CROSSLEY, SIR FRANCIS, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of John Crossley of

Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who d. 17 Jany. 1837_). _b._ Halifax

26 Oct. 1817; carpet manufacturer at Dean Clough mills, Halifax,

the largest concern of the kind in the world; M.P. for Halifax

1852–59, for west riding of Yorkshire 1859–65, for north west

riding 1865–68, for north division of west riding 1868 to death;

mayor of Halifax 1849 and 1850; founded 21 almshouses at Halifax

1855; donor of the People’s park, Halifax at cost of £41,300,

opened 14 Aug. 1857, where a statue of him was erected 14 Aug.

1860; created baronet 23 Jany. 1863; author of _Canada and United

States_ 1856. _d._ Belle Vue, Halifax 5 Jany. 1872, personalty

sworn under £800,000, 27 May 1872. _Thrift by S. Smiles_ (1875)

205–17; _Enoch Mellor’s A true life_ 1872; _Illust. news of the

world iii_ (1859), _portrait_; _Family Friend 1 March 1870 pp._

39–43, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lx_, 55, 57, 587 (1872), _portrait_.

CROSSLEY, JAMES (_son of James Crossley of Halifax, clothing

merchant 1767–1831_). _b._ The Mount, Halifax 31 March 1800;

articled to Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, attorney 1817; partner

in firm of Ainsworth, Crossley and Sudlow at Manchester 1823–24

when Ainsworth died, partner in firm of Crossley and Sudlow

1824–60 when he retired; pres. of Incorporated Law Assoc. of

Manchester 1840 and 1857; pres. of Manchester Athenæum 1847–50;

pres. of Chetham Soc. Dec. 1847 to death, this society was mooted

at his house in Booth st. Piccadilly early in 1843 and founded at

the Chetham library 23 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852; member of

Surtees Soc. 1858, vice pres. 1861; pres. of Spencer Soc. 1866;

the first pres. of Record Soc. 1878; one of chief contributors to

_Retrospective Review_ 1820; collected a library of 100,000

volumes, part of which was sold at Manchester, May 1884, and the

remainder in London, July 1884 and June 1885; edited for the

Chetham Soc. _Potts’s Discovery of witches in the county of

Lancaster_ 1845; _The diary and correspondence of Dr. John

Worthington 2 vols._ 1847–55; author of _Vade-Mecum to Hatton_

1867 privately printed. _d._ the Stocks house, Cheetham hill road,

Manchester 1 Aug. 1883. _bur._ Kersal church 6 Aug. _Palatine note

book iii_, 221–29 (1883), _portrait_; _J. Evans’s Lancashire

authors and orators_ (1850) 67–72; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_,

49, _portrait_; _Antiquarian Mag. iv_, 198–202 (1883);

_Bibliographer, Sep. 1883, pp._ 97–9; _Manchester Guardian 2 Aug.

1883, p. 6, cols. 1–5_; _Momus 11 March 1880_, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He is described under the initial C in an article called

The Theatre in W. H. Ainsworth’s “December Tales” 1823 pp.

165–79, the article was written by J. P. Aston author of Sir

John Chiverton.

CROSSLEY, JOHN (_brother of Sir Francis Crossley 1817–72_). _b._

Halifax 16 May 1812; mayor of Halifax 1849, 1850, 1861 and 1862;

M.P. for Halifax 3 Feb. 1874 to Feb. 1877; built with his brothers

Sir F. Crossley and Joseph Crossley (who _d._ 14 Sep. 1868) the

Crossley Orphan house and school on Skircoat Moor about 1861. _d._

Broomfield, Halifax 16 April 1879. _Weekly Welcome_ (1879) 357–8,

_portrait_.

CROSSLEY, JOHN SYDNEY. _b._ Loughborough 25 Dec. 1812; engineer to

Leicester Canal company 1832; resident engineer to Midland Railway

company 1857, engineer in chief 1858 to April 1875; M.I.C.E. 1

March 1859. _d._ Barrow upon Soar 10 June 1879. _Min. of proc. of

Instit. of C.E. lviii_, 341–43 (1879).

CROWDER, SIR RICHARD BUDDEN (_eld. son of Wm. Henry Crowder of

Montagu place, London_). _b._ London 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin.

coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1821; went Western circuit; Q.C.

1837; recorder of Bristol, Aug. 1846 to April 1854; counsel of the

Admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet, Aug. 1849 to March

1854; M.P. for Liskeard 3 Jany. 1849 to March 1854; justice of

Court of Common Pleas, March 1854 to death; serjeant at law, March

1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 May 1854. _d._ 17 Carlton

house terrace, London 5 Dec. 1859. _Traits of character by a

contemporary i_, 251–82 (1860); _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876)

445–47.

CROWDY, CHARLES (_3 son of James Crowdy of Highworth, Wilts.

solicitor_). _b._ Highworth, March 1786; entered navy 7 Sep. 1799;

captain 13 Jany. 1834; placed on retired list 1 July 1851; retired

admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17 May 1870.

CROWDY, JOHN. _b._ Lewknor, Oxon. 6 Jany. 1834; foreign editor of

the _Guardian_ 1854 to death; editor successively of _The

Choirmaster_, _The Musician_, _The Musical Standard_, and _The

Artist_ from its commencement 15 Jany. 1880; published _The church

choirmaster_ 1864; _A free chant service_ 1865; _A recitative

service_ 1865; _A short commentary on Handel’s The Messiah_ 1875;

author of a system of recitative for psalms and canticles in

Congregational worship called ‘Free Chant’, designed to provide

for an undisturbed delivery of the words with suitable musical

chords or cadences without necessity of signs. _d._ Addlestone,

Surrey 12 Jany. 1883. _The Artist 1 Feb. 1883 pp._ 45, 48.

CROWE, CATHERINE ANN (_dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street,

Piccadilly, London_). _b._ Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in

Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the

persons to whom authorship of _The Vestiges of Creation_ was

attributed 1841; author of _Aristodemus, a tragedy_ 1838, _anon._;

_The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols._ 1841, a dramatic version

of this novel entitled _Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a

servant girl_ by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the Victoria theatre,

London 31 May 1841 and played more than 300 nights; _Men and

women, or manorial rights 3 vols._ 1843; _The Seerest of Prevorst,

translated from Kerner_ 1845; _The story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols._

1847; _The night side of nature, or Ghosts and ghost seers 2

vols._ 1848, _several eds._; _Light and darkness or mysteries of

life 3 vols._ 1850; _The adventures of a beauty, a novel 3 vols._

1852; _The cruel kindness, a drama in 5 acts performed at

Haymarket theatre, June 6, 1853_; _Linny Lockwood 2 vols._ 1853;

_Spiritualism and the age we live in_ 1859; _Adventures of a

monkey_ 1861 and many books for children. (_m._ Oct. 1822 in

London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who _d._ 7 March 1860). Resided at

22 Sandgate road, Folkestone, where she became bedridden and

_died_ of natural decay on 14 June 1872; Her son and only child

Capt. John William Crowe is resident Leonard lodge, Dover road,

Folkestone 1888. _Victoria Mag. xxxiii_, 35–44 (1879); _Colburn’s

New monthly mag. xcvi_, 439–45 (1852).

CROWE, EYRE EVANS (_son of David Crowe, captain in H.E.I.Co.’s

army_). _b._ Redbridge, Southampton 20 March 1799; ed. at Carlow

and Trin. coll. Dublin; Paris correspondent of _Morning Chronicle_

1832–44, joined staff of _Daily News_ 1846, editor 1849–51; author

of _The pleasures of Melancholy, and a Saxon tale_ 1819; _To-day

in Ireland_ 1825; _Yesterday in Ireland_ 1829; _The History of

France 3 vols._ 1830–31 and _Lives of Foreign Statesmen_ 1833 both

in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia; _Connemara_ 1843; _Charles

Delmer, a story of the day_ 1853; _The Greek and the Turk or

powers and prospects in the Levant_ 1853; _History of the reigns

of Louis xviii and Charles x 2 vols._ 1854; _The History of France

5 vols._ 1858–68. _d._ 56 Beaumont st. Marylebone, London 25 Feb.

1868.

CROWE, JOHN. Ensign 32 foot 7 Aug. 1800, captain 30 May 1805 to 4

May 1826; major on h.p. 4 May 1826; served in Peninsula, July 1811

to end of the war 1814; lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired 1846;

K.H. 1837. _d._ Fairlea villa near Bideford 7 March 1860 aged 77.

CROWE, SIR JOHN RICE. Served in the Russian navy 6 years; British

vice-consul at Hamerfest in Norway, May 1824, consul there 14

March 1837; consul general in Norway 16 Aug. 1843 to 2 April 1875

when he retired on a pension; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859; knighted at

Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. _d._ near Christiania 10 Jany. 1877

aged 84. _Times 24 Jany. 1877 p. 6, col. 4._

CROWFOOT, REV. JOHN RUSTAT (_son of Wm. Henchman Crowfoot of

Beccles, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Beccles, 21 Feb. 1817; ed. at

Eton and Caius coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842,

B.D. 1849, fellow of his college 1840–52; C. of Eynesbury, Hunts.

1840–47; C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam. 1852–54; P.C. of

Southwold, Suffolk 1854–60; V. of Wangfordcum-Reydon, Suffolk 1860

to death; published _Remarks on the University of Cambridge_ 1848;

_Academic notes on Holy Scripture 1st series_ 1850; _Plea for a

colonial college at Cambridge_ 1854; _Fragmenta Evangelica_ 1870;

_Observations on the collation in Greek of Cureton’s Syriac

Fragments of the Gospels_ 1872. _d._ Wangford vicarage 18 March

1875.

CROWLEY, ABRAHAM. Head of brewing firm of A. Crowley and Co. at

Alton, Hants.; many refreshment houses were established in London

and other places which especially supplied Crowley’s ales; built

and supported a British school for 150 girls at Alton 1845. _d._

Alton 6 May 1864 aged 70. _Hampshire Chronicle 14 May 1864 p. 5._

CROWLEY, NICHOLAS JOSEPH (_3 son of Peter Crowley of Dublin_). _b._

Dublin 6 Dec. 1819; a pupil of Royal Dublin Society; exhibited 46

pictures at the R.A. 1835–57; member of Royal Hibernian academy

1838; painted several portraits of Daniel O’Connell 1844; painted

‘Taking the Veil’ for St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin 1845, in the

background of this picture there is a portrait of himself; many of

his pictures were engraved and lithographed. _d._ 13 Upper Fitzroy

st. London 4 Nov. 1857.

CROWLEY, PETER O’NEILL (_son of Mr. Crowley of Ballymacoda, co.

Cork, tenant farmer_). _b._ Ballymacoda 23 May 1832; a farmer;

joined the Fenian movement; one of the party who attacked

Knockadoon coastguard station 5 March 1867; mortally wounded in a

fight with the constabulary in Kilclooney wood, co. Cork 31 March

1867. _d._ Mitchelstown 31 March 1867. _bur._ at Ballymacoda 2

April. _John Savage’s Fenian heroes and martyrs_ (1868) 262–66,

273–80.

CROWTHER, REV. JONATHAN (_son of Rev. Timothy Crowther of St.

Austell, Cornwall, methodist minister 1757–1829_). _b._ St.

Austell 31 July 1794; ed. at Kingswood school, Gloucs.; head

master Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford 1814–16; head master

of Kingswood sch. 1823; general superintendent of Wesleyan

missions in India 1837–43; classical tutor in Wesleyan Theological

Institution at Didsbury, Lancs. 1849; edited _London Quarterly

Review_; author of _The Methodist manual_ 1810, _2 ed._ 1811; _A

defence of the Wesleyan Theological institution_, _3 ed._ 1834;

_Sermons_ 1839. _d._ at house of Rev. Wm. Williams at Leeds 16

Jany. 1856. _The Pulpit iv_, (1825), _portrait_; _Slugg’s

Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 92–6.

CROZIER, RICHARD (_eld. son of Rawson Bodham Crozier of West hill,

Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1775–1849_). _b._ 26 Aug. 1803; entered

navy 1 Nov. 1813; captain 20 March 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April

1870; K.T.S. May 1824. _d._ Westhill 3 Feb. 1880.

CROZIER, WILLIAM. Studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S.

1839, F.R.C.S. 1862; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 1842; professor

of anatomy and physiology at the Medical college, Calcutta 1855 to

death. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Simla on his way to England

19 Nov. 1862 aged 45.

CRUCHLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK. Publisher, mapseller, engraver and

printer at 38 Ludgate st. London to 1833, at 81 Fleet st. 1833–76;

sold his entire stock at Hodgsons 16 Jany. 1877. _d._ 65 Grand

parade, Brighton 16 June 1880 in 84 year.

CRUICKSHANK, BRODIE. Author of _Eighteen years on the gold coast of

Africa 2 vols._ 1853. _d._ Lisbon 17 Nov. 1854.

