at Stockton from 1814, presented with a public testimonial March
1847; contributed to periodicals; author of _Pleasures of home and
other poems_ 1837, _3 ed._ 1849; _The minstrelsy of Britain,
poetry and poets from Elizabeth to the present time. Stockton_
1860; _Courtship and marriage, their lights and shades_ 1864; _The
annals of Stockton-on-Tees, with biographical notices_ 1865. _d._
before 1879. _Annals of Stockton_ (1865) 176–80, _portrait_.
HEAVYSEGE, CHARLES, _b._ Liverpool 2 May 1816; went to Canada and
took up his residence at Montreal 1853, worked in a machine shop;
a reporter to the _Daily Witness_, Montreal 1860; author of _The
revolt of Tartarus_ 1852; _Saul, a drama_ [_by C. H._] 1857, _2
ed._ 1859, contains 10,000 lines of verse; _Count Filippi or the
unequal marriage, a drama_ 1860; _Jephthah’s daughter_ 1865; _Ode
for tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth_ 1864; _The Advocate, a
novel_ 1865. _d._ Montreal 1876. _The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1865
pp._ 412–18, 250–54; _The Canadian Monthly, x_, 127–34; _Morgan’s
Bibl. Canad. 1867 p._ 181.
HEBB, CHRISTOPHER HENRY. _b._ 1771; M.R.C.S.; surgeon and apothecary
at Worcester; medical attendant to prince Lucien Bonaparte and his
household at Thorngrove near Worcester; one of the originators of
Provincial medical and surgical association 1832; the first mayor
of Worcester after the municipal reform act 1833, chairman of the
charity trustees there to 1846; founded almshouses at Worcester
for decayed aldermen and councillors and their widows 1853;
translated Corvisart’s _Diseases of the heart_; published _An
account of all the public charities in the city of Worcester that
are under the management of the Worcester charity trustees_ 1842,
_3 ed._ 1860. _d._ Britannia sq. Worcester 26 Oct. 1861 aged 90.
HEBDITCH, REV. SAMUEL (_son of a manufacturer_). _b._ Lopen,
Somerset 22 March 1821; ed. at Highbury coll. 1843–8;
congregational minister at Ashburton 1848–53, Woolwich 1853–5,
Bristol 1855–72 and Clapton park, Hackney 1872–85; minister
Collins’ st. congregational ch. Melbourne, Victoria 1880–81;
organised the Young Christians’ Band, London 1881; minister
Brougham palace ch. North Adelaide, South Australia 1885 to death;
chairman Congregational union, S.A. 1887–8; a very successful
preacher; author of _Genuine revival, An address_ 1872. _d._
Adelaide 5 May 1888. _Congregational Year Book_ (1889) 181–6.
HEBERT, REV. CHARLES. Scholar of C.C.C. Cam. 1827; scholar of Trin.
coll. 1828; 35 wrangler and first class in classics 1830; B.A.
1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1872, D.D. 1874; V. of Lechlade 1844–51; R.
of Burslem 1851–58; V. and then R. of Lowestoft 1862–70; V. of
Ambleside 1875–78; author of _Neology not true and truth not new_
1861; _On clerical subscription_ 1862; _Faith and doubt_ 1872;
_The Lord’s supper, uninspired teaching 2 vols._ 1879; _The New
Testament scriptures, a translation of the six primary epistles_
1882. _d._ 1 Marine ter. Silloth, Cumb. 23 June 1890 in 83 year.
HECHT, EDOUARD (_son of Heinrich Hecht, musician, Frankfort_). _b._
Dürkheim-on-the-Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria 28 Nov. 1832; came to
England, Nov. 1854, settled at Manchester as a music master;
conductor of Manchester Liedertafel 1859–78, of St. Cecilia choral
soc. 1860 and of Stretford choral soc. 1879; chorus master for Sir
Charles Hallé at his concerts 1870 and then sub-conductor;
lecturer on harmony and composition, Owen’s coll. 1875; conductor
of Bradford and Halifax musical soc.; wrote _The charge of the
light brigade, a chorus_; _Impromptu for the pianoforte_ 1872;
_Eric the Dane, a cantata_ 1882 and 23 other pieces of music. _d._
Ravenswood, Spath road, Palatine road, Didsbury, Manchester 6
March 1887. _Grove’s Dict. of Music, iv_, 670; _Manchester Evening
News 7 March 1887_.
HECKFORD, NATHANIEL (_son of Capt. N. Heckford_). _b._ Calcutta 24
April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P.
Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings,
City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital
for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cross 28 Jany.
1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good
diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of
paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very
numerous medical papers. _d._ Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. _bur._
Woking. _Medical Times 6 Jany._ 1872 _p._ 25; _The story of the
East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford_ 1887.
HEDLEY, OSWALD DODD (_son of Wm. Hedley of Wylam-on-Tyne_). Author
of a work entitled _Who invented the Locomotive engine_ 1858, in
which he claimed that his father William Hedley who had the
direction of the Wylam colleries and _d._ 184-, invented the
locomotive and took out a patent 13 March 1813. _d._ Beckenham,
Kent 1 April 1882.
HEDLEY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1805 or 1808;
barrister G.I. 29 Jany. 1831, went Northern circuit; a coal
owner at 75 Quay side, Newcastle. _d._ 66 Jesmond road,
Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 Aug. 1877.
NOTE.—He left a legacy of £200,000 for purpose of founding and
endowing the see of a bishop of the Reformed Anglican church
for the county of Northumberland.
HEELIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1811; solicitor at Manchester 1826 to death;
promoted Manchester law association formed Dec. 1838, pres. of it
18—and 1867; alderman of Salford 1853–57, mayor 1855–57; declined
knighthood 1857. _d._ Above Beck, Grasmere 26 Aug. 1871 aged 60.
_Law Times, li_, 339, 356 (1871).
HEENAN, JOHN CAMEL (_son of Timothy Heenan, an Irishman_). _b._ West
Troy, New York 2 May 1835; a machinist at Benicia, California
1852–4; a miner 1854–7; went to New York 1857; fought John
Morrissey for 5000 dollars a side and the championship of America
at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct 1858 when Morrissey won in 11 rounds
lasting 21 minutes; proclaimed champion of America as Morrissey
declined to fight again; landed at Liverpool 16 Jany. 1860; fought
Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion belt near Farnborough
railway station on the borders of Hants and Surrey 17 April 1860,
after fighting 37 rounds in 2 hours the referee left the ring, the
battle was declared drawn and both men were presented with silver
belts at the Alhambra, London 30 May 1860; sailed for New York 4
July 1860; returned to England 3 April 1862; fought Tom King for
£1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863
when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes; always known as the
“Benicia Boy,” stood 6 feet 2½ inches, and weighed 260 pounds.
(_m._ near New York 3 April 1859 Adah Isaacs Menken the actress,
he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862), he _d._ Green River
Station, Wyoming Territory 28 Oct. 1873. _Modern Boxing by
Pendragon_ [_Henry Sampson_] (1878) 57–78; _W. E. Harding’s
Champions of the American prize ring_ (1888) 12–14, _portrait_;
_H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_ (1881) _iii, frontispiece, and pp._
415–43, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news i_, 29, 41, 193 (1862),
3 _portrait_.
NOTE.—He is one of the characters in Edward Jenkins’s novel
_Lisa Lena_ _2 vols._ 1880. A poem entitled “The Combat of
Sayerius and Heenanus, a lay of ancient London” appeared in
Punch, April 28, 1860; the poem is a paraphrase of Lord
Macaulay’s lay “Horatius” in the “Lays of Ancient Rome”; the
author of it was said to be William Makepeace Thackeray.
HEGINBOTHAM, HENRY. Mayor of Stockport, Cheshire twice; author of
_Stockport, ancient and modern_ 1877. _d._ Stockport 26 April
1891.
HEINKE, JOHN WILLIAM (_son of a Pole, a coppersmith_). _b._ London
1816; established himself as a submarine engineer at 79 Great
Portland st. London 1845; invented an improved diving dress and
air pump, obtained medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; removed the
vessels sunk in Sebastopol harbour 1856; reported on the possible
raising of the Lutine frigate from off Terschelling 1858;
recovered the watches stolen from Walker’s shop, 63 Cornhill, and
thrown over Blackfriar’s bridge Feb. 1865; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856.
_d._ 9 Regent’s park villas, Regent’s park, London 12 April 1870.
_Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxi_, 247–8 (1871).
HELLER, ROBERT, stage name of William Henry Palmer (_son of Henry
Palmer, musician, Canterbury_). _b._ Canterbury 1830; ed. at R.
Academy of music, London 1845–6, King’s scholar; appeared as a
conjurer at Rochester; landed in America 15 Sept. 1852, made his
début as a conjurer at Museum, Albany N.Y.; appeared in Chinese
assembly room, Broadway, New York; a teacher of Music in
Washington D.C. under his own name of Palmer; opened the French
theatre No. 585 Broadway, New York, which he called Heller’s Salle
Diabolique 11 April 1864; gave performances in Polygraphic hall,
King William st. London 27 Jany. to Feb. 1868; his half sister
assisted him in his second-sight séances from 1868; visited
Australia, Java, India and California; opened the Globe theatre,
New York as Heller’s Wonder theatre 15 Nov. 1876; opened
Fifth-avenue hall, New York 10 Dec. 1877, and Concert hall,
Philadelphia 25 Nov. 1878 being his last appearance; improved on
Houdin and became a most finished clairvoyant entertainer;
composer of _Sophie galop_, New York 1863 and other pieces of
music; left nearly £80,000. _d._ Continental hotel, Philadelphia
28 Nov. 1878. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 168,
_portrait_; _W. I. Bishop’s Second-sight explained, as exhibited
by R. Houdin and R. Heller_ (1880).
HELMORE, REV. HOLLOWAY. Chief of the Makololo Mission which started
about middle of 1859 from coast of Africa for a journey of 1000
miles to the tribes on north of the Zambesi, this journey was
accomplished 1859. _d._ Linyanti 21 April 1860. _Waddington’s
Congregational history v_, 229–64 (1880).
HELMORE, REV. THOMAS (_son of Thomas Helmore_). _b._ Kidderminster 7
May 1811; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of St.
Michael, Lichfield; priest vicar in Lichfield cath. 1840–2;
vice-principal of St. Mark’s coll. Chelsea 1842–6 and precentor
1846, retired 1877 when National Soc. gave him a pension; master
of the choristers chapel royal St. James’ 1846 to death; priest in
ordinary to the Queen 1847 to death; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs.
1872, resigned 1872; precentor at Bedford chapel, Bloomsbury; hon.
precentor of Motett choir, and of London Gregorian choral
association; author and writer of _The psalter noted_ 1849; _A
manual of plain song_ 1850; _Carols for Christmas tide set to
ancient melodies_ 1853; _A treatise on choir and chorus singing_
1855; _St. Mark’s chant book_ 1863; _A catechism of music_ 1878
and other pieces of music. _d._ 72 St. George’s sq. Pimlico,
London 6 July 1890. _Pictorial World 17 July 1890 p._ 76,
_portrait_.
HELPS, SIR ARTHUR (_1 son of Thomas Helps of Balham, Surrey_). _b._
Streatham, Surrey 10 July 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; D.C.L. of Oxford 8 June 1864; private sec.
to Spring Rice (Lord Monteagle) chancellor of exchequer; private
sec. to lord Morpeth chief sec. for Ireland 1839; comr. of French,
Danish and Spanish claims; clerk of privy council 9 June 1860 to
death; employed by Queen to revise Prince Albert’s Speeches 1862,
and with the preparation of Leaves of our Life in the Highlands
1868, and Mountain, Loch and Glen 1869; C.B. 30 June 1871, K.C.B.
18 July 1872; author of _Thoughts in the cloister and the crowds_
1835 _anon._; _Catherine Douglas a drama_ 1843 _anon._; _Friends
in council 2 vols._ 1847, _2nd series 2 vols._ 1857, _both anon._;
_The conquerors of the New World_ 1848; _Spanish conquest in
America 4 vols._ 1855–61; _Realmah a novel_ 1868. _d._ 13 Lower
Berkeley st. London 7 March 1875. _bur._ Streatham cemet. 12
March. His widow Bissel dau. of Capt. Edward Fuller granted civil
list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. _Graphic 8 May 1875 pp._ 436,
450, _portrait_.
HEMANS, CHARLES ISIDORE (_youngest son of Felicia Dorothea Hemans,
poetess 1793–1835_). _b._ 1817; settled in Rome and made Roman
history and archæology his chief study; originated the _Roman
Advertiser_, first English paper in Rome 1846; hon. sec. and
librarian of English archæological soc. in Rome; author of
_Catholic Italy_ 1860; _The story of monuments in Rome 2 parts_
1864–5; _A history of christianity and sacred art 3 vols._
1866–72. _d._ at Baths of Lucca 26 Oct. 1876. _Times 3 Nov. 1876
p._ 9.
HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ St.
Asaph, Wales 27 Aug. 1814; ed. at military coll. Sarèze, France;
pupil to Sir John Macneill, C.E., London; chief engineer of
Midland G.W. railway, Ireland 1845–51; constructed a greater
number of railways in Ireland than any other engineer 1845–53;
railway and sewerage engineer in London 1854 to death; engineer in
chief for province of Canterbury, N.Z. 1870 and then engineer in
chief for N.Z. to his death; F.R.G.S., F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1837,
M.I.C.E. 18 May 1845, member of council 1856, V.P. 1872–5; author
with R. Hassard of _On the future water supply of London_ 1866;
seized with paralysis Sep. 1872 and never spoke again. _d._ 11
Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 29 Dec. 1885. _I.L.N.
xix_, 208 (1851); _Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxxv_, 394–99 (1886).
HEMING, DEMPSTER (_youngest son of George Heming of Weddington near
Nuneaton, Warws._) _b._ about 1778; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews;
barrister M.T. 27 May 1808; practised with great success at
Madras; registrar of supreme court at Calcutta; contested North
Warwickshire 26 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Warws. 1840; F.R.A.S. _d._ 7
Hubert terrace, Dover 24 Dec. 1874. _bur._ in family burial place
in Warws.
NOTE.—He was the oldest barrister in the law list, his exact
age was unknown to his relatives.
HEMPEL, CARL or CHARLES FREDERIC (_eld. son of the succeeding_).
_b._ Truro, Sep. 1811; teacher of music at Truro, organist of St.
Mary’s ch. there 1844–57; introduced into Cornwall choral
performances on a large scale; matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 11
Feb. 1855, B.M. 15 Feb.; his oratorio The Seventh Seal performed
at Oxford 19 March 1862, D.M. 20 March; organist and choirmaster
St. John’s episcopal ch. Perth 1857 to death; conductor of Perth
choral union, and of the Euterpean soc.; printed portions of The
Seventh Seal 1864 etc., and many pieces of light music. _d._ Perth
25 April 1867. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 227–8, 1226;
_Boase’s Collect. Cornub. p._ 349; _The Choir, v_, 360 (1867).
HEMPEL, CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ Chelsea 28 Aug. 1777; played organ in
King’s German chapel, St. James’ 1785; studied at Leipsic and
Dresden 1793–4; organist of St. Mary’s ch. Truro, May 1804 to
1844; removed to Exeter 1844; composer and writer of _Psalms from
the New Version_ 1805; _Sacred melodies_ 1812; _A morning and
evening service_ 1820; _An introduction to the pianoforte_ 1822;
he also was author of _The Commercial tourist or gentleman
traveller, a poem_ 1822, _3 ed._ 1832; a banker’s clerk in London
1854–5. _d._ in the workhouse, Prince’s road, Lambeth, London 14
March 1855. _Dictionary of Musicians, i_, 359–60 (1827).
HEMPHILL, ANDREW T. Ensign 29 foot 7 April 1825, lieut.-colonel 8
Dec. 1846 to 8 March 1848; lieut.-colonel 26 foot 8 March 1848 to
31 July 1860 when placed on h.p.; commander first infantry brigade
at Dublin 1 July 1861 to death; M.G. 10 Nov. 1861. _d._ 11
Burlington road, Dublin 31 March 1863.
