1844_). _b._ Walcot, Bath 31 March 1803; received a commission in
Austrian army 1823, capt. 1827; became country gentleman in
Hungary 1839; opposed Jellachich at the head of a section of the
revolutionists of 1848, defeated him at Pakozd 29 Sept.; fled to
Turkey, Aug. 1849; the first Christian who obtained rank of pacha
and a Turkish military command without betraying his religion,
known as Khourschid Pacha (the Sun); defeated by the Russians at
battle of Kurekdere 5 or 6 Aug. 1854. _d._ of cholera at Scutari
13 Oct. 1856. _R. A. Kinglake’s The patriot general Guyon_ (1856),
_portrait_; _E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war, i_, 294 (1855),
_portrait_.
GWATKIN, EDWARD (_eld. son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin of Killiow,
Cornwall 1757–1843_). Entered Bengal army 1804 and was in India to
1855; col. 31 Bengal N.I. 17 Nov. 1853 to death. _d._ at sea on
board the ‘Hotspur’ near England 13 April 1855. _Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 307–8.
GWILT, JOHN SEBASTIAN (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1811; ed. at
Westminster sch.; architect; assisted his father in _A project for
a New National gallery_ 1838 and with drawings for _An
Encyclopædia of architecture_ 1851. _d._ Hambledon, Henley on
Thames 4 March 1890.
GWILT, JOSEPH (_younger son of George Gwilt, surveyor to county of
Surrey, d. 9 Dec. 1807_). _b._ parish of St. George the Martyr,
Southwark 11 Jany. 1784; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; surveyor to
county of Surrey 1807–46; built Lee ch. Lewisham 1814, Markree
Castle near Sligo 1843 and Ch. of St. Thomas, Charlton, Woolwich
1846; F.S.A. 1815, F.R.A.S. 1833; author of _A treatise on the
equilibrium of arches_ 1811, _3 ed._ 1839; _Notitia architectonica
Italiana_ 1818; _Sciography or examples of shadows_ 1822, _2 ed._
1824, the first English treatise on the subject; _An encyclopædia
of architecture_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1859; translated _The Architecture
of Vitruvius_ 1826. _d._ South Hill, Henley-on-Thames 14 Sep.
1863. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xx_, 178–81 (1864).
GWYN, HOWEL (_1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830_).
_b._ 24 June 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832;
contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple
1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county
1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of
co. Brecon 1842. _d._ Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.
GYE, FREDERICK. _b._ 1781; printer with G. Balne, city of London
1806–36; made £30,000 in a state lottery; proprietor of London
wine co. 1817–36 and of London genuine tea co. 1818–36; with
William Hughes purchased Vauxhall gardens for £28,000, 1821,
conducted them to 1840, had the Great Nassau balloon built for him
1836; M.P. Chippenham, Wilts. 1826–30. _d._ 2 Lansdowne st. Hove,
Brighton 13 Feb. 1869.
GYE, FREDERICK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Finchley, Middlesex
1810; acting manager for Mons. Jullien at Drury Lane 1847;
business manager for E. Delafield at Covent Garden 1848; lessee of
Covent Garden, Sep. 1849, house burnt down 5 March 1856; lessee of
Drury Lane 1852; lessee of Lyceum theatre 1856–7; rebuilt Covent
Garden at cost of £120,000, house reopened 15 April 1858; partner
with J. H. Mapleson at Covent Garden 1869–70, sole proprietor and
manager 1870 to death. _d._ Dytchley park, Charlbury, Oxon. 4 Dec.
1878 from effects of being accidentally shot near there 27 Nov.
_bur._ Norwood cemetery 9 Dec. _I.S. and D. News 24 June 1876 pp._
297, 302, _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s Lyrical Drama, i_, 15–30
(1881); _The Mask_ (1868), 97 _portrait_; _The Mapleson Memoirs,
vol. 1 passim_ (1888).
GYLL, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of Wm. Gyll 1774–1806, capt. 2 life
guards_). _b._ London 11 July 1805; lieut. of yeomen of the guard
1830–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. _d._
Cumbernauld lodge, Feltham hill, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1880.
H
HAAS, ERNST ANTON MAX. _b._ Coburg 18 April 1835; ed. at Univ. of
Berlin, Ph. D.; assistant department of printed books British
Museum 1866 to death; professor of Sanskrit Univ. coll. London,
April 1876 to death; Alma his widow granted civil list pension of
£80, 29 Jany. 1883; compiler of _Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali
books in the British museum_ 1876. _d._ 11 Westbourne park road,
London 3 July 1882.
HAAST, SIR JOHN FRANCIS JULIUS VON (_son of Mathias Haas of Bonn,
Prussia, merchant_). _b._ Bonn 1 May 1824; ed. at Bonn univ. and
Cologne univ.; Ph. D. of Tübingen univ. 1862; D. Sc. Cambridge
1886; explored S.W. part of Nelson, New Zealand 1859; government
geologist of province of Canterbury 1861; discovered the Southern
Alps of N.Z.; founded Canterbury museum at Christchurch 1866,
director 1866 to death; professor of geology Canterbury coll.
Christchurch to death; F.R.G.S., gold medallist 1884; F.R.S. 6
June 1867; C.M.G. 24 May 1883, K.C.M.G. 28 June 1886; author of
_New Zealand scenery_ 1877; _Geology of the provinces of
Canterbury and Westland, Auckland_ 1879. _d._ Wellington, N.Z. 15
Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix_, 687–8 (1887).
HABERFIELD, SIR JOHN KERLE (_son of Andrew Haberfield of
Devonport_). _b._ Devonport 1785; attorney at Bristol 1810 to
death; mayor of Bristol 1838, 39, 46, 49, 50 and 51; knighted at
St. James’s Palace 26 March 1851 for zeal in promoting local
subscriptions for Great Exhibition. _d._ 23 York crescent, Clifton
1 Jany. 1858. _I.L.N. xviii_, 618 (1851), _portrait_.
HABERSHON, MATTHEW. _b._ 1789; designed churches in Yorkshire 1824
&c.; built Derby town hall; went to Jerusalem to arrange for
building the Anglican cath. 1842; received great gold medal for
science and literature from king of Prussia 1844; author of _A
dissertation on the prophetic scriptures_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1840 and
other fanciful works on prophecy; _The ancient half-timbered
houses of England_ 1836 and 6 other books. _d._ Bonnner’s hall,
Victoria park, London 5 July 1852. _Dict. of Architecture, iv_,
1–2.
HABERSHON, SAMUEL OSBORNE. _b._ Rotherham 1825; ed. at Univ. coll.
London; M.B. London 1848, M.D. 1851; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1848;
M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1856, Lumleian lecturer 1876, Harveian
orator 1883, and V.P. 1887; pres. of Medical soc. of Lond. 1873;
lecturer on materia medica at Guy’s hospital 1856–73, on medicine
1873–7, physician 1866, resigned 1880; did much to elucidate
abdominal diseases; author of _Observations on diseases of
alimentary canal, oesophagus, stomach, caecum and intestines_
1857, _3 ed._ 1878; _On the diseases of the stomach_ 1866, _3 ed._
1879. _d._ 70 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 22 Aug. 1889.
_Lancet, ii_, 445, 880–82, 979 (1889).
HACK, DANIEL PRYOR (_elder son of Daniel Hack, high constable of
Brighton_). _b._ Brighton 1794; apprenticed to a draper at
Chelmsford 1808; imprisoned at Chelmsford for refusing to serve in
militia 1814; a draper at Brighton 1815–26; a minister among The
Friends 1823 to death; gave £500 to Brighton free library. _d._ 99
Trafalgar st. Brighton 7 March 1886. _The Annual Monitor for 1887
pp._ 99–122.
HACKBLOCK, WILLIAM. M.P. for Reigate, Surrey 28 March 1857 to death.
_d._ at his brother’s house, Brockham Warren, Betchworth, Surrey 2
Jany. 1858 aged 52.
HACKETT, JAMES THOMAS. _b._ in south of Ireland 1805; surveyor;
member and sec. of London Astrological soc. 1826, the last
survivor of the society; reporter on _Herapath’s Railway Journal_
nearly 40 years; railway correspondent to _The Times_; author of
_The student’s assistant in astronomy and astrology_ 1836. _d._
Park villa, Alexandra road, Friern Barnet 13 Feb. 1876.
_Herapath’s Railway Journal 6 May 1876 p._ 518; _Athenæum 15 Apl.
1876 pp._ 535–6.
HACKETT, JOHN (_son of John Hackett, vice admiral_). _b._ 2 Oct.
1819; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 70 foot 17 Nov. 1837; deputy
assistant Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March 1854 to March 1855; major 76
foot 1866, lieut. col. 1872–76; commander of troops in West Indies
11 May 1878 to 1 April 1882; hon. M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ West
Brighton 1 Nov. 1890. _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_.
HACKETT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Bartholomew Hackett of Cork_). _b._
1824; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845; called
to Irish bar 1845; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; Queen’s advocate
Gold Coast 1861, chief justice 1863, lieut. governor 1864;
recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1866–75; knighted at Windsor
Castle 12 Dec. 1866; chief justice of Fiji 1875–76; chief justice
of Ceylon 20 Nov. 1876. _d._ Colombo, Ceylon 17 May 1877.
HACKETT, SIR WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW (_son of Bartholomew Hackett of
Carrigaline, co. Cork_). _b._ Carrigaline 1800; a merchant at
Cork, the largest manufacturer of leather in Ireland; mayor of
Cork 1852; knighted by Earl of Eglinton at opening of Irish
National Exhibition at Cork 10 June 1852. _d._ 28 Jany. 1872.
HACKMAN, REV. ALFRED (_son of Thomas Hackman, vestry clerk of
Fulham, Middlesex_). _b._ Fulham 8 April 1811; servitor at Ch. Ch.
Ox. 25 Oct. 1832, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, chaplain Ch. Ch. 1837–73,
precentor 1841–73; clerk Bodleian Lib. 1837, sub-librarian
1862–73; V. of Cowley, Oxon. 1842–44; V. of St. Paul’s, Oxford
1844–71; author of _A catalogue of the collection of the Tanner
MSS._ 1860. _d._ Thames Ditton, Surrey 18 Sep. 1874.
HADDAN, REV. ARTHUR WEST (_2 son of Thomas Haddan, solicitor, d.
1844 aged 63_). _b._ Woodford, Essex 31 Aug. 1816; ed. at Brasn.
coll. Ox.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1835, fellow 1839, tutor
1842–57, Johnson theol. scholar 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D.
1847; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox. 1841–42; contributed to
_Guardian_ 1846 to death; one of secretaries to W. E. Gladstone’s
committee at Oxford elections 1847–65; R. of Barton on the Heath,
Warws. 1857 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 1870 to death;
author in conjunction with Dr. W. Stubbs of _Councils and
ecclesiastical documents 3 vols._ 1869–71; for the Anglo-Catholic
lib. he edited _The works of John Bramhall, Archbp. of Armagh 5
vols._ 1842–5 and _The Theological works of Herbert Thorndike 6
vols._ 1844–56. _d._ Barton 8 Feb. 1873. _Remains of Rev. A. W.
Haddan, ed. by A. P. Forbes, Bp. of Brechin_ (1876).
HADDAN, THOMAS HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ in city of
London 1814; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; took a double first 1837,
B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.C.L. 1844; fellow of Ex. coll. 1837–43;
Eldon scholar 1840; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, equity draftsman
and conveyancer; Vinerian fellow Oxf. univ. 1847; _Guardian_
newspaper projected in his chambers 6 New sq., first number issued
21 Jany. 1846, editor for a short time; lectured on jurisdiction
of court of chancery 1862; author of _Remarks on legal education_
1848. _d._ Vichy, France 5 Sept. 1873, body removed to Highgate
cemet. _Law Times, lv_, 384–5 (1873) _lvi_, 44.
HADDINGTON, THOMAS HAMILTON, 9 Earl of (_only son of 8 Earl of
Haddington 1753–1828_). _b._ Edinburgh 21 June 1780; ed. at Edin.
univ. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1815; known as Lord Binning
1780–1826; M.P. St. Germans 1802–6; M.P. Cockermouth Jany. to
April 1807; M.P. Callington May 1807–1812; P.C. 29 July 1814;
commissioner for management of affairs of India 1814–22; M.P.
Michael 1814–18; M.P. for Rochester 1818–26; M.P. Yarmouth, June
to Aug. 1826; cr. Baron Melros of Tynningham 24 July 1827;
succeeded to earldom 17 March 1828; lord lieut. of Ireland 29 Dec.
1834 to 23 April 1835; received £30,674 1s. 8d. for surrender of
office of keeper of Holyrood park 1843; first lord of the
admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 Jany. 1846; lord privy seal 21 Jany.
to 6 July 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853. _d._ Tynningham house,
Haddingtonshire 1 Dec. 1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives
and statesmen 2nd series_ (1836–42), _portrait_.
HADFIELD, CHARLES (_son of Charles Hadfield_). _b._ Glossop,
Derbyshire 14 Oct. 1821; house painter at Manchester; edited
_Weekly Wages_ 1861 five numbers; on staff of _Newcastle
Chronicle_ and lecturer for Northern Reform union 1861; editor of
_Manchester City News_ 1865–7, of _Warrington Examiner_ and of
_Salford Weekly News_ 1880–3; author of two prize essays on
Mechanics’ institutions and The Homes of the working classes 1850,
1857. _d._ 3 Chester road, Stretford, Manchester 4 June 1884.
_Manchester City News 7, 14 June 1884._
HADFIELD, ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Peter Taylor of Hollingwood near
Manchester_). A Friend; author of _Sprays from the Hedgerows_
1850, with _portrait_; _Poetic weeds by E. H._ 1850. (_m._ George
Hadfield), she _d._ Wetheral near Carlisle 23 March 1861 aged 43.
HADFIELD, GEORGE (_son of Robert Hadfield, merchant_). _b._
Sheffield 28 Dec. 1787; attorney at Manchester 1810–53; contested
Bradford 1835; a founder of Anti-corn-law league 1841; principal
promoter of the litigation as to Lady Hewley’s charities 1833–42;
M.P. for Sheffield 1852–74; helped in passing Common law procedure
act 1854; author of the Qualification for offices abolition act
1866; author of _The expediency of relieving the bishops from
attendance in parliament_ 1870. _d._ Conyngham road, Victoria
park, Manchester 21 April 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000,
28 June 1879. _James Griffin’s Memories of the past_ (1883)
264–311.
HADFIELD, MATTHEW ELLISON (_1 son of Joseph Hadfield of Lees hall,
Glossop, Derbyshire_). _b._ Lees hall 8 Sep. 1812; architect
Sheffield 1838 to death; contributed to revival of mediæval and
Gothic architecture; designed and built many churches etc. in
Leeds and neighbourhood; served 4 Dukes of Norfolk in succession;
F.R.I.B.A. May 1847; pres. of Sheffield sch. of art 1878–80. _d._
Knowle house, Sheffield 9 March 1885. _J. Gillow’s English
Catholics_ (1887) _iii_, 79–82.
HADFIELD, WILLIAM, _b._ 1806; first sec. of Buenos Ayres great
southern railway; sec. South American steam navigation co.;
merchant at Liverpool; bankrupt 6 Nov. 1847; founded in London
_The South American Journal and Brazil and River Plate Mail_ 7
Nov. 1863, editor to death; author of _Brazil, The River Plate and
the Falkland islands_ 1854. _d._ London 14 Aug. 1887.
HADLEY, ROBERT. _b._ England; coach proprietor, and landlord of the
English hotel 10 South st. St. Andrew st. Edinburgh 1844–51; a
well known four-in-hand whip. _d._ Edinburgh 1851. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 121, _portrait_.
HADLEY, SIMEON CHARLES, _b._ Cambridge, Gloucs. Nov. 1831; common
councilman city of London 1861, alderman Castle Baynard ward 8
Nov. 1875, sheriff of London and Middlesex 1876, passed over for
lord mayor 1883, resigned his alderman’s gown 7 June 1884; miller
of firm of J. and J. Hadley city flour mills Upper Thames st.
London, the mills burnt down 10–12 Nov. 1872; bankrupt 1884,
discharged 5 Dec. 1884; master of Bakers’ co.; resided Cranbrook
park, Ilford. _d._ at his lodgings, Kennington 15 May 1890.
_I.L.N. lxix_, 485, 486 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 451,
452 (1876), _portrait_.
