nurseryman_). _b._ Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena
1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30;
executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s
panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon.
D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is
perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species
discovered by him; author of _Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols._
1822. _d._ Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. _Journal of
Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii_, 124 (1864).
BURCHETT, RICHARD. _b._ Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of
design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head
master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal
Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great
Exhibition 1862; author of _Practical geometry_ 1855; _Linear
perspective_ 1856. _d._ Dublin 27 May 1875. _Graphic xi_, 606, 621
(1875), _portrait_.
BURDEN, HENRY. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819;
maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator
1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which
are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for
making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60
shoes per minute from iron bars. _d._ Woodside Troy, New York 19
Jany. 1871.
BURDER, REV. GEORGE BERNARD (_son of Rev. George Burder 1752–1832,
editor of Evangelical magazine_). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; C. of
Ruardean, Gloucs.; received into Church of Rome at Oscott college
24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest; joined the Cistercians at Mount
St. Bernard’s abbey, Leics. where he filled offices of sub-prior,
prior, and abbot; author of the following translations from the
French _The souls in purgatory by Bouguets_ 1873; _The consoler by
Lambilotte_ 1873; _St. Bernard and his work by Caussette_ 1874;
_Confidence in the mercy of God by Languet de Villeneuve de Gergy_
1876; _The Christian life and virtues considered in the religious
state by C. Gay_ 1878. _d._ 26 Sep. 1881.
BURDER, REV. HENRY FORSTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Coventry 27 Nov. 1783; ed. at Hoxton academy and Glasgow Univ.;
assistant minister at Independent chapel St. Thomas sq. Hackney 31
Oct. 1811, minister 2 March 1814 to 1852; professor of philosophy
and mathematics at Hoxton college 1810–30; chairman of
Congregational union of England and Wales 1844; author of _Mental
discipline or hints on the cultivation of intellectual and moral
habits_ 1822; _A collection of psalms and hymns_ 1826, _3 ed._
1845 and other books. _d._ Hatcham park, Surrey 29 Dec. 1864.
_Evangelical Mag. March 1865 pp._ 129–34.
BURDER, WILLIAM CORBETT (_son of Rev. John Burder_). _b._ Stroud,
Gloucs. 30 Oct. 1822; connected as a meteorologist with Glaisher’s
corps of observers; discovered 2 new comets 28 March 1854 and 30
June 1861; author of _A motto or apophthegm for every day in the
year selected by W.C.B._ 1859; _The meteorology of Clifton_ 1863;
published with J. Hine and W. Godwin _The architectural
antiquities of Bristol and its neighbourhood_ 1851. _d._ Clifton
16 Oct. 1865.
BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Piccadilly 26 April 1796; major
10th hussars 11 Oct. 1827 to 8 March 1831, when placed on h.p.;
retired from army 1846; succeeded 23 Jany. 1844; sheriff of
Derbyshire 1848. _d._ G. 2 Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 June 1880.
Personalty sworn under £300,000 4 Sep. 1880.
BURFORD, ROBERT. _b._ 1791; exhibited 4 landscapes at Royal Academy
1812–16; exhibited panoramas with H. A. Barker on site of present
Strand theatre to 1827 when he moved to Leicester square, where he
exhibited a succession of panoramas of chief places of interest in
Europe. _d._ 35 Camden road villas, London 30 Jany. 1861. _T.
Taylor’s Leicester Square_ (1874) 467–71.
BURGES, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1787; V.
of Halvergate, Norfolk 1812 to death; V. of Moulton, Norfolk 1813
to death; author of _An address to the people of Great Britain_
1798; _Remarks on the leading arguments in favour of Catholic
emancipation 1812_, _2 ed._ 1813; _Reflections on the nature and
tendency of the present spirit of the times in a letter to the
freeholders of Norfolk_ 1819, _2 ed._ 1820. _d._ Whittlesea 24
Jany. 1853 aged 89.
NOTE.—In Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica the classical
publications of George Burges, M.A., of Trin. coll. Cam., who
_d._ 11 Jany. 1864, are erroneously added to those of the Rev.
George Burges.
BURGES, GEORGE. _b._ Bengal about 1786; ed. at Charter house and
Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1803, B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; started two
coaches which plied up and down the New Road London; constructed a
machine for aerial conveyance of passengers from Dover to Calais;
maker of a new kind of stays called ‘corsets à la Vénus’; gave a
series of public lectures upon ancient and modern literature; kept
a lodging house at Ramsgate 1856 to death; granted civil list
pension of £100 per annum 7 June 1841; author of a play in 5 acts
called _The son of Erin or the cause of the Greeks by an Asiatic
liberal_ 1823; published the _Troades of Euripides_ 1807 and the
_Phœnissæ_ 1809; the _Supplices and Prometheus of Æschylus_ 1831
and other classical works. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1864 aged 78.
BURGES, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Burges of London, civil engineer_).
_b._ 2 Dec. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London 1839–44; pupil of
Edward Blore, architect 1844–9; gained first award in
international competition for Lille cathedral 1856; Cantor
lecturer at Society of Arts 1862; designed cathedral at Brisbane,
Queensland 1859, cathedral at Cork 1862; rebuilt Cardiff Castle
1865; prepared designs for new law courts in Strand, London;
F.R.I.B.A. 1860, A.R.A. 28 Jany. 1881; author of _Art applied to
industry, a series of lectures_ 1865; _Architectural drawings with
descriptive letterpress_ 1870. _d._ 9 Melbury road, Kensington,
London 20 April 1881. _Trans. of Royal Instit. of British
Architects_ (1882) 17–30, 183–95; _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 429 (1881),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxiii_, 456 (1881), _portrait_.
BURGESS, REV. HENRY. _b._ 1808; ed. at Stepney college; LLD. Glasgow
1851; Ph.D. Gottingen 1852; P.C. of Clifton Reynes, Bucks.
1854–61; V. of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambs. 1861 to death;
edited _Journal of sacred literature_ 1848; _Clerical journal_
1854–68; author of _Poems_ 1850; _Select metrical hymns and
homilies of Ephraem translated_ 1853; _The festal epistles of St.
Athanasius translated from the Syriac_ 1852. _d._ 10 Feb. 1886.
BURGESS, JOHN CART. _b._ 1798; painter of flowers and fruit in water
colours; exhibited 31 pictures at the R.A., 7 at the B.I., and 15
at Suffolk st. gallery 1812–37; taught painting in London; author
of _A practical essay on the art of flower painting_ 1811; _An
easy introduction to perspective_, _6 ed._ 1835. _d._ Leamington
20 Feb. 1863.
BURGESS, JOSEPH TOM. _b._ Cheshunt, Herts. 1828; reporter on
_Leicester Journal_ 1844; edited _Clare Journal_ at Ennis; edited
_Bury Guardian_ 7 years; _Leamington Spa Courier_ 1865–78;
_Barrow’s Worcester Journal_ 5 years; F.S.A. 1 June 1876; author
of _Life scenes and social sketches_ 1862; _Old English wild
flowers_ 1868; _Harry Hope’s holidays_ 1871; _Historic
Warwickshire_ 1876; _A handbook to the cathedral of Worcester_
1884. _d._ Leamington 4 Oct. 1886.
BURGESS, REV. RICHARD. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam, B.D. 1835; R.
of Upper Chelsea 1836–69; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1851 to death;
R. of Horningsheath, Suffolk 27 Dec. 1869 to death; lectured at
early meetings of British Architects in Covent Garden and
Grosvenor st. London; author of _A treatise on the ludi circenses_
1828; _Topography and antiquities of Rome 2 vols._ 1831; _Greece
and the Levant 2 vols._ 1835. _d._ Brighton 12 April 1881 in 85
year. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 268 (1855), _portrait_.
BURGESS, RIGHT REV. THOMAS. _b._ near Preston 1 Oct. 1791; ed. at
Benedictine college, Ampleforth where he was professed 13 Oct.
1807; prior of Ampleforth July 1818 to 1830 when he left
Benedictine order and became secularized in order to raise up a
new collegiate establishment at Prior park, Bath; opened Portland
chapel, Queen st. Bath 26 May 1832; kept a school at Monmouth;
bishop of Clifton 27 June 1851 to death; consecrated in St.
George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1851. _d._ the Convent,
Westbury on Trym 27 Nov. 1854. _Catholic Directory_ (1860) 258–61,
_portrait_.
BURGESS, THOMAS HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. England
1835; M.D. Edin. 1837; practised in London 1838 to death; phys. to
Blenheim st. dispensary 1841; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839;
author of _The physiology and mechanism of blushing_ 1839;
_Eruptions of the face and hands_ 1849; _The climate of Italy in
relation to pulmonary consumption_ 1852; translated Cazenave and
Schedel’s _Practical treatise on diseases of the skin_ 1832. _d._
Southsea 17 Dec. 1865. _Medical Circular i_, 491 (1852).
BURGOYNE, HUGH TALBOT (_only son of the succeeding_). _b._ Dublin 19
July 1833; entered navy 18 Jany. 1853; captain of ‘Constance’ 35
guns 1867–9; captain of armour plated turret ship ‘Captain’ 6 guns
30 April 1870 to death; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; lost in the ‘Captain’
which foundered off Cape Finisterre about 2 a._m._ 7 Sep. 1870.
_I.L.N. lvii_, 302, 307, 312 (1870), _portrait_.
BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN FOX, 1 Baronet (_elder natural son of John
Burgoyne 1723–92, commander in chief in Ireland_). _b._ Queen st.
Soho, London 24 July 1782; ed. at Eton and Woolwich 1796–8; 2
lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; commanding engineer of expedition to New
Orleans 1814; chairman of board of Public works in Ireland
1831–45; a founder of Instit. of Civil Engineers of Ireland and
first pres. 5 Aug. 1835; inspector general of fortifications in
England July 1845 to 1 Jany. 1868 when he retired on full pay;
pres. of Irish famine relief commission 10 Feb. 1847; sent to
Constantinople to report on defence of Turkey Jany. 1854;
conducted siege of Sebastopol Oct. 1854 to Feb. 1855; col.
commandant R.E. 22 Nov. 1854 to death; general 5 Sep. 1855;
created baronet 18 March 1856; F.R.S. 6 June 1856; constable of
Tower of London 8 April 1865 to death; field marshal 1 Jany. 1868;
granted a pension of £1,500 a year; K.C.B. 19 July 1838; G.C.B. 6
April 1852; admitted to freedom of City of London 22 Oct. 1868;
author of _Our defensive forces_ 1869, _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ 5
Pembridge sq. Bayswater, London 7 Oct. 1871. _bur._ in Tower of
London 17 Oct. _Life and correspondence of Sir J. F. Burgoyne 2
vols._ 1873, _portrait_; _A sketch of the life of Sir J. Burgoyne
by Sir F. Head_ 1872; _Papers on subjects connected with duties of
the Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, ix-xlii_, (1872); _Graphic
iv_, 387, 392 (1871), _portrait_.
BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN MONTAGU, 9 Baronet. _b._ Sutton park,
Bedfordshire 17 Oct. 1796; ensign 68 foot 17 Oct. 1816; captain
grenadier guards 5 June 1835 to 1847; succeeded 11 Aug. 1817;
sheriff of Beds. 1852. _d._ 17 March 1858.
BURKE, JAMES SAINT GEORGE (_2 son of John, French Burke_). _b._
1804; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846; counsel to London, Chatham and
Dover railway; Q.C. 2 Dec. 1862; bencher of his inn 27 April 1863;
retired from practice about 1869. _d._ The Auberies near Sudbury
25 Feb. 1881. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 30 April 1881.
BURKE, SIR JOHN CHARLES, 4 Baronet. _b._ 7 Feb. 1858; succeeded 9
Dec. 1875. _d._ 16 April 1880.
BURKE, SIR JOHN LIONEL, 12 Baronet. _b._ Glinsk Castle, co.
Roscommon 26 Nov. 1818; succeeded 30 Oct. 1865. _d._ 21 July 1884.
BURKE, SIR JOSEPH, 11 Baronet. _b._ Ardfry, co. Galway 31 Jany.
1786; succeeded 1845. _d._ 30 Oct. 1865.
BURKE, PETER (_elder son of John Burke of London, genealogist
1787–1848_). _b._ London 7 May 1811; ed. at Caen college,
Normandy; barrister I.T. 7 June 1838; Q.C. of county palatine of
Lancaster 1858; serjeant at law 11 Jany. 1860; director of Society
of Antiquaries of Normandy 1866–7; author of _Celebrated trials
connected with the aristocracy_ 1849; _The romance of the forum 4
vols._ 1852–61; _The public and domestic life of Edmund Burke_
1853; _Celebrated naval and military trials_ 1866. _d._ Coleherne
road, South Kensington, London 26 March 1881.
BURKE, ROBERT O’HARA. _b._ St. Cleram near Galway 1820; entered
Austrian army 1840; served in Irish constabulary 1848; emigrated
to Australia 1853; inspector of Melbourne police; commanded
expedition fitted out to explore centre of Australia which started
from Melbourne 20 Aug. 1860; reached Cooper’s Creek 11 Nov. 1860;
crossed the continent and reached Gulf of Carpentaria 10 Feb.
1861; returned to Cooper’s Creek 21 April 1861 where he _d._ of
starvation 28 June 1861. _bur._ with a public funeral at Melbourne
21 Jany. 1863. Bronze statue erected in Collins st. Melbourne 1864
at cost of £4,000. _The Burke and Wills exploring expedition_
1861; _W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia ii_, 190–310
(1865); _Illust. news of the world ix_, 65 (1862), _portrait_.
BURKE, THOMAS. Ensign 83 foot 23 July 1794; major 4 foot 22 July
1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 10 foot 11 April
1860 to death; L.G. 18 Jany. 1861. _d._ Prospect villa,
Ringaskiddy, Cork 4 Feb. 1863.
BURKE, THOMAS HENRY (_2 son of Wm. Burke of Knocknagur, co.
Galway_). _b._ 25 May 1829; private secretary to Sir Thomas
Redington under secretary for Ireland April 1851; under secretary
for Ireland May 1869 to death; stabbed to death in Phœnix park,
Dublin 6 May 1882 by members of a secret society called the
Invincibles; memorial window in Dominican church, Dublin erected
by Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 453 (1882),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 464 (1882), _portrait_.
BURKE, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 3 Baronet. _b._ 7 June 1813; succeeded 14
Sep. 1847; M.P. for co. Galway 17 May 1847 to 6 July 1865. _d._
Marble hill, Loughrea, co. Galway 9 Dec. 1875. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery i_, 92 (1833).
BURKE, VERY REV. THOMAS NICHOLAS (_son of Walter Burke of Galway who
d. 29 Nov. 1872_). _b._ Galway 8 Sep. 1830; entered order of St.
Dominic at Perugia 29 Dec. 1847; ordained priest 26 March 1853;
superintendent of novices at Tallaght near Dublin 1857–64; rector
of Irish Dominican college of San Clemente, Rome Sep. 1864; went
to America as visitor of his order Oct. 1871 where he acquired
extraordinary popularity as a preacher and lecturer; author of
_English misrule in Ireland_ 1873; _Ireland’s case stated in reply
to Mr. Froude_ 1873; _Lectures and sermons_ 1873; _Lectures on
faith and fatherland_ 1874. _d._ Tallaght 2 July 1883. _The life
of the Very Rev. T. N. Burke by W. J. Fitzpatrick 2 vols._ 1885,
_portrait_.
BURKE, THOMAS WILLIAM ASTON HAVILAND. _b._ near London Aug. 1795;
ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819; chairman of
Middlesex hospital 1848 to death; made a collection of prints
supposed to be finest of its kind, it was very strong in works of
Woollett, Strange and Sharpe, and in plates by and after Turner.
_d._ 27 Gloucester place, Marylebone, London 3 April 1852. _G.M.
xxxvii_, 624–6 (1852).
BURLTON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1807; commissary
general 12 April 1837 to 10 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. of 7 light
cavalry 1843, of 10 light cavalry 1848, of 8 light cavalry 1849,
of 2 light cavalry 1850 to 10 Aug. 1850; C.B. 3 April 1846; author
of _A few brief comments on Sir C. Napier’s letter to Sir J.
Hobhouse, “On the baggage of the Indian army”_ 1849. _d._
Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 10 Nov. 1870.
BURMESTER, ARNOLD EDWARD. Ensign 59 foot 31 Aug. 1830, lieut. col.
