edin. 10 Dec. 1805;
joined _Aberdeen Journal_ 1831; edited _Aberdeen Advertiser_ 1835;
_The Western Watchman_ a weekly journal at Ayr 1842; sub edited
_The Witness_ newspaper at Edin. 1844; chief sub editor of _North
British Daily Mail_ 14 April 1847 to 1849, this was first daily
paper in Scotland; author of _Poetical Aspirations_ 1830, _2 ed._
1833; _Landscape Lyrics_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1854; _The Scottish nation_
_3 vols._ 1860–62. _d._ London 2 Aug. 1866. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets
and poetry of Scotland ii_, 269–72 (1877).
ANDERSON, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 6 March 1854 to 20
Feb. 1855; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Albury hall, Ware, Herts 22
Sep. 1869 aged 64.
ANDERSON, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. John Anderson, Relief
minister at Kilsyth near Glasgow_). _b._ Kilsyth 6 Jany. 1799;
licensed by Relief presbytery Glasgow 5 Sep. 1820; minister of
John st. church Glasgow 6 March 1821 to 24 Dec. 1871, the church
was pulled down in 1858 and a new church opened by him 1 Jany.
1860; LLD. Glasgow April 1850; author of _An apology for the
organ_ 1829; _Discourses 1st series_ 1844, _2nd series_ 1859;
_Regeneration_ 1850, _3 ed._ 1875. _d._ Prospect house,
Uddingstone near Glasgow 15 Sep. 1872. _Rev. G. Gilfillan’s Life
of Rev. W. Anderson_ 1873, _portrait_; _Reunion in the heavenly
kingdom by the Rev. Wm. Anderson_ 1876, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM ACLAND DOUGLAS (_son of Joseph Jocelyn Anderson,
C.B._) _b._ 1829; captain 65 foot 1852–54; a comr. of gold fields
in Victoria; col. commandant of all the volunteer corps in
Victoria 1862; C.M.G. 25 May 1878. _d._ South Yarra 23 Jany. 1882.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM COCHRANE. _b._ East Lothian 1792; col. R.A. 20
June 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Edge hill near
Edin. 30 Aug. 1865 aged 73.
ANDERSSEN, ADOLF. _b._ Breslau 6 July 1818; gained 1st prize at
London chess tournaments 1851 and 1862; 2nd prize at Manchester
1857; 1st prize at Baden 1870; 3rd prize at Vienna 1873; beaten by
Paul Morphy at Paris Dec. 1858, losing 7 out of 9 games; an
unrivalled player in the beauty of his combinations. _d._ Breslau
14 March 1879. _Westminster chess club papers x_, 39 (1878),
_portrait_; _Chess players chronicle iii_, 73–75 (1879).
ANDERTON, JAMES. _b._ near Lincoln 1782; solicitor in London 1811;
common councilman for ward of Farringdon Without 1836–66;
undersheriff several times; projected Law life assurance society
1823; founded Solicitors benevolent institution 1858. _d._ Cypress
lodge, Dulwich 23 Jany. 1868.
ANDRÉE, Richard Collier. Colonel 7 Bengal N.I. 20 June 1836 to 28
Sep. 1850; colonel 69 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1850 to death; general 2
Nov. 1861. _d._ Stuttgart 27 March 1865 aged 70.
ANDREW, JAMES (_son of Rev. James Andrew, the first principal of
East India college at Addiscombe, Surrey who d. 13 June 1833 in 60
year_). _b._ Addiscombe college 1811; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.;
studied medicine at Edin. while he kept his terms at Cam.; M.D.
Cam. 1839; practised at Edin.; phys to Royal infirmary 1846–56;
F.R.C.P. Edin., member of council; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ 15 Queen st.
Edin. 1 Dec. 1859.
ANDREW, JOHN WILLIAM, Captain R.N. 26 Sep. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815;
retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ Chudleigh 5 Jany. 1854.
ANDREW, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen;
professor of mathematics in Mc Gill coll. Quebec; rector of the
high school Quebec; edited the _Daily Chronicle_ Quebec. _d._
Aberdeen 1862.