HADOW, EDWARD ASH. _b._ 1831; ed. at Bristol sch. of medicine, and
King’s coll. London; M.B. London 1853; M.R.C.S. 1853; made
researches on gun cotton and investigations into the constitution
of the platinum bases; entirely devoted himself to chemistry;
demonstrator of chemistry King’s coll. London 1856 to death;
editor of P. F. Hardwicke’s _Manual of photography_ 1864; F.C.S.
_d._ London 11 Aug. 1866. _Lancet 25 Aug. 1866 p._ 224.
HADOW, ROBERT DOUGLAS (_1 son of Patrick Douglas Hadow of Sudbury
priory, Middlesex, d. 1876_). _b._ 1846. _killed_ by a fall of
nearly 4,000 feet whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14
July 1865. _bur._ north side of Zermatt churchyard. _E. Whymper’s
Ascent of the Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95.
HAGAN, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of John Hagan of Magherafelt, co.
Londonderry_). _b._ Magherafelt 3 Nov. 1794; entered navy 22 Dec.
1807; served on coast of Spain 1813, on coast of Africa 1815–23
when he captured 40 slave ships; inspecting commander coast guard,
Ireland 1838–43; captain 11 Jany. 1843; R.A. on half pay 22 Nov.
1862; knighted by Marquis of Normanby, in Ireland 1835. _d._
Pembroke road, Dublin 25 April 1863.
HAGART, CHARLES (_elder son of Thomas Campbell Hagart of Bantaskine,
co. Stirling 1784–1868_). _b._ 23 June 1814; ed. at Eton.; cornet
7 hussars 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1851 to 13 May 1859
when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 July 1858; commanded cavalry brigade
in Indian mutiny 1857; colonel 11 hussars 19 Nov. 1871; colonel 7
hussars 19 Jany. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Eastbury
manor, Compton near Guildford 30 July 1879.
HAGGARD, ELLA (_1 dau. of Bazett Doveton of Bombay C.S._) _b._
Bombay 16 June 1819. (_m._ 30 May 1844 William Meybohn Rider
Haggard of Bradenham hall, Norfolk, _b._ 1817); author of _Myra,
or the rose of the East_ 1857; _Life and its author_ 1890. _d._
Bradenham hall 9 Dec. 1889. _Life and its author_ (1890),
_memoir_, _pp._ 3–12, _portrait_.
HAGGARD, JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Henry Haggard of Bradenham hall, d.
1837_). _b._ Bradfield, Herts. 1794; ed. at Westminster and Trin.
hall, Cam., LL.B. 1813, LLD. 1818, fellow of his coll. 1815–20;
fellow of college of doctors of law, London 3 Nov. 1818;
chancellor of dioceses of Lincoln 1836 to death, of Winchester
1845 to death, and of Manchester 1847 to death; commissary for
Surrey 1847 to death; author of _Reports of cases in Consistory
court of London 1789–1821_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Reports of cases in
the court of Admiralty 1822–1838_, _3 vols._ 1825–40; _Reports of
cases in the Ecclesiastical courts 1827–1833_, _4 vols._ 1829–33.
_d._ Brighton 31 Oct. 1856 in 63 year. _Manchester Guardian 4 Nov.
1856, p._ 3.
HAGGARD, WILLIAM DEBONAIRE. Member British Archæol. Assoc. 1843,
member of council 1848; F.S.A.; mem. R. Astronom. and Numismatic
societies; author of _Observations on the standard of value_ 1847;
_Miscellaneous Papers_ 1860. _d._ Durham villa, Kensington 4 April
1886 aged 79.
HAGHE, LOUIS R. I. _b._ Tournay, Belgium 17 March 1806; came to
England 1824; partner with William Day in producing lithographic
works, among them were David Roberts’ Holy Land and Egypt 1842–8;
member of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1835, president
1873–84; exhibited 8 oil paintings at British Institution 1856–60;
painted The council of war at Courtray 1854; published _Sketches
in Belgium and Germany 3 series_ 1840. _d._ 103 Stockwell road,
Stockwell, London 9 March 1885. _Stationery trades journal, vi_,
144 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 327 (1885), _portrait_.
HAIG, ROBERT WOLSELEY. _b._ 1831; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1848,
captain 9 May 1855 to death; brevet major 22 Oct. 1870; sec. to
R.A. institute on Woolwich common; F.R.S. 6 June 1867. _d._
Woolwich 6 June 1872 aged 41.
HAIGH, REV. DANIEL HENRY (_son of George Haigh, calico printer_).
_b._ Brinscall hall near Chorley 7 Aug. 1819; built great part of
All Saints, Leeds at his own expense 1846; received into R.C.
church 1 Jany. 1847, a priest 8 April 1848; spent £15,000 on
erection and endowment St. Augustine’s R.C. ch. Erdington near
Birmingham 1848–50, missioner there to 1876; chief authority in
England on Runic literature; author of _An essay on numismatic
history of the East Angles._, _Leeds_ 1845; _The Anglo-Saxon
sagas_ 1861; _The conquest of Britain by the Saxons_ 1861. _d._
Oscott coll. 10 May 1879. _Gillow’s Bibl. Dict. of English
Catholics iii_, 84–7 (1887).
HAILSTONE, EDWARD (_youngest son of Samuel Hailstone of Bradford,
solicitor_). _b._ 1818; solicitor at Bradford 1841; law clerk to
Leeds and Liverpool canal co. 40 years; F.S.A. 6 April 1843;
accumulated manuscripts, books, &c. relating to Yorkshire which he
left to the library of dean and chapter, York; author of
_Catalogue of library of E. Hailstone_ 1858; _Portraits of
Yorkshire worthies with biographical notices 2 vols._ 1869. _d._
Walton hall near Wakefield 24 March 1890.
HAILSTONE, SAMUEL. _b._ Hoxton, London 1768; solicitor with John
Hardy at Bradford, Yorks. 1791; leading authority on flora of
Yorkshire; collected minerals and books; contrib. list of rare
plants to Whitaker’s History of Craven 1812, pp. 509–18; F.L.S.
1801. _d._ Horton hall, Bradford 26 Dec. 1851, his herbarium given
to Yorkshire Philos. soc. is in the museum at York. _John James’s
Bradford_ (1866) 316–18.
HAINES, REV. HERBERT (_son of John Haines, surgeon_). _b._ Hampstead
1 Sept. 1826; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1851; C. of
Delamere, Cheshire 1849; second master of College school,
Gloucester 22 June 1850 to death; author of _A manual for the
study of monumental brasses, By H. H._ 1848, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1861;
_A guide to the cathedral church of Gloucester_ 1867, _3 ed._
1885. _d._ College school, Gloucester 18 Sept. 1872.
HAINES, WILLIAM CLARKE. _b._ England 1807; a surgeon; a farmer near
Geelong, Victoria 1848; member for South Grant in Victoria
legislative council 1853, chief sec. 28 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857
and 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; spent 3 years in Europe
1858–61; member for Portland 1861 to death; treasurer of Victoria
14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863. _d._ 1864.
HAINSSELIN, D. F. Sailor in British navy; supposed to be last
survivor of Keppel’s action 1778; also at celebrated relief of
Gibraltar 1782; in the action with the French fleet off Plymouth
in the Royal George 29 May and 1 June 1794, for which he had medal
with two bars. _d._ Chapel st. Devonport 3 Sep. 1852 aged 92.
HAIRE, ROBERT. Called to Irish bar 1793; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; resided
at Armagh, co. Fermanagh. _d._ 3 March 1851.
HAITE, JOHN JAMES. Member of Soc. of British musicians; author of
_The principles of natural harmony, founded upon the discovery of
the true semitonic scale_ 1855; _Violoncello tutor_; composer of
many musical pieces including Favourite melodies as quintets 1865,
Abraham’s sacrifice a cantata 1871, David and Goliath an oratorio
1880, The song of the year. _d._ London, Oct. 1874.
HAKEWILL, ARTHUR WILLIAM (_1 son of James Hakewill 1778–1843,
architect_). _b._ 1808; member Architectural soc.; architect,
writer and lecturer; lectured on James Barry’s painting at Soc. of
Arts; author of _An apology for architectural monstrosities of
London_ 1835; _Plans of Thorpe hall_, _Peterborough_ 1851; _Modern
tombs, or gleanings from the cemeteries of London_ 1851. _d._ 19
June 1856.
HAKEWILL, EDWARD CHARLES (_youngest son of Henry Hakewill 1771–1830,
architect_). _b._ 1812; designed churches at Stonham Aspall and
Grundisburgh, Suffolk, South Hackney and St. James’ Clapton;
metropolitan district surveyor to 1867; M.R.I.B.A.; author of _The
Temple, an essay on the Ark, the Tabernacle and the Temple of
Jerusalem_ 1851. _d._ Playford, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1872. _Builder 2
Nov. 1872 p._ 860.
HAKEWILL, JOHN HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1811;
architect of Stowlangtoffe hall, Suffolk, the hospital at Bury St.
Edmunds, Erchfont ch. Wilts., and churches at Yarmouth; F.R.I.B.A.
1854; an originator of Architects’ Benevolent Fund. _d._ 77
Inverness ter. Bayswater, London 30 Aug. 1880. _Builder 11 Sept.
1880, p._ 315.
HALCOMB, JOHN (_son of John Halcomb of Marlborough, coach
proprietor_). _b._ 1790; barrister I.T. 13 June 1823; serjeant at
law 19 Feb. 1840; contested Dover 1826, 1828, 1830, 1832 and 1841;
M.P. for Dover 1833–35; contested Warwick 1835; author of _A
report of the trials in the causes of Rowe versus Grenfell, &c._
1826; _A practical measure of relief from the present system of
the poor laws_ 1826; _A practical treatise on passing private
bills through both houses of parliament_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._
New Radnor 3 Nov. 1852.
HALDANE, DANIEL RUTHERFORD (_son of James Alexander Haldane of
Airthrey, co. Stirling_). _b._ 1824; ed. at Edin. univ., M.D.
1848, LLD. 1884; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852, afterwards sec. and
president; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; lecturer on medical jurisprudence
Surgeons’ hall, Edin. then teacher of medicine; physician royal
infirmary, Edin. _d._ at 22 Charlotte sq. Edin. 12 April 1887 from
effect of breaking his leg 25 Dec. 1886. _Scotsman 13 April 1887
p._ 6.
HALDANE, REV. JAMES ALEXANDER (_youngest son of Capt. James Haldane
of Airthrey house, co. Stirling, d. 30 June 1768_). _b._ Dundee 14
July 1768; ed. at Edin. univ. 1781–5; of H.E.I.C. naval service
1785–94; established soc. for propagating the Gospel at home 1797;
minister of Leith walk congregational ch. Edin. 1799 to death;
embraced Baptist sentiments 1808; took part in many religious
controversies 1811–47; an itinerant preacher and tract distributor
in Scotland 1797 to death; author of _A view of the social worship
of the first Christians 1805_, _2 ed._ 1806; _The doctrine of the
Atonement 1847_, _5 ed._ 1877, and 11 other books. _d._ Edinburgh
8 Feb. 1851. _A. Haldane’s Memoirs of R. and J. A. Haldane_
(1855), _portrait_.
HALDANE, REV. ROBERT (_son of a farmer_). _b._ Overtown, Lecropt,
Perthshire 1772; ed. at Glasgow univ.; presbyterian minister
Drummelzier, Peebles 1807–9; professor of mathematics St. Andrews
univ. 1807–20; minister of St. Andrews parish, principal of St.
Mary’s coll. and primarius professor of divinity 1820 to death;
moderator of general assembly 1827 and chairman at the disruption
in 1843; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 9 March
1854.
HALDIMAND, WILLIAM (_son of Anthony Francis Haldimand 1741–1817,
merchant_). _b._ London 9 Sep. 1784; in business with his father;
director of bank of England 1809; M.P. Ipswich 1820–26; settled at
Denanton near Lausanne 1828; erected hospital at Aix-les-Bains
1829; gave £24,000 for a blind asylum at Lausanne. _d._ Denanton
20 Sep. 1862. _W. de la Rive’s Vie de Haldimand._
HALDON, SIR LAURENCE PALK, 1 Baron (_1 son of Sir Laurence Vaughan
Palk, 3 baronet, d. 1860_). _b._ London 5 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton;
M.P. South Devon 1854–68 and East Devon 1868–80; hon. col. 1 Devon
A.V. 10 July 1868 to death; commodore Torquay yacht club, built a
harbour at Torquay; cr. baron Haldon of Haldon, Devon 29 April
1880. _d._ Haldon house near Exeter 23 March 1883. _Baily’s Mag.
xxxii_, 187 (1878), _portrait_.
HALE, CHARLES B. _b._ Ballington, Essex 23 June 1819; made first
appearance at Hereford as Thessalus in _Alexander the Great_ 8
Jany. 1837; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre as Filch
in _Beggars’ Opera_ 5 Oct. 1849; first appeared at Broadway
theatre, New York 7 May 1852 as Sam Warren in the _Poor Relation_;
a member of John Brougham’s theatre, New York 1868–9, played
character parts and old men. _d._ Morrisania, New York 11 Feb.
1876. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1876 p._ 618.
HALE, CHARLOTTE FRANCE, _b._ London 8 Aug. 1830; first appeared at
Surrey theatre as Dick in _Oliver Twist_ June 1838; made her debut
in New York at Astor place opera house as Margaret Overreach in a
_New Way to pay Old Debts_ 8 May 1852; played in Philadelphia,
Baltimore, New Orleans and Montreal. (_m._ Charles B. Hale _d._
1876), she _d._ Cincinnati 6 Dec. 1865.
HALE, JOSEPH. Ensign Bombay army 4 Jany. 1821; lieut. col. 23 Bombay
light infantry 1857–58; col. of 22 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 1
European regiment 1860–62, of 103 foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death;
commanded Poona division 1860–62; L.G. 23 Feb. 1869. _d._ 11 Royal
crescent, Bath 13 Feb. 1873.
HALE, ROBERT BLAGDEN (_son of Robert Hale Blagden Hale of Alderley,
Gloucestershire, d. 1855_). _b._ 1807; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s inn 1830; M.P. for West Gloucs.
1836–57; sheriff of Gloucester 1870. _d._ Alderley 22 July 1883.
HALE, REV. THOMAS JACOB JOHN (_son of Thomas Hale of Batheaston,
Somerset_). _b._ 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A.
1815, B. and D.D. 1826; successively chaplain at Versailles, St.
Germain-en-Laye and at the British embassy in Paris 17 June 1851
to death. _d._ Paris 25 April 1857.
HALE, WARREN STORMES (_youngest son of Edward Hale of Herts._) _b._
2 Feb. 1791; apprentice to his bro. Ford Hale, wax chandler,
London 1804; candle manufacturer 21 Cateaton st. and Queen st.
London, the first to utilise animal and vegetable fatty acids in
England; member of common council city of London 1826, deputy of
Coleman st. ward 1850, alderman 1856, sheriff 1858–9, lord mayor
1864–5; a founder of City of London sch. 1837, chairman of the
committee to death, Warren Stormes Hale scholarship founded 1865;
master of Co. of Tallow chandlers 1849, 1851. _d._ West Heath,
Hampstead 23 Aug. 1872. _City Press 24, 31 Aug._, _12 Oct. 1872_;
_I.L.N. xlv_, 469 (1864), _portrait_; _Lord Mayor’s song for 9
Nov._ [_on W. S. Hales_] 1864.
HALE, VEN. WILLIAM HALE (_son of John Hale, surgeon, Lynn, Norfolk,
d. 1799_). _b._ 12 Sep. 1795; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st.
London 1818; preacher at the Charterhouse 1823–42, master Feb.
1842 to death; domestic chaplain to Dr. C. J. Blomfield bishop of
Chester and London 1824–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1829–46, canon
1840 to death; archdeacon of St. Albans 1839–40, of Middlesex
1840–42 and of London 4 Nov. 1842 to death; R. of St. Giles,
Cripplegate 1847–57; hon. curator of Lambeth palace library March
1869; arranged the records and documents at St. Paul’s cath.;
author of _A series of precedents illustrative of discipline of
Church of England 1847_; _Some account of the history of the
hospital of King James, founded by Thomas Sutton 1854_, anon.;
_Some account of Christ’s hospital 1855_ and edited 3 works for
the Camden Soc. 1858–74. _d._ Master’s lodge, Charterhouse 27 Nov.
1870. _bur._ in the nave of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Dec. _The Church of
England photographic portrait gallery 1859_, _portrait 41_.
