1783–1853_). _b._ Larne, co. Antrim, Aug. 1778; ed. at Belfast
academy and Glasgow college; licensed by Unitarian presbytery of
Antrim 9 April 1800; second minister of Belfast 26 Aug. 1800 to
1815; kept a boarding school at Mount college, Belfast; D.D.
Marischal college, Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1810; minister at Strand st.
Dublin from 15 Oct. 1815; M.R.I.A. librarian, retired 1861; author
of _Juvenile poems, By a Student of the University of Glasgow_
[1795]; _The Man of Age_ 1797, _2 ed._ 1798; _The doctrine of the
Trinity_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1831; _The life of Michael Servetus_ 1848
and 20 other books. _d._ Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 16 Oct. 1865.
_Sermons of Rev. W. H. Drummond with memoir by J. S. Porter_ 1867,
2 _portraits_.
DRURY, BYRON (_son of Rev. Henry Drury of Harrow school_). _b._
1815; entered navy 13 Aug. 1830; surveyed coast of New Zealand
1850–56; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired 31 March 1866; retired
admiral 7 April 1885; F.R.G.S. _d._ 4 Cambridge villas, Cheltenham
6 Nov. 1888.
DRURY, VENERABLE HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury
1778–1841_). _b._ Harrow 11 May 1812; ed. at Harrow and Caius
coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; R. of Alderley, Gloucs. 1843; V.
of Bremhill, Wilts. Jany. 1845 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop
of Salisbury 1850 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1855 to
death; chaplain of House of Commons, Sep. 1857 to death;
archdeacon of Wilts, July 1862 to death; published with some
friends a collection of translations into Latin and Greek by
Cambridge men entitled _Arundines Cami_ 1841, 6 ed. 1865. _d._
Bremhill vicarage 25 Jany. 1863. _G.M. xiv_, 660–61 (1863).
DRURY, WILLIAM BARKER (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Drury of Dublin_).
_b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar
1835; registrar of Irish Court of Chancery 1859 to death;
published _Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore
Sugden 1843–4_, _Dublin_ 1851; _Select cases in the Court of
Chancery tempore Napier 1858–9_, _Dublin_ 1860; published with F.
W. Walsh _Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore
Plunket 1837–40_, _2 vols._ _Dublin_ 1839–42; with R. Warren
_Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden
1841–43_, _4 vols. Dublin_ 1843–46. _d._ Harcourt st. Dublin 9
Jany. 1885 in 73 year.
DRY, SIR RICHARD. _b._ Elphin near Launceston, Tasmania 15 June
1815; member of council of Tasmania, Feb. 1844; member for
Launceston of legislative council 1851–62, for Tamar 1862 to
death; speaker of council 30 Dec. 1851 to 1855; knighted by patent
12 March 1858; colonial secretary and premier 24 Nov. 1866 to
death. _d._ Hobart Town 1 Aug. 1869. _Fenton’s History of
Tasmania_ (1884) 74, 338, 459.
DUANE, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of William Duane of Philadelphia,
journalist 1760–1835_). _b._ Clonmel, Ireland 1780; a printer,
afterwards a paper dealer; admitted to the bar 1815; represented
Philadelphia in the legislature; assistant editor of the _Aurora_,
Philadelphia paper to 1822; sec. of the U.S. treasury 1833,
removed by Jackson 23 Sep. 1833, for declining to remove the
deposits from the United States bank; author of _The law of
nations investigated_ 1809; _Letters to the people of
Pennsylvania, on internal improvements_ 1811; _Narrative and
correspondence concerning the removal of the deposits_ 1838. _d._
Philadelphia 27 Sep. 1865.
DUBOURG, GEORGE (_grandson of Matthew Dubourg, violinist
1703–1767_). _b._ 1799; contributed to various newspapers
especially at Brighton; author of the words of many songs, best
known of which is John Parry’s ‘Wanted a Governess’; published
_The Violin, being an account of that leading instrument and its
most eminent professors_ 1836, _5 ed._ 1856. _d._ Maidenhead 17
April 1882.
DUCIE, HENRY GEORGE FRANCIS REYNOLDS-MORETON, 2 Earl of (_eld. son
of 1 Earl of Ducie 1775–1840_). _b._ Conduit st. London 8 May
1802; M.P. for Gloucs. 1831–32, for East Gloucs. 1832–1834;
succeeded as 2 Earl 22 June 1840; a lord in waiting to the Queen
1846–1852; a charity estates comr. 1849; pres. of Royal
Agricultural Society; invented the Ducie cultivator and many other
agricultural implements; master of Vale of White Horse hounds
1830–42. _d._ Tortworth court, Gloucs. 2 June 1853. _Sporting
Review xxviii_, 64 (1852), _portrait_, _xxx_, 140 (1853); _I.L.N.
xxi_, 41 (1852), _portrait_; _Cecil’s Records of the Chase_ (1877)
199–201.
DUCKETT, SIR GEORGE (_younger son of Sir George Jackson, 1 baronet,
who took name of Duckett 1797 and d. 15 Dec. 1822 aged 97_). _b._
Old palace yard, Westminster 17 July 1777; M.P. for Lymington
1807–1812; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1808. _d._ Gloucester gardens, Hyde park,
London 15 June 1856.
DUCKWORTH, SIR JOHN THOMAS BULLER, 2 Baronet. _b._ Downes, Crediton,
Devon 17 March 1809; succeeded his father 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at
Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; M.P. for Exeter 1845–1857;
sheriff of Devon 1861; one of referees of House of Commons for
private bills 1868. _d._ Wear house near Exeter 29 Nov. 1887.
DUDLEY, WILLIAM WARD, 1 Earl of. _b._ 27 March 1817; ed. at Trin.
coll. Ox.; succeeded his father as 11 Baron Ward 6 Dec. 1835;
created Viscount Ednam of Ednam and Earl of Dudley 17 Feb. 1860;
chairman of Worcestershire quarter sessions 1858 to 28 June 1880;
gave £900,000 for the Foley estate Worcs. largest sum ever paid
for purchase of an estate; his life was insured for £300,000. _d._
Dudley house, Park lane, London 7 May 1885, personalty sworn
upwards of £1,026,000 18 July. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii_,
229–38 (1854); _I.L.N. xlii_, 181 (1862), _portrait_.
DUDLEY, HOWARD (_only son of George Dudley of Tipperary, who d. at
Ghent 1827_). Engraver on wood in Edinburgh 1845–52, in London
1852 to death; printed _Juvenile researches, or a description of
some of the principal towns in the west of Sussex and the borders
of Hants._ 1835, _2 ed._ 1835; _The history and antiquities of
Horsham_ 1836; _The history and antiquities of Midhurst_ 1836.
_d._ Holford square, Pentonville, London 4 July 1864 aged 44.
DUDLEY, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Dudley, V. of Humberstone,
Leics., who d. 17 May 1794 aged 74_). _b._ 1762; ed. at Uppingham
sch. and Clare hall, Cam., 2 wrangler 1785; B.A. 1785, M.A. 1788;
Fellow of his coll. 1787–94, tutor 1788–94; V. of Humberstone 1794
to death; V. of Sileby, Leics. 1795 to death; author of _The
metamorphosis of Sona, a Hindu tale in verse_ 1810, and 4 other
books. _d._ Sileby 7 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 197–98 (1856).
DUDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland 7 Oct. 1811;
M.R.C.S. Ireland 1833; practised in Jamaica 1834–1841 in Brooklyn,
New York 1841 to death; curator of New York Medical college 1851;
a founder of Long Island college hospital, treasurer, president; a
member of New York Academy of Medicine 1848, of King’s county
Medical and other societies. _d._ Brooklyn 9 Oct. 1886.
DUFF, SIR ALEXANDER (_second son of 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811_).
Ensign 66 foot 23 May 1793; lieut. col. 88 foot 14 April 1798 to
1809 when placed on h.p.; col. 92 foot 6 Sep. 1823 to 20 July
1831; col. 37 foot 20 July 1831 to death; G.C.H. 27 May 1834;
general 28 June 1838; M.P. for Elginburghs 1826–1831; lord lieut.
of Elginshire 17 Feb. 1848 to death. _d._ Percy cross, Walham
Green, Middlesex 21 March 1851 aged 77. _bur._ in family vault,
Banff.
DUFF, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Auchnahyle farm, parish of Moulin,
Perthshire 26 April 1806; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, D.D. 1837;
ordained Aug. 1829; sent by general assembly of Church of Scotland
as their first missionary to India, reached Calcutta 27 May 1830
where he opened an English school 1830; edited the _Calcutta
Review_ 1845–49; moderator or pres. general assembly of Free
church of Scotland 1851 and 1873; LLD. New York 1854; the virtual
governor of Univ. of Calcutta 1857–63 where 4 Duff scholarships
were instituted; convener of the foreign missions committee 1864;
missionary professor in New college, Edin. 1867; author of _India
and India missions_ 1840; _The Jesuits_ 1845 and 12 other books.
_d._ Sidmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1878. _Life of A. Duff by George
Smith 2 vols._ (1879), _2 portraits_; _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) 215–22, _portrait_; _Hogg’s Instructor viii_, 369
(1852), _portrait_; _Graphic xvii_, 320 (1878), _portrait_.
DUFF, ARCHIBALD. Entered navy 29 June 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806;
R.A. 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 3 March 1849, admiral on half pay 4 July
1855. _d._ Braemoriston 9 Feb. 1858 aged 83.
DUFF, HENRIETTA ANNE (_dau. of Norwich Duff, V.A._) Author of
_Virginia, a Roman sketch_ 1877; _Fragments of verse_ 1880; _Honor
Carmichael, a study 2 vols._ 1880; _My imperialist neighbour and
other tales_ 1880. _d._ of heart disease at 9 Holland road, Hove,
Brighton 14 Nov. 1879 aged 37.
DUFF, JAMES. _b._ Innes house, Elgin 29 July 1831; ed. at Rugby; 2
lieut. 23 foot 15 May 1851, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 4 Nov. 1859
when he sold out; taken prisoner at battle of Inkerman; M.P. for
North Norfolk 21 April 1876 to death. _d._ 36 Upper Brook st.
London 22 Dec. 1878.
DUFF, JAMES CUNINGHAME GRANT (_eld. son of John Grant of Kincardine,
who d. about 1799_). _b._ Banff 8 July 1789; ed. at Marischal
coll. Aberdeen; entered Bombay army 1805; fought against the
Mahrattas 1817–18; resident of Sattara 1818–1823; lived at Eden
near Banff 1825 to death; author of _History of the Mahrattas_
1826. _d._ Eden 23 Sep. 1858.
DUFF, MARY ANN (_dau. of Mr. Dyke of Kilkenny_). _b._ London 1795;
learnt dancing from D’Egville; first appeared as an actress at
Boston theatre U.S. Nov. 1810; first appeared in London at Drury
Lane 3 March 1828 as Isabella in _The fatal marriage_; played
leading Shakesperean parts with Edmund Kean in the United States
1821; retired from the stage at New York 1835. (_m._ (1) 1810 John
Duff of Dublin, actor 1787–1831, _m._ (2) 1833 Charles Young,
marriage dissolved 1833, _m._ (3) Joel G. Seaver of New Orleans,
lawyer). _d._ New York 5 Sep. 1857. _Ireland’s Mrs. Duff_ 1883, _2
portraits_; _Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i_, 419–21
(1866).
DUFF, NORWICH. _b._ about 1793; entered navy June 1805; captain 23
April 1822; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, May 1849 to 7 Oct.
1852; V.A. on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. _d._ Bath 20 April 1862 aged
68.
DUFFY, EDWARD. _b._ Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 1840; devoted himself
to spreading Fenian principles in Connaught 1863; arrested at
Fairfield house, Sandymount 11 Nov. 1865, sentenced to a term of
imprisonment, liberated on bail in consequence of ill health Jany.
1866; again applied himself to the organisation; re-arrested at
Boyle 11 March 1867, tried 21 May 1867 and sentenced to 15 years
penal servitude; found dead in his cell at Millbank prison, London
17 Jany. 1868. _T. D. Sullivan’s Speeches from the Dock_, _23 ed.
part i, pp. 208–10_.
DUFFY, JOHN. Ensign 10 foot 21 Oct. 1795; major 43 foot 17 June
1813; lieut. col. 95 foot 21 Sep. 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed
on h.p., re-appointed lieut. col. of 95 foot 12 Aug. 1819; lieut.
col. 8 foot 9 Sep. 1819 to 20 March 1828 when placed on h.p.; col.
28 foot 18 May 1849, col. 8 foot 10 Oct. 1854 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851; rose by his own merit without purchasing a single step;
C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 17 March
1855 aged 76.
DUFTON, WILLIAM (_younger son of John Dufton of Brigham,
Cumberland_). _b._ Cumberland; educ. Borough hospitals, London and
at Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon at Birmingham 1831 to
death; established Institution for relief of deafness and was its
sole medical officer 1844 to decease; chief consulting
practitioner in midland district for deafness; author of _The
nature and treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear, and the
treatment of the deaf and dumb_ 1844, _another ed. Philadelphia_
1848. _d._ of heart disease at 39 Temple st. Birmingham 17 Oct.
1859 aged 53.
DUFTON, WILLIAM. _b._ Northampton 13 March 1830; kept the
Philharmonic billiard saloons, Islington, London; played many
billiard matches with John Roberts senior; played Edward Green for
£1000 at St. James’s hall, London 30 Jany. 1865 gaining by 1001 to
893; entertained at a banquet at Victoria club, London 1865 when
presented with a testimonial and 200 guineas; taught the Prince of
Wales and many of the nobility; the inventor of handicap
billiards; author of _Practical Billiards_ 1867, _3 ed._ 1873;
present at match between Wm. Cook and John Roberts junior at
Gaiety restaurant, London 28 May 1877; poisoned himself with
cyanide of potassium at Canterbury tavern, Brixton, London 29 May
1877. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 4 June. _W. Dufton’s Practical
billiards_ 1867, _portrait_; _Illust. Sporting News iii_, 356
(1864), _portrait_, _iv_, 633 (1865), _portrait_, _and v_, 108,
121 (1866), _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 2 June 1877 pp._ 3,
5.
DUGDALE, WILLIAM STRATFORD. _b._ 1 April 1800; ed. at Westminster
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Shaftesbury, Dorset 1830–1831, for
Bramber, Sussex 1831–1832, for North Warwickshire 1832–1847. _d._
Blyth hall near Coleshill 15 Sep. 1871.
DUGGAN, PETER PAUL. _b._ Ireland about 1810; went to the United
States; Professor of Art New York Free Academy soon after its
opening; devoted himself chiefly to crayon drawing. _d._ Paris 15
Oct. 1861.
DUGMORE, WILLIAM (_younger son of John Dugmore of Swaffham, Norfolk,
comr. of inclosures, who d. 11 Feb. 1844 aged 87_). _b._ 1800;
barrister L.I. 24 June 1828; practised as conveyancer; Q.C. 22
Feb. 1861. _d._ Cannes 1 July 1872.
DUIGAN, DANIEL JOHN. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, F.R.C.S. 1845; M.D.
Aberdeen 1857; M.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon R.N. 26 July 1844,
surgeon 29 Aug. 1854, fleet surgeon 31 March 1867; retired deputy
inspector general of hospitals and fleets 22 April 1876; C.B. 24
May 1881. _d._ 29 Edith road, West Kensington, London 2 Dec. 1884
in 63 year.
DUKE, REV. EDWARD (_2 son of Edward Duke of Lake house near
Amesbury, Wilts._) _b._ 1779; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1803,
M.A. 1807; contributed to _Gent. Mag._ 1823–49; author of
_Prolusiones historicæ or essays illustrative of the Halle of John
Halle citizen of Salisbury vol. i_, 1837; _The Druidical temples
of the county of Wilts_ 1846. _d._ Lake house 28 Aug. 1852. _G.M.
xxxviii_, 643–44 (1852).
DUKE, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John Duke of Montrose,
merchant, who d. Aug. 1822 aged 63_). _b._ Montrose 31 Jany. 1792;
secretary to Admiral Sir John Gore 1814; coal factor and insurance
broker in London 1819–48; pres. of Honourable Artillery company
1868 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1836; knighted by
the king at St. James’s palace 5 April 1837; alderman of ward of
Farringdon without, city of London 1840 to death, lord mayor
1848–49; M.P. for Boston 1837–1849, for city of London 1849–1865;
created a Baronet on opening of new coal exchange, London 30 Oct.
1849. _d._ Laughton lodge, Hawkhurst, Sussex 28 May 1873. _I.L.N.
xiii_, 297 (1848), _portrait_, _lxii_, 541, 547, (1873),
_portrait_.