ANDREWS, ALEXANDER. Author of _The eighteenth century_ 1856; _The
history of British journalism_, _2 vols._ 1859. _d._ Albion grove,
Stoke Newington 9 Nov. 1873 aged 50.
ANDREWS, AUGUSTUS. Entered Madras army 1793; col. of 27 N.I. 5 June
1829, of 42 N.I. 21 Feb. 1834, of 1 N.I. 5 Jany. 1837, of 8 N.I. 2
Oct. 1848, and of 39 N.I. 4 July 1856 to death; general 16 March
1855; C.B. 23 July 1823. _d._ Vellore, Bath 3 March 1858 aged 78.
ANDREWS, BIGGS. _b._ 1794; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; bencher 21
April 1837, treasurer 1846; K.C. 24 Feb. 1837; comr. of bankrupts
for Exeter district 16 Dec. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted
£1,800 on abolition of his office. _d._ Heavitree house near
Exeter 28 April 1880 in 86 year.
ANDREWS, GEORGE. _b._ London 1798; made his début as Lothair in
_Adelgitha_ at Manchester 1819; first appeared in America Oct.
1827 as Bob Acres in _The Rivals_ at Federal st. theatre Boston;
acted in New York 1838, in Philadelphia 1842; left the stage and
managed old Chinese Buildings, New York as a ball room. _d._ New
York 7 April 1866.
ANDREWS, HARRY. _b._ Monmouthshire 28 May 1831; a pedestrian; won
the Four Miles champion cup at Bow; defeated the American Deer,
Whitmore, Deerfoot, and many others; managed running grounds at
Lillie Bridge and Surbiton. _d._ Cottage grove, Surbiton 7 March
1885.
ANDREWS, HENRY OGDEN (_youngest son of Charles Savery Andrews,
captain 24 foot_). _b._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 28 April 1808;
ed. at Stratford on Avon, and in Canada; called to Canadian bar;
Q.C. _d._ 37 Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 25 March 1884.
ANDREWS, JANE (_dau. of Mr. Constant_). _b._ 1817; vocal composer
and teacher. (_m._ John Holman Andrews). _d._ 60 Baker st. Portman
sq. London 29 March 1878.
ANDREWS, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Andrews of Bramdean, Hants,
wheelwright_). _b._ Bishop Sutton near Alresford 18 Dec 1798; a
coachmaker at Southampton 1 Oct. 1832 to death; sold more than 300
carriages for £22,000 in 1845; built state carriages for Mehemet
Ali and the Sultan; one of first members of Anti-Corn-law league;
sheriff of Southampton 1848, mayor 1849, 1850, 1851 and 31 May
1856 to Dec. 1856; contested Southampton Dec. 1856; gave a great
banquet to Louis Kossuth on his arrival in England 25 Oct. 1851.
_d._ Portland st. Southampton 28 March 1859. _I.L.N. xix_, 549
(1851), _xx_, 12 (1852), _portrait_.
ANDREWS, ROBERT. Colonel R.A. 20 June 1854 to 7 June 1856; M.G. 7
June 1856. _d._ Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 1 Nov.
1863.
ANDREWS, ROBERT. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. _d._
1865.
ANDREWS, WILLIAM. _b._ Chichester 1802; made many valuable additions
to the flora and fauna of south west of Ireland; his name will be
perpetuated in names of Trichomanes Andrewsii, and Galathea
Andrewsii; a founder and subsequently sec. and pres. of Natural
history society of Dublin; chairman of Natural history committee
of Royal society of Dublin many years; M.R.I.A. 10 Jany. 1842.
_d._ Dublin 11 March 1880. _Journal of botany_ (1880) 256–86.
ANGAS, CALEB. _b._ 1782; a farmer at Brancepeth and at Neswick farm,
East Yorkshire about 1815 to death; the best authority on farming
in the East Riding; wrote letters in the _Sun_ newspaper on Free
Trade which excited much attention and were of great service. _d._
Driffield, Yorkshire 6 Feb. 1860.
ANGAS, GEORGE FIFE. _b._ Newcastle 1 May 1789; senior partner of G.