HEMPHILL, BARBARA (_youngest dau. of Rev. Patrick Hare, rector of
Golden, Tipperary_). (_m._ John Hemphill of Rathkeany, Tipperary,
who _d._ 26 Sep. 1833); author of _Lionel Deerhurst, or
fashionable life under the Regency 3 vols._ 1846; _The priest’s
niece 3 vols._ 1855; _Freida the Jongler 3 vols._ 1857. _d._
Dublin 5 May 1858.
HEMSLEY, JOHN. Chairman of Implement committee of R. Agric. soc. of
England 1876 to death, member of council 22 May 1874 to death; a
frequent judge of steam cultivation, implements, etc. at the
annual meetings, steward of implements 1886; author of _Report on
the trial of agricultural implements at Taunton_ 1875. _d._
Shelton, Newark, Dec. 1888. _Agricultural Gazette_ 1888.
HEMY, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ Newcastle 12 Nov. 1818; resided
Newcastle to 1885; removed to West Hartlepool 1885; pianist to the
Earl of Ravensworth; musical instructor at Ushaw coll. Durham;
engaged upon A history of the organ, when he died; composer of
upwards of 100 pieces of music including Drawing room melodies
1851; Melodies of the Tyne and Wear 1857; Thirteen sacred songs
1869; God save the Prince of Wales, song 1876; set to music a
number of Longfellow’s poems; author of _The royal modern tutor
for the pianoforte_ 1854, copyright of which was sold for £500,
1867 and for £3000, 1879. _d._ suddenly at 10 Regent st.
Hartlepool 10 June 1888. _bur._ Moor Edge cemet. Newcastle.
_Northern Daily Mail 11 June 1888 p._ 3, _14 June p._ 3.
HENCHY, DAVID O’CONNOR. _b._ Rutland sq. west, Dublin 1810; M.P. for
co. Kildare 1852–59. _d._ 1 Dec. 1876.
HENDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Aberdeenshire 1780; ed. at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 12 Sep. 1803; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1808; resided at 6 Curzon
st. London; published _A sketch of the revolutions of medical
science by P. J. G. Cabanis, translated from the French_ 1806; _An
examination of the imposture of Ann Moore the fasting woman of
Tutbury_ 1813; _The history of ancient and modern wines_ 1824.
_d._ Caskieben, Aberdeenshire 16 Sep. 1863. _Munk’s Roll of
Physicians, iii_, 69 (1878).
HENDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1828 or 1829; in service of Post office;
sec. to Edward Askew Sothern the comedian; lessee and manager
Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1861? to 8 Feb. 1868; lessee
of Criterion theatre, London 1876–9; lessee of Folly theatre
1876–9; lessee of Globe theatre 1878–81; opened the Comedy theatre
with _La Mascotte_ comic opera 15 Oct. 1881, lessee to 1885;
lessee of Avenue theatre 1885 to decease. (_m._ (1) Miss Moon of
Liverpool; _m._ (2) Lydia Thompson, actress). _d._ Prince of
Wales’ hotel, Cannes 1 Feb. 1886 aged 57. _bur._ 2 Feb. _The Era 6
Feb. 1886 p._ 8, _19 Jany. 1889 p._ 16; _A. Brereton’s Dramatic
Notes_ (1887) 15–17.
HENDERSON, ANDREW (_son of John Henderson of Shetland_). _b._
Liverpool 10 Jany. 1800; in the navy 1813–16; commanded ships for
Palmer & Co.; formed with Lord William Bentinck and Auber the East
India steam navigation co. and the Assam co.; commanded the India
1840 first steamer that went round the Cape; conveyed first mails
between Calcutta and Suez; A.I.C.E. 1840; invented a bow and stern
rudder. _d._ 20 Feb. 1868. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_,
472–75 (1870).
HENDERSON, REV. ANKETELL MATTHEW. _b._ Anketell grove, Monaghan,
Ireland 1820; Wesleyan minister in Ireland 1841–52; Congregational
minister at Cork 1852–6, at Claremont chapel, Pentonville, London
1856–65; wrote articles in the _Patriot_, the _British Quarterly_
and the _London Quarterly Reviews_ 1856–65; president of
Congregational coll. Melbourne, Australia 1865 to death; pastor of
Collins’ st. ch. 1866 to death, built a new ch. at cost of £23,000
which was opened free of debt 1868; an eloquent preacher; preached
in Theatre Royal during rebuilding of his church; edited _The
preacher’s manual, By S. J. Sturtevant_ 1866. _d._ in house of his
nephew John Garvin, Toronto, Canada 23 June 1876. _Heaton’s
Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 89; _Congregational Year Book_
(1877) 374–76; _J. Jones’ Sermon on death of A. M. Henderson_
(1876).
HENDERSON, CHARLES COOPER (_younger son of John Henderson, amateur
artist_). _b._ Abbey house, Chertsey 14 June 1803; ed. at
Winchester; studied for the bar; painted sporting pictures and
sketches, horses and coaching scenes, many of which were engraved
and published by Messrs. Fores, London; exhibited 2 pictures at
R.A. 1840–8. _d._ Lower Halliford-on-Thames 21 Aug. 1877.
HENDERSON, REV. EBENEZER (_youngest son of George Henderson,
agricultural labourer_). _b._ The Linn, parishes of Saline and
Dunfermline 17 Nov. 1784; clock and watch maker 1794, kept cows,
then a boot and shoemaker 1799; ed. at Robert Haldane’s seminary,
Edinburgh 1803–5; engaged founding Bible societies in Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Russia 1805 etc.; minister at Elsinore
1806–7, at Gothenburg 1807; formed first Congregational ch. in
Sweden 6 Oct. 1811; visited Iceland and distributed Bibles 1814;
at St. Petersburg printed the Bible in 10 dialects 1816, resided
in Russia to 1825; tutor at Gosport, Hoxton and Highbury colleges
1825–50; minister Sheen Vale independent chapel, Mortlake, Surrey
1852–3; author of _Iceland, a residence in that island 2 vols._
1818; _The Book of the Twelve minor Prophets translated_ 1845;
_The Vaudois, a tour to the valleys of Piedmont_ 1845; _The Book
of Isaiah translated_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1857 and many other works.
_d._ Mortlake 16 May 1858. _Memoir of E. Henderson by Thalia S.
Henderson_ (1859), _portrait_.
HENDERSON, EBENEZER (_son of John Henderson, watch and clock
maker_). _b._ Dunfermline, Feb. 1809; made an orrery and an
astronomical clock 1827; clerk to his brother a tanner at St.
Helens 1829; curator Liverpool Astronomical instit.; member of 13
scientific societies in England, LLD. of an American coll.;
F.R.A.S.; received freedom of Elgin 1850 and of Dunfermline 1859;
made a combination of wheels to show and check sidereal time 1850;
restored old market cross of Dunfermline 1868 and queen Margaret’s
stone; author of _An historical treatise on horology_ 1836; _A
treatise on astronomy_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1848; _Life of James
Ferguson_ 1867, _2 ed._ 1870; _The annals of Dunfermline and
vicinity_ 1879. _d._ Muckhart, Perthshire 2 Nov. 1879.
HENDERSON, GEORGE (_son of Capt. Henderson of 4 foot_). _b._ Newton,
Aberdeenshire 4 June 1783; 2 lieut. R.E. March 1800; served in
Ceylon 1803–12, in the Peninsula 1812–14; lieut.-col. R.E. 30 Dec.
1824, retired from the service 9 April 1825; general
superintendent London and South Western railway co. 1830, a
director to death; A.I.C.E. May 1837; chairman London Equitable
gas co., and Southampton gas co. to death. _d._ 11 Anglesea place,
Southampton 21 April 1855. _Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv_, 100–101
(1856).
HENDERSON, GEORGE. _b._ 1785 or 1786; entered navy 1 March 1794;
captain 1 Aug. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860. _d._ Middle
Deal, Kent 23 Jany. 1864 aged 78. _O’Byrne p._ 493.
HENDERSON, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 2 foot 1 Oct. 1794; inspecting
field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 24 Aug. 1815 to 10 Feb. 1817
when placed on h.p.; col. 59 foot 27 April 1852 to death; L.G. 20
June 1854; K.H. 1836. _d._ Kempsey, Worcs. 7 Sep. 1857 aged 78.
HENDERSON, GILBERT. _b._ Colquitt st. Liverpool 8 Aug. 1797; ed. at
Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; a
leader on the northern circuit; recorder of Liverpool 24 July 1843
to death. _d._ Hyde park sq. London 5 Dec. 1861. _The Liverpool
Courier 7 Dec. 1861 p._ 5.
HENDERSON, JAMES (_son of a labourer_). _b._ Scotland 1829; worked
on a farm for 50s. a year 1843–5; butler to Mr. Grant Duff
1847–52; ed. at Surgeons’ hall, Edin. 1855–8, surgeon 1858; M.D.
of St. Andrew’s univ. 1859; medical missionary Shanghai, China
1860–5, in charge of the Chinese hospital 1860–5; author of
_Shanghai Hygiene, or hints for preservation of health in China_
1863; edited _Reports of the Chinese hospital, Shanghai_ 1860–63.
_d._ Nagasaki, Japan 30 July 1865. _Memorials of J. Henderson_
(1868), _portrait_; _Good Words_ (1878) 784–90.
HENDERSON, J. SCOTT. _b._ Berwickshire 1838; a banker at Paisley;
edited the _Ayr Observer_ some years, the _Times_ and _Mirror_ at
Bristol, the _Edinburgh Courant_ 1867–72 and the _Bullionist_ in
London; translated H. C. L. Von Sybel’s _Clerical policy in the
nineteenth century_ 1875. _d._ Oaklands, St. Mark’s road, Notting
hill, London 18 Sep. 1883.
HENDERSON, JOHN (_son of John Henderson, gardener at Brechin
castle_). _b._ Brechin 14 June 1804; carpenter Brechin; architect
Edinburgh making a special study of gothic; designed and built
many episcopal and other churches in Scotland 1831–65; Trinity
college, Glenalmond, Perth with its decorated chapel is his best
work 1847. _d._ 7 Greenhill park, Edinburgh 27 June 1865.
_Dictionary of Architecture, iv_, 43.
HENDERSON, JOHN (_son of Robert Henderson, merchant and shipowner_).
_b._ Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire 1780; drysalter Glasgow;
East India merchant London; gave from £30,000 to £40,000 a year to
religious and charitable schemes; maintained several religious
newspapers; spent £4000 in sending copy of a publication to all
railway servants to tell them of the sinfulness of Sunday labour;
stopped for sometime Sunday railway travelling in Scotland;
maintained mission churches in Glasgow; a founder of Evangelical
Alliance 1845. _d._ Park Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1 May 1867.
_Glasgow Daily Herald 2 May 1867 p._ 2.
HENDERSON, JOHN (_son of John Henderson the actor_). _b._ London
1822; apprenticed to Sanders the equestrian; performed as an
equestrian artiste in every capital in Europe; returned to England
1862, equestrian director 1862 to death. (_m._ 1843 Agnes Selina
Hengler). _d._ Ipswich 10 May 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 3
July. _Illustrated sporting news, ii_, 428 (1862), _portrait_,
_iv_, 641 (1865), _portrait_; _Era 19 May 1867 p._ 14 _col._ 3.
HENDERSON, JOHN (_brother of Charles Cooper Henderson 1803–77_).
_b._ Adelphi ter. London 1797; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1817,
M.A. 1820; studied for the bar; spent his life in collecting works
of art, which he kept at his residence 3 Montague st. Bloomsbury,
London; F.S.A. 11 March 1858; left to Univ. of Oxford his Greek
and Roman vases and Egyptian antiquities, to British Museum his
water-colour drawings, enamels, porcelain, glass, metal work, arms
and MSS., to National Gallery some water-colour drawings and
paintings. _d._ 3 Montague st. London 20 Nov. 1878. _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 202–13; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries,
viii_, 105 (1881); _Academy 30 Nov. 1878 p._ 531; _Works of art in
pottery, glass and metal in collection of J. Henderson_ 1868.
HENDERSON, JOHN (_son of Gilbert Henderson_). _b._ Durham 2 May
1811; ed. Durham gram. sch.; carpet manufacturer and coal owner,
Durham; M.P. Durham city 1864–74; M.P. Durham 5 Feb. 1874 but
election declared void. _d._ Bournemouth 4 April 1884. _Times 10
April 1884 p._ 7.
HENDERSON, JOHN IRVING. _b._ Dumfriesshire 1781; in R.N.; advocate
of the Scotch bar 1812; sheriff substitute of Dundee district, of
Forfarshire 1832, resigned 1860. _d._ Blackness crescent, Dundee
24 Dec. 1860; his daughter erected schools to his memory which
were opened by the Bishop of Brechin 2 Aug. 1862 but shortly
afterwards finally closed. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873)
193; _Dundee Advertiser 25 Dec. 1860 p._ 3.
HENDERSON, PETER. _b._ Pathhead near Edinburgh 25 June 1823;
apprentice to a gardener 1839; went to U.S. America 1843;
greenhouse horticulturist Jersey City, and seedsman in New York,
the largest business of its kind in America; author of _Gardening
for profit_ 1867, circulated 100,000 copies; _Practical
floriculture_ 1869; _Gardening for pleasure_ 1875; _Henderson’s
Handbook of plants_ 1881; _Garden and farm topics_ 1884; _How the
farm pays_ 1884. _d._ Jersey City Heights, Jany. 1890. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_, 164 (1887).
HENDERSON, PETER LINDSAY. _b._ Glasgow 1831, ed. at high school
there; master in the merchant service; owner and manager of a line
of steamers between Copenhagen and Germany 1857; established whale
fisheries in Iceland, using steamships with harpoon guns;
proprietor of the Greenwich and Poplar horse ferry; A.I.C.E. 7
Feb. 1871. _d._ Woodfield, Hendon 20 Feb. 1881. _Proc. of Instit.
of C.E. lxiv_, 341–2 (1881).
HENDERSON, WILLIAM (_4 son of William Henderson, sheriff substitute
of Caithness_). _b._ Thurso 17 Jany. 1810; ed. at univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1831; physician fever hospital, Edin. 1832; pathologist Royal
infirmary, resigned 1845; made clinical studies on the heart and
blood vessels 1835–7; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1838; professor of general
pathology, Univ. of Edin. 1842, resigned 1869; adopted homœopathy
1845 when professor Syme, Sir John Forbes and others withdrew from
associating with him, and he was expelled from the Med. Chir. Soc.
of Edin. in Dec. 1851, wrote many works on homœopathy in reply to
his adversaries 1845–53; author also of _Letter to lord provost on
charges against Queen’s college_ 1840; _A dictionary of names of
persons and places in Old and New Testaments_ 1869. _d._ 19
Ainslie place, Edinburgh 1 April 1872. _Grant’s University of
Edinburgh, ii_, 451 (1884); _British Journal of Homœopathy, xxx_,
617–23 (1872).
HENDERSON, WILLIAM. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 26 May 1858. _d._
1875.
HENDERSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Biggar, Lanarkshire 5 Aug. 1831; compositor
with firm of T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh; a type-music printer
with Novello, Ewer & Co. London 1860; partner with James Cossar
Rait at 30 Penton st. Pentonville, and also with Montague
Spalding, as type music printers 1861, they acquired a world-wide
reputation, they moved to Winsley st. Oxford st. 1864, then to
Berners st., afterwards to 3 Marylebone lane and Dyott house,
Holborn; a composer of some ability. _d._ suddenly at Ipswich 22
May 1891. _Stationery Trades Journal 30 May 1891 p._ 254.
HENDERSON, WILLIAM WILMOTT. Entered navy May 1799, captain 9 Oct.
1815, R.A. 21 March 1851; commander in chief on south east coast
of America 19 July 1851 to 1 May 1854; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; C.B. 18
Dec. 1840. _d._ at sea returning to England 12 July 1854.
