castle, Westmeath_). _b._ Benown castle 4 Dec. 1810; ed. at Eton;
matric. from New coll. Ox. 22 May 1828; went to British Guiana
1838 and 1846 where he owned an estate; contributed an article
called ‘Jacob Omnium the Merchant Prince’ to _New Monthly
Magazine_, Aug. 1845; agent for the British Association for the
relief of the destitute Irish 1847; contested Westbury 31 July
1847; one of chief writers on _Morning Chronicle_ 1848;
contributed to _The Times_ on all kinds of questions under
pseudonym of Jacob Omnium, J.O., Civilian, Paterfamilias, West
Londoner, A Belgravian Mother, Mother of six, A thirsty soul, John
Barleycorn, Providus, and many others till 1863; contributed to
the _Edinburgh Rev._, the _Cornhill_ and the _Pall Mall Gazette_;
author of _Is cheap sugar the triumph of free trade? A letter to
Lord J. Russell_ 1847, _Second Letter_ 1848, _Third Letter_ 1848;
_Light horse_ 1855; _The story of the Mhow court-martial_ 1864 and
other books. _d._ Kingston house near Abingdon 14 Aug. 1868.
_bur._ in R.C. cemet. Fulham 21 Aug. _Essays on social subjects by
M. J. Higgins, with memoir by Sir W. S. Maxwell_ (1875);
_Cornhill_, _xviii_, 507–12 (1868); _The Mask_ (1868), 42
_portrait_.
HIGGINS, THOMAS GORDON. _b._ 1789; Second lieut. R.A. 4 Oct. 1806,
col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Jany. 1857, col. commandant 20 Sep. 1865
to death; L.G. 26 Dec. 1865; commandant of garrison of Quebec 5
years, presented with a piece of plate by inhabitants of Quebec 30
April 1853. _d._ 83 Sloane st. Chelsea 20 June 1871 aged 82.
_I.L.N. xxii_, 341 (1853), _picture of testimonial_.
HIGGINSON, REV. EDWARD (_eld. son of Rev. Edward Higginson,
unitarian minister, d. 1832_). _b._ Heaton Norris, Lancs. 9 Jany.
1807; ed. at Manchester coll. York 1823–8; unitarian minister Bowl
alley lane chapel, Hull 1828–46, at Westgate chapel, Wakefield
1846–58, and at High st. chapel, Swansea 1858–76; president Royal
Institution, South Wales 1877–9; author of _Orthodoxy and
unbelief_ 1832; _The sacrifice of Christ_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1848; _The
spirit of the Bible 2 vols._ 1853–5, _2 ed._ 1863; _Ecce Messias_
1871; with his wife Emily dau. of George Thomas he wrote _The fine
arts in Italy_ 1859. _d._ 2 Glanmore ter. Swansea 12 Feb. 1880.
_Autobiographical sketch in Christian Reformer_ (1856) 192, (1857)
528; _Christian Life 21 Feb. 1880 pp._ 86–7, _portrait_.
HIGGINSON, GEORGE POWELL. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot guards 6 Nov.
1805, captain 26 Oct. 1820 to 11 April 1834 when placed on h.p.;
col. 94 foot 29 Jany. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. _d._
Cannes 19 April 1866 aged 79.
HIGGINSON, SIR JAMES MACAULAY (_son of James Higginson, major 10
foot_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal army
1824; private sec. to Lord Metcalfe in India, Jamaica and Canada
1835–46; governor of Antigua and the Leeward island 1846–50;
governor of Mauritius 1 Oct. 1850 to 11 Sep. 1857; C.B. 1 March
1851, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ Tulfaris, co. Wicklow 28 June
1885.
HIGGS, WILLIAM ALPHEUS (_3 son of William Higgs of Tiverton,
Somerset_). _b._ Luckington near Frome 1838; head of firms of W.
A. Higgs & Co. and Barber & Co. tea merchants, London; sheriff of
London and Middlesex 1887–8; accompanied Lord mayor Polydore de
Keyser to Belgium on his visit to his native country 1888;
F.R.G.S.; of Willenhall park, New Barnet; a breeder of prize
stock. _d._ suddenly at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland avenue,
London when starting to attend lord mayor’s ball 23 Dec. 1889.
_City Press 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 5.
HIGHTON, EDWARD. _b._ Leicester 13 Aug. 1817; resident engineer of
Taff Vale dock and railway 1845; telegraphic engineer to London
and North Western railway co. 1846; A.I.C.E. 1847; received large
gold medal of Society of Arts for his inventions in electric
telegraphy 1849; author of _The electric telegraph, its history
and progress_ 1852; _Highton’s Mathematical arrangement of code
for telegraph purposes_ 1857. _d._ 5 Gloucester road, Regent’s
park, London 13 Nov. 1859.
HIGHTON, REV. HENRY (_1 son of Henry Highton_). _b._ Leicester 19
Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A.
