Roehampton, Surrey_). _b._ Nova Scotia 1799; entered navy 9 April
1812; one of original fellows of Royal Geog. Soc. 1830; sailed
round the world in H.M.S. Sulphur 1836–42; captain 6 May 1841;
engaged surveying in East Indies 1842–47; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841,
K.C.B. 13 March 1867; knighted by patent for his services in China
21 Jany. 1843; granted pension for wounds 13 March 1847; commanded
expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 10 Feb. 1852 to Oct.
1854; admiral 20 Oct. 1872; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1837; claimed to be the
inventor of water-tight bulkheads and compartments; granted a
Greenwich hospital pension of £150 per annum 7 Dec. 1874; author
of _A treatise on nautical surveying_ 1835; _Narrative of a voyage
round the world 2 vols._ 1843; _Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S.
Samarang 2 vols._ 1848; _Horatio Howard Brenton a naval novel 3
vols._ 1856; _The last of the Arctic voyages 2 vols._ 1855. (_m._
11 Sep. 1830 Diana dau. of George Jolliffe, captain H.E.I.C.S.)
_d._ 6 Melcombe place, Dorset sq. London 18 March 1877. _Army and
Navy mag. iv_, 1–5 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 321 (1852),
_portrait, lxx_, 299 (1878), _portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog.
Soc. xlvii_, 136–42 (1877); _Monthly notices of Royal Astron. Soc.
xxxviii_, 141–43 (1878); _Transactions of Instit. of naval
architects xi_, 12–19, 197–211 (1870).
BELCHER, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 5 April 1794; Baptist divine;
went to United States 1844; author of _Pastoral recollections_
1837; _The clergy of America_ 1849; _George Whitfield, a
biography_ 1860; said to have written more religious works than
any other author of the century. _d._ Philadelphia 10 July 1859.
BELCHER, THOMAS. _b._ St. James’s churchyard Bristol 14 April 1783;
went to London 1803; fought and beat Jack Ware in Tothill Fields,
Westminster 26 June 1804; beaten by Wm. Ryan at Willesden Green 30
Nov. 1804, but beat him near Chertsey 4 June 1805; beat Jack
O’Donnell at Shepperton 27 April 1805; fought Dutch Sam (Elias
Samuels) for 100 guineas at Moulsey Hurst 8 Feb. 1806, when
beaten; fought him again 20 July 1807, when fight was declared
drawn; beaten by him 21 Aug. 1807; beat Dogherty 14 April 1808,
Cropley 25 Oct. 1808, Farnborough 1 Feb. 1809, Silverthorne 6 June
1811; fought Dogherty again for 100 guineas on the Curragh of
Kildare 23 April 1813, when he won again; landlord of the Castle
Tavern Holborn 1814–28; one of the 18 pugilists selected by
Jackson to act with him as pages at coronation of George IV. in
Westminster Abbey 19 July 1821, one gold coronation medal was
given to the boxers which they raffled for, when Belcher won it
and held the trophy until his death. _d._ Peckham, _d._ of
apoplexy at 19 Trafalgar sq. Peckham, Surrey 9 Dec. 1854.
_Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i_, 153–66 (1880), _portrait_; _The
Fancy by An Operator i_, 297–300 (1826), _portrait_; _Every night
book_ (1827) 37–44; _Boxiana by P. Egan ii_, 28–45 (1818).
BELDAM, JOSEPH (_3 son of Wm. Beldam of Royston, Herts who d. 20
June 1827 aged 64_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1795; ed. at St Peter’s coll.
Cam.; barrister M.T. 12 May 1825; standing counsel for Anti
slavery party; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; author of _Il pastore incantato,
a drama_; _Pompeii and other poems by a student of the Middle
Temple_ 1823; _A summary of the laws peculiarly affecting
Protestant dissenters_ 1827; _Recollections of scenes and
institutions in Italy and the East 2 vols._ 1851. _d._ Royston 6
June 1866.
BELDHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Wrecclesham near Farnham, Surrey 5 Feb. 1766;
professional cricketer; the “crack” batsman of England many years,
excelled also in bowling, fielding, wicket keeping and single
wicket playing; played in the Gentlemen versus Players match 1787
to 1821; the last surviving member of the once far famed Hambledon
cricket club; had 39 children, 28 by his first wife, all of whom
died young leaving no issue. _d._ Tilford near Farnham 20 Feb.
1862. _Nyren’s Cricketer’s Tutor_ (1833) 93–96.
BELFORD, WILLIAM ROWLES. _b._ Easton near Bristol Dec. 1824; made
his début in London at Sadler’s Wells theatre 22 Dec. 1851 as Sir
Charles Cropland in _The poor Gentleman_; played prominent parts
in 32 Shakespearian revivals at same house 1852–63; acted with S.
Phelps in Germany 1859; played at Strand theatre about 1863–69;
created leading role in W.S. Gilbert’s comedy _Randall’s Thumb_ at
Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; played Henry the 8th in the provinces
1876; last appeared on the stage at Imperial theatre London April
1879 in comic drama of _A rough diamond_; acted at nearly every
west-end theatre in London; sum of £1,100 was raised for him Dec.
1879. _d._ 43 Grand parade, Brighton 3 June 1881. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic list_ (1880) 42.
BELFOUR, EDMUND. Secretary of Royal college of surgeons 1814 to
death, _d._ 37 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 30 Jany. 1865 in 76 year.
BELHAVEN AND STENTON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY HAMILTON, 8 Baron (_eld.
child of Wm. Hamilton, 7 Baron Belhaven and Stenton 1765–1814._)
_b._ Wishaw house, Lanarkshire 1793; succeeded 29 Oct. 1814;
created Baron Hamilton of Wishaw in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831;
lord high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1831–41,
1847–51, 1853–57 and 1860–66; lieut. col. commandant 1 Lanarkshire
militia 21 Nov. 1833 to death; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 10 Aug.
1863 to death. _d._ Wishaw house 22 Dec. 1868.
BELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Cupar Fife 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; pupil
of Sir Astley Cooper in London, M.R.C.S.; served in Ireland as
surgeon of 1st Regiment of Dundee Volunteers (Loyal Tay Fencibles)
during rebellion of 1798 until May 1802 when regiment was
disbanded; practised in village of Errol 1802–1807, and at Dundee
1807–50 surgeon to Dundee infirmary 30 years; performed operation
of lithotomy many times with great success. _d._ Dundee 28 March
1852.
BELL, ALEXANDER. Professor of elocution in London; author of
Practical elocutionist 1835; _The tongue, a poem_ 1846; _The
Bride, a play_ 1847; _Stammering and other impediments of speech_
1849. _d._ Harrington sq. London 23 April 1865.
BELL, ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE (_son of John Bell of Paisley,
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 4 Dec. 1809; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.
and Univ. of Glasgow; a writer to the Signet 1835; partner of
Messrs. Dundas and Wilson; professor of conveyancing in the Univ.
of Edin. 1856 to death; author of _Lectures on conveyancing_ 1867,
_3 ed. 2 vols._ 1882. _d._ East Morningside house, Edinburgh 19
Jany. 1866.
BELL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1775; member of faculty of advocates 1798;
sheriff depute of Ayrshire 18 Feb. 1815; author of _The Cabinet, a
series of essays moral and literary [anon.] 2 vols._ 1835; _Count
Clermont, a tragedy, Caius Toranius, a tragedy with other poems_
1841; _Melodies of Scotland_ 1849. _d._ Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1854.
BELL, BENJAMIN (_son of Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, surgeon
1786–1848_). _b._ Edinburgh 13 April 1810; ed. in Edin. and
London; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1835, pres. 1864; M.R.C.S.
1833; founded with Robert Hamilton the Eye infirmary Edin. 1834;
vice pres. of Medico-Chirurgical society of Edin. 1856, pres.
1859–61; author of _A probationary essay on injuries of the male
urethra_ 1835; _The life of Benjamin Bell by his grandson_ 1868.
_d._ Coates crescent, Edinburgh 13 June 1883. _Edinburgh Medical
Journal xxix_, 91–95 (1884).
BELL, CATHERINE DOUGLAS. Author of _Arnold Lee, or rich children and
poor children by cousin Kate_ 1852; _Help in time of need_ 1856,
_2 ed._ 1866; _Self mastery_ 1857; _Home sunshine_ 1859, _2 ed._
1866; _Hope Campbell, or know thyself_ 1866 and other books for
children. _d._ Edinburgh 15 Nov. 1861. _Last hours with cousin
Kate_ [_C. D. Bell_] 1862, _portrait_.
BELL, CHARLES. _b._ London 1805; partner in firm of Thomson, Bonar &
Co. of London and St. Petersburg, merchants; M.P. for City of
London 16 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Terrace house, Richmond, Surrey
9 Feb. 1869. Personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1869.
BELL, CHRISTOPHER. Entered navy June 1796; captain 7 Feb. 1812,
retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ Aigburth Ash near
Liverpool 16 Oct. 1853 aged 70.
BELL, EDWARD WELLS. Lieutenant 7 Foot 16 May 1811; major 19 Dec.
1826 to 29 June 1830 when placed on h.p.; colonel 66 Foot 26 Dec.
1859 to death; general 12 July 1868. _d._ Kempsey, Worcester 9
Oct. 1870.
BELL, EDWARD WILLIAM DERRINGTON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. 23 Foot 15
April 1842; lieut. col. 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Sep. 1869; served in
Russian war 1854–55 and in Sepoy mutiny 1857–58; personally
captured and secured the first gun taken at battle of the Alma;
M.G. 6 March 1868; commanded Belfast district 28 Feb. 1875 to
death; C.B. 13 March 1867; V.C. 26 June 1856. _d._ Fort William
park, Belfast 10 Nov. 1879.
BELL, SIR GEORGE (_son of George Bell of Belle Vue on Lough Erin
Fermanagh_). _b._ Belle Vue 17 March 1794; ed. at Dublin; ensign
34 Foot 11 March 1811; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; lieut.
col. 1 Foot 5 Dec. 1843 to 1 May 1855; commanded 1 brigade of
third division in Crimean war 1854–55; inspecting field officer at
Liverpool 1 May 1855 to 4 April 1859; colonel 104 Foot 23 Oct.
1863, of 32 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 and of 1 Foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death;
general 8 March 1875; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._
156 Westbourne terrace, London 10 July 1877. _Rough notes by an
old soldier Sir G. Bell 2 vols._ 1867, _portrait_.
BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (_eld. son of James Bell, Town clerk of
Greenock_). _b._ Glasgow 8 Nov. 1805; ed. at Glasgow high school
and Univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 20 Nov. 1832; sheriff
substitute of Lanarkshire 1 July 1838; sheriff principal 8 June
1867 to death; started _Edinburgh Literary Journal_ 1828, edited
it to 14 Jany. 1832 when it was merged in _Edinburgh Weekly
Chronicle_; he is sketched under name of Tallboys in _Noctes
Ambrosianæ_; author of _Life of Mary Queen of Scots 2 vols._ 1828;
_Summer and winter hours_ 1831; _Romances and minor poems_ 1866.
_d._ Glasgow 7 Jany. 1874. _Journal of jurisprudence xviii_,
92–103 (1874).
BELL, JACOB (_son of John Bell of 338 Oxford st. London, chemist who
d. 14 Jany. 1849 aged 74_). _b._ 338 Oxford St. 5 March 1810;
apprenticed to his father 1827–32; chemist in Oxford st. 1832 to
death, his drugs earned a European reputation; founder of
Pharmaceutical Society 1841, on which he spent a large sum; edited
_Pharmaceutical Journal_ July 1841 to death; M.P. for St. Albans
24 Dec. 1850 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Malvern 1852 and
Marylebone 1854; collected at his house 15 Langham place, London a
gallery of pictures many by Sir Edwin Landseer, the 13 best of
which he bequeathed to the nation; F.L.S. 6 March 1832; author of
_Chemical and pharmaceutical processes and products_ 1852. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 12 June 1859. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Historical
sketch of progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 280–92; _I.L.N. xviii_, 299
(1851), _portrait, xxxi_, 4, 24 (1859), _portrait_.
BELL, JAMES SPENCER. _b._ 1818; M.P. for Guildford 7 July 1852 to 21
March 1857. _d._ 1 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22
Feb. 1872.
BELL, JOHN (_only son of John Bell of Thirsk_). _b._ 1809; M.P. for
Thirsk 1 July 1841 to death; declared insane by a commission July
1849. _d._ Thirsk 5 March 1851.
BELL, REV. JOHN. _b._ Snaith, Yorkshire; ed. at Douay, France;
ordained priest at Crook hall, co. Durham 23 Dec. 1794; prefect
general of Douay college Durham and professor of rhetoric and
poetry 1794–1817, the college was moved from Crook hall to Ushaw
1808; appointed to mission of Samlesbury near Preston 1817 and to
Kippax park Yorkshire 1828; author of _The wanderings of the human
intellect, or a new dictionary of sects_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._
Selby 31 May 1854 aged 87.
BELL, JOHN. Lived in Abyssinia 1842 to death; general in army of Ras
Ali the ruler of Abyssinia 1848 who gave him the province of
Diddim; taken prisoner by Kasai 1853 who deposed Ali and took
title of Theodorus; minister and general in chief to Theodorus
1853 to death; killed in a battle fought against Garred at
Waldabba near the western bank of the Taccazy river 31 Oct. 1860
after he had himself killed Garred.
BELL, JOHN. _b._ Newcastle 1782; Bookseller at Newcastle; land
surveyor at Gateshead; one of founders of Society of antiquaries
of Newcastle on Tyne, treasurer 6 Feb. 1813; author of _Rhymes of
northern bards_ 1812; contributed to _Gent. Mag._ _d._ Bentinck
crescent, Newcastle 30 Oct. 1864.
BELL, JOHN. _b._ Ireland 1796; went to the United States 1810;
author of _On baths and mineral waters_ 1831; _Practical
dictionary of materia medica_ 1841; _On regimen and longevity_
1842; _Dietetical and medical hydrology_ 1850. _d._ Philadelphia
1872.
BELL, SIR JOHN (_son of David Bell of Bonytoun, Fifeshire_). _b._
Bonytoun 1 Jany. 1782; ensign 52 Foot 15 Aug. 1805; served in
Peninsular war; permanent assistant quartermaster general to 10
Nov. 1814; chief sec. of government at Cape of Good Hope 1828–41;
aide de camp to the sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut.
governor of Guernsey 24 Jany. 1848 to 30 June 1854; col. of 95
Foot 25 June 1850 and of 4 Foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 15
June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 18 May
1860. _d._ 55 Cadogan place, London 20 Nov. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_,
541 (1876), _portrait_.
BELL, JOHN DAVID (_youngest son of George Joseph Bell, professor of
law at Univ. of Aberdeen_). _b._ 1823 or 1824; barrister M.T. 12
May 1848; practised at Calcutta 1850–58; founder and chairman of
Positive Life Assurance Company 1870; standing counsel to
government of India at Calcutta 1878 to death. _d._ Calcutta 15
Aug. 1880 in 57 year.
