London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the _Liverpool Lion_
comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with
his brother William first of which _The enchanted isle_ was
produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi
theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the _Atlas_ a short time and
the _Welcome Guest_; author of _Life of Sir John Falstaff_ 1858;
_Miss Brown, a romance and other tales_ 1860. _d._ Boundary st.
Manchester 26 June 1860. _Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with
portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala_ 1860 this work
contains the story of Brough’s own life; _E. Yates’s Recollections
i_, 312–18 (1884).
BROUGH, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 28 April
1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of
papers called _Hints upon heraldry_ in the _Liverpool Lion_; wrote
with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for
Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many
“Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry;
wrote many burlesques including _The field of the cloth of gold_
which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till
27 March 1869, 298 times. _d._ 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock
hill 13 March 1870.
BROUGH, WILLIAM FRANCIS. _b._ Wexford 1798; made his first
appearance on the stage in Sussex 1818; acted at Haymarket theatre
London 3 years; first appeared in America at Park theatre New York
4 Sep. 1835; made his début in Philadelphia 18 Jany. 1836, at
Chestnut st. theatre as Cedric in opera of _The Maid of Judith_.
_d._ while on his passage to England 21 May 1867. _bur._ in
Brooklyn cemetery New York Feb. 1868.
BROUGHAM, HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Henry Brougham
of Brougham near Penrith 1742–1810_). _b._ 19 St. Andrew’s sq.
Edin. 19 Sep. 1778; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; admitted
advocate 10 June 1800; one of founders of _Edinburgh Review_ Oct.
1802, chief contributor to it; F.R.S. 3 March 1803; barrister L.I.
22 Nov. 1808; M.P. for Camelford 1810–12, for Winchelsea 1815–30
and for West Riding of Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1830;
attorney general to Queen Caroline 22 April 1820 to her death 7
Aug. 1821; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1825; K.C. 1827,
received patent of precedence 1827; lord chancellor 22 Nov. 1830
to 22 Nov. 1834; created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham,
Westmoreland 22 Nov. 1830 and by another patent dated 22 March
1860, created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham and of Highhead
Castle, Cumberland; foreign associate of Institute of France 1833;
pres. of Social science association 1857 and 1860–5; chancellor of
Univ. of Edin. 1859. _d._ Chateau Eleanor Louise, Cannes 7 May
1868. _Life and times of Lord Brougham 3 vols._ 1871, _portrait_;
_Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors viii_, 213–596; _Law
mag. and law review xxiv_, 177–236 (1868); _W. C. Taylor’s
National portrait gallery i_. 62–5 (1846), _portrait_; _Maclise
Portrait gallery_ (1883) 81–7, _portrait_; _A bibliographical list
of Lord Brougham’s publications, by the author of The handbook of
fictitious names_ [_Ralph Thomas_] 1873.
NOTE.—The result of Queen Caroline’s trial made him
extraordinarily popular and the Brougham’s Head became a
common tavern sign; at time of passing of the Reform bill
plaster casts of his head were sold by tens of thousands. His
quarrel with Canning in the House of Commons 17 April 1823 was
paraphrased by Dickens in the opening chapter of Pickwick. All
the morning papers except the Times of Tuesday 22 Oct. 1839
contained leading articles on the sudden death of Lord
Brougham with biographical sketches of him. He is depicted by
Disraeli as ‘Foaming Fudge’ in Vivian Grey 1827, and by T. L.
Peacock as ‘the learned friend’ in Crotchet Castle 1831.
BROUGHAM, WILLIAM BROUGHAM, 2 Baron (_brother of the preceding_).
_b._ 26 Sep. 1795; ed. at Edin. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master in chancery 29 March
1831 to 2 Nov. 1852, when granted pension of £3225 on abolition of
his office by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 80; M.P. for Southwark 29 April
1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; contested Leeds 9 Jany. 1835; succeeded 7
May 1868. _d._ Brougham hall near Penrith 3 Jany. 1886. _Law Times
lxxx_, 175 (1886).
BROUGHAM, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.;
made his début at Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of
_Tom and Jerry_ July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden;
manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened
a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct.
1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London
1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany.
1869; edited a comic paper in New York called _The Lantern_ 1852;
author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of
Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. _d._ 60 East Ninth st. New York
7 June 1880. _Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter_ 1881,
_portrait_; _Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii_, 178, 210,
384, 594, 655 (1867); _The Oddfellow i_, 65 (1839), _portrait_.
BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Sir Benjamin
Hobhouse, 1 baronet 1757–1831_). _b._ Redland near Bristol 27 June
1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A.
1811; visited Greece and Turkey with Lord Byron 1809–10 who
dedicated to him fourth canto of _Childe Harold_ for which he
wrote the explanatory notes; F.R.S. 19 May 1814; imprisoned in
Newgate 14 Dec. 1819 to 29 Jany. 1820 for publishing a pamphlet
called _The trifling mistake_; M.P. for Westminster 1820–33 for
Nottingham 1834–47 and for Harwich 1848–51; active member of the
Greek Committee in London 1823–24; one of the 6 founders of Royal
Geographical Society 1830; sec. of state for war 1 Feb. 1832 to 4
April 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 28 March to 17 May 1833; first
comr. of woods and forests 19 July to 31 Dec. 1834; pres. of Board
of control 29 April 1835 to 9 Sep. 1841 and 10 July 1846 to Feb.
1852; P.C. 6 Feb. 1832; colonel of Wilts. militia 8 Feb. 1840 to
death; created Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts. 26
Feb. 1851; G.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852; author of _Imitations and
translations from the classics, with original poems_ 1809;
_Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey with Lord
Byron_ 1812, _2 ed._ 1818; _Substance of some letters written by
an Englishman resident at Paris during the last reign of Napoleon
2 vols._ 1816. _d._ 42 Berkeley sq. London 3 June 1869. Personalty
sworn under £250,000 14 Aug. 1869. _Recollections of a long life
by the late Lord Broughton De Gyfford 5 vols. privately printed
1865_; _Edinburgh Review cxxxiii_, 287–337 (1871); _Maclise
Portrait gallery_ (1883) 372–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_, 602, 624
(1869), _portrait_.
BROUGHTON, REV. SIR HENRY DELVES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 10 Jany. 1777; ed.
at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1805; P.C. of Broughton
Staffs. 1803 to death; succeeded 9 Aug. 1847. _d._ Broughton hall,
Staffs. 3 Nov. 1851.
BROUGHTON, ROBERT EDWARDS. Barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; police
magistrate at Worship st. London 1827–54, and at Marylebone 1854
to death; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1842. _d._ 33 Dorset sq. London 29 June
1860 aged 79.
BROUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD DELVES (_2 son of Thomas Broughton of Ham
Common, Surrey who d. 24 Jany. 1846_). _b._ 30 April 1802; 2
Lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1825; comr. to survey northern boundaries of
British possessions in North America June 1840 to 31 March 1845;
colonel R.E. 18 April 1860; colonel commandant 19 June 1872 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 8 Crescent, Surbiton, Surrey 5
April 1880.
BROUGHTON, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM GRANT (_eld. son of Grant Broughton_).
_b._ Bridge st. Westminster 22 May 1788; ed. at Barnet gr. sch.
and King’s sch. Canterbury; clerk in treasury department of East
India house 1807–12; resident member of Pemb. hall Cam. Oct. 1814,
6 wrangler 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1836; C. of Hartley
Wespall, Hants. 1818–27; C. of Farnham 1827; chaplain of Tower of
London 6 Oct. 1828 to 24 June 1829; archdeacon of New South Wales
7 Dec. 1828, sworn into office 17 Sep. 1829; bishop of Australia
18 Jany. 1836, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 14 Feb. 1836;
installed in St. James’s church Sydney 2 June 1836; bishop of
Sydney and metropolitan of Australasia 25 June 1847 to death. _d._
11 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 20 Feb. 1853. _bur._ south
aisle of Canterbury cath. 26 Feb. _Sermons on the Church of
England by the Right Rev. W. G. Broughton edited with prefatory
memoir by B. Harrison_ 1857; _G.M. xxxix_, 431–6 (1853); _J.
Bonwick’s Curious facts of old colonial days_ (1870) 34–56.
BROUN, JOHN ALLAN (_son of Mr. Broun of Dumfries, schoolmaster who
d. about 1837_). _b._ Dumfries 21 Sep. 1817; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; director of Sir T. M. Brisbane’s magnetic observatory at
Makerstoun, co. Dumfries 1842–9; director of observatory at
Trevandrum, South India Jany. 1852 to April 1865; built an
observatory on the Agustia Malley 6200 feet above the sea 1855;
discovered that changes in daily mean horizontal force are nearly
the same all over the globe, his researches contributed largely to
establish meteorology on a scientific basis; F.R.S. 2 June 1853,
Royal medallist 1878; author of _Observations of magnetic
declination made at Trevandrum and Agustia Malley_ 1873 and of
more than 50 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 9 Abercorn place,
London 22 Nov. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx_, 3–6 (1880).
BROUN, SIR RICHARD, 8 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir James Broun of
Colston park, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 7 Baronet who d. 30 Nov.
1844_). _b._ Lochmaben 22 April 1801; a knight of St. John of
Jerusalem 28 July 1835, registrar 8 March 1837, sec. of the Langue
of that order in England 24 June 1839, K.C.J.J. and G.C.J.J. 24
June 1841; hon. sec. of Committee of the baronetage for sustaining
rights and privileges of the Order 15 July 1840 to death; demanded
inauguration as a knight on account of being eldest son of a
baronet, on the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to present him to the
Queen for this purpose, he assumed title of Sir and addition of
“Eques auratus” June 1842; projected The London Necropolis and
national mausoleum at Woking 1849 which was incorporated 1852.
_d._ Sphinx lodge, Chelsea, London 10 Dec. 1858.
BROUN, SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet. _b._ July 1804; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators
for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. _d._ 7 Irving st.
Dumfries 10 June 1882.
BROWELL, REV. WILLIAM ROBERT. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828,
M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834;
R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated _Count
Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the
infinitesimal analysis_ 1832; edited _Carwithen’s History of the
Church of England_ 1849. _d._ Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867.
BROWN, REV. ANDREW MORTON. _b._ parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March
1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister
at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of
Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of _The
leader of the Lollards, his times and trials_ 1848; _Salvation and
the way to secure it_, _3 ed._ 1851; _Evenings with the prophets,
a series of memoirs and meditations_ 1854; _Peden the prophet a
tale of the covenanters founded on fact_ 1859. _d._ Bridport 17
July 1879. _Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 596–8 (1880);
_Congregational year book_ (1880) 310–12.
BROWN, CHARLES PHILIP (_son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost
of Calcutta College_). _b._ Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury
college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to
Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator
1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including
over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society
1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of
_Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages_ 1826; _Dictionaries
of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols._ _Madras_ 1852;
_Grammar of the Telugu language_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1857, and many
other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and
Hindustani. _d._ 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec.
1884. _Some account of the literary life of C. P. B. privately
printed_ 1866.
BROWN, ELEANOR (_dau. of Mr. Fairlam of city of London, jeweller_).
_b._ near Regent’s Park London 22 March 1829; landscape painter;
exhibited 1 picture at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1857–72;
author of a fairy tale entitled _Muriel’s Dreamland_ 1871. (_m._
22 March 1849 J. W. Brown of London, estate agent). _d._ 17 Feb.
1878. _E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_, 177–83 (1876).
BROWN, GEORGE. _b._ Stoughton, Sussex 27 April 1783; a tailor at
Emsworth, Hants.; moved to Brighton 1825; lessee of Royal Brighton
Cricket ground 1831 to about 1840; kept a lodging house at 71
Middle st. Brighton to Sep. 1856; played his first cricket match
at Lords 30 July 1818; the fastest bowler who ever played in great
cricket matches; threw a cricket ball 137 yards on Walderton
Common about 1819, the longest throw on record; one of the Sussex
eleven till about 1838. _d._ Sompting, Sussex 25 June 1857.
BROWN, SIR GEORGE (_3 son of George Brown, provost of Elgin_). _b._
Linkwood near Elgin 3 July 1790; ensign 43 Foot 23 Jany. 1806;
lieut. col. Rifle brigade 5 Feb. 1824 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy
adjutant general 23 Nov. 1841; adjutant general 8 April 1850 to 12
Dec. 1853; colonel 77 Foot 11 April 1851 to 22 Dec. 1854;
commanded Light division during Crimean war 1854–55, invalided
home 28 June 1855; colonel commandant Rifle brigade 18 Jany. 1855,
colonel in chief 18 April 1863 to death; general 7 Sep. 1855;
commander of the forces in Ireland 1 April 1860 to April 1865;
P.C. Ireland 1860; colonel 32 Foot 1 April 1863 to death; K.H.
1831, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 5 July 1855.
_d._ Linkwood 27 Aug. 1865. _E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i_, 203,
384 (1857), _portrait_; _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_
(1855) 58–61; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _6 ed. vols._
2–7 (1877–83).
BROWN, GEORGE (_son of Peter Brown 1784–1863_). _b._ Edinburgh 29
Nov. 1818; went to New York 1838 and to Toronto 1843; founded the
_Daily Globe_ at Toronto 1844 and the _Canada Farmer_ 1864; member
of legislative assembly of Canada for county Kent Dec. 1851, for
Lambton 1854, for city of Toronto 1857, and for South Oxford March
1863 to the Union 27 May 1867; formed a ministry in Aug. 1858
which only lasted 2 days; member of the Senate 16 Dec. 1873 to
death; joint plenipotentiary with Sir E. Thornton at Washington to
arrange a commercial treaty with United States 1874; gazetted
K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879 but declined the honour. _d._ Toronto 9 May
1880 having been shot by a discharged employé 25 March 1880.
_Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 769–73; _Dominion
annual register_ (1879) 210, 352, (1880) 393–5; _I.L.N. xlv_, 496
(1864), _portrait_.