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE (_younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of London,

caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811_). _b._ Duke st. Bloomsbury,

London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the plates left

unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political pamphlets of

Wm. Hone 1819–21; published _Illustrations of phrenology_ 1826;

_Illustrations of time_ 1827; illustrated Fielding, Smollett and

Goldsmith for _Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library 17 vols._ 1831–2;

illustrated the _Comic Almanac_ 1835–53; _Bentley’s Miscellany 14

vols._ 1837–41; _Ainsworth’s Magazine_ 1842–45; published _The

Bottle_ 8 plates 1847 and _The Drunkard’s Children_ 8 plates 1848

many thousands of which were sold in a few days, the subject was

represented at 8 London theatres at once; a student at the R.A. 22

April 1853; produced the Worship of Bacchus 1862, presented to

National gallery by public subscription 1869; granted civil list

pension of £95, 19 June 1867; many of his works were purchased by

the Westminster Aquarium for £2500 July 1876. _d._ 263 Hampstead

road, London 1 Feb. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 9 Feb.,

removed to St. Paul’s cathedral 29 Nov. 1878. _Life by W. B.

Jerrold, 2 ed._ 1883; _George Cruikshank the artist by W. Bates_,

_2 ed._ 1879; _G. W. Reid’s Descriptive catalogue of the works of

G. Cruikshank 3 vols._ 1871; _W. Thornbury’s British Artists ii_,

55–69 (1861); _W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art_ (1867) 277–82; _P. G.

Hamerton’s Etching and etchers_ (1876) 316–23; _James Grant’s

Public characters ii_, 236–51 (1841); _G. Cruikshank’s Omnibus_

(1842) 1–8, _portrait_; _Temple Bar lii_, 499–516 (1878);

_Illustrated Review iii_, 385–91 (1873), _portrait_.

CRUIKSHANK, ISAAC ROBERT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Duke st.

Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1789; a midshipman in H.E.I. Co.’s

service; made water colour drawings for private patrons;

caricaturist and miniature painter; insolvent Dec. 1826;

illustrated Pierce Egan’s _Life in London_ 1821 (the 3 chief

characters in which Tom, Jerry and Logic he designed from himself,

his brother George and Pierce Egan) and _The Finish_ 1831;

Westmacott’s _English Spy_ 1825; Cumberland’s _British theatre 39

vols._ 1823–31 and many other books. _d._ of bronchitis at 206

Pentonville road, Islington, London 13 March 1856. _George

Daniel’s Love’s last labour not lost_ (1863) 173–76.

CRUM, WALTER (_2 son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank near Glasgow,

merchant manufacturer_). _b._ Glasgow 1796; scientific chemist and

manufacturer at Glasgow; member of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow

1834, pres. 1852; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; pres. of Anderson’s Univ.

Glasgow; best known for his successful efforts to place the arts

of dyeing and calico printing on a scientific basis; the first

person to give the true formula for gun cotton. _d._ The Ronken,

Thornliebank near Glasgow 5 May 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_,

8–10 (1868).

CRUMMER, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Birr, King’s county; ensign 28 foot July

1805, captain 20 July 1815 to 1 March 1839 when placed on h.p.;

served in Peninsular war 1809–14; commandant of Island of Calamo

1822–27; police magistrate and superintendent of convicts at

Newcastle, N.S.W. 1837–49; police magistrate of Maitland 1849–58

and of Port Macquarie 1858–64. _d._ Port Macquarie 29 Dec. 1867.

CUBBON, SIR MARK (_son of Rev. Thomas Cubbon_). _b._ 1785; lieut. 15

Madras N.I. 20 July 1801; joint comr. of Mysore 1831–34, sole

comr. 17 May 1834 to Feb. 1861; col. of 15 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1839

to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 26 May 1856.

_d._ at Suez on his way home 23 April 1861 in 77 year, there is a

fine equestrian statue of him at Bangalore where the Cubbon park

is named after him. _Rice’s Mysore and Coorg 1877 passim_; _J. F.

Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_, _2 ed._ (1874) 96–7.

CUBITT, JOSEPH (_only son of Sir Wm. Cubitt 1785–1861_). _b._

Horning, Norfolk 24 Nov. 1811; assistant to his father 1832–43;

constructed great part of London and South Western railway

1838–41, Great Northern railway 1846–50 and London, Chatham and

Dover railway 1855–64; built new Blackfriars bridge, London

1865–69 opened by the Queen 6 Nov. 1869; M.I.C.E. 1840, vice pres.

1865. _d._ 7 Dec. 1872. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_,

249–51 (1875).

CUBITT, THOMAS (_son of Jonathan Cubitt of Buxton near Norwich, who

d. 1807_). _b._ Buxton 25 Feb. 1788; a master carpenter in London

1809; built London Institution, Finsbury Circus 1815–19; built

over large portion of the Five Fields, Chelsea 1824–29; covered

with mansions, district between Eaton sq. and the Thames since

known as Pimlico; built over Clapham park about 250 acres 1824;

constructed about 1000 yards of embankment above Vauxhall bridge

at his own expense; built large factory at Thames Bank, burnt down

17 Aug. 1854; church of St. Barnabas, Ranmore near Dorking was

built at his cost 1859; A.I.C.E. 1839. _d._ Denbies near Dorking

20 Dec. 1855. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 158–62

(1857); _J. S. Bright’s Dorking_ (1884) 133–6; _G.M. xlv_, 202–205

(1856).

NOTE.—His will the longest on record extended to 386 Chancery

folios of 90 words each and covered 30 skins of parchment; the

personalty exceeding £1,000,000 the probate duty was £15,000.

CUBITT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood near

Dilham, Norfolk, miller_). _b._ Dilham 1785; a millwright at

Horning, Norfolk; invented and patented self regulating windmill

sails 1807; employed by Ransome and Son of Ipswich, agricultural

implement makers 1812–21, a partner 1821–26; invented the

treadmill 1817, at once adopted in chief gaols of the U.K.; a

civil engineer in London 1826–58; designed the Oxford canal and

Liverpool junction canal; constructed South Eastern railway

1836–46, blew down face of the Round Down Cliff with a monster

charge of 18,000 pounds of gunpowder which he exploded by

galvanism 26 Jany. 1843; superintended construction of Great

Exhibition 1851 for which he was knighted at Windsor Castle 23

Oct. 1851; M.I.C.E. 1823, member of council 1831, vice pres. 1836,

pres. 1850–52; F.R.S. 1 April 1830. _d._ Clapham Common, London 13

Oct. 1861 in 77 year. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_,

554–58 (1862); _Our iron roads by F. S. Williams_, 2 ed. (1883)

123–26; _I.L.N. ii_, 76–7 (1843).

CUBITT, WILLIAM (_brother of Thomas Cubitt 1788–1855_). _b._ Buxton

near Norwich 1791; served in the navy 4 years; builder in Gray’s

Inn road, London to 1851; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to July

1861 and 17 Dec. 1862 to death; contested City of London 29 July

1861; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1847–49; alderman of

Langbourn ward 1851–63, lord mayor 1860–62; pres. of St.

Bartholomew’s hospital; prime warden of Fishmongers’ Company;

A.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1833, member of council 1842–43. _d._ Penton

lodge, Andover 28 Oct. 1863. _G.M. xvi_, 120–2 (1864); _I.L.N.

xxxvii_, 435 (1860), _portrait_.

CUFF, JAMES DODSLEY (_son of Mr. Cuff of Corsley near Warminster,

Wilts. yeoman_). Clerk in Bank of England about 1805 to death,

clerk in bullion office there 1825 to death; an original member of

Numismatic Society of London 1836; collected coins for 40 years

which were sold for £7054, 29 June 1854; F.S.A.; contributed

descriptions of coins to a supplement to Ainslie’s _Illustrations

of the Anglo-French coinage_ 1830. _d._ Prescott lodge, Clapham

new park, London 28 Sep. 1853 in 73 year. _Numismatic Chronicle

xvii_, 15 (1855); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. x_, 122

(1855).

CUFFE, SIR JONAH DENNY WHEELER, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Richard

Wheeler, knight, who took name of Cuffe_). _b._ 1765 or 1766;

student at Lincoln’s Inn 17 May 1790; created a baronet of Ireland

1 Oct. 1799. _d._ Leyrath, co. Kilkenny 9 May 1853.

CUITT, GEORGE (_only son of George Cuitt of Richmond, Yorkshire,

painter 1743–1818_). _b._ Richmond, Oct. 1779; a landscape

painter; a drawing master at Chester 1804; resided at Masham,

Yorkshire 1820 to death; published _Etchings of ancient buildings

in Chester, castles in North Wales etc._ 1816; _Wanderings and

pencillings amongst the ruins of the olden time, a series of 23

etchings_ 1848, reissued 1855 and many other etchings. _d._ Belle

Vue, Masham 15 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 311 (1854).

CULLEN, HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL PAUL (_son of Hugh Cullen of Prospect

near Ballytore, co. Kildare, farmer_). _b._ Prospect 29 April

1803; ed. at Ballytore and Carlow college; entered Urban college

of the Propaganda at Rome 29 Nov. 1820; ordained priest 1829; vice

rector of the Irish college in Rome 1829, rector 1832–48; rector

of the Propaganda college, May 1848 to Jany. 1849; archbishop of

Armagh 19 Dec. 1849; consecrated in church of St. Agatha of the

Goths, Rome 24 Feb. 1850; presided over national synod held in the

college at Thurles, Aug. 1850 being first held in Ireland since

convention of Kilkenny 1642; translated from Armagh to Dublin 3

May 1852; created a cardinal priest with title of San Pietro in

Montorio 22 June 1866 being first Irishman raised to that rank;

founded Catholic University of Ireland at Drumcondra 20 July 1862;

presided at synod of Maynooth Sep. 1875; author of _Pastoral

Letters 1852–56_. _d._ 59 Eccles st. Dublin 24 Oct. 1878. _bur._

beneath high altar in chapel of Clonville college 29 Oct. _P. J.

O’Byrne’s Lives of the Cardinals_ (1879) 13–28, _portrait_; _Sir

C. G. Duffy’s League of North and South_ (1886) 136, 171–75,

301–81; _M. Comerford’s Collections_ (1883) 188–91; _J. E.

Cairnes’s Political Essays_ (1873) 263 _etc._; _I.L.N. lxxiii_,

421 (1878), _portrait_.

CULLEN, WILLIAM. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1804, colonel 1 Oct.

1842 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Alleppey, Madras 1 Oct.

1862.

CULLENFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Halesworth, Suffolk, Jany. 1797; acted in

the provinces; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 30 Sep.

1836 as Wharton in _The Christening_; acted chiefly at Adelphi and

Haymarket to July 1864 when he retired; a founder of Royal general

theatrical fund 16 Feb. 1839, sec. of the fund 16 Feb. 1839 to

death. _d._ Jasmine cottage, New Maiden, Surrey 6 Sep. 1874.

CULLIMORE, ISAAC. _b._ Ireland 1791; an original member of

Numismatic Society 1836; he devoted his whole life to study of

Egyptian antiquities, one of the first Orientalists who made use

of astronomy to fix important dates in ancient history; published

174 plates of oriental cylinders or seals from collections in

British Museum, in parts 1842–52; author of _Pharoah and his

Princes_ in _Syro-Egyptian Soc. Papers vol. 1, 1845_. _d._

Clapham, London 8 or 12 April 1852. _Numismatic Chronicle xv_, 22

(1853); _W. H. Ward’s article on Babylonian seals in Scribner’s

Mag. Jany. 1887_.

CULSHA, REV. EDWARD WIDT (_only son of Edward Culsha of Islington,

London_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 20 May 1846 aged 19, B.A.

1850, M.A. 1854; C. of Little Malvern, and Head Master of Colwall

gram. sch. Herefordshire 1855 to death; author of _Antar and other

poems_ 1852; _Eastern lands and Eastern people_ 1861. _d._ Colwall

11 Jany. 1863.

CULVERWELL, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ 13 July 1802; L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S.

1827, M.D. Giessen 1841; edited a monthly periodical entitled

_Leisure Moments_ from April 1850 to 1852, 3 vols.; had a museum

of 1000 specimens of morbid pathology; proprietor of The Argyll

Baths, 10 Argyll place and 5 New Broad st. London; author of _A

practical treatise on bathing_ 1829; _On consumption_ 1834, _2

ed._ 1842; _The Confessional_ 1841; _Guide to health and long

life_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1852; _The enjoyment of life_ 1850; _Fragments

from the mountains 2 vols._ 1855; _What to eat, drink and avoid_,

and many other medical books. _d._ 10 Argyll place, Regent st.

London 9 Dec. 1852. _The life of Dr. Culverwell written by

himself_ (1852), _portrait_.