BELL, JOHN GRAY (_son of Thomas Bell of Newcastle 1785–1860_). _b._
Newcastle 21 Sep. 1823; a bookseller in London 1848–54 and in
Manchester 1854 to death; published a valuable series of _Tracts
on the topography history and dialects of the counties of Great
Britain_ 1850; author of _A descriptive and critical catalogue of
works illustrated by Thomas and John Bell_ 1851; privately printed
_A genealogical account of the descendants of John of Gaunt_ 1855.
_d._ Manchester 21 Feb. 1866.
BELL, JOHN MONTGOMERIE. _b._ Paisley 1804; advocate in Edinburgh
1825; advocate depute 1847; sheriff of Kincardine 7 May 1851 to
death; author of _Treatise on law of arbitration in Scotland_
1861; _The martyr of liberty, a poem_ 1863. _d._ Linnhouse 16 Oct.
1862.
BELL, JONATHAN ANDERSON (_2 son of James Bell, advocate_). _b._
Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; spent some years with Messrs.
Rickman and Hutcheson of Birmingham, architects; an architect in
Edinburgh 1838 to death; sec. to Royal Association for the
promotion of the fine arts in Scotland May 1839 to death; author
of _Poems_. _Privately printed_ 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1865.
_Poems by J. A. Bell_ (1865) _v-xi_.
BELL, SIR JOSHUA PETER. _b._ co. Kildare 1826; owner with his father
and brothers of a splendid station called Jimbour near Dalby,
Queensland where they became great wool growers; M.P. for Dalby in
Queensland parliament 1863 to March 1879; colonial treasurer
1871–74; pres. of legislative council March 1879 to death;
K.C.M.G. 24 Nov. 1881. _d._ Brisbane 20 Dec. 1881. _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news xvi_, 405 (1882), _portrait_.
BELL, LADY MARION (_2 dau. of Charles Shaw of Ayr_). _b._ Edinburgh
1787. (_m._ 3 June 1811 Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S., celebrated
physiologist _b._ Nov. 1774 _d._ 28 April 1842). Granted a civil
list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep.
1843; published _The letters of Sir Charles Bell_ 1870. _d._ 47
Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876.
BELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31
and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of
Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. _d._
Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871.
BELL, OSWALD HOME. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine
in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical
faculty. _d._ The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year.
BELL, REV. PATRICK (_son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of
Auchterhouse near Dundee_). _b._ Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at
Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of
Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine
1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors;
presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. _d._ The
manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 473
(1869); _I.L.N. lii_, 225 (1868), _portrait_.
BELL, ROBERT (_son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon_). _b._ 1782; ed. at
high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire
1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of
Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. _d._
15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.
BELL, ROBERT (_youngest son of John Bell of Cork_). _b._ Cork 16
Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the
Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the
_Atlas_ weekly paper many years, the _Monthly Chronicle_ and the
_Home News_ a monthly journal; author of _History of Russia 3
vols._ 1838; _Lives of the English poets 2 vols._ 1839; _Wayside
pictures through France, Belgium and Holland_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858;
_Hearts and altars 3 vols._ 1852; _The ladder of gold 3 vols._
1856; _The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols._
1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, _Marriage_ 1842; _Mothers and
daughters_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1845 and _Temper_ 1847. _d._ 14 York st.,
Portman sq. London 12 April 1867.
BELL, VENERABLE ROBERT. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to
death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s
cathedral, Dublin. _d._ rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75
year.
BELL, ROBERT CHARLES. _b._ Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of
Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many
plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most
important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of
Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best
plates appeared in the _Art Journal_ 1850–72. _d._ Edinburgh 5
Sep. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1872) 284.
BELL, SIR SYDNEY SMITH (_9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker_).
_b._ 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3
May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first
puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of
legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879;
knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of _Cases decided in the
House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols._
1843–52; _Colonial administration of Great Britain_ 1859. _d._ 42
Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879.
BELL, THOMAS (_son of Richard Bell of Newcastle_). _b._ Newcastle 16
Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the
local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John
Hodgson in his _History of Northumberland 6 vols._ 1827–40; one of
the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and
of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. _d._ Newcastle 30
April 1860.
BELL, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon_).
_b._ Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s
hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres.
1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he
lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior
secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London
1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866
from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he
lived to his death; author of _Monograph of Testudinata, parts
1–8, 1832–37, folio_; _History of British quadrupeds_ 1837, _2
ed._ 1874; _History of British reptiles_ 1839; _History of British
Stalk-eyed Crustacea_ 1853; edited _White’s Natural history of
Selborne 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880.
_Nature xxi_, 473, 499 (1880).
BELL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire_). _b._
1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through
Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26
Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867.
_d._ South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873.
BELLAIRS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington,
Lincolnshire 1755–1839_). _b._ 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board
H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25
Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.,
B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of
Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep.
1853 to death. _d._ Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872.
BELLAIRS, SIR WILLIAM (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._
Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April
1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard
19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s
Palace 17 May 1848. (_m._ 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of
Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she _d._ 1876). _d._ London 2 Oct. 1863.
BELLAMY, GEORGE. _b._ Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N.
Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns
1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list
1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. _d._ Plymouth 10 Oct.
1863.
BELLAMY, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (_son of John Bellamy_). _b._ 25 Nov.
1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815;
incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master
of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of
Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10
March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited _A concordance to
the Holy Bible_ 1818. _d._ Sellinge 2 March 1874.
BELLAMY, JOHN CREMER. _b._ Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833,
M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and
Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of _The natural history of
South Devon_ 1839; _The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for
each month of the year_ 1843, _new ed._ 1862; _A thousand facts in
the histories of Devon and Cornwall_ 1850. _d._ George st.
Plymouth 12 May 1854.
BELLAMY, WILLIAM HOARE. _b._ Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at
Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in _John Bull_; went to the
United States; made his début in New York 1838. (_m._ Mrs. A. W.
Penson, she was _b._ Scotland and acted in the United States 1838
to her death May 1857). _d._ Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April
1866.
BELLARS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator
of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London
1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of
_Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells_
1858; _The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors_.
_d._ 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44.
BELLASIS, EDWARD (_only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon,
Berkshire who d. 1814_). _b._ Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed.
at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed
in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases;
serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church
28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of
Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in
Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on
College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. _d._
Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. _The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p._ 138.
BELLEW, PATRICK, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet
who d. 15 March 1827_). _b._ London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15
March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth
militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and
1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title
of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. _d._ Barmeath
10 Dec. 1866.
BELLEW, REV. SIR CHRISTOPHER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1818; succeeded 26
June 1855. _d._ at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st.
Dublin 18 March 1867.
BELLEW, JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (_only child of Robert Higgin,
lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Lancaster 3 Aug.
1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his
mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester
1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal
1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855;
edited the _Bengal Hurkaru_; assistant minister of St. Philip’s
Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood
1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to
1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into
Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy
orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England
and the United States; author of _Shakespeare’s house at New
Place_ 1863; _Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols._ 1866; _Poets Corner,
a manual for students_ 1868. _d._ 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood
19 June 1874. _Bentley’s Quarterly Review i_, 476–92 (1859);
_Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 285–312 (1860);
_Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 50–51, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 15
(1874), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 66–69 (1884).
BELLEW, SIR MICHAEL DILLON, 1 Baronet (_son of Christopher Dillon
Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1796;
created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. _d._ Greenville lodge, Rathmines
near Dublin 26 June 1855.
BELLEW, RICHARD MONTESQUIEU (_younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6
baronet who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21
Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of
the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government
board, Ireland. _d._ Dublin 8 Jany. 1880.
BELLEW, THOMAS ARTHUR GRATTAN. _b._ 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26
July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan
by r.l. 19 March 1859. _d._ Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24
July 1863.
BELLHOUSE, EDWARD TAYLOR (_eld. son of David Bellhouse of
Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T.
Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1
July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and
Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many
iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E.
1857. _d._ Southport 13 Oct. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._
(1882) 1–2.
BELLINGHAM, O’BRYEN (_3 son of Sir Alan Bellingham, 2 baronet
1776–1827_). _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; ed. at Feinagle’s school; M.D.
Univ. of Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830; professor of botany, Royal
college of surgeons Ireland to 1850, a surgical examiner 1850,
chairman of the court 1856; sec. of Surgical society of Ireland to
death; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital 1835 to death; author of
_Observations on aneurism and its treatment by compression_ 1847;
_Treatise on diseases of the heart_ 1857. _d._ The Castle, Castle
Bellingham, co. Louth 11 Oct. 1857. _Dublin Journal of medical
science lxiv_, 469–75 (1877).
BELLOC, ANNE LOUISE (_dau. of Colonel James Swanton, commandant of
Rocroi, France who was b. Ireland_). _b._ La Rochelle 1 Oct. 1796;
assisted Lafayette in establishing public libraries; founded a
choice circulating library; translated many English books into
French. (_m._ 1823 Jean Hilaire Belloc, Director of Royal School
of Design, Paris who _d._ 1866). _d._ Paris 6 Nov. 1881. _S. J.
Hale’s Woman’s record, 2 ed._ 1855 _p._ 583, _portrait_.
BELLOT, JOSEPH RENÉ. _b._ Paris 18 March 1826: served in French navy
1843–50; went as a volunteer with captain Kennedy in the Prince
Albert in search of Sir John Franklin 1851–52; sailed in the
Phœnix for the Arctic regions 10 May 1853; left the ship to carry
dispatches to Sir Edward Belcher 12 Aug. 1853; author of _Journal
d’un voyage aux Mers Polaires_ 1854; fell into a crack in the ice
near Cape Bowden and drowned 18 Aug. 1853; an obelisk was erected
to his memory by public subscription in front of Greenwich
hospital 1857. _Memoirs of J. R. Bellot 2 vols._ 1855, _portrait_.
BELLOT, THOMAS (_elder son of Thomas Bellot of Manchester,
surgeon_). _b._ Manchester 16 March 1806; ed. at Manchester gr.
sch.; pupil of Joseph Jordan, surgeon; M.R.C.S. 15 Feb. 1828,
F.R.C.S. 6 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon H.M. sloop Harrier 1831;
surgeon R.N. 1835; surgeon H.M. flag ship Britannia Nov. 1854;
author of translations of the _Aphorisms of Hippocrates and of
Galen On the hand_ 1850; _Sanskrit derivation of English words_
1856; arranged two collections of Chinese coins, one of which he
presented to the Natural history society of Manchester; collected
many ancient Chinese bronzes and a library of Chinese works. _d._
37 Greek st. Stockport 25 June 1857. _Manchester school register
iii_, 118 (1874); _Medical directory_ (1858) 849–50.
BELMORE, GEORGE, stage name of George Belmore Garstin. Made his
début in London at Marylebone theatre 26 Dec. 1856 as Bokes in
_The Creole_; acted at Princess’s and Drury Lane theatres; played
Nat Gosling in Boucicault’s drama _Flying Scud_ at Holborn theatre
more than 200 nights from 6 Oct. 1866; acted in the provinces and
at Adelphi theatre where he played Newman Noggs in _Nicholas
Nickleby_ 20 March 1875 to July 1875; acted in New York Aug. to
Oct. 1875. (_m._ 16 April 1862 Alice Maude dau. of Wm. Cooke
proprietor of Astley’s Amphitheatre). _d._ New York 15 Nov. 1875
aged 47. _Entr’acte 27 Nov. 1875, portrait._
BELOE, CHARLES (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Beloe 1756–1817, Prebendary of
St. Paul’s_). A clerk in the London Twopenny post office; sec. to
the Alfred club. _d._ Reading 23 Oct. 1855 aged 69.
BELPER, EDWARD STRUTT, 1 Baron (_only son of Wm. Strutt of St.
Helen’s house Derby, manufacturer 1756–1830_). _b._ Derby 26 Oct.
1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, L.L.D. 1862;
M.P. for Derby 1830–1848 when unseated for bribery; M.P. for
Arundel 1851–1852 and for Nottingham 1852–1856; chief comr. of
railways 29 Aug. 1846 to March 1848; P.C. 30 Oct. 1846; sheriff of
Notts. 1850; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 30 Dec. 1852 to 21
June 1854; chairman of Notts. quarter sessions 1855; created Baron
Belper of Belper, county Derby 29 Aug. 1856; lord lieutenant of
Notts. 6 Dec. 1864; pres. of Univ. coll. London 29 July 1871. _d._
75 Eaton square, London 30 June 1880.
BELSHES, JOHN MURRAY. Captain 59 Foot 4 Sep 1812 to 25 May 1816 when
placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Inverary 12 Jany. 1863.
_P.R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days_ (1879) 81–85.
BELSON, GEORGE JOHN. Second lieutenant R.A. 29 Sep. 1804; lieut.
col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 7 April 1842 when he retired on full pay;
L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. _d._ Woolwich 22 April 1868 aged 80.
BELT, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Belt of Newcastle, seedsman_). _b._
Newcastle 1832; member of Natural history society of
Northumberland June 1850; went to Australia 1852; a mining
engineer in London 1860; travelled all over Asia and America;
superintendent of Nova Scotian gold company’s mines in Nova Scotia
1863–65; examined the quartz rocks of North Wales; superintendent
of the Chontales Gold mining company in Nicaragua 1868–72;
travelled in Russia 1873–76; F.G.S.; author of _Mineral veins, an
enquiry into their origin_ 1861; _The naturalist in Nicaragua_
1874; _The glacial period in North America_. _d._ Denver, Colorado
21 Sep. 1878 in 46 year. _Natural history transactions of
Northumberland vii_, 235–40 (1880).
BELZONI, SARAH. Remarkable for her size and strength; married in
London about 1804 Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, acrobat, engineer and
traveller who was _b._ Padua 1778 and _d._ at Gato, Benin, Africa
3 Dec. 1823; performed feats of strength with her husband in the
streets, at fairs and at Astley’s Amphitheatre; travelled in Egypt
with him 1815–19; granted civil list pension of £100 6 Feb. 1851;
author of _Account of the women of Egypt, Nubia and Syria_. _d._
Belozanne valley, Jersey 12 Jany. 1870 aged 87.
BENBEY, SADI OMBARK. Came to England with Mungo Park whom he taught
Arabic language. _d._ 11 Feb. 1854 aged more than 80.
BENBOW, JOHN. Solicitor in London; M.P. for Dudley 8 Aug. 1844 to
death. _d._ Hastings 24 Feb. 1855 aged 86.
BENDIGO, cognomen of WILLIAM THOMPSON (_son of Mr. Thompson of
Nottingham, cabinet maker_). _b._ Nottingham 11 Oct. 1811, being
one of 3 children at a birth; fought and beat Ben. Caunt 1 July
1835; beat Brassey (John Leechman) 24 May 1836; beat young Langan
24 Jany. 1837; beat Looney 13 June 1837; beaten by Ben. Caunt 3
April 1838; beat Deaf Burke at Heather, Leicestershire 12 Feb.