BROWN, GEORGE GRANVILLE (_son of Charles Ferdinand D’Artois Duc de
Berri 1778–1820 by his first wife Amy dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown
1784–1876, V. of All Saints church Maidstone, Kent_). _b._
London 1805; brought up at Ouchy near Lausanne; served in army
of King of Naples; naturalised in France about 1843; lived at
Mantes-sur-Seine near Paris about 1843 to death. _d._ Mantes 5
July 1882. _Illust. Lon. News lxxxi_, 62 (1882).
BROWN, RIGHT REV. GEORGE HILARY (_son of Wm. Brown of Clifton in the
Fylde, Lancs._) _b._ 13 Jany. 1786; entered St. Cuthbert’s college
Ushaw 25 Sep. 1799, left it 8 April 1819; ordained deacon 1808,
priest 1810; in charge of mission at Lancaster 1819–40; Vicar
Apostolic of Lancashire district 1840; consecrated Bishop of Bugia
_in partibus_, at Liverpool 24 Aug. 1840; translated to Tloa _in
partibus_ 1842; assistant at Pontifical throne 1843; bishop of
Liverpool 29 Sep. 1850 to death; author of _A supplement to the
Diurnal adapted to the English mission_ 1833. _d._ Catherine st.
Liverpool 25 Jany. 1856.
BROWN, HENRY. Educ. at London hospital, London; L.S.A. 1827,
M.R.C.S. 1832; surgeon at Windsor; medical attendant on the Queen
and royal household at Windsor 1838 to death. _d._ Neet st.
Windsor 24 Oct. 1868 aged 66.
BROWN, HUGH. Hand loom weaver in Ayrshire; a schoolmaster 1828–70;
author of a poem to the memory of Lord Byron in the _Scots
Magazine_ 1825; published _The Covenanters and other poems_ 1838.
_d._ Glasgow 27 Aug. 1885 aged 85.
BROWN, ISAAC BAKER (_son of Mr. Brown of Colne Engaine, Essex_).
_b._ Colne 8 June 1812; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.S.A. and
M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1848; partner with Samuel Griffith of
Edgware road London 1834–40; removed to Oxford sq. 1845; gave up
general practice for that of surgeon accoucheur 1847; surgeon and
accoucheur to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1850–8; founded
London Surgical Home 1858; fellow of Obstetrical Society 1859 to 3
April 1867; pres. of Medical Soc. of London 1865; author of _On
Scarlatina and its successful treatment by the Acidum aceticum
dilutum of the Pharmacopœia_ 1846, _2 ed._ 1857; _On some diseases
of women admitting of surgical treatment_ 1854, _3 ed._ 1866; _On
ovarian dropsy_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1868. _d._ 88 Albany st. Regent’s
park London 3 Feb. 1873. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical
recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 495–503; _Medical
Circular i_, 261, 301–3 (1852), _portrait_; _British Medical
Journal i_, 395–410 (1867).
BROWN, JAMES. _b._ near Montrose; mate of the brig Pomona, built by
him and his elder brother; taken by a French privateer 1808 and
imprisoned at Verdun 1808–14; ship builder at Perth 1814; built 99
vessels including the steam-boat _Tourist_ one of the first
sea-going steamers constructed; raised many sunken ships in all
parts of Europe including the _Comet_, boiler of which exploded in
the Clyde off Greenock 1820; inspector of steam vessels for Dundee
district. _d._ Dundee 19 Jany. 1861 in 77 year. _W. Norrie’s
Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 194–6.
BROWN, JAMES. Flax spinner in Dundee; dean of Guild 1824; the first
pres. of Watt institution 1824; provost of Dundee 1844–7;
contributed many articles to the _Caledonian_ and other
periodicals; author of a small volume of poetry privately printed.
_d._ 6 Jany. 1869 in 82 year.
BROWN, JAMES (_only son of James Brown of Leeds, merchant_). _b._ 12
April 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; sheriff
of Yorkshire 1852; M.P. for Malton 1857–68. _d._ 43 Upper
Grosvenor st. London 19 April 1877. Personalty sworn under
£250,000, 14 July 1877.
BROWN, RIGHT REV. JAMES. _b._ Wolverhampton 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at
Sedgley park school 1820–6 and St. Mary’s college Oscott 1826–37;
ordained priest 18 Feb. 1837; professor and prefect of studies at
Oscott 1837–44; pres. of Sedgley park school 1844–51; bishop of
Shrewsbury 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in St. George’s
cath. Southwark 27 July 1851; one of bishops assistant at
Pontifical throne 17 April 1870; silver jubilee of his episcopate
celebrated in Shrewsbury cath. 27 July 1876. _d._ St. Mary’s
Grange near Shrewsbury 14 Oct. 1881. _A sermon preached on the
occasion of the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the
Rev. John Morris_ 1876.
BROWN, REV. JAMES BALDWIN (_elder son of James Baldwin Brown
1785–1843, judge of court of requests at Oldham_). _b._ 10
Harcourt buildings, Inner Temple, London 19 Aug. 1820; ed. at
Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1839; student at Inner Temple
1839–41; studied at Highbury college 1841; minister of London road
independent chapel Derby 1843; minister of Clayland’s chapel
Clapham road London 1846, removed to new chapel built for him at
Brixton July 1870; chairman of Congregational union of England and
Wales 1878; author of _The soul’s exodus and pilgrimage_ 1862, _3
ed._ 1867; _First principles of ecclesiastical truth_ 1870; _The
higher life_ 1874, _5 ed._ 1879; _The doctrine of annihilation_
1875, _2 ed._ 1878 and many other works. _d._ Coombe, Surrey 23
June 1884. _In memoriam James Baldwin Brown edited by Elizabeth
Baldwin Brown_ 1884, _portrait_; _Leisure hours by a journalist_
(1878) 91–102; _Biograph v_, 154–8 (1881).
BROWN, JANE (_dau. of John Hemsworth of Strokestown, co.
Roscommon_). Roman Catholic bookseller, printer and publisher with
George Keating in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. London Feb. 1837 to 1840
when they dissolved partnership; in business at 10 Duke st.
Manchester sq. 1840; published _The Penny Catholic Magazine_ 7
Sep. 1839 to 1840; _The Laitys Directory_ 1838 _and_ 1839 when it
ceased. (_m._ Richard Brown of Duke st. Grosvenor sq., principal
R.C. publisher in London who _d._ 25 Feb. 1837 aged 60). She _d._
23 March 1860 aged 73.
BROWN, SIR JOHN. Ensign 18 Foot 27 May 1795; lieut. col. 1 Greek
light infantry 1813–15; lieut. col. 21 Dragoons 1815–20; lieut.
col. 13 Dragoons 1820–30; colonel 8 Hussars 4 April 1843 to death;
general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 25 June 1813; knighted by patent 24
Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 1831. _d._ 118 Pall Mall London 16 Nov. 1855
aged 80. _bur._ at Beckenham, Kent.
BROWN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Brown 1754–1832, minister
of the Burgher Secession congregation in Whitburn_). _b._
Burnhead, Whitburn 12 July 1784; ed. at Whitburn parish school,
and Edinburgh Univ. 1797–1800; taught a school in village of Elie,
Fife 1800–1803; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk to
preach the gospel 12 Feb. 1805; minister of Biggar 6 Feb. 1806;
translated to Rose st. ch. Edinburgh 1 May 1822; inducted to
Broughton place ch. Edin. 20 May 1829; received degree of D.D.
from Jefferson college Pensylvania 1830; professor of exegetical
theology to United Presbyterian church 1834–57; engaged with
ardour in Apocrypha, Voluntary, and Atonement controversies
1835–43; promoted union of Secession and Relief bodies; jubilee of
his ministry celebrated April 1856; author of _Expository
discourses on 1 Peter 2 vols._ 1848, _2 ed._ 1849; _Discourses and
sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ 3 vols._ 1850; _Discourses suited
to the Lords Supper_ 1816, _3 ed._ 1853; _Exposition of the
Epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols._ 1862. _d._ Newington, Edinburgh 13
Oct. 1858. _John Cairns’s Memoir of John Brown_ 1860, _portrait_;
_John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 272–80.
BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Dover 2 Aug. 1797; in the East Indian merchant
service 1811–15; wholesale goldsmith and diamond merchant in
London; advocated expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and
made collections illustrative of Arctic adventure; F.R.G.S. 1837;
a founder of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of _The north west
passage and the plans for the search for Sir John Franklin a
review_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Scaleby lodge, Camden road,
London 7 Feb. 1861. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxi_, 116
(1861); _G.M. x_, 571–3 (1861).
BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Barnwell near Cambridge 4 Aug. 1796; brought up as
a shoemaker; entered the army but deserted; became a strolling
player; served in the navy; worked as a shoemaker; acted in London
and the provinces; proprietor of University billiard rooms and
racket court, Ram yard, Bridge st. Cambridge for many years before
his death; town councillor of Cambridge. _d._ Cambridge 22 Aug.
1863. _Sixty years gleanings from life’s harvest by John Brown_
1858, _portrait_.
BROWN, JOHN (_son of Rev. John Brown 1784–1858_). _b._ Biggar,
Lanarkshire 22 Sep. 1810; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.;
apprenticed to James Syme the eminent surgeon 1828–33; M.D. Edin.
1833; physician at Edin. 1833 to death; author of _Horæ Subsecivæ
3 vols._ 1858–82. _d._ 23 Rutland st. Edin. 11 May 1882. _Good
Words for 1882 pp._ 446–51, _portrait_: _Macmillan’s Mag. xlvii_,
281–95 (1883); _I.L.N. lxxx_, 508 (1882), _portrait_.
BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Crathie near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire 8 Dec. 1826;
personal attendant on Queen Victoria Dec. 1865 to death. _d._
Clarence tower, Windsor Castle 27 March 1883. _bur._ Crathie
cemetery 5 April. _Life of J. Brown by H. L. Williams_ 1883; _More
leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands_ (1884) 31,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 332 (1883), _portrait_.
BROWN, JOHN A. (_3 son of Alexander Brown of Baltimore, banker_).
_b._ Ballymena, co. Antrim 21 May 1788; went to United States
about 1800; manager of his father’s bank at Philadelphia 1818,
succeeded to the business; retired about 1839 with a large
fortune; gave to charities sum of 500,000 dollars 300,000 of them
to Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia. _d._ Philadelphia 31
Dec. 1872.
BROWN, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ Glasgow 1805; landscape painter in London,
Glasgow and Edin.; associate of Royal Scottish Academy; drew views
for John Wilson’s _Scotland illustrated_ 1845; his picture ‘The
last of the Clan’ was engraved for Royal Association of Fine Arts
Scotland 1851. _d._ 10 Vincent st. Edin. 8 May 1867.
BROWN, JOHN HOSKINS. Entered navy 25 July 1805; registrar general of
seamen 1835 to April 1851; captain 20 March 1863; C.B. 8 April
1862; author of _The Shipmasters’ guide_ 1844, _new ed._ 1855;
edited _The mercantile navy list_ 1850 _etc._ _d._ Brixton, London
29 June 1864 aged 72.
BROWN, JOHN TATTON BUTLER. _b._ 1 Oct. 1833; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 June
1851, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1876 to 29 Oct. 1881 when he retired with
hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. _d._ Park Mount, Kent road,
Southsea 19 Aug. 1885.
BROWN, JOHN WRIGHT (_son of Rev. Charles J. Brown of Edinburgh_).
_b._ Edin. 19 Jany. 1836; assistant in herbarium connected with
Botanic garden Edin.; an associate of Edinburgh Botanical Society
to which he contributed a list of the plants of Elie, Fifeshire.
_d._ 39 George sq. Edinburgh 23 March 1863. _Trans. Bot. Soc.
Edin. vii_, 519–20 (1863).
BROWN, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1833; P.C. of St. Matthias, Bethnal Green, London 1844–9; R. of
Ch. Ch. Southwark 1849 to death; originator of Homes for servants
out of place, and the Albert Institution Blackfriars; practically
created Cholera orphan house, Ham common, since called National
orphan home; author of _Narratives and sermons for schools_ 1856;
_Hymns and psalms for divine worship_ 1859. _d._ Richmond hill,
Surrey 13 Aug. 1867 aged 67. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855),
_portrait_.
BROWN, JOSEPH (_7 son of George Brown of North Shields_). _b._ North
Shields Sep. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered army medical
service, attached to Wellington’s staff in Peninsular war; resumed
his studies at Edin., M.D. 2 Aug. 1819; practised at Sunderland
1819 to death, medical officer of the Infirmary 1822 to death;
mayor of Sunderland 1840, alderman 1841; author of _Medical essays
on fever, inflammation and rheumatism_ 1828; _A defence of
revealed religion_ 1851; _Memories of the past and thoughts on the
present age_ 1863; _The food of the people_ 1865. _d._ Villiers
st. Sunderland 19 Nov. 1868. _Munk’s Roll of physicians iii_, 284
(1878); _Medical times and gazette ii_, 683–4 (1868).
BROWN, LEWIS GEORGE. _b._ 23 Feb. 1838; ensign 5 Bombay N.I. 13 July
1854; wing commander 8 Bombay N.I. 30 June 1877 to death; lieut.
col. staff corps 9 June 1880 to death. _d._ Sibi, Afghanistan 11
Aug. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 309 (1880), _portrait_.
BROWN, OLIVER MADOX (_son of Ford Madox Brown of London, historical
painter_). _b._ Finchley 20 Jany. 1855; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
exhibited 2 water colours at Dudley Gallery 1869–70; exhibited a
water colour “Exercise” at the R.A. 1870, “Prospero and the infant
Miranda” at International exhibition South Kensington 1871 and
“Silas Marner” at Society of French artists 1872; published a
story entitled _Gabriel Denver_ 5 Nov. 1873. _d._ Fitzroy sq.