HALES, MARY BARBARA FELICITAS (_dau. of Sir Edward Hales d. before
1841_). _b._ 1836; a ward in chancery; took the veil 1861 but
obtaining a dispensation from Pius ix for her vows of poverty and
obedience, returned to Hales place near Canterbury; commenced
erecting a nunnery at Hales place, her trustees interfered, a
lawsuit ensued, Hales place passed to the Jesuits who made the
mansion into a college; a witness in the Tichborne case 1872. _d._
Sarre court, Kent 18 April 1885. _Times 24 April 1885 p._ 11.
HALES, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Hales of West Somerton near Yarmouth,
farmer who was 6 feet 6 inches high, weighing 14 stone_). _b._
Somerton 2 May 1814; worked on board a Norfolk wherry and was then
in the navy; known as the Norfolk giant, stood 7 feet 6 inches
high and weighed 452 lbs.; exhibited in the U.S. of America 14
Dec. 1848 to Dec. 1850; landlord of Craven Head tavern, Drury
Lane, London, Jany. 1851, became insolvent 22 Sep. 1855;
introduced to the Queen at Buckingham palace 11 April 1851; spent
some time in France; kept the Burgoyne arms, Langsett road,
Sheffield 1861. _d._ Marine passage, Yarmouth 22 Nov. 1863. _bur._
West Somerton. _Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs_ (1868) 208; _I.L.N.
xix_, 44 (1851), _portrait_; _Yarmouth Chronicle 28 Nov. 1863 p._
8.
NOTE.—His sister Mary 7 feet 2 inches high and weighing 224
lbs., exhibited herself with her brother at New Bartholomew
fair in Britannia Fields 1848. She _d._ in Guernsey.
HALFORD, FREDERIC WILLIAM. Secretary to the Reform club, Pall Mall,
London 8 Aug. 1862 to 30 June 1887; author of _The Angel, an
idyll_ 1870. _d._ Hastings 6 May 1888 in 59 year.
HALFORD, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Henry Vaughan, 1
baronet 1766–1844, who assumed surname of Halford 1809_). _b._
London 22 April 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign
43 foot 5 March 1818; lieut. 33 foot 1821 to 8 Aug. 1822 when
placed on h.p.; M.P. South Leicestershire, Dec. 1832 to 20 March
1857; attempted to ameliorate condition of framework knitters;
made researches into _History of French revolution_, a work
unpublished at his death. _d._ Wiston hall, Newton Harcourt,
Leicestershire 22 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_, 570 (1868); _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xxv_, 315 (1869).
HALIBURTON, JAMES (_son of James Haliburton who changed his name to
Burton_). _b._ 22 Sep. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810,
M.A. 1815; made geological survey in Egypt 1822; with John Gardner
Wilkinson in Egypt 1824, with Edward W. Lane in 1826 and again in
Egypt 1830–5; resumed name of Haliburton 1838; F.G.S. to 1841;
author of _Excerpta Hieroglyphica, 6 lithograph plates, Cairo_
1825–9; _Collectanea Ægyptiaca_ 63 _volumes MSS._ in Br. Museum.
_d._ 10 Hamilton place, Newington, Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1862.
HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER (_only child of Wm. Otis Haliburton,
justice of court of common pleas, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Windsor,
Nova Scotia, Dec. 1796; ed. at gr. sch. and King’s coll. Windsor;
chief justice of court of common pleas, N.S. 1828–40, judge of
supreme court 1 Jany. 1842 to Feb. 1856; M.P. for Launceston,
England 29 April 1859 to 6 July 1865; author of _An historical
account of Nova Scotia_ _2 vols._ 1829; _The Clockmaker, or
sayings of Sam Slick_ 3 _series_ 1837, 1838, 1840; _The attaché,
or Sam Slick in England_ _4 vols._ 1843–4 and 13 other books. _d._
Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 27 Aug. 1865. _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, _xiv_, 81–94 (1843), _portrait_; _J. Grant’s Public
Characters, i_, 291–304 (1841); _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) 166–71; _The Critic_, _xviii_, 126 (1859), _portrait_.
HALIDAY, ALEXANDER HENRY. _b._ 21 Nov. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, gold medallist 1827; sheriff of Antrim 1843; edited with
others _The natural history review_ _7 vols._ 1854–60; author of
_Hymenoptera Britannica Oxyura_ 1839; author with G. Busk of
_Reports on Zoology_ 1847. _d._ Villa Pisani near Lucca 13 July
1870. _I.L.N. lvii_, 155 (1870).
HALIDAY, CHARLES (_son of William Haliday of Dublin, apothecary_).
_b._ 1789; a merchant in the bark trade Dublin 1813; member of
Royal Irish academy Jany. 1847; director of bank of Ireland;
consul for Greece; sec. of Chamber of commerce, Dublin; formed a
considerable library; author of _An inquiry into the use of
liquors in producing crime_ 1830 and papers on the history of the
port and commerce of Dublin 1854–73. _d._ Monkstown park near
Dublin 14 Sep. 1866. _The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin, by C.
Haliday_ (1884) _with memoir by J. P. Prendergast, pp.
iii-cxxiii_.
HALIDAY, WILLIAM ROBERT. _b._ 1809; ensign 75 foot 12 Feb. 1830;
major 36 foot 1849 to 24 June 1862 when placed on h.p.; commandant
and inspector general school of musketry at Hythe 16 Oct. 1867 to
1 Jany. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Hanover chambers, 23 Hanover
sq. London 12 Feb. 1878.
HALIFAX, CHARLES WOOD, 1 Viscount (_1 son of Sir Francis Lindley
Wood 1771–1846, 2 baronet_). _b._ Pontefract 20 Dec. 1800; ed. at
Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; student of
Lincoln’s inn 1822; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–31, M.P. Wareham 1831,
M.P. Halifax 1832–65, M.P. Ripon 1865–6; sec. to the treasury
1832–4, sec. to admiralty 1835–9; chancellor of exchequer 1846–52;
P.C. 6 July 1846; president of board of control 1852–5; first lord
of admiralty 1855–8; G.C.B. 19 June 1856; sec. of state India and
president of council 1859–66; lord privy seal 1870–4; cr. Viscount
Halifax of Monk Bretton, co. York 25 Feb. 1866; many of his
speeches were printed 1839–53. _d._ Hickleton near Doncaster 8
Aug. 1885. _The British Cabinet in 1853 pp._ 334–46; _I.L.N.
xviii_, 129 (1851) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_, 181 (1885) _portrait_.
HALKETT, SIR ALEXANDER (_5 son of Sir John Wedderburn Halket
1720–93, 4 baronet_). _b._ 1773; 2 lieut. 23 foot 31 March 1790;
lieut. col. of 93 foot 25 Aug. 1800, of 104 foot 3 May 1810 to 27
Oct. 1814; served in West Indies 1794–96, at Cape of Good Hope
1804; knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 8 March 1837;
K.C.H. 8 March 1837; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Edinburgh 24 Aug.
1851.
HALKETT, SIR COLIN (_1 son of major general Frederick Godar Halkett
1728–1803_). _b._ Venloo, Netherlands 7 Sep. 1774; ensign and
lieut. Dutch foot guards 2 March 1792 to 27 April 1795; ensign 3
foot 3 Jany. 1799 to Feb. 1800; capt. 2 Dutch light infantry in
British pay Feb. 1800 to 1802; lieut. col. commandant 2 bat.
King’s German legion 1803–12; served in the Peninsula and
commanded a brigade at Waterloo; lieut. governor of Jersey 23 July
1821 to 7 Aug. 1830; commander in chief at Bombay 1831–2; col. of
95 foot 1823, of 71 foot 1829, of 31 foot 1838, and of 45 foot
1847 to death; lieut. governor Chelsea hospital 1848, governor
1849 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 30 Dec. 1847; G.C.H.
1820; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Chelsea hospital 24 Sep. 1856.
HALKETT, SIR HUGH (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Musselburgh near
Edinburgh 30 Aug. 1783; ensign in Scotch brigade in Holland 1794;
went to India as lieut. 1798, remained till 1801; major King’s
German legion 1805 with which he served in the Peninsula 1809–12;
lieut. col. 22 Sep. 1812 to 24 May 1816, commanded first
Hanoverian brigade in North Germany 1813–14; commanded 3 and 4
Hanoverian landwehr at Waterloo, when he took general Pierre J. E.
Cambronne prisoner; served in the Hanoverian service 1817 to 1858
when he was made baron Von Halkett and voted his full pay as a
pension 18 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815; G.C.H. 1851. _d._ Hanover
26 July 1863. _Leben des Freiherrn Hugh von Halkett, Stuttgart_
(1865).
HALKETT, JOHN. _b._ London 1768; governor of the Bahamas 5 Dec.
1801, of Tobago 27 Oct. 1803 to 1805; chairman of board of comrs.
of West India accounts 1814–19; author of _Historical notes
respecting the Indians of North America_ 1823. _d._ Brighton, Nov.
1852.
HALKETT, JOHN CRAIGIE (_2 son of John Cornelius Craigie Halkett of
Hall Hill, d. 1812_). Entered Bengal army; defended the fort of
Khelat-i-Ghilzie in Afghanistan; lieut. col. 20 Bengal N.I. to
1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; served 35
years in India and fought in more than 100 battles. _d._ 59
Melville st. Edinburgh 5 Jany. 1870.
HALKETT, SAMUEL (_son of a brewer_). _b._ North Back of Canongate,
Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Smith’s Classical sch.; in business with
Mr. Harrison 10 years; knew many of the European and Asiatic
languages; keeper of library of Faculty of Advocates 1848 to
death; commenced printing a catalogue 1860; made a Report on the
Library, printed 1868; collected materials 1852–71 for a
dictionary of anonymous English works published as _A dictionary
of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain, By
the late Samuel Halkett and the late Rev. John Laing_, _4 vols._
_Edinburgh_ 1882–8. _d._ 35 East Claremont st. Edin. 20 April
1871. _Edin. Evening Courant 21 April 1871 p._ 8.
HALL, ANNA MARIA (_dau. of Mr. Fielding_). _b._ Anne st. Dublin 6
Jany. 1800; edited _Juvenile Forget me not_ 1826–34, _Sharpe’s
London Mag._ 1852–3, _St. James’s Mag._ 1862–3; produced 3 dramas
The French refugee 1836, The Groves of Blarney 1838 and Mabel’s
curse; granted civil list pension of £100, 10 Dec. 1868. (_m._ 20
Sep. 1824 Samuel Carter Hall 1800–89); author of _Sketches of
Irish character_ _3 vols._ 1829; _Lights and shadows of Irish
life_ _3 vols._ 1838; _Pilgrimages to English shrines_ 1850; _A
woman’s story_ _3 vols._ 1857; _The Fight of Faith_ _2 vols._ 1869
and about 40 other works; with her husband wrote _Ireland, its
scenery, characters, &c._ _3 vols._ 1841–3 and other works. _d._
Devon lodge, East Moulsey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. _S. C. Hall’s
Retrospect of a long life, ii_, 251–2, 421–78 (1883), _portrait_;
_Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 366–72, _portrait_; _Biograph,
Jany. 1882 pp._ 104–14; _Illust. news of the world, viii_ (1861),
_portrait_.
HALL, CHAMBERS. _b._ 1786; collector of drawings, bronzes, etc.;
gave to Br. Museum 66 drawings by Thomas Girtin 1855 and to Univ.
of Oxford drawings by Raphael, sketches by Hogarth, bronzes, &c.
1855; author of _The picture: a nosegay for amateurs ... and all
the craft, By C. H._ 1837. _d._ 16 Bury st. St. James’, London 29
Aug. 1855.
HALL, SIR CHARLES (_4 son of John Hall of Manchester, merchant_).
_b._ Manchester 14 April 1814; pupil of Lewis Duval the
conveyancer, to whose practice he succeeded 1844; barrister M.T.
23 Nov. 1838, bencher 15 Jany. 1872; counsel in Bridgewater
peerage case 1853, Shrewsbury peerage case 1857 and Allgood _v._
Blake 1872; said to have made £10,000 a year at the chancery bar,
of which he was the head 1871–3; one of conveyancing counsel to
court of chancery 1864 to Nov. 1873, vice chancellor 11 Nov. 1873;
knighted at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1873; a judge of high court of
justice Nov. 1875, resigned 12 Sep. 1882. _d._ 8 Bayswater hill,
London 12 Dec. 1883. _I.L.N. lxiii_, 485 (1873), _portrait_.
HALL, CHARLES RADCLYFFE. _b._ Congleton, Cheshire 1819; M.R.C.S.
Eng. 1845; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1848; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; medical
officer Manchester royal infirmary; physician Clifton; physician
Bristol general hospital 1849, removed to Torquay 1850; consulting
physician Torquay hospital for consumption 1851; president British
Medical assoc. 1853 and 1860; physician Erith house institution,
Torquay 1855, consulting physician 1864; author of _Torquay in its
medical aspect_ 1857; _Modern medicine, its aims and tendencies,
Torquay_ 1860 and of many papers in medical journals. _d._ Derwent
house, Torquay 21 March 1879. _T. H. Barker’s Photographs of
Medical men_ (1865) 133–37, _portrait_.
HALL, COLLINSON (_son of Collinson Hall, adapter of percussion cap
to flint gun 1818_). _b._ 1800; farmer at Havering Atte Bower,
Essex, 500 acres; a practical and experimental farmer using
expensive manures; the first to use a steam threshing machine; a
lecturer on farming; removed to Prince’s gate farm, Navestock,
Essex 1850; took out 11 patents for steam ploughs; one of the
first to send country milk to London; erected a steam flour mill
1852; made a self propelling ploughing engine 1853. _d._ Dytchleys
near Brentford at the residence of his son, April 1880. _Illust.
Sporting and Dramatic News 17 April 1880 pp._ 101–2, _portrait_.
HALL, EDWARD PICKARD (_son of John Vine Hall 1774–1860_). _b._
Worcester 4 June 1808; associated with his father in conducting
_Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser_; organist and
choirmaster East Farleigh; a partner in the Oxford press 1853–84;
a founder of Oxford Churchmen’s Union; M.A. of Oxford univ. 6
March 1877; author of _The Oxford index to the authorised version
of the Bible_ 1877. _d._ Oxford 6 Nov. 1886. _The Bookseller 8
Jany. 1887 p._ 7.
HALL, FRANCIS. _b._ Taunton 1785; went to U.S. of A. 1799;
apprenticed to a printer; entered office of New York _Commercial
Advertiser_ 1811, part owner and co-editor 1813 to death;
recording sec. of Methodist Missionary soc. 30 years; organized
with others the first “pewed” Methodist church in New York about
1833; LLD. Wesleyan Univ. 1854. _d._ New York 11 Aug. 1866.
HALL, REV. FRANCIS RUSSELL (_son of Rev. Samuel Hall, Inc. of St.
Peter’s, Manchester, d. 1814_). _b._ Manchester 17 May 1788; ed.
at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wr. 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D.
1820, D.D. 1839; fellow of his coll. 1807–26; R. of St. Vigor’s,
Fulbourn, Cam. 20 Oct. 1826 to death; author of _Reasons for not
contributing to circulate the Apocrypha_ 1825; _Regeneration and
baptism considered_ 1832; _Hints to young clergymen_ 1843. _d._
Fulbourn rectory 18 Nov. 1866.
HALL, FREDERIC THOMAS. Solicitor at 15 Gray’s inn square, London
1858 to death; author of _The Gospels consolidated with a copious
index, by F. T. H._ 1869; _Alphabetical Harmony of the Gospels, by
F. T. H._ 1877; _The pedigree of the devil_ 1883. _d._ Wraysbury,
Bucks. 15 July 1885 in 50 year.
HALL, GAGE JOHN. Ensign 105 foot 29 May 1783; lieut. col. 7 West
India foot 3 Sep. 1807 to 4 June 1813; prisoner in France 1805–14;
commanded the forces at Mauritius 1817–19; col. of 99 foot 25
March 1824, of 70 foot 30 Jany. 1832 to death; general 23 Nov.
1841. _d._ Elmfield house, Exeter 18 April 1854.
HALL, HARRY. _b._ Cambridge; exhibited 10 paintings at R.A., 17 at
B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1838–75; painted winners of the Derby
43 consecutive years. _d._ High st. Newmarket 22 April 1882 in 68
year. _Graphic_, _xxv_, 528 (1882), _portrait_.
HALL, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 4 June 1804; first appeared in London at
Strand theatre 17 May 1836 as Iago in Dowling’s burletta
_Othello!_ (_according to act of parliament_), in which he made a
great hit, he studied the part consisting of 20 lengths and as
many pieces of music in 5 hours, this has been often cited as the
most rapid act of study on record; played Old Weller in
Moncrieff’s drama _Sam Weller or the Pickwickians_, July 1837;
manager of Strand theatre 1841–5; made his debut in America at
Burton’s theatre, New York 1854; stage manager of Laura Keene’s
theatre, New York. _d._ Cincinnati, Ohio 5 July 1858. _Tallis’s
Drawing room table book_, _part 7_, _portrait_.