1839 in presence of 15000 persons; presented with a “Champion’s
belt” by James Ward at Queen’s theatre, Liverpool; beat Ben. Caunt
near Sutfield Green Oxon, 9 Sep. 1845 when they fought for £200 a
side and the championship; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side at
Mildenhall 5 June 1850 when he won again; a preacher and leader of
revivalist services at the Cabmen’s Mission hall, King’s Cross,
London. _d._ Beeston, Notts. 23 Aug. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s
Pugilistica iii_, 1–46 (1880), _portrait_; _J. Greenwoods Low life
deeps_ (1876) 86–94, _portrait_; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox
London 2 series_ 156–64.
NOTE.—His curious name Bendigo was a contraction of Abednego,
his first challenge in Bell’s Life in London in 1835 is signed
Abednego of Nottingham; the town of Bendigo in Victoria,
Australia (since called Sandhurst) was named after him.
BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (_2 son of M. Benedict of Stuttgart, banker_).
_b._ Stuttgart 27 Nov. or 24 Dec. 1804; pupil of Hummel at Weimar
and of Weber at Dresden; conductor at the Kärnthnerthor theatre
Vienna 1823–25 and at the San Carlo and Fondo theatres Naples
1825–35; went to London 1835; conducted a series of Italian comic
operas at Lyceum theatre 1836; conductor of English opera at Drury
Lane 1838, where he produced _The gipsy’s warning_ 19 April 1838;
_The brides of Venice_ 22 April 1844, and _The Crusaders_ 1846;
travelled with Jenny Lind in the United States and Havannah and
directed all her 122 concerts 1850–52; formed a choral society
called The vocal association; conductor of Italian opera at Drury
Lane and Her Majesty’s theatres 1859–60; conducted the Norwich
Musical Festivals 1845–78 where he produced _Undine_ 1860,
_Richard Cœur de Lion_ 1863 and _St. Cecilia_ 1866; conducted the
Monday Popular Concerts; his best known opera _The Lily of
Killarney_ was produced at Covent Garden 8 Feb. 1862; conductor of
Liverpool Philharmonic society 9 April 1867 to Feb. 1879; wrote
for Birmingham musical festivals _St. Peter_ 1870 and _Graziella_
1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. _d._ 2 Manchester
sq. London 5 June 1885. _I.L.N. lviii_, 377 (1871), _portrait,
lxvi_, 494 (1875), _portrait_; _Scribner’s Monthly xiii_, 480–84
(1877); _Graphic xxix_, 184 (1884), _portrait_.
BENETT, JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Benett of Pyt house Tisbury, Wilts.
who d. 16 May 1797 aged 68_). _b._ 20 May 1773; sheriff of Wilts.
1798; M.P. for Wilts. 19 July 1819 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for South
Wilts. 17 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; author of some essays on
agricultural subjects. _d._ Pyt house 1 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_,
636–37 (1852).
BENHAM, JAMES ERLE. Ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.; student Middle Temple
20 Nov. 1875; author of _The student’s guide to the preliminary
examination for attorneys and solicitors_ 1868; edited _The
preliminary examination Journal_ 1871. _d._ Abercorn house,
Baron’s court, Kensington, London 11 July 1885 aged 34.
BENHAM, WILLIAM. Author of _English ballads for school reading_
1862; _St. Matthew, authorised version_ 1862; _Epistles for the
Christian year, with notes_ 1864; _Companion to the Lectionary_
1873. _d._ 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.
BENIOWSKI, BARTHOLOMEW. Educ. at Ecole d’etat major of Paris
1832–33; major in Polish army; attempted to revolutionise art of
printing by use of short words cast into one such as, and, but,
the; teacher of memory at the Royal Adelaide gallery, Strand,
London 1842; took out patents for machinery for printing and
composing type 1846, 47 and 49; author of _Phrenotypics_ 1842; _A
French vocabulary_ 1843; _The Anti-absurd or phrenotypic alphabet
and orthography_ 1844. _d._ 8 Bow st. Covent Garden 29 March 1867
aged 66.
BENISCH, ABRAHAM. _b._ Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna;
settled in England 1841; edited the _Jewish Chronicle_ 1854 to
death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870,
and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of _A translation
of the Old Testament_ 1851; _An essay on Colenso’s criticism of
the Pentateuch and Joshua_ 1863; _Judaism surveyed_ 1874. _d._ 13
Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.
BENJAMIN, GEORGE. _b._ Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded
the _Intelligencer_ at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member
of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the
Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of _Short lessons
for members of Parliament compiled from English and other
publications_ 1862. _d._ Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864.
BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. _b._ St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at
Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New
Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and
Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec.
1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to
the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the
Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy
Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of
state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left
Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6
June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of
Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872;
made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his
retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883;
author of _Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans_
1834; _Treatise of the law of sale of personal property_ 1868, _3
ed._ 1883. _d._ Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. _J. Davis’s Rise
and Fall of the Confederate government i_, 242 (1881), _portrait_;
_Law Journal_ (1883) 100–103; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 465 (1884),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 484 (1884), _portrait_.
BENN, ANTHONY. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832; col. 27 June
1864 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Plumstead 22 Dec.
1875.
BENN, EDWARD (_son of John Benn of Belfast, brewer 1767–1853_). _b._
1798; purchased with his brother George, an estate at Glenravel
near Ballymena where they tried to create a new industry by
manufacture of potato spirit; formed a fine archæological
collection now in the Belfast Museum; contributed papers to Irish
antiquarian journals; founded 3 hospitals in Belfast, the Eye Ear
and Throat, the Samaritan and the Skin Diseases. _d._ 1874.
BENN, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tanderagee co.
Armagh 1 Jany. 1801; entered Belfast Academical institution 1816;
took gold medals in logic 1817 and moral philosophy 1818; author
of _The history of the town of Belfast_ [_anon._] 1823; _A history
of the town of Belfast 2 vols._ 1877–80. _d._ 8 Jany. 1882.
BENN, PIERCY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Feb. 1821; col. 7 June 1856
to 16 July 1862; M.G. 16 July 1862. _d._ Farringdon, Hants. 17
June 1876.
BENNETT, CHARLES FOX, formerly of Clifton, Bristol; late premier of
Newfoundland. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 5 Dec. 1883.
BENNETT, CHARLES HENRY. Draughtsman on wood; contributed sketches
signed in the corner with the figure of an owl to _Diogenes_ comic
weekly paper 1853 and portraits of members of Parliament to
_Illustrated Times_; contributed sketches to _Fun_ down to 1866
and to _Punch_ 1866 to death; published _Fables of Æsop and others
translated into human nature_ 1858; _Proverbs with pictures_ 1858;
_London people sketched from life_ 1863; _Adventures of Young
Munchausen_ 1864. _d._ Caversham road, Kentish Town 2 April 1867
in 38 year. _Punch 13 April 1867 p._ 151.
BENNETT, GEORGE (_2 son of John Bennett, Judge of Irish court of
King’s Bench who d. 25 Dec. 1791_). _b._ Cork 20 Sep. 1777; called
to Irish bar 1800; went Munster circuit; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; crown
prosecutor for Munster circuit Feb. 1832; bencher of King’s Inns
Dublin 1836, retired about 1849. _d._ Sodylt hall, Shropshire 26
May 1856. _Dublin univ. mag. xxxiv_, 526–32 (1849), _portrait_.
BENNETT, GEORGE JOHN (_son of George Bennett of Norwich, comedian_).
_b._ Ripon 9 March 1800; served in the navy 1813–17; first
appeared on the stage at Lynn 1818, and in London at Covent Garden
27 Jany. 1823 as Richard iii; acted at Covent Garden 1830–38, at
Drury Lane 1841–43 and at Sadler’s Wells 27 May 1844 to 15 March
1862 when he left the stage, his best parts were Bossola in the
_Duchess of Malfi_, and Caliban in _The Tempest_; author of a five
act play called _Retribution or love’s trials_ produced at Sadlers
Wells 11 Feb. 1850, and of a drama called _The Justice_ produced
at Birmingham. _d._ Edmonton 21 Sep. 1879. _Theatrical times i_,
241 (1847), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book, parts
8, 10, 17 and 21_, _4 portraits_; _The Players iv_, 17 (1861),
_portrait_.
BENNETT, JAMES. _b._ Falfield, Thornbury, Gloucs. 10 May 1785;
apprenticed to George Robbins of Bath, printer; printer and
bookseller in Tewkesbury 1810–52; published _History of
Tewkesbury_ 1830; _Tewkesbury Register and Magazine_ 1830–49. _d._
Tewkesbury 29 Jany. 1856.
BENNETT, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 22 May 1774; preached his first
sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796;
ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham
22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and
of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign
secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of
Congregational Board 1840; author of _Lectures on preaching of
Christ_ 1836; _Lectures on Acts of the Apostles_ 1846; author with
Rev. David Bogue of _History of dissenters from the Revolution in
1688 to the year 1808 4 vols._ 1808, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; wrote
much in the _Eclectic Review_ and _Evangelical Mag._ _d._ 49
Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. _Memorials of the late Rev.
James Bennett_ 1863.
BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years;
made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago
in _Othello_; acted in the provinces. _d._ London 9 March 1885.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41, _portrait_.
BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. _b._ New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800;
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader,
bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston;
went to New York about 1822; started the _New York Globe_ Oct.
1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with
Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the
_New York Herald_ a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which
he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts
100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled;
sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr.
Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (_m._ 6 June 1840
Henrietta Agnes Crean, she _d._ 31 March 1873). _d._ New York 1
June 1872. _Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist_ 1855,
_portrait_; _F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States_ 1873;
_J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times_ (1867) 259–305;
_Democratic Review xxxi_, 409–19 1853, _portrait_; _C. F.
Wingate’s Views and interviews_ (1875) 275–86; _Graphic v_, 600,
611 (1872), _portrait_.
BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES. _b._ London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr.
sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in
Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist
to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of
the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845;
editor of _Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science_ 1846;
professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to
July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of _An
introduction to clinical medicine_ 1849, _4 ed._ 1862; _The
pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis_ 1853, _2 ed._
1859; _Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine_
1852, _5 ed._ 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and
Hindoo. _d._ The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875.
_bur._ Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. _Edinburgh Medical Journal
xxi_, 466–74 (1875); _British Medical Journal ii_, 473–78 (1875).
BENNETT, JOHN JOSEPH. _b._ Tottenham 8 Jany. 1801; ed. at Enfield
and at Middlesex hospital; assistant keeper of the Banksian
herbarium and library British Museum Nov. 1827, keeper 1828–70;
F.L.S. 1828, sec. 1840–60; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1841; wrote part of T.
Horsfield’s _Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores_ 1852–53. _d._ Maresfield,
Sussex 29 Feb. 1876; bust by Weekes in botanical department
British Museum. _Journal of botany British and Foreign v_, 97–105
(1876), _portrait_.
BENNETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841;
superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with
Wm. Hanson the _Empire_ newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily
and weekly paper; started the _Evening News_ 29 July 1867, the
_Australian town and country journal_ 8 Jany. 1870; author of _The
history of Australian discovery and colonisation_ 1867. _d._
Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878.
BENNETT, SAMUEL JAMES. Founder of the Mercantile Association;
founded the _Commercial Gazette_ weekly paper 1853. _d._ The Firs,
Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881.
BENNETT, THOMAS. _b._ Hereford 22 Feb. 1785; captain R.N. 16 Sep.
1828; commodore on North America and West India station 7 Feb.
1848 to 29 April 1851; granted a service pension 2 Nov. 1863;
admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865; mayor of Hereford 1842. _d._ Broomy
hill, Hereford 12 June 1870.
BENNETT, THOMAS RANDLE (_youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester,
timber merchant_). _b._ Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister
I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working
men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church
Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of
Court 1877–78; author of _A popular manual of the constitutional
history of England_ 1862 and of several political pamphlets. _d._
Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. _Law Times lxxviii_, 343
(1885).
BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10
Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into
32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial
of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. _d._ Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany.
1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. _W. J. Thoms’s
Human longevity_ (1873) 235–36.
BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket
theatre as Jack Junk in _The birthday_ 15 May 1812; member of
English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829;
secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. _d._ Bellevue cottage,
Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. _The Oddfellow i_, 77 (1839), _portrait_.
BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith,
Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to
death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of _The Cavalier 3
vols._ 1821; _Malpas 3 vols._ 1822; _The King of the Peak 3 vols._
1823; _Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols._ 1827; these
books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to
the _Reliquary_ many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72.
_d._ Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879.
BENNETT, WILLIAM MINEARD. _b._ Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas
Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the
R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at
Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were
popular in Paris and Naples. _d._ Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s,
Exeter 17 Oct. 1858.
BENNETT, SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE (_youngest child of Robert Bennett of
Sheffield, organist of the parish church who d. 3 Nov. 1819_).
_b._ 8 Norfolk Row, Sheffield 13 April 1816; ed. at Royal Academy
of Music, London 1826–36, and at Leipsic 1836–37; member of Royal
Society of Musicians 1838; taught music in London; founded the
Bach Society 1849; professor of music at Univ. of Cam. 4 March
1856; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1856, M.A. 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 1870; a life
member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 26 Sep. 1856; conductor of
Philharmonic Society concerts 1856–68, Beethoven gold medallist 7
July 1867; principal of Royal Academy of Music 22 June 1866 to
death; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871; composed _The
Naiads_, overture produced at Society of British Musicians 25
Jany. 1837; _The wood nymphs_, overture produced at the Gewandhaus
concerts Leipzig 24 Jany. 1839; _The May Queen_, pastoral produced
at Leeds musical festival 8 Sep. 1858; _The woman of Samaria_,
oratorio produced at Birmingham musical festival 27 Aug. 1867.
(_m._ 9 April 1844 Mary Anne only dau. of James Wood, commander
R.N., she _d._ 17 Oct. 1862 aged 37.) _d._ 66 St. John’s Wood road
London 1 Feb. 1875. _bur._ north aisle of choir Westminster Abbey
6 Feb. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_, 224–29 (1879); _W. A.
Barrett’s English Church composers_ (1882) 163–65; _Academy vii_,
154, 179, 388, 466 (1875); _I.L.N. xl_, 551 (1862), _portrait,
lxvi_, 152, 326 (1875), _portrait_.
BENNIS, GEORGE GEARY. _b._ Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a
grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker;
went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris
1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy,
Paris; edited _Galignani’s Messenger_; chevalier of the Légion
d’honneur 1854; author of _The principles of the one faith
professed by all Christians, Liverpool_ 1816, _3 ed. Paris_ 1826;
_Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal_; _Treatise on
life assurance_. _d._ Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes
to found a free library at Limerick. _J. Smith’s A descriptive
catalogue of Friends books i_, 246 (1867).
BENSON, CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819,
M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1840; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S.