DUKE, THOMAS ASSHETON. _b._ 1805; ensign Madras European regiment 13
Feb. 1821, major 2 Jany. 1843; brigadier general Madras 8 Dec.
1857 to 12 Sep. 1859; major general Madras 20 April 1864 to 19
April 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 7 Queen’s gardens, Hyde
park, London 22 Feb. 1887.
DUKINFIELD, REV. THOMAS JACOB JOHN, 7 Baronet (_3 son of Sir
Nathaniel Dukinfield, 5 Baronet, who d. 20 Oct. 1824_). _b._
Sulham near Reading 1 Jany. 1791; ed. at Musselburgh, Rugby, Eton
and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1810; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; P.C. of
Ruscombe, Berkshire 1814–16; V. of Waltham, St. Lawrence,
Berkshire 1816–34; V. of St. Giles, Reading 1816–34; Preb. of
Salisbury 29 March 1832 to 1856; V. of St. Martin in the Fields,
Westminster 1834–48; succeeded his brother 7 Dec. 1836. _d._ 33
Eaton place, London 24 Jany. 1858. _A memoir of Rev. Sir H. R.
Dukinfield, privately printed_ 1861.
DUMBRECK, SIR DAVID (_only son of Thomas Dumbreck, collector of
inland, revenue at Glasgow_). _b._ Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at
Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1825; hospital assistant
in the army 3 Nov. 1825, surgeon 2 July 1841, inspector general 19
July 1859; served with the army in the Crimea as senior deputy
inspector general, placed on half pay 1 May 1860; hon. physician
to the Queen 21 Nov. 1865; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871.
_d._ 34 Via Montebello, Florence 24 Jany. 1876.
DUN, CHARLES DENIS. Entered Madras army 1804; col. 41 Madras N.I.
1854 to death; L.G. 6 Jany. 1863. _d._ the Cloisters, Bath 16 Aug.
1864 aged 77.
DUN, FINLAY. _b._ Aberdeen 24 Feb. 1795; ed. at Perth gr. sch. and
Univ. of Edin.; studied the violin under Baillot in Paris; first
viola player in orchestra of San Carlo theatre, Naples; teacher of
the violin, composition and singing in Edin.; is best known by the
collections of Scotch songs which he edited; composed glees, songs
and dance music. _d._ suddenly at Edinburgh 28 Nov. 1853.
DUNBAR, REV. DUNCAN. _b._ Northern Highlands of Scotland about 1791;
in business in Aberdeen 1811–17; went to New Brunswick 1817;
became a Baptist, immersed in the harbour of St. John 31 Oct.
1818; pastor of Mc Dougal st. Baptist chapel, New York. _d._ New
York 28 July 1864. _Life of Rev. D. Dunbar by Rev. Jeremiah
Chaplin, New York_ 1878.
DUNBAR, GEORGE. _b._ Coldingham, Berwickshire 1774; published
_Herodotus cum annotationibus 7 vols._ 1806–7; _Elements of the
Greek language_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1846; _A new Greek and English and
English and Greek lexicon_ 1840, _3 ed._ 1850; assistant professor
of Greek literature in Univ. of Edin. 1805, professor 1806 to
death; F.R.S. Edin., M.A. Edin. 1807. _d._ Rose park, Trinity,
Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_, 195–96 (1852).
DUNBAR, GEORGE (_son of Alexander Orr of Landmore, co.
Londonderry_). _b._ 1810; assumed name of Dunbar instead of Orr
1833; M.P. for Belfast 1835–1837 and 1838–1841. _d._ 17 Aug. 1875.
DUNBAR, JOHN. _b._ Cork 17 May 1827; fellow of Univ. of Bombay; M.P.
for New Ross 9 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 19 Russell road,
Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1878.
DUNBAR, ROBERT NUGENT. Lived many years in the West Indies; author
of the following poems _The Cruise or a prospect of the West
Indian archipelago_ 1835; _The Caraguin, a tale of the Antilles_
1837; _Indian hours or passion and poetry of the Tropics_ 1839;
_Beauties of Tropical scenery, lyrical sketches and love songs_
1862, _3 ed._ 1866, and of a song entitled _Garibaldi at the opera
of ‘Masaniello’_ 1864. _d._ Paris, July or August 1866.
DUNCAN, ALEXANDER. Entered Bengal army 1795; col. 5 Bengal N.I. 1
May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Gattonside house,
Melrose 14 May 1859.
DUNCAN, DAVID (_son of James Duncan of Alyth, Perthshire_). _b._
Perthshire 1831; a merchant in Chili 10 years, then at Liverpool;
M.P. for Barrow in Furness, Nov. 1885, unseated on petition for
illegal employment of voters 16 March 1886; M.P. for Exchange
division of Liverpool, July 1886 to death. _d._ Gayton hall,
Heswall, Cheshire 30 Dec. 1886.
DUNCAN, DAVID. _b._ Perth 1823; printer at Cardiff 1858 to death;
founded _Cardiff Times_ 1857, _South Wales Daily News_ 1872,
_South Wales Echo_ evening paper 1884. _d._ Penarth, Cardiff 14
Jany. 1888.
DUNCAN, EDWARD. _b._ London 1804; member of New Soc. of Painters in
water colours 1831; member of Old Water colour Soc. 1848;
landscape painter, etcher and lithographer; illustrated _The life
of Nelson_ 1849 and other works; his works were sold at Christie’s
11 March 1885. _d._ 36 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 11
April 1882. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 404 (1882), _portrait_.
DUNCAN, FRANCIS (_son of John Duncan of Aberdeen, advocate_). _b._
Aberdeen 4 April 1836; ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1855; lieut.
R.A. 24 Sep. 1855, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882 to 1 Oct. 1887 when
placed on h.p.; col. in army 15 June 1885; reorganized the
Egyptian artillery 1883; in command at Wady Halfa during the Nile
expedition 1885; contested Morpeth 6 Feb. 1874, Durham city 13
June 1874, and Finsbury April 1880; M.P. for Holborn division of
Finsbury, Nov. 1885 to death; seconded address to Queen 9 Feb.
1888; C.B. 25 Aug. 1885; author of _History of the Royal
Artillery_, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1872, _3 ed._ 1879; _The English in
Spain, the war of succession_ 1877. _d._ The Common, Woolwich 16
Nov. 1888. _Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p. 132_, _portrait_.
DUNCAN, GEORGE. _b._ 1791; a merchant in Dundee to 1831; M.P. for
Dundee 1841–57; mainly instrumental in introducing steam
navigation between Dundee and London. _d._ The Vine, Dundee 6
Jany. 1878.
DUNCAN, REV. JOHN (_eld. child of John Duncan of Gilcomston, parish
of Old Machar, city of Aberdeen, shoemaker_). _b._ Gilcomston
1796; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Univ., B.A., M.A., LLD. 1840;
licensed by the Presbytery 24 June 1825; min. of Persie chapel,
parish of Bendochy, Sep. 1830 to July 1831; ordained in the Barony
parish church, Glasgow 28 April 1836; min. of Milton church,
Glasgow 1836–42; first missionary from the Church of Scotland to
the Jews at Buda-Pesth 1840–1843; joined Free church 1843;
professor of Hebrew and oriental languages New coll. Edinburgh
1843 to death; edited in 1838 a British edition of E. Robinson’s
_Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament_. _d._ 10
Dalrymple crescent, Edinburgh 26 Feb. 1870. _David Brown’s Life of
John Duncan, LLD._ (1872); _Recollections of John Duncan by A. M.
Stuart_ (1872); _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 231–36,
_portrait_.
DUNCAN, JOHN (_natural son of John Duncan of Drumlithie,
Kincardineshire, weaver_). _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 19
Dec. 1794; weaver at Aberdeen 1816–24, a country weaver at
Longfolds 1826–32, at Netherton 1836–49, at Auchleven 1849–52, at
Droughsburn 1852 to death; collected a very fine herbarium which
he presented to the Univ. of Aberdeen 31 Dec. 1880. _d._
Droughsburn 9 Aug. 1881. Buried in Alford churchyard 15 Aug. _The
life of John Duncan by W. Jolly_ 1883, _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s
Leaders of men_ (1880) 220–63.
DUNCAN, JONATHAN (_son of Jonathan Duncan 1756–1811, governor of
Bombay_). _b._ Bombay; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; edited
_Guernsey and Jersey Mag. 4 vols._ 1836–37; wrote and spoke
frequently on financial matters and other questions of reform;
started _The Journal of Industry_ 1850, 16 numbers only; author of
_History of Russia 2 vols._ 1854 and many other books. _d._ 33
Norland sq. Notting hill, London 20 Oct. 1865 aged 65.
DUNCAN, RIGHT REV. PATRICK (_son of John Duncan of parish of
Kilmactiague, co. Sligo_). _b._ parish of Kilmactiague 5 Feb.
1790; ed. at Ballaghadereen and Maynooth; ordained priest 1820;
bishop of Achonry 1852 to death, elected 28 Sep. 1852, consecrated
30 Nov. 1852. _d._ Ballaghadereen 1 May 1875.
DUNCAN, PHILIP BURY (_son of Rev. John Duncan, R. of South
Warnborough, Hants._) _b._ South Warnborough 1772; ed. at
Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1792; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1798,
D.C.L. 1855; barrister L.I. 24 May 1800; lived much at Bath 1801
to death; keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1826 to 1855; author
of _Reliquiæ Romanæ_ 1836; _Essays and Miscellanea_ 1840 and other
books. _d._ Westfield lodge near Bath 12 Nov. 1863.
DUNCAN, REV. THOMAS. _b._ parish of Cameron, Scotland, Oct. 1777;
ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; a preacher of the Established Church;
rector of Dundee Academy 1802–20; professor of mathematics in
Univ. of St. Andrews, Nov. 1820 to death; author of _Elements of
plane geometry_ 1848. _d._ St. Andrews 23 March 1858.
DUNCAN, WILLIAM AUGUSTINE. _b._ Aberdeenshire 1811; publisher and
bookseller at Aberdeen 5 years; went to New South Wales, July
1838; a publisher in Sydney 1838; edited the _Australasian
Chronicle_ 3 Sep. 1839 to 1843; issued _Duncan’s Weekly Register
of politics, facts, and general literature_ 1843; sub-collector of
customs at Moreton Bay 1846; collector of customs for N.S.W. Jany.
1859 to 1881; C.M.G. 1881; author of _A plea for New South Wales
constitution_ 1856. _d._ Aug. 1885.
DUNCOMBE, ARTHUR (_4 son of 1 Baron Feversham 1764–1841_). _b._ 24
March 1806; entered navy 1 April 1819; captain 24 Oct. 1834; R.A.
on h.p. 1 Dec. 1856; admiral on h.p. 18 Oct. 1867; M.P. for East
Retford 1830–31 and 1835–51, M.P. for East Riding of Yorkshire
1851–68; groom in waiting to the Queen 1841–46; lord of the
Admiralty Feb. to Dec. 1852; sheriff of Yorkshire 1874; chairman
of East Riding quarter sessions. _d._ Kilnwick Percy near
Pocklington, Yorkshire 6 Feb. 1889.
DUNCOMBE, VERY REV. AUGUSTUS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Helmsley near York 2 Nov. 1814; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A.
1836, M.A. 1852, B.D. and D.D. 1859; preb. of York cathedral 18
Oct. 1841 to 1858; dean of York 28 May 1858 to death; precentor of
York 1862 to death; declined Scotch bishopric of Argyll and the
Isles 1874; spent a large sum of money on the cathedral; restored
St. Mary’s ch. Castlegate, York at cost of £4000; author of
_Manual of family devotions_ 1868. _d._ York 26 Jany. 1880. _bur._
in Helmsley church 30 Jany., personalty sworn under £500,000 March
1880. _A memorial of A. Duncombe, Dean of York_ 1880; _The Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ 1859 _pt._ 49,
_portrait_; _Church Portrait Journal iii_, 41, (1879), _portrait_.
DUNCOMBE, OCTAVIUS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 24 Arlington
st. Piccadilly, London 8 April 1817; cornet 1 Life guards 3 April
1835, lieut. 19 July 1839, retired 1839; M.P. for North Riding of
Yorkshire 1841–65 and 1867–74; an original director of Great
Northern railway company 1846, chairman July 1874 to death; col.
of Cambridgeshire militia 2 Aug. 1852 to death; sheriff of Hunts.
1866. _d._ 84 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1879.
NOTE.—It is a curious coincidence that his death should have
occurred on the same day as that of Edward Shipley Ellis
chairman of the Midland Railway company.
DUNCOMBE, THOMAS SLINGSBY (_eld. son of Thomas Duncombe of Copgrove,
Yorkshire 1769–1847_). _b._ 1796; ed. at Harrow 1808–11; ensign
Coldstream guards 17 Oct. 1811, lieut. 1815–19 when he sold out;
contested Pontefract 1821 and Hertford 1823; M.P. for Hertford 15
June 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Finsbury 2 July 1834 to death
having sat longer for a Metropolitan borough than any former
member; reputed to be best dressed man in the House; presented
people’s petition praying for the six points of the charter 2 May
1842; entertained by United Trades Association at the Crown and
Anchor tavern, Arundel st. Strand 21 Jany. 1846; took part in plot
which led to Louis Napoleon’s escape from Castle of Ham near
Amiens 25 May 1846. _d._ Lancing, Sussex 13 Nov. 1861 in 66 year.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 21 Nov. _The life of T. S. Duncombe
edited by his son T. H. Duncombe 2 vols._ 1868, _portrait_;
_Orators of the age by G. H. Francis_ (1847) 327–37; _Fraser’s
Mag. x_, 494–504 (1834), _xxxiv_, 349–52 (1846); _Illust. News of
the world ii_ (1858), _portrait_, _viii_, 321 (1861), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. i_, 180 (1842), _portrait_, _v_, 5 (1844), _portrait_.
DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM REGINALD (_eld. son of 1 Earl of Feversham b.
1829_). _b._ London 1 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton; M.P. for North
Yorkshire 2 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ Madeira 24 Dec. 1881. _bur._
Helmsley near York 12 Jany. 1882.
DUNCUFT, JOHN. Sharebroker at Oldham 1824 to death; M.P. for Oldham
31 July 1847 to death. _d._ Frodsham, Cheshire 27 July 1852.
DUNDAS, CHARLES WILLIAM DEANS (_elder son of Sir J. W. D. Dundas
1785–1862_). Ensign 42 foot 25 Dec. 1828; ensign Coldstream guards
3 Aug. 1830, lieut. 24 Feb. to 21 April 1837; M.P. for Flint
district 1837 to 1841. _d._ Edinburgh 11 April 1856 aged 45.
DUNDAS, SIR DAVID (_3 son of James Dundas of Ochtertyre,
Perthshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch.
Ox., student 1820, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 7 Feb.
1823, bencher 1840, reader 1852, treasurer 1853; Q.C. April 1840;
M.P. for Sutherlandshire 1840–52 and 1861–67; solicitor general 10
July 1846 to 25 March 1848; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 Feb.
1847; judge advocate general 26 May 1849 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 29
June 1849; a trustee of British Museum 1861–67; F.R.S. _d._ 13
King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 30 March 1877.
DUNDAS, FREDERICK (_only son of Charles Lawrence Dundas 1771–1810,
M.P. for Malton_). _b._ 14 June 1802; M.P. for Orkney and Shetland
1837–47 and 1852 to death. _d._ 24 Hanover sq. London 26 Oct.
1872.
DUNDAS, GEORGE (_brother of Sir David Dundas 1799–1877_). _b._
Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1802; ed. at high school Edin., Glasgow univ.
and Ex. coll. Ox., LLD. Edin.; B.A. Ox. 1824; called to bar in
Scotland 1826; vice dean of faculty of advocates; sheriff of co.
Selkirk 4 Nov. 1844 to 1845; a judge of court of sessions with
title of Lord Manor 14 Oct. 1868 to death. _d._ Charlotte sq.
Edinburgh 7 Oct. 1869. _Law magazine and law review xxix_, 274–76
(1870).
DUNDAS, GEORGE (_eld. son of James Dundas of Dundas, co. Linlithgow
1793–1881_). _b._ Dundas castle 12 Nov. 1819; 1 lieut. rifle
brigade 15 April 1842, retired Dec. 1844; M.P. for co. Linlithgow
1847–1858; lieut. governor of Prince Edward island Jany. 1859 to
July 1870; lieut. governor of St. Vincent 31 Oct. 1874 to death.
_d._ St. Vincent 18 March 1880.
DUNDAS, JAMES (_eld. son of George Dundas 1802–69_). _b._ Edinburgh?
12 Sep. 1842; 1 lieut. Bengal engineers 8 June 1860, captain 3
Aug. 1872 to death; V.C. for bravery in Bhootan 1865; killed while
attempting to blow up a fort at Sherpur near Cabul 23 Dec. 1879,
monument to his memory erected in Edinburgh cathedral. _Shadbolt’s
Afghan campaign, biog. division_ (1882) 72–4, _portrait_.
