independent minister at Stepney_). _b._ Blackburn 7 Jany. 1816; in
a Manchester counting house to 1833; at Coward coll. 1833;
minister of Congregational ch. Hanley 1839–49, of Christchurch,
Hampshire 1849–73; kept a school at Christchurch but the death by
drowning of 7 of his pupils in May 1838 caused him to close the
establishment; author of _The works and memoirs of Rev. Joseph
Fletcher, D.D._ 1846; _History of Independency 4 vols._ 1847–49
and other works. _d._ Christchurch 2 June 1876.
FLETCHER, RALPH. _b._ Gloucester; studied at St. Bartholomews;
surgeon to Gloucester county hospital; had one of finest
consulting practices in the kingdom, extending to whole of South
Wales and Bristol; the income from his practice, which was purely
surgical, exceeded £4000 for many years; had a very fine
collection of pictures; author of _Sketches on the influence of
the mind on the body_ 1833; _Notes on cruelty to animals_ 1846.
_d._ Barton st. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1851 aged 70 worth more than
£80,000. _Medical Directory_ 1852 _pp._ 646–7.
FLEXMORE, RICHARD, stage name of Richard Flexmore Geatter (_son of
Richard Flexmore Geatter, celebrated comic dancer_). _b._
Kennington, London 15 Sep. 1824; appeared at Victoria theatre as a
dancer 1832; clown at Grecian theatre, Christmas 1844, at Olympic
theatre, Christmas 1845; played at Princess’s, Strand, Adelphi,
Covent Garden and Drury Lane to 1860; noted for his imitations of
the leading dancers of his day; acted with his wife in chief
European cities in 1849, &c. (_m._ 28 July 1849 Franciska
Christophosa dau. of Jean Baptiste Auriol famous French clown, she
_m._ (2) her cousin Monsieur Auriol, and _d._ Paris 3 Sep. 1862).
_d._ 66 Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 20 Aug. 1860. _Illust.
sp. and dr. news ii_, 268 (1874), _portrait, iv_, 294 (1875),
_portrait_; _Era 26 Aug. 1860 p. 10, col. 1_, _and 2 Sep. p. 10,
col. 2_; _A first appearance, By Mrs. Evans Bell_ (1872), _i_,
129–33, _iii_, 195–7.
FLIGHT, WALTER (_son of William P. Flight_). _b._ Winchester 21
Jany. 1841; ed. at Queenwood coll. Hampshire, D. Sci. London 1867;
assistant in mineralogical department British Museum 5 Sep. 1867,
resigned 1884; experimented on the constituents of meteorites;
F.R.S. 7 June 1883; author of numerous papers in scientific
journals, majority of them on meteorites. _d._ 4 Wildwood terrace,
North End, Hampstead 4 Nov. 1885. _W. Flight’s Chapter on
Meteorites_ 1887.
FLOOD, FREDERICK SOLLY- (_only son of Richard Solly of Walthamstow,
who d. 1803_). _b._ 7 Aug. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; assumed by r.l. additional surname of
Flood 14 Oct. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828; attorney general
for city and garrison of Gibraltar 15 Feb. 1866 to 1877. _d._
Gibraltar 13 May 1888.
FLOWER, EDWARD FORDHAM (_younger son of Richard Flower, who d. 15
Jany. 1862_). _b._ Marden hall, Hertfordshire 31 Jany. 1805; spent
his early life in Illinois; brewer Stratford on Avon 1832–62;
mayor of Stratford 3 times, also in 1864 during Shakespeare
tercentenary; contested Coventry 1865 and North Warwickshire 1868;
removed to London 1873; endeavoured to prevent cruelty to horses
in use of bearing reins and gag-bits; author of _Bits and bearing
reins_ 1875, _7 ed._ 1886 and 3 other books. _d._ 35 Hyde park
gardens, London 20 March 1883. _E. F. Flower’s Bits and bearing
reins_ (1886) 3–15, _portrait_; _Victoria Mag., May 1878 pp._
67–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 7 May 1864 p._ 453, _portrait_.
FLOWER, JOHN WICKHAM. _b._ London 11 Aug. 1807; studied geology and
archæology; lived at Croydon about 1848 to death; F.G.S. 1863;
author of _Adam’s disobedience and its results_, _2 ed._ 1871; _A
Layman’s reason for discontinuing the use of the Athanasian creed_
1872. _d._ Park hill, Croydon 11 April 1873.
FLOWER, RICHARD. _b._ Hertfordshire about 1780; went with Morris
Birkbeck to the U.S. 1817 to found an English colony in Albion,
Edwards co. Illinois; instrumental in securing defeat of attempt
to legalize African slavery in Illinois 1823; author of _History
of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois founded in
1817 and 1818 by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower, Chicago_
1882. _d._ Grayville, White co. Illinois 15 Jany. 1862.
FLOWERS, FREDERICK (_3 son of Field Flowers, rector of Partney,
Lincs._) _b._ Boston, Lincs. 1810; educ. Louth gram. sch.;
barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1839; recorder of Stamford, March 1862 to
July 1864; revising barrister northern division Nottinghamshire;
police magistrate Bow st. London 6 July 1864 to death. _d._
Holmesdale, Tottenham lane, Hornsey, Middlesex 26 Jany. 1886.
_Graphic 8 Jany. 1881 p._ 32, _portrait_; _Saturday Review lxi_,
145 (1886).
FLOWERS, GEORGE FRENCH (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Boston
1811; studied music under Rink and Von Wartensee in Germany; of
Lincoln coll. Oxf., Bac. Mus. 1839, Doc. Mus. 1865; organist
British embassy chapel, Paris, St. Mark’s Myddleton sq., and St.
John’s Paddington successively; founded Contrapuntists’ Soc. 1843;
introduced and developed Vogler’s system of progressive cadences
1848; his most distinguished pupil in singing was Mrs. Howard
Paul; joined ch. of Rome 1860; author of _Essay on the
construction of fugue_ 1846; _Muscular Vocalisation, a poem,
Barrow on Humber_ 1861; composer of organ fugues, pastoral chorus
and choral fugue. _d._ of cholera in London 14 June 1872.
FLOYER, JOHN (_younger son of Rev. Wm. Floyer 1746–1819, V. of
Stinsford, Dorset_). _b._ 26 April 1811; ed. at Winchester and
Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Dorset 1844; M.P. for
Dorset 1846–57 and 1864–85; contested Dorset, April 1857; chairman
of Dorset quarter sessions. _d._ 5 Old palace yard, Westminster 4
July 1887.
FLUDE, THOMAS PETERS (_2 son of Jonathan Flude, town mayor of
Berwick on Tweed_). Second lieut. R.A. 17 July 1817, col. 15 May
1855, col. commandant 11 Dec. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Tweed house, Folkestone 13 July 1885 in 87 year.
FOGGO, GEORGE. _b._ London 14 April 1793; instructed in painting by
Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; worked with his brother James
Foggo 1819–59; one of founders and hon. sec. of Soc. for obtaining
free access to Museums; lithographer; published a set of
lithographs from Raphael’s cartoons 1828; _Catalogue of the
pictures in the National Gallery_ 1844 and the _Adventures of Sir
J. Brook, Rajah of Sarawak_ 1853; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 14
at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1816–64. _d._ London 26 Sep. 1869.
FOGGO, JAMES. _b._ London 11 June 1789; instructed by Jean Baptist
Regnault in Paris; returned to London 1815; supported himself by
teaching and portrait painting; from 1819 painted pictures in
conjunction with his brother George Foggo for 40 years; well known
as painters of altar pieces; exhibited a large picture “The
Christian inhabitants of Parga preparing to emigrate”; exhibited
their works with Haydon and others at the Pantheon, London 1843
etc.; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk
st. 1816–58; with his brother undertook care of exhibition of
pictures at Pantheon Oxford st. London 1852. _d._ London 14 Sep.
1860.
FOLEY, THOMAS HENRY FOLEY, 4 Baron (_eld. son of 3 Baron Foley
1780–1833_). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 11 Dec. 1808; M.P.
for Worcestershire 5 Aug. 1830 to 16 April 1833; captain of corps
of gentlemen at arms 1833–34, 1835–41, 1846–52, 1852–58, 1859–66
and 1868 to death; P.C. 1833; lord lieut. of Worcestershire. _d._
Paris 20 Nov. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 22 Jany.
1870.
FOLEY, REV. DANIEL. _b._ about 1815; employed in shop of Patrick
Grey, Tralee; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1852, B.D.
1854, D.D. 1858; professor of Irish in univ. of Dublin 1849–61;
prebendary of Kilbragh in Cashel cath. to death; R. of Templetuohy
1852 to death; lectured against disestablishment of Ch. of
Ireland; author of _An English-Irish Dictionary, Dublin_ 1855.
_d._ Blackrock, Dublin 7 July 1874.
FOLEY, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1818; student of the R.A.
London 1835, A.R.A. 1849, R.A. 1858; his group of Iro and Bacchus
exhibited 1840 purchased by the earl of Ellesmere; executed
statues of Hampden and Selden for St. Stephen’s hall, Westminster;
executed group of Asia and figure of Prince Consort for Albert
Memorial, Hyde park, Caractacus and Egeria for Mansion house, and
statues of Canning, Harding and Outram for Calcutta; exhibited 49
works at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1839–75. _d._ Hampstead 27 Aug. 1874.
_bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 4 Sep., left his models to the Dublin
Soc. and the bulk of his property to the Artists’ Benevolent fund.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_, 226–29 (1875);
_Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 315–17 (1862); _I.L.N.
xxx_, 419 (1857), _portrait_, _lxv_, 236, 249, 254 (1874),
_portrait_.
FOLJAMBE, GEORGE SAVILE. _b._ 4 June 1800; ed. at Eton and St John’s
coll. Cam.; kept fox hounds in Notts. 1822–45 when he sold them
for upwards of £3500; sheriff of Notts. _d._ Osberton near Worksop
18 Dec. 1869. _Sporting Review lxiii_, 12–14, 371 (1870).
FOLLETT, BRENT SPENCER (_4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham,
Devon_). _b._ 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov.
1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for
Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief
registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death;
member of council of legal education, London. _d._ 23 Jany. 1887.
FOLSOM, ABBY H. _b._ England about 1792; went to the U.S. about
1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for
addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about
1842–5; author of _A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an
Avaricious Landlord, Boston_ 1851. (_m._ Mr. Folsom of
Massachusetts). _d._ Rochester, New York 1867.
FONBLANQUE, ALBANY WILLIAM (_3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque
1760–1838_). _b._ London 1793; a journalist on _Morning
Chronicle_, _Times_ and _Atlas_; on the _Examiner_ 1826, manager
and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical
department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a
finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of
_England under seven administrations 3 vols._ 1837. _d._ London 14
Oct. 1872. _Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque_ 1874; _Westminster
Papers vii_, 21–23 (1874); _Graphic vi_, 442, 445 (1872),
_portrait_.
FONBLANQUE, JOHN SAMUEL MARTIN DE GRENIER (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed.
at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June
1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the
American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov.
1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of
Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of _The Jurist, a quarterly
journal of jurisprudence and legislation_ 1827; author with J. A.
Paris of _Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols._ 1823. _d._ Brighton 3
Nov. 1865.
FOOTE, HENRY RICHARD. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853;
harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired
captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. _d._
Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.
FORAN, MOST REV. NICHOLAS. _b._ Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of
St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of
Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of
Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug.
1837. _d._ Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.
FORBES, WALTER FORBES, 18 Baron. _b._ Crailing house, Roxburghshire
29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at
defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May
1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. _d._
Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel,
Wellington barracks, London.
FORBES, RIGHT REV. ALEXANDER PENROSE (_2 son of John Hay Forbes,
lord Medwyn 1776–1854_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow
univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry,
India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut
1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit
scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of
Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of
Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one
of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21
Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin
to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured
by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15
March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded
sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of _An explanation
of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols._ 1867–68 in which he was
assisted by Dr. Pusey; _The prisoners of Craigmacaire_ 1852; _The
pious life of Helen Inglis_ 1854; _Kalendars of Scottish saints_
1872 and 20 other works. _d._ Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875.
_Mackey’s Bishop Forbes_ (1888), _portrait_; _Memoir of Alexander,
bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene_ (1876).
FORBES, SIR CHARLES FERGUSSON. _b._ 1779; hospital assistant in army
medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the
Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of
hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec.
1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death;
physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye
1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he
resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party,
on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 1837; knighted
at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ 23 Argyll st. London 22
March 1852. _Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians_ (1878) _iii_,
129; _Medical Circular i_, 137 (1852).
FORBES, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I.
23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25
May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov.
1854. _d._ Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.
FORBES, DAVID (_son of Edward Forbes of Oakhill, Isle of Man,
banker_). _b._ Douglas 6 Sep. 1828; educ. Brentwood, Essex and
Edin. univ.; superintendent of mining and metallurgical works at
Espedal, Norway 1848–58; F.G.S. 1853 and one of secretaries 1871;
F.R.S. 3 June 1856; partner with Evans and Askin, nickel smelters,
Birmingham 1856; A.I.C.E. 1 Feb. 1853, mem. of council 1872–73;
visited Bolivia, Peru, South Sea islands and Africa in search of
mines and minerals 1857–66; foreign sec. of Iron and Steel
Institute 1871–6; one of the first to apply the microscope to the
study of rocks; wrote 58 papers on scientific subjects. _d._ 11
York place, Portman sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xxxiii_, 41–8 (1877); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xlix_, 270–75 (1877); _Journal of Iron and Steel Institute_ 1876
_pp._ 519–24.
FORBES, DUNCAN. _b._ Kinnaird, Perthshire 28 April 1798; village
school master of Straloch 1815; educ. Carmichael sch., Perth gram.
sch. and St. Andrew’s univ., M.A. 1823, LLD. 1847; employed in
Calcutta academy Nov. 1823 to 1826; assistant to Dr. John
Borthwick Gilchrist, teacher of Hindustani and to Dr. Sandford
Arnet 1826–37; professor of oriental languages, King’s coll.