12 Oct. 1860 to 23 Sep. 1862 when he retired on full pay with rank
of M.G.; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ 11 St. Stephen’s sq. Bayswater,
London 3 Oct. 1877.
BURN, GEORGE. Surgeon R.N. 21 April 1829; inspector general of
hospitals and fleets 17 Sep. 1858 to 1 April 1870 when he retired;
C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ The Cedars, Shirley, Southampton 20 Feb.
1881 aged 70.
BURN, JACOB HENRY. Assistant to Wm. Hone the bookseller in London
about 1820, helped to compile _The every day book 3 vols._ 1826–7;
bookseller in Maiden lane, afterwards in King st. Covent Garden;
edited _Willis’s Current notes 7 vols._ 1851–7; author of _A
descriptive catalogue of the London traders tavern and
coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century presented
to the Corporation library by H. B. H. Beaufoy_ 1853, _2 ed._
1855, these tokens were collected by him for Beaufoy; _Catalogue
of a collection of early newspapers and essayists presented to the
Bodleian library by Rev. F. W. Hope_ 1865, formed chiefly by Burn
1830–4. _d._ St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington, London 19 Feb. 1869
aged 76. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 317–8 (1869).
BURN, JAMES. _b._ Darlington, Durham 15 March 1804; apprenticed to a
skinman at Newcastle; fought and beat O’Neal £25 a side 26 July
1824; beaten by Ned Neale £100 a side 19 Dec. 1824 and by Philip
Sampson £50 a side 14 June 1825; beat Pat Magee £100 a side 25
July 1826; beat Ned Baldwin £100 a side 24 April 1827, beaten by
him 3 July 1827 after 85 rounds in 90 minutes; beaten by Ned Neale
again 13 Nov. 1827; landlord of the Red Horse, Bond St., the
Queen’s Head, Windmill st. Haymarket, and the Rising Sun, Air st.
Piccadilly, London successively. _d._ The Rising Sun 29 May 1862.
_H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii_, 326–37 (1880); _Illust. sporting
news_ (1862) 265, _portrait_.
BURN, ROBERT. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, colonel 6 Jany. 1855
to 27 June 1864, col. commandant 2 Aug. 1868 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ Cheltenham 19 Dec. 1878 aged 86.
BURN, WILLIAM (_son of Robert Burn of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._
Edin. 20 Dec. 1789; pupil of Robert Smirke, architect; architect
in Edin. 1816–44 and in London 1844 to death; consulting
government architect for Scotland; designed mansions in nearly
every county in United Kingdom. _d._ 6 Stratton st. Piccadilly,
London 15 Feb. 1870.
BURNABY, CHARLES HERRICK. _b._ 28 Oct. 1800; second lieut. R.A. 9
June 1825, lieut. col. 22 July 1853 to 28 Nov. 1854 when he
retired on full pay; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 20 Regent’s park
terrace, London 11 Jany. 1879.
BURNABY, EDWYN SHERARD (_only son of Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave hall
near Leicester 1799–1867_). _b._ 22 May 1830; ed. at Eton; ensign
Grenadier guards 3 Nov. 1846, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to June
1880; served in Crimea Nov. 1854 to 28 July 1855; commanded
British-Italian legion of 3500 men 1855–7; went on special duty to
Syria 1861; commanded Metropolitan volunteers 1877–80; M.G. 29
April 1880; M.P. for North Leics. 12 April 1880 to death; author
of _An account of the right flank company of the third battalion
Grenadier Guards at the battle of Inkerman_ 1857; _John Bryant or
the stag hunt by E. S. B._ 1868. _d._ Palmeira sq. Hove, Brighton
31 May 1883. _New monthly mag. cxviii_, 421–5 (1880), _portrait_;
_Biograph iv_, 510–3 (1880).
BURNABY, FREDERICK GUSTAVUS (_son of Rev. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby of
Somerby hall near Oakham 1802–72_). _b._ Bedford 3 March 1842; ed.
at Bedford gr. sch. and Harrow; cornet Royal horse guards 30 Sep.
1859, lieut. col. 6 April 1881 to death; correspondent of the
_Times_ at Carlist camp in Spain Aug. to Oct. 1874; agent of
Stafford house committee in Russo-Turkish war 1877–8; commanded
fifth Turkish brigade at battle of Tashkesan 31 Dec. 1877;
contested Birmingham April 1880; went to Egypt as a volunteer 10
Jany. 1884; made 19 balloon ascents, crossed English channel in
balloon Eclipse 23 March 1882; author of _A ride to Khiva_ 1876,
_11 ed._ 1877; _On horseback through Asia Minor 2 vols._ 1877; _A
ride across the channel_ 1882; killed by a spear wound at battle
of Abu Klea in Soudan 17 Jany. 1885; obelisk to his memory in St.
Philip’s churchyard, Birmingham unveiled 11 Nov. 1885. _Life and
times of Col. F. Burnaby by J. R. Ware and R. K. Mann_ 1885,
_portrait_; _Vanity Fair 7 Feb. 1885_, _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxxvi_, 103 (1885), _portrait_.
BURNABY, JOHN DICK (_eld. son of John Dick Burnaby of Evington,
Leics. 1776–1852, captain Grenadier guards_). _b._ Billesdon
Coplow, Leics. 19 April 1802; ed. at Emm. coll. Cam., LLD. 1826;
barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828; comr. of bankrupts for Leicester,
Nottingham and district; judge of county courts circuit 34
(Leicestershire) March 1847 to death. _d._ Torquay 29 Dec. 1855.
BURNABY, RICHARD BEAUMONT (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Burnaby 1761–1830,
preb. of Lincoln_). _b._ Misterton, Leics. 22 Feb. 1793; 2 lieut.
R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, captain 9 Sep. 1834 to 9 April 1849; lieut.
col. commandant Hampshire artillery 30 May 1853 to death; L.G. 10
Nov. 1868. _d._ Carlton crescent, Southampton 1 June 1871.
BURNABY, SIR WILLIAM CRISP HOOD, 3 Baronet (_only son of Sir Wm.
Chaloner Burnaby, 2 baronet who d. 19 Feb. 1794_). Entered navy 11
Oct. 1806; commander of Ardent prison ship at Bermuda 26 May 1814
to May 1816. _d._ Bermuda 1 Aug. 1853.
BURNABY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD, 4 Baronet. _b._ July 1824; ed. at
Exeter coll. Ox.; succeeded 1 Aug. 1853. _d._ Boulogne 19 Aug.
1881.
BURNARD, NEVILL NORTHEY (_son of George Burnard of Alternun,
Cornwall, mason_). _b._ Alternun 1818; a mason; a carver in
London; employed by Bailey, Marshall, Foley and other sculptors;
executed statue of Richard Lander erected on the column in Lemon
st. Truro about 1850, and statue of Ebenezer Elliott erected in
Market place, Sheffield; executed many _portrait_ busts of eminent
men. _d._ the Infirmary, Redruth, Cornwall 27 Nov. 1878.
BURNE, JOHN. _b._ Worcestershire; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1 Aug.
1821; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823, a Fellow 4 July 1838; phys. to
Westminster hosp. 1835–42; removed to Tiverton about 1843; removed
to Bath about 1850; author of _A practical treatise on the Typhus
or adynamic fever_ 1828; _A treatise on the causes and
consequences of habitual constipation_ 1840. _d._ the United
hospital, Bath 3 April 1880 aged 86.
BURNELL, ARTHUR COKE (_eld. son of Arthur Burnell of East India
Company’s navy_). _b._ St. Briavel’s, Gloucs. 11 July 1840; ed. at
King’s college London; entered Indian civil service 1860; served
in Madras 1860–80; C.I.E.; author of _Specimens of South Indian
dialects collected by A. C. B._ 1873–8; _Elements of South Indian
palæography_ 1874, _enlarged edition_ 1878; _Classified index to
the Sanskrit MSS. in the palace at Tanjore_ 1880. _d._ West
Stratton, Hampshire 12 Oct. 1882. His library was sold at
Sotheby’s 14–17 Jany. 1884 for £1,566. _Hobson-Jobson being a
glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases by H. Yule
and the late A. C. Burnell_ (1886) _xiii, portrait_.
BURNELL, GEORGE ROWDEN. _b._ 1814; civil engineer in America,
Belgium and Holland; assistant engineer on Paris and Rouen railway
1842–8; built Equity and Law life office Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London; author of _The rudiments of hydraulic engineering_ 1852;
wrote for _Weale’s Rudimentary Series, treatises on Acoustics_;
_Sound in public and private buildings_; _Well-sinking, boring and
pump-work_; _Hydraulic engineering_; _River engineering_;
_Fluids_; and _Limes, mortars and concrete_; edited _Engineer and
Architect’s pocket book_ and _Builder’s and contractor’s price
book_; contributed many articles to Arts and Sciences division of
_English Cyclopædia_, _Proc. of Instit. of British Architects_,
_Journal of Gas-lighting_ and _Builder_. _d._ 23 Kensington
gardens terrace, Hyde park, London 23 July 1868 in 54 year.
BURNES, JAMES (_eld. son of James Burnes 1780–1852, town clerk of
Montrose_). _b._ Montrose 12 Feb. 1801; ed. at Montrose academy
and Univ. of Edin.; entered Bombay medical service 1821; garrison
surgeon of Bombay 1837; physician general in Bombay 15 Sep. 1848
to 20 Nov. 1849; provincial grand master of Western India 1836–46;
grand master of Scottish lodge of Masons in India 1846–9; F.R.S. 2
April 1835; K.H. 1837; author of _A narrative of a visit to the
court of Scinde_ 1829; _A sketch of the history of the Knights
Templars_ 1837. _d._ Queen’s hotel, Manchester 19 Sep. 1862.
_Notes on his name and family by James Burnes_ 1851 _PP._
BURNET, REV. JOHN. _b._ Methven st. Perth 13 April 1789; a shoemaker
at Perth; Independent congregational minister at Cork 1815–30;
pastor of Mansion house chapel Camberwell, London 12 Sep. 1830, of
Camberwell Green chapel 1853 to death; took an active part in
agitation for abolition of slave trade; one of committee of Bible
Society; chairman of congregational Union of England and Wales
1845; author of _Essay on the Deity of Christ_ 1835; _The
authority of pastors in the church_. _d._ Camberwell 10 June 1862.
_W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 234; _Services on
occasion of the death of Rev. John Burnet_ 1862.
BURNET, JOHN (_son of George Burnet, surveyor general of excise for
Scotland_). _b._ Musselburgh near Edin. 20 March 1784; apprenticed
to Robert Scott, landscape engraver 7 years; painter and engraver
in London 1806–60; engraved many of Wilkie’s pictures; exhibited 1
picture at the R.A., 30 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery
1808–62; F.R.S. 16 March 1837 to 1849 or 1850; granted civil list
pension of £75, 19 April 1861; author of _A practical treatise on
painting in three parts_ 1822–7, _new ed._ 4 _parts_ 1880; _An
essay on the education of the eye_ 1837; _Landscape painting in
oil colours_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1861; _Turner and his works_ 1852, _2
ed._ 1859 and many other books. _d._ Victoria road, Stoke
Newington, London 29 April 1868. _I.L.N. lii_, 504 (1868),
_portrait_.
BURNETT, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. _b._ Crathes castle near Aberdeen
17 Dec. 1789; succeeded 16 Feb. 1849. _d._ Crathes castle 20 March
1856.
BURNETT, SIR JAMES HORN, 10 Baronet. _b._ Crathes Castle 22 June
1801; succeeded 20 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 5
Jany. 1864 to death. _d._ Crathes castle 16 Sep. 1876.
BURNETT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Burnett of Montrose_). _b._
Montrose Jany. 1779; surgeon’s mate R.N. 1795, surgeon 1799; had
charge of hospitals for prisoners of war at Portsmouth and Forton
1805–10; phys. and inspector of hospitals to Mediterranean fleet
26 May 1810 to 1813; a medical comr. of the navy 1822; L.R.C.P.
1825, F.R.C.P. 1836, consiliarius 1845–7; knighted at St. James’s
palace 25 May 1831; K.C.H. 21 June 1831; F.R.S. 18 April 1833 to
1856 or 1857 when he withdrew; phys. general to the navy 1833 this
designation was changed 1840 to that of inspector general of naval
hospitals and fleets which gave way in 1844 to that of director
general of medical department of the navy, a post which he held
down to 1855 when he retired; phys. in ordinary to Wm. iv, 13
April 1835; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; invented well-known disinfecting
fluid 1838 and a fluid for preserving timber 1845; author of _A
practical account of the Mediterranean fever_ 1816. _d._
Chichester 16 Feb. 1861. _Physic and physicians ii_, 323–5 (1839);
_Munk’s Roll of physicians iii_, 307–8 (1878); _Lancet ii_, 558–63
(1850), _portrait_.
BURNETT, WILLIAM FARQUHARSON. Entered navy 28 June 1838; captain 13
Nov. 1854; commodore on Australian station 21 July 1862 to death;
C.B. 5 July 1855; lost in H.M.S. Orpheus off Manukan, New Zealand
7 Feb. 1863 when 190 lives were lost out of 260 on board, buried
at Auckland. _Annual Reg._ (1863) 19–22.
BURNEY, VEN. CHARLES PARR (_son of Rev. Charles Burney, preb. of
Lincoln who d. 25 Dec. 1817_). _b._ Chiswick, Middlesex 19 Oct.
1785; ed. by his father and at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A.
1811, B.D. and D.D. 1822; kept school at Greenwich 1814–35; R. of
Sible Hedingham, Essex March 1838 to 1848; archdeacon of St.
Albans 16 Oct. 1840; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Aug. 1845 to
death; R. of Wickham Bishops, Essex 1848 to death; gave sum of
£6,000 to establish a Clergy relief fund for his diocese; F.R.S.
22 Dec. 1814; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823. _d._ Brighton 1 Nov. 1864.
BURNEY, JAMES. Entered navy 6 Jany. 1807; captain 10 Dec. 1835,
retired 1 July 1851; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ 1
Montpellier terrace, Teddington, Middlesex 30 Oct. 1884 aged 91.
BURNEY, MARTIN CHARLES (_only son of James Burney, rear admiral
R.N._) _b._ 1788; solicitor in London; assisted in drawing up
population and poor law returns; barrister I.T. 20 June 1828;
reported in Master of the Rolls court for _The Times_; a great
friend of Charles Lamb. _d._ James st. Buckingham gate,
Westminster 20 Oct. 1852.
BURNEY, WILLIAM. Major Cape mounted riflemen 20 June 1834 to 16 Feb.
1844 when placed on retired full pay; K.H. 1837; colonel 28 Nov.
1854. _d._ Elgin crescent, Kensington park, London 1 Dec. 1879.
BURNS, REV. ISLAY (_6 child of Rev. Wm. Hamilton Burns 1779–1859,
minister of Kilsyth, near Glasgow_). _b._ Manse of Dun,
Forfarshire 16 Jany. 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. at Marischal
coll. and the Univ., D.D. 1864; ordained to charge of St. Peter’s
Dundee June 1843; professor of Apologetics and systematic theology
in free church college Glasgow 1864 to death; author of _History
of the Church of Christ_ 1862 and of a series of essays on
Tractarian and other movements in Church of England in the
_British and foreign evangelical review_. _d._ 4 Sardinia terrace,
Glasgow 20 May 1872. _Select remains of Islay Burns D.D._ 1874,
_portrait_.
BURNS, REV. JABEZ. (_son of Mr. Burns of Oldham, chemist_). _b._
Oldham 18 Dec. 1805; joined Methodist New Connexion 1821; pastor
of Baptist congregation at Perth 1830–5; of Baptist congregation
in New church st. Marylebone, London June 1835; became a pledged
abstainer May 1836; delivered 35 annual temperance sermons
beginning 16 Dec. 1839; one of earliest members of Evangelical
Alliance formed 1845; author of _The Christian sketch book_ 1828,
_second series 1835_; _The golden pot of Manna 2 vols._ 1837, in
the _5 ed._ title was altered to _The Christian’s daily portion_
1848; _Original sketches and skeletons of sermons 11 vols._;
edited _Journal of New British and Foreign Society_ 1839–42 when
society was dissolved; edited _Christian ministers companion 4
vols._ 1844. _d._ 17 Porteus road, Paddington, London 31 Jany.
1876. _A retrospect of 45 years Christian ministry by Jabez Burns_
1875; _D. Burns’s Temperance dictionary_ (1861) 527–30; _Illust.
news of the world viii_, (1861), _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_, 182,
188 (1876), _portrait_.