F. Angas & Co. shipowners and merchants 2 Jeffrey sq. London
1824–33 when he retired to Devonshire; originated National and
Provincial bank of England 1833; one of the first comrs. for
formation of colony of South Australia 1834; established South
Australian company 1836, Union bank of Australia 1837, and Bank of
South Australia 1841; chairman of London boards of direction of
these 3 companies down to 1850; arrived in Adelaide 15 Jany. 1851;
M.P. for district of Barossa in 1st legislative council July
1851–1871; leading spirit in colonizing South Australia. _d._
Lindsey park Angaston, South Australia 15 May 1879.
ANGELL, ALFRED. Organist of Exeter cathedral 34 years. _d._ The
Close, Exeter 24 May 1876 aged 60.
ANGELL, HELEN CORDELIA (_5 dau. of Wm. Thomas Coleman, M.D. of
Horsham, Sussex_). _b._ Horsham Jany. 1847; exhibited drawings of
flowers at Dudley Gallery 1864, afterwards called The general
water colour society, and 6 flower pictures at the R.A. 1876–78;
the only successor of Wm. Hunt. (_m._ Oct. 1875 Thomas Wm. Angell,
Postmaster of the S.W. district of London). _d._ 55 Holland road,
Kensington 8 March 1884. _Clayton’s English female artists ii_,
261–63 (1876).
ANGELL, JOHN BENEDICT. ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Ox.; won first
Grand national hunt steeplechase at Farndon village with
Bridegroom 1860 and second with Queensferry 1861; won Liverpool
Grand national with Alcibiade 1865; one of chief revivers of
coaching; commonly known as “Cherry” Angell; the hero of C.
Clarke’s novel _A box for the season_. _d._ 36 Curzon st. London
12 May 1874. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news i_, 400 (1874),
_portrait_.
ANGELO, EDWARD ANTHONY. Captain 30 foot 9 Aug. 1831 to 12 Dec. 1834
when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1827; a military knight of Windsor 1854
to death. _d._ Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1869.
ANGELO, HENRY. Superintendent of sword exercise to the army 1833 to
death. _d._ Brighton 14 Oct. 1852 aged 72. _G. M. xxxviii_, 543
(1852).
ANGERSTEIN, JOHN. M.P. for Greenwich 10 Jany. 1835 to 17 July 1837.
_d._ the Woodlands, Blackheath 10 April 1858 aged 85.
ANGERSTEIN, JOHN JULIUS WILLIAM. _b._ 1800; major Grenadier guards
27 Dec. 1850 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 2 Feb. 1862; col. 4 West India
regiment 14 Jany. 1866 to death. _d._ Weeting hall near Brandon,
Norfolk 23 April 1866.
ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, 1 Marquess of (_eld. child of Henry
Bayly, 1 Earl of Uxbridge 1744–1812_). _b._ 17 May 1768; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1786; M.P. for Carnarvon 1790–96
and 1806–10; M.P. for Milbourn Port 1796–1804; raised among his
father’s tenantry 80th regiment of foot or Staffordshire
volunteers; lieut. col. commandant of it 12 Sep. 1793 to 16 June
1795; lieut. col. 16 light dragoons 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 7
light dragoons 6 April 1797 and col. 16 May 1801 to 20 Dec. 1842;
succeeded 13 March 1812; lord lieut. of Anglesey 21 April 1812 to
death; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; created Marquess of Anglesey 4 July
1815; G.C.H. 1816; K.G. 19 Feb. 1818; general 12 Aug. 1819; lord
high steward at coronation of George iv, 19 July 1821; master
general of the ordnance 1827–28 and 1846–52; P.C. 30 April 1827;
lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–29 and 1830–33; col. of royal horse
guards 20 Dec. 1842 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; lord
lieut. of Staffs. 31 Jany. 1849 to death. _d._ 1 Old Burlington
st. London 29 April 1854. _bur._ in Lichfield cathedral 6 May. _J.
W. Cole’s British generals i_, 109–44 (1856), _portrait_; _N. and
Q. 3rd series ii_, 249, 320, 339; _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches, 4 ed._ 1876 57–63.
NOTE.—In a garden close to the church at Waterloo is a
monument to his right leg lost in the battle; he refused a
pension of £1,200 per annum granted him for this loss, thus
saving his country nearly £47,000.
