gunmaker_). _b._ 1 Piccadilly 2 May 1816; studied at R.A.;
exhibited 28 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1837–60; A.R.A. 1848, R.A. 1860. _d._ Algiers 26 March
1863. _Life of Charles Dickens by J. Forster iii_, 55–74 (1874);
_Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_, 358–60 (1866); _Art Union
monthly journal_ (1847) 312, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_, 419, 420
(1857), _portrait_.
EGLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Doncaster 1798; miniature painter in London
1824 to death; exhibited 169 miniatures at R.A. 1824–69. _d._
London 19 March 1870.
EGLINTON, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE, 13 Earl of (_only son of
major general Archibald Montgomerie 1773–1814_). _b._ Palermo 29
Sep. 1812; succeeded his grandfather as 13 Earl, 14 Dec. 1819; ed.
at Eton; began racing 1831, won the St. Leger with Blue Bonnet
1842, with Van Tromp 1847, won the Derby and St. Leger with the
Flying Dutchman 1849; col. Ayrshire militia 1836–52; carried out
celebrated tournament held at Eglinton castle, Ayrshire 28–30 Aug.
1839; served heir male general of George 4 Earl of Winton (who
_d._ 6 March 1704) 22 Dec. 1840; lord lieut. of Ayrshire 17 Aug.
1842; lord rector of Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1852; lord lieut. of
Ireland 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858 to 5 Jany. 1859;
P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1852; K.T. 18 June
1853; created Earl of Winton in peerage of U.K. 23 June 1859; the
most popular man in the three kingdoms. _d._ Mount Melville near
St. Andrews 4 Oct. 1861. _Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton
Tournament_ (1843), _portrait_; _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876)
352–56; _Sporting Review xxxix_, 452–5 (1858), _xlvi_, 320–1
(1861); _Rice’s British turf_ (1879) _i_, 281–3; _Sporting Times
28 March 1885 pp._ 5–6.
EGMONT, GEORGE JAMES PERCEVAL, 6 Earl of (_3 son of 2 Baron Arden
1756–1840_). _b._ 14 March 1794; served as midshipman at Trafalgar
21 Oct. 1805, captain 7 Dec. 1818; admiral on h.p. 23 March 1863;
M.P. for West Surrey 4 Aug. 1837 to 5 July 1840 when he succeeded
as 3 Baron Arden; succeeded as 6 Earl of Egmont 23 Dec. 1841. _d._
North house, Epsom 2 Aug. 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000,
26 Sep. _I.L.N. lxv_, 164 (1874), _portrait_.
EKINS, SIR CHARLES (_son of Very Rev. Jeffery Ekins, dean of
Carlisle, who d. 20 Nov. 1791_). _b._ Quainton rectory, Bucks.
1768; entered navy 20 March 1781; captain 22 Dec. 1796; admiral 23
Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 8 June 1831; G.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of
_Naval battles from 1744 to the peace of 1814 critically reviewed
and illustrated 2 vols._ 1824, _2 ed._ 1828. _d._ 69 Cadogan
place, London 2 July 1855 aged 87.
ELD, GEORGE. _b._ Coventry; a miller, silk dealer and dyer
successively; edited _Coventry Standard_ 20 years; mayor of
Coventry 1834–5, alderman to death; made many drawings of ancient
buildings and other memorials of the past. _d._ Coventry 22 May
1862 in 71 year.
ELD, JOHN (_3 son of Francis Eld of Seighford hall near Stafford
1736–1817_). _b._ 16 July 1779; elected master of the ceremonies
of assemblies at Old Ship inn, Brighton, March 1828 being the
third and last master, final ball held 20 Nov. 1854. _d._ Brighton
22 Dec. 1855 in 76 year. _J. G. Bishop’s A Peep into the past,
Brighton_ (1880) 34–6, _portrait_.
ELDER, CHARLES. Historical and portrait painter; exhibited 5
pictures at B.I., 11 at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–52.
_d._ Gower st. London 11 Dec. 1851 aged 30.
ELDER, REV. EDWARD (_son of John Edward Elder of Barbadoes_). _b._ 1
Oct 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox., open scholar
1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1853; master of Durham cathedral
gr. school 1839–53; master of Charterhouse school 1853 to death;
contributed several articles to _Smith’s Dictionary of classical
biography and mythology_. _d._ 6 April 1858, memorial tablet in
Charterhouse chapel. _G.M. iv_, 563, 673–4 (1858).
ELDER, JOHN (_3 son of David Elder of Glasgow, marine engineer
1784–1866_). _b._ Glasgow 8 March 1824; member of firm of Randolph
Elliott & Co. of Glasgow, marine engineers 1852; a shipbuilder in
Glasgow 1860 to death; employed about 4000 men; adopted the
compound or combined high and low pressure engines 1854; patented
his round war ship 1868 and many improvements in marine machinery;
pres. of Institution of engineers and shipbuilders of Glasgow
1869. _d._ London 17 Sep. 1869. _W. J. M. Rankine’s Memoir of J.
Elder_ 1870, _portrait_; _Maclehose’s Memoirs and portraits of a
hundred Glasgow men_ 1886.
ELDER, WILLIAM. _b._ Malin, Donegal 22 July 1822; ed. at Queen’s
coll. Belfast, and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; a minister in
Presbyterian church; went to New Brunswick; edited the _Colonial
Presbyterian_, edited the _Morning Journal_ at St. John 1865;
chief editor and proprietor of the _Daily Telegraph_ at St. John
1871; member of legislative assembly of New Brunswick 1878 to
death; provincial secretary 1882. _d._ St. John N.B. 23 July 1882.
_Dominion Annual Register 1883 pp._ 309–11.
ELDON, JOHN SCOTT, 2 Earl of. _b._ Manchester square, London 10 Dec.
1805; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
D.C.L. 1834; LLD. Cam. 1842; M.P. for Truro 1829–32; succeeded 13
Jany. 1838; pres. of the Pitt club 1842; declared by inquisition
to be of unsound mind Jany. 1853. _d._ Shirley park, Surrey 18
Sep. 1854. _bur._ family vault at Kingston, Isle of Purbeck 29
Sep. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 671 (1886), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iv_, 65 (1844), _portrait_.
ELDRED, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1843; agent for Rev. J. M. Bellew on a
reading tour through the provinces 1860; a low comedian in Dublin
1865; an actor and manager at Liverpool; first appeared in London
at Olympic theatre 15 June 1868 as Major Regulus Rattan in _Ici on
parle Français_; acted at Gaiety theatre from 21 Dec. 1868; played
Micawber in _Little Emly_ at Olympic from 9 Oct. 1869; played
several starring tours in provinces; remarkably like the Earl of
Beaconsfield. _d._ Sydney, New South Wales 29 Feb. 1884. _Sporting
Times 25 Sep. 1875, pp._ 537, 540, _portrait_.
ELDRIDGE, CHARLES MONROE. Member of assembly for city of St. John’s,
Antigua 1852–63; pres. of Dominica 1872 and 1882; pres. of Nevis,
April 1872 to May 1873; pres. of St. Christopher 1883 and of St.
Kitt’s and Nevis 1883. _d._ 8 Oct. 1888.
ELEN, PHILIP WEST. Landscape painter in London; exhibited 64
pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery
1838–72. _d._ Regent’s park road, London 21 Feb. 1880.
ELGIN, JAMES BRUCE, 8 Earl of, and 12 Earl of Kincardine (_2 son of
7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841_). _b._ Park lane, London 20 July 1811;
ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835, D.C.L. 1856;
fellow of Merton coll. 1833 to 1841; M.P. for Southampton 1841–42;
succeeded his father 17 Nov. 1841; governor general of Jamaica
1842–46, of Canada 1846–54; knighted by patent 19 June 1847; K.T.
12 July 1847; created baron Elgin of Elgin 13 Nov. 1849, special
ambassador to China 1857–59 and 1860–61; P.C. 21 March 1857;
G.C.B. 28 Sep. 1858; postmaster general 1859 to 1860; lord rector
of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1859; received freedom of City of London
1 March 1860; viceroy of India 21 Jany. 1862 to death. _d._
Dhurmsala, Cashmere 20 Nov. 1863. _T. Walrond’s Letters and
journals of James, eighth Earl of Elgin_ 1872; _L. Oliphant’s
Narrative of Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan 2 vols._
1859; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876)
108–21; _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 360–67; _D. C. Boulger’s
History of China, vol. 3_ (1884).
ELIOT, REV. EDWARD (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Eliot, Vicar of Maker,
Cornwall, who d. 1795_). _b._ Maker 22 May 1789; ed. at
Lostwithiel and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 30 June 1811 to 10 July
1826; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1825; archdeacon of Barbadoes
1825–37; V. of Norton Bavant, Wilts. 1837 to death; preb. of
Salisbury 30 Dec. 1848 to death; author of _Christianity and
Slavery_ 1833 and other books. _d._ Norton Bavant 1 Nov. 1861.
ELIOTT, SIR DANIEL (_4 son of Sir William Eliott, 6 baronet, who d.
14 May 1812_). _b._ Stobs castle, Roxburghshire 3 March 1798;
writer Madras civil service 1817; sec. to board of revenue 1827;
member of Madras council and pres. of revenue, marine and college
boards 1848; member of legislative council of India 1855–58;
K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. _d._ 12 The Boltons, West Brompton, London
30 Oct. 1872.
ELIOTT, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 24 May
1799; entered navy 1814; captain on h.p. 27 June 1838; admiral on
h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Bath 13 May 1872.
ELIOTT, RUSSELL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Stobs castle 26
March 1802; entered navy 16 Nov. 1814; captain 28 June 1838;
admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Appleby castle, Westmoreland 28
Dec. 1881.
ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (_son of James Elkington of Birmingham,
gilt-toy maker_). _b._ St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 17 Oct. 1801;
apprenticed to his uncles Josiah and George Richards of
Birmingham, partner with them, succeeded to the business on their
death; partner with his cousin Henry Elkington, who _d._ 26 Oct.
1852, they introduced industry of electro plating and electro
gilding 1840; established large copper-smelting works at Pembrey,
South Wales. _d._ of paralysis at Pool park, Denbighshire 22 Sep.
1865, personalty sworn under £350,000, 20 Jany. 1866.
ELKINGTON, JOHN HENRY FORD (_son of James Goodall Elkington_). _b._
10 April 1830; ensign 6 foot 28 Aug. 1846, lieut. col. 27 Nov.
1867 to 24 Feb. 1877 when placed on h.p.; lieut. governor and
commanding the troops Guernsey 1 Nov. 1885 to death; L.G. 1 April
1887; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ St. George, Guernsey 21 Feb. 1889.
ELLA, JOHN (_son of Richard Ella of Thirsk, Yorkshire_). _b._ Thirsk
19 Dec. 1802; violinist in orchestra of Drury Lane theatre 18
Jany. 1821, of the King’s theatre 1822; member of all important
orchestras in London 1826; musical editor of the _Athenæum_ and
other papers; established “The Musical Union” a series of morning
concerts of instrumental chamber music 1845, and a similar series
of concerts entitled “Musical Winter Evenings” 1850; musical
lecturer to London Institution 1855; author of _Musical Sketches
abroad and at home_ 1869, _3 ed._ 1878; _Lectures on dramatic,
music and musical education abroad and at home_ 1872. _d._ 9
Victoria sq. Pimlico, London 2 Oct. 1888. _I.L.N. viii_, 420
(1846), _portrait_.
ELLACOMBE, REV. HENRY THOMAS (_son of Rev. William Ellicombe, R. of
Alphington near Exeter, who d. 1831_). _b._ 1790; ed. at Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; C. of Cricklade, Wilts. 1816; C.
of Bitton, Gloucs. 1817–35; V. of Bitton 1835–50; R. of Clyst St.
George, Devon 1850 to death; restored church of Bitton 1822 and
built 3 other churches near there; the great authority on bells,
invented an apparatus of chiming hammers; changed his name to
Ellacombe about 1842; author of _Practical remarks on belfries and
ringers, Bristol_ 1850, _4 ed._ 1876; _The Church bells of Devon,
Somerset and Gloucestershire 3 vols._ 1872, 1875, 1881, and other
books. _d._ Clyst St. George 30 July 1885. _bur._ in Bitton
churchyard. _Mozley’s Reminiscences_ (1882) _i_, 75–81; _Church
Bells 7 Aug. 1885 pp._ 847–8, _portrait_.
