1840; lieut. col. 3 Stafford militia 5 April 1853 and col. 27
March 1858 to death; assistant master of ceremonies in Royal
household 1861 to death. _d._ 49 Cadogan place, London 20 Feb.
1881.
BAGOT, REV. CHARLES WALTER (_3 son of Right Rev. Richard Bagot
1782–1854_). _b._ 11 Feb. 1812; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834,
M.A. 1842; fellow of All Souls college 1842–46; R. of
Castle-Rising, Norfolk 1846 to death; chancellor of diocese of
Bath and Wells 1851 to death. _d._ 10 Sep. 1884.
BAGOT, HENRY. _b._ 12 July 1810; entered navy 13 May 1823; admiral
on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. _d._ Brewood hall, Stafford 30 Nov. 1877.
BAGOT, RIGHT REV. RICHARD (_6 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot
1728–98_). _b._ Daventry 22 Nov. 1782; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch.
Ox. B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. by diploma 30 Nov. 1829; fellow of
All Souls college 1804–1806; R. of Leigh, Staffs. 1806; R. of
Blithfield 1807; canon of Worcester 16 July 1817; canon of Windsor
25 March 1822; dean of Canterbury 2 Sep. 1827 to Nov. 1845;
elected Bishop of Oxford 13 July 1829, confirmed 22 and
consecrated 23 Aug.; Bishop of Bath and Wells 6 Nov. 1845 to
death; his see was administered for a time by Right Rev. James
Henry Monk, bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. _d._ Brighton 15 May
1854. _Rev. W. Palmer’s Events connected with publication of
Tracts for the times_ 1883.
BAGSHAW, HENRY RIDGARD (_2 son of Sir Wm. Chambers Darling
afterwards Bagshaw of Sheffield, physician 1771–1832_). _b._ 1
Nov. 1799; ed. at Oakham and Richmond gr. schs. and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825, bencher Dec. 1854,
treasurer 1864–65; Q.C. Dec. 1854; judge of county courts of
Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke (circuit 31) 30 Oct. 1861 and of
Clerkenwell district (circuit 41) June 1868 to death. _d._ 21
Fellow’s road, Eton park south Hampstead 16 May 1870.
BAGSHAW, JOHN. _b._ 1784; ed. at Rugby; a banker and merchant at
Calcutta; M.P. for Sudbury 1835 to 1837 and for Harwich 1847 to
1852 and 1853 to 1859; high steward of Harwich, _d._ Norwood 20
Dec. 1861.
BAGSHAW, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1803; a merchant at Calcutta; M.P. for
Harwich 9 Dec. 1857 to 23 April 1859; sheriff of Essex 1873 _d._
42 Gloucester square, London 11 Aug. 1878.
BAGSHAWE, WILLIAM LEONARD GILL. _b._ 18 Oct. 1828; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; rowed No. 5 in Cambridge boat against
Oxford 29 March 1849 and 15 Dec. 1849; the best oarsman on the
river Cam.; killed by poachers at Wormhill hall, near Tideswell 20
July 1854. _Annual Register_ (1854) 430–34.
BAGSTER, SAMUEL (_2 son of George Bagster of Beaufort buildings,
Strand, London_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1772; bookseller in the Strand
1794–1816, in Paternoster Row 1816 to death; published _The
English version of the polyglott Bible_ 1816; _Biblia sacra
polyglotta Bagsteriana_, 4 vols. 1817–28; _The English Hexapla_
1841 giving six most important English versions of New Testament;
and many Bibles and Prayer Books in foreign languages. (_m._ 19
Dec. 1797 Eunice Birch, she was _b._ 23 Aug. 1777 and _d._ 22 Aug.
1877). _d._ Old Windsor 28 March 1851.
BAGWELL, JOHN (_eld son of Very Rev. Richard Bagwell, dean of
Clogher who d. 25 Dec. 1825_). _b._ Clogher, co. Tyrone 3 April
1811; ed. at Winchester; sheriff of Tipperary 1834; M.P. for
Clonmel 30 March 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874; a lord of the treasury
June 1859 to July 1861. _d._ Marlfield, Clonmel 2 March 1883.
BAIGRIE, ROBERT (_son of John Baigrie of Fearn, Rossshire_). Entered
Bombay army 3 Feb. 1848; major staff corps 3 Feb. 1868;
quartermaster general Bombay army to 1874; commandant 28 N.I. 20
May 1876 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Poona 25 Sep. 1877.
_I.L.N. lxxi_, 481, 482 (1877), _portrait_.
BAIKIE, WILLIAM BALFOUR (_eld son of John Baikie captain R.N._).
_b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 27 Aug. 1825; ed. at Kirkwall gr. sch. and
Univ. of Edin., M.D.; assistant surgeon R.N. 1848; surgeon and
naturalist to expedition to the river Niger 1854; commanded
expedition to river Niger 1 April 1857; author of _Narrative of an
exploring voyage up the river Niger_ 1856. _d._ at house of
Charles Heddle, Sierra Leone 12 Dec. 1864. _Journal of royal
geographical society xxxv_, 123 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 88 (1865),
_portrait_.
BAILES, WILLIAM HAIGH. _b._ 1821; solicitor at Boston 1843 to death;
member of Boston town council 1863–72, alderman 1872, mayor 1873.
_d._ 14 April 1885.
BAILEY, REV. BENJAMIN. V. of Dallington, Northampton 1819; senior
chaplain in Ceylon; archdeacon of Colombo 1852 to death. _d._
Nottingham place, Marylebone 25 June 1853 aged 62.
BAILEY, CRAWSHAY. _b._ Wenham, Suffolk 24 Oct. 1789; an ironmaster
in South Wales; sheriff of Brecon 1835, of Monmouth 1850; took out
a patent for railway rails 1843; M.P. for Monmouth 1852–68. _d._
Llanfoist near Abergavenny 9 Jany. 1872.
BAILEY, FANNY (_dau. of John Mitchell of Ferring, Sussex, farmer_).
_b._ Ferring 7 Aug. 1777. _d._ Christchurch schools, Worthing 6
April 1881 aged 103 years and 8 months. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 440
(1881), _portrait_; _N. and Q. 5 S. viii_, 265 (1877), _xii_, 407
(1879), 6 _S. iii_, 485 (1881).
BAILEY, JAMES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823; head
master of Perse’s Free school Cam.; granted a Civil list pension
of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; edited _Forcellini’s Latin dictionary 2
vols._ 1826; author of _Comicorum Græcorum fragmenta_ 1840. _d._
London 13 Feb. 1864.
BAILEY, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Joseph Bailey of
Wakefield 1747–1813_). _b._ Great Wenham priory, Suffolk 21 Jany.
1783; an ironmaster in Brecknock and Monmouth; chairman of
Birkenhead docks company; sheriff of Monmouth 1823; M.P. for
Worcester 1835–47 and for Brecknockshire 1847 to death; created a
baronet 5 July 1852. _d._ Glanusk park, Brecknockshire 20 Nov.
1858.
BAILEY, SAMUEL. _b._ Sheffield 1791; one of the trustees of
Sheffield 1828; a founder of Sheffield Banking company 1831, and
chairman; contested Sheffield 14 Dec. 1832 and 12 Jany. 1835; his
supporters founded a Bailey club; pres. of Sheffield Literary and
Philosophical society several times; author of _Essays on the
formation and publication of opinions_ 1821, _3 ed._ 1831;
_Critical dissertation on the nature, measure, and causes of
Value_ 1825; _Maro or poetic irritability in four cantos [anon.]_
1845; _The theory of reasoning_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1852; _Letters on
the philosophy of the human mind_, _3 series_, 1855–1863. _d._
Norbury near Sheffield 18 Jany. 1870, left about £90,000 for
benefit of that town. _English psychology translated from the
French of T. Ribot_ (1873) 315–22; _British Controversialist July
1868 pp._ 1–25; _N. and Q. 5 S. ix_ 182–85, 216 (1878).
BAILEY, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 31 July 1785; a silk hosier there,
then a wine merchant; contested Nottingham July 1830; member of
town council 26 Dec. 1835 to 1843; proprietor and editor of
_Nottingham Mercury_ 1846–52; author of _What is life, and other
poems_ 1820; _Recreations in retirement_ 1836; _Annals of
Nottinghamshire 4 vols._ 1852–55, originally published in 32
shilling parts; _Records of Longevity_ 1857, and 9 other books.
_d._ Old Bassford near Nottingham 23 Oct. 1856. _C. Brown’s
Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 341–50.
NOTE.—While connected with the Independents, he was one of
three individuals chosen to take part in a public disputation
arranged to be held in Nottingham between the friends of
Christianity and Richard Carlisle, the champion of infidelity
who _d._ 10 Feb. 1843 aged 52.
BAILHACHE, REV. CLEMENT. _b._ St. Heliers Jersey 11 Dec. 1830; ed.
at Stepney college 1851; minister of Baptist chapel, South parade,
Leeds 1855; minister at Watford 1859, at Cross st. Islington 1864;
association sec. of Baptist mission Oct. 1870; sec. of Baptist
missionary society 1876 to death. _d._ 6, Leigh road, Highbury 13
Dec. 1878. _Baptist handbook_ (1879) 296–98.
BAILLIE, ALFRED. _b._ London 22 June 1830; hon. sec. of Marylebone
cricket club May 1858 to 12 Feb. 1863. _d._ May or June 1867.
BAILLIE, AGNES (_elder sister of Joanna Baillie_). _b._ 24 Sep.
1760. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 27 April 1861 aged 100 years
and 7 months.
BAILLIE, EDWARD. _b._ Gateshead; a glass painter; exhibited at Great
Exhibition of 1851 “Shakespeare reading a play to Queen
Elizabeth.” _d._ London 21 Sep. 1856 aged 43.
BAILLIE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 1804; ensign 15 Madras N.I. 6 April
1820; lieut. col. of 52 N.I. 9 June 1853, of 14 N.I. 15 Sep. 1855,
and of 26 N.I. 1857–64; col. 15 N.I. 9 June 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877;
general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 92 Westbourne park road, London 3 March
1882.
BAILLIE, HUGH DUNCAN. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Rye 1830–31 and for
Honiton 1835–47; Lieutenant and sheriff principal of Rossshire 22
March 1843 to death. _d._ 65 Rutland gate, London 21 June 1866.
BAILLIE, JOANNA (_youngest child of Rev. James Baillie, minister of
Bothwell, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Manse of Bothwell 11 Sep. 1762;
lived with her only brother Matthew Baillie in London 1783–91;
lived at Hampstead 1802 to death; published anonymously _A Series
of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger
passions of the mind_, _3 vols._ 1798–1812, of these plays _De
Montford, a tragedy on hatred_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre
29 April 1800 and ran 11 nights, _The Election, a comedy_ was
produced as an opera at English Opera house June 1817,
_Constantine Paleologus, a tragedy_ produced at Surrey theatre as
a melodrama under title of _Constantine and Valeria The Family
legend, a tragedy_ produced at T.R. Edin. 1810 and at Drury Lane
29 May 1815, _The Separation_ and _Henriquez_ have been also
acted; author of _Miscellaneous Plays_, _3 vols._ 1836. _d._
Hollybush hill, Hampstead 23 Feb. 1851. _The songstresses of
Scotland by Tytler & Watson ii_, 180–334 (1871); _Chambers Biog.
dict. of eminent Scotsmen i_, 53 (1868), _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s
Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets ii_, 248–56
(1847); _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 221–26 (1883);
_The living and the dead by a country curate, i.e. Rev. Erskine
Neale_ (1827) 177–91.
BAILLIE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh July 1784; created
Baronet by patent dated 14 Nov. 1823. _d._ Perth 28 Jany. 1854.
BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES (_2 son of George Baillie-Hamilton, M.P.
of Mellerstain, Berwickshire 1763–1841_). _b._ Mellerstain 3 Nov.
1804; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1830; advocate depute 1844
to 1846 and 1852; sheriff of Stirlingshire 2 March 1853; solicitor
general for Scotland 17 March 1858; Lord advocate for Scotland 10
July 1858; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 5 July 1859; M.P. for
Linlithgowshire 7 Feb. 1859 to 15 April 1859; a judge of Court of
Session 15 April 1859 to April 1874; assumed courtesy title of
Lord Jerviswood 1859; assessor of Univ. of St. Andrew’s 1861; a
lord of justiciary 17 June 1862 to April 1874. _d._ Dryburgh
house, St. Boswell’s 23 July 1879.
BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 4 Jany. 1800; M.P. for
Aylesbury 31 July 1839 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ronco near Genoa 25
Aug. 1865.
BAILLIÈRE, HIPPOLYTE. Came to London about 1827; opened first shop
in London for sale of French medical works at 219 Regent st. 1830;
collected books for royal college of surgeons; publisher. _d._ 219
Regent st. 11 May 1867 aged 58.
BAILY, CHARLES. _b._ 10 April 1815; assistant to the City Architect,
London; built St. John’s church East Dulwich; restored Barnard’s
Inn Hall and Leigh church Kent; F.S.A. 1844; master of the
Ironmongers Company 1874–75; author with G. R. French of
_Catalogue of the Antiquities and works of art exhibited at
Ironmongers hall London in 1861_, _2 vols._ 1869. _d._ Reigate 2
Oct. 1878.
BAILY, EDWARD HODGES. _b._ Bristol 10 March 1788; pupil of Flaxman
in London 1807–14; student of R.A. 1809, gained silver and gold
medals 1809 and 1811, A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1821, retired 1863;
executed the bassi-relievi on the south or park side of the Marble
Arch 1821; executed sculptures of Apollo 1815, Eve at the fountain
1818, Eve listening to the voice 1841, The Graces seated 1849 and
statues of Sir Richard Fletcher and Thomas Telford in Westminster
Abbey. _d._ 99 Devonshire road, Holloway 22 May 1867. _Scott’s
British school of sculpture_ (1871) 123–28; _Sandby’s History of
Royal Academy ii_, 57–59 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits
of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_.