London 5 Nov. 1874. _O. M. Brown, a biographical sketch by H.
Ingram_ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _The Dwale Bluth and other literary
remains of O. M. Brown 2 vols._ 1876, 2 _portraits_; _Scribner’s
Mag. xii_, 425–8 (1876).
BROWN, PETER. Ensign 82 Foot 7 Dec. 1799; major 23 Foot 20 July 1815
to 25 July 1816 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Royal military
asylum at Chelsea 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; served
in the Peninsula 1810 to end of the war. _d._ Gosport 3 Jany.
1853.
BROWN, PETER. _b._ Perth; editor of the _Dundee Advertiser_ about
1835; edited the _Dundee Herald_ originally called _Dundee
Chronicle_; a reporter on the _Morning Post_ in London to death.
_d._ 5 April 1855.
BROWN, PETER. _b._ Scotland 29 June 1784; merchant in Edinburgh;
went to New York 1838; editor and proprietor of the _British
Chronicle_; removed to Toronto 1843 where he established _The
Banner_ 18 Aug. 1843 and edited it; author of _The fame and glory
of England vindicated, by Libertas_ 1842. _d._ Toronto 30 June
1863. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) _p._ 51.
BROWN, RAWDON LUBBOCK. _b._ 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death;
commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers
treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined
twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of
_Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English
affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of
other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols._ 1864–84. _d._ Casa
della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. _Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13
Sep. 1883_; _Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 307.
BROWN, ROBERT (_2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of
Montrose_). _b._ Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator
under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of
dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of
library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of
Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death;
F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres.
1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French
Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in
Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author
of _Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen_ 1810;
_Vermischte botanische Schriften_, _ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck
5 vols._ 1825–34. _d._ 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 527–32 (1858); _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._
(1859) 25–30; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix_, 115–19 (1859);
_I.L.N. xxxiii_, 29 (1858), _portrait_.
BROWN, REV. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER LUNDIN (_son of Rev. Robert Brown,
minister of Largo_). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary
in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of
Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of _British Columbia_ 1863;
_The dead in Christ_ 1868; _Klatsassan_ 1873; _The life of Peace_
1876. _d._ 26 Grafton sq. Clapham, London 16 April 1876.
BROWN, SIR SAMUEL (_eld. son of Wm. Brown of Borland, co.
Galloway_). _b._ London 1776; entered navy 8 June 1795; commander
1 Aug. 1811; retired captain 18 May 1842; invented iron chain
cables, described in _Philosophical Magazine_ Oct. 1814; built
Union suspension bridge over the Tweed near Berwick 1820; erected
chain pier at Brighton 1823; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St.
James’s palace 21 Feb. 1838; took out patents for chains and chain
cables and ten other patents. _d._ Vanbrugh lodge, Blackheath 15
March 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_, 519–20 (1852).
BROWN, SAMUEL. Cornet 6 Dragoons 15 March 1798; assistant
quartermaster general to the army in Egypt 1801; major York light
infantry 25 Sep 1807 to 19 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general
20 June 1854. _d._ Bromley, Kent 2 March 1855.
BROWN, SAMUEL (_4 son of Samuel Brown of Haddington, founder of
itinerating libraries_). _b._ Haddington 23 Feb. 1817; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1839; delivered a course of lectures
on philosophy of the sciences at Edin. 1840–1, and 4 lectures on
the Atomic theory 1843; contested chair of chemistry in Univ. of
Edin. 1843; experimented on the atomic constitution of bodies;
author of _The tragedy of Galileo Galilei in 5 acts and in verse_
1850; _Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and
literary 2 vols._ 1858, and of many articles in _North British
Review_ and other periodicals. _d._ Canaan grove, Morningside,
Edin. 20 Sep. 1856. _Macmillan’s Mag. xii_, 74–82 (1865); _North
British Review Nov. 1856_.
BROWN, SAMUEL. _b._ 1812; actuary of Mutual life office 1850 and of
Guardian insurance company 1855; advocated uniform weights and
measures throughout commercial world; an active founder of
Institute of Actuaries 1848, pres. 1867–70, instituted the Brown
prize; joint editor of _Journal of Institute of Actuaries_; pres.
over section of Economic Science and Statistics at British
Association in Norwich 1868; author of numerous papers in
_Assurance Magazine_ 1850 to death and in _Journal of Statistical
Society_. _d._ The Elms 42 Lark hall rise, Clapham, London 20
March 1875. _C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i_, 395–6 (1871).
BROWN, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806;
commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1816–19; commanded Vigo 74
guns, Tartar 42 guns, Talavera 74 guns and Caledonia 120 guns,
successively May 1833 to Oct. 1835 when placed on h.p.; admiral on
h.p. 4 July 1855. _d._ Southampton 17 June 1857 aged 79.
BROWN, THOMAS (_son of Christopher Brown, member of firm of
Longmans, publishers, London who d. 1807_). _b._ near Paternoster
Row, London 1778; ed. at Christ’s hospital; apprenticed in his
father’s firm Dec. 1792; a partner 1811 to June 1859; a liveryman
of Stationers Company 1804, warden and upper warden 1856–8; gave a
stained glass west window to St. Paul’s cathedral which was
uncovered 19 March 1867; left by his will £10,000 to Booksellers
Provident Institution, £10,000 to Booksellers Retreat and £10,000
to Christ’s hospital. _d._ 39 Ludgate hill, London 24 March 1869.
_W. H. Blanch’s Famous blue-coat boys_ (1880) 59–83; _Reg. and
mag. of biog. i_, 480–2 (1869).
BROWN, RIGHT REV. THOMAS JOSEPH. _b._ Bath 2 May 1798; received
Benedictine habit at the college Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury 19
April 1813, removed with the college to St. Gregory’s college
Downside near Bath where he was professed 28 Oct. 1814, professor
of theology there 1823–40, prior of the college 18 July 1834 to 3
July 1840; ordained priest in London 12 March 1823; cathedral
prior of Winchester 1833–40; D.D. 24 July 1834; vicar Apostolic of
newly created Welsh district 3 July 1840; consecrated in St.
John’s chapel Bath, Bishop of Apollonia in Archdiocese of
Thessalonica 28 Oct. 1840; bishop of Newport and Menevia 29 Sep.
1850 to death; assistant at pontifical throne 29 Nov. 1854; author
of various pamphlets and letters in defence of doctrines of Church
of Rome. _d._ Bullingham near Hereford 12 April 1880. _M. Brady’s
Episcopal succession iii_, 337, 354, 424–6 (1877); _Downside
Review July 1880 pp._ 4–16.
BROWN, REV. THOMAS RICHARD (_son of Richard Brown of Cambridge_).
_b._ 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; V.
of Southwick near Oundle, Northamptonshire 1834 to death; author
of _English terminations_ 1838; _Hebrew hieroglyphs_ 1840;
_Etymological dictionary 2 vols._ 1843; _Essentials of Sanscrit
grammar_ 1851. _d._ Southwick 1 Sep. 1875.
BROWN, WILLIAM (_son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo_). _b._
Foxford 22 June 1777; went to Pennsylvania 1786; commanded an
English merchant ship; commodore in navy of Buenos Ayres Feb.
1814; destroyed Spanish fleets at Martin Garcia and Monte Video
1814 and in Pacific ocean and Caribbean sea 1815–18; commanded
Buenos Ayres fleet in war against Brazil 12 Jany. 1826 to 1828;
assumed reins of government on breaking out of civil war 1842.
_d._ Barracas near Buenos Ayres 3 May 1857. _M. G. Mulhall’s
English in South America_ (1878) 144–69, _portrait_.
BROWN, WILLIAM (_4 son of James Brown of Cononsyth, flax-spinner_).
Flax-spinner with his brother James at East Ward mill Dundee
1809–56, in 1811 every mill in Dundee was stopped except their
mill and the Dens mill; author of _Reminiscences of flax-spinning_
1862 and of a volume of poetry. _d._ 14 Nov. 1864 aged 73.
_Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 245–8.
BROWN, REV. WILLIAM. Professor of Biblical criticism and theology at
St. Andrews University Scotland 14 June 1851 to death; author of
_The scientific character of the Scottish universities viewed in
connection with religious belief and their educational use_ 1856.
_d._ St. Andrews 19 July 1868 aged 68.
BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Alexander Brown of
Ballymena, co. Antrim, linen merchant 1764–1834_). _b._ Ballymena
30 May 1784; ed. at Catterick, Yorkshire; went to the United
States 1800; partner in firm of Alexander Brown and Sons of
Baltimore, linen merchants; founded firm of Brown, Shipley and Co.
at Liverpool 1810 which became leading house in American trade;
alderman of Liverpool 1831–8; M.P. for South Lancashire 21 July
1846 to 23 April 1859; raised and equipped a corps of artillery
which ranks as the 1 brigade of Lancashire artillery volunteers
1859; a director of Atlantic telegraph company Dec. 1856,
chairman; erected at a cost of £40,000 Free public library and
Derby museum at Liverpool opened 8 Oct. 1860; created a baronet 24
Jany. 1863; sheriff of Lancashire 1863. _d._ Richmond hill,
Liverpool 3 March 1864. Personalty sworn under £900,000, 21 May
1864. _H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii_, 307–20 (1866);
_I.L.N. xix_, 70 (1851), _portrait_.
BROWN, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Richard Brown, chief examiner of
accounts at the War Office London_). _b._ 1812; a temporary clerk
in office of Secretary at war Dec. 1828; a first class clerk on
the consolidation of War office Jany. 1856; assistant accountant
general Oct. 1857; accountant general Aug. 1860 to 1 April 1870
when he retired on a pension of £800 a year; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868;
knighted at Windsor Castle 18 May 1870. _d._ Hillside, Parkstone,
Dorset 19 May 1884.
BROWN, WILLIAM GUSTAVUS. _b._ 5 Feb. 1809; ensign 24 Foot 7 July
1825, lieut. col. 21 Dec. 1849 to 1 Sep. 1861 when placed on h.p.;
brigadier general Bengal 28 July 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859 and 5 Sep.
1860 to 2 April 1861; brigadier general Aldershot 1 Sep. 1861 to
28 Feb. 1863; colonel 83 Foot 29 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Sydenham 27 Nov. 1883.
BROWN, WILLIAM ROBERT HENRY. Projector and one of founders of
Morning Advertiser, first number issued 8 Feb. 1794 and of
Licensed Victuallers schools at Kennington 1794; projected Golden
Lane brewery in which 600 persons were proprietors Sep. 1804;
common councilman for ward of Cripplegate 1807; one of founders of
Hope Life Insurance Company, the first chairman; governor of
Newgate 1817 to 1822 when he resigned; warden of the Fleet prison
in city of London and keeper of the old and new palaces in county
of Middlesex (alias Westminster Hall) 13 April 1822 to 31 May 1842
when appointment was abolished by act of Parliament 5 and 6 Vict.
c. 22 and the prisoners were transferred to Queen’s Bench prison.
_d._ 3 Doughty st. London 15 Feb. 1853 aged 86.
BROWN, REV. WILSE. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1833; P.C.
of Eggleston, Durham 1835–57; R. of Whitstone near Exeter 1857 to
death; private in Exeter Rifle Corps 1862 to death being only
clergyman in England serving in Volunteer Corps, gained many
prizes at Wimbledon. _d._ Whitstone rectory 22 Jany. 1883 aged 72.
BROWN-GREIVE, JOHN TATTON. Second lieut. R.M. 21 May 1811, lieut.
col. 13 Dec. 1852, col. commandant 30 Oct. 1855 to 1 April 1870
when he retired on full pay; granted good service pension 1 April
1857; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Orde house near
Berwick-on-Tweed 4 Nov. 1880 aged 85.
BROWNBILL, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Gillmoss, Lancs. 5 Nov. 1793; entered
Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest in Dublin
Dec. 1819; superior of St. George’s Residence Worcester and of
College of St. Francis Xavier 1838–42; superior at the Seminary
Stonyhurst 1847; missioner at Newhall, Chelmsford 1843–63;
superior at the Little college Hodder Dec. 1864. _d._ Stonyhurst
college 13 May 1875.
BROWNBILL, REV. JAMES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Gillmoss 31
July 1798; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1815; ordained priest
at Stonyhurst 30 July 1829; rector of Stonyhurst college 15 May
1836; minister of Stonyhurst 29 May 1839; rector of college of St.
Ignatius London 1841–54; missioner to Bury St. Edmunds 1854. _d._
Newhall, Chelmsford 14 Jany. 1880.
BROWNE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Langlands parish of Twynholm 1800; ed. at
Univ. of Edin.; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1825;
assistant surgeon 23 foot 3 Aug. 1826; went on a medical mission
to Emperor of Morocco 1827 whom he cured of ague; surgeon to 37
foot 22 Nov. 1839 to 2 Aug. 1850 when placed on h.p.; _d._
Langlands 15 April 1872. _Medical times and gazette i_, 613
(1872).
BROWNE, ANDREW. _b._ 6 June 1820; Ensign 28 foot 30 April 1841;
lieut. col. 44 foot 10 Nov. 1869 to 27 Sep. 1871 when placed on
h.p.; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; granted a service reward 9 Sep. 1878;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._
Dublin 8 April 1883.
BROWNE, CHARLES ALFRED (_son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington,
London, merchant_). Entered Madras army 1826; sec. to military
department 4 Feb. 1845 to 1860; M.G. 6 April 1862; a leading
member of Church Missionary Society. _d._ King’s head court, St.
Martin’s le grand, London 14 Feb. 1866 aged 65.
BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR. _b._ Waterford, Maine 26 April 1834; a
printer in Maine, Boston and Cincinnati; wrote in the _Cleveland,
Plaindealer_ a letter purporting to come from a travelling showman
signing it with nom de plume of Artemus Ward; edited _Vanity Fair_
the leading comic paper in New York 1861; gave his first lecture
in New York at Clinton hall 23 Dec. 1861; went to California and
Utah 1862; went to England 1866; contributed to _Punch_ 1866;
lectured at the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly 13 Nov. 1866 to 23 Jany.
