Dec. 1832 to 1839 when he retired. _d._ 13 Camberwell park, London
12 July 1885 in 95 year.
BARNINGHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Arkingarthdale near Richmond, Yorkshire
1826; a blacksmith; employed on Paris and Rouen railway 1843;
began a foundry at Manchester with 3 of his brothers which failed;
a manufacturer of railway switches and crossings at
Middlesborough; founded ironworks at Pendleton and Albert hill,
Darlington; the latter were transferred to a limited liability
company 1873. _d._ Pendleton 3 Nov. 1881. _Journal of iron and
steel institute, No._ 2, 1882 657–58.
BARNSTON, JAMES. M.D. Edin.; professor of botany in McGill college
Montreal. _d._ Montreal 28 May 1858 aged 28.
BARON, JAMES. _b._ Blackburn 1817; ed. at Stonyhurst; held
professorships at Prior Park Bath and the Luso-British college
Lisbon; kept a school at Lytham in the Fylde, Lancashire for many
years from 1849. _d._ St. Helens 23 Feb. 1883.
BARON, JOHN. _b._ St. Andrews 26 May 1786; ed. at Univs. of St.
Andrews and Edin., M.D. Edin. July 1805; physician at Gloucester
1807–33; phys. of Gloucester infirmary 1809 to 21 Feb. 1833; lived
at Cheltenham 1833 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1823; author of
_Enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of
serous membranes_ 1819 and 2 other books on Tubercle _Life of
Edward Jenner, M.D. 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ 1 St. Margaret’s terrace,
Cheltenham 2 Oct. 1851. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol.
2_ (1840) _12 pages, portrait_; _Taylor’s National portrait
gallery iii_, 43–44 (1847), _portrait_.
BARON, JOHN. _b._ Blackpool 2 Sep. 1807; entered the Society of
Jesus at Hodder 21 Sep. 1827, master of the school in London
1831–32 and 1833–35; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 19 Sep. 1841;
vice rector of Mount St. Mary’s college 17 Oct. 1848 and rector 17
Oct. 1851–1854; missioner at Wakefield 1854–70. _d._ Holywell 11
July 1878.
BARR, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 24 Bombay N.I. 4 July
1844 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 21 Nov. 1862
aged 78.
BARR, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 8 April 1815; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 22 May
1834; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 18 Feb. 1861 to death; L.G. 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ Apsleytown, East Grinstead 17 May 1881.
BARR, REV. HUGH. _b._ Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire 2 April 1825; an
apprentice tailor; studied at Univ. of Glasgow; an agent of
Glasgow city mission; minister of United Presbyterian church at
Kingskettle 28 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ Kingskettle 9 Nov. 1873.
_Too late for martyrdom Memorials of the Rev. Hugh Barr by Rev. T.
Dunlop_ 1875, _portrait_.
BARR, JAMES. _b._ Kilbarchan near Paisley 1779; a friend of Robert
Tannahill the poet who has immortalized him as “Blithe Jamie
Barr”; harmonized a few airs as glees; well known at various glee
clubs in Glasgow; went to America 1834; living at Govan near
Glasgow 1859.
BARR, ROBERT. _b._ 3 Sep. 1794; attorney at Leeds 1823; coroner of
Leeds 1824; clerk to the Leeds borough magistrates 3 Dec. 1836 to
death. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Leeds 18 Oct. 1871.
BARR, SAMUEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; a self taught musician of strong
native genius; his song “Naebody kens ye” possesses much merit;
author of _Art of singing at first sight simplified_ 1847. _d._
Glasgow 16 May 1866.
BARRALLIER, FRANCIS LOUIS. Ensign in New South Wales corps
(afterwards 102nd foot) 14 Aug. 1800; surveyed Bass’s Straits in
the Lady Nelson schooner 1801–1803; attempted to cross the Blue
Mountains 1802; captain 101 foot 6 July 1809 to 7 Jany. 1817 when
placed on h.p.; made an elaborate survey of island of Barbadoes
1812–17; captain 73 foot 4 Oct. 1831 to 9 Aug. 1833 when placed on
h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ 24 Bedford square,
Commercial road, London 11 June 1853 aged 80. _New South Wales
general orders 1791–1806_; _Sydney 1802–1806 the first book
printed in Australia_; _United Service Mag._ 1853 _part_ 2, _p._
632.
BARRATT, ALFRED (_eld. son of James Barratt of Manchester,
solicitor_). _b._ Heald Grove near Manchester 12 July 1844; ed. at
Sandbach and Rugby where he gained 29 prizes; a commoner of
Balliol college Ox. 1862; won the first Balliol scholarship 1862;
gained unprecedented distinction of 5 first classes 2 classical, 2
mathematical and 1 law and modern history; fellow of Brasenose
coll. 1867; Eldon law scholar 1870; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872;
sec. to the Oxford university commission 1880; author of _Physical
Ethics or the science of action_ 1869. _d._ 18 May 1881. _Physical
Metempiric by the late A. Barratt_ 1883, _portrait_.
BARRAUD, HENRY. _b._ 1811; painted many portraits with horses and
dogs, also subject pictures such as ‘The Pope blessing the
animals’ 1842; exhibited at British Institution and Society of
British Artists 1831–68 and at R.A. 1833–59; his pictures ‘We
praise thee O God’; ‘The London Season’; ‘Lord’s cricket ground’;
and ‘The lobby of the House of Commons’ have all been engraved or
autotyped. _d._ London 17 June 1874.
BARRELL, JUSTINIAN. Entered navy Aug. 1791; commander 21 March 1815;
captain 19 March 1852; the last surviving officer of Lord Howe’s
victory of 1 June 1794. _d._ Holloway 23 Nov. 1869 aged 87.
_O’Byrne_ (1861) _p._ 52.
BARRETT, APOLLON MARIE ROSE. _b._ South of France 1804; pupil of
Vogt at Conservatoire, Paris 1823; solo oboe player at the Odéon,
and at Opéra Comique 1827, and at Italian Opera in London 1829–74;
professor of the oboe at R.A. of music; author of _A complete
method for the Oboe_. _d._ Paris 8 March 1879.
BARRETT, REV. BASIL RICHARD (_7 child of John Briant Barrett of
Milton house near Abingdon_). _b._ Milton house 11 May 1781; sent
to St. Omer’s college Aug. 1790; joined the refugees from Douay
college at Crook hall, Durham June 1795; ordained priest about
July 1806; lived at Froidemont in Belgium an establishment for the
care of invalid priests; author of _Pretensions to a final
analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, beauty,
genius and taste_ 1812; _The life of Cardinal Ximenes_ 1813 and of
a work in manuscript entitled _A mathematical treatise showing how
the circle can be squared_. _d._ Froidemont 3 May 1858. _Gillow’s
English Catholics i_, 144 (1885).
BARRETT, GEORGE. _b._ Exeter 9 June 1794; made his début on the
stage at Park theatre New York as one of the children in Dunlap’s
version of The Stranger 10 Dec. 1798; stage manager of Bowery
theatre N.Y. 1828; acting manager of Broadway theatre N.Y. 1847;
the best light comedian in America, known as “Gentleman George”;
took farewell of the stage at Academy of Music N.Y. 20 Nov. 1855.
_d._ New York 5 Sep. 1860.
BARRETT, HENRY MICHAEL. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool; made
his début in London at Drury Lane theatre as Falstaff in Henry the
Fourth 31 Dec. 1850; played at Sadlers Wells, Drury Lane and
Princess’s theatres; played Polonius in Hamlet at the Princess’s
15 June 1871. _d._ in a cab on his way home from the theatre 15
June 1871 aged 68.
BARRETT, JAMES WILLIAM (_brother of Rev. Basil Richard Barrett_).
The first Roman catholic admitted a solicitor after passing of the
act by which Roman catholics were enabled to practise as
solicitors in England; one if not the last of the survivors of the
English college at Douay. _d._ Speen hill near Newbury, Berks. 20
Feb. 1864 in 88 year.
BARRETT, REV. JOHN CASEBOW. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A.
1837; P.C. of St. Mary’s district parish, Birmingham 1837 to
death; author of _God’s claims upon youth’s obedience_ 1838;
_Minister’s trials_ 1846; _Papal aggression_ 1850; _Psalms and
hymns for the church service_ 1853. _d._ St. Mary’s vicarage,
Birmingham 26 Feb. 1881 aged 70.
BARRETT, LUCAS (_eld. son of George Barrett, of London,
ironfounder_). _b._ London 14 Nov. 1837; ed. at Royston, Univ.
college school, Ebersdorf in Germany and Trin. coll. Cam.; curator
of Woodwardian museum Cam. 1855; delivered many lectures for
Professor Sedgwick at Cam. 1856–58; director of geological survey
of Jamaica March 1859 to death; comr. for Jamaica at International
Exhibition 1862; F.G.S. 1855 when only 18; F.L.S. 5 April 1860;
author of 11 papers on natural history and geology; drowned while
diving at the Caps outside Port Royal harbour, Jamaica 19 Dec.
1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1863) 31–34; _I.L.N. xlii_, 188
(1863), _portrait_.
BARRETT, MICHAEL. A stevedore; lived in Glasgow; member of Fenian
brotherhood; fired a barrel of gunpowder close to the wall of the
Clerkenwell House of Detention, London 13 Dec. 1867 which killed 4
persons and injured about 40; arrested at Glasgow 14 Jany. 1868;
tried at Central Criminal Court 20–25 April 1868 for murder of
Sarah Ann Hodgkinson at Clerkenwell, when found guilty and
sentenced to death; hanged at Newgate by Calcraft 26 May 1868 aged
27, being last person publicly executed in England. _Central
Criminal Court, Minutes of evidence by Barnett and Buckler lxvii_,
486–542 (1868).
BARRETT, RICHARD. A brewer in Ireland; journalist in Dublin;
established the _Pilot_ daily evening newspaper 1827 which became
principal organ of Daniel O’Connell; it was suppressed by
Government, but Barrett continued it by changing the title to _The
Morning Register, the Pilot having been suppressed_; sentenced to
six months imprisonment 1833 for publishing a letter of
O’Connell’s; prosecuted frequently and imprisoned 3 times. _d._
Dublin 19 Oct. 1854.
BARRETT-LENNARD, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (_natural son of Thomas
Barrett-Lennard, 17 Baron Dacre who d. 12 Jany. 1786_). _b._ 6
Jany. 1761; assumed by r.l. surname of Barrett-Lennard instead of
Thomas 13 March 1786; created baronet 30 June 1801. _d._ 40
Bryanston sq. London 25 June 1857.
BARRINGTON, WILLIAM KEPPEL BARRINGTON, 6 Viscount. _b._ London 1
Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814;
succeeded his father 5 March 1829; M.P. for Berkshire 1837–57.
_d._ Beckett house, Faringdon Berks 9 Feb. 1867. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery ii_, 61 (1833).
BARRINGTON, LADY CAROLINE (_3 dau. of Charles Grey, 2 Earl Grey
1764–1845_). _b._ 30 Aug. 1799. (_m._ 15 Jany. 1827 Hon. George
Barrington, captain R.N. he was _b._ 20 Nov. 1794 and _d._ 2 June
1835); governess to children of Queen Victoria Jany. 1851 to
death. _d._ 28 April 1875.
BARRINGTON, SIR MATTHEW, 2 Baronet. _b._ Limerick 21 May 1788; crown
solicitor for province of Munster 1832 to death; succeeded 10
Jany. 1846. _d._ Dublin 1 April 1861.
BARRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM HARTIGAN, 3 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 6 Oct.
1815; sheriff of Limerick 1846; succeeded 1 April 1861. _d._
Glenstal, Limerick 14 July 1872.
BARRITT, JAMES LITTLER. Formerly senior partner of firm of Barritt &
Co. wholesale bible warehouse 173 Fleet st. _d._ St. Margaret’s
Rochester 18 Aug. 1863 aged 62.
BARRON, ARTHUR. ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823;
fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1826; author with
Alfred Austin of _Reports of cases of controverted elections in
the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom_ 1844. _d._ 13 June 1856
aged 55.
BARRON, RIGHT REV. EDWARD. _b._ Ireland 1801; studied at college of
the Propaganda, Rome, D.D.; pastor of St. Mary’s church,
Philadelphia; pres. of theological seminary of St. Charles
Borromeo; vicar general of diocese of Philadelphia; missionary to
Liberia, Africa; embarked from Baltimore 21 Dec. 1841; bishop of
Constantine and vicar apostolic of the two Guineas 1843–45;
missionary priest at Philadelphia, St. Louis and in Florida. _d._
Savannah 12 Sep. 1854. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops
ii_, 595–60 (1872).
BARRON, EDWARD ENFIELD _b._ Norwich; L.S.A. 1832; F.R.C.S. 1844;
M.D. London 1850, M.R.C.P. 1851; assistant demonstrator at
Grainger’s school Southwark, then the largest in London, Oct.
1834, and demonstrator May 1836 to date when school was
transferred to St. Thomas’s hospital; Post-mortem demonstrator at
St. Thomas’s; a medical and surgical tutor. _d._ St. John’s,
Woking 25 Dec. 1878 aged 67.
BARRON, SIR HENRY WINSTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Pierse Barron of
Ballyneal co. Waterford 1752–1811_). _b._ Ballyneal 15 Oct. 1795;
ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin; M.P. for city of Waterford 1832–47,
1848–52, 1865–68 and 22 Nov. 1869 to 20 Jany. 1870, when his
election was declared void; created baronet 23 Aug. 1841; sheriff
of Waterford 1857; author of _Notes on education in Holland and
Germany_. _d._ 2, Halkin st., Belgrave sq., London 19 April 1872.
_O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions ii_, 1–5
(1875).
BARRON, WILLIAM. Formerly of the Strand; master of Stationers
company 1837 and 1841. _d._ Highgate 5 April 1851 aged 82.