ELLENBOROUGH, EDWARD LAW, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of 1 Baron
Ellenborough 1750–1818_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1790; ed. at Eton and St.
John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall
1813–18; lord privy seal 22 Jany. 1828 to 10 June 1829; P.C. 26
Jany. 1828; a lord of the treasury 21 Nov. 1834; pres. of Board of
Control 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835, 9 Sep. 1841 to 28 Oct.
1841, and 6 March to June 1858; governor general of India 20 Oct.
1841 to 15 June 1844; created Viscount Southam of Southam, Gloucs.
and Earl of Ellenborough in the county of Cumberland 22 Oct. 1844;
G.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; first lord of Admiralty 8 Jany. 1846 to 6
July 1846. _d._ Southam Delabere, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1871. _History
of the Indian administration of Lord Ellenborough, edited by Lord
Colchester_ 1874; _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 371–78; _I.L.N.
ii_, 92 (1843), _portrait_, _lix_, 643 (1871), _lx_, 36, 37
(1872), _portrait_.
ELLERTON, REV. EDWARD (_son of Richard Ellerton of Downholm,
Yorkshire_). _b._ 30 Jany. 1771; ed. at Richmond sch. and Univ.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, B.D. 1805, D.D. 1815; Usher of
Magd. coll. sch. 1795, master 1798–1810; fell. of Magd. coll. 2
Nov. 1803 to death, vice pres. 1806, tutor 1810, librarian 1827;
senior proctor 1804–5; P.C. of Horsepath, Oxon. 1814; P.C. of
Sevenhampton, Gloucs. 1825–51; joint founder in 1832 with Dr. E.
B. Pusey and his brother Philip Pusey of the Pusey and Ellerton
Hebrew scholarships, which are three in number open to all members
of the university and of annual value of £30 each. _d._ Theale
curacy, Berks. 26 Dec. 1851. _J. B. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalene
college iii_, 246–58 (1863).
ELLERTON, JOHN LODGE (_son of Adam Lodge of Liverpool_). _b._
Chester 11 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1828; studied music at Rome where he wrote 7 Italian
operas; his English opera _Domenica_ produced at Drury Lane 7 June
1838 failed; wrote another English opera _The Bridal of Triermain_
and a German opera Lucinda; published an oratorio _Paradise Lost_
1857, fifty string quartets and many other musical works; a member
of the Musical Union 1847–71; assumed name of Ellerton about 1844;
author of _The bridal of Salerno, a poetical romance_ 1845, _The
elixir of youth, a legend and other poems_ 1864. _d._ Connaught
place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1873.
ELLESMERE, FRANCIS EGERTON, 1 Earl of (_younger son of 1 Duke of
Sutherland 1758–1833_). _b._ Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 1
Jany. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Bletchingley,
Surrey 1822–26, for Sutherlandshire 1826–30, for South Lancashire
1834–46; a lord of the Treasury 1827; under sec. of state for
Colonies, Jany. to May 1828; chief sec. to Marquis of Anglesey,
lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–30; P.C. 28 June 1828; P.C. Ireland 9
Aug. 1828; sec. at war 30 July to 22 Nov. 1830; rector of Univ. of
Aberdeen, Oct. 1838; created Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere,
Salop, and Viscount Brackley of Brackley, Northamptonshire 1 July
1846; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Lancashire 9 April 1856;
author of _Translations from the German and original poems_ 1824;
_Mediterranean sketches_ 1843; _The pilgrimage and other poems_
1856. _d._ Bridgewater house, St. James’s, London 18 Feb. 1857.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv_, 184–6 (1858); _Quarterly
Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv_, _pp. xlv-xlvii_ (1858); _Fraser’s Mag.
July 1835 p._ 43, _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_, 60 (1846),
_portrait_, _xxxvii_, 563, 568 (1860), _portrait_.
ELLESMERE, GEORGE GRANVILLE FRANCIS EGERTON, 2 Earl of. _b._
Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 June 1823; M.P. for North
Staffs. 1847–51; succeeded 18 Feb. 1857. _d._ Balbirnie, Fifeshire
19 Sep. 1862.
ELLICE, SIR CHARLES HENRY (_2 son of general Robert Ellice
1784–1856_). _b._ Florence 10 May 1823; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign
Coldstream guards 10 May 1839; lieut. col. 24 foot 8 Aug. 1851 to
8 July 1862 when placed on h.p.; quarter master general 1 April
1871 to 30 March 1876; adjutant general 1 Nov. 1876 to March 1882;
col. of 49 foot 7 Sep. 1874, of 24 foot 6 April 1884 to death;
general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 April 1887; C.B. 1
Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 15 April 1882. _d._ Brook
house, Horringer, Bury St. Edmunds 12 Nov. 1888.
ELLICE, EDWARD (_eld. son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of
the Hudson’s Bay Company_). _b._ Montreal 1781; ed. at Winchester
sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1800; settled in London as
member of firm of Inglis and Ellice, West India and America house;
M.P. for Coventry 1818–1826 and 1830 to death; sec. to the
Treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 10 Aug. 1832 when he resigned; sec. of
war 4 April 1833 to 16 Dec. 1834; P.C. 3 April 1833; original
chairman of Reform club, London mainly established by his
influence 1836; hon. D.C.L. St. Andrews 1862. _d._ Ardochy,
Glengary 17 Sep. 1863. _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 33, 37, 123,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xliii_, 335, 337 (1863), _portrait_.
ELLICE, EDWARD (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ London 19 Aug.
1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested
Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s
district 1837–80; author of _A Letter in reply to A Report on the
Poor Law in the Highlands_ 1855. _d._ on board his yacht Ita off
Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at Tor-na-cairidh
on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.
ELLICE, ROBERT (_2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the
Hudson’s Bay Company_). _b._ 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov.
1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on
h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854.
_d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.
ELLICOMBE, SIR CHARLES GRENE (_brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe
1790–1885_). _b._ Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut.
R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant
30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the
war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862.
_d._ Worthing 7 June 1871. _United Service Mag. July 1871 pp._
407–409.
ELLIOT, SIR CHARLES (_youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830,
governor of Madras_). _b._ Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March
1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana
1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general
in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of
Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb.
1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865;
K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem
_Edwin the Fair_ 1845 as Earl Athulf. _d._ Withycombe near Exmouth
9 Sep. 1875. _Autobiography of H. Taylor i_, 164–69, 345–75
(1885).
ELLIOT, CHARLES MORGAN (_9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S._) _b._
Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and
Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to
death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore
1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846
to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. _d._ Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.
ELLIOT, LADY CHARLOTTE (_eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet
1799–1849_). _b._ 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s
daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of
_Stella and other poems By Florenz_ 1867; _Medusa and other poems_
1878. (_m._ (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure
Fothringham, who _d._ 7 March 1864; _m._ (2) 17 Dec. 1868
Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). _d._ 15 Jany. 1880.
_Athenæum 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 124.
ELLIOT, SIR GEORGE (_2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814_). _b._
Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval
aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty
1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40;
commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840;
admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831,
K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge,
London 24 June 1863.
ELLIOT, SIR HENRY MIERS (_brother of Charles Morgan Elliot
1815–52_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil
service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in
council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849;
author of _Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled
in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J._ 1860, no more printed;
_Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India,
vol. i_, 1849; _The History of India as told by its own
historians_, _edited by J. Dowson 8 vols._ 1867–77 and other
books. _d._ Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.
ELLIOT, JOHN EDMUND (_youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814_).
_b._ 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for
co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26
Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of _Letter to the Teviotside
Farmer_ 1841. _d._ 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.
ELLIOT, SIR THOMAS FREDERICK (_brother of Sir Charles Eliot
1801–75_). _b._ London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in
colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry
into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April
1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial
land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for
colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30
June 1869. _d._ Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.
ELLIOT, SIR WALTER (_eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee,
Roxburghshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil
service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848,
first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of
council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to
27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil
and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June
1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of _Carnacta
translation of Esop’s Fables_ 1840; _Flora Andhrica, a list of
plants in the Telegu district_ 1859, and of many papers on
archæology in _Indian Antiquary_, _Madras Journal of Literature
and Science_, _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society_ and other
periodicals. _d._ Wolfelee 1 March 1887. _Journal of Royal Asiatic
Society, July 1887 pp._ 519–24; _Biograph i_, 251–54 (1882).
ELLIOTSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st.
Southwark, druggist_). _b._ High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent
5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P.
London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16,
M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a
fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian
lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846;
assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34;
professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838;
senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began
practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of
London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st.
1849; established _The Zoist_, a journal of cerebral physiology
and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his
establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of
Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of _The principles and practice
of medicine_ 1839; _Treatise on human physiology_, _Fifth ed._
1835–40, _another ed._ 1856 and other books. _d._ 2 Davies st.
Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. _J. Ashburner’s Notes and
Studies_ (1867) 59–68; _Medical Circular iv_, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3
(1854); _Physic and Physicians ii_, 273–85 (1839).
ELLIOTT, CHARLES. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member
of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in
Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.;
treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of _The life of
Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan_ 1831. _d._ Portland place,
London 4 May 1856 aged 79.
ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES. _b._ Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went
to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district
4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown,
Panama 4 years; edited _Pittsburg Conference Journal_; edited
_Western Christian Advocate_ to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of
Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60;
author of _Treatise on Baptism_ 1834; _Delineation of Roman
Catholicism 2 vols._ 1842, _third ed._ 1851; _Life of Bishop
Roberts_ 1853 and other books. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany.
1869.
ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES BOILEAU (_eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d.
4 May 1856_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of
Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April
1832; author of _Letters from the North of Europe_ 1832; _Travels
in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols._
1838 and other books. _d._ Geneva 1 July 1875.
ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll.
Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A.
1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death;
surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at
Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author
of _Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private
confession and absolution_ 1859 and other books; contributed to
the _Bible Educator_ 1872, _the S.P.C.K. Commentary_, _Smith’s
Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities_, _Edinburgh Review_,
_&c._ _d._ Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.
ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE (_3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and
Brighton_). _b._ 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at
Brighton 1857 to death; edited _Christian Remembrancer Pocket
Book_ 1834–59; edited _The Invalid’s Hymn book_, _6 ed._ 1854, to
this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am,
without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated
into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and
Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of
_Hymns for a week_ 1837, _40th thousand_ 1871; _Hours of Sorrow_
1836 and many later editions; _Poems by C. E._ 1863. _d._ 10
Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. _Selections from the poems
of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B._ (_Mrs. E.
Babington_) 1873, _portrait_; _Just as I am, by C. Elliott_ 1884
_with memoir by H. L. L._ 1885; _Miller’s singers and songs of the
church_ 1869, 461–62.
ELLIOTT, REV. EDWARD BISHOP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 24
July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of
Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St.
Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of _The Question
“What is the image of the Beast?” answered_ 1838; _Horæ
Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and
historical 3 vols._ 1844; _Vindiciæ Horariæ_ 1848 and 6 other
books. _d._ 30 July 1875.
ELLIOTT, GEORGE PERCY (_eld. son of Rev. Luther Graves Elliott of
Ottery St. Mary, Devon_). _b._ Silverton 1800; ed. at Winchester
and St. Mary hall, Ox.; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 29
May 1829; magistrate at Lambeth police court 1845 to 20 Sep. 1870
when he retired; author of _A practical treatise on the
qualifications of Parliamentary electors_ 1839; ed. for the Camden
Soc. _Diary of Dr. E. Lake_ and _Autobiography of Dr. Taswell_.
_d._ Egland, Honiton, Devon 12 July 1874.
ELLIOTT, REV. HENRY VENN (_brother of Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871_).
_b._ 17 Jany. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1 Oct. 1816;
14 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1814; C. of Ampton,
Suffolk 1823–25; prior of St. John’s, Wilton near Salisbury
1826–32; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Brighton 18 Jany. 1827 to death, this
chapel was built by his father for about £10,000 in 1826; founded
St. Mary’s hall, Brighton opened 1 Aug. 1836; author of _Psalms
and Hymns_ 1835, _fourteenth thousand_ 1858 and of many sermons.