ANGLESEY, HENRY PAGET, 2 Marquess of (_eld. son of preceding_). _b._
6 July 1797; M.P. for Anglesey 1820–32; summoned to House of Lords
as Baron Paget of Beaudesert 15 Jany. 1833; col. in the army 28
June 1838, retired 1843; lord chamberlain of the Queen’s household
6 May 1839 to 14 Sep. 1841; P.C. 22 May 1839; succeeded 29 April
1854; lord lieut. of Anglesey 18 May 1854 to death; kept a racing
stud 1831–35 and 1854 to death; made on the high ground above
Beaudesert near Lichfield one of best cricket grounds in England.
_d._ Beaudesert 6 Feb. 1869. _Baily’s Mag. v_, 51–54 (1863),
_portrait_.
ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM GEORGE PAGET, 3 Marquess of. _b._ 9 Dec.
1821; lieut. col. 2 Staffordshire militia 5 Jany. 1853 to 29 Sep.
1855; M.P. for south Staffs 1854–57; succeeded 6 Feb. 1869. _d._
10 Albert mansions, Victoria st. London 30 Jany. 1880.
ANGUS, GEORGE. Surgeon Bengal medical service 1836; sec. to medical
board at Calcutta; superintending surgeon at Benares, and at
Cawnpore; retired 1854; pres. of Medical society of Aberdeen 2
years; manager of royal infirmary and general dispensary,
Aberdeen. _d._ 13 Golden sq. Aberdeen 7 April 1872 in 78 year.
ANGUS, REV. HENRY. _b._ Inverkeithing, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1794;
minister of St. Nicholas’ lane united presbyterian church,
Aberdeen 1813; author of _Works of fiction, their use and abuse_
1853. _d._ Aberdeen 28 June 1860. _Sermons by the late Rev. Henry
Angus, edited with a memoir by his son Rev. Robert Angus_ 1861.
ANNESLEY, WILLIAM RICHARD ANNESLEY, 4 Earl (_eld. son of 3 Earl
Annesley 1772–1838_). _b._ Rutland sq. Dublin 21 Feb. 1830;
succeeded 25 Aug. 1838; M.P. for Grimsby 1852–57; established his
claim as a peer 24 July 1855; representative peer for Ireland 15
Oct. 1867. _d._ Cowes, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_,
188 (1874), _portrait_.
ANSELL, CHARLES (_eld. son of Thomas Ansell of Lewisham, Kent_).
_b._ 1794; actuary of Atlas insurance office 1823–64; published _A
treatise on friendly societies_ 1835, when a large professional
practice at once fell to his share; completed the Bonus
investigation of National provident office; F.R.S. 10 April 1834;
F.S.A. 21 June 1828. _d._ 7 Eastern terrace, Brighton 14 Dec.
1881.
ANSELL, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ Carshalton, Surrey 4 March 1826;
assistant to A. W. Hofman at Royal School of mines; scientific
director at Royal Panopticon, Leicester sq. London 1854; employed
at Royal mint 12 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1868; an analyst in London
1869 to death; patented the firedamp indicator 9 March 1865, which
was adopted in many foreign collieries. _d._ 6 Hartham road,
London 21 Dec. 1880. _The royal mint by G. F. Ansell_, _3 ed._
1871.
ANSELL, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1820; M.D. St. Andrews
1843; surgeon at Bow, London; chairman of Society of Apothecaries
1861 to death; officer of health for Bow; F.L.S. _d._ of cholera
at Harley place, Bow road 24 July 1866 in his 68 year.
ANSON, AUGUSTUS HENRY ARCHIBALD. _b._ 5 March 1835; captain 84 foot
1855–58; aide de camp to general Grant in Indian mutiny 1857–58;
received Victoria cross for bravery at Bolundshawm and Lucknow 24
Dec. 1858; M.P. for Lichfield 1859–68, and for Bewdley 1869–74.
_d._ Cannes 17 Nov. 1877. _Mrs. Farlie’s Portraits of the children
of the nobility_, _3rd series_ 1841, _portrait_.
