BRADSHAW, GEORGE (_only son of Thomas Bradshaw of Windsor Bridge,

Pendleton, Salford_). _b._ Windsor Bridge 29 July 1801; an

engraver and printer at Belfast 1820–21, and at Manchester 1821;

projected engraved and published maps of the English counties

1827; published _Bradshaw’s Railway map_ 1838; _Railway time

tables_ 1839; _Monthly railway guide_ Dec. 1841 _to death_;

_Continental railway guide_ June 1847 _to death_; _General railway

directory_ 1849–53; attempted to establish an ocean penny postage;

A.I.C.E. Feb. 1842. _d._ of Asiatic cholera near Christiania,

Norway 6 Sep. 1853. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 145–9

(1854); _Manchester Guardian 17 Sep. 1853, p._ 7.

BRADSHAW, HENRY (_son of J. H. Bradshaw of London_). _b._ London 2

Feb. 1831; ed. at East Sheen and Eton; scholar of King’s coll.

Cam. 1847, fellow 1854 to death, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; assistant

master at St. Columba’s college near Dublin for a year; principal

library assistant in Cambridge Univ. library March 1857 to Dec.

1858, superintendent of the manuscripts 1859–67, librarian 8 March

1867 to death; pres. of Library Association at the Cambridge

meeting 5–8 Sep. 1882; F.S.A. 26 March 1860; author of 17 papers

in _Antiquarian Communications_ of Cambridge Antiquarian Society,

and of a series of pamphlets which he called _Memoranda_, most

important being _The University library_ 1881; found dead in his

rooms at King’s coll. Cam. 11 Feb. 1886, having died about 11

p._m._ 10 Feb. _The library chronicle iii_, 25–36 (1886);

_Book-lore April 1886, pp._ 141–5.

BRADSHAW, JAMES HILL (_eld. son of J. F. Bradshaw, manager of Quebec

branch of Bank of Upper Canada_). _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down 21

Aug. 1834; ed. at Quebec; ensign 52 Foot 29 Feb. 1856, lieutenant

11 July 1856 to death; shot through the heart at Delhi 14 Sep.

1857. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians_ (1862)

712–19.

BRADSHAW, JOSEPH. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles

9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Kussowlie, North

Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851.

BRADSHAW, LAWRENCE. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot

1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1

March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12;

M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. _d._ Harley st. London 10 Jany.

1853 aged 84.

BRADSHAW, THOMAS JOSEPH CAVENDISH (_eld. son of Joseph Hoare

Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61_). _b._ 17

Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov.

1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge

of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to

death. _d._ in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884.

BRADSTREET, SIR SIMON, 4 Baronet. _b._ Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25

Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association

many years. _d._ Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853.

BRADWELL, EDMUND (_son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre

London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849_). Theatrical decorator and

mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical

changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of _Guy, Earl of Warwick_ at

Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her

Majesty’s and other theatres. _d._ 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship

lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. _Era 30 July 1871, p._ 11,

_col._ 4.

BRADY, SIR ANTONIO (_eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal

William victualling yard, Plymouth_). _b._ Deptford 10 Nov. 1811;

junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov.

1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844;

registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and

contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired

on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870;

promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of

Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of

Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in

Natural history museum Kensington; author of _The Church’s work

and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform_ 1869;

_Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex_ 1874. _d._

Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881.

_Geological Mag. 1882, p._ 93.

BRADY, ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Jacob Hutchinson of Islington,

London_). _b._ Islington 1803; ed. at Islington school where she

was successively apprentice, teacher, and governess, head mistress

there 1838–42; superintendent of the York Girls’ school 1842–46;

conducted a school for daughters of Friends at Edgbaston

Birmingham 1848–69. (_m._ 1828 Edward Foster Brady head master of

Islington school who _d._ 1838). _d._ Edgbaston 22 May 1874. _The

Annual Monitor for 1876, pp._ 20–25.

BRADY, SIR FRANCIS (_son of James Brady of Navan, Meath_). _b._

1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar

1836; chief justice of Newfoundland and judge of vice admiralty

court 15 Oct. 1847 to 1865; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. (_m._

1839 Kate dau. of David Lynch of Dublin, she _d._ 16 Jany. 1880).

_d._ 59 Burlington road, Bayswater London 29 Dec. 1871.

BRADY, SIR MAZIERE, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Francis Tempest Brady of

Dublin, gold and silver thread manufacturer 1763–1821_). _b._

Dublin 20 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. 1812–16, scholar

1814, B.A. 1816; called to Irish bar 1819; barrister I.T. 1835;

solicitor general for Ireland 1837; attorney general 1839; P.C.

Ireland 1839; chief baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Aug. 1840 to

1846; lord chancellor of Ireland 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jany. 1853 to

1858 and 1859 to 28 June 1866; vice chancellor of Queen’s Univ.

Ireland 1850 to death. _d._ 26 Upper Pembroke st. Dublin 13 April

1871. _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 270–7.

BRAE, ANDREW EDMUND. Practised as dentist at Leeds to 1872; lived in

Guernsey 1872 to death; author of _Literary cookery with reference

to matter attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare_ 1855;

_Electrical communication in railway trains_ 1865; _The treatise

on the Astrolabe of G. Chaucer, edited by A. E. B._ 1870; wrote

many papers on Shakespeare and Chaucer in first series of _Notes

and Queries_ under signature of A. E. B. _d._ London 10 Dec. 1881.

_bur._ Mont Durand, Guernsey. _Notes and Queries, 6 series vi_,

323 (1882).

BRAGGE, WILLIAM (_3 son of Thomas Perry Bragge of Birmingham,

manufacturing jeweller_). _b._ Birmingham 31 May 1823; a civil

engineer; constructed the first railway line in Brazil namely from

Rio Janeiro to Petropolis; knighted and made a chevalier by

Emperor of Brazil; partner with John Brown in Atlas Steel works,

Sheffield 1858–64 when works were sold to a limited company and he

received sum of £50,000, managing director of the company 1864–72;

established works at Birmingham for manufacture of watches by

machinery 1876 which became English Watch company in 1882;

M.I.M.E. 1854, F.S.A. 1870; sold his collection of illuminated

manuscripts for £12,272, June 1878, and his collection of 13000

pipes and smoking apparatus for £4,000 Feb. 1882; author of

_Bibliotheca Nicotiana, a catalogue of books about tobacco_ 1880.

_d._ 59 Hall road, Handsworth, Birmingham 6 June 1884.

BRAHAM, CHARLES BAMPFYLDE (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 20 Dec.

1823; made his first appearance on stage at Princess’s theatre

London 26 Oct. 1848 as Adelmar in Leoline; sang in Italy and

Portugal with great success. _d._ 103 Ebury st. Pimlico, London 11

June 1884.

BRAHAM, JOHN (_son of John Abraham of Goodman’s Fields, London, a

German Jew_). _b._ Goodman’s Fields 20 June 1773; pupil of Myer

Lyon otherwise Leoni; made his début at Bagnigge Wells assembly

rooms; changed his name to Braham 1787; sang at Bath 1794–6, Drury

Lane 1796, in Paris 1797 and Italy 1798–1801,at Covent Garden

1801–5 and Drury Lane 1805–24; sang in Italian opera at King’s

theatre London 1804–6 and 1816; made £14,000 per annum 1801–24;

built St. James’s theatre London in 14 weeks at cost of £36,000

Sep.-Dec. 1835, managed it 1835–9; sang in New York Nov. 1840;

composed music to _The Cabinet_ 1801; _Family Quarrells_ 1802 and

10 other dramas. _d._ The Grange, Brompton, London 17 Feb. 1856.

_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii_, 145–59 (1825), _portrait_;

_Metropolitan Mag. xviii_, 130–42 (1837); _Stirling’s Old Drury

Lane ii_, 91–5 (1881); _I.L.N. xx_, 245–6 (1852), _portrait_; P.

_Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii_, 226, _vi_, 145.

BRAID, GEORGE ROSS. _b._ May 1813; made his first appearance in

London at Adelphi theatre 29 Sep. 1843; acted at Haymarket theatre

many years. _d._ Holly house, Kennington road London 18 Feb. 1878.

BRAID, JAMES (_son of Mr. Braid of Rylaw, Fifeshire_). _b._ Rylaw

about 1795; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin.; surgeon at

Manchester; investigated subject of mesmerism 1841; author of

_Neurypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep_ 1843; _The power

of the mind over the body_ 1846; _Magic, witchcraft, animal

magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology 3 ed._ 1852. _d._ 25

March 1860. _Med. Times and Gaz. i_, 355, 386 (1860); _Manchester

Courier 31 March 1860_.

BRAIDWOOD, JAMES (_son of Mr. Braidwood of Edinburgh, builder_).

_b._ Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s

business; superintendent of Edinburgh fire engines 1823; published

his work “_On the construction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the

training of firemen and the method of proceeding in cases of

Fire_” 1830; superintendent of London Fire Engine establishment

formed by 8 of the Insurance companies 1 Jany. 1833; A.I.C.E.

1833; read many papers on subject of fires at Institute of Civil

Engineers and Society of Arts; killed in great fire at Cotton’s

wharf, Tooley st. London 22 June 1861 which continued burning for

a month and destroyed property of the value of £2,000,000. _J.

Braidwood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author_ (1866),

_portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 571–8 (1862).

BRAITHWAITE, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Kendal 15 April 1818; ed. at Sedbergh

sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Perry

Barr, Staffs. 1847–51; V. of St. Peter the Great, Chichester

1851–68; sub-dean of Chichester cathedral 1853–68; author of

_Sonnets and other poems_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1875. _d._ Beechfield,

Carnforth, Lancashire 2 April 1875. _Sonnets by the late Rev. G.

Braithwaite_, _2 ed._ 1875 _preface_.

BRAITHWAITE, JOHN (_3 son of John Braithwaite of London, engineer

who d. June 1818_). _b._ 1 Bath place, New road London 19 March

1797; engineer in London 1818–44; ventilated House of Lords by

means of air pumps 1820; constructed the first practical steam

fire engine; engineer of Eastern Counties railway 1836–43; joint

founder with J. C. Robertson of the _Railway Times_ 1837, sole

proprietor 1837–45 when his affairs were wound up; surveyed lines

in France 1844–46; F.S.A. 1819, M.I.C.E. 1838; author of

_Supplement to Capt. Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a second voyage

in search of a North-West passage_ 1835. _d._ 8 Clifton gardens,

Paddington London 25 Sep. 1870. _Mechanic’s Mag. xiii_, 235–7,

377–88, 417–9 (1830), _portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of

C.E. xxxi_, 207–11 (1871).

BRAME, BENJAMIN. Attorney at Ipswich 1798 to death; bailiff of

Ipswich 1820 and 1822; the first mayor of Ipswich 1835. _d._ 21

July 1851 aged 78. _G.M. xxxvi_, 332 (1851).

BRAMSTON, THOMAS WILLIAM (_elder son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston of

Skreens, Essex 1770–1831, M.P. for Essex_). _b._ 30 Oct. 1796; ed.

at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; fellow of All

Souls’ college; M.P. for South Essex 19 Jany. 1835 to 6 July 1865.

_d._ 30 Eccleston sq. London 21 May 1871.

BRAMWELL, JOHN (_son of Rev. Wm. Bramwell, Wesleyan minister who d.

1818_). _b._ 24 April 1794; attorney at Durham 1815; alderman of

Durham 1835–52; mayor 1840, 41, 45, 52 and 1853; undersheriff of

co. Durham 1840; recorder of Durham and steward of Court Leet and

Court Baron of city of Durham March 1860 to death. _d._ Framwell

gate, Durham 25 Nov. 1882.

BRANCKER, SIR THOMAS (_eld. child of Peter Whitfield Brancker of

Liverpool 1750–1836_). _b._ Liverpool 17 Sep. 1783; sugar refiner

at Liverpool; mayor of Liverpool 1830; knighted at St. James’s

palace, London 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13

Feb. 1853.

BRANCKER, WILLIAM GODEFROY (_son of W. Brancker of Erbstock hall,

Ruabon_). _b._ 27 March 1834; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; lieut. R.A. 6

March 1856; lieut. col. 4 Oct. 1882 to death; instructor in

artillery at Woolwich 1872–80; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Ipswich 22

May 1885.

BRAND, SIR CHRISTOFFEL JOSEPH (_son of Johannes Henricus Brand,

member of Court of Justice in Cape Colony_). _b._ 1797; ed. at

Leyden, doctor in philosophy and law 1820; admitted advocate in

Court of Justice, Cape of Good Hope 1821; member of legislative

council 1850; speaker of house of assembly 1854 to death; knighted

by patent 24 May 1860. _d._ 20 May 1875.

BRAND, FERDINAND. Comptroller of Bridge house estates, City of

London 1839 to Dec. 1878, and of the Chamber, City of London 1854

to Dec. 1878. _d._ Craigmillar, Avenue road, Crouch End 1 Nov.

1880 in 80 year.

BRAND, GEORGE. _b._ Arbuthnott, Aberdeenshire 1816; ed. at King’s

coll. Aberdeen, B.A., M.A.; vice consul at Loanda 27 Dec. 1844 to

31 July 1856; author of various Reports including a very able one

on the Decree of the Portuguese government for registration and

emancipation of slaves in the Colonial possessions of Portugal;

consul at Lagos, West Africa 10 June 1859 to death. _d._ on board

H.M.’s steamer Alecto 16 June 1860.

BRAND, JOHN. _b._ Armenia; lived some time there; compiled a

dictionary of the Armenian language, shutting himself up in a

convent for that purpose; had an estate at Sutton near Ipswich; a

successful batsman for about 15 seasons in great cricket matches,

played his first match at Lords 31 May 1815; one of the very best

amateur boxers and chess-players. _d._ in a private lunatic asylum

at Ticehurst, Sussex April 1856 aged 66.

BRAND, WILLIAM ALLAN. Editor of the _Montrose Review_. _d._

Inchbridge near Montrose 7 Feb. 1869 aged 31.

BRAND, WILLIAM. _b._ Blackhouse parish of Peterhead 1807; a writer

to the signet 1834; partner in firm of Scott and Balderston of

Edinburgh; secretary to Union Bank of Scotland, Edin. 1846 to

death; a founder of Botanical Society of Edin. 8 Feb. 1836,

treasurer 17 March 1836, contributed many papers, enriched its

herbarium with many thousand specimens of plants; discovered

several rare and new plants in Scotland. _d._ Edinburgh 15 Oct.

1869. _Trans. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. x_, 284–8 (1870).

BRANDARD, ROBERT. _b._ Birmingham 1805; landscape engraver in London

1826 to death; engraved plates for Turner’s _England_ and _Rivers

of England_ and other books, also for the _Art Journal_; produced

some etchings from his own designs, one series of which was

published by the Art Union 1864; painted both in oils and

water-colours; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 21 at British

Institution and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1831–58. _d._ Campden

hill, Kensington, London 7 Jany. 1862.

BRANDE, EVERARD AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of Augustus Everard Brande of

Arlington st. London, apothecary to George iii._) _b._ Arlington

st. 1776; ed. at Westminster sch.; studied at St. George’s

hospital 1795; apothecary to George iii and Queen Charlotte 1801;

apothecary to William iv and Queen Adelaide 1830–33 when he

retired from practice; a member of first Court of Examiners of

Society of Apothecaries 1815; presented to College of Phys.

valuable collection of Materia Medica made by Dr. Burgess. _d._

Sulhamstead house, Turnham-Green, London 11 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and

mag. of biog. i_, 312 (1869).

BRANDE, GEORGE WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). Chief clerk of

the Treasury many years. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1854 aged 69.

BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Arlington

st. 11 Jany. or Feb. 1788; ed. at Westminster; began lecturing on

chemistry 1808; F.R.S. 13 April 1809, Copley medallist 1813, one

of secretaries 1816–26; professor of chemistry to Apothecaries

company 4 Nov. 1812 and professor of materia medica 1813, master

of the Company 1851; professor of chemistry at Royal Institution

May 1813 to 1854; superintendent of die department of Mint 1825

and of coining department 1854; edited with M. Faraday _Quarterly

journal of science and arts_ 1816–36; author of _Outlines of

geology_ 1817, _2 ed._ 1829; _A manual of chemistry_ 1819, _6 ed.

2 vols._ 1848; _A manual of pharmacy_ 1825, _3 ed._ 1833; edited

_A dictionary of science literature and art_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853.

_d._ Tunbridge Wells 11 Feb. 1866. _Proc. of Royal Society xvi_,

2–6 (1868); _S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1_ (1853), _portrait_.

BRANDLING, JOHN JAMES. Second lieut. R.A. 19 March 1839; lieut. col.

8 March 1860 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Woodsley house,

Leeds 16 April 1860 aged 39.

BRANDON, JOHN RAPHAEL. _b._ 1817; articled to W. Parkinson,

architect 1836; practised at Beaufort buildings, Strand, London

with his brother Joshua Arthur Brandon 1841–7 when the latter

died; joint architect with Robert Ritchie of Catholic Apostolic

church, Gordon sq. London, opened 1 Jany. 1854; architect of St.

Peter’s church, Great Windmill st. Piccadilly 1861; one of the 11

architects who competed for Royal Courts of Justice, London 1867;

author with his brother of _Analysis of Gothick architecture 2

vols._ 1847; _Views of English ecclesiastical structures_ 1848,

_new ed. 2 vols._ 1858; _Open timber roofs of the middle ages_

1849; _Railways and the Public_ 1868, _8 ed._ 1871; shot himself

at his chambers 17 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London 8 Oct. 1877.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS ALSTON. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1797; colonel

23 Nov. 1841 to death; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; C.B. 26

Sep. 1831. _d._ Chudleigh, Devon 24 Sep. 1851 aged 72.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS SHAW (_2 son of Joseph Brandreth M.D. of

Liverpool, physician 1746–1815_). _b._ 24 July 1788; ed. at Eton

and Trin. coll. Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and

chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his

college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for

Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years;

invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a

double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented

a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving

platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too

expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States

where it is still employed; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; author of

_Homer’s Iliad with notes 2 vols._ 1841 in which the Digamma was

restored throughout for sake of the metre; _A dissertation on the

metre of Homer_ 1844; _Homer’s Iliad_, _translated 2 vols._ 1846.

_d._ The Steyne, Worthing 27 May 1873.

BRANDT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (_eld. son of Rev. Francis Brandt R. of

Gawsworth Cheshire who d. 1870_). _b._ Gawsworth rectory 1819; ed.

at Macclesfield gr. sch.; practised as special pleader; barrister

I.T. 30 April 1847; leader of Chester and Knutsford sessions;

reported for the _Times_ in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to

_Bells Life in London_; author of _Habet, a short treatise on the

law of the land as it effects pugilism_ 1857; _Fur and feathers_

1859; _Frank Marland’s Manuscripts_ 1859; _Games, gaming and

gamester’s law_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ 8 Fig tree court, Temple

London 6 Dec. 1874.

BRANDT, ROBERT. Barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; went northern circuit;

commissioner in Bankruptcy for Manchester; judge of Bury Court of

Requests; judge of Manchester county court March 1847 to death.

_d._ Pendleton near Manchester 15 April 1862. _Law Times xxxvii_,

321 (1862).

BRANKS, REV. WILLIAM. Minister of parish of Torpichen; published

anonymously _Heaven our Home_ 1861, _new ed._ 1864, sale of which

reached considerably over 100,000 copies; _Zion’s King_ 1859;

preserved anonymous character of his works to the last. _d._

Torpichen 18 Feb. 1879.

BRANSON, WILLIAM SCHOLES. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool 1847

or before; manager of Adelphi theatre Liverpool; author of many

plays. _d._ Fairfield, Liverpool Jany. 1884 aged 74.

BRANT, JAMES. Vice consul at Trebizond 31 March 1830; consul at

Erzeroom 27 April 1836 and at Damascus Sep. 1856 to 2 Nov. 1860

when he retired on a pension; C.B. 31 Oct. 1860. _d._

Cliftonville, Brighton 24 Nov. 1861.

BRANT, REV. WILLIAM HOLT. Consular chaplain at St. Michael’s in the

Azores 11 Nov. 1834 to 25 April 1865. _d._ Lisbon 20 April 1867

aged 90.

BRANWHITE, CHARLES (_son of Nathan Branwhite of Bristol, miniature

painter_). _b._ Bristol 1817; landscape painter especially of

frost scenes; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 25 at British

Institution and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–57. _d._ Bramford

house, Westfield park, Redland, Bristol 15 Feb. 1880. _I.L.N.

lxxvi_, 285 (1880), _portrait_.

BRASIER, JAMES. Entered navy 3 Dec. 1799; captain 10 Jany. 1837;

V.A. on h.p. 14 Nov. 1863. _d._ Bradney near Bridgnorth 28 July

1864 aged 80.

BRASSEY, THOMAS (_son of John Brassey of Buerton, Aldford, Cheshire,

farmer_). _b._ Buerton 7 Nov. 1805; land surveyor at Birkenhead

1826; railway contractor in London 1836; made line from Paris to

Rouen 1841–3 and from Rouen to Havre 1843–5; contractor for Great

Northern railway 1847–51, railways in Italy 1850–3, Grand Trunk

railway of Canada 1852–9 and railways in Australia 1859–63;

established with E. T. Betts and M. Peto Canada works at

Birkenhead 1853. _d._ Hastings 8 Dec. 1870. _Life by Arthur Helps_

1872, _portrait_; _J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862) 145–54;

_Work and wages practically illustrated_, _by T. Brassey, M.P.

1872_.

NOTE.—He laid out £78,000,000 of other people’s money and upon

that outlay retained £2,500,000 being as nearly as possible

three per cent.; he had in his employ at one time upwards of

30,000 men on railways in Europe; his will was proved in

London 7 Feb. 1871, personalty being sworn under £3,200,000.

BRAVO, CHARLES DELAUNEY TURNER (_only son of Charles Turner of the

Isle of Jersey_). _b._ 39 Upper Charlotte st. Tottenham Court

road, London 30 Nov. 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin.

coll. Ox., admitted gentleman commoner 16 Jany. 1864, B.A. 1866,

M.A. 1868; barrister M.T. 30 April 1870, went Home circuit;

changed his name to Bravo 1868 or 1869. (_m._ 7 Dec. 1875 Florence

eld. dau. of Robert Campbell of Buscot park near Reading, she was

_b._ 5 Sep. 1845, _m._ (1) 21 Sep. 1864 Alexander Lewis Ricardo,

Ensign Grenadier Guards (who _d._ 19 April 1871), she _d._ at

Lumps villa Southsea 17 Sep. 1878 and was _bur._ at Farringdon,

Berkshire 21 Sep.) C. D. T. Bravo _d._ suddenly and mysteriously

from taking tartar emetic at The Priory Bedford hill road, Balham

Surrey 21 April 1876. _bur._ Lower Norwood cemetery 1 May. _The

Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 7 numbers 56 pages_

(1876), _portraits_.

NOTE.—There was a coroner’s inquest held at which no

conclusion was arrived at as to how the poison was

administered, a renewed inquest was opened by the Coroner for

East Surrey 11 July 1876 which lasted till 11 Aug. when the

coroner’s jury returned the following verdict, “We find that

the deceased did not commit suicide, but that he was wilfully

murdered by the administration of tartar emetic, but there is

not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any person or

persons.” In consequence of this decision the Government

offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the

conviction of the murderer, but nothing more was ever found

out.

BRAY, ANNA ELIZA (_only dau. of John Kemp of the Mint, London,

bullion porter 1748–1823_). _b._ St. Mary Newington, Surrey 25

Dec. 1790; author of _Traditions, legends, superstitions and

sketches of Devonshire, the Tamar and the Tavy 3 vols._ 1838;

_Trelawnie of Trelawne or the prophecy 3 vols., 2 ed._ 1845;

_Henry de Pomeroy or the eve of St. John 3 vols._ 1842, _new ed._

1846; _Handel, his life personal and professional_ 1857; _Joan of

Arc_ 1874. (_m._ (1) Feb. 1818 Charles Alfred Stothard, historical

draughtsman who _d._ 28 May 1821, _m._ (2) 1822 Rev. Edward Atkyns

Bray, V. of Tavistock who _d._ 1857). She _d._ 40 Brompton

Crescent, London 21 Jany. 1883. _Mrs. Bray’s Autobiography_ 1844,

_portrait_; _Library Chronicle i_, 126–9 (1884); _I.L.N. lxxxii_,

197 (1883), _portrait_.

BRAY, CHARLES (_son of Mr. Bray of Coventry, ribbon manufacturer who

d. 1835_). _b._ Coventry 31 Jany. 1811; ribbon manufacturer at

Coventry 1835–56; helped to establish Coventry Labourers’ and

Artisans’ Society 1843 which developed into a co-operative society

of which he was president; started a working man’s club 1845;

purchased _The Coventry Herald and Observer_ 1846 which he sold to

J. M. Scott 1874; author of _Education of the feelings_ 1838, _4

ed._ 1872; _Philosophy of necessity 2 vols._ 1841, _2 ed._ 1863;

_Outlines of social systems and communities_ 1844; _A manual of

anthropology_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1883; _Psychological and ethical

definitions on a physiological basis_ 1879 and a number of

pamphlets. _d._ 5 Oct. 1884. _C. Bray’s Phases of opinion and

experience during a long life_ (1884), _portrait_; _George Eliot’s

Life, by J. W. Cross_ 1885.

BRAY, REV. EDWARD ATKYNS (_only son of Edward Bray of Tavistock,

solicitor_). _b._ the Abbey house, Tavistock 18 Dec. 1778; a

student at M.T. 1801, barrister M.T. 1806; ordained by bishop of

Norwich about 1811; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. 1812, B.D. 1822;

V. of Tavistock 1812 to death; P.C. of Brent Tor, Devon 1812 to

death; author of _Sermons from the works of the most eminent

divines_ 1818; _Discourses from tracts and treatises of eminent

divines_ 1821; _Discourses on Protestantism_ 1829; _Poetical

remains 2 vols._ 1859. _d._ Tavistock 17 July 1857. _Poetical

remains of the late E. A. Bray i_, _pp. ix-lii_, (1859),

_portrait_.

BRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM. Ensign 67 Foot 12 Jany. 1805; major 39 Foot 9

Nov. 1841 to 7 Aug. 1846 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 2 May

1844. _d._ Montpellier villas, Brighton 3 Dec. 1859 aged 70.

BRAY, GEORGE FREDERICK CAMPBELL. _b._ 23 April 1826; ensign 39 Foot

22 March 1844; lieut. col. 96 Foot 14 Sep. 1870 to 13 March 1878

when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general second division

Abyssinian expedition 11 Nov. 1867 to 7 June 1868; deputy A.A.G.

Bombay 20 Sep. 1872 to 15 Nov. 1873; A.A.G. and Q.M.G. southern

district 15 March 1878 to 31 March 1883; hon. M.G. 26 Sep. 1883.

_d._ 16 Kidbrook Green, Blackheath 26 Sep. 1884.

BRAY, REGINALD (_son of Edward Bray of Shere near Guildford

1768–1814, treasurer of Society of Antiquaries_). _b._ 26 Jany.

1797; solicitor in London 1818 to death; F.S.A. 26 Nov. 1829;

printed many papers on reforms of the law; author of _Concise

directions for obtaining Lord Chancellors orders for election and

removal of coroners of counties_ 1831. _d._ Shere 9 Sep. 1879.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD GRIFFIN NEVILLE, 3 Baron (_eld. son of Richard

Aldworth Neville Griffin, 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825_). _b._

Stanlake, Berks. 26 Sep. 1783; ed. at Sunbury, Eton and Magd.

coll. Cam., M.A. 1811, D.C.L. Ox. 1810; M.P. for Thirsk 1805–1806,

for Saltash 1806–1807, for Buckingham 1807–1812 and for Berkshire

(after a 15 days poll) 12 Oct. 1812 to 28 Feb. 1825 when he

succeeded as 3 Baron; recorder of Saffron Walden to 1835; pres. of

Camden Society and of Surtees Society; edited _Diary and

correspondence of Samuel Pepys 2 vols._ 1825, _4 ed. 4 vols._

1854; _Life of Jane Lady Cornwallis_ 1842; author of _History of

Audley End and Saffron Walden_ 1835. _d._ Audley End 13 March

1858.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD CORNWALLIS NEVILLE, 4 Baron (_eld. son of the

preceding_). _b._ St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 17 March

1820; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 2 June 1837, lieut. 31

Dec. 1841 to 1842 when he sold out; F.S.A. 25 March 1847;

succeeded 13 March 1858; author of _Saxon Obsequies discovered in

Cambridgeshire_ 1852. _d._ Audley End 22 Feb. 1861.

BRAYBROOKE, SAMUEL. Second lieut. 1 Ceylon regiment 17 Dec. 1812,

lieut. col. 26 Jany. 1844 to 11 June 1859; col. 99 Foot 26 Jany.

1866 to death; general 16 April 1875. _d._ 3 Gledhow gardens,

South Kensington, London 7 Oct. 1880 aged 84.

BRAYBROOKE, WILLIAM LEMAN (_2 son of the preceding_). Ensign 90 Foot

29 March 1844; ensign 15 Foot 6 June 1845; ensign Ceylon Rifles 11

July 1845, lieut. 10 Jany. 1847 to death, adjutant 7 April 1848 to

1854; served with and carried colours of 95 Foot in Crimean war

1854. _d._ on board H.M.S. Vulcan in Black Sea 21 Sep. 1854 from

wounds received at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. _The diary of the

late W. L. Braybrooke_ 1855.

BRAYE, SARAH OTWAY-CAVE, Baroness. _b._ July 1767. (_m._ 25 Feb.

1790 Henry Otway who was _b._ 1769 and _d._ 13 Sep. 1815); barony

of Braye in abeyance since 1557 was revived in her favour 3 Oct.

1839. _d._ 14 Great Stanhope st. London 21 Feb. 1862.

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE. _b._ Lambeth, Surrey 1773; apprenticed to

an enameller at Clerkenwell; prepared enamel plates for Henry

Bone; edited with John Britton _The beauties of England and Wales

10 vols._ 1801–14; sec. and librarian to Russell Institution 55

Great Coram st. London 1826 to death; F.S.A. 1823; author of _The

history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter

Westminster 2 vols._ 1818; _Historical and descriptive account of

the theatres of London_ 1826; _Londiniana, or reminiscences of the

British metropolis 4 vols._ 1829; _The graphic and historical

illustrator_, a periodical July 1832 to Nov. 1834; _A

topographical history of the county of Surrey 5 vols._ 1841–8 and

many other books. _d._ 55 Great Coram st. London 23 Sep. 1854.

_Memoir by John Britton privately printed_ 1855; _G.M. xlii_, 538,

582 (1854).

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ London

1801; studied science at London and Royal Institutions; joint

librarian of the London Institution 1834 where he also lectured,

sole librarian 1865 to death, and professor of physical geography

and meteorology 1865 to death; an original member of Zoological

society 1826 and of Chemical society of London 1841; F.R.S. 1 June

1854; F.R.A.S. Nov. 1866; one of the editors 1822–45 of _Annals of

philosophy_, _Zoological journal_, and _Philosophical Magazine_ to

all of which he contributed papers; author of _Ancient castles of

England and Wales 2 vols._ 1825. _d._ 53 Oakley road, London 1

Feb. 1870. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxii_, 111

(1872).