_d._ 31 Brunswick sq. Brighton 24 Jany. 1865. _Life of Rev. H. V.
Elliott by Josiah Bateman_ 1868, _portrait_.
ELLIOTT, SAMUEL MACKENZIE. _b._ Inverness 9 April 1811; graduated at
College of surgeons, Glasgow 1828; studied in Cincinnati and
Philadelphia 1833–35; an oculist in New York 1835–74 where he
gained a high reputation; lieut. col. of 79 regiment of New York
volunteers in civil war 1861; raised the Highland brigade; author
of _The U.S. Highland Brigade, New York_ 1861. _d._ New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York 1 May 1873.
ELLIOTT, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_younger son of John Elliott, captain
R.N._) _b._ Elliott house near Ripon 1792; ensign 51 foot 6 Dec.
1809, lieut. col. 27 June 1838 to 13 Feb. 1855 when placed on
h.p.; commanded Madras brigade in second Burmese war 1852–53;
commandant at Rangoon 1853–55; col. of 55 foot 15 Nov. 1861, of 51
foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; K.H. 19 July
1837; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 20 Cambridge
sq. Hyde park, London 27 March 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 331 (1874).
ELLIS, REV. ARTHUR AYRES (_son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham_).
_b._ Birmingham 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A.
1855, fell. of his coll. 1854; senior classical master Liverpool
coll. 1853–57; junior dean of Trin. coll. Cam. and divinity
lecturer in Ch. coll. Cam. 1859–60; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1860 to
death; published _Bentleii Critica Sacra_ 1862. _d._ 22 March
1887.
ELLIS, SIR BARROW HELBERT (_son of S. Helbert Ellis of London_).
_b._ London 24 Jany. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. school and
Haileybury; matric. at Univ. of London 1839; entered Bombay civil
service 26 July 1843; assistant comr. in Sind 1851–55; ordinary
member of Bombay council 1865, member of governor general’s
council 2 May 1870 to 27 April 1875; member of council of
secretary of state, July 1875 to 1885; K.C.S.I. 5 Oct. 1875; vice
pres. of Jews’ college, London where there is a portrait of him;
edited G. Stack’s _Dictionary of Sindhi and English, Bombay_ 1855.
_d._ Evian-les-Bains, Savoy 20 June 1887. _bur._ Jewish cemetery,
Willesden, Middlesex 28 June. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xix_,
688–90 (1887).
ELLIS, CHARLES WILLATS (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, V. of Great
Milton, Oxon._) Ed. at Westminster; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 22
Oct. 1807 aged 17; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 21 Nov.
1817; published _A treatise on the pleadings in suits for tithes
in equity_ 1821; _A treatise on the law of debtor and creditor_
1822; _The clergyman’s assistant ed. by C. Ellis_ 1822, _new ed._
1828; _A collection of acts and records of parliament by Sir H.
Gwillim, second ed. with notes by G. Ellis_ 1825; _The law of fire
and life insurance and annuities_ 1832, _second ed._ 1846. _d._ 42
Kensington sq. London 17 July 1868.
ELLIS, EDWARD SHIPLEY (_eld. son of John Ellis 1789–1862_). _b._
1817; chairman of Midland railway company, May 1873 to death. _d._
The Newark, Leicester 3 Dec. 1879.
ELLIS, EDWIN. Solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, London 1841;
member of orchestra of Princess’s theatre; member of orchestra at
Adelphi theatre 1860, conductor 1867 to death; published
selections from Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella, Thomas’s Le Caid
and Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène and a few songs. _d._ St. Thomas’s
hospital, London 25 Oct. 1878 aged 35.
ELLIS, GEORGE CRESSALL. Director of Her Majesty’s dramatic
performances at Windsor castle many years. _d._ Park road east,
West Brompton, London 23 June 1875 in 66 year.
ELLIS, SIR HENRY. _b._ 1777; private sec. to pres. of Bengal board
of control at Calcutta 1812–14; minister plenipotentiary ad
interim in Persia 18 April 1814 to 1815; clerk of the Pells
1825–1834 when office was abolished; comr. of board of control 6
Dec. 1830 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; a comr. for affairs
of India 13 Dec. 1832; ambassador to Persia 1 July 1835 to Nov.
1836; sent on an extraordinary and special mission to the Brazils
20 Sep. 1842; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 11 June 1819, F.G.S.;
author of _Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to
China_ 1817. _d._ Brighton 28 Sep. 1855.
ELLIS, SIR HENRY (_younger son of John Ellis, master of the free
school in Primrose st. Bishopsgate st. London, who d. 1812_). _b._
Primrose st. 29 Nov. 1779; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St.
John’s coll. Ox., fellow 1802–5; B.C.L. 1802; assistant librarian
at Bodleian library 1797–1800; temporary assistant in British
Museum library 1800, assistant keeper of printed books 1805,
keeper 1806–12, keeper of the manuscripts 1812–27, secretary
1814–27, principal librarian 20 Dec. 1827 to Feb. 1856; F.S.A. 15
Jany. 1807, one of the secs. 1813 to 1 Dec. 1853, director 1 Dec.
1853 to 7 Dec. 1857; F.R.S. 30 May 1811; K.H. 21 July 1832;
knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1833; author of _History of
the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch_ 1798; edited _Original
letters illustrative of English history 3 series_ 1824, 1827, 1846
and other books. _d._ 24 Bedford sq. London 15 Jany. 1869.
_Fagan’s Life of Panizzi i_, 142–43 (1880), _portrait_; _Cowtan’s
Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 230–32; _Proc. of Soc. of
Antiq. 2 series iv_, 303–305 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_, 99, 141 (1869),
_portrait_.
ELLIS, JAMES. Managed Cremorne gardens, London 1845–51; arrived in
Melbourne, Oct. 1852; established Salle Valentino there also
Cremorne gardens. _d._ Melbourne 9 Jany. 1874 in 62 year. _Era 22
March 1874 p. 7, col. 4._
ELLIS, JOHN (_eld. son of Joseph Ellis of Sharman’s lodge near
Leicester, farmer_). _b._ Frisk house near Leicester 1789; farmer
at Beaumont Leyes near Leicester 1807–47; founded at Leicester
firm of Ellis, Everington and Co. 1826; projected the third line
of railway in England namely from Swannington to Bagworth, opened
July 1832; M.P. for Leicester 1848–52; chairman of Midland railway
company 1849–58. _d._ Belgrave near Leicester 26 Oct. 1862.
_Charlotte Ellis’s Sketch of one branch of the Ellis family,
privately printed_; _The Midland railway by F. S. Williams_ (1876)
166–68.
ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Tyn-y-meini, Denbighshire 3 Feb. 1810;
began preaching 5 Oct. 1834; baptist minister at Llanelian 1837,
at Sirhowy, Monmouthshire 1847, at Carnarvon 1862–75; author of
_Lectures on Baptism_ 1841; _The principles of Biblical Exegesis_
1854; _Memoir of John Williams_ 1871 and other books. _d._
Gartheryr 20 Aug. 1875. _Rev. J. S. James’s Biography of Rev. R.
Ellis_ 1877.
ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. Member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 9 April 1836,
scholar 5 Nov. 1839, fellow 30 March 1841 to 2 April 1872; fifth
wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; B.D. 1850; chiefly known by
his controversy with W. J. Law on route followed by Hannibal over
the Alps; author of _A Treatise on Hannibal’s passage of the Alps_
1853; _Contributions to the ethnography of Italy and Greece_ 1858;
_The Armenian origin of the Etruscans_ 1861 and 6 other books.
_d._ 3 Higher Summerlands, Exeter 20 Dec. 1885 aged 65. _The
Eagle, the St. John’s college magazine_ (1886).
ELLIS, ROBERT LESLIE (_youngest child of Francis Ellis of Bath_).
_b._ Bath 25 Aug. 1817; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1836,
senior wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fell. of his coll.
Oct. 1840 to 1849; edited _Cambridge mathematical journal_; seized
with rheumatic fever at S. Remo 1849. _d._ Anstey hall,
Trumpington 12 May 1859. _The mathematical and other writings of
R. L. Ellis, edited by W. Walton, with a biographical memoir by
Very Rev. H. Goodwin_ (1863) _pp. ix-xxxvi_, _portrait_.
ELLIS, ROBERT STAUNTON. Entered Madras civil service 1844; member of
council Madras 1875 to 16 March 1877; member of India office
council 1877 to death; C.B. 21 April 1875; found dead in his bed
at 141 Gloucester road, Kensington, London 9 Oct. 1877 aged 52.
ELLIS, SIR SAMUEL BURDON (_son of Charles Ellis, captain R.N._) _b._
1787; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Jany. 1804; commanded Chatham division of
R.M. 1851–1855; col. of Portsmouth division 28 March 1863 to
death; general 1862; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Old
Charlton, Kent 10 March 1865. _Memoirs and services of Sir S. B.
Ellis, edited by Lady Ellis_ 1866.
ELLIS, SARAH (_dau. of William Stickney of Ridgmont near Hull,
farmer, who d. 9 July 1848 aged 84_). _b._ 1812; brought up as a
Quaker, but became a Congregationalist 1837; author of _Pictures
of private life_, _3 series 3 vols._ 1833–37; _The poetry of life
2 vols._ 1835; _Home, or the iron rule, a story 3 vols._ 1836;
_The women of England, their social duties and domestic habits_
1839, more than 20 eds.; _The sons of the soil, a poem_ 1839;
_Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy 3
vols._ 1841 and numerous other books. (_m._ 1837 William Ellis
1794–1872). _d._ Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, Herts. 16 June 1872.
_Fisher’s Drawing Room scrap book_ 1844–5, _portrait_; _S. Ellis’s
Self Deception vol. i_, _portrait_.
ELLIS, SYDNEY (_youngest son of Edward Shipley Ellis 1817–79_). _b._
Leicester 12 Dec. 1850; educ. at Brighton and at Tottenham; member
of a firm of worsted spinners; lectured to his work people on
physical and natural science; took great interest in chemistry,
geology and anthropology; member of British Assoc. 1874 and of
Literary and Philosophical Soc. of Leicester; author of _Leila
Marston, a tale_ 1861. _d._ from accidentally inhaling poisonous
gas while investigating the composition of ferro-prussiate of
potash 26 Oct. 1877, left legacies of £1000 each to
Anthropological Instit., the Royal, Chemical and Geological
societies. _Journal of Anthropological Institute ix_, 441–42
(1880).
ELLIS, THOMAS FLOWER. _b._ 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow;
B.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1824; Q.C. within county palatine
of Lancaster; a municipal corporation comr. 1831; recorder of
Leeds, May 1839 to death; attorney general of Duchy of Lancaster
to death; edited with J. L. Adolphus _Reports in court of King’s
Bench 12 vols._ 1835–42 and _Queen’s Bench reports, new series_,
_18 vols._ 1842–56; with Colin Blackburn _Reports in court of
Queen’s Bench 8 vols._ 1852–58; with C. Blackburn and F. Ellis
_Reports in court of Queen’s Bench_ 1858; with F. Ellis _Reports
in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols._ 1858–61; acted as Lord
Macaulay’s executor, and edited the posthumous vol. of his works.
_d._ 15 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 5 April 1861.
_Trevelyan’s Life of Lord Macaulay_ (1878) _i_, 182, 253, 345, ii,
95, 220, 284; _Pollock’s Personal Remembrances i_, 91, 100.
ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM (_2 child of William Ellis of London_). _b._
Charles st. Long Acre, London 29 Aug. 1794; employed as a gardener
at Wisbeach; removed to London 1811; missionary of the London
missionary society in the South Sea Islands 1816–25; travelling
agent at home 1825–31; foreign sec. of L.M.S. 1831–41; edited _The
Christian Keepsake_ an annual; pastor of Congregational church at
Hoddesdon, Herts. 1847–52; missionary to Madagascar 1853, 1856 and
1861–65; author of _History of Madagascar 2 vols._ 1838;
_Polynesian Researches 2 vols._ 1829, _second ed. 3 vols._
1832–34, _another ed._ 1848, _4 vols._ 1853 and other books. _d._
Rose hill, Hoddesdon 9 June 1872. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14
June. _J. E. Ellis’s Life of W. Ellis_ 1873; _I.L.N. lx_, 625, 630
(1872), _portrait_.