ANSON, VERY REV. FREDERIC (_youngest son of George Adams of Orgrave,
Staffs. 1731–89 who assumed name of Anson_). _b._ 23 March 1779;
ed. at Eton, Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; student 1796, B.A. 1801, M.A.
1804, B.D. and D.D. 1839; fellow of All soul’s coll. 1799–1803; R.
of Sudbury, Derbyshire 1803–36; canon of Southwell, Notts. 7 Oct.
1826; dean of Chester 9 May 1839 to death; R. of Doddleston,
Cheshire 1843 to death. (_m._ 2 May 1807 Mary Anne only dau. of
Rev. Richard Levett of Milford, Staffs., she _d._ 15 Oct. 1862).
_d._ The deanery, Chester 8 May 1867. _bur._ Chester cemetery.
ANSON, GEORGE (_2 son of Thomas Anson, 1 Viscount Anson 1767–1818_).
_b._ Shugborough near Stafford 13 Oct. 1797; captain 14 dragoons
1823–25 when placed on h.p.; clerk of the Ordnance 1846–52; M.G.
11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division in Bengal 1853 and the Madras
army 1854; commander in chief in India 20 Nov. 1855 to death; col.
55 foot 19 Dec. 1856 to death; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 1818–34,
for Stoke upon Trent 1836–37, and for South Staffs. 1837–53; a
great friend of Duke of York; crack shot of Red House Club,
Battersea when pigeon shooting mania was at its height 1828; was
never excelled as a judge of racing. _d._ of cholera at Karnál
during the mutiny 27 May 1857. _Fortnightly Review xxxix_, 541–44
(1883).
ANSON, JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ Marylebone, London 31 July 1817; made his
début at T.R. Bath as Lissardo in _The Wonder_ 1842; acted in
north of England and Ireland 1843–49; manager of Scotch theatres
1849–53; acted at Astley’s 1853–59; founded Dramatic, equestrian
and musical sick fund 4 July 1855, Dramatic burial ground at
Woking 1856, Dramatic college at Woking 1859, (opened by Prince of
Wales 5 June 1865) and the G. V. Brooke lifeboat fund 1866;
treasurer and acting manager of Adelphi theatre 1858–78; published
_Dramatic almanac_ 1857–72. _d._ 50a Lincoln’s Inn Fields 6 Feb.
1881. _The Players i_, 185 (1860), _portrait_; _Anson’s dramatic
almanac_ 1872, _portrait_.
ANSON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM HAMILTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 26 Dec.
1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; succeeded 13 Jany. 1847.
_d._ Royal hotel Wigan 2 Aug. 1873 2 hours after accident at Wigan
junction station of London and North Western railway. _I.L.N.
lxiii_, 134, 135 (1873).
ANSTEAD, THOMAS. _b._ Twickenham 9 Aug. 1840; a fast round-armed
bowler; engaged at the Oval, London 1866; and at Oatlands park
club, Weybridge 1869 to death. _d._ Weybridge 21 July 1875.
ANSTED, DAVID THOMAS (_son of Wm. Ansted_). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1814;
ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839;
Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in
King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at
college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and
mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S.
11 Jany. 1844; edited _Quarterly Journal of Geological Society_;
author of _An elementary course of geology_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1856;
_Physical geography_ 1867, _5 ed._ 1871 and many other books.
(_m._ 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of
Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) _d._ Melton near
Woodbridge 20 May 1880. _Proc. of Royal society xxxi_, 1 (1881).
ANSTER, JOHN (_eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork_). _b._
Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A.
1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court
of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of
£150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub.
1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author
of _Faustus from the German of Goethe_, 2 parts 1835–64 the first
English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. _Xeniola,
poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué_
1837. (_m._ 1832 Elizabeth eld. dau. of Wm. Blacker Bennett of
Castle Crea, co. Limerick, she was granted a civil list pension of
£50 3 Aug. 1870). _d._ Dublin 9 June 1867. _Dublin Univ. Mag.
xiv_, 544–46 (1839), _portrait_.
