Fields, London 6 March 1793; succeeded Nov. 1831. _d._ Boulogne 10
Sep. 1869.
ANTHONY, CHARLES. Founded the Hereford Times 1832; mayor of Hereford
6 times. _d._ The Elms, Hereford 5 Feb. 1885 in 82 year.
ANTRIM, HUGH SEYMOUR MACDONNELL, 4 Earl of. _b._ Portman square,
London 7 Aug. 1812; succeeded 26 Oct. 1835. _d._ Glenarm castle,
Larne, co. Antrim 18 July 1855.
ANTRIM, MARK MACDONNELL, 5 Earl of. _b._ Portman square, London 3
April 1814; established his claim as an Irish peer 15 July 1858;
captain R.N. 1 July 1864. _d._ Glenarm castle 19 Dec. 1869.
ANTROBUS, SIR EDMUND, 2 Baronet. _b._ St. Martin’s in the Fields
London 17 May 1792; succeeded 6 Feb. 1826. _d._ 146 Piccadilly 4
May 1870.
NOTE.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 25 June 1870.
ANTROBUS, GIBBS CRAWFURD. _b._ 27 May 1793; sec. of legation to the
United States of America 18 June 1816, at Turin 8 Feb. 1823, and
at court of the two Sicilies 1 Oct. 1824 to May 1826; M.P. for
Aldborough, Yorkshire 1820–26 and for Plympton, Devon 1826–32.
_d._ Eaton hall, Congleton 21 May 1861.
APLIN, JOHN GUISE ROGERS. _b._ 7 Nov. 1819; ensign 28 foot 7 Oct.
1837; lieut. col. 48 foot 23 Nov. 1860 to 12 Nov. 1870 when placed
on h.p.; L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ 10 Edith road, West Kensington,
London 10 April 1883.
APPERLEY, WILLIAM WYNNE (_son of Charles James Apperley 1778–1843,
author of sporting works under pseudonym of Nimrod_). Cornet
Bengal cavalry 1823; in charge of Poosah stud in Behar 1840–43 and
1845–52; superintended central division of stud department in
Bengal 1854–55; major 3 European light cavalry 1854–61; remount
agent at Cape of Good Hope 1857–60; left the service Dec. 1861.
_d._ Morben near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 25 April 1870 aged
62. _Baily’s Mag. xviii_, 253–55 (1870).
APPLEBY, JOHN FREDERICK (_son of John Appleby of Soberton, Hants,
farmer_). _b._ 18 Nov. 1795; captain R.N. 29 Jany. 1838; retired
admiral 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Blackbrook lodge, Fareham 3 Feb. 1878.
APPLEGATH, AUGUSTUS (_son of Augustus Joseph Applegath, captain of
H.E.I. Co.’s ship Europa_). _b._ parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney 17
June 1788; a printer in Nelson sq. Blackfriars road; constructed
machines for printing bank notes 1818; erected a printing office
in Duke st. Stamford st.; invented the composition ball and
roller, and the steam printing press; the first book printed by
steam was Waterton’s Wanderings; invented with Edward Cowper the
four-cylinder machine, and erected it at the Times office 1827;
patented vertical machine 1846; erected one at Times office, May
1848, which produced 10,000 impressions per hour; invented a
machine for printing 6 colours at once; took out 18 patents for
improvements in letterpress and silk printing; established large
silk and print works at Crayford, and printing works at Dartford.
_d._ Dartford 9 Feb. 1871. _Bohn’s Pictorial handbook of London_
(1854) 76–86; _N. and Q. 4 series iii_, 485 (1869) _vii_, 153
(1871); _Dartford Chronicle 25 Feb. 1871, p._ 3, _col._ 1.
NOTE.—In the year 1818 Messrs. Applegath and Cowper
constructed machines for the Bank of England to print in
several colours in perfect register designs for the prevention
of forgery; some millions of £1 notes were printed by them in
the Bank, but were never issued, in consequence of the
resumption of cash payment 1 May 1821.
APPLETON, CHARLES EDWARD CUTTS BIRCHALL (_son of Rev. Robert
Appleton, Head master of Reading school who d. 5 Feb. 1875 aged
73_). _b._ Reading 16 March 1841; Tunbridge fellow of St. John’s
coll. Ox. 1864 to death; B.A. 1863, D.C.L. 1871; studied at
Heidelberg and Berlin; lecturer in philosophy at his college Oct.
1867; lived at Hampstead 1872–77; founded _The Academy_ monthly
literary paper 9 Oct. 1869, edited it to his death; took an active
share in agitation that resulted in passing of Universities act
1877; wrote in the _Theological_, _Fortnightly_ and _Contemporary
Review_s; edited _Essays on the endowment of research_ 1876. _d._
Luxor, Upper Egypt 1 Feb. 1879. _Dr. Appleton his life and
literary relics, by J. H. Appleton and A. H. Sayce_ 1881,
_portrait_.
APPLEYARD, GEORGE. Of Westbourne place, Eaton square, London; many
years secretary and librarian to the Earls Spencer. _d._ Walmer 30
Aug. 1855.
APPOLD, JOHN GEORGE (_son of Christian Appold of Wilson st.
Finsbury, London, fur skin dyer, who was naturalized by 45 George
iii, cap. 83_). _b._ Wilson st. 14 April 1800; a fur skin dyer
there 1822; a manager of the London Institution 1844; invented
Centrifugal rotary pump which was a prominent feature in
International Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; invented a break used
in laying first Atlantic cable 1857; A.I.C.E. May 1850; F.R.S. 2
June 1853. _d._ Clifton Down hotel, Clifton 31 Aug. 1865. _Proc.
of Royal society xv_, 1–6 (1867); _Minutes of proc. of instit. of
C.E. xxv_, 523–25 (1866).
APTHORP, EAST. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Hyderabad 18
March 1859 to 18 April 1860; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 16
Nov. 1858. _d._ Amherst lodge, Tunbridge Wells 3 March 1875 aged
69.
ARBUCKLE, BENJAMIN HUTCHESON VAUGHAN. _b._ 1788; captain R.A.
1825–46; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. _d._ Little Heath, Old Charlton 11
Oct. 1874.
ARBUTHNOT, SIR ALEXANDER DUNDAS Young (_only son of Robert
Arbuthnot, lieut. col. 31 foot, who d. 10 July 1796_). _b._ 1796;
captain R.N. 1824–46 when he retired on h.p.; gentleman of Privy
Chamber 2 Nov. 1824 to death; col. commandant of depôt at
Santander, Spain 26 Oct. 1835; led forlorn hope at storming of
Irun; brigadier general in service of Queen of Spain 1838;
knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 25 June 1859;
retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863; lord prior of English language of
Knights of Malta 16 July 1860 to death. (_m._ 25 May 1827
Catherine Maria 3 dau. of Rev. Charles Eustace of Robertstown co.
Kildare). _d._ Shenton hall, Nuneaton, Leics. 8 May 1871.
ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES GEORGE JAMES (_eld. son of Right Hon. Charles
Arbuthnot of Woodford house, Thrapstone, who d. 18 Aug. 1850 aged
82_). _b._ 1801; ed. at Westminster; ensign grenadier guards 26
Dec. 1816; lieut. col. of 72 foot 25 Sep. 1826; of 90 foot 17 May
1831, and of 72 foot 23 Feb. 1838 to 14 April 1843, when placed on
h.p.; col. of 89 foot 9 July 1857, and of 91 foot 4 July 1864 to
death; general 25 Nov. 1864; M.P. for Tregony 1831–32. _d._
Folkestone 21 Oct. 1870.
ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE. _b._ 1802; clerk in the Treasury 1820 to death;
private secretary to 6 successive secretaries of the Treasury;
private sec. to Sir Robert Peel when prime minister Feb. 1843; and
to Sir Charles Wood when chancellor of the exchequer July 1846;
auditor of the civil list 1850 to death. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 28
July 1865. _Dictionary of national biography ii_, 61 (1885).
ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE BINGHAM. Lieut. col. 8 Madras light cavalry 1 Feb.
1856 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Bath 30 May
1867 aged 63.
ARBUTHNOT, SIR ROBERT (_4 son of John Arbuthnot of Rockfleet castle
co. Mayo_). _b._ 1773; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814 to
19 July 1821, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; col. 76 foot
31 May 1843 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jan. 1815, K.T.S. (_m._ Harriot
only child of Wm. Vesey of Farmill, Ireland, she _d._ 5 Dec.
1861). _d._ Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 6 May 1853. _Household Words
v_, 519 (1852).
ARBUTHNOT, SIR ROBERT KEITH, 2 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 9 Sep. 1801;
in Bombay civil service 1819–47; succeeded 18 Sep. 1829. _d._
Florence 4 March 1873.
ARBUTHNOT, WILLIAM URQUHART (_5 son of Sir Wm. Arbuthnot, 1 Bart.
1766–1829_). _b._ 24 March 1807; ed. at high sch. Edin. and
Haileybury college; in the Madras civil service 1826–46; member of
firm of Arbuthnot and Co. Madras 1846; returned to England 1858;
member of Indian council 21 Sep. 1858 to death; chairman of its
finance committee. (_m._ 2 June 1834 Eliza only dau. of Gen. Sir
Henry George Andrew Taylor, G.C.B.) _d._ Eaton place, London 11
Dec. 1874. _Graphic xi_, 68 (1875), _portrait_.
ARBUTHNOTT, JOHN, 8 Viscount Arbuthnott (_eld. son of John
Arbuthnott, 7 Viscount Arbuthnott, who d. 27 Feb. 1800_). _b._ 16
Jany. 1778; Rep. Peer Scotland 1818–47; lord rector of Univ. of
Aberdeen; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire to 1847. _d._ Berlin 10
Jany. 1860.
ARBUTHNOTT, SIR HUGH (_2 son of 7 Viscount Arbuthnott_). _b._ 1780;
lieut. col. 52 foot 9 May 1811 to 8 April 1813, when placed on
h.p.; col. 38 foot 4 April 1843 to 14 March 1862; col. 79 foot 14
March 1862 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for co. Kincardine
1826–65; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 11 July 1868.
ARBUTHNOTT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1786; lieut col. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 1
April 1844 when retired on full pay; general 29 March 1873. _d._
20 Gloucester road, London 14 Dec. 1876.
ARCEDECKNE, ANDREW (_only son of Andrew Arcedeckne of Glevering
hall, Suffolk 1780–1849_). _b._ 1822; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; sent out
a cargo of tobacco pipes to our soldiers in the Crimea; sheriff of
Suffolk 1856, paid fine of £100 for not having javelin men;
commodore of royal London yacht club 18 years. (_m._ 1870 Jane
Elsworthy, an actress, she _d._ 5 Oct. 1879 aged 54). _d._ 45
Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 31 May 1871 in 49 year.
NOTE.—Thackeray depicted him in language, manner and gesture
as Harry Foker in Pendennis, where there is also an exact
woodcut portrait of him.
ARCH, JOHN (_son of William Arch of 163 Fenchurch st. London, linen
shirt maker_). Apprenticed to George Robinson of 25 Paternoster
row, the great publisher of his day; bookseller at corner of
Lombard st. and Gracechurch st. 1792, with his brother Arthur
Portsmouth Arch who _d._ 9 April 1839; at 61 Cornhill 1810–38;
collected the Henry Perkins library, the George Hibbert library,
also the London institution library; published many valuable
books. _d._ Vassal road, Kennington 1853 aged 87.
ARCHBOLD, JOHN FREDERICK. Barrister L.I. 5 May 1814; author of _The
practice of the court of King’s Bench in personal actions and
ejectment_, _2 vols._ 1819, _14 ed._ 1885; _A summary of the law
relating to pleading and evidence in criminal cases_, _19 ed._
1878; _The parish officer_ 1852, _6 ed._ 1881, and many other
legal works. _d._ 15 Gloucester st. Regent’s park, London 28 Nov.
1870 aged 85. _J. G. Marvin’s Legal bibliography_ (1847) 66–70.
ARCHBOLD, ROBERT. M.P. for co. Kildare (radical) 11 Aug. 1837 to 23
July 1847. _d._ Davidstown house near Castle Dermot, co. Kildare 9
March 1855.
ARCHDALL-GRATWICKE, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Derbyshire 21 April 1787; ed.
at Em. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1825, D.D. 1835;
fellow of his college; dean, bursar, prelector and steward; master
May 1835 to death; vice chancellor of Cambridge 1835 and 1841;
canon of Norwich 1842–67; took additional surname of Gratwicke by
royal license 28 April 1863. (_m._ 1835 Jemima Elizabeth eld. dau.
of Rev. Wm. Kinleside of Angmering, Sussex). _d._ the Lodge, Em.
coll. Cambridge 16 Sep. 1871.
NOTE.—His personalty was sworn under £180,000 Oct. 1871, he
left £6000 to his college.
ARCHER, FREDERICK SCOTT (_2 son of Mr. Archer, of Bishop Stortford,
butcher_). _b._ 1813; assistant to Massey of Leadenhall st.
London, silversmith; a sculptor; applied collodion to photography
successfully 1850, first account of this process was in the
_Chemist_, March 1851, it was in general use for 30 years till the
gelatine process was discovered; photographer at 105 Great Russell
st. Bloomsbury 1852 to death; invented a camera and a liquid lens;
the first to use a triplet lens. _d._ 105 Great Russell st. 1 May
1857. _Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the
International Exhibition_ 1862; _N. and Q. 1 series vi_, 277, 396,
426 (1852), _vii_, 92, 218 (1853).
ARCHER, GEORGINA (_sister of James Archer_). Went to Berlin 1859;
Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her
efforts. _d._ Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882.
ARCHER, HENRY. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage
stamps 1848. _d._ Pau, France 2 April 1863.
ARCHER, JOHN WYKEHAM. _b._ Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott
of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831
to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours;
author of _Vestiges of old London_ 1851; _Posthumous Poems_ 1873.
_d._ Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_
(1865) 639–41.
ARCHER, THOMAS CROXEN. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected,
arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for
the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool
institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June
1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from
Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin.
_d._ London 19 Feb. 1885. _Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885_, _p._ 283.
_Graphic xiii_, 542, 552 (1876), _portrait_.
ARCHIBALD, CHARLES DICKSON (_eld. son of Samuel George Wm.
Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Truro, Nova
Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of _A look towards the future of the
British colonies_ 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (_m._ 16 Sep. 1832
Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire).
_d._ 1868.
ARCHIBALD, SIR EDWARD MORTIMER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10
May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of
Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate
general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1
Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of
African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general
for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17
March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (_m._ 1834 Katherine dau. of A.
Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). _d._ 11 St. John’s terrace,
Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.
ARCHIBALD, SIR THOMAS DICKSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova
Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T.
11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act
usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury
otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872;
serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22
Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb.
1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (_m._
1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). _d._
7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. _Law
magazine and law review ii_, 177–88 (1877); _I.L.N. lxii_, 11, 13
(1873), _portrait_.
ARDEN, HENRY THOMAS, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author
of _Princess Charming_, _The belle of the Barley-mow_, _The
armourer’s daughter_, _The right-fall heir_ and many other
burlesques and extravaganzas. _d._ 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.
ARDEN, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington_). _b._ 10 May
1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,
bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to
death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of _The orations of Hyperides
for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a
short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at
Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847_. _Cambridge_ 1853. _d._ 1
Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.