London 1837–61; hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1861; catalogued
Persian MSS. in British Museum 1849–55; author of _The Hindustani
Manual_ 1845; _The history of chess from the time of the early
invention of the game in India_ 1860; _A grammar of the Bengali
language_ 1861; _A grammar of the Arabic language_ 1863 and other
books. _d._ London 17 Aug. 1868. _Annual Report R. Asiatic Soc.,
May 1869 pp. vii-viii._
FORBES, EDWARD (_2 child of Edward Forbes of Douglas, Isle of Man,
banker_). _b._ Douglas 12 Feb. 1815; ed. at univ. of Edin.
1831–36; naturalist to H.M.’s surveying ship Beacon, in the Levant
1841–42; professor of botany at King’s college, London, Oct. 1842;
F.G.S. 4 Dec. 1844, librarian and curator 1842–44, pres. 1853;
F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; palæontologist at Museum of practical geology
1 Nov. 1844 to 1854; founded Club of the Metropolitan Red Lions
1845; professor of natural history in Univ. of Edin. April 1854 to
death; published with Sylvanus Hanley _A History of British
Mollusca 4 vols._ 1848–53; author of many books and papers on
natural history. _d._ Wardie near Edinburgh 18 Nov. 1854. _J. H.
Bennett’s Memoir of E. Forbes_ 1855; _Memoir of E. Forbes by G.
Wilson and A. Geikie_ 1861, _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of
Edin. ii_, 434 (1884); _I.L.N. xxv_, 564, 566 (1854), _portrait_.
FORBES, FRANCIS REGINALD (_2 son of 6 Earl of Granard 1760–1837_).
_b._ Moira castle, Ireland 17 Sep. 1791; attached to embassy at
St. Petersburg, July 1812; minister plenipotentiary at Dresden 26
Nov. 1832; raised to rank of envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary 2 May 1857, transferred to Rio de Janeiro 13 Dec.
1858; retired 2 Sep. 1859, pension granted him 1 Nov. 1859. _d._
Geneva 5 Nov. 1873.
FORBES, REV. GEORGE HAY (_brother of Right Rev. A. P. Forbes_). _b._
4 Aug. 1821; episcopal minister at Burntisland 1849 to death;
founded and endowed the Pitsligo press at Burntisland, issued
theological pamphlets, ancient liturgies and missals, and a
periodical called _The Panoply_ 1853–69, all of which he printed
himself, the press was moved to Edinburgh, January 1884; author of
_The goodness of God, Prize essay_ 1849; _Doctrinal errors of the
English prayer book_ 1863. _d._ The Parsonage, Burntisland 7 Nov.
1875.
FORBES, HENRY. _b._ 1804; pupil of Smart, Hummel, Moscheles and
Herz; organist of St. Luke’s, Chelsea; his opera _The Fairy Oak_
produced at Drury Lane 18 Oct. 1845; his cantata Ruth performed
London 1847; conductor of Società Armonica 1827–50; composer of
_National Psalmody_ 1843. _d._ London 24 Nov. 1859.
FORBES, JAMES. _b._ Bridgend, Perthshire, May 1793; head gardener to
Duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Beds. 37 years; A.L.S. 17 Jany.
1832; published _Hortus ericaceus Woburnensis_ 1825; _Salicetum
Woburnense_ 1829; _Hortus Woburnensis_ 1833; _Pinetum Woburnense_
1839. _d._ The Abbey Gardens, Woburn 6 July 1861. _Proc. of
Linnæan Soc._ (1861) 104.
FORBES, JAMES DAVID (_youngest son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 7 Bart.
1773–1828_). _b._ Edinburgh 20 April 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
LLD. 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1828, sec. 1840–51; F.R.S. 7 June 1832,
Rumford medallist 1838 for discovery of polarisation of heat; a
founder of British Association 1832; professor of natural
philosophy in Univ. of Edin. 30 Jany. 1833, resigned April 1860;
dean of Faculty of Arts 1837; granted civil list pension of £200,
14 Oct. 1845; surveyed Mer de Glace 1850; principal of St. Andrews
2 Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1868; author of _Travels through the Alps of
Savoy with observations on glaciers_ 1843 and of upwards of 149
articles in scientific transactions. _d._ Clifton hill house,
Bristol 31 Dec. 1868. _Life and letters of J. D. Forbes_ 1873;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xix_, 1–9 (1871); _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of
Edin. ii_, 354–7 (1884); _Contemporary Review xxii_, 484–508
(1873).
FORBES, SIR JOHN (_4 son of Alexander Forbes of the Enzie,
Banffshire_). _b._ Cuttelbrae, Ruthven, Banffshire 18 Oct. 1787;
ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1803–6 and Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1817; assistant surgeon R.N. 1807–16 when placed on h.p.; phys. at
Penzance 1817–22, at Chichester 1822–40, in London 1840–59; F.R.S.
5 Feb. 1829; founded _British and Foreign medical review_, Jany.
1836, edited it 1836 to Oct. 1847, 48 numbers; phys. extraord. to
Prince Consort, Aug. 1840 to 1859; phys. in ord. to H.M.’s
Household, Feb. 1841 to 1859; F.R.C.S. Lond. 1845; knighted at
Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; author of _Original cases
illustrating the use of the stethescope_ 1824; editor with A.
Tweedie and J. Conolly of _Cyclopædia of practical medicine_
1833–35, _4 vols._; author of _A physician’s holiday in
Switzerland_ 1848; _Sight seeing in Germany_ 1856. _d._ Whitchurch
near Reading 13 Nov. 1861. _E. A. Parke’s Memoir of Sir John
Forbes_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xii_, 6–10 (1862).
FORBES, REV. JOHN. _b._ Dunkeld, Perthshire; educ. Perth academy and
St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1837; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1840;
minister at Hope park chapel, Edinburgh 1826, at Outer-High
church, Glasgow 18 Dec. 1828; left the Presbyterian ch. 24 May
1843; contributed to _The evidences of Revealed Religion_ 1838;
Free church minister of Free St. Paul’s Glasgow 1843; author of
_Differential and integral calculus_; _Three sermons on Lord’s
Day_ 1831 and other books. _d._ Glasgow 25 Dec. 1874 aged 73.
_Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 253–60; _John Smith’s Our
Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 231–7.
FORBES, JOHN HAY (_2 son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 6 Bart., of Pitsligo
1739–1806_). _b._ Edinburgh Sep. 1776; advocate 2 March 1799;
sheriff depute of Perthshire 1807; judge of Court of Session with
title of Lord Medwyn, Jany. 1825 to Oct. 1852; a lord of
justiciary 16 Nov. 1830 to May 1849; edited _Thoughts concerning
man’s condition in this life and hopes in world to come, By
Alexander Forbes, Baron Pitsligo_ 1854. _d._ Edinburgh 25 July
1854. _J. Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits ii_, 99 (1842), _portrait_.
FORBES, NATHANIEL. Entered Madras army 1782; col. 24 Madras N.I.
1820 or 1821 to death; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837. _d._ Sloane st. London
16 Aug. 1851.
FORBES, THOMAS JOHN. Second lieut. R.A. 6 March 1795; col.
commandant 8 Dec. 1847 to death; general 16 Jany. 1859. _d._
Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester 1 Feb. 1868 aged 87.
FORBES, WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1835–38 and 1841
to death. _d._ Callander house near Stirling 10 Feb. 1855.
FORBES, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (_2 son of John Staats Forbes_). _b._
Cheltenham 24 June 1855; educ. Kensington sch. and Winchester
coll.; studied at Edin. univ. 1873 and univ. coll. London 1875–76;
matric. St. John’s coll. Cam. 1876, fellow; prosector to
Zoological soc. of London, Dec. 1879 to death; lectured on
comparative anatomy Charing Cross hospital medical sch.; wrote on
the muscular structure and voice organs of birds; travelled in
Pernambuco 1880 and in tropical Africa 1882 to investigate the
fauna; author of _The collected papers of A. H. Garrod_ 1881. _d._
Shonga on the Niger 14 Jany. 1883. _bur._ Wickham, Kent 1 April
1884. _F. E. Beddard’s Collected Papers of W. A. Forbes_ (1885).
FORBES, WILLIAM NAIRN (_6 son of John Forbes of Blackford, co.
Aberdeen_). _b._ Blackford 3 April 1796; ed. at King’s coll. old
Aberdeen, univ. of Edin. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers
1816, col. 1 Aug. 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; superintendent
of mint machinery at Calcutta 1823; master of Calcutta mint 3 Feb.
1836 to death; built cathedral at Calcutta 1839–47; M.I.C.E. 1828.
_d._ on board the ‘Oriental’ off the island of Tibble Teer on his
way to England 1 May 1855. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_,
138–40 (1861).
FORBES-LESLIE, JONATHAN (_youngest son of John Forbes of
Blackford_). _b._ 1798; ensign 78 foot 19 Jany. 1814, lieut. col.
9 Nov. 1846 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he retired from the army; author
of _Eleven years in Ceylon 2 vols._ 1840; _Recent disturbances and
military executions in Ceylon_ 1850; assumed name of Leslie after
Forbes 1861. _d._ Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire 23 Dec. 1877.
_Leslie’s Family of Leslie_ (1869) _iii_, 320.
FORD, CHARLES ERSKINE. _b._ 5 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 April
1829, col. 11 Oct. 1863, col. commandant 1 Oct. 1877 to death;
general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. _d._
Hampton court palace 27 July 1884.
FORD, REV. DAVID EVERARD (_son of Rev. David Ford, congregational
minister_). _b._ Long Melford, Suffolk 13 Sep. 1797;
congregational minister at Lymington, Hants. 1821–1841; visited
stations of congregational union 1841–43; minister of Richmond
chapel, Manchester 1843, resigned 1858; author of _Decapolis, or
the individual obligation of christians to save souls_ 1840,
_fifth American ed._ 1848; _Chorazin_ 1841; _Damascus_ 1842;
_Laodicea_ 1844 and _Alarm in Zion_ 1848; published music for
psalms and hymns 1825–29 and _Rudiments of music_ 1843. _d._
Bedford 23 Oct. 1875.
FORD, RICHARD (_eld. son of Sir Richard Ford, chief police
magistrate of London, who d. 3 May 1806 aged 47_). _b._ Sloane st.
London April 1796; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1817, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; resided in Spain
1830–34; settled at Heavitree near Exeter 1834; contributed to
_Quarterly Review_ 1836–57; author of _A handbook for travellers
in Spain and readers at home 2 vols._ 1845, _new ed. 2 vols._
1861; _Gatherings from Spain_ 1846, _new ed._ 1861; had a fine
collection of majolica ware. _d._ Heavitree 1 Sep. 1858. _Times 4
Sep. 1858 p. 6, col. 5_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 223–6
(1854); _Fraser’s Mag. Oct. 1858 pp._ 422–4.
FORD, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Wilbraham Ford, R. of
Little Risington, Gloucs._) _b._ 4 May 1812; ed. at Eton and
King’s coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; admitted
solicitor 1836; partner in firm of Ranken and Co. London 1837;
member of council of Incorporated Law Society 1860–76, vice pres.
1869–70, pres. 1870–71. _d._ Majori, South Italy 10 Jany. 1889.
FORDHAM, GEORGE (_son of James Fordham_). _b._ Cambridge 11 Sep.
1837; trained under R. Drewitt and E. Smith, and commenced his
career at Brighton 1850; at the head of list of winning jockeys
1855–63, won 165 races 1862; won the Oaks 5 times, the
Cambridgeshire 4 times, the Ascot cup 5 times, the 2000 guineas 3
times, the 1000 guineas 7 times; won the Derby on Sir Bevys 1879,
won the Grand prix de Paris 1867, 1868 and 1881, the French Derby
1861 and 1868, the French Oaks 1880; known as “the demon.” _d._
Slough 12 Oct. 1887. _Baily’s Mag. iii_, 183–8 (1861) _xlviii_,
277–9 (1888); _Illust. sporting news ii_, 301 (1863), _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news i_, 16 (1874), _portrait_, _24 May
1884_, _portrait_; _Sporting Mirror ii_, 37–40 (1881), _portrait_.
FORDYCE, ALEXANDER DINGWALL. _b._ Aberdeen 4 March 1800; entered
navy 12 June 1813; commander on h.p. 3 Sep. 1841; retired captain
14 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeen 1847–52; author of _Outlines of
naval routine_ 1837. _d._ Aberdeen 16 July 1864. _Naval and
military gazette 30 July 1864 p._ 483.
FORDYCE, CHARLES FRANCIS. _b._ 19 Dec. 1819; ensign 41 foot 17 Feb.
1838; major 47 foot 1852–55; A.Q.M.G. Canada 1855–57; military
sec. to governor of Madras 1866–71, private sec. 1871–72; col.
second battalion Gloucestershire regiment 7 Aug. 1884 to death;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B.
2 Jany. 1857. _d._ Hayford, Torquay 23 Sep. 1887.
FORDYCE, GEORGE DINGWALL (_brother of Alexander Dingwall Fordyce_).
_b._ 1808; advocate 1832, advocate depute; sheriff of Sutherland
and Caithness 14 Aug. 1857 to 1875. _d._ Forres st. Edinburgh 7
Sep. 1875.
FORDYCE, JOHN. _b._ Ayton, Berwickshire; ensign 34 foot 18 Dec.
1828; lieut. col. 74 foot 10 July 1846 to death; killed in the
action of Waterkloof, Caffraria 6 Nov. 1851. _The Christian
Soldier_ 1856; _W. R. King’s Campaigning in Kaffirland_ (1853)
_p._ 146, _view of his death_.
FORDYCE, SIR JOHN (_son of James Fordyce_). _b._ 4 March 1806; 2
lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, col. commandant 5 April 1873
to death; L.G. 21 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Colne
house, Earl’s Colne, Essex 26 Feb. 1877.
FORDYCE, WILLIAM DINGWALL. _b._ Rubilaw cottage, Aberdeen 31 March
1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1859; advocate 1862; M.P. for
Aberdeenshire 1866–68, for East Aberdeenshire 1868 to death. _d._
Brucklay Castle near Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1875.
FORESTER, JOHN GEORGE WELD, 2 Baron (_eld. child of 1 Baron Forester
1767–1828_). _b._ Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 Aug. 1801;
M.P. for Wenlock 1826–28; captain of corps of gentlemen-at-arms
1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; master of the Belvoir fox hounds
1830–58. _d._ Willey park, Broseley, Shropshire 10 Oct. 1874.
_Baily’s Mag. xii_, 163–5 (1867), _portrait_.