BREADALBANE, JOHN CAMPBELL, 2 Marquis of (_only son of John

Campbell, 1 Marquis of Breadalbane 1762–1834_). _b._ Nethergate,

Dundee 26 Oct. 1796; ed. at Glasgow college; M.P. for Okehampton

1820–26; M.P. for Perthshire 29 Dec. 1832 to 29 March 1834 when he

succeeded as 2 Marquis; F.R.S. 5 June 1834; K.T. 21 March 1838;

lieut. and sheriff principal of Argyllshire 5 Dec. 1839; presided

over meeting of British Association at Glasgow 1840; lord rector

of Univ. of Glasgow 1841; received Queen Victoria at Taymouth

Castle, Perthshire on her first visit to Scotland 8 Sep. 1842;

lord chamberlain of the household 1848–52 and 1853–58; P.C. 4 Sep.

1848; colonel of Argyll and Bute militia 18 Sep. 1854 to death.

_d._ Lausanne 8 Nov. 1862. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone

days_ (1879) 6–17.

BREADALBANE, JOHN ALEXANDER GAVIN Campbell, 6 Earl of. _b._ London

30 March 1824; ensign 79 Foot 2 Aug. 1842; captain 1 Foot 4 Aug.

1854 to 12 Jany. 1855 when he sold out; succeeded 8 Nov. 1862,

confirmed as 6 Earl by Court of Session 1866 and by House of Lords

1867; a frequent correspondent of _The Field_; a great salmon

fisher. _d._ 4B The Albany, Piccadilly, London 20 March 1871. _J.

Paterson’s Breadalbane succession case_ 1863.

BREEKS, JAMES WILKINSON. _b._ Edengate, Warcop, Westmoreland 5 March

1830; entered Madras civil service 1849, private sec. to Sir W. T.

Denison governor of Madras 1861–64; comr. of the Nilagiris,

principal sanatorium of South of India to death; made a complete

collection of arms, ornaments, dresses and implements in use among

four aboriginal tribes of the Nilagiris and of contents of many

cairns and cromlechs; author of _An account of the primitive

tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris_ 1873. (_m._ 19 Feb. 1863

Susan Maria eld. dau. of Sir. W. T. Denison). _d._ Madras 6 June

1872.

BREEN, JAMES (_2 son of Hugh Breen who superintended Lunar

reductions at Royal Observatory, Greenwich_). _b._ Armagh 5 July

1826; a calculator at Royal Observatory, Greenwich Aug. 1842 to

Aug. 1846 and at Cambridge Observatory Aug. 1846 to Dec. 1858;

observed the total eclipse of the sun at Camuesa in Spain 18 July

1860; F.R.A.S. 10 June 1862; author of _The Planetary Worlds, the

topography and telescopic appearance of the sun, planets, moon and

comets_ 1854; contributed to _Popular Science Review_ and other

periodicals generally anonymously. _d._ 25 Aug. 1866. _Monthly

notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxvii_, 104 (1867).

BREESE, EDWARD. _b._ 13 April 1835; ed. at Lewisham, Kent; admitted

solicitor 1857; practised at Dolgelly to death; clerk of the peace

for Merionethshire; F.S.A. 21 March 1872; author of _Kalendars of

Gwynedd, or chronological lists of lords-lieutenant, sheriffs and

knights of the shire for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon and

Merioneth_ 1873. _d._ Morva lodge, Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire 10

March 1881. _Law Times lxx_, 357, 413 (1881).

BREFFIT, EDGAR. _b._ Cromford near Matlock 12 June 1810; founded a

glass bottle manufactory in City of London which became the

leading house, trading as Aire and Calder glass bottle company at

Castleford Yorkshire and Free trade wharf London; took out patents

for stoppered bottles and for making large bottles with taps for

drawing off the contents; member of court of common council for

Dowgate ward 1865; sheriff of London 1875–6; alderman of ward of

Cheap 1877 to death. _d._ The Glebe, Lee Kent 18 Oct. 1882.

_I.L.N. lxvii_, 475 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 446 (1875),

_portrait_.

BREMNER, JAMES. _b._ Keiss, parish of Wick, Caithnessshire 25 Sep.

1784; shipbuilder at Wick 1809 to death; designed and constructed

many harbours and piers on north coast of Scotland; raised 236

wrecked vessels between Aberdeenshire and Isle of Skye; removed

steamer Great Britain off strand in Dundrum bay 1847, she was

stranded 22 Sep. 1846 and floated 27 Sep. 1847; author of

_Treatise on the planning and constructing of harbours in deep

water_ 1845. _d._ Harbour place, Pulteney Town, Wick 20 Aug. 1856.

_Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 113–20 (1857).

BREMRIDGE, RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1803; solicitor at Barnstaple

1825; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52, re-elected 8 July 1852 but

election declared void; M.P. for Barnstaple 1863–65. _d._ Exmouth

15 June 1878.

BRENNAN, VERY REV. PATRICK. _b._ Carlow; one of the Superiors of

Carlow college 1812–20; priest of parish of Kildare 1820;

Penitentiary of dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. _d._ Kildare

1864.

BRENT, JOHN (_eld. son of John Brent of Rotherhithe, Kent,

shipbuilder 1786–1867_). _b._ Rotherhithe 21 Aug. 1808; a miller

at Canterbury; alderman; city treasurer; F.S.A. 7 April 1853;

author of _The sea wolf, a romance_ 1834; _Lays and legends of

Kent_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1851; _The battle cross, a romance of the

fourteenth century 3 vols._ 1845; _Canterbury in the olden time_

1860, _2 ed._ 1879; _Village bells and other poems_ 1865, _2 ed._

1868 and of many papers in antiquarian magazines. _d._ 8 Dane John

grove, Canterbury 23 April 1882. C. R. _Smith’s Retrospections i_,

259, 303 (1883); _Journal of Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xxxviii_, 235–6

(1882).

BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT. Barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813; comr. of

bankrupts to 1831; steward of Marshalsea Court and Palace Court,

Great Scotland yard, Westminster 16 Sep. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1849 when

they were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. xiii; probably

dead.

BRENTON, JOHN. _b._ 28 Aug. 1782; entered navy 28 Aug. 1798; captain

26 Dec. 1822; retired V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; knight of Russian order

of St. Vladimir. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 17 Sep. 1859.

BRENTON, SIR LANCELOT CHARLES LEE, 2 Baronet (_younger son of Vice

Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1 Baronet 1770–1844_). _b._ 1807; ed.

at Hyde abbey sch. Winchester, and Oriel college Oxford; ordained

1830; seceded from Church of England Dec. 1831; took a small

chapel at Bath and set up a new sect which died out with its

founder; succeeded 21 April 1844; author of _The Septuagint

version of the Old Testament according to the Vatican text

translated into English 2 vols._ 1844; _Cardiphonia Latina_, _3

ed. 1850_; _Diaconia, or thoughts on the subject of Ministry_

1852; _Psalms: Bible and Prayer book version, parallel_ 1860. _d._

Montagu house, Ryde 13 June 1862. _Memoir of Sir Jahleel Brenton

re-edited by his son_ [_Rev. L. C. L. Brenton_] 1855, _preface

vii-cxxv_; _Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_, 114–20 (1882).

BRERETON, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_eld. son of Rev. Charles David

Brereton, R. of Little Massingham, Norfolk_). _b._ 19 April 1820;

ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. James

Piccadilly 1848–49; R. of St. Edmund Norwich 1849–52; consular

chaplain at Malaga, Spain 27 Aug. 1850 to 30 April 1859; R. of

Bixley with Framlingham Earl, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of

_Lectures for travellers_ 1854; _Verses and lectures_ 1868. _d._

Lowestoft 15 April 1876.

BRERETON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of major Robert Brereton who fought at

Culloden_). _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805; lieut. col. 17

Aug. 1843 to 16 Dec. 1854; served in Spain, France and the

Netherlands; granted service reward 1 April 1856; head of Irish

constabulary short time; K.H. 1837; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 28

June 1861; L.G. 27 June 1864; author of _The British fleet in the

Black Sea while under the command of Vice Admiral J. W. D.

Dundas_, _privately printed 1857_. _d._ 3E Albany, Piccadilly,

London 27 July 1864. _I.L.N. xlv_, 154, 299 (1864).

BRERETON, WILLIAM WESTROPP (_4 son of Arthur Brereton of Ballyadams

Queen’s county_). _b._ 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832,

M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar 1836; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9

Nov. 1852; assistant barrister for co. Kerry 1858; chairman of

quarter sessions for co. Galway 1858 to death. _d._ Fitzwilliam

sq. north, Dublin 13 Dec. 1867. _Law mag. and law review v_, 260

(1855).

BRETT, HARRY AUGUSTUS. Writer Madras civil service 1831; collector

of Salem 1860; member of Board of Revenue 1862–65; pres. of Income

tax commission 1862–67; resigned the service 27 May 1867. _d._ 20

Dec. 1867.

BRETT, JOHN WATKINS (_son of Wm. Brett of Bristol, cabinet maker_).

_b._ Bristol 1805; Telegraphic engineer; laid a gutta percha wire

between Dover and Cape Grisnez 1850 by which the first submarine

message was sent from England to France; laid cables between Dover

and Calais 1851, Dover and Ostend 1853, and Sardinia and France

1854; mainly instrumental in forming Atlantic Telegraph Company

1856; director of Submarine Telegraph Co.; made a splendid

collection of works of art; author of _On the origin and progress

of the Oceanic telegraph_ 1858. _d._ Lunatic asylum, Coton Hill,

Stafford 3 Dec. 1863 bequeathing one tenth of his large property

to charity. _Notes and Queries 3 S. viii_, 203 (1865).

BRETT, ROBERT. _b._ at or near Luton Beds. 11 Sep. 1808; ed. at St.

George’s hospital London, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1830; assistant to

Samuel Reynolds of Stoke Newington surgeon, partner with him 1860

to death; founded the Guild of St. Luke, a band of medical men who

co-operate with the clergy; vice pres. of London Union on church

matters 1850; one of founders and vice pres. with Dr. Pusey of

English Church Union 1860; author of _The Churchman’s guide to

faith and piety by R. B._ 1862, _5 ed._ 1871; _Scripture history

for the young_ 1845; _Devotions for the sick room_ 1843;

_Companion for the sick room_ 1844; _Thoughts during sickness, 4

ed._ 1870 and 11 other books. _d._ Stoke Newington 3 Feb. 1874.

_Robert Brett. In memoriam reprints from the principal church

journals including a sermon by Rev. J. W. Belcher_ 1874.

BRETT, WILLIAM FREELAND. _b._ 19 Oct. 1821; ensign 54 Foot 1 April

1842, major 14 Aug. 1857; major 61 Foot 27 Sep. 1861; lieut. col.

brigade depot 26 Jany. 1876; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired

list 1 July 1881. _d._ Colchester 10 Nov. 1884.

BRETT, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Dover; left Dover on his first

journey to Demerara as missionary from S.P.G. 10 Feb. 1840;

ordained deacon 1843 and priest 1844; chaplain to Bishop of Guiana

and R. of Holy Trinity Essequibo 1851–79; author of _The Indian

tribes of Guiana_ 1852; _Legends and myths of the aboriginal

Indians of British Guiana_ 1880; _Mission work among the Indian

tribes in the forests of Guiana_ 1881. _d._ Bowruma, Totnes road,

Paignton, Devon 10 Feb. 1886 aged 67.

BRETTELL, REV. JACOB (_only son of Rev. Jacob Brettell, Independent

minister at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts who d. 19 March 1810_). _b._

Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 April 1793; ed. at Manchester college York

1809–14; Unitarian minister at Cockey Moor (now called Ainsworth)

Lancs. July 1814 and at Rotherham Sep. 1816 to June 1859; author

of _The country minister, a poem in 4 cantos_ 1821; _The country

minister part second, a poem in 3 cantos_ 1825; _The country

minister, a poem in 7 cantos with additional poems and notes_

1827; contributed hundreds of hymns and political and patriotic

pieces to _Christian Reformer_, _Sheffield Iris_, and other

periodicals. _d._ Rotherham 12 Jany. 1862. _Christian Reformer

xviii_, 128, 191 (1862).

BRETTLE, ROBERT. _b._ Portobello near Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1831; a

glassblower in the hardware districts; fought B. Malpas for £50 a

side 14 Feb. 1854 when stakes were drawn; fought Sam. Simmonds for

£200 a side 3 June 1856, and Job Cobley for £100 a side 4 Aug.

1857 and beat them both; fought Bob Travers for £100 a side 26

Jany. 1858 when he won after 100 rounds in 2 hours; fought James

Mace for £100 a side 21 Sep. 1858 when he won; fought Tom Sayers

who staked £400 to Brettle’s £200, 20 Sep. 1859 when Sayers won;

fought James Mace again 9 Sep. 1860 when Mace won; fought Jack

Rooke for £200 a side 31 Dec. 1861, 1 Jany. 1862 and 11 March 1862

when stakes were drawn; kept the White Lion, Digbeth, Birmingham

1857 to about 1868 when he went to the United States; trained and

brought out some of the best light-weight pugilists. _d._ 56 Upper

Windsor st. Birmingham 7 April 1872. _The championship of England

by the editor of Bell’s Life in London_ [_Francis Dowling_] 1860

_pp._ 70–4; _Illust. sporting news_ 1862 _p._ 9, _portrait_; H. D.

_Miles’s Pugilistica iii_, 451–60 (1881).

BREWER, GEORGE. _b._ Gosport 7 Aug. 1773; entered navy 19 March

1793; joined the ‘Robust’ 15 Feb. 1795; discharged incurable 17

May 1799; a waterman at Gosport. _d._ in a court in Havant st.

Portsea 7 Sep. 1871 aged 98 but generally reputed to be 106.

_Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 185–6.

BREWER, REV. JOHN SHERREN (_eld. son of John Sherren Brewer of

Eaton, Norwich, schoolmaster_). _b._ 1810; ed. at Queen’s coll.

Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; chaplain of workhouse of St. Giles’s in

the Fields and St. George’s Bloomsbury 17 Dec. 1837 to July 1845;

lecturer in classical literature at King’s college London 1839–60,

professor of English language and literature there 1855 and of

English literature and modern history 1865–77; reader at the Rolls

chapel Chancery lane 1857–62, and preacher 1862 to death; hon.

fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. Nov. 1870; head of Working mens’

college in Great Ormond st. 1872; R. of Toppesfield Essex 16 Sep.

1876 to death; edited the _Standard_ for short time in 1860;

edited _Aristotle’s Ethics_ 1836; _Book of the Church by R. Field

3 vols._ 1843; _Lectures to ladies on practical subjects_ 1855;

and _Letters and papers foreign and domestic of the reign of Henry

viii_, _4 vols._ _d._ Toppesfield rectory 16 Feb. 1879. _Rev. J.

S. Brewer’s English Studies_ (1881) _vii-xl_.

BREWER, THOMAS. _b._ 1807; entered office of Town Clerk of City of

London 1823; secretary of City of London school 1837 to death; a

founder of Sacred Harmonic Society 1832, secretary 1832–70, pres.

Nov. 1870 to death; author of _Memoir of John Carpenter, town

clerk of London_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1856; _Memoir of Walter Scott,

citizen and plaisterer of London privately printed_ 1858. _d._

City of London school, Milk st. London 25 Dec. 1870.

BREWER, WILLIAM (_brother of Rev. John Sherren Brewer_). Ed. at

Univ. of Edin., M.D., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1834; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1834;

M.R.C.P. London 1841, F.R.C.P. 1872; M.P. for Colchester 18 Nov.