ARGUIMBAU, LAWRENCE. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.;
Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22
June 1815. _d._ Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.
ARKWRIGHT, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833;
M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. _d._ 2D The Albany Piccadilly,
London 5 Feb. 1856.
ARKWRIGHT, HENRY. _b._ 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865
to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc
13 Oct. 1866.
ARKWRIGHT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death;
built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest
farmers in Essex. _d._ 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under
£400,000 April 1864.
ARKWRIGHT, PETER. _b._ 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855.
_d._ Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under
£800,000 Nov. 1866.
ARMENI, SIR PETER BRAILA. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in
London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. _d._ 18 Queen’s gate
terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.
ARMISTEAD, WILSON. Author of _A tribute for the Negro_ 1848; _Select
Miscellanies_, _2 vols._ 1851; _The Anti-slavery pilot_, 22
_numbers_ 1855; _Tales and legends of the English lakes and
mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar_ 1855. _d._ Virginia house, Leeds 18
Feb. 1868 aged 49. _Joseph Smith’s Friends books i_, 124–31
(1867); _Annual Monitor for 1869 pp._ 2–8.
ARMITAGE, SIR ELKANAH (_3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton,
Lancs._) _b._ Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded
firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners
1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester
1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at
Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist
riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county
palatine of Lancaster 1866. _d._ Hope hall, Pendleton near
Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876),
_portrait_.
ARMITAGE, GEORGE. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801,
introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to
Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame;
invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray;
sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about
1850. _d._ Australia 1857 aged 89.
ARMITAGE, REV. ROBERT. R. of Easthope, Salop 1843 to death;
published anonymously _Doctor Hookwell or the Anglo-Catholic
family_, _3 vols._ 1842; _The Penscellwood papers comprising
essays on the souls and future life of animals_, _2 vols._ 1846;
_Ernest Singleton_ 1848; _Dr. Johnson his religious life and his
death_ 1850. _d._ Easthope 2 Feb. 1852 aged 47.
ARMSTRONG, ALEXANDER. 2 Lieutenant Royal Irish Artillery 7 July
1783; major 24 July 1800 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full
pay; general 30 June 1854. _d._ Green park, Bath 2 Dec. 1861 aged
94.
ARMSTRONG, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Edmund Armstrong of
Gallen, King’s county 1754–1827_). _b._ Gallen Priory 19 Oct.
1786; sheriff of King’s county 1811 and 1836; receiver general of
stamps in Ireland 1831–41; M.P. for King’s county 1841–52; created
baronet 18 Sep. 1841. _d._ Chester 27 Jany. 1863.
ARMSTRONG, EDMUND JOHN. _b._ Mornington house, Upper Merrion st.
Dublin 23 July 1841; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; took 1st prize in
Latin and Greek verse; pres. of the Undergraduate philosophical
society; received gold medal of Royal historical society Nov.
1864; author of _Poems_ 1865, new ed. 1877. _d._ Kingstown near
Dublin 24 Feb. 1865. _Life and letters of E. J. Armstrong, edited
by G. F. Armstrong_ 1877, _portrait_.
ARMSTRONG, JAMES WELLS. Lieut, col. 4 depôt battalion 2 Oct. 1855 to
16 Oct. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 1 Nov.
1871 to 25 Nov. 1876; deputy adjutant general for auxiliary forces
25 Nov. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ 98 St. George’s sq.
Westminster 12 April 1880.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. _b._ Ingram, Northumberland 13 Oct. 1775; a
millwright and engineer at Bristol, city surveyor there 1831 to
death; A.I.C.E. 1828. _d._ 17 March 1854.
ARMSTRONG, RIGHT REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Armstrong of London,
M.D._) _b._ Bishopwearmouth 22 Aug. 1813; ed. at Charterhouse
1827; Crewe exhibitioner at Linc. coll. Oxf. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A.
1850; C. of Clifton 1838–41; priest vicar of Exeter cathedral
1841; R. of St. Paul’s, Exeter 1843; V. of Tidenham, Gloucs. 1845;
originated female penitentiary which was opened at Clewer 1849;
founded _National Miscellany_ a monthly religious periodical 1853,
it was united with the _Illustrated London magazine_ 1855; bishop
of Grahamstown, South Africa 25 October 1853; consecrated in St.
Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov. 1853; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6
Dec. 1853; arrived at Grahamstown 26 Oct. 1854; author of _Sermons
on the festivals_ 1845; _Parochial sermons_ 1854; wrote many and
edited all the _Tracts for the Christian seasons_, 2 _series_
1848–50. (_m._ 22 Feb. 1843 Frances eld. dau. of Edward Whitmore).
_d._ Grahamstown 16 May 1856. _A memoir of John Armstrong, D.D. by
Rev. T. T. Carter_ 1857, _portrait_; _G. M. i_, 376–82 (1856);
_Guardian 20 Dec. 1882 p._ 1809.
ARMSTRONG, VERY REV. JOHN (_brother of Sir Andrew Armstrong_). _b._
June 1791; archdeacon of Clonfert 24 June 1845; dean of Kilfenora
Jany. 1847 to death. _d._ 16 June 1856.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Provisional ensign Cape mounted rifles 19 March
1835; formed and commanded a corps of irregular horse known as
“Armstrong’s Horse” during Kaffir war 1852–53; C.B. 13 March 1867,
M.G. 6 July 1867. _d._ Stoulgrove house, near Chepstow 28 June
1874 aged 55.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN WARNEFORD. _b._ King’s county 28 Aug. 1770; captain
King’s county militia 19 Jany. 1798; betrayed Henry and John
Sheares barristers of Dublin to the Government 1798; they were
hung for high treason 14 July 1798; received pension of £500 per
annum 1798 to death. _d._ 1858. _Howell’s State trials xxvii_,
255–398 (1820).
ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH. _b._ Bewcastle Cumberland 21 Sep. 1816; engine
driver on Liverpool and Manchester railway 1836–40; superintendent
of locomotive carriage and wagon departments of Great Western
Railway June 1864 to death; M.I.M.E. 1857, M.I.C.E. 1877. _d._
Matlock Bath 5 June 1877. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xlix_, 255–58 (1877).
ARMSTRONG, REV. NICHOLAS. Rector of St. James’s, Dublin; an agent of
the Reformation society 1831; the most powerful of Irish
declaimers; an Irvingite apostle 18 Jany. 1834; apostle to Ireland
and Greece 1838; author of _Two letters to a friend in answer to
the inquiry What is the use of the gifts of the spirit_ 1832;
_Sermons preached in the Catholic Apostolic church Gordon Square_
1857; _Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels_ 1870; _Sermons on
various subjects_, 1870–79. _d._ Albury heath, Surrey 9 Oct. 1879
in 78 year. _Rev. Edward Miller’s History and doctrines of
Irvingism_, _vol. i_; _R. S. Brooke’s Recollections of the Irish
church_ (1877) 25–27.
ARMSTRONG, SIR RICHARD (_only son of lieut. col. Richard Armstrong
of Lincoln_.) _b._ 1782; ensign 24 foot 23 June 1796; served in
Peninsula 1808–14; lieut. col. 1 foot 18 Oct. 1821, and of 26 foot
24 Jany 1829 to 13 Feb. 1835 when placed on h.p.; colonel 95 foot
29 March 1848 and of 32 foot 25 June 1850 to death; commander in
chief at Madras 29 Sep. 1851 to 27 Oct. 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851;
C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 7 April 1852, K.T.S.; Knighted by Wm. IV.
at St. James’s palace 28 Sept. 1831. _d._ on board the ship Barham
on his voyage home from Madras 3 March 1854.
ARMSTRONG, RICHARD (_eld. son of Wm. Armstrong, of Roxborough, co.
Armagh, engineer_.) _b._ Armagh 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
called to Irish bar 1839, went Leinster circuit; Q.C. 28 Jany.
1854, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; third sergeant at law 1861–65,
second 1865, and first 1866 to death; M.P. for Sligo 1865–68.
(_m._ 1847 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Meurant.) _d._ 32 Stephen’s
Green, Dublin 26 Aug. 1880. _Irish law times xiv_, 452 (1880.)
ARMSTRONG, ROBERT ARCHIBALD (_eld. son of Robert Archibald of
Kenmore, Perthshire_). _b._ Kenmore 1788; ed at Univs. of Edin.
and St. Andrews; Gaelic lexicographer in ordinary to George iv
1826; head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 1830–52; author of _A
Gaelic dictionary_ 1825, which was the first ever published; wrote
many scientific papers in the _Arcana of science and art_ 1837 _et
seq._ _d._ Choumert road, Peckham Rye 25 May 1867.
ARMSTRONG, ROBERT BAYNES (_eld. son of John Armstrong of Lancaster,
merchant_). _b._ Lancaster 1785; ed. at Clitheroe and Sedbergh
schools and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of
his college; barrister I.T. 23 June 1814, bencher 1840, reader
1851; treasurer 1852; Q.C. 1840; recorder of Hull 1836–37, of
Leeds 1837–39 and of Manchester and Bolton May 1848 to May 1865;
M.P for Lancaster 1848–53. (_m._ Dec. 1842 Frances youngest dau.
of Richmond Blamire of Thackwood, Cumberland, she _d._ 19 March
1862). _d._ 29 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 15 Jany. 1869.
ARMSTRONG, THOMAS WILLIAM DE BUTTS. _b._ 1826; resident engineer on
several important works in Mayo 1848–53; one of the first
engineers sent to India in government service 1855; chief engineer
of Central Provinces 1869 to death; M.I.C.E. 10 April 1866. _d._
on board P. and O. steamer Travancore off the Malabar coast 1 May
1877. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 261–65 (1878).
ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841;
chairman of quarter sessions co. Londonderry. _d._ 1866.
ARNEY, SIR GEORGE ALFRED (_6 son of Wm. Arney of The Close,
Salisbury_). _b._ Salisbury 3 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and
Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837; recorder
of Winchester Dec. 1856–1857; chief justice of New Zealand
1858–75; knighted by patent 18 July 1862. (_m._ 13 June 1833
Harriet dau. of Thomas Parr, captain R.N., she _d._ 18 April
1844). _d._ 17 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 7 April
1883.
ARNOLD, REV. CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ 26 Oct. 1817; ed. at Rugby and
Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; Assistant master at Rugby
1841–78. _d._ Rome 13 May 1878.
ARNOLD, REV. EDWARD PENROSE (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold 1795–1842,
head master of Rugby_). _b._ 28 Oct. 1826; ed. at Rugby and Ball.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; Fellow of All Soul’s coll. Ox.
1852; assistant inspector of schools 15 April 1854; inspector
1866–77. _d._ Fox How, Ambleside 6 April 1878.
ARNOLD, JAMES ROBERTSON (_2 son of general Benedict Arnold
1741–1801_). _b._ New York 28 Aug. 1781; 2 Lieut. R.E. 29 Aug.
1798; served in the wars against France 1800–15; aide de camp to
the Sovereign 1830–41; col. R.E. 1837–41; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H.
1831; K.C. (_m._ 21 March 1807 Virginia 4 dau. of Bartlett
Goodrich of Saling Grove, Isle of Wight). _d._ Onslow sq. London
27 Dec. 1854. _I. N. Arnold’s Life of Benedict Arnold_ (1880)
407–17.
ARNOLD, REV. JOHN MÜEHLEISEN. _b._ Zell, Würtemberg 1817; C.M.S.
missionary in Abyssinia and India; Chap. to Bishop of Gibraltar;
Chap. to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1852–61; founded Moslem
mission society in England 1859, hon. sec. 1860–65; C. of East
Ham, Essex 1861–65; Consular Chap. at Batavia 28 Oct. 1865,
resigned 6 Aug. 1870 but continued his services till 30 June 1871;
R. of St. Mary’s, Papendorf, Capetown, March 1876. _d._ Papendorf
9 Dec. 1881. _Guardian 29 March 1882 p._ 448, _vol._ 3.
ARNOLD, SAMUEL JAMES (_only son of Samuel Arnold 1740–1802, organist
and composer to George 3_). _b._ 1774; exhibited portraits at the
R.A. 1800–1806; brought out a musical play called Auld Robin Gray
at Haymarket theatre 1794; exhibited a panorama in Spring gardens;
member of “Sublime society of beefsteaks” 15 April 1809; opened
Lyceum theatre as an English opera house 26 June 1809; built new
theatre on same site and opened it as the English opera house 15
June 1816, it was burnt down 16 Feb. 1830, he rebuilt it and
opened it 14 July 1834; manager of Drury Lane theatre 1812–15;
author of _The Creole or haunted island 3 vols._ 1796; _The
shipwreck, a comic opera in 2 acts_ 1796; _Man and wife, comedy in
5 acts_ 1809, _8 ed._ 1809. (_m._ 18 May 1802 Matilda Catherine
younger dau. of Henry James Pye, poet laureate). _d._ Walton upon
Thames 16 Aug. 1852 in 78 year. _G.M. xxxviii_, 538 (1852).
ARNOLD, THOMAS JAMES (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Downing st.
Westminster 1803; ed. at St. Paul’s school and univ. of Gottingen;
barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; commissioner of bankruptcy at
Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate at Worship st. police court 27
Jany. 1847 and at Westminster police court Aug. 1851 to death;
member of Numismatic Society 1862; F.S.A. 1869; author of _A
treatise on the law relating to municipal corporations_ 1852, _3
ed._ 1883; _Anacreon in English_ 1869; _Faust, a tragedy
translated in the original metres_ 1877. _d._ 1 Greville place,
Kilburn priory 20 May 1877. _Numismatic Chronicle xvii_, 13–15
(1877).
ARNOLD, REV. THOMAS KERCHEVER (_eld. son of Thomas George Arnold of
Stamford, M.D._) _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1821;
M.A. 1824; fellow of his college; R. of Lyndon, Rutland 1830 to
death; projected and edited _Churchman’s Quarterly magazine_ 1837,
_Churchman’s Monthly Companion_ 1844 and _Theological Critic_
1851; author of _Henry’s first Latin book_ 1839, _26 ed._ 1883;
_The first Greek book_ 1849, _new ed._ 1883; _The first Hebrew
book_ 1851, _7 ed._ 1883; _Anticleptic gradus ad Parnassum_ 1852
and many other educational books. _d._ Lyndon rectory 9 March
1853. _Fraser’s Mag. xlvii_, 173–83 (1853); _G.M. xxxix_, 667
(1853).
ARNOLD, WILLIAM DELAFIELD (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D.
1795–1842, head master of Rugby_). _b._ Laleham 7 April 1828; ed.
at Rugby; student of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1847; ensign 58 Bengal N.I. 2
Dec. 1848; principal director of public education in the Punjab
1857 to death, where his name is perpetuated by an annual
distribution of medals, bearing his likeness, to the best pupils
in schools which he founded; author of a novel entitled _Oakfield
or fellowship in the East, by Punjabee_, 2 vols. 1853; translated
_Wiese’s Letters on English education_ 1854. _d._ Gibraltar 9
April 1859. _Prospective Review x_, 274–303 (1854).