FORESTER, GEORGE CECIL WELD FORESTER, 3 Baron (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 10 May 1807;
ed. at Westminster; cornet Royal horse guards 27 May 1824, lieut.
col. 2 Sep. 1853 to 30 Sep. 1859; placed on retired list 1 Oct.
1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. for Wenlock 1828–74; controller of
the household, March to Dec. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859. _d._
3 Carlton gardens, London 14 Feb. 1886.
FORMBY, REV. HENRY (_2 son of Henry Greenhalgh Formby of Bury,
Lancs. 1789–1834_). _b._ 1816; ed. at Clitheroe gr. sch.
Charterhouse and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; V. of
Ruardean, Gloucs. 1844; received into R.C. church at St. Mary’s
college, Oscott 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest at Oscott 18 Sep.
1847; priest at St. Chads, Birmingham and Wednesbury successively;
resided at Dominican priory of St. Peter, Hinckley, Leics. about
1865 to death; edited for some years _The monthly magazine of the
Holy Rosary, n.s._ 1873, _&c._; author of _A visit to the East_
1843 and 40 other books. _d._ Normanton hall, Leics. 12 March
1884. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 309–13 (1885).
FORREST, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_son of James Forrest of Edinburgh,
writer to the signet 1744–1820_). _b._ 16 Oct. 1780; advocate
1803; lord provost of Edinburgh 1838; created a baronet 7 Aug.
1838; a ruling elder of established church of Scotland to 1843
when he joined the free church; grand master of grand lodge of
freemasons in Scotland. _d._ Plymouth 5 April 1860.
FORREST, ROBERT. _b._ Carluke, Lanarkshire 1790; a stonemason in
Clydesdale quarries; cut colossal figure of first Viscount
Melville in centre of St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh; sculptor of
statues of John Knox in Glasgow necropolis, and of Mr. Ferguson of
Raith at Haddington 1843; opened his public exhibition of statuary
on the Calton hill, Edinburgh 1832. _d._ Edinburgh 29 Dec. 1852.
_W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation iii_, 710 (1863); _Georgian Era
iv_, 180 (1834).
FORREST, THOMAS. _b._ Burnwynd, Wilkieston, Midlothian 1805; studied
under W. H. Lizars in Edinburgh; line engraver; many of his plates
were published by Royal Assoc. for promotion of fine arts in
Scotland; gave a complete set of his works 160 in number to Royal
Scottish Academy 1884. _d._ Edinburgh. 15 Oct. 1889.
FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY (_son of Robert Forrester of 5 North gate,
royal exchange, London, public notary_). _b._ London 10 Sep. 1804;
apprentice to a notary in the city; connected with his brother
Charles Robert Forrester (who _d._ 15 Jany. 1850 aged 47) in
business about 1825–39; illustrated several of his brother’s books
in which the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill was conjointly used by
writer and artist, but afterwards it was used by the artist alone;
contributed sketches to vols. 2, 3 and 4 of _Punch_ 1842–3; member
of staff of _Illustrated London News_ from 1843; wrote and
illustrated _A. Crowquill’s Guide to watering places_ 1839 and 25
other books; illustrated wholly or partly _Ups and Downs_ 1823 and
32 other books. _d._ 3 Portland place north, Clapham road, London
26 May 1872. _Everitt’s English caricaturists_ (1886) 194, 368–71,
410; _Illustrated Review 15 June 1872 pp._ 737–42, _portrait_;
_Bentley’s Miscellany_ (1846) _xix_, 87, 99, _portrait_.
FORRESTER, HENRY, stage name of Henry Frost. _b._ Capel near Dorking
9 April 1827; became an actor 1855; first appeared in London at
Marylebone theatre as Korac in _Zembuca_ 18 Dec. 1858; acted at
Sadler’s Wells 1861–64, at Princess’s, Victoria, Surrey, Royalty,
Lyceum; played Iago at Lyceum 14 Feb. 1876; played Daniel Druce in
the provinces more than 300 times. _d._ Capel house, South
Lambeth, London 9 April 1882. _Illust. sp. and dr. news v_, 31–3
(1876).
FORRESTER, JOSEPH JAMES, Baron de Forrester. _b._ Hull 27 May 1809;
merchant and wine shipper at Oporto 1831 to death; surveyed river
Douro with a view to improvement of its navigation, and published
a map of it 1848, adopted by Portuguese government as a national
work; author of _A word or two on port wine_ 1844, anon., 8
editions, for which he received addresses of thanks from 102
parishes of the Upper Douro; _Oliveira Prize essay on Portugal_
1853, _2 ed._ 1854; created Baron de Forrester for life by Queen
of Portugal; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; drowned in the river Douro near a
rapid called the Ponto do Cachuo 12 May 1861. _Memorials of Star
club of London vol._ 1 (1855).
FORSAYETH, THOMAS (_son of Rev. John Forsayeth of Cork_). _b._ Cork
1798; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar,
Jany. 1824; went Munster circuit; recorder of Cork 1844 to death;
Q.C. 6 July 1858. _d._ Merville, Queenstown, co. Cork 13 Oct.
1877. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 408.
FORSHALL, REV. JOSIAH (_eld. son of Samuel Forshall of Witney,
Oxon._) _b._ Witney 29 March 1795; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fell. of
his coll. 30 June 1819 to 13 July 1826, assistant tutor 1820,
tutor 1822–24; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; assist. keeper of MSS. in
British Museum 1824, keeper 1827 to July 1837, secretary Feb.
1828–51; F.R.S. 12 June 1828; chaplain of Foundling Hospital
1829–59; edited _Catalogue of Arundel and Burney manuscripts in
British Museum_ 1834 and other catalogues; published _Gospel of
St. John arranged_ 1859, and other books; published with Sir F.
Madden _The Holy Bible ... in the earliest English versions made
by John Wycliffe 4 vols._ 1850. _d._ 49 Woburn place, London 18
Dec. 1863. _R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872)
364–76.
FORSTER, REV. CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; P.C. of Ash, Kent
1834–38; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral 1835 to
death; R. of Stisted near Braintree, Essex 1838 to death; author
of _Discourses on subjects of Scripture history_ 1823; _The life
of J. Jebb, bishop of Limerick_ 1836; _The one primeval language_
1851 and other books. _d._ Stisted rectory 20 Aug. 1871 aged 84.
_Braintree Advertiser 30 Aug. 1871 p._ 2.
FORSTER, FRANK. _b._ near Newcastle 1800; managed mines near
Swansea, also in Lancs.; assistant of Robert Stephenson in his
chief enterprises up to completion of Chester and Holyhead railway
on which he was resident engineer of portion from near Conway to
Holyhead; chief engineer to Metropolitan commission of sewers from
its formation 1849 to 1852; M.I.C.E. 1845. _d._ Elm lodge,
Kilburn, London 13 April 1852. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xii_, 157 (1853).
FORSTER, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Baronstown Glebe, co. Louth 21
March 1796; called to bar in Ireland 1830; succeeded 4 Dec. 1843;
M.P. for co. Monaghan 1852–65. _d._ Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 4 April
1876.
FORSTER, REV. HENRY (_youngest son of Thomas Forster of St.
Michael’s, Oxford_). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 17 Nov. 1827 aged
18; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; esquire bedel in divinity in Univ. of
Ox., Feb. 1832 to death when the office expired. _d._ Oxford 25
April 1857.
FORSTER, JOHN (_eld. child of Robert Forster of Newcastle, cattle
dealer, who d. 1836_). _b._ Newcastle 2 April 1812; ed. at
Newcastle gr. sch. and Univ. coll. London; student at I.T. 10 Nov.
1828, barrister 27 Jany. 1843; dramatic critic on the _True Sun_
1832; edited _Foreign quarterly review_ 1842–3; edited _Daily
News_ 9 Feb. 1846 to Oct. 1846; edited _Examiner_ 1847 to Dec.
1855; sec. to Lunacy commission 28 Dec. 1855 to Feb. 1861, comr.
in Lunacy, Feb. 1861 to 1872; painted by Maclise as Kitely in Ben
Jonson’s Every man in his humour; bequeathed his collection of
pictures, books, &c. to South Kensington Museum; author of _Lives
of the statesmen of the Commonwealth 5 vols._ 1836–9; _The life
and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith_ 1848, _new ed. 2 vols._ 1854;
_Life of Charles Dickens 3 vols._ 1872–4 and many other books.
_d._ Palace gate, Kensington 1 Feb. 1876. _Catalogue of the
Forster library_ (1888) _i-xxii_; _Handbook of Forster and Dyce
collections_ (1877) 1–21; _Monthly Chronicle of north country
lore, Feb. 1888 pp._ 49–54; _Madden’s Life of Countess of
Blessington_ (1855) _ii_, 396–405; _T. Powell’s Pictures of living
authors_ (1851) 193–200; _E. Yates’s Recollections_ (1884) _ii_,
161–3; _G.M., n.s. xvi_, 313–19 (1876); _Temple Bar xlvi_, 491–505
(1876); _I.L.N. vii_, 329 (1845), _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_, 179,
182, 188 (1876), _portrait_.
FORSTER, JOHN. _b._ 1817; M.P. for Berwick 1853–57. _d._ 91 Victoria
st. London 7 Jany. 1878.
FORSTER, JOHN COOPER (_son of Mr. Forster of Lambeth, surgeon_).
_b._ Mount st. Lambeth 13 Nov. 1823; ed. at King’s coll. sch. and
Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849, pres. 1884–5; M.B.
London 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1850, assistant
surgeon 1855, surgeon 1870–80; retired from practice 1885; the
first to perform operation of gastrotomy in England 1858; author
of _The surgical diseases of children_ 1860, papers in
Pathological and Clinical Society’s Transactions and reports of
cases in Guy’s Hospital Reports. _d._ 29 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 2 March 1886. _Guy’s Hospital Reports vol. xiv_, 40–57
(1887).
FORSTER, THOMAS BOWES. Entered Madras army 1818; col. 9 Madras N.I.
13 April 1855 to 1869; L.G. 3 July 1867. _d._ Burder Titley,
Herefordshire 21 March 1870.
FORSTER, THOMAS EMERSON. _b._ Garrigill Gate, Northumberland 1802;
resident viewer at Walker colliery, Northumberland 1823; engineer
at Newcastle 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1836; pres. of north
of England institute of mining engineers 1866–68. _d._ Ellison
place, Newcastle 7 March 1875. _Transactions of north of England
institute of mining engineers, xxv_, 5–10 (1876); _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xliii_, 300–303 (1876).
FORSTER, THOMAS IGNATIUS MARIA (_eld. son of Thomas Furley Forster
of Bishopsgate, London, Russia merchant 1761–1825_). _b._ Bank of
England, Threadneedle st. 9 Nov. 1789; studied at C.C. coll. Cam.,
M.B. 1818; left Cambridge for Edinburgh, Feb. 1816; discovered a
comet 3 July 1819; joined Church of Rome about 1823; founded with
Gompertz the Animals’ Friend Society 1833; F.L.S. 1811; F.R.A.S.;
author of _Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow_
1808, _5 ed._ 1817; _Researches about atmospheric phenomena_ 1813,
_3 ed._ 1823 and 44 other books. _d._ Brussels 2 Feb. 1860.
_Epistolarium Forsterianum 2 vols. Bruges_ 1845–50, _privately
printed_; _Recueil de ma vie, mes ouvrages, et mes pensées,
opuscule philosophique_, _3 ed. Brussels_ 1837.
FORSTER, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Forster of Tottenham, land agent_).
_b._ Tottenham 23 March 1784; minister of Society of Friends 1805;
resided at Bradpole, Dorset 1816, afterwards at Norwich; spent 5
years on a mission to United States 1820–25; investigated
condition of people in Ireland, Nov. 1846 to April 1847; presented
an anti-slavery address to president of United States 1 Oct. 1853;
author of _A Christian exhortation to sailors_ 1813; _Recent
intelligence from Van Diemen’s Land_ 1831; _A Salutation of
Christian love_ 1860. _d._ at house of Samuel Low near the Holston
river, East Tennessee 27 Jany. 1854. _Memoirs of life of W.
Forster edited by B. Seebohm 2 vols._ 1865; _Brief memoir of W.
Forster by R. Charlton_ 1867.
FORSTER, WILLIAM EDWARD (_only child of the preceding_). _b._
Bradpole, Dorset 11 July 1818; ed. at the Friend’s sch. Tottenham
1832–5; woollen manufacturer at Bradford with Wm. Fison 1842 to
death; left Society of Friends 1850; contested Leeds, April 1859;
M.P. for Bradford, Feb. 1861 to 1885, for central division of
Bradford, Nov. 1885 to death; under sec. of state for colonies 25
Nov. 1865 to July 1866; P.C. 9 Dec. 1868; vice pres. of committee
of council on education 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord rector of
Aberdeen Univ., installed 24 Nov. 1876; presented with freedom of
city of Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1876; admitted to freedom of
Clothworkers’ Co. 5 June 1877; chief sec. of state for Ireland,
April 1880 to May 1882. _d._ 80 Eccleston sq. London 5 April 1886.
_bur._ at Burley-in-Wharfedale. _Life of W. E. Forster, By T. W.
Reid_ 1888, _2 portraits_; _Illustrated Review vi_, 279–81;
_Alpine Journal, May 1886_; _I.L.N. xlviii_, 313 (1866),
_portrait_, _lxxvii_, 112 (1881), _portrait_.
FORSTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK. Ensign 3 footguards 26 Aug. 1813;
captain 97 foot 18 Aug. 1825 to 18 Feb. 1826 when placed on h.p.;
deputy adjutant general 27 Feb. 1855 to 1 July 1860; military sec.
to Duke of Cambridge, commander in chief 1 July 1860 to 1 Nov.
1871; colonel 81 foot 12 Feb. 1863 to death; general 6 Jany. 1874;
K.H. 1833. _d._ 7 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 8 June 1879
aged 80.
FORSYTH, JAMES. _b._ 1838; entered Indian civil service; settlement
officer and deputy comr. of Nimar; captain Bengal staff corps;
author of _The sporting rifle and its projectiles_ 1863; _The
highlands of Central India, notes on their forests and wild
tribes, natural history and sports_ 1871. _d._ 38 Manchester st.