1825, pres. 1854; professor of practice of medicine in school
attached to the college; M.R.I.A. 30 Nov. 1825; physician to City
of Dublin hospital; contributed 4 articles to _Todd’s Cyclopædia
of anatomy_ and a course of lectures on the Diseases of the
digestive organs to _Dublin Medical Press_ 1840–42. _d._ 42
Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.
BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (_son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth,
solicitor_). _b._ Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean
lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820;
preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St.
Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs.
1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of
_Discourses on powers of the clergy_ 1841; _Baptism and baptismal
regeneration_ 1843. _d._ Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868.
_The living and the dead by a country curate_ (_Rev. E. Neale_)
1827 _pp._ 81–98; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 413–15.
BENSON, SIR JOHN (_only son of John Benson of Collooney, co.
Sligo_). _b._ Collooney 1812; architect and civil engineer; county
surveyor to east riding of co. Cork 8 April 1846; surveyor of city
of Cork 29 Jany. 1851; architect and builder of Dublin exhibition
12 Aug. 1852 which was opened 12 May 1853, knighted by Earl of St.
Germans at the opening; engineer of Cork waterworks which cost
£80,000; built 48 bridges in co. Cork; M.I.C.E. 4 March 1862. _d._
15 Alexander sq. Brompton London 17 Oct. 1874. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xl_, 251–53 (1875).
BENSON, RICHARD. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 11 Bengal N.I. 16
July 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ at
his residence on lake of Buttermere, Cumberland 26 Aug. 1858.
BENSON, REV. SAMUEL. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A.
1826; lecturer at St. John’s Horsleydown 1823–33; chaplain of
Horsemonger lane gaol 1833–43; V. of St. Saviour’s Southwark 1868
to death; author of several sermons and tracts. _d._ 34 Borough
high st. London 22 Feb. 1881 aged 82. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1851),
_portrait_.
BENT, JEFFERY HART (_eld. son of Robert Bent of Lancashire_). Ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 7 Feb.
1806; chief justice of New South Wales 1814, of Grenada 1820 to
1833, of St. Lucia 1833 to 1836 and of British Guiana 1836 to
death. _d._ George Town Demerara 29 June 1852 aged 72. _I.L.N.
xxi_, 155 (1852).
BENT, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Wm. Bent of Stoneyfield near Newcastle
under Lyne_). _b._ Newcastle under Lyne 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr.
sch.; a large brewer at Liverpool; alderman of Liverpool, mayor
1850–51; knighted by the Queen at Liverpool 9 Oct. 1851. _d._ Edge
hill near Liverpool 13 Aug. 1857.
BENT, JOHN. Assistant surgeon in the army 11 Sep. 1838; served in
the Crimea 30 April 1855 to end of the war; deputy surgeon general
28 Jany. 1862; surgeon general 11 July 1874 to death. _d._ The
Camp Aldershot 23 Nov. 1874 aged 57.
BENT, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary
Advertiser 1802_). Edited _The London Catalogue of books_ 1839.
_d._ 6 Dec. 1859.
BENTHAM, GEORGE. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 1795; captain 16 Sep.
1816; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; knight of Sardinian order of St.
Maurice and St. Lazare. _d._ Barton fields, Canterbury 24 Feb.
1862.
BENTHAM, GEORGE (_2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect
1757–1831_). _b._ Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in
France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near
Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy
Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon.
sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a
flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued
at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist
1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of _Outlines
of a new system of logic_ 1827 which set forth for the first time
doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful
discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; _Handbook
of the British flora_ 1858, _2 vols._ 1865; _Flora Hong-Kongensis_
1861; _Flora Australiensis 7 vols._ 1863–78; author with Sir
Joseph Hooker of _Genera Plantarum_, _6 parts in 3 vols._ 1862–83
which marks an epoch in botany. _d._ 25 Wilton place, London 10
Sep. 1884. _Nature xxx_, 539–43 (1884); _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent
men of the day_ (1870), _portrait_.
BENTINCK, ADOLPHE BARON VON. Secretary of legation for the
Netherlands at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna
successively; councillor of the legation in London 7 years; envoy
extraord. and minister plenipo. in London 25 Aug. 1851 to death.
_d._ 26 Eaton sq. London 2 March 1868 aged 70.
BENTINCK, ARTHUR CAVENDISH. _b._ 9 May 1819; ensign 84 Foot 2 Nov.
1838; lieut. col. 7 Dragoon guards 8 Dec. 1854 and 4 Dragoon
guards 30 Aug. 1859 to 30 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ Thomas’s hotel, 25 Berkely sq. London 11 Dec.
1877.
BENTINCK, CHARLES ANTHONY FERDINAND. _b._ 4 March 1792; ensign
Coldstream guards 16 Nov. 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 25
April 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel 12 Foot 14 April 1857 to
death; L.G. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Bergheim in principality of
Waldeck 28 Oct. 1864.
BENTINCK, SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (_youngest son of Major general
John Charles Bentinck 1763–1833_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1796; ensign
Coldstream guards 25 March 1813, lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1851 to 20
June 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854;
commanded the brigade of Guards in the Crimea 22 Feb. to 8 Nov.
1854 and the fourth division 1 June to 10 Oct. 1855; colonel 28
Foot 11 Oct. 1854 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; groom in waiting
to the Queen Nov. 1859 to June 1867; general 8 Dec. 1867. _d._ 35
Grosvenor st. London 29 Sep. 1878.
BENTINCK, HENRY WILLIAM CAVENDISH (_youngest son of 4 Duke of
Portland 1768–1854_). _b._ 9 June 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P.
for North Notts. 6 March 1846 to 21 March 1857; invented the call
for trumps at whist, known as Blue Peter, at Graham’s club house
87 St. James’s st. about 1836, an explanation of which first
appeared in print in _The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs,
M.A. [E. A, Carlyon], 2 ed._ 1856; master of the Rufford hounds
1835–36, of the Burton hounds 1842–64, when he sold the pack for
£3,500, had over 100 horses in his stable at one time. _d._
Tathwell hall near Louth 31 Dec. 1870. _Baily’s Mag. xix_, 288–93
(1871).
BENTINCK, VENERABLE WILLIAM HARRY EDWARD. (_elder son of Lord Edward
Charles Bentinck 1744–1819_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1784; ed. at Westminster
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; R. of Sigglesthorne near
Hull 1808 to death; Canon of Westminster 7 Oct. 1809 to 1864 and
Archdeacon 1854–64; rural dean 1842 to death; built at his own
expense church of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall bridge 1852. _d._
Sigglesthorne rectory 29 Sep. 1868. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1854),
_portrait_.
BENTLEY, CHARLES. Member of the old water-color Society 1844;
painted many pictures chiefly of coast and river scenery, four of
which are in the South Kensington Museum. _d._ of cholera at
Mornington place London 4 Sep. 1854 aged 48.
BENTLEY, EDWARD (_eld. son of John Bentley 1786–1860_). _b._ 31 Dec.
1817; an operative chemist; gained credit for his method of
obtaining the more powerful vegetable preparations for medical
use; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.R.C.P. 1845; M.D. St. Andrews
1845; very instrumental in founding City of London hospital for
diseases of the chest 1848; hon. sec. to Pathological Society of
London. _d._ 8 St. Thomas sq. Hackney 2 Feb. 1861.
BENTLEY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; purchased Wood Green park, Cheshunt,
Herts 1839 and the manor of the rectory of Cheshunt 1855; sheriff
of Herts 1860; treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–55.
_d._ Wood Green park 26 Oct. 1880 in 96 year.
BENTLEY, JOHN (_son of Edward Bentley, principal of accountants
office bank of England who d. 24 July 1838 aged 85_). _b._ 12 Nov.
1786; ed. at St. Paul’s school; secretary to Bank of England
1850–60. _d._ Park crescent, Brighton 20 Dec. 1860.
BENTLEY, JOSEPH. Lecturer and writer on education; promoted two
assurance companies 1855–56; author of _Manual of life insurance_
1862; _Financial position of life offices_ 1865. _d._ Feb. 1872
aged 67.
BENTLEY, JOSEPH CLAYTON. _b._ Bradford, Yorkshire 1809; a landscape
painter; went to London 1832; exhibited landscapes chiefly views
in Yorkshire at Royal Academy and other exhibitions; a line
engraver; executed many plates for publications of Messrs. Fisher
and Messrs. Virtue especially for the _Gems of European Art 2
vols._ 1847; some of his best works are in the Vernon Gallery at
the National Gallery. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 9 Oct. 1851.
BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). _b._ Oct.
1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in
Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry
Colburn 1829–32; started _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1837; founded with
George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called
_Young England_ Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started
with John Douglas Cook _Bentley’s Quarterly Review_ 1859 of which
only 4 numbers appeared; published _Standard Novels_ 127 volumes
the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000;
publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 10
Sep. 1871. _Graphic iv_, 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_.
BENTLEY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1785; ed.
at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and
publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812
to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to
1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of
Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when
he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the _Concio
de puero Jesu of Erasmus_ 1816; author of _Excerpta Historica_
1831; indexed _Nichols’s Literary anecdotes_ and _Surtees’s
History of Durham_. _d._ Croydon 13 April 1868. _G.M. i_, 127
(1868).
BENTLEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; ed. at St.
Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of
England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. _d._ Colfe
lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877.
BENTON, MARY (_dau. of Ralph Lodge_). _b._ Raby Moor house near
Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (_m._ John Benton of Longnewton,
butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many
years. _d._ Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. _I.L.N. xviii_, 324
(1851), _portrait_.
BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (_4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea_).
Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec.
1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general
for Queensland 1880. _d._ on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25
Dec. 1880.
BERE, MONTAGU BAKER. _b._ 15 July 1798; barrister L.I. 21 June 1825;
commissioner of Court of bankruptcy at Leeds 21 Oct. 1842 to 1844
and at Exeter 1844 to death. _d._ Barley near Exeter 13 Dec. 1858.
BERENS, VENERABLE EDWARD (_son of Joseph Berens of Hextable, Kent_).
Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 17 Jany. 1794 aged 17; B.A. 1798, M.A.
1801; fellow of Oriel coll.; V. of Shrivenham, Berks. 1804 to
death; R. of Englefield, Berks. 1818–55; Preb. of Salisbury 23
Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Berks. 7 Sep. 1832 to 1855;
author of _A discourse on parochial psalmody_ 1825; _Advice to a
young man upon first going to Oxford_ 1832, _6 ed._ 1853; _The
history of the Prayer Book of the Church of England_ 1839, _2 ed._
1854; _A memoir of the life of Bishop Mant_ 1849; _Lectures on the
Liturgy_ 1850 and other books. _d._ Shrivenham vicarage 7 April
1859.
BERENS, HENRY HULSE (_son of Joseph Berens of Kevington, Kent_).
_b._ 1804; deputy chairman of Public works loan office 1849–52; a
director of Bank of England many years. _d._ Sidcup, Kent 23 Aug.
1883 aged 78.
BERENS, OTTO ALEXANDER. Linen draper in St. Paul’s churchyard,
London; originated the fancy trade; moved to Cannon st. 1854. _d._
Raleigh hall, Brixton-rise London 15 April 1860 aged 63.
BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, 1 Viscount (_natural son of
George de la Poer Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_).
_b._ Ireland 2 Oct. 1768; ed. at Strassburg; ensign 6 Foot 27 Aug.
1785; lieut. col. of 124 or Waterford Foot (a regiment raised by
his father) 11 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. 88 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 9
Feb. 1807; commanded first brigade in Egypt June 1801 to 1802 and
first brigade at Cape of Good Hope 1806; captured Buenos Ayres 27
June 1806 but lost it 12 Aug.; colonel 88 Foot 9 Feb. 1807 to 11
March 1819; governor of Madeira 24 Dec. 1807 to July 1808; marshal
commanding Portugese army 1 March 1809 to 1819; captain general of
Spain 1811; commander in chief at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811;
voted the thanks of Parliament 7 June 1811; received a cross with
7 clasps for 12 actions July 1815; governor of Jersey 29 Jany.
1820 to death; col. 69 Foot 11 March 1819 to 15 March 1823; col.
16 Foot 15 March 1823 to death; lieutenant general of the ordnance
8 Feb. 1823 to 3 May 1824, master general 29 Jany. 1828 to 22 Nov.
1830; general 27 May 1825; col. in chief 60 Rifles 23 Sep. 1852 to
death; K.C.B. 18 Oct. 1810, G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; knighted at
Whitehall 23 Oct. 1810; Conde de Trancoso in peerage of Portugal
1810; Duke of Elvas in peerage of Spain; M.P. for co. Waterford 28
June 1811 to 17 May 1814 but never took his seat; created Baron
Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, co. Waterford 17 May 1814;
G.C.H. 1818; P.C. 6 Feb. 1821; created Viscount Beresford of
Beresford, co. Stafford 22 April 1823. _d._ Bedgebury park,
Goudhurst Kent 8 Jany. 1854. _J. W. Cole’s Memoirs of British
generals i_, 165–217 (1856); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait
gallery iv_, 96 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 545 (1852),
_portrait, xxiv_ 38, 58 (1854), _portrait_; _Napier’s Peninsular
War vol. iii_.
BERESFORD, DENIS WILLIAM PACK. _b._ London 7 July 1810; M.P. for co.
Carlow 7 Aug. 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 28 Dec. 1881.
BERESFORD, SIR GEORGE DE LA POER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1 March 1811; M.P.
for Athlone 8 July 1841 to 13 June 1842; succeeded 2 Oct. 1844.
_d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873.
BERESFORD, MOST REV. JOHN GEORGE (_2 son of George Beresford, 1
Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Tyrone house, Dublin 22
Nov. 1773; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, D.D.
1805; ordained deacon 1795, priest 1797; R. of Clonegam and
Newtown Lenan; dean of Clogher 23 Dec. 1799; R. of Termonmaguirk
1801; bishop of Cork and Ross 20 Feb. 1805; consecrated 24 March
1805; translated to Raphoe 10 Aug. 1807; translated to Clogher 25
Sep. 1819; created Archbishop of Dublin 21 April 1820; enthroned 6
May 1820; P.C. Ireland 23 May 1820; archbishop of Armagh and
primate of all Ireland 17 June 1822; vice chancellor of Univ. of
Dublin 1829, chancellor 19 Nov. 1851; founded the chair of
Ecclesiastical history 1853; gave £6000 to college of St. Columba;
restored Armagh cathedral at expense of nearly £30,000. _d._
Woburn near Donaghadee 18 July 1862. _bur._ in crypt of Armagh
cathedral 30 July. _Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians new ed._
1876, 568–89; _I.L.N. xli_, 128, 138 (1862), _portrait_; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xvi_, 86–89 (1840), _portrait_.
NOTE.—He presided over the church in Ireland for 40 years, a
longer period than any primate for nearly 1000 years; on
completing the 50th year of his episcopate, 29 March 1855 he
received an address of congratulation signed by all the Irish
bishops and by 1980 out of the entire body of 2100 Irish
clergy.