HALL, HENRY (_4 son of Ven. Francis Hall, archdeacon of
Kilmacduagh_). _b._ 11 Sep. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; raised
a corps among a wild race of Imhairs in West of India whom he
civilized by inducing them to abandon their habits of murder and
infanticide; col. of 21 Bengal N.I. 21 Dec. 1844 to 1869; general
23 July 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Knockbrach lodge, Athenry,
co. Galway 22 Aug. 1875.
HALL, HENRY BRYAN. _b._ London 11 March 1808; engraved all the
portrait work in large works of the historical engraver to the
Queen many years; went to New York 1850; illustrated many artistic
and literary publications; engraved 12 portraits of Washington
after different artists; in business with his 3 sons as engravers
latterly. _d._ Morrisania, New York 28 April 1884.
HALL, HERBERT BYNG. Ensign 39 foot 10 Dec. 1824; captain 7 foot
1832; captain 62 foot 1833 to 20 Sep. 1833 when he sold out;
attaché to staff of commander in chief of army of Queen of Spain
some time; extra foreign service messenger on Constantinople
station 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858; foreign service messenger 24
Jany. 1859, retired on a pension 1 July 1882; author of _Spain and
the seat of war in Spain_ 1837; _Scenes at home and abroad_ 1839;
_The Queen’s Messenger_ 1865; _The adventures of a bric-a-brac
hunter_ 1868 and 13 other books. _d._ Glen Rock, Weston, Bath 25
April 1883 aged 78.
HALL, JAMES (_youngest son of Sir James Hall, 4 baronet 1761–1832_).
_b._ about 1800; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 7 at B.I.
1835–54; painted portraits of Duke of Wellington 1838 and of Sir
Walter Scott whose MS. of ‘Waverley’ he gave to Advocates’ library
at Edinburgh; F.G.S.; contested Taunton 1841 and 1842; author of
some speculative letters on Binocular Perspective in the _Art
Journal_, March pp. 89–90, and August pp. 245–6, 1852. _d._
Ashestiel, co. Selkirk 26 Oct. 1854.
HALL, JAMES (_son of Samuel Hall, attorney_). _b._ Beverley,
Yorkshire 1801; a well known sheep breeder; master of Holderness
fox hounds 1847 to death; presented with his portrait and a silver
dinner service at Beverley 1857. _d._ Scorbrough, E.R. Yorks. 19
July 1877. _F. Ross’ Celebrities of Yorkshire worlds_ (1878)
70–71.
HALL, SIR JOHN (_1 son of Rev. John Hall of Stannington,
Yorkshire_). _b._ Stannington 1779; consul and agent for maritime
seignory of Papenburgh in East Friesland 1807; consul general for
Hanover in the United Kingdom 1816–54; sheriff of Essex 1817; sec.
to St. Katherine’s Dock company 1824–53; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at
St. James’s palace 23 March 1831; author of _Plain statement of
facts connected with St. Katharine’s dock_ 1824; _Letter on
obstructions of river Thames_ 1827. _d._ 6 Lansdowne crescent,
Kensington park, London 21 Jany. 1861.
HALL, SIR JOHN (_son of John Hall of Little Beck, Westmoreland_).
_b._ Little Beck 1795; hospital assistant in army 24 June 1815;
inspector general 28 March 1854 to 1 Jany. 1857 when placed on
h.p.; served the campaigns of Flanders 1815, Kaffraria 1847 and
1851; principal medical officer throughout Crimean campaign
1854–56; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; author of
_Observations on the report of the sanitary commissioners in the
Crimea 1855 and 1856, 1857_. _d._ Pisa, Italy 17 Jany. 1866.
_Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_, 149, 165 (1867).
HALL, JOHN (_son of John Hall of Weston Colville, Cambs., who d. 25
Aug. 1860 aged 93_). _b._ 1799; cornet 1 life guards 4 Sep. 1817,
lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 19 hussars 10 Feb.
1865 to death; general 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. for Buckingham 1845–57.
_d._ 5 May 1872 in 74 year.
HALL, REV. JOHN. _b._ Preston 1796; ed. at Ushaw coll.; R.C. priest
St. Michael’s chapel, Macclesfield 17 April 1821 to 1841; erected
St. Alban ch. Macclesfield from design by Pugin 1839–41; designed
and erected St. Mary chapel, Congleton 1825–6; erected St. Gregory
chapel, Bollington 1834; cr. D.D. by Pius ix. 1852; V.G. to bishop
of Shrewsbury and provost of cathedral chapter to death. _d._
Macclesfield 1 Oct. 1876. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_,
90–92 (1887).
HALL, JOHN EDWARD (_eld. son of Edward Hall of Acton, Middlesex_).
_b._ 1837; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862;
barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; reporter for the _Weekly Reporter_;
reported in the Court of Appeal for the _Law Reports_ 1875–84; a
revising barrister 1880 to death; author of _Treatise on the, law
relating to profits à prendre and rights of common_ 1871. _d._ 40
St. James’s sq. Notting hill, London 11 Aug. 1886.
HALL, JOHN VINE. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 14 March 1774; a bookseller at
Worcester 1804–1814; a stationer at Maidstone 1814–50; proprietor
of the _Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser_; lived in
Kentish Town, London 1854 to death; published the _Sinner’s
Friend_ 29 May 1821, this tract reached its 356 ed. before the
author’s death, it is said to have been translated into 30
languages and to have circulated more than 1,500,000 copies. _d._
Heath cottage, Kentish Town, London 22 Sep. 1860. _The Author of
the Sinner’s Friend, An autobiography_ (1865), _portrait_.
HALL, JOSEPH. M.D. King’s college, Aberdeen on Elphinstone
foundation 1851; author of _Lancaster castle, its history and
associations_ 1843; _The doctor’s guide to Canada_; _Handbook for
merchant captains, a guide to the medicine chest_. _d._ 34
Terrace, Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 2 April 1854.
HALL, LEWIS ALEXANDER. Second lieut. R.E. 21 July 1810, col.
commandant 3 Aug. 1863 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1863; author of
_Astronomical observations made with Airy’s Zenith sector_ 1852.
_d._ Southampton 16 March 1868 aged 74.
HALL, MARSHALL (_4 son of Robert Hall of Basford, Notts., cotton
spinner 1755–1827_). _b._ Basford 18 Feb. 1790; ed. at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1812; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1842,
Croonian lecturer 1850–2; practised at Nottingham 1817–26,
physician to general hospital there 1825–6; practised in London
1826–53, made £4000 a year; F.R.S. Edin. 1818; F.R.S. 5 April
1832, member of council 1850–52, but society refused to print
account of many of his discoveries; member of Institute of France
1855; discovered the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and
the medulla spinalis 1832; author of _On diagnosis_ 1817, _3 ed._
1837; _An essay on the circulation of the blood_ 1831;
_Observations on blood letting_ 1836; _Principles of the theory
and practice of medicine_ 1837; _On the diseases of the nervous
system_ 1841 and 20 other works. _d._ 37 King’s road, Brighton 11
Aug. 1857. _Memoir by his widow Charlotte Hall_ (1861),
_portrait_; _Proc. of royal soc. ix_, 52–56 (1857); _J. F.
Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 327–30;
_Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1840), _portrait_;
_C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 350–52.
HALL, RICHARD. _b._ 1817; author of _A tale of the past, and other
poems_ 1850. _d._ 1866. _The Red Dragon_, _iv_, 223–30 (1883).
HALL, RICHARD. _b._ Cirencester, Gloucs. 1806, a land agent and
surveyor there 1827 to about 1850; much engaged in purchasing land
for railway companies; in London about 1850 to death; member of
Institution of Surveyors 13 July 1868, president May 1870 to 1872;
A.I.C.E. 5 Jany. 1861; helped to establish Agricultural coll. at
Cirencester 1842; resided Baglan house, Glamorgan. _d._ Hillingdon
Furze near Uxbridge 22 Feb. 1878. _Trans. Instit. of Surveyors_,
_x_, 385–7 (1877–8).
HALL, ROBERT (_only child of Henry Hall of Bank lodge, Leeds
1773–1859_). _b._ Kirkgate, Leeds 15 Nov. 1801; commoner at Ch.
Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1828; deputy
recorder of Leeds 1842; recorder of Doncaster 1845 to death;
lecturer on common law at Inner Temple 1848–52; contested Leeds
1852, M.P. for Leeds 28 March 1857; author of _Mettray, a lecture
on continental reformatories_ 1854. _d._ Folkestone 26 May 1857.
_bur._ Whitkirk church near Leeds, statue in Leeds town hall
erected July 1861. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 466–71;
_I.L.N. 27 June 1857 p._ 627, _portrait_, _xxxix_, 50 (1861).
NOTE.—He had all his arms and legs broken in a railway
accident at the Leeds central station 3 Jany. 1855 for which
he obtained a verdict of £4,500 damages from the Great
Northern railway co.
HALL, ROBERT. _b._ Kingston, Upper Canada 1817; entered R.N. 27 May
1833; commander of Agamemnon one of first screw ships 1853;
captain 24 June 1855; in expedition to Kertch 1855; private sec.
to D. of Somerset first lord of admiralty 1863; superintendent of
Pembroke dockyard 1866; naval sec. to admiralty 1872 to death;
C.B. 2 June 1869; retired captain 5 July 1872, retired V.A. 21
March 1878. _d._ 28 Craven hill gardens, London 11 June 1882.
HALL, SAMUEL. _b._ 1769; cobbler Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; joined
the quakers; known as the Sherwood Forest Patriarch; author of _A
few remarks, among which are reasons why the Quakers suffer loss
rather than serve in the army_ 1797. _d._ Brookside cottage,
Sutton-in-Ashfield 20 Aug. 1852 in 84 year. _Smith’s Friends’
Books_, _i_, 907 (1867); _Spencer T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_
(1873) 211–28.
HALL, SAMUEL (_elder bro. of Marshall Hall 1790–1857_). _b._
Basford, Notts. 1781; took out patents in 1817 and 1823 for
gassing lace and net, which were most successful, process still
used; took out 20 other patents chiefly relating to steam engines
and boilers. _d._ Morgan st. Tredegar sq. Bow, London 21 Nov.
1863. _W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery_ (1867) 300–6.
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (_4 son of Robert Hall, lieut. col. of the Devon
and Cornwall fencibles, d. 1836_). _b._ Geneva barracks near
Waterford 9 May 1800; gallery reporter for _The New Times_ 1823;
edited the _Literary Observer_ 1823; established the _Amulet_ 1825
which he edited 1825–37; sub-edited and edited _New Monthly Mag._
1830–36; started a newspaper called _The Town_; established _Art
Union Journal_ 15 Feb. 1839 which he edited to 1880; member of
Soc. of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828, president 1855–81; barrister I.T.
30 April 1841; F.S.A. 7 April 1842; edited _Social Notes_ 1877, 48
numbers; granted civil list pension of £150, 28 April 1880; a
spiritualist; author of _The baronial halls and picturesque
edifices of England_ 1848; _A book of memories of great men and
women of the age_ 1871, _2 ed_. 1876; _Memoir of T. Moore_ 1879;
edited _The book of gems, poets and artists_ _3 vols._ 1836–8; and
with his wife published about 340 volumes. (_m._ 20 Sep. 1824 Anna
Maria Fielding). _d._ 24 Stanford road, Kensington, London 16
March 1889. _bur._ Addlestone ch. yard 23 March. _S. C. Hall’s
Retrospect of a long life_ (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 March
1889 p._ 407, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_
(1861), _portrait_.
HALL, REV. SAMUEL ROMILLY (_son of John Wesley Hall_). _b._ Bristol
1 Dec. 1812; ed. at Hoxton instit. 1835–7; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1837 to death, president of the conference 1868; author
of _Memoirs of Mr. John Janeway_ 1854; _Illustrative records of
John Wesley and early Methodism_ 1856; _A charge delivered to
forty three junior preachers_ 1869. _d._ Rosentein, Redland,
Bristol 6 June 1876. _I.L.N. liii_, 200 (1868), _portrait_;
_Nightingale’s Life of S. R. Hall_ (1879), _portrait_.
HALL, SPENCER. _b._ Ireland 1806; librarian Athenæum club, London
1833, collected a fine library of books of reference, retired May
1875; F.S.A. 13 May 1858; author of _Suggestions for
classification of the library at the Athenæum_ 1838; _Echyngham of
Echyngham_ 1850; _Documents from Simancas relating to reign of
Elizabeth_ 1865 and of papers on archæology. _d._ Tunbridge Wells
21 Aug. 1875, his library sold 26 June 1876.
HALL, SPENCER TIMOTHY (_son of Samuel Hall 1769–1852_). _b._
Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 Dec. 1812; stocking weaver 1823; printer and
bookseller at Sutton 1836; co-editor of _Iris_ newspaper and
governor of Hillis hospital, Sheffield 1841; lecturer on mesmerism
1841, cured Harriet Martineau when she was given up by her
physician 1844; homœopathic doctor at Derby 1852–66, at Plumgarths
near Kendal 1866, at Burnley 1870, at Lytham 1880, at Blackpool
1881 to death; known as the Sherwood Forester; author of _The
Sherwood Forester’s Offering_ 1841, the greater part of which he
set up in type without manuscript; _The peak and the plain_ 1853;
_Biographical sketches of remarkable people_ 1873. _d._ Alexandra
road, South Shore, Blackpool 26 April 1885. _Blackpool Herald 1
May 1885 p._ 6.
HALL, SYDNEY (_son of C. H. Hall of 16 light dragoons_). _b._ Bury
St. Edmunds 5 April 1813; engineer 1837, in partnership with J. C.
Sherrard 1838–48; parliamentary surveyor for railways to 1847;
constructed Chard and Bridgewater canal 1841–3; director of Patent
fuel co. Swansea 1848–71; claimed to have discovered aniline dyes;
engineer in London 1871–5; M.I.C.E. 4 April 1843. _d._ 34
Lansdowne road, London 30 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of
C.E._ _lxxix_, 366–8 (1885).
HALL, REV. THOMAS GRAINGER. _b._ 1803; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., 5
wrangler 1824; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow and tutor of his coll.
1824–31; professor of mathematics King’s coll. London 1844–74;
prebendary of Wenlakesbarn in St. Paul’s cath. 18 April 1845 to
death; author of _An elementary treatise on the differential and
integral calculus_ 1834, _6 ed._ 1863; _The elements of algebra_
1840, _2 ed._ 1846; _Arithmetic for the use of schools_, _2 parts_
1852–3. _d._ Kingshurst, Paignton, Devon 26 Aug. 1881.
HALL, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.,
fellow, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824;
practised as equity draughtsman 5 years; F.R.S.; author of _Carmen
Græcum. In obitum principissae Carolettae_ 1818; _Carmen Latinum.
Thebae Aegyptiacae_ 1819. _d._ 16 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park,
London 24 Dec. 1870.
HALL, THOMAS JAMES (_youngest son of Cossley Hall of Hyde hall,
Jamaica_). _b._ Hyde hall, Jamaica 1788; ed. at Harrow; fellow
commoner at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815; barrister M.T.
10 Feb. 1815; judge advocate and advocate general of Jamaica 1819;
joined the northern circuit 1824; comr. of bankruptcy in
Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool (the first) 1836 to
May 1839; chief magistrate at Bow st. London 1839 to 6 July 1864
when he retired; declined a knighthood and a baronetage. _d._ 20
Leamington road villas, Paddington 20 March 1876.
HALL, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Hall of Birmingham, worker in fancy
tortoise shell_). _b._ Bristol st. Birmingham 18 Jany. 1812;
apprenticed to his father; landscape painter; mem. of Birmingham
society of artists 1852, curator many years; an adviser of picture
buyers who desired to form choice collections. _d._ King’s Heath
near Birmingham 24 April 1880. _W. Hall’s Biography of David Cox_
(1881), _preface_.
HALL, WILLIAM. Exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st.
1876–80. _d._ 23 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 17 June 1884 aged
61.
HALL, WILLIAM HENRY. An aeronaut; made many ascents from Manchester,
Liverpool and Sheffield; ascended in Florence Nightingale balloon
from the cricket ground, Newcastle-on-Tyne 15 Aug. 1859, balloon
came down at Boldon 7 miles from Newcastle when he was thrown out
and fell 120 feet. _d._ Newcastle infirmary 19 Aug. 1859 aged 39.