Manchester sq. London 1 May 1871.
FORSYTH, SIR JOHN. Inspector general medical department, Bengal army
12 Nov. 1857; hon. phys. to the Queen 6 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B.
29 Aug. 1862; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. _d._ 51 Selborne road, West
Brighton 14 Jany. 1883 in 84 year.
FORSYTH, SIR THOMAS DOUGLAS (_10 child of Thomas Forsyth of
Liverpool, merchant_). _b._ Birkenhead 7 Oct. 1827; ed. at
Sherborne, Rugby and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service
1848; deputy comr. Umballa 1857; officiating comr. in Punjab 1860;
comr. of Lahore 1863, of Jullundur 1865, of Umballa 1871, of Oudh
1872; additional member of governor general’s council 1874; envoy
on special mission to Burma 1875, retired 1878; C.B. 1860;
K.C.S.I. 27 July 1874. _d._ Eastbourne 17 Dec. 1886.
FORSYTH, WILLIAM (_son of Morris Forsyth of Turriff,
Aberdeenshire_). _b._ Turriff 24 Oct. 1818; ed. at Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edin.; assistant to a country doctor; sub-editor of
the _Inverness Courier_ 1842; sub editor of _Aberdeen Herald_
1843; joined staff of _Aberdeen Journal_ 1848, editor 1849 to
death; member of Aberdeen school board; author of _The martyrdom
of Kelavane_ 1861; _Idylls and Lyrics_ 1872 and other books. _d._
Richmond hill, Aberdeen 21 June 1879. _Memoir of W. Forsyth, By A.
Walker_ (1882).
FORT, RICHARD. _b._ Oakenshaw, Lancs. 15 March 1822; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Lancs. 1854; contested Clitheroe 1853,
M.P. for Clitheroe 1865–68. _d._ 24 Queen’s gate gardens, London 2
July 1868.
FORTESCUE, HUGH FORTESCUE, 2 Earl (_eld. child of 1 Earl Fortescue
1753–1841_). _b._ 13 Feb. 1783; styled Viscount Ebrington
1789–1841; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A.
1810; M.P. for Barnstaple 1804–7, for St. Mawes 1807–9, for
Buckingham 1812–17, for Devon 1818–20, 1830 and 1831–32, for
Tavistock 1820–30, for North Devon 15 Dec. 1832 to 1 March 1839
when summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of
Fortescue; col. of 1 Devon militia 20 May 1816 to death; F.R.S. 5
June 1817; lord lieut. of Ireland 1 March 1839 to 15 Sep. 1841;
P.C. 1 March 1839; lord lieut. of Devon 1839 to death; lord
steward of H.M.’s household 1846–50; parliamentary sec. of Poor
law board 1847–51; K.G. 12 July 1856; author of _Memorandum of two
conversations between Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington_ 1814. _d._
at house of H. Ford, 25 Southernhay, Exeter 14 Sep. 1861.
_Saunders’s Portraits of Reformers_ (1840) 135, _portrait_; _The
Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 349–52.
FORTESCUE, GEORGE MATTHEW (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Hill
st. London 21 May 1791; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for
Hindon, Wilts. 1827–32. _d._ Boconnoc near Lostwithiel, Cornwall
24 Jany. 1877.
FORTESCUE, JOHN WILLIAM (_2 son of 2 Earl Fortescue 1783–1861_).
_b._ 14 July 1819; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52. _d._ Madeira 25
Sep. 1859.
FORTESCUE, MATTHEW (_son of Joseph Fortescue of the Scots Greys_).
_b._ 18 May 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
special pleader; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; judge of county
court’s circuit No. 58 (Devonshire) 8 Oct. 1857 to death. _d._ Oak
park house, Dawlish 27 March 1883.
FORTUNE, ROBERT. _b._ Kelloe, Edrom, Berwickshire 16 Sep. 1813;
superintendent of indoor-plant department in Royal Horticultural
Society’s garden at Chiswick, sent to China by the Society as
collector 1842; curator of Chelsea botanical garden 1846–8;
introduced tea-plant into north-west provinces of India 1851;
author of _Three years’ wanderings in the northern provinces of
China_ 1847; _Two visits to the tea countries of China and the
British plantations in the Himalayas 2 vols._ 1853 and other
books. _d._ 1 Gilston road, South Kensington, London 13 April
1880. _Field and Semple’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea_
(1878) 205–8.
FOSS, EDWARD (_eld. son of Edward Smith Foss of 36 Essex st. Strand,
London, solicitor, who d. 13 May 1830 aged 74_). _b._ Gough sq.
Fleet st. London 16 Oct. 1787; articled to his father 1804,
partner with him 1811–30; student of Inner Temple 1822; under
sheriff of London 1827–8; retired from practice 1840; F.S.A. 18
April 1822; one of founders of Incorporated Law Society 1827,
pres. 1842–44; published _The grandeur of the law_ 1843; _The
judges of England 9 vols._ 1848–64; _Tabulæ Curiales_ 1865;
_Biographia Juridica_ 1870. _d._ Frensham house, Addiscombe 27
July 1870. _Foss’ Biographia Juridica_ (1870) _pp. xii-xv_.
FOSTER, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ Bicester, Oxfordshire 24 Nov. 1820; went
to United States 1847; edited Woodruff’s _Trotting horses of
America_ 1868, _2 ed._ 1875, also Bogardus’s _Field cover and trap
shooting_ 1874; wrote for _The Spirit of the times_ paper;
established the _New York Sportsman_ 1876; considered the best
informed man in America on subject of racing. _d._ Astoria, New
York 12 Sep. 1883.
FOSTER, EDWARD WARD (_son of Edward Foster, land steward to Sir R.
Burdett_). _b._ in parish of All Saints, Derby 8 Nov. 1762; lieut.
20 regt. of foot; served in America, Holland and Egypt; retired
1805; miniature painter to the royal family with apartments in
Round tower, Windsor; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A. 1812–28;
travelled in England as a portrait painter; invented machine for
taking faces; author of _An elementary grammar of French language_
1837; _A chronological analysis of the Old and New Testament_
1850; _Chart of Histories of Rome, France and Britain_ 1835;
_Chronological Chart of History of British Empire_ 1847; had grant
of £60 a year from Bounty fund. _d._ Derby 12 March 1865. _J. B.
Robinson’s Derbyshire Gatherings_ (1866) 81–4, _portrait_.
FOSTER, JAMES LANCELOT. _b._ York; edited _Yorkshire Gazette_,
manager and publisher of it 1852–82; sheriff of York 1870–71. _d._
15 Ogleforth, York 3 Dec. 1883 in 74 year.
FOSTER, JOHN (_son of Jonas Foster, yeoman_). _b._ Thornton,
Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1798; established a worsted business at Low
Fold near Queensbury 1819; removed to Cannon Mill, Great Horton
1832; built the Blackdike mill 1835; introduced power-looms into
his works 1836; commenced using alpaca wool and mohair 1837;
employed 3000 people and manufactured 15,000 packs of wool a year;
retired 1869; purchased Hornby castle estate, Lancaster 1861. _d._
Prospect house, Queensbury 6 March 1879. _Fortunes made in
business ii_, 1–107 (1881), _portrait_.
FOSTER, JOHN FREDERIC (_son of Rev. Dr. Frederick Wm. Foster,
Moravian bishop_). _b._ Wyke near Halifax, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at
a Moravian coll. and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821;
barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; stipendiary mag. of Manchester, Aug.
1825 to April 1838; chairman of quarter sessions of hundred of
Salford 9 April 1838 to death; recorder of Manchester 18 April
1839, resigned May. _d._ Alderley, Cheshire 9 April 1858. _G.M.
iv_, 559–60 (1858); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 117 (1858),
_portrait_.
FOSTER, PETER LE NEVE (_only son of Peter Le Neve Foster of Lenwade,
Norfolk_). _b._ Lenwade 17 Aug. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and
Trin. hall, Cam., fellow 1830; 38 wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A.
1833; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; practised as a conveyancer
1836–53; sec. to Society of Arts 1853 to death; a founder of
Photographic Soc. of London 1853; pres. of Quekett Microscopical
Club; sec. of mechanical science section of British Association 13
years; author of _Photography_ 1876. _d._ East hill, Wandsworth,
London 21 Feb. 1879. _Journal of Soc. of Arts_ (1879) _xxvii_,
316; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 224 (1879), _portrait_.
FOSTER, THOMAS. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. commandant 8
Feb. 1866 to death; general 8 June 1871. _d._ 5 Cleveland terrace,
Hyde park, London 26 Aug. 1872 aged 76.
FOSTER, THOMAS CAMPBELL (_son of John Foster, proprietor and editor
of Leeds Patriot paper_). _b._ Knaresbro’, Yorkshire 6 Oct. 1813;
sub-editor of _Liverpool Standard_; reporter for _The Times_ in
Houses of Parliament; made enquiries into the Rebecca riots and
other important questions for _The Times_; special pleader 1842;
barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846, bencher Jany. 1878; contested
Sheffield 13 July 1865; revising barrister for west riding of
Yorkshire 1868–75; recorder of Warwick 23 Dec. 1874 to death; Q.C.
25 June 1875; author of _Letters on the condition of the people of
Ireland_ 1845; _Treatise on the writ of Scire Facias_ 1851 and
other books. _d._ 30 Orsett terrace, Hyde park, London 1 July
1882. _Biograph vol. 1_ (1882) pp. 293–326.
FOSTER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Wm. Foster of
Norwich 1762–1821_). _b._ 16 June 1798; attorney at Norwich 1820
to death; alderman of Norwich to death, sheriff 1832, mayor 1844;
created baronet 3 Aug. 1838. _d._ St. Giles’s st. Norwich 2 Dec.
1874.
FOTHERGILL, JOHN MILNER (_son of Mr. Fothergill of Morland,
Westmoreland, surgeon_). _b._ Morland 11 April 1841; ed. at Univ.
of Edin., M.D. 1865; practised at Morland, then at Leeds; M.R.C.P.
1872; phys. in London 1872 to death; author of _Digitalis, its
modes of action and its uses_ 1871; _The heart and its diseases
with their treatment_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1879 and 20 other books. _d._
3 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London 28 June 1888. _Midland
medical miscellany ii_, 161–2 (1883), _portrait_.
FOULKES, REV. HENRY (_2 son of John Foulkes of Henllan, Denbighshire
1736–1814_). Matric. from Jesus coll. Ox. 10 July 1790 aged 17;
B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1817; fellow of Jesus coll.
to 1817, principal 1817 to death; R. of Yelford, Oxon. 1815 to
death; R. of Besselsleigh, Berks. and of Llandyssil, Cardigan 1817
to death. _d._ Jesus college 17 Sep. 1857.
FOULKES, WILLIAM DECIMUS INGLETT (_youngest son of Rev. Peter
Foulkes, V. of Shebbear, Devon_). Ed. at Bedford gr. sch.;
barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a reporter on _The Law Journal
Reports_ 1875; edited _The Law Journal_ newspaper 1879 to death;
author of _An elementary view of the proceedings in an action in
the supreme court_ 1876, _3 ed._ 1884; _A Generation of Judges. By
Their Reporter_ 1886; author with J. M. Lely of _The Judicature
acts ... with notes_ 1875, _4 ed._ 1883 and other books. _d._ 25
Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 17 Feb. 1890 in 42 year.
FOUNTAIN, JOSEPH. Theatrical artist at Leeds many years; the pioneer
of the now extensive industry of designing and printing theatrical
posters. _d._ 31 Brunswick terrace, Leeds 11 Oct. 1887 in 60 year.
FOURACRES, CHARLES. _b._ Devonshire; enlisted in 1st Madras
fusiliers; sub-engineer Godavery Delta irrigation works; engaged
on Sone irrigation works 1869, resigned 1879; invented an
excavator for which government gave him 10,000 rupees; invented
the hydraulic-brake shutter for the Sone weir and the
vertical-action bucket steam dredger 1878; engineer of the Seebpur
engineering factory Calcutta 1879, retired 1884 when he was
awarded a bonus of 15,000 rupees; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1879. _d._
Bristol 14 July 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii_,
418–24 (1884).
FOURDRINIER, HENRY. _b._ Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded
his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with
his brother Sealy (who _d._ 1847) invention of paper making
machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper
1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Messrs.
Fourdrinier as compensation for their loss by defective state of
law of patents 8 May 1840. _d._ Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep.
1854. _G.M. xliv_, 102–103 (1855); _I.L.N. xxv_, 345, 354 (1854),
_portrait_.
FOWKE, FRANCIS. _b._ Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842,
captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art
department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same
department; sec. to English commission attached to Paris
exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh,
opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition
1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of _A
description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception
of the Sheepshanks pictures_ 1858; _Some account of the buildings
designed for the International Exhibition of 1862_, 1861. _d._ The
Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the
Museum. _Papers on professional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv_, 9;
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_, 468–70 (1866); _I.L.N.
xl_, 431, 433 (1862), _portrait_.
FOWKE, SIR FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Sir Thomas
Fowke, knt., who d. 30 Nov. 1786_). _b._ 24 Jany. 1782; created
baronet 7 Feb. 1814. _d._ Leamington 17 May 1856.
FOWLER, CHARLES. _b._ Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a
builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st.
London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822;
rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market
opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches
at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum
at Exminster 1845. _d._ Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. _Pycroft’s Art
in Devon_ (1883) _p._ 45.
FOWLER, FRANK. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a
London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the _Month_,
first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec.
1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000
votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London
1860, sec. of it to death; author of _Southern lights and shadows_
1859 and other books. _d._ Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug.
1863 aged 30. _Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings_ (1864) _pp.
vii-xvii_.
FOWLER, GEORGE. Formerly of Collumpton; author of _Three years in
Russia 2 vols._ 1841; _Lives of the sovereigns of Russia_ 1858;
_Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire_ 1854; _History of the
war between Turkey and Russia_ 1855; _Mary Markland the cottager’s
daughter_, _2 ed._ 1861. _d._ Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London
20 April 1858.
FOWLER, JOHN. _b._ Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works
of Gilke, Wilson & Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault
Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851;
invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of
£500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented
double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson,
manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. _d._ Ackworth,
Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. _Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp._
299–318; _Practical Mag._ (1875) 257–62, _portrait_.