DUNDAS, SIR JAMES WHITLEY DEANS (_son of James Deans, M.D. of
Calcutta_). _b._ Scotland 4 Dec. 1785; entered navy 19 March 1799;
captain 13 Oct. 1807; assumed surname of Dundas 1808; naval
aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1831; M.P. for Greenwich 1832–35
and 1841–52; M.P. for Devizes 1836–38; a lord of the Admiralty 23
June 1841 to Sep. 1841 and July 1846 to Feb. 1852; commander in
chief of Mediterranean fleet 17 Jany. 1852 to 31 Dec. 1854;
admiral 8 Dec. 1857; C.B. 25 Oct. 1839, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
awarded good service pension 12 April 1862. _d._ Weymouth 3 Oct.
1862. _E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war i_, 696 (1857),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiii_, 140 (1853), _portrait_.
DUNDAS, SIR JOHN BURNET, 4 Baronet. _b._ Richmond, Surrey 17 Nov.
1794; entered navy 10 July 1807; captain 8 July 1828; R.A. on h.p.
7 Feb. 1855; admiral on h.p. 5 May 1865; succeeded 16 June 1848.
_d._ Queensberry villa, Richmond 2 Sep. 1868.
DUNDAS, JOHN CHARLES (_2 son of 1 Earl of Zetland 1766–1839_). _b._
Mask hall, Cleveland 21 Aug. 1808; M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire
1830–35, 1841–47 and 1865 to death; M.P. for York 1835–37; lord
lieut. of Orkney and Shetland 1839 to death. _d._ the Villa
Cessole near Nice 14 Feb. 1866.
DUNDAS, SIR RICHARD SAUNDERS (_2 son of 2 Viscount Melville
1771–1851_). _b._ Melville castle near Edinburgh 11 April 1802;
ed. at Harrow; entered navy 15 June 1817; captain 17 July 1824;
superintendent of Deptford dockyard 16 April 1851 to Dec. 1852; a
lord of the Admiralty, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855 and 21 Nov. 1857 to
death; commander in chief of Baltic fleet 19 Feb. 1855 to Dec.
1855; employed on Mediterranean and Home stations Feb. 1856 to
March 1857; V.A. 24 Feb. 1858; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 4 Feb.
1856; grand officer of Legion of Honour. _d._ 13 New st. Spring
Gardens, London 3 June 1861.
DUNDAS, WILLIAM BOLDEN. 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848
to 28 Nov. 1854; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._
Inveresk, Edinburgh 8 Aug. 1858.
DUNDAS, WILLIAM PITT (_youngest son of Robert Dundas 1753–1819, lord
chief baron of court of exchequer in Scotland_). _b._ Melville
castle 6 March 1801; advocate 13 June 1823; deputy keeper of privy
seal of Scotland 1852; registrar general of births, deaths and
marriages in Scotland 13 Sep. 1855, deputy clerk registrar
1874–80; C.B. 10 May 1876. _d._ 14 Athole crescent, Edinburgh 17
May 1883.
DUNDONALD, THOMAS COCHRANE, 10 Earl of (_eld. child of 9 Earl of
Dundonald 1748–1831_). _b._ Annsfield, Lanarkshire 14 Dec. 1775;
midshipman R.N. 27 June 1793, captain 8 Aug. 1801; destroyed
French shipping in road of Île d’Aix 11 April 1809; contested
Honiton 1805, M.P. for Honiton 1806–1807; M.P. for Westminster 23
May 1807 to 5 July 1814 when expelled; M.P. again 16 July 1814 to
10 June 1818; lost his rank in navy 25 June 1814; sentenced to pay
a fine of £1000 and to be imprisoned in King’s Bench prison for a
year 21 June 1814 having been convicted unjustly of a
stock-jobbing fraud 8 June 1814; commanded Chilian navy Dec. 1818
to Nov. 1822, Brazilian navy 21 March 1823 to 10 Nov. 1825, Greek
navy Feb. 1827 to 1828; created Marquess of Maranham by Don Pedro
of Brazil 1823; reinstated in his place in the navy by Wm. iv, 2
May 1832; R.A. 8 May 1832; commander in chief on North American
and West Indian stations 12 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1851; admiral 21
March 1851; R.A. of United Kingdom 29 Oct. 1854; K.B. 26 April
1809 to 5 July 1814 when expelled, reinstated 22 May 1847; G.C.B.
25 May 1847; author of _Narrative of the liberation of Chili 2
vols._ 1858. _d._ 12 Prince Albert road, Kensington, London 31
Oct. 1860. _bur._ centre of nave of Westminster Abbey 14 Nov.
_Autobiography of a Seaman 2 vols._ 1860, _portrait_; _Life of
Lord Cochrane by T. B. Cochrane and H. R. F. Bourne 2 vols._ 1869,
_portrait_; _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii_, 1–111
(1850); _Army and navy mag. i_, 113–29 (1881), _portrait_; _Law
mag. and law review x_, 203–35 (1861), _xi_, 188–201; _I.L.N.
xxxvii_, 471, 472 (1860), _portrait_.
DUNFERMLINE, JAMES ABERCROMBY, 1 Baron (_3 son of Sir Ralph
Abercromby 1738–1801_). _b._ 7 Nov. 1776; barrister L.I. 8 Feb.
1800; a comr. of bankrupts 1802–27; M.P. for Midhurst 1807–12, for
Calne 1812–30, for Edinburgh 1832–39; judge advocate general 12
May 1827 to Jany. 1828; lord chief baron of exchequer in Scotland
20 Feb. 1830 to 1832 when office was abolished under statute 2 Wm.
iv, cap. 54 and he was granted pension of £2000 a year; master of
the Mint 1 July 1834 to Nov. 1834; speaker of House of Commons 19
Feb. 1835 elected by a majority of 10 votes, closest contest on
record, retired 15 May 1839; created Baron Dunfermline of
Dunfermline, co. Fife 7 June 1839; dean of faculty in Univ. of
Glasgow 1841; author of _Lieutenant general Sir Ralph Abercromby,
K.B. 1793–1801, a memoir_ 1861. _d._ Colinton near Edinburgh 17
April 1858. _T. Murray’s Biographical annals of parish of
Colinton_ (1863) 107–12; _J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers_
(1850) 489–93; _J. Burke’s Commoners iv_, (1838), _portrait_.
DUNFERMLINE, RALPH ABERCROMBY, 2 Baron (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ 6 April 1803; ed. at Eton and Peterhouse coll.
Cam.; précis writer in Foreign Office 1827; min. plenipo. to
Germanic confederation 2 Jany. 1839 to 17 March 1840; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 17 March 1840 to
28 Nov. 1849, to King of the Netherlands 26 Nov. 1851 to 13 Oct.
1858; K.C.B. 1 March 1851; succeeded 17 April 1858. _d._ Colinton
house near Edinburgh 12 July 1868.
DUNGANNON, ARTHUR HILL TREVOR, 3 Viscount (_elder son of 2 Viscount
Dungannon 1763–1837_). _b._ London 9 Nov. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; M.P. for New Romney 1830–31; M.P. for
city of Durham 1831–32 and 1835–41; succeeded his father 14 Dec.
1837; a representative peer for Ireland 11 Sep. 1855 to death;
high sheriff of Flintshire 1855; published _The life and times of
William the third king of England 2 vols._ 1835–36 and other
works. _d._ 3 Grafton st., Bond st. London 11 Aug. 1862.
DUNGLISON, ROBLEY (_son of William Dunglison of Keswick,
Cumberland_). _b._ Keswick 4 Jany. 1798; a surgeon apothecary in
London 1819; M.D. Erlangen 1823, LLD. Yale 1825; edited the
_London Medical Repository_ 1823–24, and _American Medical
Intelligencer_ 1837–42; professor of medicine in Univ. of
Virginia, U.S. 1824–33; professor of Materia medica in Univ. of
Maryland 1833–36; professor of medicine in Jefferson medical
college, Philadelphia 1836 to 1868; author of _A new Dictionary of
medical science and literature Boston_ 1833, _15 ed._ 1858;
_General Therapeutics_ 1836, _6 ed._ 1857 and upwards of 30 other
books. _d._ Girard st. Philadelphia 1 April 1869. _Gross’s Memoir
of R. Dunglison_ 1869; _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland vi_,
262–79 (1875); _The College and clinical record, Philadelphia 1881
vol. 2, No. 11_, _portrait_.
DUNHAM, SAMUEL ASTLEY. Author of _The history of Poland_ 1831;
_History of Spain and Portugal 5 vols._ 1832–33 which obtained for
him membership of Royal Spanish Academy, it was translated into
Spanish by Alcala Galliano 1844; _A history of Europe during the
Middle Ages 4 vols._ 1833–34; _Lives of the most eminent literary
and scientific men of Great Britain 3 vols._ 1836–37; _History of
Denmark, Sweden and Norway 3 vols._ 1839–40; _History of the
Germanic empire 3 vols._ 1844–45, these 19 vols. are all in
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia. _d._ suddenly of paralysis at 22
Murray st. Camden New Town, London 17 July 1858 aged 62.
DUNKIN, ALFRED JOHN (_only son of John Dunkin, topographer
1782–1846_). _b._ Islington, London 9 Aug. 1812; entered his
father’s printing business at Bromley, Kent 1831; a printer at
Dartford, Kent 1837 to death; opened a branch at 140 Queen
Victoria st. London; an original member of British Archæological
Association 1844; author of _History of the county of Kent 3
vols._ 1856–55 and 6 other books. _d._ 110 Stamford st.
Blackfriars road, London 30 Jany. 1879. _Printing Times and
Lithographer 15 April 1879 p._ 89.
DUNKIN, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ London 24 Sep. 1811; ed. at Univs. of
London and Glasgow; a teacher of Greek at Harvard Univ. 1834–35;
went to Canada 1835; edited _Morning Chronicle_ at Montreal
1837–38; admitted to Lower Canadian bar 1846; Q.C. 1867; M.P. for
Drummond and Arthabaska 1857–61, for Brome 1862 to death;
provincial treasurer for Canada 1867–69; minister of agriculture
and statistics 1869–71; puisne judge of superior court of Quebec
1871; introduced the “Dunkin Temperance Act of 1864.” _d._
Lakeside, Knowlton 6 Jany. 1880.
DUNLOP, ALEXANDER COLQUHOUN-STIRLING-MURRAY- (_5 son of Alexander
Dunlop of Keppoch, co. Dumbarton_). _b._ Greenock 27 Dec. 1798;
ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; advocate 1820; edited
_Presbyterian Review_ 1834; assumed name of Murray-Dunlop 1849 and
name of Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop 1866; contested Greenock
1845 and 1847, M.P. for Greenock 1852–68; legal adviser to the
free church party, ‘The Claim of Right 1842 and Protest and Deed
of Demission 1843’ were chiefly his work; author of _The Poor
laws_, _4 ed._ 1834. _d._ 1 Sep. 1870. _Notice of the late Mr.
Dunlop by D. Maclagan_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881)
237–44, _portrait_.
DUNLOP, ANDREW VANS. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S.
Edin. 1826; a surgeon in Edin.; left residue of his estate, about
£70,000 to Univ. of Edinburgh to found scholarships of £100 a year
each tenable for 3 years, in all main departments of study except
theology. _d._ 18 Rutland sq. Edinburgh 27 Feb. 1880. _Sir A.
Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edinburgh ii_, 42–45 (1884).
DUNLOP, DURHAM. Volunteer surgeon in Crimean war; proprietor and
editor of the _Dublin university gazette_; M.R.I.A.; author of
_The philosophy of the bath, or air and water_ 1868, _3 ed._ 1873;
_The Church under the Tudors_ 1869, _3 ed._ 1872. _d._ Norfolk
hotel, Brighton 30 March 1882 aged 70.
DUNLOP, HENRY. _b._ Linwood, Renfrewshire 1799; merchant at
Craigton, Glasgow; director of Chamber of commerce, Glasgow 1837
to death, chairman 1841, 1859 and 1862; lord provost of Glasgow
1837–40; pres. of Glasgow Bible Society 1850–61; author of _The
Cotton Trade_ 1862. _d._ Edinburgh 10 May 1867. _bur._ at Govan.
DUNLOP, HUGH (_2 son of general James Dunlop, who d. March 1832_).
Naval cadet 5 April 1821; captain 3 Aug. 1850; commodore at
Jamaica 1859; R.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1 April 1870, retired
admiral 21 March 1878; C.B. 14 Sep. 1861. _d._ 106 St. George’s
sq. London 15 April 1887.
DUNLOP, ROBERT HENRY WALLACE. _b._ 1823; ed. at Haileybury; entered
Bengal civil service 1843; captured the outlaw Rundheer Singh, on
the borders of Rewah 1852; magistrate and collector at Meerut
1856–62; officiating judge of Bareilly 1862–65; C.B. 18 May 1860;
author of _Service with the Meerut volunteer horse_ 1858; _Hunting
in the Himalaya_ 1860; _Plate swimming with notes on the science
of natation_ 1877. _d._ Ellerslie tower, Ealing 15 Nov. 1887.
DUNMAN, THOMAS. _b._ 16 Dec. 1849; taught himself Latin and Greek;
clerk and book keeper to a harness maker and currier in London
1871; physical science lecturer at Working Men’s coll. 1874;
lecturer on physiology at Birkbeck institution 1877 and professor
of animal morphology 1879; lecturer on staff of Soc. for Extension
of University teaching 1879; lectured on scientific subjects in
London, Chester, Rotherham and other places 1879; author of _A
glossary of Biological, Anatomical and Physiological Terms_ 1879;
_Practical notes for students of Physiology_ 1880; contributed to
Popular Science Lectures, Cassell’s Science for All, Ward & Lock’s
Universal Instructor, Amateur Work and other publications. _d._ 9
May 1882. _bur._ Ilford cemetery. _T. Dunman’s Talks about
science_ (1882) _with biographical sketch by C. Welsh_; _Nature
xxvi_, 67, 418 (1882).
DUNN, SIR DAVID. Entered navy 30 April 1800; captain 7 June 1814;
knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Aug. 1835; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837;
V.A. on half pay 12 Nov. 1856. _d._ Rocklands, Chudleigh, Devon 16
June 1859 aged 73.
DUNN, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1820; member of legislative council in
Tasmania 1845–55; a merchant and shipowner in London; M.P. for
Dartmouth 1859–60. _d._ Aden 10 Sep. 1860.
DUNN, JOHN, stage name of John Benjamin Donoghue (_son of Mr.
Donoghue of City of London, merchant_). _b._ Surrey 1812; clerk in
a lawyer’s office; played at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester square,
at the Coburg and Surrey 1836, at Sadler’s Wells; sang song of
_Jim Crow_ at Sadler’s Wells in imitation of T. D. Rice 1836; made
a great hit as Newman Noggs in _Nicholas Nickleby_ at City of
London theatre 1838; acted at the Victoria; went to Australia 1842
where he played to his death. _d._ of heart disease in a cab in
Melbourne on his way to the opera house to play 17 Aug. 1875.
_Actors by daylight_ (1838) _i_, 329–31, _portrait_; _Era 31 Oct.
1875 p. 5, col. 2, p. 14, col. 1_.
DUNN, ROBERT. _b._ East Brunton near Newcastle, Aug. 1799;
apprentice to W. Davison at Alnwick; studied at Guy’s and St.
Thomas’s hospitals 1824–25; L.S.A. 1825, M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S.
1852; surgeon 31 Norfolk st. Strand, London 1838; F.R.M.C. Soc.
1833 and member of council 1845; V.P. Westminster Medical Soc.
1845; V.P. of Anthropological Soc.; especially studied cerebral
physiology and the statistics of midwifery; author of _An essay on
physiological psychology_ 1858; _Medical Psychology_ 1863 and
other books. _d._ 31 Norfolk st. Strand 4 Nov. 1877. _Barker’s
Photographs of medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 69–72, _portrait_.
DUNN, REV. SAMUEL (_son of James Dunn of Mevagissey, Cornwall, who
d. 8 Aug. 1842 aged 88_). _b._ Mevagissey 13 Feb. 1798; Wesleyan
Methodist minister 1819; stationed in the Shetland islands
1822–25, then at Newcastle and 9 other places successively;
accused with Rev. J. Everett and Rev. W. Griffith of publishing
pamphlets called the ‘Fly Sheets’ advocating reforms in Wesleyan
governing body 1848; expelled by Wesleyan conference 25 July 1849
for publishing _Wesley Banner and Revival Record_; ministered to
Free church methodists at Camborne, Cornwall 1855–64; author of _A
dictionary of the Gospels_ 1846, _4 ed._ 1846 and upwards of 70
other books. _d._ 2 St. James’s road, St. Mary Usk, Hastings 24
Jany. 1882.