BARROW, REV. ANDREW. _b._ Manchester 27 Jany. 1804; entered Society
of Jesus at Rome 2 Nov. 1821; prefect of studies at Stonyhurst
1831; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; rector of Stonyhurst college
14 July 1842; chaplain at Broughton hall, Yorkshire 17 July 1845
to death; rector of the Yorkshire district 14 April 1860. _d._
Broughton hall 20 Oct. 1865.
BARROW, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Barrow, 1
Baronet 1764–1848_). _b._ London 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at the
Charterhouse; clerk in the colonial office July 1825; chief clerk
and sec. of order of St. Michael and St. George July 1870 to 29
Sep. 1872; C.M.G. 28 May 1874; author of _Ceylon past and present_
1857. _d._ 24 Addison road, Kensington 27 Feb. 1876. _I.L.N.
lxviii_, 263, 407 (1876), _portrait_.
BARROW, JOHN HENRY. Edited the _Mirror of Parliament_; author of
_Characteristic sketches of animals principally from the
Zoological gardens, Regent’s Park_ 1832; _Emir Malek, prince of
the assassins an historical novel of the thirteenth century_
[_anon._] _3 vols._ 1837. _d._ Newington, Surrey 30 March 1858.
BARROW, LOUSADA. Lieutenant col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1863 to
death; chief comr. of Oude 1869–74; M.G. 26 March 1870. _d._
Southlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Oct. 1877 aged 61.
BARROW, RICHARD (_3 son of Rev. Richard Barrow, 64 years vicar
choral of collegiate church of Southwell who d. 23 Feb. 1838 aged
90_). _b._ 20 July 1787; a merchant trading with Spain and
Portugal; took over the Staveley coal and iron works 1840 which he
greatly extended; sold the collieries and works to a limited
liability company for £600,000 in 1864; chairman of board of
directors of this company 1864 to death; made greater part of iron
work for Great Exhibition of 1862 and iron tubes for London
Pneumatic despatch company 1862. _d._ London 10 Jany. 1865.
_I.L.N. xxxvi_, 596, 610 (1860), _portrait_.
BARROW, WILLIAM HODGSON (_elder brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1
Sep. 1784; ed. at collegiate school Southwell; practised as an
attorney 1806–33; sheriff of Notts 1845; M.P. for South Notts 17
Feb. 1851 to 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ Southwell 29 Jany. 1876.
BARRY, SIR CHARLES (_4 son of Walter Edward Barry of Westminster,
stationer who d. 1805_). _b._ Bridge st. Westminster 23 May 1795;
travelled in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine,
Syria, and Sicily 1817–20; architect in Ely place, Holborn Aug.
1820, removed to 27 Foley place, Cavendish sq. 1827 and to 32
Great George st. 1841; erected Traveller’s club 1829–31, Reform
club 1837–39 and Bridgwater house 1847; awarded the prize for
design of Houses of Parliament 29 Feb. 1836, first stone laid 27
April 1840 opened by the Queen 3 Feb. 1852; A.R.A. 1840, R.A.
1842; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Feb. 1852.
(_m._ 7 Dec. 1822 Sarah dau. of Samuel Rowsell, stationer, she
_d._ 7 April 1882 in 83 year). _d._ Elm house, Clapham Common 12
May 1860. _bur._ nave of Westminster Abbey 22 May. _Memoir by
Alfred Barry, D.D., 2 ed._ 1870, _portrait_; _Sandby’s History of
Royal Academy ii_, 203–209 (1862).
BARRY, EDWARD MIDDLETON (_3 son of Sir Charles Barry_). _b._ 27
Foley place, London 7 June 1830; ed. at King’s college school;
pupil of Thomas Henry Wyatt; student at the R.A. 1848; assisted
his father to 1860; reconstructed Covent Garden theatre in short
space of 8 months, opened 15 May 1858; designed the Floral hall
opened 7 March 1860; architect to Houses of Parliament 1860 to
death; A.R.A. 29 Jany. 1861, R.A. July 1869; professor of
architecture at the R.A. 16 May 1873 to death and treasurer March
1874 to death. _d._ at council table of Royal Academy 27 Jany.
1880. _Lectures on architecture with memoir_ 1881, _portrait_;
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_, 322–26 (1881); _I.L.N.
xxxviii_, 178 (1861), _portrait_.
BARRY, GEORGE. _b._ Cork 1825; a merchant; M.P. for co. Cork 29 July
1865 to death. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 31 Jany. 1867.
BARRY, JAMES. A woman; ed. Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1812; entered army
dressed like a man as a hospital assistant at Plymouth 5 July
1813; served at Malta many years and at Cape of Good Hope where
she fought a duel with another officer; inspector general of
hospitals 7 Dec. 1858 to 19 July 1859 when placed on h.p.;
maintained assumption of manhood down to her death. _d._ 14
Margaret St., London 25 July 1865 aged 73. _Medical times and
gazette ii_, 227, 293, 350 (1865).
BARRY, JAMES (_brother of Sir Charles Barry, R.A._) Head of firm of
Barry and Hayward of Queenhithe wholesale stationers about 1830 to
death. _d._ Eliot Bank, Forest Hill 3 Jany. 1885 in 93 year.
BARRY, JAMES HUGH SMITH. _b._ 1816; sheriff of Cheshire 1846; formed
a fine collection of antique sculpture and more than 300 pictures
at Marbury hall near Northwich. _d._ Dec, 1857. _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 406–13.
BARRY, JAMES REDMOND. _b._ 1789; one of foremost of southern Irish
leaders in struggle for Catholic emancipation; inspector general
of Irish fisheries; a comr. of Irish fisheries about 1830–75;
claimed ancient title of Viscount Buttevant 1825. _d._ Glandore
co. Cork 18 June 1879.
BARRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. _b._ Barony of Forth, co. Wexford about
1799; studied at Charleston; ordained in cathedral of St. Finbar
24 Sep. 1825; pastor of church of the Holy Trinity at Augusta,
Georgia 1826–54; vicar general of diocese of Charleston and
superior of the theological seminary 1844; vicar general of
diocese of Savannah 1853; bishop of Savannah 1857 to death;
consecrated in Baltimore cathedral 2 Aug. 1857; sailed from New
York 2 July 1859. _d._ Convent of the Brothers’ Hospitalers of St.
John of God at Paris 19 Nov. 1859. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of
deceased bishops ii_, 551–54 (1872).
BARRY, JOHN O’BRIEN MILNER. _b._ 1815; B.L. Univ. of Paris 1834;
M.D. Edin. 1837; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P.
1876; physician at Laugharne, at Totnes and at Tunbridge Wells
1852 to death; author of essays on ‘Cystine’ and ‘Leucocythemia’
in the _Medical Archives_ 1858–60. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 Sep.
1881.
BARRY, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ 1789; entered house of Allen Hanbury and
Barry of Plough court, Lombard st., chemists and druggists about
1804, one of the managers; introduced method of evaporation in
vacuo for preparation of medicinal extracts; an original member of
Pharmaceutical Society 15 April 1841. _d._ Hornsey March 1864.
BARRY, MARTIN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Fratton, Hants 28
March 1802; studied medicine in Univs. of Edin. Paris, Erlanger,
Heidelberg and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1833; F.R.S.
Edin.; F.R.C.P. Edin.; ascended Mont Blanc 16 Sep. 1834 being 16th
ascent then made; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; royal medallist 30 Nov.
1839; made important discovery of presence of Spermatozoa within
the ovum 1843; house surgeon Royal maternity hospital Edinburgh
1844; lived abroad 1849–53; author of _Ascent to the summit of
Mont Blanc_ 1836; _Researches in embryology 3 series_ 1839–40.
_d._ Beccles, Suffolk 27 April 1855. _Edinburgh Medical journal
i_, 81–91 (1856); _Proc. of Royal Society viii_, 577–82 (1855);
_Annual Monitor for 1856, pp._ 13–18.
BARRY, PHILIP. _b._ 1789; 2nd lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1809; col. R.E. 17
Feb. 1854 to 13 Jan. 1855; M.G. 13 Jany. 1855. _d._ Guernsey 17
April 1869.
BARRY, SIR REDMOND (_3 son of major general Henry Green Barry of
Ballyclough, co. Cork who d. 14 May 1838 aged 68_). _b._ Air hill,
co. Cork 1813; ed. at Hall place Kent and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1837, LLD. 1876; called to Irish bar 1838; went to Sydney 1839;
comr. of court of requests at Melbourne 1842; solicitor general of
Victoria 1850; judge of supreme court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851;
chancellor of univ. of Melbourne 7 May 1853; pres. of trustees of
Melbourne public library 1856; knighted by patent 24 May 1860;
represented colony of Victoria at great exhibitions in London 1862
and in Philadelphia 1876; LL.B. and M.A. univ. of Melbourne 1863;
administered government of Victoria 3 Jany. 1875 to 10 Jany. 1875;
K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Melbourne 23 Nov. 1880. _Men of the
time in Australia_ (1878) 10–11.
BARRY, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland; performed with Samwell’s circus 1842;
clown to the ring at Astley’s amphitheatre London 1843–48 and
1851–56; kept the Clown tavern 40 Bridge road, Lambeth 1848–50 and
March 1856 to 1857. (_m._ Mrs. Campbell of City of London
theatre). _d._ 26 March 1857 aged 47. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
_Autobiography of Baron Nicholson_ (1860) 348–52; _H. Valentine’s
Behind the curtain_ (1848) 76–78; _I.L.N. v_, 193 (1844),
_portrait, xxiii_, 460 (1853), _portrait_.
BARRY, WILLIAM WHITTAKER (_3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott
Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60_). Gained first law
studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister
L.I. 30 April 1853; author of _A treatise on the statutory
jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery_ 1861; _A walking tour round
Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman_ 1867; _A walking tour in
Normandy_ [_anon._] 1868. _d._ on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the
Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875.
BARRY, WILLIAM WIGRAM (_brother of Sir Redmond Barry_). _b._ 28 May
1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death;
brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May
1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._
Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.
BARRYMORE, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Adams_). _b._ 1783; dancer at the old
Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful
dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic
expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of
Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May
1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21
Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (_m._ William
Barrymore of London, dramatist who _d._ Boston 16 Feb. 1845). _d._
London 6 Jany. 1863.
BARSTOW, JAMES PULTENEY (_eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby,
Yorkshire_). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854;
treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.
BARTER, CHARLES. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51;
foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to
Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of _The
Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal_ 1852. _d._ Rabba on the
Niger 15 July 1859.
BARTER, RICHARD. _b._ Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828;
Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water
cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in
Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called
Turkish bath. _d._ Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. _Recollections of the late
Dr. Barter, Dublin_ 1875.
BARTER, REV. ROBERT SPECCOTT (_youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter
V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846
aged 97_). _b._ Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.
Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at
Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he
resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of
Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. _d._ College st. Winchester 8
Feb. 1861. _Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college_
(1878) _pp._ 322–42.
BARTER, REV. WILLIAM BRUDENELL (_elder brother of the preceding_).
_b._ Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family
of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of
Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and
pamphlets on the topics of the day. _d._ Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.
BARTH, HEINRICH. _b._ Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin;
a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central
Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate
of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of
Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of
_Travels in North and Central Africa_ 1857. _d._ Berlin 25 Nov.
1865. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi_, 134–36 (1866);
_Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ii_, 96–99 (1875).
BARTHELÉMY, EMANUEL. Shot a gensdarme in Paris; condemned to the
galleys for life, set free 1830; greatly distinguished himself in
revolution of June 1848; fled to England 1848; shot Cournet a
French political exile in a duel at Englefield Green near Egham 19
Oct. 1852; murdered George Moore and Charles Collard at 73 Warren
st. Fitzroy square, London 8 Dec. 1854; tried at Central criminal
court 4 Jany. 1855, found guilty and sentenced to death; executed
at Newgate 22 Jany. 1855. _A.R._ (1852) 170, (1854) 206–212,
(1855) 14–16; _Central criminal court trials xli_, 298–307 (1855).
BARTHOLOMEW, ANNE CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Arnol Fayerman_) _b._ Loddon,
Norfolk 28 March 1800; member of Society of Female artists and of
Society of Water colour painters; exhibited 29 pictures at the
R.A. and 39 at Suffolk St. gallery 1841–62; author of _Its only my
aunt_, a farce 1825, first acted at Marylebone theatre May 1849;
_Songs of Azrael_ 1840 and _The ring or the farmer’s daughter_, a
drama 1845. (_m._ (1) 1827 Walter Turnbull, musical composer, he
_d._ 1838. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840 Valentine Bartholomew). _d._ 23
Charlotte st. Rathbone place 18 Aug. 1862. _E. C. Clayton’s
English female artists i_, 398–400 (1876).
BARTHOLOMEW, VEN. JOHN (_son of Rev. John Bartholomew, head master
of Exeter Gr. Sch._) _b._ Exeter Oct. 1790; ed. at Exeter Gr.
Sch., Winchester and C. C. Coll. Ox.; Scholar, B.A. 1813, M.A.
1820; P.C, of Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon 1817; P.C. of Sowton
1819; R. of Lympstone 1820; R. of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1831;
Preb. of Exeter Cath. 9 May 1831; Canon Res. of Exeter Cath. Sep.
1840 to death; Archdeacon of Barnstaple 3 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._
Morchard Bishop Rectory 24 Sep. 1865.
BARTHOLOMEW, VALENTINE (_son of Josiah Bartholomew of Clerkenwell,
watchmaker 1766–1847_). _b._ 18 Jany. 1799; flower painter; member
of Water Colour Society 1835 to death; exhibited 20 pictures at
the R.A. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–56; flower painter in
ordinary to Duchess of Kent and to Queen Victoria, (_m._ (1) 1827
Evelina Charlotte Adelaide only dau. of Joseph Nicholas
Hullmandel, musician, she _d._ 1 Jany. 1839. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840
A. C. Turnbull). _d._ 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 21 March
1879.
BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1793; chemist, violin player and
flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of
Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king
of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s
Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream,
(_m._ 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). _d._ London 18
Aug. 1867.
BARTLETT, JOHN SHERREN. _b._ Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner
of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to
New York; founded _The Albion_ weekly paper 1822; edited it
1822–47; founded _The Anglo-Saxon_ weekly paper at Boston 1847;
published _The European_ at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore
1857. _d._ New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73.