_Times 17 Aug. 1859 p._ 10, _18 Aug. p._ 9, _22 Aug. p._ 10.
HALL, SIR WILLIAM HUTCHEON (_son of William Hall_). _b._ 1800;
entered navy 24 Oct. 1811; commanded H.E.I.C. war steamer Nemesis
1839–43, being lent by the admiralty, served in Chinese war
1841–43 and was present in 21 engagements; known generally as
Nemesis Hall; captain 22 Oct. 1844; F.R.S. 22 April 1847; served
in Baltic during Russian war 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13
March 1867; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Dec. 1871;
retired admiral 11 Dec. 1875; inventor of Hall’s patent anchor and
of iron bilge-tanks; author of _Sailors’ Homes, their origin and
progress_ 1852, _2 ed._ 1854; _Our national defences_ 1876. _d._
48 Phillimore gardens, Campden hill, London 25 June 1878. _bur._
Mereworth, Kent 29 June. _O’Byrne (1849) p._ 444–6; _I.L.N. xxv_,
641, 642 (1854), _portrait_.
HALL, REV. WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1793; ed. at C. C. coll. Cam., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1824; priest in ordinary to H.M. chapel royal 1829 to
death; minor prebend. St. Paul’s cath. London, Second canon and
senior cardinal 31 March 1826 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 20
Jany. 1829–33; R. of St. Benet with St. Peter, Paul’s wharf,
London 12 Jany. 1835 to 1851; V. of Tottenham, Middlesex 1851 to
death; editor of _Christian remembrancer_ and _Psalms and hymns_
1836 numerous editions; author of _The doctrine of purgatory_
1843. _d._ Beech house, High road, Tottenham 16 Dec. 1861.
HALL, SIR WILLIAM KING (_son of Dr. James Hall, R.N. d. 1869_). _b._
London 11 March 1816; entered R.N. 22 Sep. 1829; served in the
Caffre war 1852–3, in the Baltic 1854–5, in Chinese war 1856–8;
rear admiral superintendent Sheerness dockyard 1865–9;
superintendent Devonport dockyard 1871–5; C.B. 3 July 1855, K.C.B.
20 May 1871; commander in chief at the Nore 1877–9; admiral 2 Aug.
1879, retired 3 Jany. 1881; great advocate of temperance in the
navy. _d._ 38 Jermyn st. London 29 July 1886. _O’Byrne_ (1849)
_p._ 446.
HALL, WILLIAM SANDFORD (_eldest brother of Samuel Carter Hall
1800–89_). _b._ Cork 1795; ensign 18 foot 19 Dec. 1811; paymaster
of 17 foot 10 July 1840, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1849 to 19 Nov. 1852
when placed on h.p.; founded a Mechanics’ institute at Cork;
assist. editor of _United Service Mag._; originated United Service
Museum, Whitehall, London 1830. _d._ Peldon, Essex 26 Feb. 1876.
HALLAHAN, MARGARET MARY (_only child of Edmund Hallahan_). _b._
London 23 Jany. 1803; domestic servant to Madame Caulier, lace
warehouse, Cheapside 1815; admitted to third order of St. Dominic
1834; founded a community of Dominican tertians in Spon. st.
Coventry 28 March 1844 which she removed to Clifton, Bristol 1848
and to Stone, Staffs. 1854 where she erected the finest specimen
of conventual buildings in England; went to Rome 1858; founded 4
other convents 1860–67, schools, 4 churches, orphanages and a
hospital at Stone. _d._ Stone 11 May 1868. _Life of Mother M. M.
Hallahan_ (1869), _portrait_; _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_,
96–101 (1888).
HALLAM, HENRY (_son of John Hallam, dean of Bristol, d. 1812_). _b._
Windsor 9 July 1777; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A.
1832, D.C.L. 1848; barrister I.T. 2 July 1802, bencher 1841; a
commissioner of stamps 1806–26, retired on a pension of £500 a
year which he resigned 1850; a founder 1834 and treasurer of
Statistical soc.; F.S.A. 12 March 1801, V.P. 1824 to death;
received one of two 50 guinea medals given by Geo. iv. for
historical eminence 1830; author of _A view of the state of Europe
during the middle ages_ _2 vols._ 1818; _The constitutional
history of England, Hen. vii.-Geo. ii._ _2 vols._ 1827;
_Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and
17th centuries_ _4 vols._ 1837–39. _d._ Penshurst, Kent 21 Jany.
1859. _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ _4 ed._ (1876)
393–401; _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 430–6, _portrait_;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. x_, 12–18 (1860).
HALLARD, FREDERICK (_son of Mr. Hallard, professor of French at
Edinburgh_). _b._ Edinburgh 1821; ed. at Avranches, Paris and at
Edinburgh univ.; member of faculty of advocates 1814; reporter and
editor of _The Scottish Jurist_ 1829; sheriff substitute of
Midlothian 1855 to death; author of _A proposal to facilitate the
abolition of feudal conveyancing_ 1860; _The Inferior Judge_ 1869;
_The catalogue question in the Advocates’ library, a retrospect:
By one of the defeated_ 1872. _d._ 61 York place, Edinburgh 19
Jany. 1882. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xxvi_, 90–92 (1882).
HALLE, HUGHES R. P. FRASER (_eld. son of Joseph Halle, capt. 82
foot_). Head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 33 years; LLD.;
author of _Critical letters on Scribbleomania, By R. F.
Brancassine_ 1842; _The Britannic censor of European philosophy_
1844; _Exact philosophy_ 1848; _Letters relating to the Vale of
Teign_ 1851. _d._ 8 Lincoln terrace, Bullen road, Lavender hill 23
May 1886 aged 78 years.
HALLEWELL, EDMUND GILLING (_2 son of Rev. John Hallewell of Farnham,
Yorks._) _b._ Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1796; ed. at Ripon; M.P.
for Newry 1851–52; published a long series of letters on various
questions of social and political economy in the _Gloucestershire
Chronicle_ and other newspapers under signature of ‘A true
Conservative.’ _d._ Beauchamps near Gloucester 5 Nov. 1881.
HALLEWELL, EDMUND GILLING (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1822; col.
in the army 2 Nov. 1860; commandant Royal military coll. Sandhurst
1 April 1864 to death. _d._ Royal military college, Sandhurst 27
Nov. 1869.
HALLEY, REV. ROBERT (_1 son of Robert Hally of Blackheath, Kent,
nurseryman_). _b._ Blackheath 13 Aug. 1796; ed. at Homerton
academy, London 1816–21; pastor of the Independent ch. St. Neots,
Hunts. 18 May 1822; classical tutor at Highbury college, London,
college opened 5 Sep. 1826; D.D. Princetown college, New Jersey
1834; pastor of Mosley st. chapel, Manchester 1839–48 and of
Cavendish st. chapel, Manchester 1848–57; chairman of
congregational union of England and Wales for 1855; principal of
and professor of theology in New college, London 1857–72; author
of _An inquiry into the nature of the sacraments 2 vols._ 1844–51,
_2 ed. 2 vols._ 1854; _Lancashire: its puritanism and
nonconformity 2 vols._ 1869, _2 ed._ 1872. _d._ Batworth park near
Arundel 18 Aug. 1876. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 24 Aug. _A short
biography of Rev. Robert Halley, edited by Robert Halley, M.A._
(1879).
HALLIBURTON, SIR BRENTON. _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 Dec. 1773;
capt. 7 fusiliers; admitted barrister 1803, bencher 1807, mem. of
council 1816; judge of supreme court of Nova Scotia 1811, chief
justice 1835; knighted by patent 13 April 1859; author of
_Observations on the importance of the North American colonies to
Great Britain_ 1825, _2 ed._ 1831; _Reflections on passing events,
a poem_ 1856, and letters in the _Halifax Recorder_ on the
American war, signed Anglo-American 1813. _d._ near Halifax 16
July 1860. _Memoir of Sir B. Halliburton, By Rev. G. W. Hill_
(1864); _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 173.
HALLIDAY, ANDREW (_son of Rev. Wm. Duff, d. 1844_). _b._ The Grange,
Marnock, Banffshire early in 1830; ed. at Marischal coll. and
univ. Aberdeen; went to London 1849; discarded name of Duff;
contributed to _Morning Chronicle_, _People’s Journal_, _&c._;
wrote the article ‘Beggars’ in _H. Mayhew’s London Labour_ 1851; a
founder of the Savage club 1857, pres. 1857 to death; wrote a
series of essays in _All the year round_ 1861, _&c._, since
collected into volumes called _Everyday papers 2 vols._ 1864,
_Sunnyside papers_ 1866 and _Town and country sketches_ 1866;
wrote with Frederick Lawrence burlesque of _Kenilworth_ produced
at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1858, it ran for more than 100 nights;
with Wm. Brough the _Area Belle_ 1864 and other farces for
Adelphi; wrote _The Great city_ produced at Drury Lane 22 April
1867 which ran 102 nights; _For love or money_ with which
Vaudeville theatre opened 16 April 1870; _Little Emly_ produced at
Olympic theatre 9 Oct. 1869 which ran 200 nights; _Amy Robsart_
produced at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1870. _d._ 74 St. Augustine’s road,
Camden Town, London 10 April 1877. _Cartoon Portraits_ (1873)
88–9, _portrait_; _Illust. Review, i_, 81–2 (1874), _portrait_.
HALLIDAY, MICHAEL FREDERICK. _b._ 1822; clerk in parliament office,
house of lords 1839 to death; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 1
at Suffolk st. 1853–66; his chief works were The measure for the
wedding ring 1856 and Roma vivente e Roma morta 1866; an early
member of the pre-Raphaelite sch.; one of first 8 who competed for
Elcho shield at Wimbledon 1862. _d._ 30 Thurloe place, South
Kensington, London 1 June 1869.
HALLIWELL, RICHARD BISSETT. _b._ Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 30
Nov. 1842; an engineer in London; amateur cricketer; a hard hitter
and excellent wicket keeper; played in the Middlesex eleven and in
the Gentlemen _v._ the Players; generally played under name of
Bissett. _d._ 9 Nov. 1881.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, JAMES ORCHARD (_3 son of Thomas Halliwell_).
_b._ Sloane st. Chelsea 21 June 1820; matric. from Trin. coll.
Cam. 1837, removed to Jesus coll. 1838; LLD. of Edin. univ. 1883;
F.S.A. 14 Feb. 1839; F.R.S. 30 May 1839; projected Cambridge
Antiquarian soc. and was the sec. 1840; settled with his father in
London 1840; became connected with Shakespeare soc. 1840; accused
of taking MSS. from library of Trin. coll. Cam. 1844; forbidden to
enter Br. Museum library 10 Feb. 1845; presented his Shakespearian
library to Univ. of Edin. Feb. 1872; bought theatre Stratford on
Avon, March 1872; was the means of buying Shakespeare’s residence
New place, Stratford 1863, conveyed it to the corporation of
Stratford by deed dated 8 April 1876; author of _Dictionary of
archaic and provincial words_ 1846, _10 ed._ 1881; _Life of
William Shakespeare_ 1848; _Shakespeare 16 vols._ 1853–63;
_Lithographed facsimiles of the Shakespearean quartos 48 vols._
1862–71 of which there are only 15 complete sets. (_m._ 9 Aug.
1842 Henrietta E. M. eld. dau. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet,
she _d._ 25 March 1879); discontinued name of Halliwell and
assumed name of Phillips by r.l. 29 Feb. 1872, prefixed former
name of Halliwell to name of Phillips by deed inrolled in chancery
28 May 1879. _d._ Hollingbury Copse near Brighton 3 Jany. 1889.
_I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._ 36, _portrait_.
HALLOWES, JOHN. Entered navy July 1803; captain 5 Dec. 1842; R.A. on
half pay 20 May 1862; admiral on half pay 30 July 1875. _d._
Milton house near Portsmouth 11 Jany. 1883 aged 91.
HALLYBURTON, JOHN FREDERICK GORDON- (_3 son of 9th Marquis of
Huntly, d. 1853_). _b._ 15 Aug. 1799; entered navy Feb. 1813,
captain 4 Aug. 1836; G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836; known as Lord J. F.
Gordon from 1838; admiral on half pay 8 April 1868; assumed name
of Hallyburton 1843; M.P. for Forfar 1841–52. _d._ Hallyburton
house, Coupar Angus 29 Sep. 1878.
HALPIN, REV. ROBERT CRAWFORD. Boy volunteer in Canadian rebellion
1839; ensign 14 foot 1840; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1868; chaplain in army 1849; served in Crimean campaign,
medal, 4 clasps and Turkish medal; in China war 1860; chaplain to
household brigade 1863, retired 1 July 1880; reward for
distinguished service 1 April 1875; chaplain hospital for women
Soho, London 1880. _d._ 22 Belsize sq. London 19 March 1889.
HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM (_son of Rev. Nicholas John Halpine
1790–1850, editor of the Dublin Evening Mail_). _b._ Oldcastle,
co. Meath, Nov. 1829; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin to 1846; emigrated
to U.S. America 1851; assist. editor _Boston Post_ 1852; editor
_New York Leader_ 1857; served in Federal army April 1861 to 1864;
assist. adjutant general and colonel 1862; editor of _New York
Citizen_ 1864; registrar of the county of New York 1867; author
under name of Miles O’Reilly of _Life and adventures of Private
Miles O’Reilly_ 1864; _Baked meats of the funeral by Private
Miles_ O’Reilly 1866. _d._ from taking undiluted chloroform at New
York city 3 Aug. 1868. _Poetical works of C. G. Halpine_ (1869),
_portrait_.
HALSEY, THOMAS PLUMER (_1 son of Joseph T. W. Halsey of Gaddesden
park, Herts. d. 1818_). _b._ 26 Jany. 1815; M.P. for co. Hertford,
Jany. 1846 to death; _lost_ in the ‘Ercolano’ steamer off Villa
Franca on her way from Genoa to Marseilles 24 April 1854. _G.M.
xli_, 649 (1854); _A.R. 1854 pp._ 68, 292.
HALSTED, FRANCIS. Printseller Bond st., then at 13 Rathbone place,
Oxford st. London; great authority on Turner before Ruskin’s era
commenced; formed the collection of Liber Studiorum prints which
Mr. Stokes bequeathed to Miss Mary Constance Clark; formed similar
collections for J. L. Taylor proprietor of _Manchester Guardian_,
and Sir John Hippesley. _d._ St. John’s Wood, Aug. 1879 aged 72.
HALY, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Doonane parish, Queen’s county 1781;
ed. at Maynooth 1807–12; C. of Rathvilly 1812–3; administrator of
Mountrath 1813–22; parish priest of Kilcock 1822; bp. of Kildare
and Leighlin, consecrated 25 March 1838; visited Rome 1844. _d._
Carlow 19 Aug. 1855 aged 74, left his library to Carlow coll.
_Comerford’s Collections_ (1883) 140–50, _portrait_.
HALY, SIR WILLIAM O’GRADY (_son of Aylmer Haly of Wadhurst castle,
Sussex_). _b._ 1810; ensign 4 foot 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 38
foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 12 Jany. 1865; colonel of 106 foot 17 May
1874, of 47 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; served Eastern campaign of
1854–55; commanded forces in Canada 6 May 1873 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Halifax,
Nova Scotia 19 March 1878.
HAMBLET, HENRY. Steward and practically manager of Garrick club 35
King st. Covent Garden, London for many years down to 17 May 1862.
_d._ London 1863. _W. Ballantine’s Experiences_ (1883) 151; _Lord
W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections_ (1874) _i_, 144.
HAMBLETON, REV. JOHN (_5 son of John Hambleton of St. Mary’s,
Wallingford_). _b._ 1799; ed. at St. Edm. hall, Ox., B.A. 1825,
M.A. 1829; minister of Holloway episcopal chapel, Holloway road,
London 1830 to death; author of _Christ the good physician, a
sermon 1829, 7 ed. 1847_; _A brief history of the soul 1833_, _7
ed._ 1847; _A help to preparation for death, judgment and
eternity_ 1839; _Seven lectures on the Bible as the word of God_
1861. _d._ 21 Compton ter. Upper st. Islington, London 22 Oct.
1865.