BERESFORD, MARCUS (_2 son of Hon. George Beresford 1776–1842_). _b._
28 July 1800; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 4 Sep. 1817; lieut. col. 3 Foot 25
Dec. 1835 to 13 May 1842 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 Foot 22
Sep. 1858 to death; general 4 March 1866. _d._ Leamington 16 March
1876.
BERESFORD, WILLIAM (_younger son of Marcus Beresford 1764–97, M.P.
for Dungarvan_). _b._ 17 April 1797; ed. at Eton and St. Mary’s
hall Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; captain 12 Lancers 6 April 1826 to
16 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; served in Portugal 1827; master
of the Tennis Court, Hampton Court 1823 to death; contested
Waterford 1837; M.P. for Harwich 1841–1847 and for North Essex
1847–65; secretary at war 28 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb.
1852. _d._ Eccleston sq. London 6 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. xx_, 267
(1852), _portrait_.
BERGENROTH, GUSTAVE ADOLPH. _b._ Oletzko, East Prussia 26 Feb. 1813;
ed. at Univ. of Königsberg 1833–36; assessor to the high court at
Berlin 1843 and 1846–49; studied English history in London
1857–60; examined the Spanish Archives at Simancas, Spain Aug.
1860 to death, deciphering more than 12 ciphers of exceeding
difficulty; author of _Calendar of letters, despatches and state
papers relating to the negotiations between England and Spain
1485–1525, 3 vols._ 1862–68. _d._ Fonda de los Principes, Puerta
del Sol, Madrid 13 Feb. 1869. _W. C. Cartwright’s G. Bergenroth a
memorial sketch_ 1870.
BERGER, GEORGE. _b._ London; a journeyman compositor; wholesale
newsagent and bookseller in Holywell st. Strand 1834; the largest
retailer of papers and periodicals in London; publisher in
Newcastle st. Strand 1864 to death. _d._ Friern house, Finchley 1
Feb. 1868 aged 72.
BERGNE, JOHN BRODRIBB. _b._ Kensington, London 1800; clerk in the
Foreign Office 1815 to death; superintendent of treaty department
1 July 1854 to 1 Dec. 1870 when foreign office agencies were
abolished; member of commission to revise Slave trade instructions
1865; an original member of Numismatic Society 1837, treasurer
July 1843 to 1857; contributed 16 papers to _Numismatic
Chronicle_; F.S.A. 1844; made a fine collection of coins which was
sold at Sotheby’s in an 11 day sale May 1873 for above £6000. _d._
21 Thurloe sq. London 16 Jany. 1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiii_,
13–15, 304–308 (1873).
BERKELEY, THOMAS MORETON FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 6 Earl of. _b._ 19
Oct. 1796; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox.; succeeded 8 Aug. 1810, but
never assumed the title or took his seat in House of Lords though
he received usual summons to do so. _d._ Hartington lane,
Cranford, Hounslow 27 Aug. 1882.
BERKELEY, CHARLES ASSHETON FITZHARDINGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1818; ensign
11 Foot 27 May 1836; lieut. col. 32 Foot 24 July 1857 to death;
C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ on board the “Simla” off the island of
Socotra 25 Sep. 1858.
BERKELEY, CRAVEN FITZHARDINGE (_brother of 6 Earl of Berkeley_).
_b._ Berkeley house, Spring Gardens London 28 July 1805; ensign 85
Foot 13 Feb. 1823; captain 2 Life Guards 22 March 1831 to 25 Aug.
1837 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Cheltenham 10 Dec. 1832 to 23
July 1847, 28 July 1848 to 24 Aug. 1848, when election declared
void and 8 July 1852 to death; fought a duel with Henry George
Boldero M.P. for Chippenham, in Osterly park 15 July 1842. _d._
Frankfort upon Main 1 July 1855. _Godings History of Cheltenham_
(1863) 85–94, 365–8.
BERKELEY, FRANCIS HENRY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the preceding_).
_b._ 7 Dec. 1794; gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1814; M.P. for
Bristol 22 July 1837 to death; leader in House of Commons of the
ballot question 8 Aug. 1848 to death, the ballot bill was passed
13 July 1872; chief opponent of the Temperance cause in House of
Commons, presented by the licensed victuallers with a testimonial
of £1,050 at Bristol 24 Sep. 1856. _d._ 1 Victoria sq. Pimlico
London 10 March 1870. _Burn’s Temperance dictionary_ (1861)
300–303; _Illust. News of the world iii_, 84 (1859), _portrait_.
BERKELEY, GEORGE CHARLES GRANTLEY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Cranford house, Hounslow 10 Feb. 1800; ed. at
Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream Guards 1821–23 when placed on h.p.;
heir presumptive to Earldom of Berkeley 1810 to death; kept a pack
of stag hounds at Cranford 1824–29 and at Harrold hall Beds. from
1829; M.P. for West Gloucs. 24 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; fought a
duel with Wm. Maginn editor of _Fraser’s Mag._ in a field near the
Harrow road 5 Aug. 1836 when Maginn was slightly wounded; author
of _Berkeley Castle an historical romance 3 vols._ 1836; _Sandron
Hall or the days of Queen Anne 3 vols._ 1840; _Reminiscences of a
huntsman_ 1854; _Love and the lion, a poem_ 1857; _The English
sportsman in the western prairies_ 1861; he is depicted in C. J.
Collins’s novel _Sackville Chase 3 vols._ 1863; he was the last
person who wore the flat cocked hat known as the chapeau bras.
_d._ Longfleet, Poole 23 Feb. 1881. _My life and recollections by
G. C. G. F. Berkeley 4 vols._ 1865–66, _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag.
xiv_, 242–7 (1836), _xv_, 100–143 (1837); _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 253
(1881), _portrait_.
BERKELEY, SIR GEORGE HENRY FREDERICK (_elder son of Admiral Sir
George Cranfield Berkeley, G.C.B. 1753–1818_). _b._ 9 July 1785;
cornet Royal horse guards 21 Jany. 1802; captain 3 Foot guards 22
Feb. 1821 to 16 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 81 Foot 15
Jany. 1844 and of 35 Foot 11 July 1845 to death; surveyor general
of the ordnance 28 June to Dec. 1852; general 20 June 1854; M.P.
for Devonport 7 July 1852 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._
Richmond, Surrey 25 Sep. 1857.
BERKELEY, ROBERT JAMES. Called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 9 Nov.
1852. _d._ 6 Trafalgar terrace, Monkstown, Ireland 31 Oct. 1873.
BERKELEY, SACKVILLE HAMILTON. Ensign 16 Foot 1 May 1800, captain 25
Dec. 1804 to 26 Feb. 1824 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant
general in West Indies 20 June 1811 to 15 March 1827; col. of 75
Foot 16 Sep. 1845 and of 16 Foot 22 March 1858 to death; general
20 June 1854. _d._ 4 York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 12 Feb.
1863.
BERKLY, JAMES JOHN. _b._ Holloway near London 21 Oct. 1819; pupil of
Robert Stephenson 1839; chief resident engineer of Great Indian
Peninsula railway 1850–58; first 20 miles of the line from Bombay
to Tanna were opened 16 April 1853 thus initiating the Indian
railway system; comr. of Bombay municipal board 1857; member of
senate of Bombay Univ. 1858; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1855, Telford
medallist 1860. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 25 Aug. 1862. _Min. of Proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xxii_, 618–24 (1863).
BERNAL, RALPH (_only son of Jacob Bernal of 7 Fitzroy square, London
who d. 10 Nov. 1811_). ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1806, M.A.
1809; student L.I. 13 June 1804, barrister 8 Feb. 1810; M.P. for
Lincoln 1818–20, for Rochester 1820–41 and 1847–52 and for
Weymouth 1841–47; spent sum of £66,000 in election contests;
chairman of committees of House of Commons 1830–50; pres. of
British Archæological association 1853 to death; made a splendid
collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of
Louis Seize and of furniture and plate which was sold for £63,000
in a 32 day sale 1855. _d._ 93 Eaton sq. London 26 Aug. 1854.
_Annual Register_ (1855) 41–44; _G.M. xlii_, 628 (1854).
BERNAL OSBORNE, Ralph (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 26 March
1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. Oct.
1829; ensign 71 Foot 8 June 1830; captain 7 Foot 27 July 1838 to
1841 when he sold out; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1841–47, for
Middlesex 1847–57, for Dover 1857–59, for Liskeard 1859–65, for
Nottingham 1866–68 and for Waterford city 1870–74; took surname of
Osborne in lieu of Bernal 19 Aug. 1844 but always known as R.
Bernal Osborne; presided at banquet given to Lord Palmerston at
Reform club 20 July 1850; secretary of the Admiralty Dec. 1852 to
Feb. 1858; author of 2 poems called _The chaunt of Achilles_ 1838
and _A voice from Palace yard_. _d._ Bestwood lodge near
Nottingham 4 Jany. 1882. _Bagenal’s Life of R. Bernal Osborne
privately printed_ 1884; _Temple Bar, lxxii_, 34–49 (1884);
_Fortnightly Review xxxvi_, 535–44 (1884); _I.L.N. xiv_, 397
(1849), _portrait, lxxx_, 61 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 45
(1882), _portrait_.
BERNARD, HERMANN. _b._ Uman or Human Poland 1785; a banker; went to
England 1825; Hebrew teacher in Univ. of Cambridge 1830 to death;
author of _The creed and ethics of the Jews_ 1832; edited _Guide
of the Hebrew student_ 1839; author with Rev. P. H. Mason of _An
easy practical Hebrew grammar_; in the title pages of all his
works the name of Hedwig being that of a departed sister whom he
wished to commemorate is joined to his own. _d._ Cambridge 15 Nov.
1857. _The book of Job as expounded to his Cambridge pupils by the
late H. H. Bernard edited by Frank Chance vol. i_, (1864)
_lxxvii-ciii_, (1864), _portrait_.
BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (_3 son of Charles Bernard of Eden, Jamaica_).
_b._ Tibberton Court, Gloucs. 28 Jany. 1820; ed. at Sherborne and
Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842, B.C.L. 1845, D.C.L. 1871; Vinerian
scholar and fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846;
Chichele professor of international law and diplomacy in Univ. of
Oxford 1859 to 9 May 1874; assessor of the Chancellor’s Court,
Oxford 1859 to Nov. 1871; sec. to royal commission on Cattle
plague 1866; member of royal commissions on Naturalisation 1868,
Fugitive slaves 1876 and Univ. of Ox. 1877; fellow of All Souls
coll. Ox. 1870; curator of Taylor institution at Ox. 9 Feb. 1871;
one of high comrs. for treating with the United States of America
16 Feb. 1871, signed treaty of Washington 8 May 1871; P.C. 29 June
1871, member of its Judicial committee 24 Nov. 1871; an original
member of the Institut de droit international 1873, pres. at the
Oxford meeting 1880; one of founders of _Guardian_ newspaper 1846,
wrote the weekly summary of events in it for some years. _d._
Overross, Ross, Herefordshire 2 Sep. 1882.
BERNARD, THOMAS. _b._ Sep. 1816; sheriff of King’s county 1837 and
lord lieutenant 5 Dec. 1867 to death; colonel of King’s county
militia 23 March 1871 to death. _d._ Castle Bernard, Kinnetty,
King’s county 13 Dec. 1882.
BERNARD, SIR THOMAS TYRINGHAM, 6 Baronet. _b._ Bolton st. Piccadilly
London 15 Sep. 1791; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of
Bucks. 1816; M.P. for Aylesbury 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865;
succeeded 22 Jany. 1876. _d._ Cadogan lodge, Carlyle sq. London 8
May 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 525 (1883), _portrait_.
BERNARD, WILLIAM BAYLE (_son of John Bernard, English comedian
1756–1828_). _b._ Pleasant st. Boston U.S. 27 Nov. 1809; came to
England 1820; clerk in Army accounts office 1826–30 when office
was abolished; wrote much dramatic and other criticism for the
press; author of _The freebooter’s bride 5 vols._ 1828; _Life of
Samuel Lover 2 vols._ 1874 and of 114 plays, best known being _Rip
Van Winkle_ 1832; _The nervous man_ 1833; _The man about town_
1836; _Marie Ducange_ 1837; _His last legs_ 1839; _The boarding
school_ 1841; _The round of wrong_ 1846. _d._ Brighton 5 Aug.
1875. _The Era Almanac_ (1868) 17–18.
BERNARD, WILLIAM SMYTH (_4 son of 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._
Castle Bernard, King’s County 14 Nov. 1792; sheriff of Cork 1820;
M.P. for Bandon 15 Dec. 1832 to death. _d._ Queenstown 6 Feb.
1863.
BERNAYS, ADOLPHUS. Professor of German language and literature at
King’s College London 1831–63; F.R.G.S. 1858; author of _German
poetry for beginners_ 1836; _German poetical anthology_ 1843;
_German historical anthology_ 1846 and 6 other school books. _d._
The rectory, Great Stanmore 22 Dec. 1864.
BERNAYS, REV. LEOPOLD JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 28
Dec. 1820; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A.
1843, M.A. 1846, fellow of his college; head master of Elstree
school 1847–60; R. of Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1860 to death;
author of _Translation of Goethe’s Faust, part 2 and other poems_
1839; _Manual of family prayers and meditations_ 1845; _The church
in the schoolroom_, 1851. _d._ The rectory, Great Stanmore 25 Oct.
1882.
BERNCASTLE, JULIUS. Educ. at Univ. of Paris and Guy’s hospital
London; assistant colonial surgeon Van Diemen’s Land 1841–42;
surgeon at Croydon, Surrey 1842–48; surgeon to Croydon union and
infirmary 1842–48 when presented by medical profession with a
purse of gold; practised in London 1851–54; an oculist and aurist
at Sydney 1854 and at Melbourne 1867 to death; author of _A voyage
to China 2 vols._ 1850; _The revolt of the Bengal Sepoys_ 1857;
_The defenceless state of Sydney_ 1865; _Australian snake bites;
The use and abuse of tobacco_ [_Two lectures_] 1868. _d._ Greville
place, Prahran, Victoria 30 June 1870 in 51 year.
BERNERS, REV. HENRY WILSON, 5 Baron. _b._ 1 Oct. 1762; R. of
Alexton, Leics. 1814 to death; R. of Kirby-Cane, Norfolk 1820 to
1845; succeeded 25 March 1838. _d._ Kirby-Cane 26 Feb. 1851.
BERNERS, HENRY WILLIAM WILSON, 6 Baron. _b._ Kirby-Cane hall,
Norfolk 23 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam.; built
Keythorpe hall, co. Leicester 1842; succeeded 26 Feb. 1851; pres.
of Royal agricultural society 1859 and of Smithfield club 1860 and
1861; a successful breeder of sheep and shorthorns; a great hawker
and hunter. _d._ Keythorpe hall 27 June 1871. _Illust. news of the
world ii_, (1858), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxviii_, 74 (1858),
_portrait_.