BARTLETT, LAVINIA STRICKLAND. _b._ Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a
baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday
schools London 1859 to death. _d._ 2 Aug. 1875. _Mrs. Bartlett and
her class by her son E. H. Bartlett_ 1877, _portrait_.
BARTLETT, ROBERT. _b._ Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the
Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent,
on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of
Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons;
huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to
the Royal hounds 1825–53. _d._ near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath
12 Nov. 1856.
BARTLETT, REV. SYMEON TAYLOR. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840,
LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited _Cicero’s
Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires,
Cicero de Oratore_ and _Cicero de Senectute_. _d._ 1877.
BARTLETT, THOMAS. _b._ 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the
railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway
between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain;
invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date
that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852.
_d._ Lisbon 23 July 1864.
BARTLETT, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening,
Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer
1857 to death; author of _Memoir of Bishop Butler_ 1839; _An index
to Butler’s Analogy_ 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and
sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. _d._ Burton Latimer 28 May
1872.
BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1809;
articled to John Britton the architect 1822–29; made 6 journeys to
the East 1834–54, and 4 journeys to America 1836–52; edited
_Sharpe’s London Magazine_ March 1849 to June 1852; author of
_Forty days in the desert on the track of the Israelites_ 1848 _3
ed._ 1849; _The Nile boat, or glimpses of the land of Egypt_ 1849
_2 ed._ 1850; _Gleanings pictorial and antiquarian on the overland
route_ 1851. (_m._ 6 July 1831 Susanna Moon, she was granted a
civil list pension of £75 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ on board French
steamer Egyptus off Malta 13 Sep. 1854. _bur._ in the sea 14 Sep.
_Brief memoir by Wm. Beattie M.D._ 1855, _portrait_; _Notice by J.
Britton in Art journal_ 1855, _pp._ 24–26, _reprinted privately_
1855.
BARTLEY, GEORGE (_younger son of Mr. Bartley, box-keeper of the Bath
theatre_). _b._ Bath 1782; a strolling player; made his début in
London at Drury Lane as Orlando in As you like it 18 Dec. 1802;
joined Incledon in his entertainment at the Lyceum theatre called
A voyage to India 24 April 1807; manager at Glasgow theatre
1809–11, also at Dundee and Perth; made his début in New York as
Falstaff 18 Nov. 1818; played at Covent Garden and Lyceum; stage
manager of former house about 1830–40; took his farewell of the
stage at Princess’s theatre 18 Dec. 1852. _d._ 11 Woburn sq.,
London 22 July 1858. _bur._ in St Mary’s churchyard Oxford 30
July. _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_, 366–69 (1836); _I.L.N. i_, 405
(1842), _portrait xxii_, 141 (1853), _portrait_.
BARTON, CHARLES JAMES. 2 Lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845;
lieut. col. 26 April 1866 to 1 Aug. 1872; M.G. 1 Aug. 1872. _d._
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. 19 Nov. 1879 aged 52.
BARTON, EZEKIEL. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 71 N.I. 11 March
1841 to 8 Feb. 1843; col. 46 N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851. _d._ Irthlingborough house near Higham Ferrers 4 June
1855 aged 73.
BARTON, RALPH. Entered navy 2 March 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846;
retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ South hill cottage, Southport 14
Jany, 1881 aged 83.
BARTON, RICHARD BOLTON (_eld. son of John Barton of Dublin_). _b._
1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, LLD. 1868; barrister
G.I. 30 Jany. 1850; went to India about 1855; chief magistrate,
coroner and chief comr. of insolvency at Bombay. _d._ Stour lodge,
Bradfield Essex 27 Dec. 1882.
BARTON, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of Wm. Barton of Grove, co. Tipperary_).
_b._ Fethard, co. Tipperary 1770; volunteer in French national
guard 1790; major 2 life guards 14 June 1805 to 28 April 1814;
major 60 foot 28 April 1814 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.;
general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1 March 1837. _d._ 2 Montague place,
Montague sq. London 17 March 1853.
BARTON, SAMUEL. _b._ 23 April 1789; pupil of Abernethy at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; surgeon at Manchester 1811; surgeon to the
Eye hospital 1815; made a splendid collection of pictures and
engravings. _d._ Whalley Range near Manchester 18 April 1871.
Personalty sworn under £100,000 May 1871.
BARTON, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld son of Sir John Barton, treasurer to
Queen Adelaide, he d. 25 Aug. 1834 aged 63_). _b._ 1802; connected
with the Mint 38 years; deputy master and comptroller 1851 to
death. _d._ the Cottage, Bushey park, Teddington 25 Aug. 1868.
BARTON, WILLIAM WHITTLE. _b._ Liverpool; pastor of Methodist new
connexion at Rochdale, the chapel in Zachary Rochdale was opened 2
June 1822; town surveyor of Rochdale 1818–58. _d._ 1859.
BARWELL, LOUISA MARY (_dau. of Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich,
journalist 1775–1844_). _b._ parish of St. Peter, Mancroft,
Norwich 4 March 1800; assisted her father to edit _Quarterly
Musical Magazine_ 1818; contributed frequently to _Quarterly
journal of Education_ from about 1831; great friend of Lady Noel
Byron; author of _Little lessons for little learners_ 1833 (in
monosyllables) and 14 subsequent editions; _The value of time_
1834 and 14 other books. (_m._ John Barwell of Norwich, wine
merchant 1798–1876.) _d._ Norwich 2 Feb. 1885.
BASDEN, JAMES LEWIS. Ensign Scotch brigade 12 Jany. 1800; lieut.
col. 89th foot 6 July 1838 to 16 June 1843 when he retired on full
pay; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. _d._ Newton villa, Westbourne grove,
London 22 May 1856.
BASEVI, JAMES PALLADIO (_son of George Basevi of London, architect
1794–1845_). _b._ 23 Feb. 1832; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and
Addiscombe; 2 lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1851, captain 15 Feb. 1861;
assistant in great trigonometrical survey of India 18 Jany. 1856,
surveyor 1st grade 1 April 1866 to death. (_m._ Charlotte Louisa,
she was granted a civil list pension of £100 29 April 1874). _d._
at east end of Changchenmo valley in the Himalayas 17 July 1871.
_Journal of Royal Geog. soc. xlii_, 163–67 (1872); _Monthly
notices of Royal astron. soc. xxxii_, 109–11 (1872).
BASHAM, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 1804; clerk in a bank;
studied at Westminster hospital; M.D. Edin. 1834; M.R.C.P. 1838,
F.R.C.P. 1850, Censor 1864–66 and 1873 and Croonian lecturer 1864;
phys. to Westminster hospital 1843, and lecturer on medicine
1849–71; author of _On dropsy connected with disease of the
kidneys_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1862; _Renal diseases_ 1870; _Aids to the
diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys_ 1872. _d._ 17 Chester st.
Belgrave sq. 16 Oct. 1877.
BASIRE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; engraver; engraved some pretty plates of
Sussex country houses. _d._ London 17 May 1869.
BASS, CHARLES (_first cousin to Wm. Evans Burton the comedian_).
_b._ London 5 March 1803; manager of Caledonian theatre Edinburgh
about 1829; acted at the old Park theatre New York 1844–45;
director of the American Dramatic fund; resided at Hamilton, Upper
Canada; published _Lectures on Canada_ 1863. _d._ Hamilton 5 May
1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 20–21.
BASS, MICHAEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Michael Thomas Bass of
Burton-on-Trent, brewer 1760–1827_). _b._ Burton-on-Trent 6 July
1799; brewer at Burton; M.P. for Derby 1848–83; introduced and
carried a bill by which house-holders might require street
musicians to quit neighbourhood of their houses; built and endowed
church of St. Paul at Burton; gave to town of Derby a large
recreation ground, public swimming baths, a free library opened 28
June 1879 and an art gallery. _d._ Rangemoor Burton-on-Trent 29
April 1884. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 407–50 (1884);
_Graphic xxix_, 457 (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 440
(1884), _portrait_.
BASSANO, ALFRED. _b._ 25 June 1826; ensign 32 foot 3 April 1846;
commanded the troops in China 28 July 1877 to 3 June 1878; M.G. 12
Dec. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 2 Inverness place, Bayswater 12
Sep. 1882.
BASSET, FRANCES BASSET, Baroness. _b._ 30 April 1781; succeeded 5
Feb. 1835. _d._ Tehidy park, Redruth, Cornwall 22 Jany. 1855.
BASTARD, JAMES STOKES. 2 Lieut. R.A. 15 Nov. 1800; col. 9 Nov. 1846
to 20 June 1854; L.G. 24 Jany. 1857. _d._ Charlton 10 June 1871
aged 87.
BATCHELDOR, THOMAS (_2 son of Robert Batcheldor of Cholesbury,
Bucks, farmer_). _b._ 23 July 1796; student of Gray’s Inn 14 Nov.
1827; practised as a conveyancer; registrar of Eton College 1827
to death; chapter clerk to dean and canons of Windsor 1843 to
death; steward of the courts of Eton College; F.S.A. 21 June 1855.
_d._ The Cloisters, Windsor Castle 24 July 1866.
BATE, WILLIAM THORNTON (_son of Wm. Bate, governor of Ascension
island_). _b._ 1820; ed. at royal naval college Portsmouth
1833–35; midshipman R.N. 1835; mate of the Blenheim 74 guns 19
March 1841; captain of the Actæon surveying vessel 6 Feb. 1857 to
death; F.R.A.S. 9 March 1849; killed at storming of Canton 29 Dec.
1857. _Memoir by Rev. John Baillie, 3 ed._ 1862, _portrait_.
BATEMAN, CHARLES PHILIP BUTLER (_son of Nathaniel Bateman, Captain
R.N._) _b._ Wormley Herts 1776; Captain R.N. 25 Sep. 1806; Admiral
on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Corston near Bath 23 Nov. 1857.
BATEMAN, COLTHURST. _b._ 2 Oct. 1780; sheriff of co. Kerry 1832–40.
_d._ Sherborne 2 Aug. 1859.
BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM. _b._ Baltimore 6 Dec. 1812; an actor
1832; played in the leading juvenile business; manager of the St.
Louis theatre 1855–59; first appeared in England at Adelphi
theatre, London 12 June 1865 as David of Ruthin in _Geraldine_;
lessee of Lyceum theatre, London 11 Sep. 1871 to death; produced
_The Bells_ a version by Leopold Lewis of Erckmann-Chatrian’s Le
Juif Polonais 25 Nov. 1871, and Hamlet 30 Oct. 1874 which ran till
29 June 1875, the longest run on record. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Sidney
Frances Cowell). _d._ Rutland lodge, South place, Knightsbridge,
London 22 March 1875.
BATEMAN, JAMES. _b._ Lancaster 9 Oct. 1805; entered Society of Jesus
at Mont-Rouge, France 7 Sep. 1826; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; a
Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 1845; rector of St. Aloysius’ college
Lancs. 13 March 1858 to Nov. 1861; missioner at Blackpool 1865, at
Bournemouth 1874 and at Newhall 1877 to death. _d._ Newhall 17
June 1879.
BATEMAN, JOHN. _b._ 1792; Sheriff of Kerry 1820; M.P. for Tralee 7
Aug. 1837 to 12 March 1838. _d._ 1863.
BATEMAN, JOSEPH (_son of William Bateman of Selby, sailor_). _b._
Selby 4 March 1797; clerk in Board of Excise, London 1829–46;
assistant solicitor to the Excise 4 July 1846 to 6 Jany. 1849 when
department of stamps and taxes was amalgamated with the Excise;
barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1847; author of _The general turnpike
acts_ 1828, _4 ed._ 1852; _Precedents of private acts of
Parliament_ 1829; _A practical treatise on the law of auctions_
1838, _6 ed._ 1882; _The laws of Excise_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1865. _d._
Walthamstow, Essex 10 Nov. 1863.
BATEMAN, SIDNEY FRANCES (_dau. of Joseph Cowell of New York,
comedian 1792–1863_). _b._ New York 29 March 1823; author of a
drama called ‘_Self_’ produced at People’s Theatre St. Louis 6
April 1857; _Geraldine or the master passion_ produced at
Philadelphia 1859, afterwards at Adelphi theatre London 12 June
1865; lessee of Lyceum theatre 22 March 1875 to Aug. 1878, of
Sadlers Wells theatre 1879 to death, rebuilt the interior and
opened it 9 Oct. 1879. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Hezekiah Linthicum
Bateman). _d._ Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 13 Jany. 1881.
BATEMAN, THOMAS (_only child of Wm. Bateman of Middleton by
Youlgreave, Derbyshire 1787–1835_). _b._ Rowsley 8 Nov. 1821; made
an extensive series of excavations in the tumuli of Yorkshire,
Staffordshire and Derbyshire; fellow of Ethnological society;
author of _Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire_ 1848; _Ten
years diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave-hills_ 1861; contributed
largely to antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lomberdale house near
Bakewell 28 Aug. 1861. _Reliquary ii_, 87–97 (1862), _portrait_;
_Journal Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 362–7 (1862).
BATEMAN, THOMAS HUDSON. Barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1815; comr. of
bankrupts for Halifax; judge of borough court, Lancaster. _d._
1881.
BATEMAN, THOMAS OSBORNE (_4 son of Richard Bateman, sheriff of
Derbyshire who d. 1821_). _b._ Foston hall, Derbyshire 1 March
1809; ed. at Newark gr. sch., Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1834; student at Lincoln’s Inn; restored ancient stained
glass windows in Morley church 1847; bought Hartington hall
Derbyshire from Duke of Devonshire 1857; built mansion of
Breadsall Mount 1864; author of many pamphlets and letters. _d._
14 Jany. 1874. _Reliquary xv_, 97–101 (1875).
BATES, REV. JOHN ELLISON. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; student of Ch. Ch.;
rowed No. 3 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1829; B.A. 1831, M.A.
1833; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Litherland Jany. 1842; P.C. of Ch. Ch.