ARNOLD, WILLIAM MUNNINGS (_2 son of Rev. Richard Arnold._) _b._
Ellough, Suffolk 1820; arrived in New South Wales 1839; settled
near Maitland on the Paterson river; member of legislative
assembly 1856; chairman of committees 1858; minister for public
works 1860–63; speaker of the assembly 3 Oct. 1865 to death;
drowned in the floods at Stradbroke, his estate on the Paterson
river 2 March 1875.
ARNOT, REV. WILLIAM (_7 and youngest child of Robert Arnot of Scone,
farmer._) _b._ New Mains farm near Scone 6 Nov. 1808; matric. at
Univ. of Glasgow 10 Oct. 1829; licensed as a preacher by
presbytery of Glasgow 4 Oct. 1837; minister of Free Saint Peter’s
Church, Glasgow 1 Jany. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1864; ejected from his
church by a decision of the Court of Session Feb. 1849; opened a
new church in Main st. Glasgow 26 May 1850; minister of Free high
church Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1864 to death; author of _Illustrations
of the Book of Proverbs_, _2 series_ 1856; _Roots and fruits of
Christian life_ 1860. _2 ed._, 1864; _This present world_ 1873.
_d._ Edinburgh 3 June 1875; _Autobiography of Rev. W. Arnot_ 1877,
_portrait_.
ARNOT, WILLIAM. _b._ Falkirk; a chemist; employed purifying the
river North Esk 1868; opened large chemical works at Kirkintilloch
1873; delivered a course of 6 Cantor lectures on _The technology
of the paper trade_ at the Society of Arts 1877. _d._ Bridge of
Allan 9 Feb. 1881 aged 38.
ARNOTT, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Kirkconnell hall, Ecclefechan, co. Dumfries
1771; surgeon 20 foot 23 Aug. 1799 to 25 Dec. 1826, when placed on
h.p.; medical attendant of Napoleon at St. Helena 1 April 1821 to
5 May 1821, when he died at 5.49 p._m._ with his right hand in
that of Dr. Arnott; author of _An account of the last illness
decease and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte_ 1822.
_d._ Kirkconnell hall, 6 July 1855.
ARNOTT, FRANCIS SHORT. _b._ 1805; surgeon Bombay army 5 June 1845;
hon. surgeon to the Queen 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._
Kirkconnell hall 16 Oct. 1879.
ARNOTT, GEORGE ARNOTT WALKER (_son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary
near Kinross who d. 1822_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1799; ed. at the
High school and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1818, LLD. Aberdeen 1837;
advocate 1821; visited France, Spain and Russia; F.R.S Edin. 1822,
F.L.S. 1825; worked with William Hooker the botanist at Glasgow
1830–40; member of Botanical society of Edin. 1836; professor of
botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1845 to death; published descriptions
of many new plants from Asia and America in various periodicals
1830–40; author of the article _Botany_ in the _Encyclopedia
Britannica_, _7 ed. vol. 5_. _d._ Glasgow 17 June 1868. _Trans.
Botanic Society of Edin. ix_, 414–26 (1868).
ARNOTT, NEIL. _b._ Arbroath, Angusshire 15 May 1788; surgeon in
H.E.I. Co’s. naval service 1807–11; practised in London 1811–55
when he retired; M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Aberdeen 15 Sep. 1814;
L.R.C.P. 31 March 1817; invented his hydrostatic or water bed
1832; and Arnott stove and the ventilator; one of senate of Univ.
of London 1836; founded an exhibition there for experimental
physics 1875; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837;
F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838, Rumford medallist 1854; F.G.S. 1847; founded
scholarships of natural philosophy at the 4 Scottish universities
1869; author of _Elements of physics_ 1827, _7 ed._ 1876; _A
survey of human progress_ 1861. _d._ Cumberland terrace, London 2
March 1874. _Proc. of Royal Society xxv_, 14–18 (1877); _Medical
Circular i_, 92, 149 (1852), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 314, 328
(1874), _portrait_.
ARNTZ, ROBERT RICHARD. _b._ Erefeldt, Prussia 1815; taken to England
1819; articled to W. Herbert of London, builder 1831; naturalised
15 May 1848; surveyor to Westminster district board of works;
A.I.C.E. 1856; F.S.A. 18 Dec. 1862. _d._ 17 Feb. 1882.
ARRAN, PHILIP YORKE GORE, 6 Earl of. _b._ Dublin castle 23 Nov.
1801; chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres 17 Oct. 1832 to 18 Oct.
1834; succeeded his uncle 20 Jany. 1837; K.P. 6 May 1841. _d._ 27
Chesham st. London 25 June 1884.
ARRINDELL, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ in one of the Virgin islands 1796; ed.
in England; attorney general British Guiana 10 May 1845 to 1852;
chief justice of Demerara 1852 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858;
knighted by patent 13 Dec. 1858. _d._ Demerara 27 Dec. 1862.
ARROW, SIR FREDERICK (_2 son of Wm. Arrow, captain Indian Navy._)
_b._ Calcutta 1818; ed. at Bath gr. sch.; in mercantile marine
service June 1834 to Feb. 1859; an elder brother of Trinity House
Feb. 1859, and deputy master June 1865 to death; knighted by
patent 29 Aug. 1868; F.R.G.S. 1871; (_m._ 1850 Harriet 5 dau. of
R. Stileman of the Friars, Winchelsea.) _d._ Pilgrims hall, South
Weald, near Brentwood 17 July 1875; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 95, 100 (1875)
_portrait_.
ARROWSMITH, JOHN. _b._ Winston near Barnard Castle, Durham 23 April
1790; joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith of Soho Square London,
geographer 14 Feb. 1810; one of founders of Royal geographical
society 1830, gold medallist 1862; produced _London atlas of
universal geography_ 1834, _3 ed._ 1858; illustrated with maps
_Leichhardt’s journal of an overland expedition in Australia_
1847, and many other books; bought 10 Soho Square 1839, carried on
business there down to 1861 when he retired; F.R.A.S. _d._ 35
Hereford sq. Old Brompton 2 May 1873. _Journal of geographical
society xliii_, 161–63 (1873.)
ARTHINGTON, MARIA. Author of _The little scholar’s first grammar_
1828; _Rhymes for Harry and his nursemaid_ 1851; _Poetry of
bye-gone days and other selected pieces not published_ 1861. _d._
5 Oct. 1863.
ARTHUR, SIR FREDERICK LEOPOLD, 2 Baronet. _b._ West Indies 20 Dec.
1816; captain 4 foot 8 June 1838 to 13 Dec. 1850, when placed on
h.p.; retired from the army 1863; succeeded 19 Sep. 1854. _d._
United Service club Pall Mall London 1 June 1878.
ARTHUR, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (_3 and youngest son of John Arthur of
Plymouth 1733–88._) _b._ 21 June 1784; governor of Honduras
1814–1822; lieut. col. 7 West India foot 1 June 1815; lieut. col.
5 West India foot 29 Aug. 1816, and lieut. col. York Chasseurs 8
May 1817 to 25 Oct. 1819, when placed on h.p.; governor of Van
Diemen’s Land 14 May 1824 to 30 Oct 1836; lieut. governor of Upper
Canada 23 March 1838 to April 1841; suppressed the rebellion Nov.
1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 6 Aug. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov.
1846; col. 50 foot 28 Feb. 1853 to death; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by
the Queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; created baronet 5
June 1841; P.C. 17 June 1847; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 5 July 1848. _d._
Gloucester square, Hyde Park, London 19 Sep. 1854. _J. Mac
Mullen’s History of Canada_ _2 ed._ 1868, _pp._ 461–94.
ARTHUR, REV. JOHN. _b._ Houston, Renfrewshire 1794; ed. at Univ. of
Glasgow; Congregational minister at Helensburgh 1824 to 1866, this
district was the scene of several movements that attracted much
attention, such as “The Speaking with Tongues,” “Miraculous
healing,” and the “Row Heresy case.” _d._ 17 May 1884.
ARTHUR, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Jany. 1779; captain R.N. 11 Jany. 1810;
superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 23 Sep. 1844 to 9 Nov. 1846;
V.A. 17 Sep. 1853; C.B. 28 July 1838. _d._ Plymouth 26 Oct. 1854.
ARTLETT, RICHARD AUSTIN. _b._ 9 Nov. 1807; pupil of Robert Cooper
and James Thomson; engraved in the dotted manner a few figure
subjects and several portraits; distinguished as an engraver of
sculpture, his plates of which in the _Art Journal_ are executed
with great taste and delicacy. _d._ 1 Sep. 1873.
ARTOIS, THE FLYING WONDER, stage name of John Lilley. _b._ Liverpool
12 July 1848; a performer on the flying trapeze 1866 to death;
held a foremost rank in his profession; fell from his trapeze at
the Star music hall Dublin 21 March 1882 and fractured his skull.
_d._ Mercer’s hospital Dublin 21 March 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome
cemetery 24 March.
ARTOM, REV. BENJAMIN. _b._ Asti near Pimont, Genoa 1835; minister of
Jewish synagogues at Saluzzo, Genoa and Naples; Haham of Spanish
and Portugese congregation of London 9 Aug. 1866 to death;
inducted 16 Dec. 1866. (_m._ 10 Feb. 1875 Henrietta Hahaba widow
of Solomon David of Bombay). _d._ 3 Marine parade Brighton 6 Jany.
1879. _Jewish Chronicle 10 Jany. 1879_ 9–12; _Graphic xix_, 52
(1879), _portrait_.
ARUNDALE, FRANCIS. _b._ London 9 Aug. 1807; articled to A. Pugin the
elder; spent nine years in the East 1831–40; author of _Edifices
of Palladio_ 1832; _Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai_
1837. _d._ Brighton 9 Sep. 1853.
ARUNDELL, HENRY BENEDICT, 11 Baron Arundell of Wardour. _b._ Irnham
hall, co. Lincoln 12 Nov. 1804; the only R.C. peer who voted
against the Reform bill 1832; succeeded 21 June 1834; a count of
the Holy Roman Empire. _d._ Wardour castle. Wilts 19 Oct. 1862.
ARUNDELL, REV. THOMAS, formerly called Thomas Arundell Tagg. Ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s, St. Bees and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1868;
C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars 1853–54; C. of All Saint’s Gordon square
and Reader of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. Lond. 1854–56; P.C. of St. Peter
Hammersmith 1856–60; V. of Hayton with Bielby, Yorks 1860; V. of
St. John’s, Whetstone, Finchley Feb. 1876; author of _Historical
reminiscences of the City of London_ 1869; and of sermons and
articles in periodicals. _d._ the vicarage Whetstone 5 Nov. 1880
in his 64 year.
ASBURY, JACOB VALE (_son of Mr. Asbury of Stone, Staffs._) Surgeon
at Enfield 1820 to death; invented a surgical instrument for
puncture of the tympanum; took out patents for railway buffers
1853 and 1855. (_m._ 1820 Dorothy 3 dau. of Charles Jacomb of
Guildford st. Russell square). _d._ Enfield 21 June 1871 in his 80
year. _Medical times and gazette ii_, 87 (1871).
NOTE.—Charles Lamb his friend and patient bore witness to his
successful treatment of cholera in a witty acrostic on his
name.
ASCHER, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1831; pupil of Ignaz Moscheles; court
pianist to Empress Eugénie in Paris; composed above 100 mazurkas,
gallops, nocturnes, études, and transcriptions. _d._ London 3 June
1869.
ASH, EDWARD. A minister of Society of Friends; M.D.; lived at
Bristol; author of _An inquiry into some parts of Christian
doctrine and practice_ 1841; _Four lectures on the Apocalypse_
1848; _Explanatory notes and comments on the New Testament_, _3
vols._ 1849–50. _d._ Cotham, Bristol 23 Dec. 1873 aged 76.
ASHBROOK, HENRY FLOWER, 5 Viscount. _b._ 17 June 1806; succeeded his
father 4 May 1847. _d._ Castle Durrow, co. Kilkenny 3 Aug. 1871.
ASHBROOK, HENRY JEFFERY FLOWER, 6 Viscount. _b._ 26 March 1829; ed.
at Eton; sheriff of Queen’s county 1856; succeeded 3 Aug. 1871.
_d._ Castle Durrow 14 Dec. 1882.
ASHBURNER, JOHN (_son of Mr. Ashburner of Bombay 1769–98, member of
supreme council_). _b._ Bombay 10 Jany. 1793; ed. at Dublin,
Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1816; physician in London
1816; L.R.C.P. 1818; physician to Small pox hospital 1818–24, when
he went to India; lecturer on Midwifery at St. Thomas’s hospital;
a great believer in Mesmerism; author of _Dentition_ 1834; _Notes
and studies on the philosophy of animal magnetism and
spiritualism_ 1867. _d._ 59 Cambridge place, London 13 Nov. 1878.
_Munk’s Roll iii_, 181 (1878); _Medical Circular i_, 93 (1852).
ASHBURNHAM, BERTRAM ASHBURNHAM, 4 Earl of (_eld. son of George
Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830_). _b._ 23 Nov. 1797;
succeeded his father 27 Oct. 1830; sold his pictures at Christie’s
20 July 1850. _d._ Ashburnham place near Battle 22 June 1878.
NOTE.—He was the collector of an extensive library of early
and rare books and of a vast assemblage of MSS. which
comprised 4 divisions, the Libri collection, the Barrois
collection, the Stowe collection and a portion known as The
Appendix comprising his miscellaneous collections. In July
1883 the Government purchased the Stowe collection for
£45,000; and in May 1884 the Italian Government bought for the
Laurenzian library at Florence the larger portion of the Libri
collection and the Dante MSS. from the Appendix for the sum of
£23,000. A very full account of the contents of the whole of
the Ashburnham MSS. will be found in the 8th Report of the
Historical Manuscript Commission (1881) Appendix part 3 pp.
127.
ASHBURNHAM, REV. SIR JOHN, 7 Baronet. _b._ Scotland Yard Westminster
26 Dec. 1770; ed. at Clare hall Cam.; B.D. 1815; R. of Guestling,
Sussex 1795 to death; Preb. of Chichester 2 May 1796 to death;
Chancellor of Chichester 4 May 1796 to death; V. of Pevensey,
Sussex 1816 to death; succeeded his brother the 6 Bart. 22 March
1843. _d._ Guestling rectory 1 Sep. 1854.
ASHBURNHAM, THOMAS (_4 son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of
Ashburnham 1760–1830._) ensign Coldstream guards 30 Jany. 1823;
lieut. col. 62 foot 7 Jan. 1842 to 21 Sep. 1847; commanded a
brigade in Sutlej campaign 1845–46; aide de camp to the Queen 3
April 1846 to 20 June 1854; lieut. col. 29 foot 22 Nov. 1849 to 20
June 1854; col. 82 foot 13 Dec. 1859 to death; general 19 April
1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ 104 Park st. Grosvenor sq., London 3
March 1872.
ASHBURTON, WILLIAM BINGHAM BARING, 2 Baron. (_eld. son of Alexander
Baring, 1 Baron Ashburton 1774–1848._) _b._ June 1799; ed. at
Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1836, hon. D.C.L. 1856; M.P. for
Thetford 1826–30, for Callington 1830–31, for Winchester 1832–37,
for North Staffs. 1837–41, and again for Thetford 1841–48; sec. of
board of control 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1845; paymaster general of
the forces and treasurer of the navy 25 Feb. 1845 to 12 July 1846;
P.C. 30 June 1845; succeeded his father 13 May 1848; F.R.S. 27
April 1854; Commander of Legion of Honour 1855; pres. of
geographical society 1860–62, vice pres. 1862 to death. _d._ the
Grange, Alresford Hants 23 March 1864. _Monographs by Lord
Houghton_ (1873) 225–55; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great
Britain ii_, 97–112 (1854).