FOWLER, SIR JOHN DICKENSON. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon
Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818
but never gazetted. _d._ Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name
remained in Knightages to 1864.
FOWLER, LYDIA. _b._ Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of
Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics
in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of _Familiar
lessons on phrenology and physiology_ 1847; _Familiar lessons on
astronomy_ 1848; _The pet of the household and how to save it_
1865; _Heart melodies, poems_ 1870 and 14 other books. (_m._
Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). _d._ 62 St.
Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.
FOWLER, RICHARD. _b._ London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796;
phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802;
purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire
museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections
1862; author of _Some Observations on the mental state of the
blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1860; _An
attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is
effected, Salisbury_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Milford near
Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any
other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v_ (1864); _Munk’s Roll, 2 ed.
vol. ii_, p. 447.
FOX, CAROLINE (_2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877_). _b._ Falmouth
24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered
her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and
other eminent men. _d._ Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871.
_Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox
1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym_ 1881, _portrait_, _3 ed. 2 vols._
1882.
FOX, SIR CHARLES (_youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby,
physician_). _b._ Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on
London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting
engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into
railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building
for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace,
Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways;
erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and
many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at
Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. _d._ Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 264–6 (1875); _Graphic
ix_, 15, 17 (1874), _portrait_; _Practical Mag. vi_, 129–33,
_portrait_.
FOX, CHARLES (_7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth_). _b._ Falmouth
22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co.
merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager
1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833,
pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into
Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and
Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67.
_d._ Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub._ 160–61, 1186; _Joseph Foster’s Descendants of
Francis Fox_ (1872) 11.
FOX, CHARLES RICHARD (_natural son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840_).
_b._ 6 Nov. 1796; in the navy 1809–13; ensign Grenadier guards
1815, captain 1830 to 1836 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the
Sovereign 1832–1846; surveyor general of Ordnance 5 Dec. 1832 to
12 Jany. 1835; general 6 March 1863; col. of 57 foot 5 Sep. 1865
to death; M.P. for Calne, Wilts. 1831–32, for Tavistock 1832–34,
for Stroud 1835, for Tower Hamlets 1841–47; had finest private
collection of Greek coins in the world, purchased by Royal Museum
at Berlin 1873. _d._ 1 Addison road, Kensington, London 13 April
1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiv_, 16–19 (1874); _Waagen’s
Galleries of Art_ (1857) 232–4; _I.L.N. lxii_, 393, 451 (1873).
FOX, EBENEZER. _b._ England; chief reporter on the _Manchester
Guardian_ several years; went to Dunedin, New Zealand; on staff of
_Otago Daily Times_ 1862; confidential clerk and secretary to
treasury New Zealand 1870 to death; wrote articles in _New Zealand
Times_ on denudation of the forests which attracted much
attention. _d._ Wellington, Jany. 1886.
FOX, EDWARD. Author of _Poetical Tentatives, By Lynn Erith_ 1854;
_Pleasure paths of travel_ 1857; _Amian and Bertha and other
poems_ 1858; drowned while bathing in the Avon at Keynsham,
Somerset 9 Aug. 1862 aged 33.
FOX, HENRY HAWES. _b._ Bristol 5 Jany. 1788; ed. at Glasgow and St.
John’s coll. Cam.; pres. of royal medical society, Edin.;
practised at Bristol 1811–32, phys. to infirmary there 1816–32;
M.D. Cam. 1826; bought estate of Northwood, Gloucs. 1832 where he
built an asylum for the insane; originated a method of fire proof
construction now known as Fox and Barrett’s. _d._ Northwood 12
Oct. 1851.
FOX, REV. JOHN (_son of Henry Fox of St. Bees, Cumberland_). _b._
St. Bees; ed. at St. Bees; matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 4 Dec.
1794 aged 20, tabarder 1798, fellow 1808–27; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1812,
B.D. 1827, D.D. 1827; master of Northleach sch. 1826–27; provost
of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1827 to death. _d._ Oxford 11 Aug. 1855.
_bur._ Sherborne.
FOX, RICHARD MAXWELL. _b._ Raheny Glebe, co. Dublin 1816; M.P. for
co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 26
April 1856.
FOX, ROBERT WERE (_brother of Charles Fox 1797–1878_). _b._ Falmouth
26 April 1789; made researches upon internal temperature of the
earth from 1815, the first to prove that the heat increased with
the depth; a founder of Royal Polytechnic Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 9 June
1848; contributed 52 papers to scientific periodicals. _d._
Penjerrick near Falmouth 25 July 1877. _A catalogue of the works
of R. W. Fox with A sketch of his life, By J. H. Collins, Truro_
1878; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 162–5 (1874), _iii_,
1188 (1882).
FOX, SACKVILLE WALTER LANE. _b._ 1800; M.P. for Helston 1831–34, for
Beverley 1840–41 and 1847–52, for Ipswich 1842–47. _d._ 22 Pall
Mall, London 18 Aug. 1874.
FOX, SAMUEL. _b._ Bradwell, North Derbyshire 1815; a steel maker at
Stockbridge near Sheffield; patented Fox’s paragon frame for
umbrellas 6 April 1852 by which he made a fortune; established
large works at Lille, France; chairman of Samuel Fox and Co.,
Stockbridge works, Deepcar near Sheffield to death. _d._ The
Lodge, North Cliffe near Market Weighton, Yorkshire 25 Feb. 1887.
FOX, SARAH HUSTLER (_only dau. of Wm. Hustler of Apple hall,
Bradford, Yorkshire_). _b._ Apple hall 8 Aug. 1800. (_m._ 20 Dec.
1825 Charles Fox 1797–1878.) Author of _A metrical version of the
book of Job_ 1852–4; _Poems original and translated_ 1863; _Catch
who can, or hide and seek, original double acrostics_ 1869. _d._
Trebah near Falmouth 19 Feb. 1882.
FOX, REV. WILLIAM JOHNSON. _b._ Uggeshall farm near Wrentham,
Suffolk 1 March 1786; Independent minister at Fareham 1810;
Unitarian minister at Chichester 1812–17; minister of Parliament
court chapel, London 1817, of a chapel built for him in South
place, Finsbury 1824–52; edited the _Monthly Repository_ 1833 to
1836; a leading orator of the Anti-Corn-law League; M.P. for
Oldham 1847–52, 1852–57 and 1857–62; contested Oldham 1852 and
1857; author of _Lectures to the working classes 4 vols._ 1845–49
and 30 other books. _d._ 3 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 3
June 1864. _Memorial edition of collected works of W. J. Fox, vol.
12_ (1868); _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 92–96;
_People’s Journal iii_, 69 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_, 298
(1848), _portrait_.
FOX, WILLIAM TILBURY (_son of Luther Owen Fox, M.D. of Broughton,
Winchester_). _b._ 1836; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London
1857, M.D. 1858; phys. accoucheur to Farringdon General
Dispensary; a specialist on dermatology; phys. to skin departments
of Charing Cross and University college hospitals; one of editors
of the _Lancet_; author of _Skin diseases, their description,
pathology, diagnosis and treatment_ 1864, _3 ed._ 1873; _Atlas of
skin diseases_ 1875–7 and 12 other books. _d._ Paris 7 June 1879.
_bur._ Willesden cemetery 14 June.
FOX, WILSON. _b._ Wellington, Somerset 2 Nov. 1831; B.A. London
1850, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1855; phys. at Newcastle-under-Lyme 1859–61;
professor of pathological anatomy at Univ. coll. London 1861;
assistant phys. Univ. coll. hospital 1862, phys. 1867; F.R.C.P.
1866; Holme professor of clinical medicine Univ. coll. hospital
1867; phys. extraord. to the Queen 16 Aug. 1869, phys. in ordinary
18 Dec. 1882 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of _On the
diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of Dyspepsia_ 1867, _3
ed._ under the title of _The diseases of the stomach_ 1872, and
other books. _d._ Preston, Lancs. 3 May 1887. _bur._ Taunton 6
May, bust in shire hall, Taunton unveiled 25 Oct. 1888.
FRADELLE, HENRY JOSEPH. _b._ Lille, France 1778; historical painter
in London from 1816; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 36 at B.I. and
2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–54. _d._ 36 Weymouth st. Portland
place, London 14 March 1865.
FRAIL, JOHN FREDERICK. _b._ Shrewsbury 1 May 1804; hairdresser
Shrewsbury; a local actor; electioneering agent to the Carlton
club in Shropshire; clerk of the course, Shrewsbury 1843;
organised many race meetings; entertained at dinner and presented
with plate worth £350, 1854; town councillor 1854, mayor. _d._
Shrewsbury 9 March 1879. _Sporting Review xxxix_, 361–3 (1858);
_Sporting Times 24 July 1875 p._ 396, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news vi_, 403, 419 (1877), _portrait_, _x_, 620, 627 (1879),
_portrait_.
FRANCATELLI, CHARLES ELMÉ. _b._ London 1805; studied cookery under
Carème; chef to Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Dudley, Lord
Kinnaird and Rowland Errington successively; managed St. James’s
club, London; chief cook and maitre d’hotel to the Queen 1840–42;
lessee of Coventry House club; chef at the Reform club 1854–61;
managed St. James’s hotel, Berkeley st. Piccadilly 1863–70, and
Freemason’s tavern, Great Queen st. 1870–76; author of _The modern
cook_ 1846, _12 ed._ 1865 and other books. _d._ Eastbourne 10 Aug.
1876. _A. Hayward’s Art of dining, new ed._ (1883) 75–6.
FRANCE, VEN. FRANCIS. Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1850; fellow tutor and pres. of his
college; archdeacon of Ely, Dec. 1859 to death; author of _The
example of Christ_ 1861. _d._ Cambridge 14 April 1864.
FRANCILLON, JAMES (_6 son of Francis Francillon of Harwich, Essex_).
_b._ 21 Nov. 1802; admitted attorney; conveyancing clerk to
Messrs. Wilton at Gloucester 1824; barrister G.I. 20 Nov. 1833;
judge of county courts, circuit 54 (Gloucestershire), March 1847
to death; author of _Lectures elementary and familiar on English
law 2 series_ 1860–1. _d._ of cholera at Lausanne 3 Sep. 1866.
FRANCIS, FRANCIS (_son of Captain Morgan, R.N._) _b._ Seton, Devon
1822; changed his name from Morgan to Francis 1843; angling editor
of _The Field_ 25 years; established the Thames Rights defence
association; suggested plan of the National fish-culture
association; a member of the commission on oyster culture 1868–70;
author of _Pickackifax, a novel in rhyme_ 1854; _Newton Dogvane, a
novel 3 vols._ 1859 and 14 other books. _d._ The Firs, Twickenham
24 Dec. 1886. _F. Francis’s A Book on Angling_, _6 ed._ (1887),
_portrait_; _The Field 1 Jany. 1887 p. 9, cols. 1–3_.
FRANCIS, GEORGE (_2 son of George Francis of Maidstone, Kent_). _b._
20 Aug. 1824; barrister G.I. 16 Jany. 1850, bencher 26 May 1880,
treasurer 1886; recorder of Faversham, March 1864 to Nov. 1872;
recorder of Canterbury, Nov. 1872 to Aug. 1883; master in Q.B.
division, July 1878, master of supreme court of judicature 1879 to
death. _d._ 12 Carlton hill, Maida vale, London 20 Jany. 1890.
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (_eld. son of John Francis of Swansea_). _b._
Swansea, Jany. 1814; mayor of Swansea 1853–4; col. of 1st
Glamorgan artillery volunteers raised by his exertions 1859;
author of _The free grammar school Swansea, Swansea_ 1849; _The
smelting of copper in the Swansea district, privately printed
Swansea_ 1867, published 1881, and other books on Welsh history
and topography. _d._ 9 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London
21 April 1882. _bur._ Swansea cemetery 26 April. _Athenæum 28
April 1882 pp._ 510–11.
FRANCIS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ about 1817; edited _Morning Post_,
_Atlas_, _Dublin Daily Express_; manager and assistant editor of
the _Press_; edited _Morning Chronicle_; author of _Orators of the
age_ 1847 and other books. _d._ Paris 28 Aug. 1866.
FRANCIS, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 1800; edited _Magazine of
science and school of arts 5 vols._ 1840–5; went to Australia
1849; director of Adelaide botanic garden to death; author of
_Catalogue of British plants and ferns_ 1835, _5 ed._ 1840; _An
analysis of British ferns_ 1837, _5 ed._ 1855; _Electrical
experiments 8 ed._ 1855 and 8 other books. _d._ Adelaide 9 Aug.
1865.
FRANCIS, JAMES GOODALL. _b._ London 1819; went to Van Diemen’s Land
1834; partner with Mr. Macpherson in a business at Hobart Town
1847; managed a branch business in Melbourne 1853; vice pres. of
chamber of commerce N.S.W. 1856, pres. 1857; member for Richmond
in Victorian legislative assembly 1859–74; comr. of trade and
customs 1863–68; treasurer of Victoria 1870–71; prime minister
1872–74; passed a free education act 1874; member for Warrnambool
in Victorian assembly 1878–82. _d._ Queenscliff, Victoria 25 Jany.
1884.
FRANCIS, JOHN. _b._ Lincolnshire 3 Sep. 1780; pupil of Francis
Chantrey in London; executed by command of the Queen a bust in
marble of Prince Albert 1844; exhibited 71 sculptures at the R.A.
1820–57. _d._ 56 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Aug. 1861.
FRANCIS, JOHN. _b._ Bermondsey, London 18 July 1811; junior clerk in
office of the _Athenæum_, Sep. 1831, business manager and
publisher of that paper 4 Oct. 1831 to death; did more than any
man to procure repeal of duty on newspaper advertisements 1853, of
stamp duty on newspapers 1855 and of the paper duty 1861. _d._ 20
Wellington st. Strand, London 6 April 1882. _John Francis,
publisher of the Athenæum, By J. C. Francis_ (1888) _i_, 1–19,
45–7, 226, ii, 173 _et seq._ 545–50, _portrait_; _H. J. Nicoll’s
Great Movements_ (1881) 269–339.
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP. _b._ 1822; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; judge
of supreme consular court of the Levant and consul general at
Constantinople 16 Sep. 1867 to death; knighted by patent 7 Dec.