HENDREN, MOST REV. JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Birmingham 19 Oct. 1791;
received Franciscan habit 2 Aug. 1806; a teacher at Baddesley
school 1812–16; priest 28 Sep. 1815; a teacher at Perthyre
1816–18, at Aston 1818–23; president Baddesley academy 1823–26;
served mission at Abergavenny 1826–39; confessor and spiritual
director to the nuns and pensioners of Franciscan convent at
Taunton Lodge 1839–48; vicar apostolic of western district, and
bishop of Uranopolis _in partibus_ 28 July 1848, consecrated at
Clifton by bishop Ullathorne 10 Sep. 1848; translated to newly
created See of Clifton 29 Sep. 1850; translated to See of
Nottingham 27 June 1851, resigned 26 Dec. 1852; bishop of
Martyropolis _in partibus_ 25 Feb. 1853, resided at Birmingham,
May 1853 to death. _d._ Birmingham 14 Nov. 1866. _Gillow’s English
Catholics, iii_, 266–7 (1887); _Brady’s Episcopal succession,
iii_, 317, 333, 357, 406, 432 (1877).
HENDRICKEN, MOST REV. THOMAS FRANCIS. _b._ Kilkenny, Ireland 5 May
1827; ed. at St. Kyran’s coll. Kilkenny and at Maynooth; ordained
in Dublin, R.C. priest 29 April 1853; pastor at Winsted, Conn.,
U.S. America 1854; pastor at Waterbury 1855–72 where he built the
church of the Immaculate Conception; Pius ix. created him D.D.
1868; first bishop of new diocese of Providence, R.I., consecrated
28 April 1872, built a cathedral and an episcopal residence. _d._
Providence 11 June 1886. _Appleton’s American Biography, iii_, 165
(1887).
HENEAGE, EDWARD (_2 son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton,
Lincolnshire, d. 1833_). _b._ 24 July 1802; M.P. for Great Grimsby
7 Jany. 1835 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Grimsby 8 July 1852.
_d._ Stag’s End, Hemel Hempstead 25 June 1880.
HENEAGE, GEORGE FIESCHI (_brother of preceding_). _b._ 22 Nov. 1800;
ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826; M.P. Great Grimsby
1826–30; M.P. Lincoln 1831–4 and 1852–62; sheriff of Lincolnshire
1839. _d._ Hainton 11 May 1868.
HENFREY, ARTHUR (_3 son of Henry Antram Henfrey_). _b._ Aberdeen 1
Nov. 1819; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1843;
lecturer on botany at Middlesex and St. George’s hospitals 1847;
professor of botany King’s coll. 1853; F.L.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June
1852; edited _The Botanical Gazette 3 vols._ 1849–51, the
_Photographic Journal_, _vols._ 1, 2, 1853; author of _Outlines of
structural and physiological botany_ 1847; _The vegetation of
Europe, its conditions and causes_ 1852; _An elementary course of
botany_ 1857, _4 ed._ 1884, besides many translations from the
German and other books. _d._ 12 Heathfield ter. Turnham green,
Middlesex 7 Sep. 1859. _Proc. Royal Soc. x_, 18 (1860).
HENFREY, HENRY WILLIAM (_eld. son of preceding_). _b._ London 5 July
1852; ed. at Brighton coll.; member Numismatic soc. 1868, on
council; contributed 12 papers to _Numismatic Chronicle_; member
British Archæol. Assoc. 1870 and wrote in its proceedings; author
of _A guide to the study of English coins_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1885;
_Numismata Cromwelliana_ 1877; edited _Henfrey’s Journal_, St.
Albans 1864. _d._ Widmore cottage, Bromley, Kent 31 July 1881.
_Numismatic Chronicle, ii_, 21–2 (1882).
HENGLER, EDWARD HENRY (_son of Henry Hengler, tight rope dancer of
Vauxhall gardens_). _b._ 1819; tight rope dancer; kept a riding
school with his brother John Milton Hengler at Elizabeth st.
Pembroke place, Liverpool. _d._ Liverpool 8 Jany. 1865. _Era 15
Jany. 1865 p._ 14.
HENGLER, FREDERICK CHARLES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Cambridge 1820; taught the circus business by his father; violin
and trumpet player in James Wild’s theatre, Bradford 1841;
business manager of Price and Powell’s circus, afterwards
purchased the circus with which he travelled; built circuses in
Liverpool 1857, Glasgow and Dublin 1863, Hull 1866, Bristol 1867,
Birmingham 1868 and London 1871; introduced spectacular pieces
played by children; taught riding to several members of the royal
family; a great horse tamer and exhibitor of trained animals. _d._
Cambridge house, 27 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex 28
Sep. 1887. _bur._ Pauntley, Gloucestershire, left £59,665 2s. 5d.
_Frost’s Circus Life_ (1876) 48 _etc._; _The Era 15 Jany. 1865 and
1 Oct. 1887_; _Judy 13 Dec. 1882 p._ 280, _portrait_.
NOTE.—His eldest son and successor Frederick Charles Hengler
was _b._ 4 Aug. 1855 and _d._ 7 May 1889.
HENLAND, HENRY. _b._ Germany 1778; scientific dealer in minerals in
London 1807, having purchased Old Humphrey’s collection; supplied
the British Museum with greater part of their collection of
minerals; formed a mineralogical cabinet for C. H. Turner of Rooks
Nest, Surrey, an account of which was printed in 3 volumes with an
atlas of 83 plates of forms of crystals; foreign secretary
Geological soc. some years. _d._ Hastings 16 Nov. 1856.
HENLEY, JOSEPH WARNER (_only son of Joseph Henley, merchant,
London_). _b._ Putney, Surrey 3 March 1793; ed. at Fulham and
Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1834, hon. D.C.L. 1854; in his
father’s office 1815–17; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1841–78; president
of board of trade 27 Feb. to 17 Dec. 1852 and 25 Feb. 1858 to
March 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; author of _A Conservative’s opinion
on the contagious diseases act_. _Nottingham_ 1878. _d._
Waterperry, Oxfordshire 8 Dec. 1884. _The drawing room portrait
gallery of eminent personages 2 series_ (1859), _portrait_; _The
statesmen of England_ (1862), _portrait_; _St. James’ Mag. March
1870 pp._ 771–4, _portrait_.
HENLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS. _b._ Midhurst, Sussex 1814; a leather
dresser, a light porter 1829 and a dock labourer; a philosophical
instrument maker 1838; assisted Sir C. Wheatstone and made his
electrical apparatus 1836; took out 13 patents for improvements in
electric telegraphs, &c. 1848–71; founded the British and Irish
magnetic telegraph co.; made 14,000 miles of submarine cables;
made electric light apparatus 1849; had manufactories at North
Woolwich 1859 and iron works and colleries in Wales employing 2000
men and making a profit of £80,000 a year; failed for £500,000 in
1874; director of Henley’s Telegraph works 1880 to death. _d._
Chesterton house, Plaistow, Essex 13 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Kensal
green 18 Dec. _Times 15 Dec. 1882 p._ 5; _The Electrician 23 Dec.
1882 p._ 136.
HENN, JONATHAN (_2 son of William Henn of Paradise, co. Clare,
master of Irish court of chancery, d. 1822_). _b._ 1789; ed. at
Lucan and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; called to Irish bar
1811; went Connaught circuit, joined Munster circuit; defended D.
O’Connell in the Repeal prosecutions 1843; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835;
engaged for the Crown in the case of John Mitchell 1849; assistant
barrister for co. of Donegal; retired from practice about 1850; a
brilliant orator. _d._ Clifton villa, Bray, co. Dublin 22 July
1873. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 225–31; _Law mag. and
law review, ii_, 233–35 (1857).
HENN, THOMAS RICE (_3 son of Thomas Rice Henn, Q.C., recorder of
Galway_). _b._ Dublin 2 Nov. 1849; ed. at Windermere coll. and R.
Milit. acad. Woolwich 1866; lieut. Bombay engineers 7 July 1869,
commanded 2 company in Afghan war 1880; present in Bolan pass and
at Candahar; brigade major R.E. 1879–80; _killed_ while covering
the retreat of the army at the battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880,
window to his memory placed in Rochester cath. _Shadbolt’s Afghan
campaign. Biog. Division_ (1882) 107–9, _portrait_.
HENN, WILLIAM (_brother of Jonathan Henn, d. 1873_). Called to Irish
bar 1808; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1822, master in chancery
1822 to death. _d._ Dublin 8 March 1857. _O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_
(1879) 224.
HENNEDY, ROGER. _b._ Carrickfergus near Belfast, Aug. 1809; a block
cutter for calico printers; learnt to draw on stone and made
designs for textiles; a teacher of botany at Glasgow 1848; in
business with a partner 1851–7; professor of botany Andersonian
univ. Glasgow 1863 to death; author of _The Clydesdale Flora,
plants and ferns of the Clyde district_, _Glasgow_ 1865, _4 ed._
1878. _d._ Whitehall near Bothwell, Lanarkshire 22 Oct. 1877.
HENNEN, JOHN (_son of John Hennen, M.D., d. Gibraltar 3 Nov. 1828_).
M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.D. Edin. 1821; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1843; in
medical department of army 1824; physician R. Milit. asylum,
Southampton 1828–40; in practice at 24 Upper Southwick st. Hyde
park, London 1847; F. Med. and Chir. soc. 1844, librarian 1848–50,
compiled an Index to the Society’s Transactions 1851; translated
C. J. Nitzsch’ _System of christian doctrine_ 1849; edited his
father’s _Sketches of medical topography of the Mediterranean_
1830. _d._ Tunbridge Wells, June 1871 aged 71. _Proc. Med. Chir.
Soc. vii_, 38 (1875).
HENNESSY, WILLIAM MAUNSELL. _b._ Castle Gregory, co. Kerry 1829;
resided for some time in U.S. America; in the Lunatic asylum
office 1855; wrote for Irish newspapers; chief clerk Public Record
office, Dublin 1868, assist. deputy keeper 1886 to his death; Todd
professor R. Irish acad. 1822–4; the best Irish scholar of his
day; contributed to _The Academy_, _La Revue Celtique_, etc.;
edited _Chronicon Scotorum. A chronicle of Irish affairs_ 1866;
_The annals of Loch Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs_ 1871; J.
Graves’ _Pedigree of the White Knight_ 1881; J. C. Mangan’s _The
poets and poetry of Munster_ 1883 and many other works. _d._ 71
Pembroke road, Dublin 13 Jany. 1889. _Academy 26 Jany. 1889 p._
56.
HENNIKER, JOHN HENNIKER-MAJOR, 4 Baron (_eld. son of 3 Baron
Henniker 1777–1832, who in 1822 assumed additional surname of
Major_). _b._ Stratford Green, Essex 3 Feb. 1801; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 28 May 1824; M.P. for East
Suffolk 1832–47 and 1856 to 13 July 1866 when created Baron
Hartismere of Hartismere, co. Suffolk; sheriff of Suffolk 1853;
F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852. _d._ 6 Grafton st. Bond St. London 16 April
1870. _I.L.N. xxx_, 479 (1857), _portrait_.
HENNIKER, ALDBOROUGH (_eld. son of Aldborough Brydges John Henniker
of Catcott, Somerset 1797–1880_). _b._ 6 July 1821; ed. at the
Charterhouse; barrister G.I. 1 May 1844, bencher 7 July 1874,
treasurer 1877 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1874; member of council of
legal education. _d._ 26 Leinster sq. Bayswater, London 28 Jany.
1880 from injuries received by falling down the staircase at
King’s Cross station of Metropolitan railway.
HENNIKER, REV. ROBERT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1 June
1833; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., Johnson’s Theol. sch. 1856, B.A.
1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Michael, Alnwick 1858–60; P.C. of South
Charlton near Alnwick 1860–69; head master of Rossall school
1869–75; V. of Frocester near Stroud 1875 to death; author of
_Stories from English history for young children_ 1861; _Trifles
for travellers_ 1864. _d._ Frocester vicarage 1 Feb. 1880.
HENNING, JOHN (_son of Samuel Henning, carpenter_). _b._ Paisley 2
May 1771; carpenter; modeller of wax figures 1800; a modeller at
Glasgow; studied in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1802; went to London
1811; made models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes with the
missing parts restored 1811–23; made models in relief of cartoons
of Raphael; exhibited 17 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 37 at
Suffolk st. 1816–52; executed busts of Princess Charlotte of Wales
and Mrs. Siddons; a founder of Soc. of British Artists 1847;
presented with freedom of Paisley 1846; executed the relievi on
the gate at Hyde park corner and those on the Athenæum club. _d._
17 Lower Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 8 April 1851. _bur._ St.
Pancras cemet. Finchley.
HENNINGSEN, CHARLES FREDERICK (_son of a Swede_). _b._ England 1815;
in Carlist army in Spain, lieut.-col. 1834; served in Russian army
in Circassia; commander of fortress of Comorn under Kossuth in
Hungary 1849; commander of the artillery under William Walker in
Nicaragua, America 1856, major general; colonel of 3 regt. of
Wise’s brigade in Confederate army and served in Virginia;
superintended construction of first Minié rifle made in U.S.
America; author of _Revelations of Russia_. _Paris_ 1845; _The
most striking events of a twelve months’ campaign with
Zumalacarregui 2 vols._ 1836; _The White slave 3 vols._ 1845;
_Personal recollections of Nicaragua_, and other works. _d._
Washington, D.C. 14 June 1877. _Appleton’s American Biography,
iii_, 169 (1887).
HENRADE, MARY (_3 dau. of Thomas Young of Melbourne, Australia_).
_b._ 1842; appeared in original cast of _Our American Cousin_ at
Haymarket theatre, London 11 Nov. 1861; played at Lyceum theatre,
Oct. 1864, and at chief west end theatres. (_m._ Stephen Demetrius
Pitzipios a Greek merchant and general agent at 17 Throgmorton st.
London). _d._ Duncroft house, 3 Grove end road, London 11 March
1876 aged 34. _Era 19 March 1876 p._ 10 _col._ 4.
HENRY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Loughbrickland, co. Down 1783; came from U.S.
America and settled in Palace st. Manchester as an American house
doing an export trade in cotton and woollen goods 1804; crossed
the Atlantic 30 times; opened houses at Leeds, Huddersfield,
Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast; member of
Anti-Corn law league 1838; M.P. South Lancashire 20 Dec. 1847 to
June 1852; entertained Kossuth 1850; lost his sight many years
before his death. _d._ Harrogate 4 Oct. 1862. _London Society
(Nov. 1880)_ 446–62; _Hunt’s Merchant’s Mag. xix_, 63–67 (1848),
_xxxiv_, 36–45 (1856).
HENRY, CHAPLIN, assumed name of Henry Charles Stroud. _b._ 1826;
bookseller; had a fine bass voice; attached to choir of Surrey
chapel, Blackfriars road, London; an early member of Henry
Leslie’s choir 1856; chief bass at Foundling chapel; a singer at
the banquets at the City of London halls; author of _O write me a
song of my father, Ballad_ 1869. _d._ Peckham 12 Jany. 1888.
_Musical Times 1 Feb. 1888 p._ 92.
HENRY, GEORGE FITZGERALD (_brother of Sir Thomas Henry 1807–76_).
_b._ 1827; entered service of P. and O.S.N. Co. 1847, commander on
the China line, superintendent of service at Bombay; connected
with Bank of Bombay and the Port Trust board; member of the Bombay
corporation; thrown out of his carriage at Bombay and _killed_ 23
Feb. 1877. _The Graphic 5 May 1877 pp._ 407, 408, _portrait_.
HENRY, JAMES (_1 son of Robert Henry, woollen draper_). _b._ Dublin
13 Dec. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B.
1822, M.D. 1832; a physician in Dublin with a large practice
1822–45 charging a five shilling fee instead of the usual guinea;
from 1841 the study of Virgil became the object of his life, began
walking through Europe with his wife and daughter making Virgilian
researches 1846; wife Anne Jane dau. of John Patton _d._ Arco,
Tyrol and was cremated; crossed the Alps 17 times; dau. Katharine
Olivia _b._ 20 Nov. 1830 assistant to her father in his travels
and studies, _d._ 7 Dec. 1872; author of _Miliaria accuratius
descripta_. _Dublin_ 1832; _The Eneis, books i and ii rendered
into English blank Iambic by J. H._ 1845; _Notes of a twelve
years’ voyage of discovery in the first six books of the Eneis_.