DUNNE, FRANCIS PLUNKETT (_eld. son of general Edward Dunne of
Brittas, Queen’s county 1763–1844_). _b._ 1802; ed. at Sandhurst
and Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 7 dragoon guards 29 May 1823;
captain 10 foot 5 March 1829 to 18 Sep. 1840 when placed on h.p.;
lieut. col. Queen’s co. militia 15 Feb. 1846, hon. col. 26 April
1873 to death; clerk of the Ordnance 5 March 1852; private sec.
and aide-de-camp to Earl of Eglinton when lord lieut. of Ireland
1858–59; M.G. 26 Sep. 1865; M.P. for Portarlington 1847–57, for
Queen’s co. 1859–68; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of _The Pope and
his infallibility_ 1871. _d._ 6 July 1874.
DUNNE, VERY REV. JOHN. _b._ Ballinakill, Queen’s county, July 1816;
ed. at Carlow college and Maynooth; professor of moral and mental
philosophy at Carlow college about 1840, vice pres. 1850, pres.
1856; parish priest of Kildare, July 1864 to death. _d._ Kildare
25 July 1867.
DUNNE, JOHN. _b._ York 1834; chorister in Worcester cath. 1850, in
Cashel cath. 1854; member of Ch. Ch. St. Patrick’s cath. and
Trinity college choirs, Dublin; Mus. Bac. Dublin 1866, Mus. Doc.
1870; composed _Myra, a cantata_; _The Hanging of the Crane, a
cantata_, church services, anthems, glees and songs. _d._ Ashton,
Killiney near Dublin 7 June 1883.
DUNPHY, HENRY MICHAEL (_youngest son of Michael Dunphy of Fleet st.
Dublin, merchant_). _b._ 1821; on the staff of the _Morning Post_
upwards of 40 years; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1861. _d._ Hillside,
Willesden park, London 2 Jany. 1889 in 68 year.
DUNRAVEN and MOUNTEARL, EDWIN RICHARD WINDHAM WYNDHAM-QUIN, 3 Earl
of. _b._ London 19 May 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1833; M.P. for Glamorganshire 1837–51; succeeded his father 6
Aug. 1850; created baron Kenry of Kenry, co. Limerick in peerage
of G.B. 12 June 1866; lord lieut. of Limerick 1864 to death; K.P.
1866; F.R.A.S. 1831; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; F.R.G.S. 1837; F.S.A.
1836; a great antiquarian and archæologist; author of _Memorials
of Adare manor_ 1865; _Notes on Irish architecture edited by
Margaret Stokes 2 vols._ 1875–77. _d._ Imperial hotel, Great
Malvern 6 Oct. 1871. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc.
xxxii_, 120–22 (1872); _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. second series v_,
306; _I.L.N. lix_, 386 (1871).
DUNSANY, RANDAL EDWARD PLUNKETT, 15 Baron (_elder son of 14 Baron
Dunsany 1773–1848_). _b._ Rome 5 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; a
prominent leader of the Orange party; succeeded 11 Dec. 1848; a
representative peer of Ireland 19 Nov. 1850 to death. _d._ Dunsany
castle, co. Meath 7 April 1852.
DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT, 16 Baron (_brother of the preceding_).
_b._ Ramsgate 29 Nov. 1808; entered navy 4 Oct. 1823; captain 9
Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; author of _The past and
future of the British navy_, _2 ed._ 1847; _Gaul or Teuton,
considerations as to our allies of the future_ 1873; translated
_Graviere’s Naval History 2 vols._ 1848. _d._ Hastings 22 Feb.
1889.
DUNSFORD, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ 5 Nov. 1817; ensign 59 Bengal N.I.
28 June 1836, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps
12 Sep. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 17 June 1858. _d._ St.
Heliers, Jersey 31 Jany. 1887.
DUNSTERVILLE, EDWARD (_son of Edward Dunsterville of Penryn,
Cornwall, shipowner_). _b._ Penryn 2 Dec. 1796; entered navy 17
July 1812, midshipman 1813–15, when discharged on reduction of the
fleet; master in navy 9 Sep. 1824; hydrographer’s assistant at the
Admiralty, Whitehall 19 April 1842 to 30 March 1870 when
superannuated on £400 per annum; retired commander 14 Nov. 1855;
author of _Admiralty catalogue of charts, plans, views and sailing
directions 7 ed. 2 vols._ 1859, _8 ed. 2 vols._ 1864; edited _J.
Horsburgh’s Indian directory_ _7 ed. 2 vols._ 1859, _8 ed. 2
vols._ 1864. _d._ 32 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 11
March 1873. _The servitude of Commander E. Dunsterville_ 1870.
DUNSTERVILLE, JAMES HENDERSON. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 1
Bombay N.I. 29 Dec. 1846 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ 12 The
Crescent, Plymouth 12 July 1858 aged 70.
DUNTZE, JOHN ALEXANDER (_eld. child of James Nicholas Duntze,
paymaster general of the forces in Sicily, who d. 22 Sep. 1846
aged 78_). _b._ 26 Aug. 1805; entered navy 5 Aug. 1818; captain 24
Dec. 1829; admiral 2 Dec. 1865; retired 1 April 1870. _d._ 10
Nightingale terrace, Woolwich common 15 May 1882.
DU PLAT, GEORGE GUSTAVUS CHARLES WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Aug.
1841, lieut. col. 21 Sep. 1850 to death; consul at Warsaw 1841–51,
consul general in Poland 1851; Queen’s comr. to Austrian army with
rank of brigadier general 12 Aug. 1854 to death; K.H. 31 Oct.
1831. _d._ Vienna 21 Dec. 1854.
DUPPA, BALDWIN FRANCIS (_eld. son of Baldwin Francis Duppa,
barrister_). _b._ Rouen, Normandy 18 Feb. 1828; ed. at Hofwyl near
Berne, Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; entered royal college of
chemistry 1855; fitted up a laboratory in his country seat at
Hollingbourne near Maidstone; worked with Edward Frankland at
Royal institution, London 1863–67; F.R.S. 1867. _d._ Budleigh
Salterton, Devon 10 Nov. 1873. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxi_, 6–9
(1873).
DU PRÉ, CALEDON GEORGE (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ 28 March
1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. and St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1825;
M.P. for Bucks. 18 Feb. 1839 to 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ 7 Oct. 1886.
DU PRÉ, JAMES. _b._ 10 June 1778; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 1800–1802,
for Aylesbury 1802–1806, for Chichester 1807–12; sheriff of Bucks.
1825. _d._ 40 Portland place, London 13 June 1870, personalty
sworn under £250,000, 13 Aug. 1870.
DUPUIS, SIR JOHN EDWARD (_son of Rev. George Dupuis, R. of
Wendlebury near Bicester, who d. 5 March 1839 aged 82_). _b._
1800; ed. at military academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 13 Feb.
1825; colonel commandant 11 brigade 15 Dec. 1864 to death; general
10 Nov. 1868; commanded artillery in India, Oct. 1857 to Feb.
1859; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ George st.
Hanover square, London 25 Nov. 1876.
DURAND, SIR HENRY MARION. _b._ 6 Nov. 1812; ed. at Addiscombe; 2
lieut. Bengal engineers 12 June 1828, col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 1867;
comr. of Tenasserim provinces 1844–46; political agent at court of
Scindia 1849–53, at Indore 1857; drove back Tantia Topee and saved
Central India 1857; member of council of sec. of state of India
1859–61; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861–65; military member of
governor general’s council 10 April 1865 to 1870; L.G. 1 March
1867; lieut. governor of the Punjaub 5 May 1870 to death; C.B. 24
March 1858; K.C.S.I. 8 Feb. 1867; author of _Notes on the field
equipment of the Engineers_ 1844; _The first Afghan war_ 1879.
_d._ from a fall from an elephant in the camp at Tonk 135 miles
west of Peshawur 1 Jany. 1871. _bur._ at Dera Ismail Khan 5 Jany.
_Life of Sir H. M. Durand by H. M. Durand 2 vols._ 1873,
_portrait_; _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii_, 44–79
(1880); _Good Words xiv_, 575, 706 (1873).
D’URBAN, WILLIAM JAMES. Cornet 14 Dragoons 7 Oct. 1819; deputy
quartermaster general North America 1 Dec. 1848 to 1 May 1857 when
placed on half pay; col. 107 Foot 13 Aug. 1868 to death; L.G. 20
June 1870. _d._ Newport house near Exeter 5 Dec. 1873 aged 73.
DURDIN, ROBERT GARDE (_son of Robert Atkins Durdin of Cranemore
house, co. Carlow, who d. 5 Jany. 1841_). _b._ 1818; solicitor in
Dublin; alderman of South Dockward; lord mayor of Dublin 1872.
_d._ 93 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 19 Oct. 1878. _bur._ Clonegal 23
Oct.
DURHAM, GEORGE FREDERICK D’ARCY LAMBTON, 2 Earl of. _b._ Copse hill,
Surrey 5 Sep. 1828; succeeded 28 July 1840; lord lieut. of Durham
11 Aug. 1854 to death; well known breeder of horses and owner of
race horses. _d._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 27 Nov. 1879.
_bur._ Bourn Moor church 3 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000
Dec. 1879. _Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of the children of the
nobility 2 series_ 1839, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xii_, 109–11
(1867), _portrait_; _Athenæum ii_, 247–49 (1876).
DURHAM, JOSEPH. _b._ London; pupil of E. H. Bailey; exhibited 126
pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1835–78; designed statues entitled
Hermione and Alastor for the Mansion House 1856–57; designed
statue of Prince Consort in gardens of the Horticultural Society,
unveiled 10 June 1863; F.S.A. 12 May 1853; A.R.A. 8 May 1866. _d._
21 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1877 in 64 year.
_I.L.N. xlviii_, 560, 561 (1856), _portrait_.
DURING, LOUIS ALEXANDER, Baron. _b._ 1783; cornet York Hussars 25
Nov. 1795; captain 98 foot 28 May 1829 to 13 Dec. 1833 when placed
on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; received the war medal with 7
clasps. _d._ near Horneburg, Hanover 7 Jany. 1880 in 97 year.
NOTE.—He served more than 84 years, being the longest service
on record.
DURNFORD, ANTHONY WILLIAM (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._
Manor-hamilton, co. Leitrim 24 May 1830; ed. at Düsseldorf and
royal military academy; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut. col. 11
Dec. 1873 to death; served in South Africa 1871–76 and 1877 to
death; killed by the Zulus at Isandhlwana 22 Jany. 1879. _bur._ in
the camp cemetery at Pietermaritzburg 12 Oct. _A. Wylde’s My Chief
and I_ 1879, _portrait_; _A soldier’s life and work in South
Africa_, _edited by his brother lieut. col. E. Durnford_ 1882,
_portrait_; _Graphic xix_, 212 (1879), _portrait_.
DURNFORD, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1805, lieut. col. 1
April 1844 to 5 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24
Aug. 1866. _d._ Turner’s hill, Cheshunt 23 Sep. 1870.
DURRANT, JOHN ROWLAND. Member of stock exchange, City of London;
member of Drury Lane theatre committee; founded the Garrick club
in King st. Covent Garden 1831; purchased in June or July 1835 for
sum of £1000 Charles Mathews’s gallery of theatrical portraits
containing authentic likenesses of most of the theatrical
celebrities of the past two centuries; he allowed the Garrick club
use of pictures during his lifetime and bequeathed the collection
by his will to the club. _d._ 96 Newgate st. London 13 July 1853
in 79 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 20 July. _G.M. May 1877 pp._
561–83.
DU TERREAUX, LOUIS HENRY FRENCH. Author of _The last of the barons_,
burlesque produced at Strand theatre 18 April 1872; _Vokins’s
Vengeance_, comic operetta, St. George’s 19 June 1872; _A cabinet
secret_, comedy in 2 acts, Philharmonic 19 Oct. 1872; _The broken
branch_, opera in 3 acts, Opera Comique 22 Aug. 1874; author with
S. Clarke of _Love wins_, comedy in 3 acts produced at T.R.
Cambridge 11 Aug. 1873. _d._ Liverpool 31 March 1878 aged 37.
DUTNALL, MARTIN. Served as a British volunteer officer under
Garibaldi in Italy 1860; edited a Journal in United States for
several years down to 1867; wrote many pieces chiefly for the
Surrey theatre, London, among which were _The Queen of Hearts_;
_Harlequin King Pumpkin, or Richard ye Lion Hearte_, pantomime
played at Surrey theatre from 26 Dec. 1864 to 30 Jany. 1865 when
theatre was burnt down; _Mad Fred_; _Colleen drawn from an
authentic source_; author of an entertainment entitled _Funny
Cards_ in which he performed with the Vokes family. _d._ of
disease of the lungs at Eastbourne 8 Sep. 1867 aged 29. _bur._
Woking cemetery with 5 of his brothers and sisters who all died
young. _The Era 15 Sep. 1867 p._ 10.
DUTTON, FRANCIS STACKER (_son of Henry Hampden Dutton, British
consul at Cuxhaven on the Elbe, who d. 30 March 1856_). _b._
Cuxhaven 1818; went to South America 1833; discovered the Kapunda
copper mine near Adelaide 1843 (the first discovery of copper in
Australia) which he sold 1845; member of legislative council of
South Australia 1851–57, member of house of assembly 1857–65;
comr. of crown lands Sep. 1857 to June 1859 and in 1863; comr. of
public works March to Sep. 1865; formed an administration in 1863
which lasted 11 days, another in 1865 which lasted 6 months;
special comr. to international exhibition, London 1862; agent
general in London for South Australia 1865 to death; brought out
no less than 12 public loans amounting together to about
£3,000,000 every loan except one being a great financial success;
C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872; K.C. Franz Joseph 1873; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1866;
author of _South Australia and its mines_ 1846. _d._ 134 Inverness
terrace, Hyde park, London 25 Jany. 1877. _Minutes of proc. of
instit. of C.E. xlix_, 268–70 (1877).
DU VAL, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester; ed. for the law; Monologue
entertainer; founded and edited a newspaper at Cape of Good Hope;
served with D’Arcy’s Carabineers at siege of Pretoria during the
Boer war, Dec. 1880; performed at St. James’s hall, London and
toured in England and Ireland 1887; performed in South Africa,
March-Dec. 1888; committed suicide by jumping overboard from
steamship Oceana in the Red Sea 23 Feb. 1889. _C. Du Val’s With a
show through Southern Africa 2 vols._ (1882), _portrait_.
DUVAL, CHARLES ALLEN. _b._ Ireland 1808; an artist at Liverpool, at
Manchester about 1833 to death; exhibited 20 portraits and subject
pictures at the R.A. 1836–72; exhibited ‘The Giaour’ 1842,
‘Columbus in chains’ 1855 and many others in local exhibitions;
author of five pamphlets on American civil war 1863 and of papers
in _North of England Mag._ _d._ Alderley, Cheshire 14 June 1872.
DUVAL, CLAUDE. One of the French masters at Manchester gr. sch. 9
years; author of _Fanny, Sonnets and Poems_ 1880. _d._ 48
Portsmouth st. Chorlton, Manchester 22 Jany. 1884 aged 40.
DUVARD, PRIMOGENE. Author of _Poems_ 1842, _2 ed._ 1843; _Mary
Tudor, a drama_ 1844; _Devotional exercises for fourteen days_
1846, _2 ed._ 1855; _The Angel of Death_ 1862; _Poems and hymns_
1864. _d._ Pond farm, Borden near Sittingbourne, Kent 25 Jany.
1877 aged 53.
DWARRIS, SIR FORTUNATUS WILLIAM LILLEY (_eld. son of William Dwarris
of Warwick_). _b._ Jamaica 23 Oct. 1786; ed. at Rugby and Univ.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1808; barrister L.I. 28 June 1811; bencher of M.T.
1850, treasurer 1859 laid foundation stone of new library, opened
31 Oct. 1861; comr. to inquire into administration of civil and
criminal justice in West Indies 1822–26; one of Municipal
corporation comrs. 18 July 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 2
May 1838; recorder of Newcastle under Lyne 1837–58; master of
court of Queen’s Bench 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847; author
of _A general treatise on statutes_ 2 _parts_ 1830–31, _2 ed._
1848; _Alberic, consul of Rome_ 1832 anon., an historical drama in
5 acts; _Some new facts and a suggested new theory as to the
authorship of Junius_ 1850 privately printed, and other books.
_d._ 75 Eccleston sq. London 20 May 1860. _Journal of British
Archæol. Assoc. xvii_, 182–3 (1861).