Hougham in Dover 1844 to death. _d._ Priory Gate 17 Feb. 1856.
BATES, JOSHUA (_only son of Colonel Joshua Bates of Weymouth near
Boston U.S._) _b._ Weymouth 1788; merchant at Boston 1809–12; sent
to London 1812 by W. R. Gray of Boston, largest shipowner in
America; banker with John Baring in London 1826–28 when they
became partners in bank of Baring brothers; naturalised by private
act of parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 49.; gave sum of 50,000 dollars
to Boston public library 1852, also nearly 27,000 books, library
was opened 1854 and the large hall named after him, the Bates
hall. _d._ New lodge, Windsor Forest 24 Sep. 1864. Personalty
sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1865.
BATES, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., 8 Wrangler 1834;
fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 3 May 1839. _d._ Heddon,
Northumberland 30 Jany. 1882.
BATES, REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Moore Bates of Heddon,
Northumberland_). Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839,
B.D. 1847, D.D. 1858; fellow, dean, lecturer and tutor of his
college; R. of Burnham Westgate, Norfolk 1849 to death; author of
_College lectures on ecclesiastical history_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1848;
_College lectures on Christian antiquities and the ritual of the
English church_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Burnham rectory 22 Nov.
1877.
BATES, WILLIAM. B.A. London 1857; a teacher of languages; professor
of classics in Sydenham medical college Birmingham; professor of
classics in Queen’s college Birmingham to death; M.R.C.S. 1874;
medical officer to Birmingham borough fever hospital 1875–84;
author of _George Cruikshank the artist_ 1878; _The Maclise
portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters with memoirs_
1873, _new ed._ 1883. _d._ 19 The Crescent, Birmingham 24 Sep.
1884 aged about 60. _Edgbastonia Oct. 1884, portrait_.
BATESON, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Bateson
1752–1811_). _b._ 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809;
created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830
to May 1842. _d._ Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863.
BATESON, SIR ROBERT HARVEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1787; succeeded his
uncle 1825. _d._ Castruse, co. Donegal 15 April 1870.
BATESON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Richard Bateson of Liverpool,
merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 3 June 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1857;
fellow of his college Feb. 1837, senior bursar 1846 to 2 Feb.
1857, master 2 Feb. 1857 to death; V. of Madingley, Cambs.
1843–47; public orator 26 Oct. 1848 to 2 Feb. 1857; sec. of a
commission to inquire into state of Univ. of Cam. 1850; vice
chancellor 1858. _d._ St. John’s college lodge, Cambridge 27 March
1881. _The Eagle, No. lxv_, (1881); _Cambridge Review ii_, 258
(1881).
BATHER, LUCY ELIZABETH (_dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield
1786–1857 bishop of London_). _b._ Fulham 31 March 1836; author of
_Footprints on the sands of time, Biographies for young people_
1860 and a number of stories for children under pseudonym of Aunt
Lucy. (_m._ 29 Aug. 1861 Arthur Henry Bather of Meole Brace,
Shropshire). _d._ The hall Meole Brace 5 Sep. 1864.
BATHGATE, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Wm. Bathgate of
Buckholmside, Galashiels, engineer_). _b._ Buckholmside 28 Sep.
1820; studied at Glasgow Univ. and Theological academy 1840–44;
expelled from the academy May 1844 for opinions supposed to be
heretical; minister of Independent church at Stair 6 Dec. 1844, of
Bridgeton church Glasgow 1846, of church at Ayr 1847, of church at
Forres 1849, of Evangelical Union church Clerk’s lane, Kilmarnock
Aug. 1847 to Nov. 1860 and of Winton place ch. Kilmarnock 11 Nov.
1860 to death; author of _The moral character of God_ 1849;
_Æternitas_ 1851; _The Soul’s Arena_ 1852; _Essays on a superior
popular literature_ 1854; _Christ and man_ 1865. _d._ Kilmarnock
28 Dec. 1879. _Progressive religion, Sermons and selections from
the manuscripts of Wm. Bathgate, D.D._ 1884.
BATHURST, HENRY GEORGE BATHURST, 4 Earl (_eld. child of Henry
Bathurst, 3 Earl Bathurst 1762–1834_). _b._ Apsley house,
Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1790; comr. of the India board 1812–18; M.P.
for Weobley 15 Jany. 1812 to 29 Sep. 1812 and for Cirencester 12
Oct. 1812 to 27 July 1834, when he succeeded as 4 Earl. _d._
Cirencester 25 May 1866.
BATHURST, WILLIAM LENNOX BATHURST, 5 Earl. _b._ George st.
Westminster 14 Feb. 1791; ed. at Eton and All Souls coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls college 1812; M.P. for
Weobley 1812–16; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; joint sec. to Privy
Council 1827–60; succeeded his brother as 5 Earl 25 May 1866. _d._
38 Half Moon st. Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 245
(1878), _portrait_.
BATHURST, REV. WILLIAM HILEY. _b._ 28 Aug. 1796; author of _Roman
antiquities found at Lydney park, Gloucestershire_ 1879. _d._
Lydney park 25 Nov. 1877.
BATTERSBY, GEORGE (_eld. son of Thomas Battersby of Newcastle, co.
Meath 1767–1839_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1824, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 2
Nov. 1844, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; judge of Consistorial
court of Dublin 1862–67, and of Provincial court of Dublin
1867–71; chancellor of archdiocese of Dublin 1871 to death, _d._
20 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 9 June 1880.
BATTHYANY, GUSTAVUS THEODORE ANTHONY, Count. _b._ Hungary 8 Dec.
1803; naturalised in England by private act of parliament 1 and 2
Vict. cap. 48 (1838); won the Derby with Galopin 1875. _d._ in the
grand stand at Newmarket 25 April 1883. _bur._ Highland road
cemetery Portsmouth 2 May. _Graphic xxvii_, 477 (1883),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag.
xl_, 371–72 (1883).
BATTINE, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 1 Dec. 1834, colonel
6 July 1843 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; commander at Barrackpore
26 April 1850 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Lahore 21 July
1851 aged 63.
BATTLEY, RICHARD (_2 son of John Battley of Wakefield, architect_).
_b._ Wakefield about 1770; studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s
hospitals; assist. surgeon in the Navy; apothecary in St. Paul’s
churchyard, London; assisted in founding the London Infirmary for
curing diseases of the Eye 1804; Pharmaceutical chemist in Fore
st. Cripplegate about 1812; introduced many important improvements
in pharmaceutical operations. _d._ Reigate 4 March 1856. _G.M.
xlv_, 534 (1856).
BATTY, GEORGE. Proprietor of a menagerie, retired about 1859; lived
in Jersey. _d._ Raune, France 5 June 1867 aged 64.
BATTY, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). Proprietor of a
large circus with which he travelled all over Great Britain and
Ireland; converted Lambeth baths, London, into a circus which he
opened Nov. 1841 as the Olympic Arena; opened the Surrey theatre
Whitsuntide 1842; rebuilt Astley’s and opened it 17 April 1843,
lessee 1843–55 and 1861–62. _d._ Neville lodge, Grove end road,
St. John’s Wood 7 Feb. 1868 in 68 year. _H. Valentine’s Behind the
curtain_ (1848) 73–76; _I.L.N. ii_, 222 (1843).
BATTYE, JAMES. _b._ Huddersfield 1803; composer of glees and
anthems; published a set of _Twelve glees_ 1854. _d._ Huddersfield
10 Oct. 1858.
BATTYE, WIGRAM (_8 son of George Wyngard Battye of Bengal civil
service_). _b._ Kensington, London 13 May 1842; ensign 6 Bengal
European regiment 1859; wing officer, adjutant and commandant of
cavalry of the Corps of Guides successively 1863 to death;
accompanied as a noncombatant the army led by Crown prince of
Germany against the French 1870; killed at Futtehabad, Afghanistan
when leading the Guides against the Kugiani Afghans 31 March 1879.
_S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaigns_ (1882) 12–14, _portrait_.
BAUDERET, FRANCIS HENRY ABRAM. Master of Brooks’s club London 50
years. _d._ Brooks’s club 31 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.
BAUGH, THOMAS FOLLIOT. Entered navy 1784; captain 21 Oct. 1810,
retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ 3 Higher Mount Radford terrace,
Exeter 19 Aug. 1857 aged 84.
BAUMANN, JEAN FRANÇOIS, _b._ Belgium; lived in London for 25 years
before his death; the best player on the bassoon. _d._ Albert st.
Regent’s park, London 25 Aug. 1856 aged 52. _I.L.N. iv_, 29
(1844), _portrait_.
BAUME, PIERRE HENRI JOSEPH. _b._ Marseilles 1797; private secretary
to Ferdinand I, king of the two Sicilies 1815; went to London
about 1825; naturalised 1832; a preacher of doctrine of reforming
optimism; a theatrical manager; proprietor of some model
experimental gardens near Holloway, and a promoter in Manchester
of public houses without intoxicating drinks about 1850; bought a
large estate at Colney Hatch valued at £40,000; organised Sunday
lectures in Manchester; lived at Douglas Isle of Man 1857 to
death. _d._ Duke st. Douglas 28 Oct. 1875. Left all his property
in trust for philanthropic purposes in Isle of Man. _G. J.
Holyoakes History of co-operation i_, 349–51 (1875), _ii_, 400–405
(1879).
BAUMGARDT, JOHN GREGORY. Ensign 91 foot 1 Aug. 1798; lieut. col. of
31 foot 12 Jany. 1826 and of 2 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 1 Jany. 1847;
inspecting field officer of Bristol recruiting district 1 Jany.
1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 6 June 1840. _d._
Rue de L’Oratoire, Champs Elysées, Paris 7 May 1855 aged 72.
BAXENDALE, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Josiah Baxendale of Lancaster,
surgeon who d. 1834_). _b._ Lancaster Sep. 1785; partner in firm
of Pickford & Co. carriers 1817 to death; chairman of South
eastern railway to 1844; A.I.C.E. 8 Feb. 1839. _d._ Woodside,
Whetstone, Middlesex 24 March 1872.
BAXTER, CHARLES. _b._ Little Britain, London March 1809; a painter
chiefly of miniatures and portraits; exhibited 45 pictures at the
R.A, 1834–72; member of Society of British Artists 1842, exhibited
127 pictures there 1842–79. _d._ Lewisham 10 Jany. 1879. _Art
Journal_ (1864) 145–7, (1879) 73; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 72 (1879),
_portrait_.
BAXTER, CRICHTON M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived
at Dundee. _d._ Feb. 1881. _Chess problems by the late C. M.
Baxter_ 1883, _portrait_.
BAXTER, SIR DAVID (_2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire,
export merchant_). _b._ Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen
manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of
largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856
and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4
scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering
which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor
and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. _d._
Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty sworn under £1,098,000
Dec. 1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 400–407; _J.
Thomson’s History of Dundee_ (1874) 385–90.
BAXTER, EDWARD. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in
every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great
Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the
first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but
declined; retired from business about 1834. _d._ 27 July 1856 aged
77.
BAXTER, EDWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export
merchant_). _b._ 3 April 1791; partner with his father about
1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for
the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the
merchant princes of Dundee. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July
1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 368–74.
BAXTER, EVAN BUCHANAN (_son of James Baxter, director of the English
school at St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at
King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll.
Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of
King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house
phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical
registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical
tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica
and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to
Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society,
_Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols._ 1872–73; edited
_Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica_ _4 ed._ 1874. _d._ 28
Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. _Lancet 24
Jany. 1885 p._ 181.
BAXTER, FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY (_younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of
Dundee, merchant_). _b._ Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of
Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to _Tait’s Magazine_ and other
periodicals; edited the _Dundee Advertiser_; author of _Percy
Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Broughty Ferry,
near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_
(1873) 358–60.
BAXTER, GEORGE (_2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858_). A wood
engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836,
employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the
“Pictorial Album” 1836. _d._ The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867
aged 62.
BAXTER, GEORGE R. WYTHEN. Author of _Modern refinement_ 1834;
_Humour and pathos_ 1838; _The book of the Bastiles_ 1841; edited
_Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost_ 1839. _d._ Bryn,
Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.
BAXTER, JOHN. _b._ Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and
publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in
England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common
nettle; published _Library of practical agriculture_ 1846, _4 ed.
2 vols._ 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket
published as _Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide_; established _Sussex
Agricultural Express_ 1837. _d._ Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. _M. A.
Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 283–84, _portrait_.
BAXTER, JOHN BOYD (_son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant_). _b._
1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several
times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee
1825 to death. _d._ Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.
BAXTER, MARY ANN. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000
for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883.
_d._ Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to
upwards of £283,000.
BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (_eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster,
solicitor_). _b._ Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm
of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866;
author of _The national income_ 1868; _The taxation of the United
Kingdom_ 1869; _English parties and conservatism_ 1870; _The
national debts of the various states of the world_ 1871. _d._ 13
Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. _Min. of Proc. of
instit. of C.E. xlii_, 259–61 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 547 (1875),
_portrait_.
BAXTER, WILLIAM. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54;
established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S.
1817; author of _British phænogamous botany, or figures and
descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols._
1834–43. _d._ Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.
BAXTER, WILLIAM RALEIGH. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior
surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in
French army at Constantinople; author of _A treatise on certain
abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry_ 1851;
edited _Medical Record_. _d._ Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged
63.
BAYES, CORDELIA (_dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge_). _b._
Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends
1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the
lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada
1851–53. (_m._ 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he _d._ 1842). _d._ Stoke
Newington, London 11 April 1865. _Annual Monitor for 1866 pp._
8–34.
BAYLEE, REV. JOSEPH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A.
1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead,
Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college
Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building
opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of
_The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin_,
_3 ed._ 1838; _Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God_ 1852;
_The intermediate state of the blessed dead_ 1864; _Introduction
to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols._ 1870; _The Apocalypse
with an exegetical commentary_ 1876. _d._ Shepscombe vicarage 7
July 1883 in 76 year.
BAYLEY, CHARLES JOHN. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar
1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial
sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to
1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 6 July 1873.