ASHBURTON, FRANCIS BARING, 3 Baron. _b._ 20 May 1800; M.P. for
Thetford 1832–41 and 1848–57; succeeded 23 March 1864. _d._
Hazlewood near Watford 6 Sep. 1868.
ASHBURY, JOHN. _b._ 31 Jany. 1806; a wheelwright at Manchester;
began the large works at Openshaw near Manchester for building
railway carriages and wagons 1847; constructed a railway wagon in
13 hours for the great exhibition of 1862; sold his works to a
limited liability company 1862. _d._ 9 Sussex place, Hyde Park,
London 2 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £400,000 27 Oct. 1866.
ASHBY, REV. JOHN EYRE. _b._ 22 Jany. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. school
London, B.A. London 1840; a congregational minister in Arundel,
Brighton and London; lectured on the higher mathematics in same
places; kept a school at Enfield 1856 to death; F.R.A.S. 1843,
LLD. Jena 1858. _d._ 22 Dec. 1863.
ASHER, ADOLPHUS. _b._ Stettin 3 Sep. 1801; spent 5 years in England
1820–25; diamond merchant at St. Petersburgh; bookseller in Russia
1827–30, at Berlin 1830 to death; introduced the English annuals
into Germany and Russia; foreign bookseller to British museum 1841
to death; published _Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, Berlin_ 1840.
_d._ Venice 2 Oct. 1853.
ASHLEY, ANTHONY JOHN (_4 son of Cropley Ashley, 6 Earl of
Shaftesbury_). _b._ 24 Grosvenor square, London 21 Dec. 1808; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9
Jany. 1866. (_m._ 17 March 1840 Julia eld. dau. of Henry John
Conyers of Copt hall, Essex). _d._ Upper Brook st. London 1 Jany.
1867.
ASHLEY, ANTHONY WILLIAM (_brother of preceding_). _b._ 24 Grosvenor
square 4 Oct. 1803; attaché to embassy at Vienna 31 March 1830;
treasurer and vice chamberlain to Queen Adelaide 28 Oct. 1834 to
her death 2 Dec. 1849; master governor and keeper of royal
hospital of St. Katherine in the Regents’ Park, London 23 May 1859
to death. (_m._ 8 March 1831 Maria Anne eld. dau. of Col. Hugh
Duncan Baillie, M.P. of Tarradaile). _d._ Mentone 18 April 1877.
ASHLEY, HENRY. _b._ 1790; an attorney in London 1816 to death; one
of the 4 privileged attorneys of Lord Mayor’s court to 1853 when
he received compensation on abolition of the privilege; erected
independent chapel afterwards called Maberly chapel in Ball’s Pond
road, Islington 1826; author of _Doctrine and practice of
attachment in Mayor’s court_ 1818. _d._ Greenhithe, Kent 20 May
1867.
ASHMORE, CHARLES. Lieut. col. 36 foot 22 May 1845 to 15 May 1857
when placed on h. p.; col. 30 foot 6 Jany. 1867 to death; general
19 Oct. 1875. _d._ 10 Granville place, Portman sq. 2 March 1881 in
88 year.
ASHPITEL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ Hackney 15
Dec. 1807; ed. at Homerton; commenced practice as an architect in
Crown Court Old Broad st. 1842; built church of St. Barnabas at
Homerton 1845; partner with John Whichcord 1850; elected F.S.A. 7
Jan. 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1841, Vice Pres. 1862; published with John
Whichcord “_Observations on baths and wash-houses with an account
of their history_” 1855; _Town dwellings an essay on the erection
of fire proof houses in flats_ 1855. _d._ 2 Poet’s Corner,
Westminster Abbey 18 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i_,
212–15 (1869); _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv_, 299–301.
ASHPITEL, WILLIAM HURST. _b._ 1776; pupil of Daniel Asher Alexander
the architect of prisons at Dartmoor and Maidstone; assisted him
in designs for the London docks; a pupil of John Rennie; largely
concerned in Kenneth and Avon canal; partner with James Savage;
J.P. for Middlesex; designed the first new church and extensive
schools at South Hackney and many other buildings, besides several
large engineering works. _d._ Clapton sq. London 23 April 1852 in
76 year.
ASHTON, HENRY. _b._ London 1801; employed by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville
to 1840; erected stables at Windsor and kennels at Frogmore;
erected summer palace at the Hague for king of Holland; architect
for Victoria st. improvements in London, and designed Victoria st.
opened 6 Aug. 1851. _d._ 18 March 1872.
ASHTOWN, FREDERICK MASON TRENCH, 2 Baron. _b._ 25 Dec. 1804;
succeeded 1 May 1840; his claim to the peerage was allowed 12 July
1855. _d._ Clonodfoy, co. Limerick 12 Sep. 1880. Personalty sworn
under £350,000 April 1881.
ASHURST, WILLIAM (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1819; admitted
solicitor Jany. 1843; partner with his father; partner with John
Morris about 1855–62; solicitor to the Post Office 1862 to death;
a great friend of Garibaldi and Mazzini. _d._ 7 Prince of Wales’s
Terrace, Kensington, London 14 July 1879 in 60 year.
ASHURST, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ London 11 Feb. 1792; a solicitor in
London; belonged to a small sect called ‘Freethinking Christians’;
member of common council of city of London; undersheriff; a
founder of the society of the ‘Friends of Italy,’ 1851 and of the
‘Peoples International League,’ 1852; took an active part in
agitation against church rates; author of _The Corporation
Register_ 1832, which advocated reforms in the city. _d._
Wimbledon Park, Surrey 13 Oct. 1855.
ASHWELL, REV. ARTHUR RAWSON. _b._ Cheyne Walk Chelsea 9 Dec. 1824;
ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar of Caius coll. 1846; 15 Wr. 1847,
B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of Speldhurst Kent 1848–49; C. of St.
Mary the less, Cam. 1849–50; vice principal of St. Mark’s college
Chelsea Jany. 1851 to Nov. 1852; principal of Oxford diocesan
training college at Culham Nov. 1852 to 1862; minister of Holy
Trinity church Hanover square London 1862–64; principal of Durham
training college 1865–70; canon res. of Chichester and principal
of Chichester theological college 1870; R. of St. Andrew’s
Chichester 1871–75; R. of St. Martin’s Chichester 1872–75;
chancellor of Chichester cath. 1879 to death, installed 19 June
1879; edited the _Literary Churchman_ 1864–76 and Sep. 1879 to
death, and the _Church quarterly review_ 1876. (_m._ 20 April 1854
Elizabeth eld. dau. of J. F. Fixsen of Blackheath.) _d._
Chichester 23 Oct. 1879. _Literary Churchman xxv_, 443–45, 501
(1879).
ASHWELL, JAMES. _b._ Nottingham 1799. One of the six founders of the
society afterwards known as the Institution of Civil engineers 2
Jany. 1818, it obtained a royal charter 3 June 1828; a fellow
commoner at Jesus coll. Cam.; managing director and engineer in
chief of the Great Luxembourg railway company 1847–52. _d._
Mildmay lodge, Weston-super-Mare 2 July 1881. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxvi_, 372–75 (1881.)
ASHWELL, SAMUEL. _b._ Nottingham 1798; studied at Guy’s Hospital,
London 1817–20; general practitioner in Lime st. square 1821–30;
obstetric asst. to Guy’s Hosp. 1820; obstetric physician and
lecturer May 1834 to 1846; M.R.C.P. 1835; removed to the West end
1840; author of _Practical treatise on parturition_ 1828; _A
practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women_ 1848. _d._
30 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 21 Dec. 1857. _Medical Circular i_,
109–111 (1852), _portrait_.
ASHWORTH, EDMUND. _b._ Birtwhistle near Bolton; partner with his
brother Henry as spinners at Egerton Mill near Bolton; member of
Anti-Corn-Law League 1839; member of Manchester chamber of
commerce, a director 1868–78, pres. 1874–77; said to be original
of Mr. Millbank in ‘_Coningsby_’; a magistrate for Bolton April
1847 to death; one of founders of Cotton supply association 1857;
the first pres. of Bolton British school union. _d._ Southport 21
March 1881 in 81 year. _Manchester Guardian 22 March 1881 p._ 5,
_col._ 4, and _26 March p._ 11, _col._ 4.
ASHWORTH, SIR FREDERICK (_2 son of Robert Ashworth of Dublin_). _b._
Dublin 1783; ensign 58 foot 6 July 1799; major 22 Nov. 1810 to 20
Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; knighted by lord lieut. 1850;
lieut. general 20 June 1854; colonel of 44 foot 8 Feb. 1855 to
death. (_m._ 29 Oct. 1833 Harriet eld. dau. of Sir Bellingham
Reginald Graham, 7 Bart., she was _b._ 1815 and _m._ (2) 26 Feb.
1862 George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquess of Donegal). _d._ 5
St. George’s place, Hyde park corner, London 1 Aug. 1858.
ASHWORTH, HENRY. _b._ Birtwhistle near Bolton 4 Sep. 1794; ed. at
Ackworth school; partner with his brother Edmund; a founder of
“Anti-Corn Law Association” 10 Jany. 1839, afterwards called “The
National Anti-Corn-Law League”; great friend of Bright and Cobden,
the three were known as the A, B, C of the League, the final
meeting of which was held in Manchester town hall 2 July 1846;
author of _Statistical illustrations of Lancashire_ 1842; _A tour
in the United States, Cuba and Canada_ 1861. _d._ Florence 17 May
1880. _Recollections of Richard Cobden, by H. Ashworth, 2 ed._
1878, _portrait_.
ASHWORTH, JOHN. Preached his trial sermon 8 Oct. 1837; founded a
chapel for the destitute in Baillie st. Rochdale 4 Oct. 1858;
representative of United Methodist Free churches at the Conference
of Evangelical Christians held in New York Oct. 1873; author of
_Strange tales from humble life_, 5 series 1863–74, these 61 tales
were also published singly, upwards of 3,000,000 copies have been
circulated. _Simple Records, 2 series_ 1871–72. _d._ Broadfield,
Rochdale 26 Jany. 1875. _Life and labours of John Ashworth, by A.
L. Calman_ 1875, _portrait_.
ASHWORTH, REV. JOHN HARVEY (_younger son of John Ashworth_). _b._
Elland, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Univ. coll.
Ox., scholar 1815, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1825; R. of Hethe, Oxon
1820–21; C. of St. Mary’s, Rochdale 1821; bought old castle of
Craggan, co. Clare which he restored; V. of St. Mary’s,
Staveley-in-Cartmel 1874 to death; author of _Hurstwood, a tale 3
vols._ 1823; _Scenes and thoughts from secluded life 2 vols._
1827; _The Saxon in Ireland_ 1851; _The young curate or the
quicksands of life [anon.]_ 1859, and _Rathlynn [anon.] 3 vols._
1864. _d._ 4 Aug. 1882.
ASKEW, RICHARD CRASTER (_5 son of John Askew of Pallinsburn,
Northumberland who d. 28 Oct. 1794_). _b._ 5 Sep. 1778; barrister
L.I. 13 June 1807; recorder of Newcastle upon Tyne 1833–34. _d._
Pallinsburn 30 July 1851.
ASKEY, JAMES ROBERT ROPER. Chief clerk of the divorce registry 1858
to death. _d._ 14 Park village West, Gloucester gate, Regents’
park, London 30 Jany. 1866.
ASLETT, THOMPSON. 2 Lieut. R.M. 1 June 1796; col. commandant 9 Nov.
1846 to 17 Aug. 1848 when he retired on full pay. _d._ 27 Aug.
1851 aged 75.
ASLETT, WILLIAM STRATTON. 2 Lieut. R.M. 26 July 1837; brigade major
in Crimean war; col. commandant 13 Feb. 1867 to death; M.G. 6
March 1868. _d._ Cury road, Gosport 28 July 1876.
ASPINALL, BUTLER COLE (_son of Rev. James Aspinall, R. of Althorpe,
Lincs._) _b._ Liverpool 7 Nov. 1830; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s;
connected with _Morning Chronicle_; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853;
arrived in Victoria 1854; law reporter to the _Argus_ paper 1854;
practised at Melbourne 1854; M.L.A. for Talbot 1856; M.L.A. for
Portland to 1870; member of the Heales government 1861, of the
Macpherson government 1869; defended the Eureka stockade rioters
1855; defended H. J. O’Farrell who was tried 30–31 March 1868 for
shooting Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) at Clontarf 12 March
1868; became insane 1871. _d._ England 4 April 1875.
ASPINALL, REV. JAMES (_son of J. B. Aspinall of Cleongar hall,
Cheshire_). _b._ Liverpool; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820,
M.A. 1823; C. of Rochdale 5 years; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Liverpool
1830 where he preached 5 June 1831 a remarkable sermon called _The
Crisis or the signs of the times with regard to the Church of
England_; R. of Althorpe, Lincs. 2 June 1839 to death; author of
_Roscoe’s library or old books and old times_ 1853; _Parish
sermons 2 series_ 1854–59. _d._ Althorpe rectory 15 Feb. 1861 aged
65.
ASPLAND, ALFRED (_son of Rev. Robert Aspland 1782–1845, pastor of
the Unitarians at Hackney 40 years_). _b._ 1815; ed. at King’s
college, London; studied at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S.
1838, F.R.C.S. 1859; practised at Dukinfield, Cheshire till about
1870; editor of the Holbein Society publications; pres. of
Manchester statistical society 1863–65; his large collection of
books and drawings was sold at Sotheby’s Jany. 1885; author of
_Crime in Manchester_ 1868; edited for Holbein Society _H.
Burgmair’s Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian_ 1875; and _The
golden legend_ 1878. _d._ St. Helen’s Field, Dukinfield 24 Oct.
1880. _Book-lore March_ 1885 _p._ 119.
ASPLAND, REV. ROBERT BROOK (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Newport, Isle of Wight 19 Jany. 1805; Unitarian pastor of Crook’s
lane chapel, Chester Aug. 1826; co-pastor with Lant Carpenter of
Lewin’s Mead chapel, Bristol 1833; kept a boarding school at
Bristol 1833–36; pastor at Dukinfield 1 Jany. 1837 and at Hackney
1858 to death; edited the _Christian Reformer_ Jany. 1845 to Dec.
1863 when it ceased; one of secretaries of Manchester college
1846–57, which was moved from Manchester to London 1853; secretary
to British and Foreign Unitarian Association 1859 to death. (_m._
21 Oct. 1833 Jane dau. of Robert Hibbert of Brookside Godley,
Cheshire). _d._ Well st. Hackney 21 June 1869. _John Evans’s
Lancashire authors_ (1850) 4–8; _The Inquirer 3 July 1869_ 427–28.
ASPULL, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 1798; tenor singer; composed many
vocal pieces. _d._ 192 Clapham road, London 16 Jany. 1875.