DWYER, THOMAS PEARD. 2 lieut. R.M.L.I. 19 Oct. 1812, second
commandant at Plymouth 14 July 1855, commandant 1 April 1857 to 2
Dec. 1859; retired M.G. 2 Dec. 1859. _d._ Southsea 22 April 1863.
DYCE, REV. ALEXANDER (_eld. son of Lieut. general Alexander Dyce_).
_b._ George st. Edinburgh 30 June 1798; ed. at Edin. high sch. and
Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1819; C. of Lanteglos, Cornwall 1821–5; C.
of Nayland, Suffolk 1825–7; lived at 9 Gray’s Inn square, London
down to 1859, at 33 Oxford terrace 1859 to death; edited the works
of Richard Bentley 3 vols. 1836–8, the works of Shakespeare 9
vols. 1857, 2 ed. _9 vols._ 1864–7, the works of Beaumont and
Fletcher _11 vols._ 1843–6 and many other English classics. _d._
33 Oxford terrace, Oxford st. London 15 May 1869. _Fortnightly
Review xviii_, 731–46 (1875); _Alexander Dyce, a biographical
sketch by John Forster_ in _A catalogue of the Dyce books in South
Kensington museum_ (1875) _pp._ 7–24.
DYCE, ARCHIBALD BROWN. _b._ Trichinopoly, Oct. 1800; ensign Madras
army 26 June 1817; col. 2 European regiment 7 Sep. 1846 to 30 Sep.
1862; commanded Northern division of Madras army 16 Feb. 1847 to
16 Feb. 1852; L.G. 26 June 1860; col. 105 Foot 30 Sep. 1862 to
death. _d._ Grosvenor house, Southampton 9 March 1866.
DYCE, WILLIAM (_son of William Dyce of Aberdeen, physician_). _b._
Marischal st. Aberdeen 19 Sep. 1806; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen, M.A. 1822; exhibited 41 pictures at the R.A. 1827–61;
originated pre-Raphaelite movement in English school of painting
1828; portrait painter in Edinburgh 1830–37; F.R.S. Edin. 1832;
A.R.S.A. 1835; head master of school of design Somerset House,
London 1840–43; inspector of the provincial schools 1843–44;
professor of fine arts in King’s coll. London 1844; A.R.A. 1845,
R.A. 1848; painted cartoon ‘Baptism of Ethelbert’ for House of
Lords 1845 and other works; founded the Motett Society; designed
the florin declared to be current money 1852; author of _The book
of Common Prayer with the ancient Canto Fermo set to it at the
Reformation 2 vols._ 1842–3; _Theory of the Fine Arts_ 1844; _The
National Gallery, its formation and management_ 1853. _d._
Streatham road, Streatham, Surrey 14 Feb. 1864. _Redgrave’s
Century of painters ii_, 550–68 (1866); _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy ii_, 183–88 (1862); _I.L.N. xxx_, 418, 420 (1857),
_portrait_, _xliv_, 224 (1864).
DYCE-SOMBRE, DAVID OCHTERLONY (_only son of George Dyce, commandant
of the forces of Zerbonissa, begum of Sirdhana, Bengal_). _b._
Sirdhana 1808; inherited half a million sterling on death of his
grandmother the Begum Sumroo 27 Jany. 1836; took additional name
of Sombre 1836; came to England Aug. 1838 where he became the lion
of London season; M.P. for Sudbury 29 June 1841, unseated on
petition for bribery 14 April 1842; put under restraint as a
lunatic at Clarendon hotel 169 New Bond st. March 1843, a
commission de lunatico inquirendo was held at Hanover lodge,
Regent’s Park 31 July 1843 when a verdict of unsound mind from 27
Oct. 1842 was returned; escaped from his attendant Dr. Grant at
Liverpool, Sep. 1843, arrived in Paris 22 Sep.; author of _Mr.
Dyce-Sombre’s Refutation of the charges brought against him in the
Court of Chancery_ 1849, and of _The Memoir_ published in English,
French and Italian. _d._ Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 1 July
1851. _bur._ in catacombs of Kensal Green cemetery 8 July. _G. B.
Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official_ (1872) 438–59; _W.
H. Sleeman’s Rambles of an Indian official ii_, 377–99 (1844);
_Law mag. and law review i_, 356–68 (1856); _Macnaghten and
Gordon’s Reports i_, 116–37 (1850); _Deane’s Reports i_, 22–120
(1858).
DYER, JOSEPH CHESSBOROUGH (_son of Nathaniel Dyer, captain Rhode
island navy_). _b._ Stonnington Point, Connecticut 15 Nov. 1780;
machine maker at Camden Town, London 1811–16, at Manchester
1816–42 where he introduced inventions which gave a great impulse
to the cotton manufacture 1817; an original director of Bank of
Manchester 1828 which stopped payment 31 Dec. 1842 when he lost
£96,000; established machine-making works at Gamaches, Somme,
France 1832 gave them up 1848 after losing £120,000; author of
_Remarks on Education_ 1850, and 5 other pamphlets. _d._ at house
of his son Frederick Dyer near Manchester 3 May 1871. _R. A.
Smith’s Centenary of science in Manchester_ (1883) 298–325.
DYER, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London 4 May 1804;
LLD. St. Andrews 1865; author of _Tentamina Æschylea_ 1841; _Life
of Calvin_ 1850; _History of Modern Europe 4 vols._ 1861–64, _2
ed. 5 vols._ 1877; _A history of the City of Rome_ 1865; _The
history of the Kings of Rome_ 1868; _Pompeii, its history,
buildings and antiquities_ 1867; _Ancient Athens, its history,
topography and remains_ 1873; _On imitative beauty_ 1882. _d._
Bath 30 Jany. 1888. _Academy 11 Feb. 1888, p._ 97.
DYKE, FRANCIS HART (_4 son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5 baronet
1767–1846_). _b._ 28 Nov. 1803; admitted a proctor 1825; partner
with James Bush in Doctors’ Commons to 1830; deputy registrar of
Dean and chapter of St. Paul’s cathedral 1838 to 1845; member of
firm of Jenner, Dyke & Jenner of Doctors’ Commons; Queen’s proctor
25 Jany. 1845 to death; thrown from his horse at Egham near
Windsor 15 July 1876. _d._ from the injuries Luddington house,
Egham 17 July 1876.
DYKES, REV. JOHN BACCHUS (_son of William Hey Dykes of Hull_). _b._
Hull 10 March 1823; ed. at Wakefield and St. Cath. coll. Cam.; a
founder of Cambridge university musical soc.; B.A. 1847, M.A.
1851; Mus. Doc. Durham 1861; C. of Malton 1847; minor canon of
Durham 1849 to death, precentor of Durham 1849–62; V. of St.
Oswald’s, Durham 1862 to death; author of many sermons and
letters; composed many hymn tunes most of which appeared first in
_Hymns ancient and modern_ 1862, of which collection they are the
most popular; wrote several services and anthems. _d._ St.
Leonards-on-Sea 22 Jany. 1876. _bur._ St. Oswald’s churchyard,
Durham 28 Jany. _In Memoriam J. B. Dykes_ 1876.
DYMOKE, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Rev. John Dymoke
1764–1828, R. of Scrivelsby, Lincs._) _b._ Scrivelsby 5 March
1801; in the navy; officiated as deputy for his father the King’s
Champion at coronation of George the 4th, 19 July 1821; created a
baronet 23 Aug. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Lincoln 1857 and 1859;
grand prior of order of St. John of Jerusalem. _d._ Portman
square, London 28 April 1865. _W. Jones’s Crowns and Coronations_
(1883) 128–40, 318 (1883); _Once a Week xii_, 593–98 (1865);
_Gent. Mag. xci_, _pt. 2_, 109, 395 (1821), _portrait_.
DYMOND, ROBERT (_eld. son of Robert Dymond of Exeter, estate agent,
who d. 1866_). _b._ St. Edmund’s, Exeter 8 Sep. 1824; estate agent
at Exeter; hon. sec. of Devon and Exeter Institution 1875 to
death; F.S.A. 27 March 1873; author of many pamphlets, and papers
on antiquarian and historical subjects in the _Herald and
Genealogist_, _Transactions of the Devonshire Association_, and
_Bath and West of England Journal_. _d._ Blackslade,
Widecombe-in-the-Moor near Ashburton 31 Aug. 1888. _Notes and
Gleanings 15 Sep. 1888 pp._ 129–31.
DYNELY, THOMAS. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1801, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to
20 June 1854, col. commandant 4 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 16 Dec.
1856; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._ 78 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 June
1860 aged 78.
DYNEVOR, GEORGE TALBOT RICE, 3 Baron. _b._ 8 Oct. 1765; M.P. for
Carmarthenshire 28 June 1790 to 14 March 1793 when he succeeded to
the peerage; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 1804 to death; col. of
Carmarthenshire militia to death. _d._ Barrington park, Gloucs. 9
April 1852.
DYNEVOR, GEORGE RICE, 4 Baron (_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._
5 Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 1830–31
and 1832 to 9 April 1852 when he succeeded; lieut. col. of
Carmarthen militia 28 Jany. 1831, col. 12 Aug. 1861 to death;
militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 24 April 1852 to death. _d._
Great Malvern 7 Oct. 1869. _I.L.N. xxviii_, 72 (1856), _portrait_.
DYOTT, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 1812; acted at T.R. York and other country
theatres 1834–44; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New
York as Iago 2 Sep. 1844; a leading actor in New York to about
1866; edited a newspaper at New Rochelle, New York to death. _d._
New Rochelle 22 Nov. 1876.
DYSART, LIONEL WILLIAM JOHN TOLLEMACHE, 7 Earl of. _b._ 18 Nov.
1794; M.P. for Ilchester 22 Feb. 1827 to 24 July 1830; succeeded
22 Sep. 1840. _d._ 34 Norfolk st. Strand, London 23 Sep. 1878,
personalty sworn under £1,700,000, 14 Dec. 1878.
DYSON, REV. CHARLES (_son of Jeremiah Dyson, clerk of House of
Commons, who d. 14 Sep. 1835 aged 78_). Educ. at Southampton;
matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1804 aged 17, scholar of his
coll.; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire
1818–28; V. of Nazing, Essex 1828–36; R. of Dogmersfield, Hants.
1836 to death; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon at Ox.
1812–1816, delivered one lecture only; contributed 4 poems under
signature of D to the volume entitled _Days and Seasons_ 1845.
_d._ Dogmersfield rectory 24 April 1860 aged 73. _Sir J. T.
Coleridge’s Memoir of Rev. John Keble_, _3 ed._ (1869) _i_, 19,
35–46, 74, 99, 146, 245, 464.
DYSON, DAVID. A weaver; went to the United States about 1843,
crossed the country from New York to St. Louis; returned to
England with upwards of 18,000 specimens of insects, birds, shells
and plants 1844; twice explored Central America and made another
very large collection; curator of the Museum of Earl of Derby;
left a private collection of 20,000 shells. _d._ Rusholme near
Manchester 10 Dec. 1856 aged 33.
DYSON, REV. FRANCIS (_brother of Rev. Charles Dyson_). Matric. from
Merton coll. Ox. 13 Dec. 1802 aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809;
fellow of his college to 1817; R. of South Tedworth, Hants. 1816
to death; R. of North Tedworth 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary
to the sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Salisbury 6 April 1847 to
death. _d._ Cheltenham 30 Nov. 1858 aged 73.
DYSON, JERRY FRANCIS. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 18 Bombay N.I.
1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 5 Lower Berkeley
st. Portman sq. London 20 Feb. 1861.
E
EADIE, REV. JOHN. _b._ Alva, Stirlingshire 9 May 1810; ed. at Univ.
of Glasgow, LLD. 1846; D.D. St. Andrews 1850; professor of
hermeneutics in United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1847; a
temperance lecturer; licensed as a preacher by United Secession
church 1835; minister of Cambridge st. ch. Glasgow, Sep. 1835;
minister of Lansdowne ch. Glasgow, Dec. 1863 to death; professor
of Biblical literature in United Secession divinity hall, Glasgow
1843 to death; moderator of the Synod 1857; edited _Voluntary
church mag._ 1840; member of New Testament revision committee
1870; edited _A Biblical cyclopædia_ 1849, _14 ed._ 1873; author
of _A commentary on the Greek text of the epistle of Paul to the
Ephesians_ 1854, _3 ed._ 1883; _The English Bible, an external and
critical history of the English translations 2 vols._ 1876 and
many other books. _d._ Glasgow 3 June 1876. _J. Brown’s Life of
Rev. J. Eadie_ (1878); _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
95–102; _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxviii_, 276–91, _portrait_; _Good
Words xix_, 470–72 (1878).
EAGLE, FRANCIS KING (_2 son of Robert Eagle of Lakenheath,
Suffolk_). Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., LLB. 1819; barrister M.T. 24
Nov. 1809, bencher; recorder of Thetford; judge of county courts,
circuit 33. (Suffolk) March 1847 to death; F.L.S. 1807; author
with Edward Younge of _A collection of reports of cases relating
to tithes 4 vols._ 1826. _d._ Bury St. Edmunds 8 June 1856 aged
68.
EAGLE, GEORGE BARNARDO (i.e. Barnard). Professor of Clairvoyance;
known as the “Wizard of the South”; when giving a morning
performance at the Assembly Rooms, St. Peters Port, Guernsey 1 May
1858 suddenly seized on the stage with vomiting of blood. _d._ at
his residence Pollet st. St. Peters Port 5 May 1858 aged 51.
_bur._ Abney park cemetery, London 10 May. _Era 16 May 1858 p._
10.
EAGLES, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Eagles of Bristol, merchant
and classical scholar 1746–1812_). _b._ parish of St. Augustine,
Bristol, baptised 8 Nov. 1783; ed. at Winchester and Wad. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818; C. of Halberton, Devon 1822–34; C. of
Winford near Bristol 1834–41; contributed to _Blackwood’s Mag._
1831–55 chiefly on subjects connected with fine art; author of
_The Sketcher, Edin._ 1856; _Sonnets, ed. by Z. K. Edin._ 1858;
_Felix Farley, rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon,
Bristol_ 1826. _d._ King’s Parade, Clifton 9 Nov. 1855. _G.M.
xliv_, 661–62 (1855) _xlv_, 148 (1856); _Bentley’s Miscellany
xlvi_, 594–605 (1859).
EARDLEY, SIR CULLING EARDLEY, 3 Baronet (_only son of Sir Culling
Smith, 2 bart. 1768–1829_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 21
April 1805; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 30 June
1829; M.P. for Pontefract 1830–31; contested Pontefract 1837,
Edinburgh 1846 and West Riding of Yorkshire 1848; founded
Evangelical Alliance 1846; assumed surname of Eardley in lieu of
Smith 14 May 1847; pres. of London Missionary Soc.; built All
Saints ch. Belvedere, Kent 1861; took a prominent part in many
religious and social movements; had a gallery of paintings at
Belvedere near Erith. _d._ Bedwell park, Hatfield 21 May 1863.
_Waagen’s Galleries of Art_ (1857) 275–84.
EARDLEY-WILMOT, FREDERICK MAROW (_2 son of Sir John Eardley
Eardley-Wilmot, 1 bart. 1783–1847_). _b._ 29 May 1812; 2 lieut.
R.A. 6 Nov. 1830, colonel 1 April 1860 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6
March 1868; F.R.S. June 1863. _d._ Fox hills near Chertsey 30 Sep.
1877.
EARLE, SIR HARDMAN, 1 Baronet (_4 son of Thomas Earle of Spekelands,
Lancs., a Liverpool merchant, who d. 9 July 1822_). _b._ 11 July
1792; a merchant at Liverpool; created Baronet 3 Nov. 1869. _d._
Allerton Tower, Woolton, near Liverpool 25 Jany. 1877. _I.L.N.
lxx_, 156 (1877), _portrait_.
EARLE, RALPH ANSTRUTHER (_2 son of Charles Earle of Everton, Lancs.
1798–1880_). _b._ Edinburgh 1835; ed. at Harrow; attaché at Paris
6 Oct. 1854; private sec. to Disraeli, when chancellor of the
exchequer 1 March 1858–June 1859; M.P. for Berwick April 1859 to
Aug. 1859, for Maldon July 1865 to Nov. 1868; parliamentary sec.
to poor law board 14 July 1866 to 22 March 1867. _d._ Soden,
Nassau 10 June 1879.
EARLE, THOMAS. _b._ Hull 1810; exhibited 57 sculptures at R.A. and
24 at B.I. 1834–73; gained gold medal and book at R.A. for best
historical group 1839; designer and modeller to Sir Francis
Chantrey. _d._ of grief at his great sculpture being refused
admission to R.A. 1876 at 1 Vincent st. Ovington square, London 28
April 1876. _Athenæum 13 May 1876 p. 673_; _Times 3 May 1876 p.
12, col. 5_.