BERNERS, VENERABLE HENRY DENNY (_2 son of Charles Berners of
Woolverstone park, Suffolk 1740–1815_). _b._ 18 Sep. 1769; ed. at
St. Mary hall Ox., B.C.L. 1794; R. of Erwarton, Suffolk 1801–35;
archdeacon of Suffolk 27 Feb. 1819 to 12 Jany. 1846. _d._
Woolverstone park, 24 Jany. 1852.
BERNEY, SIR HANSON, 8 Baronet. _b._ Kirby-Bedon, Norfolk 3 Dec.
1780; succeeded 4 Oct. 1825. _d._ 7 Sep. 1870.
BERNSTORFF, ALBRECHT GRAF VON, BARON. _b._ Dreilükow, Mecklenburg 22
March 1809; Prussian minister in London 1 May 1854; minister for
foreign affairs at Berlin July 1861 to Oct. 1862; Prussian
ambassador in London Oct. 1862; ambassador of North German
confederation Feb. 1867 and of German empire 24 Feb. 1871 to
death. _d._ 9 Carlton house terrace, London 26 March 1873.
_Illust. news of the world i_, 10 (1858), _portrait_.
BERRI, AMY D’ARTOIS, Duchesse de (_dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown of
Maidstone, Kent who d. 8 April 1824 aged 77 by Mary Anne Deacon
who d. 10 March 1806 aged 59_). _b._ Maidstone 8 April 1783 _m._
at the Catholic church King st. Portman sq. London 1806, Charles
Ferdinand d’Artois Duc de Berri son of Comte d’Artois afterwards
Charles x, he was _b._ 24 Jany. 1778 and was assassinated by
Louvel on the steps of the Opera house Paris 13 Feb. 1820, the
marriage was annulled by Louis xviii in 1815. _d._ Château de la
Contrie, commune de Couffé, Loire-Inférieure France 7 May 1876.
_Les secrets des Bourbons par C. Nauroy_ (1882) 5–62; _Bingham’s
Marriages of the Bonapartes ii_, 198–200 (1881).
BERRIDGE, JAMES SAMUEL. _b._ 1806; Educ. at the Charter House and
Trin. hall Cam.; pres. of legislative council St. Christopher
1846, puisne judge Court of Queen’s Bench and Common Pleas 1847,
chairman of Board of Health 1860, postmaster 1860, pres. of
legislative assembly 1870; pres. of St. Christopher April 1872 to
death; member of executive council of Leeward Islands 1872. _d._
Limekiln, St. Kitts 5 Nov. 1885.
BERRY, JAMES MIDDLETON. Librarian to the Queen 1839 to death. _d._
Manchester 25 Oct. 1875 aged 72.
BERRY, AGNES (_younger dau. of Robert Berry of London, merchant who
d. 18 May 1817_). _b._ Kirkbridge, Yorkshire 29 May 1764;
travelled on the Continent with her sister Mary 1783–85 and 1802.
_d._ 8 Curzon st. London 29 Jany. 1852. _Extracts from the
Journals of Miss Berry, edited by Lady T. Lewis_, 2 _ed. vol._ 1
(1866), _portrait_.
BERRY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Fifeshire 30 Nov. 1781; member of legislative
council of New South Wales 1829; member of the upper house
1856–61. _d._ Sydney 17 Sep. 1873.
BERRY, REV. CHARLES (_3 son of Rev. John Berry, Independent minister
at Romsey, Hants who d. about 1821_). _b._ Romsey 10 Nov. 1783;
ed. at Homerton college; Unitarian minister of the Great meeting
Leicester 1803–59; kept a school at Leicester 1808–38, had many
distinguished pupils; one of founders of Leicester literary and
philosophical society and of Leicester town museum; author of _The
duty of national thanksgiving_ 1812; _Funeral sermon for Queen
Caroline_ 1821; _Remarks on Popery_ 1851. _d._ Olive Mount,
Wavertree, Liverpool 4 May 1877. _Remembrance of Rev. C. Berry by
J. C._ (_James Clephan_) 1877.
BERRY, REV. CORNELIUS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Romsey 23
July 1788; ed. at Homerton college; Independent minister at Ware,
Herts 1 Oct. 1809 to 30 Sep. 1810, at Hatfield Heath, Essex 31
March 1811 to death; ordained 9 Oct. 1811. _d._ 5 Mathon place,
Richmond road, Barnsbury, London 8 Sep. 1864. _Biographical sketch
of the Rev. C. Berry by John Hayden_ 1865.
BERRY, MARY (_sister of Agnes Berry_). _b._ Kirkbridge, Yorkshire 16
March 1763; travelled on the Continent 1783–85 and 1802; became
acquainted with Horace Walpole 1788 who left her at his death 2
March 1797 sum of £4000 and house called Little Strawberry Hill;
engaged to General O’Hara 1796; edited _The works of Horace
Walpole 5 vols._ 1798 on which her father’s name appears as
editor; author of _Fashionable Friends_, a comedy in 5 acts
produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1802; _A comparative view
of the social condition of England and France_ 1828; _Social life
in England and France from the French revolution in 1789 to that
of July 1830_ [_anon._] 1831. _d._ 8 Curzon st. London at midnight
20 Nov. 1852. _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed._ (1876)
293–98; _Extracts from the Journals of Miss Berry, edited by Lady
T. Lewis, 2 ed. 3 vols._ 1866, 3 _portraits_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 517
(1852), _portrait_.
BERRY, WILLIAM. Writing clerk to Registrar of College of arms
1793–1809; lived in Guernsey some years then at Doddington place,
Kennington, Surrey; author of _Introduction to heraldry_ 1810;
_History of the island of Guernsey_ 1815; _Genealogica antiqua or
mythological and classical fables_ 1816; _Encyclopædia heraldica 4
vols._ 1828; _Pedigrees of the families in the County of Kent_
1830, _Sussex_ 1830, _Hampshire_ 1833, _Berkshire, Buckinghamshire
and Surrey_ 1837, _Essex_ 1839, _Hertfordshire_ 1842, the 3 last
of these books were produced by means of lithography. _d._ Spencer
place, Brixton 2 July 1851 in 77 year. _G.M. xcix_; _pt._ 2,
99–101 (1829), _c, pt._ 2, 409–16 (1830), _xxxviii_, 101 (1852).
BERTINI, HENRI JÉRÔME. _b._ London 28 Oct. 1798; celebrated pianist,
excelled in phrasing and execution; gave concerts in the
Netherlands 1811; made a professional tour through England and
Scotland; settled in Paris 1821, retired about 1855; composed
nearly 200 pieces of music. _d._ Meylan near Grenoble 1 Oct. 1876.
BERWICK, RICHARD NOEL NOEL HILL, 5 Baron. _b._ Betton, Shropshire 21
Nov. 1800; succeeded 28 Sep. 1848. _d._ Cronkhill near Shrewsbury
12 April 1861.
BERWICK, WILLIAM NOEL NOEL HILL, 6 Baron. _b._ 6 July 1802; ensign 3
Foot 13 Nov. 1817; major 69 Foot 4 Dec. 1835 to 30 Oct. 1840 when
placed on h.p.; colonel 20 June 1854; succeeded 12 April 1861.
_d._ Attingham hall near Shrewsbury 24 Nov. 1882.
BERWICK, EDWARD. Called to Irish bar 1832; pres. of Queen’s college
Galway 1845 to death. _d._ Queen’s college, Galway 7 March 1877.
BERWICK, WALTER (_son of Rev. Edward Berwick, R. of Esker Lucan, co.
Dublin_). Called to Irish bar 1826; chairman of quarter sessions
for Waterford 1835–47, for east riding of co. Cork 1847–59; Q.C. 6
Feb. 1840, bencher of King’s Inns 1856; serjeant at law 1855;
judge of Irish Bankruptcy court 1859 to death; burned alive in the
train at Abergele, Denbighshire 20 Aug. 1868 the most terrible
railway accident that ever happened in this country. The Berwick
Art Club was established in Dublin to perpetuate his memory Oct.
1868. _Irish law times ii_, 477 (1868); _I.L.N. liii_, 205, 234
(1868).
BESEMERES, JOHN (_eld. son of Mr. Besemeres of City of London_).
Merchant at Calcutta; author of following plays, all written under
pseudonym of John Daly, _Broken Toys_, produced at Sadlers Wells
1850; _Young husbands_ comedy, at same house Aug. 1852; _The
Times_ drama, at Olympic July 1853; _Old Salt_ drama, at Strand 12
Jany. 1868; _Dotheboys Hall_ drama, at Court 26 Dec. 1871;
_Marriage lines_ drama, at Court 17 March 1873 and _Forget and
Forgive_ comedy, at Charing Cross 5 Jany. 1874. _d._ Islington
infirmary London 19 Nov. 1879 aged 57.
BESLEY, ROBERT. _b._ Exeter 14 Oct. 1794; member of firm of Messrs.
Thorogood of city of London, type founders 1829; member for
Aldersgate ward of Court of common council 1852, alderman of the
ward 1861 to death; sheriff 1864–65, lord mayor 1869–70. _d._
Victoria road, Wimbledon park 18 Dec. 1876. _I.L.N. lv_, 461
(1869), _portrait_.
BESLY, REV. JOHN. Ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., fellow 1823, B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1835; tutor in Rugby school 1823–28; sub
librarian Bodleian library 1828–31; V. of Long Benton near
Newcastle 1830 to death; R. of Aston-sub-edge, Gloucs. 1831 to
death; proctor in Convocation of York 1836–45 and 1855–64; author
of _A translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric with analysis by Hobbes_
1833; _Desultory notices of the church and vicarage of Long
Benton_ 1843 and of Sermons. _d._ Long Benton 17 April 1868 aged
68.
BESSBOROUGH, JOHN GEORGE BRABAZON PONSONBY, 5 Earl of (_eld. son of
John Wm. Ponsonby, 4 Earl of Bessborough 1781–1847_). _b._ London
4 Oct. 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; attaché to embassy at St.
Petersburgh 3 July 1832; M.P. for Bletchingley 5 May 1831 to July
1831, for Higham Ferrers 6 Oct. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for Derby
8 Jany. 1835 to 16 May 1847 when he succeeded; lord lieutenant of
co. Carlow 5 Sep. 1838 to death; master of the buckhounds 16 May
1848 to Feb. 1852, 30 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 18 June 1859
to 20 Jany. 1866; P.C. 30 June 1848; lord steward of the household
20 Jany. 1866 to July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to 2 March 1874. _d._
Bessborough house near Piltown, co. Kilkenny 28 Jany. 1880.
_Baily’s Mag. vi_, 163–64 (1863), _portrait_.
BESSONET, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1807; K.C. 13 July 1830;
chairman of sessions for county Waterford. _d._ 21 Lower Leeson
st. Dublin 3 Oct. 1859 aged 76.
BEST, SAMUEL. Second lieut. Madras Engineers 16 Dec. 1825; captain 9
May 1842 to death; planned fortifications of Singapore;
superintendent of roads in Madras, Presidency 1845 to death; his
principal works are the Southern Trunk road and the Goolcheroo
pass; contributed many papers to _Madras Literary transactions_
and _Madras Engineering papers_. _d._ of jungle fever at Chittoor
5 Oct. 1851.
BEST, REV. SAMUEL (_3 son of 1 Baron Wynford 1767–1845_). _b._ 2
Dec. 1802; ed. at King’s college Cam., fellow, B.A. 1826, M.A.
1830; R. of Abbots-Anne, Andover 1831 to death; rural dean of
Andover; author of _Parochial sermons_ 1836; _Manual of parochial
institutions_ 1849; _Catechism on collects_ 1850; _Discourses on
collects, epistles and gospels_ 1853. _d._ The rectory,
Abbots-Anne 20 Jany. 1873.
BEST, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 12 Aug. 1799;
entered navy 3 Nov. 1812; captain 22 July 1830; V.A. on h.p. 10
Nov. 1862. _d._ 19 Hyde park sq. London 4 Sep. 1864.
BEST, WILLIAM MAWDESLEY (_eld. son of Thomas Best, captain 26 Foot
who d. 8 Oct. 1813_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.,
B.A. 1831, LL.B. 1832, M.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1834,
bencher 16 Jany. 1867; author of _Right to begin and right to
reply in law courts_ 1837; _Treatise on circumstantial proof in
criminal cases_ 1844; _Principles of the law of evidence_ 1849, _7
ed._ 1883. _d._ 17 Nov. 1869.
BESTOW, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bestow of 124 Wood st. Cheapside,
London, web manufacturer_). _b._ 14 Feb. 1789; partly founded
several papers; founded _Theatrical Journal, a weekly record of
the English drama_ 1840, edited it to Nov. 1872, 33 vols., it
ceased 16 April 1873; wrote several political pamphlets. _d._ 20
Frederick st. King’s Cross, London 30 April 1873.
BETHAM, MARY MATILDA (_eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Betham 1749–1839,
master of endowed school at Stonham Aspal, Suffolk 1784–1833_).
_b._ 1776 or 1777; gave Shakespearian readings in London about
1803; author of _Elegies_ 1797; _Biographical dictionary of
celebrated women_ 1804; _Poems_ 1808; _The lay of Marie, a poem_
1816. _d._ 36 Burton st. Burton crescent, London 30 Sep. 1852 aged
76. _Six life studies of famous women by M. Betham-Edwards_ (1880)
231–303, _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. July 1878_, 73–84.
BETHAM, SIR WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Stradbroke,
Suffolk 22 May 1779; clerk to Sir Chichester Fortescue, Ulster
king of arms 1805; genealogist attendant on order of St. Patrick
15 July 1812; knighted by Lord lieutenant of Ireland 15 July 1812;
Ulster king of arms 1820; keeper of parliamentary records of
Ireland 1830; F.S.A. 6 May 1824; M.R.I.A. 22 Jany. 1827, foreign
sec. to March 1840; author of _Irish antiquarian researches_ 1827;
_Dignities feudal and parliamentary_ 1830, reissued as _The origin
and history of the constitution of England_ 1834; _Etruria Celtica
2 vols._ 1832; _The Gael and Cimbri_ 1834; made an index of 40
folio volumes to the names of all persons mentioned in the wills
at the Prerogative office in Dublin; his manuscripts were sold at
Sotheby’s in London 1860. _d._ Rochford house, Blackrock near
Dublin 26 Oct. 1853. _G.M. xl_, 632–35 (1853), _xlii_, 145 (1854).
BETHELL, RIGHT REV. CHRISTOPHER (_2 son of Rev. Richard Bethell, R
of St. Peter’s, Wallingford who d. 12 Jany. 1806_). _b._
Isleworth, Surrey 21 April 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, D.D. 1817, fellow of his college; R.
of Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire 1808–30; dean of Chichester 5 April 1814
to March 1824; bishop of Gloucester 24 March 1824, consecrated 11
April 1824; bishop of Exeter 8 April 1830; preb. of Exeter 22 June
1830; bishop of Bangor 28 Oct. 1830 to death; author of _A general
view of the doctrine of regeneration in baptism_ 1821, _4 ed._
1845. _d._ The palace, Bangor 19 April 1859. _bur._ Llandegai
church yard 27 April.