1867. _d._ Radley’s hotel, Southampton 6 March 1867. _The genial
showman by E. P. Hingston_ 1871; _Essays by E. S. Nadal_ 1882
16–41; _Illust. sporting news v_, 705 (1866), _portrait_.
BROWNE, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Wellington, Somerset 1825; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; engaged on a London daily paper 1857 to death;
author of _Astrello or the prophet’s vision_ 1850; _Life of
Southey_ 1854; _The United States constitution and powers_ 1856
and under pseudonym of Alexander de Comyne of a poem entitled
_Irene_ 1844. _d._ Basingstoke 7 Oct. 1868.
BROWNE, FIELDING. Ensign 40 Foot 7 March 1800; major 19 Jany. 1815
to 22 June 1820 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 22 June 1815; colonel 10
Jany. 1837. _d._ Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22
July 1864 aged 79.
BROWNE, GEORGE. Captain 37 Foot 24 March 1825 to 29 Aug. 1826 when
placed on h.p.; chief commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan police
1837–58; C.B. 13 June 1857. _d._ Clifton gardens, Folkestone 12
July 1879 aged 91.
BROWNE, GEORGE (_2 son of John Browne of Hall court, Herts, attorney
general of Jamaica who d. 1828_). _b._ Jamaica 1825; ed. at Jesus
coll. Cam., B.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; a revising
barrister 1868; recorder of Ludlow 22 Jany. 1873 to death; Q.C. 24
March 1880; author of _A treatise on the principles and practice
of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes_ 1864, _4 ed._
1880; _A treatise on the principles and practice of the court of
probate_ 1873, _2 ed._ 1881. _d._ Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells
19 Sep. 1880.
BROWNE, RIGHT REV. GEORGE JOSEPH PLUNKET. _b._ about 1790; ed. at
Maynooth; parish priest of Athlone many years; bishop of Galway 6
Aug. 1831, consecrated by Abp. of Tuam 23 Oct. 1831; translated to
Elphin 26 March 1844. _d._ 1 Dec. 1858 in 68 year. _W. M. Brady’s
Episcopal succession ii_, 208, 231–2 (1876).
BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT (_9 son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington,
London, merchant_). _b._ Lower Kennington lane, London 15 June
1815; apprenticed to Wm. Finden the line engraver; illustrated
Dickens’s _Sunday as it is, by Timothy Sparks_ 1836, published at
1/- but now worth more than its weight in gold; illustrated under
pseudonym of Phiz _Pickwick papers_, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ and many
other of Dickens’s novels; exhibited many water-colours at Brit.
Instit. and Soc. of Brit. artists; illustrated many of Lever’s and
Ainsworth’s novels; contributed about 350 sketches to _Judy_ July
1869 to death. _d._ Hove, Brighton 8 July 1882. _D. C. Thomson’s
Life and labours of H. K. Browne_ 1884, _portrait_; _Phiz, a
memoir by J. G. Kitton_ 1882, _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 132
(1882), _portrait_; _G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists_ (1886)
336–54, 412–16.
BROWNE, REV. HENRY (_son of Rev. John Henry Browne, R. of
Crownthorpe, Norfolk who d. 1 May 1843 aged 75_). _b._ 1804; ed.
at C.C. coll. Cam.; Bell Univ. scholar 1823, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;
V. of Rudgwick, Sussex 1831; R. of Earnley, Sussex 1833; principal
of diocesan theol. coll. Chichester 1842–7; preb. of Chichester
cath. 9 Dec. 1842; chaplain to bishop of Chichester 1847–70; P.C.
of St. Bartholomew’s Chichester 1850–4; R. of Pevensey 1854 to
death; author of _Ordo sæculorum_ 1844; _Remarks on Mr. Greswell’s
Fasti Catholici_ 1852; translated with C. L. Cornish for the
‘Library of the Fathers’ 17 short treatises of St. Augustine. _d._
Pevensey 19 June 1875.
BROWNE, VERY REV. HENRY MONTAGUE (_2 son of 2 Baron Kilmaine
1765–1825_). _b._ 3 Oct. 1799; dean of cathedral church of St.
Carthagh, Lismore 1850 to death. _d._ Bredon rectory, Worcs. 24
Nov. 1884.
BROWNE, RIGHT REV. JAMES. _b._ Mayglass, Forth, co. Wexford 1786;
ed. at Maynooth college; dean of Maynooth 1814–6, professor of
Sacred Scriptures 1816–27; bishop of Kilmore 20 March 1827 to
death; consecrated to see of Magida _in partibus_ 10 June 1827;
_d._ Cavan 11 April 1865. _Battersby’s Catholic directory_ (1866)
389–92.
BROWNE, JAMES SOLOMON. _b._ Paddington, London 6 Aug. 1791; ed. at
Eton; clerk in Prerogative office Doctors Commons 1802; played
Harlequin to Grimaldi at Birmingham; played at Liverpool 1813–23
and 1826–38; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 7 Oct. 1823 as
Lord Foppington in _A trip to Scarborough_; became most versatile
actor of the day; acted in America 1838, at Olympic theatre London
1845, afterwards in New York; the original Robert Macaire in the
drama of that name; retired from the stage 1858. _d._ New York 28
Nov. 1869. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography ii_, 177–88 (1825),
_portrait_.
BROWNE, VEN. JOHN HENRY. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; R. of
Cotgrave near Nottingham 1811 to death; archdeacon of Ely 23 Sep.
1816 to death; preb. of Ely 26 June 1817. _d._ Cotgrave 2 Nov.
1858 aged 79.
BROWNE, JOHN ROSS. _b._ Ireland 1817; passed his youth in state of
Kentucky; went to California 1849; went to Europe as a newspaper
correspondent 1851; inspector of custom houses on northern
frontier of the U.S.; reported on the mineral resources of the
country west of the Rocky Mountains for the Government 1866 and
1868; United States minister in China 1868–9; author of _Etchings
of a whaling cruise_ 1846; _Crusoe’s Island_ 1864; _An American
family in Germany_ 1866; _The land of Thor_ 1867. _d._ Oakland
near San Francisco 7 Dec. 1875.
BROWNE, JOHN SAMUEL (_eld. son of John Browne of London, landscape
engraver who d. 2 Oct. 1801 in 60 year_). _b._ St. Saviour’s,
Southwark 15 Sep. 1782; clerk in the East India house 1801; author
of _A catalogue of bishops containing the succession of
archbishops and bishops of Canterbury and York from 1688 to the
present time_ 1812; contributed to _Gentlemen’s Mag._ and _Morning
Herald_. _d._ Walworth, Surrey 6 June 1858. _Gent. Mag. v_, 198
(1858).
BROWNE, PETER, _b._ 1794; M.P. for Rye 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826;
chargé d’affaires at Copenhagen 8 times during the period 1823–52;
retired on a pension 6 Jany. 1853. _d._ Pallanza 7 April 1872.
BROWNE, PHILIP, _b._ 16 Sep. 1772; entered navy 1 July 1777; captain
19 June 1810; captain of the Hermes 20 guns 1811–14 when placed on
h.p.; V.A. on h.p. 15 April 1854. _d._ Parkstone near Poole,
Dorset 25 Jany. 1860.
BROWNE, REV. SAMUEL (_son of Rev. John W. Browne, Independent
minister_). _b._ England 19 March 1788; went to Cincinnati with
his father 1798; a minister of the United Brethren; joined
presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868; accumulated a large fortune
by the rise of real estate in Cincinnati; bequeathed sum of
150,000 dollars for establishment of a university to bear his name
also land whereon to erect the building and an endowment for
professorships, _d._ Harrison junction, Ohio 10 Sep. 1872.
BROWNE, THOMAS. Entered navy 5 April 1782; captain 29 April 1802;
V.A. 11 Dec. 1846. _d._ Clifton 7 April 1851 in 83 year.
_O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 136.
BROWNE, SIR THOMAS HENRY (_elder son of George Browne of Liverpool,
Tuscan consul_). _b._ Liverpool 8 Sep. 1787; ensign 23 foot 28
Oct. 1805, captain 15 April 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on
h.p.; received war medal with 8 clasps; aide-de-camp to Marquis of
Londonderry at head quarters of Russian and Austrian armies 1815;
L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 80 foot 19 Aug. 1854 to death; sheriff
of Flintshire 1824; K.C.H. 1826. _d._ London 11 March 1855.
BROWNE, WALTER JOHN. Ensign Bombay army 17 Sep. 1819; col. 14 N.I.
22 Aug. 1857–1869; general 29 Aug. 1873; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._
Warkworth 31 Oct. 1881 aged 81.
BROWNE, WALTER RALEIGH (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Murray Browne, V. of
Almondsbury, Gloucs._) _b._ Standish, Gloucs. 1842; ed. at home
and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1863, 19 wrangler and tenth classic
1865, B.A. 1865; fellow of his coll. 1867; managing director of
Bridgewater Engineering company 1874–8; M.I.M.E. 1869, sec. 1878
to Jany. 1884; M.I.C.E. 27 May 1879, Telford medallist 1871 and
1876; F.G.S.; F.R.G.S.; one of founders of Society for Psychical
Research 1882; lectured frequently for Christian evidence society;
author of _Facts and fallacies of pauper education_ 1878; _The
inspiration of the New Testament_ 1880; _The foundations of
mechanics_ 1882; _The students mechanics_ 1883. _d._ from typhoid
fever in the general hospital, Montreal 4 Sep. 1884. _Min. of
Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix_, 362–6 (1885).
BROWNE, WILLIAM, _b._ 1 Nov. 1791; M.P. for co. Kerry 19 July 1841
to 23 July 1847. _d._ at his house in London 4 Aug. 1876.
BROWNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER FRANCIS. _b._ near Stirling 1805; ed. in
Edinburgh high school and Univ., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826;
studied in France 1826–30; physician at Stirling 1830;
superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of
Crichton Instit. at Dumfries 1839; paid Comr. in lunacy for
Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to 1870; the first phys. in Scotland who
adopted new system of treating the insane; author of _What asylums
were, are, and ought to be_. _d._ Crindan, Dumfries 2 March 1885
aged 79.
BROWNE, WILLIAM CHESELDEN. _b._ 1805; entered navy 1816; captain 9
Jany. 1854; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880; sec. to Royal yacht club
at Cowes 1853–60. _d._ Townsend house, West Cowes 6 April 1881.
BROWNE, VEN. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; archdeacon
of Launceston, Tasmania 1870 to death. _d._ Launceston 18 June
1877 aged 77.
BROWNE, WILLIAM HENRY JAMES (_son of Mr. Browne, harbour master at
Dublin_). Served in merchant service; 2 lieut. of the Enterprise
1848–9; led a sledge party from Port Leopold to east coast of
Prince Regent’s Inlet; 2 lieut. of the Resolute 1850–1; his
sketches of Arctic scenery at Port Leopold were published by
Ackerman 1849; assisted in painting the Arctic panorama in
Leicester square London; retired commander 1 July 1864. _d._
Woolwich March-June 1871.
BROWNE, WILLIAM MEREDITH. Assistant sec. of Westminster Fire Office
1831, sec. 1838 to death; a founder of Mutual Life Office 1834;
founded Westminster and General Life Office 1839, actuary 1839–69;
hon. sec. of London Fire Engine Establishment 1832–65, when the
work was undertaken by Metropolitan Board of Works. _d._ Clarendon
road, Putney 30 March 1880 aged 74.
BROWNING, COLIN ARROTT. Surgeon in the navy 8 Feb. 1817; surgeon of
the Surrey, convict ship 1831 and of six other convict ships
1834–46; retired deputy inspector of hospitals 30 June 1856;
author of England’s exiles 1842; _The Convict ship_ 1844; _The
convict ship and England’s exiles_, _6 ed._ 1855. _d._ Woolwich 26
Oct. 1856.
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (_eld. dau. of Edward Moulton of Burn
hall, Durham_). _b._ Burn hall 6 March 1809; lived at 74
Gloucester place London many years; lived at Florence 1847 to
death, (_m._ 9 Sep. 1846 Robert Browning the poet). author of _An
essay on mind, with other poems_, _anon._ 1826; _Casa Guidi
Windows a poem_ 1851; _Aurora Leigh_ 1857, _18 ed._ 1884 and many
other poems. _d._ Casa Guidi, Florence 30 June 1861. _The poetical
works of E. B. Browning, complete with a memoir 2 vols. New York
1871_; _P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen_ (1881), 1–154;
_Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson_ (1878) 191–263;
_G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists_ (1875) 57–110; _M. R.
Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life_ (1859), 154–68; _T. H.
Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed._ (1883) _iv_, 562–80.
BROWNING, GEORGE. Secretary of Society for promoting the fine arts;
author of _Footprints, poems translated and original_ 1871; _A
memoir of the late Emperor Napoleon iii, and a political poem
entitled Rip Van Winkle_, _2 ed._ 1873; _The Edda, songs and sagas
of Iceland, a lecture_, _2 ed._ 1876. _d._ 21 Kildare gardens,
London 20 Dec. 1878 in 65 year.
BROWNING, WILLIAM SHERGOLD (_uncle of Robert Browning the poet_).
author of _Leisure hours_ 1801; _The history of the Huguenots
during the sixteenth century 2 vols._ 1829, _new ed._ 1845; _Hoel
Morvan or the court and camp of Henry v_, _3 vols._ 1844. _d._ 4
March 1874.
BROWNLOW, JOHN CUST, 1 Earl (_eld. son of Brownlow Cust, 1 baron
Brownlow 1744–1807_). _b._ 19 Aug. 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1801, LLD. 1835; created D.C.L. at Ox. 10 June 1834; M.P. for
Clitheroe 6 July 1802 to Jany. 1808; colonel of Royal Lincoln
militia; succeeded 25 Dec. 1807; lord lieut. of Lincolnshire 1
March 1809; created Viscount Alford and Earl Brownlow 27 Nov.