BAILY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Baily of Blandford sq. Marylebone_).
_b._ London April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and St.
John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and junior Smith’s prizeman 1828;
fellow of his college 29 March 1830; barrister L.I. 10 May 1832,
bencher 3 Nov. 1851; Q.C. 11 July 1851; leader in V.C.
Kindersley’s Court to 1867; counsel to Univ. of Cam. _d._ Stoney
Hills, Esher Surrey 19 June 1877.
BAILY, JOHN WALKER. _b._ Kent road, London 9 Jany. 1809; head of
firm of Wm. Baily and Sons, ironmongers 71 Gracechurch st.; master
of the Ironmongers company 1862–63; member of British
Archæological Association 6 Dec. 1865, on the council May 1869;
formed an important collection of Romano-British and mediæval
remains found in London 1862–72, this collection was purchased by
Corporation of London 1881; his collection of arms and armour was
bought by Baron de Cosson of Chertsey 1881. _d._ 4 March 1873.
_Journal of British Archæological Association xxx_, 349–51 (1874).
BAIN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Thurso 1810; a journeyman clockmaker in London
1837; made electrical experiments on the Serpentine; invented
electrical clocks, patented 11 Jany. 1841 and exhibited at Royal
Polytechnic 28 March 1841; constructed the earth battery 1843;
patented apparatus for registering progress of ships 1844, and
electro-chemical telegraph 1846; invented automatic method of
transmitting signals; devised electrical methods of playing keyed
instruments at a distance. _d._ in the Home for incurables
Kirkintilloch near Glasgow 2 Jany. 1877. _J. Finlaison’s An
account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to
the useful arts by Mr. Alexander Bain_ 1843.
BAIN, DONALD. _b._ Fordyce, Banffshire; author of _The patriot or
Wallace, a historical tragedy_ 1806; _Olden times, a comedy_ 1841,
_2 ed._ 1845. _d._ April 1865.
BAIN, EDWIN SANDYS (_eld. son of Lieut. Col. William Bain of
Livelands near Stirling_). _b._ 1804; barrister M.T. 19 June 1829;
went northern circuit; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1845. _d._
Livelands 30 Dec. 1874.
BAIN, HENDERSON. Entered navy 4 Sep. 1793; captain 6 April 1813;
retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Esher, Surrey 18 Jany. 1862
aged 86.
BAIN, JAMES. A bookseller at the Mews Gate, Charing Cross, London
1819; at 1 Haymarket 1831 to death, _d._ Highgate 10 Dec. 1866
aged 72.
BAIN, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1771; Master R.N. 1811;
commanded steamers for general steam navigation company; harbour
master of Granton on the Firth of Forth 10 years; knighted by the
Queen at St. James’s palace 20 March 1844; author of _An essay on
the variation of the compass_ 1817. _d._ The Grange, Romford 11
Sep. 1853.
BAINBRIDGE, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ 1798; a banker in London; M.P. for
Taunton 6 Aug. 1830 to Feb. 1842. _d._ 30 Medina villas Brighton
30 Sep. 1872.
BAINBRIDGE, JOHN NATHAN. Studied at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s
hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1820, F.R.C.S. 1852, L.S.A. 1821; bought a
practice in St. Martin’s lane 1824; medical officer of St.
Martin’s-in-the-Fields workhouse 1835; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1842;
prescribed for 1669 cases with only 27 deaths during prevalence
of cholera 1849 for which, Board of Guardians gave him £200;
surgeon to London Friendly Institution. _d._ 86 St. Martin’s
lane 16 April 1863 aged 63. _Medical Circular i_ 131, 169 (1852)
_portrait_.
BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Bainbridge of Alston,
Northumberland, solicitor_). Barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1838; author
of _A treatise on the law of mines and minerals_ 1841, _4 ed._
1878; _Lionel Merval a novel [anon.] 3 vols._ 1866. _d._ Cliffe
house, Cullercoats 13 Dec. 1869 aged about 60.
BAINBRIGGE, JOHN HANKEY (_2 son of Philip Bainbrigge of Ashbourne,
Derbyshire 1756–99_). _b._ 1791; ensign 20 foot 25 March 1808;
lieut. 9 March 1809 to 25 Dec. 1814; town major Guernsey 29 Nov.
1839 to 30 May 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; _d._ Robais manor,
Guernsey 15 March 1881.
BAINBRIGGE, SIR PHILIP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London
1786; entered navy 1799; ensign 20 foot 30 June 1800; permanent
assistant quartermaster general 15 Oct. 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841;
deputy quartermaster general Ireland 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846;
commanded the forces in Ceylon 1852–54; col. of 26 foot 31 March
1854 to death; general 24 Aug. 1861; granted service reward 15
Nov. 1848; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; invented a
protracting pocket sextant 1809. _d._ St. Margaret’s Litchfield,
Hants 20 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv._ 236–37 (1863); _Annual Register_
(1850) 323–31.
BAINES, REV. EDWARD. _b._ Cainham vicarage, Shropshire 1 Aug. 1801;
ed. at Shrewsbury head præpositor; at Christ’s coll. Cam., Bell
Univ. scholar, and Browne medallist for Latin and Greek epigrams
1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow classical lecturer and tutor of
his college; R. of Clipston 1840–43; R. of Bluntisham, Hants
1843–59; V. of Yalding, Kent 1859 to death; author of _First form
Latin grammar_ 1855; _Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont_ 1855. _d._
San Remo 20 April 1882. _Sermons by the late Rev. Edward Baines
edited with memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D._ 1883.
BAINES, REV. JOHN. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843; V. of
Little Marlow, Bucks 1859 to death; author of _Tales of the
Empire_ 1851; _Life of Archbishop Laud_ 1855; _Twenty sermons_
1857; _Hints for harvest services_ 1866. _d._ 63 Abingdon villas
Kensington, London 20 May 1880 aged 58.
BAINES, MATTHEW TALBOT (_eld. child of Edward Baines 1774–1848, M.P.
for Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Richmond gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam. scholar, B.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825,
bencher 1841, reader 1854, treasurer 1855; recorder of Hull
1837–47; Q.C. 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–1852 and for Leeds
1852–1859; pres. of Poor law board 1 Jany. 1849 to 2 March 1852
and 1 Jany. 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; P.C. 30 July 1849; mem. of
committee of council on education 10 March 1855; chancellor of
Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet 7 Dec. 1855 to 26
Feb. 1858. _d._ 13 Queen’s square, Westminster 22 Jany. 1860.
_Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 482–86; _Illust. News of
the World 24 Nov. 1860_, _portrait_.
NOTE.—He was the first dissenter admitted to a seat in the
Cabinet.
BAINES, THOMAS. _b._ Kings Lynn 1822; went to Cape Colony 1842;
painted pictures and taught drawing; went through Kafir wars
1846–54; explored North West Australia under Augustus Gregory
1855–56; artist and store keeper to the Livingstone Zambesi
Expedition 1858, his series of pictures of scenes on the Zambesi
has been exhibited at the Crystal palace, Dublin exhibition and
Alexandra palace; lectured in England 1864–68; F.R.G.S. 1857;
author of _Explorations in South Western Africa_ 1864. _d._ D’
Urban, Port Natal 8 April 1875. _The gold regions of South Eastern
Africa, by the late Thomas Baines_ 1877, _portrait_; _Illust. News
of the World i_, 64 (1858), _portrait_.
BAINES, THOMAS (_3 son of Edward Baines 1774–1848 M.P. for Leeds_).
_b._ Leeds 1806; edited _Liverpool Times_ 1829–59; a parliamentary
agent in London 1859; author of _History of commerce and town of
Liverpool_ 1852; _Lancashire and Cheshire past and present_ 1867;
_Yorkshire past and present_ 1875. _d._ Seaforth hall near
Liverpool 31 Oct. 1881.
BAIRD, ANDREW WOOD. _b._ Colchester; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1823; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1821, M.R.C.P. 1827; a phys. at Ipswich
1824–52, at Dover 1852 to death; phys. to Dover hospital. _d._ 7
Camden Crescent, Dover 10 Jany. 1882.
BAIRD, SIR DAVID, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1795; succeeded 18 Aug. 1829. _d._
9 Jany. 1852.
BAIRD, FRANCIS (_2 son of Charles Baird, founder of the ‘Baird
Works’ at St. Petersburg who d. 10 Dec. 1843 in his 77 year_).
_b._ 16 Feb. 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; joined his father’s
Works 1819; sole proprietor 1843 to death; M.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1823;
executed the 4 bas-reliefs, eagles and candelabra, and colossal
figure of the angel on the Alexander column in the Winter Palace
St. Petersburg, also the St. Nicholas bridge, first permanent
bridge across the Neva. _d._ St. Petersburg 25 March 1864; _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 428 (1870).
BAIRD, JAMES (_4 son of Alexander Baird of Kirkwood, Lanarkshire
farmer 1765–1833_). _b._ Kirkwood 5 Dec. 1802; an ironmaster at
Gartsherrie works near Airdrie 1829 which became largest iron
works in the world except those at Dowlais; largely assisted J. B.
Neilson in perfecting his invention of the hot blast; M.P. for
Falkirk burghs 1851–57; bought estate of Muirkirk Ayrshire 1863
for £135,000; founded Baird lectures for defence of orthodoxy
1871, and Baird Trust in connection with Church of Scotland at
cost of £500,000 July 1873. _d._ Cambusdoon near Ayr 20 June 1876.
Personalty sworn under £1,190,000 Aug. 1876. _Practical Mag. i_,
241–48 (1873) _portrait_; _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families_ _2
ed._ 1859, _pp._ 40–46; _Graphic xiv_, 12 (1876), _portrait_.
BAIRD, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. James Baird, minister of
Swinton, Berwickshire who d. 11 Feb. 1814_). _b._ Manse of Eccles
17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Whitsome and Kelso and Univ. of Edin.;
founded the Plinian Society at Edin. 1823, which was eventually
incorporated with Botanical Society of Edin.; minister of Yetholm
near Kelso June 1829 to death; established a school at Yetholm for
Gipsies 1843, this was the first ragged school in Scotland; a
founder of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club 22 Sep. 1831, pres.
1837; author of _Scottish Gipsies Advocate_ 1839; _Account of the
parish of Yetholm_ in the _New Statistical account of Scotland
iii_, 159–76 (1845). _d._ Yetholm 29 Nov. 1861. _Memoir of the
late Rev. John Baird by W. Baird M.D._ 1862.
BAIRD, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; an ironmaster at Glasgow; lord dean of
guild Glasgow 1855. _d._ Cawdor house, Glasgow 7 Aug. 1856.
BAIRD, THOMAS. Wrote much in _Western Times_ Exeter newspaper under
pseudonym of Nathan Hogg; author of _Letters in the Devonshire
dialect in verse by Nathan Hogg_ 1847. _d._ St. Thomas’s hospital
London May 1881.
BAIRD, WILLIAM (_elder brother of James Baird_). _b._ 1796; senior
partner in Gartsherrie iron works; M.P. for Falkirk 1841–45;
bought estate of Elie, Fifeshire for £145,000. _d._ Edinburgh 8
March 1864, leaving a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling.
BAIRD, WILLIAM (_younger brother of Rev. John Baird_). _b._ the
Manse of Eccles Berwickshire 1803; ed. at Edin. Dublin and Paris;
surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1823–33; practised in London 1833–41;
assistant in Zoological department of the British Museum Sep. 1841
to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; author of _The natural history of
the British Entomostraca_ published by Ray Society 1850;
_Cyclopædia of natural sciences_ 1858. _d._ 38 Burlington road,
Westbourne park 27 Jany. 1872.
BAIRD, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861;
V. of St. Barnabas, Homerton 1870 to death; author of _Hallowing
of our common life, sermons_ 1867, _3 ed._ 1874; _Inheritance of
our fathers, the book of common prayer_ 1868; _Days that are past,
early church history_ 1870. _d._ Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 5
Dec. 1875.
BAKER, ANNE ELIZABETH. _b._ 16 June 1786; wrote the geological and
botanical part of her brother George Baker’s _History and
antiquities of Northamptonshire_; author of _Glossary of
Northamptonshire words and phrases 2 vols._ 1854. _d._ Gold st.
Northampton 22 April 1861.
BAKER, ANTHONY ST. JOHN. Consul general in the U.S. of America 6
Jany. 1816 to 5 Jany. 1832 when office abolished. _d._ Mount
Calverley lodge, Tunbridge Wells 16 May 1854.
BAKER, B. B. Director of the college at Corfu; professor of English
literature in the Ionian University. _d._ Malta 20 Feb. 1868.
BAKER, REV. DAVID BRISTOW. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1832; Inc. of Claygate, Surrey 1841–52; author of _A treatise
on the nature of doubt in religious questions [by D.B.B.]_ 1831;
_Discourses and Sacramental addresses to a village congregation_
1832. _d._ Parliament st. Westminster 24 July 1852 aged 49.
BAKER, D. S. Deaf and dumb heraldic artist; drew for many years the
arms for the obituary notices in the Illustrated London News;
painted heraldic paintings on panels and doors of state carriage
of Lord Mayor of London. _d._ 1 Sep. 1877 aged 53.
BAKER, SIR EDWARD BAKER, 2 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 4 Nov. 1806; ed. at
Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 4 March 1825. _d._ 51 Upper Brook st.
London 29 March 1877.
BAKER, REV. FRANKLIN. _b._ Birmingham 1801; M.A. Univ. of Glasgow;
minister of Presbyterian chapel Bolton 14 Dec. 1823; ordained 23
Sep. 1824; author of _The rise and progress of Nonconformity in
Bolton_ 1854. _d._ Birmingham 25 May 1867.
BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Northampton; mayor 1837; issued proposals for a
history of Northamptonshire 1815; published the first part 1822,
the second 1826, the third completing the first volume 1830, the
fourth part 1836 and about one third of the fifth part 1841, the
manuscripts were eventually purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
_d._ May Fair, Northampton 12 Oct. 1851 aged 70. _G.M. xxxvi_,
551–52, 629 (1851).
BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ 8 Jany. 1794; cornet 16 light dragoons 6 July
1809; captain 19 Oct. 1820 to 18 July 1826, when placed on h.p.;
English comr. for defining boundary frontier between Turkey and
Greece 1830; F.R.G.S. 1830. _d._ Grosvenor place, Bath 22 Dec.
1859. _Journal of Royal Geographical society xxx, c-cii_ (1860).
BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Cobham near Gravesend 31 May 1838; a bowler at
Lord’s cricket ground, London 1862–64; started the United north
and south of England Eleven 1866, sec. to that body which soon
became extinct; kept a cricket and newspaper shop at Stratford,
Essex about 1864 to death; a left handed bowler and batsman. _d._
Lydd, Kent 2 June 1870.
BAKER, SIR HENRY LORAINE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nancy in Lorraine 3 Jany.
1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857;
succeeded as 2 Bart. 4 Feb. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Dunstable
house, Richmond 2 Nov. 1859.
BAKER, REV. SIR HENRY WILLIAMS, 3 Baronet (_elder son of the
preceding_). _b._ London 27 May 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1854; C. of Great Horkesley Essex 1842–51; V. of
Monkland, Hereford 1851 to death; originated the most popular hymn
book ever compiled, _Hymns ancient and modern_ 1860, of which 20
million copies have been sold, author of several of these hymns.
_d._ Horkesley house, Monkland 12 Feb. 1877.
BAKER, REV. JAMES. _b._ Lincoln; ed. at Winchester; fellow of New
college Ox. 1807–18, B.A. 1811. M.A. 1815; chancellor of diocese
of Durham 1818 to death; R. of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon 1825 to
death. _d._ Nuneham Courtenay 6 Sep. 1854 aged 66.
BAKER, JAMES. _b._ York 4 Oct. 1851; the first editor of a
periodical entitled _Bachelors’ Papers_ Liverpool 1870; studied at
Univ. of Edin. 1872; M.B. 1876; resident phys. Royal infirmary
Edin. 1876; pres. of Royal medical society. _d._ Royal infirmary
Edin. 17 April 1877. _The annual monitor for 1878 pp._ 15–29.
BAKER, JAMES VASHON. _b._ 1798; entered navy 1811; captain 10 July
1843; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. _d._ Neen-Sollars rectory,
Shropshire 14 Oct. 1875.
BAKER, JOHN. One of the pioneers of South Australia; one of its
foremost public men; member of Legislative Council. _d._ Morialta,
South Australia 18 May 1872 aged 59.
BAKER, JOSEPH. _b._ Great new st. Fetter lane London about 1766; map
engraver; employed by the Board of Ordnance; a liveryman of
company of stationers 1787, one of the court of assistants 1825,
master of the company 1832 and 1833, a stockkeeper for management
of business concerns of the company 1840 to death. _d._ Warren st.
Pentonville, London 2 March 1853.
BAKER, SIR RICHARD (_eld. son of John Baker of Cott house, New
Totnes, Devon_). _b._ Cott house 1782; army and navy clothier
Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by Marquess Wellesley
1833; alderman of Dublin 1838–41. _d._ Mount Errol, Donnybrook,
co. Dublin 1 June 1853.
BAKER, ROBERT. _b._ Terling, Essex Nov 1793; a tenant farmer at
Writtle; founded Society for protection of agriculture 17 Feb.
1844; author of _A lecture on the economy of farming_ 1852; edited
J. S. Bayldon’s _Art of valuing rents and tillages_ 1856. _d._ 24
Dec. 1859.
BAKER, ROBERT. Member of medical profession; sub-inspector of
factories 1834; inspector 18 June 1858; C.B. 27 Oct. 1877. _d._
Leamington 6 Feb. 1880 in 77 year.
BAKER, REV. ROBERT GEORGE. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A.
1813; V. of Fulham 1834–71; Preb. of St. Paul’s 1846 to death;
rural dean 1851–71; author of _Account of benefactions and
charities of Fulham_; _The olden characters of Fulham_ 1847. _d._
Ivy cottage, Fulham 21 Feb. 1878 in 90 year.
BAKER, THOMAS. _b._ 8 Oct. 1809; landscape painter in Midland
counties; known as Baker of Leamington; exhibited at the R.A.
1831. _d._ 10 Aug. 1869.
BAKER, THOMAS (_son of a farmer at Old Park, Durham_). A civil
engineer; invented method of laying down railway curves; laid out
Stockton and Darlington railway the first line in the kingdom,
opened 27 Sep. 1825; laid out atmospheric line from Dublin to
Kingstown, opened 17 Dec. 1834; author of _Rudimentary treatise on
mensuration_ 1850; _Principles and practice of statics and
dynamics_ 1851; _The mathematical theory of the steam engine_
1862. _d._ Charter house hospital London Sep. or Oct. 1871.
BAKER, THOMAS ELD. _b._ Margate 1791; M.R.C.S. 1813; surgeon Bengal
army 1814 to 23 Aug. 1838 when he retired; treasurer of Royal
humane society; author of _The art of preserving health in India_
1829; _An appeal to the common sense of the people of England in
favour of anatomy_ 1832. _d._ 76 Porchester Terrace, London 23
July 1868.
BAKER, THOMAS PALMER. Chief engineer Chatham dockyard 11 Nov. 1856
to Dec. 1868 when office abolished; chief inspector of machinery
afloat 6 July 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 170, Lewisham high
road, Newcross 6 Oct. 1876 in 69 year.
BAKER, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Baker of Eastover, Bridgwater,
butcher_). _b._ Eastover 3 March 1787; apprenticed to Mr. Tuthill
of Bridgwater, currier Sep. 1800; worked in London and Glasgow
1807–1809; a currier in Fore st. Bridgwater 1809; alderman; F.G.S.
Nov. 1842; sec. to Somersetshire Archæological and natural history
society. _d._ Bridgwater 8 Oct. 1853. _A brief memoir of Wm. Baker
by John Bowen_ 1854.
BAKER, WILLIAM (_elder son of George Wingfield of Cotham who d.
1774_). Barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1797, bencher 1818 to death; M.P.
for Bodmin 1 Nov. 1806 to 29 April 1807; chief justice of Brecon
circuit; a comr. of bankrupts; K.C. 1818; master in Chancery 19
March 1819 to March 1849; assumed surname of Baker in lieu of
Wingfield by R.L. 29 Dec. 1849. _d._ Sherborne castle, Dorset 21
March 1858.
BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; an attorney in London; coroner for east
division of Middlesex; author of _A practical compendium of the
recent statutes, cases and decisions affecting the office of
coroner_ 1851. _d._ 12 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park 22 Feb.
1859.
BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1817; articled to G. W. Buck, C.E.
1834–39; engineer upon southern division of London and north
western railway 1852–59, chief engineer of that line Oct.
1859–1878, during which time he carried out a great extent of
railway works; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1848; member of council 1877 to
death. _d._ 7 March 1878. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lv_, 315–17 (1879).
BAKER, SIR WILLIAM ERSKINE (_son of Joseph Baker, capt. R.N._) _b._
Leith 1808; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826, col.
commandant 10 March 1857; military sec. at India office 1858;
member of council of India 1861–1875; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed
on retired list 29 Nov. 1878; K.C.B. 1 Feb. 1870. (_m._ 1837
Frances Gertrude 3 dau. of major general A. Duncan). _d._ the
Castle, Banwell 16 Dec. 1881.
BAKER, REV. WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 3 Sep. 1798;
agent of Home missionary society at Ramsey, Isle of Man 1822–28;
minister of independent chapel at Shepton Mallet, Somerset
1828–38; sec. of New British and Foreign Temperance Society
1838–41; minister of Portland chapel St. John’s Wood, London
1841–51; a founder of United Kingdom temperance and general
provident Institution 1840, resident director 1852; author of _The
curse of Britain_ 1838; _The idolatry of Britain_ 1840; _Our state
church_ 1850; _Anti-mysticism_ 1855. _d._ Down house near Sutton,
Surrey 28 Sep. 1861. _Life of the late Rev. W. R. Baker, edited by
his sister Mrs. E. L. Edmunds_ 1865.
BALD, ROBERT. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1776; engaged in the Mar
collieries; a mining engineer at Edin. about 1820; much employed
in Scotland, England and Wales; reported on coalfields of Sweden
for the Swedish government; F.R.S. Edin. 1817; author of _A
general view of the coal trade of Scotland_ 1812; of the article
_Mine_ in the _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_ and of many papers. _d._
Alloa 28 Dec. 1861.
BALD, WILLIAM, _b._ Burnt Island, Fifeshire; a civil engineer 1803;
made a territorial survey of co. Mayo about 1810, his map on a
scale of 4 inches to a mile was one of the finest maps ever
constructed; a draftsman at the Admiralty; resident engineer to
trustees of the river Clyde 1839–45; examined the river Seine
1845. _d._ 1857. _Quarterly journal of Geological Society xiv_,
42–43 (1858).
BALDERS, CHARLES WILLIAM MORELY (_eld. son of Charles Morely Balders
of West Barsham, Norfolk_). _b._ Sunderland 4 Feb. 1804; cornet 3
dragoons 10 Nov. 1825, and major 1845–48; major 5 dragoon guards
1848–54; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Jany. 1858 to 31 Aug. 1860; col.
17 lancers 4 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 28 Oct. 1869; C.B. 24 May
1847. _d._ 11 Adelaide crescent, Brighton 21 Sep. 1875.
BALDERSON, ABRAHAM THOMAS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A.
1826; assistant to Sir Astley Cooper 1825–41; examiner of
lunatics, parish of St. James, Westminster. _d._ 37 Woburn sq.
London 3 Feb. 1872
BALDOCK, EDWARD HOLMES. _b._ 1812; M.P. for Shrewsbury 30 July 1847
to 21 March 1857. _d._ 8 Grosvenor place, London 15 Aug. 1875 from
effect of walking through a plate glass window in Alexander
Collie’s house, 12 Kensington palace gardens.
BALDOCK, ROBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baldock of Burwash Sussex,
surgeon_). _b._ Burwash July 1789; bookseller at 85 High Holborn,
London 1814 to death. _d._ 85 High Holborn 5 Nov. 1861.
BALDOCK, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 25 Oct. 1806; superintended packet
service at Dover 19 Aug. 1846 to Sep. 1852; captain on h.p. 9
Jany. 1854; retired R.A. 10 Sep. 1869; K.T.S. 1 May 1837. _d._
Hastings 11 March 1871 aged 81.
BALDWIN, AUGUSTUS. Entered navy May 1794: captain 1 Jany. 1817;
retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Toronto 5 Jany. 1866.
BALDWIN, CHARLES (_3 son of Henry Baldwin of London, printer, who
founded the St. James’s Chronicle 1761_). _b._ 1774; sole
proprietor of _St. James’s Chronicle_ and _Morning Herald_;
founded the _Standard_ evening paper 21 May 1827, published in it
the news of the surrender of Varna 11 Oct. 1828 a fortnight before
arrival of the Government couriers; contested Lambeth Aug. 1837
and July 1841; master of the Stationers’ company 1842 and 1843;
retired from business 1844; probably oldest volunteer in the
kingdom. _d._ 27 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Feb. 1869 in
95 year. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 313–15 (1869).
BALDWIN, CHARLES BARRY (_eld. son of Charles Baldwin, lieut. col. of
Kings county militia_). _b._ 1789; barrister I.T. 26 Nov 1824;
secretary to comrs. for claims on France, sole comr. to 1830; M.P.
for Totnes 1830–32 and 1839–52. _d._ Paris 13 April 1859.
BALDWIN, CONNELL JAMES (_son of James Baldwin of Clohina, co.
Cork_). _b._ Clohina; ensign 87 foot 23 July 1807; captain 50 foot
10 Feb. 1820 to 22 Feb. 1827 when placed on h.p.; served in the
Peninsula for which he received a medal and 10 clasps; raised a
regiment at Cork for Emperor of Brazil but brought the men back
again on being ordered to the interior of Brazil as settlers; went
to Canada about 1828; raised a regiment of Militia for defence of
the frontier in troubles of 1837–38. _d._ Toronto 14 Dec. 1861.
_H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 733–35.
BALDWIN, EDWARD. _b._ Waterford; a pugilist 6 feet 5 inches in
height; beaten by Andrew Marsden 21 Oct. 1863; beat George Iles 19
Feb. 1866; beat A. Marsden 25 Sep. 1866; matched to fight Joseph
Wormald for Championship 29 April 1867 but forfeited his stakes;
matched to fight James Mace for Championship 15 Oct. 1867 but Mace
was arrested; fought J. Wormald at Lynnfield Massachusetts 1868
for Championship and 2,500 dollars when police interfered, he was
awarded the stakes as Wormald declined to renew the fight; shot
dead in the United States Sep. 1875. _Modern Boxing by Pendragon_
(1879) 83–89; _Illust. Sporting News v_, 97 (1866), _portrait_.
BALDWIN, GEORGE WALTER. Major 31 foot 1863–64; major 20 foot 1864 to
death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura, about 17 miles from
Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i_,
15–54. (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98 (1874),
_ii_, 1–5 (1875).
BALDWIN, HENRY. Called to bar in Ireland 1826; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841;
law adviser of the Castle during state trials 1848–49; comr. of
insolvent court 1850 to death. _d._ Dublin 24 May 1854.
BALDWIN, MARTIN. _b._ Coalbrookdale Shropshire 22 Nov. 1788; an
engine factor at Bradley near Bilston 1809; carried on the Lower
Bovereux colliery; invented many improvements in the construction
of engines and machinery. _d._ Newbridge crescent, Wolverhampton
16 Feb. 1872.
BALDWIN, ROBERT (_only son of Benjamin Baldwin of Faringdon,
Berkshire surgeon_). Printer and bookseller in Bridge st.