BETHELL, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at Eton; assistant at Eton 1802; fellow
of Eton 21 Sep. 1818 to death; R. of Worplesdon, Surrey 1833 to
death. _d._ Eton college 16 March 1857 aged 78.
BETHELL, JOHN (_son of Richard Bethell M.D. of Bristol_). _b._ 1804;
solicitor in London 1825–54; patented a complete system of diving
apparatus 1835; patented a process for preserving timber from
decay by impregnating it with creosote oil 11 July 1838, this
invention has been adopted on a large scale, in marine works it is
almost indispensable, the idea was taken from the embalming of
mummies; patented many other inventions; carried on a distillery
of beetroot spirit in Berkshire; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838. _d._
Cleveland sq. Hyde Park London 22 Feb. 1867. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxvii_, 597–99 (1868).
BETHELL, RICHARD. _b._ 10 May 1772; ed. at King’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1795, fellow of his college; owner of large estates in Yorkshire
1799; M.P. for Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 April 1831, and for the
East Riding 18 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; chairman of East Riding
quarter sessions many years; author of 2 Latin poems in second
series of _Musæ Etonenses 2 vols._ 1797. _d._ Rise near Hull 25
Dec. 1864.
BETHUNE, CHARLES RAMSAY DRINKWATER (_2 son of John Drinkwater of
Thorncroft, Surrey, C.B., F.S.A. 1762–1844_). _b._ 27 Dec. 1802;
entered navy 2 Aug. 1815; captain 22 July 1830; served in Chinese
war 1840–41; V.A. 10 Nov. 1862, admiral 2 April 1866; retired 1
April 1870; assumed additional name of Bethune 1837; C.B. 29 June
1841, F.R.G.S. 1842. _d._ 4, Queensbury place South Kensington 21
Feb. 1884. _M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_
(1866) 56.
BETHUNE, SIR HENRY LINDESAY (_eld. child of Martin Eccles Lindesay
Bethune, commissary general in Scotland who d. 1813_). _b._ Hilton
near Perth 12 April 1787; lieut. Madras Horse artillery 18 July
1804; captain 3 Sep. 1813 to 1 Sep. 1822 when he retired; drilled
and disciplined the Persian army 1811–21, his lofty stature, 6
feet 7 inches, and great personal strength gained for him in
Persia the epithet of “Rustum” the Hercules of ancient Persian
story; knighted at St. James’s Palace 20 July 1832; sent to Persia
as British agent 1834; commanded advanced guard of the Shah’s army
1834–35; returned home Sep. 1835; created baronet 7 March 1836.
_d._ Tabreez, Persia 19 Feb. 1851. _M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of
eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 57.
BETHUNE, JOHN ELLIOT DRINKWATER (_brother of C. R. D. Bethune_). Ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; one of
municipal corporation comrs.; counsel to the Home Office 1833–47;
drew the Municipal reform, Tithe commutation and County courts
bills; legislative member of Supreme council of India 11 April
1848 to death; pres. of council of education at Calcutta 1848;
established a school for native females of the higher classes at
Calcutta which he endowed by his will with property in Calcutta.
_d._ Calcutta 12 Aug. 1851 aged 50. _G.M. xxxvii_, 94–96, 434
(1852).
BETTINGTON, CLAUDE (_2 son of Albemarle Bettington of Halsey house,
Cheltenham_). Commanded Bettington’s Horse in Zulu war 1879–80;
C.M.G. 30 Oct. 1880. _d._ Elmina, Gold Coast 29 Dec. 1880.
BETTRIDGE, REV. WILLIAM CRADDOCK. _b._ 30 Aug. 1791; ensign 81 Foot
7 April 1813; lieutenant 31 Aug. 1815 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed
on h.p.; town major of Brussels 1815; entered Univ. of Jena Saxony
1818; walked from Jena to Naples; entered Neapolitan army 1822;
aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Church 1822; accorded by Government a
continuance for life of his half pay by a special mandamus;
studied at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1837; ordained deacon 1824;
C. of Elvington near York 1824; C. of Ecclesfield 1828; Inc. of
St. Paul’s, Southampton 1828–34; R. of Woodstock, Ontario, Upper
Canada 1834 to death; obtained a grant of 400 acres of land for
each of the 57 rectories of Upper Canada; canon of Huron; declined
bishopric of Huron 1857; author of _A brief history of the church
in Upper Canada_ 1838. _d._ Woodstock 21 Nov. 1879.
BETTS, EDWARD LADD (_eld. son of Wm. Betts of Sandown, Kent_). _b._
Buckland near Dover 5 June 1815; constructed Midland railway from
Rugby to Leicester and many other lines; partner with Sir S. M.
Peto; constructed the line from Balaclava to English camp before
Sebastopol; constructed with Brassey the grand trunk railway of
Canada including Victoria tubular bridge, and with Crampton the
London, Chatham and Dover railway; chairman of Eastern counties
railway co. 1851 and 1852; sheriff of Kent 1858; contested
Maidstone 1865; A.I.C.E. 26 June 1849. _d._ Assouan, Upper Egypt
21 Jany. 1872. _bur._ at Aylesford, Kent. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 285–88 (1873); _I.L.N. lx_, 187, 207, 611
(1872)
BETTY, WILLIAM HENRY WEST (_only child of William Henry Betty, M.D.
of Lisburn, Ireland who d. 1811_). _b._ Shrewsbury 13 Sep. 1791;
made his début at Belfast theatre 16 Aug. 1803 as Osman in tragedy
of _Zara_, and at Crow st. theatre Dublin 29 Nov. 1803 as Douglas;
engaged at Covent Garden for 12 nights at £50 per night and a
clear benefit, and at Drury Lane on intervening nights on same
terms 1 Dec. 1804, after 3 nights his salary was raised to £100
per night; known as the young Roscius; fellow commoner of Christ’s
college, Cambridge July 1808 to 1811; returned to the stage 1812
when he failed to draw; made his last appearance in London June
1813; took his farewell benefit at Southampton 9 Aug, 1824. _d._
37, Ampthill sq. London 24 Aug. 1874. _Roscius in London
Biographical Memoirs of W. H. W. Betty_ 1805, _portrait_;
_Tinsley’s Mag. xv_, 415–23 (1874); _Temple Bar xlii_, 346–61
(1874); _Theatrical Inquisitor xii_, 227 (1818), _portrait_;
_Graphic x_, 227 (1874), _portrait_; _The dawn of the 19th century
in England by J. Ashton ii_, 118–29 (1886), _portrait_.
BEVAN, CHARLES DACRES (_son of Charles Bevan, Lieut. col. 4 Foot who
d. 12 July 1811_). _b._ 7 Nov. 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 21 May 1830;
recorder of Dartmouth 1845–55, of Truro 1848–49, of Falmouth
1850–56, of Helston 1850–56 and of Penzance Dec. 1855 to Jany.
1857; judge of county courts for Cornwall (circuit 59) 22 Jany.
1857 to death. _d._ near Fowey, Cornwall 24 June 1872.
BEVAN, EDWARD. _b._ London 8 July 1770; apprenticed to a surgeon at
Hereford; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.D. St. Andrews
1818; physician at Mortlake 5 years, at Stoke-upon-Trent, at
Congleton 12 years and at Mortlake again 2 years; lived at
Bridstow near Ross, then at Hereford 1849 to death; one of
founders of Entomological Society 1833; author of _The Honey-Bee,
its natural history, physiology and management_ 1827, _3 ed._
1870, which was the best book on the subject; _Hints on the
history and management of the Honey-Bee_ 1851. _d._ Hereford 31
Jany. 1860. _The Naturalist, ed. by Neville Wood iv_, 142–46
(1838), _portrait_.
BEVAN, HANNAH MARISHALL (_dau. of Wm. Bevan of London, tea
merchant_). _b._ London 1 Feb. 1798; joined the Newgate prison
committee; worked with Elizabeth Fry and others; a minister of
Society of Friends 1828. (_m._ 1827 Thomas Bevan, M.D. who _d._
1847 aged 43). _d._ Penge 8 Nov. 1874. _Annual Monitor for 1876
pp._ 3–19.
BEVAN, PHILIP. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., M.A. and M.B. 1843, M.D.
1845; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837; lecturer on anatomy Dublin School of
medicine; surgeon to Mercers hospital to about 1870; M.R.I.A. 13
April 1846; professor of practical anatomy Royal college of
surgeons to death. _d._ 33 Pembroke road, Dublin 6 Dec. 1881.
BEVAN, VENERABLE THOMAS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1828; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1833 to death; archdeacon of
St. David’s 11 June 1833 to death; preb. of Brecon 1853 to death.
_d._ 28 Dec. 1863 aged 63.
BEVERIDGE, THOMAS. _b._ Dunfermline 7 Oct. 1775; deputy clerk in the
court of session, Edinburgh; author of _A practical treatise on
the forms of process containing the new regulation before the
Court of Session ... 2 vols._ 1826; _A guide to the judicial
records of the court of session_ 1852. _d._ near Edinburgh 27 May
1858.
BEVERLEY, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ Fort Augustus, Scotland Aug. 1788;
assistant surgeon R.N. 1810; served in Sir Edward Parry’s first
Arctic expedition 1819–20; went with him to Spitzbergen as surgeon
and naturalist 1827; practised in London; F.R.S. 5 May 1831. _d._
Derman Terrace, Great Yarmouth 16 Sep. 1868.
BEVERLEY, EDWARD, stage name of Edward Dickenson. _b._ Beverley,
Yorkshire; a chorister in choir of York minster; sang at Weston’s
music hall London; principal tenor of Madame Bodda-Pyne’s opera
company, and of John Russell’s opera bouffe company; played at
Gaiety and Opera Comique theatres London; in the United States,
leading tenor at St. Mark’s church New York May 1880 to death.
_d._ Flushing, Long island, New York Aug. 1880.
BEVERLEY, HENRY, stage name of Henry Roxby. _b._ 1797; made his
début at West London theatre; chief low comedian at Adelphi
theatre Oct. 1838; lessee of Victoria theatre 16 Sep. 1839 to
1840; manager of Sunderland and other theatres in north of
England. _d._ 26, Russell sq. London 1 Feb. 1863.
BEWES, THOMAS. M.P. for Plymouth 11 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. _d._
Beaumont, Plymouth 18 Nov. 1857 aged 79.
BEWICK, JANE (_eld. child of Thomas Bewick, painter in water colours
1753–1828_). _b._ 29 April 1797; edited _Memoir of Thomas Bewick
written by himself_ 1862. _d._ 19, West st. Gateshead 7 April
1881.
BEWICK, WILLIAM (_3 son of Wm. Bewick of Darlington, upholsterer_).
_b._ Darlington 20 Oct. 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London
1817–20; _portrait_ painter at Darlington 1824; copied pictures in
Rome 1826–29; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A., 8 at the B.I. and
9 at Suffolk st. exhibition 1822–48; competed for decorations of
Houses of Parliament 1843; a skilful copyist especially of
Rembrandt. _d._ Haughton house near Darlington 8 June 1866. _Life
and letters by T. Landseer 2 vols._ 1871, _portrait_.
BEXFIELD, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Norwich 27 April 1824; chorister at
Norwich cathedral 1832–39; organist to parish church of Boston
1846; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1846; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1849; organist at St.
Helens, Bishopsgate, London Feb. 1848; composed oratorio of
_Israel restored_, performed by Norwich choral society Oct. 1851
and at Norwich musical festival 22 Sep. 1852. _d._ 12 Monmouth
road, Bayswater, London 28 Oct. 1853. _W. A. Barrett’s English
church composers_ (1882) 162–63.
BEXLEY, NICHOLAS VANSITTART, 1 Baron (_younger son of Henry
Vansittart 1732–70, governor of Bengal_). _b._ 29 April 1766; ed.
at Cheam, Surrey and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1787, M.A. 1791, D.C.L.
1841; barrister L.I. 26 May 1791, bencher 12 Nov. 1812; M.P. for
Hastings 1796–1802, for Old Sarum 1802–12 and for Harwich 1812–23;
joint sec. of the Treasury 1801–1804 and 1806–1808; lord of the
Treasury in Ireland 1804; P.C. 14 Jany. 1805; chief sec. for
Ireland 23 March 1805 to Sep. 1805; chancellor of the Exchequer 9
June 1812 to Jany. 1823; created Baron Bexley of Bexley, Kent 1
March 1823; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Jany. 1823 to
Jany. 1828; author of many political and financial pamphlets
1793–1818. _d._ Footscray place, Kent 8 Feb. 1851. _W. C. Taylor’s
National portrait gallery i_, 91 (1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxv_,
431–32 (1851); _S. Walpole’s History of England, 2 ed. vols. 1 and
2_ (1879).
BEYER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ Plauen, Saxony 14 May 1813; head of
the mechanical works of Messrs. Sharp, Roberts & Co. of
Manchester, engineers 1843–53; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852;
established with Richard Peacock locomotive works of Beyer,
Peacock & Co., Gorton foundry Manchester 1854; designed and
adapted many special tools for making locomotive engines; one of
founders of Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.I.C.E. 7
March 1854; left a large bequest for foundation and endowment of
professorships of science at Owen’s college Manchester. _d._
Llantysilio hall, Denbighshire 2 June 1876. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xlvii_, 290–97 (1877).
BIANCONI, CARLO (_2 son of Pietro Bianconi of Tregolo, Lombardy,
farmer who d. 1833_). _b._ Tregolo 24 Sep. 1786; went to Ireland
as a picture seller 1802; opened a carver and gilder’s shop at
Carrick-on-Suir 1806, removed to Waterford and then to Clonmel;
started a one-horse two-wheeled car for conveyance of passengers
from Clonmel to Cahir 6 July 1815; started cars all over Ireland
where they were known as “Bians”; in 1864 his passenger traffic
realised £27,700 and his mail contracts £12,000; gave up his shop
at Clonmel 1826 and his car business 1865; received letters of
Naturalisation from Irish Privy Council 31 Aug. 1831; mayor of
Clonmel 1844–46; purchased Longfield, Tipperary for £22,000 23
March 1846, where he lived 16 Sep. 1846 to death; D.L. for
Tipperary June 1863. (_m._ 14 Feb. 1827 Eliza, dau. of Patrick
Hayes of Dublin, stockbroker). _d._ Longfield 22 Sep. 1875.
_Charles Bianconi, a biography 1786–1875 by his daughter Mrs.
Morgan John O’Connell_ 1878, _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxv_
16–24 (1875), _portrait_.