EARLE, WILLIAM (_3 son of Sir Hardman Earle 1792–1877_). _b._ 18 May
1833; ensign 49 foot 17 Oct. 1851; served in Crimean war; lieut.
grenadier guards 20 March 1857, major 21 Aug. 1878 to 1 April 1880
when placed on h.p.; military sec. in British North America
1865–70, to viceroy of India 1872–76; C.S.I. 7 March 1876; C.B. 18
Nov. 1882; commanded garrison of Alexandria 1882–84; commanded
column sent up the Nile to rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum
1884 to death; shot while leading on his troops against the Arabs
at Kirbekan 10 Feb. 1885. _bur._ at Allerton, statue of him by C.
B. Birch, A.R.A., erected at Liverpool. _H. Brackenbury’s The
river column_ (1885); _I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1885 p._ 200, _portrait_.
EARLY, REV. JOHN. _b._ co. Fermanagh 1814; went to United States
1832; entered Society of Jesus 1834; ordained priest 1844;
professor of belles lettres in Georgetown college, Ontario; pres.
of Worcester college Mass.; went to Baltimore 1852 where he built
college and church of St. Ignatius; pres. of Georgetown college.
_d._ Georgetown 1874.
EARNSHAW, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Sheffield 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1831; B.A. 1831,
M.A. 1834; a very successful coach at Cambridge 1831–47; chaplain
in church and parish of Sheffield 1847 to death; author of
_Dynamics or a treatise on motion_ 1833, _3 ed._ 1844; _The theory
of Statics_ 1834, _4 ed._ 1856; _The Tradition of the Elders_
1860; _The love of the world_ 1861. _d._ Earnscliffe 6 Dec. 1888.
EASBY, JOHN. _b._ Deansgate, Manchester 1812; a green coat schoolboy
1820; journalist actor and local preacher; a frequent contributor
to periodicals; Manchester correspondent of _The Era_. _d._ Lower
Mosley st. Manchester 18 Nov. 1852. _J. Easby’s Scenes from the
life of a green-coated schoolboy_ 1851. _R. W. Procter’s
Manchester Streets_ (1874) 224–28.
EASSIE, PETER BOYD. _b._ Lochee, Dundee 17 April 1835; railway
contractor at Gloucester; constructed part of Cornwall railway,
opened 1859; brought out an elliptograph and other successful
inventions; author of _Wood and its use_, _Gloucester_ 1874. _d._
26 June 1875.
EAST, SIR EAST GEORGE CLAYTON, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Sir W. Clayton,
4 Bart. 1762–1834_). _b._ 9 April 1794; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.;
LLB. 1818, LLD. 1823; assumed name of East by royal sign manual 6
April 1829; created baronet 17 Aug. 1838. _d._ Hall place near
Maidenhead 6 March 1851.
EAST, SIR JAMES BULLER, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Edward Hyde
East, 1 Bart. 1764–1847_). _b._ Bloomsbury, London 1 Feb. 1789;
ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1834;
barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; succeeded 8 Jany. 1847; bencher of his
Inn 15 Jany. 1856, reader 1869; M.P. for Winchester 30 July 1830
to 3 Dec. 1832, and 10 Jany. 1835 to 10 Feb. 1864. _d._ Bourton
house near Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucs. 19 Nov. 1878.
EASTBURN, RIGHT REV. MANTON. _b._ Leeds 9 Feb. 1801; graduated at
Columbia, U.S. 1817; ordained 1822; assistant minister in Ch. Ch.
New York 1822–27; R. of church of the Ascension, New York 1827–42;
assistant bishop of Protestant episcopal diocese of Massachusetts
29 Dec. 1842, bishop, March 1843 to death; author of _Four
lectures on Hebrew, Latin and English poetry_ 1825; _Lectures on
the Epistles to the Philippians_ 1833 and other books. _d._ Boston
11 Sep. 1872. _H. G. Batterson’s sketch of American episcopate_
(1878) 136–37.
EASTHOPE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Easthope of
Tewkesbury_). _b._ Tewkesbury 29 Oct. 1784; stockbroker at 9
Exchange buildings, city of London 1818; made £150,000 in a few
years; contested St. Albans 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837 and
Bridgnorth 1847; M.P. for St. Albans 1826–30, for Banbury 1831–32
and for Leicester 1837–47; purchased _Morning Chronicle_ in 1834
for £16,500; created baronet 24 Aug. 1841. _d._ Fir Grove near
Weybridge, Surrey 11 Dec. 1865. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters i_, 76–86 (1841); _J. Sedgwick’s Letters_ (1845) _pp.
i-vi_.
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK (_youngest son of George Eastlake of
Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820_). _b._ Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793;
exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in
Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec.
1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany.
1838; sec. to commission of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861;
keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855
to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100;
knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of _Materials for
a history of oil painting 2 vols._ 1847–69; _History of the Gothic
revival_ 1871 and other books. _d._ Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. _bur._
English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green
cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. _Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Contributions to the
literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady
Eastlake_ 1870; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii_, 225,
280–87 (1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_
(1869) 152–56; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages_, _fourth series_ (1860), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_,
357 (1850), _portrait_, _xxxvi_, 448, 450 (1860), _portrait_.
EASTLAKE, WILLIAM (_son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor_).
_b._ 1820; ed. at Repton school; articled to his father; admitted
1844; partner with his father; deputy judge advocate of the fleet
1851 to death. _d._ 3 Buckland terrace, Plymouth 12 Oct. 1881 in
61 year.
EASTON, JOHN ALEXANDER, _b._ India 1807; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow,
M.D. 1836; surgeon of Glasgow police April 1840 to Nov. 1859;
professor of materia medica in Univ. of Glasgow, Oct. 1855 to
death. _d._ Blythswood sq. Glasgow 11 Nov. 1865.
EASTWICK, EDWARD BACKHOUSE (_2 son of Robert William Eastwick of
Thurloe sq. London 1772–1865_). _b._ Warfield, Berkshire 13 March
1814; ensign Bombay army 5 June 1836; professor of Urdú at
Haileybury college, Aug. 1845, librarian 1850; sec. of legation at
court of Persia 1860–62; barrister M.T. 6 June 1860; private sec.
to Lord Cranbourne, sec. of state for India 1866–67; M.P. for
Penryn and Falmouth 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; F.R.S. 5 June
1851; F.S.A. 17 March 1853; C.B. 6 Nov. 1866; translated _Anvari
Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay_ 1854 and other books; author of
_Journal of a diplomate’s three years residence in Persia_, _2
vols._ 1864 and other books. _d._ Ventnor 16 July 1883.
EASTWICK, WILLIAM JOSEPH (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1808;
ed. at Winchester; ensign Bombay army 1826; acting resident at
Hyderabad to 1841; a director of the H.E.I. Co. 30 June 1847,
deputy chairman 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to
1868; an original member of Cobden club 1866; author of _Lord
Lytton and the Afghan war_ 1879. _d._ 12 Leinster gardens, Hyde
park, London 24 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Teddington churchyard 1 March.
EASTWOOD, REV. JONATHAN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1846,
M.A. 1849; C. of Ecclesfield near Sheffield 1847–54; C. of
Eckington, Derbyshire 1854–62; P.C. of Hope near Hanley 1862 to
death; author of _History of the parish of Ecclesfield in the
county of York_ 1862; author with W. A. Wright of _Bible
word-book, a glossary of old English Bible words_ 1866. _d._ St.
Leonards on Sea 5 July 1864 aged 40.
EASTWOOD, RICHARD (_son of Henry Eastwood, head keeper to Peregrine
Edward Towneley of Towneley, Lanes_). _b._ Burnley; admitted
attorney 1824; partner with Anthony Buck of Burnley 1824–62, with
A. B. Creeke and J. B. Sandy 1862 to death; bred race horses and
short horns; won the Oaks with Butterfly 1860. _d._ Morecambe near
Lancaster 28 May 1871. _Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid, Part
North_ (1870) 345–57.
EBORALL, CORNELIUS WILKES. _b._ Birmingham 1820; general manager of
East Lancashire railway company 1850–56, of South Eastern railway
company 1856 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. _d._ 2 Lee park,
Blackheath, Kent 15 Dec. 1874. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxix_, 287–89 (1875).
EBSWORTH, JOSEPH (_son of Joseph Ebsworth of Islington, London_).
_b._ Islington 10 Oct. 1788; apprenticed to a watch jeweller; sec.
to D. E. Morris proprietor of the Haymarket theatre; actor and
prompter at T.R. Edinburgh 1826; teacher of music and singing at
Edin. 1828 to death; bookseller at 23 Elm row, Edin. 1828–43; gave
concerts at Hopetoun rooms, Queen st. 1830–68; leader of the choir
at St. Stephen’s ch. Edin.; author of _Crockery’s misfortunes or
transmogrifications_, a burletta produced at Royal Coburg theatre,
London 11 July 1821 and 33 other dramatic pieces. _d._ Edinburgh
22 June 1868.
EBSWORTH, MARY EMMA (_dau. of Robert Fairbrother, pantomimist and
fencing-master_). _b._ London 2 Sep. 1794; author of the following
play published in Cumberland’s acting drama, _Payable at sight, or
the chaste salute_, acted at Surrey theatre; also of _The two
brothers of Pisa_, acted at Royal Coburg theatre, and _The
sculptor of Florence_. (_m._ 22 June 1817 the preceding). _d._
Walworth, London 13 Oct. 1881.
EBURN, WILLIAM HAWTHORN. Acted at Glasgow; acted at Edinburgh many
years; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Amiens in
_As you like it_ 6 April 1855; acted at Adelphi theatre many
years. _d._ Kennington park road, London 19 Sep. 1874. _bur._
Woking cemetery 27 Sep.
ECCLES, HENRY. _b._ Bath 1817; called to bar in Canada 1842; a
bencher of Canadian Law Society 1853; Q.C. 1856; very prominent in
his profession. _d._ Toronto 22 Nov. 1863.
ECCLES, REV. SETH. _b._ Longridge, Lancs. 1800; admitted student at
English college, Rome 1820, a medallist; R.C. priest of Weston
Underwood, Bucks. 1825 to 1871; member of chapter of see of
Northampton 1850, provost to death; created hon. D.D. by Pius ix,
1861; author of _An explanation of the seven penitential psalms_
1844; _On justification, What saith the Scripture_ 1861. _d._
Weston Underwood 10 July 1884.
ECKFORD, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. 56 Bengal N.I. 27
Oct. 1848 to death; L.G. 29 April 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ 33
Clarendon road, St. Heliers, Jersey 2 July 1867 aged 81.
ECKFORD, ROBERT. Surgeon Bombay army 22 Oct. 1812; pres of medical
board Bombay 1830 to 1 May 1832 when he retired. _d._ Jersey 27
Feb. 1865 aged 93.
EDE, GEORGE MATTHEWS. _b._ Clayfield lodge near Southampton Common
Feb. 1834; ed. at Eton; agriculturalist at Northampton; returned
to Southampton; gentleman steeplechaser and hurdle rider under
name of Mr. Edwards; first rode at Warwick meeting Sept. 1856,
rode 9 stone without training; won 306 races 1856–70; called the
Fordham of amateurs; won the Grand National on the Lamb 1868 and
the Grand Annual at Warwick on Musketeer 1868; established with
his twin brother Edward Lee Ede the Hampshire county cricket club,
scored 1200 runs in 1863; killed when jumping at Aintree near
Liverpool 13 March 1870. _Bailey’s Mag. xii_, 351–55 (1867),
_portrait on title page_. _Sporting Review lxiii_, 238–39 (1870).
EDEN, SIR ASHLEY (_3 son of 3 Baron Auckland 1799–1870_). _b._
Hertingfordbury Herts. 13 Nov. 1831; ed. at Rugby and Winchester;
entered Indian civil service 1852; sec. to government of Bengal
and member of Bengal legislative council 1860–71; chief comr. of
British Burmah 1871–77; lieut. governor of Bengal 1877–82; a
member of secretary of state’s council 1882 to death; C.S.I. 30
May 1874, K.C.S.I. 1878; the Eden canal which joins the Ganges and
the Tistá is called after him. _d._ 31 Sackville st. Piccadilly,
London 9 July 1887. _bur._ Armthorpe near Doncaster 14 July. _T.
H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 70–75.
EDEN, SIR CHARLES. (_youngest son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2
baronet 1766–1809_). _b._ 3 July 1808; entered navy 27 Oct. 1821;
captain 11 Aug. 1841; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873;
controller general of coastguard 5 Dec. 1855 to 1859; a lord of
the admiralty 27 June 1859 to 1866; V.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1
April 1870; retired admiral 8 Feb. 1873. _d._ 9 Queen’s gate
place, London 7 March 1878.
EDEN, REV. CHARLES PAGE (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Eden, C. of St.
George’s, Bristol, who d. 22 July 1809 aged 57_). _b._ Whitehall
St. George’s near Bristol 13 March 1807; Bible clerk at Oriel
coll. Ox. 25 Oct. 1825, fellow 1832–51, dean 1838; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1833; select preacher Oxford 1838 and 1853; V. of St. Mary’s,
Oxford 1843–50; V. of Aberford near Leeds 1850 to death; proctor
in convocation of province of York 1869, 1874 and 1880; preb. of
York cath. 1870 to death; edited _Gunning’s Paschal, or Lent fast_
1845; _Andrewes’s Pattern of catechistical doctrine_ 1846; _Jeremy
Taylor’s Works vols. i-viii_; contributed to the ‘Tracts for the
times’ No. 32, ‘On the standing ordinances of religion.’ _d._
Aberford vicarage 14 Dec. 1885. _J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve
good men_ (1888) _ii_, 305–42.
EDEN, EMILY (_7 dau. of 1 Baron Auckland 1744–1814_). _b._ Old
palace yard, Westminster 3 March 1797; lived in India with her
brother Lord Auckland 1835–42; author of _Portraits of the people
and princes of India_ 1844; _The semi-detached house, edited by
Lady Theresa Lewis_ 1859 anon.; _The semi-attached couple, By E.
E. 2 vols._ 1860; _Up the country, letters written from the upper
provinces of India 2 vols._ 1866, _3 ed._ 1872. _d._ Fountain
house, 5 Upper Hill st. Richmond, Surrey 5 Aug. 1869. _bur._ in
family vault at Beckenham, Kent.
EDEN, GEORGE MORTON, _b._ 9 May 1806; ensign 84 foot 18 July 1822;
lieut. col. 56 foot 20 May 1836 to 5 July 1839; captain Scots
fusilier guards 5 July 1839 to 20 June 1854; col. 50 foot 20 April
1861 to death; L.G. 14 March 1862. _d._ Bern, Switzerland 11 Nov.
1862.
EDEN, HENRY (_4 son of Thomas Eden, deputy auditor of Greenwich
hospital, who d. 1 May 1805_). _b._ 9 Aug. 1797; entered navy 15
June 1811; captain 30 April 1827; private sec. to Lord. Auckland,
first lord of the Admiralty 1846–48; superintendent of Woolwich
dockyard 1848–53; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–54; a lord of the
Admiralty 1855–58; admiral 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870.
_d._ 45 Eaton sq. London 30 Jany. 1888.
EDEN, JOHN (_brother of preceding_). _b._ 25 March 1789; cornet 22
light dragoons 14 Feb. 1807; major 15 foot 8 June 1826 to 31 Dec.
1830 when placed on h.p.; col. 34 foot 28 Jany. 1860 to death;
general 25 Aug. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839. _d._ Bath 6 Oct. 1874.
EDEN, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (_brother of Sir Charles Eden 1808–78_).
_b._ Pall Mall, London 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch.
Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1851; R. of Leigh, Essex 1837–51;
bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness 1851 to death, consecrated at
St. Paul’s, Edin. 9 March 1851; Primus of the Episcopal church of
Scotland 5 July 1862 to death; founded cathedral of St. Andrew in
Inverness, foundation stone laid 17 Oct. 1866; author of many
addresses and sermons. _d._ Eden court, Inverness 26 Aug. 1886.
EDEN, WILLIAM (_2 son of Sir Robert Eden, governor of Maryland 1
bart. who d. 1786_). Ensign 46 foot 26 Aug. 1786; assist.
quartermaster general in England 25 Dec. 1797; lieut. col. 79 foot
15 Aug. 1798 to 11 Dec. 1806; lieut. col. 84 foot 11 Dec. 1806 to
1814; quartermaster general in Madras 20 June 1807: general 28
June 1838; granted reward for distinguished service 1 Dec. 1838.
_d._ Ham, Surrey 24 May 1851 aged 83.