CUMBERBATCH, ABRAHAM CARLTON. Attached to consulate at Paris

1825–28; vice consul at Constantinople 24 Aug. 1830, consul

general there 3 May 1845 to 30 Nov. 1864 when he retired; C.B. 7

April 1866. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 25 Oct. 1875.

CUMBERLAND, CHARLES BROWNLOW. _b._ 1801; ensign 35 foot 21 Dec.

1820; lieut.-col. 96 foot 22 July 1842 to 8 July 1856 when he

retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 21 Milverton

crescent, Leamington 27 Nov. 1882.

CUMBERLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM. _b._ London 1820; ed. at collegiate

school, Dublin and King’s college, London; appointed to

engineering department of the Admiralty 1844; architect at

Toronto, Canada 1847 to death; constructed Ontario, Simcoe, and

Huron railway 1852–54; designed University of Toronto 1859 said to

be finest specimen of Norman Gothic architecture in America;

organized in Toronto a regiment afterwards called Royal Grenadiers

1861, colonel 1861–64; represented Algoma district in legislature

of Ontario 1867 and in Dominion parliament 1871. _d._ Toronto 5

Aug. 1881.

CUMBERLAND, JOHN. Publisher in London; published _Cumberland’s

British Theatre, printed from the acting copies as performed at

the Theatres Royal, London_, _39 vols._ 1823–31; _Cumberland’s

Minor Theatre 14 vols._ 1831–32, these two series were republished

in 64 or _65 vols._ 1838; foreman of the jury at coroner’s inquest

on body of Colonel Fawcett killed by Lieut. Munroe in a duel 1

July 1843. _d._ 185 Camden road, London 13 June 1866 in 79 year.

CUMBERLAND, OCTAVIUS. _b._ 1810; entered navy 16 April 1825; captain

29 Sept. 1855; retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._

New hall, Penicuik, Edinburgh 6 Aug. 1877.

CUMBERLAND, RICHARD FRANCIS (_son of Richard Cumberland, officer in

3 foot guards_). _b._ 1792; a page of honour; ensign 3 foot guards

27 Jany. 1809, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 1825 when he sold out;

aide-de-camp to Duke of Wellington in principal actions in

Peninsular war 1812–14; wounded at repulse of French sortie from

Bayonne. _d._ Royal Mint, London 9 March 1870.

CUMBERLEGE, EDWARD ALTHAM. Colonel Bengal infantry 4 Feb. 1861; L.G.

17 Sep. 1871. _d._ 23 Burlington road, Westbourne park, London 28

Dec. 1873 aged 70.

CUMING, HUGH. _b._ West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devon 14 Feb. 1791;

apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America 1819; in

business at Valparaiso 1819–26; cruised in the South Pacific and

along Western coast of America collecting plants and shells

1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group where he

collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–39; his

collection of shells the largest and most valuable private one in

existence contained 30,000 species and varieties; G. B. Sowerby

named a genus of bivalved shells Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S.

_d._ 13 Gower st. London 10 Aug. 1865. _Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp._

247–8; _Proc. of Royal Linnæan Soc._ (1865–6) 57–9.

CUMING, RICHARD. _b._ London 20 March 1777; one of first members of

Aurelian Soc. 1801 afterwards known as Entomological Soc. of

London; member of Lambeth Chemical Soc. established 1801; invented

the Phantasmagoria 1801 which was shown by Philipstal at Lyceum

theatre 1802; made purchases from all celebrated collections of

curiosities and natural history which were sold 1806–70; Assoc.

British Archæol. Soc. 1858; translated greater part of Cuvier’s

Règne Animal to which Edward Pidgeon’s name is attached. _d._ 63

Kennington park road, London 15 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Norwood cemetery

22 Feb. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvii_, 542–4 (1871).

CUMMING, SIR HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1772; cornet 11 light dragoons 12 May

1790, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1803 to 20 Jany. 1837; present at every

engagement in the Peninsula except siege of Badajoz; col. 12

lancers 20 Jany. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.H. 13

March 1833. _d._ 15 Upper Grosvenor st. London 28 Nov. 1856.

CUMMING, REV. JAMES. _b._ St. James’s, Westminster 23 Oct. 1777; ed.

at Trin. coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804,

fellow of his college 1803–15; professor of chemistry in Univ. of

Cam. 1815 to death; made important modifications and

simplifications of electric methods; pres. of Cambridge

Philosophical Soc.; F.R.S. 4 Jany. 1816, F.G.S. 1816; R. of North

Runcton, Norfolk 1819 to death; author of _A manual of

Electro-Dynamics_ 1827. _d._ North Runcton 10 Nov. 1861.

CUMMING, REV. JOHN. _b._ parish of Fintray, Aberdeenshire 10 Nov.

1807; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ.; M.A. 1827; licensed to

preach by Aberdeen presbytery 3 May 1832; minister of National

Scottish church, Crown court, Covent Garden, London 18 Aug. 1832

to 21 July 1879, church was rebuilt at cost of £5000, 1847–8; a

prominent controversialist; opposed the Free church of Scotland in

many pamphlets and lectures; took part in the Maynooth controversy

1845; became widely known by his writings on the interpretations

of prophecy; lectured against Bishop Colenso 1863; his letters to

the _Times_ signed a ‘Beemaster’ attracted much notice and were

the basis of a work called _Beekeeping_ 1864; his admirers raised

a sum of £3000 for him 1879 which bought an annuity of £300;

author of _Lectures for the times, or an exposition of Tridentine

and Tractarian Popery_ 1844; _Is Christianity from God? a manual

of Christian evidence_ 1847, _11 ed._ 1871; _Apocalyptic Sketches

3 series_ 1848–50; _Prophetic studies, or lectures on the book of

Daniel_ 1850; _Signs of the times, or present, past and future_

1854; _The great tribulation, or things coming on the earth_ 1859;

_Popular lectures on the Essays and Reviews_ 1861; _The Millenial

rest, or the world as it will be_ 1862; _Moses right and Bishop

Colenso wrong_ 1863; _Driftwood, seawood and fallen leaves 2

vols._ 1863, and more than 90 other books. _d._ Chiswick 5 July

1881. _In memoriam Rev. John Cumming, D.D, printed for private

distribution n.d._; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1873)

201–17; _Westminster Review n.s. viii_, 436–62 (1855); _Essays by

George Eliot_ (1884) 145–99; _Illust. news of the world iii_

(1859), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 149 (1881), _portrait_.

CUMMING, REV. JOSEPH GEORGE (_2 son of Joseph Notsall Cumming of

Mattock_). _b._ Matlock 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oakham gr. sch. and

Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk

1835–38; vice principal of King William’s college, Isle of Man

1841–55; master of Lichfield gr. sch. 1855–58; warden and

professor of classical literature and geology in Queen’s college,

Birmingham 1858–62; R. of Mellis, Suffolk 1862–67; V. of St.

John’s, Bethnal Green, London 1867 to death; F.G.S. 1846; author

of _The Isle of Man, its history, physical, ecclesiastical, civil

and legendary_ 1848; _A chronology of ancient, sacred and profane

history_ 1853; _The great Stanley, or James VIIth Earl of Derby_

1867. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Bethnal Green 21 Sep. 1868. _Reg.

and mag. of biog. i_, 219–20 (1869).

CUMMING, WILLIAM. _b._ about 1822; M.R.C.S. 1844, L.S.A. 1847; a

surgeon in London; the pioneer of modern ophthalmology; the first

to demonstrate that rays of light falling on the human retina

might be reflected back to the eye of an observer, this important

fact was communicated by him to the Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of

London, June 1846 in a paper _On a luminous appearance of the

human eye_. _d._ 15 Warkworth terrace, Commercial road, London 5

June 1855 aged 33.

CUMMING-BRUCE, CHARLES LENNOX (_2 son of Sir Alexander Penrose

Cumming-Gordon 1 baronet, who d. 10 Feb. 1806_). _b._ 20 Feb.

1790; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; M.P. for

Inverness district of burghs 17 May 1833 to 17 July 1837, for

Elgin and Nairnshire 25 April 1840 to 11 Nov. 1868; joint sec. of

board of control Feb. to Dec. 1852; assumed additional surname of

Bruce on his marriage 1820. _d._ Broom hall near Dunfermline 1

Jany. 1875.

CUMMING-GORDON, ROUALEYN GEORGE GORDON (_2 son of the succeeding_).

_b._ Altyre, co. Elgin 15 March 1820; ed. at Eton; cornet Madras

cavalry 1838–40; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 3 Nov. 1843;

ensign Cape Mounted rifles 23 Feb. 1844 to 22 July 1845 when he

sold out; hunted in interior of South Africa 1845–50; exhibited

his trophies at Great Exhibition 1851; lectured in London and the

provinces 1855–58; kept a museum of his trophies at Fort Augustus

on the Caledonian canal 1858 to death; author of _Five years of a

hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa 2 vols._ 1850

which had an immense success; _The lion hunter of South Africa_

1856. _d._ Fort Augustus 24 March 1866. _I.L.N. xx_, 512 (1852),

_portrait_.

CUMMING-GORDON, SIR WILLIAM GORDON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Altyre 20 July

1787; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1806; M.P. for Elgin district

of burghs 23 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Altyre 23 Nov. 1854.

CUNARD, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (_son of the succeeding_). _b._

Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Jany. 1816; agent of Cunard line of

steamers at New York 1835–65; head of firm of Cunard, Burns and

Mac Iver 1865 to death. _d._ suddenly at New York 6 April 1869,

personalty sworn under £300,000, 5 June 1869.

CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (_son of Abraham Cunard of

Philadelphia, mechanic_). _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 21 Nov. 1787;

a merchant at Halifax; established with George Burns of Glasgow

and David Mac Iver of Liverpool the British and North American

Royal mail steam packet company 1838; contracted with the

government 4 May 1839 for conveyance of the mails between

Liverpool and Halifax, Boston and Quebec for 7 years at £60,000

per annum, the first voyage across the Atlantic was made by the

Britannia 4–18 July 1840; F.R.G.S. 1846; created baronet 9 March

1859. _d._ 26 Prince’s gardens, Kensington, London 28 April 1865,

personalty sworn under £350,000, 27 May. _W. S. Lindsay’s Merchant

Shipping iv_, 178–86, 217–20, 226–50 (1876); _Fortunes made in

business ii_, 325–71 (1884); _London Society xxxviii_, 33–47

(1880).

CUNDY, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Cundy of London, architect

1765–1825_). _b._ 1790; an architect in London; surveyor to Earl

Grosvenor’s London estates Dec. 1825 to death; erected Holy

Trinity, Paddington, St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, and other churches

in west end of London. _d._ Bromley, Kent 15 July 1867.

CUNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (_2 son of Charles Cuningham of Newholm,

Lanarkshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at high school and univ.

of Edin.; a writer to the signet 1827; joint sec. with his father

to comrs. of northern lighthouses 1842, sec. 1846–75; fellow of

royal Scottish society of arts before whom he read many papers on

subjects connected with lighthouse service. _d._ Palmerston place,

Edinburgh 16 June 1883.

CUNINGHAM, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1816; brigadier in command at

Aden 18 Sep. 1848 to 9 Jany. 1851; col. 1 Bombay light cavalry 19

Oct. 1849 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Cluny house near

Dunkeld 4 Sep. 1861 aged 59.

CUNINGHAM, JOHN (_eld. son of John Cuningham of Port Glasgow,

merchant_). _b._ Port Glasgow 1782; admitted advocate at Scotch

bar 1807; deputy to Lord Advocate Jeffery, Dec. 1830; sheriff of

Morayshire 1831; solicitor general for Scotland 22 April 1835;

judge of supreme court with courtesy title of Lord Cuningham 9

Feb. 1837 to May 1853 when he resigned. _d._ 23 Moray place,

Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882),

47–48, _portrait_.

CUNLIFFE, SIR ROBERT HENRY, 4 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Foster

Cunliffe, 2 baronet 1755–1834_). _b._ Chester 22 April 1785;

entered Bengal army 1798; major 1 Bengal N.I. 17 Oct. 1818; col. 4

Bengal N.I. 30 May 1828 to death; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1829;

succeeded 15 June 1834; C.B. 28 July 1838; general 13 Oct. 1857.

_d._ Acton park near Wrexham, Denbighshire 10 Sep. 1859.

CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS (_youngest son of Allan Cunningham the poet

1784–1842_). _b._ 1820; ensign 23 Madras light infantry 1838;

field engineer at defence of Jellalabad; Mysore comr. at Bangalore

1850–61; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; published

an edition of Marlowe 1870, of Massinger 1871, and of Ben. Jonson

1871; a frequent contributor to _Saturday Review_. _d._ 18

Clarendon road, South Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1875.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Jany. 1780; ed. at St.