Blackfriars 1806–10, and in Paternoster row 1810; united his
business with that of another firm under name of Baldwin, Cradock
and Joy; started the _London Magazine_ Jany. 1820, in opposition
to _Blackwood’s Mag._ transferred it to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey
1821; became insolvent; a stock keeper of Company of Stationers
1834 to death. _d._ Cumberland place, Westbourne grove north, 29
Jany. 1858 aged 78.
BALDWIN, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Warren Baldwin of Toronto, lawyer who
d. 8 Jany. 1844_). _b._ Toronto 1804; partner with his father
1825–48; member of Assembly of Upper Canada 1829; executive
councillor 18 Feb. 1836 for short time; solicitor general 1840;
attorney general for Upper Canada Sep. 1842 and Feb. 1848 to July
1851; C.B. 23 June 1854. _d._ Spadina near Toronto 9 Dec. 1858.
_H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 397–405.
BALDY, JOHN PATEY. M.R.C.S. 1814; private teacher of anatomy and
surgery. _d._ 23 Pembroke st. Devonport 6 Sep. 1861 aged 67.
BALE, CHARLES SACKVILLE. Made a splendid collection of pictures at
71 Cambridge terrace, Edgeware road, London. _d._ 71 Cambridge
terrace 28 Nov. 1880 aged 89. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_,
329–32 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 116–21.
BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM (_only son of Balfe of Dublin, violinist
1783–1823_). _b._ 10 Pitt st. Dublin 15 May 1808; played the
violin at a concert in Royal Exchange, Dublin, May 1816; first
violinist in Drury Lane orchestra 1823; chief baritone at Italian
opera, Paris 1827–29; sang in Italy 1829–35; lessee of English
opera house Lyceum 9 March 1841 to 13 May 1841; conductor at Her
Majesty’s theatre 3 March 1846 to 1852 when house closed; went to
St. Petersburg 1852; purchased Rowney Abbey, Ware, Herts and
turned gentleman farmer 1864; chevalier of Legion of honour 22
March 1870; composed _Rivals_ 1829, _Siege of Rochelle_ 1835,
_Bohemian Girl_ 1843 (produced at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1843,
performed in almost every European country), _Rose of Castille_
1857, _Puritan’s daughter_ 1861, _Il Talismano_ produced at Her
Majesty’s theatre 1874; arranged _Moore’s Irish Melodies_ as duets
and quartets. (_m._ Lina Rozer a Hungarian prima donna). _d._
Rowney Abbey 20 Oct. 1870. _Balfe, his life and work by W. A.
Barrett_ 1882, _portrait_; _A memoir of M. W. Balfe by C. L.
Kenny_ 1875; _Illust. Review v_, 671–77, _portrait_;
_Recollections of J. R. Planché i_, 241 (1872), _portrait by
Thackeray_.
NOTE.—A statue of him was placed in the vestibule of Drury
Lane theatre 24 Sep. 1874, his memorial window in St.
Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, was uncovered 14 April 1879, and
his memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey was unveiled 20 Oct.
1882.
BALFE, VICTOIRE (_2 dau. of the preceding_). _b._ Rue de la
Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London
at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of _La
Sonnambula_; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St.
Petersburg 1857–59. (_m._ (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes
Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her
petition 20 Nov. 1863, she _m._ (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and _d._
Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) _bur._ Burgos cathedral. _Illust. news of
the world iii_, 328 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 116 (1857),
_portrait, lviii_, 115 (1871).
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792;
M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. _d._ Townley hall
near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1799;
lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co.
Louth 1841. _d._ Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.
BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest
21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road,
Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea
district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a
public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850;
_Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English
literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family
Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James
Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by
the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the
author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_.
BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of
Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11
Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural
science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor
Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct.
1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of
council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge
Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in
Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with
E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_;
author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_
1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left
Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont
Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the
Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review
xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_;
_Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58.
BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served
in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years;
employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853.
(_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec.
1884.
BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour,
minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._)
_b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ.
of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65
and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction
Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z.,
also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned
off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)
BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808;
ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.;
apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical
Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin.
1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society
of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a
lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in
Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb.
1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist
for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5
June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of
natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical
journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._
1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._
Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38
(1882).
BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of
St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.
BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846;
ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death;
served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep.
1882. _d._ 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_,
497 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_.
BALGUY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire,
recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1782;
barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830
to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837;
bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. _d._
Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858.
BALL, CHARLES ASHBY. _b._ Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper
business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near
Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the
Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and
bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his
business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869;
perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper.
_d._ Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885.
BALL, FRANCES (_6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin,
merchant who d. 1808_). _b._ Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794;
joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar
convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into
Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814;
founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by
about 800 nuns. _d._ Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861.
_Life by H. J. Coleridge_ 1881, _portrait_; _Life by Wm. Hutch,
D.D._ 1879.
BALL, NICHOLAS (_son of John Ball of Dublin, silk mercer_). _b._
Dublin 1791; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1812;
called to Irish bar 1814; K.C. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1836;
M.P. for Clonmel 1836–39; third Serjeant at law 10 Nov. 1836 to 11
July 1838; attorney general 11 July 1838 to 23 Feb. 1839; P.C.
Ireland 1838; justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas 23 Feb. 1839
to death. _d._ 85 Stephens Green, Dublin 15 Jany. 1865.
BALL, RICHARD. Lived at Bridgewater, Bristol and Taunton
successively; a Friend; joined the Plymouth Brethren; author of
_Holy Scripture the test of truth_ 1835; _Christianity in China_
1850; _Horæ Sabbaticæ or the Sabbatic cycle the divine
chronometer_ 1853. _d._ Aberdeen terrace, Clifton 10 May 1862 aged
68. _Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 161–63 (1867).
BALL, ROBERT (_son of Bob Stawel Ball_). _b._ Cove of Cork 1 April
1802; clerk in under secretary’s office in Dublin 1827–52; F.R.S.
Dublin 1834; M.R.I.A. 23 Feb. 1835, treasurer 1845 to death;
member of Geol. soc. of Ireland 1835, pres. 1852; sec. to
Zoological society of Dub. 1837 to death; director of museum of
Trinity college Dub. 1844, presented his valuable private
collection to the college; hon. LLD. Dub. 1850; sec. to Queen’s
Univ. in Ireland 1851; founded University zoological and botanical
association 1853. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1837 Amelia Gresley dau. of Thomas
Hellicar of Bristol, merchant, she was granted a civil list
pension of £100 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ Dublin 30 March 1857. _Natural
history review v_, 1–34 (1858), _portrait_.
BALL, SAMUEL. Member of East India Company’s establishment at Canton
1804–26; author of _Observations on expediency of opening a second
port in China_ 1817; _An account of the cultivation and
manufacture of tea in China_ 1848. _d._ Sion house, Wolverley 5
March 1874 in 94 year.
BALL, THOMAS GERRARD (_son of Abraham Ball of Chester_). _b._
Chester 24 Jany. 1791; served in navy 1801–1807; ensign 34 foot 17
Sep. 1807; lieut. col. 8 foot 2 Oct. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842 when
placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 24 April 1860 and of 8 foot 17 June
1861 to death; general 10 Jany. 1870. _d._ 7 Stanley place,
Chester 18 Dec. 1881.
BALL, WILLIAM (_son of Richard Ball of Bridgwater who d. 1834_).
_b._ Bridgwater 1 Jany. 1801; solicitor at Bristol 1828–35; a
minister of Society of Friends 1846 to death. (_m._ 1834 Anne
Dale, she _d._ 1861). Author of _Nugæ Sacræ or psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs_ [_anon._] 1825; _The Transcript and other
poems_ 1855; _Hymns or lyrics_ 1864; _Verses composed since 1870_,
1875. _d._ at an hotel in Aberdeen 30 July 1878. _Annual Monitor
for 1879 pp._ 8–54.
BALL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental
songs, his song _Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail_ was one
of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing
room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English
words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s
_Requiem_, Spohr’s _God thou art great_, Rossini’s _Stabat Mater_
and Mendelssohn’s _St. Paul_ and _Lobgesang_; edited with N. Mori
_The musical gem_, _2 vols._ 1831–32; edited _The London Spring
annual lyrical and pictorial_ 1834. _d._ London 14 May 1869.
BALL, SIR WILLIAM KEITH, 2 Baronet (_only child of Sir Alexander
John Ball, 1 Baronet_). _b._ Greenwich 27 Oct. 1791; succeeded 25
Oct. 1809. _d._ Spernall hall, Warwickshire 9 March 1874.
BALL-HUGHES, EDWARD HUGHES (_said to be son of a slop seller in
Ratcliffe highway, London_). _b._ 1799. Ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam.; cornet 7 hussars 28 Aug. 1817 to 11 Feb. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; took additional name of Hughes by royal license 7
Aug. 1819 on coming into a fortune of £40,000 per annum from his
uncle Admiral Sir Edward Hughes; one of the leading dandies of his
day, known as the Golden Ball; lost £45,000 in one night at
Wattier’s club, Piccadilly 1819, lost three quarters of his
fortune at play, the greatest gambler of his day; bought Oatlands
near Weybridge 1827, which he sold to Lord Francis Egerton; lived
at St. Germain near Paris for some years before his death. (_m._
22 March 1823 Mercandotti the opera dancer, natural dau. or
protégée of 4 Earl of Fife, she was then aged 16). _d._ St.
Germain 13 March 1863. _R. H. Gronow’s Celebrities_ (1865) 112–17.
BALLANTINE, JAMES. _b._ The West Port, Edinburgh 11 June 1808; a
house painter at Edin. 1830; one of the first to revive the art of
glass painting; executed the 12 stained glass windows in the House
of Lords, Westminster, representing kings and queens both regnant
and consort of the U.K.; sec. of committee of Burns centenary
1859; grand bard of Scottish Grand lodge of Freemasons about 1862
to death; contributed about 50 songs to _Whistle-Binkie or the
piper of the party_ 1832; author of _The Gaberlunzie’s wallet_
1843; _A treatise on painted glass_ 1845; _Poems_ 1856; _Chronicle
of the hundredth birthday of Robert Burns_ 1859, which contains
reports of 872 Burns’ centenary meetings held all over the world
25 Jany. 1859; _The Provost’s daughter_, a musical farce in 2 acts
performed at T.R. Edin. 1855; _The Gaberlunzie_, a drama in 3 acts
1858. _d._ Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877.
_Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii_ (1878); _History of the lodge of
Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons_ (1873) 50, 363, _portrait_.
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at
Thames police court 1821–48. _d._ 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14
Dec. 1852 in 74 year. _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846), _portrait_.
BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT. _b._ Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh
new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval
and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares
1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster
1861 to death; author of _Lectures on the sub-divisions of
knowledge, Sanskrit and English_ 1848; _The Mahabhashya or great
commentary on the aphorisms of Panini_ 1856; _Christianity
contrasted with Hindu philosophy_ 1859 and 14 other works. _d._ 16
Feb. 1864. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii_ (1865).
BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL. _b._ Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the
Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of _Hudson’s Bay or
every day life in the wilds of North America_ 1848, 3 ed. 1859;
_Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean_ 1857; _Deep down, a
tale of the Cornish mines_ 1868, and many other tales. _d._ 1871.
BALLANTYNE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited
_Bolton Free Press_; edited _Manchester Guardian_; printer,
publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of _Manchester
Examiner_; editor of _Liverpool Journal_ and _Liverpool Mercury_;
edited the _Leader_ in London; started the _Statesman_, edited it
till its close; edited _St. James’s Chronicle_; author of
_Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle_ 1855; _Essays in
mosaic_ 1870. _d._ Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.
BALLARD, EDWARD GEORGE (_only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of
Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827_). _b._ Salisbury 29 April 1791;
clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most
of the poetry and critiques for the _Weekly Review_; author of _A
new series of original poems_ [_anon._] 1825; _Microscopic
amusements_ 1829; wrote part of a continuation of _Strype’s
Ecclesiastical annals_ in _The Surplice_ weekly paper 1848. _d._
Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.
BALLARD, JOHN ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec.
1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col.
Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in
Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster
general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana
field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10
May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. _d._
Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.
BALLARD, THOMAS. _b._ Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s
hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of
_New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants
and mothers_ 1860; _On the convulsive diseases of infants_ 1863;
_An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant_ 1874. _d._
10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.
BALLINGALL, DAVID JAMES. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801;
2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10
Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. _d._ Southsea 31 March
1854.
BALLINGALL, SIR GEORGE (_son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of
Forglen, Banffshire_). _b._ in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780;
ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S.
Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon
of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of
military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death;
knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.;
author of _Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery_
1830; _Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed._ 1855. _d._ Altamont
near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.
BALNEAVIS, HENRY. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot
1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18
Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. _d._ Malta 17
July 1857 aged 77.
BALVAIRD, WILLIAM. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot
1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831.
_d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.
BALY, WILLIAM. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834;
studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836;
practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor
1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic
medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys.
there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb.
1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18
April 1859; member of general council of medical education and
registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of
_Advances in physiology of motion_ 1848, and with W. G. Gull of
_Reports on epidemic cholera_ 1854; killed in the train on the
South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction
with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. _Medical Critic ii_, 334–40
(1861); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 111, 122 (1861), _portrait_.
BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr.
sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden
club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge
of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part
in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes
March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour,
sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s
imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office
London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages
in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2
ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth
Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to
correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of
Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April
1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F.
Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91;
_Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25.
BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of
principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._
Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.
BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil
engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation
1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to
death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._
North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xvii_, 92–94 (1858).
BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many
years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.
BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of
Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21
Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college
Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823;
chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox.
1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of
the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R.
of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of
books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman
literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_
1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of
_Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in
8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the
rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.
BANDON, JAMES BERNARD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Bernard 1
Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork
14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for
Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830;
recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835;
lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ Castle
Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.
BANDON, FRANCIS BERNARD, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_).