BIBBY, THOMAS. _b._ Kilkenny 1799; ed. at Kilkenny gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Dublin scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; one of the best Greek
scholars of his day; author of two dramatic poems, _Gerald of
Kildare_ 1854 and a sequel to it called _Silken Thomas_ 1859;
confined by his relations in a private lunatic asylum in Dublin
but released by his literary friends. _d._ St. Canice’s Steps,
Kilkenny 7 Jany. 1863.
BIBER, REV. GEORGE EDWARD. _b._ Ludwigsburg, Würtemberg 4 Sep. 1801;
ed. at Univs. of Tubingen and Gottingen; Ph. Doc. Tubingen 1839;
LLD. Gottingen 1839; settled in England 1826; head of a classical
school at Hampstead, afterwards at Coombe Wood; naturalised by
private act of parliament 2 and 3 Vict., cap. 51 June 1839;
ordained to curacy of Ham, Surrey July 1839; V. of Roehampton,
Surrey 1842–72; R. of West Allington Lincs. 1872 to death; edited
_John Bull_ weekly paper 1848–56; author of _Henry Pestalozzi and
his plan of education_ 1831; _The Standard of Catholicity_ 1840,
_2 ed._ 1844; _Vindication of the Church_ 1844; _The life of St.
Paul_ 1849; _Bishop Blomfield and his times_ 1857. _d._ West
Allington 19 Jany. 1874.
BICHENO, JAMES EBENEZER (_son of Rev. James Bicheno of Newbury,
Berks, baptist minister who d. 9 April 1831 aged 80_). _b._
Newbury 1785; F.L.S. 7 April 1812, secretary 1825–32; barrister
M.T. 17 May 1822; comr. to inquire into expediency of introducing
Poor Law into Ireland 1833–36; colonial sec. in Van Diemen’s Land
Sep. 1842 to death, arrived out there 10 April 1843; a founder of
Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land 1844; author of _An inquiry
into the nature of benevolence_ 1817; _Observations on the
philosophy of criminal jurisprudence_ 1819; _Ireland and its
economy_ 1830. _d._ Hobart Town 25 Feb. 1851. _Proc. of Linnæan
Soc. ii_, 180 (1855).
BICKERS, HENRY. _b._ near Leicester square, London; bookseller in
Noel st. Soho, in Leicester square 1833 to death; partner with H.
J. Bush 1847–63; published many standard works 1863 to death. _d._
83 Cumberland road, London 6 Aug. 1875 aged 69.
BICKERS, HENRY (_son of the preceding_). Head of firm of Bickers and
Son, publishers Leicester square, London 1875 to death. _d._
Dulwich 1 Dec. 1884 aged 49. His copyrights were sold at Hodgson’s
Chancery lane for £8,500 March 1885.
BICKERSTETH, ROBERT (_youngest son of Henry Bickersteth of Kirkby
Lonsdale, Westmoreland, surgeon_). _b._ Kirkby Lonsdale 1787;
M.R.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Liverpool 1807 to
death; surgeon to Liverpool infirmary 1810–50. _d._ 2 Rodney st.
Liverpool 17 April 1857. _Lancet i_, 441 (1857).
BICKERSTETH, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (_4 son of Rev. John Bickersteth, R.
of Sapcote. co. Leicester who d. 2 Sep. 1855 aged 74_). _b._
Acton, Suffolk 24 Aug. 1816; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1848, D.D. 1857; ordained deacon 1841, priest 1842; C. of
Sapcote 1841–43; C. of St. Giles’s Reading 1843–45; Inc. of St.
John’s church Clapham 1845–51; R. of St. Giles’s in the Fields,
London 1851–56; canon residentiary of Salisbury April 1854–56;
bishop of Ripon 30 Nov. 1856 to death, consecrated in Ripon
Minster 18 June 1857; pres. of Church Congress at Leeds 8 Oct.
1872; edited _The weekly visitor_ 1851; author of _Bible
landmarks_ 1850; _Means of grace_ 1851 and many charges and
sermons. _d._ the palace Ripon 15 April 1884. _bur._ in south end
of Cathedral churchyard 19 April. _Our bishops and deans by Rev.
F. Arnold ii_, 103–16 (1875); _Orthodox London by Rev. C. M.
Davies, 2 series_ (1875) 135–42, 394–95; _Illust. news of the
world iii_, (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_, 43 (1857),
_portrait, lxxxiv_, 401 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 400
(1884), _portrait_.
BICKERTON, THOMAS. Educ. at Andersonian Univ. of Glasgow; L.R.C.S.
Edin. 1851, L.S.A. 1851; house surgeon to Warrington dispensary;
surgeon to the Emigration service; practised at Liverpool 1854 to
death; surgeon to the Eye and Ear infirmary; consulting surgeon to
London and North Western railway company; a skilful operator in
ophthalmic surgery. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13 April 1872
aged 45. _British Medical journal i_, 459 (1872).
BICKMORE, REV. CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A.
1843; ad eund. Ox. 1853; Incorp. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1857, B.D. and
D.D. 1857; C. of Bebbington, Cheshire 1840–43; asst. Min. at
Temple Church Balsall, Warwick 1848–54; Min. of Christ Church
Leamington 1856–70; author of _A course of historical and
chronological instruction_; _A series of questions and answers on
Dr. Smith’s History of Greece_. _d._ Highlands, Leamington 12 May
1880 aged 73.
BICKNELL, ELHANAN (_son of Wm. Bicknell of London, serge
manufacturer who d. 21 Nov. 1825 aged 77_). _b._ Blackman st.
London 21 Dec. 1788; joined a firm at Newington Butts engaged in
the sperm whale fishery 1809 retired from business 1859; lived at
Herne hill, Surrey 1819 to death where he formed a splendid
collection of pictures by Gainsborough, Turner, Roberts and other
modern British painters, this collection was sold at Christie’s
25–29 April 1863 for sum of £74,380. _d._ Herne hill 27 Nov. 1861.
_Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 349–54 (1854).
BICKNELL, HENRY EDGEWORTH (_younger son of John Bicknell of
Lincoln’s Inn, barrister_). _b._ 1787; ed. at Greenwich; clerk to
the registrars of high court of Chancery June 1809; senior
registrar to 11 July 1859 when he retired on a superannuation
allowance of £2,250; served under 14 Lord Chancellors. _d._ 28
Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 20 Feb. 1879 in 92 year.
BICKNELL, HERMAN (_3 son of Elhanan Bicknell 1788–1861_). _b._ Herne
hill 2 April 1830; ed. at Paris, Hanover, Univ. coll. London and
St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant surgeon of 81
Foot 16 May 1855 and of 84 Foot 15 Feb. 1861; served during Indian
mutiny; explored parts of Java, Thibet and the Himalayas; went to
Cairo 1862; joined the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammed
at Mecca May 1862, a dangerous exploit which no other Englishman
had achieved without disguise of person or nationality; climbed
nearly all the chief mountains in Switzerland; travelled over
nearly the whole globe; author of _Hafiz of Shiraz, selections
from his poems translated from the Persian by H. Bicknell_ 1875.
_d._ 48 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 14 March 1875. _bur._ at
Ramsgate. _H. Bicknell’s Hafiz of Shiraz_ (1875) _ix-xii_, 365–68.
BIDDER, GEORGE PARKER (_son of Mr. Bidder of Moreton Hampstead,
Devon, stonemason_). _b._ Moreton Hampstead 14 June 1806; was
exhibited about England as the ‘calculating phenomenon’; ed. at
Camberwell gr. sch. 1818–19 and Univ. of Edin. 1819–24; engaged on
the ordnance survey 1824–25; civil engineer in London 1825–77;
A.I.C.E. 1825, M.I.C.E. 1837, member of council 1847 to death,
vice pres. 1854, pres. 1860 and 1861; a founder of Electric
Telegraph company 1846; constructed Victoria docks. London 100
acres for less than £870,000 in 1853; engineer of Royal Danish
railway opened 1855; originator of railway swing bridge, the first
of which was erected at Reedham in Norfolk; lieut. col. commandant
of Engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 1865. _d._
Ravensbury, Dartmouth 20 Sep. 1878. _I.L.N. xxviii_, 267–68
(1856), _portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv_, 251–80
(1856), lvii, 294–309 (1879), his contributions to these
proceedings embrace the whole range of engineering and require no
less than 16 columns of the general indexes for citation.
BIDDER, SAMUEL PARKER. _b._ 10 Nov. 1843; assistant manager to
Victoria Docks graving company; took out 2 patents for apparatus
for breaking down coal, shale, stone and other minerals 1868; took
out a patent for safety lamps 1869, which have come into very
general use in South Wales; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1868. _d._ Southsea 10
Jany. 1878.
BIDDLE, RICHARD JUNIUS (_3 son of Richard Biddle, of Wooton under
Edge, co. Gloucester_). _b._ 9 Nov. 1832; a marine artist;
exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. exhibition, and Royal
Academy 1877–80. _d._ 30 Nov. 1882.
BIDDLECOMBE, SIR GEORGE (_son of Thomas Biddlecombe of Sheerness
dockyard, who d. 12 Sep. 1844_). _b._ Portsea 5 Nov. 1807; officer
in H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1825–28; second master R.N. May 1828; master
of 6 different ships 1836–50; master of the Baltic fleet on board
Duke of Wellington 14 March to 27 Dec. 1854; assistant master
attendant in Keyham yard, Devonport 26 Feb. 1855 to 5 Nov. 1864;
master attendant of Woolwich yard 5 Nov. 1864 to Jany. 1868; C.B.
13 March 1867; staff captain 1 July 1867; knighted at Windsor
Castle 26 June 1873; granted a Greenwich hospital pension 29 May
1874; author of _Art of rigging_ 1848; _Remarks on the English
Channel_ 1850, _6 ed._ 1863; _Naval tactics and trials of sailing_
1850; _Steam fleet tactics 5 Nov. 1857_. _d._ 68 Granville park,
Lewisham 22 July 1878. _Autobiography of Sir George Biddlecombe_
1878.
BIDDULPH, EDWARD. Second lieutenant Bengal artillery 1806; lieut.
col. 6 Dec. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1846; C.B. 22 May 1843. _d._ Fitzroy
terrace, Regent’s park, London 3 Dec. 1858 aged 70.
BIDDULPH, ROBERT. _b._ 1801; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.;
M.P. for city of Hereford 12 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; sheriff of
Hereford 1857. _d._ 31 Eaton place, London 28 Feb. 1864.
BIDDULPH, ROBERT MYDDELTON. _b._ Manchester sq. London 20 June 1805;
ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Denbigh 1830–32, for
Denbighshire 1832–34 and 1852–68; colonel of Denbigh militia 3
March 1840 to death; lord lieut. of Denbighshire 1841 to death;
aide-de-camp to the Queen 1869 to death, _d._ 35 Grosvenor place,
London 21 March 1872.
BIDDULPH, SAMUEL. _b._ Hyson Green near Nottingham 23 Dec. 1840; a
lace maker; professional cricketer; a good batsman and bowler and
a first-rate wicket keeper; employed by the Marylebone Club at
Lord’s cricket ground, London 1863 to death, _d._ Mornington st.
Nottingham 7 March 1876.
BIDDULPH, SIR THEOPHILUS, 6 Baronet. _b._ East Barnet, Herts 25
March 1785; succeeded 30 July 1841; sheriff of Warwickshire 1849.
_d._ Birdingbury hall, Rugby 15 July 1854.
BIDDULPH, SIR THEOPHILUS WILLIAM, 7 Baronet. _b._ Nursling, Hants 18
Jany. 1830; succeeded 15 July 1854. _d._ Mentone 1 March 1883.
BIDDULPH, SIR THOMAS MYDDELTON (_2 son of Robert Biddulph of
Ledbury, Herefordshire who assumed name of Myddelton and d.
1843_). _b._ 29 July 1809; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 Life Guards 7
Oct. 1826; captain 16 May 1834 to 31 Oct. 1851 when placed on
h.p.; Master of the Queen’s household 16 July 1851 to 3 March 1866
and 16 July 1878 to death; one of joint keepers of Queen’s privy
purse 3 March 1866, sole keeper 30 April 1867; receiver general of
Duchy of Cornwall 31 March 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 27
March 1863; P.C. 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ Abergeldie Mains near Balmoral
28 Sep. 1878. _bur._ churchyard of Clewer near Windsor 7 Oct.
_Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the
Highlands_ (1884) 375–78; _Graphic xviii_, 392 (1878), _portrait_.
BIDWELL, JOHN. Superintendent of consular department in Foreign
Office 15 Jany. 1826 to 30 Sep. 1851 when he retired on pension.
_d._ Park place, St. James’s st. London 31 Oct. 1853 aged 70.
BIDWELL, JOHN CARNE (_eld. child of Joseph Bidwell of Exeter,
merchant_). _b._ Exeter 1815; a merchant at Sydney N.S.W. 1838;
made an exploring voyage to New Zealand 1839; comr. of crown lands
and chairman of bench of magistrates for district of Wide Bay
N.S.W.; discovered the Bunya Bunya tree (afterwards-named after
him Araucaria Bidwelli) and the Nymphæa gigantea; author of
_Rambles in New Zealand_ 1841. _d._ Tinana, Maryborough, Australia
March 1853.
BIGG, HENRY HEATHER (_son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical instrument
maker_). _b._ Dean st. Southwark 23 July 1826; studied at St.
George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in London; made the
substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers wounded in Crimean war;
A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of _On artificial limbs_ 1855;
_Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of deformities_ 1865, _3 ed._
1877; _The gentle treatment of spinal curvature_ 1875. _d._ 56
Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30 April 1881. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxviii_, 317–20 (1882).
BIGG, JOHN STANYAN. _b._ Ulverston, Lancashire 14 July 1828; editor
of the _Ulverston Advertiser_ 1848 to about 1854 and 1860 to
death, and proprietor 1863 to death; editor of the _Downshire
Protestant_ about 1854–60; author of _The sea King, a metrical
romance in 6 cantos_ 1848; _Night and the Soul, a dramatic poem_
1854; _Alfred Staunton, a novel_ 1860; _Shifting scenes and other
poems_ 1862. _d._ 7 Hoad terrace, Ulverston 19 May 1865.
_Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865 p._ 4, _col._ 5.
BIGGAR, WILLIAM. Editor and proprietor of _The railway times_ weekly
paper. _d._ Thorpe banks, Willow vale, Shepherd’s Bush 27 Dec.
1872 in 64 year.
BIGGE, ARTHUR (_7 son of Charles Wm. Bigge of Linden,
Northumberland_). _b._ 18 May 1818; ed. at Rugby and Univ. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Soul’s college, bursar
1848–58; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844; stipendiary magistrate for
Brighton (the first) 3 Feb. 1855 to 3 May 1884; started the plan
of presenting to the deserving aged poor of Brighton on St.
Thomas’s day annually sum of 10/- each. _d._ 23 Cambridge road
Hove, Brighton 28 Aug. 1885.