ELLIS, WILLIAM (_son of Andrew Ellis De Vezian, an underwriter at
Lloyds, London, who took name of Ellis about 1801_). _b._ Jany.
1800; assistant underwriter of Indemnity marine insurance company
1824, chief manager 1827; founded at his own expense five schools
1848–52, naming them Birkbeck after George Birkbeck; gave lectures
to the royal children at Buckingham Palace; author of _Outlines of
social economy_ 1846; _Education as a means of preventing
destitution_ 1851; _Philo-Socrates_ 1861 a series of papers, and
other books. _d._ 6 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 18
Feb. 1881. _Good Words, Aug. 1881 p._ 543, _portrait_.
ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM WEBB (_2 son of James Ellis of Manchester_).
_b._ Nov. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1831; C. of St. George’s, Albemarle st. London 1836–55; R. of
St. Clement Danes, Strand 1843–55; R. of Laver Magdalen, Essex
1855 to death; author of _A concise view of prophecy which relates
to the Messiah_ 1832; _Sermons at St. George’s_ 1838; _Dangerous
errors of Romanism_ 1853. _d._ 24 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400
(1854), _portrait_.
ELLIS, WYNN (_son of Thomas Ellis of Oundle, Northamptonshire_).
_b._ Oundle, July 1790; hosier and mercer at 16 Ludgate st. City
of London 1812, wholesale silk merchant 1830–71 latterly the
largest in London; M.P. for Leicester 1831–34 and 1839–47; sheriff
of Herts. 1851–52. _d._ 30 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 20
Nov. 1875. _bur._ at Whitstable, personalty sworn under £600,000,
8 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 35, 37, 38 (1876), _portrait_.
NOTE.—He bequeathed all his pictures by the old masters 402 in
number to the National Gallery, but the trustees selected only
44 of them which have since been exhibited as the Wynn Ellis
collection. Among his modern pictures was a portrait of the
Duchess of Devonshire purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons for
£10,605 the largest sum ever obtained for a picture at public
auction, after being exhibited for a short time at 39 B Old
Bond st., it was on the night of 26 May 1876 cut out of the
stretching frame and stolen.
ELLIS-McTAGGART, FRANCIS (_son of Thomas Flower Ellis 1796–1861_).
_b._ 13 Dec. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849;
barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; edited with T. F. Ellis and C.
Blackburn _Reports in court of Queen’s Bench_ 1858; with T. F.
Ellis _Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols._ 1858–61; judge
of circuit 34 (Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 4 May 1861 to
Dec. 1871; judge of circuit 43 (Marylebone, London), Dec. 1871 to
death; assumed additional name of McTaggart 1868. _d._ 28 Norfolk
sq. London 15 March 1872.
ELLIS-NANNEY, OWEN JONES. _b._ 1790; contested Carnarvon district 15
Dec. 1832, seated on petition 6 March 1833, unseated on counter
petition 23 May 1833; contested Carnarvon district 12 Jany. 1835;
sheriff of Carnarvon 1861. _d._ 27 Oct. 1870. _Perry and Knapp’s
Cases of controverted elections_ (1833) 106–11, 435–61; _Cockburn
and Rowe’s Cases_ (1833) 127–38, 550–60.
ELLISON, CUTHBERT EDWARD. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A.
1843; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1845; stipendiary magistrate at
Newcastle 25 Jany. 1854, at Manchester 4 May 1860, at Worship st.
police court, London 14 June 1864, at Lambeth police court, Sep.
1870 to death. _d._ 7 Chester st. Grosvenor place, London 26 May
1883.
ELLISON, NATHANIEL (_son of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Incumbent of St.
Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne_). _b._ Newcastle 19 March 1786; ed.
at Durham gr. sch.; admitted commoner of Univ. coll. Ox. 18 Oct.
1802; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Merton coll. 1807–23;
barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1811; one of comrs. of bankrupts in London;
comr. of court of bankruptcy at Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Oct. 1842
to death. _d._ Jesmond near Newcastle 12 Dec. 1861.
ELLISTON, HENRY TWISELTON (_2 son of Robert Wm. Elliston the
comedian 1774–1831_). _b._ about 1801; established with his
brother Wm. a library at Leamington, afterwards known as the
County library; erected the music hall in Bath st. Leamington,
lessee of the royal assembly rooms, organist at the parish church
to death, librarian of the free public library Sep. 1863; wrote
four services. _d._ Leamington 19 April 1864 aged 63.
ELMES, JAMES (_son of Samuel Elmes_). _b._ London 15 Oct. 1782; ed.
at Merchant Taylor’s school; exhibited 36 architectural designs at
R.A. 1801–42; vice pres. of Royal Architectural Society 1809–48;
surveyor of port of London 1809–48; edited _The Annals of the Fine
Arts_ 1816–20; author of _Hints for the improvement of prisons_
1817, _3 ed._ 1829; _Lectures on Architecture_ 1823; _Memoirs of
Sir Christopher Wren_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1852; _The Arts and Artists 3
vols._ 1825; _Survey of the harbour and port of London_ 1838. _d._
Greenwich 2 April 1862.
ELMORE, ALFRED. _b._ Clonakilty, co. Cork 18 June 1815; historical
painter; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1834–80; his picture ‘Origin of the Guelph and
Ghibelline quarrel’ was sold in 1845 for £300; A.R.A. 1845, R.A.
1857. _d._ 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 24 Jany. 1881.
_Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 302–4 (1862); _I.L.N.
lxxviii_, 125, 126 (1881), _portrait_; _Ottley’s Dict. of
painters_ 1866 _p._ 61.
ELMSLEY, JOHN (_son of John Elmsley 1762–1805, speaker of
legislative council of Lower Canada_). _b._ Elmsley house, Toronto
1801; entered British navy 1815, lieut. 1824; member of
legislative council of Upper Canada until union of two provinces
1840; joined Church of Rome; established House of Providence at
Toronto, and the first Roman Catholic school in Upper Canada;
chief founder of College of St. Michael in Toronto. _d._ Toronto 8
Aug. 1863.
ELMSLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 11 Nov. 1825; Q.C. 1851; bencher
of his inn, Dec. 1851, treasurer and master of the library 1861;
judge of county courts circuit 19 (Derbyshire) 16 April 1862 to
death. _d._ Derby 20 Dec. 1866.
ELMSLIE, WILLIAM JACKSON (_2 child of James Elmslie_). _b._ Aberdeen
29 June 1832; a shoemaker to 1848; at Aberdeen gram. sch. 1848, at
King’s coll. Aberdeen 1853, at Free ch. divinity coll. 1858;
medical student in Edinburgh 1862; M.R.C.S. 1864; medical
missionary in Kashmir 1864 to death; author of _A vocabulary of
the Kashmírí language_ 1872. _d._ Goojerat 16 Nov. 1872. _Seed
time in Kashmir, a memoir of W. J. Elmslie_ 1875, _portrait_.
ELPHINSTONE, JOHN, 13 Baron Elphinstone (_only son of 12 baron
Elphinstone, who d. 21 May 1813_). _b._ Cumbernauld house,
Dumbartonshire 23 June 1807; cornet royal horse guards 28 Jany.
1826, captain 4 Dec. 1832 to 21 Nov. 1836 when placed on h.p.;
governor of Madras 6 March 1837 to 24 Sep. 1842; a lord in waiting
to the Queen, Dec. 1847 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. to Oct. 1853;
governor of Bombay Oct. 1853 to May 1860, took his seat 26 Dec.
1853; representative peer for Scotland; G.C.H. 1836; P.C. 3 Aug.
1836; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created baron of the U.K. as Baron
Elphinstone of Elphinstone 21 May 1859. _d._ King st. St. James’s,
London 19 July 1860. _Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian
mutiny_ (1888–89) _i_, 309 _etc._
ELPHINSTONE, SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE HORN, 2 Baronet (_son of Sir Robert
Elphinstone, 1 baronet 1766–1848_). _b._ Logie, Elphinstone,
Aberdeenshire 20 Nov. 1805; captain in navy of H.E.I.Co.; M.P. for
Portsmouth, April 1857 to July 1865 and Dec. 1868 to March 1880; a
lord of the Treasury, Feb. 1874 to March 1880. _d._ Uplands,
Bridgwater 26 Dec. 1886.
ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (_youngest son of 11 baron Elphinstone
1737–94_). _b._ 6 Oct. 1779; went to Calcutta 1796; resident at
Nagpur 1803–8; envoy to King of Cabool 13 Oct. 1808; political
resident at Poona 1810–18; governor of Bombay 7 Oct. 1818 to 17
Jany. 1827 where a college bearing his name was founded; author of
_An account of the kingdom of Caubul_ 1815; _History of India 2
vols._ 1841, _5 ed._ 1866 and other books. _d._ Hookward park near
Limpsfield, Surrey 20 Nov. 1859. _Life of M. Elphinstone by Sir T.
E. Colebrooke 2 vols._ 1884, _2 portraits_.
ELSLEY, CHARLES HENEAGE (_2 son of Rev. Heneage Elsley 1746–1833_).
_b._ 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A.
1816; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1819; a comr. of bankrupts for
Whitby, Scarborough and Northallerton; clerk of the peace for west
riding of Yorkshire 1827 to death; recorder of Richmond, Yorkshire
1827 to death, of York 1834 to death, of Scarborough 1836 to
death; judge of county courts March 1847–1854 when he resigned;
author of _Reports of Cases by Sir W. Blackstone_, _revised_ 1828;
_Essay on the relation between the English and French languages_
1858. _d._ York 3 Aug. 1865.
ELT, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ about 1805; a chartist; chairman of
building act committee; member of Metropolitan Board of Works 1866
to death. _d._ 41 Gibson sq. Islington 20 May 1882.
ELTON, SIR ARTHUR HALLAM, 7 Baronet (_3 son of the succeeding_).
_b._ Belle Vue place, Clifton 19 April 1818; lieut. 14 foot
1840–41 when he sold out; sheriff of Somerset 1857; M.P. for Bath
28 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; author of _Poems of past years_
1856; _Below the surface 3 vols._ 1857; _Herbert Chauncey, a novel
3 vols._ 1860. _d._ Clevedon court near Bristol 14 Oct. 1883.
_I.L.N. xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_.
ELTON, SIR CHARLES ABRAHAM, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of Rev. Sir Abraham
Elton, 5 baronet 1755–1842_). _b._ Bristol 31 Oct. 1778; ed. at
Eton; ensign 4 foot Nov. 1796, captain 1799–1802 when placed on
h.p.; captain 48 foot 1803–4; retired July 1825; lieut.-col. 2
Somerset militia; author of _Poems_ 1804; _Tales of romance with
other poems_ 1810; _The remains of Hesiod translated into English
verse_ 1815; _Specimen of the classic poets in a chronological
series from Homer to Tryphiodorus translated into English verse 3
vols._ 1814; _A History of the Roman emperors_ 1825. _d._ at house
of his son-in-law Rev. E. D. Tinling at Bath 1 June 1853.
ELTON, JAMES FREDERIC (_2 son of Roberts W. Elton, lieut. col.
Bengal army_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1840; entered Bengal army 1857;
aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, commander in chief; captain 98
foot; served on staff of French army in Mexico 1866; vice consul
at Zanzibar 15 Dec. 1874; consul for Portuguese possessions on
east coast of Africa 8 March 1875 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of
_With the French in Mexico_ 1867. _d._ near Usekhe in Ugogo on an
exploring expedition to Lake Nyassa 19 Dec. 1877. _J. F. Elton’s
Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern
and Central Africa_ 1879, _portrait_.
ELVEY, STEPHEN (_eld. son of John Elvey of Canterbury_). _b._
Canterbury, June 1805; lay clerk at Canterbury cathedral; Mus.
Bac. Ox. 1831, Mus. Doc. 1838; organist of New coll. Ox. 1830 to
death; organist of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1856 to death; deputy
professor of music at Ox. to 1847; choragus in Univ. of Ox. 1848
to death; published _The Oxford Psalm Book_ 1852; _The Psalter
printed for chanting upon a new principle_ 1856; _The Canticles_
1858. _d._ Oxford 6 Oct. 1860.