John’s coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, fellow

of his college; C. of Ripley, Surrey 1802; C. of Clapham to 1811;

a prominent member of the evangelical party; edited _Christian

Observer_ 1850–58; V. of Harrow 1811 to death; author of _World

without souls_ 1805, _6 ed._ 1816; _The Velvet Cushion_ 1814, _10

ed._ 1816; _Sancho or the Proverbialist_ 1817, anon. and other

books. _d._ Harrow 30 Sep. 1861.

CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH DAVEY (_eld. son of Allan Cunningham the poet

1784–1842_). _b._ Lambeth 9 June 1812; ed. at Addiscombe and

Chatham; sailed for India, Feb. 1834; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers,

captain 13 Nov. 1849 to death; lived among the Sikhs as political

assistant to col. Wade and other officers 1837–45; political agent

at Bhopal 7 March 1846 to 26 Oct. 1849; author of _History of the

Sikhs_ 1849. _d._ suddenly near Umballa, Punjab 28 Feb. 1851. _J.

D. Cunningham’s History of the Sikhs_ (1849), _preface_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Pimlico, London

7 April 1816; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk in Audit office

1834, chief clerk 1854–60; art critic of _Pictorial Times_;

treasurer of Shakespeare Society; author of _Songs of England and

Scotland_ 1835; _The handbook of Westminster Abbey_ 1842; _The

life of Inigo Jones_ 1848; _The handbook of London 2 vols._ 1849,

_2 ed._ 1850; _The story of Nell Gwynn_ 1852; edited many books.

_d._ Ureulam road, St. Albans 18 May 1869. _G. Hodder’s Memories

of my time_ (1870) 384–93; _I.L.N. xxviii_, 205, 206 (1856),

_portrait_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER (_5 son of John Cunningham of Dalswinton

near Dumfries, farmer_). _b._ Dalswinton, Nov. 1789; ed. at Univ.

of Edin.; assistant surgeon in royal navy 10 Dec. 1810, surgeon 28

Jany. 1814; surgeon superintendent of convict ships, left the sea

May 1841; published _Two years in New South Wales 2 vols._ 1827;

_On the motions of the earth and on the conceptions, growth and

decay of man_ 1834; _Hints for Australian emigrants_ 1841. _d._

Greenwich 6 March 1864. _Rev. D. Hogg’s Life of Allan Cunningham_

(1875) 12–14, 360–8.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Charles Cunningham of

Hamilton, Lanarkshire, merchant, who d. 1811_). _b._ Hamilton 2

Oct. 1805; ed. at Dunse and Univ. of Edin. 1820–28; assistant

minister of Middle church, Greenock 15 Oct. 1830; minister of

Trinity college church, Edin. Jany. 1834; D.D. Princeton college,

New Jersey 1842; professor of theology in New college, Edin. 1843,

professor of church history there 1845 to death, principal June

1847 to death; the ablest defender of Calvinism of his time;

edited _British and Foreign Evangelical Review_ Oct. 1855 to Oct.

1860; moderator of general assembly 19 May 1859 to death; the sum

of £7000 was presented to him 1859; author of _The reformers and

the theology of the Reformation_ 1862; _Historical theology, a

review of the principal doctrinal discussions in the Christian

church from the Apostolic age_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1864; _Discussion on

church principles, Popish, Erastian, Presbyterian_ 1863. _d._

Edinburgh 14 Dec. 1861. _Life of W. Cunningham by R. Rainy and J.

Mackenzie_ 1871, _portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881)

193–200, _portrait_; _Sermons from 1828 to 1860 by the late W.

Cunningham, edited by Rev. J. J. Bonar_ 1872.

CUNYNGHAME, SIR ARTHUR AUGUSTUS THURLOW (_3 son of Sir David

Cunynghame, 5 baronet 1769–1854_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1812; 2 lieut.

royal rifles 2 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 13 foot 3 Nov. 1846; captain

Grenadier guards 1 Dec. 1846; lieut.-col. 20 foot 27 April 1849;

lieut.-col. 27 foot 2 April 1852 to 16 Dec. 1853 when placed on

h.p.; assistant quartermaster general of first division in the

Crimea 1854–55; commanded a division of Turkish contingent May

1855; col. of 36 foot 2 Dec. 1868 to 2 Feb. 1876; commanded forces

in South Africa 5 Nov. 1873 to 1 March 1878; col. commandant of

first battalion royal rifles 2 Feb. 1876 to death; lieut. governor

of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to 1878; general 1 Oct. 1877,

placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2

June 1869, G.C.B. 13 June 1878; author of _An Aide-de-camp’s

recollections of service in China 2 vols._ 1844; _A glimpse at the

Great Western republic_ 1851; _Travels in the Eastern Caucasus_

1872; _My command in South Africa_ 1879. _d._ on board ship at

Aden on his way home from India 10 March 1884. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 273

(1878), _portrait_.

CUPPAGE, SIR BURKE (_son of lieut. gen. Wm. Cuppage, who d. 7 Jany.

1848 aged 87_). _b._ Charlton, Kent 1794; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec.

1812; commanded R.A. in south western district 1857–63; col.

commandant 2 Feb. 1868 to death; governor of Jersey 23 Oct. 1863

to 1 Oct. 1868; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 4 Cranley place, Onslow

sq. London 19 April 1877.

CURETON, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Wm. Cureton of Westbury,

Shropshire_). _b._ Westbury 1808; ed. at Newport and Ch. Ch. Ox.,

B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1858; chaplain of his college

1831–38; C. of Oddington, Oxon. 1831; sub librarian of Bodleian

library, Oxford 1834–37; assistant keeper of MSS. in British

Museum 1837–50; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; select preacher at Ox. 1840;

chaplain in ord. to the Queen 18 June 1847; canon of Westminster

and R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 5 Dec. 1849 to death;

corresponding member of French Institute 1855, foreign associate

1860; crown trustee of British Museum 1859; chairman of committee

of Oriental translation fund 1863; author of _Vindiciæ Ignatianæ,

the writings of St. Ignatius vindicated from heresy_ 1846; _Corpus

Ignatianum_ 1849; _Spicilegium Syriacum with an English

translation_ 1855; _Remains of an ancient recension of the Gospels

in Syriac_ 1858. _d._ Westbury 17 June 1864. _The church of

England photographic portrait gallery_, _part 21_ (1859),

_portrait_; _G.M. xvii_, 520–23 (1864); _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854)

_portrait_.

CURIE, PAUL FRANCIS. M.D. Aberdeen 1815; member of Gallican Society;

co-editor of _Archives de la médecine homœopathique 1836–37_;

author of _Principles of Homœopathy_ 1837; _Annals of the London

homœopathic dispensary_ 1844; _A treatise on cholera, English and

Asiatic_ 1849; _Domestic practice of homœopathy_ 1850. _d._ 17

Hanover sq. London 5 Oct. 1853.

CURLING, HENRY. Ensign 25 foot 25 Oct. 1827 to 20 Aug. 1829 when

placed on h.p.; lieut. 91 foot 6 Jany. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834 when

placed on h.p.; retired 1854; author of _The soldier of fortune 3

vols._ 1843; _John of England, a romance 3 vols._ 1846;

_Shakespeare the poet, the lover, the actor 3 vols._ 1848;

_Nonpareil House 3 vols._ 1855; _Recollections of the mess table

and the stage_ 1855; _Camp club in the Crimea_ 1856; _Edith

Frankheart or the baronet’s daughter 3 vols._ 1857; _The Self

divorced or the school for wives 2 vols._ 1861; _Geraldine Maynard

3 vols._ 1864 and 12 other books. _d._ Weardale villas, Earl’s

court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Feb. 1864.

CURLING, THOMAS BLIZARD (_3 son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A. who d.

1824_). _b._ London, Jany. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1843,

mem. of council 1864, pres. 1873; assistant surgeon to London

hospital 1834, lecturer on surgery 1846, surgeon 1849 to Aug.

1869; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1871;

retired from practice 1879; author of _Treatise on Tetanus_ 1836;

_Observations on diseases of the Rectum_ 1851, _4 ed._ 1876;

_Treatise on diseases of the Testis_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1878. _d._

Cannes 4 March 1888. _Medical Circular iii_, 439 (1853),

_portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs_ (1865) _pp._ 131–32,

_portrait_.

CURRAN, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Philpot Curran 1750–1817, master

of the Rolls in Ireland_). Called to bar in Ireland 1816;

insolvency comr. in Ireland; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1848;

author of _Life of John Philpot Curran 2 vols._ 1819; _Sketches of

the Irish bar, with essays 2 vols._ 1855. _d._ 9 Fitzwilliam

place, Dublin 25 Aug. 1858 in 69 year.

CURRER, FRANCES MARY RICHARDSON (_only child of Rev. Henry

Richardson 1758–84, R. of Thornton in Craven, who took name of

Currer, June 1784_). _b._ Eshton hall near Skipton on Craven 3

March 1785; the greatest female book collector in Europe,

principal part of her library of 20,000 vols. was sold at

Sotheby’s for nearly £6000, Aug. 1862; privately printed

_Catalogue of the library of Miss Currer at Eshton hall by Robert

Triphook_ 1820, _2 ed. by C. J. Stewart_ 1833; _Extracts from the

literary and scientific correspondence of Richard Richardson,

M.D., F.R.S. of Bierley, Yorkshire_ 1835. _d._ Eshton hall 28

April 1861. _Nichols’s Illustrations i_, 225–52 (1817); _T. F.

Dibdin’s Reminiscences of a literary life ii_, 949–57 (1836); _T.

F. Dibdin’s Bibliographical tour ii_, 1081–90 (1838).

CURREY, FREDERICK (_son of Benjamin Currey, clerk of the

Parliaments_). _b._ Norwood, Surrey 19 Aug. 1819; ed. at Eton and

Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844;

F.L.S., sec. 1860–80, vice pres. and treasurer 1880 to death;

F.R.S. 3 June 1858, member of council; his collection of fungi is

now in the Kew Herbarium, the genus of fungi, Curreya, was founded

by Saccardo as a momento of Currey; edited _The natural history

review_ 1861 _etc._; translated Hofmeister’s _On the germination

of the higher Cryptogamia_ 1862; edited C. D. Badham’s _Esculent

funguses_ 1863. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park road, Blackheath 8 Sep. 1881.

_Journal of botany n.s. x_, 310–12 (1881).

CURREY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Rev. James Currey, preacher of the

Charterhouse, London_). _b._ Charterhouse sq. London 7 April 1816;

ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar 1834,

Bell’s Univ. scholar 1835, 14 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841,

B.D. 1850, D.D. 1864; fellow of his college 1839, lecturer 1840,

tutor 1844, Hulsean lecturer 1851 and 1852; preacher of the

Charterhouse 1849–71, master 17 Jany. 1871 to death; preb. of St.

Paul’s 1872; published _Hulsean Lectures_ 1851–52; edited

_Tertulliani libri tres De Spectaculis_ 1854; author of _An

English grammar_ 1856; a commentary on Ezekiel in the Speaker’s

Commentary and Commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Revelations in the

S.P.C.K. Commentary. _d._ The master’s lodge, Charterhouse 30

April 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 583 (1885), _portrait_.

CURRIE, AUGUSTUS ARTHUR (_4 son of John Currie 1797–1873_). _b._ 21

Jany. 1831; ensign 45 Bengal N.I. 20 Oct. 1849; major Bengal staff

corps 1869, lieut.-col. 2 March 1875 to 31 Dec. 1880 when he

retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879.

_d._ St. Leonard’s 23 May 1884.

CURRIE, CLAUD. Entered medical service of Madras army 1806;

inspector general of hospitals 31 Jany. 1846, phys. general 19

Aug. 1846 to 31 Jany. 1851. _d._ 3 Westbourne terrace, London 8

Aug. 1854 aged 65.

CURRIE, SIR FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Mark Currie of Cobham,

Surrey_). _b._ 3 Feb. 1799; ed. at Charterhouse and Haileybury;

entered Bengal civil service 1817; judge of court of Sudder

Adawlut of the north western provinces 1840–42; one of secs. of

government of India 1842–49; chief sec. to Lord Hardinge during

campaign of 1845–46; created baronet 11 Jany. 1847; a member of

supreme council of India 1 April 1847 to 14 Jany. 1848, an

ordinary member of council 12 March 1849 to 1853 when he retired

on the annuity fund; a director of East India Co. April 1854,

chairman 1857–58 being the last chairman; one of the 6 members of

first council of sec. of state for India elected by the E.I.

company; vice pres. of council of India 21 Sep. 1858. _d._ St.

Leonard’s 10 Sep. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 295, 434 (1875).

CURRIE, HENRY. _b._ Westminster 1798; ed. at Eton; member of firm of

Glyn and Co. bankers, London; M.P. for Guildford 29 July 1847 to 1

July 1852. _d._ West Horsley place near Guildford 26 May 1873.

CURRIE, JOHN. _b._ 28 May 1797; M.P. for Hertford 30 April 1831 to 3

Dec. 1832. _d._ Queen’s sq. Bath 19 May 1873.