ASTLEY, SIR FRANCIS DUGDALE, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir John
Dugdale Astley, 1 Baronet 1778–1842_). _b._ 5 Nov. 1805; succeeded
19 Jany. 1842. _d._ Eastleigh lodge, Warminster 23 July 1873.
ASTLEY, REV. RICHARD. _b._ Chesterfield 12 March 1785; Unitarian
minister at Rochdale 1810, at Halifax 1812–26, at Gloucester
1826–31 and at Shrewsbury 1831–53; author of _A selection of 500
hymns for public and private worship_. _d._ Stourbridge 19 March
1855. _The Christian Reformer xi_, 265–73 (1855).
ASTON, SIR ARTHUR INGRAM (_younger son of Henry Hervey Aston of
Aston, Cheshire, who d. Madras 23 Dec. 1798 aged 37 from a wound
received in a duel with major Allen_). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1798;
ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., created M.A. 18 June 1817; sec. of
embassy at Paris 11 Jany. 1833; min. plenipo. there for short
periods 9 times between 19 April 1833 and 14 Sep. 1838; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 13 Feb. 1840 to 13 Nov.
1843; G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1843; pensioned 8 March 1846; sheriff of
Cheshire 1850. _d._ Aston hall, near Runcorn 5 May 1859.
ASTON, JAMES JONES (_2 son of Benjamin Richard Aston of 71 Banner
st. Finsbury, coal merchant_). _b._ 71 Banner st. 12 Dec. 1822;
barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846; went Northern circuit; Q.C. for county
palatine of Lancaster 1867; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of
_Chancery practice of the county palatine of Lancaster_ 1852.
(_m._ 7 Sep. 1854 Sarah Margaret eld. dau. of Thomas Eccles of
Walton-le-dale, Lancs.) _d._ 13 Pembroke gardens, Kensington 17
Jany. 1885.
ASTON, JOHN PARTINGTON (_son of John Aston of Manchester, liquor
merchant_.) _b._ Manchester 9 Nov. 1805; ed. at Manchester gr.
sch.; solicitor at Manchester 1829 to death; one of leading
conveyancing and patent lawyers; solicitor and sec. of Owens
college, Manchester; contributed prose and verse to periodicals;
author with W. H. Ainsworth of _Sir John Chiverton_ 1826. _d._
Higher Broughton, Manchester 11 May 1882. _Admission register of
Manchester school iii_, 112 (1874).
ATHERLEY, MARK KER (_2 son of Arthur Atherley M.P. for Southampton
who d. 21 Oct. 1844 aged 74_). Ensign 15 foot 28 Aug. 1823; lieut.
col. 92 foot 23 Nov. 1849 to 5 June 1863 when placed on h.p.;
commanded a brigade in the Crimea 4 Nov. 1855 to 13 March 1856;
brigadier general Malta 1863–68; col. of 109 foot 14 Feb. 1873, of
93 foot 30 Jany. 1880 and of 92 foot 5 April 1880 to death;
general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11 March 1884 in 80 year.
ATHERSTONE, EDWIN. _b._ Nottingham 17 April 1788; author of _The
fall of Nineveh, a poem_, _2 vols._ 1828–68; _The Sea Kings in
England, an historical romance_, _3 vols._ 1830; _The handwriting
on the wall, a story 3 vols._ 1858; _Israel in Egypt_ 1861 a poem
of nearly 20,000 lines; granted civil list pension of £75 Oct. 4
1858 and another of £25 Jany. 16 1860. _d._ 19 Macaulay buildings,
Bath 29 Jany. 1872.
ATHERTON, CHARLES (_3 son of Nathan Atherton of Calne, Wilts
attorney_). _b._ Calne 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; 33
wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828; resident engineer of river Clyde
1832–34; manager of business of Claud Girdwood and Co. of Glasgow,
ironfounders 1834–37; chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard 6 April
1847 to 31 Dec. 1848 and 8 Sep. 1851 to 26 July 1862; at Devonport
dockyard 1 Jany. 1849 to 7 Sep. 1851; consulting engineer in
London 1862–70; M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1828. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight
24 May 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlii_, 252–55
(1875).
ATHERTON, SIR WILLIAM (_only son of Rev. Wm. Atherton of Battle
Bridge Middlesex, Wesleyan minister 1775–1850_). _b._ Glasgow
October 1806; special pleader 1832–39; barrister I.T. 22 Nov.
1839, bencher 1851; went northern circuit of which he became
leader; Q.C. July 1851; Q.C. for duchy of Lancaster 1851–60; M.P.
for Durham 9 July 1852 to death; judge advocate of the fleet and
counsel to the Admiralty 1854 to 16 Dec. 1859; solicitor general
16 Dec. 1859 and attorney general 4 July 1861 to Sep. 1863;
knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1860. (_m._ 15
April, 1843 Agnes Mary younger dau. of Thomas James Hall, chief
magistrate at Bow st. London, she _d._ 26 March 1866). _d._ 13
Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park 22 Jany. 1864.
ATHLUMNEY, WILLIAM MEREDYTH SOMERVILLE, 1 Baron. _b._ 1802; ed. at
Harrow; paid attaché at Berlin 1829–32; M.P. for Drogheda 1837–52
and for Canterbury 1854–65; under sec. of state for Home
department 5 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; chief sec. for Ireland 22
July 1847 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 22 July 1847; raised to peerage of
Ireland as Baron Athlumney 14 Dec. 1863 and to peerage of United
Kingdom as Baron Meredyth 3 May 1866. _d._ Dover 7 Dec. 1873.
ATHOLE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK JOHN MURRAY, 6 Duke of. _b._ Great
Cumberland place, London 20 Sep. 1814; took part in the Eglinton
tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; grand master mason of Scotland
1843–63; succeeded his uncle as 6 Duke of Athole 14 Sep. 1846;
K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; pres. of Highland and Agricultural Societies
1858–62; kept Otter hounds at Dunkeld. _d._ Blair castle,
Perthshire 16 Jany. 1864.
ATKINS, EDWARD. _b._ 1818; played at T.R. Birmingham 1851–61; made
his début in London at Drury Lane 28 Oct. 1861; played Jem Dalton
in Tom Taylor’s drama _The Ticket of leave man_ at Olympic theatre
27 May 1863 to 16 Sep. 1864 406 times, and more than 600 times
afterwards in different theatres; played Autolycus in _A winter’s
tale_ at Drury Lane 28 Sep. 1878. _d._ 5 Carlton road west,
Peckham 8 April 1883. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book part_ 16,
_portrait_.
ATKINS, EDWIN. Manager with his brother John Atkins of Zoological
gardens situated between Farnworth st. and Butler st. Liverpool
which were established in 1832 by Thomas Atkins, keeper of a
travelling menagerie, the gardens were eventually turned into a
limited liability company, and in 1863 the place was dismantled
and the land sold; started for interior of Africa 1852. _d._ on a
small island of the White river, a branch of the Nile Jany. 1854.
ATKINS, EDWIN MARTIN (_eld. son of Atkins Edwin Martin-Atkins of
Walcot in Bath_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Rugby; matric. Magd. coll. Ox.
26 July 1825 aged 17, B.A. 1829; sheriff of Berkshire 1844; F.S.A.
10 Dec. 1857; the original of the Squire depicted by Tom Hughes in
_The scouring of the White Horse_ 1859. _d._ Weston super Mare 5
May 1859.
ATKINSON, CHARLES CALEB (_eld. son of Caleb Atkinson of Hillingdon,
Middlesex_), _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; sec. of
University college London 1835 to July 1867; sub editor of _The
Sphinx_; owner of _The Athenæum_ for short time. (_m._ 1831
Harriet dau. of George Swimley of Henley on Thames). _d._
Alexandra road, Kilburn, London 11 Jany. 1869.
ATKINSON, FENTON ROBINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 Nov. 1784; admitted
attorney May 1810; practised at Manchester; a leading bankruptcy
lawyer; sold his library Dec. 1817 and his other library of 13,000
volumes May 1858 a ten days sale; member of Chetham, Camden,
Hakluyt, Shakspere and Percy Societies and Warton club;
contributed to _Bibliographiana_, originally published in the
_Manchester Exchange Herald_ 1815–16 and afterwards as a small
vol. of which only 24 copies were issued 1817. _d._ The Grove,
Withington, Lancs. 9 June 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_, 212, 257
(1859).
ATKINSON, SIR HENRY ESCH (_3 son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834
provost of Company of moneyers_). _b._ 1792; entered navy 2 Feb.
1807; commander 30 April 1827; employed in the Coast Guard
1835–38; retired captain 1 April 1856; knighted by lord lieutenant
of Ireland 1836; superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen’s Land
1846. (_m._ 1819 Sarah dau. of John Randall of the Isle of Wight,
she _d._ 1873). _d._ Hobart Town 1857.
ATKINSON, JAMES. _b._ county of Durham 9 March 1780; assistant assay
master at Calcutta mint 1813–28; superintendent of the government
Gazette 1817–28; surgeon to 55 Bengal N.I. 1833; superintending
surgeon to the army of the Indus 1838–41; a member of Bengal
medical board 1845–47; author of _The Shâh Nâmah translated and
abridged_ 1832, which won gold medal of Oriental translation fund;
_The expedition into Afghanistan_ 1842; _Sketches in Afghanistan_
1842. _d._ 18 Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1852. _Journal of Royal
Asiatic Society xv, vi-ix_, (1855).
ATKINSON, JAMES. Perfumer in Old Bond st. London; lived at Village
park, Ealing. _d._ 27 June 1853 aged 71.
ATKINSON, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ Middlesex 1 May 1783; served in
merchant service 1796–1803; joined R.N. as a volunteer 1803;
master 29 Jany. 1814; staff commander on h.p. 11 June 1863. _d._
Southampton 27 Oct. 1882 aged 99 years and six months.
ATKINSON, SIR JASPER (_son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834, provost
of Company of moneyers_). _b._ Dulwich 1790; employed in the Mint
1804–51; provost of Company of moneyers 1 April 1848 to July 1851
when it was dissolved; knighted by patent 28 Nov. 1842 for
services rendered to Ottoman, Russian and French governments.
(_m._ 12 May 1819 Louisa Jane Grace only dau. of Wm. Gyll of
Wyrardisbury house, Bucks, she was _b._ 21 July 1800 and _m._ (2)
1863 Percy Honey of Exchequer Office, Lincolns Inn). _d._ North
Frith Haddow near Tonbridge Wells 6 Oct. 1856.
ATKINSON, RICHARD. _b._ Dublin 1796; a poplin manufacturer there
1820 to death; alderman of Dublin 1857 to death; mayor 1856 and
1861; gave a grand ball to Prince of Wales 11 Sep. 1861; a great
philanthropist. _d._ 1867. _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 83 (1861) _portrait_.
ATKINSON, SOLOMON. _b._ Cumberland; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; senior
wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1821; B.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 21
May 1827; author of _County court extension act_, 1850; _Law and
practice of county courts_ 1853. _d._ Mornington crescent,
Hampstead road 12 Feb. 1865.
ATKINSON, THOMAS WITLAM. _b._ Cawthorne, Yorkshire 6 March 1799;
employed in rebuilding St. Mary’s church Barnsley 1819 where he
carved some very fine work; architect in London 1827–42 when he
went to Hamburg; engaged in reconstruction of St. Nicholas church
Hamburg 1845; went to Russia 1846; granted by Emperor of Russia
rare privilege of a blank pass throughout his Asiatic dominions;
travelled in Siberia and Mongolia; F.R.G.S. 1858, F.G.S. 1859;
author of _Explorations in Oriental and West Siberia_ 1857;
_Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor_ 1860; (_m._
1847 Lucy authoress of _Recollections of Tartar Steppes_ 1863, she
was granted a civil list pension of £100 18 June 1863). _d._ Lower
Walmer, Kent 13 Aug. 1861.
ATKINSON, WILLIAM GREENE. _b._ Darlington 1810; barrister M.T. 19
Nov. 1841; librarian of the Great seal patent office, London Jany.
1854 to death; prepared manuscript of catalogue of the library
which was printed in 2 vols. 4º. 1882–83; edited the Commissioners
of patents journal Jany. 1854 to death, _d._ 59 Rowan road,
Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1881.
ATKINSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN (_eld. son of Rev. T. D. Atkinson Rector
of Rugeley, Staffs._) director of public instruction for Bengal.
_d._ Rome 15 Jany. 1876 aged 55.
ATTHILL, REV. WILLIAM LOMBE. _b._ 11 July 1807; scholar of Caius
coll. Cam. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1851; sub-dean, canon and
commissary of collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire 1839–51;
P.C. of Horsham Norfolk 1851–63; V. of Horsford, Norfolk 1851–63;
married 4 times; author of _The way of Catechising_ 1840; _History
and antiquities of the collegiate church at Middleham_ 1847 and of
articles in Burke’s _Historic Lands of England_ 1849. _d._
Brandiston hall, Alderford, Norfolk 11 Dec. 1884.
ATTREE, WILLIAM WAKEFORD. _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 7 June 1833; assistant
tithe comr.; recorder of Hastings and of Seaford about 1842 to
death; author of _Report of Braintree church rate case_ 1853. _d._
Queen’s Park, Brighton 28 Jany. 1862.
ATTWOOD, BENJAMIN (_son of Matthias Attwood of Hales Owen, founder
of bank of Attwoods in London and Birmingham_). a manufacturer at
Birmingham; came into a large fortune from his nephew Matthias
Attwood; gave with greatest secrecy for many years sums of £1000
each to all manner of charities to amount of £375,000. _d._
Pengelly house, Cheshunt 22 Nov. 1874. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57 (1875)
_portrait_; _Graphic xi_ 67 (1875) _portrait_.
ATTWOOD MATTHIAS (_brother of the preceding_). partner in bank of
Attwoods; chairman of General steam navigation co.; M.P. for
Callington 14 March 1820, for Boroughbridge 2 Aug 1830, and for
Whitehaven 15 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Dulwich hill 11 Nov.
1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 192–93 (1852).
ATTWOOD, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Howe house, Hales
Owen, 6 Oct. 1783; a banker and manufacturer at Birmingham and
London; opposed orders in council of 1807 and 1809 prohibiting all
trade between England and the ports occupied by the French, the
orders were partly revoked June 1812; originated abolition of East
India monopoly 1813; one of the 3 founders of Birmingham Political
Union 1829 which contributed largely towards passing of the Reform
bill; presented with freedom of city of London 23 May 1832; M.P.
for Birmingham 12 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; presented to House of
Commons the Chartist petition signed by 1280000 people, 14 June
1839; author of _Letters of a Scotch banker_, first published
anonymously in _The Globe_ 1828. _d._ Great Malvern 6 March 1856.
_Dents Old and new Birmingham, section_ 2, (1880) 349–52.
NOTE.—There is a statue of him in Stephenson place New st.
Birmingham, which was unveiled 7 June 1858. He is the “King
Tom” of Cobbett’s Weekly Register.
ATWOOD, REV. HENRY ADAMS SERGISON. _b._ St. Margaret’s Westminster
13 Jany. 1800; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824;
F.R.A.S. 1827; R. of Ashelworth, Gloucs. 1839 to death; author of
_A new version of the Book of Psalms in verse by H. A. S. A._
1834. _d._ Ashelworth rectory 22 June 1877.