_b._ Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and
1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord
lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. _d._ Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.
BANGOR, EDWARD WARD, 4 Viscount. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded
1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848;
representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. _d._ Brighton 14
Sep. 1881.
BANIM, MICHAEL (_eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny,
shopkeeper_). _b._ Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73;
contributed _Crohoore_, _The Croppy_, _The ghost hunter_, _The
mayor of Windgap_, _Father Connell_ and other tales to _The tales
by the O’Hara family 24 vols._ _d._ Booterstown, co. Dublin 30
Aug. 1874. _P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim_ 1857.
BANKES, GEORGE (_3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset
1757–1834_). _b._ 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.;
fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25
Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death
when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32
and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829
to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec.
1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C.
27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author
of _The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there_
1853. _d._ 5 Old palace yard Westminster 6 July 1856. _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 374–83; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 97 (1854).
BANKES, WILLIAM JOHN (_elder brother of the preceding_). Ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; M.P. for Truro 1810–12,
for Cambridge Univ. 1821–25, for Marlborough 1829–32 and for
Dorset 1833–34; a great friend of Lord Byron; travelled in the
East with Giovanni Finati whose life he translated from the
Italian _2 vols._ 1830. _d._ Venice 15 April 1855. _A.R._ 1826
49–56.
BANKHEAD, CHARLES. _b._ Antrim; ed. at Londonderry and Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 24 June 1790; surgeon to the Londonderry militia;
L.C.P. 25 June 1807; practised at Brighton; physician
extraordinary to Prince Regent 24 Feb. 1816, removed to London;
physician extraordinary to George 4th 30 March 1821; practised
many years at Florence. _d._ Florence 26 Nov. 1859 in 92 year.
BANKHEAD, CHARLES. Minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 24
Nov. 1843 to 6 April 1851. _d._ 8 St. James’s st. London 11 March
1870.
BANKS, GEORGE LINNÆUS (_4 son of John Banks of Birmingham,
horticulturist_). _b._ Bull Ring, Birmingham 2 March 1821; began
lecturing 29 Dec. 1846; promoted Mechanics’ Institutes in
Yorkshire and Durham; edited the Advertiser at Harrogate 1848,
Mercury at Birmingham, Daily Express at Dublin, Chronicle at
Durham, Royal Standard at Windsor, and the Sussex Mercury 1864;
wrote the popular negro melody _Dandy Jim of Caroline_; author of
_Blossoms of poesy_ 1841; _Staves for the human ladder, poems_
1850; _All about Shakspere_ 1864; _The Swiss father_ a drama
produced at T.R. Liverpool 1846 and _Better late than never_ a
comedy produced at Durham theatre 1858. _d._ Dalston, London 3 May
1881. _Illustrated Review vi_, 261–63, _portrait_.
BANKS, JOHN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1752 at 11.30 p._m._, a period marked by
the change of style which conducted him 11 days onward in his
journey half an hour after his birth. _d._ Easingwold 24 Nov.
1852.
BANKS, JOHN SHERBROOKE. _b._ 1811; ensign 33 Bengal N.I. 1829, major
1857 to death; succeeded Sir Henry Lawrence as chief comr. of
Lucknow; shot through the head while examining an outpost at
Lucknow 21 July or 1 Aug. 1857.
BANKS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (_eld. child of Thomas Banks one of the
gentlemen pensioners_). Genealogist at 5 Lyons Inn London 1813–20,
at the dormant peerage office John st. Pall Mall 1820; sent to
North America by Alexander Humphrys to publish his rights as Earl
of Stirling and to search for evidence 1826, returned 1828, sent
to Ireland 1828–29, created baronet by Humphrys 1831 but resigned
the rank about 1834; knight of holy order of St. John of
Jerusalem; author of _Dormant and extinct baronage of England 3
vols._ 1807–1809; _History of the ancient noble family of Marmyun_
1817; _Stemmata Anglicana_ 1825. _d._ Greenwich 30 Sep. 1854 in 90
year. _T. C. Banks’s Baronia Anglica vol. i_, (1844), _preface_;
_S. Warren’s Miscellanies ii_, 169–291 (1855); _G.M. xliii_,
206–208 (1855).
BANKS, WILLIAM STOTT. _b._ Wakefield, March 1820; admitted solicitor
Jany. 1851; partner with J. M. Ianson at Wakefield 1853; clerk to
the borough justices March 1870 to death; author of _List of
provincial words in use at Wakefield_ 1865; _Walks in Yorkshire 2
vols._ 1866–72. _d._ Northgate, Wakefield 25 Dec. 1872. _Yorkshire
Archæol. and Topog. Journal ii_, 459–60 (1873).
BANNAN, JOSEPH. A schoolmaster at Plymouth down to 1832 when his
school was ruined by the cholera; edited the _South Devon Monthly
Museum_ 7 vols., Plymouth 1833–36; cashier and chief accountant of
the _Western Times_ newspaper at Exeter 1836 to death. _d._ Exeter
28 May 1865 aged 60.
BANNATYNE, ANDREW (_eld. son of Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow,
merchant_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Heidelberg;
member of faculty of procurators in Glasgow; dean of the faculty;
member of University court Glasgow. _d._ 1871.
BANNATYNE, REV. ARCHIBALD. _b._ Rothesay; licensed by presbytery of
Ayr 1835; minister at Oban 1842–53 and at John Knox’s Free church
Glasgow 1853 to death. _d._ 18 May 1863. _Truth in love, a few
memorials of the Rev. Archibald Bannatyne_ 1864.
BANNER, REV. BENJAMIN HOLFORD. _b._ 26 Nov. 1798; ed. at Merchant
Taylor’s and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; precentor
of Cashel 26 Aug. 1826 to death; chancellor of Emly, Tipperary 2
April 1835 to death. _d._ 1874.
BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER (_son of Thomas Bannerman of Aberdeen, wine
merchant who d. Jany. 1820 aged 77_). _b._ Aberdeen 7 Oct. 1788,
shipowner, merchant and banker there; M.P. for Aberdeen 1832–47;
dean of faculty in Marischal college Aberdeen 1837; a comr. of
Greenwich hospital 1841; governor of Prince Edward island 3 Feb.
1851, of the Bahamas 8 May 1854 and of Newfoundland 9 Feb. 1857 to
1863; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._
Louth cottage, Chorley 30 Dec. 1864. _I.L.N. xix_, 236 (1851),
_portrait_.
BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. _b._ Aberdeen 6 April 1823;
succeeded 18 June 1851. _d._ 46 Grosvenor place, London 21 April
1877.
BANNERMAN, SIR CHARLES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 18 Aug. 1782; succeeded 31
May 1840. _d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly, London 18 June 1851.
BANNERMAN, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. James Patrick Bannerman,
minister of Cargill, Perthshire_). _b._ manse of Cargill 9 April
1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; minister of Ormiston,
Midlothian 1833–43 when he left the Established for the Free
church; professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in New
college Edin. 1849 to death; took a leading part in Free church
movement; D.D. Princeton college New Jersey 1850; author of _The
prevalent forms of unbelief_ 1849; _Apologetical theology_ 1851;
_Inspiration_ 1865; _The Church 2 vols._ 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 27
March 1868.
BANNISTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of Charles George Bannister of
London, solicitor 1796–1858_). _b._ 1826; ed. at Charterhouse;
captain 2 Bombay light cavalry 24 April 1854 to 10 April 1861;
governor of Maidstone gaol. _d._ 20 April 1874.
BANNISTER, REV. JOHN (_son of David Bannister of York 1788–1854_).
_b._ York 25 Feb. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1844, M.A.
1853, LL.B. and LLD. 1866; P.C. of Bridgehill, Derbyshire 1846–57;
P.C. of St. Day, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1857 to death; author of _A
glossary of Cornish names, 20,000 Celtic and other names now or
formerly in use in Cornwall with derivations and significations_
(1871). _d._ St. Day 30 Aug. 1873. _Bibl. Cornub. i_, 9 (1874),
_iii_, 1047 (1882).
BANNISTER, SAXE. _b._ Bidlington house Steyning, Sussex 27 June
1790; ed. at Lewes, Tunbridge and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1813,
M.A. 1815; raised a company and volunteered for the army 1813;
captain on h.p. 25 Dec. 1813; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1819;
attorney general of New South Wales 5 April 1824 to April 1826
when removed from office; printed a statement of his ‘claims’ 1853
after presenting many petitions to the Government; gentleman bedel
of Royal College of Physicians London 1849–50; author of _Records
of British enterprise beyond sea vol. 1_ 1849; _William Paterson,
his life and trials_ 1858; _The writings of Wm. Paterson 3 vols._
1859; _Classical and prehistoric influences upon British history,
2 ed._ 1871. _d._ Thornton lodge, Thornton Heath 16 Sep. 1877.
_Dict. of Nat. Biog. iii_, 142 (1885).
BANON, AWLY PATRICK. F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, vice president June 1866
to death; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1851; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; author of
_Observations on hermaphroditism illustrated by a remarkable case_
1852. _d._ 37 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 May 1867.
BANTING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; an undertaker at 27 St. James’s st.
Piccadilly, London 1820–70; made Duke of Wellington’s funeral car
Oct. 1852; reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. in 12
months Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1863 by abstaining from bread, butter,
milk, sugar, beer, and potatoes; author of _Letter on corpulence
addressed to the public_ 1863 _4 ed._ 1869; Thousands of people
adopted the course he advised, which became known as “banting.”
_d._ 4 The Terrace, Kensington 16 March 1878. _Blackwood’s Mag.
xcvi_, 607–17 (1864); _Tanner’s Practice of medicine i_, 148
(1875).
BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Simon White of
Bantry_). _b._ 6 Aug. 1767; created a peer of Ireland as Baron
Bantry 31 March 1797 on account of exertions in repelling the
French invasion at Bantry bay 27 Jany. 1797, Viscount Bantry 29
Dec. 1800 and Viscount Berehaven and Earl of Bantry 22 Jany. 1816.
_d._ Glengariffe lodge, co. Cork 2 May 1851.
BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 2 Earl of. _b._ St. Finbar, Cork 16 Nov.
1800; a representative peer for Ireland 1 July 1854. _d._ Exbury
house, Hants 16 July 1868.
BANTRY, WILLIAM HENRY HARE WHITE, 3 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 16 Nov.
1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1823; sheriff of Cork
1848; lieut. col. commandant West Cork artillery militia 1854–73;
a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1869. _d._ Bantry house,
Cork 15 Jany. 1884.
BAPTIST, JOHN THOMAS. A well known florist at Sydney N.S.W. _d._ The
Gardens, Surrey hills, Sydney 15 Sep. 1873 aged 69.
BARBER, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; teacher of drawing in Royal
Institution, Liverpool; assisted to found the Architectural and
Archæological association; a landscape painter; exhibited 3
pictures at the R.A. and many pictures at local exhibitions; pres.
of the Liverpool Academy. _d._ Liverpool Jany. 1854.
BARBER, CHARLES CHAPMAN. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 9 wrangler
1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer;
barrister L.I. 3 May 1833; member of chancery procedure commission
1853; junior counsel for defendant in ejectment action of
Tichborne _v._ Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872; junior
counsel for the Crown in prosecution of Roger Tichborne for
perjury 23 April 1873 to 28 Feb. 1874; engaged in court 103 days
in the ejectment case, and 188 days in the perjury case; judge of
county courts for circuit No. 6 East Riding of Yorkshire Feb. 1874
to March 1874 when he resigned and resumed practice. _d._ 71
Cornwall gardens London 5 Feb. 1882.
BARBER, FAIRLESS (_2 son of Joseph Barber of Brighouse, solicitor_).
_b._ Castle hill, Rastrick 11 Jany. 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s
school York; admitted a solicitor 1859; practised at Brighouse;
member of Huddersfield Archæological and Topographical Association
1866, sec. Sep. 1866, it became mainly through him in 1870 the
Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association; F.S.A. 26
May 1870; edited _The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical
journal_ _6 vols._ 1876–81. _d._ Pinner 3 March 1881. _Yorkshire
Arch. and Topog. journal vii_, 1–5 (1882).
BARBER, JAMES. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London
and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York,
wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833,
elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. _d._
Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.
BARBER, JAMES (_son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield_). Made a
large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to
Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won
the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848;
in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern
handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown
Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. _d._
Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.
BARBER, JOHN. _b._ West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman
and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27
Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief
shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons
well known all over the world. _d._ 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860
aged 71.
BARBER, JONATHAN. Frame work knitter at Nottingham; leader of the
infidels there, held public discussions with Rev. J. W. Brooks of
Nottingham. _d._ Nottingham 17 Jany. 1859. _The apology for
renouncing infidel opinions of Jonathan Barber_ 1859.
BARBER, JONATHAN. _b._ England 1784; M.R.C.S.; practised in
Scarborough and London; went to United States about 1820; taught
elocution in Yale and Harvard Univs., became the best teacher in
America; lectured on phrenology; went to Montreal 1836; resumed
medical practice as a homœopath about 1845; professor of oratory
in McGill univ. Montreal down to 1862; author of _The
Elocutionist_ 1829; _A grammar of elocution_ 1830. _d._ near
Montreal 11 May 1864.
BARBER, MARY ANN SERRETT (_daughter of Thomas Barber_). Wrote many
articles in the _Church of England Magazine_ and _Charlotte
Elizabeth’s Christian lady’s magazine_; edited _Children’s
Missionary magazine_ afterwards called _The Coral Missionary mag._
1847 to death; author of _Redemption in Israel or narratives of
conversions among the Jews_ 1844, _The sorrows of the streets_
1855, _Castle Rag and its dependencies or the sins and sorrows of
the poor_ 1858, _Du Bourg or the Mercuriale_ 1851 and many other
books. _d._ 9 Sussex sq. Brighton 9 March 1864 aged 63.
_Bread-winning or the Ledger and the Lute an Autobiography by M.