CURRIE, MARK JOHN. _b._ London 21 June 1795; entered navy 29 April

1808; captain 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._

Collington house, Thicket road, Anerley 1 May 1874.

CURRIE, RAIKES. _b._ 15 April 1801; member of firm of Glyn and Co.

bankers, London; M.P. for Northampton 26 July 1837 to 21 March

1857. _d._ Minley manor, Farnborough, Hants. 16 Oct. 1881,

personalty sworn under £280,000, 17 Dec. 1881.

CURRIE, SIR WALTER. _b._ 1819; commandant of armed mounted police at

Cape of Good Hope 1855 to death; knighted by patent 24 May 1860.

_d._ 7 June 1872.

CURRY, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Curry of Gosport, Hants._) _b._ 1772;

entered navy 22 March 1780; captain 7 Jany. 1802, R.A. 10 Jany.

1837, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 July 1851; C.B. 26 Sep.

1831. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 27 Dec. 1855.

CURSETJEE, ARDASEER. _b._ Bombay 6 Oct. 1808; in charge of

shipbuilding yard at Mazagon 1828, assistant builder there 1833;

introduced gas lighting into Bombay 1835, sewing machines,

photography and electroplating; chief engineer at Bombay steam

factory, July 1840 to July 1858 being the first Indian native

placed over Europeans; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1840; F.R.S. 27 May 1841.

_d._ Lowjee house, Marsh Gate, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1877.

_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 271–4 (1878).

CURSHAM, MARY ANN. Resided at Sutton, Notts; author of _Emanuel

Swedenborg and other poems by M. A. C._; _Martin Luther a poem by

M. A. C._ 1828; _Norman Abbey a tale of Sherwood forest, by a

Lady_ 1832; _Poems, sacred, dramatic and lyric_ 1833; _The

infant’s decalogue or a metrical version of the ten commandments

by M. A. C._ 1836. _d._ 1 North bank, Derby 17 Dec. 1881.

CURTEIS, SIR THOMAS ISAAC HORSLEY (_son of John Curteis of

Norfolk_). _b._ 1780; Exon of Yeomen of the Guard 31 May 1805 to

May 1839; knighted at St. James’s palace 27 June 1833. _d._

Twyford, Norfolk 26 Dec. 1858.

CURTIS, CHARLES BERWICK (_youngest son of Sir Wm. Curtis, 1 baronet

1752–1829_). _b._ Culland’s grove, Southgate 18 March 1795; ed. at

Harrow; gunpowder manufacturer with Thomas Curtis and W. G. Harvey

near Hounslow 1820–69; at time of his death the firm owned six

factories in Middlesex, Kent, South Wales and Argyleshire;

A.I.C.E. 1 March 1842; invented a self acting signal for railways

1842 which was used for some time. _d._ 105 Eaton sq. London 26

Oct. 1876.

CURTIS, JAMES GRAY WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1826; captain 37

Bengal N.I. 13 Jany. 1842 to 8 Dec. 1850; deputy assistant

commissary general 27 March 1849 to 8 Dec. 1850; C.B. 9 June 1849;

retired colonel 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush,

London 16 Nov. 1870.

CURTIS, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 3 Dec. 1791; F.L.S. 1822; made

entomological tours in Scotland 1825, France 1829, Italy 1843,

1850 and 1851; entomological editor of _Gardener’s Mag._ 1841–47;

granted civil list pension of £100, 25 Nov. 1842 and another of

£50, 19 April 1861; published _British entomology illustrated with

770 plates_, _16 vols._ which came out in numbers 1 Jany. 1824 to

1 Dec. 1839; _A guide to an arrangement of British insects_ 1829,

_2 ed._ 1837. _d._ Belitha villas, Barnsbury park, London 6 Oct.

1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1863) 35–41.

CURTIS, JOHN CHARLES. Principal of the British and Foreign School

society’s training college, Borough road, London many years before

his death; author of _A School and college history of England_

1860; _Chronological and genealogical tables of English history_

1863; _An English grammar for schools_ 1876 and many other school

books. _d._ 24 Villa road, Brixton 10 May 1888 aged 61.

CURTIS, JOHN HARRISON. A dispenser in the navy and at Haslar

hospital; lived at 18 Soho sq. London and advertised himself in

the newspapers and by pamphlets as an aural surgeon 1815; founded

Royal dispensary for diseases of the Ear, Carlisle st. Soho 1816;

employed Hume Weatherhead and other persons to write his books;

made £5000 a year for many years; had a tube from his consulting

room to his waiting room by which he could hear what the patients

said of themselves; always received his patients in full dress of

time of George iv; gambled away his earnings at Junior United

Service Club; retired to Isle of Man 1848 where he became insane;

published _A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear_

1817, _5 ed._ 1831; _An essay on the deaf and dumb_ 1829; _A

treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye_ 1833;

_Observations on the preservation of hearing and on hearing

trumpets_ 1834, _11 ed._ 1839; _On the Cephaloscope and its uses_

1842; _Advice to the deaf_ 1841, _5 ed._ 1845 and other works.

_d._ in an asylum in the Isle of Man about 1860. _J. F. Clarke’s

Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874)

358–73.

CURTIS, SIR LUCIUS, 2 Baronet (_son of admiral Sir Roger Curtis,

K.C.B. 1 baronet 1746–1816_). _b._ 3 June 1786; entered navy 2

June 1795; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral

superintendent at Malta 8 March 1843 to 8 March 1848, admiral 9

July 1855; succeeded 14 Nov. 1816; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10

Nov. 1862. _d._ Portsdown hill near Portsmouth 14 Jany. 1869.

_Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i_, 201, 355 (1869).

CURTIS, MATTHEW. Machine maker at Manchester, employing 1000

persons, his cotton machinery was sent all over the world; elected

a member of the first town council of Manchester after the charter

was granted in 1839; mayor of Manchester 1860–1 and 1875–6. _d._

Manchester 9 June 1887.

CURTIS, SAMUEL. _b._ Walworth, London 1779; nurseryman in Essex;

proprietor of _Botanical Mag._ 1801–46; F.L.S. 20 Nov. 1810; built

a house called La Chaise at Rozel in Jersey, where he _d._ 6 Jany.

1860. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1860) _p._ 22.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS. _b._ England about 1780; publisher in London;

published the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 59 parts 1817–45; went to

the United States 1829; pastor of Baptist church in Wentworth st.

Charleston some years; established a young ladies school at

Limestone Spring; a very powerful preacher. _d._ in a burning

steamer on the Potomac river 1858.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS F. (_son of the preceding_). _b._ England 26

Sep. 1815; pastor of a baptist church near Boston, U.S.; professor

of theology in Lewisbury Univ. Panama to 1865; lived at Cambridge,

Mass. 1867 to death; author of _Progress of Baptist principles in

the last hundred years_ 1857; _The human element in the

inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures_ 1867 in which he repudiated

inspiration and authenticity of much of the Old Testament and part

of the New. _d._ Cambridge 9 Aug. 1872.

CURTIS, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. child of Timothy Abraham Curtis

1786–1857, governor of Bank of England 1838_). _b._ 4 May 1810;

cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 26 July 1833; deputy judge advocate

general 17 July 1851 to 12 Jany. 1857; lieut.-col. 21 hussars 4

April 1860 to 4 March 1868 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired

list 4 May 1880; L.G. 8 May 1881. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 2

Sep. 1882.

CURWEN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. Spedding Curwen 1790–1856,

Independent minister_). _b._ Hurst house, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire

14 Nov. 1816; assistant pastor independent chapel, Basingstoke

1838; co-pastor at Stowmarket, Suffolk 1841; pastor at Plaistow,

Essex 1844–64; invented the ‘Look and say’ method of learning to

read 1839; advocated Tonic Sol-fa system of teaching music in a

series of articles in _Independent Mag._ 1842, lectured on the

system 1853–56; started _The Tonic Sol-fa Reporter_ 1853; sided

ardently with the North on outbreak of American civil war 1861,

published various tracts on the subject and organised the first

Freed slaves aid society in England; Euing lecturer at Anderson’s

college, Glasgow 1866–1867; member of West Ham school board

1871–73; founded Tonic Sol-fa college at Forest Gate, Essex,

incorporated 1875, opened 1879 where there is a portrait of him;

author of _Singing for schools and congregations, a grammar of

vocal music_ 1848; _Pupils’ manual of the Tonic Sol-fa method of

singing_ 1852; _Peoples service of song_ 1863. _d._ Heaton house,

Heaton Mersey, Lancs. 26 May 1880. _bur._ Ilford cemetery 3 June.

_Memorials of John Curwen_ (1882), _portrait_; _Grove’s Dict. of

Music iv_, 144–50 (1884).

CURZON, EDWARD. _b._ 9 Dec. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1804; captain

8 Feb. 1823; captain of the Asia 84 guns 1826–28; retired V.A. 5

Jany. 1858; C.B. 18 Nov. 1827. _d._ St. Anne’s, Derby 7 March

1862.

CURZON, EDWARD CECIL (_younger son of the succeeding_). _b._ 8 Nov.

1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840;

barrister L.I. 7 May 1840; registrar of copyright of designs

1842–63; registrar of joint stock companies 1863–76. _d._

Scarsdale house, Wright’s lane, Kensington, London 12 Feb. 1885.

CURZON, ROBERT (_2 son of 1 Viscount Curzon 1733–1820_). _b._ 13

Feb. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795; M.P. for

Clitheroe, Lancs. 1 June 1796 to 23 April 1831. _d._ Parham park

near Steyning, Sussex 14 May 1863.

CUSACK, JAMES WILLIAM (_3 son of Athanasius Cusack of Laragh house,

co. Kildare 1749–1813_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;

M.R.C.S. 1812; resident surgeon in Steevens’ hospital, Dublin

1812, visiting surgeon to 1857; surgeon to Swift’s hospital for

the insane; an original projector of Park st. school of medicine;

M.D. Dublin 1850; professor of surgery in Univ. of Dublin 1852 to

death; surgeon in ord. to Queen in Ireland, July 1858 to death;

sec. to Royal college of surgeons Ireland long time, pres. 3

times; famous as a lithotomist. _d._ 7 Merrion sq. north Dublin 25

Sep. 1861 in 74 year. _Dublin Quarterly Journal of medical science

xxxiii_, 255–58 (1862).

CUSHMAN, SUSAN WEBB (_dau. of Elkanah Cushman of Boston, U.S.

merchant_). _b._ Boston 17 March 1822; made her début 8 June 1839

at Park theatre, New York as Laura Castelli in Epes Sargent’s play

_The Genoese_; made a remarkable success in _Satan in Paris_; came

to England 1846; played Ophelia and Juliet (200 nights) at

Haymarket theatre, London with great success 1846; retired from

the stage 1847. (_m._ 22 March 1848 James Sheridan Muspratt of

Liverpool, chemist 1821–71). _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1859. _Tallis’s

Drawing room table book, part 8_, _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York

Stage ii_, 271 (1867).

CUST, CHARLES HENRY (_2 son of 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853_). _b._ 27

Sep. 1813; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1836; cornet royal horse

guards 14 March 1834, captain 4 July 1845 to 1847 when he sold

out; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1859; M.P. for North Shropshire

13 July 1865 to Aug. 1866. _d._ 19 May 1875.

CUST, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of 1 Baron Brownlow

1744–1807_). _b._ 30 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 17 March 1794;

ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; cornet 16 dragoons 15 March 1810; major

55 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 27 July 1822 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for

Grantham 1818–26, for Lostwithiel 1826–32; equerry to Prince

Leopold of Saxe Coburg for many years from 1816, master of his

household to 1865; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 Aug. 1831;

K.C.H. 1831; assistant master of ceremonies to the Queen 18 Dec.

1845, master 1 Jany. 1847 to Feb. 1876; colonel 16 lancers 9 April

1859 to death; general 12 Jany. 1866; created baronet 23 Feb.

1876; author of _Noctes Dominicæ, or Sunday night readings_ 1848;

_Family reading, The New Testament narrative_ 1850; _Annals of the

wars of the eighteenth century 5 vols._ 1857, _3 ed._ 1862;

_Annals of the wars of the nineteenth century 4 vols._ 1862–63;

_Warriors of the thirty years war 2 vols._ 1865; _Warriors of the

civil wars of France and England 3 vols._ 1867–69. _d._ 8 Jermyn

st. Piccadilly, London 14 Jany. 1878. _bur._ at Belton near

Grantham.

CUST, HENRY FRANCIS COCKAYNE (_eld. son of hon. and Rev. Henry

Cockayne Cust 1780–1861, canon of Windsor_). _b._ Cockayne,

Hatley, Beds. 15 Sep. 1819; ed. at Eton; ensign 25 foot 30 March

1838; captain 8 hussars 19 Feb. 1847 to 24 Feb. 1854 when he sold

out; private sec. to Earl of Eglinton while lord lieut. of Ireland

1852; assumed additional name of Cockayne 14 Dec. 1861; sheriff of

Beds. 1869; M.P. for Grantham 1874–80. _d._ 5 April 1884.