HAMBLIN, THOMAS SOWERBY. _b._ Pentonville, London 14 May 1800;
ballet dancer Adelphi theatre at 6s. a week; first acted at
Sadler’s Wells 1819, at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1819 as Truman in
_George Barnwell_; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Hamlet,
Oct. 1825; lessee of Bowery theatre, New York, Aug. 1830, theatre
burnt 16 Sep. 1836; played at Covent Garden 1836–7; lessee of
Bowery 1838, again burnt 1845, lessee again 1847 to death; lessee
of Park theatre, New York 1848, theatre burnt 16 Dec. 1848; his
chief characters were Hamlet, The Stranger, William Tell,
Virginius, Rolla and Petruchio. _d._ of brain fever Broome st. New
York 8 Jany. 1853, left 100,000 dollars. _Ireland’s New York
Stage, i_, 459–61 (1866); _Appleton’s Cyclop. of American Biog.
iii_, 55 (1887), _portrait_.
HAMEL, JOSEPH VON. _b._ Sarepta on the Volga 1788; member of
Imperial academy of sciences, St. Petersburgh 1828; ascended Mont
Blanc when 3 of his guides perished 20 Aug. 1820; travelled and
resided much in England from 1814 onwards; reported to his
government on progress of science and arts in England; author of
_England and Russia, the voyage of J. Tradescant to the White sea_
1854; _Historical account of Galvanic and electro-magnetic
telegraph_ 1859; _Bishop Watson and the electric telegraph_ 1861
and works in Russian and German. _d._ Duke st. St. James’, London
22 Sep. 1862. _G.M. xiii_, 510, 788 (1862).
HAMERTON, JOHN MILLET. Ensign 44 foot 31 Oct. 1792, lieut. col. 31
March 1814 to 24 Jany. 1816 when placed on h.p.; col. 55 foot 7
Dec. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._
Orchardstown house near Clonmel 27 Jany. 1855 aged 77.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON-DOUGLAS 10 Duke of (_elder son of 9
Duke of Hamilton 1740–1819_). _b._ St. James’s sq. London 5 Oct.
1767; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1789; styled Marquis of Douglas
1799–1819; M.P. for Lancaster 1802–6; col. of royal Lanarkshire
militia 1802–34; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 13 Nov. 1803 to death;
ambassador to St. Petersburgh 28 May 1806 to July 1812; P.C. 18
June 1806; called to House of Lords by writ in his father’s barony
of Dutton 4 Nov. 1806; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1808; F.R.S. Edin.,
president; succeeded 16 Feb. 1819; lord high steward at
coronations of Wm. iv. and of Victoria; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836. _d._ 12
Portman sq. London 18 Aug. 1852.
NOTE.—He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate King of
Scotland; at his death his body was embalmed, deposited in a
sarcophagus brought from the Pyramids of Egypt, and buried in
a mausoleum 120 feet high which he had erected near Hamilton
palace at cost of £130,000.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANTHONY ARCHIBALD HAMILTON-DOUGLAS, 11
Duke of (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ Grosvenor place,
London 18 Feb. 1811; Marquis of Douglas 1819–52; ed. at Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1832; col. 1 royal Lanark militia 23 Jany. 1834 to
death; knight marischall of Scotland, June 1846; major commandant
Glasgow yeomanry 1848–56; lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Aug.
1852 to death; grand master of freemasons of Scotland; lived
chiefly at Paris and Baden. _d._ Paris 15 July 1863.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 27 Jany. 1774; called to Irish bar 1795;
K.C. 25 Nov. 1822. _d._ Oct. 1852.
HAMILTON, VEN. ANTHONY (_2 son of Ven. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812,
archdeacon of Colchester_). _b._ 12 July 1778; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Oxf, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; R. of Loughton, Essex 1805 to
death; preb. of Warminster in Wells cath. 1810–27; chaplain in
ord. to the Sovereign 1812–37; R. of St. Mary Le Bow with St.
Pancras, Soper Lane and All Hallows, Honey Lane, London 1820 to
death; archdeacon of Taunton and preb. of Milverton prima in Wells
cath. 5 Dec. 1827 to death; precentor and first residentiary canon
Lichfield cath. 1831 to 1850. _d._ Loughton rectory 10 Sep. 1851.
HAMILTON, ARTHUR PHILIP. Entered navy Oct. 1800; on 28 Sep. 1810 in
a boat attack captured 2 brigs from under the battery of Pointe du
Ché near Rochelle; captain 31 May 1816; retired admiral 4 Oct.
1862. _d._ 2 Dorset sq. London 2 Sep. 1877.
HAMILTON, CHARLES. _b._ 1801; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign Bengal army
27 Jany. 1818; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 19 Jany. 1843, served
in Gwalior campaign 1843, commanded 2 grenadier N.I. at battle of
Maharajpore and same regt. in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 including
actions of Moodkee and Ferozeshah and capture of Kote Kangra 1846;
C.B. 22 May 1843; general 16 May 1872; retired 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
19 Sussex gardens, London 27 Oct. 1889.
HAMILTON, CHARLES GEORGE ARCHIBALD (_2 son of 11 duke of Hamilton
1811–63_). _b._ Connaught place, London 18 May 1847; cornet 11
hussars 1866–69; served in German army at siege of Strasbourg
1870; his vagaries were the talk of Paris and the German spas
about 1870; joined the Church of Rome 1885; resided at Biarritz
1876–86. _d._ Nice 2 May 1886, having been nursed by his intended
wife Mdlle. Pignatelli. _bur._ in Hamilton palace mausoleum 12
May.
HAMILTON, CHARLES JAMES (_elder son of Charles Powell Hamilton
1747–1825, admiral R.N._) _b._ 29 July 1779; minister plenipo. to
French court 3 March 1832 to 19 April 1833 at Buenos Ayres 5 July
1834; envoy extrad. and min. plen. at Rio Janiero 2 Oct. 1835 to 9
Feb. 1847 when he was pensioned. _d._ 15 Dec. 1856.
HAMILTON, CHARLES WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 40 Bengal
N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Home Mead, Lymington
22 July 1866 aged 82.
HAMILTON, CLAUD (_2 son of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
1786–1814_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 27 July 1813; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Tyrone 1835–37 and
1839–74; treasurer of the household 27 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and
26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; vice chamberlain of
the household 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868; lieut.-col. commandant
Donegal militia 19 July 1867 to death. _d._ 83 Portland place,
London 3 June 1884. _bur._ at Elton 12 June.
HAMILTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Sir John Hamilton, 1
baronet, d. 1784_). _b._ 12 March 1772; entered navy 21 May 1799;
cut out Spanish frigate ‘Hermione’ from port of Puerto Cabello 25
Oct. 1799, a feat unsurpassed in naval annals; captain 3 June
1797; knighted by patent 3 June 1800; received freedom of city of
London 25 Oct. 1800; commanded royal yacht Mary 1806–19; K.C.B. 2
Jany. 1815; baronet 26 Jany. 1819; admiral 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ 17
Cumberland terrace, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1851.
HAMILTON, ELIZA MARY (_5 child of Archibald Hamilton of Dublin,
attorney 1778–1819_). _b._ 4 April 1807; author of _Poems, Dublin_
1838. _d._ Dublin 14 May 1851.
HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (_dau. of Sir W. S. Hamilton 1788–1856_). A
promoter of university education of women in Scotland; wrote
memoir of her father for _Encyclopædia Britannica_; author of
_Microcosmus by H. Lotze, a translation_ 1885. _d._ 30 Northampton
park, Canonbury, London 2 March 1882 aged 42.
HAMILTON, FREDERIC DOUGLAS (_5 son of Capt. Augustus Barrington P.
A. P. Hamilton_). _b._ 12 May 1815; attaché at Buenos Ayres
1834–6, at Rio de Janiero 1836, paid attaché there 1844; first
paid attaché at Vienna 1852; sec. of legation at Stuttgardt
1853–8, at Athens 1859, at Frankfort 1859, at Stockholm 1862;
chargé d’affaires and consul general at Quito, Ecuador 1867,
minister resident and consul general there 1872, retired 17 Nov.
1883. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 May 1887.
HAMILTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (_son of William Richard Hamilton
1777–1859_). _b._ 8 July 1815; page of honour to George iv. and
William iv. 1826–31; ensign Grenadier guards 12 July 1831,
adjutant 1836–46, lieut. col. 19 June 1860; col. 21 fusiliers 10
Jany. 1870 to death; general 21 Nov. 1876, retired 1881; served
with the grenadier guards 1854–5, present at Alma, Balaklava and
Inkerman; commanded divisions of the army in the trenches at
Sebastopol; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; military
attaché at Berlin 1860–62; V.P. of council on military education
1862–6; commander of forces in Scotland 1866–8; commanded brigade
of guards 1868–70; author of _The origin and history of the First
Grenadier guards 3 vols._ 1874–7. _d._ Pitcorthie, Fife 4 Oct.
1890. _I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p._ 433, _portrait_.
HAMILTON, GEORGE ALEXANDER (_elder son of Rev. George Hamilton of
Tyrellas, co. Down, who d. March 1833_). _b._ Tyrellas 29 Aug.
1802; ed. at Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832,
LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, D.C.L. 1853;
contested city of Dublin 1826, 1830, 1832 and 1837; M.P. for city
of Dublin 1835–7; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1843–59; financial sec.
of the Treasury, March to Dec. 1852, March 1858 to Jany. 1859,
permanent sec. Jany. 1859; a comr. of church temporalities in
Ireland 1870; P.C. 7 Aug. 1869. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 17 Sep.
1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2 series_ (1846),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 517, 518 (1852), _portrait_.
HAMILTON, HANS HENRY (_4 son of Henry Hamilton of Ballymacool,
Meath_). _b._ 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1832; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of
quarter sessions for co. Galway 1852–8, for co. Armagh 1858 to
death. _d._ 28 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 20 April 1875. _Irish Law
Times, ix_, 208 (1875).
HAMILTON, VERY REV. HENRY PARR (_son of Alexander Hamilton of
Edinburgh, M.D. 1739–1802_). _b._ 3 April 1794; ed. at Trin. coll.
Cam.; 9th wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll.
1816; R. of Wath near Ripon 1830–50; P.C. of St. Mary the Great,
Cam. 1833–44; rural dean 1847; dean of Salisbury 17 April 1850 to
death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828; F.R.A.S.; F.G.S.; author of _The
principles of analytical geometry, Cambridge_ 1826; _An analytical
system of conic sections, Cambridge_ 1828, _5 ed._ 1843; _The
church and the education question_ 1848; _Scheme for the reform of
their cathedral by the dean and chapter of Salisbury_ 1855. _d._
the Deanery, the Close, Salisbury 7 Feb. 1880. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xli_, 184–7 (1881).
HAMILTON, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. William Hamilton 1780–1835,
minister of St. Andrew’s, Dundee_). _b._ Lonend, Paisley 27 Nov.
1814; ed. at Glasgow univ., B.A. 1835, and at Edin. univ., D.D.;
assist. presbyterian minister St. George’s ch. Edin. 1838,
minister at Abernyte 1839, at Roxburgh ch. Edin. 1841, at National
Scotch ch. Regent sq. London 1841 to death; author of _Life in
earnest_ 1845; _Memoirs of Richard Williams_ 1854; _A morning
beside the lake of Galilee_ 1863; _Excelsior, helps to progress 6
vols._ 1854; _Works 6 vols._ 1869–73; editor of _Presbyterian
Messenger_ 1849 and of _Evangelical Christendom_ 1864. _d._ 48
Euston sq. London 24 Nov. 1867. _W. Arnot’s Life of J. Hamilton_
(1870), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world, ix_, (1862),
_portrait_.
HAMILTON, REV. JAMES. _b._ county Kerry about 1813; ed. at Carlow
coll., professor of classics there 1835 and of natural philosophy
1842–51; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1836; missioner in the parishes
of Mountrath, Bagenalstown and Rathvilly to 1842, and in Tullow
1851–7; military chaplain at the Curragh camp Dec. 1857, at
Woolwich, at Bermuda 1865–7, at Aldershot 1868–73, held rank as a
major; delivered 4 lectures on the ‘Structure of the Heavens’ in
the Rotunda, Dublin, Jany. 1856. _d._ at the house of his brother
Dr. W. Hamilton at Tarbert 20 Dec. 1873. _Comerford’s Collections_
(1883) 214–24.
HAMILTON, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1819; drawing master in Philadelphia;
illustrated _Life of Rear admiral J. Paul Jones_ 1845, Kane’s
_Arctic Explorations_ 1856, _The Arabian Nights_, Coleridge’s
_Ancient Mariner_, and other popular works; painted many pictures
especially marine views. _d._ 10 March 1878.
HAMILTON, SIR JAMES (_son of Rev. George Hamilton of Armagh_). _b._
Warrenpoint, co. Down 1815; ed. at Belfast academical instit.;
chairman of Belfast harbour commission 1867 to death; knighted by
lord lieut. earl Spencer, on opening of horticultural exhibition
at Belfast 9 Aug. 1872. _d._ West view, Bangor, co. Down 26 Oct.
1882. _Times 10 Aug. 1872, p._ 12, _21 Aug. p._ 7.
HAMILTON, SIR JAMES JOHN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir John Hamilton,
1 baronet, G.C.S.I. 1755–1835_). _b._ Londonderry 1 March 1802;
ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822; 2 lieut. rifle brigade
10 July 1823, served during Canadian rebellion 1837–8; major on
h.p. 8 Oct. 1838, sold out May 1852; M.P. for Sudbury, Suffolk 25
July to Dec. 1837; contested Marylebone, July 1841 and July 1847;
sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1857, of Tyrone 1859. _d._ 6 Portman sq.
London 12 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 95, 215 (1876).
HAMILTON, JANET (_dau. of a shoemaker called Thomson_). _b._
Carshill, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire 12 Oct. 1795; a yarn spinner;
learnt to write 1848; wrote for Cassell’s _Working Man’s Friend_
1849; became blind 1855; author of _Poems and songs_ 1863; _Poems
of purpose and sketches_ 1865; _Poems and Ballads_ 1868; _Poems,
essay and sketches_ 1880. (_m._ 1809 John Hamilton, shoemaker),
she _d._ Langloan, Lanarkshire 27 Oct. 1873, Memorial fountain
erected at Langloan. _Poems, sketches and essays by J. Hamilton_
(1885), _portrait_; _Good Words, Feb. 1884 pp._ 118–24,
_portrait_.
HAMILTON, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dover 1765; captain in H.M.’s packet
service; communicated to admiral Duncan intelligence of the Dutch
fleet being at sea which led to victory at Camperdown 11 Oct.
1797; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 March 1845. _d._ at Capt.
Luke Smithett’s house, 17 Snargate st. Dover 1 Feb. 1858.
HAMILTON, JOHN. _b._ Dumfriesshire; a newspaper reporter at Preston;
edited the _Aylesbury News_ 7 years; formed a church at Aylesbury;
edited the _Empire_ in London, joint proprietor of it with George
Thompson; edited the _Morning Star_ to 1860; F.R.S. _d._ Howe
villa, Windermere 14 Oct. 1860 aged 39.
HAMILTON, JOHN. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. Ireland, F.R.C.S. 1844, V.P.
1874; edited _The Dublin Journal of medical and chemical science_
1832; visiting surgeon Richmond hospital 1844–75; surgeon in
ordinary to the queen 1874; governor of House of Industry
hospitals 1875; president Dublin pathological soc.; author of _An
essay on syphilitic sarcocele_ 1849; _The restoration of a lost
nose_ 1864; _Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis_
1874. _d._ 14 Merrion sq. North, Dublin 2 Nov. 1875. _Medical
Times 13 Nov. 1875 p._ 561.
HAMILTON, JOHN POTTER. Cornet Scotch Greys 1793; commanded a
battalion at battle of Castalla, May 1813; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3
June 1813; captain 3 foot guards 1814, retired Aug. 1819; special
commissioner to Colombia 10 Oct. 1823, signed treaty of amity 18
April 1825; K.H. 1836; author of _Travels through Colombia_ 1827;
_Reminiscences of an old sportsman 2 vols._ 1860. _d._ Bodleyfryd,
Wrexham 28 Jany. 1873 aged 95.
HAMILTON, REV. JOSEPH HARRIMAN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; 27 wrangler
and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; chaplain of his coll. 1824; C. of St.
Michael, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1848–71; prebendary of
Chiswick in St. Paul’s cath. 1859–72; R. of Frant, Sussex 1871 to
1879; canon residentiary of Rochester 1872 to death. _d._ the
precincts, Rochester 17 Aug. 1881 aged 81.
HAMILTON, KER BAILLIE (_4 son of Ven. Charles Baillie-Hamilton
1764–1820, archdeacon of Cleveland_). _b._ 13 July 1804; entered
H.E.I.C.S. 1822; clerk of council and acting colonial sec. Cape of
Good Hope 1829; lieut. governor of Grenada 1846–52; administrator
of Barbadoes and the Windward islands 1851–2; governor of
Newfoundland 1852–5; governor in chief of Antigua and Leeward
islands 1855 to Jany. 1863; C.B. 23 July 1862; retired 1867;
author of _Our saddle horses_ 1865. _d._ 43 Broadwater Down,
Tunbridge Wells 6 Feb. 1889.