1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for

St. George’s Hanover square 1870; chairman of Metropolitan Asylums

Board; author of _The family medical reference book_ 1840;

_Beatrice Sforza or the progress of truth 3 vols._ 1863;

translated _A. Tavernier’s Treatise on the treatment of

deformities of the spine_ 1842. _d._ 21 George st. Hanover sq.

London 3 Nov. 1881.

BREWSTER, ABRAHAM (_eld. son of Wm. Bagenal Brewster of Ballinulta,

co. Wicklow_). _b._ Ballinulta April 1796; ed. at Kilkenny coll.

and Univ. of Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1847; called to Irish bar

1819, went Leinster circuit; K.C. 13 July 1835, legal adviser to

lord lieut. of Ireland 10 Oct. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns Dublin

1846; solicitor general for Ireland 2 Feb. 1846 to 16 July 1846;

attorney general 10 Jany. 1853 to 10 Feb. 1855; P.C. Ireland Jany.

1853; lord justice of Court of Appeal in Ireland July 1866; lord

chancellor of Ireland March 1867 to 17 Dec. 1868. _d._ 26 Merrion

square south, Dublin 26 July 1874. _Burke’s Lord Chancellors of

Ireland_ (1879) 307–11; _I.L.N. lxv_, 115, 427 (1874).

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID (_2 son of James Brewster, rector of Jedburgh

gr. sch. who d. 1815_). _b._ Canongate, Jedburgh 10 or 11 Dec.

1781; ed. at Jedburgh gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; licensed by

Presbytery of Edin. 1804; LLD. Aberdeen 1807, M.A. Cam. 1807;

F.R.S. Edin. 1808, pres. 1864; F.R.S. 4 May 1815, Copley medallist

1815, Rumford medallist 1818, Royal medallist 6 times; founded

Scottish Society of Arts 1821; invented polyzonal lens for

lighthouses 1811, Kaleidoscope 1816 and lenticular stereoscope;

procured establishment of British Association 1831; K.H. 1831;

knighted at St. James’s Palace 8 March 1832 fees of £109 were

never demanded from him; principal of Univ. of St. Andrew’s Jany.

1838 to Oct. 1859; a chevalier of Order of Merit 1847; one of the

8 foreign associates of French Institute 1849; president of Peace

congress at Exeter hall London 22–24 July 1851; principal of Univ.

of Edin. 28 Oct. 1859 to death; author of _Treatise on the

Microscope_ 1837, _new ed._ 1851; _Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe,

and Kepler_ 1841, _new ed._ 1874; _More worlds than one_ 1854,

_new ed._ 1874; _History of the Stereoscope_ 1856 and many other

books. _d._ Allerley near Melrose 10 Feb. 1868, centenary of his

birth celebrated at Jedburgh 10 Dec. 1881. _The home life of Sir

D. Brewster by his daughter Mrs. Gordon_ 1869, _portrait_; _Proc.

of Royal Soc. xvii_, 69–74 (1869); _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of

C.E. xxvi_, 194–200 (1871); _Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edin. ii_,

274–8 (1884), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 143–7,

_portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_, 121 (1850), _portrait, lii_, 189

(1868), _portrait_.

BREWSTER, REV. PATRICK (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 20 Dec.

1788; licensed by Presbytery of Fordoun 26 March 1817; minister of

Abbey church Paisley Aug. 1817 to death; ordained 10 April 1818;

had but few equals as a preacher for elegance of style and purity

of diction; took an active share in chartist agitation; author of

_An essay on passive obedience_ 1836; _The rights of the poor of

Scotland vindicated against the misrepresentations of the editor

of the Glasgow Post and Reformer 2 parts_; _The seven Chartist and

military discourses libelled by the Marquis of Abercorn and other

heritors of the Abbey parish_ 1843. _d._ Craigie Linn near Paisley

26 March 1859, monument to his memory erected by public

subscription in Paisley cemetery 1863. _John Smith’s Our Scottish

clergy, 2 series_ 1849, 162–6.

BREWSTER, WILLIAM BAGENAL. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1846;

rowed No. 4 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1842 when Oxford

gained her first victory on the Putney to Mortlake course; ensign

1 battalion Rifle brigade 7 July 1846, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to

1858 when he sold out; served in Kaffir war 1852–3; lieut. col. 23

Middlesex Volunteers (Inns of Court) 9 April 1860 to death. _d._

75 Warwick sq. Belgrave road, London 7 July 1864 in 45 year.

_Saturday Review xviii_, 81–2 (1864).

BRICE, EDWARD. Second lieut. Madras Artillery 16 June 1826, colonel

25 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Harley st. London 9

June 1868.

BRIDELL, FREDERICK LEE (_son of Mr. Bridell of Southampton,

builder_). _b._ Southampton 7 Nov. 1831; apprenticed to a picture

dealer 1846–53; studied painting at Munich 1854–7; his chief works

are ‘Sunset on the Atlantic,’ exhibited at Liverpool Nov. 1857;

‘Temple of Venus’ painted in emulation of Turner 1858 and ‘The

Coliseum by moonlight’ painted at Rome 1858, exhibited at the R.A.

1859 and at International Exhibition 1862; his patron James Wolff

of Southampton acquired so many of his works that he formed a

‘Bridell gallery’ which was sold for nearly £4,000. _d._ Aug.

1863. _Art Journal n.s. iii_, 12 (1864).

BRIDGE, REV. JOHN BRICE. _b._ Liverpool 2 Nov. 1793; ed. at

Stonyhurst college; admitted to Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep.

1814; ordained priest at Dublin July 1819; spiritual father and

superior of seminary Stonyhurst June 1838; minister of Stonyhurst

college Nov. 1841; superior of residence of St. Michael, Yorkshire

many years; missioner at Allerton Park, Yorkshire 18 July 1842 to

death; compiler of the _Ordo S. J._ 1844 to death. _d._ Allerton

park 20 Feb. 1860.

BRIDGEMAN, CHARLES ORLANDO (_2 son of 1 Earl of Bradford

1762–1825_). _b._ 5 Feb. 1791; entered navy 18 June 1804; captain

2 Sep. 1819, captain of the Rattlesnake in Mediterranean 1827–30;

retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V. A. 10 Sep. 1857. _d._

Knockin near Oswestry 13 April 1860.

BRIDGER, CHARLES. Clerk in Heralds’ College London; assistant of

Stephen Tucker, Somerset Herald; author of _An index to printed

pedigrees contained in county and local histories_ 1867; _The

family of Leete edited by J. C. Anderson privately printed_ 1881.

_d._ 17 Selwood terrace, South Kensington, London 27 May 1879 in

54 year.

BRIDGER, WILLIAM. Solicitor at Guildford, Surrey 1854 to death;

travelled in Australia; formed one of the best known collections

of birds eggs; F.R.Z.S. _d._ Stoke near Guildford 15 Oct. 1870

aged 38.

BRIDGER, WILLIAM MILTON. Educ. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.

1814, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817; recorder of

Chichester 1821 to death; recorder of Petworth _d._ from an

accident in London 12 Aug. 1863.

BRIDGES, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A.

1831; V. of Old Newton, Suffolk 1823–49, rural dean 1844–9; R. of

Melcombe Regis, Dorset 1849–55; R. of Hinton Martell, Dorset 1855

to death; author of _An exposition of Psalm cxix_, 1827, _27 ed._

1873; _The Christian ministry_ 1830, _7 ed._ 1849; _Memoir of Miss

M. J. Graham_ 1832, _3 ed._ 1833; _An exposition of the book of

Proverbs_ 1846; _Scriptural studies 9 ed._ 1884. _d._ Hinton

Martell rectory 2 April 1869 aged 75. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_,

399 (1869).

BRIDGES, SIR HENRY (_son of Alexander Bridges of Ewell, Surrey_).

_b._ Ewell 1786; sheriff of Surrey 1813–14; knighted on presenting

an address to Prince Regent at Carlton house 11 May 1814. (_m._

1808 Frances dau. of general Wm. Tombes Dalrymple, she _d._ 6 Feb.

1859). _d._ Beddington house near Croydon 29 Oct. 1861.

BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK (_eld. son of Frederick Horatio Bridgman_). _b._

1837; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1860; went South Eastern circuit

1860–82; Queen’s Advocate for Gold Coast Colony 7 Oct. 1882 to

death, acting chief justice 1883 to death. _d._ Cape Coast 5 May

1883.

BRIDPORT, SAMUEL HOOD, 2 Baron. _b._ Catherington, Hants. 7 Dec.

1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; succeeded 3 May 1814.

_d._ Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Somerset 6 Jany. 1868.

BRIDSON, THOMAS RIDGWAY (_son of Paul Bridson of Douglas, Isle of

Man who d. 1820_). _b._ 1795; owner of bleach works near Bolton

foremost establishment of the kind in the world; invented the

patent “stenter” or elastic finishing machine which much advanced

mechanism of the trade; mayor of Bolton 1847–8. _d._ 24 Jany.

1863. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_, 127–38 (1865).

BRIGGS, AUGUSTUS. _b._ 7 May 1813; member of House of Assembly,

Barbados many years, speaker 1868–75; member of Legislative

council 1878 and president 1881 to death. _d._ Maynards, Barbados

17 May 1882.

BRIGGS, GEORGE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824; colonel

18 Feb. 1861 to 6 May 1867; M.G. 6 May 1867. _d._ Cambridge st.

Pimlico, London 29 July 1875 in 80 year.

BRIGGS, RIGHT REV. JOHN. _b._ Manchester 20 May 1788; ed. at St.

Cuthbert’s college Ushaw; sub-deacon 1812, deacon 1813 and priest

1814; had charge of Chester 1818–32; pres. of Ushaw 28 March 1832

to 11 Aug. 1836; co-adjutor of Bishop Penswick in Northern

district Jany. 1833; consecrated as Bishop of Trachis in Thessalia

29 Jany. 1833; vicar apostolic of Northern district Feb. 1836 and

of Yorkshire district July 1840; bishop of Beverley 29 Sep. 1850

to 7 Nov. 1860 when he resigned; enthroned in St. George’s church

York 13 Feb. 1851; a Count of the Holy Roman empire. _d._ at his

house York 4 Jany. 1861. _Brady’s Episcopal succession iii_, 396–8

(1877); _The Lamp iii_, 163 (1851), _portrait_.

BRIGGS, JOHN (_eld. child of James Briggs, physician general Madras,

who d. about 1830_). _b._ Madras 18 Sep. 1785; ed. at Eton 1794–9;

lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 10 July 1801; resident at Sattara Jany. 1823

to Jany. 1827; senior comr. in Mysore 1831 to 13 Nov. 1832;

resident at Nagpore Dec. 1832 to March 1835; colonel 13 Madras

N.I. 16 Nov. 1836 to 1869; general 6 Feb. 1861; took the chair at

meeting of Anti-corn-law league in Covent Garden theatre 22 May

1844; contested Exeter April 1844 and July 1845; F.R.S. 22 Nov.

1838. _d._ Bridge Lodge, Burgess Hill, Sussex 27 April 1875.

_Memoir of John Briggs by Evans Bell_ 1885, _portrait_.

BRIGGS, JOHN JOSEPH (_son of John Briggs of King’s Newton near

Melbourne, Derbyshire, farmer 1777–1864_). _b._ King’s Newton 6

March 1819; apprenticed to W. Bemrose of Derby, printer 1834;

farmer at King’s Newton about 1840 to death; originated ‘The

Naturalists’ column’ in the _Field_ newspaper 1855; author of

_Melbourne, a sketch of its history and antiquity_ 1839; _History

of Melbourne_ 1852; _The Trent and other poems_ 1857; _The Peacock

at Rowsley_ 1869; _Guide to Melbourne_ 1871; _History and

antiquities of Hemington, Leicestershire_, _12 copies privately

printed 1873_. _d._ King’s Newton 23 March 1876. _Reliquary xvii_,

49–54 (1877).

BRIGGS, SIR JOHN THOMAS (_son of Wm. Briggs_). _b._ London 4 June

1781; sec. to Commission for revising civil affairs of navy 1806;

assistant sec. of Victualling Board 1809–30; private sec. to Sir

James Graham, first lord of Admiralty 1830; comr. of Victualling

Board 1831–2; accountant general of navy 1832 to Feb. 1854;

knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1851; author of several

pamphlets on naval administration. _d._ 4 Royal Crescent, Brighton

3 Feb. 1865. _Morning Post 8 Feb. 1865 and 3 Jany. 1874_; _Daily

Telegraph 6 Jany. 1874_.

BRIGGS, SIR THOMAS (_7 son of Stephen Briggs, chief surgeon at

Madras_). _b._ Southampton 1780; entered navy 10 Sep. 1791;

captain of Queen Charlotte 100 guns 1818–21; resident comr. of

naval yard at Bermuda 1823 and at Malta 1829–32; superintendent of

Malta dockyard 1832–38; G.C.M.G. 26 June 1833; admiral 2 Sep.

1850; commander in chief at Portsmouth 18 Sep. 1851 to death. _d._

Admiralty house, Portsmouth 16 Dec. 1852.

BRIGHAM, REV. HENRY. _b._ Manchester 23 June 1796; ed. at Stonyhurst

college; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained

priest 1 June 1822; missioner at Hereford 10 Dec. 1827; removed to

Preston 2 Oct. 1834 and to Bury St. Edmunds 23 July 1836; superior

of College of Holy Apostles 1842–3; served missions of Pontefract,

Teignmouth and Ugbrooke; professor of elocution at St. Stanislaus’

college Beaumont near Windsor 1865. _d._ St. Stanislaus’ college

26 May 1881.

BRIGHT, HENRY (_son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant_). West

India Merchant at Bristol; M.P. for Bristol 1820–30. _d._ Malvern

26 March 1869 aged 83.

BRIGHT, HENRY (_son of Jerome Bright of Saxmundham, Suffolk who d.

1846_). _b._ Saxmundham 1814; apprenticed to a chemist at

Woodbridge; studied painting in London; a member of Institute of

Painters in Water Colours and of the Graphic Society; very popular

as a teacher of painting; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A., 26 at

B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–73. _d._ Ipswich 21 Sep.

1873, _Art Journal Oct. 1873_; _I.L.N. lxiii_, 389 (1873),

_portrait_.

BRIGHT, HENRY ARTHUR (_eld. son of Samuel Bright of Liverpool,

shipowner 1799–1870._) _b._ Liverpool 9 Feb. 1830; ed. at Rugby

and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1857 (being with James Heywood first

nonconformist to take a degree at Cam.) M.A. 1860; partner in firm

of Gibbs, Bright and Co. shipowners 1857; contributed largely to

_Athenæum_ 1871 to death; published _A year in a Lancashire

garden_ 1879, which he wrote in _Gardeners’ Chronicle_ 1874, and

privately printed 50 copies 1875; _The English flower garden_ 1881

and 5 other books. _d._ Ashfield, Knotty Ash near Liverpool 5 May

1884. _H. A. Bright’s The Brights of Colwall_ (1872), _p._ 11;

_Christian Life 10 and 17 May 1884_; _N. Hawthorne and his wife

ii_, 21–7 (1885).

BRIGHT, JACOB (_youngest son of Jacob Bright_). Learnt handloom

weaving at New Mills Derbyshire 1790–6; bookkeeper to J. and W.

Holme of Rochdale, partner with them; cotton spinner at Hanging

road factory Rochdale, at Greenbank mill Cronkeyshaw 1809, had

7000 spindles at work 1823; retired from business 1839. _d._ 7

July 1851 aged 76. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 181–97 (1884).

BRIGHT, JOHN. _b._ Derbyshire 1782; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A.

1801, M.A. 1804, M.B. 1806, M.D. 1808; practised at Birmingham;

removed to London; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808, Fellow 30

Sep. 1809, Censor 1813, 1822, 1833 and 1840, Harveian orator 1830,

Consiliarius 1839, an Elect 25 June 1839; Physician to Westminster

hospital 1822–43; a Metropolitan Commissioner in Lunacy 1 Sep.