_Dresden_ 1853; _Poems, chiefly philosophical_. _Dresden_ 1856,
_with a portrait_; _Thalia Petasata, a foot journey from Carlsruhe
to Bassano_. _Dresden_ 1859; _Æneidea, remarks on the Æneis, with
collation of principal editions 2 vols._ 1873–9. _d._ Dalkey
lodge, Dalkey near Dublin 14 July 1876. _The Academy 12 Aug. 1876
pp._ 162–3.
HENRY, JOHN. Entered Madras army 1800; col. 51 Madras N.I. 15 March
1842 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1855. _d._ Holles st. Cavendish sq.
London 17 Dec. 1860.
HENRY, MICHAEL (_son of a merchant, d. April 1840_). _b._
Kennington, London 19 Feb. 1830; ed. at City of London sch.
1840–44; assisted in editing _Mechanics’ Mag._ 1846–57; a patent
agent in London 1857 to death; edited _Jewish Chronicle_ 1868 to
death; founded General Benevolent Assoc. 1847, hon. sec. to death;
hon. sec. Stepney Jewish schools to death; A.I.C.E.; author of
_The Inventor’s almanac_ 1858; _A defence of the present patent
laws_ 1866; his clothes caught fire when he was in his office 68
Fleet St., _d._ from the burns at 6 Argyle sq. Euston sq. London
16 June 1875. _bur._ Willesden cemet. 21 June. _Jewish Chronicle
25 June 1875 pp._ 205–6; _Times 18 June 1875 p._ 13, _19 June p._
7.
HENRY, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of David Henry of Stephens green,
Dublin, government contractor_). _b._ Dublin 1807; ed. at Von
Feinaigles sch. and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827;
barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; magistrate at Lambeth st. police
court near Whitechapel, April 1840, removed to Bow st. 1846, chief
mag. at Bow st. 6 July 1864 to death; knighted at Windsor castle
30 Nov. 1864. _d._ 23 Hanover sq. London 16 June 1876. _I.L.N. 14
March 1846 p._ 172, _portrait_, _24 June 1876 p._ 623, _1 July
pp._ 3, 4, _portrait_; _Graphic, xiii_, 614, 628 (1876),
_portrait_.
HENRY, WALTER. _b._ Donegal, Ireland 1 Jany. 1791; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin; hospital assistant in 66 foot April 1811, served in the
Peninsula to 1814, in Nepaulese war 1816–7, in St. Helena 1817–21,
prepared bulletin of post mortem appearance of body of Napoleon;
in Canada 1827–41; staff surgeon 1839, inspector general of
hospitals in Canada 1852, retired 1856; wrote in periodicals under
pseudonyms of Miles, Piscator, and Scrutator; author of _Trifles
from my Portfolio, or recollections of 29 years military service,
By a Staff Surgeon_. _Quebec 2 vols._ 1839; _Events of a military
life 2 vols._ 1843. _d._ Belleville, Upper Canada 27 June 1860.
_Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis_ (1867) 182–3.
HENRY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 30 Dec. 1816;
barrister N.S. Nov. 1840; Q.C. 1849; member of Nova Scotia
Assembly 1840 for many years; mayor of Halifax; solicitor general
3 times; provincial secretary and attorney general; puisne judge
of supreme court of Canada, Oct. 1875 to death. _d._ Ottawa 3 May
1888.
HENSLOW, REV. JOHN STEVENS (_1 son of John Prentis Henslow,
solicitor, Enfield, d. 1854_). _b._ Rochester, Kent 6 Feb. 1796;
ed. at free gram. sch. Rochester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 16 wr.
1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.L.S. 1818; F.G.S. 1819; founded with
Adam Sedgwick, the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 15 Nov. 1819; prof. of
mineralogy at Cam. 1822 to March 1827; P.C. of St. Mary the Less,
Cam. 1824–32; prof. of botany at Cam. June 1825 to death, his
enthusiasm rendered botany popular, Darwin and others were his
pupils; V. of Cholsey, Berks. 1832–7; R. of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837
to death; established study of botany in his schools; for tithe
dinners substituted excursions; discovered beds of phosphatic
nodules in the Suffolk Crag 1843 much used for manure; a founder
of the Ipswich museum 1848; author of _Catalogue of British
plants_ 1829, _2 ed._ 1835; _The principles of descriptive and
physiological botany_ 1836; _An account of Roman antiquities found
at Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds_ 1843; _A dictionary of botanical
terms_ 1856 and other books. _d._ Hitcham rectory house 16 May
1861, his collections divided between Ipswich, Cambridge and Kew
museums. _Jenyns’ Memoir of J. S. Henslow_ (1862), _portrait_;
_Popular Science Monthly_, _iii_, 159–72 (1873), _portrait_;
_Longman’s Mag. June 1883 pp._ 147–59.
HENSMAN, REV. JOHN (_son of Thomas Hensman of Birmingham_). _b._
Bedford 22 Sep. 1780; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., 9 wr. 1801, B.A.
1801, M.A. 1804; fellow of his coll. 1801; C. to Rev. Charles
Simeon at Cam. 1801; C. of Wraxall, Somerset 1803–9; C. in charge
of Clifton parish ch. Bristol 1809–22; C. of Dowry chapel, Clifton
1822–30; incumb. of Trinity ch. Hotwells 1830–44; P.C. of Christ
Church, Clifton 1844–7; R. of Clifton 1847 to death; St. James’
chapel, Clifton commonly known as the Hensman memorial church was
consecrated Dec. 1862; hon. canon of Bristol cath. 1858; well
known member of evangelical party; prime mover in building 4
churches in Clifton. _d._ Clifton hill 23 April 1864. _Bristol
Times 30 April 1864 p._ 6.
HENSOM, GRAVENER. _b._ Nottingham 1785; engaged in hosiery trade and
in point and bobbin net manufacture; had a practical knowledge of
all kinds of looms; wandered about the coasts of England, Scotland
and France discovering and exposing the tricks of the smugglers;
imprisoned in Coldbath-fields prison for his connection with
Luddite riots; gave evidence before parliamentary committee;
author of _List of 100 inventions and alterations in the stocking
and lace machines_ 1828; _Civil, political and mechanical history
of the frame-work knitting and lace trades_ 1831 which was never
finished. _d._ Broad st. Nottingham 15 Nov. 1852. _Felkin’s
History of hosiery_ (1867) _pp. xv-xvii_; _Wylie’s Nottingham_
(1853) 234–5.
HENTY, EDWARD (_6 son of Thomas Henty, landowner and banker, West
Tarring, Sussex, who went to Tasmania 1831_). _b._ West Tarring,
Sussex 10 March 1809; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; one of the three
founders of the colony of Victoria, Australia; the first settler
in Portland Bay, Victoria 19 Nov. 1834 where he had a whaling
station; imported pure merino sheep 1835; ploughed the first land
ever turned up in Victoria 1835; went inland and took up large
sheep runs; member for Normanby in legislative assembly 1856–61;
held Muntham station, Victoria. _d._ Offington, St. Kilda road,
Melbourne 14 Aug. 1878. _Times 28 Sep. 1878 p._ 10; _Men of the
Time_. _Victorian Series_ (1878) 86–8; _R. Henty’s Australiana_
(1886) 26 _etc._
HENTY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ England 1808;
emigrated to Tasmania 1831; solicitor at Launceston, Tasmania;
member of legislative assembly, Tasmania; colonial secretary,
Tasmania 1857–62; returned and settled in England 1863; author of
_Our improvements in cottage husbandry_. _Launceston_ 1850. _d._
12 Medina villas, Brighton 11 July 1881. _Times 14 July 1881 p._
9.
HENWOOD, WILLIAM JORY (_eld. son of John Henwood of Perran-wharf
near Truro_). _b._ Perran-wharf 16 Jany. 1805; clerk to Fox & Co.
at Perran 1822–7; first went underground 1825; assay master and
supervisor of tin for duchy of Cornwall 1832–8; Telford medallist
of Instit. of C.E. for paper On pumping engines 1837; made special
study of metalliferous deposits; F.G.S. 1828, Murchison medallist
27 Feb. 1875; F.R.S. 27 Feb. 1840; in charge of Gongo-Soco mines,
Brazil 1843–53; reported on the metals in Kumaon and Gurhwal for
Indian government 1855; president R. Instit. of Cornwall 1869–71,
delivered three valuable addresses; author of _On the
metalliferous deposits of Cornwall and Devon_. _Subterranean
temperature, Water and Electric currents_, being vol. v. of Trans.
R. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1843, and _Observations on metalliferous
deposits and on Subterranean temperature_ vol. vi. 1871, and other
books and numerous papers. _d._ 3 Clarence place, Penzance 5 Aug.
1875. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 230–3, 1227; _Times 10
Aug. 1875 p._ 3 _by W. P. Courtney_.
HEPBURN, HENRY POOLE (_1 son of Francis K. Hepburn, major general_).
_b._ 24 Jany. 1822; ensign Scots Fusilier guards 19 Feb. 1841,
lieut.-col. 21 March 1874 to 10 Oct. 1874 when placed on h.p.;
served in Crimean campaign 1854–5, wounded at battle of Alma,
medal with 2 clasps, Turkish medal and 5 class of Medjidie; L.G. 1
July 1881; C.B. 2 June 1869; maintained an orphanage for daughters
of soldiers of the Scots guards. _d._ The Hooke, Chailey, Lewes 26
Oct. 1888. _Times 29 Oct. 1888 p._ 6.
HEPPEL, JOHN MORTIMER (_eld. son of George Hastings Heppel of
Taplow, Bucks., paper maker_). _b._ Taplow 23 Dec. 1817; ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s sch. and London univ.; established with Moser an
engineering factory at Aix la Chapelle, partnership dissolved
1847; chief engineer on Madras railway, May 1857 to 1861; engineer
to Peruvian railway 1865; A.I.C.E. 20 April 1835, M.I.C.E. 11 Feb.
1851; invented a water meter and other pieces of mechanism. _d._ 2
Storey’s gate, Westminster 21 March 1872. _Min. of Proc. of C.E.
xxxvi_, 265–68 (1873).
HERAPATH, JOHN (_son of a maltster_). _b._ Bristol 30 May 1790; a
maltster with his cousin William Herapath at Bristol; conducted a
mathematical school, taking candidates for the navy 1815; Royal
Soc. refused to publish his paper “A mathematical enquiry into the
causes of heat, gases, gravitation, &c.” 1820, which was then
printed in Annals of Philosophy and a controversy with Royal Soc.
ensued; mathematical tutor at Cranford, Middlesex 1820–32; removed
to Kensington 1832; one of first advocates of atmospheric railway
system 1839; part proprietor and manager _Railway Magazine_ 1835,
called _The Railway magazine and Annals of Science_ 1836–39, then
_Herapath’s Railway Journal_, became sole proprietor; printed
numerous mathematical papers; author of _Mathematical physics 2
vols._ 1847. _d._ Catford bridge, Lewisham, Kent 24 Feb. 1868.
_G.M. April 1868 pp._ 544–5; _Herapath’s Railway Journal 29 Feb.
1868 p._ 234.
HERAPATH, SPENCER (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 1822; ed. in a
college in Indiana, U.S. America; connected with _Herapath’s
Railway Journal_; sec. to Admiral Laws manager Lancashire and
Yorkshire railway; sec. of Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield
railway to 1865; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1867; head of firm of Spencer
Herapath & Co., stock brokers, London 1844; member of committee of
Spanish bondholders; director of Buenos Ayres Great southern
railway 11 Jany. 1868; F.G.S.; F.A.S.; F.S.S. _d._ 18 Upper
Phillimore gardens, Kensington 13 March 1884. _Min. of Proc. of
C.E. lxxviii_, 447–8 (1884).
HERAPATH, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Herapath of Bristol, maltster_). _b._
Bristol 26 May 1796; a maltster, Bristol; one of the founders of
the Bristol Medical sch. 1828, professor of chemistry there 1828;
president of Bristol Political Union 1831; one of the founders of
Chemical Soc. of Lond. 23 Feb. 1841; F.C.S.; employed as
analytical chemist in cases of Mary Ann Burdock of Bristol 1835
and of W. Palmer of Rugeley 1856; member of Bristol town council
1833 and senior magistrate. _d._ Manor house, Old Park st. Bristol
13 Feb. 1868. _Gent. Mag. v_, 404, 544 (1868); _Herapath’s Railway
Journal 22 Feb. 1868 p._ 205.
HERAPATH, WILLIAM BIRD (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ 1820; L.S.A.
1843, M.R.C.S. 1844; ed. at Univ. of London, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1851;
surgeon Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, Bristol; president Bristol
microscopical soc.; F.R.S.; made many chemical and toxicological
discoveries; contributed numerous papers to scientific journals;
discoverer and manufacturer of artificial tourmalines; author of
_A few words on the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells_ 1854; _The
handbook for visitors to the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells_ 1864.
_d._ 32 Old Market st. Bristol 12 Oct. 1868. _I.L.N. 24 Oct. 1868
p._ 411; _Times 15 Oct. 1868 p._ 5.
HERAUD, JOHN ABRAHAM (_son of Abraham Heraud, law stationer, d.
1846_). _b._ St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 5 July 1799; friend of
Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and Carlyle; assistant editor of
_Fraser’s Mag._ 1830–3; edited _The Sunbeam_ 1838–9, the _Monthly
Mag._ 1839–42 and the _Christian monthly mag._; contributor and
dramatic critic to the _Athenæum_ 1843–68; dramatic critic
_Illust. London News_ 1849–79; a brother of the Charterhouse 21
July 1873 to death; wrote _Videna_, a tragedy, Marylebone theatre
1854, _Wife and no Wife_, and _Medea_; author of _The legend of
St. Loy_ 1820; _The descent into hell_ 1830, _2 ed._ 1835; _The
judgment of the flood_ 1834, _new ed._ 1857; _The life and times
of G. Savonarola_ 1843; _The sibyl among the tombs_ 1886. _d._
Charterhouse, Charterhouse sq. London 20 April 1887. _Athenæum 23,
30 April_ (1887); _I.L.N. 30 April 1887 p._ 485.
HERBERT OF LEA, SIDNEY HERBERT, 1 Baron (_younger son of 11 Earl of
Pembroke 1759–1827_). _b._ Richmond, Surrey 16 Sep. 1810; ed. at
Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; M.P. for South Wilts., Dec.
1832 to Jany. 1861; sec. of board of control Jany. to April 1835;
joint sec. of the admiralty 10 Sep. 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845; sec. of
state for war 4 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846, 29 Dec. 1852 to 8 Feb.
1855 and 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. of state for the colonies
Feb. 1855 to 15 May 1855; P.C. 3 Feb. 1845; first president
National Volunteer assoc. 16 Nov. 1859; cr. Baron Herbert of Lea,
Wilts. 15 Jany. 1861; made great sanitary reforms in the army;
author of _Proposal for the better application of cathedral
institutions to their intended use_ 1849; _The conduct of the war.
A speech_ 1854; _Military education. A speech_ 1856. _d._ Wilton
house, Salisbury 2 Aug. 1861, his statue in front of war office,
Pall Mall, London, unveiled 1 June 1867. _The British Cabinet in
1853_, 276–86; _H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches_ (1876) 78–90;
_Fraser’s Mag. lxv_, 198 (1861); _I.L.N. iv_, 136 (1844),
_portrait_.
NOTE.—With Lord Lincoln afterwards the duke of Newcastle, he
became interested in the _Morning Chronicle_, which was the
organ of the Peelites from 21 Feb. 1848 under the editorship
of John Douglas Cook.—In the autumn of 1854 the paper was sold
to Serjeant William Glover.—Lord Herbert is said to have lost
£116,000 in this undertaking.—_Bourne’s English newspapers,
ii_, 152–8.