1868; author of _The law of Charities_ 1854; _The new common law
procedure acts_ 1854. _d._ on board H.M.S. Antelope between Besika
and Smyrna 9 Aug. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 257, 261 (1876),
_portrait_.
FRANCKLYN, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 8 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July
1831, col. commandant 20 Dec. 1878 to death; general 13 Nov. 1880;
C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ The Wigwam, Dacres road, Forest hill 12
Feb. 1881.
FRANKLAND, CHARLES COLVILLE (_3 son of Rev. Roger Frankland, R. of
Yarlington, Somerset, who d. 25 March 1826_). _b._ Bath 10 Feb.
1797; entered navy 13 Jany. 1813, captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired
admiral 30 July 1875; published _Travels to and from
Constantinople 2 vols._ 1829; _Narrative of a visit to the courts
of Russia and Sweden 2 vols._ 1832. _d._ 2 Royal crescent, Bath 13
April 1876.
FRANKLIN, LADY JANE (_2 dau. of John Griffin of Bedford place,
London_). _b._ 1792; travelled in the East, Van Diemen’s Land and
New Zealand 1828–44; the first lady who travelled overland from
Melbourne to Sydney; sent out at her own expense to the Arctic
regions 5 ships in search of her husband Sir John Franklin
1850–57; received gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 1860. (_m._ at
Great Stanmore 5 Nov. 1828 John Franklin, captain R.N. who _d._
Victory point, King William Land 11 June 1847, his name is in the
navy list down to April 1854); author of _A letter to Viscount
Palmerston_ 1857, _2 editions_. She _d._ 45 Phillimore gardens,
London 18 July 1875. _Graphic xi_, 157, 163 (1875), _portrait_.
FRANKLYN, GEORGE WOODROFFE. _b._ Bristol 1800; a merchant at
Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. _d._
Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.
FRANKS, SIR JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork
1729–87_). _b._ Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar
1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta
1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April
1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of
King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. _d._ St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin
11 Jany. 1852.
FRANKS, SIR THOMAS HARTE (_2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near
Mallow, co. Cork_). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28
March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during
Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B.
27 July 1858. _d._ Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.
FRASER, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to
1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in
David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840;
exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1810–59. _d._ Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.
FRASER, HASTINGS. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot
18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61
foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815.
_d._ Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.
FRASER, SIR HUGH (_son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness_).
Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I.
1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for
commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. _d._ Braclangwell,
co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.
FRASER, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury,
Gloucs._) _b._ Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and
Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar
1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor
1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire
1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and
1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury
1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated
at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. _d._ Bishop’s Court, Higher
Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. _bur._ at Ufton Nervet.
_Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C._ 1887, _portrait_;
_J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser_ 1889,
_portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. xcv_, 452–64 (1880), _portrait_;
_Church portrait gallery i_, 47 (1880), _portrait_; _Our Bishops
and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii_, 119–30 (1875); _Rev. C. M.
Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series_ (1874) 94–107, 393.
FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (_eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of
Reelick, Invernessshire_). _b._ Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in
the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian
princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of _Narrative of
the Persian princes in London 2 vols._ 1838; _Travels in
Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols._ 1840; _The dark falcon, a
tale of the Attruck 4 vols._ 1844 and 14 other books. _d._ Reelick
24 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 307–8 (1856).
FRASER, JAMES STUART (_youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras
army, who d. 5 May 1795_). _b._ Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18
Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col.
36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31
Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. _d._ Twickenham park,
Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. _H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser_
(1885), _portrait_.
FRASER, SIR JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of
Balnairn_). _b._ Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian
interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army
1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G.
1853. _d._ Bath 26 Dec. 1864.
FRASER, JOHN FARQUHAR. Barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; judge of county
courts, circuit 46 (Surrey), March 1847 to death; author of _The
reports of Sir E. Coke in 13 parts, 10 parts by J. F. F._ 1826;
resided at 104 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London. _d._ Feb. 1865.
FRASER, PATRICK, Lord Fraser (_son of Patrick Fraser of Perth,
merchant_). _b._ Pitlochry near Perth 1819; ed. at Perth gr. sch.
and univ. of St. Andrews; called to the bar 1843; sheriff of
Renfrewshire 3 Feb. 1862; LLD. Edin. 1871; dean of Faculty of
Advocates 16 Jany. 1878; Q.C. 1880; a lord of session with title
of Lord Fraser 4 Feb. 1881 to death; lord ordinary in exchequer
cases 15 Nov. 1881 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of
Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations 2
vols. Edin._ 1846; _The conflict of laws in cases of divorce,
Edin._ 1860 and 5 other books; found dead in his study chair at
Gattonside near Melrose 27 March 1889. _Juridical Review i_,
178–83 (1889), _portrait_.
FRASER, ROBERT SAMUEL. _b._ North Shields 26 Oct. 1829; apprentice
to William Clark, engineer, Sunderland 1843; manager of the s.s.
Chasseur floating factory in Balaclava harbour 1855–56 for the
government; assistant to inspector of machinery in the Arsenal,
Woolwich 1856; manager of royal gun factories, Woolwich 1859,
deputy assist. superintendent 1866; invented the service gun known
as the Fraser 1867 but since called the Woolwich gun and still in
use; presented by government on two occasions with £5000 each
time; changed spelling of his name from Frazer to Fraser 1866;
M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1864. _d._ of consumption Arbory cottage, Sydenham
road, Croydon 12 July 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxviii_, 424–9 (1884).
FRASER, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (_son of captain Robert Fraser_). _b._
Perth 1810; licensed to preach by Edinburgh presbytery 1840;
minister of parish of Burntisland 1843–7; minister of St. John’s
ch. Edin. 1847 to death; author of _Moriah, or sketches of the
sacred rites of ancient Israel_, _Edinburgh_ 1849 and many other
books. _d._ 19 Lauriston st. Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1876. _Scotsman 12
Sep. 1876 p. 4._
FRASER, THOMAS. Took a leading part in Parisian political life which
he described in racy articles, sent to the _Morning Chronicle_
1835–55; sec. to Hudson Bay Co. London 1855. _d._ Florence 2 Nov.
1869. _Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1869 p._ 15.
FRASER, THOMAS (_son of vice admiral Alexander Fraser, who d. 29
Dec. 1829_). _b._ May 1796; entered navy 11 Nov. 1811; commander
22 July 1826; captain on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on h.p. 1870.
_d._ 19 Brighton place, Portobello 28 Oct. 1870. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882), p. 139, _portrait_.
FRASER, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Scotland about 1790; R.C. vicar
apostolic of Nova Scotia with title of bishop of Fanes 1821;
devoted himself to Scottish members of his flock in Antigonish,
northern part of the peninsula and neglected the Irish; the Pope
divided province of Nova Scotia into two dioceses, Antigonish
being united to Cape Breton and erected into diocese of Arishat
with W. Fraser as titular bishop. _d._ Antigonish 4 Oct. 1857.
FRASER, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Fraser of St. George’s,
Southwark, London_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 June 1841
aged 17; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.C.L. 1848, D.C.L. 1861; C. of
Alton, Staffs. 1853–58, V. 1858 to death; P.C. of Cotton, Staffs.
1862 to death; author of _Parish Sermons 2 series_ 1855–60; _A
plain commentary of the Book of Psalms, chiefly founded on the
Fathers 2 vols._ 1857 and other books. _d._ Alton vicarage 26 Nov.
1877.
FRASER, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in
Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation,
Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school
board; author of _The state of our educational enterprises_ 1858;
_Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archæology
and history to the Bible_ 1873. _d._ Free Middle manse, Paisley 21
Sep. 1879. _Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p._ 4.
FRASER, WILLIAM CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 14 Madras
N.I. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Stanley place,
Paddington, London 4 March 1859 aged 74.
FRAZER, JOHN JAMES, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal
tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851.
_d._ Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.
FREAKE, SIR CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Charles Freake of
St. George’s, Hanover sq. London_). _b._ 7 April 1814; contested
Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in
Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. _d._ 1 Cromwell houses,
Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.
FREDERICK, CHARLES (_2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who
d. 28 May 1844 aged 80_). _b._ 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June
1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847;
member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast
of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July
1875. _d._ 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.
FREDERICK, EDWARD (_son of col. Charles Frederick_). _b._ 23 June
1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838
to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. _d._ Shawford
house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.
FREEBURN, JAMES. _b._ parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808;
enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844,
quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when
he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series
of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes
were adopted in the army 1847. _d._ Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug.
1876.
FREEMAN, VEN. PHILIP (_son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs,
Suffolk_). _b._ The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842;
fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological
coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae
coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of
Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of
Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of _Proportion in Gothic
architecture_ 1848; _The principles of divine service 2 parts_
1855–62 and 17 other books. _d._ 1 Northumberland terrace,
Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at
Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.
FREEMAN, SAMUEL. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple;
engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F.
Dibdin’s _Northern Gallery_, Jones’s _National Gallery_ and other
books. _d._ 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged
84.
FREEMAN, WILLIAM DEANE. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug.
1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. _d._ Galway 13 Oct.
1852. _Law magazine and law review ii_, 236–40 (1857).
FREEMAN, REV. JOSEPH JOHN. _b._ Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794;
Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for
London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at
Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary
Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in
Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when
in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the
Mauritius 1849–51; author of _The Holy Bible in the Malagasy
language_ 1830; _A Tour to South Africa_ 1851 and 9 other works.
_d._ Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. _Congregational Year Book_ (1852) pp.
215–16; _Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 51–9 (1880).
FREER, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ Malta 1802; appeared on stage at
Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with
success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to
Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III.
18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage
manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a
coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London
24 Dec. 1857. _d._ Westminster hospital same day. _bur._ Working
30 Dec. _Theatrical times iii_, 89 (1848), _portrait_; _Era 27
Dec. 1857 p._ 11.
FREER, VEN. RICHARD LANE (_son of Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, R. of
Handsworth, Staffs., who d. 1835 aged 57_). _b._ 1806; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch., Ox., B.A. 1828, D.D. 1858; R. of
Bishopstone, Herefordshire 1830 to death; preb. of Hereford cath.
1847 to death; archdeacon of Hereford, April 1852 to death;
prelector of Hereford cath. 1861 to death. _d._ Bishopstone
rectory 11 Aug. 1863. _Memoir of Ven. R. L. Freer_ [_by his
widow_], _privately printed_ 1866, _portrait_.
FREESTUN, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (_2 son of Edward Freestun of Primrose
hill, co. Waterford_). _b._ May park, Waterford 1804; ensign 5
foot 4 June 1812; on the staff of British legion under Sir De Lacy
Evans 1835–37; served on the staff in Syria as assistant adjutant
general with rank of major 15 Dec. 1840 to 1842; M.P. for Weymouth
1847–59; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860. _d._ 22
Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 16 April 1862.
FREETH, SIR JAMES (_youngest son of Sampson Freeth of Birmingham_).
_b._ Birmingham 1786; ensign royal staff corps 25 Dec. 1806,
captain 1814 to 1830 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. 1826–1851,
Q.M.G. 1 Feb. 1851 to 13 Aug. 1855; col. 64 foot 13 Aug. 1855 to
death; general 9 March 1865; K.H. 1833; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._
80 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 19 Jany. 1867.
FREILIGRATH, FERDINAND. _b._ Detmold, North Germany 17 June 1810;
clerk in a bank at Amsterdam 1831–36; a merchant’s clerk in City
of London 1846–48; imprisoned at Düsseldorf 2 months in 1848 for
publishing a poem entitled _The Dead to the Living_ 1848; clerk in
a bank in City of London 1851–67; naturalised in England 16 Oct.
1858; lived in Germany 1867 to death; a most popular modern German
poet; his collected works were published in _6 vols._ at Stuttgart
1877. _d._ Cannstadt near Stuttgart 17 March 1876. _W. Buchner’s
F. Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben 2 vols._ (1882), _2 portraits_.
FREMANTLE, SIR CHARLES HOWE (_2 son of admiral Sir Thomas Francis
Fremantle 1765–1819_). _b._ 1 June 1800; midshipman R.N. 12 Dec.
1812; captain 4 Aug. 1826; admiral superintendent in Balaklava 18
June 1855; commander-in-chief at Devonport, Oct. 1863 to Oct.
1866; admiral 9 Feb. 1864; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 13 March
1867. _d._ 57 Grosvenor st. London 25 May 1869.
FRENCH, Queen of the, MARIE AMELIE DE BOURBON (_2 dau. of Ferdinand
I. 1751–1825, king of the Two Sicilies_). _b._ Caserte palace near
Naples 26 April 1782. (_m._ at Palermo 25 Nov. 1809 Louis Philippe
De Bourbon _b._ Paris 6 Oct. 1773 king of the French 1830–48, _d._
Claremont, Surrey 26 Aug. 1850); lived at Claremont, March 1848 to
death. _d._ Claremont 24 March 1866. _bur._ in mausoleum at
Weybridge 3 April. _Mrs. Challis’s Illustrious women of France_
(1873) 215–320, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_, 147 (1848), _portrait_;
_G.M. i_, 741–3 (1866).
FRENCH, MOST REV. EDMUND (_son of Rev. Dr. Ffrench, protestant
warden of Galway_). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; Catholic warden of
Galway to 1831 when office was abolished; R.C. Bishop of
Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora 26 July 1824 to death; consecrated 13
March 1825. _d._ Gort, co. Galway 14 July 1852.
FRENCH, FITZSTEPHEN (_youngest son of Arthur French of French park,
co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820_). _b._ 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; M.P. for co. Roscommon 7 Dec. 1832 to death;
col. Roscommon militia 23 Dec. 1854 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866;
author of _The Question Are the Government entitled to the support
of the Irish liberal members?_ 1839. _d._ 68 Warwick sq. London 4
June 1873.
FRENCH, GEORGE (_3 son of Arthur French of French park, co.
Roscommon, M.P. for that county_). _b._ 23 Nov. 1771; called to
Irish bar 1795; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; assistant barrister co.
Longford; crown prosecutor Connaught circuit. _d._ Seamont,
Malhide 26 Oct. 1860. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught
circuit_ (1885) 278.