1836. _d._ 19 Manchester sq. London 1 Feb. 1870. _Munk’s Roll of

physicians iii_, 79 (1878).

BRIGHT, REV. MYNORS (_son of John Bright, physician 1783–1870_).

_b._ 1818; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered Magd. coll. Cam. 3 July

1835, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1843,

foundation fellow, and tutor of his college, president 1853 to

1873; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1853; re-edited Lord Braybrook’s

edition of _Pepys’s Diary_ published simultaneously in 4º. and 8º.

_6 vols._ 1879 for which he redeciphered the whole of Pepys’s

Diary from the original M.S. in Magd. coll. library. _d._ 23

Sussex place, Regent’s Park, London 23 Feb. 1883.

BRIGHT, RICHARD (_3 son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant_).

_b._ Queen sq. Bristol 28 Sep. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D.

13 Sep. 1813; L.R.C.P. 23 Dec. 1816; assistant phys. to Guy’s

hospital 1820–4, phys. 1824–43; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; F.R.C.P. 25

June 1832, Gulstonian lecturer 1833, Lumleian lecturer 1837,

Censor 1836 and 1839, Consiliarius 1838 and 1843; phys.

extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; the leading

consulting phys. in London; discovered several affections of the

kidney, dependent upon an altered condition of the blood, called

after him Bright’s disease or nephritis; author of _Travels from

Vienna through Lower Hungary_ 1818; _Reports of medical cases,

selected with a view of illustrating the symptom and cure of

diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy 3 parts_ 1827–31. _d._

11 Savile Row, London 16 Dec. 1858. _Munk’s Roll of physicians

iii_, 155–60 (1878); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2_

(1840), _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. x_, 1–4 (1860); _Morbus

Brighti von Joseph Buchner_, _Leipzig 1870_.

BRIGHT, RICHARD (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ Abbots Leigh near

Bristol 14 April 1822; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843;

barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851; M.P. for East Somerset 19 Nov. 1868

to death. _d._ 28 Feb. 1878.

BRIGHT, ROBERT (_brother of Richard Bright 1789–1858_). _b._ 1795;

partner in great mercantile house of Gibbs and Bright of Bristol,

Liverpool and London, owners of the Eagle line of packets and of

Great Britain steamship; took chief part in freeing port of

Bristol from heavy dues levied on its commerce 1848 for which he

was presented with a service of plate worth £1,000 at Bristol

March 1855. _d._ Abbots Leigh near Bristol 19 Sep. 1869. _I.L.N.

xxvi_, 325–6 (1855).

BRIGHTWELL, CECILIA LUCY (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._

Thorpe near Norwich 27 Feb. 1811; pupil of John Sell Cotman,

etcher; etched many landscapes and subjects; author of _Memorials

of the life of Amelia Opie_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1855; _Palissy, the

Huguenot potter a true tale_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1877; _Heroes of the

laboratory and the workshop_ 1859, _2 ed._ 1860 and 18 other

books. _d._ Norwich 17 April 1875.

BRIGHTWELL, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Brightwell of Ipswich, tanner_).

_b._ 18 March 1787; articled to S. Daniell of Colchester,

attorney; practised at Norwich 1810; partner with Thomas Bignold;

mayor of Norwich 1837; F.L.S. 1821; made a fine collection of

Insects especially Coleoptera, which he gave to the Norwich museum

about 1844; author of _Notes on the Pentateuch selected from the

exegetical parts of Rosenmuller’s Scholia_ 1840. _d._ Norwich 17

Nov. 1868. _Memorials of the life of Mr. Brightwell of Norwich by

his daughter C. L. Brightwell_ 1869, _portrait_.

BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; studied at Sass’s drawing school

London; pupil of H. P. Briggs, R.A. and J. P. Knight, R.A.; spent

8 years in Paris and Italy; made a copy of Raphael’s

‘Transfiguration’ in the Vatican which was purchased for Christ

Church, Albany st. Regent’s Park; went to Egypt 1847; painted an

historical picture entitled ‘The prayer for victory’; exhibited 16

pictures at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1843–65; author of _The mutual

scourges, or France and her neighbours, an historical drama in 4

acts_ 1871. _d._ 11 March 1881.

BRIMLEY, GEORGE (_son of Mr. Brimley of Cambridge_). _b._ Cambridge

29 Dec. 1819; ed. at Totteridge, Herts. 1830–5; entered at Trin.

coll. Cam. Oct. 1838, scholar 1841, librarian 4 June 1845 to 1857;

contributed articles to the _Spectator_ and _Fraser’s Mag._ 1851

to death; one of the finest critics of his day. _d._ Cambridge 29

May 1857. _Essays by the late G. Brimley edited by W. G. Clark_,

_3 ed._ 1882, _portrait_.

BRINCKMAN, SIR THEODORE HENRY LAVINGTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of

Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly grove, Windsor, M.P.

1767–1820._) _b._ London 17 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Trin.

coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yarmouth 17 Jany. 1821 to 2 June 1826;

created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; assumed by royal licence original

family surname of Brinckman 5 July 1842. _d._ St. Leonards near

Windsor 9 Feb. 1880.

BRIND, FREDERICK. Colonel Bengal army 20 June 1854; C.B. 9 June

1849. _d._ Sealkote Bengal 10 July 1857 aged 55.

BRINDLE, VERY REV. THOMAS. _b._ Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1791;

ed. at Benedictine coll. Ampleforth, Yorks.; ordained priest Sep.

1815; administrator of Western diocese and Grand Vicar March 1829

to 1830; regent of college at Prior park, Bath 1830 to Nov. 1849;

vicar general of diocese of Clifton 1850 an office which he held

at various periods for 21 years; provost of the Cathedral Chapter

1852; domestic prelate to Pope Gregory xvi, 1854; received many

persons into R.C. church during Tractarian movement. _d._ Bath 13

Dec. 1871. _Tablet 23 Dec. 1871._

BRINE, GEORGE (_3 son of James Brine, admiral R.N. who d. 1814_).

Entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired 1 Oct. 1846;

retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1864

aged 79.

BRINTON, WILLIAM (_2 son of Henry Brinton of Kidderminster, carpet

manufacturer who d. about 1856_). _b._ Kidderminster 20 Nov. 1823;

matric. at Univ. of London 1843, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1848; M.R.C.P.

1849, F.R.C.P. 1854, Croonian lecturer 1859; medical tutor at

King’s college, London 1850–3; lecturer on forensic medicine at

St. Thomas’s hospital 1853; phys. to Royal free hospital 1852–60

and to St. Thomas’s hospital 1860 to Nov. 1864; member of Alpine

Club; F.R.S. 1864; author of _Bürger’s Leonora, Englished_ [_by

W.B._] 1850; _On the medical selection of lives for insurance_

1856, _3 ed._ 1861; _The diseases of the stomach_ 1859. _d._ 24

Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 Jany. 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc.

xvi_, 6–8 (1865).

BRISBANE, SIR THOMAS MACDOUGALL (_eld. son of Thomas Brisbane of

Largs, Ayrshire who d. 1812 aged 92_). _b._ Brisbane house, Largs

23 July 1773; ensign 38 Foot 9 April 1789; lieut. col. 69 Foot 4

April 1800 to 30 May 1805 when placed on h.p.; commanded 1 brigade

of 3 division in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; commanded

brigade in Canada 1813 and a brigade in army of occupation in

France and afterwards the second division there; governor of New

South Wales 1 Dec. 1821 to 1 Dec. 1825; colonel 34 Foot 16 Dec.

1826 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; fought in 14 general actions

and 23 other battles; erected an observatory near Brisbane house

1808, another at Paramatta near Sydney opened 2 May 1822 and a

third at Makerstown near Kelso 1826 to which he added a magnetic

station 1841 only one in Scotland; F.R.S. 10 May 1810; F.R.S.

Edin. 1811, pres. 1832; gold medallist of Royal Astronom. Soc.

1828; F.G.S. 1833; pres. of British Assoc. at Edin. 1834; G.C.H.

1831; baronet 22 Feb. 1836; G.C.B. 6 Feb. 1837. _d._ Brisbane

house 27 Jany. 1860. _Reminiscences of Sir T. M. Brisbane

privately printed_ 1860; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xi_, 3–7 (1860);

_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxi_, 98–100 (1861);

_G.M. viii_, 298–302 (1860).

BRISCO, SIR ROBERT, 3 Baronet. _b._ Crofton hall, Carlisle 17 Sep.

1808; succeeded 1 Oct. 1862; became a pledged abstainer 1858, vice

pres. of United Kingdom Alliance, lectured frequently on

temperance. _d._ Crofton hall 23 Dec. 1884.

BRISCO, SIR WASTELL, 2 Baronet. _b._ 17 May 1778; succeeded 27 Dec.

1806; sheriff of Cumberland 1813. _d._ Crofton hall 1 Oct. 1862.

BRISCOE, JOHN IVATT (_son of John Briscoe of Cross Deep,

Twickenham_). _b._ Twickenham 1791; ed. at Ealing and Univ. coll.

Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; M.P. for Surrey 1830–32, for East

Surrey 1832–34, for Westbury 1837–41 and for West Surrey 1857 to

death. _d._ 60 Eaton place, London 16 Aug. 1870.

BRISCOE, JOSEPH. _b._ Wilmount, co. Kilkenny; ed. at Trin. coll.

Dublin; went to United States 1854; connected as civil engineer

with many important public works in Pennsylvania coalfields;

enlisted in First New York Volunteers at outbreak of the civil

war; chief of the staff of Tenth army corps; colonel of 199

regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; commanded a brigade at capture

of Petersburg; stormed Fort Gregg for which he was brevetted

general; pres. of Examining board for officers in regular army.

_d._ New York 24 May 1869 aged 35.

BRISTOL, FREDERICK WILLIAM HERVEY, 1 Marquis of (_younger son of

Right Rev. Frederic Augustus Hervey, bishop of Derry, 4 Earl of

Bristol 1730–1803_). _b._ 2 June 1769; ed. at St. John’s coll.

Cam., M.A. 1788, LLD. 1811; ensign 1 Foot Guards 1788–92; M.P. for

Bury St. Edmunds 27 May 1796 to 8 July 1803 when he succeeded;

under sec. of state for foreign affairs 20 Feb. 1801 to 8 Nov.

1803; F.R.S. 23 May 1805; created Marquis of Bristol and Earl

Jermyn of Horning’s Heath, Suffolk 30 June 1826. _d._ 6 St.

James’s sq. London 15 Feb. 1859. _Doyle’s Official baronage of

England i_, 242 (1886), _portrait_.

BRISTOL, FREDERICK WILLIAM HERVEY, 2 Marquis of (_eld. son of the

preceding_). _b._ Portland place, London 15 July 1800; ed. at

Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1822, LLD. 1862; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds

12 June 1826 to 15 Feb. 1859 when he succeeded; treasurer of Royal

household 9 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 6 Oct. 1841; colonel of

West Suffolk militia 25 March 1846 to death. _d._ Ickworth park,

Bury St. Edmunds 30 Oct. 1864.

BRISTOW, ALFRED RHODES (_youngest son of Isaac Bristow of Greenwich,

government contractor_). _b._ Greenwich 20 Dec. 1819; ed. at

King’s college London; admitted solicitor 1842, head of firm of

Bristow and Tarrant of London and Greenwich; represented Greenwich

and Deptford at Metropolitan Board of Works 1856–62; solicitor to

the Admiralty 1862 to death; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1868; M.P. for

Kidderminster 30 April 1859 to May 1862; treasurer of Westminster

Chess Club Oct. 1870 to death; fell down dead on leaving railway

station at Sydenham 5 April 1875. _Westminster Papers viii_, 14

(1876), _portrait_.

BRISTOW, HENRY. _b._ 1786; cornet 1 Life Guards 14 Feb. 1805; major

11 Foot 20 Jany. 1814 to 27 April 1815 when placed on h.p.; M.G.

20 June 1854. _d._ Madrid 22 Nov. 1874.

BRISTOWE, EDMUND (_son of Mr. Bristowe of Windsor, heraldic

printer_). _b._ Windsor 1 April 1787; made sketches of public

characters in Eton and Windsor; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 12

at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1809–38; some of his works

are in the royal collection at Windsor. _d._ Eton 12 Feb. 1876.

BRITTAIN, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 2 Jany. 1806; a professional

accountant; lived at Manchester about 1842 to death; lectured on

natural science at mechanics’ and similar institutions; vice.

pres. of Manchester Microscopical Society 1879, then pres.; author

of _Half a dozen songs by Brittannicus_ 1846 _privately printed_;

_Micro-fungi, when and where to find them_ 1882; _Whist, how to

play and how to win_ 1882. _d._ Manchester 23 Jany. 1884. _Axon’s

Field Naturalist_ (1882), _p._ 148; _Unitarian Herald 1 Feb.

1884_.

BRITTON, JOHN (_eld. son of Mr. Britton of Kington St. Michael near

Chippenham Wilts., farmer_). _b._ Kington St. Michael 7 July 1771;

author of _The beauties of Wiltshire 3 vols._ 1801–25; _The

architectural antiquities of Great Britain 4 vols._ 1805–14;

_Cathedral antiquities of England 14 vols._ 1814–35; _Dictionary

of the architecture and archæology of the middle ages 4 parts_

1830–8; edited with E. W. Brayley _The beauties of England and

Wales 10 vols._ 1801–14; granted civil list pension of £75, 5

April 1852. _d._ Burton cottage Burton st. London 1 Jany. 1857.

_Autobiography of John Britton_ 1850; _G.M. ii_, 126, 185–92, 258

(1857).

BRIZZI, SIGNOR, stage name of Francesco Achille Scipione Bisteghi

(_son of Giovanni Bisteghi, general in army of Napoleon I_). _b._

Milan 16 April 1810; pupil at Royal Academy of Music, London Sep.

1828 to Dec. 1831; fought in Piedmontese army against the

Austrians 1848; greatly assisted Benjamin Lumley in organising new

company for Her Majesty’s theatre London 1855, director of the

company on its Continental tour 1856. _d._ 47 Grove road, Regent’s

park, London 24 Aug. 1884. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news

xxii_, 27 (1884).

BROADBRIDGE, WILLIAM, _b._ Duncton near Petworth, Sussex 1 Oct.

1790; a farmer there; played in cricket matches 1813–40; played

his first match at Lords (Sussex _v._ Epsom) 2–6 July 1817 when

1047 runs were made altogether, being largest number ever made

down to 1861 or later; a good batsman and wicket keeper; in a

match Sussex _v._ Hampshire and Surrey 7 Aug. 1826 he performed

extraordinary feat of stumping 7 men and catching 2. _d._ Duncton

19 April 1860.

BROADHEAD, HENRY (_6 son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly Grove,

Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820_). _b._ 25 April 1806; entered navy 6

April 1820; captain 27 June 1846; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877.

_d._ Walton on Thames 20 May 1878.

BROADHEAD, WILLIAM. Secretary of Saw Grinders Union at Sheffield

from 1848 in connection with which a great many outrages were

committed; treasurer of United Kingdom Alliance of organised

trades; kept an inn in Carver st. Sheffield to 22 Aug. 1867 when

magistrates refused to renew his license; went to America Nov.

1869 but failed to find employment there; lectured upon his own

career; a grocer in Meadow st. Sheffield to death; he is the

villain under name of Grotait of Charles Reade’s novel _Put

yourself in his place_. _d._ Meadow st. Sheffield 15 March 1879

aged about 60. _Sheffield Daily Telegraph 17 March 1879 p. 4_,

_col. 2_; _Trades unions commission, Sheffield outrages inquiry

vol. 2 Minutes of evidence_ (1867) 222–51.