BURNS, JAMES (_brother of Rev. Islay Burns 1817–72_). _b._ Manse of
Dun 8 Nov. 1808; employed by Whitaker and Co. publishers in London
1832; bookseller at Duke st. Manchester sq. 1834, and at 17
Portman st.; published The Englishman’s library; The Fireside
library; _Poems and pictures_ 1845, first of the illustrated
Christmas books; joined Church of Rome 1847; edited _The Missal_;
_The Vespers book_; _The paradise of the Christian soul_; _The
path to heaven_; published _The Dublin Review_ July 1863 to death;
_Annals of the propagation of the faith 1861 to death_; _The
Rambler_ a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1848 to Nov. 1859. _d._ 17
Portman st. London 11 April 1871. _J. Gillow’s English Catholics
i_, 346–8 (1885); _Illustrated Catholic family annual_ (1884),
_portrait_.
BURNS, JAMES (_3 son of Rev. John Burns, minister of Barony church,
Glasgow_). _b._ Glasgow 9 June 1789; a shipowner with his brother
George Burns; began to use steam navigation 1824; founded with
Samuel Cunard and David Mac Iver, Cunard company for establishing
a line of ocean steamers to America, first of which sailed from
Liverpool 4 July 1840. _d._ Bloomhall, Dumbartonshire 6 Sep. 1871.
BURNS, REV. JAMES DRUMMOND. _b._ Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1823; ed. at High
sch. and Univ. of Edin.; minister of Free church Dunblane near
Stirling Aug. 1845 to 4 Oct. 1848; spent 5 years in Madeira
1847–53; minister of English Presbyterian chapel Well walk,
Hampstead 22 May 1855; author of _The vision of prophecy and other
poems_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1858; _The heavenly Jerusalem or glimpses
within the gates_ 1856; contributed a series of papers on cities
of the Bible to Rev. A. Cameron’s _Family treasury_ and article
Hymns to _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _8 ed. xii_, 188–90 (1856).
_d._ Mentone 27 Nov. 1864. _bur._ Highgate cemetery Dec. _Rev. J.
Hamilton’s Memoir and remains of Rev. J. D. Burns_ 1869,
_portrait_; _Reminiscences of Rev. J. D. Burns from Weekly Review
of Dec. 17, 1864_.
BURNS, ROBERT (_eld. son of Robert Burns the poet 1759–96_). _b._
Tarbolton, Ayrshire Sep. 1786; ed. at Dumfries academy; clerk in
Stamp office, London 1804; an accomplished scholar, musician and
artist; edited _The Caledonian musical museum_ 1809. _d._ Dumfries
14 May 1857.
BURNS, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Borrowstownness West Lothian 13 Feb. 1789;
ordained to charge of Low church Paisley July 1811; sec. of
Glasgow colonial society 1815–30; seceded with the Protestors
1843; sent by Free church to visit churches in U.S. and Canada
1844; pastor of Knox’s church Toronto 1845–56; Emeritus professor
of church history in Knox college Toronto 1856; moderator of
church in Canada twice; author of _A historical dissertation on
the law and practice of Great Britain with regard to the poor_
1819; _On Pluralities_ 1824; _The Gareloch heresy tried_ 1830;
edited Wodrow’s _History of the sufferings of the Church of
Scotland_, _new ed. 4 vols._ 1828; edited _Edinburgh Christian
instructor_ 1838–40. _d._ Toronto 19 Aug. 1869. _Morgan’s
Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 58–9.
BURNS, WILLIAM. _b._ Saltcoats, Ayrshire Dec. 1809; a procurator in
Glasgow 1844; head of firm of Burns, Alison and Aitken; engaged
much in consideration of public bills and legal education; author
of _What’s in a name_ 1861; _War of Scottish independence 2 vols._
1874. _d._ Moffat, Dumfriesshire 2 Aug. 1876.
BURNS, REV. WILLIAM CHALMERS (_brother of Rev. Islay Burns
1817–72_). _b._ Manse of Dun 1 April 1815; licensed as a preacher
by presbytery of Glasgow 27 March 1839; minister of St. Peters,
Dundee; preached with great success in Scotland, north of England
and Canada; sent to China as a missionary by Presbyterian church
of England Nov. 1847, where he founded many native congregations
of Christians; translated the _Pilgrim’s Progress_ and many hymns
into Chinese. _d._ at port of Nieu-chwang, China 4 April 1868.
_Memoir by Rev. Islay Burns_, _3 ed._ 1870, _portrait_; _W. G.
Blaikie’s Leaders in modern philanthropy_ (1884) 219–40,
_portrait_.
BURNSIDE, HENRY EDWARD HILLMAN. Ensign 61 foot 20 Jany. 1843; chief
instructor at school of musketry Hythe, Kent 1873 to 1 Aug. 1875
when placed on h.p. as lieut. col.; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._
Stogumber, Somerset 29 Nov. 1876.
BURR, DANIEL HIGFORD DAVALL (_elder son of Daniel Burr, lieut.
general H.E.I.C.S. who d. 19 Feb. 1828 aged 79_). _b._ 24 March
1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Hereford 25 July 1837
to 23 June 1841; contested Salisbury 10 July 1852, and Abingdon 3
Dec. 1852; sheriff of Berks. 1851. _d._ 23 Eaton place, London 29
Nov. 1885.
BURRARD, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet. _b._ Dorking, Surrey 2 March 1793;
succeeded 18 Oct. 1813; entered navy 13 July 1805; captain 29
Jany. 1822; flag captain in the Revenge 76 guns 20 March 1823 to
April 1827; placed on retired half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired
admiral 27 April 1863. _d._ Holmefield, Lyndhurst, Hants. 12 July
1870.
BURRARD, REV. SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet. _b._ Lymington, Hampshire 6
April 1769; R. of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1801–41; Chaplain in
ordinary 1801 to death; V. of Middleton-Tyas, Yorkshire 1804 to
death; R. of Burton-Coggles, Lincs. 1822 to death; succeeded 7
Feb. 1840. _d._ Walhampton, Lymington 17 May 1856.
BURRARD, SIR GEORGE, 4 Baronet. _b._ 13 Oct. 1805; M.P. for
Lymington 31 July 1828 to 3 Dec. 1832; succeeded 17 May 1856;
drowned while bathing at Lyme Regis, Dorset 7 Sep. 1870.
BURRARD, SIR HARRY, 5 Baronet. _b._ 13 Oct. 1818; succeeded 7 Sep.
1870. _d._ Hastings 15 April 1871.
BURRELL, SIR CHARLES MERRIK, 3 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Wm.
Burrell, 2 baronet 1732–96_). _b._ Golden sq. London 21 May 1774;
succeeded 20 Jany. 1796; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Nov. 1807 to death,
the “father” of the House for some time before his death; Sussex
agriculturists owe to him introduction of the white or Belgian
carrot and valuable experiments in feeding and fattening cattle.
_d._ Knepp castle, West Grinstead 4 Jany. 1862. _Sporting Review
xlvii_, 108 (1862).
BURRELL, GEORGE. _b._ Long Houghton, Northumberland 26 Feb. 1777;
ensign 15 foot 4 Feb. 1797; lieut. col. 18 foot 22 July 1830 to 22
Nov. 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 39 foot
11 Feb. 1852 to death. _d._ Alnwick 4 Jany. 1853.
BURRELL, JOHN PALFREY (_youngest son of Palfrey George Burrell of
Alnwick_). Barrister G.I. 2 July 1805, bencher 20 May 1829,
treasurer 1833–4; police magistrate at Queen sq. office
Westminster 1833–46 and at Vincent sq. office Westminster 1846–54.
_d._ 1 Gray’s Inn sq. London 11 July 1859 aged 86.
BURRELL, SIR PERCY, 4 Baronet. _b._ Grosvenor place, London 10 Feb.
1812; succeeded 4 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Shoreham 5 Feb. 1862 to
death. _d._ 44 Berkeley sq. London 19 July 1876.
BURRELL, SIR WALTER WYNDHAM, 5 Baronet. _b._ 26 Oct. 1814; barrister
L.I. 1840; contested East Sussex 1865; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Aug.
1876 to 18 Nov. 1885; sheriff of Sussex 1871; succeeded 19 July
1876. _d._ West Grinstead park, Horsham 24 Jany. 1886. _Law Times
lxxx_, 236 (1876).
BURRITT, ELIHU. _b._ New Britain, Connecticut 8 Dec. 1810; a
blacksmith at Worcester, Massachusetts 1837; translated all the
Icelandic Sagas relating to discovery of America and obtained name
of the “learned blacksmith”; public lecturer 1841; started
_Christian Citizen_ a weekly journal 1842; co-operated in England
with English peace advocates 1846–9; developed basis of an
international association known as the League of universal
brotherhood 1848; prominent organiser of first Peace Congress at
Paris 22 Aug. 1849; editor of _Citizen of the World_ in
Philadelphia 1852; walked from London to John O’Groats 1863 and
from London to Land’s End 1864; United States consul at Birmingham
1867 to June 1869. _d._ New Britain 9 March 1879. _The world’s
workers by J. W. Kirton_ (1885) 65–94, _portrait_.
BURROUGHES, HENRY NEGUS. _b._ 8 Feb. 1791; sheriff of Norfolk 1817;
M.P. for East Norfolk 11 Aug. 1837 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 22 March
1872.
BURROUGHS, WATKINS. _b._ England 1795; Manager of Surrey theatre,
London Oct. 1822; stage manager at Astley’s theatre; lessee of
Belfast theatre; first appeared in America 1825, at Park theatre,
New York as Harry Dornton in _The road to ruin_; acting and stage
manager of Lafayette theatre N.Y.; acted at Philadelphia 1825.
_d._ Liverpool 12 July 1869.
BURROW, VEN. EDWARD JOHN. Educ. at Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A.
1808; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. and D.D.
1820; P.C. of Bempton, Yorkshire 1810–16; minister of Hampstead
chapel near London 1816–23; domestic chaplain to bishop of
Winchester 1823–35; principal of College school Mount Radford,
Exeter July 1827 to Jany. 1828; civil chaplain of Gibraltar
1835–42; archdeacon of Gibraltar 1842–59; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818;
author of _Elements of conchology_ 1815, _2 ed._ 1818; _The Elgin
marbles with an account of Athens_ 1817; _A summary of Christian
faith and practice 3 vols._ 1822; _Questions on the memorial
scripture copies_ 1829, _3 ed._ 1854. _d._ Honiton, Devon 8 Aug.
1861. _A statement of the manner in which E. J. Burrow became
connected with Mount Radford and of his removal_ 1828.
BURROWES, JOHN FRECKLETON. _b._ London 23 April 1787; pupil of
William Horsley, organist; organist of St. James’s church,
Piccadilly, London about 1815 to death; an original member of
Philharmonic Society 1813; author of _The pianoforte primer
containing the rudiments of music_ 1818, _48 ed._ 1862; _Thorough
bass primer_ 1819, _37 ed._ 1871; _A companion to the thorough
bass primer_ 1832. _d._ 13 Nottingham place, New road, London 31
March 1852.
BURROWES, ROBERT. _b._ Dublin 19 March 1810; sheriff of Cavan 1838;
M.P. for co. Cavan 13 April 1855 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Stradone
house, Cavan 30 Nov. 1881.
BURROWS. Sir John Cordy (_eld. son of Robert Burrows of Ipswich,
silversmith_). _b._ Ipswich 5 Aug. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1836, F.R.C.S.
1852; practised at Brighton 1839 to death; projected Royal
literary and scientific institution 1841, secretary 1841–57; mayor
of Brighton 1857–9 and 1871–2; knighted at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; a
very great benefactor to town of Brighton. _d._ 62 Old Steyne,
Brighton 25 March 1876. Statue of him in grounds of Royal Pavilion
unveiled 14 Feb. 1878. _Lancet i_, 515, 548 (1876); _I.L.N. lxii_,
191 (1873), _portrait, lxviii_, 335 (1876), _lxxii_, 173 (1878).
BURSLEM, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester; a journalist; assistant editor of
the _North Eastern Daily Gazette_ some years; author of several
serial tales in provincial journals; author of several successful
pantomimes and of a farce entitled _Third floor lodgers_ produced
at Gaiety theatre West Hartlepool. _d._ Manchester Jany. 1886 aged
28.
BURSTAL, EDWARD. _b._ Devonport 1 Feb. 1818; entered navy Dec. 1832;
commander 29 Sep. 1855; assisted in laying down first submarine
telegraph cable between Dover and Calais 1852; laid cable from
Orfordness to the Hague; secretary to conservators of river Thames
1857 to death; a member of Thames Embankment and other royal
commissions; retired captain 29 Sep. 1870; F.R.G.S. 1857. _d._
Ramsgate 13 July 1886.
BURT, SIR ARCHIBALD PAUL (_2 son of George Henry Burt, speaker of
house of assembly St. Christopher, West Indies_). _b._ St.
Christopher 1810; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; attorney general of
St. Christopher 1849–60, member of legislative and executive
councils, speaker of house of assembly; comr. of civil court in
Western Australia July 1860, chief justice there 1861 to death;
knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873. _d._ Strawberry hill,
Perth, Western Australia 21 Nov. 1879.
BURTON, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM DESART. _b._ 1827; ensign 82 foot 8 Aug.
1845; major 7 dragoon guards 17 Sep. 1857 to 1863; C.B. 5 July
1855. _d._ Pau 11 Feb. 1882.
BURTON, REV. CHARLES (_youngest son of Daniel Burton of Rhodes hall,
Middleton, Lancs. cotton manufacturer_). _b._ Rhodes hall 18 Jany.
1793; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam., L.L.B.
Cam. 1822, B.C.L. and D.C.L. Ox. 1829; Wesleyan minister; built
church of All Saints, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester at cost of
£18,000, R. of All Saints 1820 to death, greater part of church
was destroyed by fire 6 Feb. 1850; F.L.S. for discovering in
Anglesea a plant new to science; author of _Horæ, Poeticæ_ 1815;
_The Bardiad, a poem in two cantos_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1823; _Lectures
on the Millenium_ 1841; _Lectures on the world before the flood_
1844; _Lectures on Popery_ 1851 and about 15 other books. _d._
Western lodge, Durham 6 Sep. 1866. _Evans’s Lancashire authors and
orators_ (1850) 47–51.
BURTON, CHARLES EDWARD (_son of Rev. Edward Wm. Burton, B. of
Rathmichael, co. Dublin_). _b._ Barnton, Cheshire 16 Sep. 1846;
assistant in Lord Rosse’s observatory at Parsonstown 1868–9; B.A.
Dublin 1868; joined Sicilian expedition to observe total solar
eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; photographer to transit of Venus
expedition 1874; worked at observatory of Dunsink near Dublin
1876–8; devised with Howard Grubb the ‘ghost micrometer’ described
before Royal Dublin Society 15 Nov. 1880; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874;
author of numerous papers in scientific periodicals. _d._ Castle
Knock church 9 July 1882. _Astronomical Register xx_, 173–4
(1883).
BURTON, DECIMUS (_10 son of James Burton of London, builder_). _b._
30 Sep. 1800; architect in London 1821–69; designed the Colosseum
in Regent’s Park 1823; carried out Hyde Park Corner improvements
where he designed the facade and triumphal arch 1825; designed the
Athenæum club 1827; laid out Calverley Park estate at Tunbridge
Wells 1828–50; architect to Royal botanic society 1840–70; F.R.S.
6 Dec. 1832, F.R.I.B.A. _d._ The Cottage, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 14
Dec. 1881. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_, 8–10 (1883); _Builder
xli_, 779–80 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxix_, 650 (1881), _portrait_.
BURTON, EDWARD FREDERICK (_son of James Burton of London, solicitor
who d. 1869_). _b._ 1818; solicitor in London 1843 to death;
member of council of Incorporated law society 1865 to death, vice
pres. 1876–7, pres. 1877–8; member of judicature acts (legal
offices) committee 1877. _d._ Eastbourne 11 July 1879.
BURTON, JAMES RYDER. _b._ 1795; entered navy 12 May 1806; captain 23
Feb. 1824; granted good service pension 4 Nov. 1852; admiral on
half pay 4 Nov. 1863; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; invented a method for
propelling ships of war during a calm 1819. _d._ 15 Park sq. east,
Regent’s park, London 2 Aug. 1876.
BURTON, JOHN HILL (_2 son of Wm. Kinnimont Burton of Aberdeen who d.