HERBERT, ALFRED (_son of Thomas Herbert, waterman_). Apprentice to a
boat-builder; painter of coast scenes with fishing boats and
figures and views in the reaches of the Thames; exhibited 14
pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1844–60; obliged
to sell his pictures to dealers at low prices; 2 of his pictures
are at South Kensington. _d._ Jany. 1861. _Redgrave Dict. of
Artists_ (1878) 209; _Art Journal_ 1861 _p._ 56.
HERBERT, ALGERNON (_youngest son of 1 Earl of Carnarvon 1741–1811_).
_b._ 12 July 1792; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., removed to Exeter
coll., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1825; fellow of Merton coll. 1814–31,
subwarden 1826, dean 1828; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; published
_Nimrod, a discourse upon certain passages of history and fable,
By A. H._ part i. 1826, reprinted, remodelled and republished in
_2 vols._ 1828, a 3 vol. 1828, vol. 4 part i. 1829, part ii. 1830;
_Britannia after the Romans, By the Hon. A. H. 2 vols._ 1836–41;
_Cyclops Christianus, or an argument to disprove the antiquity of
the Stonehenge and other Megalithic erections in England and
Britanny_ 1849. _d._ Ickleton, Cambs. 11 June 1855. _G.M. xliv_,
649–50 (1855).
HERBERT, CHARLES. _b._ 1783; entered Madras army 1803; colonel 16
Madras N.I. 29 June 1842 to death; general 26 April 1866; C.B. 20
July 1838. _d._ Morland lodge, Croydon 17 Jany. 1867 aged 84.
HERBERT, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; ensign 66 foot 10 Dec. 1825; lieut.
col. 75 foot 2 June 1857 to 7 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 54 foot 7
Dec. 1858 to 27 July 1866 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858. _d._ Boyle cottage, Thames Ditton 19 Sep.
1879.
HERBERT, SIR CHARLES LYON. M.D.; knighted at St. James’s palace 19
Aug. 1836; (_m._ 1812 Anne dau. of Humphrey Jeffreys of Bristol,
she _d._ Florence 28 Nov. 1860), he _d._ Lower Berkeley st.
Manchester sq. London 1855.
HERBERT, CYRIL WISEMAN (_youngest son of John Rogers Herbert
1810–90_). _b._ Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 30 Sep.
1847; godson of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman; ed. in France, at St.
Mary’s coll. Oscott and King’s coll. London; studied in Italy
1868; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A, 1870–5; some of his paintings
were Homeward after labour. Roman cattle driven home 1870;
Returning to the fold. Welsh sheep driven home 1874, in Walker art
gallery, Liverpool; curator of antique school in Royal Academy
1882. _d._ The Chimes, Kilburn 2 July 1882. _Academy 8 July 1882
p._ 38; _Art Journal 1882 p._ 256.
HERBERT, DENNIS. Inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 28
Jany. 1808 to 17 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June
1854. _d._ Exeter 19 Sep. 1861.
HERBERT, EDWARD CHARLES HUGH (_younger son of 2 Earl of Carnarvon
1772–1833_). _b._ 30 March 1802; M.P. for Callington, Cornwall
1831–32. _d._ 30 May 1852.
HERBERT, EDWARD GILBERT. Ed. at Univ. college, London; barrister
L.I. 17 Nov. 1862; equity draftsman and conveyancer; lecturer on
law at Univ. of London; brought out with other writers a volume of
essays entitled _Religious Republics_ 1869 in which he wrote _The
Congregational Character_ pp. 91–132; wrote on art in public
journals. _d._ Nottingham 12 March 1871.
HERBERT, EDWARD HENRY CHARLES (_only son of E. C. H. Herbert
1802–52_). _b._ 1 Sep. 1837; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., scholar
1855–61, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865; 3 sec. of legation at Athens 16
Nov. 1868 to death; while on an excursion to the plains of
Marathon, taken prisoner by Greek brigands and murdered at Oropos
Sykamenos 21 April 1870, _bur._ Burghclere ch. yard 15 May. _Times
14 April 1870 p._ 5, _7 May p._ 12, _17 May p._ 6; _I.L.N. lvi_,
491, 557 (1870); _Parl. Papers 1870 and 1871_.
HERBERT, HENRY ARTHUR (_elder son of Charles John Herbert of
Muckross abbey, co. Kerry, d. 1836_). _b._ Muckross 1815; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Kerry 9 Aug. 1847 to death; chief
sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland, June 1857 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 25
June 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1836; lord lieut. of Kerry 1853 to
death; hon. colonel of Kerry militia 9 Jany. 1854 to death. _d._
Adare manor, Limerick 26 Feb. 1866. _I.L.N. xxv_, 616 (1854),
_portrait_.
HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM (_elder son of Hon. and Rev. William Herbert
1778–1847, dean of Manchester_). _b._ 10 Poland st. Oxford st.
London 3 April 1807; ed. at Eton and at Caius coll. Cam., B.A.
1830; classical master in Rev. R. T. Huddart’s sch. New York
1831–9; with A. D. Patterson established the _American Monthly
Mag._ 1833; made much money but was improvident and quarrelled
with his friends; lived at The Cedars on the Passaic 1846–58;
author of _Cromwell, a novel 2 vols._ 1837; _The Roman traitor 3
vols._ 1846; _The knights of England, France and Scotland_ 1852;
_Memoirs of Henry VIII of England and his six wives_ 1858; under
the pseudonym of Frank Forester he wrote _My Shooting Box_ 1846;
_Frank Forester and his friends 3 vols._ 1849; _The Deerstalker_
1850; _Horse and horsemanship of the United States and British
provinces 2 vols._ 1857 and other books; _shot himself_ through
the head at Stevens house, Broadway, New York 17 May 1858. _Judd’s
Life of F. Forester 2 vols._ (1882), _portrait_; _Picton’s Life of
F. Forester_ (1881); _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 179–80
(1877), _portrait_.
HERBERT, JOHN (_son of Wm. Herbert 1771–1851, librarian Guildhall
library, city of London_). _b._ Walcot place, Lambeth 28 Feb.
1814; appeared as Romeo in the Catherine st. theatre 1831; a comic
singer at Vauxhall, Cremorne and Rosherville 1833 etc.; played in
dramatic companies at Brighton 1837–8, at York 1839–40, at
Newcastle 1840, at Sadler’s Wells 1841, at the Victoria 1843, at
City of London 1844–7; a low comedian of much ability, his best
character was Paulo in _Plot and Counterplot_; acted at Royal
theatre, Edinburgh 1851–2. _d._ Edinburgh 6 April 1852.
_Theatrical Times, ii_, 217, 226 (1847), _portrait_; _J. C.
Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 434, 436.
HERBERT, JOHN MAURICE (_son of John Lawrence Herbert of New hall,
Montgomeryshire_). _b._ 15 July 1808; ed. at cathedral school,
Hereford and St. John coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of
his college 1830–40; barrister L.I. 8 May 1835; assistant tithe
and copyhold comr.; comr. for enfranchising assessionable manors
of duchy of Cornwall; judge of county courts, circuit No. 24
(South Wales) 12 March 1847 to death; F.G.S. _d._ Rocklands near
Ross 3 Nov. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 569 (1882), _portrait_; _Red
Dragon, iii_, 1 (1883), _portrait_.
HERBERT, JOHN ROGERS (_son of the controller of customs, Maldon,
Essex_). _b._ Maldon 23 Jany. 1810; student R. Acad. London 1826;
exhibited 69 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st.
1830–80; studied in Italy 1835; joined the Church of Rome 1840;
A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1886; a master of the School of
design, Somerset house 1837; decorated the peers’ robing room,
house of lords with 9 pictures, the best being, Moses bringing the
tables of the law, executed in the water glass process and taking
14 years to complete; commenced painting religious subjects with,
Introduction of Christianity into Britain 1842; some of his best
known works are, Sir Thomas More and his daughter 1844; The
acquittal of the seven bishops 1846; Our Saviour subject to his
parents at Nazareth 1847; Laborare est orare 1862; The sower of
good seed 1865; The bay of Salamis 1869; The adoration of the Magi
1874. _d._ The Chimes, Kilburn 17 March 1890. _bur._ Kensal green.
_Sandby’s Hist. of R. Academy, ii_, 179–81 (1862); _Sherer’s
Gallery of British artists, i_, 39–46; _I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p._
390, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 April 1890 pp._ 423, 441,
_portrait_; _Times 20 March 1890 p._ 10.
HERBERT, SIR PERCY EGERTON (_2 son of 2 Earl of Powis 1785–1848_).
_b._ Powis castle, Montgomeryshire 15 April 1822; ed. at Eton and
Sandhurst; ensign 43 foot 17 Jany. 1840; served in Kaffir war
1851–3, Russian war 1854–6 and wounded at the Alma, Indian mutiny
1857–8; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 28 Jany. 1868;
lieut.-col. 82 foot 19 Feb. 1858 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on
h.p.; deputy quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1860 to 28 April 1865;
L.G. 22 Sep. 1875; colonel 74 highlanders April 1876; M.P. Ludlow
1854–60; M.P. South Shropshire 1865 to death; treasurer of H.M.’s
household 27 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2
June 1869; P.C. 19 March 1867. _d._ Styche, Market Drayton 7 Oct.
1876.
HERBERT, ST. LEGER ALGERNON (_1 son of Frederick Charles Herbert
1819–68, commander in navy_). _b._ Kingston, Canada 16 Aug. 1850;
ed. at naval sch. New Cross, Kent and at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar
1869–74; in Canadian C.S. 1875–8; private sec. to Sir Garnet
Wolseley in Cyprus 1878 and in South Africa 1879; at the storming
of Sekokoeni’s Mountain and for his services C.M.G. 1880; a
correspondent of _The Times_ from 1878; sec. to Sir F. Roberts in
Africa, Feb. 1881; sec. to Transvaal commission 1881; special
correspondent for _Morning Post_ in Egypt from Sep. 1883, shot
through the leg at Tamai; on staff of Sir H. Stewart in Egypt
1884, _killed_ at battle of Gubat near Metammeh in the Soudan 19
Jany. 1885; _monument_ to memory of 7 journalists who died in
Soudan, in crypt of St. Paul’s. _Morning Post 29 Jany. 1885 p._ 5;
_I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 171 (1885), _portrait_.
HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (_2 son of Richard Townshend Herbert of
Cahirnane, M.P. co. Kerry 1783–90_). _b._ Cahirnane, Feb. 1793;
entered navy 23 July 1803; captain 25 Nov. 1822; served in China
during war operations in Canton river 1840–41; commodore on south
east coast of America 11 Jany. 1847 to 21 June 1849; a junior lord
of admiralty, Feb. to Dec. 1852; V.A. 8 Dec. 1857; sheriff of
Kerry 1829; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for
Dartmouth 1852–57. _d._ 74 Cadogan place, London 4 Aug. 1861.
HERBERT, REV. THOMAS MARTIN (_son of Thomas Herbert of Nottingham_).
_b._ Nottingham 18 Oct. 1835; ed. at Mill Hill sch., Spring Hill
coll., Lancashire coll. and at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London,
M.A.; congregational minister at Nether chapel, Sheffield to 1867,
at Cheadle 1868–76; professor of philosophy and church history,
Lancashire coll. 1876 to death; author of _The external relations
of Congregationalism_, printed in Religious Republics 1869;
_Difficulties in the way of religious education by the state_
1874; _The realistic assumptions of modern science_ 1879. _d._
Ottringham near Manchester 28 Nov. 1877. _The Congregationalist,
vii_, 33–40 (1878); _Congregational Year Book_ (1879) 320–21.
HERBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1771; librarian Guildhall library, city of
London 1828–45; author of _Antiquities of the inns of court and
chancery_ 1804; _Select views of London and its environs 2 vols._
1804–5; _The history of the twelve great livery companies of
London 2 vols._ 1836–7; with E. W. Brayley he wrote _Syr Reginalde
or the Black tower, a romance_ 1803; _History of Lambeth palace_
1806; with Robert Wilkinson _Londina illustrata 2 vols._ 1819–25.
_d._ 40 Brunswick st. Haggerston, London 18 Nov. 1851.
HERBISON, DAVID (_son of an innkeeper, d. 1827_). _b._ Ballymena,
co. Antrim 14 Oct. 1800; a hand loom linen weaver 1814–27 and 1830
to death; resided in Canada 1827–30; known as The Bard of Dunclug;
author of _The fate of Mc. Quillan and O’Neill’s daughter, poems,
Belfast_ 1841; _Midnight musings_ 1848; _Woodland wanderings_
1858; _The Snow wreath_ 1869, _with Autobiography of the author_;
_The children of the year_ 1876. _d._ Dunclug near Ballymena 26
May 1880, _monu._ at Ballymena. _Collected works of D. Herbison,
ed. by Rev. D. Mc. Meekin_ (1883), _with memoir_.
HERDMAN, ROBERT (_4 son of Rev. William Herdman, minister of
Rattray, Perthshire, d. 1838_). _b._ Rattray 17 Sep. 1829; ed. at
Madras coll. St. Andrews 1838, and at Univ. of St. Andrews;
studied art in Trustees’ acad. Edin. 1847 and in Italy 1854–6 and
1868; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1858, Academician 1863; _portrait_,
figure and landscape painter; exhibited at R. Scottish Acad. 1850
to death; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A. Lond. and 2 at B.I.
1861–80; some of his paintings were, After the battle, a scene in
covenanting times 1870, in National gallery, Scotland; Charles
Edward seeking shelter in the house of an adherent 1876; Landless
and homeless 1887; author of _Address to the students of the Board
of manufacturers’ Art School_ 1888; _found dead_ in his studio
from heart disease, Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1888. _Times 12 Jany. 1888
p._ 6.
HERDMAN, WILLIAM GAWIN (_son of a corn merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 13
March 1805; art teacher Liverpool; member of Liverpool academy
till 1857 when he was expelled for his opposition to
pre-Raphaeliteism; established an Art school in Liverpool 1857;
exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1834–61; the
reformation of perspective occupied much of his time; the founder
of shilling art-unions; F.S.A.; published _Views of
Fleetwood-on-Wyre_ 1838; _Studies from the folio of W. G. H._
1838; _Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool_ 1843; _A treatise on
the curvilinear perspective of nature_ 1853; _Thoughts on
speculative cosmology and the principles of art_ 1870; _found
dead_ in his bed at 41 St. Domingo vale, Liverpool 29 March 1882.
_Bryan’s Dictionary of painters_ (1886) 645; _Liverpool Mercury 1
April 1882 p._ 5.
HERING, GEORGE EDWARDS (_younger son of a German bookbinder_). _b._
London 1805; studied in Munich art sch. 1829 and in Italy 1830
etc.; landscape painter; exhibited 88 pictures at R.A., 86 at B.I.
and 10 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; among his paintings were The ruins
of the palace of the Cæsars at Rome 1836; Amalfi 1841 and Capri
18—, both in the Royal collection; Bridge over a stream 1847, in
South Kensington museum; published _Sketches on the Danube, in
Hungary and Transilvania_ 1838; _The mountains and lakes in
Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, twenty coloured lithographs_
1847. _d._ 45 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 18 Dec.
1879, his wife a well known painter, exhibited landscapes 1853–8.
_Art Journal, xxxii_, 83; _Clement and Hutton’s Artists_ (1879)
348.
HERIOT, FREDERICK LEWIS MAITLAND. _b._ 6 Feb. 1818; barrister 1839,
advocate depute; sheriff of Forfarshire 21 Feb. 1862 to death;
edited _The Scottish jurist, containing reports of cases decided
in the courts of session_. _d._ Paris 7 March 1881. _Journal of
Jurisprudence, xxv_, 204 (1881).
HERMAN, GEORGE FREDERIC. Joined British auxiliary legion in Spain as
a captain in the Rifle corps 11 July 1835 and was present during
all the fighting 1835–8, lieut.-col. 1 Oct. 1836; went out to
Syria as assistant adjutant general on staff of Sir Charles Smith
1840 and served through Syrian campaign, receiving Sultan’s gold
medal; vice consul at Bengazi 31 March 1848; consul at Tripoli 1
Jany. 1852 and consul general there 26 March 1856 to 13 Jany.