FRENCH, GEORGE. Educ. at Shrewsbury and Caius coll. Cam.; barrister
L.I. 11 June 1844; edited _The Equity Reports vol._ 3, 1853; judge
of mixed courts at Sierra Leone 16 Aug. 1871; returned to England
1875; judge of supreme court for China at Shanghae 10 Dec. 1877;
chief justice of supreme court for China and Japan at Shanghae 30
Oct. 1878 to death. _d._ Kobe, Japan 13 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, GEORGE RUSSELL. _b._ London 1803; surveyor and architect to
Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and
Middlesex Archæological Soc.; author of _Ancestry of Victoria and
Albert_ 1841; _Genealogical and biographical history of England_
1847 and other books. _d._ London 1 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, GILBERT JAMES (_son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl
manufacturer_). _b._ 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804;
apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross,
draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester
road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life
member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of _Practical
remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the
church_ 1844; _The life and times of Samuel Crompton_ 1859 and 9
other books. _d._ Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.
FRENCH, HENRY JOHN. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23
May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep.
1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston
sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.
FRENCH, SYDNEY. Edited _Weekly Despatch_; acting editor of _Licensed
Victuallers’ Gazette_ to death. _d._ Alresford house, Stansfield
road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery
1 Nov.
FRENCH, THOMAS. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan
stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871;
accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at
Newmarket July meeting 1869. _d._ Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29
year. _Illust. sp. and dramatic news i_, 255, 256 (1874),
_portrait_; _Baily’s mag. xviii_, (1870), _portrait_.
FRERE, BARTHOLOMEW (_5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S.
1740–1807_). _b._ 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation
at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister
plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on
pension Aug. 1821. _d._ 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.
FRERE, GEORGE EDWARD (_2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly,
Brecknockshire_). _b._ 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and
Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837.
_d._ Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.
FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_6 son of Edward Frere of
Llanelly_). _b._ Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered
Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May
1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta
21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867;
member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873;
presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19
May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880;
K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866;
F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of _Eastern Africa as a field for
missionary labour_ 1874 and other books. _d._ Wressil lodge,
Wimbledon 29 May 1884. _bur._ St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue
erected on Thames embankment 1888. _G. B. Malleson’s Recreations_
(1872) 388–437; _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 92–7;
_Army and navy mag. i_, 474–78 (1881), _portrait_.
FRERE, JAMES HATLEY (_brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851_). _b._
1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read
about 1838; author of _A combined view of the prophecies of
Daniel, Esdras and S. John_ 1815; _The art of teaching to read by
elementary sounds_ 1840 and 10 other books. _d._ Shillington
vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.
FRERE, REV. JOHN ALEXANDER (_3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay
office 1779–1866_). _b._ 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college
1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of
Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of
_On the incarnation_ 1853 and other books. _d._ Achenkirch,
Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.
FRERE, PHILIP HOWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Frere 1775–1836, master of
Downing coll. Cam._) _b._ 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; fellow of Downing coll. 1837, tutor and
bursar 1839; edited _Journal of Royal Agricultural Society_ 1862
to death, in which he wrote many papers on agriculture. _d._
Panton house, Cambridge 12 May 1868.
FRESHFIELD, JAMES WILLIAM (_eld. son of James Freshfield of
Chertsey, Surrey_). _b._ Windsor 1775; pensioner at Peterhouse
coll. Cam.; admitted solicitor 1795; solicitor to Bank of England
1812–40; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 1830–32, 1835–41 and
1852–57; M.P. for Boston 1851–52; barrister G.I. 16 Nov. 1842;
chairman of Surrey quarter sessions; sheriff of Surrey 1850;
chairman of the Divorce Committee 1856–57; F.R.S. 10 April 1834;
author of _County Rates_ 1854. _d._ 6 Devonshire place, London 27
June 1864.
FREWEN, CHARLES HAY. _b._ 1813; M.P. for East Sussex 1846–57;
sheriff of Leics. 1866. _d._ Cold Overton hall, Oakham 1 Sep.
1878.
FREWEN, THOMAS (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Cold Overton hall 26
Aug. 1811; M.P. for South Leics. 1835–36; sheriff of Sussex 1839.
_d._ Brickwall house, Northiam 14 Oct. 1870.
FRISWELL, JAMES HAIN (_son of Wm. Friswell of 93 Wimpole st. London,
attorney_). _b._ Newport, Shropshire 8 May 1825; founded in London
the Friday Knights, a social society, January 1858, the name was
changed to the Urban club 15 November 1858; edited _The Censor, a
weekly review_ 23 May to 7 November 1868; edited the Bayard series
and the Gentle Life series; author of _The gentle life_ 1864
anon., _21 ed._ 1879, _2nd series_ 1868, _11 ed._ 1879, and 34
other books. _d._ Fair home, Bexley Heath, Kent 12 March 1878.
_Graphic 30 March 1878 pp._ 320, 332, _portrait_; _Pictorial World
6 April 1878 pp._ 82, 84, _portrait_.
FRITH, JOHN WHARTON. Ensign 12 foot 17 July 1804; lieut. col. 58
foot 1836–1842; inspecting field officer 30 Dec. 1842; col. 2 West
India regiment 1860, col. 3 foot 1863 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1862.
_d._ 85 Waterloo road, Dublin 8 Sep. 1864 aged 74.
FROME, EDWARD CHARLES. _b._ Gibraltar 7 Jany. 1802; 2 lieut. R.E.
1825, col. 1859, col. commandant 1871 to death; surveyor general
of South Australia 1839–49, of Mauritius 1851–58; inspector
general of engineers at head quarters 1868–9; lieut. governor of
Guernsey 1 May 1869 to 30 April 1874; general 21 Nov. 1874;
F.R.A.S.; author of _Outlines of the method of conducting a
trigonometrical survey_ 1840, _4 ed._ 1873. _d._ Ewell, Surrey 12
Feb. 1890.
FROPIER, SIR GABRIEL PIERRE JULES. Member of legislative council of
Mauritius; knighted by patent 31 Oct. 1862. _d._ 1882.
FROST, CHARLES (_son of Thomas Frost of Kingston-upon-Hull,
solicitor_). _b._ Kingston-upon-Hull 1781 or 1782, solicitor there
to death; solicitor to Hull dock company 33 years; F.S.A. 2 May
1822; pres. of Hull literary and philos. soc. 10 times; vice pres.
of British Assoc. at Hull meeting 1853; author of _Notices
relative to the early history of the town of Hull_ 1827 and other
books. _d._ Hull 5 Sep. 1862. _R. W. Corlass’s Sketches of Hull
authors_ (1879) 33–4; _I.L.N. xxiii_, 225, 226 (1853), _portrait_.
FROST, JOHN (_son of John Frost of Mill st. Newport, Monmouthshire,
publican_). Tailor and draper at Newport 1811, member of town
council of Newport, magistrate 1835, mayor 1836; elected 1838 as
delegate to represent Chartists of Monmouthshire at national
convention of working classes which met in London 4 Feb. 1839 and
was dissolved 14 Sep.; led a large body of working men into
Newport and attacked the Westgate hotel 4 Nov. 1839, tried at
Monmouth 10 Dec. 1839, Frost, Williams and Jones sentenced to be
hung, drawn and quartered 16 Jany. 1840 being the last persons in
this country so sentenced, transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1840,
obtained a conditional pardon 1854, a free pardon May 1856; author
of _The horrors of convict life_ 1856. _d._ Stapleton near Bristol
29 July 1877 aged 93. _Gurney’s Trial of John Frost for high
treason_ (1840); _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials_ (1850)
_i_, 1–101; _The rise and fall of Chartism in Monmouthshire_
(1840) _p. 6 et seq. portrait_; _Century Mag. xxiii_, 428 (1882),
_portrait_.
FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD. _b._ Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student
at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures;
A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned;
exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. _d._ 40
Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy_ (1862) _ii_, 219–21; _Art Journal_ (1849) _p._ 184,
_portrait_, (1857) _pp._ 5–7, (1877) _pp._ 234, 280; _I.L.N. xxx_,
419, 420 (1857), _portrait_, _and lviii_, 61, 63 (1871),
_portrait_.
FROUDE, VEN. ROBERT HURRELL (_son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton,
Devon_). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A.
1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of
Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820
to death. _d._ Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.
FROUDE, WILLIAM (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ Dartington
parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and
Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at
Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he
built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment,
Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to
death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870,
royal medallist 1876. _d._ Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of
Good Hope 4 May 1879. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx_,
395–404 (1880); _Nature xx_, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xxix_, _pp. ii-vi_ (1879); _Rev. T. Mozley’s
Reminiscences_ (1882) _ii_, 14–17.
FRY, FRANCIS (_2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835_). _b._
Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J.
S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a
director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and
Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British
bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible
Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published _A description
of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible
1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch_ 1865 and 11 other
books. _d._ Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. _A brief
memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed_ (1887),
_portrait_.
FULCHER, GEORGE WILLIAMS. Bookseller, stationer and printer at
Sudbury, Suffolk; started the _Sudbury Pocket Book_ 1825, edited
it 1825 to death; author of _The village paupers and other poems_
1845; _Life of Thomas Gainsborough_ 1856 and other books. _d._
Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.
FULFORD, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great
Fulford, Devon_). _b._ Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at
Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of
Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London
1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in
Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July
1860 to death; edited _Colonial church chronicle and missionary
journal_ 1848–50; author of _A course of plain sermons on the
Church of England 2 vols._ 1837–40 and 10 other books. _d._ See
house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. _F. Taylor’s Last three bishops
appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada_ (1870)
23–130, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p._ 168, _portrait_, _29
Nov. 1862 pp._ 576, 587, _portrait_.
FULFORD, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 16 Feb. 1809;
entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug.
1877. _d._ Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.
FULLER, CHARLES FRANCIS. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28
sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. _d._ Florence 10 March 1875 aged
45.
FULLER, FRANCIS. _b._ Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to
London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed
line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and
without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and
Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood;
managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the
Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf
history; author of _Alexandra Park_ 1873. _d._ 63 St. Aubyn’s,
Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. _The Field 4 June 1887 p._ 769;
_I.L.N. xix_, 487, 508 (1851), _portrait_.
FULLER, HENRY PETER. _b._ 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a
governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting
apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for
rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after
him. _d._ Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.
FULLER, RIGHT REV. THOMAS BROCK. _b._ Kingston, Upper Canada 16 July
1810; R. of St. George’s, Toronto 1853–67; archdeacon of Toronto
1867–75; bishop of Niagara 1875 to death. _d._ Bishophurst,
Hamilton, Canada 17 Dec. 1884.
FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA CHARLOTTE (_younger dau. of 1 Earl
Granville 1773–1846_). _b._ Tixall hall, Staffs. 23 Sep. 1812;
admitted into R.C. church 29 March 1846; enrolled herself in the
third order of St. Francis 1856; founded with Miss Taylor a
religious community called the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
Incarnate 1868; author of _Ellen Middleton, a tale 3 vols._ 1844;
_Too strange not to be true, a tale 3 vols._ 1864 and 33 other
books. (_m._ 13 July 1833 Alexander George Fullerton of Ballingtoy
castle, co. Antrim). _d._ Ayrfield, Bournemouth 19 Jany. 1885.
_bur._ in cemetery of convent of Sacred Heart, Roehampton, Surrey
23 Jany. _Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, from the French of
Mrs. Madame Augustus Craven. By H. J. Coleridge_ (1888),
_portrait_.
FULLERTON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Fullerton of Carstairs_). _b._ 16 Dec.
1775; an advocate Feb. 1798; a lord of session with title of Lord
Fullerton 7 Feb. 1829 to Nov. 1853 when he retired. _d._ Edinburgh
3 Dec. 1853.
FULLOM, STEPHEN WATSON. edited _United Service Mag._ many years;
resided at Torquay; author of _The King and the countess 3 vols._
1849; _The great highway 3 vols._ 1854; _History of woman 2 vols._
1855; _The last days of Jerusalem, a song_ 1871 and 11 other
books. _d._ in a cab at Liverpool 13 July 1872 aged 54.
FULTON, HAMILTON HENRY (_son of Hamilton Fulton, C.E., state
engineer to North Carolina and Georgia 1819–29, who d. 1834_).
_b._ Charles st. London 1813; pupil to his father 1829–39;
M.I.C.E. 6 May 1845; an engineer in London from 1846; engineer of
West London and Crystal palace railway, of Ryde and Ventnor
railway, and of Salisbury and Dorset junction railway 1860;
projected a railway bridge over the Severn 1863 and a scheme for
Manchester ship canal 1882; author of _London Water Supply_ 1869.
_d._ Bedford house, Chiswick 10 Aug. 1886. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_, 418–22 (1886).
FURLEY, ROBERT (_3 son of Robert Furley of Canterbury_). _b._ 1811;
solicitor at Ashford, Kent 1832–69; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author
of _A history of the Weald of Kent 2 vols._ 1871–74. _d._ Ashford,
Kent 9 Sep. 1887.
FURNELL, MICHAEL CUDMORE. _b._ 1 July 1829; M.R.C.S. 1851, F.R.C.S.
1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1877; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 7 Feb.
1855; surgeon to governor of Madras 1871–73; principal and
professor of medicine, Medical college, Madras 1875–80; surgeon
general Madras, April 1885 to death. _d._ Monte Carlo 24 May 1888.
FURNER, WILLIAM (_eld. son of John Furner of Brighton_). _b._
Brighton 1791; admitted attorney 1815; member of firm of Hill,
Fitzburgh and Furner at Brighton 30 years; comr. of bankrupts for
Brighton district; judge of local courts of request at Brighton
and Shoreham 1840–47; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Sussex),
March 1847 to 20 Sep. 1877 when he resigned; barrister G.I. 7 May
1851. _d._ 18 Palmeira sq. Brighton 25 Nov. 1877.
FURNESS, RICHARD (_son of Samuel Furness of Eyam, Derbyshire,
farmer_). _b._ Eyam 2 Aug. 1791; a currier at Eyam 1813;
schoolmaster in free school at Dore, Derbyshire 1821; author of
_The Rag Bag_ 1832 a satirical poem; _Medicus-Magus, a poem in
three cantos, Sheffield_ 1836, title was afterwards altered to
_The Astrologer_. _d._ Eyam 13 Dec. 1857. _The poetical works of
R. Furness with a sketch of his life, By G. C. Holland, M.D._
(1858).