AUBIN, JOHN. One of the 11 judges of the Royal Court in Jersey 17
May 1862 to death. _d._ 27 Midvale road, St. Heliers 28 Jany. 1874
aged 78.
AUBREY, THOMAS. _b._ Cefn-coed-y-cymer near Merthyr-Tydvil 13 May
1808; Wesleyan minister 1826 to death; chairman of North Wales
district 1854–65. _d._ Rhyl 15 Nov. 1867. _Wesl. Meth. Mag. xci,
pt._ 2 _p._ 845 (1868).
AUBREY, SIR THOMAS DIGBY, 7 Baronet. _b._ Llanblythian,
Glamorganshire 2 Dec. 1782; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; sheriff
of Bucks 1815; succeeded 1 March 1826; chairman of Bucks quarter
sessions some years, _d._ Oving house near Aylesbury 2 Sep. 1856.
AUCHMUTY, SIR SAMUEL BENJAMIN (_2 son of Samuel Auchmuty of
Bryanstown_). _b._ Ireland 1781; major 7 foot 28 Oct. 1813 to 1
Aug. 1822 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Sovereign
1831–41; granted service reward 3 Aug. 1845; col. of 65 foot 31
Jany. 1851 and of 7 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; general 19 June
1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 June 1861.
(_m._ 1817 Mary Anne Buchanan, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1869 aged 69).
_d._ Pau 30 April 1868.
AUCKLAND, RIGHT REV. ROBERT JOHN EDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ Eden farm
Beckenham, Kent 10 July 1799; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam.,
M.A. 1819, D.D. 1847; R. of Eyam 1823; R. of Huntingfordbury 1825;
V. of Battersea 1835; chaplain to William iv 1831–37 and to
Victoria 1837–47; Bishop of Sodor and Man 7 May 1847; consecrated
23 May 1847; installed at Castletown 29 June 1847; translated to
see of Bath and Wells 2 June 1854; resigned his episcopal
functions Oct. or Nov. 1869; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 1
Jany. 1849. _d._ The palace, Wells 25 April 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_,
489, 490 (1870), _portrait_.
AUDLEY, GEORGE EDWARD THICKNESSE-TOUCHET, 20 Baron. _b._ 26 Jany.
1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. _d._ Homburg 18 April 1872.
_Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_, 41 (1833).
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, _b._ New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at
Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36
and 1838–39; author of _Birds of America_ published in 87 parts,
elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18
March 1830. _d._ New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. _R. Buchanan’s
Life of J. J. Audubon_ 1868, 2 _portraits_.
AUDUS, JAMES (_only son of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, merchant
1752–1809_). _b._ 28 July 1781; captain in York city militia
1808–33; began a coasting trade between Selby and London 1826, had
18 schooners so employed 1830; chairman of Yorkshire banking
company 1843; erected and endowed St. James’s church Selby at cost
of about £14000, laid the foundation stone 6 May 1866. _d._ Selby
14 May 1867. _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 186,
254–58.
NOTE.—He was the oldest railway director in England, having
been one of original board of Leeds and Selby railway which
obtained its act 1830.
AULDJO, JOHN. Ascended Mont Blanc 8 Aug. 1827, being the 14th ascent
ever made; F.R.G.S. 1832; F.R.S. 7 May 1840; author of _Ascent of
Mont Blanc_ 1827; _Sketches of Vesuvius_ 1832; _Journal of a visit
to Constantinople_ 1835. _d._ 1857.
AULSEBROOK, RICHARD. M.R.C.S. 1834, L.S.A. 1835; surgeon to Lambeth
workhouse; resident medical officer of Hanwell lunatic asylum;
author of _An inquiry into the physical condition of the working
classes in the parish of St. James’s Westminster_. _d._ 50 King
sq., Goswell road London 1855.
AURIOL, REV. EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of
Newton Valence, Hants 1838; R. of St. Dunstan in the West, London
1841 to death; Preb. of St. Paul’s April 1865 to death; commissary
for Bishop of Nelson 1866. _d._ 35 Mecklenbergh sq. London 10 Aug.
1880 aged 75.
AUSTEN, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 1779; captain R.N. 10 May 1810; captain
of Bellerophon 80 guns 1838–40; awarded good service pension 1840;
R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander in chief in East Indies 14 Jany. 1850
to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; _d._ Prome, Burmah 8 Oct. 1852.
AUSTEN, SIR FRANCIS WILLIAM (_4 son of Rev. George Austen R. of
Steventon, Hants_). _b._ Steventon 23 April 1774; captain R.N. 13
May 1800; served in action off St. Domingo 1805, for which he
received thanks of houses of parliament; colonel R.M. 27 May 1825;
commander in chief on north American and West Indian station 27
Dec. 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; admiral 1 Aug. 1848; R.A. of United
Kingdom 5 June 1862; V.A. of U.K. 11 Dec. 1862; admiral of the
fleet 27 April 1863 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb.
1837, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Portsdown lodge, Portsmouth 10 Aug.
1865.
AUSTEN, SIR HENRY EDMUND (_only son of Robert Austen of Shalford,
Surrey who d. 3 Nov. 1797_). _b._ Shalford 20 May 1785; ed. at
Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., M.A. 1807; sheriff of Surrey 1810; a
gentleman of the Privy Chamber 26 Jany. 1832 to death; knighted by
the king at St. James’s Palace 22 Feb. 1832. _d._ 2 Suffolk place
Cheltenham 1 Dec. 1871.
AUSTEN, REV. JOHN THOMAS. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior Wr.
and senior Smith’s prizeman 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1827;
fellow of his college 1817; V. of Aldworth, Berks 1832–48; R. of
West Wickham, Kent 1848 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury
cathedral 1873. _d._ West Wickham rectory 10 June 1876 aged 82.
AUSTEN, REV. ROBERT (_only son of Venerable Robert Austen 1723–92,
archdeacon of Cork_). Treasurer of Cloyne 24 July 1810 to 10 June
1833 when he resigned. _d._ Southsea, Hants 4 Nov. 1854 in 83
year.
AUSTEN, THOMAS. Lieut. col. of 60 regiment of foot 20 June 1805 to
1817; M.P. for West Kent 1845–47. _d._ Kippington, Sevenoaks 23
July 1859 aged 84.
AUSTIN, ALFRED. _b._ 1805; assistant poor law comr. 1843–1854; sec.
to Office of Works 1854–1868; C.B. 11 Oct. 1869. _d._ 67 Queen’s
gardens, Bayswater 19 May 1884 in 79 year.
AUSTIN, CHARLES (_2 son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill,
Suffolk, government contractor_). _b._ 26 March 1799; ed. at Bury
St. Edmund’s gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827;
pupil of Sir Wm. Follett; barrister M.T. 25 May 1827; bencher
1841; Q.C. 1841; practised chiefly before committees of Houses of
Parliament where he was the leading counsel; retired with a large
fortune 1848; high steward of Ipswich; chairman of quarter
sessions for East Suffolk. (_m._ 10 June 1856 Harriet Jane elder
dau. of Ralph Mitford Preston Ingilby). _d._ Brandeston hall,
Wickham Market 21 Dec. 1874. Personalty sworn under £140,000 19
Feb. 1875. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1873) 76–79; _Fortnightly
Review xxiii_, 321–38 (1875); _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875)
90–96.
AUSTIN, SIR HORATIO THOMAS. Entered navy 8 April 1813; took part in
Parry’s second Arctic expedition 1824–1825; commanded Salamander
one of first steamers in the navy 1832–34; captain 28 June 1838;
served in the Syrian war 1839–1843; commanded a squadron in search
of Sir John Franklin 1850–1851; superintendent of Deptford
dockyard 18 Oct. 1854 to 28 Nov. 1857; admiral superintendent of
Malta dockyard 6 April 1863 to 26 Nov. 1864; V.A. 20 Oct. 1864;
C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. (_m._ 8 Nov. 1831 Anne
Eliza only dau. of Thomas Hawkins of Pennance, Creed, Cornwall and
widow of Rev. J. Rawlinson, she _d._ 7 July 1876). _d._ Leinster
gardens, London 16 Nov. 1865 in 65 year. _O’Byrne’s Naval
biography_ (1861) 30.
NOTE.—Austin channel between Byam Martin and Bathurst Isles
and Cape Austin on the west coast of Cornwallis Isle are named
after him.
AUSTIN, JOHN (_eld son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill,
Suffolk_). _b._ 3 March 1790; in the army 1806–11 when he sold
out; served in Sicily; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; gave up
practice 1825; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. of London 1826,
lectured there 1828 to June 1832; member of Criminal law
commission 1833; delivered a course of lectures on jurisprudence
at Inner Temple 1834; went to Malta as Royal Comr. to inquire into
grievances of which the natives complained 1836; lived in Paris
1844–48 and at Weybridge, Surrey 1849 to death; corresponding
member of moral and political class of French Institute; author of
_The province of jurisprudence determined_ 1832, _2 ed._ 1861; _A
plea for the Constitution_ 1859. (_m._ 1820 Sarah Taylor.) _d._
Weybridge 17 Dec. 1859. _Dict. of national biography ii_, 265–68
(1885).
AUSTIN, SARAH (_youngest child of John Taylor of Norwich, yarn
maker_). _b._ Norwich 1793; translated _The story without an end_
by Carové 1834; _Ranke’s History of the Popes of Rome_, _2 vols._
1840, _4 ed._ _3 vols._ 1866; author of _Germany from 1760 to
1814, or sketches of German life_ 1854; granted civil list pension
of £100 13 Oct. 1849. (_m._ 1820 John Austin). _d._ Weybridge,
Surrey 8 Aug. 1867.
AVELAND, GILBERT JOHN HEATHCOTE, 1 Baron. _b._ Normanton park,
Stamford 16 Jany. 1795; ed. at Westminster, Edinburgh and Trin.
coll. Cam.; M.P. for Boston 1820–30 and 1831–32, for Lincolnshire
1832–41 and for Rutlandshire 1841–56; created Baron Aveland of
Aveland, county Lincoln 26 Feb. 1856; lord lieutenant of
Lincolnshire 12 March 1862. _d._ 12 Belgrave sq. London 6 Sep.
1867; Personalty sworn under £400,000 26 Oct. 1867.
AVELING, THOMAS. _b._ Elm, near Wisbech 11 Sep. 1824; a farmer at
Ruckinge in Romney Marsh; agricultural implement maker at
Rochester; an engine builder there 1860 to death; the first to
build a traction engine with a single cylinder; invented steam
road rollers, now to be found in nearly every town in the kingdom;
A.I.C.E. 1871; M.I.C.E. 1877; M.I.M.E. 1869; member of Iron and
Steel institute; chevalier of Legion of Honour; knight of order of
Francis Joseph. _d._ Boley hill house Rochester 7 March 1882.
_Graphic xxv_ 289 (1882) _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of
C.E. lxxiii_ 350–55 (1883).
AVELING, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM BAXTER. _b._ Castletown, Isle of Man 11
May 1815; usher in a school at Wisbech; studied at Highbury
college 1834–38; Congregational minister at Kingsland 10 June 1838
to death; hon. sec. to Asylum for fatherless children at Reedham,
Surrey 1847–83, the chapel there is called after him, the “Aveling
Memorial Chapel”; chairman of Congregational Board 1873 and of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1874; author of _Naaman
or Life’s shadows and sunshine_ 1853; _Memorials of the Clayton
family_ 1867; edited _the Jewish Herald 5 years_. _d._ Reedham
orphanage asylum 3 July 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885)
176–79.
AVERY, JOHN. M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. Paris 1831; surgeon
in chief to the 5th Polish ambulance in Polish army; a prisoner
many months; a consulting surgeon in London; surgeon to Charing
Cross hospital; invented an apparatus for exploring internal
cavities of the body which gained large silver medal of Society of
Arts; a successful operator in cases of cleft palate. _d._ 3 Queen
st. Mayfair 5 March 1855. _Medical directory_ 1856, 722–24.
AVONMORE, BARRY JOHN YELVERTON, 3 Viscount. _b._ 21 Feb. 1790;
succeeded 28 Nov. 1814; principal registrar of court of chancery
in Ireland to 1826 when granted pension of £4,200 on abolition of
office. _d._ Raglan road, Dublin 24 Oct. 1870.
AVONMORE, WILLIAM CHARLES YELVERTON, 4 Viscount (_elder son of the
preceding_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1824; ed. at Woolwich; captain R.A. 16
July 1850 to 1 April 1861 when placed on h.p.; suspended from all
military duties March 1861. (_m._ 26 July 1858 Emily Marianne
youngest dau. of Sir Charles Ashworth, K.C.B. and widow of Edward
Forbes, F.R.S.) _d._ Biarritz 1 April 1883. _The Yelverton
correspondence by the Hon. Theresa Yelverton_ 1863, _portrait_;
_J. J. Macqueen’s Reports in House of Lords iv_, 743–912 (1866).
NOTE.—He went through marriage ceremonies with Maria Theresa
eld. dau. of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, manufacturer (1)
at 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh on 12 April 1857 and (2) in
chapel of Kilbroney near Rostrevor, Ireland on 15 Aug. 1857. A
great deal of litigation took place between them to settle the
point whether they were married or not, the end of which was
that on 28 July 1864, House of Lords decided in favour of Lord
Avonmore and against the marriage, thus reversing the judgment
of the Court of Session in Edinburgh which had decided in her
favour.
AVONMORE, BARRY NUGENT YELVERTON, 5 Viscount. _b._ 1 Randolph cliff,
Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1859; 2 lieut. 37 foot 30 Jany. 1878; lieut. 20
Feb. 1879 to death; succeeded 1 April 1883. _d._ of enteric fever
at Kerbekan in the Soudan 13 Feb. 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 431
(1885) _portrait_.
AVORY, HENRY. _b._ 1826; articled to John Clark of London,
solicitor; clerk of indictments home circuit 1845; admitted a
solicitor Nov. 1857; deputy clerk of assize home circuit 1858 to
death; clerk of arraigns at central criminal court May 1860 to
death. _d._ 26 Ladbroke gardens, London 5 April 1881.
NOTE.—He figures in W. P. Frith’s series The race for wealth
in the 4th picture “Judgment.”
AWDRY, SIR JOHN WITHER (_2 son of John Awdry of Notton house,
Chippenham 1766–1844_). _b._ Swindon 21 Oct. 1795; ed. at
Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, D.C.L. 1844;
fellow of Oriel coll. 1820–1830; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1822;
puisne judge and comr. of insolvent debtor’s court Bombay
1830–1839; knighted by patent 18 June 1830; chief justice of
supreme court of Bombay 1839–1841 when he resigned; chairman of
Wilts quarter sessions 1848 to 1866. _d._ Notton house 31 May
1878.
AYCKBOURN, HUBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Harman Ayckbourn,
barrister who d. 31 Dec. 1870 aged 94_). author of _The practice
of the high court of Chancery_ 1844, _9 ed._ 1870; _The
jurisdiction and practice of the supreme court of judicature_ 1874
_2 ed._ 1876; committed suicide 2 or 3 May 1880 aged 56.