1865, retired on a pension 18 July 1865. _d._ 2 Aug. 1873.
_Foreign Office List_ (1873) 111–12.
HERMON, EDWARD (_son of Richard Hermon_). _b._ London about 1821;
member of firm of Horrocks, Miller and Co. cotton spinners,
Preston; M.P. Preston 1868–81; gave money for prizes, for Essays
on the prevention of explosions and accidents in coal mines 1874.
_d._ Berkeley sq. London 6 May 1881, personalty sworn to be
£588,000 on 25 June 1881, his pictures were sold for £37,116 4s.
6d. on 13 May 1882.
HERON, DENIS CAULFIELD (_eld. son of W. Heron_). _b._ Dublin 1826;
ed. at St. Gregory’s Downside and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845,
LL.B. and LLD. 1857; obtained a university scholarship 1845 but
precluded from enjoying it on account of being a Roman Catholic;
called to Irish bar 1848; professor of jurisprudence in Queen’s
college, Galway 1849–59; Q.C. 4 July 1860; law adviser at Dublin
Castle, April to July 1866; bencher of King’s Inns 1872; M.P. for
Tipperary 1870–74; third serjeant at law Oct. 1880 to death;
author of _The constitutional history of the university of Dublin_
1847; _Should the tenant of land possess the property in the
improvements made by him?_ 1852; _An introduction to the history
of jurisprudence_ 1860; _The principles of jurisprudence_ 1873.
_d._ while salmon fishing on the river Corrib at Galway 15 April
1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 19 April. _Case of D. C.
Heron against the provost and senior fellows of Trinity college_,
_Dublin_ (1846).
HERON, SIR JOSEPH (_son of James Holt Heron, merchant_). _b._
Manchester 1809; ed. at Moravian sch. at Fairfield; admitted
attorney and solicitor 1830; town clerk of Manchester, Dec. 1838
to death, an able administrator, instrumental in obtaining the act
for the Thirlmere water scheme for Manchester 1879; knighted at
Windsor castle 9 July 1869. _d._ Cannes, France 23 Dec. 1889.
_Times 25 Dec. 1889 p._ 4; _Law Journal, xxv_, 14 (1890).
HERON, MATILDA. _b._ Labby vale, Londonderry, Ireland 1 Dec. 1830;
studied in Philadelphia, U.S. America under Peter Richings; first
appeared at Walnut st. theatre as Bianca in _Fazio_ 17 Feb. 1851;
played at St. Louis 1852, in San Francisco 1853, in New York 1854
and 1857 when she acted as Camille her most successful character.
(_m._ 24 Dec. 1857 Robert Stoepel, musical director, from whom she
separated 1862, sued for a divorce March 1869); appeared at
Lyceum, London as Rosalie Lee in _New Year’s Eve_ 1 April 1861 but
met with little success; returned to U.S. America, made last
appearance as Medea in April 1876; teacher of elocution New York
1876 to death; published _Camille. Adapted from the French of A.
Dumas_ [_by M. H._] 1856; _Medea, a tragedy by G. J. B. E. W.
Legouvé, translated_ 1857. _d._ New York city 7 March 1877.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 184 (1887), _portrait_; _Soulé’s
Annals of San Francisco_ (1855) 661, _portrait_.
HERON, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Heron of Chilham
castle, Kent_). _b._ Newark 27 Nov. 1765; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam.; succeeded his uncle Sir R. Heron 18 Jany. 1805; came into
large property on death of his uncle Rev. Robert Heron 19 Jany.
1813; M.P. Grimsby 1812–18; contested Lincolnshire 1818; M.P.
Peterborough 1819–47; built the nave and tower of Stubton ch.
Lincolnshire; author of _Notes_. _Grantham_ 1850, _reprinted_
1851. _d._ Stubton hall near Newark 29 May 1854. _G.M. July 1854
pp._ 74–5.
HERRIES, SIR CHARLES JOHN (_eld. son of succeeding_). _b._ 1815; ed.
at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T.
20 Nov. 1840; commissioner of excise 22 Nov. 1842; dep. chairman
of board of inland revenue 1856, chairman 15 Aug. 1877, retired
1881 on a pension of £1353; C.B. 1871, K.C.B. 27 Oct. 1880; author
of _Memoir of Rt. Hon. J. C. Herries 2 vols._ 1880. _d._ St.
Julian’s, Sevenoaks 14 March 1883. _Times 16 March 1870 p._ 8.
HERRIES, JOHN CHARLES (_eld. son of Charles Herries of London,
merchant, d. 1819_). _b._ Nov. 1778; ed. at Cheam and at Univ. of
Leipsic; clerk in the treasury 5 July 1798; private sec. to
Nicholas Vansittart when secretary of the treasury 1801–1802, to
Spencer Perceval when prime minister 1810–12; secretary and
registrar to order of the Bath, Jany. 1809, resigned 1822;
comptroller of army accounts 1811; commissary in chief 1 Oct. 1811
to 24 Oct. 1816 when office was abolished and he retired on
pension of £1350; auditor of the civil list 29 Oct. 1816 to 1821;
financial sec. to the treasury 7 Feb. 1823 to 4 Sep. 1827;
chancellor of the exchequer 17 Aug. 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; P.C. 17
Aug. 1827; master of the mint 12 Feb. 1828 to 14 Dec. 1830;
president of board of trade 2 Feb. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1830; secretary
at war 16 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; president of board of
control 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; member of the India board 28 Feb.
1852; M.P. for Harwich 1823–41; contested Ipswich 3 July 1841;
M.P. for Stamford 1847–53; translated Frederick Gentz’s work _On
the state of Europe before and after the French revolution_ 1803.
_d._ St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 24 April 1855. _E. Herries’ Memoir of
J. C. Herries 2 vols._ 1880; _Portraits of eminent conservatives
and statesmen 2 series_ (1846); _I.L.N. xiv_, 269 (1849),
_portrait_.
HERRIES, SIR WILLIAM LEWIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Amiens, France 1785; cornet 19 dragoons 23 Jany. 1801; served in
South America, at Walcheren, at siege of Flushing and in
Peninsula; lost his leg before Bayonne 1814; permanent assistant
quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 31 July 1817 when placed on
h.p.; chairman of board of comrs. for auditing public accounts;
lieut.-col. on half pay 13 Aug. 1830 to 9 Nov. 1846; a comr. of
Chelsea hospital; col. of 68 foot 17 April 1854 to death; L.G. 20
June 1854; K.C.H. 1826; knighted at Carlton house 29 May 1826;
C.B. 19 July 1831. _d._ 14 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 3 June
1857.
HERRING, JOHN FREDERICK (_son of Mr. Herring, fringe maker, Newgate
st. London_). _b._ Surrey 1795; coach painter at Doncaster 1814;
driver of the Nelson coach from Wakefield to Lincoln 1814–6, then
of the Doncaster and Halifax coach, and later on of the Highflyer
coach between London and York; painted Filho da Puta the winner of
the St. Leger 1815, and the winners for 32 years in succession;
painted Mameluke the winner of the Derby 1827 and the winners for
18 years following; at Doncaster till 1830, at Six mile bottom,
Newmarket 1830–33, settled at Camberwell 1833; exhibited 22
pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 82 at Suffolk st. 1818–68; member
of Soc. of British Artists 1841–52; animal painter to duchess of
Kent; among his pictures were, A frugal meal, now in National
gallery; A group of ducks, in the Glasgow gallery, and A black
horse drinking from a trough, in National gallery, Dublin; many of
his paintings were engraved, and published by Fores, Fuller and
Graves; he published _The Horse_, 12 _plates_. _d._ Meopham park
near Tunbridge Wells 23 Sep. 1865. _Memoir of J. F. Herring.
Sheffield_ (1848), _portrait_; _Scott and Sebright, By the Druid_
(1862) 88–93; _I.L.N. xlvii_, 360, 361 (1865), _portrait_.
HERRING, PAUL, stage name of William Smith. _b._ 20 Sep. 1800; clown
at Richardson’s show playing 12 times a day and also taking part
in the outside parade; acted Bob Logic in the original cast of
_Tom and Jerry_ at the royal amphitheatre 17 Sep. 1821; in H.
Brading’s dramatic co. at Albert saloon, Shepherd fields, London
where he was the hero in _The imp of the devil’s gorge_ 1841;
clown at Victoria theatre under Daniel Webster Osbaldiston; played
clown last time at St. James’ theatre 1859; pantaloon from 1859,
played in _The White Cat_ at Drury Lane 1877. _d._ 32 North st.
Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1878. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 25 Sep. _The Era 22 and 29 Sep. 1878_; _Illust. S. and D.
News, ii_, 268 (1874); _Tinsley’s Mag., July 1883 pp._ 72–6.
HERRING, RICHARD. _b._ 1829; paper agent and wholesale stationer
Finsbury pavement, London; made a study of telegraphy; author of
_Paper and paper making, ancient and modern_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1863;
_A letter on the collection of rags for paper making_ 1860; _A few
personal recollections of the Rev. George Croly_ 1861; _Mr.
Herring and the telegraphs_ 1874, _4 ed._ 1875 and other books.
_d._ 27 St. Mary’s road, Islington 5 Oct. 1886. _The Bookseller 8
Oct. 1886 p._ 949.
HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_only child of Sir
Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, astronomer 1738–1822_). _b._ Slough,
Bucks. 7 March 1792; ed. at Hitcham, Eton and St. John’s coll.
Cam., senior wrangler, Smith’s prizeman and fellow of his coll.
1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; F.R.S. 27 May 1813, member of council,
one of secretaries 1824–7, royal medallist 1833, 1836 and 1840; a
founder of R. Astronomical soc. 1820, wrote the inaugural address,
first foreign secretary 1824–7, medallist 1826, 1836, president
1827; discovered 525 new nebulae; discovered double stars; made
researches and discoveries in light, heat and photography, one of
the greatest men since Sir Isaac Newton; K.H. 12 Oct. 1831;
baronet 17 July 1838; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen,
March 1842; master of the mint 13 Dec. 1850, resigned Feb. 1855;
president of British association at Cambridge meeting 1845; one of
the 8 foreign members of Institute of France 23 July 1855; wrote
upwards of 150 scientific papers; author of _Results of
astronomical observations made 1834–8 at Cape of Good Hope being
the completion of a survey of the heavens_ 1847; _A manual of
scientific enquiry, for the use of the navy_ 1849, _5 ed._ 1886;
_Outlines of astronomy_ 1849, _10 ed._ 1869; _Familiar lectures on
scientific subjects_ 1866; _The Iliad of Homer translated into
accentuated hexameters_ 1866. _d._ Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent 11
May 1871. _bur._ Westminster abbey 19 May. _Dunkin’s Obituary
notices of astronomers_ (1879) 47–85; _Martineau’s Biog. sketches_
(1876) 449–67; _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xxxii_, 122–42
(1872); _Illust. News of World, ix_ (1862), _portrait_; _Year book
of facts_ (1846), _portrait_.
HERSCHELL, HELEN S. (_dau. of William Mowbray of Edinburgh_). A
Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German scholar; a friend of Rev. Edward
Irving 1834–8. (_m._ 1831 the succeeding); wrote _The Bystander_,
a series of papers in _The Christian Ladies’ magazine_; author of
_The child’s help to self-examination and prayer_ 1835; _The voice
from the fire_ 1839. _d._ Bonn, Germany 31 Dec. 1853. _bur._
Kensal green 12 Jany. 1854. _Far above rubies. Memoir of Helen S.
Herschell_ (1854).
HERSCHELL, REV. RIDLEY HAIM (_son of a Jew_). _b._ Strzelno,
Prussian Poland 7 April 1807; ed. at Berlin univ. 1822; _baptized_
in England by bishop of London 1830; missionary among the Jews; in
charge of Lady Olivia Sparrow’s schools and mission work at Leigh,
Essex and Brampton, Hunts. 1835–8; opened an unsectarian chapel in
London 1838, removed to Trinity chapel, John st. Edgware road
1846; a founder of British soc. for propagating gospel among Jews;
one of first to establish school excursions; a founder of
Evangelical Alliance 1845; author of _A brief sketch of the state
and expectations of the Jews 3 ed._ 1834; _Plain reasons why I a
Jew have become a catholic and not a Roman catholic_ 1842; _A
visit to my fatherland. Notes of a journey to Syria and Palestine_
1844; edited _The voice of Israel conducted by Jews who believe
that Jesus is the Messiah_, _vols._ 1–2, 1845–7, and other books.
_d._ Brighton 14 April 1864.
HERSEE, WILLIAM. _b._ Coldwaltham, Sussex 1786; a ploughman;
bookseller with Cooper at Bunhill row, London 1813; accountant in
Inland revenue office, London 1809–26; edited the _Warwick
Advertiser_ 1831 to March 1852; published _Poems, rural and
domestic. Chichester_ 1810; _The battle of Vittoria, a poem_ 1813;
_The spirit of the orders issued by the board of excise for the
guidance of officers_ 1829 and other books. _d._ Warwick 6 Aug.
1854.
HERSHON, PAUL ISAAC. _b._ Galicia 1817; early converted to
Christianity; a missionary for promoting christianity among the
Jews in England; director of the house of industry for Jews at
Jerusalem, and then of the model farm at Jaffa, retired 1859;
author of _Extracts from the Talmud_ 1860; _The Pentateuch
according to the Talmud. Genesis_ 1878; _A Talmudic miscellany_
1880; _Treasures of the Talmud_ 1882; translated the New Testament
into Judæo-Polish for the use of the Continental Jews. _d._ 9 Park
avenue, Wood Green, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1888. _Times 15 Oct. 1888
p._ 10.
HERTFORD, MARIA SEYMOUR-CONWAY, Marchioness of (_dau. of the
Marchese Fagniani an Italian_). _b._ 1771; known as Mie Mie; lived
with George Selwyn as his adopted dau. at Matson hall, Gloucester
1779–91 when he died leaving her £30,000; a public singer. (_m._
18 May 1798 Francis, Earl of Yarmouth who in 1822 became 3 Marquis
of Hertford 1777–1842); travelled on the continent as the
acknowledged mistress of Marshal Andoche Junot, duc d’Abrantes
1802–4; the 4th Duke of Queensberry (’Old Q’) bequeathed to her by
will in 1810 a sum of £100,000. _d._ 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris, March
1856 aged 85. _P. Fitzgerald’s Kings and Queens of an hour, ii_,
355–70 (1883); _The Croker Papers, By L. J. Jennings, i_, 235–6
(1884).
HERTFORD, RICHARD SEYMOUR-CONWAY, 4 Marquis of (_elder son of 3
Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842_). _b._ 22 Feb. 1800; styled
viscount Beauchamp 1800–22, earl of Yarmouth 1822–42; attaché of
embassy at Paris 1817; cornet 2 dragoons 24 Feb. 1820, captain 25
March to 17 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. co. Antrim
1821–26; captain of Cape corps of cavalry 1823; attaché of embassy
at Constantinople 1829; succeeded his father 1 March 1842; K.G. 19
Jany. 1846; commander of Legion of Honour for encouragement given
to the arts 14 Nov. 1855; known by the nickname of Bagatelle. _d._
6 Rue Lafitte, Paris 25 Aug. 1870. _bur._ Père Lachaise cemetery,
personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 July 1871. _Irish Reports.
Common Law series, vi_, 196–220, 343–410 (1873); _Some
professional recollections_ [_By C. R. Williams_] (1883) 75–92;
_Waagen’s Treasures of art, ii_, 154–61 (1854); _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 79–92; _Lippincott’s Mag. xiii_, 191–6
(1874).
HERTFORD, FRANCIS HUGH GEORGE SEYMOUR, 5 Marquis of (_son of Sir
George Francis Seymour, G.C.B. 1787–1870_). _b._ 11 Feb. 1812;
ensign 3 foot guards 12 July 1827, captain 28 Nov. 1845 to 10 Dec.