1820_). _b._ the Gallowgate, Aberdeen 22 Aug. 1809; ed. at
Marischal coll. Aberdeen; called to Scottish bar 1831; contributed
articles to _Blackwood’s Mag._ 1842 to death; sec. to general
board of directors of prisons in Scotland 24 July 1854; manager of
Perth prison 4 Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1878; historiographer royal of
Scotland 1867; author of _Law of bankruptcy in Scotland 2 vols._
1845; _Life of D. Hume 2 vols._ 1846; _Lives of Lord Lovat and
Duncan Forbes_ 1847; _Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland
2 vols._ 1852; _History of Scotland 9 vols._ 1853–70, _2 ed. 9
vols._ 1873; _The book hunter_ 1862, _new ed._ 1882; _History of
the reign of Queen Anne 3 vols._ 1880; _The Scot abroad 2 vols._
1881. _d._ Morton house, Lothianburn 10 Aug. 1881. _The Bookhunter
by J. H. Burton_ (1882) _i-civ, portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag.
cxxx_, 401–4 (1881); _Graphic xxiv_, 269 (1881), _portrait_.
BURTON, SIR RICHARD (_son of Sir John Burton of Wakefield,
Yorkshire_). _b._ Westminster 1773; knighted at St. James’s palace
13 Sep. 1831. _d._ Sackett’s hill house, Margate 3 Sep. 1855.
BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS (_son of Wm. Burton of London, printer
1774–1825_). _b._ London Sep. 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; acted
in Norwich circuit 7 years; first appeared in London at Pavilion
theatre Feb. 1831 as Wormwood in _The lottery ticket_; acted at
Haymarket 1833; first appeared in America at Arch st. theatre
Philadelphia 3 Sep. 1834 as Doctor Ollapod in _The Poor
gentleman_; lessee and manager of theatres in Philadelphia and
Baltimore; leased Palma’s Opera house New York 1848 which he
renamed Burton’s Theatre; manager of Metropolitan theatre Broadway
which he renamed Burton’s New theatre Sep. 1856–8; wrote several
plays best known being _Ellen Wareham_, a domestic drama, produced
May 1833 when it was played at 5 London theatres at same time;
edited _Cambridge Quarterly Review_ and _Philadelphia Literary
Souvenir_ 1838–40; author of _Waggaries and vagaries_ 1848;
_Cyclopædia of wit and humour 2 vols._ 1857. _d._ 174 Hudson st.
New York 9 Feb. 1860. _Ireland’s Records of the New York stage
ii_, 235–8 (1867); _Burton’s Cyclopædia_ (1857), _portrait_; _T.
A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 57, 66, _portrait_.
BURTON, WILLIAM MARTIN. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1798, colonel
26 Feb. 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ at his residence
near London 13 Aug. 1853.
BURTON, WILLIAM PATON (_son of Wm. Paton Burton, captain Indian
army_). _b._ Madras 1828; ed. at Edinburgh; pupil of David Bryce,
architect; a water colour painter; exhibited many landscapes at
the R.A. and Suffolk st. gallery 1862–80. _d._ Cults, Aberdeen 31
Dec. 1883.
BURTON-PETERS, HENRY. _b._ 1792; M.P. for Beverley 31 July 1830 to
17 July 1837. _d._ Bath 24 Nov. 1874.
BURTT, JOHN. _b._ Fulbeck, Lincs.; published _The young patriot and
other poems by J. B. a friend of the Aborigines protection
society_ 1846. _d._ Stockport, Cheshire 5 July 1859 aged 71.
_Annual Monitor for 1860 pp._ 66–74.
BURTT, JOHN. _b._ Knockmarlock, Ayrshire 1789; apprenticed to a
weaver; pressed into navy 1807; served on board the Magnificent 5
years; taught in Kilmarnock and Paisley 1816; went to United
States; studied at Princeton college; Presbyterian minister at
Salem; professor of theology 1835. _d._ 24 March 1866.
BURTT, JOSEPH. _b._ St. Pancras, London 7 Nov. 1818; worked under
Sir Francis Palgrave at Chapter house, Westminster Abbey 1832–40;
clerk in Record Office 1840, a second class assistant keeper of
records Aug. 1851, a first class June 1859 to death; sec. to Royal
Archæol. Instit. 1862 to death; edited _Archæological Journal_;
edited _Household expenses of John of Brabant, and of Thomas and
Henry of Lancaster_ for the Miscellany of Camden Society. _d._
Crofton lodge, Upper Tulse hill, Surrey 15 Dec. 1876.
_Archæological Journal xxxiv_, 90–2 (1877).
BURY, CHARLOTTE SUSAN MARIA (_dau. of 5 Duke of Argyll 1723–1806_).
_b._ Argyll house, Oxford st. London 28 Jany. 1775; lady in
waiting to Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline 1809;
published anonymously _Poems on several occasions by a Lady_ 1797;
_Love 3 vols._ 1837, _2 ed._ 1860; _Diary illustrative of the
times of George the Fourth 4 vols._ 1838–9; and with her name,
_The divorced 2 vols._ 1837, _2 ed._ 1858. (_m._ (1) 14 June 1796
John Campbell, M.P. for Ayr burghs who _d._ 15 March 1809. _m._
(2) 17 March 1818 Rev. Edward John Bury, R. of Lichfield, Hants,
who _d._ May 1832 aged 42). _d._ 91 Sloane st. Chelsea 31 March
1861. _Burke’s Portrait gallery i_, 103 (1833), _portrait_; _New
monthly mag. xlix_, 76–7 (1837), _portrait_.
BURY, EDWARD. _b._ Salford near Manchester 22 Oct. 1794;
manufacturer of machinery at Liverpool; introduced a series of
improved engines for steamboats employed on river Rhone; managed
locomotive department of London and Birmingham railway for some
years after opening Sep. 1838; managed locomotive department of
Great Northern railway; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844 for great improvements
which he had introduced in adjusting dimensions of cylinder and
driving wheels of steam engines. _d._ Scarborough 25 Nov. 1858.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. x_, 12 (1860).
BURY, GEORGE BUTT. Second lieut. RM. 10 Nov. 1804, colonel 10 Jany.
1852, col. commandant 21 June 1854 to 1 Aug. 1854 when he retired
on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855. _d._ 25 Athenæum st. Plymouth 4
Jany. 1873 aged 87.
BURY, THOMAS TALBOT. _b._ 26 Sep. 1811; articled to Augustus Pugin,
architect 1824; architect in Gerrard st. Soho, London 1830; very
skilful in colouring architectural studies; designed with A. Pugin
details of Houses of parliament; exhibited 18 drawings at the R.A.
1838–72; designed 35 churches and about 50 other large buildings;
F.R.I.B.A. 1843, vice pres. 1876; F.S.A. 1863; author of _Remains
of ecclesiastical woodwork_ 1847; _History and description of the
styles of architecture of various countries_ 1849. _d._ 50 Welbeck
st. London 23 Feb. 1877. _Sessional papers read at Royal Instit.
of British Architects_ (1877) 152–4.
BUSFEILD, WILLIAM. _b._ 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Bradford 25 July 1837
to 23 June 1841 and 16 Sep. 1841 to death. _d._ 15 Bury st. St.
James’s London 11 Sep. 1851.
BUSH, WILLIAM. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 7 Jany. 1808; lieut. col. 1
West India regiment 4 Sep. 1835 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field
officer of Leeds recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847, of London
district 17 April 1852 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835.
_d._ 66 Cadogan place, London 27 Aug. 1854. _H. S. Smith’s
Military obituary for_ 1854, 10–12.
BUSHNAN, JOHN STEVENSON (_son of Joseph Bushnan who d. 21 Feb. 1831,
controller of the Chamber, City of London 1803–31_). _b._ The
Guildhall, London 1810; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1839;
M.R.C.P. Edin. 1830, M.D. Heidelberg 1836; practised at Castle
Cary, Somerset 1837–41; travelled abroad 1841–8; practised in
London 1848; edited _Medical times and gazette_ 1849–52; author of
_Philosophy of instinct and reason_ 1847; _Miss Martineau and her
master_ 1851; _Homœopathy and the homœopaths_ 1852 and other
books. _d._ The Charterhouse, City of London 17 Feb. 1884.
_Medical Circular ii_, 149–50 (1853).
BUSK, HANS (_youngest son of Sir Wadsworth Busk 1730–1811, attorney
general of Isle of Man_). _b._ 28 May 1772; lived in Russia some
years where he was a member of Empress Catherine’s celebrated
Chevalier Guard; sheriff of Radnorshire 1837–8; author of
_Fugitive pieces in verse_ 1814; _The Vestriad or the Opera, a
mock epic poem_ 1819; _The dessert, a poem to which is added The
tea_ 1820; _The lay of life, a poem_ 1834. _d._ 22 Great
Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1862.
BUSK, HANS (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 May 1815; ed. at
King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844;
formed a model rifle club at Cam. 1837; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841;
sheriff of Radnorshire 1847; joined Royal Victoria rifle club
London 1858 only volunteer corps then existing, captain 1860;
delivered lectures instrumental in extending volunteer movement
over whole kingdom; devised a steam life boat service 1869, the
Petronelle first of the class was launched 1873; founded _New
Quarterly review_ 1874; author of _The rifleman’s manual_ 1858, _7
ed._ 1860; _Rifle volunteers how to organize and drill them_ 1859,
_7 ed._ 1860; _The navies of the world their present state and
future capabilities_ 1859; _Handbook for Hythe_ 1860;
_Maiden-hours and maiden-wiles designed by Beaujolais_ 1869. _d._
21 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 11 March 1882. _I.L.N.
lxxx_, 284 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 313 (1882),
_portrait_.
BUSS, ROBERT WILLIAM (_son of Wm. C. Buss of 60 Jewin st.
Cripplegate, London, engraver who d. 1832_). _b._ London 4 Aug.
1804; apprenticed to his father; painted 15 theatrical portraits
for _Cumberland’s British Drama_ which were exhibited at
Colosseum; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 45 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1826–59; contributed to Westminster
competition a cartoon of Prince Henry and Judge Gascoigne;
illustrated Charles Knight’s _London_, _Chaucer_, _Shakespeare_
and _Old England_; painted 71 pictures, 25 of which were engraved;
painted large frescoes representing Origin and triumph of music
for Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole hall; privately printed _English
graphic satire_ 1874; edited _The fine art almanac, or artist’s
remembrancer_ 1850–2. _d._ 14 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26
Feb. 1875. _G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists_ (1886) 363–6;
_People’s Journal vi_, 3 (1848); _Notes and Queries 5 S. iii_,
228, 257, 330, 419, 455, 473 (1875), _iv_, 15 (1875), _vii_, 138
(1877), 6 _S. vi_, 488 (1882), _vii_, 216 (1883).
BUTCHER, MOST REV. SAMUEL (_eld. son of Samuel Butcher 1770–1849,
vice admiral R.N._) _b._ Danesfort near Killarney 9 Oct. 1811; ed.
at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1834, fellow
1837–52, tutor and lecturer, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1849;
professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of Dublin April 1850,
Regius professor of divinity Nov. 1852 to Aug. 1866; R. of
Ballymoney, Cork 1854–66; bishop of Meath Aug. 1866 to death; P.C.
Ireland 1866; author of _The ecclesiastical calendar its theory
and construction_ 1877; cut his throat at Ardbraccan house, Navan
near Dublin 29 July 1876.
BUTE, SOPHIA FREDERICA CHRISTINA CRICHTON-STUART, Marchioness of (_2
dau. of 1 Marquis of Hastings 1754–1826_). _b._ 1 Feb. 1809; gave
the Sophia gardens to town of Cardiff; edited _Poems of lady Flora
Hastings_ 1841; _Private journals of 1 Marquis of Hastings 2
vols._ 1858. (_m._ 10 April 1845, John Crichton-Stuart, 2 Marquis
of Bute 1793–1848). _d._ 120 George st. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1859.
BUTLER, CHARLES SALISBURY (_eld. son of John Butler of Hackney,
London_). _b._ 1812; commissioner of taxes; M.P. for Tower Hamlets
8 July 1852 to 11 Nov. 1868; chairman of Quarter sessions of Tower
Hamlets liberties to death. _d._ 48 Prince’s gate, Hyde park,
London 11 Nov. 1870.
BUTLER, SIR EDWARD (_5 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850_). _b._ 29
Oct. 1811; lieut. of corps of gentlemen at arms 1839 to May 1845;
knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840; contested
Southampton, contest was protracted from Nov. 1856 to 11 Feb. 1857
when he was defeated by 32 votes; sheriff of Hants 1855. _d._
Marseilles 20 Oct. 1858.
BUTLER, EDWARD. _b._ Kilkenny 1824; re-established _The Nation_ with
C. G. Duffy 1849; went to New South Wales 1853; called to bar at
Sydney 16 Oct. 1855, Q.C.; member of legislative assembly for
Argyle 1869; attorney general 1872 to Nov. 1873; member of
legislative council Oct. 1877 to death. _d._ Supreme court, Sydney
9 June 1879. _Times 18 July 1879 p. 5, col. 6_, _11 Aug. p. 11,
col. 2_.
BUTLER, FRANCIS (_son of Mr. Butler, trainer of horses to Duke of
York who d. 1827_). _b._ Sep. 1817; professional jockey 1839–53;
won the Oaks on Poison 1843 at odds of 40 to 1, on Princess 1844,
on Lady Evelyn 1849, on Rhedycina 1850, on Iris 1851 and on
Songstress 1852; won St. Leger on The Baron 1845; won Derby on
Daniel O’Rourke 1852 and Two thousand guineas, Derby and St. Leger
on West Australian 1853. _d._ Newmarket 1 Feb. 1856. _Sporting
Review xxxi_, 143–8 (1854), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxii_, 416 (1853),
_portrait_.
BUTLER, FRANCIS. _b._ England 1810; professor of languages at
several educational institutions in New York; a dog-trainer and
fancier; author of _Breeding, training, management and diseases of
dogs_ 1857; _The Spanish teacher and colloquial phrase book_, _8
ed._ 1857. _d._ from hydrophobia at Brooklyn, New York 17 June
1874.
BUTLER, VERY REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Rev. Weeden Butler 1742–1823,
Morning preacher at Charlotte st. Chapel Pimlico, London_). _b._
Pimlico 5 July 1774; foundation scholar of Sid. Sus. coll. Cam.;
Senior Wr. and first Smith’s prizeman Jany. 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A.
1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1805; Fellow of his college 1794,
mathematical lecturer and classical tutor; kept his terms at
Lincolns Inn; one of the 8 select preachers before Univ. of Cam.
1805; Head master of Harrow school April 1805 to Easter 1829; R.
of Gayton, Northampton 1814 to death; chancellor of Peterborough
1836–42; dean of Peterborough 3 Nov. 1842 to death, admitted Dean
25 Nov. 1842; author of _Extracts from the communion service of
the Church_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1842; _Statutes of Peterborough
cathedral translated_ 1853; _Harrow, a selection of the lists of
the School_ 1849. _d._ the deanery Peterborough 30 April 1853.
Monument erected in Harrow church July 1854. _P. M. Thornton’s
Harrow school_ (1885) 215–64.
BUTLER, GEORGE SLADE (_son of Richard Butler of Rye, Sussex,
surgeon_). _b._ Rye 4 March 1821; solicitor at Rye 1843 to death;
town clerk 1875–81; registrar of county court; F.S.A. 6 March
1862; author of _Topographica Sussexiana_ 1866, originally printed
in _Collections of Sussex Archæological Society_ to which he
contributed many papers on antiquities of Rye. _d._ Rye 11 April
1882.
BUTLER, HENRY EDWARD (_2 son of 2 Earl of Carrick 1746–1813_). _b._
3 Dec. 1780; ensign 27 foot 15 Feb. 1800; major 2 garrison
battalion 19 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G.
20 June 1854; col. 94 foot 25 July 1854 and col. 55 foot 19 Jany.
1855 to death. _d._ Paris 7 Dec. 1856.
BUTLER, JAMES ARMAR (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ 1827; ensign 90
foot 13 Oct. 1843; captain Ceylon rifle regiment 6 May 1853 to May
1854 when placed on h.p.; conducted siege of Silistria, Turkey
against the Russians May 1854 to death; gazetted brevet major 14
July 1854 and lieut. Coldstream guards 15 July 1854. _d._
Silistria of wounds received during the siege 22 June 1854 in 28
year. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_, 214–27 (1857); _G.
Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 141–3.
BUTLER, JAMES ARTHUR. _b._ 1795; ensign 1 foot guards 23 June 1813,
captain 18 April 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818, carried the colours at
Waterloo; captain 80 foot 31 July 1823 to 19 Nov. 1825 when placed
on h.p.; general 5 Dec. 1871. _d._ Holt lodge, Kintbury, Berkshire
26 Feb. 1881.
BUTLER, REV. PIERCE (_brother of James Armar Butler 1827–54_). _b._
27 Feb. 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852;
explored peninsula of Sinai 1853–4; R. of Ulcombe, Kent 1861 to
death; translated from the Danish _Öhlenschläger’s Axel and
Valborg_, a tragedy in 5 acts 1874. _d._ Ulcombe rectory 8 Feb.
1868. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxviii_, _pp. cxliv-cxlvi_,
(1868).
BUTLER, PIERCE SOMERSET. _b._ 26 Jany. 1801; called to Irish bar
1832; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 1 Dec. 1843 to 1 July 1852. _d._ 28
July 1865. _Annual Register_ (1854) 402–14.
BUTLER, VERY REV. RICHARD (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Butler, V. of
Burnchurch, co. Kilkenny who d. 1841_). _b._ near Granard, co.
Longford 14 Oct. 1794; ed. at Reading and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A.
1817; V. of Trim, co. Meath 1819 to death; dean of Clonmacnois
Dec. 1847 to death; one of founders of Irish archæological Society
1840 (united with Celtic Society 1854), for which he edited _Clyn
and Dowling’s Annals of Ireland_ 1849; author of _Some notices of
the Castle and of the Abbies at Trim_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1840. _d._ 17
July 1862.
BUTLER, SIR RICHARD PIERCE, 9 Baronet. _b._ 4 March 1813; succeeded
8 Nov. 1861. _d._ 22 Nov. 1862.
BUTLER, SIR THOMAS, 8 Baronet. _b._ 23 Oct. 1783; succeeded 16 Jany.
1817. _d._ 8 Nov. 1861.
BUTLER-CLARKE-SOUTHWELL-WANDESFORD, CHARLES HARWARD (_4 son of 17
Earl of Ormonde who d. 30 Jany. 1796_). _b._ 9 Nov. 1780; M.P. for
city of Kilkenny 1802–9 and 1814–20; M.P. for county Kilkenny
1820–30. _d._ Mount Juliet, Kilkenny 7 Nov. 1860.
BUTLER-JOHNSTONE, HENRY (_3 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850_).
_b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Canterbury 8 July 1852 to 21
Feb. 1853 when unseated on petition of the electors, M.P. again
1857–62; colonel commandant Dumfries militia 7 Feb. 1868 to 15
March 1873. _d._ 8 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 1 April 1879.
BUTT, GEORGE MEDD (_2 son of John Butt of Sherborne_). _b._
Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25
June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845;
M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 17 Eaton
square, London 11 Nov. 1860.
BUTT, ISAAC (_only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co.
Donegal_). _b._ Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal
school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835,
LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately professor of political
economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov.
1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859;
carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal Association
1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July
1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death;
leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian
prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty Association 1869; a founder of
_Dublin Univ. Mag._ 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in
Dublin a weekly newspaper called the _Protestant Guardian_
afterwards amalgamated with the _Warder_; author of _Ovid’s Fasti
translated_ 1833; _The history of Italy_ 1860; _A practical
treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland_
1871; _Home government for Ireland_ 1874. _d._ Roebuck cottage
near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii_,
710–15 (1879); _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877), ii, 306–10, 319;
_Graphic iv_, 485 (1871), _portrait, xix_, 508 (1879), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iv_, 40 (1844), _portrait_.
BUTT, JAMES PALMER. Educ. at school established in Somers Town,
London by Abbé Carron and at Stonyhurst college; kept a school
with his brother Wm. Henry Butt at Baylis house, Salt hill near
Windsor about 1828 to death. _d._ Baylis house, Salt hill 2 May
1873 aged 84.
BUTTER, DONALD. Surgeon Bengal army 28 Aug. 1833; superintending
surgeon at Benares 31 Dec. 1854 to 23 April 1859 when placed on
h.p. with rank of inspector general; author of _Outline of the
topography and statistics of the Southern districts of Oudh_ 1839;
_Snake bite curable and hydrophobia preventible_ 1873. _d._
Hazelwood, Upper Norwood 24 Dec. 1877 aged 78.
BUTTER, JOHN. _b._ Woodbury, Devon 22 Jany. 1791; ed. at Exeter gr.
sch.; surgeon at Plymouth 1814–20, physician there 1820–56 when he
became blind; M.D. Edin. 1820; originated Plymouth Eye Dispensary
1821; F.L.S. 1817; F.R.S. 21 March 1822; author of _Remarks on
irritative fever commonly called the Plymouth dockyard disease_
1845. _d._ 7 Windsor villas, Plymouth 13 Jany. 1877.
BUTTERWORTH, HENRY (_son of Henry Butterworth of Coventry, timber
merchant_). _b._ Coventry 28 Feb. 1786; law publisher at 7 Fleet
st. London 1818 to death; representative of ward of Farringdon
Without in Court of Common Council 1823–30; law publisher to the
Queen 23 Nov. 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 Jany. 1848. _d._ Upper
Tooting, Surrey 2 Nov. 1860. _Memoir of the late H. Butterworth_
(1861).
BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM JOHN. Adjutant 38 Madras N.I. 1821; lieut. col.
of 2 European regiment 1841–3 and 1846–51, of 10 Madras N.I.
1843–6; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 3 Dec. 1851 to death; C.B. 20 July
1838; governor of Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 14
June 1843 to 1855, presented with piece of plate value £700 by the
inhabitants 1856; general 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Millmead house,
Guildford 4 Nov. 1856 aged 55. _I.L.N. xxix_, 105–6 (1856),
_portrait_.
BUXTON, BERTHA H. (_dau. of Wm. Lenpold or Leupold of London,
merchant_). _b._ 26 July 1844; ed. at Queen’s college, Tufnell
park, London; travelled in Holland, Germany and America; published
_Jennie of “The Prince’s,” a novel by B. H. B. 3 vols._ 1876;
_Won, by the author of Jennie of the Prince’s 3 vols._ 1877;
_Rosabella, a doll’s Christmas story by Auntie Bee_ 1877; _More
dolls by Auntie Bee_ 1878; the following books have her name on
them _Fetterless though bound together 3 vols._ 1879, _Great
Grenfell gardens 3 vols._ 1879, _Nell—On and off the stage 3
vols._ 1880, _From the wings 3 vols._ 1880, _Many loves 3 vols._
1880, _Little Pops a nursery romance_ 1881, _Sceptre and king_
1881. (_m._ at Hanwell parish church 22 Dec. 1860, Henry Buxton of
Hanwell, merchant son of Edward Buxton, merchant). _d._ 12 St.
Mary’s terrace, Kensington, London 31 March 1881. _Biograph iv_,
159–62 (1880); _Carisbrooke Mag. April 1881_, _portrait_;
_Tinsley’s Mag. xxviii_, 499–500 (1881).
BUXTON, CHARLES (_3 son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 Baronet
1786–1845_). _b._ Cromer 18 Nov. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.
A. 1845, M.A. 1850; partner in firm of Truman, Hanbury and Co. of
Spitalfields, London, brewers 1845; M.P. for Newport, Isle of
Wight 1857–9, for Maidstone 1859–65, for East Surrey 1865 to
death; member of the Ritual commission 1867–8; his secretary
Arthur White attempted to shoot him at 7 Grosvenor crescent, Hyde
Park 29 April 1870; author of _Slavery and freedom in the British
West Indies_ 1860; _The ideas of the day on policy Dec. 1865_.
_d._ Lochearnhead hotel near Killin, Perthshire 10 Aug. 1871.
Personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 Feb. 1872. _Notes of thought
by the late C. Buxton_, _2 ed._ (1883) 5–52; _Graphic iv_, 219,
237 (1871), _portrait_.
BUXTON, SIR EDWARD NORTH, 2 Baronet (_brother of the preceding_).
_b._ Earlham, Norfolk 16 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 Feb. 1845; M.P.
for South Essex 1847–52, for East Norfolk 6 April 1857 to death.
_d._ Colne house, Cromer 11 June 1858.
BUXTON, FREDERICK. _b._ Bow lane, Cheapside, London; made his first
appearance on the stage at York 1844 as Mr. Gillman in _The
happiest day of my life_; made his début in London at Olympic
theatre 1847 as David in _The Rivals_; first appeared in America
at Louisville, Kentucky March 1850 as Peter in _The Stranger_.
_d._ Chicago 17 Jany. 1858.
BUXTON, RICHARD (_2 son of John Buxton of Sedgley hall farm,
Prestwich, farmer_). _b._ Sedgley hall farm 15 Jany. 1786;
apprenticed to a bat maker 1798; botanised in Derbyshire,
Yorkshire, and North Wales; frequently cited in J. B. Wood’s
_Flora Mancuniensis_ 1840 as the authority for many localities of
the rarer plants; author of _Botanical guide to the flowering
plants found within 16 miles of Manchester_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1859.
_d._ Manchester 2 Jany. 1865. _J. Cash’s Where there’s a will
there’s a way_ (1873) 94–107; _Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. iii_, 71
(1865).
BYAM, EDWARD (_younger son of Edward Byam of Cedar hill, Antigua
1767–95_). _b._ 1795; ensign 38 foot 11 Nov. 1811; major 15
Hussars 16 June 1825 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel
18 Hussars 23 Feb. 1858 to death; L.G. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Byam
house, Brighton 9 Sep. 1864.
BYAM, SIR WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1792; ed. at
Eton; lieut. 15 Hussars 17 Sep. 1812 to 1817; served in Peninsula,
south of France and Waterloo; pres. of local council in Antigua;
colonel of regiment of dragoons raised in Antigua; knighted by
patent 6 July 1859. _d._ Westwood, Southampton 5 July 1869.
BYLES, SIR JOHN BARNARD (_eld. son of Jeremiah Byles of Stowmarket,
Suffolk, timber merchant_). _b._ Stowmarket 11 Jany. 1801; a
special pleader; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of
Buckingham 1840 to Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1843;
leader of Norfolk circuit 1845; received a patent of precedence
1846; Queen’s serjeant with serjeants Shee and Wrangham 27 Feb.
1857, this was last appointment of queen’s serjeants of whom he
was the survivor; judge of Court of Common Pleas Jany. 1858 to
Jany. 1873 when he retired on pension of £3,500; knighted at St.
James’s palace 14 April 1858; P.C. 3 March 1873; author of _A
discourse on the present state of the law of England_ 1829; _A
practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange_ 1829, _14 ed._
1885; _Observations on the usury laws_ 1845; _Free trade and its
so called sophisms examined by a barrister_ 1850; _Foundations of
religion in the mind and heart of man_ 1875. _d._ Harefield house,
Uxbridge 3 Feb. 1884, Will proved 25 March 1884, personalty
upwards of £201,000. _A. Pulling’s Order of the Coif_ (1884) 41,
105, 182; _A generation of judges by their Reporter_ 1886; _Law
Journal xix_, 115, 255 (1884); _Times 5 Feb. 1884 p. 7, col. 1_.
BYNG, GERALD FREDERICK (_youngest son of 5 Viscount Torrington
1741–1813_). Page of honour to Prince of Wales 1791; cornet 27
light dragoons 1800; ensign 53 foot 1801–2 when place on h.p.;
clerk in Foreign office 5 Jany. 1801 to 5 Nov. 1839 when he
retired on a superannuation allowance; ensign St. George’s
volunteer infantry 1803; attended on King and Queen of Sandwich
Islands during their visit to England May to July 1824; one of
gentlemen ushers of privy chamber 23 March 1831 to death; a comr.
for inquiring into Smithfield market 28 Nov. 1849; joined ranks of
Queen’s rifle volunteers 1859; presented to that corps colours of
the St. George’s volunteer infantry 1860; generally known as
Poodle Byng, a soubriquet given him by George Canning on account
of his curly hair; lived at 5 Cleveland court, afterwards called
37 St. James’s place, Pall Mall, London 1831 to death. _d._ there
5 June 1871 aged 87. _Life of G. Brummell by captain Jesse i_, 110
(1886), _portrait_.
BYNG, HENRY DILKES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1784; entered
navy March 1798; captain 9 March 1814; held a command on lakes of
Canada 15 years; captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth 1833–6;
commodore at Jamaica 1842–3; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired
V.A. 31 Jany. 1856. _d._ Queen’s terrace, Southsea 23 Sep. 1860.
BYRES, PATRICK (_younger son of Robert Byres of London, merchant_).
_b._ about 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; major 11 Bengal N.I. 5
Aug. 1816; colonel 20 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1825; colonel 33 Bengal
N.I. 9 July 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Lonley,
Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1854.
BYRNE, RIGHT REV. ANDREW. _b._ Navan, Ireland 5 Dec. 1802; went to
America 1820; deacon April 1827, priest 11 Nov. 1827; stationed at
various places in Carolina; pastor of St. Mary’s R.C. church at
Charleston 1830; vicar general of Bishop of Charleston; pastor of
St. James’s church N.Y. 1 Sep. 1836, of St. Andrew’s church N.Y.
19 March 1842, of Church of the Nativity N.Y. 5 June 1842; bishop
of Little Rock comprising state of Arkansas 1844 to death;
consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. N.Y. 10 March 1844; attended
sixth provincial council at Baltimore, May 1846 and first
provincial council at New Orleans 1856. _d._ 1862. _R. H. Clarke’s
Lives of deceased bishops ii_, 264–71 (1872).
BYRNE, JOHN. Ensign 22 foot 1 Oct. 1808; lieut. col. 31 foot 8 Oct.
1844 to 15 April 1846; lieut. col. 53 foot 15 April 1846 to 9 May
1851 when he sold out; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ 21 July 1851.
BYRNE, MILES. _b._ Monaseed, co. Wexford 20 March 1780; joined
society of United Irishmen 1797; joined insurgents under Rev. John
Murphy at Corrigua, co. Wexford 3 June 1798; clerk in timber yard
in Dublin 1798–1803; lieutenant of infantry in Napoleon’s Irish
legion Nov. 1803, commanded a bataillon d’elite of Irish troops
1810, chevalier of Legion of honour 18 June 1813, received cross
of that order 1832; chef de bataillon in 56 regiment of the line
1830–5; served in Greece 1828–30; lived in Paris 1835 to death.
_d._ Rue Montaigne, Paris 24 Jany. 1862. Monument in Montmartre
cemetery. _Memoirs of Miles Byrne 3 vols._ 1863, _portrait_.
BYRNE, OSCAR (_son of James Byrne, dancer who d. 5 Burton crescent,
London 4 Dec. 1844 aged 85_). Made his first appearance as a
dancer in a ballet at Drury Lane theatre 1803; spent some years in
Ireland and abroad; ballet master at Princess’s theatre 1850–9, at
Drury Lane 1862, at Her Majesty’s Nov. 1866; had an inexhaustible
invention in designing new dances; taught most of the English
dancers who gained distinction during his time. _d._ 22 Islip st.
Kentish Town, London 4 Sep. 1867 aged 72.
NOTE.—His father James Byrne introduced in Powell’s pantomime
Harlequin Amulet or the Magic of Mona at Drury Lane theatre
Christmas 1799 an entirely new dress for the harlequin
consisting of a white silk shape fitting without a wrinkle
into which 308 variegated silk patches were woven, the whole
being profusely covered with 48,000 spangles. He completely
altered the manner of playing harlequin by making him a
graceful and agile dancer instead of merely posturing on the
stage in 5 positions. Harlequins before that time wore loose
dresses.
BYRON, ANNE ISABELLA, Baroness Wentworth (_only child of Sir Ralph
Milbanke, 6 Baronet who d. 19 March 1825 aged 78_). _b._ Ellemore
hall, Durham 17 May 1792 being first child after a marriage of 15
years. (_m._ 2 Jany. 1815 George Gordon Byron, 6 Baron Byron he
was _b._ 22 Jany. 1788 and _d._ 19 April 1824, they separated by
mutual consent Feb. 1816). Founded an industrial school for boys
at Ealing on system of Fellenberg 1834, another at Leicester, a
reformatory for girls and some village schools; became baroness
Wentworth at decease of her cousin Lord Scarsdale 12 Nov. 1856
when abeyance of the barony ceased. _d._ 11 St. George’s terrace,
Regent’s park, London 16 May 1860. _Macpherson’s Memoirs of the
life of Anna Jameson_ 1878 _pp._ 94, 163, 187, 188, 209 _and_ 280;
_H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ 1876 316–25; _Lady
Byron vindicated by H. B. Stowe_ 1870; _Quarterly Review Oct.