CUST, PEREGRINE FRANCIS (_5 son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807_).

_b._ 13 Aug. 1791; M.P. for Honiton 1818–26; M.P. for Clitheroe

1826–32. _d._ 15 Sep. 1873.

CUSTANCE, WILLIAM NEVILLE (_2 son of Hambleton Thomas Custance of

Weston house near Norwich 1779–1845_). _b._ 24 Oct. 1811; ensign

95 foot 11 Oct. 1831; lieut.-col. 6 dragoon guards 1 Aug. 1856 to

27 July 1861 when placed on h.p.; commandant cavalry depot,

Canterbury 1 Oct. 1862 to 9 July 1866 when placed on h.p.; col. 11

Hussars 8 March 1875 to death; general 7 Sep. 1880; placed on

retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. _d._ Brookheath,

Salisbury 7 Feb. 1886.

CUTTS, MARIA. _b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1811; entered novitiate of

Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris 1828; a professed nun 1836;

superior of the convent at Grand Coteau, St. Landry parish,

Mississippi; superior of all the convents of her order in the west

of the United States. _d._ Grand Coteau 1853.

CUYLER, JACOB GLEN. Ensign 69 foot 26 Oct. 1799; major Cape Regiment

26 Jany. 1806 to 25 May 1817 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 11 Nov.

1851. _d._ 14 April 1854.

CYPLES, WILLIAM. _b._ Longton, Staffs. 31 Aug. 1831; edited several

provincial newspapers; contributed to many leading periodicals;

lived at Nottingham long time, lived in London 1877 to death;

author of _Pottery Poems_; _Satan restored, a poem_ 1859; _Philip

the Dreamer 3 vols._ 1866; _An inquiry into the process of human

experience_ 1880; _Hearts of gold_ 1883. _d._ Hammersmith 24 Aug.

1882. _Church quarterly review xiii_, 107–28 (1881); _Mind v_,

273, 390 (1880), _viii_, 150 (1882).

D

DACRE, THOMAS BRAND, 20 Baron. _b._ The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15

March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May

1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. _d._ The Hoo 21

March 1851.

DACRE, BARBARINA BRAND, Baroness (_3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner

Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89_). _b._ 9 May 1767; one of the

most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter

and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his _Essays on

Petrarch_ 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations

from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled _Ina_ was produced

at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed _Dramas,

translations and occasional poems 2 vols._ 1821; _Translations

from the Italian_ 1836; edited _Recollections of a Chaperon_ 1833

and _Tales of the peerage and the peasantry_ 1835, both by her

only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who _d._ 27 Jany. 1839 aged

42. (_m._ (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. _m._

(2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). _d._ 2

Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 296–97

(1854).

DACRE, HENRY OTWAY BRAND-TREVOR, 21 Baron (_brother of 20 Baron

Dacre 1774–1851_). _b._ 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27

April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in

Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824;

colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B.

4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. _d._ Great Cumberland place,

London 2 June 1853.

DACRES, JAMES RICHARD (_son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres

1749–1810_). _b._ Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796;

captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9

Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. _d._ Catesfield

lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in family vault at

Tetbury, Gloucs.

DACRES, SIR RICHARD JAMES (_son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres

1761–1837_). _b._ 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15

Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5;

col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to

1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877;

constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July

1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886.

_I.L.N. lxxix_, 181 (1881), _portrait_.

DACRES, SIR SIDNEY COLPOYS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._

Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1

Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov.

1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and

Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854;

superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July

1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal

hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service

pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug.

1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel

fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July

1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870;

visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death;

K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865,

G.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884.

_I.L.N. lxii_, 319, 321 (1873), _portrait_.

D’AETH, GEORGE WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent,

who d. April 1786_). _b._ April 1786; entered navy June 1799;

assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired

captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. _d._ Knowlton

court, Kent 28 April 1873.

DAFFORNE, JAMES. Contributed to the _Art Journal_ 1845 to death;

wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C.

Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W.

Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of _The pictorial table book_

1873; _The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description_

1877; _The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A._ 1879. _d._ Brodrick

road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.

DAFT, THOMAS BARNABAS. _b._ Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and

manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical

apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles

Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents

1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. _d._ 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec.

1878.

DAGLISH, ROBERT. _b._ 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at

Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected

Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings

but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form

of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given

by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72

competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of

and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. _d._

Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.

xxvi_, 561–63 (1867).

DAGLISH, ROBERT (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ Wigan 1809; partner

in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with

John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap

railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845;

built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49;

constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850;

sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by

his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at

Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that

they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of

Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. _d._ 6 May 1883. _Min. of

proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv_, 283–5 (1883).

D’AGUILAR, SIR GEORGE CHARLES (_son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2

dragoon guards_). _b._ Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24

Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb.

1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major

Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.;

major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.;

deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841;

commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848,

col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19

July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of _The practice and forms

of Courts Martial_ 1843, _5 ed._ 1867. _d._ Lower Brook st.

Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. _United Service Mag. Aug. 1847

pp. 622–27._

DAINTREE, RICHARD. _b._ Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at

Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852;

assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist

on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for

North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to

Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the

Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about

200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London

for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. _d._

Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. _Quarterly Journal

of Geol. Soc. xxxv_, 51–3 (1879); _Geol. Mag. v_, 336, 429–32

(1878).

D’ALBERT, CHARLES (_son of a captain of cavalry in French army_).

_b._ Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F.

W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at

Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at

Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various

musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of

innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. _d._ 14 Alexander sq.

South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. _Illust. news of

the world viii_ (1861), _portrait_.

DALE, JAMES. _b._ Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as

head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a

great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants

and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine

growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in

Loudon’s _Natural History_ that Mr. Dale was the only man in

England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine

tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved

fish. _d._ Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.

DALE, JAMES MURRAY (_son of Very Rev. T. Dale_ 1797–1870). _b._ 20

July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London

1843–73; author of _Clergyman’s Legal handbook_ 1858, _6 ed._

1881; _Church extension law 1864_; _Legal ritual, Judgments of

privy council and dean of arches_ 1871. _d._ Cromer 2 March 1877.

DALE, JOHN. _b._ Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay

and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s

management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at

Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the

Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in

Talfourd’s tragedy _Ion_ at Covent Garden, May 1836; played

Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey

and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur

in _The Bohemians_. _d._ Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. _Theatrical

Times iii_, 137, 146 (1848), _portrait_.

DALE, JOSEPH. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843

to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums

in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of

trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at

the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of

_On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum_ 1856. _d._ Vicarage

road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. _Gardener’s Magazine xxi_, 59

(1878), _xxii_, 7, 80 (1879).

DALE, VERY REV. THOMAS (_son of William Dale of Pentonville,

London_). _b._ Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital

1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C.

of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English

language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll.

London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill

1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846;

Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of

St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct.

1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that

parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield,

Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean

of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author

of _The widow of Nain and other poems_ 1817; _The outlaw of

Taurus_ 1818; _The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English

verse 2 vols._ 1824; _Poetical works_ 1836; _The sabbath companion

being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice_

1844, _3 ed._ 1853 and about 70 other books. _d._ 2 Amen corner,

St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. _Palmer’s St. Pancras_ (1870) 43,

142, 159–61; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages,

fourth series_ (1860), _portrait_; _Church of England photographic

portrait gallery_ 1859, _portrait_ 24; _I.L.N. xxxv_, 647 (1859),

_portrait_, _lvi_, 563, 643 (1870).

DALGAIRNS, REV. JOHN DOBREE (_son of Wm. Dalgairns_). _b._ Guernsey

21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox.,

scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s

band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep.

1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor

at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and

1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London

Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H.

Newman’s _Lives of the English saints_; author of _The devotion to

the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of

Jansenism_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1854; _The German mystics of the

fourteenth century_ 1858; _The Holy Communion, its philosophy,

theology and practice_ 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many

articles in the _British Critic_, _Dublin Review_ and

_Contemporary Review_. _d._ in monastery of the Cistercians at

Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. _bur._ in private

cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham.

_Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 3–5 (1885).

DALGLISH, ROBERT (_son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow_).

_b._ Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1

April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown

near Glasgow 20 June 1880.

DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROWN-RAMSAY, 1 Marquis of (_youngest child

of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838_). _b._ Dalhousie castle, co.

Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833,

M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East

Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838;

P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843,

pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland

12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor

general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848,

left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852,

Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of

Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849;

constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13

Jany. 1853. _d._ Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. _Sir C. Jackson’s

Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration_;

_J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 98–104;

_I.L.N. xiv_, 36 (1849), _portrait_, _xxii_, 61 (1853),

_portrait_.

DALHOUSIE, FOX MAULE-RAMSAY, 11 Earl of (_eld. son of 1 Baron

Panmure 1771–1852_). _b._ Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April

1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain

31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for

Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of

state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice

pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841;

sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to

Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut.

of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25

May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2

baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec.

1860. _d._ Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. _The statesmen

of England_ (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world, i_,

(1858), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvi_, 245 (1850), _portrait_, _xxvi_,

152 (1855), _portrait_, _lxv_, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871),

_portrait_.

DALHOUSIE, GEORGE MAULE-RAMSAY, 12 Earl of (_2 son of hon. John

Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot_). _b._ 26 April 1806; entered

navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856;

superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862;

commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17

March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay

of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875;

retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.

DALHOUSIE, JOHN WILLIAM RAMSAY, 13 Earl of (_son of the preceding_).

_b._ 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March

1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884;

contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to

20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to

the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April

1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886.

_d._ Havre 25 Nov. 1887. _bur._ parish church of Cockpen, co.

Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. _London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2_,

_portrait_.

DALLAS, REV. ALEXANDER ROBERT CHARLES (_2 son of Robert Charles

Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824_). _b._ Colchester 29 March

1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy

assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when

placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester

coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of

Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V.

of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep.

1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death;

founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics

1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of _Cottager’s guide to the

New Testament 6 vols._ 1837–43; _A Guide to the Acts of the

Apostles by A. D._ 1847; _Revelation readings 3 vols._ 1848 and

upwards of 50 other books. _d._ in house of Mr. Annesley,

Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. _bur._ Wonston churchyard 17 Dec.

_Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his

widow_ (1871), _portrait_.

DALLAS, CHARLES. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St.

Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. _d._ Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April

1855 in 88 year.

DALLAS, ELMSLIE WILLIAM (_2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London_).

_b._ London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34;

painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at

Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S.

Edin. 1851; author of _The Elements of plane practical geometry_

1855. _d._ 26 Jany. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 340

(1880).

DALLAS, ENEAS SWEETLAND (_elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica,

physician_). _b._ Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a

journalist on the _Times_ many years, special correspondent at

Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to _Daily News_, _Saturday

Review_, _Pall Mall Gazette_ and _The World_; edited _Once a Week_

1868; author of _Poetics, an essay on poetry_ 1852; _The gay

science 2 vols._ 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s

_Clarissa Harlowe_ 1868; published _Kettner’s Book of the table, a

manual of cookery_ 1877 _anon._ (_m._ in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and

in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow

of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court,

London on her petition 10 May 1874). _d._ 88 Newman st. Oxford st.

London 17 Jany. 1879. _I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp._ 78, 129, 131,

_portrait_; _Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1_, _pp._ 51–3 (1876).

DALLIN, THOMAS FRANCIS (_eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of

Plumstead, Kent_). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged

17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of

Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at

Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8

May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to

death; author with J. Y. Sargent of _Materials and models for

Greek and Latin prose composition_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1875; _Materials

for Greek prose composition_ 1878. _d._ Brighton 11 Nov. 1880.

_bur._ in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. _Times 13 Nov. 1880 p.

5, col. 6_, _15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4_, _17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6_.

DALLING and BULWER, WILLIAM HENRY LYTTON EAKLE BULWER, Baron (_2 son

of Wm. Earle Bulwer 1757–1807, col. 106 foot_). _b._ 31 Baker st.