A. S. Barber_ 1865.
BARBER, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ about 1807; clerk to Messrs. Scoones of
Tonbridge, Kent, solicitors 1819–36; established Literary and
Scientific institution there 1837; solicitor in London 1837;
partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion
society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George
Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal
Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing
same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life;
arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula
March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted
conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free
pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov.
1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany.
1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry
and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a
certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice
1862. _The case of Mr. W. H. Barber_, _8 ed._ 1853; _Central
criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix_, 778–850
(1844); _I.L.N. iv_, 80, 249 (1844), 2 _portraits_.
BARBOUR, ROBERT. _b._ Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes
of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the
first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at
cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian
college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of
Cheshire 1866. _d._ Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved
at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.
BARCLAY, ANDREW WHYTE (_son of John Barclay, captain R.N._) _b._
Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of
Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St.
George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar
at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor
and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881,
treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.;
assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first
medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of _Manual of
medical diagnosis_ 1857 _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ Whitney Wood,
Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. _British Medical Journal i_, 932
(1884).
BARCLAY, ARTHUR KETT (_eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near
Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855_). _b._ 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow;
head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an
observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852;
paralysed 1855. (_m._ 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod
Wright of Mapperley, Notts). _d._ 20 Nov. 1869.
BARCLAY, CHARLES. _b._ 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818,
for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm
of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of
Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. _d._ Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855.
BARCLAY, HUGH _b._ Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty
of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829,
and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death;
author of _A digest of the law of Scotland_ 2 vols. 1852–53 _4
ed._ 1880; _Thoughts on Sabbath schools_ 1855; _The Sinaitic
inscriptions_ 1866. _d._ Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb.
1884.
BARCLAY, RIGHT REV. JOSEPH (_only son of John Barclay of Strabane,
co. Donegal who d. 9 Dec. 1845_). _b._ Strabane 12 Aug. 1831; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dublin 16 Oct. 1849 to 1854, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857,
LLD. 1865, D.D. 1880; C. of Bagnalstown 1854–58; missionary at
Constantinople 1858–61; incumbent of Ch. Jerusalem 1861–70; R. of
Stapleford, Herts 29 March 1873; bishop of Jerusalem June 1879 to
death, consecrated in St. Paul’s 25 July 1879, installed 24 Feb.
1880; held 2 ordinations and 5 confirmations; author of _Talmud,
Selection of treatises translated from the Mishna_ 1878. _d._ the
bishop’s palace, Jerusalem 23 Oct. 1881. _Joseph Barclay a
missionary biography_ 1883, _portrait_.
BARCLAY, LYDIA ANN (_dau. of Robert Barclay of Clapham_). Edited
_Selections from the writings of Patrick Livingstone_ 1847;
_Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton_ 1849; _A
journal of the life and gospel labours of John Conran_ 1850. _d._
Cockermouth 31 Jany. 1855 aged 55. _A short memoir of L. A.
Barclay by Wm. Hodgson, junior_ 1855; _A selection from the
letters of L. A. Barclay_ 1862.
BARCLAY, SIR ROBERT, 9 Baronet. _b._ Dungannon 1819; succeeded 14
Aug. 1839. _d._ Dungannon 19 May 1859.
BARCLAY, ROBERT (_younger son of John Barclay, a minister in Society
of Friends who d. 11 May 1838 aged 41_). _b._ Croydon 4 Aug. 1833;
a manufacturing stationer in London 1855; patented March 1860 an
indelible writing paper for prevention of forgery; author of _The
inner life of the religious societies of the Commonwealth_ 1876,
reissued 1877 and 1878. _d._ Hillside, Reigate 11 Nov. 1876.
_Sermons by Robert Barclay with a brief memoir edited by his
widow_ 1878, _portrait_.
BARCLAY, VERY REV. THOMAS (_son of Rev. James Barclay, minister of
Unst, Shetland_). _b._ Unst June 1792; ed. at King’s coll.
Aberdeen, M.A. 1812; taught elocution at Aberdeen; a parliamentary
reporter for the _Times_ 1818–22; licensed by presbytery of
Lerwick 27 June 1821; ordained 12 Sep. 1822 to parish of
Dunrossness, Shetland; minister of Lerwick 13 Dec. 1827; clerk of
the synod of Shetland 27 Apl. 1831; minister of Peterculter Sep.
1843, and of Currie July 1844; principal of Univ. of Glasgow 13
Feb. 1858 to death; one of the best Scandinavian scholars. _d._
the college, Gillmore hill, Glasgow 23 Feb. 1873. _Scott’s Fasti
Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ pt. v_, 422, 426.
BARCLAY, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1797; miniature painter; made many
copies from works of Italian masters in the Louvre Paris;
exhibited portraits and copies in water-colours at the Salon
1831–59 and at Royal Academy 1832–56. _d._ 1859.
BARDELIN, AUGUSTE DE. _b._ Aix in Provence; member of the
Garde-du-Corps of Louis xvi; emigrated to Italy, Germany and
Belgium; taught French and Italian at Norwich about 1792–1814;
accompanied Louis xviii to Paris 1814; lived there till 1848 when
he went to Provence. (_m._ 1815 or 1816 Miss Sutton). _d._ Nice 8
May 1852 in 85 year.
BARDIN, GEORGE GREGORY. Chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 Aug.
1870; C.B. 15 Aug. 1868. _d._ about May 1875.
BARDSLEY, SIR JAMES LOMAX (_2 son of Edward Bardsley of
Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 7 July 1801; ed. at Univs. of
Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1823; physician at Manchester 1823
to death; physician to Manchester royal infirmary 1824–43; member
of Manchester medical society 1834, pres. 1838–42 and 1845–47;
knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; F.R.C.P.
1859; lecturer on principles and practice of physic at Royal
school of medicine Manchester 1825–43; author of _Hospital facts
and observations_ 1830 and of the articles Diabetes and
Hydrophobia in the _Cyclopædia of practical medicine_ 1833. _d._
The Orchard Greenheys, Manchester 10 July 1876. _Photographs of
eminent medical men ii_, 95–98 (1868), _portrait_.
BARDSLEY, SAMUEL ARGENT. _b._ Kelvedon, Essex 27 April 1764;
apprenticed to a surgeon at Nottingham; studied at Leyden Univ.
1786–89; M.D. 1789; physician at Manchester 1790; phys. to
Manchester infirmary 1790 to Aug. 1823; author of _Critical
remarks on the tragedy of Pizarro_ 1800; _Medical reports of cases
and experiments_ 1807. _d._ near Hastings 25 May 1851.
BAREZ, REV. HENRY. Minister of the French protestant episcopal
church of St. Martin Orgars formerly in Cannon st. London; granted
civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840 in consideration of having
taught Queen Victoria German. _d._ Leicester square, London 26
Dec. 1867 aged 79.
BARFF, SAMUEL. _b._ England? about 1793; lived at Zante 1816 to
death, an eminent merchant and banker there; took an active part
in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation
1823–24. _d._ Zante 1 Sep. 1880 aged 87. _Moore’s Life of Lord
Byron_; _Trikoupes’_ Ἰστορια τῆς Ἐλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστασεως _4 vols._
1853–57.
BARHAM, CHARLES FOSTER (_4 son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance,
Cornwall 1766–1844_). _b._ Truro 9 March 1804; ed. at Queen’s
coll. Cam.; foundation scholar May 1823; studied in Paris and
Italy 1825–28; M.B. Cam. 1827, M.D. 1860; physician Tavistock
dispensary 1832–35; phys. at Truro Aug. 1837 to death; senior
phys. Royal Cornwall infirmary 1838–73; pres. Royal Instit. of
Cornwall 1859–61; mayor of Truro 1862; author of _Report on the
sanitary state of the labouring classes in the town of Truro_ 1842
and of many papers on meteorology and other subjects in _Reports_
and _Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall_ and other publications.
_d._ 11 Strangways terrace, Truro 20 Oct. 1884. _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 10 (1874), _iii_, 1048 (1882).
BARHAM, REV. CHARLES HENRY (_youngest son of Joseph Foster Barham,
M.P._) _b._ London 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.
1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Appleby 24 May 1832 to 3 Dec. 1832; R.
of Barming, Kent about 1838–47; R. of Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland
1847–52. _d._ Trecwn, Pembrokeshire 15 Aug. 1878.
BARHAM, FRANCIS FOSTER (_5 son of Thomas Foster Barham, of
Penzance_). _b._ Leskinnick, Penzance 31 May 1808; solicitor in
London 1831; joint proprietor and editor with J. A. Heraud of _The
new monthly Magazine and humorist_ 1 July 1839 to 26 May 1840;
lived at Clifton 1844–54, and at Bath 1854 to death; member of
Anglo Biblical Instit. 1852; a vegetarian many years; author of
_The Adamus Exul of Grotius or the prototype of Paradise lost, now
first translated from the Latin_ 1839; _The ecclesiastical history
of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier, new ed. with a life of the
author 9 vols._ 1840; _The Alist or divine, a message to our
times_ 1840; _The political works of Cicero translated 2 vols._
1841–42; _Socrates, a tragedy in 5 acts_ 1842; _The life and times
of John Reuchlin or Capnion_ 1843; _The new Bristol guide, a poem_
1850 and many other books. _d._ 8 St. Mark’s place, Bath 9 Feb.
1871. _A memorial of Francis Barham, edited by Isaac Pitman_ 1873
_pp. lv._ and 495 printed in the phonetic character; _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 11, _iii_, 1048.
NOTE.—He advocated at one period the formation of a religious
association to be called Alists or Godists, some of his works
on this subject have A. F. Barham or Alist Francis Barham on
the title page.
BARHAM, THOMAS FOSTER (_eld. son of Thomas Foster Barham of
Penzance_). _b._ Hendon, Middlesex 10 Sep. 1794; ed. at Queen’s
coll. Cam., M.B. 1820; phys. at Penzance 1820 and at Exeter about
1830–49; lived at Newton Abbot, Devon 1849 to death; author of
_Introduction to Greek grammar_ 1829; _Greek roots in English
rhymes_ 1837; _Philadelphia or claims of humanity_ 1858;
contributed to transactions of Cornish scientific societies. _d._
Castle Dyke, Highweek, Newton Abbot 3 March 1869. _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 13, _iii_, 1050.
BARING, RIGHT REV. CHARLES THOMAS (_youngest son of Sir Thomas
Baring, 2 Baronet 1772–1848_). _b._ 11 Jany. 1807; ed. privately
and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832;
student of his college; C. of St. Ebbe Ox. 1830–44; select
preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1846 and 1855; R. of All Souls
Marylebone 28 Sep. 1847; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb.
1851; R. of Lympsfield Surrey 1855–56; Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol July 1856, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug. 1856, translated
to Durham 6 Nov. 1861, resigned 2 Feb. 1879; 102 new parishes were
formed and 119 new churches built in diocese of Durham 1861–78.
_d._ Cecil house, Wimbledon 14 Sep. 1879. _Durham Diocesan
calendar_ 1880 _pp._ 184–89.
BARING, HENRY BINGHAM. _b._ York place, London 4 March 1804; ed. at
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Callington 31 July 1830 to 3 Dec.
1832, and for Marlborough 11 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868; a lord of
the treasury 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846. _d._ Nice 25 April 1869.
BARING, THOMAS (_2 son of Sir Thomas Baring 2 Baronet 1772–1848_).
_b._ 7 Sep. 1800; ed. at Winchester; joined banking house of Hope
and Co. at Amsterdam; entered house of Baring Brothers and Co.
merchants 8 Bishopgate st. London 1828, head of the firm to 1871;
chairman of Lloyds 1830 to March 1868; pres. of London institution
1835 to death; M.P. for great Yarmouth 1835–37 and for Huntingdon
1844 to death; a director of Bank of England 1848–67; declined
Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered him by Earl of Derby 1852
and 1858; one of the 5 comrs. of Great Exhibition 1862. _d._
Fontmell lodge, Bournemouth 18 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under
£1,500,000 Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. iii_, 265 (1843), _portrait, xl_,
215 (1862), _portrait, lxiii_, 501, 639 (1873); _Waagen’s
Treasures of art ii_, 174–92, _iv_, 93–100.
BARKER, ALEXANDER. Lived at 103 Piccadilly, London; made a fine
collection of pictures chiefly by great painters of 15th century
which was sold at Christie’s 6 June 1874 for sum of £38,591, his
library was sold 24–25 June 1874 for £4,019. _d._ Hatfield near
Doncaster 24 Oct. 1873. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 125–29,
_iv_, 71–79.
BARKER, BERNARD. Editor of literary portion of _The Bazaar_; author
of a novel called _Elliot the younger 3 vols_. 1878. _d._ 13 Sep.
1882.
BARKER, FRANCIS. _b._ Waterford; ed. at Univs. of Dublin and
Edinburgh, B.A. Dublin 1793, M.B. and M.D. 1810; practised at
Waterford 5 years, where he opened the first fever hospital in
Ireland; professor of chemistry Univ. of Dublin 1808; started
first medical paper in Ireland with Dr. Todd; sec. of Irish board
of health 1820–52; published with Dr. Cheyne a treatise on
_Epidemic fevers in Ireland 2 vols._ 1821; edited the _Dublin
Pharmacopœia_ 1826. _d._ Wellington road, Dublin 8 Oct. 1859 aged
86.
BARKER, RIGHT REV. FREDERIC (_5 son of Rev. John Barker, V. of
Baslow, Derbyshire who d. 6 June 1824_). _b._ Baslow 17 March
1808; ed. at Grantham and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1839,
D.D. 1854; P.C. of Upton, Cheshire 24 April 1831 to 28 Sep. 1834;
P.C. of St. Mary’s Edge hill, Liverpool 1835–54; V. of Baslow
Jany. 1854; bishop of Sydney Aug. 1854 to death; created
Metropolitan of Australia 19 Oct. 1854, consecrated at Lambeth 30
Nov. 1854, arrived in Sydney May 1855; pres. of the Synod of the
diocese of Sydney which first met 5 Dec. 1866; author of
_Thirty-six psalms with commentary_ 1854. _d._ San Remo, Italy 6
April 1882. _bur._ Baslow 18 April. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 452, (1882),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 448 (1882), _portrait_.