1869, Jany. 1870 and July 1883_.
BYRON, GEORGE ANSON BYRON, 7 Baron (_only son of George Anson Byron
1758–93, captain R.N._) _b._ Bath 8 March 1789; entered navy as a
volunteer Dec. 1800; captain 7 June 1814; admiral on h.p. 20 May
1862; succeeded his cousin the poet 19 April 1824. _d._ 44 Eaton
place, London 2 March 1868.
BYRON, GEORGE ANSON BYRON, 8 Baron. _b._ Cheltenham 30 June 1818;
succeeded 2 March 1868. _d._ 28 Nov. 1870.
BYRON, HENRY JAMES (_eld. son of Henry Byron 1804–84, British consul
at Port au Prince, Hayti_). _b._ Manchester 8 Jany 1835; ed. at
St. Peter’s College Eaton sq. London; admitted student at M.T. 14
Jany 1858; edited _Fun_ from first number 21 Sep. 1861; edited
_Comic News_ 13 July 1863 to May 1864; edited _Mirth_ Nov. 1877 to
Oct. 1878 12 numbers only; manager with Marie Wilton of Prince of
Wales’s theatre London 15 April 1865 to 1867; manager of Alexandra
theatre Liverpool 1867, of the T.R. and Amphitheatre Liverpool;
manager of Criterion theatre London when it opened 21 May 1874;
made his début in London at Globe theatre 23 Oct. 1869 as Sir
Simon Simple in his own comedy _Not such a fool as he looks_;
author of about 120 burlesques, farces and comedies produced at
West-end theatres, _Cyril’s success_ was played at Globe theatre
28 Nov. 1868 to 27 March 1869 being longest run of any original 5
act play in modern times, and _Our Boys_ a 3 act comedy was played
at Vaudeville theatre from 16 Jany. 1875 to 18 April 1879 an
unbroken run of 1362 times; author of _Paid in full 3 vols._ 1865.
_d._ Rockelemont, Queen’s road, Clapham, London 12 April 1884.
_Illustrated Review vi, 441–3 (1874), portrait_; _Pascoe’s
Dramatic list_ (1879) 61–68; _W. Archer’s English dramatists of
to-day_ (1882) 119–47; _London Society xxvi_, 121–9 (1874);
_Biograph_ (1880) 360–8; _Theatre i_, 212 (1878), _portrait, v_,
345–50 (1882), _iii_, 268–72 (1884).
C
CABBELL, BENJAMIN BOND (_4 son of George Cabbell of 17 Wigmore st.
London, apothecary_). _b._ Vere st. Oxford st. London 1781; ed. at
Westminster; matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 19 June 1800; migrated
to Exeter college 25 Feb. 1801; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1816,
bencher 1850; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; contested Marylebone July
1841; M.P. for St. Albans 1846–7 and for Boston 1847–57; sheriff
of Norfolk 1854; provincial grand master of freemasons of Norfolk;
a well-known patron of art. _d._ 39 Chapel st. Marylebone road,
London 9 Dec. 1874. _John Pye’s Patronage of British art_ (1845)
358, 365, _portrait_.
CABRERA, RAMON, Condé de Morella (_son of José Cabrera of Tortosa,
Catalonia, mariner who d. 1812_). _b._ Tortosa 27 Dec. 1806; head
of a body of guerillas in service of Don Carlos on breaking out of
civil war in Spain 1833; commandant general of Lower Arragon Nov.
1835; mariscal de campo 15 Aug. 1836; received grand cross of S.
Fernando June 1837; captured fortress of Morella Jany. 1838;
created Condé De Morella by Don Carlos 1838; routed by Espartero
July 1840 when he took refuge in France; lived at Lyons 1841–5;
made two attempts to effect risings in Spain 1846 and 1848;
created Marquis del Ter 1848; defeated at Pasteral 27 Jany. 1849
when he fled to France and thence to England; lived in London Aug.
1849, in Naples 1850–1. (_m._ 29 May 1850 Marianne Catherine only
child of Robert Vaughan Richards Q.C.) _d._ Wentworth, Virginia
Water, Surrey 24 May 1877. _A life in 4 vols. by Don Buenaventura
de Cordoba_; _F. Duncan’s English in Spain_ (1877) 109–23;
_Blackwood’s Mag. lx_, 293–308 (1846); _Pall Mall Gazette 2 June
1877_; _Echo 29 May 1877_.
CACHEMAILLE, REV. JAMES LOUIS VICTOR. Ordained deacon 1834 and
priest 1835 by bishop of Winchester; incumbent of Island of Sark
1834 to death; author of _Essai sur la resurrection_ 1850; _Le
palais de Crystal_ 1852; _Quelques signes des dernier temps_ 1853
and many other pamphlets. _d._ Sark 30 Jany. 1877 aged 71.
CADBURY, RICHARD TAPPER. _b._ Exeter 1768 or 1769; mercer and draper
in Bull st. Birmingham 1794 to about 1828; overseer of Birmingham
1800, one of board of guardians 1801, a comr. of Birmingham
streets acts 1822, chairman of that board 1836–51 when it was
abolished by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. xciii, 24 July 1851; member of
Society of Friends who generally spoke of him as “King Richard.”
_d._ 57 Calthorpe road, Birmingham 13 March 1860. _Edgbastonia i_,
2–3 (1881), _portrait_.
CADDELL, CECILIA MARY (_2 dau. of Richard O’Ferrall Caddell of
Harbourstown, co. Meath 1780–1856_). Author of _A history of the
missions in Japan and Paraguay_ 1856; _Blind Agnese or the little
spouse of the Blessed Sacrament_ 1855, _5 ed._ 1873; _Home and the
homeless, a novel 3 vols._ 1858; _Nellie Netterville, a tale of
the times of Cromwell_ 1867; _Wild times, a tale of the days of
Queen Elizabeth_ 1872 and of many articles in _The Irish Monthly_
1874–7. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 11 Sep. 1877 in 64 year. _The
Irish monthly v_, 772–4 (1877).
CADELL, FRANCIS (_2 son of Hew Francis Cadell of Cockenzie near
Preston Pans, Haddingtonshire 1790–1873_). _b._ Cockenzie Feb.
1822; ed. at Edinburgh and in Germany; midshipman in navy of
H.E.I. Co. 1835; served in first Chinese war 1840–1; proved that
the river Murray in Australia was navigable by descending that
river in a boat from Swan Hill station to Lake Victoria 1851;
promoted the Murray Steam navigation company 1853, commander
Company’s steamers 1853–60; explored South Australia, discovered
mouth of river Roper and fine pastoral country in latitude 14°
South, Nov. 1867; murdered by his crew while on a voyage from
Amboyna to the Kei islands June 1879. _A. Forster’s South
Australia_ (1866) 68–74; _Once a week viii_, 667–70 (1863);
_I.L.N. xxvi_, 173 (1855), _xxvii_, 176 (1855); _The Times 7 Nov.
1879 p. 5_.
CADELL, JESSIE. _b._ Scotland 23 Aug. 1844; went to India where she
resided chiefly at Peshawur; author of _Ida Craven 2 vols._ 1876
and of an article in _Fraser’s Mag._ for May 1879, entitled _The
true Omar Khayyam_. _d._ Florence 17 June 1884. _Athenæum 28 June
1884._
CADELL, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD (_eld. son of Wm. Cadell of Carron park
near Falkirk_). _b._ Carron park 27 June 1775; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1798; F.R.S. 28 June 1810;
F.R.S. Edin.; F.G.S.; detained prisoner in France several years;
author of _On the lines that divide each semidiurnal arc into six
equal parts_ 1816; _A journey in Carniola, Italy and France in the
years_ 1817, 1818 _2 vols._ 1820. _d._ Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1855.
CADOGAN, GEORGE CADOGAN, 3 Earl (_2 son of 1 Earl Cadogan
1728–1807_). _b._ St. James’s sq. London 5 May 1783; entered navy
15 Dec. 1795; captain 23 March 1807; commanded naval forces at
destruction of Zara Dec. 1813; placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1813;
Austrian order of Maria Theresa conferred on him 22 July 1814;
C.B. 4 June 1815; created Baron Oakley of Caversham 10 Sep. 1831;
succeeded as 3 Earl 23 Dec. 1832; admiral 9 July 1857. _d._ 138
Piccadilly, London 15 Sep. 1864.
CADOGAN, HENRY CHARLES CADOGAN, 4 Earl (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ South Audley st. London 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at
Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; M.P. for Reading 1841–7, for Dover
1852–7; applied for the Chiltern hundreds 1 Aug. 1842 but was
refused by Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer on account
of disclosures relating to borough of Reading; hon. colonel 3
Middlesex militia 6 Dec. 1841 to death; succeeded as 4 Earl 15
Sep. 1864; captain of yeomen of guard 10 July 1866 to 22 Dec.
1868; P.C. 10 July 1866. _d._ Woodrising hall, Norfolk 8 June
1873.
CADOGAN, SIR GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 2 Dec. 1814;
ed. at Eton; ensign 1 foot guards 22 Feb. 1833, captain 6 Aug.
1847 to 17 July 1857 when placed on h.p.; colonel 106 foot 9 Aug.
1870 to 17 May 1874; colonel 71 foot 17 May 1874 to death; general
1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 13 Park
place, St. James’s, London 27 Jany. 1880.
CAFFIN, SIR JAMES CRAWFORD (_3 son of Wm. Caffin of royal
laboratory, Woolwich_). _b._ Woolwich common 1 March 1812; entered
navy 12 Aug. 1824; captain 11 Oct. 1847; director general of naval
artillery 29 Aug. 1855 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension;
director of stores and clothing at War office 2 Feb. 1857 to Dec.
1868; a naval aide de camp to the Queen 11 April 1863; admiral on
half pay 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; the
centre of a religious society at Blackheath, Kent of very
pronounced views. _d._ Woodlawn, Vanbrugh park, Blackheath 24 May
1883.
CAHILL, REV. DANIEL WILLIAM (_3 son of Daniel Cahill, civil engineer
of Ashfield, parish of Arless, Queen’s county_). _b._ Ashfield 28
Nov. 1796; ed. at Carlow and Maynooth; professor of natural
philosophy in Carlow college 1826; kept a school at Seapoint,
Williamstown 1835–41, at Prospect, Black Rock near Dublin 1841–6;
edited _Dublin Telegraph_; arrived in New York 24 Dec. 1859;
lectured and preached in United States and Canada. _d._ the Carney
hospital, Boston 28 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Boston, body removed to
Glasnevin cemetery Dublin 9 March 1885. _Comerford’s Collections_
(1883) 198–200; _The Lamp ii_, 361–392 (1851), _portrait_.
CAHILL, PATRICK. Ensign 56 foot 10 Aug. 1854; carried regimental
colour at battle of the Alma; captain 2 Dec. 1859 to 27 April 1870
when he retired on full pay; military knight of Windsor 1874 to
death. _d._ Lower ward, Windsor castle 25 March 1881.
CAIRD, ALEXANDER M’NEIL. _b._ Scotland 1814; admitted a procurator
1835; procurator fiscal of Wigtonshire about 1838; provost of
Stranraer 1852–8; author of _The cry of the children_, _2 ed._
1849; _The poor law manual for Scotland_, _6 ed._ 1851; _Mary
Stuart, her guilt or innocence_ 1866; _The land tenancy laws_
1871; _Special evils of the Scottish poor law_ 1877. _d._ Genoch
near Stranraer 14 Feb. 1880.
CAIRNES, JOHN ELLIOT (_6 child of Wm. Cairnes of Drogheda, brewer_).
_b._ Castle Bellingham, co. Louth 26 Dec. 1823; ed. at Kingstown,
Chester and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1874;
called to Irish bar Nov. 1857; Whately professor of political
economy in Trin. coll. Dub. 1856–61; professor of political
economy and jurisprudence in Queen’s college Galway 1861 to July
1870; professor of political economy in Univ. coll. London
1866–72, emeritus professor 1872 to death; author of _The
character and logical method of political economy_ 1857, _2 ed._
1875; _The slave power, its character, career and probable
designs_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1863; _Political essays_ 1873; _Some
leading principles of political economy newly explained_ 1874.
_d._ Rasay, Kidbrook park road, Blackheath 8 July 1875.
_Fortnightly Review xxiv_, 149–54 (1875); _Athenæum ii_, 83–5
(1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 70 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 99,
102, 104 (1875), _portrait_; _Times 9 July 1875 p. 5, col. 4_.
CAIRNS, HUGH MC. CALMONT CAIRNS, 1 Earl (_2 son of Wm. Cairns of
Cultra, co. Down, captain 47 foot_). _b._ Belfast 27 Dec. 1819;
ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, LL.B.
and LLD. 1862; LLD. Cam. 1862; D.C.L. Ox. 1863; barrister M.T. 26
Jany. 1844; M.P. for Belfast July 1852 to Oct. 1866; introduced
two bills 1859, one to simplify titles to real estate and another
to establish a land registry; Q.C. 7 April 1856, bencher of L.I.
15 April 1856; solicitor general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859;
knighted at St. James’s palace 17 March 1858; attorney general 10
July to 29 Oct. 1866; lord justice of appeal 29 Oct. 1866 to Feb.
1868; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866; created Baron Cairns of Garmoyle Antrim
26 Feb. 1867, Viscount Garmoyle and Earl Cairns in peerage of the
U.K. 27 Sep. 1878; chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 20 Dec. 1867;
lord chancellor 29 Feb. to 9 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 28
April 1880. _d._ Lindisfarne, Bournemouth 2 April 1885. _Law
quarterly review i_, 365–8 (1885); _C. Brown’s Life of Lord
Beaconsfield ii_, 114 (1882), _portrait_; _The bench and the bar,
part 3_; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2 series_ 1859,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xlix_, 413 (1866), _portrait, lxiv_, 364
(1874), _portrait, lxxxvi_, 481 (1885), _portrait_; _Pump Court
ii_, 8–9 (1884), _portrait_; _Belgravia xxix_, 54–9 (1867); _St.
James’s Mag. xxiv_, 171–6 (1869); _Law mag. and review, Feb. 1886
pp._ 133–53.
CAITHNESS, ALEXANDER SINCLAIR, 13 Earl of. _b._ Barrogill castle,
Thurso 24 July 1790; succeeded 16 July 1823; lord lieut. of
Caithnessshire 1823 to death. _d._ Rutland square, Edinburgh 24
Dec. 1855.
CAITHNESS, JAMES SINCLAIR, 14 Earl of (_eld. child of the
preceding_). _b._ 16 Dec. 1821; succeeded 24 Dec. 1855; a lord in
waiting to the Queen April 1856 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July
1866; lord lieut. of Caithness March 1856 to death; a
representative peer of Scotland June 1858 to Dec. 1868; created
Baron Barrogill of Barrogill castle, Thurso 1 May 1866; F.R.S. 20
Nov. 1862; took out patents for working stone and for machine
belts 1856 and for permanent way of railways 1859; invented a
steam car to travel on ordinary roads, an improved tape loom and
the Caithness gravitation compass. _d._ Fifth avenue hotel, New
York 28 March 1881. _bur._ chapel royal Holyrood, Edin. 19 April.
CALCRAFT, JOHN HALES (_elder son of John Calcraft of Rempstone near
Wareham, Dorset 1766–1831, M.P. for Dorset_). _b._ Rempstone 13
Sep. 1796; M.P. for Wareham 1820–26, 1832–41 and 1857–59; sheriff
of Dorset 1867. _d._ Rempstone 13 March 1880.
CALCRAFT, JOHN HALES MONTAGU (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 4
May 1831; entered navy March 1844; served in Crimean war; retired
commander 25 Feb. 1862; M.P. for Wareham 13 July 1865 to death.
_d._ Rempstone 1 Dec. 1868.
CALCRAFT, JOHN WILLIAM, stage name of John William Cole. Second
lieut. 21 foot 16 July 1807, first lieut. 1809–17 when placed on
h.p.; made his début at T.R. Dublin 23 Oct. 1824 as Joseph Surface
in _The school for scandal_; lessee of T.R. Dublin 21 Aug. 1830 to
1851; secretary to Charles Kean; translated _Memoirs of H. M. de
Latude_ 1834; author of _The bride of Lammermoor, a drama in 5
acts_ 1823; _A defence of the stage_ 1839; _The life of Charles
Kean 2 vols._ 1859, and of articles on the drama in _Dublin Univ.