1847; groom of the robes to the Queen 1837–70; state steward to
lord lieut. of Ireland 1843–46; equerry to Prince Albert 1846–58,
to the Queen 1858–70; deputy ranger of Windsor great park 1850–70;
succeeded his cousin 25 Aug. 1870; lord chamberlain of the
household 21 Feb. 1874 to 7 May 1879; P.C. 2 March 1874; general
10 Feb. 1876; G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1879. _d._ Ragley hall near
Alcester, Warws. 25 Jany. 1884. _Graphic_, _xxix_, 100 (1884),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 97 (1884), _portrait_.
HERTSLET, LEWIS. _b._ Nov. 1787; sub-librarian in foreign office,
London 5 Feb. 1801, librarian and keeper of the papers 6 Jany.
1810 to 20 Nov. 1857 when he retired on pension; superintendent of
queen’s messengers and comptroller of their accounts for three
secretaries of state offices 30 June 1824 to 30 June 1854 when
office abolished; author of _A complete collection of the treaties
between Great Britain and foreign powers and of the laws
concerning the same 11 vols._ 1827–66. _d._ 16 Great college st.
Westminster, London 15 March 1870.
HERTZEN or GERTSEN, ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH (_son of Mr. Yakovlef, d.
1846_). _b._ Moscow 1812; ed. at Moscow univ.; imprisoned in 1835,
in Siberia 1835–7; editor of _Vladimir gazette_ 1837; in office of
minister of interior, Moscow 1840; in France, Switzerland and
Italy 1846; came to England 1848, established a printing office in
Paternoster row, edited the _Free Russian Press_; _The Polar
Star_; _Kolokol_ [_The Bell_], _ed. by Iskander_, 196 numbers
1857–63, it was afterwards published at Geneva; lost his influence
by taking the side of the Polish insurgents; author of _Imprimerie
Russe á Londres_ 1855; _La France ou l’Angleterre. Par Iscander_
1858; _Le monde Russe et la Révolution 2 parts_ 1860–62 and many
other works in French, Russian and Polish. _d._ Paris 21 Jany.
1870. _Temple Bar, April 1870 pp._ 44–58, _by W. R. S. Ralston_;
_A. Hertzen’s My exile to Siberia 2 vols._ (1855).
HERVEY, ALFRED (_youngest son of 1 marquis of Bristol 1769–1859_).
_b._ St. James’ sq. London 25 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam., M.A. 1837, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843;
M.P. for Brighton 1842–57, for Bury St. Edmunds 1859–65; a lord of
the treasury Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; keeper of privy seal to
Prince of Wales 4 Feb. 1853 to 1855; receiver general of inland
revenue 1871 to death. _d._ Lowndes st. London 15 April 1875.
_I.L.N. lxvi_, 402 (1875).
HERVEY, ANDREW. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 52 Bengal N.I. 8
March 1849 to death; L.G. 23 July 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._
England 14 June 1862.
HERVEY, AUGUSTUS HENRY CHARLES (_2 son of 2 marquis of Bristol
1800–64_). _b._ Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 2 Aug. 1837; ed.
at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1859; attaché at St. Petersburg
31 July 1862, at Dresden 19 Feb. 1863, resigned 24 Jany. 1865;
M.P. West Suffolk 8 Dec. 1864 to death. _d._ at res. of his
brother 6 St. James’ sq. London 28 May 1875.
HERVEY, THOMAS KIBBLE (_son of James Hervey of Manchester,
drysalter_). _b._ Paisley 4 Feb. 1799; ed. at Manchester free gr.
sch.; articled to Sharp, Eccles & Co. solicitors, Manchester;
studied for the bar; at Trin. coll. Cam. 1818–20; edited the
_Friendship’s Offering_ 1826–7; migrated to Paris 1827 but soon
returned to London; edited _The Amaranth_ 1839; a leading
contributor to the _Athenæum_ from 1828, editor 23 May 1846,
resigned Dec. 1853; contributed to the _Art Journal_ 1855–9. (_m._
17 Oct. 1843 Eleanor Louisa dau. of George Conway Montagu, she is
an author and poetess); author of _Australia with other poems_
1824; _The poetical sketch book_ 1829; _The book of Christmas_
1837; _The English Helicon_ 1841. _d._ Kentish town, London 27
Feb. 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _The poems of T. K. Hervey, Ed.
by Mrs. Hervey with a memoir_ (1866), _portrait_; _Manchester sch.
register, iii_, 284 (1874).
HERZ, JAMES. _b._ 1807; founder of the Cheque Bank opened Pall Mall
east, London 23 July 1873, the payment of all cheques drawn being
guaranteed by the Bank. _d._ Coburg hotel 14 Charles st. Grosvenor
sq. London 23 Feb. 1880. _Times 1 April 1873 p._ 10, _25 Sep. p._
5, _26 Sep. p._ 4; _Banker’s Mag. xxxiii_, 651, 930 (1873).
HESKETH, SIR THOMAS GEORGE FERMOR, 5 Baronet. _b._ Rufford hall near
Ormskirk, Lancs. 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of
Lancs. 1848; lieut. col. commandant 2 royal Lancashire militia 1
March 1852 to 25 Sep. 1872; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to
death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. _d._
Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_, 215, 571 (1872).
HESKETH-FLEETWOOD, SIR PETER, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Robert Hesketh of
Rossall, Lancs. 1764–1824_). _b._ Wennington hall near Lancaster 9
May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of
Lancashire 1830; assumed by r.l. additional name of Fleetwood,
March 1831; M.P. for Preston 10 Dec. 1832 to July 1847; cr. a
Baronet 20 July 1838; projected and commenced building town of
Fleetwood, Lancashire on his estate at Rossall at mouth of river
Wyre 1836; published a translation of Victor Hugo’s _Last days of
a condemned_, to which he prefixed _Observations on capital
punishment_ 1840. _d._ 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866. _G.M.
i_, 908 (1866); _I.L.N. xlviii_, 426 (1866); _Herald and
genealogist, iv_, 371 (1866–7).
HESLEDEN, WILLIAM SMITH. _b._ 1773; Assoc. British Archæol. Assoc.
1845; wrote _An account of ancient earth works at Barton and on
the site of the battle of Brunanburgh in the time of Athelstan_;
published _A sketch of the properties of Sutton patent gravitated
sails for windmills_ 1807. _d._ Barton-upon-Humber 24 Dec. 1854.
_Journ. B. Archæol. Assoc. xi_, 162 (1855).
HESLOP, REV. GEORGE HENRY (_1 son of Rev. Alfred Heslop of Keswick,
Cumb._) _b._ 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., scholar 1842–8,
fellow 1848–51; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1846; head master of St. Bees
gram. sch. 1854–79; hon. canon of Carlisle 1875; R. of Church
Oakley, Hants. 1879 to death; one of the most exact and correct
scholars of his time; in the Catena Classicorum series,
Rivingtons, London, he edited _Demosthenes’ Orationes publicae_
1868 and _Demosthenes’ De Falsa legatione_. _d._ Oakley rectory,
Basingstoke 30 Jany. 1887.
HESLOP, THOMAS PRETIOUS (_son of Mr. Heslop a Scotchman and major
R.A._) _b._ West Indies 1823; apprenticed to Thomas Underhill,
M.D. of Tipton, Staffs.; studied at Universities of Dublin and
Edin., M.D. Edin. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1872; practised at
Birmingham 1848 to death, house physician general hospital 1848 to
Jany. 1852; professor of physiology at Queen’s college 1853–58 and
senior phys. 1870–82; the chief consultant phys. in Midland
counties many years; founded the Free hospital for children opened
in Steel house lane, Birmingham 1861, the Women’s hospital 1871
and the Skin and Lock hospital 1880; founded the Midland Medical
Society 1848; a trustee of Mason college 1873, president of the
council 1884 to death, gave 11,000 volumes to the library; author
of _The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of
the poor_. _Birmingham_ 1869; _The abuse of alcohol in the
treatment of acute diseases_ 1872. _d._ the Devil’s Elbow, 3 miles
south of Braemar 17 June 1885. _bur._ at Dublin 20 June.
_Birmingham Weekly Post 20 June 1885 p._ 4 _col._ 7.
HESSEY, REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of James Augustus Hessey of St.
Bride’s, London_). _b._ 10 April 1816; ed. at Merchant Taylors and
St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar and fellow 1834–61; S.C.L. 1837,
B.C.L. 1839, D.C.L. 1844; C. of Kentish town, London 1839–40;
principal of Huddersfield coll. sch. 1840–43; head master of
Kensington sch. 1843–53; V. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1853 to
Oct. 1881; author of _Hints to district visitors, By F. H._ 1858;
_Confirmation questions_ 1859, _7 ed._ 1866, _Second series_ 1862;
_Catechetical lessons on book of Common prayer_ 1868; _A few
parochial sermons preached at St. Barnabas, Kensington_ 1882. _d._
Midhurst, Sussex 10 Aug. 1882.
HETHERINGTON, REV. WILLIAM MAXWELL. _b._ in parish of Troqueer near
Dumfries 4 June 1803; a gardener; ed. at Edin. Univ. 1822;
presbyterian minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow 1836–43; a free
ch. minister to students at St. Andrews 1843–8; minister at St.
Paul’s, Edin. 1848; edited the _Free Church Magazine_ 1844–8;
professor of systematic theology in Glasgow Free Church coll.
1857; LLD. and D.D. of an American university; author of _Twelve
dramatic sketches founded on the pastoral poetry of Scotland_
1829; _The minister’s family_ 1838, _12 ed._ 1880; _History of the
Church of Scotland_ 1842, _7 ed. 2 vols._ 1852; _History of
Westminster assembly of divines_ 1843, _4 ed._ 1878; _The
anti-christian system or popery as predicted in Scripture_ 1851.
_d._ 23 May 1865. _bur._ Grange cemet. Edin. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881); _The apologetics of the Christian faith By W. H.
Hetherington_ 1867, _with a Memoir pp. xiii-xv_; _Scott’s Fasti
vol. i, pt. i, p._ 204.
HEWETSON, CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21
July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Madras 4 Feb. 1873.
HEWETT, SIR PRESCOTT GARDINER, 1 Baronet (_son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte
Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster_). _b._ 3 July 1812; ed. at
St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S.
1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council
1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen
14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in
ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc.
1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created
baronet 6 Aug. 1883. _d._ Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June
1891. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.
HEWETT, SIR WILLIAM NATHAN WRIGHTE (_2 son of Dr. William Wrighte
Hewett_). _b._ Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847;
shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before
Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb.
1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa
during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie;
K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in
chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal
1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10
Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884;
commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888;
known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ Haslar
hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. _Times 15 May 1888 p._ 8, _16
May pp._ 11, 16, _18 May p._ 5; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 41 (1861),
_portrait_, _lxxxiv_ 172 (1884), _portrait_.
HEWITSON, WILLIAM CHAPMAN. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806;
ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on
London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up
business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at
Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected
specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal
lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of
the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member
of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean
1862; author of _British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of
British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols._
1833–42; _Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2
vols._ 1846, _3 ed. 2 vols._ 1856; _Illustrations of diurnal
lepidoptera 2 vols._ 1863–78; _Description of 100 new species of
hesperediæ_ 1867. _d._ Oatlands park 28 May 1878. _bur._
Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures
and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books
and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller
institute Bristol. _Academy 8 June 1878 p._ 512; _Nature xviii_,
196–7 (1878).
HEWITT, DANIEL CHANDLER. _b._ Scotland 1789; author of _New analysis
of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation_ 1828; _The
true science of music_ 1860 _and_ 1864. _d._ London 1869.
HEWITT, JOHN. _b._ Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch.
Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote
articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of
_The tower of London, its history_ 1841; _Ancient armour and
weapons in Europe 3 vols._ 1855–60; _Official catalogue of the
Tower armories_ 1859; _Old Woolwich_ 1860; _Handbook for the city
of Lichfield_ 1874, _2 ed._ 1884 and other works. _d._ Lichfield
10 Jany. 1878. _bur._ in cathedral close 15 Jany. _Reliquary
xviii_, 228–30 (1877–8).
HEWITT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27
Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. _d._ Westfield
house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.
HEWLETT, THOMAS (_2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford_). _b._ Oxford
16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist
Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in
Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington
park ch. Edin.; wrote _Are other eyes, Madrigal_ 1864; _The good
old days, A Christmas song_ 1865; _Introduction, offertoire and
fuge for the organ_ 1867; _Second offertoire for the organ_ 1872
_and Third_ 1872. _d._ 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April
1874.
HEWLETT, THOMAS GILLHAM. _b._ 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist.
surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served
during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint;
health officer Bombay when he organized the public health
department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy
surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of
_Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency_ 1879; _Report on
enteric fever_ 1883. _d._ of heart disease at Finchley road
station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. _Times 29 Oct. 1889 p._
9, _31 Oct. p._ 10.
HEWSON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk_). _b._
12 April 1806. _bapt._ St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at
St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833;
C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head
master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s
sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of _The
key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish
prophecy_ 1855; _The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic
visions 5 parts_ 1858; _Thy kingdom come_ 1859; _Christianity in
relation to Judaism and Heathenism_ 1860; _The Hebrew and Greek
scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and
mythology 7 parts_ 1870. _d._ 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April
1870. _bur._ York cemet. _Smales’ Whitby authors_ (1867) 104,
171–6, 217; _Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p._ 4.
HEY, WILLIAM (_son of William Hey 1772–1844 surgeon_). _b._ Leeds 23
Dec. 1796; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.; succeeded his father at Leeds 1844;
surgeon Leeds infirmary 1830–51, consulting surgeon 1864; a
founder of Leeds school of medicine, and lecturer on surgery there
1831–57; president surgical section British Med. Assoc. at Leeds,
July 1869; V.P. Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. 1835 and 1839. _d._
Gledhow Wood, Leeds 10 May 1875. _British Medical Journal, i_, 763
(1875).
HEY, VEN. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Samuel Hey, vicar of Ockbrook,
Derbyshire_). _b._ Ockbrook 1811; ed. at Sherborne and at St.
John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; head master
St. Peter’s sch. York 1844–64; V. of St. Helen, Stonegate 1854–77;
preb. of Weighton, York cath. 1854–81 and succentor canonicorum
1871–81; canon residentiary of York cath. 1864; precentor and
preb. of Duffield 1881; archdeacon of Cleveland 1874 to death;
examining chaplain to Archbp. of York 1874; V. of St. Olave with
St. Giles’, York 1877 to death; select preacher Cam. 1879. _d._
The Residence, Minster yard, York 22 Nov. 1882. _Church portrait
journal, Jany. 1880 pp._ 5–8, _portrait_.
HEYGATE, JAMES. _b._ West Haddow, Northampton; M.R.C.S. 1823, M.D.
Edin. 1836; in practice at Hanslope, Bucks., at Derby 1837 to
death; senior physician Derbyshire general infirmary; F.R.S.; V.P.
British medical assoc.; author of _Tic doloureux, An essay_ 1836
and of papers in medical journals. _d._ Little Eaton, Derby 4 Aug.
1872. _Medical Times 31 Aug. 1872 p._ 243.
HEYSHAM, THOMAS COULTHARD (_eld. son of Dr. John Heysham_). _b._
1792; mayor of Carlisle 1839; J.P. for Cumberland; made extensive
collections in entomology, ornithology and botany; his name given
to some species of coleoptera. _d._ Fisher st. Carlisle 6 April
1857. _Carlisle Journal 10 April 1857 p._ 8, _17 April p._ 8.
HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM A’COURT, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Sir William
Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817_). _b._ Salisbury 11 July
1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec.
to special mission at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commissioner of
affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany.
1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; ambassador
to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Russia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18
Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817;
G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23
Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but
the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of
Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of
Wight to 1857. _d._ Heytesbury 31 May 1860. _F. O. List_ (1860)
145; _I.L.N. v_, 60 (1844), _portrait_; _Eton portrait gallery_
(1876) 346–8; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 386–90.
HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM HENRY ASHE A’COURT-HOLMES, 2 Baron (_son of the
preceding_). _b._ London 1809; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll.
Camb., M.A. 1831. _m._ 2 Oct. 1833 Elizabeth Woosley, eld. dau. of
Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, bart., and assumed name of Holmes on
14 Oct.; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1837–47; succeeded as 2 Baron 31
May 1860. _d._ Heytesbury 21 April 1891.