ELY, JOHN HENRY LOFTUS, 3 Marquis of (_eld. son of 2 Marquis of Ely
1770–1845_). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Jany. 1814;
contested Gloucester 29 July 1841; M.P. for Woodstock 1 May 1845
to 26 Sep. 1845 when he succeeded. _d._ 63 Eaton place, London 15
July 1857.
EMDEN, WILLIAM SAMUEL. Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under
Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F.
Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s
theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death;
wrote _The evil May Day_, _The head of the family_, _Lives
labyrinth_ and _The rear admiral_, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s
plays. _d._ 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany.
1872 aged 71.
EMERY, SAMUEL ANDERSON (_son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822_). _b._
Hyde st. Bloomsbury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the
stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in _John Bull_; played
at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre
1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original Fouché in Tom
Taylor’s _Plot and Passion_ at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of
Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March
1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep.
1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in
Australia 1880–81. _d._ 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July
1881. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 45–6, _portrait_;
_Theatre n.s. iii_, 70–2 (1884); _Theatrical Times ii_, 57 (1847),
_portrait_; _Touchstone 13 July 1878 p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust.
sp. and dr. news, xv_, 464 (1881), _portrait_.
EMMETT, ANTHONY. Educ. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 16 Feb. 1808, col.
11 Nov. 1851 to 21 May 1855 when placed on retired full pay as
M.G.; served in Peninsula 1809–12; held various commands at St.
Helena 1815–21, at Bermuda and in the Mediterranean. _d._ Brighton
27 March 1872.
EMMETT, ROBERT (_son of Thomas Addis Emmett, Irish patriot
1764–1827_). _b._ Ireland about 1792; went to New York with his
father 1804, admitted to New York bar; a justice of state superior
court; one of the directory formed in New York for purpose of
aiding contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. _d._ New Rochelle,
New York 15 Feb. 1873.
EMPSON, WILLIAM. Educ. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1812, M.A. 1815; began to contribute to _Edinburgh Review_ 1823,
wrote more than 60 articles upon law, politics and literary topics
1823–49, editor Feb. 1847 to death; professor of general polity
and the laws of England in Haileybury college near Hertford 2 July
1824 to death. _d._ Haileybury 10 Dec. 1852 aged 62. _Cockburn’s
Life of Lord Jeffrey_ (1852) _i_, 374, _ii_, 232, 310 _etc._;
_Selections from the correspondence of Macvey Napier_ (1879) _pp._
62, 547.
ENFIELD, EDWARD (_3 son of Henry Enfield, town clerk of
Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 15 May 1811; one of the moneyers of
the Mint, London to 1851 when he retired on pension; member of
council of University college, London, and of its committee of
management 1858 to death; chairman of committee of management and
treasurer of University college hospital 1867 to death; pres. of
senate of the college 1878 to death; pres. of Manchester New
college, London to death. _d._ 19 Chester terrace, Regents park,
London 21 April 1880. _N. H. Nixon’s North London hospital, a
history_ (1882) 40; _In Memoriam, Edward Enfield_ 1880.
ENGEL, CARL. _b._ Hanover 1818; author of _Pianist’s Handbook_ 1853;
_The music of the most ancient nations_ 1864; _Musical myths and
facts 2 vols._ 1876; hanged himself at 54 Addison road,
Kensington, London 17 Nov. 1882.
ENGLAND, POOLE VALLANCEY. Second lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805, col. 17
Feb. 1854, col. commandant 27 Feb. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed
on retired list; general 29 March 1873. _d._ 41 Marine parade,
Dover 6 Nov. 1884 in 97 year.
ENGLAND, SIR RICHARD (_son of lieut. general Richard England of
Lifford near Ennis, co. Clare_). _b._ Detroit, Upper Canada 13 May
1793; ed. at Winchester and Marlow; ensign 5 foot 25 Feb. 1808;
lieut. col. 75 foot 6 July 1826 to 7 July 1837; lieut. col. 4 foot
7 July 1837 to 10 July 1837; lieut. col. 41 foot 10 July 1837 to
22 July 1845; brigadier general Madras 5 Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1840;
commanded third division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855;
col. of 50 foot 20 Sep. 1854 to 20 April 1861; major general
division Curragh 15 Aug. 1856 to 31 March 1859; col. 41 foot 20
April 1861 to death; general 6 July 1863; placed on retired list 1
Oct. 1877; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 27 Sep. 1843, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
grand officer of legion of honour 1856. _d._ St. Margaret’s,
Titchfield, Hants. 19 Jany. 1883. _Once a week_, _xxvii_, 7, 39,
53 (1872); _Nolan’s Russian War_, _ii_, 405, _portrait_.
ENGLISH, HENRY. _b._ 1803; proprietor and editor of _The Mining
Journal_ 1835 to death; edited _The quarterly mining review 4
vols._ 1830–37; F.R.G.S.; author of _A compendium of information
relating to companies formed for working British mines_ 1826; _A
Glossary of mining terms used in Mexico, Columbia, Peru and other
parts of South America, also those used in the mining districts of
Cornwall and Derbyshire_ 1830; _The mining almanack 3 vols._
1849–51. _d._ Islington, London 28 April 1855.
ENNIS, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_only son of John Ennis of Ballinahowen
court near Athlone, who d. 31 March 1834_). _b._ Dublin 15 Aug.
1800; ed. at Stonyhurst college; merchant in Dublin; sheriff of
Westmeath 1837, of co. Dublin 1849; contested Athlone, April 1856,
M.P. for Athlone, April 1857 to July 1865; a comr. of charitable
bequests to death; governor of Bank of Ireland to death; created
baronet 27 July 1866. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 8 Aug. 1878.
ENNIS, SIR JOHN JAMES, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._
6 April 1842; ed. at Oscott and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Westmeath
1866; M.P. for Athlone 1868–74 and 1880 to death. _d._ Curzon st.
Mayfair, London 28 May 1884.
ENNISKILLEN, WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of 2 Earl
of Enniskillen 1768–1840_). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 25
Jany. 1807; M.P. for Fermanagh 1831 to 31 March 1840 when he
succeeded his father as 3 earl of Enniskillen and 2 baron
Grinstead; hon. col. Fermanagh militia 1875 to death; F.R.S. 15
Jany. 1829; F.G.S. _d._ Florence court, Fermanagh 12 Nov. 1886.
EPPS, ELLEN (_dau. of John Frederick Elliott_). _b._ 1809; author of
_Labour and live, a story_ 1848, anon.; _Practical Observations on
health and long life_ 1855; _Blenham, a story, By the author of
Labour and live_ 1858; _Living among the dead, a story, By the
author of Blenham_ 1860. (_m._ 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69),
she _d._ 7 July 1876.
EPPS, GEORGE NAPOLEON (_son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d.
1835_). _b._ 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John
Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homœopathic hospital in Hanover
sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and
deformities; author of _Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure_
1849; _On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot_ 1859. _d._ 28
May 1874.
EPPS, JOHN (_half-brother of the preceding_). _b._ Blackheath, Kent
15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homœopath;
lecturer on materia medica at Homœopathic hospital 1851; joint
editor of the _London Medical and Surgical Journal_ 1828–9;
published _The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine_
1835–9; edited _Journal of health and disease_ 1845–52; _Notes of
a new truth_ 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July
1847; author of _The Devil_ 1842, anon.; _Constipation, its theory
and cure_ 1854; _Consumption, its nature and treatment_ 1859. _d._
89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. _Diary of
the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps_ 1875; _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical Recollections_ (1874) 137–40.
ERCK, JOHN CAILLARD. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of
_The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E.
Dublin_ 1817; _Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2
vols._ 1847–50. _d._ Dublin 2 June 1851.
ERLE, PETER (_4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham,
Dorset_). _b._ 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A.
1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate
comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn
22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. _d._ 12 Park
crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.
ERLE, SIR WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New
coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college
1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819;
admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834,
reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26
July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844;
serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6
Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief
justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866;
knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860;
member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of _The law
relating to Trades Unions_ 1869. _d._ Bramshott Grange near
Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 157 (1880),
_portrait_.
ERLE-DRAX, JOHN SAMUEL WANLEY SAWBRIDGE- (_eld. son of Samuel Elias
Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent_). _b._ 6 Oct. 1800;
captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of
yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax
1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested
Wareham 1857 and 1865. _d._ Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887.
_The book of sports ii_, 61 (1843), _portrait_; _New sporting mag.
xiii_, 262 (1837), _portrait_.
ERRINGTON, MOST REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz
near Richmond, Yorkshire_). _b._ Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw
1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon
1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of
English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and
Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll.
Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop
of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855;
consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July
1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of
Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of
diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at
pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of
Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St.
Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of
_Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church_ 1850; _The
Irish land question_ 1880. _d._ Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. _M.
Brady’s Episcopal Succession_, _iii_, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).
ERRINGTON, JOHN EDWARD (_eld. son of John Errington_). _b._ Hull 29
Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837;
joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway
1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and
South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany.
1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. _d._ 6 Pall Mall
east, London 4 July 1862. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_,
626–29 (1863).
ERSKINE, DAVID MONTAGU ERSKINE, 2 Baron (_eld. son of 1 Baron
Erskine 1750–1823_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD.
1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to
July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at
Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843
when he retired on pension. _d._ Butler’s Green near Lewes 19
March 1855 aged 79.
ERSKINE, EDWARD MORRIS (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ Brighton 28
March 1817; attaché at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872,
at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a
pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. _d._ Neville house, Twickenham 19
April 1883.
ERSKINE, VERY REV. HENRY DAVID (_2 son of 1 Baron Erskine
1750–1823_). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam.
1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics.
1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of
York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. _d._
Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.
ERSKINE, JOHN ELPHINSTONE (_son of David Erskine of Cardross,
Stirling_). _b._ 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June
1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4
Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61,
admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of _A short account of the
discoveries of gold in Australia_ 1851; _Journal of a cruise among
the islands of the Western Pacific_ 1853. _d._ 1 Albany,
Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.
ERSKINE, THOMAS (_3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823_). _b._ 10
Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow;
entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without
residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806;
practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813;
K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2
Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common
Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible
Society 1840. _d._ Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.
ERSKINE, THOMAS (_youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen,
Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791_). _b._ Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788;
an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas
Carlyle; author of _Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth
of revealed religion_ 1820, _10 ed._ 1878; _An essay on faith_
1822; _The unconditional freeness of the Gospel_ 1828; _The
doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity_ 1837,
_2 ed._ 1878 and 8 other books. _d._ Edinburgh 20 March 1870.
_Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna_ 1878.
ESCOTT, BICKHAM SWEET. _b._ 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P.
for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general
elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of _A letter on the
reform question_ 1831 and other works on same subject. _d._
Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.
ESDAILE, JAMES. _b._ Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon
at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began
practising mesmerism 1845; author of _Letters from the Red Sea,
Egypt and the Continent_, _Calcutta_ 1839; _Mesmerism in India and
its practical application in surgery and medicine_ 1846; _Natural
and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of
mesmerism in surgery and medicine_ 1852 and other books. _d._ Elm
bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.
ESMONDE, SIR JOHN, 9 or 10 Baronet. _b._ Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16
May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to
Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of
Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. _d._ 9 Dec. 1876.
ESMONDE, SIR THOMAS, 8 or 9 Baronet. _b._ 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded
his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland
1847. _d._ 31 Dec. 1868.
ESPINASSE, JAMES (_only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who
d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842
to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March
1847 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of bankrupts_
1823. _d._ The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.
ESSEX, CATHARINE CAPEL-CONINGSBY, Countess of (_dau. of Edward
Stephens of London, carver and gilder_). _b._ London 18 Sep. 1791;
sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces;
sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine
Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s
opera _Artaxerxes_ Sep. 1813; played Polly in _The Beggar’s Opera_
and Clara in _The Duenna_; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at
concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her
voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (_m._ 19
April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she
_d._ 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in
Watford church, Herts. March 1885. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography
ii_, 123–36 (1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses
i_, 276–87 (1844), _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song
ii_, 33–44 (1865); _Theatrical Inquisitor iii_, 259–61 (1813),
_portrait_; _Musical Gem_ (1832), 2–3, _portrait_.