ANSTEY, THOMAS CHISHOLM (_2 son of Thomas Anstey of Anstey Barton,
Tasmania, sheep farmer and member of legislative council who d. 23
May 1851 aged 73_). _b._ London 1816; ed. at Wellington Somerset,
and Univ. college London; articled to J. A. Frampton of 10 New
Inn, London, solicitor; one of the first affected by the Oxford
tractarian movement who went over to Rome; barrister Middle Temple
25 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman; professor of law and
jurisprudence at colleges of St. Peter and St. Paul. Prior park,
Bath, some years; comr. for insolvent debtors in Van Diemen’s Land
a short time; member of the Irish confederation which first met 13
Jany. 1847; M.P. for Youghal (lib.) 7 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852;
contested Bedford 9 July 1852; signalized himself as the special
adversary of Lord Palmerston, moved a kind of general impeachment
of him in a speech of 5 hours length during which he never
referred to a note for a date, figure or fact 8 Feb. 1848;
introduced bills for repeal of Roman catholic penal laws 1848 and
1849; a comr. to revise the statutes March 1853; attorney general
at Hong Kong Oct. 1855 to 30 Jany. 1859; poisoned by Ah-lum the
Chinese baker there 15 Jany. 1857 but recovered; joined the Bombay
bar 1860, became leader of it 1862; acting judge of high court of
Bombay as deputy for Sir Joseph Arnould 1865 to 30 Dec. 1865; went
to England 1866; revising barrister in England 1868; rejoined the
Bombay bar 1869; author of _A guide to the laws of England
affecting Roman Catholics_ 1842; _Guide to the history of the laws
and constitutions of England_ 1845. (_m._ 1840 Harriet 2 dau. of
Gerard Edward Strickland of Loughlin house, co. Roscommon). _d._
Bombay 12 Aug. 1873. _Law mag. and law review xxi_, 136–40 (1866),
_xxiii_, 145–55 (1867), _xxvi_, 121–40 (1868); _Law Times lv_,
316–17 _and_ 352–54 (1873); _I.L.N. xvi_, 85 (1849), _portrait_;
_Hansard’s Debates xcvi_, 291–311 (1848).
ANSTICE, WILLIAM REYNOLDS. _b._ Shropshire 1807; a solicitor at Iron
Bridge; partner in Madeley Wood iron company 1858; manager of the
works 1867 to death; devoted much attention to manufacture of
cold-blast pig iron; member of Iron and steel institute 1869. _d._
Madeley 28 July 1881.
ANSTIE, FRANCIS EDMUND (_youngest child of Paul Anstie of Devizes,
manufacturer_). _b._ Devizes 11 Dec. 1833; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A.
1856, M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1859; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P 1865;
assistant phys. Westminster hospital 1860–73, phys. 1873 to death;
edited the _Practitioner_ 1868 to death, wrote a great deal of it;
originated with Ernest Hart inquiry into workhouse system, which
resulted in Gathorne Hardy’s Metropolitan poor act 1867; author of
_Stimulants and narcotics_ 1864; _Notes on epidemics_ 1866;
_Neuralgia and the diseases which resemble it_ 1871. _d._ 16
Wimpole st. Cavendish square, 12 Sep. 1874. _Graphic x_, 298, 309
(1874), _portrait_; _Practitioner xiii_, 241, 305 (1874), _xvi_,
1–43 (1876), _portrait_.
ANSTIE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. _b._ 1800; admitted attorney 1822;
practiced at Devizes; worked energetically for parliamentary
reform, negro emancipation, corn law repeal and the temperance
movement. _d._ Park dale, Devizes 17 July 1882.
ANSTRUTHER, PHILIP. _b._ 12 Sep. 1807; served in China 1841; a
prisoner there 6 months; served in Punjab and Kaffir wars; major
Madras artillery 1853–58; M.G. 4 Nov. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842.
_d._ Pitcorthie near Fife 18 Feb. 1884.
ANSTRUTHER, PHILIP ROBERT. _b._ 30 June 1841; ensign 94 foot 31 Dec.
1858; lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1880 to death. _d._ Transvaal of wounds
received in action 26 Dec. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 205 (1881)
_portrait_.
ANSTRUTHER, SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE, 4 baronet. _b._ Grosvenor place,
London 1 March 1804; succeeded 2 Aug. 1818; rector of univ. of St.
Andrews 1859. _d._ Balcaskie, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1863.