1815; recorder of Boston 12 Dec. 1820; G.C.H. 1834; pres. of
Archæological Institute at Lincoln 1848; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 8 May
1838. _d._ Belton house, Grantham 15 Sep. 1853. _Portraits and
memoirs of eminent Conservatives, portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures
of art ii_, 313–16 (1854).
BROWNLOW, JOHN WILLIAM SPENCER Brownlow Egerton Cust, 2 Earl. _b._
Carlton gardens, London 28 March 1842; succeeded 15 Sep. 1853.
_d._ Mentone 20 Feb. 1867. _bur._ at Belton 2 March. _Good words
viii_, 373 (1867), _a poem by G. Massey_; _I.L.N. li_, 609 (1867),
_portrait_.
BROWNLOW, EMMA SOPHIA CUST, Countess (_eld. dau. of Richard
Edgcumbe, 2 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839_). _b._ Portugal st.
London 28 July 1791; one of the 6 ladies of the bedchamber to
Queen Adelaide July 1830 to 2 Dec. 1849 when the Queen died;
author of _Slight reminiscences of a septuagenarian_ 1867, _3 ed._
1868. (_m._ 17 July 1828 1 Earl Brownlow). _d._ Belton lodge,
Torquay 28 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_, 139, 434 (1872).
BROWNLOW, FRANCIS (_eld. son of Wm. Brownlow_). _b._ 19 July 1836;
ed. at Harrow; ensign 72 Foot 8 Sep. 1854, lieut. col. 15 Aug.
1877 to death; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879; served in Crimean war, Indian
mutiny and Afghan war; killed at battle with Ayab Khan’s army in
Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 27–8,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 309 (1880), _portrait_.
BROWNLOW, VERY REV. JOHN. Ordained 1832; R. of Ardbraccan, Navan
1843 to death; dean of Clonmacnois, Meath 1862 to death, _d._
Ardbraccan rectory 24 May 1882 aged 77.
BROWNRIGG, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 19 Nov. 1836; captain R.N. 18 Sep.
1873; captain of Euphrates, Indian troop ship 22 April 1878;
captain of London, store ship 8 June 1880 to death; killed by the
crew of a slave dhow off Zanzibar 3 Dec. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_, 650
(1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 45 (1882), _portrait_.
BROWNRIGG, SIR HENRY JOHN (_eld. son of general Thomas Brownrigg who
d. May 1826_). _b._ 18 June 1798; 2 lieut. Rifle brigade 6 Dec.
1813, lieut. 23 Dec. 1819 to 23 April 1826 when placed on h.p.;
entered Irish Constabulary 1826, inspector general 1858 to 1865;
C.B. 13 June 1857; knighted by Earl of Eglinton lord lieutenant of
Ireland 1858. _d._ 12 Talbot sq. Hyde park, London 25 Nov. 1873.
BROWNRIGG, JOHN STUDHOLME. _b._ 17 March 1786; a merchant in London;
M.P. for Boston 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ashford lodge,
Middlesex 21 Sep. 1853.
BROWNRIGGE, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM COLEBROOK, 2 Baronet. _b._ Audley
square, London 29 July 1817; succeeded 27 May 1833. _d._ 12 Eaton
place West, London 6 Aug. 1882.
BROWNSMITH, JOHN LEMAN. _b._ Westminster 1809; chorister at
Westminster Abbey; organist of St. John’s church Waterloo road,
London 1829–53; lay vicar of Westminster Abbey 1838; organist to
Sacred harmonic society 1848; organist at Handel festivals Crystal
palace 1857, 1859, 1862 and 1865; organist of St. Gabriel, Pimlico
1853 to death; published _The psalms and hymns in the morning and
evening services with the pointing completed for chanting_ 1839;
_A course of Psalms_ 1848. _d._ 104 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London
14 Sep. 1866.
BRUCE, ALEXANDER (_2 son of Henry Bruce of London_). Educ. at Univ.
coll. London 1858–64; lecturer on anatomy and assistant surgeon to
Wesminster hospital Dec. 1867 to death; invented the gas cautery
which has proved very successful; author of _Observations in the
military hospitals of Dresden_ 1866; _An epitome of the Venereal
diseases_ 1868. _d._ 6 Albert terrace, Regent’s park, London 11
April 1869 aged 27. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 406 (1869).
BRUCE, DAVID. _b._ Scotland 1770; went to New York 1793; started
with his brother George a book printing office at corner of Pearl
st. New York 1806, removed to Sloat lane 1809 where they had 9
presses at work; learnt art of stereotyping in England 1812 which
he established in America, retired from business 1822; published
_Specimens of printing types New York_ 1815. _d._ New York 1857.
BRUCE, EYRE EVANS. Entered Madras army 1827; colonel 35 Madras N.I.
5 July 1854 to 1869; general 3 Sep. 1871. _d._ Doneraile, Ireland
10 April 1874.
BRUCE, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM ADOLPHUS (_3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7
Earl of Elgin 1766–1841_). _b._ Broomhall, Dunfermline 14 April
1814; colonial sec. at Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844; lieut. governor of
Newfoundland 27 June 1846; consul general in Bolivia 23 July 1847;
chargé d’affaires in Uruguay 29 Aug. 1851; agent and consul
general in Egypt 3 Aug. 1853; principal sec. to 8 Earl of Elgin
British ambassador in China April 1857; envoy extraord. and
minister plenipo. to Emperor of China 2 Dec. 1858; chief
superintendent of British trade in China 1 March 1859; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to the United States 1 March 1865 to
death; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858, K.C.B. 12 Dec. 1862, G.C.B. 17 March
1865. _d._ Boston, United States 19 Sep. 1867. _bur._ Dunfermline
abbey 8 Oct. _D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii_, (1884); _G.M.
iv_, 677–8(1867).
BRUCE, GEORGE (_brother of David Bruce 1770–1857_). _b._ Edinburgh
26 June 1781; a type founder in New York 1816 to death; harmonised
and graduated size of different bodies of type as they ranged in
the 11 series from pearl to canon; introduced the body called
“agate” which is largely used by American newspapers; pres. of New
York Type founders association 1863 to death; invented with his
nephew David Bruce type-casting machine which was in general use
many years. _d._ New York 6 July 1866.
BRUCE, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_3 son of Rev. Sir Henry Hervey Aston
Bruce, 1 Baronet who d. 17 Oct. 1822_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1792; entered
navy 1803; captain 16 Nov. 1821; commodore on West Coast of Africa
5 March 1851; commander in chief in the Pacific 25 Nov. 1854 to 8
July 1857 and at Portsmouth 1 March 1860 to 1 March 1863; admiral
27 April 1863; K.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Fairfield near Liverpool
14 Dec. 1863.
BRUCE, HERBERT. Entered Bombay army 1842; captain 2 European
regiment 27 March 1855 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board
Messageries Imperiales steamer, near Suez 26 Feb. 1866 aged 39.
BRUCE, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 1808; editor of the _Fifeshire Journal_
at Cupar; edited successively _Madras Athenæum_, _Newcastle
Chronicle_ and _Belfast Northern Whig_; author of _The black
kalendar of Aberdeen_ 1840; _Lives of eminent men of Aberdeen_
1841; _Table talk_ 1845; _Classic and historic portraits_ 1853;
_Scenes and sights in the East_ 1856. _d._ Belfast 19 Aug. 1861.
BRUCE, SIR JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT (_3 son of John Knight of Fairlinch,
Devon who d. 1799_). _b._ Barnstaple, Devon 15 Feb. 1791; ed. at
Bath gr. sch. and Sherborne 1799–1805; articled to B. C. Williams
of Lincoln’s Inn Fields solicitor 1807–12; barrister L.I. 21 Nov.
1817, bencher 6 Nov. 1829, treasurer 1842–3, laid foundation stone
of the new hall 20 April 1843; practised in Court of Chancery;
K.C. Nov. 1829; recorder of Brecon; M.P. for Bishop’s Castle 30
April 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested borough of Cambridge Aug.
1837; spoke for 7 days in case of Small _v._ Attwood Nov 1831;
leader in Sir Lancelot Shadwell’s court 1834; made £18,000 a year
1835–41; assumed by royal license additional surname of Bruce 4
Sep. 1837; vice chancellor 28 Oct. 1841; knighted at Windsor
Castle 15 Jany. 1842; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; chief judge in
bankruptcy Nov. 1842; exercised jurisdiction of the old Court of
Review, after it’s abolition 1847; senior lord justice of appeal
in chancery 8 Oct. 1851 to Oct. 1866; F.R.S. 18 March 1829, D.C.L.
Ox. 1834. _d._ The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey 7 Nov. 1866. _Law
mag. and law review v_, 244–50 (1858), _xxii_, 278–93 (1867);
_London Society xi_, 181–8 (1867), _portrait_; _The bench and the
bar_, _part 1_, _portrait_.
BRUCE, JOHN. _b._ London 1802; a founder of Camden Society 2 March
1838, director 19 years; edited the first and 12 other volumes for
the Society; F.S.A. 1830, treasurer 1849–54; edited _Gent. Mag._
some years; edited _Calendars of state papers, domestic series
Charles i 1625–39, 12 vols._ 1858–71; contributed many papers to
the _Archæologia_. _d._ suddenly in Montagu sq. London 28 Oct.
1869, his library was sold at Sotheby’s 27 April to 2 May 1870.
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv_, 472–5 (1870).
BRUCE, SIR MICHAEL, 7 Baronet. _b._ 31 March 1796; succeeded 1827.
_d._ Scotstown, Aberdeen 14 Dec. 1862.
BRUCE, MICHAEL. _b._ 16 May 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 15 Dec.
1840, lieut. col. 16 May 1865 to 22 Sep. 1875; L.G. 31 Oct. 1880;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._
Glenelg, Bournemouth 29 Sep. 1883.
BRUCE, ROBERT (_3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841_).
_b._ 15 March 1813; ensign Grenadier guards 18 June 1830, major 16
Sep. 1856 to 7 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; military secretary
to his brother Lord Elgin in Jamaica 1841–47, in Canada 1847–54;
surveyor general of the ordnance 1855; governor to Prince of Wales
9 Nov. 1858 to death; M.G. 7 Dec. 1859. _d._ St. James’s palace,
London 27 June 1862. _I.L.N. xli_, 58, 61 (1862), _portrait_.
BRUCE, ROBERT (_eld. son of Alexander Bruce of Kennet, co.
Clackmannan_). _b._ 8 Dec. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 Foot guards
9 Dec. 1813, lieut. 1820–24 when he sold out; served in the
Peninsula and at Waterloo; M.P. for Clackmannan 27 March 1820 to
July 1824; vice lieut. and convener of Clackmannan 1853; chairman
of Scottish Central railway board; claimed Scottish peerage of
Balfour of Burley which was allowed to his son by committee for
privileges in House of Lords 23 July 1868. _d._ Kennet house near
Alloa 13 Aug. 1864. _M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of
Fife_ (1866) 88–90.
BRUCE, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Bruce of Belfast,
Presbyterian minister 1757–1841_). _b._ Belfast 16 Nov. 1790;
entered Trin. coll. Dublin 2 July 1804, B.A. 1809; licensed by
presbytery of Antrim 25 July 1811; presbyterian minister at
Belfast 19 Jany. 1812 to 21 April 1867; professor of Classics and
Hebrew in Belfast Academical Instit. 27 Oct. 1821 to 1825 and of
classics only 1825 to Nov. 1849; moderator of northern presbytery
of Antrim 4 April 1862. _d._ 25 Oct. 1868.
BRUCE, WILLIAM. Captain 79 foot 14 March 1811; served in Peninsula
1812–4 and at Waterloo; major 75 foot 31 Dec. 1827 to 27 Nov. 1828
when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1837; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._
Grosvenor hotel, London 28 Nov. 1868.
BRUCE, WILLIAM DOWNING (_eld. son of Samuel Barwick Bruce of Ripon,
surgeon 1786–1853_). _b._ 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. and M.T. 30
April 1853; consul in Scotland for Monte Video 1856; recorder of
Wallingford June 1863 to 1869; counsel in Yelverton appeal case;
district judge at Spanish Town, Jamaica 1869 to death; author of
_Chronological tables_ 1847; _An account of the ecclesiastical
courts_ 1852; _How the ecclesiastical courts rob the public_ 1856.
_d._ Jamaica 1875.
BRUEN, HENRY. M.P. for county Carlow 30 Oct. 1812 to 23 April 1831;
colonel commandant of Carlow militia to death. _d._ Oak park, co.
Carlow 5 Nov. 1852 in 62 year.
BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM (_only son of Sir Mark Isambard Brunel,
civil engineer 1769–1849_). _b._ Portsmouth 9 April 1806; engineer
of Great Western Railway 7 March 1833 which was completed 30 June
1841; constructed the station at Paddington 1849–54; constructed
South Devon railway 1844–6, where his system of atmospheric
propulsion failed; constructed Royal Albert bridge at Saltash
1853–9; designed Great Western Steamship launched 19 July 1837 and
the Great Britain the first large iron steamship, launched 19 July
1843; designed the Great Eastern steamship 1852, she was floated
31 Jany. 1858; conducted experiments for Admiralty with screw
propeller 1841–4; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. _d._ 18 Duke st.
Westminster 15 Sep. 1859. _Life of I. K. Brunel by I. Brunel_
1870, _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages 2 series_ 1859, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. x_,
7–11 (1860); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xix_, 169–73
(1860).
BRUNKER, JAMES ROBERT. Ensign 91 foot 9 April 1825; deputy adjutant
general in Ceylon 24 Aug. 1852 to 6 Aug. 1858; major 15 foot 2
Oct. 1854 to 2 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 10 March 1866;
commanded forces in China 16 Dec. 1867 to death. _d._ Hong Kong 24
March 1869.