EDEN, WILLIAM HASSALL. _b._ 22 Feb. 1800; ensign 6 foot 31 March
1814; lieut. col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1839 to 16 Aug. 1839; lieut.
col. 56 foot 16 Aug. 1839 to 3 Feb. 1854; commandant at Chatham 1
Sep. 1854 to 31 March 1858; col. 90 foot 24 Oct. 1862 to death;
general 4 March 1872; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 5
Royal crescent, Bath 10 Dec. 1832.
EDERSHEIM, REV. ALFRED. Educ. at Univ. of Vienna and Berlin; Ph.D.
Kiel 1855; D.D. New coll. Edin.; hon. M.A. Ox. 1881, M.A. by
Decree of convocation 1883; ordained deacon and priest 1875; C. of
Christchurch, Hants. 1875–76; V. of Loders, Dorset 1876–83;
Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln’s Inn 1880–84; select preacher at
Oxford 1884–85; author of _History of the Jewish nation after the
destruction of Jerusalem_ 1856; _True to the end, a story of
Scottish life_ 1871, _new ed._ 1878; _Jewish social life in the
days of Christ_ 1876; _The Life and times of Jesus the Messiah 2
vols._ 1883 and many other books, _d._ Mentone 16 March 1889 aged
64.
EDGAR, EDWARD FISHER. Made his first appearance on the stage at
Victoria theatre, London, as a child in _The Stranger_; played in
the provinces; appeared at Olympic theatre, as André in _Lucille
or the story of a heart_ 1852; lessee of Marylebone theatre;
lessee with Richard Shepherd of Surrey theatre 1871–72; acted at
Princess’s, Lyceum, Globe, Adelphi, Royalty and other theatres;
played part of Hasting in _She stoops to conquer_ at Imperial
theatre, April to July 1879; sec. of Royal general theatrical fund
5 April 1876 to 1879. _d._ 2 Powis place, Queen sq. London 2 Sep.
1884.
EDGAR, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Samuel Edgar pastor of Ballykine,
Tipperary_). _b._ Ballykine 13 June 1798; professor of theology in
secession branch of Presbyterian church 1826–48; D.D. Hamilton
college U.S.A. 1836; LLD. New York 1860; a great temperance
advocate in Ireland 1829–41; a founder of Religious Book and Tract
Society; moderator of general assembly of United church 1842;
author of 42 pamphlets published under title of select works of
John Edgar. _d._ Rathgar 26 Aug. 1866. _W. D. Killen’s Memoir of
John Edgar_ (1867), _portrait_.
EDGAR, JOHN GEORGE (_4 son of Rev. John Edgar, minister of Hutton,
Berwickshire_). _b._ 1834; passed some time in a Liverpool house;
visited the West Indies on mercantile affairs; published
_Biography for boys_; _Foot-prints of famous men_ 1854 and about
20 books for the young; the first editor of _Every Boy’s Magazine_
1862. _d._ London 22 April 1864.
EDGELL, HARRY (_eld. son of Hippil Edgell of Beckington, Somerset_).
_b._ Beckington 30 Jany. 1767; ed. at Warminster gr. sch. and
Royal college, Douai; admitted student at Gray’s Inn 1787; clerk
of Assize of Norfolk circuit 1795 to death; clerk of the Errors in
court of Exchequer; barrister G.I. 26 June 1811; clerk of the
Errors in Court of Common Pleas 1837. _d._ 21 Cadogan place,
Chelsea 14 May 1863. _bur._ Ruislip, Uxbridge 21 May.
EDGELL, HARRY EDMUND (_only son of Henry Folkes Edgell 1767–1846,
R.A._) _b._ 1809; entered navy 1823; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired
V.A. 14 July 1871; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Chichester 4 Feb. 1876.
EDGEWORTH, MICHAEL PAKENHAM (_youngest son of Richard Lovell
Edgeworth the author 1744–1817_). _b._ 24 May 1812; ed. at
Charterhouse, Edinburgh and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil
service 1831; one of the 5 comrs. for settlement of the Punjaub
1850–59; collected 11 new species of plants in two hours at Aden
1846; author of _Grammar of Kashmiri language_ 1841; _Pollen with
446 figures_ 1877, _new ed._ 1879. _d._ in the island of Eigg,
Inverness 30 July 1881.
EDISON, JOHN SIBBALD (_son of J. Edison_). _b._ 1803; barrister M.T.
25 Nov. 1831; author of _Letters to the authors of the Plain
tracts for critical times, By a Layman_ 1839; _Remarks on Lord
Brougham’s character of Pitt_ 1842; _Legitimate system of national
education_ 1855; _Question of admissibility of Jews to Parliament_
1859; _Henry of Richmond, a drama_ 2 _parts_ 1857–60; _Commentary
on Lord Brougham’s character of George iii_, 1860; _Jephtha, a
dramatic poem_ 1863; _Northumberland, a historical dramatic poem_
1866; _Divine right of rule_ 1869; _Edwin, an historical poem_
1873. _d._ Stock near Ingatestone, Essex 9 Sep. 1878.
EDKINS, ROBERT PITT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1836; second master of Kensington proprietary school; second
master of city of London school 18 years; professor of geometry in
Gresham college, city of London. _d._ 28 Belitha villas,
Barnsbury, London 11 Nov. 1854 aged 49.
EDMESTON, JAMES. _b._ 10 Sept. 1791; educ. Hackney; articled to an
architect and surveyor 1807; architect 1816, removed to Homerton
1822; sec. of St. Barnabas, Homerton parochial schools; author of
_The search and other poems_ 1817; _Anston Park, a tale_ 1821;
_The world of spirits_; _The cottage minstrel, 50 hymns_ 1821;
_Fifty hymns on missionary subjects_ 1822; _One hundred Sunday
School hymns_ 1822; _Patmos a fragment and other poems_ 1824; _The
woman of Shunem, a sketch_ 1829; _Hymns for the chamber of
sickness_ 1844; _Closet hymns and poems_ 1846; _Sacred Poetry_
1848. _d._ 15 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton 7 Jany. 1867. _Miller’s
Singers and songs_ (1869) _pp._ 418–20.
EDMONDS, GEORGE (_3 son of Richard Edmonds 1774–1860, town clerk of
Marazion, Cornwall_). _b._ Penzance 25 March 1805; admitted
attorney 4 July 1827; practised in London 1829–38; author of _The
tuck net retucked, or porpoises instead of pilchards_ 1824;
_Complete ancient classical dictionary_ [1837]; _Complete English
grammar_ 1837; _The tri-national grammar_ [1838]; _The penny
gospel_ 1843. _d._ Croydon 13 Sep. 1869.
NOTE.—He was while residing in London actively engaged in
writing against the stamp duty on newspapers, and was so often
employed by defendants in prosecutions for selling unstamped
newspapers, that he was frequently called “The attorney
general for unstamped newspapers.”
EDMONDS, GEORGE (_son of Rev. Edward Edmonds, pastor of Baptist
chapel in Bond st. Birmingham_). _b._ Kenion st. Birmingham 1788;
edited Edmonds’s Weekly Recorder 1819; imprisoned 12 months for
taking part in a conspiracy to elect a member of parliament
1820–21; kept a school in Bond st. Birmingham 1823; clerk of the
peace for Birmingham May 1839, solicitor there 1852; author of
_The philosophic alphabet with an explanation of its principles_
1832; _A universal alphabet, grammar and language comprising a
scientific classification of the radical elements of discourse and
illustrative translations from the Holy Scriptures and principal
British classics_ [1856]. _d._ Abington Abbey Retreat near
Northampton 1 July 1868. _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of
Birmingham_ (1877) 140–54, _portrait_; _R. K. Dent’s Old and new
Birmingham_ (1880) 350–56, 398, 571, _portrait_; _Notes and
Queries_ 6 _S. iv_, 102, 210, 539 (1881); _Aggravating Ladies, by
Olphar Hamst_ (1880) _p._ 25.
EDMONDS, RICHARD (_brother of George Edmonds 1805–69_). _b._
Penzance 18 Sep. 1801; admitted attorney 4 June 1823; practised at
Penzance 1823–25 and 1836–61, at Redruth 1825–36, at Plymouth 1861
to death; author of _The Land’s End district, its antiquities,
natural history, natural phenomena and scenery_ 1862, and of
numerous papers in scientific and archæological transactions. _d._
Plymouth 12 March 1886. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_,
132–34 (1874), _iii_, 1169 (1882).
EDMONDS, THOMAS ROWE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Penzance 20
June 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; actuary of the
Legal and general life assurance society, London 1832–66; author
of _Practical, moral and political economy, or the government,
religion and institutions most conducive to individual happiness
and to national power_ 1828; _Life tables founded on the discovery
of a numerical law regulating the existence of every human being_
1832; _An inquiry into the principles of population_ 1832, anon.
_d._ 72 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 6 March 1889. _C.
Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii_, 470–74 (1873).
EDMONDSON, GEORGE (_son of John Edmondson of Lancaster, Quaker_).
_b._ Lancaster 8 Sep. 1798; ed. at Ackworth sch. Yorkshire;
assisted Daniel Wheeler in superintending some agricultural
institutions in Russia 1817–20; lived in Russia again 1823–30;
opened a school at Blackburn 1830 and then one at Tulketh hall
near Preston; kept an agricultural school at Queenwood Hall,
Hants. 1847 to death; an early promoter of College of Preceptors
1846. _d._ 15 May 1863. _bur._ in burial ground of Society of
Friends, Southampton. _From the Lune to the Neva sixty years ago,
By J. B._ [_Mrs. Davis Benson_] 1879.
EDMONDSON, THOMAS (_brother of George Edmondson 1798–1863_). _b._
Lancaster 30 June 1792; apprenticed to a cabinet maker; journeyman
in firm of Gillow and Co. Lancaster; a cabinet maker at Carlisle,
became bankrupt; railway booking clerk at Milton station (since
called Brampton) 14 miles from Carlisle about 1836; invented the
railway ticket system 1837; founded a ticket printing
establishment at Manchester. _d._ Manchester 22 June 1851. _J. B.
Edmondson’s To whom are we indebted for the railway ticket
system?_ 1878; _Household Words vi_, 31, (1852); _I.L.N. vi_, 117
(1845), _view of ticket printing machinery_.
EDMONDSTON, LAURENCE (_son of Laurence Edmonston of Lerwick,
Shetland, surgeon_). _b._ Lerwick 1795; studied at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1830; surgeon in Unst, most northerly of Shetland islands
1830 to death; a great naturalist, made many additions to list of
British birds embracing the snowy owl, the Glaucus, Iceland and
Ivory gulls; author of _The claims of Shetland to a separate
representation in parliament_ 1836 and other pamphlets. _d._
Baltasound, Shetland, March 1879. _The home of a naturalist, In
Memoriam, in Chambers’s Journal 11 Feb. 1882 pp._ 89–92.
EDMONSTONE, SIR ARCHIBALD, 3 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Charles
Edmonstone, 2 baronet 1764–1821_). _b._ 32 Great Russell st.
Bloomsbury, London 12 March 1795; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1816; succeeded 1 April 1821; contested Stirlingshire 24 May
1821; author of _Journey to two of the Oases of Upper Egypt_ 1822;
_Tragedies_ 1837; _The Christian gentleman’s daily walk_ 1840, _3
ed._ 1850 and 8 other books. _d._ 34 Wilton place, London 13 March
1871. _Sir A. Edmonstone’s Genealogical account of the family of
Edmonstone_ (1875) 56–7.
EDMONSTONE, SIR GEORGE FREDERICK (_4 son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone
1765–1841, member of supreme council, Bengal_). _b._ April 1813;
entered Bengal civil service 1831; sec. to government of India in
foreign, political and secret department 1856; lieut. governor of
north western provinces of Bengal 20 Jany. 1859 to 7 March 1863;
K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1863. _d._ Effingham hill, Dorking 24 Sep. 1864.
EDMONSTONE, SIR WILLIAM, 4 Baronet (_brother of Sir Archibald
Edmonstone 1795–1871_). _b._ Hempton, Middlesex 29 Jany. 1810;
entered navy Oct. 1823; inspecting commander in Coast Guard
1844–49; captain 20 Oct. 1853; A.D.C. to the Queen 1865–69;
superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1866–71; R.A. 3 July 1869,
retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Jany. 1880; M.P. for
Stirlingshire 1874–80; C.B. 24 March 1863. _d._ 11 Ainslie place,
Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1888.
EDMUNDS, CHARLES. _b._ 1801; entered navy 19 Dec. 1813; captain 22
Nov. 1848; retired admiral 9 March 1878. _d._ 2 Park place villas,
Maida hill west, London 1 Nov. 1879.
EDMUNDS, LEONARD (_eld. son of John Edmunds of Ambleside,
Westmoreland, who d. 7 July 1826_). Articled to Wm. Vizard,
solicitor of 61 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; sec. to Comrs. of
the Peace, Nov. 1830; purse bearer 1830; clerk of the patents 29
Aug. 1833 to July 1864; clerk of the Crown 1834–48; reading clerk
of House of Lords 1848 to July 1864; clerk of comrs. of patents,
Oct. 1852 to July 1864; claimed money from the Government for
several years but was always unsuccessful; brought an action for
libel against W. E. Gladstone the prime minister, June 1872 when
he was nonsuited. _d._ 6 Culworth st. St. John’s Wood, London 19
June 1887 aged 85. _Report on case of Mr. Edmunds in House of
Commons Papers_ (1865) _vols. ix and xliii_; _Law Reports vi
Equity_ (1868) 381–96; _The Edmunds scandal case_ 1870; _T. A.
Nash’s Life of Lord Westbury_ (1888) _ii_, 112–23.
EDWARD, THOMAS (_son of a hand-loom linen weaver_). _b._ Gosport,
Hants. 25 Dec. 1814; shoemaker at Banff 1835; collected nearly
2000 species of animals which he exhibited at Banff fair, May 1845
and 1846; discovered 20 new species of Sessile-eyed Crustacea;
curator of museum of Banff Institution to 1882; A.L.S. 1866;
collected nearly every plant in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire;
granted civil list pension of £50, 24 Jany. 1877. _d._ 27 April
1886. _Life of a Scotch Naturalist by S. Smiles_ 1882; _Stories of
remarkable persons by W. Chambers_ (1878) 158–71; _Graphic xv_,
256 (1877), _portrait_.
EDWARDES, GEORGE WARREN (_3 son of 2 baron Kensington 1777–1852_).
_b._ 28 May 1802; ed. at Eton; auditor general St. Helena 1845–56;
governor of Labuan 13 Feb. 1856 to July 1861. _d._ Chandos house
21 Feb. 1879.
EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN (_2 son of Rev. Benjamin Edwardes, R.
of Frodesley, Salop_). _b._ Frodesley 12 Nov. 1819; ed. at King’s
coll. London; ensign 1 Bengal fusiliers 1841; suppressed rebellion
in Mooltan, June to July 1848; captain 1 European fusiliers 1
March 1850; comr. of Peshawur frontier, Oct. 1853 to 1859; comr.
of Umballa 1862–65; left India 7 Feb. 1865; M.G. 22 Feb. 1868;
C.B. 20 Oct. 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866;
author of _A year on the Punjaub frontier in 1848–49_, _2 vols._
1851. _d._ Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 23 Dec. 1868, mural
tablet in Westminster Abbey. _Memorials of the life and letters of
Sir H. B. Edwardes by Emma Edwardes 2 vols._ 1886, _portrait_; _C.
R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii_, 1–43 (1880); _I.L.N.
xiii_, 213 (1848), _portrait_, _xviii_, 618 (1851), _portrait_.
EDWARDES, RICHARD (_brother of G. W. Edwardes 1802–79_). _b._ 25
Oct. 1807; entered diplomatic service 1826; minister
plenipotentiary to the Argentine republic 10 Aug. 1865 to death
but did not leave England. _d._ 22 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23
March 1866.
EDWARDS, REV. BARTHOLOMEW. _b._ 2 March 1789; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Ashill, Norfolk 1813 to
death; rural dean of Breckles and Thetford. _d._ Ashill rectory 21
Feb. 1889 said to be the oldest clergyman in England.
EDWARDS, SIR BRYAN (_son of Bryan Edwards_). _b._ 1799; barrister
I.T. 6 May 1825; chief justice, vice chancellor and judge of vice
admiralty court for Jamaica 1859–69 when he retired on a pension;
knighted by patent 15 Nov. 1859. _d._ Eltham Pen, Spanish town,
Jamaica 6 Dec. 1876.
EDWARDS, CHARLES. _b._ Norwich 17 March 1797; ed. at Trin. hall,
Cam., LL.B. 1807; practised law in New York; counsel to British
consulate, New York 25 years; author of _The Juryman’s guide_
1831; _Parties to bills and other pleadings_ 1832; _Feathers from
my own wings_ 1832; _The History and poetry of finger rings_ 1855;
_Pleasantries about courts and lawyers_ 1865 and other books. _d._
New York 30 May 1868.