BROADLEY, HENRY, _b._ 1793; chairman of Hull and Selby railway

1836–43; M.P. for east riding of Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1837 to death.

_d._ 3 Charles st. St. James’s square, London 8 Aug. 1851 in 58

year. _bur._ Holy Trinity church Hull 16 Aug.

BROCK, THOMAS SAUMAREZ. Entered navy 9 Feb. 1815; captain 13 Nov.

1850; held possession of Eupatoria against the Russians 15 Sep.

1854 to 25 Dec. 1854; superintendent agent of transports at Genoa

15 March 1855; retired R.A. 20 March 1867; C.B. 5 July 1855;

knight of St. Maurice and Lazare 1856. _d._ The hermitage,

Guernsey 28 April 1873 in 73 year.

BROCK, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. child of Wm. Brock of Honiton, Devon,

Unitarian baptist who d. 20 June 1811_). _b._ Honiton 14 Feb.

1807; ed. at Culmstock and Honiton; apprenticed to a watchmaker at

Sidmouth Sep. 1820 to March 1828; a journeyman watchmaker at

Hertford 1828–29; studied at Derby and Stepney baptist college;

pastor of baptist chapel in parish of St. Mary’s Norwich 1833–48;

pastor of Bloomsbury chapel London 5 Dec. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872;

D.D. Harvard 1859; held his first service in London theatres, at

the Britannia theatre Hoxton 18 Dec. 1859; pres. of London Baptist

association Nov. 1865; went to the United States 1866; pres. of

Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1869; author of

_Fraternal appeals to young men; Sacramental religion_ 1850; _A

biographical sketch of Sir Henry Havelock_ 1858; _Midsummer

morning sermons_ 1872. _d._ Orwell house, St. Leonards 13 Nov.

1875. _Life of W. Brock by C. M. Birrell_ 1878, _portrait_; _W.

Brock by G. W. M’Cree_ 1876; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox

London_ (1873) 81–88; _I.L.N. lxvii_, 537, 590 (1875), _portrait_;

_Graphic xi_, 518, 533 (1875), _portrait_.

BROCK, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_eld. son of John Brock of George st.

Portman sq. London_). _b._ about 1818; ed. at Magd. hall Ox.; C.

of St. George’s, Barnsley 1852; P.C. of Hayfield, Derbyshire 1856

to death; author of _Wayside verses_ 1848; _Twenty seven sermons_

1855, _2 ed._ 1858; _The rough wind stayed_ 1867; _The bright

light in the clouds_ 1870. _d._ Hayfield 27 April 1863 aged 45.

BROCKEDON, WILLIAM (_only child of Mr. Brockedon of Totnes, Devon,

watchmaker who d. Sep. 1802_). _b._ Totnes 13 Oct. 1787;

watchmaker at Totnes 1802–7; studied at R.A. London 1809–15;

painted “The resurrection of the widow’s son” which obtained

premium of £105 from British Institution 1818 and was presented by

him to Dartmouth church; patented plan of using drilled gems in

wire drawing 1819 universally adopted; founded Graphic Society

1831 an association of 100 artists of reputation; F.R.S. 18 Dec.

1834; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A. and 29 at B.I. 1812–37; author

of _Illustrations of the passes of the Alps 2 vols._ 1828–9;

_Journals of excursions in the Alps_ 1833; _Italy classical

historical and picturesque_ 1842–4; edited _Illustrated road book

from London to Naples_ 1835. _d._ 29 Devonshire st. Queen sq.

Bloomsbury, London 29 Aug. 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 521–3 (1854);

_Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxv_, 84 (1855).

BROCKET, STANES BROCKETT (_eld. son of Stanes Chamberlayne of the

Ryes, Essex who d. 12 April 1834 in 89 year_). _b._ 9 April 1782;

barrister M.T. 29 May 1812, bencher 1841 to death; assumed surname

of Brocket, May 1834; sheriff of Essex 1844. _d._ Spain’s hall

near Ongar 2 March 1873.

BROCKETT, WILLIAM HENRY (_youngest son of John Brockett of

Newcastle_). _b._ Jany. 1804; merchant at Gateshead; mayor of

Gateshead 1839; sole proprietor of _Gateshead Observer_; sec. to

Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of commerce; author of _The

tradesmens tokens of Durham and Northumberland_ 1851; _The

tradesmens tokens of Cumberland and Westmoreland_ 1853; _The

tradesmens tokens of Derbyshire_ 1857. _d._ Gateshead 15 Jany.

1867. _G.M. iii_, 264 (1867).

BROCKLEHURST, JOHN (_son of John Brocklehurst of Jordan gate house

Macclesfield_). _b._ 30 Oct. 1788; a silk manufacturer and banker

at Macclesfield; pres. of Macclesfield institution; M.P. for

Macclesfield 14 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ London 13 Aug.

1870. Personalty sworn under £800,000, 22 Oct. 1870.

BROCKMAN, EDWARD DRAKE (_youngest child of James Drake Brockman of

Beachborough near Hythe, Kent who d. 28 June 1832_). Barrister

I.T. 29 June 1819; recorder of Folkestone 1833; M.P. for Hythe 31

July 1847 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Beachborough 7 Nov. 1858.

BROCKY, CHARLES. _b._ Temeswar in the Banat Hungary 1807; studied

painting in Vienna and Paris; _portrait_ and subject painter in

London; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1839–54;

painted portraits of the Queen, Prince Consort, Lord Melbourne and

other celebrities; left 5 pictures to his native country which are

in the Musée at Pesth. _d._ London 8 July 1855. _N. Wilkinson’s

Sketch of the life of C. Brocky_ 1870.

BRODERIP, FRANCES FREELING (_2 dau. of Thomas Hood the poet

1798–1845_). _b._ Winchmore Hill, Middlesex 1830; granted civil

list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; author of _Wayside Fancies_

1857; _Funny fables for little folks_ 1860; _Chrysal, or a story

with an end_ 1861 and many other childrens’ books. (_m._ 10 Sep.

1849 Rev. John Somerville Broderip R. of Cossington Somerset, he

was _b._ 1814 and _d._ 10 April 1866). _d._ Clevedon, Somerset 3

Nov. 1878.

BRODERIP, WILLIAM JOHN (_eld. child of Wm. Broderip of Bristol,

surgeon_). _b._ Princes st. Bristol 21 Nov. 1789; ed. at Bristol

and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; pupil of Godfrey Sykes; barrister

L.I. 12 May 1817; magistrate at Thames police court 1822–46, and

at Westminster police court 1846 to Dec. 1855; bencher of Grays

Inn 30 Jany. 1850, treasurer 29 Jany. 1851; F.L.S. 1824; F.G.S.

1825, co-secretary to 1830; a founder of Zoological Society 1826;

F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1828; his unrivalled conchological cabinet was

purchased by British Museum; edited with P. Bingham _Reports of

cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 3 vols._

1820–2; author of _Zoological recreations_ 1847; _Leaves from the

note book of a naturalist_ 1852. _d._ 2 Raymond’s buildings, Grays

Inn, London 27 Feb. 1859. _Berger’s W. J. Broderip, ancien

magistrat, naturaliste, litterateur, Paris_ 1856; _Fraser’s Mag.

lix_, 485–8 (1859); _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846) _portrait, xxviii_,

253 (1856), _portrait_; _Law mag. and law review viii_, 174–8

(1859).

BRODIE, ALEXANDER (_son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill,

Roxburghshire_). Author of _A history of the Roman government_

1810; _The prophetess, a tale of the last century in Italy 3

vols._ [_anon._] 1826. _d._ The Whim house, Peebleshire 13 March

1858.

BRODIE, ALEXANDER (_younger son of John Brodie of Aberdeen,

mariner_). _b._ Aberdeen 1830; apprenticed in foundry of Messrs.

Blaikie Brothers of Aberdeen brass-finishers; sculptor at Aberdeen

about 1858 to death; very successful in bust-portraiture and

medallions; his best known statues are those of Duke of Richmond

at Huntly and Queen Victoria at Aberdeen. _d._ Aberdeen 30 May

1867.

BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Rev. Peter

Bellinger Brodie 1742–1804, R. of Winterslow, Wilts._) _b._

Winterslow 9 June 1783; studied at St. George’s hospital London

1803–5, assistant surgeon 1808 and surgeon 1822 to Jany. 1840;

teacher of anatomy in Windmill st. school 1805–12 and lecturer on

surgery 1808–29; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1810, Copley medallist 1811 and

pres. 1858–61; professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at

College of Surgeons 1819–23 and pres. 1844; surgeon to George iv,

11 Aug. 1828; serjeant surgeon to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1832; presented

his pathological museum to St. George’s hospital 1829; created

baronet 30 Aug. 1834; author of _Pathological and surgical

observations on diseases of the joints_ 1818, _3 ed._ 1834;

_Lectures on the diseases of the urinary organs_ 1832, _4 ed._

1849 and many other books. _d._ Broome park, Surrey 21 Oct. 1862.

_Autobiography of the late Sir B. C. Brodie_ 1865; _Proc. of royal

society xii_, 42–56 (1863); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery

ii_, (1840), _portrait_; _Taylor’s National portrait gallery i_,

41 (1846), _portrait_.

BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of the

preceding_). _b._ Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1817;

ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, hon. D.C.L. 1872;

studied chemistry at Giessen 1845; propounded doctrine of polarity

of chemical elements 1847; sec. of Chemical Soc. of London 1850–4,

pres. 1859–61; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, Royal medallist 1850; lecturer

at Royal Institution 1851; Aldrichian prof. of chemistry at Ox.

1855–66 when professorship was suppressed, and Waynflete prof. of

chemistry 1865–72; discovered graphitic acid. _d._ Torquay 24 Nov.

1880. _Journal of Chemical Soc. xxxix_, 182–5 (1881).

BRODIE, GEORGE (_youngest son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, East

Lothian, farmer_). _b._ Chesterhill 1786; ed. at high sch. and

Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1811;

historiographer royal of Scotland 1836 to death; author of _A

history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I to

the Restoration 4 vols._ 1822, _new ed. 3 vols._ 1866; edited

_Stair’s Institutes of the law of Scotland_. _d._ Percy house,

Randolph road, London 22 Jany. 1867.

BRODIE, JAMES CAMPBELL JOHN. _b._ 26 March 1843; ed. at Rugby and

St. Andrew’s; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 26 June 1873 to death.

_d._ Moss close, Manor road, Bournemouth 25 Feb. 1880.

BRODIE, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh; served at hospital Scutari during

Russian war; went to New York 1869; city editor of _New York

Dispatch_; contributed largely to columns of the _Spirit of the

Times_. _d._ New York 29 Jany. 1873 aged 32.

BRODIE, PETER BELLINGER (_brother of Sir B. C. Brodie, 1 Baronet_).

_b._ Winterslow, Wilts. 20 Aug. 1778; pupil of Charles Butler; a

conveyancer; barrister I.T. 5 May 1815; drew charter of King’s

College London 1829; a real property comr. 1828, drew the part

relating to Fines and Recoveries of first report made May 1829,

the part relating to Probate of wills of second report made June

1830, and the part relating to Copyhold and Ancient Demesne made

April 1833; drew bill for abolishing Fines and Recoveries which

became law 1833; author of _A treatise on a tax on successions to

real as well as personal properly_ 1850. _d._ 49 Lincoln’s Inn

Fields, London 8 Sep. 1854. _Law Review xxi_, 348–54 (1855).

BRODIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 2 July 1799; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen;

lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 1824 to death. _d._ Brodie castle,

Forres, Morayshire 6 June 1873.

BRODIE, WILLIAM (_brother of Alexander Brodie 1830–67_). _b._ Banff

22 Jany. 1815; studied in the Trustees school of design, Edinburgh

1846–52; an associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1857, member 1859,

sec. 8 Nov. 1876; executed _portrait_ busts of most of the

celebrities of his day; executed 4 busts of the Queen, colossal

statue of Prince Consort at Perth, and one of the representative

groups in bronze, for Scottish memorial to Prince Consort in Edin.

_d._ Douglas lodge, Edin. 30 Oct. 1881. _Biograph ii_, 218 (1879).

BRODIE, WILLIAM BIRD. _b._ 26 Sep. 1780; a banker at Salisbury; M.P.

for Salisbury 14 Dec. 1832 to April 1843. _d._ Swanage, Dorset 24

Oct. 1863.

BRODRIBB, WILLIAM PERRIN. Pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s

hospital London; L.S.A. 1822, M.R.C.S. 1823, L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859;

surgeon to Magdalen hospital, London; chairman of court of

examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1860–1, sec. to the court

1865 to death. _d._ 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 Jany. 1869 aged 68.

BROGDEN, REV. JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A.

1833; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1841–5; C. of St. Michaels, St.

Albans 1845–8; V. of Deddington, Oxon 1848 to death; author of

_Illustrations of the liturgy and ritual of the united church of

England and Ireland 3 vols._ 1842; _Catholic safeguards against

the errors, novelties, and corruptions of the church of Rome 3

vols._ 1851. _d._ Deddington 11 Feb. 1864 aged 58.

BROKE, SIR ARTHUR BROOKE DE CAPELL, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir

Richard Brooke-Supple, 1 baronet 1758–1829_). _b._ Bolton st.

Piccadilly, London 22 Oct. 1791; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox., B.A.

1813, M.A. 1816; captain 17 Dragoons 26 Feb. 1818 placed on h.p.

same date; changed his name from Brooke to Broke; F.R.S. 29 May

1823; founded the Raleigh Club, (forerunner of Royal Geographical

Society), first regular meeting took place at the Thatched house 7

Feb. 1827, in 1854 the name of Raleigh was dropped and it became

Geographical club; succeeded 27 Nov. 1829; sheriff of

Northamptonshire 1843; author of _Travels through Sweden, Norway

and Finmark to the North Cape_ 1823; _A winter in Lapland and

Sweden_ 1827; _Sketches in Spain and Morocco 2 vols._ 1831. _d._

Oakley hall near Kettering 6 Dec. 1858. _C. Markham’s Fifty years

work of the Royal Geographical Society_ (1881) 15–18.

BROKE, CHARLES ACTON. _b._ 30 June 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836,

captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; quartered in island of Zante; well

known to all H.M.’s ships, merchantships and yachts as “Signal

Broke” as he challenged all vessels passing Zante from the signal

posts and extracted news from them; supported 40 or 50 starving

families in Zante during winters of 1852–54. _d._ Ayr 7 Sep. 1855.

BROKE, HORATIO GEORGE. _b._ 4 June 1790; captain 58 Foot 18 March

1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; permanent assistant

quartermaster general 4 July 1823; deputy quartermaster general

Nova Scotia 20 July 1830 to 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to the

Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; colonel 88 Foot 24 Dec. 1858

to death; L.G. 15 June 1860. _d._ Gloucester place, Portman sq.

London 30 Aug. 1860.

BROKE, SIR PHILIP VERE, 2 Baronet. _b._ 15 Jany. 1804; entered navy

Dec. 1819; captain 12 Sep. 1835; succeeded 2 June 1841; sheriff of

Suffolk 1844. _d._ Broke hall near Ipswich 24 Feb. 1855.

BROKE, SIR WILLIAM DE CAPELL, 3 Baronet. _b._ Deal, Kent 12 June

1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1835;

barrister I.T. 25 May 1827; sheriff of Rutland 1852; succeeded 6

Dec. 1858. _d._ The Elms, Market Harborough 8 March 1886. _Law

Times lxxx_, 364 (1886).

BROMBY, REV. JOHN HEALEY. _b._ 1771; ed. at Hull gr. sch. and Sid.

Suss. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, fellow

of his coll.; V. of Trinity, Hull 1797–1866; V. of Cheswardine,

Salop 1821–67; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1849 to death;

author of various sermons, essays and lectures published in Hull.