Mag._ _d._ Winchfield, Hants. 12 Feb. 1870 aged 77. _History of
T.R. Dublin_ (1870) 59, 61, 65, 83–130.
CALCRAFT, WILLIAM. _b._ Baddow near Chelmsford 1800; a shoemaker;
watchman in Reid’s brewery in Liquorpond st. Gray’s Inn road,
London; butler to a gentleman at Greenwich; executioner to City of
London 4 April 1829 to 25 May 1874 when he retired on pension of
25/- a week; hanged Greenacre 1837, Courvoisier 1840, Good 1842,
Tawell 1845, Mr. and Mrs. Manning and Rush 1849, Dove 1856,
Catherine Wilson 1862, the 5 Flowery Land pirates and Muller 1864;
lived in Poole st. New North road, Hoxton 1854 to death, where he
_d._ 13 Dec. 1879. _Life of Wm. Calcraft the celebrated hangman_
1880, _portrait_; _Daily Telegraph 17 Dec. 1879 p. 5, col. 1_.
CALCUTT, FRANCIS MACNAMARA. _b._ Limerick 1819; M.P. for co. Clare
16 April 1857 to 23 April 1859 and 13 April 1860 to death. _d._ 16
July 1863.
CALDCLEUGH, ALEXANDER. Author of _Travels in South America 2 vols._
1825; F.R.S. 10 March 1831. _d._ Valparaiso, Chili 11 Jany. 1858.
CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (_son of Mr. Caldecott of Chester, accountant_).
_b._ Chester 22 March 1846; clerk in a bank at Whitchurch,
Shropshire, afterwards at Manchester; began drawing for _London
Society_ and other periodicals 1872; a popular book illustrator
1876 to death; published _John Gilpin_ 1878; _The house that Jack
built_ 1878 and 14 other childrens books; contributed
illustrations to the _Graphic_; member of Institute of Painters in
water colours Feb. 1882, exhibited there, at Grosvenor gallery and
the R.A. _d._ St. Augustine, Florida 12 Feb. 1886. _R. Caldecott a
personal memoir of his early art career by H. Blackburn_ 1886,
_portrait_; _G.M. xxiv_, 629–35 (1880); _International Mag. Oct.
1885 pp._ 100–3; _The Queen almanack_ 1887, _portrait_.
CALDECOURT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Blisworth, Northamptonshire 28 Sep.
1802; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 16–18 July 1821; a
hard hitter and a splendid field; a practice bowler to Marylebone
club 1818 to death; brought out more gentlemen cricketers from
Harrow and Cambridge than any other professional; umpire in the
best matches many seasons; kept a cricket bat shop many years at
14 Townsend road, St. John’s Wood, London where he _d._ 21 June
1857.
CALDER, SIR HENRY RODDAM, 5 Baronet. _b._ 15 March 1790; succeeded 3
Feb. 1792. _d._ Muirtoun, Elginshire 13 Aug. 1868.
CALDER, JAMES TAIT. _b._ Castletown, Caithness about 1794; ed. at
Univ. of Edin.; parish teacher at Canisbay, Wicklow; author of
_Sketches from John O’Groats in prose and verse_ 1842; _The
soldier’s bride_ 1846 a volume of poems; _Sketch of the civil and
traditional history of Caithness_ 1861. _d._ Elwickbank,
Shapinshay, one of the Orkney islands 15 Jany. 1864.
CALDERBANK, VERY REV. LEONARD (_son of Richard Calderbank of
Standish near Wigan_). _b._ Standish 3 June 1809; ed. at
Ampleforth college, Yorkshire and Prior park near Bath; ordained
priest at Rome 11 Nov. 1832; vice pres. of Prior park and
professor of theology at St. Paul’s college 1849–50; missionary
rector of St. Peter’s, Gloucester 9 Oct. 1850 to death; canon of
Clifton 28 June 1852 to death. _d._ Gloucester 25 June 1864.
_Tablet 9 July 1864 p. 439, col. 1._
CALDICOTT, REV. THOMAS FORD. _b._ Buckby, Northamptonshire 1803;
emigrated to Canada 1824; Baptist pastor at Hamilton, Madison, co.
New York 1831, at Lockport, N.Y. Boston and Brooklyn successively;
pastor of Baptist church, Bond st. Toronto 1860 to death; wrote
much for periodical religious press; author of _H. Corcoran, an
authentic narrative of her conversion from Romanism_ 1853. _d._
Toronto 9 July 1869.
CALDWELL, GEORGE (_son of Ralph Caldwell of Hilborough hall,
Norfolk, who d. 5 Jany. 1831 aged 53_). Author of many articles on
sporting in _The Field_ and _Bell’s Life in London_, under
pseudonym of Childers and in New York _Spirit of the times_, under
that of Censor, _d._ Ramsgate 5 March 1863 aged 56. _Sporting
Review xlix_, 463–4 (1863).
CALDWELL, HENRY (_youngest son of Charles Andrew Caldwell of New
Grange, co. Meath 1785–1859_). _b._ 24 Feb. 1815; entered navy 22
April 1828; captain 12 Aug. 1853; captain of Duke of Wellington
131 guns 19 Feb. 1855 to 1857; captain of the Asia 16 Feb. 1864 to
9 April 1866; aide de camp to the Queen 2 April 1866 to death;
commodore Cape of Good Hope station 9 April 1866 to 3 Sep. 1867;
C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Leamington 7 April 1868.
CALDWELL, SIR HENRY JOHN, 6 Baronet. _b._ 22 Oct. 1801; succeeded
his father as 6 baronet and as Count of Milan in the Holy Roman
empire 22 Oct. 1842. _d._ Marlborough buildings, Bath 13 Oct.
1858.
CALDWELL, HUGH. Entered Bengal army 10 Sep. 1806; major 49 Bengal
N.I. 27 May 1830 to 9 Aug. 1836 when he retired; lived at Rome
1836 to death. _d._ Palazzo Titoni, Via Rassella, Rome 21 Feb.
1882 aged 96. _Times 27 Feb. 1882_ _p. 5, col. 5 and p. 7, col.
3_.
CALDWELL, JAMES H. _b._ Manchester 1793; made his début in America
at Charleston as Belcour in _The West Indian_ Nov. 1816; opened
St. Charles theatre New Orleans 30 Nov. 1835; last appeared 14
Jany. 1843 as Vapid in _The Dramatist_; introduced gas in New
Orleans 1834 and in many other southern cities. _d._ New York 11
Sep. 1863.
CALDWELL, SIR JAMES LILLYMAN (_son of Arthur Caldwell, major Bengal
engineers_). _b._ Greenwich 1770; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 27
July 1789; colonel commandant 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June
1854; served at first siege of Seringapatam 6 Feb. 1792 and at
second siege and capture 4 May 1799; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10
March 1837, G.C.B. 25 Aug. 1848. _d._ Beachlands, Ryde, Isle of
Wight 28 June 1863. _H. M. Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii_, _pp.
iii-vi_, (1883), _portrait_.
CALDWELL, JAMES STAMFORD (_only son of James Caldwell, recorder of
Newcastle under Lyme who d. 16 Jany. 1838 aged 78_). Educ. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister L.I. 11 Feb.
1813; author of _A treatise on the law of arbitration_ 1817, _2
ed._ 1825; _A digest of the laws relating to the poor_ 1821;
_Results of reading_ 1843. _d._ Linley wood near Newcastle under
Lyme 18 Nov. 1858 aged 72.
CALDWELL, JOHN. Opened a room for dancing at 83 Dean st. Soho,
London 1840; removed to 19, 20 and 21 Dean st. 1845, which he
rebuilt 1850; lessee of Royalty theatre; lessee of Surrey gardens.
_d._ Starcross, Devon 16 May 1880. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery,
London 24 May.
CALEDON, JAMES DUPRÉ ALEXANDER, 3 Earl of (_only child of Dupré
Alexander, 2 Earl of Caledon 1777–1839_). _b._ London 27 July
1812; ensign Coldstream guards 31 May 1833, lieut. 1839–46, when
he retired from army; M.P. for co. Tyrone 7 Aug. 1837 to 8 April
1839 when he succeeded; an Irish representative peer 10 May 1841
to death; colonel of Tyrone militia. _d._ 5 Carlton house terrace,
London 30 June 1855. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 147–52;
_G.M. xliv_, 193–4 (1855).
CALEY, HENRY FRANCIS. Entered Bengal army 1820; col. 64 Bengal N.I.
7 Nov. 1854 to death; M.G. 18 March 1856. _d._ Rawul Pindee,
Punjab, India 21 Dec. 1866.
CALKIN, JAMES, _b._ London 1786; one of earliest members and
directors of Philharmonic Society; organist of Regent square
chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London 1824; a successful teacher of
music; his compositions include an overture and symphony for
orchestra, string quartets and much pianoforte music. _d._ 12
Oakley sq. Camden Town, London 1862.
CALL, SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY, 3 Baronet. _b._ Whiteford house near
Callington, Cornwall 10 May 1815; partner in banking house of
Call, Marten and Co. Old Bond st. London; succeeded 3 Dec. 1851;
special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; sheriff of Cornwall
1856. _d._ 25 Old Bond st. London 22 Dec. 1864.
CALL, SIR WILLIAM PRATT, 2 Baronet. _b._ 28 Sep. 1781; succeeded 1
March 1801; sheriff of Cornwall 1807; partner in banking house of
Call, Marten and Co. _d._ Whiteford house near Callington 3 Dec.
1851.
CALLAGHAN, JEREMIAH THOMAS FITZGERALD. _b._ about 1830; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1854; acting consul
general at Labuan 27 May 1861; governor of Labuan 10 April 1862 to
Nov. 1866; administrator of government of Gambia 10 May 1871;
governor of Falkland islands 18 May 1876; governor of the Bahamas
11 Sep. 1880 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ New York 9 July
1881.
CALLAGHAN, THOMAS. _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dub., B.A. 1836; called to the Irish bar 1839; emigrated to New
South Wales 1840; crown prosecutor 1841; chairman of quarter
sessions, Dec. 1844; a district court judge 1859 to death, held
his first court at Yass 19 July 1859; published _Acts and
ordinances of New South Wales with notes and index 3 vols._
1844–52. _d._ Braidwood, N.S.W. 28 Nov. 1863. _Heads of the people
i_, 161 (1847), _portrait_.
CALLCOTT, MARIA. Author of _Home among strangers a tale 2 vols._
1848; _The singers alphabet_ 1849; _The power of meekness_ 1853;
_The two firesides a tale of 90 years ago_ 1859. (_m._ Wm.
Hutchins Callcott 1807–82). _d._ 1 Campden house road, Kensington
19 Aug. 1881 aged 73.
CALLCOTT, WILLIAM. _b._ Kensington near London 1800; violinist in
orchestra of King’s theatre (now Her Majesty’s), Pall Mall;
repetiteur for the ballet there; musical director of Adelphi,
Olympic and Astley’s Amphitheatre where he composed for Andrew
Ducrow music for his representation of “The Grecian Statues”; his
musical compositions for pantomimes and melodramas were the best
since those of Wm. Henry Ware. _d._ Gravesend 6 Nov. 1878.
CALLCOTT, WILLIAM HUTCHINS (_son of John Wall Callcott, musical
composer 1766–1821_). _b._ Kensington, London 1807; member of
Royal society of musicians 4 July 1830; organist of Ely place
chapel; his arrangements and transcriptions for the piano amount
to many hundred pieces; author of _The child’s own singing book_
1843; _A few facts on the life of Handel_ 1859. _d._ 1 Campden
house road, Kensington 5 Aug. 1882.
CALLENDER, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Clifton 24 June 1830; student of St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1849, registrar 1854, assistant surgeon
1861, surgeon 1871 to death, lecturer on anatomy 1865, lecturer on
surgery 1873; surgical editor of _St. Bartholomew’s hospital
reports_ 1865–74; M.R.C.S. 1852, F.R.C.S. 1855, F.R.S. 8 June
1871; sec. of Clinical Soc. 1867–70, pres. 1877–9; author of
_Anatomy of the parts concerned in femoral rupture_ 1863 and of
many papers in _Transactions of Medical Chirurgical, Clinical and
Pathological Societies_. _d._ on board the Gallia on his way home
from Australia 20 Oct. 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 29 Oct. _St.
Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xli-xlvii_, (1879);
_Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_, 480–2 (1880).
CALLENDER, WILLIAM ROMAINE (_eld. son of Wm. Romaine Callender of
Manchester who d. 1872_). _b._ Manchester 2 June 1825; cotton
spinner and merchant at Bolton and Manchester; member of
Manchester school board 24 Nov. 1870, vice chairman Dec. 1870 to
death; M.P. for Manchester 7 Feb. 1874 to death; F.S.A. 2 June
1859; author of _Education statistics of Manchester_ 1852; _The
commercial crisis of 1857 its causes and results_ 1858. _d._
Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 22 Jany. 1876. _Graphic
xiii_, 182, 188 (1876), _portrait_.
CALLOW, JOHN. _b._ London 19 July 1822; studied art in Paris
1835–44; a landscape painter in water colours; professor of
drawing in royal military academy at Addiscombe, July 1855 to
1861; sub.-professor of drawing at Woolwich 1861; a teacher in
London; several of his studies have since his death been printed
in colours as a series of progressive lessons in art of
water-colour painting; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and
2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–67. _d._ Lewisham near London 25
April 1878.
CALTHORPE, GEORGE GOUGH-CALTHORPE, 3 Baron. _b._ 22 June 1787;
succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 5 June 1807. _d._ Lyons Sep.
1851.
CALTHORPE, FREDERICK GOUGH, 4 Baron (_3 son of 1 Baron Calthorpe
1749–98_). _b._ London 14 June 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for
Hindon, Wilts. 1818–26, for Bramber, Sussex 1826–31; a
metropolitan comr. in lunacy; assumed name of Gough in lieu of
Calthorpe 14 May 1845; sheriff of Staffs. 1848; succeeded Sep.
1851; gave to town of Birmingham, Calthorpe park opened 15 April
1857. _d._ Elvetham park, Winchfield, Hants. 2 May 1868.
CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART (_younger son of Rev. Henry Blayds
1794–1874, V. of South Stoke near Bath 1839–74_). _b._ Martley,
Worcs. 23 Dec. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox.; scholar
25 Nov. 1850; chancellor’s prizeman 1851; migrated to Christ’s
coll. Cam. Oct. 1852, Craven scholar 1854; B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859;
fellow of his coll. 1858–63; prepared examination paper on
Dickens’s _Pickwick Papers_ at Cam. Dec. 1857; barrister I.T. 1
May 1865; resumed 1852 old family name of Calverley which his
grandfather had changed to Blayds 1807; author of _Verses and
translations_ 1862; _Translations into English and Latin_ 1866;
_Theocritus translated into English verse_ 1869; _Fly leaves_
1872. _d._ 17 Devonshire terrace, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1884.
_C. S. Calverley’s Literary remains_ 1885, _portrait_;
_Fortnightly Review xxxv_, 736–53 (1884); _J. Payn’s Some literary
recollections_ (1884) 180–3; _Temple Bar, Jany. 1887_.
CALVERT, CAROLINE LOUISA WARING (_youngest dau. of James Atkinson,
principal clerk in Colonial secretary’s office, Sydney N.S.W._)
_b._ Oldbury, Argyle county N.S.W. 25 Feb. 1834; author of
_Gertrude the emigrant, a tale of colonial life by an Australian
lady_ 1857; _Cowanda the veteran’s grant_ 1859; wrote many
articles in _Sydney Morning Herald_, _Sydney Mail and Town and
country journal_; collected many specimens of plants, the genus
Atkinsonia was named after her also the species Epacris
Calvertiana. (_m._ 1870 James Snowden Calvert 1825–74). _d._
Sutton Forest N.S.W. 28 April 1872. _G. B. Barton’s Literature of
N.S.W._ (1866) 111–2.
CALVERT, CHARLES (_eld. son of Charles Calvert of Glossop hall,
Derbyshire, agent for Duke of Norfolk 1754–97_). _b._ Glossop hall
23 Sep. 1785; cotton merchant in Manchester, landscape painter
there; a founder of Manchester Royal Institution 1823, Heywood
gold and silver medallist. _d._ Bowness, Westmoreland 26 Feb.