ESSEX, WILLIAM. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death
of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by
Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at
R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel
painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his
works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. _d._
Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.
ESTCOURT, REV. EDGAR EDMUND (_eld. son of Rev. Edmund William
Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts._) _b._ 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45;
received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained
priest 1848; œconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St.
Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of _The dogmatic
teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy
Eucharist_ 1868; _The question of Anglican orders discussed_ 1873;
_The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria_, _edited by Rev. J._
Stevenson 1887. _d._ Leamington 16 April 1884. _bur._ Kenilworth.
ESTCOURT, JAMES BUCKNALL (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ Edward
st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot
13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition
1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on
h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death;
granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec.
1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette
10 July 1855. _d._ of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June
1855.
ESTCOURT, THOMAS GRIMSTON BUCKNALL (_eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of
Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll.
Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820;
recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter
sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox.
1826–47. _d._ Estcourt 26 July 1853.
ESTCOURT, THOMAS HENRY SUTTON SOTHERON (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.;
B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832,
for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of
Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of
state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. _d._ Estcourt
6 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. xxxii_, 312 (1858), _portrait_, _lxviii_,
70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), _portrait_.
ESTLIN, JOHN BISHOP (_son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol,
schoolmaster 1747–1817_). _b._ St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec.
1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to
death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases
of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief
ophthalmic surgeons; author of _On prayer and divine aid_ 1825;
_Remarks on Mesmerism_ 1845. _d._ Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855.
_Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James_ 1855.
ETHERIDGE, MOST REV. JAMES. _b._ Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed.
at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St.
Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St.
Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of
British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in
London 17 Oct. 1858. _d._ on his passage from Barbadoes to
Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.
ETHERIDGE, REV. JOHN WESLEY. _b._ Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of
Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829,
in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a
scholar in many languages; author of _The Syrian churches, their
history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four
Gospels from the Peschito_ 1846; _The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke_
1858; _The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke_ 1860 and other books. _d._
Camborne 24 May 1866. _Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W.
Etheridge_ 1871.
ETWALL, RALPH. _b._ in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover
1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best
known coursers in south of England. _d._ Connaught st. Hyde Park,
London 15 Dec. 1882. _William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_, _2
ed._ 1886, _pp._ 241–46.
EUING, WILLIAM. _b._ Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at
Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at
Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college,
Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of
which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000
for its maintenance. _d._ Glasgow 12 May 1874. _T. Mason’s Public
and private libraries of Glasgow_ 1885 _pp._ 176–93, 437; _Rev. C.
Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) _p._ 331; _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_, 231–2 (1875).
EUSTACE, SIR JOHN ROWLAND (_youngest son of Charles Eustace of
Robertstown, co. Kildare_). _b._ 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April
1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H.
1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. _d._ Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug.
1864.
EUSTACE, SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS (_brother of the preceding_). Lieut.
32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug.
1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain
Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.;
col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4
June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. _d._ Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged
73.
EVANS, REV. ALFRED BOWEN. _b._ Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of
Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861
to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of
Canterbury 1863; author of _Dissent and its inconsistences_ 1841;
_Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols._ 1852–4; _Lectures on
the book of Job_ 1856 and 30 other books. _d._ 23 Gloucester
crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. _Rev. C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 176–85.
EVANS, ANNE (_dau. of the succeeding_). _b._ 4 June 1820; resided at
Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16
Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters;
poet and musician. _d._ 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870.
_Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne
Thackeray Ritchie_ 1880, _portrait_.
EVANS, REV. ARTHUR BENONI (_2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V.
of Froxfield, Wilts._) _b._ Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March
1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A.
1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor
of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow
1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned
1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth
free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby
successively 1829–41; author of _Synopses for the use of the
students in the royal military academy_; _The Curate and other
poems_ 1810; _Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs_ 1848,
and 16 other books. _d._ Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. _G.M.
xliii_, 100–102 (1855).
EVANS, BROOKE (_son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor_). _b._
Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United
States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at
Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as
manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when
Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European
reputation) 1847 to death. _d._ Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.
EVANS, CALEB. _b._ 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office,
London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder
of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of
11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published
separately; constructed several excellent geological models or
relief maps. _d._ 16 Sep. 1886.
EVANS, CHARLES (_eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master
at Harrow_). _b._ Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam.,
12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821;
barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to
death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of
Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire
office. _d._ Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.
EVANS, CHARLES JOHN. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the
catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many
articles in _Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols._ 1879–82;
played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels
Orchestra. _d._ 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.
EVANS, DANIEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton_). _b._
Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of
_The Law Times_ 1843–46; joint editor of _Wise and Evans’s Digest_
1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. _d._ London 6 Nov.
1885 in 73 year.
EVANS, DAVID MORIER (_son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes,
Montgomeryshire_). _b._ London, 1819; assistant city correspondent
of _The Times_ 1846–57; manager of _Morning Herald_ 1857, of
_Standard_ 1857–72; started _The Hour_, daily morning paper, March
1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of
_Banker’s Mag._, and _Banker’s Almanac_ and _Bullionist_; author
of _The commercial crisis of 1847–48_, 1849; _City men and city
manners_ 1856; _Revelations of facts, failures and frauds_ 1861.
_d._ Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1
Jany. 1874.
EVANS, EDWARD DAVID (_eld. son of Edward Evans of London,
printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46_). Printseller at 1 Great
Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother
1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. _d._ 3 Circus road, St.
John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.
EVANS, REV. EVAN. _b._ Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8
March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents
1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in
Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous
works in the Welsh language. _d._ 29 Oct. 1886.
EVANS, EVAN WILLIAM. _b._ near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ.
1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor
in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in
Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67;
professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the
best Celtic scholar in the United States. _d._ Ithaca, New York 22
May 1874.
EVANS, FREDERICK JOHN (_son of John Evans, gas engineer_). _b._
1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company,
London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest
establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this
company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about
two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable
properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which
revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840;
M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_, 311–13 (1881).
EVANS, SIR FREDERICK JOHN OWEN (_son of John Evans, master R.N._)
_b._ 9 March 1815; entered navy 1828; superintendent of compass
department of navy 1855; Chief Naval Assistant to the hydrographer
to the admiralty 1865, hydrographer to the admiralty 1874–84;
captain 1872; C.B. 8 May 1873; K.C.B. 24 May 1881; F.R.S. 5 June
1862, vice pres. 1876; author of _Chart of curves of equal
magnetic declination_ 1858; _Report on compass deviations in the
royal navy_ 1860; edited with Archibald Smith, _Admiralty manual
for ascertaining deviations of the compass_ 1862, _3 ed._ 1869.
_d._ 21 Dawson place, Bayswater, London 20 Dec. 1885. _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xl_, 1–7 (1886).
EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY (_son of John Evans of Miltown_). _b._
Moig, co. Limerick 7 Oct. 1787; ensign 22 foot 1 Feb. 1807;
captain 5 West India regiment 1815–17 when placed on h.p.; M.P.
for Rye 1830–31, for Westminster 1833–41 and 1846–65; contested
Westminster and Rye, Dec. 1832; commanded British legion of 9,600
men in Spain, June 1835 to June 1837; col. 21 foot 29 Aug. 1853 to
death; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea 1854–55;
general 10 March 1861; K.C.B. 13 Feb. 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; grand officer of
Legion of Honour 1856; author of _Facts relating to the capture of
Washington_ 1829 and other books. _d._ 6 Great Cumberland st. Hyde
park, London 9 Jany. 1870. _G. Ryan’s Our Heroes_ (1855) 13–36;
_G. Mackay’s Leaders of the Host_ 1854; _Diprose’s St. Clements
i_, 64–68 (1869); _E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i_, 661 (1857),
_portrait_; _Duncan’s The English in Spain_ (1877) 41, 342.
NOTE.—The thanks of the House of Commons were voted to him “in
his place” 2 Feb. 1855 and so the seat from which he heard the
thanks read out became his all the rest of the time he sat in
the House.
EVANS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ Bromyard, Herefordshire 25 March 1805;
went to the United States 1820, one of the earliest land reformers
there; advocated inalienable homesteads, general bankrupt laws and
laborers’ liens; edited and published _The Man_, at Ithaca, New
York about 1822; the _Working Man’s Advocate_, in New York 1830;
The _Daily Sentinel_ 1837; and _Young America_, in New York and
then at Rahway, New Jersey 1853. _d._ Granville, New Jersey 2 Feb.
1855.
EVANS, JOHN (_only son of John Evans of Haverfordwest,
Pembrokeshire_). Ed. at univ. of Glasgow and Geneva; barrister
I.T. 16 June 1820; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his inn 1837, reader
1849, treasurer 1850; M.P. for Haverfordwest 1847–52; F.S.A. 3
Feb. 1853. _d._ Buxton 17 Oct. 1864 aged 68.
EVANS, VEN. JOHN. _b._ Carmarthen; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.D. 1830; V. of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 1827 to death; R. of
Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire 1832 to death; archdeacon of
Carmarthen 1858 to death. _d._ Nantyr-Eglwys, St. Clear’s 7 Feb.
1865.
EVANS, REV. JOHN. _b._ Ty Mawr, North Wales 23 July 1814; Welsh poet
and Calvinistic methodist minister; better known as I. D. Fpaid;
author of _History of the Jews_ 1830 in Welsh; translated into
Welsh _Young’s Night Thoughts_ and _Milton’s Paradise Lost_;
contributed prose and verse to Welsh periodicals. _d._ 4 March
1876.
EVANS, REV. JOHN (_son of John Evans of Wellington, Somerset_).
Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 13 Oct. 1814 aged 18; P.C. of Whixhall,
Salop 1844 to death; author of _Compendious view of the
authenticity and inspiration of the Old and New Testament_ 1828;
_Statutes of the fourth general council of the Lateran_ 1843 and
many other books. _d._ Whixhall vicarage 7 March 1889.
EVANS, REV. LEWIS (_4 son of Thomas Simpson Evans of St. Botolphs,
London_). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 30 June 1832 aged 17; B.A.
1836, M.A. 1842; fell. of his coll. 1839–46; head master of
Sandbach free gr. sch. 1850 to death; edited _Marshall’s
Penitential Discipline_ 1844; _Bishop Beveridge’s Sermons 8
vols._; author of _The satires of Juvenal Persius, Sulpicia and
Lucillius literally translated into English prose with notes_
1848; author with Rev. J. G. Sheppard of _Notes upon Thucydides
Books i and ii_, 1857. _d._ Gloucester 28 March 1869.
EVANS, RICHARD. Portrait painter and copyist; pupil and assistant to
Sir Thomas Lawrence; lived at Rome many years; exhibited 42
pictures at R.A. 1816–59. _d._ Southampton, Nov. 1871 aged 87.
EVANS, ROBERT HARDING (_son of Thomas Evans of London, bookseller
1742–84_). Ed. at Westminster school; apprenticed to Thomas Payne
bookseller at the Mewsgate; general bookseller in Pall Mall
1804–12; auctioneer at sale of Roxburghe and many other famous
libraries 1812–47; edited _Bishop Burnet’s History of his own time
4 vols._ 1808–9; _Hakluyt’s Collection of early voyages of the
English nation 5 vols._ 1809–12 and other books; author with
Thomas Wright of _Historical account of the caricatures of James
Gillray_ 1851. _d._ Edward st. Hampstead road, London 25 April
1857 in 80 year. _Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron iii_, 51
(1817), _portrait_; _G.M. ii_, 734–5 (1857).
EVANS, VEN. ROBERT WILSON (_2 son of John Evans, M.D. of
Shrewsbury_). _b._ the council house, Shrewsbury 30 Aug. 1789; ed.
at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 7th wrangler 1811; B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814, B.D. 1842; fellow of his college 1813, classical tutor
1814; V. of Tarvin, Cheshire 1836–42; V. of Heversham,
Westmoreland 1842 to death; archdeacon of Westmoreland 1856 to
Jany. 1865; author of _The Bishopric of Souls_ 1842, _5 ed._ 1877;
_The rectory of Valehead_ 1830, _12 ed._ 1842; _Tales of the
ancient British church_ 1840, _3 ed._ 1859 and 25 other works.