AYLEN, JONATHAN (_son of John Aylen of Portsea_). _b._ Portsmouth 22
May 1798; entered navy 13 Feb. 1813; master 5 Sep. 1823; master
attendant at Sheerness dockyard 25 May 1849 to March 1856;
examiner in navigation and seamanship at Hull May 1856; retired
captain 25 May 1858; made several important inventions in anchors,
his improvement on the Admiralty anchor was successfully tested at
trial of anchors of all nations 1852. _d._ Welton near Brough,
Yorkshire 9 Oct. 1874. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 31–32.
AYLES, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1808; 2 lieut. R.M. 13 May 1828;
col. commandant 16 May 1862 to 4 Nov. 1864; M.G. 4 Nov. 1864; _d._
Clevelands Basset, Southampton 25 Nov. 1883.
AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 5 Earl of, (_eld. son of Heneage Finch 4
Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812_). _b._ 24 April 1786; succeeded 20
Oct. 1812. _d._ Packington hall, Coventry 3 Jany. 1859.
AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 6 Earl of. _b._ Packington hall, 24 Dec.
1824; M.P. for south Warwickshire 7 June 1849 to 21 March 1857.
_d._ Grosvenor st. London 10 Jany. 1871.
AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 7 Earl of. _b._ Upper Brook st. London 21
Feb. 1849; entertained Prince of Wales at Packington hall Nov.
1874; a prize fight and a cock fight took place there in 1876;
effected 56 policies of insurance on his life to amount £204,830.
_d._ the Big Springs cattle ranch, Texas 13 Jany. 1885.
AYLMER, FREDERICK WHITWORTH AYLMER, 6 Baron. _b._ Twyford near
Southampton 12 Oct. 1777; captain R.N. 18 May 1805; commanded
Severn 50 guns at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; naval
aide-de-camp to Wm. iv 1830–37; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846, pensioned 1 July
1851; admiral on half pay 11 Sep. 1854; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B.
5 July 1855, K.F.M.; succeeded as 6 Baron 23 Feb. 1850. _d._ 20
Dawson place, Westbourne grove 5 March 1858. _O’Byrne_ (1861) p.
32.
AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 9 Baronet. _b._ Carnarvon 15 Sep. 1798;
succeeded 23 May 1816. _d._ Donadea castle Kilcock, co. Kildare 8
Feb. 1878.
AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 10 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 26 May 1830. _d._
25 June 1883.
AYLMER, SIR JUSTIN GERALD, 11 Baronet. _b._ 17 Nov. 1863; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cambridge. _d._ Trinity college 15 March
1885 the result of a fall from a bicycle 3 days before.
AYLMER, SIR ARTHUR PERCY, 12 Baronet. _b._ 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; student L.I. _d._ Cork 7
May 1885.
AYLMER, THOMAS BRABAZON. Ensign 20 foot 9 Aug. 1797; major 9 foot 4
Sep. 1807 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Sep.
1856; colonel 45 foot 25 Sep. 1856 to death. _d._ Worthing 19 July
1858 aged 76.
AYLWARD, WILLIAM. A student at R.A. of Music, gained a King’s
scholarship; professor of violoncello there; member of
Philharmonic society and of Royal Italian opera band; taught music
at Slough. _d._ 12 March 1878.
AYRE, REV. JOHN. _b._ Feb. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1823,
M.A. 1827; Incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Downshire hill
Hampstead; dom. chap. to Earl of Roden; general secretary and
librarian of Parker Society 1840–53; edited for Parker Society
_Sermons of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York_ 1841; _Works of
Thomas Becon 3 vols._ 1843–44; _Works of John Jewel, bishop of
Salisbury 4 vols._ 1845–50; _Works of John Whitgift, archbishop of
Canterbury 3 vols._ 1851–53; author of _Treasury of Bible
knowledge_ 1866. _d._ Church row, Hampstead 20 May 1869.
AYRE, JOSEPH. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1781; sent to sea 1800; studied
medicine at Guy’s hospital and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1807;
practised at Hull 1808–24, in London 1824–31, and at Hull again
1831 to death; L.R.C.P. 1824, F.R.C.P. 1859; author of _Practical
observations on bilious complaint_ 1821; _Researches into the
nature and treatment of dropsy_ 1825. _d._ Hull 15 Jany. 1860.
AYRES, JOHN. _b._ 1807; clerk of the Royal Society of Literature
more than 30 years. _d._ 4 St. Martin’s place, London 9 July 1881.
AYRES, PHILIP BURNARD. _b._ Thame, Oxon 12 Dec. 1813; entered Univ.
college London Oct. 1833; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 25 April 1836;
M.D. London 9 Dec. 1841 where he won 7 medals; practised nearly 10
years at Thame; lecturer on chemistry at Charing Cross hospital;
phys. to Islington dispensary 1851; edited _Pharmaceutical Times_;
patented a method of utilising sewage as manure 1847;
superintendent of quarantine in Mauritius 5 Jany. 1856 to death.
_d._ Champ de Mars, Port Louis, Mauritius 30 April 1863.
NOTE.—His widow presented his herbarium of Mauritius plants to
royal gardens at Kew.
AYRIS, HENRY. _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; whipper-in to the Berkeley hounds
1826; huntsman of same pack down to Dec. 1865, when presented with
a purse of 500 guineas, and granted an annuity of £100 by Lord
Fitzhardinge; the best huntsman of his day. _d._ Ham near Berkeley
28 April 1874.
AYRTON, EDWARD NUGENT. _b._ Richmond, Surrey 1815; ed. at Ealing and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 20 Nov.
1845; wrote in the Law Times. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 28 Nov. 1873.
AYRTON, FREDERICK (_elder brother of preceding_.) _b._ London 20
March 1812; ed. at Ealing and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay
artillery 1828; captain June 1843 to 11 Sep. 1843, when he retired
on a pension; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; sec. to Abbas Pasha
viceroy of Egypt 1851 to 13 July 1854 when he died, educated
Ilhami Pasha his only son, sec. to him 1854 to his death 1861;
A.I.C.E. 9 June 1835; received title of Bey from the Khedive. _d._
Arundel gardens, Notting hill London 20 June 1873. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_, 306–308 (1874).
NOTE.—He formed a magnificent collection of Arabic calligraphs
and MSS. which he bequeathed to the nation, but unfortunately
the conditions with which the bequest was accompanied,
prevented the Trustees of the British Museum accepting it.
AYRTON, MATILDA (_dau. of Mr. Chaplin._) _b._ Honfleur 1846; passed
preliminary examination at the Apothecaries’ Hall 1869 but was
refused admission to the later examination on ground of her sex;
matriculated at Univ. of Edin.; completed her education at Paris;
lived in Japan 1873–77; taught midwifery to a class of Japanese
women; M.D. Paris Dec. 1879; a licentiate of the King and Queen’s
College of Physicians in Ireland, when she came out first in the
examination; author of _Child life in Japan_ 1879; contributed
many articles to periodicals. (_m._ 1872 Wm. Edward Ayrton
professor in Imperial college of engineering, Japan). _d._ Sloane
st. London 19 July 1883. _The Englishwoman’s Review 15 Aug. 1883._
AYRTON, WILLIAM (_younger son of Edmund Ayrton 1734–1808, Master of
the chapel royal to George iii_). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1777;
Captain in Queen’s royal volunteers Westminster; musical and
literary critic of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1813–1826; chief
originator of Philharmonic society 1813; manager of Opera house
London 1817 and 1821; produced Mozart’s Don Giovanni for first
time in England 12 April 1817; edited and wrote much in the
_Harmonicon_ 1823–33; wrote the musical articles in the _Penny
Cyclopædia_ 1833–44; edited the _Sacred Minstrelsy_ 1834–35 and
the _Musical library_ 1834–36; one of the original members of
Royal institution and of the Athenæum club; F.R.S. 1 June 1837;
_d._ 9 Bridge st. Westminster 8 May 1858.
AYRTON, WILLIAM SCROPE (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 April
1804; ed. at Loughborough house school; barrister M.T. 26 Nov.
1830; a registrar of Court of Bankruptcy Aug. 1838 to July 1847;
comr. of Leeds district Court of Bankruptcy 5 July 1847 to 31 Dec.
1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of his office; F.S.A.
21 May 1840; author with Basil Montagu of _Reports of cases in
Bankruptcy 3 vols._ 1834–39 and of _The law and practice in
Bankruptcy 2 vols._ 1837. _d._ Cliffden, Saltburn-by-the-Sea 3 May
1885.
AYSCOUGH, JOHN (_son of John Ayscough, Capt. R.N._) _b._ on board
H.M.S. “Swan” during an action on the way from North America 1775;
captain R.N. 18 April 1806; protected Sicily against invasion of
Joachim Murat 1810; superintended the ordinary at Plymouth
1822–25; Comr. of dockyards at Jamaica and Bermuda; admiral 3 Oct.
1855; awarded good service pension, _d._ Norwood, Surrey 2 Dec.
1863. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 33–34.
AYTOUN, ROBERT. _b._ Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a writer
to the Signet; member of Royal Scottish society of arts 1826; read
many papers; A.I.C.E. 1839; invented a safety cage for mines
exhibited at great exhibition 1862. _d._ 9 Sep. 1876.
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 21 Abercromby place, Edin. 21
June 1813; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; M.A. 1849; a writer
to the Signet 1835; an advocate 1840; on the staff of Blackwood’s
magazine 1839 to death, contributed more than 120 articles;
professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct.
1845 to 1864, during which time he raised number of students from
30 to 1850; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 29 May 1852; delivered 6
lectures on poetry and dramatic literature at Willis’s Rooms,
London 1853; presided at Burns centenary festival at Ayr 25 Jany.
1859; hon. pres. of associated societies of Univ. of Edin. 1860;
author of _Poland, Homer and other poems_ [_anon._] 1832; _Lays of
the Scottish cavaliers and other poems_ 1848, _29 ed._ 1883;
_Firmilian or the student of Badajoz, a spasmodic tragedy by T.
Percy Jones_ [_pseud._] 1854; _Bon Gaultier ballads_ (with T.
Martin) 1855, _13 ed._ 1877; _Bothwell, a poem in six parts_ 1856;
edited _The ballads of Scotland 2 vols._ 1858, 4 ed. 1870. _d._
Blackhills near Elgin 4 Aug. 1865. _Theodore Martin’s Memoir of W.
E. Aytoun_ 1867, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882,
_portrait_.
B
BABBAGE, BENJAMIN HERSCHELL (_eld. son of the succeeding_).
Geologist of colony of South Australia; examined the country north
and east of Adelaide for gold 1856; commanded an exploring party
sent by Parliament of South Australia to Lake Torrens Feb. 1858 to
5 Nov. 1858. _d._ Adelaide 22 Oct. 1878 aged 63. _W. Howitt’s
History of discovery ii_, 311–24 (1865); _Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s
History of discovery ii_, 260–79 (1865).
BABBAGE, CHARLES (_son of Benjamin Babbage of London, banker_). _b._
near Teignmouth, Devon 26 Dec. 1792; ed. at Enfield and Trinity
and Peterhouse colleges Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; F.R.S. 14
March 1816; a founder of Royal Astronomical Society 1820, one of
its secs. 1820–24, vice pres., foreign sec and member of council
successively; began his calculating machine 1823, suspended its
construction 1833, after spending on it about £6,000 besides
£17,000 granted him by Government; Lucasian professor of
mathematics at Cambridge 1828–39 but delivered no lectures; a
founder of British Association 1831, a trustee 1832–38, originated
the statistical section at Cambridge meeting 1833; contested
Finsbury as a radical Dec. 1832 and June 1834; chief founder of
Statistical Society 15 March 1834, chairman 1835; author of _Table
of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000_, 1827;
_The decline of science in England_ 1830; _On the economy of
manufactures_ 1832, _4 ed._ 1835; _The ninth Bridgewater treatise_
1837, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ 1 Dorset st. Portman sq. 18 Oct. 1871.
_Babbage’s Passages from the life of a philosopher_ 1864; _Monthly
notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxii_, 101–109 (1872); _C. R. Weld’s
History of royal society ii_, 369–91 (1848); _Edinburgh Review
lix_, 263–327 (1834); _Journal of statistical soc. xxxiv_, 411–15
(1871); _I.L.N. lix_, 423 (1871), _portrait_; _Graphic iv_, 495
(1871), _portrait_.
BABER, REV. HENRY HERVEY (_son of Thomas Baber of London,
barrister_). _b._ 22 Aug. 1775; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and All
Soul’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1805; sub librarian of the
Bodleian 1796; assistant librarian at British Museum 1807 and
keeper of Printed books 1812–37; vice principal of St. Mary’s hall
Ox. 1805; C. of St. Mary the Virgin Ox. 1805; R. of Stretham with
Thetford, Cambridge 1827; F.R.S. 23 May 1816; one of founders of
Royal society of literature 2 June 1823 which received a charter
13 Sep. 1826; editor of _Vetus testamentum Græcum e codice MS.
Alexandrino_, _4 vols._ 1816–28. _d._ Stretham rectory 28 March
1868.
BABINGTON, BENJAMIN GUY (_son of Wm. Babington of London, physician
1756–1833_). _b._ Guy’s Hospital 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse
1803–1807; midshipman R.N., served at Walcheren and Copenhagen
1809; in the Madras medical service 1812–19; studied at Guy’s
Hospital and Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.L. 1827, M.D. 1830,
F.R.C.P. 1831; delivered Croonian and Lumleian lectures; F.R.S. 13
March 1828, on the council 1861–63; assistant phys. to Guy’s
Hospital 1837 and phys. 1840–55; a founder of Sydenham Society
1843, treasurer 1843–58 when society was dissolved; chief founder
of Epidemiological society Aug. 1850, pres. 1850–64; pres. of
Royal Medical and Chirurgical society 1861; invented the
Laryngoscope, made for him by an optician called Elsworthy and
exhibited at Hunterian Society 18 March 1829; took out patents for
pens 1843, and for preventing incrustation of boilers 1850; author
of _Passing thoughts in sonnet_ [_anon._] 1855. _d._ 31 George st.
Hanover sq. 8 April 1866 in 73 year. _Trans. of Epidemiological
Society ii_, 160–67 _and_ 471–76 (1865–67).
BABINGTON, CORNELIUS METCALFE STUART. _b._ India 1816; M.R.C.S.
1838, M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1857; surgeon accoucheur to St.
George’s and St. James’s dispensary London; phys. to Queen
Charlotte’s Lying-in-hospital 1850 to death; a founder of
Obstetrical Society 16 Dec. 1858, vice pres. 2 Jany. 1861. _d._
Hertford st. London 25 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir.
society iv_, 86–88 (1864).
BABINGTON, DAVID. Entered Madras army 1820; brigadier general in
command of Malabar and Canara 17 Jany. 1862 to 3 Feb. 1865; L.G.
16 May 1872. _d._ Clifton 12 Aug. 1874.
BABINGTON, GEORGE GISBORNE. _b._ 22 Jany. 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816,
F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Golden sq. London; surgeon to St.
George’s hospital; delivered Hunterian oration at Royal college of
surgeons 14 Feb. 1842. _d._ 13 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park 1 Jany.
1856.
BABINGTON, WILLIAM KNOX. Brigadier general commanding northern
district of Madras 29 Nov. 1867 to 1 Dec. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877.
_d._ 48 Oxford terrace, Hyde Park 31 July 1878.