BAYLEY, SIR EDWARD CLIVE (_son of Edward Clive Bayley of St.
Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal
civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to
government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice
chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of
Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he
retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5
times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany.
1877. (_m._ 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir
Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). _d._ Wilmington lodge, Keymer
Sussex 30 April 1884. _Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society_
1884.
BAYLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR. _b._ Ireland; went to Barbadoes
1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the
_Morning Post_ about 1831; started and edited the _National
Omnibus_, a penny weekly paper; edited the _Illustrated London
News_ May 1842 to 1848; author of _Four years residence in the
West Indies_ 1830; _Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3
vols._ 1835; _Tales of the late revolutions_ 1831; issued a series
of songs set to music under the title of _The Nosegay_ 1832; wrote
many popular songs including _The Newfoundland dog_; author of
_New tale of a tub_ 1841; _Comic nursery rhymes_ 1842; _The model
of the earth_ 1851. _d._ from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head
Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. _Rev. J.
Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii_, 197–203
(1855).
BAYLEY, HENRY VINCENT (_eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d.
29 May 1860 aged 78_). _b._ 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal
civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta
13 May 1862 to death. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.
BAYLEY, JOHN. _b._ Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a
tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London
1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler;
lived at Mitcham all his life. _d._ Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov.
1874.
BAYLEY, SIR JOHN EDWARD GEORGE, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Dec. 1793;
barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836
to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. _d._ Stanhope lodge, Kensington
Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.
BAYLEY, JOHN WHITCOMB (_2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs.,
farmer_). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief
clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834;
edited _Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32_, for which he received
£2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of _History and
antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts_ 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819,
F.R.S. 1823. _d._ Paris 25 March 1869.
BAYLEY, ROBERT. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent
minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff
Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a
monthly periodical called _The people’s college journal_ 1846;
author of _A history of Louth_; _Nature considered as a
revelation_ 1836; _Lectures on the early history of the Christian
church_; _A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem
Hooghtianam_. _d._ Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.
BAYLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist
of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas
including _Softly ring ye gay bluebells_ and _Come sister come_.
_d._ London Nov. 1858.
BAYLEY, WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH (_6 son of Thomas Butterworth Bayley of
Hope hall, Eccles 1744–1802_). _b._ 1782; ed. at Eton, and the
college Fort William, Calcutta; sec. in revenue and judicial
department 1814; chief sec. to supreme government of India
1819–25; member of the council 1825 to 11 Nov. 1830; governor
general of India 13 March to 4 July 1828; a director of East India
company 23 July 1833, deputy chairman 1839, chairman 1840. _d._
St. Leonard’s on Sea 29 May 1860.
BAYLIS, ALEXANDER JOHN. _b._ 1812; undersheriff of London 1846 and
1869; solicitor to Comrs. of Sewers Dec. 1862 to death, _d._ at an
hotel near Redhill railway station 16 May 1882.
BAYLIS, CHARLES OLIVES. _b._ Jany. 1815; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1837, F.S.A.
1839, M.R.C.S. England 1843; practised at Birkenhead; medical
officer of health there 1866–73; medical officer for new combined
district of West Kent 1873–83. _d._ 62 Windsor road, Southport,
Lancs. 12 Dec. 1884.
BAYLIS, EDWARD. Clerk in Alliance insurance office; founded between
1838 and 1854 a series of life offices all of which have
disappeared except the English and Scottish Law office; went to
Cape of Good Hope about 1859; author of _The arithmetic of
annuities and life assurances or compound interest simplified_
1844. _d._ Cape of Good Hope 12 Sep. 1861 aged about 70.
BAYLIS, THOMAS HUTCHINSON (_son of the preceding_). Manager of the
Trafalgar life insurance office 1850; founded Unity general life
insurance office and the Unity bank about 1852, manager of them
both to Oct. 1856; founded British foreign and colonial insurance
association 1857 and the Consols life association 1858; invented
the Positive life assurance, an ingenious form of life policy
1869. _d._ 17 Vere St. Cavendish sq. 17 Nov. 1876 aged 53.
BAYLY, SIR HENRY (_2 son of Zachary Bayly of Bideford_). _b._ Bath
1790; ensign 51 foot 30 April 1807; captain 24 April 1817 to 15
Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1835; knighted by the Queen at
St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Burly, Lyme Regis, Dorset 31
Jany. 1867.
BAYLY, THOMAS DAVIS (_4 son of Charles Bayly of Frome Selwood,
Somerset, solicitor_). _b._ 1805; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1836;
comr. in Court of bankruptcy Dorset and Somerset 1838–43; bencher
of his inn 1 March 1875. _d._ 20 Aug. 1879.
BAYNES, SIR EDWARD STUART. Deputy assistant commissary general 16
Dec. 1813; secretary general of Ionian islands April 1828–1838;
Consul at St. Petersburgh 24 April 1838 to Sep. 1849; British
agent and consul general in regency of Tunis 25 Oct. 1849 to
death; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 June 1833. _d._ Tunis 23
July 1855 aged 64.
BAYNES, EDWIN DONALD. _b._ 1828; colonial sec. and treasurer of
Montserrat 1850–54; colonial sec. of Antigua 1863; acting lieut.
governor of Dominica 1871; colonial sec. of Leeward islands, and
pres. of Antigua 1872; lieut. governor of Leeward islands 1876–84;
C.M.G. 1877. _d._ St. John’s, Antigua 1 Nov. 1884 in 57 year.
BAYNES, SIR ROBERT LAMBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baynes,
commander R.N. who d. 1818_). _b._ 1796; entered navy 19 April
1810; captain 8 July 1828; commander in chief on Pacific station 8
July 1857 to 5 May 1860; admiral 5 May 1865; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827,
K.C.B. 18 May 1860. (_m._ 8 July 1846 Frances 4 dau. of Thomas
Denman 1 Baron Denman she was _b._ 17 Sep. 1812). _d._ Upper
Norwood 7 Sep. 1869.
BAYNES, SIMCOE. Midshipman R.N. 1810; ensign royal Corsican rangers
24 June 1812; lieut. col. royal Malta fencible regiment 23 July
1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; colonel 35 foot 27 March 1863 to death;
general 14 Dec. 1873. _d._ Tarxien Malta 10 Sep. 1875 aged 77.
BAYNES, SIR WILLIAM, 2 Baronet. _b._ 28 Nov. 1789; succeeded 16
March 1837. _d._ 25 Portland place London 1 Jany. 1866.
BAYNING, REV. HENRY WILLIAM POWLETT, 3 Baron. _b._ London 8 June
1797; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded 2 Aug.
1823. _d._ Honingham hall near Norwich 5 Aug. 1866.
BAYS, PETER PAYNE. _b._ Cambridge; a sailing master in the merchant
service; a schoolmaster at Cambridge; auditor of Cambridge Union;
author of _A narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port
Jackson_ 1831. _d._ New York 7 Feb. 1864 aged 80.
BAZLEY, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Bazley of Gilnow near
Bolton, Lancs. 1773–1845_). _b._ Gilnow 27 May 1797; ed. at Bolton
gr. sch.; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton 1818–26 when he
removed to Manchester, retired from business 1862; member of the
Anti-Corn Law Assoc. and of the Council of the League; director of
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, vice pres., pres. 1845–59; one of
Royal comrs. of Great Exhibition 1851; M.P. for Manchester 17 Nov.
1858 to 24 March 1880; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869. _d._
Riversleigh Lytham, Lancs. 18 March 1885. _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 508,
523 (1851), _portrait_; _Touchstone 19 April 1879_, _portrait_.
BEACH, SIR MICHAEL HICKS, 8 Baronet, _b._ Netheravon house, Wilts 25
Oct. 1809; succeeded 23 Oct. 1834; lieut. col. of North Gloucester
militia 10 Feb. 1844 to death; M.P. for East Gloucs. 9 Jany. 1854
to death. _d._ Williamstrip park, Gloucs. 29 Nov. 1854.
BEACH, WILLIAM. _b._ 24 July 1783; M.P. for Malmesbury 13 Oct. 1812
to Feb. 1817. _d._ Oakley hall near Basingstoke 22 Nov. 1856.
BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Isaac
Disraeli of London 1766–1848_). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1804; baptised
in parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn 31 July 1817; articled to
Wm. Stevens of 6 Frederick’s place Old Jewry, solicitor 10 Nov.
1821; student of Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov. 1824 to 25 Nov. 1831; M.P.
for Maidstone 1837–1841, for Shrewsbury 1841–1847 and for Bucks.
1847–1876; chancellor of the exchequer Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852,
Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. March
1852; introduced and carried Representation of the people act
1867; first lord of the Treasury 29 Feb. 1868 to 2 Dec. 1868 and
21 Feb. 1874 to 27 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University
1871–1875, installed 19 Nov. 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1876; lord privy
seal 12 Aug. 1876 to Feb. 1878; created Earl of Beaconsfield and
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Manor, Bucks. 21 Aug. 1876; first
British plenipotentiary at Berlin congress 13 June to 13 July
1878; K.G. 22 July 1878; admitted to freedom of City of London 3
Aug. 1878; author of _Vivian Grey 4 vols._ 1827; _The young duke 3
vols._ 1831; _Alroy 3 vols._ 1833; _Contarini Fleming_ 1833; _The
Revolutionary Epick, a poem_ 1834; _Henrietta Temple 3 vols._
1836; _Venetia 3 vols._ 1837; _Alarcos a tragedy_ 1839 which was
produced on the stage at Astley’s; _Coningsby or the new
generation 3 vols._ 1844; _Sybil or the two nations 3 vols._ 1845;
_Tancred or the new crusade 3 vols._ 1847; _Political biography of
Lord George Bentinck_ 1851; _Lothair 3 vols._ 1870; _Endymion 3
vols._ 1880. _d._ 19 Curzon st. Mayfair London 19 April 1881.
_bur._ Hughenden churchyard 26 April. _Maclise Portrait gallery by
W. Bates_ (1883) 164–72, _portrait_; _Lord Beaconsfield, a
biography by T. P. O’Connor_, _6 ed._ 1884; _The public life of
Lord Beaconsfield by F. Hitchman, 3 ed._ 1884; _An appreciative
life of Lord Beaconsfield, edited by C. Brown, 2 vols._ 1882,
_portrait_.
NOTE.—He is the hero of ‘Vivian Grey’ the first edition of
which novel has whole chapters not found in subsequent
editions; he figures almost by name in Lady Bulwer Lytton’s
novel “Behind the Scenes” 3 vols. 1854. His statue in
Parliament sq. was unveiled 19 April 1883, Primrose day.
BEACONSFIELD, MARY ANNE DISRAELI, Viscountess (_only dau. of John
Viney Evans, Captain R.N. of Branceford park, Devon_). _b._ 1795.
(_m._ (1) 1811 Wyndham Lewis, M.P. for Maidstone who _d._ 14 March
1838, _m._ (2) 28 Aug. 1839 Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of
Beaconsfield). Created Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield 30
Nov. 1868. _d._ Hughenden, Bucks 15 Dec. 1872. _Heath’s Book of
beauty_ 1841 _p._ 236, _portrait_.
BEADON, SIR CECIL (_youngest son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April
1858 aged 76_). _b._ Wells 1816; ed. at Eton and Shrewsbury; under
secretary to government of Bengal 1843 and secretary 1852;
secretary to government of India home department 1854 and foreign
department 1859; member of Governor general’s council 1860;
lieutenant governor of Bengal 1862–1866; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866.
_d._ Latton, Wilts 18 July 1880. _Fortnightly Review viii_, 180–91
(1867).
BEADON, REV. FREDERICK (_3 son of Rev. Edward Beadon, R. of North
Stoneham, Hants who d. 17 Dec. 1810_). _b._ London 6 Dec. 1777;
ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R.
of Weston-super-Mare 1801–11; preb. of Wells cathedral 26 May
1809, canon residentiary 1812–1875 and chancellor 13 Aug. 1823 to
death; V. of Titley near Hereford 1811–1876; R. of Sulham, Berks
1814–1823; R. of North Stoneham Jany. 1811 to death. _d._ North
Stoneham rectory 10 June 1879 aged 101 years and 6 months.
_Norman’s Memoir privately printed_ 1879; _Graphic xx_, 108
(1879), _portrait_.
BEADON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of Richard Beadon who d. 6
April 1858_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; police magistrate
at Wandsworth and Hammersmith 1847, and at Marlborough st. police
court 1856 to death. _d._ Stratford place, Cavendish sq. 30 March
1862.
BEAGLEY, THOMAS. _b._ Farringdon near Alton, Hants 5 Oct. 1789; a
builder there to Nov. 1850; professional cricketer; a splendid bat
and long-stop; played for his county many years. _d._ 27 Alfred
road, Harrow road, London 21 Feb. 1858.
BEAL, ABRAHAM. _b._ Chatham about 1803; a great advocate of total
abstinence; acquired title of “the Prisoner’s friend”; emigrated
to the United States 1848; general agent of New York prison
association 1863 to death; more than 10000 prisoners were released
or pardoned through his active agency. _d._ Brooklyn New York 25
Feb. 1872. _American Annual Cyclopædia xii_, 59–60 (1873).
BEAL, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Devonport 4 May 1785; Wesleyan minister
1808 to death; at Liskeard, Cornwall 1857 to death; the first
Sunday school teacher in Cornwall; author of _The fathers of the
Wesley family and references to their times_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1862;
_Britain and the Gael_ 1855 _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Liskeard 18 June
1872.
BEAL, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Sheffield 9
Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1841, LLD. Aberdeen 1845, F.S.A. 1850; head master of Tavistock
gr. sch. 1837–47; V. of Brooke Norfolk 1847 to death; originated
at Brooke the Parochial harvest home 1854; diocesan inspector of
schools 1855 to death; edited the _West of England magazine_
1840–47; author of _First book in chronology_ 1840; _Church
Unions_ 1848; _Peoples Colleges_ 1851. _d._ Aigle, canton Vaud
Switzerland 20 April 1870.