BARKER, GEORGE. Entered navy 1 June 1771; captain 8 June 1799;
admiral on h.p. 27 Dec. 1847. _d._ Spring Vale, Isle of Wight 25
Dec. 1851 in 92 year.
BARKER, GEORGE ARTHUR. _b._ 1812; Tenor singer and vocal composer;
his song “The White Squall” 1835 has passed through many editions
and is still frequently sung. _d._ Aylestone near Leicester 2
March 1876.
BARKER, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (_youngest son of John Barker, deputy
storekeeper general_). _b._ London 1817; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut.
R.A. 21 June 1834; lieut. col. 1 June 1855 to death; served in
Crimean war and Indian mutiny; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 16 May
1859 for capturing stronghold of Birwah. _d._ Simla, India 27 July
1861.
BARKER, HENRY ASTON (_younger son of Robert Barker of Leicester
square, London, reputed inventor of panoramas 1739–1806_). _b._
Glasgow 1774; pupil at Royal Academy; assisted his father in his
panoramas 1789–1806; carried on the business in Leicester square
1806–20; opened a building occupying site of present Strand
theatre as Reinagle and Barker’s New Panorama 1820; exhibited a
series of panoramas here with his pupil John Burford to 1826;
realised £10,000 by his panorama of battle of Waterloo 1842. (_m._
1802 Harriet Maria eld. dau. of Wm. Bligh, admiral R.N., she _d._
26 Feb. 1856). _d._ Bitton near Bristol 19 July 1856. _G.M. i_,
515–18 (1856); _Art Journal ix_, 47 (1857).
BARKER, JOHN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1846, M.D. 1863;
L.R.C.S. Ireland 1846, M.R.C.S. 1863; demonstrator of anatomy
Univ. of Dublin; curator of museum of Royal college of surgeons
Dublin; M.R.I.A. and F.R.S. Dublin; author of Cryptogamic part of
Steele’s _Handbook of field botany_ 1847. _d._ 83 Waterloo road,
Dublin 2 Feb. 1879 aged 63.
BARKER, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Ashford hall, Derbyshire 1806; ed. at Ch.
Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 3 May 1836;
magistrate at Worship st. police court, London July 1860 and at
Clerkenwell police court Jany. 1863 to 3 Aug. 1874. _d._ East
lodge, Bakewell Derbyshire 28 Jany. 1876.
BARKER, JOSEPH. _b._ Bramley near Leeds 11 May 1806; a travelling
preacher of Methodist new connexion at Hanley 1829; stationed on
Sheffield and Mossley circuits successively; edited _Evangelical
Reformer_ a weekly periodical 1837–40; expelled from the above
Society 1841 on ground that he had denied divine appointment of
baptism; pastor of a congregation of Barkerites at Newcastle;
edited _The Christian Investigator 2 vols._ 1842–43; became a
Unitarian 1845; presented with a steam press at Wortley, Leeds 6
July 1846; issued a library of 300 volumes being cheapest books
then ever issued; edited _The People_ 1846, 20,000 copies of which
were sold weekly; a town councillor at Leeds 1848; tried as a
Chartist but acquitted 1848; emigrated to Central Ohio 1851; a
leading abolitionist; lectured in United States 1857–59; sailed
for England 11 Jany. 1860; edited _Barker’s Review_ _3 vols._
1862–63; joined the Primitive Methodists at Tunstall; a local
preacher to 1868 when he went to America; author of many books.
_d._ Omaha, Nebraska 15 Sep. 1875. _Life of Joseph Barker 1880_,
_portrait_; _Methodist new connexion mag. July 1842, Sep. 1843 and
Dec. 1875_.
BARKER, PETER. _b._ 10 July 1808; lost his sight 1812; a skilful
performer on the violin; a carpenter at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire;
sang in the church choir; one of the bell ringers, curfew bell is
rung at Hampsthwaite at 8 every evening. _d._ in his cottage near
churchyard gate, Hampsthwaite 18 Feb. 1873. _Life of Peter Barker,
Pately Bridge_ 1873; _S. Baring-Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities i_,
177–82 (1874).
BARKER, REV. RALPH. Ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; V. of
Pagham near Chichester 1850 to death; rural dean of Chichester
1858 to death; co-editor of _The Protestant Guardian_ 1827–29, and
of _The Quarterly educational magazine 2 vols._ 1847–49; author of
sermons, pamphlets and reviews. _d._ 1871.
BARKER, THOMAS. _b._ Carlton near Nottingham 15 Nov. 1798; a lace
maker there; professional cricketer at Cambridge 1822 and 1841–45;
a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London about 1835–41;
an umpire at Cambridge 1846 and in London 1856. _d._ Nottingham 2
March 1877.
BARKER, THOMAS HERBERT. _b._ Dunstable 31 Oct. 1814; studied at
Univ. coll. London 1834–35; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S.
1851; M.B. London 1845, M.D. 1847; practised at Bedford; one of
the very best general practitioners in England; recorded for many
years a series of meteorological observations which were
incorporated in reports of the Registrar General; F.R.S. Edin.;
author of _Practical observations on the diet of infancy and
childhood_ 1850; _On the hygienic management of infants and
children_ 1859. _d._ Harpur place, Bedford 24 Oct. 1865.
_Photographs of eminent medical men i_, 117–23 (1866), _portrait_;
_British Medical Journal ii_, 481–84 (1865).
BARKER, THOMAS JONES (_eld. son of Thomas Barker of Bath, painter
1769–1847_). _b._ Bath 1815; pupil of Horace Vernet in Paris;
exhibited many pictures at the Salon where he gained 3 gold
medals; painted several pictures for Louis Philippe; returned to
England 1845; gained appellation of the ‘English Horace Vernet’;
exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A., 34 at British Institution and
15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–76; painted many pictures in France
during the German war 1870. _d._ Avon house, Steele’s road,
Haverstock hill, London 27 March 1882. _Times 29 March 1882, p._
10, _col._ 1.
BARKER, THOMAS RAWSON. _b._ Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a
lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in
many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left
round-armed bowler. _d._ The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.
BARKER, THOMAS RICHARD. _b._ London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s
Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent
minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at
Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college
Birmingham 1838 to death. _d._ near the College 12 Nov. 1870.
_Congregational year book_ 1871 _pp._ 302–304.
BARKER, WILLIAM (_only son of Francis Barker, M.D., professor of
chemistry in Univ. of Dublin_). Assistant to his father many
years; prof. of natural philosophy to Royal Society of Dublin
1848; prof. of chemistry R.C.S. Ireland 1850 to death; edited
_Parkes’s Chemical Catechism_ 1837 and 1854; M.R.I.A. 25 Jany.
1836. _d._ Hatch st. Dublin 11 Sep. 1873 aged 63.
BARKER, WILLIAM BURCKHARDT (_son of John Barker 1771–1849, British
consul general in Egypt_). _b._ Aleppo about 1810; taken to
England 1819; resided at Tarsus in an official capacity many
years; professor of the Arabic Turkish, Persian and Hindustani
languages at Eton; chief superintendent of British land transport
depot at Sinope 1855 to death; author of _Lares and Penates or
Cilicia and its governors_ 1853; _Odessa and its inhabitants_
1855; _A short historical account of the Crimea_ 1855. _d._ Sinope
28 Jany. 1856 aged 45. _E. B. Barker’s Syria and Egypt 2 vols._
1876.
BARKER, WILLIAM GIDEON MICHAEL JONES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1817; author of
_The three days of Wensleydale, the valley of the Yore_ 1854. _d._
Leeds 10 April 1855.
BARKLEY, JOHN TREVOR. _b._ Yetminster, Dorset 12 Oct. 1826; resident
engineer on Whitehaven and Furness railway; manager of coalfields
of Heraclea in Turkey 1850–55; constructed Danube and Black Sea
railway 40 miles long (which was sold to Roumanian government Nov.
1882) and several other lines in east of Europe, also upwards of
20 bridges chiefly on the Bucharest and Varna line; returned to
England about 1869; member of Iron and Steel Institute 1873. _d._
8 Jany. 1882. _Journal of Iron and Steel institute No._ 2, 1882
651–53.
BARLEE, SIR FREDERICK PALGRAVE (_son of Rev. Edward Barlee
1788–1853, R. of Worlingworth, Suffolk_). _b._ 1827; served in
ordnance department 1844–55; colonial sec. of Western Australia
1855–77; member of legislative council to Nov. 1875; lieut.
governor of British Honduras 1877–1883; left England to administer
the government of Trinidad 2 June 1884; C.M.G. 30 May 1877,
K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. (_m._ 2 April 1851 Jane youngest dau. of
Edward Oseland of Coleraine). _d._ Trinidad 8 Aug. 1884.
BARLING, JOHN. _b._ Weymouth 11 Aug. 1804; congregationalist
minister at Square Chapel, Halifax 1829–34; Unitarian minister at
Northgate end, Halifax Jany. 1854 to Jany. 1858; author of _A
review of Trinitarianism_ 1847; _Leaves from my writing desk by an
old student_ 1872. _d._ Leeds 20 Aug. 1883.
BARLOW, CHARLES ANSTRUTHER. _b._ 5 Feb. 1800; entered navy 1812;
commanded the Nimrod 20 guns 1839–41; captain 8 June 1841; C.B. 14
Oct. 1841. _d._ Hammersmith 31 Dec. 1855.
BARLOW, REV. EDWARD WILLIAM (_only son of Dr. Barlow, M.D. of New
Sydney Place, Bath_). ed. at Ex. Coll. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836,
D.D. 1865; C. of Rochford, Essex; author of _A brief manual on
writing Latin_ 1834; _A treatise on the state of the soul_ 1843;
_The Apocrypha, its use and abuse_ 1850; _Clerical manual 2 parts_
1852; _A compilation on Dilapidations_ 1853. _d._ Cleveland villa,
Bath 13 Feb. 1869 aged 57.
BARLOW, GEORGE HILARO (_4 son of Rev. Thomas Wm. Barlow 1760–1821
preb. of Bristol_). _b._ 2 May 1806; midshipman R.N.; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1841; studied at Univ. of
Edin. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1842; assistant
phys. to Guy’s hospital 1840, phys. 1843; one of editors of _Guy’s
hospital reports_; chairman of New Equitable life assurance
company 1856, and of the Briton medical and general life
association 1862. _d._ Longton lodge, Sydenham 13 Oct. 1866.
_Lancet ii_, 454–55 (1866).
BARLOW, HENRY CLARK (_only child of Henry Barlow of Newington Butts,
London 1783–1858_). _b._ 6, Churchyard row, Newington Butts 12 May
1806; studied at Royal Academy and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 3 Aug.
1837; spent 5 years in Italy 1841–45; F.G.S. 1864; took a
prominent part in Dante festival at Florence 14–16 May 1865;
Cavalier of order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus June 1865;
author of _Industry on Christian principles_ 1851; _Francesca da
Rimini her lament and vindication_ 1859 _2 ed._ 1875; _Essays on
Symbolism_ 1866. _d._ Salzburg 8 Nov. 1876. _A brief memoir of H.
C. Barlow, privately printed_ 1868; _Quarterly journal of
Geological society xxxiii_, 60–62 (1877).
NOTE.—He left by will £1,000 consols to University College
London for the endowment of an annual course of lectures on
the ‘Divina Commedia’ as well as all the books and prints in
his library which related to Dante and Italian history and
literature; he also left £500 consols to the Geological
Society for the furtherance of geological science.
BARLOW, JOHN. _b._ the Oak farm, Chorley, Cheshire 20 Sep. 1815;
studied at Veterinary college Edin. 1842; assistant professor and
lecturer on Zootomy at same college 1845 to death; member of
Physiological Society. _d._ 1 Pilrig st. Edin. 29 Jany. 1856. _A
memoir of John Barlow_ 1858.
BARLOW, REV. JOHN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823;
F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; sec. of Royal Institution 1842–60; chaplain
in ordinary at Kensington palace 12 Oct. 1854 to Sep. 1867. _d._ 5
Berkeley st. Piccadilly 8 July 1869 aged 70.
BARLOW, MAURICE. Ensign 85 foot 21 July 1814; lieut. col. 14 foot 25
Dec. 1847 to 27 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general
in the Crimea 30 July 1855; col. of 3 West India regiment 8 June
1863 and of 14 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to death; general 21 March 1874.
_d._ Florence 12 April 1875.
BARLOW, PETER. _b._ parish of St. Simon, Norwich 13 Oct. 1776;
mathematical master at Royal military academy Woolwich 1801;
mathematical professor there to 1847 when he retired on full pay;
gold medallist of Society of Arts 1821; F.R.S. 29 May 1823, Copley
medallist 1825 for his discoveries in magnetism; F.S.A. 1829,
F.R.A.S. 1829; a corresponding member of Academies of Brussells
and Paris; one of Irish railway comrs. 19 Oct. 1836; invented
method of compensating compass errors in ships whereby difficulty
of navigation was in a great measure overcome, for which he
received from board of longitude a grant of £500; contributed
largely to _Encyclopædia Metropolitana_ and _Rees’s Encyclopædia_;
author of _A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary_ 1814;
_Essay on the strength of timber and other materials_ 1817, _6
ed._ 1867; _Essay on magnetic attractions_ 1820, _2 ed._ 1823.
_d._ Old Charlton, Kent 1 March 1862. _Proc. of Royal Society
xii_, 33–34 (1863); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_,
615–18 (1863).