Portman sq. London 13 Feb. 1801; ed. at Sunbury and Harrow;

entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1819, migrated to Downing coll.; went to

the Morea as agent of the Greek committee in London 1824; attaché

at Berlin 1827, at Vienna 1829, at the Hague 1830; M.P. for

Wilton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Coventry 1831–34, for Marylebone 1835;

chargé d’affaires at Brussels 1835–36; sec. of embassy at

Constantinople 1837–39, at Paris 1839–43; ambassador at Madrid 14

Nov. 1843, arbitrator between Spain and Morocco 1844; P.C. 30 June

1845; K.C.B. 27 April 1848, G.C.B. 1 March 1851; ambassador at

Washington 27 April 1849; minister plenipotentiary at Florence 19

Jany. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1855; granted a pension 25 April 1855;

ambassador at Constantinople 10 May 1858 to Aug. 1865; M.P. for

Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868 to 21 March 1871 when created baron Dalling

and Bulwer of Dalling in the county of Norfolk; said to be the

original of George Sand’s ‘Mauprat’ 1836; author of _An autumn in

Greece_ 1826; _France, social, literary and political 2 vols._

1834, being the first half of a work called _The monarchy of the

middle classes_ 1836; _Historical characters 3 vols._ 1867–73;

_Life of Viscount Palmerston 3 vols._ 1870–74. _d._ Naples 23 May

1872. _A. Hayward’s Biographical essays ii_, 320–40 (1870);

_Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington iii_, 63–74 (1855);

_Illust. Review iv_, 97–103 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ix_, 245

(1846), _portrait_, _lxi_, 168 (1872).

DALLMEYER, JOHANN HEINRICK (_2 son of Wm. Dallmeyer of Loxten near

Versmold, Westphalia_). _b._ Loxten 6 Sep. 1830; apprenticed to an

optician at Osnabruck 3 years; came to England 1851; a

manufacturer of telescopes in London 1859; naturalised 17 Sep.

1859; F.R.A.S. 1861; supplied photographic lenses to photographers

in all parts of the world; patented a single wide-angle lens 1864

largely used for photographing landscapes; received highest awards

at Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions; author of

_On the choice and use of photographic lenses_, _6 editions_. _d._

on board ship off coast of New Zealand 30 Dec. 1883. _Monthly

notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlv_, 190–91 (1885).

DALMER, THOMAS. Second lieut. 23 foot 22 May 1797, major 10 Dec.

1807 to 24 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 47 foot 16 April

1847 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._

Hawkhurst, Kent 26 Aug. 1854.

DALRYMPLE, SIR ADOLPHUS JOHN, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Hew

Whiteford Dalrymple, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1830 in 80 year_).

_b._ parish of Marylebone, London, Feb. 1784; ed. at Harrow;

ensign 37 foot 25 Oct. 1799; major 19 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1808

to Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign

1830–41; general 11 April 1860; M.P. for Weymouth 1817–18, for

Appleby 1819–26, for Haddington district of burghs 1826–31, for

Brighton 1837–41. _d._ Delrowe house near Watford, Herts. 3 March

1866.

DALRYMPLE, DONALD (_4 son of Wm. Dalrymple of Norwich, surgeon

1772–1847_). _b._ Norwich 1814; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Guy’s

hospital; F.R.C.S. 1854; M.R.C.P. 1859; a surgeon at Norwich

1835–62; sheriff of Norwich 1860–61; M.P. for Bath 17 Nov. 1868 to

death; author of _Meteorological observations on the climate of

Egypt_ 1861. _d._ Coldecot near Southampton 19 Sep. 1873.

DALRYMPLE, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Norwich 1803; ed.

at Univ. of Edin.; a surgeon at 8 New Broad st. City of London

1827–39 when he moved to 6 Holles st. Cavendish sq.; assistant

surgeon to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1832, surgeon 1843,

consulting surgeon 1849; a founder of Royal college of Chemistry

1845; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; author of _The anatomy of the human eye_

1834; _The pathology of the human eye_ 1852. _d._ 60 Grosvenor st.

London 2 May 1852 in 49 year. _Proc. of Royal Soc. vi_, 250

(1852).

DALTON, CHARLES JAMES (_youngest son of Rev. James Dalton, R. of

Croft, Yorkshire_). _b._ 13 May 1812; Second lieut. R.A. 18 Dec.

1829, col. 25 Sep. 1859 to 23 April 1868, col. commandant 20 April

1877 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Percy house, Twickenham

park, Twickenham 7 Nov. 1880.

DALTON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Dalton of Bessville, co. Westmeath_). _b._

Bessville 29 June 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish

bar 1813; comr. of Irish loan fund board 1835; granted a civil

list pension of £50, 4 March 1856; gained prize of £80 and

Cunningham gold medal of Royal Irish Academy for best essay on

social and political state of Irish people 1827; author of

_History of the county of Dublin 2 vols._ 1838; _The history of

Drogheda 2 vols._ 1844; _History of Ireland to the year 1245_, _2

vols._ 1845 and other books. _d._ 48 Summer hill, Dublin 20 Jany.

1867.

DALTON, REV. JOHN. Educ. at Oscott college; engaged in R.C. missions

at Northampton, Norwich and Lynn; elected a member of the chapter

of see of Northampton; published _Christianity in Europe by

Novalis translated from the German_ 1844; _The art of dying well,

translated from the Latin of Bellarmine_ 1846 and many other

translations from German, Latin and Spanish. _d._ St. John’s,

Maddermarket, Norwich 15 Feb. 1874 in 60 year.

DALTON, JOHN STUART. Librarian of free public library, William Brown

st. Liverpool 1852 to death; author of many poems. _d._ Low hill,

Liverpool 2 Aug. 1868 aged 72.

DALTON, WILLIAM HENRY. Bookseller in Cockspur st. London about

1833–63; founded Booksellers Protection Association about 1851;

member of Metropolitan Board of Works for parish of St. Martin in

the Fields 1855 to death, being the last survivor of the original

members. _d._ 30 Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 23 June

1884.

DALY, CUTHBERT FEATHERSTONE. Entered navy 17 Feb. 1794; captain 18

Aug. 1808; R.A. on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Hayes

place, Lisson grove, London 6 Dec. 1851.

DALY, SIR DOMINIC (_3 son of Dominic Daly of Benmore, co. Galway,

who d. 1841_). _b._ Ardfry, co. Galway 11 Aug. 1798; went to

Canada as private sec. to Sir Francis Burton 1822; assistant sec.

to province of Lower Canada 1825–27, sec. 1827–40, sec. of

province of Canada on union of the two provinces 1840–48; lieut.

governor of Tobago 16 Sep. 1851, of Prince Edward’s Island 8 May

1854 to 1859; knighted by patent 2 July 1856; governor and

commander in chief of South Australia 28 Oct. 1861 to death,

assumed office March 1862. (_m._ 20 May 1826 Caroline Maria 2 dau.

of Ralph Gore of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, she was granted a

civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868 and _d._ 1872), he _d._

Government house, Adelaide 19 Feb. 1868. _J. P. Stow’s South

Australia_ (1883) 37–42.

DALY, ELLEN. _b._ Kidderminster 1806; acted in melodrama at Adelphi

theatre, London 1820–21; acted at Covent Garden and Haymarket, at

Surrey theatre 14 years, at Standard theatre 1848–49; at

Princess’s theatre under Charles Kean 1850–59. _d._ Notting hill,

London 18 Jany. 1883. _Actors by daylight i_, 89 (1838),

_portrait_; _Dramatic Mirror_ (1847) _p._ 37, _portrait_;

_Theatrical Times iv_, 1–2 (1849), _portrait_.

DALY, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (_younger son of Denis Daly of Dunsandle,

co. Galway 1747–91, P.C._) _b._ Dunsandle 8 June 1783; fellow

commoner at Trin. coll. Dublin 1799, gold medallist 1803, B.A.

1803, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1843; preb. of Holy Trinity, Cork

1809–43; preb. of Stagonill, Dublin 1809–43; R. of Powerscourt

1809–43; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, elected 8 Dec. 1840,

declared dean 1842 by court of delegates appointed to try

validity of the election; bishop of united dioceses of Cashel,

Emly, Waterford and Lismore 12 Jany. 1843 to death; an eminent

leader of the Evangelical party; edited O’Brien’s _Focaloir

Gaoidhilge-Sags-Bhéarla, or an Irish-English dictionary_ 1832;

_Letters and papers of Viscountess Powerscourt_ 1838, _9 ed._

1874. _d._ See house, Waterford 16 Feb. 1872. _Personal

recollections of Right Rev. Robert Daly by An old parishioner

i.e. Mrs. H. Madden_ 1872.

DALYELL, SIR JOHN GRAHAM, 6 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Robert Dalyell, 4

baronet, who d. 1791_). _b._ Binns, Linlithgowshire, Aug. 1775;

lamed for life when an infant; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and

Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1796; knighted by patent 22 Aug.

1836; pres. of Society of Arts for Scotland 1839–40; succeeded his

elder brother as 6 baronet 1 Feb. 1841; author of _Fragments of

Scottish history_ 1798; _Scottish poems of the sixteenth century_

1801; _Journal of Richard Bannatyne_ 1806; _Darker superstitions

of Scotland_ 1834; _Musical memoirs of Scotland_ 1849. _d._ 14

Great King st. Edinburgh 7 June 1851. _Sir J. G. Dalyell’s The

powers of the creator displayed in the creation to which is

prefixed a memoir of the author, vol. iii_, 1858.

DALYELL, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER OSBORNE, 8 Baronet (_eld. son of the

succeeding_). _b._ 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1847;

barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; employed in the consulate at

Bucharest 1855–57; consul at Erzeroum 1859–65; consul for the

Vilayet of the Danube 17 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1874 when he retired

on a pension. _d._ The Binns, Linlithgow 21 Jany. 1886.

DALYELL, SIR WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM CAVENDISH, 7 Baronet. _b._ 27 April

1784; entered navy 1793; a prisoner in France 1805–14; commander

of Greenwich hospital 27 Aug. 1840 to death; retired captain 1

July 1864; succeeded 7 June 1851. _d._ Royal hospital, Greenwich

16 Feb. 1865.

DALZELL, NICOL ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 21 April 1817; ed. at high

sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1837; assistant comr. of customs,

Bombay 1841; forest ranger of Scinde; conservator of forests

Bombay, retired on a pension 1870; F.R.S. Edin.; author of _A

review of Plowden’s Report on salt revenue of Bombay_ 1855; _The

Bombay Flora_ 1861. _d._ Edinburgh, Jany. 1878.

DAMES, WILLIAM LONGWORTH. Ensign 66 foot 26 July 1826, major 12 Oct.

1841 to 6 Nov. 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 12 Jany. 1865

to death; L.G. 4 Feb. 1867. _d._ 23 East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1868

aged 61.

DAMPIER, JOHN LUCIUS (_2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice

of Court of King’s Bench_). _b._ 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec.

1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819;

fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of

Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims

connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for

investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of

Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. _d._ 33

Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. _G.M. xl_, 94–5 (1853).

DANBY, FRANCIS (_3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford,

farmer_). _b._ Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially

of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at

Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris

and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and

at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in

London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853.

_d._ Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. _Sandby’s History of the

royal academy ii_, 68–71 (1862); _Redgrave’s Century of painters

ii_, 437–49 (1866); _W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie_ (1869)

7–10.

DANBY, JAMES FRANCIS (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Bristol

1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes

at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. _d._ 54

Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. _Graphic xii_,

518 (1875), _portrait_.

DANBY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ about 1817; copied

pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30

pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of

Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were

among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. _d._ 11

Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.

DANCE, CHARLES (_son of George Dance of London, architect

1740–1825_). _b._ about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of

Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing

officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on

pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J.

R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30

dramatic pieces the _Bengal Tiger_, _Delicate Ground_, _A morning

call_, _Who speaks first_, and _Naval Engagements_ are still

sometimes played. _d._ Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. _Planche’s

Extravaganzas ii_, (1879), _portrait_.

DANCER, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835

to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with

the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain

since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions;

constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England;

produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester

literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. _d._ Manchester about

6 Dec. 1887.

DANELL, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_son of Mr. Danell of London_). _b._

Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s

college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June

1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of

Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar

capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death,

consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March

1871. _d._ The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark

14 June 1881. _The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881._

DANIEL, GEORGE. _b._ City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a

stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to

_Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine_ 1808–11; author of _The Times, a

prophecy_ 1811 anon.; _Miscellaneous poems_ 1812; _Dick Distich 3

vols._ 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals

under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of _The modern

Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical_ 1814, _2

ed._ 1816; edited _Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols._

1821; his interlude _Doctor Bolus_ was acted at English opera

house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce _The disagreeable

surprise_ at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited _Cumberland’s British

Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols._ 1823–31,

for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the

initials D—— G——; edited _Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols._

1831–32; author of _Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi_

1828; _Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale_ 1829 anon., a

scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; _Garrick in the green room_

1829; _Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols._ 1842, reprinted

1874; _The Missionary_ 1847 a religious poem; _Democritus in

London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest_

1852; _Love’s last labour not lost_ 1863. _d._ at his son’s house,

The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. _Memoir of D——

G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British

theatre vol. xxxix_ (1838), _pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _G.M. 1864 pt.

2_, _pp._ 450–5.

DANIEL, WILLIAM SHAND. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed

poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama

which appeared in _Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces

Edin._ 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death;

edited _History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan

Anderson_ 1852. _d._ 2 Dec. 1858. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of

Scotland 1868 p._ 130.