BEALE, LIONEL JOHN. _b._ Falmouth Oct. 1796; M.R.C.S. 1815;
practised in London about 1831 to death; medical officer of health
to parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1856 to death; author of _On
spinal diseases_ 1830; _The laws of health in relation to mind and
body_ 1851; _Health and longevity_ 1854; _On personal and domestic
hygiene_ 1855. _d._ 108 Long Acre London 23 June 1871. _Medical
Times and gazette ii_, 24 (1871).
BEALE, SAMUEL (_son of William Beale of Camphill, Birmingham_). _b._
Birmingham 1803; an iron master; M.P. for Derby 28 March 1857 to 6
July 1865; chairman of Midland railway 1858–1864. _d._ Warfield
grove, Bracknell Berkshire 11 Sep. 1874. Personalty sworn under
£350,000 Oct. 1874.
BEALE, THOMAS WILLIAM. Clerk in office of Board of Revenue at Agra
many years; author of _Miftahu-t-Tawarikh or Key of history_
lithographed at Agra 1849; _The Oriental biographical dictionary
edited by the Asiatic Society of Bengal_ 1881. _d._ summer of 1875
very old. _Sir H. M. Elliott’s History of India viii_, 441–44
(1877).
BEALE, WILLIAM. _b._ Landrake Cornwall 1 Jany. 1784; a chorister of
Westminster Abbey; Midshipman R.N.; member of Royal Society of
Musicians 1 Dec. 1811; gained by his madrigal _Awake sweet muse_
prize cup given by Madrigal Society 12 Jany. 1813; one of
gentlemen of Chapel Royal 30 Jany. 1816 to 13 Dec. 1820; organist
at Trinity college Cambridge 1 Nov. 1820 to Dec. 1821; organist of
Wandsworth parish church 1822, afterwards of St. John’s church
Clapham Rise; published _A first book of madrigals, glees, &c. for
3, 4, and 5 voices_ 1815; _Collection of glees and madrigals_
1820. _d._ Paradise Row, Stockwell, London 3 May 1854.
BEALE, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Wm. Beale of Camphill, Birmingham_).
Solicitor at Birmingham; legal adviser to Midland railway;
chairman of orchestral committee of musical festivals 1870–76.
_d._ Bryntirion near Dolgelly 21 May 1883 in 76 year.
BEALES, EDMOND (_son of Samuel Pickering Beales of Newnham,
Cambridge, merchant_). _b._ Newnham 3 July 1803; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 25
June 1830; revising barrister for Middlesex 1862–66; president of
National league for independence of Poland 1863; chairman of the
Circassian committee; pres. of Reform league 1865 to 10 March
1869, league was dissolved 13 March 1869; contested Tower Hamlets
Nov. 1868; judge of county courts for Beds. and Cambs. 17 Sep.
1870 to death. _d._ Osborne house Bolton gardens south, Brompton
26 June 1881. _Annual Register_ (1866) 98–102.
BEAMAN, GEORGE. _b._ near London 1803; apprenticed to Mr. Holland of
Knutsford, surgeon; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.D.
St. Andrews 1854; partner with Mr. Hewson, apothecary in James
street, Covent Garden 1824; founded with Thomas Wakley, the new
Equitable life assurance office; medical officer of London and
South Western railway about 1840 to death; a leading general
practitioner. _d._ 3 Caversham, road, Kentish Town 15 Jany. 1874.
_Medical times and gazette i_, 142 (1874).
BEAMES, JOHN. Barrister L.I. 25 May 1811, bencher 1832; comr. of
lunatics 1821–23; comr. of bankrupts 1823–30; K.C. Nov. 1832;
author of _The elements of pleas in equity_ 1818; _A brief view of
the writ Ne exeat regno as an equitable process, 2 ed._ 1824; _A
summary of the doctrine of the Court of Equity with respect to
costs_ 1822, _2 ed._ 1840; _Sketch of the doctrine relative to
commitments in bankruptcy_ 1827. _d._ 17 Oct. 1853 aged 72.
BEAMES, REV. THOMAS. Educ. at Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837, M.A.
1838; C. of St. Bride’s Fleet st. London 1844–46; C. of St.
James’s Westminster 1846 to death; author of _Rookeries of London_
1850, _2 ed._ 1852; _Plea for educational reform_ 1856. _d._
Godolphin road, Shepherds Bush 6 Aug. 1864.
BEAMISH, FRANCIS BERNARD (_6 son of Wm. Beamish of Cork, porter
brewer 1760–1828_). _b._ Beaumont near Cork 5 April 1802; ed. at
Rugby; M.P. for Cork 1837–1841, and 1853 to 1865; mayor of Cork
1843, sheriff of co. Cork 1852; chairman of Reform club London to
death. _d._ Totnes, Devon 1 Feb. 1868.
BEAMISH, REV. HENRY HAMILTON. Minister of Holy Trinity chapel,
Conduit st. London 1832–62; V. of Old Cleeve, Somerset 1862–65; V.
of Wimbish 1865–69; R. of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks 1869 to
death; author of _Romanism and Tractarianism refuted_ 1853;
_Lectures, Who is Antichrist_ 1854. _d._ Lillingstone Dayrell
rectory 23 Feb. 1872.
BEAMISH, NORTH LUDLOW (_brother of Francis Bernard Beamish_). _b._
31 Dec. 1797; ed. at Sandhurst; cornet 4 dragoon guards 7 Nov.
1816, captain 1823–26 when placed on h.p.; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1827;
K.H. 1837; lieut. colonel in Hanoverian service 1852; sheriff of
city of Cork 1855; author of _Peace campaigns of a cornet [anon.]
3 vols._ 1829; _History of the King’s German legion 2 vols._
1832–37; _The discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth
century_ 1841; _On the uses and application of cavalry in war_
1855. _d._ Ann Mount near Glanmire, Cork 27 April 1872.
BEAMISH, RICHARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 16 July 1798;
ensign Coldstream Guards 1814–18 when placed on h.p.; assistant
engineer on the Thames tunnel Aug. 1826 and resident engineer Dec.
1834 to Aug. 1836; engineer for Cork and other counties in Ireland
1828–34; resident engineer of Gloucester and forest of Dean
railway to 1850; M.I.C.E. 27 Jany. 1829; F.R.S. 24 March 1836;
author of _Popular instruction on the calculation of probabilities
translated from the French of A. Quetelet_ 1839; _A treatise on
elocution_ 1854; _A memoir of the life of Sir Marc Isambard
Brunel_ 1866; _The Psychonomy of the hand, 2 ed._ 1865. _d._
Bournemouth 20 Nov. 1873. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_,
246–51 (1875).
BEAMONT, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_only son of Wm. Beamont of Warrington,
solicitor_). _b._ Warrington 16 Jany. 1828; ed. at Warrington,
Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; chancellor’s medallist 1850, B.A. 1850,
M.A. 1853; fellow of his college 1852 to death; C. of St. John’s
the Evangelist, Drury lane, London 1855; P.C. of St. Michael’s
Cambridge 1857 to death; chief founder of Cambridge School of art
1858 and the Church Defence Association 1859; originator of the
Church Congress 1861; author of _Catherine the Egyptian slave_
1852; _Concise grammar of the Arabic language_ 1861; author with
Rev. W. M. Campion of _The prayer-book interleaved_ 1868, _7 ed._
1880. _d._ Trinity college, Cambridge 6 Aug. 1868.
BEAN, WILLIAM. Began riding with the Queen’s stag hounds 1792; a
great steeplechase rider; rode 24 steeplechases and won 17 of
them. _d._ Notting hill London about 31 March 1867 aged about 86.
_Scott and Sebright by the Druid_ (1885) 282–89; _Illust. sporting
news vi_, 241 (1867), _portrait_.
BEARD, REV. JOHN RELLY. _b._ Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed.
at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825;
kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838;
minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for
educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian
home missionary board or college, of which he was the first
principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the
first editor of the _Christian Teacher_ 1835; started the
_Unitarian Herald_; author of _Voices of the church in reply to
Dr. Strauss_ 1845; _Historical and Artistic illustrations of the
Trinity_ 1846; _Illustrations of the divine in Christianity_ 1849;
_Latin dictionary_ 1854; _Christ the interpreter of scripture_
1865; _Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism_ 1868;
_Autobiography of Satan_ 1872. _d._ Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov.
1876. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 13–17.
BEARD, WILLIAM (_son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset_). _b._
Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell
hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf
about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for
bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire
Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum
at Taunton Castle. _d._ Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. _J. Rutter’s
Delineations of north western division of Somerset_ (1829) 147–60,
_portrait_.
BEARDMORE, NATHANIEL (_2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham_).
_b._ Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel
C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers
and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers;
engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy
board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres.
1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of _Manual of hydrology_
1852, _new ed._ 1867, which became the text book of the profession
for hydraulic engineering. _d._ Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872;
_Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 256–64 (1873).
BEARDMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm.
Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71,
and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became
largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European
reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. _d._
Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_,
268–70 (1878).
BEASLEY, JOSEPH NOBLE. _b._ 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish
Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. _d._ Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.
BEATRICE, MADEMOISELLE, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (_dau. of
Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence_). _b._ Lucca, Italy 5
Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris;
made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket
theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the
provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she
travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75
and 78; produced and acted chief parts in _Our Friends_, _The
Sphinx_, _Frou-Frou_ and other translations from the French. _d._
102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Père Lachaise
cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. _The Stage i_, 61, 63 (1874),
_portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 388–90.
BEATSON, REV. BENJAMIN WRIGGLESWORTH (_son of Anby Beatson_). _b._
24 Jany. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Pemb. coll.
Cam., 16 wrangler 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his
college 1827 to death; author of _Progressive exercises on the
composition of Greek Iambic verse_ 1836, _10 ed._ 1871; _Exercises
on Latin prose composition_ 1840; _Lessons in ancient history_
1853; edited _Demosthenes’ Oration against Leptines_ 1864. _d._
Charles st. City road, London 20 July 1874.
BEATSON, GEORGE STEWART (_3 son of Henry Duncan Beatson of
Campbelltown, Argyleshire_). _b._ Greenock May 1814; ed. at
Glasgow Univ., M.D. 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1836; assistant surgeon
army medical department 1838; surgeon general 1 May 1863;
principal medical officer of British troops in India 1863–68 and
1871 to death; in charge of Royal Victoria hospital Netley
1868–71; honorary phys. to the Queen 13 March 1866; C.B. 2 June
1869. _d._ Knollswood, Simla 7 June 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_, 229
(1874), _portrait_.
BEATSON, WILLIAM FERGUSON. _b._ about 1804; entered Bengal army
1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of
the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of
Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps
of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of
the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he
raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3
Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of
Spain. _d._ The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. _Nolan’s Russian
war ii_, 753 (1857), _portrait_; _The war department and the Bashi
Bazouks by W. F. Beatson_ 1856, _privately printed_.
BEATTIE, JAMES. _b._ parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a
shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of
from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take
any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the
Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and
died 1839. _d._ Gordonstown July 1867.
BEATTIE, JOSEPH HAMILTON (_son of George Beattie of North of
Ireland, architect_). _b._ 12 May 1808; assistant engineer on
London and Southampton railway 1837; assistant engineer and
locomotive superintendent of London and south western railway 1851
to death; took out many patents for improvements in railway
rolling stock and effected great saving in consumption of fuel in
working locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1857. _d._ South Bank,
Surbiton, Surrey 18 Oct. 1871. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxiii_, 204–206 (1872).
BEATTIE, WILLIAM (_son of James Beattie of Dalton, Annandale who d.
1809_). _b._ Dalton 1793; ed. at Clarencefield academy 1807–13 and
Univ. of Edin. 1813–20, M.D. 1818; studied in France, Italy and
Germany 1823–26; physician to Duke of Clarence 8 years and private
secretary to him 3 years; L.R.C.P. 1827; practised at Hampstead
1827–45; foreign sec. to British Archæological Society; lost
£7,000 in Albert Assurance Office Aug. 1869; author of _Journal of
a residence in Germany 2 vols._ 1831; _Scotland illustrated 2
vols._ 1838; _The Waldenses illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The
Danube_ 1844; _Life of Thomas Campbell 3 vols._ 1848. _d._ 13
Upper Berkeley st. London 17 March 1875. _Madden’s Literary life
of Countess of Blessington iii_, 255–76 (1855).
BEATTY, GEORGE. Second lieutenant R.M. 16 May 1795, colonel
commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855. _d._
Dublin 27 June 1857 aged 79.
BEATTY, THOMAS EDWARD (_son of John Beatty, M.D._) Ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; M.D. Edin. 1820, M.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S.
1824; master of South-Eastern Lying-in hospital, Dublin; professor
of medical jurisprudence at Royal college of surgeons Dublin,
pres. 1850; helped to found City of Dublin hospital 1832; pres. of
Dublin Pathological Society 1859; fellow of King and Queen’s
college of physicians 2 May 1862, pres. 1864–65; M.D. Dublin 1863.
_d._ 3 May 1872.
BEAUCHAMP, JOHN REGINALD PYNDAR, 3 Earl (_2 son of Wm. Lygon, 1 Earl
Beauchamp 1747–1816_). Assumed name of Pyndar 22 Oct. 1813;
succeeded 12 May 1823. _d._ 37 Portman sq. London 22 Jany. 1853 in
71 year.
BEAUCHAMP, HENRY BEAUCHAMP LYGON, 4 Earl (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ 5 Jany. 1784; cornet 13 Dragoons 9 July 1803;
lieut. col. 1 Life Guards 17 July 1821 to 10 Jany. 1837; colonel
10 Hussars 23 June 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for
Worcestershire 1816–1831 and for West Worcestershire 1832–1853;
succeeded 22 Jany. 1853. _d._ Madresfield Court, Great Malvern 8
Sep. 1863.
BEAUCLERK, AUBREY WILLIAM. _b._ 20 Feb. 1801; M.P. for East Surrey
15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837. _d._ Ardglass castle, co. Down 1
Feb. 1854.
BEAUFORT, JOHN HENRY SOMERSET, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of Henry
Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835_). _b._ 5 Feb.