_d._ Heversham vicarage 10 March 1866. _E. Bickersteth’s ed. of
Bishopric of Souls_ (1877) _v-xiv_, _portrait_; _The Church of
England Photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 33.
EVANS, THOMAS. Ensign 113 foot 3 Dec. 1794; lieut.-col. 70 foot 24
Sep. 1829 to 28 June 1838; col. 81 foot 12 July 1847 to death;
general 18 May 1855; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Quebec 11 Feb. 1863.
EVANS, THOMAS. _b._ Cardigan 1840; a collier at Aberdare; won 20
prizes for his poems at Eisteddfodau; his poetical works were
published with a short memoir in 1866. _d._ 29 April 1865.
EVANS, REV. THOMAS SAUNDERS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845, M.A. Durham 1862, D.D. Edin. 1885;
assistant master of Rugby 1847–62; canon of Durham 1862 to death;
professor of Greek in Univ. of Durham, May 1862 to death; proctor
for chapter of Durham 1864 to death; author of _Tennyson’s Œnone
translated into Latin hexameters_ 1873; _Notes on i. Corinthians_
in _The Speaker’s Commentary_ 1881; _The Nihilist in the Hayfield,
a Latin poem_ 1882. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 16 May 1889.
EVANS, WILLIAM. _b._ Carana, Ireland 22 Nov. 1786; went to Canada
1819; sec. to the first Agricultural Society founded in Montreal;
established the _Canadian Quarterly_ and the _Agriculturalist and
Industrial Magazine_; edited in Toronto _British American
Cultivator_ 1842; founded at Montreal the _Canadian Agricultural
Journal_ 1843, edited it 1843–56; sec. and treasurer of board of
agriculture in Lower Canada 1853; author of _Theory and practice
of agriculture_, _Montreal_ 1835, _supplement_ 1836. _d._ Montreal
1857.
EVANS, WILLIAM. _b._ North Wales about 1810; painted scenery in
North Wales down to 1852 when he went to Italy; associate member
of Old Society of Painters in water-colours. _d._ Marylebone road,
London 7 Dec. 1858.
EVANS, WILLIAM (_son of Samuel Evans of Flintshire, landscape
painter, who d. about 1835_). _b._ Eton 4 Dec. 1798; ed. at Eton;
drawing master at Eton 1818, resigned 1856; associate of Old
Society of Painters in water-colours 1828, member 1830; exhibited
a great number of paintings; head of one of the houses at Eton
1856 to death. _d._ Eton 31 Dec. 1877. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 103, 107
(1878), _portrait_.
EVANS, REV. WILLIAM EDWARD (_son of John Evans, M.D. of
Shrewsbury_). _b._ Shrewsbury 8 June 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury and
Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; P.C. of Criggion,
Montgomeryshire 1829–32; C. of Monkland, Herefordshire 1832–50;
preb. and prælector of Hereford 1841–61; V. of Madley near
Hereford 1850 to death; canon of Hereford 1861 to death; author of
_The song of the birds, or analogies of animal and spiritual life_
1845 and other books. _d._ The Close, Hereford 21 Nov. 1869.
EVATT, HENRY. Second lieut. R.E. 11 July 1788; col. commandant 6
April 1832 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Fordwich near
Canterbury 27 Jany. 1851 aged 83.
EVELEGH, HENRY. Second lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793, col. commandant 6
Feb. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Standen, Newport,
Isle of Wight 24 Sep. 1859 aged 86.
EVERARD, HARRIETTE EMILY. _b._ 12 March 1844; first appeared at T.R.
Exeter about 1860; in London at royal Alfred theatre 1869; acted
at Queen’s, Princess’s, Royalty, St. James’s and Drury Lane
theatres; played Little Buttercup in _H.M.S. Pinafore_ at Opera
Comique 25 May 1878 to March 1880. (_m._ George Wm. Darley
Beswick). _d._ 22 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 28 Feb.
EVERARD, MATHIAS. Ensign 2 foot 28 Sep. 1804; led the forlorn hope
at storming of Monte Video 3 Feb. 1807 when out of 32 men 22 were
killed or wounded; lieut.-col. 14 foot 12 July 1831 to 25 Dec.
1847 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1826;
K.H. 1831. _d._ Southsea 20 April 1857.
EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (_eld. son of Tristram Everest of Gwernvale,
Breconshire_). _b._ Gwernvale 4 July 1790; 2 lieut. Bengal
engineers 4 April 1806; superintendent of trigonometrical survey
at Hyderabad 1823–43; surveyor general of India 1830–43; retired
with rank of lieut.-col. 16 Dec. 1843; C.B. 26 Feb. 1861; knighted
at St. James’s palace 13 March 1861; F.R.S. 8 March 1827, mem. of
council 1863–65; the loftiest peak of Himalayan range is called
Mount Everest after him; author of _An account of the measurement
of two sections of the meridional arc of India_ 1830 and 1847 and
other books. _d._ 10 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 1
Dec. 1866. _F. W. Stubbs’ History of Bengal artillery ii_, 251–54
(1877); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_, _pp. xi-xiv_ (1868).
EVERETT, EDWARD (_4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker_).
_b._ 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at
Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of
Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he
resigned. _d._ Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.
EVERETT, REV. JAMES (_2 son of John Everett of Alnwick_). _b._
Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in
Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at
York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42;
expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of
authorship of the _Fly Sheets_ reflecting on leading men of the
conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to
death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author
of _Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols._ 1843 and 17 other works. _d._
Sunderland 10 May 1872. _James Everett, a biography by Richard
Chew_ 1875; _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ 1867 _pp._ 14–25;
_I.L.N. xv_, 188 (1849), _portrait_.
EVERITT, ALLEN EDWARD (_son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art
dealer_). _b._ Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life;
member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858
to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of
Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated
Davidson’s _History of the Holtes of Aston_ 1854, and _History of
Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham_ 1875. _d._ The Grove, Frederick
road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. _Edgbastonia ii_, 108 (1882),
_portrait_.
EVERSLEY, CHARLES SHAW-LEFEVRE, 1 Viscount (_eld. son of Charles
Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823_). _b._
Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin.
coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819;
bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for
Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of
Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second
comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of
Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight
31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859.
_d._ Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. _J. A. Manning’s Lives of the
speakers_ (1850), 494–96; _I.L.N. xxx_, 109 (1857), _portrait_, _5
Jany. 1889, p._ 8, _portrait_.
EWART, JOHN FREDERICK. _b._ Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1
Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817;
lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field
officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30
Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. _d._ 1^A
Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.
EWART, JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER (_2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool,
merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at
Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation
company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. _d._ Broadleas near Devizes
14 Dec. 1868.
EWART, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Liverpool 1 May
1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A.
1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30,
for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district
1841–68; author of _The Temple of Diana at Ephesus_ 1820. _d._
Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biography i_, 209–10,
522 (1869); _I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53_, _portrait_, _6 March
1869, p. 237_, _portrait_.
EWBANK, THOMAS. _b._ Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of
cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead,
tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in
Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological
Society; author of _A descriptive and historical account of
hydraulic and other machines for raising water_ 1842, _17 ed._
1876; _The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man
to the earth_ 1855; _Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and
the palm_ 1856 and other books all published at New York. _d._ 140
East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.
EWING, RIGHT REV. ALEXANDER (_eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of
Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827_). _b._ Castle st. Aberdeen 25
March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35;
incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28
Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec.
1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of _Revelation considered as light_
1873, _new ed._ 1874; _The relations of the church of England with
foreign churches_ 1866 and 15 other books. _d._ Westmill rectory,
Herts. 22 May 1873. _Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross_
1879, _portrait_.
EWING, JAMES (_son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae,
arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814_). _b._ Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ.
High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India
merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish
first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy
governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817;
gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of
Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park;
M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17
Jany. 1835; author of a _History of the Merchants’ House_; left
£70,000 to Glasgow charities. _d._ Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. _Mackay’s
Memoir of James Ewing_ 1866, _portrait_; _Bourne’s English
Merchants ii_, 321–39 (1866).
EWING, JULIANA HORATIA (_2 dau. of Rev. Alfred Gatty, V. of
Ecclesfield, Yorkshire b. 1813_). _b._ Ecclesfield 3 Aug. 1841;
wrote many stories in _Aunt Judy’s Magazine_ 1861–85; author of
_Melchior’s Dream and other tales_ 1862; _Mrs. Overtheway’s
Remembrances_ 1868, _3 ed._ 1880; _A Flat-iron for a farthing_
1873; _Passages in life of an only son_ 1872; _Lob Lie-by-the-Fire
and other tales_ 1874 and many other books for children. (_m._ 1
June 1867 Alexander Ewing, major army pay department). _d._ Bath
13 May 1885. _J. H. Ewing and her books_, _by H. K. T. Gatty_
(1885), _portrait_.
EXALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Godalming, Surrey, May 1808; partner with his
uncle Barrett in the Katesgrove foundry, Reading; invented patent
safety cylindrical horse gear, and endless-band sawing machine;
the first to apply the double acting air pump or box shaped
condenser to horizontal engines; the pioneer of steam cultivation,
having made first set of machinery on roundabout system for H. J.
Hannam of Buscot park, Oxfordshire 1849; constructed the first
hand-power threshing machine 1844 of which his firm made
thousands; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850; alderman of Reading 1854 to
death, mayor 1854–5. _d._ Holy Bank house, Reading 14 July 1881.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_, 405–7 (1882).
EXETER, BROWNLOW CECIL, 2 Marquis of (_2 son of 1 Marquis of Exeter
1754–1804_). _b._ Burghley house near Stamford 2 July 1795; ed. at
Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1814, LLD. 1835; recorder of
Stamford 1816; lord lieut. of Rutland 1826; K.G. 10 May 1827;
groom of the stole to Prince Albert 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841;
lord lieut. of Northampton 1842; lord chamberlain of Queen’s
household 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; lord steward of Queen’s
household 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; bred one of largest studs
in England 1815–55; won the Oaks 1821, 1829 and 1832 and Two
thousand guineas 1825, 1829, 1830 and 1852. _d._ Burghley house 16
Jany. 1867. _Rice’s British Turf i_, 311–17 (1879); _Baily’s Mag.
i_, 311–15 (1860), _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvii_, 82–85
(1867); _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_, 402–9 (1854).
EXLEY, THOMAS. _b._ Gowdall near Snaith, Yorkshire; a mathematical
teacher at Bristol about 1811–47; author of _A vindication of Dr.
Adam Clarke, Bristol_ [1817]; _Principles of natural philosophy_
1829; _Physical Optics_ 1834 and other books; author with Rev. W.
M. Johnson of _The Imperial Encyclopædia 4 vols._ [1812]. _d._
Cotham, Clifton, Bristol 17 Feb. 1855 aged 80.
EYRE, CHARLES. _b._ 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807;
proprietor of 3 liberal newspapers printed at Colchester; managed
a large farm; author of _An illustration of the Epistles of St.
Paul including an entirely new translation 2 vols._ 1832; _The
fall of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost_ 1852; hanged himself at
his residence Upper Park, Dedham, Essex 28 Sep. 1864.
EYRE, HENRY. Ensign 98 foot 10 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 17 March 1843
to 28 April 1843 when placed on h.p.; commandant at Chatham
1858–59; commandant of Chatham district 1859–64; col. 59 foot 23
March 1865 to death; general 23 Sep. 1874; author of _Light
Infantry Drill_ 1868. _d._ Middleton-Tyas, Richmond, Yorkshire 10
April 1889 aged 83.
EYRE, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Eyre, V. of Padbury and
Hillesden, Bucks., who d. 18 March 1830 aged 76_). _b._ 14 Feb.
1792; M.R.C.S. 20 May 1814; surgeon in Hereford 1814 to 1834, in
London 1834 to death; mayor of Hereford 1829–30; knighted by Wm. 4
at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830 on presenting an address from
city of Hereford on his accession; M.D. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1834;
physician accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary
1834–1851, consulting phys. 30 Oct. 1851; L.R.C.P. 1836; published
_Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases_ 1845, _2 ed._
1851; _The stomach and its difficulties_ 1852, _8 ed._ 1877. _d._
Lauriston house, Clapham 19 June 1857. _Medical Circular i_,
353–55 (1852), _portrait_.