HAMILTON, NICHOLAS. Ensign 5 foot 15 June 1796; inspecting field
officer 10 June 1813 to 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 82 foot 10 Dec. 1856
to death; L.G. 11 Jany. 1858. _d._ 35 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 13
Dec. 1859 in 78 year.
HAMILTON, RICHARD. _b._ 18 Dec. 1810; ensign 1 Madras N.I. 25 Aug.
1828, major 21 May 1858; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb.
1861, placed on retired list 18 Dec. 1880; general 23 Aug. 1884;
C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Nethway, Torquay 1 March 1888.
HAMILTON, ROBERT DOUGLAS (_son of a stone mason and farmer_). _b._
Muirhead, Lanarkshire 16 Jany. 1783; ed. at Glasgow and Edin.
universities; assist. surgeon in H.M. hospital ship ‘Tromp’ at
Falmouth, April 1808 to Nov. 1809; surgeon at St. Mawes 1809–12;
served as a surgeon with the army in the Peninsula; emigrated to
U.S. America 1827; settled at Scarborough near Toronto, Upper
Canada 1830; contributed to newspapers and periodicals under name
of Guy Pollock; author of _Essays, Truro_ 1812; _Craignethan
castle. A poem, Edin._ 1817, anon.; _The principles of medicine,
vol. i_, 1821; _Dr. Shaddow of Gostlington, By Mungo Coulter
Goggle_. _d._ Scarborough 2 April 1857. _Morgan’s Bibl.
Canadensis_ (1867) 174.
HAMILTON, SIR ROBERT NORTH COLLIE, 6 Baronet (_1 son of Sir
Frederick Hamilton, 5 baronet, d. 1853_). _b._ Benares, India 7
April 1802; of H.E.I.C.S. 1819; judge of Benares March 1829; sec.
to the government in N.W. provinces March 1842, and resident with
Holkar at Indore 1844; governor general’s agent for Central India
1854–9; served during the mutiny 1857–8; retired 1860; member of
supreme council 1859–60; K.C.B. 18 May 1860; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1866; contested S. Warwickshire 1868. _d._ Avon
Cliffe, Stratford-on-Avon 31 May 1887.
HAMILTON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 1784; apprentice to his father a
carpenter; architect and builder at Edinburgh; designed Burns’
memorial at Alloway near Ayr 1818, completed 1823, Knox monument
Glasgow 1825, Edinburgh high sch. 1825–9, George iv. bridge 1827,
Ayr town buildings 1828, Burns’ monument Edin. 1830, Dr. Guthrie’s
ch. 1840 and the Martyrs’ monument on the Calton hill 1844; author
of _Observations on completing the college of Edinburgh_ 1816;
_Report relative to improvements on the earthen mound_ 1830. _d._
9 Howe st. Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1858. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 142–4, _portrait_.
HAMILTON, THOMAS. _b._ Longridge, parish of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire
4 Feb. 1783; partner with Robert and John Ogle at 37 Paternoster
row, London 1 Jany. 1808 to 1813; wholesale bookseller at 33
Paternoster row 1813–50 when he retired, joined by Wm. Adams 1824,
by Joseph Johnson Miles 1833; published some important books,
chiefly religious, the works of W. Jay of Bath, Rev. J. A. James
and Rev. C. Bradley; lived at Windmill place, Clapham common from
1850, _d._ there 27 Dec. 1877. _bur._ Beddington churchyard 2
Jany. 1878. _Bookseller_ (1878) _p._ 7.
HAMILTON, WALTER FERRIER (_1 son of Col. John Hamilton of Cairn
hill, Ayrshire_). _b._ Cairn hill 31 May 1818; M.P. for
Linlithgowshire 1859–65. _d._ Cathlow house, Torphichen,
Linlithgowshire 8 April 1872.
HAMILTON, RIGHT REV. WALTER KERR (_elder son of Ven. Anthony
Hamilton 1778–1851_). _b._ London 16 Nov. 1808; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1827–32, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D. 1854;
fellow of Merton 1832–42; C. of Wolvercot, Oxf. 1833; V. of St.
Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxf. 1837–41; canon of Salisbury, June 1841,
precentor 1843; bishop of Salisbury 27 March 1854 to death,
consecrated at Lambeth 14 May; established a theological coll. at
Salisbury 1861; an extreme high churchman, his episcopal charge
1867 gave rise to discussion in house of lords; author of _Morning
and evening services for every day in the week_ 1842; _Cathedral
reform_ 1855; _A charge_ 1867 to which there were 9 published
replies. _d._ the palace, Salisbury 1 Aug. 1869. _W. K. Hamilton,
bishop of Salisbury, By H. P. Liddon_ (1869); _Register and Mag.
of Biog. ii_, 143–4 (1869).
HAMILTON, WALTER RICHARD POLLOCK (_4 son of Alexander Hamilton of
Inistioge, Ireland_). _b._ 18 Aug. 1856; sub-lieut. 70 foot 28
Feb. 1874; with the Guide cavalry in Bengal; served in
Jowaki-Afridi expedition 1877–8, in Afghan campaign 1878, Victoria
cross for gallantry at Futtehabad 2 April 1879 when as the last
officer he had to assume command of Guide cavalry; accompanied Sir
Louis Cavagnari to Kabul where he was killed 3 Sep. 1879.
_Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, Biographical division_ (1882) 98–100,
_portrait_.
HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of W. Hamilton_). _b._ 14 Feb. 1790;
entered royal navy 1803; a prisoner of war in France 1805–14; vice
consul at Flushing and Middleburg 1817, at Antwerp 1818, at Ostend
1818, at Nieuport 1820, at Boulogne 1822, consul there 28 June
1826 to 1 April 1873 when he retired on pension; knighted by
patent 21 Feb. 1873. _d._ 113 Grande rue, Boulogne 14 Feb. 1877.
_I.L.N. lxii_, 369, 370 (1873), _portrait_.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER BAILLIE- (_brother of Ker Baillie
Hamilton 1804–89_). _b._ Normanby, Yorkshire 6 June 1803; entered
navy 28 Aug. 1816; captain 9 Aug. 1828; private sec. to first lord
of the Admiralty 1841, sec. of the Admiralty Jany. 1845 to 1855
when granted a pension of £1000; comr. of patriotic fund 1865–81;
admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Portree, Isle of Skye 1 Oct.
1881.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM BISHOP. _b._ London 1810; went to U.S. of A. 1827;
traversed Mississippi river on a flat boat giving dramatic
performances at chief towns several years; acted at Burton’s
Chambers st. theatre New York; went to California 1851; lessee of
Jenny Lind theatre, San Francisco, afterwards of San Francisco
Hall, the American theatre and Metropolitan, all in San Francisco;
returned to New York 1859. _d._ London 3 Dec. 1868.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM JOHN (_1 son of William Richard Hamilton
1777–1859_). _b._ London 5 July 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and
Univ. of Gottingen; F.G.S. 1831, sec. 1832–54, pres. 1854, 1865–6;
with H. Strickland explored the Levant and the volcanic region of
the Katakekaumene 1835; went on horseback through Asia Minor 1836;
F.R.G.S., pres. 1837, 1841, 1842, 1847, founder’s medallist 1843;
F.R.S.; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1841–47; director of Great
Indian peninsular railway 1849 to death; author of _Researches in
Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia 2 vols._ 1842. _d._ 23 Chesham
place, London 27 June 1867. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc.
xxiv_, 29–33 (1867).
HAMILTON, WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812,
archdeacon of Colchester_). _b._ London 9 Jany. 1777; ed. at
Harrow where he was lamed for life; sec. to lord Elgin at
Constantinople 1799, sent to Egypt 1801 when he recovered the
Rosetta stone from the French; aided in collecting and removing
the Elgin marbles from Athens 1802; F.S.A. 1804, director 1809–10,
under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1809–22; minister at
Naples 1822–4; treasurer of Royal institution 1832–49; F.R.S.; a
trustee of Br. Museum 1838–58; author of _Ægyptiaca or the ancient
and modern state of Egypt_ 1809; _Memorandum on the earl of
Elgin’s pursuits in Greece_ 1811. _d._ 12 Bolton row, London 11
July 1859. _Chambers’ Eminent Scotsmen, ii_, 229 (1869).
HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (_4 child of Archibald Hamilton of
Dublin, attorney 1778–1819_). _b._ 29 Dominick st. Dublin at
midnight 3–4 Aug. 1805; was acquainted with 9 languages in 1819;
student of Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1837, LL.B.
and LLD. 1839; Andrews professor of astronomy, astronomer royal
for Ireland and superintendent of Dublin observatory at Dunsink
near Dublin 1827 to death; knighted by lord lieutenant Lord
Mulgrave in library of Trin. coll. 15 Aug. 1835; M.R.I.A. 1832,
president 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 27 April 1844
which was continued to his widow; discovered conical refraction
1824; invented quaternions 1843; author of _Lectures on
quaternions_ 1853; _The elements of quaternions_ 1866. _d._
Dunsink observatory 2 Sep. 1865. _R. P. Graves’ Life of Sir W. R.
Hamilton 3 vols._ 1882–89, _3 portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.,
xix_, 94–110 (1842), _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. v_,
473 (1866).
HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM STIRLING, 3 Baronet (_elder son of Wm.
Hamilton 1758–90, professor of anatomy in univ. of Glasgow_). _b._
Glasgow univ. 8 March 1788; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. univs.;
student of Balliol coll. Ox. 1807, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; D.D. of
Leyden 1840; called to Scottish bar 1813; styled himself a
baronet, under the decision of an Edinburgh jury 1816; H.M.’s
solicitor for Teinds in Scotland 1832; professor of universal
history Univ. of Edin. 1821, professor of logic and metaphysics
there 1836 to death; contributed articles on metaphysics to
_Edinburgh Review_ 1829–39; F.R.S. Edin., resigned 1835; published
an edition of the works of Thomas Reid 1846 and of Dugald Steward
10 vols. 1854–8; author of _Discussions on philosophy and
literature, education and university reform_ 1852, _3 ed._ 1866;
_Lectures on metaphysics and logic 4 vols._ 1859–60, _2 ed._
1861–66; a civil list pension granted to Lady Hamilton 13 Oct.
1849. _d._ 16 Great King st. Edinburgh 6 May 1856, his bust placed
in senate hall of Edin. university Dec. 1867, his library of 9000
volumes purchased and given to Glasgow univ. _Veitch’s Memoir of
Sir W. Hamilton_ (1869), _portrait_; _Sir W. Hamilton, By W. H. S.
Monck_ (1881); _De Quincey’s Works, xvi_, 114–79 (1871); _Sir A.
Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edin. ii_, 332–35 (1884).
HAMLET, THOMAS. _b._ Boughton, Cheshire 1770; silversmith and
jeweller at 1 and 2 Princes st. Soho, London 1801–1841; built the
Royal bazaar, British diorama and exhibition of works of art,
opened at 73 Oxford st. about April 1828, it was burned down 27
May 1829, loss £50,000, rebuilt 1830 renamed the Queen’s Bazaar
1834, converted it into the Princess’s theatre at cost of £47,000
which opened with promenade concerts 30 Sep. 1840; bankrupt 20
March 1841; sold the theatre for £14,500; considered a millionaire
at one time, but greatly reduced by being unable to recover on
certain bonds of the Prince Regent and Duke of York. _d._ 5 Park
place, St. James’s, London 21 Feb. 1853.
HAMLEY, FRANCIS GILBERT (_eld. son of Joseph Hamley, d. 1854_). _b._
1815; ensign 12 foot 7 Aug. 1835; major 50 foot 8 Jany. 1858 to
1873; governor general of South Australia 19 Feb. 1868 to 16 Feb.
1869; M.G. 9 Aug. 1873. _d._ Cheltenham 12 Jany. 1876.
HAMMACK, JOHN GEORGE (_younger son of John Hammack of London_).
Timber merchant 30 Cannon st. road, Commercial road, London;
surveyor in city of London; retained in almost every case coming
under provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation act; returning
officer for Tower Hamlets borough; chairman of city of London and
Tower Hamlets cemetery co.; chairman of Ratcliff gas light co. 25
years; one of the two chief assistants of registrar general in
taking census in 1861. _d._ Boxlands near Dorking 4 Oct. 1861 aged
70.
HAMMERSLEY, JAMES ASTBURY. _b._ Burslem, Staffs. 1815; exhibited 3
pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1842–52; head
master Manchester sch. of design 1849–62; president Manchester
acad. of fine arts 1857–61; among his paintings were Mountain and
clouds, Loughrigg Fell 1850 in Manchester art gallery; The castle
of Rosenau in the collection at Windsor; author of _The condition
of the continental schools of art_ 1850. _d._ Manchester about
1868.
HAMMICK, SIR STEPHEN LOVE, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Stephen Hammick
of Plymouth, alderman_). _b._ Plymouth 28 Feb. 1777; M.C.S. 1799;
hon. fellow R.C.S. 1843; surgeon of Royal naval hospital at
Plymouth 1803–29; surgeon extraordinary to George iv. 1820–30, to
Wm. iv. 1830–37; practised 36 Cavendish sq. London 1829–56;
baronet 25 July 1834; author of _Practical remarks on amputation,
fractures and stricture of the urethra_ 1830. _d._ The Crescent,
Plymouth 15 June 1867.
HAMMILL, JOHN (_only son of Martin Hammill of Liverpool_). _b._ 13
April 1803; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1832; one of
boundary comrs. of boroughs 16 July 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in
Liverpool 1840; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1847, at
Marylebone Jany. 1860 to death. _d._ 34 Sussex gardens, Hyde park,
London 30 July 1860.
HAMMOND, EDMUND HAMMOND, 1 Baron (_3 son of George Hammond, d.
1853_). _b._ London 25 June 1802; ed. at Eton, Harrow and Univ.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, scholar 1824–8, fellow 1828–46;
clerk privy council office 1823–4; in foreign office 1824, chief
of the oriental department 1830–41; permanent under sec. of state
for foreign affairs 10 April 1854, retired 10 Oct. 1873 on his
full pay of £2500; P.C. 11 June 1866; cr. baron Hammond of Kirk
Ella, Kingston-on-Hull 22 Feb. 1874; assured Lord Granville that
the world was profoundly at peace 27 June 1870, French and
Prussian war broke out 15 July. _d._ Mentone, France 29 April
1890. _I.L.N. lxiii_, 413, 414 (1873), _portrait_; _Graphic 24 May
1890 p._ 583, _portrait_.
HAMMOND, ALFRED WILLIAM. Music seller and publisher at 9 New Bond
st. and then at 214 Regent st. London 1850–62; projector,
proprietor and many years editor of _Musical Standard_, No. 1,
Aug. 2, 1862; composer of _As o’er the past my mem’ry strays, a
hymn_ 1857; _When all thy mercies O my God, a hymn_ 1857. _d._
Belvedere near Erith, Kent 18 Dec. 1875.
HAMMOND, GEORGE (_younger son of William Hammond_). _b._ 1763;
matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 16 March 1780 aged 17, B.A. 1784,
M.A. 1788, D.C.L. 1810; sec. to David Hartley in Paris when
conducting peace negotiations with France and America 1783; chargé
d’ affaires at Vienna 1788–90, at Madrid 1791; minister plenipo.
to U.S. America 1791–5; under sec. foreign office, London
1795–1806, 1807–9; a comr. for British claims on France, Sep. 1814
to July 1828 when pensioned; connected with the _Anti-Jacobin_
1797 and the _Quarterly Rev._ 1809. _d._ 22 Portland place, London
22 April 1853 aged 90.
HAMMOND, JAMES LEMPRIERE. _b._ 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1852, M.A. 1855, fellow, tutor and bursar; executor of Dr. Wm.
Whewell 1866 when he superintended the additions to Trin. coll.,
completed under Whewell’s will at cost of £100,000 in 1868;
assistant Endowed schools commissioner; assistant Charity
commissioner for England and Wales; sec. to D. of Devonshire,
chancellor of Cambridge; on the governing bodies of Christ’s
hospital and Westminster school; author of _Carmen Latinum.