1792; cornet 10 Hussars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington
in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when
placed on h.p.; M.P. for Monmouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and
for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded
as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel
commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G.
1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. _d._
Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities
I have known 2 series i_, 118–30 (1877); _Sporting Review xxxi_,
69–70 (1854); _I.L.N. xxiii_, 448, 476 (1853), _portrait_.
BEAUFORT, SIR FRANCIS (_younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort
1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth_). _b._ Collon 1774; entered
navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794;
constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway
1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia
Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired
R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal
Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830;
corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the
Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author
of _Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia
Minor_ 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. _d._
Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 213–30; _Quarterly Journal
of Geological Soc. xiv_, 47–54 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_,
524–27 (1858).
BEAUFORT, FRANCIS LESTOCK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1815; in
Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity
fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta
1863–76; author of _Digest of the criminal law procedure in
Bengal_ 1850. _d._ 1879.
BEAUFOY, HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY (_eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of
London, astronomer 1764–1827_). Established 4 scholarships at
Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost
of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and
invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a
library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s _Nautical
and hydraulic experiments_ 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. _d._
South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of
London i_, 7–12 (1865).
BEAULIE, BARON A. DE. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, _d._ 43 Upper
Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.
BEAUMONT, MILES THOMAS STAPLETON, 8 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas
Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839_). _b._ Richmond,
Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo
Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet
in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of
Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct.
1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death;
author of _Austria and Central Italy_ 1849; _The late edict of
Court of Rome_; _Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland_ 1850, _7
ed._ 1850. _d._ 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854.
BEAUMONT, EDWARD BLACKETT. _b._ 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S.
_d._ 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878.
BEAUMONT, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND, 9 Baronet. _b._ Addington park, Surrey
12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire
1852. _d._ Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882.
BEAUMONT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794;
Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and
1833–35, in London 1831–32, 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool
1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author
of _Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham_ 1838. _d._ in the pulpit of
Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. _Life by his son Joseph
Beaumont_ 1856, _portrait_; _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._
1856, 381–403.
BEAUMONT, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1 July 1795;
L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford
Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of
Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830;
author of _An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic
liquors_ 1837. _d._ Bradford 16 Oct. 1859.
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM RAWLINGS. _b._ London 1803; studied at St.
Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844;
surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor
of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital;
M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity
college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for
the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the
Singer sewing machine. _d._ 12 Oct. 1875. _Canadian Lancet 1 Nov.
1875._
BEAUREGARD, ELIZABETH, Countess de (_dau. of Joseph Hargett_). Known
as Miss Howard; remarkable for her beauty; mistress of Louis
Napoleon to 1853 when he created her Countess de Beauregard. (_m._
16 May 1854 Clarence Trelawney, Hussar officer in the Austrian
army, he was _b._ 20 Dec. 1826 and obtained a divorce in Court of
appeal Paris Feb. 1865). _d._ Chateau of Beauregard near
Versailles 20 Aug. 1865 aged 42.
BEAVAN, CHARLES (_son of Hugh Beavan of Llowes, Radnorshire_). _b._
March 1805; ed. at Aldenham and Caius coll. Cam., 22 wrangler
1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 6
May 1873; practised in Chancery courts; an official examiner of
Court of Chancery June 1866 to Jany. 1884 when office abolished;
author of _Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in
the Rolls Court 36 vols._ 1840–69, being the longest series of
authorized reports ever published. _d._ 91 St. George’s road,
Pimlico, London 18 June 1884. _Solicitor’s Journal xxviii_, 173,
592, 601 (1884).
BEAVAN, EDWARD (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1814; ed.
at Hounslow; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 3 May
1844; recorder of Chester 1864–66. _d._ 15 Feb. 1870.
BEAZLEY, SAMUEL (_son of Samuel Beazley of Whitehall, London, army
accoutrement maker_). _b._ Whitehall 1786; served as a volunteer
in the Peninsula; designed St. James’s, Lyceum and City of London
theatres, also 2 theatres in Dublin, 2 in Belgium, 2 in India and
1 in Brazil; erected London Bridge railway station, most of the
stations on North Kent line and Lord Warden hotel at Dover; wrote
and arranged more than 100 dramatic pieces chiefly farces and
short comedies; author of _The Roué [anon.] 3 vols._ 1828; _The
Oxonians, a glance at society 3 vols._ 1830. _d._ Tunbridge Castle
12 Oct. 1851 in 66 year. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities, I have
known, 2 series ii_, 70–90 (1877); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Percy
Hamilton_ 1851 in which he is drawn to the life.
BECHER, ALEXANDER BRIDPORT (_eld. son of Alexander Becher, captain
R.N. who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 June 1796; midshipman R.N. 28 Nov.
1812; captain on h.p. 20 March 1856, retired R.A. 11 June 1874;
assistant in Hydrographic office 12 May 1823 to 1865, arranged and
methodised all documents preserved there 1823–26; sec. to board of
visitors of royal observatory; F.R.A.S. 1830, member of council;
edited the _Nautical magazine_ from its commencement in 1832 to
1871; author of _The landfall of Columbus on his first voyage to
America_ 1856. _d._ 46 Upper Gloucester place, London 15 Feb.
1876. _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 1–6.
BECHER, LADY ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John O’Neill, stage manager of the
Drogheda theatre_). _b._ Drogheda 1791; made her début in Dublin
at Crow street theatre as The widow Cheerly in the _Soldier’s
daughter_ 1811 and in London at Covent Garden theatre as Juliet 6
Oct. 1814; the favourite actress in London both in comedy and
tragedy 1814–19; said to have made £12,000 a year; acted for the
last time 13 July 1819. (_m._ 18 Dec. 1819 Wm. Wrixon, M.P. for
Mallow, he was _b._ 31 July 1780, assumed name of Becher, was
created a baronet 1831 and _d._ 23 Oct. 1850). _d._ Ballygiblin
near Mallow 29 Oct. 1872. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i_,
33–74 (1844), _portrait_; _Theatrical inquisitor vi_, 243 (1815),
_portrait_.
BECHER, JOHN REID. _b._ 3 July 1819; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 6
March 1838; colonel 13 Oct. 1863; colonel commandant 15 Sep. 1881
to death; served in Afghan campaign 1842 and Sutlej campaign 1846;
general 29 July 1878; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Southampton 9 July
1884.
BECHER, MARTIN WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Becher of Norfolk, farmer who d.
1816_). _b._ Norfolk; served in the Store-keeper general’s
department; an officer in Buckinghamshire yeomanry cavalry 1821;
won the Northampton steeple chase 4 April 1834; beat the Marquis
of Waterford in a match for 1000 guineas a side 1834; won the St.
Albans steeple chase 1835 and 1836 and many other races; the best
steeple chase rider in England. _d._ 21 Maida hill, St. John’s
Wood, London 11 Oct. 1864 aged 67. _Sporting Review lii_, 400–404
(1864); _Scott and Sebright by the Druid_ (1885) 292–303,
_portrait_.
BECK, BARONESS VON, assumed name of Wilhelmina Racidula; passed
herself off as a Hungarian exile who had rendered good service to
the cause of independence; came to Birmingham with her secretary
Constant Derra July 1851, where she was assisted by many of the
Liberal leaders; arrested as an impostor and confined in Moor st.
police court 29 Aug.; author of _Personal adventures during the
late war of independence in Hungary 2 vols._ 1850. _d._ in the
ante-room of the Court at Moor st. Birmingham 30 Aug. 1851 aged
about 54. _The persecution and death of the Baroness Von Beck at
Birmingham in August_ 1851, 8º. 1852; _Athenæum_ (1852) 578, 629,
653, 701, 846 _and_ 869; _The facts of the case as to the
pretended Baroness Von Beck by J. T. Smith_ 1852.
BECK, EDWARD. Commanded a merchant ship; a slate merchant at
Isleworth, Middlesex; constructed the great waterworks at Hampton;
one of most successful growers of Pelargoniums in the kingdom,
long unrivalled as an exhibitor; author of _A treatise on the
cultivation of the Pelargonium_ 1847; edited _The florist and
garden miscellany 4 vols._ 1848–61. _d._ Worton cottage, Isleworth
15 Jany. 1861 aged 57. _The Florist Feb. 1861, pp._ 36–38.
BECK, RICHARD. Manufacturing optician at 31 Cornhill, London; author
of _A treatise on the construction, proper use and capabilities of
Smith, Beck and Beck’s achromatic microscopes_ 1865 and of 9
papers read before the Microscopical Society 1859–66. _d._
Stamford hill, London 30 Sep. 1866 aged nearly 39.
BECK, THOMAS SNOW. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne; ed. at gr. school
there, and in Cumberland; apprenticed to a surgeon at Newcastle;
student at Univ. college London 1836; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S.
1847; walked the Paris hospitals 1839–40; visited universities of
Switzerland, Italy and Germany 1840–41; M.D. London 1849; M.R.C.P.
1852; practised in London 1841; phys. to Farringdon general
dispensary 1850; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1845. _d._ 7
Portland place, London 6 Jany. 1877 aged 63. _Medical Circular i_,
209–211 (1852).
BECKER, CARL LUDWIG CHRISTIAN. _b._ Ratzeburg in Mecklenberg
Strelitz 16 July 1821; manager for Elliott brothers of London
electrical engineers 1858; member of the firm 1873 to death;
F.R.A.S. Jany. 1874. _d._ 55 St. Paul’s Road Canonbury 3 April
1875.
BECKET, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. 1794, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon 1 Foot Guards
8 July 1795 to 1809; surgeon to the Savoy 28 Sep. 1809. _d._ 5
Russell place, Fitzroy sq. London 21 July 1856 aged 82.
BECKETT, SIR EDMUND, 4 Baronet, _b._ Gledhow hall, Leeds 29 Jany
1787; M.P. for west riding Yorkshire 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847,
and 11 Dec. 1848 to 23 April 1859; succeeded 17 Nov. 1872. _d._
Doncaster 24 May 1874. Personalty sworn under £300,000 Aug. 1874.
_I.L.N. lxiv_, 547 (1874) _lxv_, 236 (1874).
BECKETT, JOHN STANIFORTH (_son of Joseph Beckett, of Barnsley
1751–1840_). Presented a dispensary to Barnsley, to which he also
left sum of £5000. _d._ Wombwell near Barnsley 9 Nov. 1868 in 75
year. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Jany. 1869.
BECKETT, SIR THOMAS, 3 Baronet. _b._ Leeds 1 Jany. 1779; succeeded
31 May 1847. _d._ Somerby park near Gainsborough 17 Nov. 1872.
Personalty sworn under £350,000 March 1873.
BECKETT, WILLIAM (_5 son of Sir John Beckett, 1 Baronet 1743–1826_).
_b._ Leeds 3 March 1784; principal partner in the eminent banking
firm of Beckett and Co. of the Leeds “Old Bank”; M.P. for Leeds
1841 to 1852 and for Ripon 1852 to 1857. _d._ Brighton 26 Jany.
1863. _Rev. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 506–509.
BECKWITH, JOHN CHARLES (_eld. child of John Beckwith of Halifax,
Nova Scotia_). _b._ Halifax 2 Oct. 1789; ensign 50 Foot 1803,
exchanged into 95 Foot 1804, captain 1808 to 20 Jany. 1820 when
placed on h.p.; served in Hanover, Denmark and Sweden, and in the
Peninsula 1809–14; lost his left leg at Waterloo where 4 horses
were killed under him 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815, M.G. 9 Nov.
1846; visited the Vaudois valleys Piedmont Oct. 1827 and 5
succeeding years, lived at St. Jean 1834–39 and at La Tour
1841–51, established 120 schools in the Vaudois valleys all of
which he frequently inspected; knight of Sardinian order of St.
Maurice and St. Lazarus 15 Dec. 1848. (_m._ 20 June 1850 Caroline
Volle of the Vaudois). _d._ La Tour 19 July 1862. _bur._ in the
cemetery of Tour Pellice. _General Beckwith, his life and labours
among the Waldenses of Piedmont by J. P. Meille_ 1873.
BECKWITH, JOSEPH. An early member of the Corresponding Society which
was founded 1791; a contemporary of Hardy and Thelwall; lived in
Clerkenwell nearly 60 years. _d._ 3 Dec. 1860 aged 84.
BECKWITH, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Beckwith of Trimdon, co. Durham
1772–1847_). _b._ 20 Aug. 1795; cornet 16 Dragoons 7 Jany. 1813;
major 14 Dragoons 14 Feb. 1828 to 6 Dec. 1833 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868;
K.H. 1832; sheriff of Durham 1858. _d._ Silkworth near Sunderland
23 Feb. 1871.
BEDDOME, JOHN REYNOLDS. M.R.C.S. 1811; M.D. Erlangen; surgeon at
Romsey 1811 to death; mayor of Romsey 6 times, _d._ Romsey 26 Dec.
1859. _I.L.N. xxxiv_, 385 (1859), _portrait_.
BEDFORD, FRANCIS RUSSELL, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of John Russell 6
Duke of Bedford 1766–1839_). _b._ 13 May 1788; ed. at Westminster
and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1808; M.P. for Beds. 1812 to 1832;
summoned to House of Lords as Baron Howland 15 Jany. 1833;
succeeded as 7 Duke 20 Oct. 1839; P.C. 6 July 1846; K.G. 26 March
1847; lord lieutenant of Beds. 29 Nov. 1859; high steward of
Cambridge 1860; master of the Oakley hounds to 1828 when he sold
the pack to Lord Southampton for £2,000, master again 1836–39.
_d._ Woburn Abbey, Beds. 14 May 1861. _Baily’s Mag. i_, 57–59
(1860), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii_, 283–86, _iii_,
463–74 _and iv_. 331–37.
BEDFORD, WILLIAM RUSSELL, 8 Duke of. _b._ Grosvenor square London 1
July 1809; M.P. for Tavistock 10 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841;
succeeded 14 May 1861. _d._ 6 Belgrave sq. London 26 May 1872.
Personalty sworn under £600,000 June 1872. _I.L.N. lx_, 555. 592,
623 (1872), _portrait_.