_d._ Hull 25 March 1868, the oldest clergyman in Church of

England.

BROME, FREDERICK. Governor of military prison on Windmill hill,

Gibraltar 1846 to Dec. 1868, and of military prison at Weedon

Northampton 1869 which was abolished same year; well known as a

palæontologist. _d._ 4 March 1870. _Nature i_, 509 (1870).

BROMEHEAD, REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD (_youngest son of Rev. A. C.

Bromehead of Newbold, Warws._) Educ. at Repton and Trin. coll.

Cam., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1879, chaplain of his

college 1857–9; chaplain in Bengal 1859–79; one of founders of

Indian church aid association and the first hon. sec.; chaplain in

ord. at Kensington palace, London 8 July 1879 to death; author of

_A short account of the lives of the bishops of Calcutta_ 1876;

_Step by step or the devout communicant led through the Church to

the vision of God_ 1878. _d._ Kensington palace 6 May 1884 aged

59.

BROMFIELD, WILLIAM ARNOLD (_son of Rev. John Arnold Bromfield of

Boldre in the New Forest who d. 1801_). _b._ Boldre 1801; entered

Univ. of Glasgow 1821, M.D. 1823; travelled through Germany, Italy

and France 1826–30; went to West Indies 1844 and to North America

1846; embarked for the East, Sep. 1850; author of _List of plants

likely to be found wild in the Isle of Wight_ 1840;

_Botanico-topographical map of the Isle of Wight_ 1850; _Letters

from Egypt and Syria_ 1856. _d._ of malignant typhus fever at

Damascus 9 Oct. 1851. _Hooker’s Kew garden miscell. iii_, 373–82

(1851); _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_, 182–3 (1855); _W. A.

Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis_ 1856, _portrait_.

BROMHEAD, SIR EDMUND GONVILLE, 3 Baronet. _b._ Birch grove,

Ballinasloe 22 Jany. 1791; ensign 8 Foot 18 Jany. 1808; lieut. 54

Foot 23 March 1809; captain 19 Foot 21 Nov. 1822 to 13 May 1826

when placed on h.p. as major; served in Walcheren expedition, the

Peninsula and at Waterloo; led the forlorn hope at Cambray 24 June

1815; succeeded 14 March 1855. _d._ Thurlby hall near Lincoln 25

Oct 1870.

BROMHEAD, SIR EDWARD THOMAS FFRENCH, 2 Baronet (_eldest son of Sir

Gonville Bromhead, 1 baronet 1758–1822_). _b._ Dublin 26 March

1789; ed. at Gonville and Caius. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;

barrister I.T. 28 May 1813; succeeded 11 May 1822; F.R.S. 13 March

1817, F.L.S. 1844. _d._ Thurlby hall 14 March 1855.

BROMLEY, SIR RICHARD MADOX (_2 son of Samuel Bromley, Surgeon R.N.

who d. 1835_). _b._ 11 June 1813; ed. at Lewisham gr. sch.;

entered Admiralty department of Civil service 1829; sec. to Comrs.

for auditing public accounts 6 June 1848 to Feb. 1854; accountant

general of the Navy Feb. 1854 to March 1863; comr. of Greenwich

hospital 28 March 1863 to death; C.B. 13 Sep. 1854, K.C.B. 6 Sep.

1858. _d._ The Marina, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Nov. 1865.

BROMLEY, SIR ROBERT HOWE, 3 Baronet (_only son of Sir George Smith,

2 baronet 1753–1808, who assumed surname of Bromley 1778_). _b._

Stoke near Newark 28 Nov. 1778; entered navy 26 Dec. 1791; captain

28 April 1802; placed on h.p. 1809; admiral 17 Aug. 1851;

succeeded his father 17 Aug. 1808. _d._ Stoke 8 July 1857.

BROMLEY, VALENTINE WALTER (_eld. son of Wm. Bromley of St. John’s

Wood, London_). _b._ London 14 Feb. 1848; contributed many

illustrations to _Illustrated London News_; an associate of

Institute of painters in water colours; exhibited 5 pictures at

R.A. and 22 at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–77; his picture of Troilus

and Cressida is engraved in _Art Journal_ 1873. _d._ Fallows

Green, Harpenden 30 April 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_, 469 (1877),

_portrait_.

BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Walter

Davenport-Bromley of Wooton hall, Staffs. 1787–1862_). _b._

Capesthorn near Crewe 20 Aug. 1821; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.;

lieut. col. Staffordshire yeomanry cavalry 13 July 1864 to death;

M.P. for North Warwickshire Dec. 1864 to death; assumed name of

Bromley-Davenport in lieu of Davenport-Bromley 1868; aide-de-camp

to the Queen 15 Aug. 1883 to death; author of many hunting songs

and of an article entitled _Fox hunting_ in _The Nineteenth

Century June 1883_. _d._ Lichfield 15 June 1884. _Waagen’s

Treasures of art iii_, 371–80 (1854); _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 629 (1884),

_portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xlii_, 385 (1884).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE MARY HOOD, Duchess of (_only dau. of Wm. Nelson, 1

Earl Nelson 1757–1835_). _b._ 20 Sep. 1787; succeeded her father

as Duchess of Bronte in Sicily 28 Feb. 1835. (_m._ 3 July 1810

Samuel Hood, 2 Baron Bridport 1788–1868). _d._ Cricket, St. Thomas

29 Jany. 1873. _Earl Nelson v. Lord Bridport, 6 Beavan, Reports in

Chancery_ 295–305 (1845); _7 Beavan_ 195–202 (1846); _8 Beavan_

527–74 (1847).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE (_3 child of the succeeding_). _b._ Hartshead 21

April 1816; ed. at Cowan’s Bridge, Yorkshire 1824–5, and at Miss

Wooler’s school Roehead, Yorkshire 1831–2 where she was teacher 29

July 1835 to Dec. 1837; learnt French in Brussels 1842–3. (_m._ 19

June 1854 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, C. of Haworth); author with

her sisters Emily and Anne of _Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton

Bell_ 1846; _Jane Eyre an autobiography edited by Currer Bell 3

vols._ 1847; _Shirley, a tale by Currer Bell 3 vols._ 1849;

_Villette by Currer Bell 3 vols._ 1853; _The professor, a tale_

[_edited by A. B. Nicholls_] _2 vols._ 1857. _d._ Haworth

parsonage 31 March 1855. _Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of C. Bronte 2

vols._ 1857, _portrait_; _C. Bronte, a monograph by T. W. Reid_

1877; _The Bronte family by F. A. Leyland_ 1886; _G. B. Smith’s

Poets and novelists_ (1875) 207–50; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_

(1883) 124–30, _portrait_; _P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen_

(1881) 155–340; _Illust. Review iv_, 257–65, _portrait_.

BRONTE, REV. PATRICK (_son of Hugh Prunty of Ahaderg, Downshire_).

_b._ Ahaderg 17 March 1777; opened a school at Drumgooland,

Downshire 1793; changed his name to Bronte about 1801; entered St.

John’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1802, B.A. 1806; ordained to a curacy in

Essex; C. of Hartshead, Yorkshire 1811; P.C. of Thornton near

Bradford 1814–20; Inc. of Haworth near Bradford 25 Feb. 1820 to

death; author of _Cottage poems_ 1811; _The rural minstrel_ 1813

and of a tract called, _The cottage in a wood, or the art of

becoming rich and happy_ 1818 _reprinted_ 1859, he is partly

represented as Mr. Helstone in his daughter’s novel _Shirley_.

_d._ Haworth parsonage 7 June 1861. _Dict, of nat. biog. vi_,

406–13 (1886).

BROOK, CHARLES (_son of James Brook of Huddersfield, banker and

cotton spinner at Meltham_). _b._ Upperhead row, Huddersfield 18

Nov. 1814; partner with his father 1840; made many improvements in

machinery; founded Convalescent Home at Huddersfield at cost of

£40,000 where there is a portrait of him by Samuel Howell;

purchased Enderby hall near Leicester 1865 at cost of £150,000;

rebuilt Enderby church 1865. _d._ Enderby hall 10 July 1872.

BROOKE, SIR ARTHUR BRINSLEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1797; succeeded 24

March 1834; M.P. for co. Fermanagh 30 April 1840 to death. _d._

Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh 20 Nov. 1854.

BROOKE, CHARLES. _b._ in the Mint Exeter 8 Aug. 1777; ed. at English

academy Liege; took part in emigration to Stonyhurst 1794;

ordained at Maynooth 12 June 1802; entered Society of Jesus at

Hodder Place near Stonyhurst 26 Sep. 1803; missioner at Clayton,

Enfield Sep. 1817; provincial 1826–32; superior of Seminary

adjacent to Stonyhurst college 30 July 1834; visitor of Ireland

June 1842 to July 1843; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 1843–5;

sent to Exeter 11 Sep. 1845 to gather materials for continuation

of history of English province of Society of Jesus from 1635. _d._

in same room in which he had been born at Exeter 6 Oct. 1852.

BROOKE, CHARLES (_son of Henry James Brooke 1771–1857_). _b._ 30

June 1804; ed. at Chiswick, Rugby and St. John’s coll. Cam., 23

wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, M.A. 1853; M.R.C.S. 1834,

F.R.C.S. 1844; pres. of Meteorological and Microscopical

Societies; invented the bead suture, a great improvement in

treatment of deep wounds; invented self recording meteorological

instruments which register their variations by means of

photography; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1844, councillor,

librarian and vice. pres. successively; F.R.S. 4 March 1847;

author of _A synopsis of the principal formulæ and results of pure

mathematics_ 1829; edited Golding Bird’s _Elements of natural

philosophy_ _4 ed. 1854, 5 ed. 1860, and 6 ed. 1867_. _d._

Weymouth 17 May 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx_, 1–2 (1880).

BROOKE, EDWARD BASIL. _b._ 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817; lieut.

col. 67 Foot 9 Nov. 1846 to 31 Dec. 1858; inspecting field officer

31 Dec. 1858; M.G. 1 May 1861. _d._ London 1 Dec. 1868.

BROOKE, EDWIN HARCOURT, stage name of Edward James Macdonald Brook.

_b._ Buckinghamshire 12 June 1843; ed. at City of London School;

made his first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre 10 July

1862 as Lord Chamberlain in _Henry the Eighth_; acted at Sadlers

Wells theatre, Prince’s theatre Manchester, Glasgow 2 seasons,

Alexandra theatre Liverpool nearly 3 years; played Bassanio in

_The Merchant of Venice_ at Prince of Wales’s theatre London April

1875; played at Lyceum theatre 2 years where he acted Simon Renard

in Tennyson’s _Queen Mary_ April 1876; played title role in _The

Silver King_ in the provinces more than 400 times 1883–4; author

of _Gustave_ produced at Alexandra theatre Liverpool about 1876;

of a comedietta called _Bessie_ produced at Royalty theatre; and

of an adaptation of _David Copperfield_. _d._ 1 Bullen road,

Clapham Junction, London 30 Nov. 1884. _Biograph vi_, 582–4

(1881).

BROOKE, FRANCIS CAPPER (_only son of Rev. Charles Brooke of Ufford,

Suffolk 1765–1836_). _b._ 18 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch.

Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Suffolk 1869; one of earliest

contributors to _Notes and Queries_ under initials F.C.B.:

collected a fine library of 20,000 volumes at Ufford; author of

_Sepulchral memorials of the Cobham family_ 1874. _d._ Ufford 13

Jany. 1886.

BROOKE, SIR GEORGE. _b._ 1793; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Sep.

1808, col. commandant 21 July 1851 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on

retired list; general 24 May 1870; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13

March 1867. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s London 31 Dec. 1882.

_I.L.N. lxxxii_, 149 (1883), _portrait_.

BROOKE, GEORGE WILLIAM. Secretary of London, Chatham and Dover

railway company 1868 to death. _d._ West hill, Sydenham 21 Feb.

1876.

BROOKE, GUSTAVUS VAUGHAN (_son of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke of

Dublin_). _b._ Hardwick place, Dublin 25 April 1818; ed. at

Edgeworthstown; first appeared on the stage, at T.R. Dublin 9

April 1833 as William Tell; played in Ireland and Scotland; first

appeared in London, at Victoria theatre as Virginius 1837; acted

in United States 1851–3; manager of Astor place opera house New

York May 1852; played in Australia and New Zealand at large salary

of £100 a night 1855–7; partner with George Coppin in T.R.

Melbourne and Melbourne Cremorne in which he lost all his money,

they dissolved partnership Feb. 1859; drowned in the London in Bay

of Biscay on his way to Australia 10 Jany. 1866. _Longman’s Mag.

March 1885_, 490–501; _Theatrical times iii_, 18, 49 (1848),

_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41–2, 2

_portraits_; _Tallis’s Illust. Life in London_ (1864) 120, 126, 2

_portraits_; _I.L.N. xii_, 12, 91 (1848), 2 _portraits_.

BROOKE, HENRY FRANCIS (_eld. son of George Brooke of Ashbrooke, co.

Fermanagh_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1836; ensign 48 Foot 6 June 1854; served

in Crimea and China; adjutant general Bombay army 23 Nov. 1877 to

28 March 1880; brigadier general in command of second infantry

brigade in Kandahar 28 March 1880 to death; killed at Maiwand in a

sortie from Kandahar 16 Aug. 1880, _bur._ in family vault at

Colebrooke 14 Dec. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 24–6,

_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 289 (1880), _portrait_.

BROOKE, HENRY JAMES (_son of Mr. Brooke of Exeter, broadcloth

manufacturer_). _b._ Exeter 25 May 1771; a trader in Spanish wool

in London 1802; established companies to work mines of South

America; actuary and sec. to London Life association to 1843;

F.G.S. 1815; F.L.S. 1818; F.R.S. 22 April 1819, member of council

1842–44; his unrivalled collection of minerals was presented to

Univ. of Cam.; discovered 13 new mineral species; author of _A

familiar introduction to Crystallography_ 1823; edited with

extensive alterations and additions _An elementary introduction to

Mineralogy by W. Phillips_ 1852. _d._ Clapham Rise, Surrey 26 June

1857. _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 41–4 (1857); _Quarterly Journal of

Geological Soc. xiv_, 44–45 (1858).

BROOKE, HENRY VAUGHAN. _b._ 11 Nov. 1808; ensign 32 Foot 12 July

1827, lieut. col. 13 Sep. 1848 to 24 July 1857; C.B. 9 June 1849;

aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to death. _d._ Holyhead 15

Sep. 1858.

BROOKE, SIR JAMES (_2 son of Thomas Brooke of Widcombe crescent,

Bath who d. 1835_). _b._ Secrole now called Secrore the European

suburb of Benares 29 April 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; in the

Bengal army 1819–30; sailed for Borneo in a schooner of his own 16

Dec. 1838; subdued insurrection in Borneo 1840–1; created Rajah of

Sarawak 24 Sep. 1841, formerly installed at Kuching 18 Aug. 1842;

suppressed piracy in Malayan Archipelago 1843–9; founded

settlement of Labuan in Borneo 2 Dec. 1846; comr. and consul

general in Borneo 23 July 1847 to 9 Aug. 1855; admitted to freedom

of City of London 29 Oct. 1847; governor of Labuan 27 Nov. 1847 to

Feb. 1856; D.C.L. Ox. 25 Nov. 1847; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; left

Sarawak April 1863. _d._ Burrator, close to Sheepstor, Dartmoor,

Devon 11 June 1868 an estate which was purchased for him by public

subscription 1859. _The private letters of Sir J. Brooke edited by

J. C. Templer 3 vols._ 1853; _The life of Sir J. Brooke by S. St.

John_ 1879, _portrait_; _G. L. Jacob’s Rajah of Sarawak 2 vols._

1876, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world ii_, 380 (1858),

_portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_, 233 (1847), _portrait_.