1852. _Art Journal_ (1852) 150.
CALVERT, CHARLES ALEXANDER. _b._ London 28 Feb. 1828; ed. at King’s
college school; articled to a solicitor; acted in the provinces
1852–5; first appeared in London at Surrey theatre, Sep. 1855 as
Leonardo Gonzago in _The Wife_; stage manager and principal actor
at T.R. Manchester 1859; manager of Prince’s theatre, Manchester
1864 to Jany. 1875; produced a series of Shakespearian revivals
which eclipsed all previous representations on provincial stage
1864–74; went to New York, Jany. 1875 when he reproduced play of
_Henry the fifth_ at Booth’s theatre; returned to England 1876;
produced _Henry viii_ at T.R. Manchester 1877; head of a
travelling company. _d._ at private asylum, Sussex house,
Hammersmith 12 June 1879. _bur._ Brooklands cemetery near Sale,
Cheshire 18 June. _Illust. sporting and dr. news v_, 609, 614
(1876), _portrait, xi_, 351, 353 (1879), _portrait_.
CALVERT, EDWARD (_son of Roland Calvert of Appledore, Devon who d.
1811 or 1812_). _b._ Appledore 20 Sep. 1799; midshipman R.N.;
landscape painter in London 1825; exhibited 5 pictures at the R.A.
1825–36; produced many woodcuts and plates, privately printed by
himself at Brixton and Paddington. _d._ Hackney 14 July 1883.
_Athenæum ii_, 218, 250 (1883); _Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake_
(1880) _i_, 343, 407.
CALVERT, EDWIN. A dwarf 36 inches in height (3 inches less than Tom
Thumb), weighing only 24½ pounds; clever violinist and dancer, and
mimic of birds and animals. _d._ Skipton, Yorkshire July or Aug.
1859 aged 17.
CALVERT, FELIX. _b._ 16 Oct. 1790; ensign 52 foot 1 Oct. 1807; major
32 foot 11 May 1815; lieut. col. 72 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 25 Sep.
1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 90 foot 14 June 1853 to death;
L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1831. _d._ 30 Cavendish sq. London
3 March 1857.
CALVERT, FREDERIC BALTIMORE (_brother of Charles Calvert
1785–1852_). _b._ 10 April 1793; alternated leading parts with
Edmund Kean, Macready and Vandenhoff; elocutionary lecturer at
King’s college, Aberdeen 1829; lectured in England and America on
literary subjects; master of English language and literature in
Edinburgh academy about 1846; lecturer on elocution to free church
colleges of Edin. and Glasgow; author of _A defence of the acted
drama in a letter to T. Best, Hull_ 1822; _Principles of elocution
by T. Ewing_, _revised and improved 1852_, _another ed._ 1870;
translated _Cicero’s De Oratore_ 1870. _d._ 2 West Newington,
Edin. 21 April 1877.
CALVERT, FREDERICK CRACE (_son of Colonel Calvert_). _b._ London 14
Nov. 1819; lived in France 1836–46; démonstrateur de chimie
appliquée under M. E. Chevreul the eminent chemist in Paris
1841–6; consulting chemist at Manchester 1846; professor of
chemistry at Royal Instit. Manchester 1846; lecturer on chemistry
at School of medicine in Pine st. Manchester; the first person in
this country to manufacture phenic or carbolic acid in a pure
state, its use as a disinfectant is due entirely to him,
established large works at Manchester for its production 1865;
F.R.S.; delivered 5 courses of ‘Cantor’ lectures at Society of
Arts on applied chemistry; contributed largely to English and
French scientific literature. _d._ Clayton vale house near
Manchester 24 Oct. 1873. _F. C. Culvert’s Dying and calico
printing, 3 ed._ (1878) _ix-xiv_; _Journal of Society of arts
xxi_, 919 (1873).
CALVERT, GEORGE. _b._ Denholme Gate, Thornton, parish of Bradford 26
Dec. 1809; decorative painter at Huddersfield; portrait painter at
Almondbury; author of _Universal restoration, a poem in ten epochs
2 vols._ 1861; _Thoughts for thoughtful minds_ 1865; _Redemption,
a poem in ten epochs_, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1875. _d._ Hall Bower near
Castle hill, Almondbury 10 June 1878. _C. A. Hulbert’s
Supplementary annals of Almondbury_ (1885) 51–3.
CALVERT, HENRY HUNTER. Clerk in R.N. 1834–5; cancelliere to
consulate at Erzeroom, Turkish Armenia 1837–55; acting consul at
Alexandria 1859–60, 1864, 1868–9, 1870, 1872, 1876–7 and 1878–9;
acting consul at Cairo 1860–2, at Jeddah 1864–5 and 1867. _d._ the
Dardanelles 29 July 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 197 (1882), _portrait_.
CALVERT, JAMES SNOWDEN. _b._ on the Borders of Scotland 13 July
1825; went to New South Wales 1840; went with Ludwig Leichhardt in
his expedition from Moreton Bay Settlement to Fort Essington on
north coast of Australia which was reached 17 Dec. 1845 after a
journey of 3000 miles extending over 15 months; awarded a silver
medal at London International Exhibition 1862 for his collection
of Australian paper making materials. _d._ at his residence near
Sydney 22 or 29 July 1874.
CALVERT, JOHN. _b._ Preston; mechanical and consulting engineer;
founded Calvert’s _Mechanic’s almanac and workshop companion_
1873, edited it 1873 to death; author of _Calvert’s Pocket wages
table_ 1875; _Calvert’s Mechanic’s and builder’s time book_, _2
ed._ 1876. _d._ Cornbrook, Manchester 6 July 1883 aged 47.
CALVERT, MICHAEL. _b._ Knaresborough; baptised 2 Feb. 1770; a
chemist at Knaresborough, churchwarden 1808 and 1809; author of
_An account of the Knaresborough Spaw_, _2 ed. 1831_; _History of
Knaresborough_ 1844. _d._ Knaresborough 3 Dec. 1862. _Boyne’s
Yorkshire library 1869 p._ 142.
CALVERT, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1819; Educ. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A.
1842, M.A. 1853; C. of Longdon, Worcs. 1842–6; minor canon of St.
Paul’s cathedral 1848 to death; R. of St. Antholin’s, city of
London 1849–58; V. of St. John the Baptist’s, Kentish Town, London
1858 to death; author of _The wife’s manual, or prayers, thoughts
and songs on several occasions of a matron’s life_ 1854, _4 ed._
1882; _Pneuma or the wandering soul, a parable in rhyme and
outline_ 1856. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1880.
CAMDEN, GEORGE CHARLES PRATT, 2 Marquis (_only son of 1 Marquis
Camden 1759–1840_). _b._ Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 2 May
1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, LLD. 1835; M.P.
for Ludgershall, Wilts. 1821–6, for Bath 1826–30, and for Dunwich
1831–2; a lord of the Admiralty 19 Sep. 1828 to 15 July 1829;
summoned to House of Lords in his father’s barony of Camden 8
Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 Marquis 8 Oct. 1840; K.G. 19 Jany.
1846; lord lieut. of Brecknockshire 31 Oct. 1865; pres. of British
archæological society, and of Kent archæological society. _d._
Bayham abbey, Sussex 6 Aug. 1866.
CAMDEN, JOHN CHARLES PRATT, 3 Marquis. _b._ Belgrave sq. London 30
June 1840; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1860; M.P. for Brecknock
27 Feb. 1866 to 6 Aug. 1866, when he succeeded. _d._ 96 Eaton sq.
London 4 May 1872.
CAMERON, ALEXANDER. Ensign 42 foot 24 Feb. 1842, lieut. col. 9 Oct.
1855 to death; C.B. 27 July 1858. _d._ Bareilly, Rohilcund, India
9 Aug. 1858 aged 43.
CAMERON, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; Incumb. of St. James’s Dudley 1840–4; Incumb. of Worsley,
Manchester 1844–53; Incumb. of donative of Oxhey Watford, Herts.
1853–6; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Longlane, Trusley Derbyshire 1860 to
death; author of _The tyranny of popery by an Eye Witness as seen
in Italy_ 1853 and of various parochial sermons and addresses;
edited _The infallible way to contentment_ 1849; _The British
workman_ 1855–62. _d._ in Heckington church during divine service
2 Dec. 1861 aged 54.
CAMERON, CHARLES DUNCAN (_son of Charles Cameron, captain 3 foot_).
Ensign 45 foot 12 June 1846 to July 1851; commanded Kaffir
Irregulars sent from Natal to Cape Colony 1851–2; served on staff
of Sir Fenwick Williams during Russian war 1854–6; consul in
Abyssinia 30 June 1860, imprisoned by King Theodore 2 Jany. 1864
to 17 April 1866 when he was handed over to Hormuzd Rassam but
reimprisoned with Rassam 12 July 1866, released 11 April 1868;
returned to England 25 July 1868, retired on a pension of £350 per
annum 7 Dec. 1868; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1858. _d._ Geneva 30 May 1870.
_C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition_ 1869; _H. M.
Hozier’s Narrative of Abyssinian expedition_ 1869; _Journal of
Royal Geog. Soc. xli_, 153 (1871).
CAMERON, CHARLES HAY (_son of Charles Cameron, governor of Bahama
Islands_). _b._ 11 Feb. 1795; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; a
disciple of Jeremy Bentham; a charity comr., prepared a report on
poor laws April 1833; member of law commission at Calcutta 1834;
fourth member of supreme council of India 1843 to 1848; pres. of
council of education for Bengal 1843–8; author of _Two essays on
the sublime and beautiful and on Duelling, privately printed_
1835; _Address to Parliament on the duties of Great Britain to
India_ 1853. _d._ Ceylon 8 May 1880. _Mackenzie’s History of the
Camerons_ 1884.
CAMERON, REV. CHARLES RICHARD (_eld. son of Charles Cameron, M.D. of
Worcester_). _b._ 1781; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803;
P.C. of Donnington Wood, Salop 1806–50; P.C. of Wombridge, Salop
1808–56; R. of Swaby, Lincs. 1831 to death; author of _The
Antichrist of St. John, St. Paul’s man of sin and the Little Horn
of Daniel identified in their application to the Papacy in its
present aspect_ 1844; _The doctrine of infant baptism briefly
stated_ 1850; _The beginning of the end_ 1854. _d._ Swaby rectory
10 Jany. 1865.
CAMERON, DONALD. Piper to Sir J. J. R. Mackenzie of Scatwell,
Rossshire 1833; piper to Seaforth of Dingwall, Rossshire 1848 to
death; gained gold medal at Inverness 1849, and another at
competition of 9 best pipers in Scotland 1850; gained annual
champion medals given by Highland society of London at great
northern meetings 1859 and 1867; composed _Braham Castle_, _Lady
Anne Mackenzie_ and other excellent airs; declined several offers
to become Her Majesty’s piper. _d._ near Dingwall 7 Jany. 1868.
CAMERON, SIR DUNCAN, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1770; succeeded Oct. 1828. _d._
Callart near Appin, Argyleshire 15 Jany. 1863.
CAMERON, GEORGE POULETT (_son of Robert Cameron, commander R.N. who
d. 22 Jany. 1807_). _b._ 1805; entered Madras army 1821; joined
expedition to Portugal organised by Don Pedro to recover throne
for Queen Maria ii, 1832; sent on particular service to Persia,
commanded garrison of Tabriz 1836–8; political agent at titular
court of Nawab of Arcot 1842; K.T.S., K.L.S., C.B. 25 Aug. 1841;
commandant of the Neilgherries hills 1856–8; present with Austrian
army in Italian war 1859; author of _Personal adventures in
Georgia, Circassia and Russia_, _2 vols._ 1848; _The romance of
military life_ 1853. _d._ Cheltenham 12 Feb. 1882.
CAMERON, JAMES. _b._ near Dunkeld 6 Jany. 1800; went to Madagascar
1826 where he taught the natives principal mechanical arts and
industries; lived at Cape Town 1835–53 and 1854–63; lay missionary
of London Missionary Society in Madagascar 1863 to death. _d._
Antananarivo, Madagascar 3 Oct. 1875. _Cape Monthly Mag. xii_,
169–79 (1876); _Chronicle of London Missionary Soc, for 1876 pp._
21, 229–34.
CAMERON, JOHN. Second lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1834, colonel 1 Jany. 1868
to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; C.B. 14 June 1870;
director of ordnance survey of Great Britain and Ireland, Aug.
1875 to death; edited _Ordnance survey_. _Meteorological
observations_ 1856. _d._ Ordnance house, Southampton 30 June 1878
aged 61.
CAMERON, JOHN ALEXANDER. _b._ Inverness; a bank clerk; contributed
to _Bombay Gazette_, acting editor to 1878, special correspondent
in Afghan war 1878; special correspondent of the London _Standard_
in Afghan war 1879; crossed from Bombay to Natal on outbreak of
Boer insurrection Dec. 1880; present at battles of Laing’s Nek and
Ingogo Jany. 1881; taken prisoner at battle of Majuba Hill Feb.
1881; special correspondent of _Standard_ in Egypt 1882–3 his
description of bombardment of Alexandria was best sent home;
accompanied British force in advance upon Tokar, witnessed battles
of El Teb and Tamanieb; shot by Arabs near Metemneh in Sir H.
Stewart’s desert march to Gubat on the Nile 18 Jany. 1885. _London
Figaro 9 Dec. 1882_; _Graphic xxiii_, 437 (1881), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 146, 218 (1885), _portrait_; _Standard 29 Jany.
1885 pp._ 5–6.
CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET (_3 dau. of James Pattle of Bengal civil
service_). _b._ Calcutta 11 June 1815; raised in Calcutta a large
sum of money for relief of sufferers in Irish famine 1846; lived
in England 1848–75; went to Ceylon 1875; began photographing 1865,
took admirable portraits of many eminent persons, gained gold
medals in America, Austria, Germany and England; exhibited large
collection of her portraits and studies at the German gallery in
Bond st. London March 1868; wrote many poems some of them in
_Macmillan’s Mag._; translated _Burger’s Leonora_ 1847. (_m._ 1838
Charles Hay Cameron 1795–1880). _d._ Ceylon 26 Jany. 1879. _Sir H.
Taylor’s Autobiography ii_, 48–55, 184–8.
CAMERON, LUCY LYTTELTON (_youngest child of Rev. George Butt
1741–95, V. of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs._) _b._ Stanford-on-Teme 29
April 1781; ed. at Reading 1792–7; author of _The two lambs_ 1827;
_Addresses to children on the Beatitudes_ 1828; _The Caskets_, _12
ed._ 1833; _The Berkshire shepherd_, _6 ed._ 1840 and many more
childrens books. (_m._ 12 June 1806 Rev. Charles Richard Cameron
1781–1865). _d._ Swaby rectory 6 Sep. 1858. _The life of Mrs.
Cameron by Rev. G. T. Cameron_, _2 ed. 1873, portrait_.
CAMERON, PATRICK. Entered Madras army 1802; colonel 1 Madras light
cavalry 12 April 1843 to 1869; general 24 Oct. 1858. _d._
Gordonston, Inverness 8 Dec. 1871 aged 87.
CAMIDGE, JOHN (_3 son of Mathew Camidge 1758–1844, organist of York
minster_). _b._ York 1790; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1812, Mus. Doc. 1819;
Mus. Doc. Lambeth 1855; assistant organist of York minster,
organist 15 Oct. 1842 to death; paralysed while playing the
evening service 28 Nov. 1848, never played again; adapted much
classical music for use in the Anglican service; published
_Cathedral music consisting of a service, anthems and 50 double
chants_; _Six glees for 3 and 4 voices_. _d._ Gray’s court,
Chapter house st. York 21 Sep. 1859. _Musical World 1 Oct. 1859_,
_p._ 634.
CAMMELL, CHARLES (_son of George Cammell of Hull_). _b._ Hull 8
Jany. 1810; steel and file manufacturer at Sheffield 1837, added
manufacture of rails and railway material 1861, and of armour
plates 1863; his business was converted into a limited liability
company 1864, of which he was chairman to his death; acquired
Yorkshire iron and steel works at Penistone 1865, and the Oaks
colliery near Barnsley 1873; M.I.M.E. Oct. 1847. _d._ 7 South wick
crescent, Hyde park, London 12 Jany. 1879, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 8 March 1879. _Iron and steel institute journal_ 1879,
_p._ 615.