BEDFORD, FRANCIS. _b._ 1799; apprenticed to Finlay a bookbinder
1814; worked under Charles Lewis, foremost of English bookbinders;
carried on business for benefit of Lewis’s widow; partner with
John Clarke who was unrivalled in tree marbled calf; afterwards in
business alone at 91 York st. Westminster; the best binder in
England or perhaps Europe. _d._ 12 Coningham road, Shepherd’s Bush
8 June 1883. His library was sold by Sothebys 21, 22, 24 and 25
March 1884 for £4,876 16s. 6d.
BEDFORD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 8 Feb. 1809; entered navy 23 Dec.
1823; Captain 2 Jan. 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; F.R.G.S.
1859. _d._ The Elms, Sydenham hill 11 Feb. 1879.
BEDFORD, REV. JOHN (_son of John Bedford of Wakefield_). _b._
Wakefield 27 July 1810; Wesleyan minister at Glasgow 1831; at
Manchester 1855 to death; sec. to general chapel committee
1860–72; pres. of conference 1867; author of _Correspondence with
the Rev. Wm. Sutcliffe relative to the doctrines, ministry and
system of the Wesleyan Methodists_ 1842. _d._ Chorlton-cum-Hardy
near Manchester 20 Nov. 1879. _I.L.N. li_, 232 (1867), _portrait_.
BEDFORD, PAUL JOHN. _b._ Bath 24 Jany. 1792; made his début on the
stage at Bath 1815; acted in Ireland and Scotland; made his début
in London at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1824 as Hawthorn in opera of _Love
in a village_; played at Adelphi theatre 1838–67; had one of the
deepest and richest bass voices ever heard, his best parts were
Blueskin in _Jack Sheppard_ 1839, Jack Gong in _The green bushes_
1845 and the Kinchin cove in _The flowers of the forest_ 1847;
took his farewell of the stage at the Queen’s theatre 16 May 1868;
sang at Weston’s Music hall London and The hall by the sea Margate
1869; author of _Recollections and wanderings_ 1864; _Drawing room
dramas_ 1874. (_m._ (1) Miss Green of Dublin, an actress who _d._
April 1833 aged 32). (_m._ (2) Miss Verinder, a pianist and
harpist, she _d._ 1864). _d._ Lindsey place, Chelsea 11 Jany.
1871. _Theatrical times i_, 129 (1847), _portrait_; _Illust.
sporting news ii_, 180 (1863), _portrait, v_. 133 (1866),
_portrait_.
BEDINGFELD, FELIX WILLIAM GEORGE RICHARD (_youngest son of Sir
Richard Bedingfeld, 5 Baronet 1767–1829_). _b._ 12 Aug. 1808;
crown comr. of Turk’s Island in the Bahamas 1842–49; barrister
L.I. 26 April 1849; master of supreme court of Trinidad 1849–54;
colonial sec. for and member of council of Mauritius 1860–68;
C.M.G. 1869. _d._ Pilgrim, Lymington, Hants. 7 Dec. 1884.
BEDINGFELD, SIR HENRY RICHARD PASTON, 6 Baronet. _b._ Oxburgh,
Norfolk 10 May 1800; succeeded 22 Nov. 1829. _d._ Oxburgh 4 Feb.
1862.
BEDSON, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton Coldfield, Warwick 3 Nov. 1820; manager
of business of Messrs. Johnson of Manchester 1851; manager of
Bradford iron works 1858 to death; initiated and perfected many
inventions in the iron and wire trades; propounded theory of
continuous brakes for railway trains about 1864; lived at Bradford
1858–72 and 1882 to death, and at Marple, Cheshire 1872–82. _d._
Bradford house, Manchester 12 Dec. 1884.
BEECH, REV. HUGH. _b._ Chesterton, Staffs. 3 June 1787; Wesleyan
minister 1811 to death, _d._ Cheedle, Staffs. 22 Feb. 1856. _The
good soldier, a memoir of Rev. Hugh Beech_ 1856.
BEECHAM, REV. JOHN. _b._ Barnoldby-le-Beck near Great Grimsby 1787;
became a Wesleyan preacher 1815; general secretary of Wesleyan
Missionary Society 1831 to death; pres. of Wesleyan conference
1850; author of _An essay on the constitution of Wesleyan
Methodism_ 1829, _3 ed._ 1851; _Ashantee and the Gold Coast_ 1841.
_d._ Canonbury, London 22 April 1856. _Wesleyan Meth. Mag. lxxix,
pt. 2_, 577–605 (1856).
BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_2 son of Sir Wm. Beechey R.A.
1753–1839_). _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; entered the navy 7 July 1806; went
with Sir John Franklin to Spitzbergen on his first expedition
1818; with Edward Parry in the Hecla 1819; helped to survey north
coast of Africa Nov. 1821 to July 1822; commanded the Blossom in
the Pacific 1825–28; captain 8 May 1827; surveyed coast of Ireland
1837–47; superintendent marine department of Board of Trade 1850
to death; aide de camp to the Queen 18 July 1851 to 11 Sep. 1854;
R.A. 11 Sep. 1854; F.R.G.S. 1833, pres. 1855 to death; F.R.S. 23
Dec. 1824, vice pres. 1854; author of _Narrative of a voyage to
the Pacific and Behring’s Strait 2 vols._ 1831; _A voyage of
discovery towards the north_ pole 1843. _d._ 8 Westbourne
crescent, Hyde Park, London 29 Nov. 1856. _Proceedings of Royal
Society viii_, 283–87 (1856).
BEECHEY, GEORGE D. (_brother of the preceding_). Portrait painter;
exhibited 24 portraits at the R.A. 1817 to 1832; went to Calcutta
about 1830; court painter and controller of the household to King
of Oudh. (_m._ an Indian Lady called Hinda, whose _portrait_ he
sent to the R.A. 1822). Supposed to have died in India 1856.
BEECHEY, HENRY WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). travelled with
Belzoni in Egypt 1816–17; examined and reported on antiquities of
the Cyrenaica for Colonial Office 1821–22; F.S.A. 1825; exhibited
a picture at the R.A. 1829, and another at British Institution
1838; emigrated to New Zealand 1855; wrote a memoir of Sir Joshua
Reynolds prefixed to his Literary works published in 2 vols. 1835
and reprinted 1852. Supposed to have died in New Zealand in or
about 1870.
BEECHING, JAMES. _b._ Bexhill near Hastings 1788; apprenticed to a
boat builder; boat builder at Great Yarmouth; introduced the
handsome build of fishing vessel now used there; invented the self
righting lifeboat for which he gained the prize of £105, 13 Aug.
1851 when 280 models were sent in from all parts of the world, his
boat slightly modified has served as the model for all the boats
of the Royal National Lifeboat institution. _d._ 7 June 1858.
_Rev. John Gilmore’s Storm warriors_ (1874) 32–47.
BEECROFT, GEORGE SKIRROW. _b._ Outwood house, Horsforth near Leeds
16 Nov. 1809; proprietor of Kirkstall forge near Leeds; M.P. for
Leeds 5 June 1857 to 11 Nov. 1868; seconded address of House of
Commons in reply to speech from the throne 3 Feb. 1859. _d._ 4
Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1869. _I.L.N.
xxxiv_, 189 (1859), _portrait_.
BEECROFT, JOHN. Explored the Niger and other rivers falling into the
Gulf of Guinea 1832 to death; governor of Fernando Po; consul
general for West Africa 1850. _d._ Clarence, West coast of Africa
10 June 1854.
BEER, JOHN (_eld. son of John Beer of Devonport, coal merchant_),
_b._ Devonport about Dec. 1806; solicitor at Devonport 1827 to
death; clerk to the Devonport comrs. 1838–82; an able advocate,
engaged in all the chief local trials; member of Devonport town
council many years and mayor 1849 and 1850; recorder of Saltash
1871 to death, _d._ 2 Albemarle villas, Stoke 14 April 1883.
BEER, JULIUS. _b._ Frankfort 1836; proprietor of _The Observer_
London weekly paper 1870 to death; F.R.G.S. 1870. _d._ Mentone 29
Feb. 1880 in 44 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 8 March. Personalty
sworn under £400,000 March 1880.
BEETE, ROBERT CROSBY. First puisne judge British Guiana 1853 to
Jany. 1869 when he retired on a pension. _d._ Charing Cross
hospital London 2 Nov. 1878 aged 68.
BEETON, SAMUEL ORCHART. Bookseller and publisher at 148 Fleet st.
London; published the first English edition of _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_
1852; went a voyage to America to present Mrs. Stowe with a
voluntary payment of £500; published _Beeton’s Christmas Annuals_
1860–65; sold his stock and copyrights for £1,900 to Ward, Lock
and Tyler Sep. 1866; a publisher again 1877 to death; author with
Doughty and Emerson of _The coming K._ 1872; _The Siliad_ 1873
_and Jon Duan_ 1874. _d._ Sudbrook park, Richmond, Surrey 6 June
1877 aged 46. _The law reports Equity cases xix_, 207–22 (1875).
BEEVOR, SIR THOMAS BRANTHWAYT, 3 Baronet, _b._ Old Buckenham,
Norfolk 7 April 1798; succeeded 10 Dec. 1820. _d._ Yarmouth 6
April 1879.
BEEVOR, SIR THOMAS, 4 Baronet. _b._ Hargham Norfolk 23 Aug. 1823;
ed. at Univ. coll. London; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1850; chairman
of Norwich Union life assurance society; succeeded 6 April 1879.
_d._ Hingham, Attleborough, Norfolk 18 Aug. 1885.
BEGBIE, JAMES, _b._ Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1799; ed. at high school and
Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1821; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1822; F.R.C.P. Edin.
1847, pres. 1854–50; pres. of Medico Chirurgical Society 1850–52;
one of Her Majesty’s physicians in ordinary in Scotland 6 June
1853; author of _Contributions to practical medicine_ 1862, and of
many papers in medical journals. _d._ 10 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh
26 Aug. 1869. _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. vii_, 2–6 (1872).
BEGBIE, JAMES WARBURTON (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 19 Nov.
1826; ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., M.D. 1847, LLD. Aug.
1875; pres. of Royal Medical Society 1847–49; practised at
Edinburgh 1852; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; phys. to the Cholera hospital
1854; phys. to Royal Infirmary 1855–65, lectured on practice of
physic there 10 winter sessions 1855–65; had the largest
consulting physician’s practice in Scotland 1869 to death; author
of _A handy book of medical information and advice by a physician_
1860, _2 ed._ 1872; wrote 13 articles in _J. R. Reynolds’s System
of medicine 3 vols._ 1871 and many reviews and notices in
_Edinburgh Medical Journal_. _d._ 16 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 25
Feb. 1876. _Selections from the works of the late J. W. Begbie,
edited by Dyce Duckworth, The New Sydenham Society London_ 1882,
_portrait_.
BEGG, REV. JAMES. _b._ Manse of New Monkland, Lanarkshire 31 Oct.
1808; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; licensed as a preacher June
1829; minister at Maxwelltown, Dumfries 18 May 1830; minister of
Middle parish church Paisley 1831, and of Liberton near Edin. 25
June 1835 to 5 July 1843 when he was declared no longer a minister
having joined in the Free Secession; minister of Newington Free
church near Edin. 1843 to death; sent by his church to Canada on
public duty 1844–45; moderator of Free general assembly 18 May
1865; a sum of £4,600 was presented to him by his friends 1875;
author of _Are you prepared to die_ 1845; _How to promote and
preserve the beauty of Edinburgh_ 1849; _A handbook of Popery_
1852; _The art of preaching_ 1863. _d._ George sq. Edinburgh 29
Sep. 1883. _Memoirs by Professor Thomas Smith_ (1885); _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 3 series_ (1851) 127–33.
BEHAN, THOMAS LAWRENCE. Connected with the _Hampshire Independent_;
on the staff of the _Observer_ and other London newspapers;
editor, manager, and publisher of the _London Gazette_ 1 Oct 1854
to death, _d._ Southampton 27 Aug. 1860 aged 66.
BEHNES, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1794; learnt drawing in Dublin; gained
3 silver medals at Royal Academy; a _portrait_ draughtsman in
London, afterwards a sculptor; executed busts of many of the most
eminent men of his time; executed statues of Lady Godiva 1844,
Europa 1848 and The startled nymph 1849; exhibited 215 sculptures
at the R.A. 1815–63; bankrupt on his own petition 25 Nov. 1861.
_d._ Middlesex hospital London 8 Jany. 1864. _Cornhill Mag. ix_,
688–701 (1864); _Lectures on art by Henry Weeks_ (1880) 294–317;
_W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 99–102.
BEHRENS, LOUIS. _b._ Hamburg 1801; joined his brother Jacob in
business as merchants at Bradford 1836; founded a business in
Manchester 1840; established it as a separate concern 1870. _d._
Southport 1 June 1884.
BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE (_son of James Beck, of Hackney, London,
commissioner of sewers_). _b._ Stepney, London 10 Oct. 1800;
student at Lincoln’s Inn; changed spelling of his name from Beck
to Beke 1834; acting consul at Leipzig 1837–38; Ph. Doc. Univ. of
Tubingen 6 Aug. 1837; travelled in Abyssinia 1840–43 and 1865–66;
received gold medals of Royal Geographical Societies of London and
Paris 1845 and 1846; sec. to National Association for protection
of industry and capital throughout British empire 1849–53, when
association was dissolved; granted a civil list pension of £100 14
Dec. 1870; went to Palestine to determine position of Mount Sinai
Dec. 1873; F.S.A. 1835; author of _Origines Biblicæ_ 1834; _The
sources of the Nile_ 1860; _The British captives in Abyssinia_
1865; _The idol in Horeb_ 1871 and other books. _d._ Bromley, Kent
31 July 1874. _Summary of the late Dr. Beke’s published works and
of his inadequately requited public services By his widow_ 1876;
_Dictionary of national biography iv_, 138–41 (1885); _I.L.N.
lxv_, 140 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 174 (1874), _portrait_.