BROOKE, JAMES CROFT. Ensign 31 Foot 31 Oct. 1831; major 8 Foot 2

Oct. 1849 to 15 Oct. 1861 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 March 1868;

C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Hastings terrace, Jersey 27 April 1875.

BROOKE, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837; bencher of

King’s Inns 1859. _d._ 1877.

BROOKE, JOHN BROOKE JOHNSON (_eld. son of Rev. Francis Charles

Johnson, V. of White Lackington, Somerset who d. 22 Dec. 1874 aged

78_). Ensign 88 Foot 11 Oct. 1839, captain 18 Jany. 1848 to Jany.

1853 when he retired; joined his uncle Sir James Brooke in Sarawak

1848; took his uncle’s name of Brooke 1848; member of council of

state Sarawak 1855–63; carried on government of Sarawak as Rajah

Muda during his uncle’s illness 1858; distinguished for energy

with which he suppressed piracy on coast of Borneo. _d._ Hounslow

1 Dec. 1868 aged 45. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 128 (1869).

BROOKE, RICHARD (_son of Richard Brooke of Liverpool who d. 15 June

1852 aged 91_). _b._ Liverpool 1791; solicitor and notary at

Liverpool 1814; member of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical

society 12 Nov. 1855, member of council 1860 to death; F.S.A.;

author of _Observations illustrative of the accounts given by the

ancient historical writers of the battle of Stoke Field_ 1825; _A

treatise on the office and practice of a Notary of England_ 1839,

_4 ed._ 1876; _Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the

eighteenth century_ 1853; _Visits to fields of battle in England

of the fifteenth century_ 1857. _d._ Liverpool 14 June 1861.

BROOKE, SIR RICHARD, 6 Baronet. _b._ Norton Priory, Cheshire 18 Aug.

1785; succeeded 6 March 1795; sheriff of Cheshire 1817. _d._

Norton Priory 11 Nov. 1865.

BROOKE, REV. RICHARD SINCLAIR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.

1827, M.A. 1858, B.D. and D.D. 1860; minister of Mariners’ church

Kingstown, Dublin 1835–62; R. of Wyton, Hunts. 1862–77; author of

_The sheaf of corn, or mornings with a scripture class_ 1850;

_Poems illustrative of Grace-Creation-Suffering_ 1852;

_Recollections of the Irish church_ 1877. _d._ 11 Herbert st.

Dublin 6 Aug. 1882 aged 80.

BROOKE, THOMAS (_2 son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6 Baronet 1785–1865_).

_b._ Norton Priory 2 April 1816; ensign 12 Foot 31 Oct. 1834,

lieut. col. 19 May 1854 to 22 Feb. 1861 when placed on h.p.; col.

28 Foot 30 Sep. 1878 to death; general 27 April 1879. _d._ 13

Manson place, Queen’s gate, London 4 Nov. 1880.

BROOKE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnham Market, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1795; kept a

school at Norwich 1820–65; supplied records of his meteorological

observations to local papers and scientific journals 1829 to

death; F.R.A.S. 1849. _d._ Upper Surrey st. Norwich 1 Aug. 1867.

_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxviii_, 77 (1868).

BROOKE, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Brooke, M.D. of Dublin_). _b._

Dublin 22 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1812, B.A.

1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of

King’s Inns 1846; a master in court of chancery 1846–74; a comr.

of the Great Seal Feb. 1874; P.C. June 1874. _d._ Taney hill

house, Dundrum, co. Dublin 19 Aug. 1881.

BROOKE, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1781; clerk in bank of John Trotter in

London who established first bazaar in this country namely in Soho

sq. 1816; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A. who in his etching from

his own painting of “The death of Nelson” has introduced a

_portrait_ of Brooke as one of the sailors; exhibited 9 pictures

at the R.A., 6 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–33;

_portrait_ painter in London 1798; contributed drawings to the

_Satirist_ 1812 to Sep. 1813; illustrated _Moore’s Irish Melodies_

1822; _Keightley’s Greek and Roman Mythology_ 1831 and many other

popular books; many of his drawings on wood were engraved by

Thomson, Branston and other eminent xylographers. _d._ Chichester

12 Jany. 1860. _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua v_, 273–6

(1861); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 281–5 (1883).

BROOKES, WARWICK. _b._ Birtles’ sq. Greengate, Salford 1806; entered

print works of John Barge near Broughton Bridge, Salford; artist

at Manchester. _d._ Egerton grove, Stretford new road, Manchester

11 Aug. 1882. _Manchester City News 26 Aug. 1882 and following

weeks._

BROOKFIELD, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_2 son of Charles Brookfield of

Sheffield, solicitor_). _b._ Sheffield 31 Aug. 1809; ed. at

Sheffield, Leeds and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of

Maltby near Bawtry Dec. 1834; C. of St. Luke’s Berwick st. London

1841; inspector of elementary church schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1865;

R. of Somerby near Grantham 1861 to death; hon. chaplain in ord.

to the Queen 24 March 1862, chaplain in ord. 1 Jany. 1867 to

death; chaplain of Rolls chapel, Chancery lane 1866 to death;

preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1868 to death; he is described in

Thackeray’s _Curates Walk_ as Frank Whitestock; author of _Paris

exhibition Reports on classes. Printing and books, class vi_,

(_reprinted in Illustrated London News 17 Aug. 1867_). _d._ 16

Hereford sq. West Brompton, London 12 July 1874. _Sermons by the

late Rev. W. H. Brookfield edited by Mrs. Brookfield_ 1875,

_portrait_.

BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (_son of Wm. Brooks of London,

architect who d. 11 Dec. 1867 aged 80_). _b._ 52 Doughty st.

London 29 April 1816; articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of

Oswestry, solicitor 1832–7; wrote parliamentary summary in

_Morning Chronicle_ 1848–52, special correspondent for it in

Russia, Syria and Egypt 1853; contributed to _Punch_ 1851 to

death, editor June 1870 to death, wrote _Punch’s Essence of

parliament_; edited _Literary Gazette_ 1858–9 and _Home News_

1867; author of _The Creole or love’s fetters_, produced at Lyceum

theatre 8 April 1847; _The daughter of the stars_, produced at New

Strand theatre 5 Aug. 1850; _Aspen Court, a story of our own time

3 vols._ 1854; _The gordian knot_ 1859; _The silver cord 3 vols._

1861. _d._ 6 Kent terrace, Regent’s park, London 23 Feb. 1874.

_G.M. xii_, 561–9 (1874); _Illust. review iii_, 545–50 (1872),

_portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 143–9 (1884); _Cartoon

portraits_ (1873) 128–33, _portrait_.

BROOKS, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Entered Bombay army 1799; colonel 20 Bombay

N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; commanded the field force in Upper

Scinde 1840; general 30 Aug. 1860. _d._ Clewer hill, Windsor 4

Oct. 1862. _The memorial of G. B. Brooks to the Honorable the

Court of directors of the East India Company_ 1842.

BROOKS, JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Brooks, R. of Walton-le-Dale,

Lancs._) _b._ 7 April 1856; ed. at Harrow and Merton coll. Ox.,

B.A. 1878; barrister I.T. 29 June 1881; M.P. for Altrincham

division of Cheshire 27 Nov. 1885 to death. _d._ Eaton place,

London 8 March 1886.

BROOKS, VEN. JONATHAN (_son of Mr. Brooks of Liverpool, merchant_).

_b._ Oldhall st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1775; ed. at Macclesfield sch.

and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; C. of Walton on the

hill, C. of St. James’s Liverpool, and C. of St. George’s

Liverpool successively; senior R. of Liverpool 7 Oct. 1829 to

death; archdeacon of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1848 to death; chairman of

Liverpool quarter sessions many years. _d._ Everton road, near

Liverpool 29 Sep. 1855. _G.M. xliv_, 543–4 (1855).

BROOKS, REV. JOSHUA WILLIAM. Curate of East Retford 1821–7; V. of

Clareborough 1827–43; R. of Grove 1837–43; V. of St. Mary’s

Nottingham 1843–64; rural dean 1855–64; preb. of Linc. cath. 1858

to death; R. of Great Ponton 1864 to death; author of _Elements of

prophetical interpretation_ 1836; _History of the Hebrew nation_

1841; edited _Abdiel’s Essays on the Advent of Christ_ 1844;

_Proverbs of Solomon_ 1860. _d._ 17 Feb. 1882 aged 92.

BROOKS, ROBERT. _b._ 1799; merchant and shipowner in London; M.P.

for Weymouth 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 5 June 1882.

Personalty sworn under £370,000, 15 July 1882.

BROOKS, SAMUEL (_son of Wm. Brooks of Manchester, banker who d.

about 1846_). _b._ Great Harwood 1792; calico printer in

Manchester; opened a bank at Manchester as a branch of Cunliffe’s

bank Blackburn; a great land improver, purchased estates at Moss

Side, Baguley, Sale, Timperley and Partington; chairman of

original meeting of promoters of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway

18 Oct. 1830. _d._ Whalley house, Whalley range, Manchester 7 June

1864. _L. H. Grindon’s Manchester Banks_ (1877) 197–214.

BROOKS, VINCENT. Purchased large establishment of Day and Sons,

lithographers, Gate st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1867, carried

on the business under style of Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1867 to

death. _d._ of apoplexy in counting house of Spalding and Hodge,

Drury Lane 29 Sep. 1885 in 70 year.

BROOKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (_son of Wm. Brooks of London,

architect_). _b._ London 25 March 1802; engineer officer with Sir

Robert Wilson in Spain 1822; resident engineer to Tees Navigation

company 1828; engineer to corporation of Newcastle 1842–58;

practised in London 1858 to death; made 4 journeys to Honduras

1870–6; sent out to investigate feasibility of a ship canal across

Isthmus of Darien 1876; M.I.C.E. 10 June 1834, Telford medallist

1852; author of _Treatise on the improvement of the navigation of

rivers_ 1841; _Honduras and the Inter-Oceanic railway_ 1874. _d._

Paya, in the Isthmus of Darien 26 Jany. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of

Instit. of C.E. l_, 172–5 (1877).

BROOM, HERBERT (_only son of Herbert Broom of Kidderminster_). _b._

Kidderminster 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 40 wrangler 1837,

B.A. 1837, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840;

professor of common law to council of legal education Jany. 1873

to 1875; author of _Practical rules for determining parties to

actions_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1846; _A selection of legal maxims_ 1845,

_6 ed._ 1884; _Commentaries on the common law_ 1856, _7 ed._ 1884;

_Constitutional law_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1885, and of 2 novels _The

missing will 3 vols._ 1877 and _The unjust steward 2 vols._ 1879.

_d._ The Priory, Orpington, Kent 2 May 1882.

BROOME, ARTHUR. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel

29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure

Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. _d._

at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871.

BROOME, HENRY ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the

Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10

Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry

£100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher)

£200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29

Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April

1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18

minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen;

paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200

a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London

1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856;

kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public

caterer at principal race meetings. _d._ 30 Frith st. Soho, London

2 Nov. 1865. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_, 308–39 (1881),

_portrait_; _Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling_

(1860) 234–55; _Illust. sporting news iv_, 561 (1865), _portrait_.

BROOME, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Birmingham 14 March

1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought

Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841

when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian

£300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42

rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn,

London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st.

Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of

50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad

Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. _Fights for the championship by

Francis Dowling_ (1860) 370–8; _The new Tom Spring’s Life in

London_ (1844) 137, _portrait_.

BROPHEY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after

battle of Vinegar Hill 1798_). _b._ near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed.

at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest

1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church

Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. _d._ Mercy

hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year.

BROS, THOMAS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831;

barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to

April 1878. _d._ Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883

aged 79.

BROTHERHOOD, ROWLAND. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron

and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges

ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales

Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. _d._

Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883.

BROTHERTON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade;

wrote letters on popular education in _Manchester Guardian_ which

led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for

Education Act of 1870; author of _Mormonism its rise and progress_

1846; _Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church_ 1860; editor

and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical _The Dawn_

(Manchester 1861–2); wrote _Outlines of my mental history_ in the

_Intellectual Repository_ 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms

of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. _d._ Cornbrook,

Manchester 23 March 1866.

BROTHERTON, JOSEPH (_son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton

spinner_). _b._ Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton

spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805,

pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to

death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of

private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league.

_d._ suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence

Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M.

Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. _J. B. Robinson’s

Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 42–4, _portrait_; _Book-lore ii_,

78–82 (1885); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 117 (1858),

_portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_, 309 (1846), _portrait, xxxiii_, 210

(1858).

BROTHERTON, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards

24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March

1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and

during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820

to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign

22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832

to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15

Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to

death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855,

G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. _d._ at

his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868.

BROUGH, ANNIE (_dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool_). _b._ Liverpool

19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June

1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as

Adalgisa in _Norma_ 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna

at the Surrey theatre 1850. (_m._ April 1851 Wm. Brough the

dramatist 1826–70). _d._ 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. _Musical

World xxx_, 94 (1852).

BROUGH, BARNABAS. Brewer and wine merchant at Pontypool; one of the

principal witnesses for the Crown in trial of John Frost the

Chartist 1840, which made him very unpopular and ruined his

business; auctioneer and accountant at Manchester 1843–5;

accountant in office of _Illustrated London News_ London 1845 to

death; author under name of Barnard de Burgh of several dramatic

pieces, one of which _I wont go or how to keep a place_ was acted

in London by Tyrone Power. _d._ 4 South Lambeth place, Lambeth,

London 30 Oct. 1854 aged 59.

BROUGH, JOHN CARGILL (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Pontypool,

Monmouthshire 11 Feb. 1834; clerk in audit office of London and

South Western railway 1852–8; wrote articles in many periodicals;

an original member of the Savage club 1857; edited _The Chemist

and Druggist_ 1860–70; F.C.S. 1864; started _The Laboratory, a

weekly record of scientific research_ April 1867; published with

two friends _Exeter Change_ a humourous brochure during meeting of

British Association at Exeter Aug. 1869; librarian and

superintendent of London Institution, Finsbury Circus July 1870 to

death, started and edited _Journal of London Institution_, gave a

course of lectures there on Philosophy of Magic 1871–2; author of

_The fairy tales of science_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1865; one of the

editors of _England’s Workshops_ 1864 and of _Year book of

Pharmacy_ 1870–2. _d._ Esher 7 Sep. 1872. _Chemist and Druggist_

(1872) 287, 305, 340.

BROUGH, MARY ANN. Nurse to Prince of Wales; murdered 6 of her

children at Esher 9 June 1854 and attempted to destroy herself;

tried for murder at Guildford assizes 9 Aug. 1854, when found not

guilty on ground of insanity. _d._ Bethlem hospital, London about

20 March 1861. _Annual Register_ (1854) 93–7;

BROUGH, REDMOND WILLIAM. Ensign 56 Foot 10 March 1807, lieut. 15

July 1808 to 10 Jany. 1822 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 Foot 7

Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1841 to 2 March 1846 when placed on

h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s London 29

Feb. 1860 aged 68.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER. First lieut. R.A. 2 Sep. 1794, colonel 21

Nov. 1833 to 1841, col. commandant 17 Aug. 1846 to death; general

16 Dec. 1856. _d._ Onslow sq. London 15 Jany. 1859 aged 85.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER (_younger son of Thompson Brough, M.D. of

Kiltegan, co. Wicklow_). _b._ Kiltegan 17 Oct. 1846; a fourth

grade assistant superintendent Indian telegraph service 30 Oct.

1869; assistant to superintendent electrician at Calcutta March

1871 to death; author of _Telegraph construction_; edited

Schwendler’s _Instructions for testing lines, batteries and

instruments_. _d._ from cholera at Calcutta 3 April 1879. _Min. of

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