EDWARDS, CLEMENT ALEXANDER. _b._ 12 Nov. 1812; ensign 31 foot 11
June 1829; lieut. col. 18 foot 9 March 1855, lieut. col. 49 foot 3
Aug. 1860 to 4 Aug. 1863 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of
recruits 6 July 1867 to 31 July 1873; col. 18 foot 25 March 1877
to death; general 20 May 1878; placed on retired list 1 July 1881.
_d._ Leeson house, Blackheath 29 July 1882.
EDWARDS, EDWARD. _b._ Corwen, Merionethshire 23 Nov. 1803; a draper
at Bangor to 1839; carried on a foundry and iron works at Menai
Straits several years from 1840; invented a dark-water chamber
slope-back tank for marine aquaria, the principle of which was
adopted here and in many of the continental and American
zoological schools. _d._ 13 Aug. 1879.
EDWARDS, EDWARD. _b._ probably in London 1812; supernumerary
assistant in printed book department British Museum 1839–1846; one
of the 5 framers of the 91 rules for the printed catalogue;
librarian of the Manchester Free library 1850–58, library was
opened Sep. 1852; catalogued library of Queen’s college, Oxford
1870–80; author of _Napoleon medals_ 1837; _Memoirs of libraries 2
vols._ 1859; _Libraries and founders of libraries_ 1865; _Lives of
the founders of the British Museum 2 vols._ 1870 and other books;
found dead in his bed at St. Catherine’s Lodge, Niton, Isle of
Wight 7 Feb. 1886. _Book-Lore, April 1886 pp._ 135–41.
EDWARDS, EDWIN (_son of Charles Edwards of Bridgham hall, Norfolk_).
_b._ Framlingham 6 Jany. 1823; admitted solicitor 1845; practised
as a proctor first in Bennett’s hill, then in Knightrider st.
London 1845–60; exhibited 54 pictures chiefly sea pieces at R.A.
1861–79, his etchings number about 371; author of _Cases in
prerogative court with respect to wills_ 1847; _Treatise on
jurisdiction of high court of Admiralty_ 1847; _Ecclesiastical
jurisdiction, succession to personal property_ 1853. _d._ 26
Golden sq. London 15 Sep. 1879.
EDWARDS, GEORGE NELSON (_eld. son of George Edwards of Eye, Suffolk,
surgeon_). _b._ Eye 1830; ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam.,
M.B. 1851, M.D. 1859; assistant phys. St. Bartholomew’s hospital
1860, phys. 23 Jany. 1867; lecturer on forensic medicine 1866;
edited _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports_ vols. 1–3 (1865–7);
author of _The examination of the chest, in a series of tables_
1862. _d._ 20 Finsbury sq. London 6 Dec. 1868.
EDWARDS, HENRY. Entered navy 19 Nov. 1796; captain 2 Aug. 1826;
admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ Huntingdon 22 Oct. 1864 aged
80.
EDWARDS, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Henry Lees Edwards of Pye
Nest near Halifax 1775–1848_). _b._ Pye Nest 20 July 1812; M.P.
for Halifax 1847–52, for Beverley 1857–69; contested Halifax 1852,
1853 and 1857; lieut. col. commandant 2 West Yorkshire yeomanry
cavalry 1863 to death; created baronet 3 Aug. 1866; sheriff of
Yorkshire 1871; C.B. 1881. _d._ Pye Nest 23 April 1886. _I.L.N.
xxiii_, 203 (1853), _portrait_, _lxxxvii_, 37 (1885), _portrait_.
EDWARDS, VERY REV. HENRY THOMAS (_son of Rev. William Edwards, V. of
Llangollen, who d. 1868_). _b._ Llangmawddwy, co. Merioneth 6 Sep.
1837; ed. at Westminster and Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1860; C. of
Llangollen 1861; V. of Aberdare 1866–69; V. of Carnarvon 1869;
dean of Bangor, March 1876 to death; author of _The church of the
Cymry, a letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone_ 1870 and other
small books; hanged himself at Ruabon vicarage 24 May 1884. _bur._
Glenadda cemetery, Bangor 28 May. _Church portrait journal, Aug.
1879 pp._ 71–3, _portrait_; _C. Mackeson’s Church congress
handbook_ (1877) 76–7; _I.L.N. 31 May 1884 pp._ 520, 523,
_portrait_.
EDWARDS, JOHN. _b._ Llanuwch-y-lynn near Bala 15 April 1806; a
farmer near Utica, New York 1828–34, 1840–66, and near Rome, New
York 1866 to death; a successful competitor for the prizes awarded
at the Eisteddfodan in Wales; known as Eos Glan Twrch (the
nightingale of the Twrch river); edited a Welsh periodical
published at Utica called _Amserai_; his published poems include
_The Crucifixion_ 1853 and _The Omnipresence of God_ 1859. _d._
near Rome, New York 20 Jany. 1887.
EDWARDS, JOHN (_eld. son of John Edwards of Lower Broughton near
Manchester_). _b._ 1836; ed. at Owen’s coll. Manchester; barrister
G.I. 26 Jany. 1860, bencher 7 July 1874; practised as a
conveyancer in Manchester; Q.C. 6 July 1874. _d._ The Rosary,
Aston-on-Mersey, Cheshire 15 Sep. 1885.
EDWARDS, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A.
1835; second master of King’s college school, London 1833–55;
chaplain to Fishmongers’ Co. 1841–55; V. of Barrow-on-Trent
1855–70; author of _Introduction to English composition_, _5 ed._
1847, and many other school books. _d._ Weybridge, Surrey 1 July
1875.
EDWARDS, REV. LEWIS. _b._ Pwllcenavon, Cardiganshire 27 Oct. 1809;
studied at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; ordained in Welsh
Calvinistic church 1837; principal of a school at Bala (which
became Bala college) 1837 to death; started _Y Traethodydd_ (_The
Essayist_) a quarterly mag. Jany. 1845, edited it 10 years;
started the _Geiniogwerth_ (_Pennyworth_) 1847; most of his essays
were published as _Traethodau llenyddol a Duwinyddol_ (_Essays
literary and theological_) _2 vols._ 1867. _d._ Bala college 19
July 1887. _Rev. L. Edwards’s Athrawiaeth yr Iawn_ (_Atonement_),
_2 ed._ 1887 _with memoir by his son_.
EDWARDS, PETER. Second lieut. 3 Ceylon regiment 1 Oct. 1807; captain
75 foot 30 April 1818 to 11 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; general
19 Nov. 1871. _d._ London 14 Dec. 1874 aged 83.
EDWARDS, REV. ROGER. _b._ Wales 1811; edited Welsh political paper
called _Cronicl yr Oes_ 1835–39, wrote most of it; sec. of
Calvinistic Methodist Assoc. 1839–74; co-editor of _Y Traethodydd_
Jany. 1845 to death; edited the _Drysorfa_ 1846 to death; wrote 3
serial stories in Welsh being the first published; author of _The
Welsh psalmist_; _Methodist Diary_. _d._ 1886. _Drysorfa, Sep. and
Oct. 1886._
EDWARDS, THOMAS. _b._ Northop, Flintshire 1779; sec. to Nathaniel M.
Rothschild in London; a member of the Cymmrodorion, delivered many
of their lectures; contributed frequently to Welsh magazines;
author of _Analysis of Welsh orthography_ 1845; _English and Welsh
dictionary, Holywell_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1864. _d._ 10 Cloudesley sq.
London 4 June 1858. _Foulkes’s Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol._
EDWARDS, REV. THOMAS WYNNE (_son of Evan Edwards of Plas Nantylyn,
Denbighshire 1724–96_). _b._ Plas Nantylyn 8 April 1796; ed. at
Donnington school, Shropshire and Jesus coll. Ox.; pulled the
stroke-oar in his college boat in the first eight-oared boat race
ever rowed at Oxford, when Jesus coll. won 1815; B.A. 1817, M.A.
1863; V. of Rhuddlan, Flintshire 1827 to death; vicar choral of
St. Asaph cathedral 1828 to death. _d._ Rhuddlan vicarage 28 Dec.
1877.
EDWARDS, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Festiniog, North Wales about 1812; a
quarry-man at Meirion; studied at Liverpool and Brecon colleges;
Congregational minister at Ebenezer, Aberdare 1844 to death;
founded many Congregational churches in Wales; temperance, social
and political reformer; chairman of Welsh Congregational Union
1883, delivered his address _The Church and the age we live in_,
at Festiniog 22 Aug. 1883. _d._ Aberdare 29 Aug. 1884.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN. _b._ Monmouthshire 1777; engraver at
Bungay, Suffolk; engraved portraits and illustrations for the
_Bible_ and _Pilgrim’s Progress_ published by Brightly of Bungay;
engraved plate of ‘Milton and his daughters’ after Romney and many
portraits; a complete series of his engravings and etchings was in
Dawson Turner’s collection. _d._ Bungay 22 Aug. 1855.
EDWIN, ELIZABETH REBECCA (_dau. of Mr. Richards of Dublin, actor_).
_b._ 1769; first appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin when aged 8;
first appeared in London at Covent Garden 13 Nov. 1789; played
chief characters in comedy at nearly all the west-end theatres;
retired about 1822. (_m._ 1791 John Edwin the younger, comedian
1768–1805). _d._ at her lodgings in Chelsea 3 Aug. 1854. _Mrs. C.
B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i_, 103–20 (1844); _Oxberry’s Dramatic
Biography iv_, 199–209 (1826), _portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor
vi_, 163–65 (1815) _portrait_.
EFFINGHAM, HENRY HOWARD, 2 Earl of (_son of 1 Earl of Effingham
1767–1845_). _b._ Southampton 23 Aug. 1806; ed. at Harrow; ensign
58 foot 1825; captain 10 foot 1830–33; M.P. for Shaftesbury 2 July
1841 to 13 Feb. 1845 when he succeeded. _d._ 57 Eaton place,
London 5 Feb. 1889.
EGAN, RIGHT REV. CORNELIUS (_son of Daniel Egan of Lismickfinan,
Killorghan, co. Kerry_). _b._ Lismickfinan 24 June 1780; entered
Maynooth college 14 Aug. 1799; ordained priest 26 May 1804;
principal of diocesan seminary in Killarney, professor of theology
there; erected from Pugin’s design a church at Killarney; P.P.
Tralee and vicar general Nov. 1811; coadjutor Bishop of Kerry 29
March 1824, consecrated in Tralee church 25 July 1824, bishop of
the diocese Oct. 1824 to death. _d._ Tralee 22 July 1856. _W. M.
Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_, 62 (1876).
EGAN, DANIEL. _b._ Windsor, N.S.W. 1803; foreman of dockyards in
Sydney, a merchant there; alderman of Sydney, mayor 1851;
magistrate of Sydney 1848–53; member of legislative council N.S.W.
1854, of legislative assembly 1856 to death; postmaster general 27
Oct. 1868 to death. _d._ Watson’s Bay near Sydney 16 Oct. 1870.
EGAN, PIERCE (_son of Pierce Egan the author 1772–1849_). _b._
London 19 Dec. 1814; illustrated Davidge’s _Acting Drama_ and his
father’s _The pilgrims of the Thames in search of the national_
1837; author of _Wat Tyler_ 1841, _new ed._ 1851; _Paul Jones 2
vols._ 1842; edited the _Home Circle_ 7 July 1849 to Dec. 1851;
contributed novels to the _London Journal_ Dec. 1857 to death, the
best of them were _The flower of the flock_ 1857–8, _The snake in
the grass_ 1858, _The poor girl_ 1862–3, _Eve or the angel of
innocence_ 1867. _d._ Ravensbourne, Burnt Ash, Lee, Kent 6 July
1880. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 9 July.
EGERTON, WILLIAM TATTON EGERTON, 1 Baron (_eld. child of Wilbraham
Egerton 1781–1856_). _b._ 30 Dec. 1806; M.P. for Lymington 1830,
for Cheshire 1832–58; created baron Egerton of Tatton county
palatine of Cheshire 15 May 1859; lord lieut. of Cheshire 29 Jany.
1868 to death. _d._ Tatton hall, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1883. _bur._
Rostherne church 27 Feb. _Graphic xxvii_, 296 (1883), _portrait_.
EGERTON, CALEDON RICHARD. _b._ 28 July 1814; ensign 89 foot 15 June
1832, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 12 Dec. 1856; lieut. col. of 18
depot battalion 1856–63, of 8 depot battalion 1863–65; assistant
adjutant general in Scotland 1865–66; deputy adjutant general 1
April 1866 to 1 Nov. 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868; military sec. to
commander in chief 1 Nov. 1871 to 20 Feb. 1874; col. 89 foot 20
Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 7 Durham villas, Kensington, London 27
May 1874.
EGERTON, SIR CHARLES BULKELEY (_4 son of Philip Egerton of Oulton
park, Cheshire 1732–86_). _b._ Oulton park 5 June 1774; ensign 29
foot 16 Nov. 1791; lieut. col. 44 foot 5 Jany. 1809 to 22 Aug.
1811 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to death;
general 9 Nov. 1846; G.C.M.G. 10 May 1837. _d._ 1 Upper Portland
place, London 8 July 1857.
EGERTON, CHARLES CHANDLER (_son of Rev. Charles Egerton, V. of
Thorncombe, Dorset_). _b._ Thorncombe vicarage, April 1798; ed. at
St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1819, assistant surgeon
Bengal 1823; oculist at the Eye hospital and afterwards at Medical
college hospital, Calcutta where he was also first surgeon to 1847
when he retired. _d._ Kendal lodge, Epping, May 1885.
EGERTON, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER (_brother of 1 Baron Egerton 1806–83_).
_b._ Tatton park, Cheshire 27 July 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1837, B.C.L. 1841; fell. of All Soul’s coll. 1837–46;
barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; M.P. for Macclesfield 1852 to 1868;
M.P. for East Cheshire 1868 to death; under sec. for foreign
affairs, July 1866 to Dec. 1868. _d._ Baveno, Italy 27 Aug. 1869.
_I.L.N. xxi_, 402 (1852), _portrait_.
EGERTON, HENRY. _b._ 7 July 1836; acting manager T.R. Dublin; killed
in the fire of the T.R. Dublin 9 Feb. 1880, body found 6 March.
_bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery 9 March. _Graphic xxi_, 205 (1880),
_portrait_.
EGERTON, REV. JOHN COKER (_eld. son of John Egerton of Bunbury,
Cheshire_). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 Feb. 1848 aged 18;
B.A. 1852, M.A. 1854; C. of Nunton, Wilts. 1854–57; C. of Burwash,
Sussex 1857–62 and 1865–67; C. of St. Andrew Undershaft, City of
London 1862–65; R. and V. of Burwash 1867 to death; a writer in
_Leisure Hour_ and the _Sussex Advertiser_; author of _Sussex Folk
and Sussex Ways_. _d._ 20 March 1888. _The Academy 31 March 1888
p._ 223.
EGERTON, JOHN HUME (_elder son of John Cust 1 Earl Brownlow
1779–1853_). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 15 Oct. 1812; ed. at Magd.
coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; M.P. for Bedfordshire 13 Jany. 1835 to
death; captain North Lincolnshire militia 29 May 1833, colonel to
death; took part in the Eglinton tournament, fought in earnest
with the Marquis of Waterford the last day 30 Aug. 1839; took name
of Egerton only by r.l. 15 March 1849. _d._ Ashridge park 3 Jany.
1851.
EGERTON, SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY-, 10 Baronet (_eld. son of Rev.
Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9 baronet_). _b._ Malpas, Cheshire 13
Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; collected
fossil fishes in Germany, Switzerland and Italy; M.P. for Chester
1830–32, for South Cheshire 1835–68, for West Cheshire 1868 to
death; contested South Cheshire 1832; F.G.S. 1829, Wollaston
medallist 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1831; author of _Alphabetical
catalogue of type specimens of fossil fishes_ 1871, and of over 80
papers in the _Transactions, Proceedings and Journal of Geol.
Soc._, and other scientific journals. _d._ 28^B Albemarle st.
Piccadilly, London 5 April 1881. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii, pp.
xxii-iv_ (1882); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii_, 46–8
(1882).
EGERTON, RICHARD. _b._ 7 April 1783; ensign 89 foot 1 Dec. 1798;
captain 34 foot 14 April 1808 to 16 Dec. 1819 when placed on h.p.;
first aide-de-camp and private sec. to Lord Hill the commander in
chief 1828–42; col. 46 foot 24 Jany. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June
1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._ Eaton Banks, Cheshire 18 Nov. 1854.
EGERTON, WILBRAHAM. _b._ 1 Sep. 1781; sheriff of Cheshire 1808; M.P.
for Cheshire 1812–31. _d._ Tatton park 25 April 1856.