BABY, DANIEL. Ensign 24 foot 9 Nov. 1797; captain 6 Aug. 1806 to 1
June 1826 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. _d._ 15 April
1858.
BACHE, FRANCIS EDWARD (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._
Birmingham 14 Sep. 1833; pupil of Alfred Mellon; played violin in
orchestra at Birmingham festivals 1846 and 1847; organist at All
Saint’s Church Gordon sq. London Oct. 1850 to Oct. 1853; his first
Overture was performed at Adelphi theatre Nov. 1850; composed many
pianoforte pieces and songs; designed the organ in Hope st.
church, Liverpool. _d._ Frederick st. Edgbaston, Birmingham 24
Aug. 1858. _The Christian Reformer xiv_, 713–19 (1858).
BACHE, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Bridgnorth 24 Dec. 1804; assistant in
school of Rev. Lant Carpenter at Bristol; ed. at Manchester
college, York 1826–29; unitarian minister at the old meeting
Dudley 1829–32 and at the new meeting Moor st. Birmingham 1832–62
when it was sold and congregation moved to Church of the Messiah,
Broad st. where he was minister 1862–68; kept a school at
Birmingham many years; author of _Harmony of science and
revelation_ 1839; _Exposition of Unitarian views of Christianity_
1854; _Miracles the credentials of the Christ_ 1863 and 19 other
publications, none of which are mentioned in _The English
catalogue of books_, or _Allibone’s Dictionary_. _d._ Gloucester 7
Jany. 1876. _Beale’s Memorials of old meeting house Birmingham_
1882.
BACHHOFFNER, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ London 13 April 1810; originated and
suggested scheme of Royal Polytechnic Institution, which was
opened 6 Aug. 1838, principal in department of natural and
experimental philosophy there, Aug. 1838 to Aug. 1855; one of
district registrars of Marylebone parish 1837, and superintendent
registrar 1853 to death; lessee and manager of Royal Colosseum,
Dec. 1856 to 16 Feb. 1864, when it closed for ever; professor of
natural philosophy at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; invented the
Polytechnic gas fire 1850; author of _Chemistry as applied to the
fine arts_ 1837. _d._ 78 The Grove, Hammersmith 22 July 1879.
BACK, SIR GEORGE (_son of John Back of Stockport, Cheshire_). _b._
Stockport 6 Nov. 1796; midshipman R.N. Sep. 1808; a prisoner at
Verdun in France 1809–14; went with Franklin to the Spitzbergen
seas 1818, along Arctic coast of America 1819–22, and to Mackenzie
river 1825–27; conducted overland Arctic expedition 1833–35, when
he travelled 7500 miles, and discovered the Back or Great Fish
river; captain by order in council 30 Sep. 1835, an honour which
no other officer in the navy had received except William iv;
commanded the Terror in expedition to the frigid zone 1836–37;
knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 6 March 1839; F.R.G.S.
1836, Founder’s gold medallist 1836; F.R.S. 7 Jany. 1847; gold
medallist of Geographical Society of Paris; pres. of the Raleigh
club 1844; awarded good service pension 21 Jany. 1854; D.C.L.
Oxford 28 June 1854; admiral on h.p. 18 Oct. 1867; author of
_Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great
Fish river_ 1836; _Narrative of an expedition in H.M.S. Terror_
1838. (_m._ 13 Oct. 1846 Theodosia Elizabeth, widow of Anthony
Hammond of Savile row, London, she _d._ 6 Jany. 1861). _d._ 109
Gloucester place, Portman sq. 23 June 1878. _Geographical mag. v_,
179–81 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 4 (1878) _portrait_; _Graphic
xviii_, 116 (1878) _portrait_.
BACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Surrey; ed. at Guy’s hosp. and Univ. of Edin.;
M.D. 24 June 1808; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; Physician to Guy’s hosp.
17 March 1819 to 1840. _d._ New Park road, Clapham park 6 Nov.
1856 aged 74.
BACKHOUSE, EDWARD (_son of Edward Backhouse of Darlington_). _b._
Darlington 1808; a banker at Sunderland, and a partner in
colleries; an Elder of Society of Friends 1854 to death; erected a
large mission hall at Sunderland; author of _The religious society
of Friends_ 1870. _d._ Hastings 22 May 1879. _Early church history
compiled by the late E. Backhouse, edited by C. Tylor_ 1884,
_portrait_.
BACKHOUSE, GEORGE CANNING. Clerk in the Foreign Office 5 April 1838;
commissary judge at Havannah 16 Dec. 1852 to death; murdered at
Havannah 30 Aug. 1856 aged 37; a civil list pension of £100
granted his widow 15 Nov. 1856.
BACKHOUSE, JAMES. _b._ 8 July 1794; ed. at Leeds; minister of
Society of Friends 1824; missionary to Australia and South Africa
1831–41; author of _A narrative of a visit to the Australian
colonies_ 1843; _A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South
Africa_ 1844 and many small books. _d._ Holdgate house, York 20
Jany. 1869. _Memoir of James Backhouse by his sister_ 1870;
_Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 152–56 (1867).
BACON, ANTHONY. Cornet 16 Lancers 13 Aug. 1812; lieut. 13 Dragoons
1818–1821 when placed on h.p.; commanded the whole cavalry of
Queen Dona Maria of Portugal 1832–34; created General on field of
battle at Loures by Emperor Don Pedro in person 12 Oct. 1833;
K.T.S. _d._ Crondall near Farnham 2 July 1864 aged 68. _Sketches
in Portugal by J. E. Alexander_ (1835) 120, 245.
BACON, CHARLOTTE MARY (_2 dau. of Edward Harley, 5 Earl of Oxford
1773–1848_). _b._ Harley st. London 12 Dec. 1801; Lord Byron
dedicated his _Childe Harold_ to her under name of Ianthe 1812.
(_m._ 1823 general Anthony Bacon). _d._ 13 Stanhope place, Hyde
park 9 March 1880. _Finden’s Illustrations of Lord Byron vol. ii_,
(1833), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 292 (1880), _portrait_.
BACON, SIR EDMUND, 9 Baronet of Redgrave and 10 Baronet of
Mildenhall. _b._ Raveningham, Beccles, Norfolk 16 July 1779;
succeeded his father as Premier Baronet of England 5 Sep. 1820.
_d._ Raveningham 30 May 1864.
BACON, GEORGE PETER (_younger son of R. M. Bacon of Norwich, editor
of the Norwich Mercury_). Bought the Sussex Advertiser 1843, wrote
all the leading articles and edited the paper to his death; sec.
of Hop excise duty repeal association 1858 to April 1862 when duty
which yielded £750,000 a year was taken off. _d._ 64 High st.
Lewes 15 March 1878 in 72 year. _I.L.N. xlii_, 641 (1863).
BACON, SIR HENRY HICKMAN, 10 and 11 Baronet. _b._ Blundeston near
Lowestoft 5 April 1820; succeeded 30 May 1864; sheriff of Lincoln
1867. _d._ Thonock hall, Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1872.
BACON, JOHN (_2 son of John Bacon, R.A. sculptor 1740–99_). _b._
Newman st. Oxford st. London March 1777; completed his father’s
works; exhibited 64 sculptures at the R.A. 1792–1824; executed
statue of Wm. iii in St. James’s sq. 1808; 6 monuments in St.
Paul’s and 11 monuments in Westminster Abbey. _d._ Bathwick hill
near Bath 14 July 1859.
BACON, REV. ROBERT. ed. at Univ. of Glasgow LLD. 1800, and Em. coll.
Cam. LL.B. 1806; C. of Hunstanton 1802–42; C. of Sedgeford
1809–32; P.C. of Fring, Norfolk 16 Feb. 1809 to death; R. of
Wolverton, Norfolk 1836 to death; author of _Poems_, 1790;
_Treatise on Baptism_ 1827; _Theological essays_ 1829. _d._ 1861.
BACOT, JOHN. _b._ 29 May 1781; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843;
assistant surgeon Grenadier Guards 1803–20; practised in London
1820; edited with Roderick Mc Cleod _Medical and Physical
journal_; chairman of Court of examiners of Society of
Apothecaries 1832–38, master of the company 1845–46; member of
General board of Health 1854; author of _Observations on the use
and abuse of friction_ 1822 and _A treatise on Syphilis_ 1829.
_d._ 4 Portugal st. Park lane 4 Sep. 1870. _Medical Circular i_,
130 (1852).
BADDELEY, JOHN. _b._ at sea in Bay of Bengal 22 Jany. 1846; taken to
England 1851; ed. at Bonn and Univ. of Edin.; M.B. 1867; founded
Athletic club of Univ. of Edin. May 1867, pres. 1867–68; fellow of
Botanical society of Edin. 14 Dec. 1865; member of Royal Medical
Society 23 Nov. 1866. _d._ Royal Infirmary Edin. 29 Feb. 1868.
_Transactions of Botanical Society ix_, 304–12 (1868).
BADDELEY, WILLIAM. Civil engineer; made many improvements in manual
fire engines 1820–62; invented portable cistern used by London
Fire Brigade. _d._ March 1867 aged 61.
BADELEY, EDWARD LOWTH (_son of John Badeley M.D. of Leighs hall,
near Chelmsford 1742–1831_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox.;
B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; counsel for
Bishop of Exeter in Gorham case before judicial committee of P.C.
17–18 Dec. 1849; joined Church of Rome 1850; author of _The
privilege of religious confessions in English courts of justice_
1865. _d._ 29 March 1868. _Memoir of J. R. Hope Scott 2 vols._
1884.
BADELEY, JOHN CARR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1794; ed. at
the Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1817, M.D. 1822;
F.R.C.P.; phys. to Asylum for health Lisson Grove, London; phys.
to Chelmsford dispensary 20 years; inspecting phys. to lunatic
asylums of Essex; Harveian orator 1849; poisoned himself
accidentally at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford 22 Sep. 1851.
BADEN, MAUDIT OR MARDIT. _b._ Pewsey, Wilts Feb. 1763 or 1773. _d._
Oare, parish of Wilcot, Wilts 11 May 1869. _Human longevity by W.
J. Thoms_ (1873) 129–31.
BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (_eld son of Thomas Badger of
Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862_). _b._ 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr.
sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29
Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to
death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited _Concise forms of
wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ 28 Gloucester
place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.
BADGLEY, FRANCIS. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830;
M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal
1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and
chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of
medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in
medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of
Toronto 1851; founded _Montreal Medical Gazette_ 1844, edited it
1844–45. _d._ Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.
BADGLEY, W. _b._ Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of
Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of
three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of
bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit
judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada
April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855;
puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of
Freemasons for Montreal. _d._ 1876. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of
eminent Canadians_ (1862) 492–97.
BADHAM, REV. CHARLES. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of
_Selections from Robert Hall_ 1840; _Aids to devotion_ 1843;
_History of All Saints, Sudbury_ 1852. _d._ All Saints vicarage,
Sudbury 15 April 1874.
BADHAM, REV. CHARLES (_son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius
professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow_). _b._ Ludlow 18 July
1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of
Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany
and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St.
Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham
proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in
Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his
time; author of _Criticism applied to Shakespeare_ 1846; published
editions with notes of the _Ion of Euripides_ 1851, 1853 and 1861;
and of the _Philebus of Plato_ 1855 and 1878. _d._ Sydney 26 Feb.
1884. _Saturday Review lvii_, 540 (1884).
BADHAM, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_brother of preceding_). _b._ London
1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A.
at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D.
1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.;
practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845;
ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt,
Suffolk 1849–55; author of _Insect life_ 1845; _The esculent
funguses of England_ 1847; _Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern
fish tattle_ 1854; contributed much to _Blackwood_ and _Fraser_.
_d._ East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. _Fraser’s Mag. lvi_,
162–63 (1857).
BAGEHOT, WALTER (_only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill
Langport, Somerset 1796–1881_). _b._ Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at
Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical
scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852;
edited the _National Review_ with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov.
1864; edited the _Economist_ 1860 to death; examiner in political
economy in Univ. of London; author of _Estimates of some
Englishmen and Scotchmen_ 1858; _The English constitution_ 1867;
_Physics and Politics_ 1872. (_m._ 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau.
of James Wilson, M.P.) _d._ Herds Hill 24 March 1877. _Literary
studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i,
ix-lxvii_ (1884), _portrait_; _Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii_,
393–96 (1885).
BAGG, WILLIAM. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. _d._
20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year.
BAGGE, REV. HENRY THEODORE JAMES (_only son of the succeeding_).
_b._ 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851;
C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of _Toleratio intolerabilis
or the free development of the Romish system_ 1851; _St. Paul’s
Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated_ 1856.
_d._ Munich 19 Nov. 1861.
BAGGE, REV. JAMES. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A.
1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of
_Twelve sermons_ 1835; _The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev.
W. B. Barter_ 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. _d._ 1877.
BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of
Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827_). _b._ Stradsett hall 17 June
1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West
Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867.
_d._ Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880.
BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ERNEST, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stradsett hall 9
Aug. 1840. _d._ Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881.
BAGLEY, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th
Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem of the Tammany
society to death. _d._ New York 21 Dec. 1876.
BAGLEY, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Made many important improvements in the
bobbin net machine for which he took out patents 1844, 1850 and
1851; his productions were shewn in the London exhibition of 1851
and the Paris exhibition of 1855. _d._ 1859 aged about 50. _W.
Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 371–75.
BAGNALL, CHARLES. _b._ West Bromwich, Staffs. 1827; an ironmaster;
M.P. for Whitby 1865–68. _d._ Brighton 25 Feb. 1884.
BAGNALL, JOHN NOCK. _b._ Hateley Heath, West Bromwich 30 May 1826;
member of firm of John Bagnall and Sons of the Gold’s Hill Iron
works (where most of the rails used on foreign lines were made)
1844–61; captain of Bilston rifle corps which he raised 26 Jany.
1860, commanded Wolverhampton battalion 9 Nov. 1868 to March 1884;
pres. of South Staffordshire branch of the English Church Union;
licensed by Bishop Selwyn as a lay deacon in diocese of Lichfield
1872, took charge of St. Mary’s, Hateley Heath; sheriff of Staffs.
1875–76; author of _A history of Wednesbury in the county of
Stafford [anon.]_ 1854. _d._ The Moss Shenstone, Staffs. 18 Oct.
1884. _John Nock Bagnall A memoir by his daughter Mary Willett_
1885, _portrait_.
BAGNOLD, MICHAEL. Entered Bombay army 1803; colonel 29 Bombay N.I.
21 Jany. 1846 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Upper Hamilton
terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Dec. 1857 aged 71.
BAGOT, WILLIAM BAGOT, 2 Baron (_3 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot
1728–98_). _b._ Bruton st. London 11 Sep. 1773; ed. at Westminster
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 22 Oct. 1798; author of _Memorials of
the Bagot family_ 1823. _d._ Blithfield near Stafford 12 Feb.
1856. _Memorials of the Bagot family_ 1823, _portrait_.
BAGOT, ALAN (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1 June 1856; M.I.M.E.,
F.C.S., F.S.A.; invented several apparatus for saving life and
preventing accidents in mines; author of _Accidents in mines_
1878; _The principles and practice of colliery ventilation_ 1879,
_2 ed._ 1882; _Principles of civil engineering_ 1885. _d._
Bournemouth April 1885.