DANIELL, EDMUND ROBERT (_son of George Daniell of London, barrister,

who d. 1833_). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John

Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death;

F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of _Reports of cases argued on

the equity side of the Court of Exchequer_ 1824; _The practice of

the high Court of Chancery 3 vols._ 1837–41, _6 ed._, _3 vols._

1882–84; _Practical observations on the new Chancery orders_ 1841,

_2 ed._ 1842. _d._ Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.

DANIELL, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841;

assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of

West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the

frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of

genus _Daniellia_, Benn. called after him; author of _Medical

topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea_ 1849; _On

the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies_ 1862. _d._ Southampton

26 June 1865. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.

DANSEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9

Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._ London 21 July 1853.

DANSEY, REV. WILLIAM (_son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset_).

_b._ Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar

1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St.

Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to

death; translated _Arrian on Coursing_ 1831; edited _A brief

account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx_ 1832; author of

_Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name,

title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and

fall of rural bishops 2 vols._ 1835, _2 ed._ 1844. _d._ Weymouth 7

June 1856.

DANSON, GEORGE. _b._ Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at

theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1

at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following

pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount

Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839,

the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of

Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh

1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps

1850. _d._ 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. _Daily

Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3._

DARBY, GEORGE (_4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d.

1834_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam.,

B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East

Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England

and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe

comr. 1852 to death. _d._ Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov.

1877. _bur._ Markley 21 Nov.

DARBY, REV. JOHN NELSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 18

Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold

medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in

Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in

Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded

in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at

Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and

other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled

in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer

under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. _d._

Bournemouth 29 April 1882. _Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed.

by W. Kelly 32 vols._ 1867–83; _Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia

iii_, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); _Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme

d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui_ 1858; _A. N. Grove’s

Darbyism, its rise and development_ 1866; _The close of 28 years

association with J. N. D. by W. H. D._ 1866.

DARBY, JONATHAN GEORGE NORTON (_eld. son of George Darby

1798–1877_). _b._ 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854;

barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of _A

practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and

Ireland_ 1867. _d._ 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870

in 41 year.

DARBY, JOSEPH. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany.

1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1

Jany. 1868. _d._ Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.

DARBY-GRIFFITH, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.,

B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. _d._ Padworth house near

Reading 19 March 1885.

D’ARCY, GEORGE ABBAS KOOLI. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3

Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852;

major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854

to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive

governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the

Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of

honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870

to 1876. _d._ 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.

DARELL, SIR HARRY FRANCIS COLVILLE, 3 Baronet. _b._ Lucknow 17 Nov.

1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7

dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p.

_d._ Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.

DARGAN, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer_). _b._

co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in

constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway

in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of

the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and

western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly

£100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of

£20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition;

the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a

monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. _d._ 2

Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. _The Irish industrial

exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule_ (1854) _ix-xiv_, _portrait_;

_Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook_ (1853) _pp._ 12, 41, 148,

_portrait_.

DARK, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Edgware road, London 24 May 1795;

professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire

in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground

from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to

1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to

Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood

road, overlooking the ground, and _d._ there 17 Oct. 1871. _bur._

Kensal Green 21 Oct. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_, 350–51

(1862), _v_, _pp. xiii, xxii_, (1876).

DARLEY, EDWARD. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep.

1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24

Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1

Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ 24 North bank, Regent’s park,

London 24 March 1854 aged 78.

DARLEY, RIGHT REV. JOHN RICHARD (_2 son of Richard Darley of

Fairfield, co. Monaghan_). _b._ Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at

Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A.

1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch.

1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R.

of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of

Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in

Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of _The Grecian drama, a

treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks_ 1840; _A

treatise on Homer with questions_ 1848. _d._ The Palace, Kilmore

20 Jany. 1884.

DARLEY, WILLIAM WALLACE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut.

col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G.

7 Feb. 1870. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.

DARLING, SIR CHARLES HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Charles Darling,

governor of Barbados, who d. 1845_). _b._ Annapolis Royal, Nova

Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to

30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of

island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of

Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of

Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April

1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25

Jany. 1870.

DARLING, GEORGE. _b._ Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;

M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at

Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists;

author of _An essay on medical economy_ 1814 anon.; _Instructions

for making unfermented bread_ 1846 anon. _17 ed._ 1851. _d._

Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.

DARLING, JAMES. _b._ Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the

publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn,

London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death;

commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840

named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan

library; compiled and published _Bibliotheca Clericalis_ 1843;

_Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general

literature 2 vols._ 1854–59. _d._ Fortess terrace west, Kentish

Town, London 2 March 1862.

DARLING, JOHN (_younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq.

London_). _b._ 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London,

Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of

_An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition

against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based_ 1849; _A

treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee

Relief Act_ 1855. _d._ Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27

Sep. 1858.

DARLING, SIR RALPH (_son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot_).

_b._ 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July

1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813;

deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded

troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep.

1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct.

1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov.

1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. _d._

Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. _Braim’s History of New South

Wales i_, 53–74 (1876).

DARLING, WILLIAM. _b._ Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the

Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he

retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat

Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued

the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they

went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries

Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through

the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. _d._ The Wynding

house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. _Journal of W. Darling_ 1795–1860,

(1886); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 553 (1865).

DARLING, WILLIAM. _b._ Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;

studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York

1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris

1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of

New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy

in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of _Anatomography or graphic

anatomy_ 1879; author with A. L. Renney of _Essentials of anatomy_

1880. _d._ Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.

DARLING, WILLIAM LINDSAY. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51

foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death;

general 15 Dec. 1861. _d._ Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.

DARNELL, GEORGE. Established and conducted a large day school at

Islington, London; started _Darnell’s Copybooks_ about 1840 when

he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be

first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the

next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of

_Short and certain road to reading_ 1845; _Grammar made

intelligible to children_ 1846; _Reading lessons 6 numbers_ 1855;

_Arithmetic made intelligible to children_ 1855, all of which had

a great sale. _d._ 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.

DARNELL, REV. WILLIAM NICHOLAS (_son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle,

wine merchant_). _b._ Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle

gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A.

1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15;

V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb.

of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12

Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of

Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to

death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of _Sermons_ 1816; _The

correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir_ 1831; _An

arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to

render them more useful for private devotion_ 1839, and of

sermons, charges and other works. _d._ Stanhope rectory 19 June

1865. _bur._ Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.

DART, JOSEPH. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. _d._

Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.

DART, JOSEPH HENRY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ India house,

Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate

prizeman for his poem _The Exile of St. Helena_ 1838; B.A. 1838,

M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of

the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior

conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer

of New Forest 1877; author of _A compendium of the law and

practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate_ 1851, _6 ed. 2

vols._ 1888; _The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse_ 1862.

_d._ Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. _Law Journal

xxii_, 373, 381 (1887).

DARTMOUTH, WILLIAM LEGGE, 4 Earl of (_eld. son of 3 Earl of

Dartmouth 1755–1810_). _b._ in parish of St. George, Hanover sq.

London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834;

succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia

15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. _d._ Patshull near

Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.

DARUSMONT, FRANCES, known as Fanny Wright (_dau. of Mr. Wright of

Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798_). _b._ Miln’s buildings,

Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt;

spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’

in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000

acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro

slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were

liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his

socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the _New

Harmony Gazette_; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social

questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation

of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female

suffrage; author of _Views of society and manners in America_

1821; _A few days in Athens_ 1822. (_m._ 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont

a French reformer, from whom she separated). _d._ Cincinnati, Ohio

14 Dec. 1852. _R. D. Owen’s Threading my way_ (1873) 264–72; _Mrs.

Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans_ (1831) _i_, 96–100,

_ii_, 76–77; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ (1855) _p._

842.

DARVALL, EDWARD. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col.

Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on

retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Acton place, Suffolk 20

Oct. 1885 in 80 year.

DARVALL, SIR JOHN BAYLEY (_son of Edward Darvall, captain 9

dragoons_). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A.

1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16

Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member

of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W.

1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30

May 1877. _d._ 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec.

1883.

DARVILL, SIR HENRY (_eld. son of John Darvill_). _b._ 1812;

solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town

clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted

at Osborne 20 April 1883. _d._ Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883.

_bur._ Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.

DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (_5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of

Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848_). _b._ The Mount, Shrewsbury 12

Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll.

Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the

Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct.

1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42,

at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839,

royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of _Narrative

of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3,

entitled Journal and Remarks_; _Geology of the voyage of the

Beagle_ 3 _parts 1842–46_; _On the origin of species by means of

natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the

struggle for life_ 1859; _The descent of man and selection in

relation to sex_ 1871, and other books. _d._ Down 19 April 1882.

_bur._ Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A.

placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. _Life and

letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols._ 1887,

_portrait_; _Charles Darwin, Nature series_ 1882; _Illust. Review

ii_, 289–91 (1871), _portrait_; _Nature x_, 79 (1874), _portrait_;

_The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879_, 2 _portraits_.

DARWIN, SIR FRANCIS SACHEVERELL (_2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby,

M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802_). _b._ parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June

1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at

Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on

presenting an address from city of Lichfield. _d._ Breadsall

priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_,

195 (1861).

DASENT, JOHN BURY (_eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general

of St. Vincent_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and

Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge

of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858

to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 15 Warwick road,

Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.

DASHWOOD, REV. GEORGE HENRY (_son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of

Doddington, Isle of Ely_). _b._ Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct.

1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow

Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844;

printed at his private press _Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs

of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth

of Queen Victoria_ 1844; author of _Sigilla Antiqua_ 1847, and of

many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s

_Norfolk Archæology vols._ 1–5. _d._ Quebec house, East Dereham,

Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. _Register and mag. of biog. i_, 310–12

(1869).

DASHWOOD, WILLIAM BATEMAN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug.

1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension

for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct.

1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. _d._ suddenly at Geneva 9 May

1869.

DAUBENY, CHARLES GILES BRIDLE (_3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of

Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817_). _b._ Stratton 11 Feb.

1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow

1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817,

B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of

chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there

1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician

to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at

Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of _A description of

active and extinct volcanoes_ 1826, _2 ed._ 1848; _An introduction

to the atomic theory_ 1831, _2 ed._ 1850; _Lectures on Roman

husbandry_ 1857; _Lectures on Climate_ 1863; _Miscellanies on

scientific and literary subjects 2 vols._ 1867. _d._ Botanic

gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a._m._ 13 Dec. 1867. _Proc. of Royal

Society xvii_, 74–80 (1869); _Quarterly Journal of Geological

society xxiv_, 33–36 (1868).

DAUBENY, HENRY. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813

to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to

death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s _Guide to

the Church_ 1830. _d._ Rome 10 April 1853.

DAUBENY, HENRY. _b._ 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845;

L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to

death; author of _The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids_

1865. _d._ Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.

DAUGARS, JOHN WILLIAM GUSTAVUS LEO (_only son of Rev. Guillaume

Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s

le Grand, London_). _b._ Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at

Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A.

1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to _Temple Bar_,

_The Graphic_ and other publications under nom de plume of Claude

Templar. _d._ Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.

DAUGLISH, JOHN (_son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk

in a large East India house_). _b._ Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824;

ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55,

bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a

patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4

other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread

which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr

of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver

medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in

London and the provinces. _d._ Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany.

1866. _On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson_

1884, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxvi_, 259–60 (1860).

DAUNT, VERY REV. ACHILLES (_eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton

abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871_). _b._ Rincurran near

Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar

1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11

Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co.

Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork

and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of _The Church a

lesson book for angels_ 1872; _The person and offices of the Holy

Ghost_ 1879; _The morning of life and other gleanings from the

manuscripts of the late A. Daunt_ 1881. _d._ St. Anne’s, Blarney

near Cork 17 June 1878. _Spent in the service, a memoir of the

Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne_ 1879, _portrait_;

_Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt_ (1881) 25–28,

_portrait_.

DAVENPORT, EDWARD GERSHOM. _b._ 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5

Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4

Dec. 1874.

DAVENPORT, JOHN MARRIOTT. _b._ Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor

at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81,

undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of

Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of _Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of

Oxfordshire 1086–1868_, 1868; _Oxfordshire Annals_ 1869; _Lord

lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of

precedence_ 1871; _Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county

justices within the city of Oxford_ 1872; _Notes as to Oxford

Castle_ 1877. _d._ 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.

DAVENPORT, RICHARD ALFRED. _b._ about 1777; author of _New elegant

extracts_, _2nd series 12 vols._ 1823–7; wrote some of the

biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s

_British poets 100 vols._ 1822; edited more than _100 vols._ of

miscellaneous works including the _Poetical Register 8 vols._

1802–11. _d._ from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at

Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.

DAVENPORT, SAMUEL (_son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect_).

_b._ Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London,

line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for

biographical works; engraved _The works of W. Hogarth_ 1821; his

best plates are in the _Forget-me-not_ 1828–42; one of the

earliest engravers on steel. _d._ 15 July 1867.