EYRE, SIR VINCENT (_3 son of Henry Eyre_). _b._ Portsdown near
Portsmouth 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Addiscombe;
2 lieut. Bengal Artillery 12 Dec. 1828, col. 24 Nov. 1862 to 1
Sep. 1863 when he retired on full pay; rendered great service
during Indian mutiny; inspector general of ordnance at Calcutta
1861–62; retired L.G. Oct. 1863; member of army amalgamation
commission 1861; C.B. 5 Feb. 1858; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867; author of
_The military operations at Cabul_ 1843; _A Fortnight’s tour among
French ambulances_ 1870; _Lays of a Knight Errant_ 1874 and other
books. _d._ Villa des Acacias, Aix les Bains 22 Sep. 1881. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 1 Oct. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age i_, 284–347 (1880); _G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of
an Indian official_ (1872) 249–329; _Army and navy mag. iii_, 97
(1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 380 (1857), _portrait_.
EYRE, SIR WILLIAM (_younger son of vice admiral Sir George Eyre
1769–1839_). _b._ Hatfield 21 Oct. 1805; ed. at Rugby; ensign 6
foot 17 April 1823; served in both Caffre wars 1851–2; lieut. col.
73 foot 12 Nov. 1847 to 14 April 1854; A.D.C. to the Queen
1853–1854; commanded second brigade of third division in Crimea
1854, commanded third division there 1854; commanded troops in
Canada 1856–59; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Bilton
hall near Rugby 8 Sep. 1859. _Naval and military records of
Rugbeians_ (1865) 53–4; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_ (1877)
_iii_, 278, _vi_ 54, _ix_ 203–17, 270.
EYTON, PETER ELLIS. _b._ Flint 1827; solicitor at Flint 1853 to
death; M.P. for district of Flint 6 Feb. 1874 to death; author of
_A trip to the Isle of Man_. _d._ Englefield house, Rhyl, North
Wales 17 or 19 June 1878.
EYTON, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (_3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of
Wellington, Shropshire_). _b._ Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815;
ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton,
Shropshire 1841–63; author of _The antiquities of Shropshire 12
vols._ 1861; _A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the
Dorset survey_ 1878; _Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii_,
1878 and other books. _d._ Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8
Sep. 1871.
EYTON, THOMAS CAMPBELL (_son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of
Wenlock_). _b._ Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep.
1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at
Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of
birds in Europe; author of _History of the rarer British birds_
1836; _A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries_ 1858;
_Osteologia Avium_ 1871. _d._ Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.
F
FABER, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (_7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who
d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham_). _b._
Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury,
Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834,
fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839;
Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45;
admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov.
1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace,
Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24
and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father
Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton,
March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited _The Saints and
Servants of God_, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of
St. Philip Neri _42 vols._ 1847–56; author of _The Cherwell water
lily and other poems_ 1840 and about 30 other books. _d._ the
Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. _bur._ in burial ground of St.
Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. _J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W.
Faber_ 1869; _A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by
his only surviving brother_ [_Rev. F. A. Faber_] 1869; _Gillow’s
English Catholics ii_, 207–18; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 289, 290 (1854),
_portrait_.
FABER, REV. GEORGE STANLEY (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of
Calverley, Yorkshire_). _b._ Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed.
at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796,
B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801;
Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton
upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of
Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of
Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of _Horæ Mosaicæ,
or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols._ 1801, _2 ed._ 1818;
_Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols._ 1807, _5 ed. 3 vols._
1814–18; _The difficulties of Romanism_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1853; _The
sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols._ 1828, _2 ed._ 1844 and many
other works. _d._ Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. _The many
mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by
F. A. Faber_ 1854; _Christian Remembrancer xxix_, 310–31 (1855);
_H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 101–104.
FABER, WILLIAM RAIKES (_son of the preceding_). Second lieut. 60
rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848
to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany.
1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April
1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._
Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.
FADDY, PETER. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug.
1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb.
1870; author of _Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and
abroad_ 1848. _d._ Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.
FAGAN, WILLIAM TRANT (_eld. son of James Fagan of Cork_). _b._ Cork
1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork,
alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to
death; author of _The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols._
1847–8. _d._ 9 or 16 May 1859. _I.L.N. xiv_, 205 (1849),
_portrait_; _Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell_ (1888) _ii_, 453.
FAGGE, CHARLES HILTON (_son of Charles Fagge, surgeon_). _b._ Hythe,
Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P.
1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866,
assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited _Guy’s Hospital Reports_
some years; author of _Principles and practice of medicine_ 1886,
_2 ed._ 1888. _d._ 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.
FAHEY, JAMES. _b._ Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of
Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant
Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at
B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. _d._ The Grange,
Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. _I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885
p._ 667, _portrait_.
FAIR, ALEXANDER. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837
to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ South crescent, Bedford sq.
London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.
FAIRBAIRN, REV. PATRICK (_son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton,
Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer_). _b._ Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805;
ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish
of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of
Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian
1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of
divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56;
transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov.
1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament
revision company; edited _The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols._
1866; author of _The typology of Scripture 2 vols._ 1845–47, _5
ed._ 1870 and 7 other books. _d._ 6 Aug. 1874. _Pastoral Theology,
by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds_ 1875.
FAIRBAIRN, SIR PETER (_youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso,
Roxburghshire_). _b._ Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow
1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines;
member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death,
mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there
is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber
Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. _d._ Woodsley
house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 252–79
(1884); _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 491–96; _Illust.
news of the world ii_, 181 (1858), _portrait_, _vii_, 29 (1861),
_portrait_.
FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of
Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844_). _b._ Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19
Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death;
M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at
Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges;
F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of
National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of
Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and
philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at
Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet
7 Oct. 1869; author of _Useful information for Engineers_ 1856, _4
ed._ 1864; _Iron, its history_ 1861, _3 ed._ 1869 and other books.
_d._ Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Prestwick
parish church, Manchester. _The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited
by W. Pole_ 1877; _Fortunes made in business ii_, 240–50 (1884);
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 251–64 (1875);
_Practical Mag. iv_, 241, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xl_, 215, 225
(1862), _portrait_, _lxv_, 205, 212, 332 (1874), _portrait_.
FAIRFAX, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm.
George Fairfax 1739–1813_). _b._ Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49
foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when
placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in
consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb.
1836. _d._ Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.
FAIRFAX, JOHN. _b._ Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at
Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in
Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the _Sydney Morning Herald_ a biweekly
paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon
became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the
paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of
legislative council 1874 to death; author of _The Colonies of
Australia_ 1852. _d._ Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16
June 1877.
FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_16 child of a German named Fahrholz,
who Anglicised his name to Fairholt_). _b._ London 1814; employed
in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood
engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to
illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many
important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British Archæol.
Assoc. 1845–52; author of _Costume in England_ 1846, _3 ed. 2
vols._ 1885 and 5 other books. _d._ 22 Montpelier square, Brompton
3 April 1866. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 218–26, 307–21
(1883).
FAIRLAND, THOMAS. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer,
afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever
executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child
by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of
_Comic Sketches_ after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. _d._
of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. _G.M. Jany. 1853 p._ 102.
FAIRLIE, ROBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer
in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864,
first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these
engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of
Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie;
author of _Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge_
1872. _d._ the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.
FALCIERI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, the faithful servant of Lord Byron.
Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office,
superannuated on pension of £140. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874;
Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March
1875.
FALCONAR, CHESBOROUGH GRANT. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78
foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col.
22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18
Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death;
L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. _d._ Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10
Jany. 1860.
FALCONER, EDMUND, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. _b._ Dublin 1814;
acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of
Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man
in _The Colleen Bawn_ at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July
1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama _Peep o’
Day_ ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B.
Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all
his money; played in America 1867–70; author of _Memories, poems_
1863; _Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s
Bride and Man’s Missions, poems_ 1865 and of many dramas,
librettos and songs. _d._ 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep.
1879. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 116–20; _Illust. sporting
and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp._ 233–4.
FALCONER, FORBES (_2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside,
Fifeshire_). _b._ Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.
and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London;
professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author
of _Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian_ 1838;
_Persian Grammar_, _2 ed._ 1848. _d._ 40 Dorset st. Portman sq.
London 7 Nov. 1853.
FALCONER, HUGH (_youngest child of David Falconer of Forres,
Elginshire_). _b._ Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and
King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830;
superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western
provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837;
returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec.
1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of
botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842,
foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of
_Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik
hills, Calcutta_ 1859. _d._ Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865.
_C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh
Falconer_ (1868) _vol. 1_, _pp. xxiii-liii_, _portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xv_, 14–20 (1867); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc.
xxi_, 45–49 (1865).
FALCONER, RANDLE WILBRAHAM (_youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of
Bath 1772–1839_). _b._ 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin.,
M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death;
physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath
mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author
of _The baths and mineral waters of Bath_, _6 ed._ 1880, and other
books. _d._ Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.
FALCONER, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 25 June 1805;
barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of
Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of
arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct.
1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of
county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851
to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke
of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of _On Surnames and the
rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff_ 1862 _privately
printed_, _2 ed. London_ 1862, _Supplement_ 1863 and 7 other
books. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. _T.
Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family_ (1866) 20–30; _The
Red Dragon ii_, 193–98 (1882), _portrait_.
FALCONER, REV. WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Corston,
Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A.
1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public
examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to
death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library
_The Geography of Strabo 3 vols._ 1854–57. _d._ Bushey rectory 9
Feb. 1885.
FALKLAND, LUCIUS BENTINCK CARY, 10 Viscount (_eld. child of Charles
John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809_). _b._ 5 Nov. 1803;
succeeded his father who _d._ of wounds received in a duel 2 March
1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a
representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created
Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15
May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846;
captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848;
governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May
1848. _d._ Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.
FALKNER, GEORGE. _b._ Edinburgh 1817; edited _Bradshaw’s Manchester
Journal_ from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and
lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own _Notes on
Algiers_ 1852, and _A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of
Loreto_ 1882. _d._ The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec.
1882.
FALLON, JAMES THOMAS. _b._ Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W.
1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first
prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made
champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and
cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W.
1869–72. _d._ Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.
FALLOON, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Ireland; minister of Church of England in
Canada; author of _An historical view of the Church of England 2
vols. Dublin_ 1830; _The Apostolic Church_ 1837; _History of
Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the
death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal_ 1863. _d._
Montreal, Sep. 1862.
FALMOUTH, GEORGE HENRY BOSCAWEN, 2 Earl of (_only child of Edward
Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841_). _b._ Woolhampton house
near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29
Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of
Wallingford 1845 to death. _d._ 2 St. James’s square, Westminster
28 Aug. 1852.
FALSHAW, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds_). _b._
Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of
Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the
northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of
Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of
North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. _d._
14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. _Graphic x_, 490,
501 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_, 253 (1876), _portrait_.
FANE, HENRY EDWARD HAMLYN (_eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck,
Lincs. 1783–1862_). _b._ Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at
Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons
1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20
April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for
South Hants. 1865–68; author of _Five years in India_ 1842. _d._
Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.
FANE, JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854;
lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P.
for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. _d._ 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov.
1875.
FANE, JULIAN HENRY CHARLES (_5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland
1784–1859_). _b._ Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.;
M.A. 1850; attaché at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23
Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned;
published _Poems_ 1852; _Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by
Julian Fane_ 1854; author with Edward Lytton of _Tannhäuser, or
the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple_ [_J. C. Fane_]
and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. _d._ 29 Portman sq.
London 19 April 1870. _Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir_ (1871),
_portrait_; _Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attaché_ (1886)
16–20.
FANE, MILDMAY (_5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme
Regis_). _b._ Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col.
98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec.
1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860;
col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. _d._
Fulbeck 12 March 1868.
FANE, ROBERT GEORGE CECIL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 8 May
1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A.
1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I.
1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt
comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of _Bankrupt Reform, Letters
i-vii_, _2 vols._ 1838 and 8 other books. _d._ Burdon hotel,
Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.
FANQUE, PABLO, assumed name of William Darby. _b._ Norwich;
apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer;
circus proprietor 1841 to death. _d._ Britannia inn, Stockport 4
May 1871 aged 67 or 75. _I.L.N. x_, 189 (1847), _portrait_.
FANSHAWE, SIR ARTHUR (_youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N.
1740–1823_). _b._ 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct.
1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov.
1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral
4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 32
Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.