Cantab._ 1849. _d._ Clyde villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex 23 July
1880 in 52 year. _Times 28, 30, 31 July 1880._
HAMMOND, JOHN (_youngest son of Lempriere Hammond of Jersey_). _b._
1801; solicitor general of Jersey 1848–58; bailiff of Jersey and
pres. of The States 16 Feb. 1858 to death. _d._ Royal court house,
Jersey 14 Feb. 1880.
HAMOND, SIR GRAHAM EDEN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Andrew Snape
Hamond 1738–1828, captain R.N., 1 baronet_). _b._ Newman st.
London 30 Dec. 1779; entered R.N. 1785, captain 30 Nov. 1798;
present at battle of Copenhagen 1801; knight commander of Tower
and Sword 1825; commander in chief on South American station
1834–8; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
admiral 22 Jany. 1847, admiral of the fleet 10 Nov. 1862. _d._
Norton lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1862.
HAMOND, HORACE EDWARD. Cornet 1 life guards 18 Feb. 1828, lieut.
1831, sold out 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to king of Hanover some
time; precis writer to earl of Malmesbury sec. of state foreign
affairs 28 Feb. 1852; consul at Cherbourg 1 April 1852 to death;
K.H. _d._ 8 Feb. 1876.
HAMPDEN, JOHN (_brother of Right Rev. R. D. Hampden_). _b._ 27 Oct.
1798; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox.; collector of pictures, coins and
medals; collected materials for life of John Hampden the patriot.
_d._ 4 Clarence ter. Warwick st. Leamington 13 Nov. 1860.
_Numismatic Chronicle, xxi, Proceedings_ 11–12 (1861).
HAMPDEN, JOHN (_1 son of Rev. John Hampden, R. of Hinton Martel,
Dorset 1829–47_). Matric. from St. Mary hall, Ox. 14 Feb. 1839
aged 19; author of _The rampart of steel or a fancys (sic) for a
permanent coast militia and an army of reserve, Canterbury_ 1852;
_John Hampden’s Monthly. The truth seeker’s oracle and scriptural
science review, Nos. 1–3 May-July_ 1876; _Description of J.
Hampden’s improvements in artillery_ 1876; _The new manual of
Biblical Cosmography_ 1877; _The earth in its creation and the
portion adapted to man’s occupation_ 1880; published _John
Hampden’s Circular map of the world_ 1875; _John Hampden’s
Chronometrical Dial-plate_ 1876; edited _Cosmos_. _A Geographical
Review_ 1883. _d._ from bronchitis at 3 Park st. Croydon 22 Jany.
1891. _Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1891 p. 6 col. 2._
NOTE.—He inserted an advertisement in _Scientific Opinion_ 12
Jany. 1870 offering £500 to anyone proving that the earth is
round. This challenge was accepted by Alfred Russel Wallace;
Hampden and Wallace each deposited £500 in the hands of John
Henry Walsh who decided in favour of Wallace as having “proved
the curvature to and fro of the Bedford Level canal between
Witney bridge and Welsh’s dam (6 miles) to the extent of 5
feet more or less.” Walsh paid the £1000 to Wallace 1 April
1870 although Hampden instructed him not to do so, Hampden
brought an action against Walsh to recover his £500, which was
tried in the Queen’s Bench division 17 Jany. 1876 when the
judges held that Hampden having demanded his deposit money
back before it had been paid over by Walsh, was entitled to
judgment. _Law Reports i, Q.B. division_ (1876) 189–98;
_Experimental proofs that the surface of standing water is not
convex but horizontal with an examination of the question, Is
the earth a globe or a plane? between J. Hampden and A. R.
Wallace. By Parallax_ [_Samuel Birley Rowbotham_] 1870.
HAMPDEN, RIGHT REV. RENN DICKSON (_eld. son of Renn Hampden, colonel
of militia_). _b._ Barbadoes 29 March 1793; ed. at Oriel coll.
Ox., double first class 1813, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D.
1833, fellow 1814–7, tutor 1832, Bampton lecturer 1832; C. of
Newton near Bath 1816; principal of St. Mary hall, Ox., April
1833–48; professor of moral philosophy 1834–36; canon of Ch. Ch.
Ox. and regius professor of divinity 17 Feb. 1836 to 1848; R. of
Ewelme, Oxfs. 1836–48; bp. of Hereford 28 Dec. 1847 to death, his
election opposed by 13 bishops and the dean of Hereford,
consecrated at Lambeth palace 26 March 1848; author of _The
Scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian
theology_ 1833 and of essays, lectures, sermons and charges. _d._
107 Eaton place, London 23 April 1868. _Memorials by his daughter_
(1871), _portrait_; _Mozley’s Reminiscences, i_, 350–86 (1882);
_I.L.N. xii_, 22 (1848), _portrait_.
HAMPSON, JOHN. _b._ 1790; master of Bury st. academy, Manchester
1810–60; author of _The Monitory and Epistolary Exercise book for
schools_ 1841. _d._ Ardwick, Manchester, Oct. 1878 in 88 year.
HAMPTON, JOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON, 1 Baron (_younger son of Wm.
Russell of Powick court, Worcs., who d. 9 Dec. 1812_). _b._ Powick
court 20 Feb. 1799; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., D.C.L. 7 June
1853; assumed name of Pakington 1830; chairman of Worcs. quarter
sessions 1834–54; M.P. for Droitwich 1837–74; sec. of state for
the colonies 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord
of the admiralty Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and June 1866 to March
1867; sec. of state for war 8 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; first civil
service commissioner Nov. 1875; baronet 13 July 1846; G.C.B. 15
June 1859; created Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of
Westwood, co. Worcester 6 March 1874. _d._ 9 Eaton sq. London 9
April 1880. _bur._ in family mausoleum Hampton Lovett church,
Worcs. 15 April. _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages, second series_ 1859, _portrait_; _The statesmen of
England_ (1862), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_, 321 (1852), _xxi_, 237
(1852), _portrait_.
HAMPTON, RICHARD. _b._ Nancekuke down, Illogan, Cornwall 4 April
1782; a worker at a stamping mill; first preached at Redruth 1811;
itinerated in Devon and Cornwall as a Wesleyan, known as the
Cornish pilgrim preacher 1813–58. _d._ Porth Towan, Illogan 2
April 1858. _Foolish Dick, an autobiography of Richard Hampton_
1873, _portrait_.
HAMPTON, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ 21 Sep. 1810; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 4
Nov. 1828, commandant 2 Bengal N.I. 1 Jany. 1864 to 1 March 1870;
L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 65 Haverstock hill, London 23 Jany. 1881.
HANBURY, BENJAMIN. _b._ Wolverhampton 13 May 1778; in Bank of
England 1803–59; deacon of Congregational ch. Union st. London
1819–57; treasurer of Congregational Union 1831 to death; author
of _An historical research concerning the Congregational church in
England_ 1820; _Historical memorials relating to the Independents
3 vols._ 1839–44; edited Hooker’s _Ecclesiastical Polity 3 vols._
1830. _d._ 16 Gloucester villas, Brixton, Surrey 12 Jany. 1864.
_Evangelical Mag. 1864 p._ 166.
HANBURY, DANIEL (_1 son of Daniel Bell Hanbury of firm of Allen and
Hanbury, chemists, Plough court, Lombard st. London_). _b._ London
11 Sep. 1825; partner in firm of Allen and Hanbury to 1870;
student at Pharmaceutical soc. 1844, member 1857, examiner
1860–72; F.L.S. 1855, treasurer to death; F. Chem. soc. 21 Jany.
1858, and F.R. Micros. soc. 1867; F.R.S. 6 June 1867, member of
council 1872–5; studied the materia medica of the Chinese; visited
Greece and the Holy Land 1860; the cucurbitaceous genus Hanburya
named after him 1870; author with professor Friedrich A. Flückiger
of _Pharmacographia_ 1874. _d._ Clapham common, Surrey 24 March
1875. _Science papers, ed. by J. Ince_ 1876, _memoir pp._ 3–40,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal soc._ _xxiv_, 2–3 (1876); _Nature_,
_xi_, 428 (1875).
HANBURY, DANIEL BELL (_1 son of Capel Hanbury_). _b._ 8 Feb. 1794;
with Allen and Hanbury 1808, partner, retired 1868; an originator
of Pharmaceutical soc. 1841, treasurer 1852–67; assisted to make
index for _Pharmacographia_ 1874. _d._ Hollywood, Clapham common
12 Feb. 1882. _Pharmaceutical Journal_, _xii_, 698 (1881–82).
HANBURY, SIR JOHN (_2 son of Wm. Hanbury of Kelmarsh,
Northamptonshire_). _b._ Kelmarsh 1782; ed. at Eton; ensign 58
foot 20 July 1799; served in Egypt 1801, in Peninsula 1808–9,
1813–4, in Portugal 1826–7; major grenadier guards 25 July 1821 to
22 July 1830; colonel 99 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 20
June 1854; K.C.H. and K.B. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 15
Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 7 June 1863.
HANBURY, ROBERT (_2 son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex
1765–1852_). _b._ 2 July 1796; clerk with Truman, Buxton & Co.
brewers 1815, partner 1820, managing partner of business in London
and at Burton on Trent; sheriff of Herts. 1854; had large gardens
and conservatories at Poles near Ware; built and endowed
Thundridge ch. Herts. 184-and Christ Church, Ware 1858. _d._
Poles, Ware 20 Jany. 1884. _Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette 16 Jany.
1875 pp._ 64, 67, _portrait_; _Licensed Victuallers’ Year Book
1876 pp._ 83–5, _portrait_.
HANBURY, ROBERT CULLING (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ London 19
March 1823; partner in Truman, Hanbury and Co. brewers, London;
M.P. for Middlesex 29 April 1857 to death. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor
st. London 29 March 1867. _bur._ in churchyard of Thundridge,
Herts. _I.L.N. xxx_, 479 (1857), _portrait_.
HANCE, HENRY FLETCHER. _b._ Old Brompton, London 4 Aug. 1827;
entered Hong-kong C.S. 1 Sep. 1844; 4 assistant in superintendency
of trade at Hong-kong 1 May 1854, 1 assistant 1857; vice consul at
Whampoa near Canton 1861–78; consul Canton 1878, 1881, 1883;
acting consul at Amoy, May 1886; spent his life in study of botany
of China. _d._ Amoy 22 June 1886, his herbarium 22,000 species
offered to British Museum.
HANCOCK, ALBANY (_son of John Hancock, saddler, Newcastle-on-Tyne_,
_d._ 1812). _b._ Bridge End, Newcastle 24 Dec. 1806; solicitor
Newcastle 1830–2; a founder of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field
club 1846; F.L.S. 1862; wrote over 70 papers on birds, shells,
mollusca, etc. 1836 etc., the first to examine carefully the
internal structures of mollusca 1843, gold medallist of Royal soc.
1858; with J. Alder wrote _A monograph of the British
Nudibranchiate mollusca_ 7 _parts_ 1845–55. _d._ 4 St. Mary’s ter.
Newcastle 24 Oct. 1873. _Trans. Northumberland Nat. Hist. Soc. v_,
118, (1875), _portrait_; _Monthly Chronicle of North country lore,
Dec. 1890 pp._ 568–70, _portrait_.
HANCOCK, HENRY. Entered Bombay army 18 June 1819; adjutant general 1
May 1848 to 15 Sep. 1856; col. 19 Bombay N.I. 1856–69; L.G. 30
March 1869. _d._ Friedenfels, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonards on
Sea, Sussex 30 Dec. 1872 aged 70.
HANCOCK, HENRY (_son of Samuel Hancock of London, merchant_). _b._
Bread st. hill, London 6 Aug. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843,
prof. of human anat. 1865, president 1872, Hunterian orator 1873;
house surgeon Westminster hospital, demonstrator of anatomy
1834–8; lecturer on anatomy and physiology Charing Cross hospital
1838, assist. surgeon 1839, surgeon to 1875, lecturer on surgery;
surgeon Westminster ophthalmic hospital to 1875; the first to
remove the os calsis and retain the foot; author of _On the
operation for strangulated hernia_ 1850; _On the operative surgery
of the foot and ankle-joint_ 1873. _d._ Standen house, Chute,
Wilts. 1 Jany. 1880. _Medical Times 10 Jany. 1880 p._ 53; _Lancet_
(1853) _ii_, 578, _portrait_.
HANCOCK, JOHN (_brother of Albany Hancock 1806–73_). _b._ about
1808; saddler and ironmonger at Newcastle; formed finest
collection of British birds in the Kingdom and presented it to
Museum of Natural History Soc. Barras bridge, Newcastle 1881;
author of _A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland and Durham_
in Natural History Trans. 1874 and of other papers in same work
and in Trans. of Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. _d._ 4 St.
Mary’s terrace, Newcastle 11 Oct. 1890. _Monthly chronicle of
North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp._ 566–9, 2 _portraits_; _Graphic
25 Oct. 1890 p._ 460, _portrait_.
HANCOCK, SIR SAMUEL (_brother of Henry Hancock 1809–80_). _b._ 3
June 1805; exon of the yeomen of the guard 1832–47; knighted at
St. James’s palace 12 May 1841. _d._ 5 Paragon buildings,
Cheltenham 7 Aug. 1886.
HANCOCK, THOMAS (_2 son of James Hancock, timber merchant_). _b._
Marlborough, Wilts. 8 May 1786; invented the masticator by which
india rubber was pressed into blocks or rolled into sheets 1820;
india rubber manufacturer Goswell road, London 1821, works burnt
down 11 April 1834, Manchester works burnt 1838; partner with
Charles Macintosh maker of waterproof garments London and
Manchester; patented vulcanised india rubber and vulcanite or
ebonite 1843; took out 16 patents 1820–47. _d._ Woodberry vale,
Stoke Newington 26 March 1865. _Personal Narrative of India-rubber
manufacture in England, By T. Hancock_ (1857), _portrait_.
HANCOCK, WALTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Marlborough 16
June 1799; engineer Stratford, Essex; invented steam engine in
which the cylinder and piston were replaced by flexible steam
bags, ran it on the road from Stratford to London Feb. 1831, built
10 similar machines up to 1840; associated with Thomas Hancock in
manufacture of india rubber 1841; author of _Narrative of twelve
years experiments of steam carriages on common roads_ 1838. _d._
West Ham, Essex 14 May 1852.
HANCOCK, WILLIAM NEILSON (_2 son of Wm. John Hancock of Lisburn,
Antrim_). _b._ Castle st. Lisburn 1820; ed. at Dungannon and Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, LL.B. 1846, LLD. 1849; barrister King’s
inns 1844; Q.C. 1859; professor of political economy at Trin.
coll.; professor of political economy and jurisprudence Queen’s
coll. Belfast; founded Statistical and social inquiry Soc. of
Ireland 1847; sec. to Univ. of Dublin commission, Irish railway
commission and other commissions; clerk of the Crown and Hanaper
office, Dublin. _d._ at residence of Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow 10
July 1888. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 17 July.
HAND, GEORGE SUMNER. _b._ 1807; entered navy 5 Feb. 1821, captain 6
Sep. 1852, retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 20 May 1859;
F.R.G.S.; served in Ava 1825, West Indies 1829–31, on coast of
Africa 1844–9. _d._ I. 4 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Dec.
1883.
HANDLEY, JOHN. _b._ Stoke, Notts. 1807; a banker at Newark and
Sleaford as Handley, Peacock & Co.; M.P. for Newark 1857–65;
sheriff of Notts. 1869. _d._ North gate, Newark 8 Dec. 1880.
HANDYSIDE, ROBERT (_son of William Handyside, writer to the
signet_). _b._ Edinburgh 1798; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate at
Scottish bar 1822; deputy of the lord advocate 1835; sheriff
depute of co. Stirling 9 July 1840; solicitor general for Scotland
17 Jany. 1853; a lord of session and justiciary with courtesy
title of Lord Handyside 15 Nov. 1853 to death. _d._ Kennet,
Edinburgh 18 April 1858. _Journal of jurisprudence ii_, 245
(1858).
HANHAM, THOMAS BARNABAS (_youngest son of Rev. Sir James Hanham, 7
baronet, d. 2 April 1849, m. Eliza Dean dau. of William Patey, she
d. Wimborne, Dorset 5 June 1877 aged 90_). _b._ 11 June 1825;
sub-lieut. R.N. 6 Aug. 1845, lieut. 1847, retired 1864, commander
30 April 1879; Provincial S.G.W. of Dorset. _d._ Manston house,
Blandford, Dorset 27 Nov. 1883, cremated Manston 4 Dec. when a
masonic ritual was used which had not been employed in England
during the century. _m._ as his third wife 1 Dec. 1868 Edith Mary
widow of major John Swinburne 18 regt., she _d._ 30 July 1876.