BRÜNNOW, ERNST PHILIPP IVANOVITCH, Count de. _b._ Dresden 31 Aug.
1797; Russian envoy and minister in London 1840 to 8 Feb. 1854 and
4 Feb. 1861 to July 1874; raised to the rank of Count, April 1871.
_d._ Darmstadt 11 April 1875. _Illust. News of the World iii_,
(1859), _portrait_.
BRUNSWICK AND LUNEBURG, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST WILHELM HERZOG VON.
_b._ Brunswick 30 Oct. 1804; lived at Vauxhall in London 1809–15;
laid foundation stone of Vauxhall bridge 1814; entered on exercise
of his authority as Duke of Brunswick 30 Oct. 1823; fled to
England 7 Sep. 1830, abdicating in favour of his brother William;
was much libelled in the _Age_ and _Satirist_ 1843; crossed to
France in Green’s balloon the Victoria in 5 hours 31 March 1851;
lived in Paris at 52 Champs Elysees and in London at Brunswick
house, New road; bequeathed all his property including his
collection of valuable diamonds to city of Geneva. _d._ Geneva 18
Aug. 1873, his decorations consisting of various orders of
principal European courts enriched with jewels were sold at
Debenhams in London 25 June 1874. _Temple Bar lxxiii_, 353–63
(1885); _Life of T. S. Duncombe ii_, 44–99 _and_ 162–90 (1868).
BRUNTON, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 1772; minister of parish of
Bolton 1797–1803, of New Greyfriars church Edin. 1803–9 and of the
Tron church Edin. 23 Nov. 1809 to death; professor of Oriental
languages in Univ. of Edin. 19 May 1813 to death; D.D. Edin. 17
Dec. 1813; moderator of General Assembly 22 May 1823; author of
_Sermons and lectures_ 1818; _Outlines of Persian grammar with
extracts_ 1822; _Forms for public worship in the Church of
Scotland_ 1848. _d._ Jordonstone house, Coupar Angus 9 Feb. 1854.
_W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.
BRUNTON, ROBERT. _b._ Lockwinnock N.B. 10 Feb. 1796; chief assistant
to his brother W. Brunton 1823; engaged by Banks & Co. of Bilston;
principal assistant of Isaac Dodds at the Horsley iron works
Staffs.; in service of Indian iron company 1835 to death;
constructed and managed works at Porto Nuovo on coast of
Coromandel; acting engineer of Maestaeg iron works Glamorganshire
to death; M.I.C.E. 1842; author of _A compendium of mechanics or
text book for engineers, millwrights, machine makers_ 1824, _2
ed._ 1825. _d._ Maestaeg iron works 6 July 1852. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xii_, 149 (1853).
BRUNTON, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Robert Brunton of Dalkeith, watch
maker_). _b._ Dalkeith 26 May 1777; partner in and manager of
Eagle foundry Birmingham 1815–25; civil engineer in London
1825–35; partner in Cwm Avon tin works Glamorganshire 1835–8; had
a large share in introduction of steam navigation; invented the
Calciner used in nearly all Cornish tin mines and Mexican silver
mines, and a walking machine called the Steam Horse which was used
at Butterley 1813–5 when it exploded and killed 13 persons; took
out many patents. _d._ Camborne, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1851. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_, 95–9 (1852).
BRUNTON, WILLIAM (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ Birmingham 3 April
1817; resident engineer of West Cornwall railway 1847; invented
the apparatus for washing and separating ores from their matrix
known as “Brunton’s endless cloth”; invented a fuse making machine
of most ingenious construction, this process has never been
divulged, its introduction at once reduced the selling price of
fuse by 75 per cent.; chief engineer of the Punjab railway 1865;
leaseholder of a sheeprun of 30000 acres in New Zealand; district
engineer of railways in Southland, N.Z. 1871; M.I.C.E. 7 March
1854. _d._ Wellington, N.Z. 13 June 1881.
BRUSHFIELD, THOMAS (_2 son of George Brushfield of
Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire who d. 25 Feb. 1825 aged 52_).
_b._ Ashford-in-the-Water 16 Feb. 1798; kept an oil and colour
shop at 28 Union st. Spitalfields, London 1821–55; played under an
assumed name at City of London theatre 1827; chairman of
Whitechapel board of guardians 1839–48; member for Whitechapel of
Metropolitan Board of Works 1865 to death; contributed many papers
to _The Reliquary, quarterly archæological journal and review_
1861 to death. _d._ 5 Church st Spitalfields, London 1 Sep. 1875.
_Reliquary xvi_, 209–16 (1876).
BRUTON, JAMES. Author of a few dramatic pieces and of many songs.
_d._ Palace road, Westminster 5 March 1867 aged 52.
BRYAN, GEORGE LEOPOLD. _b._ Ballyduff house 29 Nov. 1828; sheriff of
Kilkenny 1852; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 24 July 1865 to 24 March
1880. _d._ 29 June 1880.
BRYCE, DAVID. _b._ Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin
D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W.
H. Smith the bookseller; compiled _The confessional unmasked_ from
Petrus Dens’s _Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes_ 1832. _d._
1 May 1875 aged 56.
BRYCE, DAVID (_son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._ Edin.
3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to
1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important
works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived
the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under
name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S.
Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland
1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of
Scotland, all in Edinburgh. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1876. _Builder
xxxiv_, 508 (1876); _D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh_ (1873) 30,
341, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 216–8 (1878).
BRYCE, REV. JAMES (_son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire_).
_b._ Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained
minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister
of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805;
founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the
Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united
with Scottish united presbyterian church. _d._ Killaig 24 April
1857.
BRYCE, REV. JAMES. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April
1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of _Sketch of
the state of British India_ 1810; _On the ecclesiastical
establishment of the Church of Scotland_ 1815; _Ten years of the
Church of Scotland 2 vols._ 1850. _d._ Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in
82 year.
BRYCE, JAMES (_3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857_). _b._ Killaig
22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858;
mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school
Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of
Glasgow; author of _First principles of geography and astronomy_
1848; _General gazetteer_ 1859; _Library gazetteer_ 1859; _Geology
of Arran_ 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of
Loch Ness 11 July 1877. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 514
(1878).
BRYDGES, SIR JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Canterbury Nov.
1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. _d._ Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb.
1858.
BRYDON, WILLIAM. _b._ London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal
army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B.
16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. _Kaye’s
History of war in Afghanistan_, _3 ed._ (1874) 389; _I.L.N. lxii_,
369 (1873), _portrait_; _J. McCarthy’s A history of our own
times_, _new ed._ (1882) _i_, 161–95, _iii_, 8.
NOTE.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers
and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone
who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible
disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be
shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass
uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs.
Thompson-Butler painted a _portrait_ of him appearing under
the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army”
exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.
BRYDSON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and
Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of
Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of _Poems_ 1829; _Pictures of the
past_ 1832; contributed to _Edinburgh Literary Journal and
Republic of letters_, _Glasgow_. _d._ Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855.
_The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv_, 172–3 (1857).
BRYMER, VEN. WILLIAM THOMAS PARR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death;
archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840
to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during
incapacity of Bishop Law. _d._ Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852.
_G.M. xxxviii_, 544 (1852).
BRYSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch
maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal
Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S.
London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. _d._ Hawkhill
7 Dec. 1866.
BRYSON, ALEXANDER. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector
general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to
the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of
navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ The
Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67.
BUCCLEUCH, WALTER FRANCIS MONTAGU-DOUGLAS-SCOTT, 5 Duke of. (_2 son
of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819_). _b._ Dalkeith house near
Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819;
lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire
2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres.
of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy
seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of
Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council
21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24
April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. _d._
Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30
Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000.
_Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria_ (1845) 55–63; _J. B.
Paul’s History of royal company of archers_ (1875), _portrait_;
_R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia_ (1882), _portrait_;
_Graphic xxix_, 400 (1884), _portrait_.
BUCHAN, HENRY DAVID ERSKINE, 12 Earl of. _b._ July 1783; succeeded
19 April 1829. _d._ 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1857.
BUCHAN, PETER. _b._ Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death;
author of _The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses
in the Scottish dialect_ 1814; _Annals of Peterhead_ 1819;
_Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal_ 1824;
_Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto
unpublished 2 vols._ 1828 and many other works. _d._ London 19
Sep. 1854. _W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii_, 691–3 (1863).
BUCHANAN, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_only son of James Buchanan of
Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860_). _b._ 7 May
1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister
plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy
extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853;
transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11
Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of
Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and
plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16
Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B.
25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878.
_d._ Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882.
BUCHANAN, GEORGE (_3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer
1745–1812_). _b._ Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a
land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the
important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly
400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of _Report on the
theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer_ 1824 and of the
article “Furnaces” in _8 ed._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_. _d._
30 Oct. 1852.
BUCHANAN, GILBERT JOHN LANE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831,
colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William,
Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._
Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875.
BUCHANAN, REV. JAMES. _b._ Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near
Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a
preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow;
minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church
Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and
of systematic theology 1847–68; author of _Comfort in affliction_
1837; _Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols._ 1855;
_Analogy considered as a guide to truth_, _2 ed._ 1867. _d._ 1870.
BUCHANAN, ROBERT. _b._ Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer
advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist
successively; author of _The religion of the past and present
society_ 1839; _The origin and nature of ghosts_ 1840; _Concise
history of modern priestcraft_ 1840; _The past, the present and
the future_ 1840. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866.
BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow,
LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812;
minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic
Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were
instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by
his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of
_Fragments of the table round_ 1860; _Vow of Glentreuil and other
poems_ 1862; _Tragic dramas from Scottish history_ 1868 and
_Wallace, a tragedy_ 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre
Glasgow March 1862. _d._ Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873.
BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT (_son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near
Stirling, brewer and farmer_). _b._ St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed.
at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of
Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained
6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of
Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of
Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of
Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly
1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8
Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of
_History of the ten years conflict 2 vols._ 1849; _Notes of a
clerical furlough_ 1859; _Book of Ecclesiastes_ 1859. _d._ 25 Via
dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. _Robert Buchanan, D.D. an
ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker_ 1877,
_portrait_; _Good Words xix_, 15–20 (1878), _portrait_; _J.
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1878) 17–23.
BUCHANAN, WALTER. _b._ Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for
Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. _d._ Plas Newton, Chester 21
May 1883.
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM (_son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and
publisher 1745–1822_). _b._ Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;
called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823
to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856;
author of _Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of
session and trials in the high court of justiciary_ 1813;
_Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds_ 1862.
_d._ Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863.
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London;
author of _Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the
importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since
the French revolution 2 vols._ 1824. _d._ Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864
aged 86.
BUCHANAN, REV. WILLIAM. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of
_Ayr Observer_ and subsequently of _Edinburgh Courant_ and
_Glasgow Courier_; author of _Verses serious, humorous and
satirical_ 1866. _d._ Ayr July 1866.
BUCK, HENRY. _b._ Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the _Sportsman_ in
London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on
racing in _Daily Telegraph_ under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large
betting commission agent. _d._ 25 Jany. 1884.
BUCK, LEWIS WILLIAM (_2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton,
Devonshire_). _b._ 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for
North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. _d._ 12 Norfolk
st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858.
BUCK, ZACHARIAH. _b._ Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the
pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the
choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed
many services, anthems and chants. _d._ Newport, Essex 5 Aug.
1879.
BUCKINGHAM, RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE NUGENT
BRYDGES-CHANDOS-GRENVILLE, 2 Duke of (_only child of 1 Duke of
Buckingham 1776–1839_). _b._ Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed.
at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he
succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will
clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842;
P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen
Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by
bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for
£263,000; author of _Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George
iii 3 vols._ 1853–5; _Memoirs of the court of England during the
Regency 1811–20 2 vols._ 1856; _Memoirs of the court of George iv
2 vols._ 1859; _Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv
and Victoria 2 vols._ 1861. _d._ Great Western railway hotel,
Paddington 29 July 1861. _G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii_,
87–108 (1847); _G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age_ (1847) 217–23;
_I.L.N. i_, 496 (1842), _portrait_.
BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (_youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of
Barnstaple who d. 1794_). _b._ Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug.
1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established _Calcutta
Journal_ at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823
when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started
Jany. 1824 _Oriental herald and colonial review_ which ceased Dec.
1829; edited _The Sphynx_ a weekly journal 1827–9; started _The
Athenæum_ 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July
1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British
and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London
temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per
annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering
lectures many years; author of _Travels in Palestine_ 1822;
_America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols._ 1841; _The
eastern and western states of America 3 vols._ 1842 and 16 other
books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects.
_d._ Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30
June 1855. _Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols._ 1855,
_portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 44–8 (1874),
_iii_, 1098–9 (1882).
BUCKINGHAM, LEICESTER SILK (_youngest son of the preceding_). _b._
11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and
delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at
the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short
time; dramatic and musical critic of the _Morning Star_ 1857–67;
author of Memoir of _Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland_ 1844 and other
books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. _d._
Margate 15 July 1867. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 48–9
_iii_, 1099.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, REV. AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOBART-HAMPDEN, 6 Earl of.
_b._ Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817;
R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of
Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed
additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. _d._ Hampden
house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885.
BUCKLAND, FRANCIS TREVELYAN (_eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland
1784–1856_). _b._ Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at
Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St.
George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June
1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863;
discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church,
Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster
Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the _Field_ newspaper
1856–65; started _Land and Water_ 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of
salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the
highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee
to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large
collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded
into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of
_Curiosities of natural history_, _4 vols._ 1857–72; _Logbook of a
fisherman and zoologist_ 1875; _Natural history of British fishes_
1881; _edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original
notes_ 1875. _d._ 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec.
1880. _Life of Frank Buckland by G. C. Bompas_ 1885, _portrait_;
_Macmillan’s Mag. xliii_, 303–9 (1881); _Graphic xxiii_, 45
(1881), _portrait_.