BARLOW, PETER WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 1800;
A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1845, Telford medallist 1845; engaged upon
construction of Liverpool and Birmingham canal and the New London
docks; resident engineer on London and Dover since called South
Eastern railway; planned and executed Reading and Reigate and
Tonbridge and Hastings branches 1841–46; designed and constructed
Lambeth bridge opened 11 Nov. 1862, cheapest bridge in London,
cost only £30,000; planned the Tower Subway opened Feb. 1870;
F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1845. _d._ 56 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London
20 May 1885.
BARLOW, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Calcutta 24 Sep. 1797; in the
Bengal civil service 1817 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1846. _d._
Hanover square, London 21 Jany. 1857.
BARLOW, THOMAS WORTHINGTON (_only son of Wm. Worthington Barlow of
Cranage, Cheshire_). barrister G.I. 14 June 1848; practised at
Manchester; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone April 1856 to death;
F.L.S. April 1848; author of _The mystic number, a glance at the
system of nature_ 1852; _Memoir of W. Broome_ 1855; edited _The
Cheshire and Lancashire historical collector 2 vols._ 1853–55.
_d._ Freetown, Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1856 aged 33.
BARLOW, SIR WILLIAM OWEN, 8 Baronet (_only son of Wm. Owen, a
brigadier general_). _b._ 11 April 1775; barrister M.T. 22 Nov.
1799, bencher 1838; tubman of Court of Exchequer 1809, postman
1815–1837; succeeded his uncle 4 Jany. 1817; attorney general for
Carmarthen circuit many years; took name of Barlow 1844; lived in
Fig tree court Temple 1799 to death. _d._ 5 Fig tree court 25 Feb.
1851. _G.M. xxxv_, 433 (1851).
BARMBY, JOHN GOODWYN. _b._ Yoxford, Suffolk 1820; associated with
revolutionists in London 1837; went to Paris 1840; founded the
Communist Propaganda Society 1841, afterwards known as the
Universal Communitarian Association; a practical preacher of
Christian Socialism; Unitarian minister at Southampton, Topsham
and Lancaster successively and at Wakefield 1858–79; edited a
periodical called _The Promethean_ 1842; author of _The poetry of
home and childhood_ 1853; _The return of the swallow and other
poems_ 1864; _Aids to devotion_ 1865; wrote many tracts and hymns
and articles in periodicals. _d._ The Vines, Yoxford 18 Oct. 1881.
_Frost’s forty years recollections_ (1880) 54–75; _Unitarian
Herald xxi_, 358 (1881).
BARNARD, SIR ANDREW FRANCIS (_son of Rev. Dr. Henry Barnard of
Bovagh, co. Londonderry_). _b._ Fahan, co. Donegal 1773; ensign 90
foot 26 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 29 March 1810;
commanded 2 brigade of light division in the Peninsula 16 Feb.
1814; commanded British division in Paris 1815; col. of 1
battalion Rifle Brigade 25 Aug. 1822 to death; clerk marshal of
the King’s household 1830–37, of the Queen Dowager’s household
1837–49; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 26 Nov. 1849 to
death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 June
1840, G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Royal hospital Chelsea 17 Jany. 1855.
_Cope’s History of the rifle brigade_ 1877; _Lord W. P. Lennox’s
Celebrities I have known, 2 series i_, 250–79.
BARNARD, CHARLOTTE ALINGTON. _b._ 23 Dec. 1830; composed about 100
popular ballads under pseudonym of Claribel 1858–69 two of the
best known are “Come back to Erin” and “We’d better bide a wee”;
author of _Thoughts, verses and songs_. (_m._ 18 May 1854 Rev.
Charles Cary Barnard, R. of Brocklesby, Lincs.) _d._ Dover 30
Jany. 1869. _The Choirmaster March 1869._
BARNARD, EDWARD. _b._ 14 March 1786; ed. at Eton; in the colonial
office 1804 to death; agent general for Crown colonies 1825 to
death; F.L.S. 17 Feb. 1818. _d._ 13 Dec. 1861.
BARNARD, EDWARD. Entered navy 12 May 1797; captain 4 July 1817;
retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. (_m._ Aug. 1811 Mary Parkins). _d._
Hipswell lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1863 aged 82. _O’Byrne_
1861 _p._ 48.
BARNARD, EDWARD GEORGE. A shipbuilder at Deptford; M.P. for
Greenwich 14 Dec. 1832 to death; purchased Gosfield hall, Essex
from the Marquess of Buckingham. _d._ Gosfield hall 14 June 1851
aged 73. _Wright’s Essex ii_, 1 (1836).
BARNARD, FREDERICK LAMPORT. _b._ 20 Feb. 1813; entered navy 3 June
1827; captain 10 Oct. 1855; captain of the Mœander 10 guns 23 Feb.
1861 to 14 June 1864; retired V.A. 30 Jany. 1879. _d._ 28 July
1880.
BARNARD, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Wm. Barnard of Water
Stratford, Bucks_). _b._ Westbury, Bucks 1799; ed. at Westminster
and Sandhurst; ensign 1 foot guards 9 June 1814, captain 1831–49
when placed on h.p.; commanded South Wales district 1852–54 and
one of the brigades in Crimea 1854–55; chief of the staff in
Crimea 28 June 1855; commanded 2nd division of British army in
Crimea; commanded troops before Delhi June 1857 to death; C.B. 27
July 1855, K.C.B. 3 May 1856. (_m._ 17 Jany. 1828 Isabella Letitia
2 dau. of James Catlin Craufurd, brigadier general, she was
granted a civil list pension of £200 15 Feb. 1858). _d._ of
cholera before Delhi 5 July 1857. _Kaye’s Sepoy war in India ii_,
513–70, 678 (1870).
BARNARD, JOHN. Fellow of King’s coll. Cam. 1818 to death; F.S.A. 3
May 1855. _d._ King’s coll. Cam. 16 Nov. 1878 aged 84.
BARNE, GEORGE HUXLEY (_2 son of John Barne of Tiverton_). ed. at
Magd. coll. Ox; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1866; attorney general of
Jamaica March 1874 to death. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 8 March 1876.
BARNES, CHRISTOPHER HEWETSON. _b._ 7 Feb. 1833; 2 lieut. Bengal
artillery 9 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. R.A. 31 Dec. 1878 to death;
commanded R. A. in Egypt to death, _d._ Cairo 28 Sep. 1884.
_I.L.N. lxxxv_, 373 (1881), _portrait_.
BARNES, GEORGE CARNAC (_eld. son of Ven. George Barnes 1784–1847,
archdeacon of Barnstaple_). ed. at Westminster 1833–35; comr. of
the Cis-Sutlej States; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861 to death;
C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Hazareebagh, Bengal 13 May 1861.
BARNES, JAMES. Lieutenant Royal horse guards 29 Aug. 1811 to 3 Nov.
1814 when he retired; major in command of Radnor Militia 15 Feb.
1828 to 21 March 1846. _d._ Portishead near Bristol June 1853 aged
64.
BARNES, JAMES HINDMARSH. ed. at Charing Cross and Westminster
Ophthalmic hospitals; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1857; L.R.C.P. Edin.
1860; practised in London; visiting surgeon to the workhouse
hospital, Liverpool 1874; superintendent registrar 1874 to death;
author of _Notes on surgical nursing_. _d._ 57 Pembroke place,
Liverpool 19 March 1880 aged 47. _Medical Times and gazette i_,
387 (1880).
BARNES, JOHN (_son of Thomas Barnes of Newcastle, coal viewer, who
d. 1801_). _b._ Walker colliery near Newcastle 12 Aug. 1798; in
the Soho works of Boulton and Watt 1813–15; studied at univ. of
Edin. 1815–17; manufacturing engineer with Joseph Miller in London
1822–35, made many engines for French steamers; constructed the
Sophia Jane the first steam vessel ever employed in Australia
1831; manager of the works at La Ciotat near Marseilles 1845 to
death; much improved the French steam navy; M.I.C.E. 1823. _d._ La
Ciotat 24 Sep. 1852. _bur._ Long Benton near Newcastle. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 140–48 (1853).
BARNES, MARY (_dau. of Mr. Greenhill_). _b._ London; acted in the
provinces as Miss Simpson; acted at Haymarket and Drury Lane; made
her first appearance in America at the Park theatre New York 17
April 1816 as Juliet; a great actress in tragedy, melodrama and
pantomime; took farewell of the stage 2 Nov. 1841. (_m._ John
Barnes a comedian who _d._ 28 Aug. 1841 aged 60). _d._ Vandam st.
New York 26 Aug. 1864 in 84 year.
BARNES, RALPH (_4 son of Rev. Ralph Barnes, archdeacon of Totnes,
Devon who d. 20 May 1820 aged 87_). _b._ 14 July 1781; ed. at
Exeter gr. school; admitted attorney 25 Nov. 1802; practised at
Exeter 1802 to death; chapter clerk there 15 Sep. 1810; sec. to
bishops of Exeter April 1830 to death; author of _An inquiry into
equity practice_ 1827; _The papal brief considered with reference
to the laws of England_ 1850; edited _Bishop Lacy’s Liber
pontificalis_ 1847. _d._ Bellairs, Topsham road, Exeter 22 Feb.
1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 306–308 (1869); _Law Journal
iv_, 140–42 (1869).
BARNES, REV. RICHARD WILLIAM. _b._ Comercolly, Bengal; matric. from
Edmund hall Ox. 27 June 1829, B.A. of Queen’s coll. 1834, M.A.
1841; R. of Dunchideock, Devon 1841–45; P.C. of East and West
Looe, Cornwall 1845–49; V. of Probus, Cornwall 1849 to death;
Preb. of Exeter Nov. 1853 to death; author of _Public opinion
considered in letters between one of his friends and R. W. Barnes_
1855; _Let well alone or removal of blemishes from church and
state, by Alazon_ 1860 and many sermons. _d._ The Sanctuary,
Probus 27 May 1885 aged 74.
BARNES, ROBERT. _b._ Manchester 1800; cotton spinner there with his
brother Thomas Barnes; mayor 1851; gave £10,000 to Royal infirmary
Sep. 1869; founded Convalescent hospital at Cheadle at cost of
£40,000, and a certified industrial school at Heaton Mersey at
cost of £20,000. _d._ Oakley, Fallowfield Manchester 25 Dec. 1871.
BARNES, SAMUEL C. _b._ Ireland; went to the United States 1830;
principal of a school at Brooklyn 1830–67; originator and
secretary of East Brooklyn savings bank. _d._ Brooklyn 18 Feb.
1873 aged 60.
BARNES, THOMAS. _b._ Wigton, Cumberland 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1817; M.R.C.S. 1815; physician at Carlisle 1817; leading
phys. in north of England down to 1850; founded Cumberland
infirmary and Carlisle fever hospital; F.R.S. Edin. 1830. _d._
Bunker’s hill near Carlisle 31 March 1872.
BARNES, THOMAS WILSON. The best chess player in London for a short
period; an original whist player; reduced his weight from 16 stone
to 7 stone 8 lbs. in 10 months Aug. 1873 to June 1874 by banting.
_d._ Cambridge st. Eccleston sq. London 20 Aug. 1874 aged 49.
_Westminster Papers vii_, 99–100 (1874), _portrait_.
BARNES, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. Pantomimist in London; made his first
appearance in America at Philadelphia 4 Dec. 1846 as Grimaldi in
pantomime of Magic Pills; played clown in pantomime of William the
Conqueror at Olympic theatre London 26 Dec. 1848; pantaloon at
Drury Lane theatre; photographer at 6 North st. Smith sq.
Westminster; committed suicide at 6 North st. by taking cyanide of
potassium 17 May 1868 in 59 year.
BARNETT, CHARLES (_only son of major general Charles Barnett
1758–1804_). _b._ Stratton, Beds. 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Putney and
Em. coll. Cam., fellow commoner 1815; sheriff of Beds. 1821;
master of Cambridgeshire hounds many years from 1829; a great
short horn breeder. _d._ Stratton park, Beds. 20 June 1876.
_Baily’s Mag. xi_, 55–58 (1866), _portrait_.
BARNETT, CHARLES JAMES. M.P. for Maidstone 1832–1835. _d._ 12
Chichester terrace, Brighton 31 Dec. 1882 in 85 year.
BARNETT, CHARLES JOHN. Captain 3 Foot Guards 26 Oct. 1820 to 26 Oct.
1826; consul at Warsaw 31 May 1833; consul general in Egypt May
1841 to 17 Aug. 1846. _d._ Round Oak, Englefield 4 Aug. 1856 aged
66.
BARNETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1799; entered navy 3 Feb. 1811; captain 20
June 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 14 Woburn square,
London 7 Sep. 1879.
BARNETT, HENRY N. Dramatist and critic; edited _Sunday Times_ 13
years; occupied at one time the pulpit in South place vacated by
J. W. Fox, M.P. _d._ Hammersmith 6 Jany. 1872 aged 42.
BARNETT, HUMPHREY. Acting manager at Lyceum theatre London 1862;
acting manager for J. C. M. Bellew at St. George’s hall, Regent’s
st. _d._ 24 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood 30 April 1874.
BARNETT, JOHN. Ensign 71 foot 25 Nov. 1813; lieut. 23 foot 1819–22;
lieut. col. of 3 West York militia 28 Feb. 1846 to death. _d._ the
Linen hall barracks Dublin 24 Feb. 1855.
BARNETT, MORRIS. _b._ London 16 Aug. 1799; lived in Paris; acted at
Brighton and Bath; made his first appearance in London at Drury
Lane 1833 as Captain O’Cutter; wrote and performed title rôle in
_Monsieur Jacques_, a musical piece which created a furore at St.
James’s theatre 1837; played at Princess’s theatre; musical critic
of _Morning Post_ and _The Era_ nearly 7 years; gave a series of
farewell performances at Adelphi theatre 1854; wrote many dramas
best known being _The Serious family_, _Lilian Gervais_ and
_Married and unmarried_. _d._ Montreal, Canada 18 March 1856.
_Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 137, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_,
305 (1854), _portrait_.
BARNETT, ROBERT. _b._ Macclesfield 1818; an industrious arranger of
instrumental music. _d._ Windsor Oct. 1875.