FURTADO, TERESA ELIZABETH (_dau. of Charles Furtado of London,
professor of music, by Annie Flanagan_). _b._ 12 a._m._ at 19
Edward st. Hampstead road, London 6 June 1845; made her début on
the stage at New Royalty theatre 8 Feb. 1864 as Mercury in
Burnand’s burlesque _Ixion_; leading actress at Olympic theatre
1865–6, then at Adelphi theatre where she played Esmeralda in
_Notre Dame_ 10 April 1872. (_m._ 10 Aug. 1873 John Clarke,
comedian, who _d._ 20 Feb. 1879 aged 49). _d._ 77 Mornington road,
Regent’s park, London 9 Aug. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr. news 17
Oct. 1874 p._ 49, _portrait_, and _p._ 75; _Era 12 Aug. 1877 p. 4,
col. 2, 19 Aug. p. 5, col. 2._
FYDELL, SAMUEL RICHARD (_elder son of Thomas Fydell 1740–1812, M.P.
for Boston_). _b._ Hardwicke hall near Chepstow 6 April 1771;
receiver general for Lincolnshire 1794 to 1834 when office was
abolished by Land tax amendment act 1834 and he declined pension
offered him; sheriff of Rutland 1840; lieut. col. of South Lincoln
militia. _d._ Morcott hall, Rutland 1 Feb. 1868. _bur._ in family
vault St. Botolph’s church, Boston. _G.M. v_, 395 (1868).
FYFE, ANDREW (_eld. son of Andrew Fyfe of Edinburgh, anatomist
1754–1824_). _b._ 18 Jany. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814;
fellow of college of surgeons Edin. 1818, pres. 1842–3; professor
of chemistry in Univ. of Aberdeen 1844 to death; author of
_Elements of Chemistry 2 vols._ 1827, _3 ed._ 1833. _d._ 4 Windsor
st. Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1861.
FYFE, JAMES HAMILTON (_only son of John Fyfe of Edinburgh_). _b._
Edinburgh 1837; ed. at City of London school; barrister M.T. 17
Nov. 1863; a reporter on _Edinburgh Express_, _Scotsman_, _Times_;
assistant editor of _Pall Mall Gazette_ 1867–71, of _Saturday
Review_ 1871 to about 1878; author of _Triumphs of invention and
discovery_ 1860; _British enterprise beyond the seas or our
colonies_ 1863 and other books. _d._ 35 Cathcart road, West
Brompton, London 5 June 1880.
FYFE, WILLIAM BAXTER COLLIER. _b._ Dundee about 1836; studied at
R.S.A. and in Paris; painter in London 1863 to death; exhibited 23
pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. gallery 1866–79.
_d._ 62 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Sep. 1882.
FYFE, WILLIAM WALLACE (_eld. son of Peter Fyfe, R.N. of Dundee_). A
contributor to the newspaper press; promoter and manager of the
Church and Country Newspaper Co., and of the Newspaper Press
college at Dorchester about 1865, both schemes were unsuccessful
and involved him in loss; edited _The Provincial Souvenir,
Paisley_ 1846; author of _Agricultural science applied in
practice_ 1859; _Canada as a field for emigration_ 1861 and 8
other books. _d._ Houndsgate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867. _Newspaper
Press 1 Oct. 1867 p._ 205.
FYNMORE, JAMES. Midshipman R.N. at Trafalgar 1805 of which battle he
was last survivor; captain R.M. 1836–1848, hon. lieut. col. 28
Nov. 1854 to death. _d._ Blenheim grove, Rye lane, Peckham 15
April 1887 in 94 year. _Graphic xix_, 217 (1879), _portrait_,
_xxxv_, 448 (1887), _portrait_.
FYSH, REV. FREDERICK. Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; lived at 2 Duke st. Bath 1840–47, at 6 Lower terrace,
Torquay 1856; author of _Catechism of the Apocalypse_ 1844; _A
Lyrical version of the Psalms 2 vols._ 1851; _Historia Apodeixis
Horæ historicæ et chronologicæ 5 vols._ 1856 and 15 other books.
_d._ 1867.
G
GABRIEL, MARY ANN VIRGINIA (_dau. of the succeeding_). _b._
Banstead, Surrey 7 Feb. 1825; composed several hundred songs, many
of which became very popular; her operetta _Widows Bewitched_ was
performed at St. George’s hall, London 13 Nov. 1867; composed 3
cantatas _Dreamland_, _Evangeline_ and _Graziella_. (_m._ Nov.
1874 George Edward March of the Foreign office, London, who wrote
most of her librettos). _d._ St. George’s hospital, London 7 Aug.
1877 from compound fracture of the skull, result of carriage
accident near Grosvenor hotel 5 Aug. _Lennox’s Fashion then and
now, ii_, 92–4 (1878); _Illust. sp. and dr. news vi_, 597, 620
(1877), _portrait_.
GABRIEL, ROBERT BURD. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 1797, captain
1805–1822 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 7 dragoon
guards 18 March 1853 to death; K.H. 1834; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._
7 Connaught place west, London 15 April 1853 aged 74.
GAGE, EDWARD THOMAS (_2 son of 4 Viscount Gage 1791–1877_). _b._ 28
Dec. 1825; 2 lieut. R.A. 1844, col. 1876, col. commandant 1887 to
death; brigade major R.A. in Crimea 1854–55; commanded Woolwich
district 1881–3; L.G. 1882; placed on retired list 1 April 1888;
C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Clifton crescent, Folkestone 21 May 1889.
GAGE, SIR WILLIAM HALL (_6 son of general Thomas Gage 1721–87_).
_b._ Park place, St. James’s, London 2 Oct. 1777; entered navy
1789; captain 1797; commander in chief in East Indies 1825–30, on
the Lisbon station 1834–37, at Devonport 1848–51; a lord of the
Admiralty 1842–1846; admiral 1846; R.A. of United Kingdom 1853;
V.A. of United Kingdom 1854; admiral of the Fleet 20 May 1862 to
death; G.C.H. and K.B. 19 April 1834; G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._
Thurston, Suffolk 4 Jany. 1864.
GAINES, THOMAS. Last survivor of the 12 Bow street officers who
under Sir Richard Birnie captured the Cato st. conspirators 23
Feb. 1820. _d._ Metropolitan asylum, Leavesdon, Herts. 4 Feb. 1879
aged nearly 90.
GAINSBOROUGH, CHARLES NOEL, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Sir Gerard Noel
Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838_). _b._ 2 Oct. 1781; M.P. for Rutland
1808–14; succeeded his mother as 3 Baron Barham 12 April 1823;
created Baron Noel, Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough 16
Aug. 1841; married four times. _d._ 17 Prince’s Gate, Hyde park,
London 10 June 1866. _bur._ Teston church, Kent 19 June.
GAINSBOROUGH, CHARLES GEORGE NOEL, 2 Earl of. _b._ Edinburgh 5 Sep.
1818; M.P. for Rutland 1840–41; contested Rutland 1841 and co.
Cork 1860; sheriff of Rutland 1848, lord lieutenant of Rutland 6
March 1867 to death; taken ill in a cab and _d._ University
college hospital, London 13 Aug. 1881.
GAIRDNER, JOHN (_eld. son of Robert Gairdner, captain Bengal
artillery, who d. 1795 or 1796_). _b._ Mount Charles near Ayr 18
Sep. 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1811; phys. in Edin. 1813;
F.C.S. Edin. 1813, pres. 1830–32; author of many papers in _Trans.
of Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of Edin._ and in medical journals; his
anonymous book _Burns and the Ayrshire Moderates_ was privately
printed 1883. _d._ 45 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 12 Dec. 1876.
_The Scotsman 14 Dec. 1876 p._ 5.
GAIRDNER, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Mount Charles
near Ayr 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1813; phys. in
London 1822–66; L.C.P. 1823; author of _Essay on the effects of
Iodine on the human constitution_ 1824, and _On Gout, its history,
its causes and its cure_ 1849, _4 ed._ 1860. _d._ Avignon 28 April
1867.
GAIRDNER, WILLIAM JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1807; M.G. 1851; col. 63
Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Strathtyrum
house, St. Andrews 3 Feb. 1861 aged 71.
GAISFORD, VERY REV. THOMAS (_eld. son of John Gaisford of Iford,
Wilts._) _b._ Iford 22 Dec. 1779; commoner of Ch. Ch. Ox., Oct.
1797, student Dec. 1800; B.A. 1801, D.D. 1831; Regius professor of
Greek at Oxford 29 Feb. 1812 to death; R. of Westwell, Oxon.
1815–47; preb. of Llandaff 1823 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1823
to death; preb. of Worcester 1825–29; preb. of Durham 1829–31;
dean of Ch. Ch. Ox. 10 Oct. 1831 to death; published _Poetæ
Minores Græci 4 vols._ 1814–20 and 32 other classical and
patristic works. _d._ the Deanery, Ch. Ch. Oxford 2 June 1855.
_bur._ in nave of Ch. Ch. cathedral 9 June. _G.M. xliv_, 98–100
(1855).
GALBERRY, MOST REV. THOMAS. _b._ Naas, co. Kildare 1833; taken to
Philadelphia 1836; ordained R.C. priest 20 Dec. 1856; pres. of
Villanova college; provincial of the Augustinian order 1874;
bishop of Hartford 1876 to death; consecrated 19 March 1876. _d._
New York 10 Oct. 1878.
GALE, CHARLES JAMES (_son of Charles Gale_). _b._ April 1805;
barrister M.T. 1 June 1832; judge of county courts, circuit 51
(Hampshire), March 1847, of circuit 21 (Warwickshire) 1874 to Sep.
1874 when he retired on pension; author of _A treatise on the law
of easements_ 1839, _6 ed._ 1888; published with Henry Davison
_Reports in the court of Queen’s Bench 1841–43_, _3 vols._
1841–43. _d._ Kitnocks, Botley near Southampton 5 Aug. 1876.
GALIGNANI, JOHN ANTHONY (_eld. son of Giovanni Antonio Galignani of
London, teacher of languages, who d. Paris 1821_). _b._ London 13
Oct. 1796; bookseller at Cambrai 1816; bookseller and publisher
with his brother at 18 Rue Vivienne, Paris; _Galignani’s
Messenger_ was founded by their father 1814 as a triweekly, it
became a daily paper 1821; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, never
naturalised; removed to Rue de Rivoli 1855; knight of the Legion
of Honour; gave with his brother between 5 and 6 million francs to
charities of Paris. _d._ Paris 29 Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 48
(1874), _portrait_.
GALIGNANI, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 10
March 1798; mayor of parish of Etiolles near Paris more than 20
years; erected with his brother a hospital for indigent English at
Neuilly; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, naturalised 1832; officer
of Legion of Honour; bequeathed a site and funds for erection at
Neuilly of the Retraite Galignani Frères for 100 inmates. _d._ 82
Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 11 Dec. 1882, a fine sculpture of the
two brothers by Chapu has been erected at Corbeil.
GALL, JAMES. Member of firm of Gall and Inglis, publishers in George
st. Edinburgh; master of Merchants’ Co. Edin. 1850; author of
_Gospel of St. John for the blind_ 1835; _Philosophy of education_
1840 and other books. _d._ Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1874 aged 90.
_Publishers’ Circular_ (1874) 866.
GALL, RICHARD HERBERT. _b._ 10 Nov. 1815; ensign 3 foot 3 July 1835;
major 14 light dragoons 1857–64 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the
Queen 8 June 1870 to death; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 1
March 1874 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Chelsea hospital 21
Feb. 1881.
GALLAGHER, REV. HUGH P. _b._ Killygordan, Donegal 1815; went to the
U.S. of A. 1837; ordained R.C. priest at Philadelphia 1840; pres.
of Theological seminary Pittsburg 1844; founded and edited
_Pittsburg Catholic_; theologian to first plenary council of
Baltimore 1852; founded and edited _Catholic Standard_ 1853; built
many churches, schools and hospitals. _d._ San Francisco, March
1882.
GALLOWAY, RANDOLPH STEWART, 9 Earl of. _b._ Coolhurst, Sussex 16
Sep. 1800; ed. at Harrow; M.P. for Cockermouth 1826–31; lord
lieut. of Kirkcudbright to 1845, of Wigtonshire to 1851. _d._
Galloway house near Wigton 2 Jany. 1873.
GALLOWAY, THOMAS (_son of Wm. Galloway of Symington, Lanarkshire,
miller_). _b._ Symington 26 Feb. 1796; ed. at New Academy, Lanark,
and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1820; teacher of mathematics at Sandhurst
1823–33; register or actuary of Amicable Life Assurance Co. of
London 1833 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Feb. 1829; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834,
member of council 1843 to death; author of many articles in
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, _Edinburgh Review_ and _Philosophical
Mag._ _d._ 45 Torrington sq. London 1 Nov. 1851.
GALLOWAY, THOMAS JAMES. Ensign 15 foot 1821; lieut. col. 70 foot
1848–1863; brigadier general Bengal 1857–1861; col. 49 foot
1871–1874; col. 70 foot 7 Sep. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877.
_d._ Kilmeague, Naas, Ireland 15 Sep. 1881 aged 81.
GALLWEY, SIR WILLIAM PAYNE, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1807; succeeded 16 April
1831; M.P. for Thirsk, Yorkshire 1851–1880. _d._ Thirkleby park
near Thirsk 19 Dec. 1881 in 74 year.
GALWAY, GEORGE EDWARD ARUNDELL MONCKTON ARUNDEL, 6 Viscount. _b._
Knutsford, Cheshire 1 March 1805; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
succeeded 1834; M.P. for East Retford 1847 to death; master of fox
hounds in Notts. 1865 to death. _d._ Serlby hall, Notts. 6 Feb.
1876. _Baily’s Mag. xix_, 171 (1871), _portrait_.
GALWEY, SIR MICHAEL (_youngest son of James Galwey_). _b._ 1818;
entered Madras army 1835; commandant 36 Madras N.I. 1865 to 1869;
C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 2 June 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
London 22 July 1878.
GAMBIER, SIR EDWARD JOHN (_3 son of Samuel Gambier 1752–1813, first
comr. of the navy_). _b._ 1794; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1822; a municipal
corporation comr. 1833; recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1834;
puisne judge at Madras 28 Nov. 1836, chief justice 11 March 1842
to 1849; knighted at St. James’s palace 6 Aug. 1834; author of _A
treatise on parochial settlements_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1835. _d._ 22
Hyde park gate, Kensington, London 31 May 1879 in 86 year.