BUCKLAND, VERY REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Charles Buckland, R.
of Templeton, Devon who d. 1829_). _b._ Axminster 12 March 1784;
ed. at Tiverton, Winchester and C. C. coll. Ox., Devon scholar
1801, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816, D.D. 1825, fellow of his
college 1809–25; reader in mineralogy Univ. of Ox. 1813, and
reader in geology 1819; F.G.S. 1813, pres. 1824–5 and 1840–1,
Wollaston medallist 1848; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818, Copley medallist
1822, F.L.S. 1821; R. of Stoke Charity, Hants. 1825–46; canon of
Ch. Ch. cathedral Ox. 1825–46; pres. of British Assoc. at Ox.
1832; dean of Westminster 27 Nov. 1846 to death; R. of Islip,
Oxon. 1846 to death; a trustee of British Museum 1847; author of
_Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural
theology 2 vols._ 1836, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1869–70; _Reliquiæ
Diluvianæ_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1824. _d._ Clapham, London 14 Aug. 1856.
_Geology and mineralogy by the late Very Rev. W. Buckland, edited
by F. T. Buckland_, _2 vols._ 1858; _Quarterly Journal of Geol.
Soc. xiii_, 27–45 (1857); _Proc. of Royal Soc. viii_, 264–8
(1856); _I.L.N. vii_, 336 (1845), _portrait_.
BUCKLE, HENRY BRUGES. Assistant surgeon Bengal medical department 18
March 1844; surgeon 16 Sep. 1857; principal medical storekeeper
1866–70; deputy surgeon general 4 Oct. 1870; C.B. 29 May 1865.
_d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly 12 Dec. 1874.
BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London,
shipowner 1779–1840_). _b._ Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in
Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at
Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of
knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in _Fraser’s Mag._ April 1858;
author of _History of civilisation in England 2 vols._ 1857–61,
republished as _History of civilisation in England, France, Spain
and Scotland 3 vols._ 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand
divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon
players in Europe; knew 19 different languages, 7 of them well;
left Southampton for Alexandria 20 Oct. 1861. _d._ from typhoid
fever at Damascus 29 May 1862. _The life and writings of H. T.
Buckle by A. H. Huth 2 vols._ 1880, 2 _portraits_; _Miscellaneous
and posthumous works of H. T. Buckle vol. 1_ (1872); _Chess
player’s magazine ii_, 33–45 (1864), _portrait_.
BUCKLE, MATTHEW (_only son of Matthew Buckle, admiral R.N. who d. 7
July 1784 aged 68_). _b._ Nork house, Banstead 3 May 1770; entered
navy 4 Feb. 1777; captain 29 April 1802; superintendent of
Portsmouth district of Sea fencibles 2 May 1804 to Feb. 1810 when
corps was discharged; captain of the Adamant 44 guns, 16 Aug. 1810
to 14 Sep. 1813; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. _d._ Bath 8 April
1855.
BUCKLE, WILLIAM. _b._ Alnwick Castle 1794; superintended
arrangements of visit of George iv to Ireland; held a responsible
post in Soho works of Boulton and Watt at Birmingham to 1851;
built first locomotive engine which made journey from Liverpool to
Manchester 15 Sep. 1830; an officer in coining department of Royal
Mint, London 1851 to death. _d._ Royal Mint, London 30 Sep. 1863.
BUCKLER, JOHN (_son of Edward Buckler 1741–92_). _b._ Calbourne,
Isle of Wight 30 Nov. 1770; an architect in London to 1826;
contributed water colour drawings yearly to Royal Academy
1796–1849; F.S.A. 1810. _d._ Rockingham row, New Kent road, London
6 Dec. 1851.
BUCKLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 13 Sep. 1814; studied
at Royal Academy where he exhibited 1836–56, 62 pictures chiefly
portraits in water-colour; lived at Emsworth, Hampshire about 1848
to death; contributed to _Entomologist’s Weekly intelligencer_;
_Weekly Entomologist_ and _Entomologist’s monthly magazine_. _d._
Lumley, Emsworth, Hants. 9 Jany. 1884. _Entomologist’s Monthly
Mag. xx_, 216, 229–36 (1884).
BUCKLEY, CECIL WILLIAM. Entered navy 1845; served in White Sea and
Black Sea during Russian war 1854–6; landed and fired a quantity
of stores at Genitchi 29 May 1855, and the stores and government
buildings at Taganrog June 1855; decorated with Victoria cross on
institution of that order 27 Feb. 1856; captain 16 April 1862;
commanded Pylades on Pacific station 1868–70, and Valiant
coastguard ship in the Shannon Dec. 1871 to Oct. 1872. _d._
Madeira Dec. 1872.
BUCKLEY, EDWARD PERY (_eld. son of Edward Pery Buckley of New hall
near Salisbury 1760–1840_). _b._ Audley sq. London 7 Nov. 1796;
ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 24 June 1812,
captain 12 April 1827 to 9 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; equerry
to the Queen 1837–58; colonel 83 foot 17 Aug. 1865 to death;
general 17 Aug. 1865; M.P. for Salisbury 15 Nov. 1853 to 6 July
1865. _d._ 12 South Audley st. London 28 May 1873.
BUCKLEY, JOSEPH (_son of George Buckley of Maer, Staffs._) _b._ Maer
13 May 1804; joined Society of Friends 26 June 1829; a minister 9
Feb. 1843; a cotton spinner at Preston 1834, removed to Manchester
1837; went on a mission to Norway 1856 and 1866; travelled in
Germany 1863. _d._ Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1868. _Memoirs of
Joseph Buckley edited by his daughter_ 1874, _portrait_.
BUCKLEY, R. BISHOP. _b._ England; entered the minstrel profession in
Boston, U.S. 1843 in a band organised by his father under title of
Buckley’s Minstrels; the chief performer in the band 1843 to
death. _d._ of paralysis at Quincy, Massachusetts 6 June 1867.
BUCKLEY, REV. THEODORE ALOIS WILLIAM. _b._ 27 July 1825; servitor at
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1849; chaplain of his college; translated
classics for H. G. Bohn; edited and wrote numerous works for
Routledge; author of _The great cities of the ancient world_ 1852;
_A history of the council of Trent_ 1852; _The great cities of the
middle ages_ 1853; edited _L. Apuleii de Deo Socratis, liber
singularis_ 1844. _d._ London 30 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 314–6
(1856).
BUCKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Moreton near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1780;
brought up a bricklayer; served in the 4th Regt. the King’s Own
1799; sentenced to transportation for life for mutiny, he with 6
others having turned out to shoot the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar 24
Dec. 1802; escaped from Port Phillip, Victoria 27 Dec. 1803;
resided among the natives of Port Phillip without ever seeing a
white man for 32 years; received a pardon from Governor Arthur 28
Aug. 1835; resided in Tasmania 1837 to death; died from being
thrown out of a cart at Hobart Town 2 Feb. 1856. _Morgan’s Life
and adventures of Buckley, Hobart Town_ 1852, _portrait_;
_Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii_, 64–87 (1878);
_Progress iii_, 166, 238, 311, 273 (1884).
BUCKLEY-MATHEW, SIR GEORGE BENVENUTO (_eld. son of George Mathew of
Fabians, Essex 1760–1846_). _b._ 1807; ensign 52 foot 7 July 1825;
lieut. Coldstream guards 26 July 1833; captain 85 foot 17 June
1836 to 23 Sep. 1836 when placed on h.p.; retired from army 9
April 1841; M.P. for Athlone 1835–7, for Shaftesbury 1837–41;
governor of Bahama islands 1844–50; minister plenipotentiary to
the republics in Central America 21 Aug. 1861, to Argentine
republic 13 April 1866, to republic of Paraguay 6 Dec. 1866, to
Brazil 19 Sep. 1867 to 1 April 1879 when he retired on pension;
changed his Christian name from Byam to Benvenuto 1836; assumed
additional surname of Buckley by r.l. 9 May 1865; C.B. 7 Aug.
1863; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 22
Oct. 1879 in 73 year.
BUCKMAN, JAMES (_son of John Buckman_). _b._ Cheltenham 1814;
curator and resident professor at Birmingham Philosophical Instit.
1842–8; professor of geology and botany at Royal Agricultural
college Cirencester 1848–63; conducted a farm on scientific
principles at Bradford Abbas near Sherborne 1863 to death; a
recognised authority on all agricultural matters; presented
collections of Roman antiquities and fossils to Cirencester;
F.L.S.; F.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of _Remains of Roman art at
Cirencester_ 1851; _Science and practice in farm cultivation_
1865; edited _The practical farmer’s chronicle_ 1861; author of
many papers on archæology, botany and geology. _d._ Bradford Abbas
23 Nov. 1884.
BUCKSTONE, JOHN BALDWIN. _b._ Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his
début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in _The fortunes of
Nigel_ 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi
theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket theatre summer
seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and
manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150
comedies, dramas and farces best known being _The wreck ashore_,
produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, _The green bushes_,
produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and _The flowers of the forest_,
produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his
time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony
Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by _Our American cousin_ 1861–2;
adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. _d._ Bell green lodge, Lower
Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 411–6,
_portrait_; _The Theatre iii_, 261–7 (1879); _Illust. Review n.s.
i_, 161–3; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage;
Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 116–7, _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic
list_, _2 ed._ (1880) 66–72; _I.L.N. i_, 384 (1842), _portrait_,
_lxxv_, 457 (1879), _portrait_.
BUDD, CORDELIA GEORGIANA (_youngest dau. of Wm. James Turquand of
Bengal civil service_). Composed many musical pieces under nom de
plume of “Dewdrop” and afterwards under initials C.B. (_m._ 4 May
1844 Samuel Budd of Exeter, physician who _d._ 21 May 1885 in 79
year). _d._ 1 Charleville road, West Kensington, London 3 May 1886
aged 61.
BUDD, EDWARD HAYWARD. _b._ Great Missenden, Bucks. 23 Feb. 1785; a
clerk in War Office 1801 to Dec. 1817 when he retired on pension
of £180 a year; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 13 Sep.
1802; played in all the great matches of Marylebone cricket Club
1805–25; played his last cricket match 16 June 1852; one of the
best batsmen, bowlers and amateur boxers of his time; lived at
Wroughton, Wilts. 1825 to death. _d._ Rose cottage Wroughton 29
March 1875. _C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_, _2 ed._ 1868,
_portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_, 9–16 (1875).
BUDD, GEORGE (_3 son of Samuel Budd of North Tawton, Devon,
surgeon_). _b._ North Tawton Feb. 1808; ed. at St. John’s and
Caius colleges Cam., 3 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.B. 1835, M.D.
1840; fellow of Caius coll. 1831–54, hon. fellow 1880; studied at
Middlesex hospital London; practised in London 1840–67; F.R.S. 21
Jany. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1843, Croonian
lecturer 1847, censor 1845–7; physician to Dreadnought hospital
ship 1837–40; professor of medicine in King’s college London
1840–63; phys. to King’s college hospital 1840–63; author of _On
diseases of the liver_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1857; _On the organic
diseases and functional disorders of the stomach_ 1855. _d._
Ashleigh, Barnstaple 14 March 1882. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_,
1–3 (1883); _Medical Circular i_, 458–9 (1852); _Van Kaathoven’s
Collection vol._ 2, _portrait_.
BUDD, REV. HENRY (_son of Richard Budd of London, physician
1746–1821_). _b._ Newbury, Berkshire 25 Sep. 1774; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; chaplain of Bridewell
hospital 1801 to April 1831 when he resigned; R. of White
Roothing, Essex 18 March 1808 to death; a founder of Prayer book
and homily society 21 May 1812; author of _Infant baptism the
means of national regeneration_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1841; _Helps for the
young 2 vols._ 1832–9. _d._ White Roothing rectory 27 June 1853.
_A memoir of Rev. Henry Budd_ 1855; _Christian Observer lvi_
194–211 (1856).
BUDD, RICHARD. _b._ 1795; ensign 16 Madras N.I. 11 June 1812;
commandant of Southern division 10 May 1857 to 1862; colonel of 2
European regiment 27 Jany. 1858, of 32 Madras N.I. 1860 to 1869;
general 8 July 1874. _d._ Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham 22 Jany.
1885.
BUDD, WILLIAM (_brother of George Budd 1808–82_). _b._ North Tawton
Sep. 1811; ed. in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1838;
practised at Bristol 1842–73; physician to Bristol royal infirmary
1847–62; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; the greatest authority on zymotic
diseases; author of _Scarlet fever and its prevention_ 1869, _4
ed._ 1870; _Typhoid fever its nature, mode of spreading and
prevention_ 1873 and of many articles in medical papers. _d._
Clevedon, Somerset 9 Jany. 1880. _British Med. Jour._ (1880) _i_,
163–6.
BUDGE, REV. EDWARD (_son of John Budge_). _b._ Devonshire 1800; ed.
at Saffron Walden and Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824; C. of Launcells,
Cornwall 1834–9; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1839–46; R. of Bratton
Clovelly, Devon 1846 to death; author of _The mirror of history_
1851; translated the _Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the
statues_ for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers; supplied many
articles to Geol. Soc. and Royal Instit. of Cornwall. _d._ Bratton
Clovelly 3 Aug. 1865. _Life prefixed to Rev. E. Budge’s Posthumous
gleanings_ 1866.
BUDGETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wrington, Somerset 27 July 1794; provision
dealer at Kingswood near Bristol 1816 to about 1838 and at Bristol
about 1838 to death; founded greatest house in provision trade in
West of England; gave £2,000 a year in charity for some time
before his death. _d._ Kingswood 29 April 1851. _The Successful
merchant by W. Arthur_ 1885.