HEYWOOD, SIR BENJAMIN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Nathaniel Heywood of
Manchester, banker, d. 1815_). _b._ St. Ann’s sq. Manchester 12
Dec. 1793; ed. at univ. of Glasgow 1809–11; banker at Manchester
1814, sole proprietor 1828, retired 1860; chief founder of
Manchester mechanics’ institution 1824, president 1824–44; M.P.
for Lancashire 1831–1832; baronet 28 July 1838; F.R.S. 1843; gave
£1000 toward Manchester public park 1844; vice pres. of British
association at Manchester 1842 and 1861; author of _Address
delivered at Manchester mechanics’ institution_ 1843. _d._
Claremont near Manchester 11 Aug. 1865. _bur._ St. John’s Islam’s
o’ the Height; personalty sworn under £400,000, 14 Oct. 1865.
_Grindon’s Manchester banks_ (1877) 79–86; _T. Heywood’s Memoir of
Sir B. Heywood_ (1888), _portrait_.
HEYWOOD, JOHN. _b._ 1804; hand loom weaver to 1837; a ruler to his
brother Abel Heywood 1839–46; a stationer Deansgate st. Manchester
from 1846, the largest copy book maker in the world, bookseller
and newsagent, employed 120 hands; member of Manchester city
council 1860–61; chairman of Chorlton guardians. _d._ Manchester 7
Oct. 1864. _The Bookseller 26 Feb. 1861, p._ 105.
HEYWOOD, JOHN (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1832; errand boy in a
solicitor’s office; succeeded to his father’s book, news and
stationery establishment, Manchester 1864; made a central depot
for the small local booksellers, and a book saloon for the
exhibition of educational appliances; had 30,000 customers’ names
in his books, and employed 30 carts to distribute books and
newspapers; his Excelsior printing and bookbinding works, Hulme
hall road, Manchester, opened 4 July 1870; employed 750 workmen;
printed a series of books called _J. Heywood’s Pocket guides_ 1869
etc., and many other works. _d._ The Grange, Derbyshire lane,
Stretford, Manchester 10 May 1888. _Bookseller, June 1888 pp._
573–4.
HEYWOOD, JOHN JOSEPH (_son of R. Heywood of Glencrutchery near
Douglas_). _b._ 1789; first deemster or chief justice of Isle of
Man 1821 to death. _d._ Bomahague, Douglas 26 May 1855 aged 66.
_bur._ Kirk Onchar ch. yard. _Hardwicke’s Annual Biog._ (1856)
355.
HEYWOOD, THOMAS (_brother of Sir B. Heywood_). _b._ Manchester 3
Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood,
Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828;
collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they
were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford
1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of
Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5
other works; author of _The earls of Derby and the verse writers
of the 16th and 17th centuries_. _Manchester_ 1826; _The most
pleasant song of Lady Bessy_ 1829. _d._ Hope End near Ledbury 20
Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868.
_Manchester sch. reg. iii_, 74–6 (1874).
HEYWORTH, LAWRENCE (_4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer,
d. 1799_). _b._ Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram.
sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his
brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with
Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S.
America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg;
firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew
Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade
association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of _On the corn laws and
other legislative restrictions_, _7 ed._ 1843; _On economic fiscal
legislation_ 1845; _The expansion of the suffrage and accession of
blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise
exercise of the franchise_ 1861. _d._ Yew Tree, West Derby,
Liverpool 19 April 1872. _I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp._ 443–4,
_portrait_; _Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale_ (1868) 181–88.
HIBBERD, JAMES SHIRLEY (_son of a master mariner_). _b._ St.
Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at
Stepney; editor of _Floral World_ 1858, which he managed to 1875;
editor _Gardener’s Magazine_ 1861 to death; a practical writer on
agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables,
especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a
popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.;
author of _Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1873;
_Profitable gardening_ 1863; _Familiar garden flowers 5 vols._
1879–87; _Water-cresses without sewage_ 1878 and 25 other books.
_d._ 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. _Gardener’s Mag.
22 Nov. 1890_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p._ 678,
_portrait_.
HIBBERD, SAMUEL. _b._ 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on
Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One
Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. _d._ Newmarket 21 Feb.
1888. _Times 29 Feb. 1888 p._ 9.
HIBBERT, JOHN (_son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead,
d. 1855_). _b._ 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.,
scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April
1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the
poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a
ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. _d._ Braywick lodge, Maidenhead
28 March 1888.
HIBBS, REV. RICHARD. _b._ 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of
Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft
1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister
St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent
led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent
st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon;
chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of _The substance
of a series of discourses on baptism_ 1848; _Scottish episcopal
Romanism, or popery without a pope_ 1856; _Truth vindicated or
some account of the New Church of England chapel_ 1858, _4 ed._
1859; _Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the
poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England_ 1876, _4 ed._
1883. _d._ 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March
1886. _Academy 10 April 1886 pp._ 255–6.
HICKEY, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Ambrose Hickey, rector of
Murragh, co. Cork 1796 to his death in 1826_). _b._ 1787 or 1788;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1804–5, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1832; pensioner
St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 March 1806, B.A. 1809; C. of Dunleckny,
Leighlin 1811; V. of Bannow, Ferns 1820; founded an agricultural
soc. on a farm of 40 acres; a founder of South Wexford
agricultural soc., the first of its kind in Ireland; R. of
Kilcormuick 1826; R. of Wexford 1831; R. of Mulrankin 1834 to
death; endeavoured to improve the husbandry of small farms; author
of _State of the poor in Ireland_ 1817; member of R. Dublin soc,
gold medallist; civil list pension of £80, 6 Oct. 1853; had
pension from R. Literary fund; under the pseudonym of Martin Doyle
he wrote _Hints to small farmers_ 1830, _numerous editions_;
_Hints on emigration to Upper Canada_ 1831, _3 ed._ 1834;
_Practical gardening_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1836; _A cyclopædia of
practical husbandry_ 1839, _new editions_ 1844, 1851; _The
farmer’s manual_ 1868; with Edmund Murphy he conducted the _Irish
Farmer’s and Gardener’s Magazine_ _9 vols._ 1834–42. _d._
Mulrankin 24 Oct. 1875. _Dublin Univ. Mag., April 1840 pp._ 374–6,
_portrait_; _Wexford Independent 27 and 30 Oct. 1875_.
HICKLEY, VICTOR GRANT (_son of J. A. Hickley of Purbrook, Hants._)
_b._ 1823 or 1824; sub-lieut. R.N. 18 Aug. 1842; captain 1 April
1858, retired 8 June 1868; retired admiral 12 April 1886. _d._
Taunton railway station 27 Jany. 1888.
HICKLIN, JOHN. _b._ England; editor of _Nottingham Journal_, and of
_Chester Courant_; author of _Church and state. Historic facts
ancient and modern_. _Torquay_ 1873; _Literary recreations_. _d._
13 Jany. 1877.
HICKS, AGNES ROSS (_dau. of J. Boss of Campsie, Stirlingshire_).
_b._ 1850; ed. under Warwick Jordan, Mus. Bac. organist of St.
Stephen’s, Lewisham; soprano singer; first appeared in public at
Public hall, Lee, Kent 1875; sang at St. James’ hall, London, her
old ballads being in much favor; well known by her singing of
Gounod’s ‘Worker.’ (_m._ George Hicks), she _d._ 32 Henrietta st.
Covent Garden, London 13 March 1886. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 17
March. _The Era, March 1886 p._ 13.
HICKS, EDWARD (_only son of Edward Simpson of Lichfield_). _b._ 10
Aug. 1814; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836;
student of Inner Temple 1837; assumed surname of Hicks on
succeeding his kinsman Rev. James Hicks 1835; sheriff of Cam.
1862; master of harriers; M.P. Cambs. 1879–85; contested Newmarket
division 1885. _d._ Wilbraham Temple, Cambridge 13 Jany. 1889.
HICKS, SIR FRANCIS (_youngest son of John Hicks of Southwark,
London_). _b._ Southwark 1821; treasurer of St. Thomas’s hospital,
London 1865 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 June 1871
on opening of new St. Thomas’s hospital. _d._ Margate 1 Sep. 1877
in 57 year. _Times 4 Sep. 1877 p._ 9.
HICKS, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 7 Sep. 1808; col. 70 Bengal N.I.
7 May 1854 to 1869; L.G. 28 Oct. 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ 24
Oct. 1873.
HICKS, MARY (_dau. of John and Sarah Roden_). _bapt._ Broseley,
Salop 14 Nov. 1773; she however said she was dau. of Samuel and
Mary Roden and _bapt._ Broseley 15 Feb. 1767. (_m._ at Isleworth,
John Hicks who _d._ 1848). _d._ Brentford workhouse 24 Nov. 1870
aged 97. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity_ (1879) 236–42.
HICKS, NEWTON TREE (_son of Cecil Hicks, who d. 15 March 1866_).
_b._ 4 Sep. 1811; appeared as Richard 3rd at Royalty theatre,
London 1824; played at the Coburg, the New Brunswick and Surrey
theatres; in the provinces 6 or 7 years; made the round of
metropolitan theatres; known by sobriquet of Bravo or Brayvo
Hicks; some of his characters were Fabian in _The Black Doctor_;
Monte Christo at the Surrey, June 1848; Sir Thomas Clifford in
_The Hunchback_, and Leopold in _The Jewess_; retired from the
stage about 1863; lived in Hogarth’s house, Hogarth lane,
Chiswick. _d._ 21 Feb. 1873. _Theatrical Times, ii_ 17 (1847),
_portrait_, _iii_ 209 (1848), _portrait_; _Era 2 March 1873 p._
11.
NOTE.—His brother Cecil Hicks pianist at the Canterbury,
Cambridge and Foresters’ music halls, _d._ 19 Jany. 1888.
_bur._ Ilford cemet. 29 Jany.
HICKS, WILLIAM. _b._ 29 April 1831; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 3 March
1851; served in India in campaign of 1857–9, with Panjâb movable
column, in Rohilkand campaign and under Lord Clyde; captain Bombay
Staff Corps 29 Dec. 1861; brigade major in 1 div. in Abyssinian
campaign 1867–8; lieut.-col. B.S.C. 29 Dec. 1875 to 1 July 1880;
A.A.G. Bombay 3 Dec. 1877 to 1 July 1880; commander of Egyptian
army in the Sûdân to suppress the Mahdi’s revolt Feb. 1883 and
known as Hicks Pasha, joined his troops at Khartûm, ascended the
White Nile to Duem and advanced across the desert to El’Obeyd Sep.
1883, betrayed into an ambuscade and _killed_ with most of his
troops at the battle of Kashgil 4 Nov. 1883. _J. Colborne’s With
Hicks Pasha in the Soudan_ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_,
521 (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic xxviii_, 529 (1883), _portrait_.
HICKS, WILLIAM ROBERT (_son of William Hicks, schoolmaster, Bodmin,
d. 1833_). _b._ Bodmin 1 April 1808; schoolmaster Bodmin 1832–40;
clerk of Bodmin board of guardians 1834; domestic superintendent
Cornwall county lunatic asylum 1840–60, with the medical officers
introduced a more humane treatment of the patients; mayor of
Bodmin 1865; a well known story teller, familiar in London as the
Yorick of the West; was a proficient in the Cornish and Devonshire
dialects, and in miners’ talk. _d._ Westheath, Bodmin 5 Sep. 1868.
_Collier’s W. R. Hicks, a memoir_ (1888), _portrait_.
HICKSON, GEORGE BLAKE. Called to the bar in Ireland 1819; Q.C. 1
July 1837. _d._ 2 Aug. 1869.
HICKSON, WILLIAM EDWARD (_son of William Hickson, boot manufacturer,
London_). _b._ 7 Jany. 1803; boot maker, partner with his father,
retired 1840; a pioneer of national education and of popular
musical culture; on the royal commission on condition of handloom
weavers 1837, when he visited seats of industry in Great Britain
and Ireland; studied national school systems in Holland, Belgium
and Germany 1839; editor and proprietor of _Westminster Review_,
_vols._ 34–45, 1840–52; author of _The singing master,
instructions for teaching singing in schools and families_, _3
parts_ 1836; _Dutch and German schools_ 1840; _Part singing or
vocal harmony for choral societies_, _4 parts_ 1842; _Time and
faith, an enquiry into the data of ecclesiastical history 2 vols._
1857; _A musical gift containing 24 new songs_ 1859. _d._
Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent 22 March 1870.
HIGGIN, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Higgin of Greenfield,
governor of Lancaster castle 1783–1833_). _b._ Lancaster 27 Sep.
1793; ed. at Lancaster gram. sch., Manchester gram. sch., and
Trin. coll. Cam., 13 wr. 1817, B.A. 1817; M.A. of Trin. coll.
Dublin 1835, D.D. 1849; C. of Clifton 1817–20; chaplain Richmond
general penitentiary, Dublin 1820–8; R. of Roscrea 1828–45; vicar
general of Killaloe 1828–45; dean of Limerick, instituted 25 Jany.
1845; bishop of Limerick 1849; translated to Derry 7 Dec. 1853,
enthroned 20 Dec.; comr. of national education 1853; an
ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1866; author of _Ministerial
fidelity and zeal. A sermon_ 1839, and other sermons and charges
1849–67. _d._ the Palace, Londonderry 12 July 1867. _bur._ in
ground of St. Columba cath. _Manchester school register, iii_,
62–5 (1874).
HIGGINBOTTOM, JOHN (_son of a solicitor_). _b._ Ashton under Lyne 14
June 1788; studied at Edin.; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.S.
3 June 1852; practised at Nottingham 1812 to death; temperance
advocate, gave no alcohol to his patients; wrote in scientific
journals on tritons, tadpoles and frogs 1850–62; author of _An
essay on the application of lunar caustic in the case of wounds
and ulcers_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1865; _Mothers, doctors and nurses. A
dialogue on paralysis and apoplexy_ 1850. _d._ St. Alban’s villas,
Gill st. Nottingham 7 April 1876. _The Lancet 29 April 1876 p._
652.
HIGGINS, MOST REV. ANDREW. _b._ Killarney 1834; dean of Kerry;
bishop of Kerry 5 Feb. 1882 to death. _d._ The palace, Kerry 1 May
1889. _bur._ in the cathedral 3 May. _Tablet 4 May 1889 p._ 702,
_11 May p._ 736.
HIGGINS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805 or 1806; M.D. Edin. 1825; knight of
legion of honour; author of _Observations on climate, diet and
medical treatment in France and England_ 1835; _Notes sur l’emploi
des altérants dans les maladies, aigues et chroniques_. _Paris_
1859. _d._ 212 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 27 July 1866.
HIGGINS, CHARLES LONGUET (_1 son of John Higgins of Turvey abbey,
Beds., d. 1846_). _b._ Turvey abbey 30 Nov. 1806; pensioner of
Trin. coll. Cam. 14 Nov. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; student of
Lincoln’s inn 16 Nov. 1830, withdrew his name 2 Nov. 1847; studied
medicine at St. Bartholomew’s 1836–8; in practice at Turvey 1838;
visited Egypt and the Holy Land 1848; restored Turvey ch. 1852–4,
built schools 1847, a village museum 1852 and better cottages 1849
etc.; projected a hymn book for general use in Ch. of England, and
printed _Hymnology, a paper read before the church congress
Nottingham_. _Oxford_ 1871. _d._ Turvey 23 Jany. 1885. _J. W.
Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men_ (1888) _ii_, 343–422.
HIGGINS, GEORGE GORE OUSELEY (_2 son of Fitzgerald Higgins of
Westport, co. Mayo_). _b._ 15 Oct. 1818; ed. at Brussels and Trin.
coll. Dublin; in C.S. in Jamaica; M.P. for Mayo 1850 to 1857;
lieut.-col. North Mayo militia 5 Feb. 1855 to 1 Oct. 1861. _d._ 6
Wilton place, London 8 May 1874. _I.L.N. xvii_, 169 (1850),
_portrait_.