BUIST, GEORGE (_eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice,
Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year_). _b._ Tannadice 17
Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of
Edin.; edited _Dundee Courier_ 1834; established _Dundee Guardian_
1834; edited _Perth Constitutional_ 1835, and _Fifeshire Journal_
1837–9, and _Bombay Times_ at Bombay 1840–58; started _Bombay
Standard_ 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory
School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing
press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of _Index to books and
papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of
India_ 1852. _d._ Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. _Memoir of G. Buist,
Cupar_ 1846; _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 190–2.
BULL, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon_). _b._
Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch.
Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house;
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner
1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June
1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death;
canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6
Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March
1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed
vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. _d._ at his
lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68.
BULLAR, HENRY (_son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near
Southampton_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53;
barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death;
a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published
with Joseph Bullar _A winter in the Azores 2 vols._ 1841; _Prætors
or pleaders_. _d._ Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870.
BULLEN, SIR CHARLES (_son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N._)
_b._ Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29
April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827;
superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign
yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B.
June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13
Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted
12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. _d._ Shirley near
Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at
Greenwich.
BULLEN, EDWARD (_son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor_). _b._
Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law
student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated
special pleader 1836 to death; author of _A practical treatise on
the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant_ 1842;
author with S. M. Leake of _Precedents of pleadings in common law_
1860, _3 ed._ 1868. _d._ 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July
1868.
BULLEN, JOSEPH (_2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs._)
_b._ 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774;
commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to
1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._
Bath 17 July 1857.
BULLER, SIR ANTHONY (_youngest son of John Buller of Morval,
Cornwall 1744–90_). _b._ Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed.
at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe
1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep.
1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is
believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by
Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. _d._ Marytavy
rectory, Devon 27 June 1866.
BULLER, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (_2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil
service 1774–1848_). _b._ Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle;
barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct.
1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to
1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June
1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. _d._ 6 Half Moon st.
Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869.
BULLER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col.
88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808;
captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to
George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired
1833. _d._ Bury st. St. James’s, London 8 Nov. 1855 aged 83.
BULLER, SIR GEORGE (_3 son of Frederick Wm. Buller of Pelynt,
Cornwall who d. 8 Nov. 1855_). _b._ 30 May 1800; ensign 23 foot 2
March 1820; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 27 Aug. 1841 to 12 Dec.
1854, col. commandant 13 Oct. 1860 to death; commanded 2 brigade
of light division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 11 Dec. 1854;
commanded a brigade and then a division in first Kaffir war 1847;
commanded a division in second Kaffir war 30 Aug. 1852 to 31 Oct.
1853; commanded division in Ionian Isles 1856–62 and troops at
Portsmouth 1865–70; C.B. 26 Dec. 1848; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; G.C.B.
2 June 1869. _d._ 23 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 12 April 1884.
BULLER, JAMES WENTWORTH (_eld. son of James Buller of Downes near
Crediton 1766–1827, M.P. for Exeter_). _b._ Downes 1 Oct. 1798;
ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L.
1829; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Exeter 29 July 1830 to
29 Dec. 1834, for North Devon 6 April 1857 to death; colonel 1st
Devon yeomanry cavalry 5 Aug. 1842 to death; chairman of Bristol
and Exeter railway. _d._ 109 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 13
March 1865.
BULLEY, REV. FREDERIC (_3 son of John Bulley of Reading_). Demy of
Magd. coll. Ox. July 1825, probationer fellow 1837, served offices
of dean of arts, bursar, vice pres., dean of divinity and college
tutor successively, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1856;
pres. of his college Jany. 1855 to death; author of _A tabular
view of the varieties in the communion and baptismal offices of
the Church of England_ 1842. _d._ Marston hill near Fairford 3
Sep. 1885 aged 75.
BULLIONS, REV. PETER. _b._ Moss Side near Perth Dec. 1791; ed. at
Univ. of Edin. 1810–13; licensed by presbytery of Edin. June 1817;
pastor of presbyterian church at Argyle in Washington county, New
York March 1818; professor of languages in Albany academy Nov.
1824 to 1848; pastor of United presbyterian church at Troy, New
York 1834–52 and Dec. 1853 to death; author of _Practical lessons
in English grammar_ 1844, _new ed._ 1853; _An analytical and
practical grammar of the English language_, _21 ed._ 1853, and
many other books. _d._ Troy 13 Feb. 1864.
BULLOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a working brass-finisher at Aberdeen;
contributed several articles on decimal coinage to the _Athenæum_;
suggested a number of textual emendations which were introduced
into notes of _W. G. Clark’s Cambridge Shakespeare_ 1863; author
of _Studies of the text of Shakespeare_ 1878. _d._ Aberdeen at end
of Dec. 1882.
BULLOCK, EDWARD (_eld. son of Edward Bullock of Jamaica_). Educ. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 26 Nov.
1824; judge of Sheriff’s Court of London and comr. at Old Bailey
1840–50; common serjeant of City of London 1850 to Dec. 1855. _d._
Upfield near Stroud, Gloucs. 27 Dec. 1857 aged 57.
BULLOCK, FREDERICK (_son of James Bullock, commander R.N._) Entered
navy 28 Nov. 1804; captain 28 June 1838; granted pension for
wounds 11 Nov. 1864; admiral on half pay 10 Sep. 1869; F.R.G.S.
1830. _d._ 6 Feb. 1874 in 87 year.
BULLOCK, RALPH. _b._ Morpeth 1841; apprenticed to Thomas Dawson of
Tupgill 1851; rode his first race at Harrowgate 1853; won the
Derby on Colonel Townley’s Kettledrum 1861; won Ascot vase and
Goodwood and Doncaster cups on Tim Whiffler 1862; one of the very
best jockeys in England; won 212 races 1854–62. _d._ Tupgill 23
Jany. 1863. _Sporting Review xlix_, 86, 203–5 (1863), _portrait_.
BULLOCK, REV. WILLIAM THOMAS (_2 son of John Bullock of London_).
_b._ London 1818; ed. at Magd. Hall Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C.
of St. Anne, Westminster 1847–50; assist. sec. S.P.G. June 1850,
sec. 1865 to death; chaplain at Kensington Palace 13 Sep. 1867 to.
death; preb. of Oxgate in St. Paul’s cathedral 1875 to death;
author of _Sermons on missions and other subjects_ 1879, of
_Ecclesiastes_ in the _Speaker’s Commentary_ 1880 and of about 70
articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the Bible_. _d._ Mentone 27
Feb. 1879.
BULMER, HENRY TAYLOR. Artist at Preston where he painted the
altar-piece at St. Augustine’s church 1840; decorated St.
Cuthbert’s, North Shields, and several other churches; painted
many portraits. _d._ Brook hill, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1857 aged 46.
BULTEEL, HENRY BELLENDEN (_son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock,
Devon_). _b._ Bellevue near Plymouth 1800; Educ. at Brasn. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Ex. coll. 30 June 1823 to 6
Oct. 1829; C. of St. Ebbe’s Oxford 1826 to 10 Aug. 1831 when his
license was revoked by Bishop of Oxford for fraternising with
dissenters and preaching in their chapels; built a large chapel
behind Pembroke college, Oxford, his congregation were called
Bulteelers; preached a sermon on 1 Corinthians ii, 12 before Univ.
of Ox. at St. Mary’s 6 Feb. 1831 which created great excitement in
Oxford and when printed went to 6 editions; author of _The
doctrine of the miraculous interference of Jesus on behalf of
believers_ 1832 in which he narrated how by means of prayer and
intercession he had cured and restored to health 3 women; _The
Oxford Argo by an Oxford divine_ 1845, an anonymous denunciation
of the Puseyite party. _d._ The Crescent, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1866
aged 66. _Cox’s Oxford_ (1868) 244, 248; _Mozley’s Reminiscences_
(1882) _i_, 228, 350.
BUNBURY, SIR CHARLES JAMES FOX, 8 Baronet. _b._ Messina in Sicily 4
Feb. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; contested Bury St. Edmunds
1835 and 1837; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; succeeded 13 April 1860;
sheriff of Suffolk 1868. _d._ 18 June 1886.
BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, 7 Baronet (_younger son of Henry Wm.
Bunbury the caricaturist 1750–1811_). _b._ London 4 May 1778; ed.
at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 14 Jany. 1795;
quartermaster general in Mediterranean 1805–9; lieut. col. Royal
Newfoundland fencible infantry 1805–14; under secretary of state
for war 1809–16; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; L.G. 22 July 1830; succeeded
his uncle as 7 Baronet 31 March 1821; M.P. for Suffolk 11 Aug.
1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, the county had been uncontested for 40 years
before 1830; author of _Narrative of the campaign in North
Holland_ 1849; _Narrative of certain passages in the late war with
France_ 1852. _d._ Barton hall, Bury St. Edmunds 13 April 1860.
_Memoir and literary remains_, _edited by his son Sir C. J. F.
Bunbury P.P._ (1868).
BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM ST. Pierre (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._
Brompton, London 2 Sep. 1812; ensign 43 foot 29 June 1830; lieut.
col. 23 foot 9 March 1855 to 10 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.;
C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Marchfield house, Bracknell 18 Sep. 1875.
BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 46 foot 25 March 1804; lieut. col. Rifle
corps 5 Feb. 1824 to 24 April 1835; lieut. col. 67 foot 24 April
1835 to 9 Nov. 1846; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel commandant Rifle
corps 9 Feb. 1855 to death; K.H. 1835. _d._ London 13 April 1857.
BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 3 foot 13 Aug. 1807; major 80 foot 21 Nov.
1834 to 26 July 1844; C.B. 3 April 1846; K.T.S. _d._ 11 St.
James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 25 Dec. 1861.
BUNN, ALFRED. _b._ 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical
department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of
T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane
one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833;
introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833;
lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a
gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March
1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for
the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York
in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be
the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s
_Pendennis_; (_m._ 1819 the succeeding). author of _The stage both
before and behind the curtain, 3 vols._ 1840; _A word with Punch_
1847; _Old England and New England_, _2 vols._ 1853; edited _The
Vauxhall papers_ 1841. _d._ of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860.
_J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i_, (1872); _Dents Old and
New Birmingham_ (1880) 385–7, 432, _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_, 220
(1844), _portrait, xvi_, 141 (1850), _portrait_.
BUNN, MARGARET AGNES (_eld. dau. of John Somerville of Marylebone,
London, biscuit baker_). _b._ Lanark 26 Oct. 1799; made her first
appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 9 May 1816 as
Imogine in Maturin’s tragedy of _Bertram_; created character of
Bianca in Dean Milman’s _Fazio_ at Bath 6 Jany. 1818; played at
Drury Lane 1816–18 and 1823–24, Covent Garden 1818–19. (_m._ 1819
the preceding). _d._ Blue Earth city, Minnesota Jany. 1883.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v._ 163–74 (1826), _portrait_; _T.
Marshall’s Lives of actors_ (1848) 73–8.
BUNNETT, FANNY ELIZABETH. Author of _The golden balance or the false
and the real_ 1859; _Nature’s school or lessons in the garden and
the field_ 1859; _Louise Juliane, Electress palatine and her
times_ 1862; _Linked at last_ 1871; translated _Shakespeare
commentaries by G. G. Gervinus_ 1863, _3 ed._ 1877; _W. Luebke’s
History of art_ 1868, and many other books. _d._ Budleigh
Salterton near Exmouth 19 Feb. 1875 in 43 year.
BUNNEY, JOHN COOPER. Established with Theodore Hook, _John Bull_
weekly paper 1820, published it 1820–50. _d._ Clerkenwell 22 June
1867.
BUNNEY, JOHN WHARLTON. _b._ Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 20 June
1828; apprenticed to a stationer in city of London; employed by
Messrs. Smith and Elder, publishers to 1859; gave lessons in
drawing; made drawings for John Ruskin in Switzerland and Italy;
painted at Florence 1863–70 and at Venice 1870 to death; painted a
picture of St. Mark’s Venice for J. Ruskin 1876–80; exhibited 8
pictures at the R.A., 2 at the B.I. and 10 at Suffolk St. Gallery
1853–81. _d._ Venice 23 Sep. 1882. _Catalogue of the exhibition of
pictures and drawings of Venice, also a memoir of the late J.
Bunney by A. Wedderburn_ 1882.
BUNNING, JAMES BUNSTONE. _b._ London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in
London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City
of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery
company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of
London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849,
City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan
cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848,
F.R.I. B.A. _d._ 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7
Nov. 1863.
BUNNY, ARTHUR. _b._ 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec.
1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April
1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May
1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. _d._ 40 Addison gardens
north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883.
BUNSEN, FRANCES, Baroness de (_eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of
Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year_). _b._
Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (_m._ 1 July 1817 Christian
Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London
1841–54); published _A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from
family papers by his widow 2 vols._ 1868, she _d._ Carlsruhe,
Baden 23 April 1876. _A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2
vols._ 1882; _F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays_ (1884) 311–62;
_Contemporary Review xxviii_, 948–69 (1876).
BUNTING, REV. JABEZ (_only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester,
tailor_). _b._ Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan
minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London
1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and
Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president
1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833;
pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D.
Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional
literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs
gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” _d._ 30 Myddleton
sq. London 16 June 1858. _Life by T. P. Bunting_ (1859), 2
_portraits_; _Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New
York_ 1873; _I.L.N. ii_, 208 (1843), _portrait, xxxii_, 642
(1858); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 37 (1858), _portrait_.
BUNTING, REV. WILLIAM MACLARDIE (_eld. child of the preceding_).
_b._ Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7,
Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax
1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited _Select letters
of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer_ 1842; contributed to _Wesleyan Methodist
Mag._ _d._ at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. _Memorials
of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe_ 1870,
_portrait_.
BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, LUIGI. _b._ Ancona, Italy; officer of
dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk
known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing;
servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a
tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead
at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he
shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April
1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. _The law on its
trial by A. H. Dymond_ (1865) 178–94; _Central criminal court
trials xli_, 633–61 (1855).
BURCHAM, THOMAS BORROW. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to
death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of
Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to
death. _d._ Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62.