1840; Mitchel fell. of his coll. 1840–1; assistant master of Rugby
1841–56; principal of Cheltenham coll. March 1859 to 1862; silver
medallist of Soc. of Arts for paper on Telegraphy without
insulation 1 May 1872; patented 4 improvements in galvanic
batteries 1871–2 and 3 improvements in electric telegraphs 1873–4;
invented artificial stone much used for paving and building;
author of _A letter to Sir M. Montefiore on address presented by
1500 continental Jews_ 1842; _A catechism of the Second Advent_
1851; _A revised translation of the New Testament_ 1862; _Letter
on repeal of the Act of uniformity_ 1863; _Dean Stanley and Saint
Socrates, the ethics of the philosopher and the philosophy of the
divine_ 1873. _d._ The Cedars, Putney 23 Dec. 1874.
HIGMAN, REV. JOHN PHILIPS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd
wrangler 1816; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of his
coll.; R. of Fakenham, Norfolk 1834 to death; F.R.S. 23 May 1820;
F.R.A.S.; author of _A syllabus of the differential and integral
calculus_ 1826. _d._ Cambridge ter. Hyde park, London 7 Aug. 1855.
HIGSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Daniel Higson_). _b._ Whiteley Farm,
Gorton, Lancs. 25 July 1825; ed. at Ardwick and Gorton old sch.;
cashier of Victoria mills, Droylsden; cashier of Springhead
spinning co. Droylsden; author of _The Gorton historical recorder
or a history of the Mesne manor and its inhabitants_ 1852; _A
history of Droylsden_ 1859; _Explosions in coal mines_ 1878;
commenced a newspaper at Droylsden which was a failure;
contributed to _Ashton Reporter_ under signature of H. _d._ Birch
cottage, Lees near Oldham 13 Dec. 1871. _bur._ Droylsden ch. yard.
_Procter’s Manchester streets_ (1874) 288–91; _Ashton Reporter 16
Dec. 1871_.
HILDIGE, JAMES GRAHAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. Eng.
1852; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1853; F.R.C.S.I. 1859; lecturer on ophthalmic
surgery Carmichael sch. of medicine; author of _Medical sketches
in Austria, Prussia and Italy, with remarks on the Campagna and
the conquered provinces in Italy and Hungary_. _Dublin_ 1859;
writer of papers in medical journals. _d._ 7 Upper Merrion st.
Dublin 14 May 1871.
HILDITCH, SIR EDWARD (_son of John Frederick Hilditch of
Hammersmith_). _b._ 1805; studied at St. George’s hospital;
M.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1859; entered navy 1826, on West
India station 1830–55; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 6
Feb. 1854 to 13 Jany. 1870 when he retired; in charge of Royal
hospital, Plymouth 1855–61, of Greenwich hospital 1861–65;
knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; hon. physician to the
Queen 1868 to death. _d._ 18 Arundel gardens, Bayswater, London 24
Aug. 1876.
HILDYARD, REV. JAMES (_8 son of Rev. Wm. Hildyard 1762–1842, R. of
Winstead in Holderness, Yorkshire_). _b._ Winstead 11 April 1809;
ed. at Shrewsbury 1820–29, was head of the sch. from 1826, headed
a rebellion in the sch. known as the Beef Row, April 1829;
pensioner at Ch. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829, Tancred divinity student
1829, sen. opt. in mathematics, second in the first class of the
class. tripos and chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1833; B.A. 1833,
M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846; fellow of his coll. 1833 and classical
lecturer and tutor; Cambridge preacher at Chapel royal, Whitehall
1843, 1844; senior proctor 1843; R. of Ingoldsby, Lincoln, June
1846 to death; author of _M. A. Plauti Menæchmi cum notis_ 1836;
_Five sermons on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus_ 1841;
_The university system of private tuition examined_ 1844; _Reply
to the bishops in convocation, on Lord Ebury’s motion for a
revision of the liturgy_. _Signed Ingoldsby_ 1858, _4 ed. 2 vols._
1879. _d._ Ingoldsby 27 Aug. 1887. _The Biograph, May 1881 pp._
472–77; _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) _pp._ 142–46,
_portrait_; _Church portrait journal, April 1877_, 49–50,
_portrait_.
HILDYARD, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1796 or 1797; ed.
at Shrewsbury, head boy there; went to St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; recorder of
Stamford, Grantham and Leicester 1835–54; judge of county courts,
circuit 20 (Leicestershire), March 1847 to death. _d._ the King’s
hotel, Loughborough 13 Feb. 1855. _bur._ in Townshend vault, All
Saints’ church, Hertford 21 Feb.
NOTE.—His father lived to see 9 sons masters of arts in
Cambridge university, and 6 of them fellows of their
respective colleges.
HILDYARD, ROBERT CHARLES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Winstead
1800; ed. at Oakham sch. and Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1826, fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1827; admitted ad
eundem at I.T. 1833, bencher 1844, reader 1857; counsel to duchy
of Lancaster to 1846; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Whitehaven 28 July 1847
to death. _d._ 24 Lowndes st. London 7 Dec. 1857.
HILDYARD, THOMAS BLACKBORNE THOROTON- (_son of colonel Thomas B.
Thoroton-Hildyard of Flintham hall, Notts., d. 1830_). _b._ 8
April 1821; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 16 Oct. 1839;
sheriff of Notts. 1862; M.P. South Notts. 1846–52 and 1866–85;
chairman Notts. quarter sessions 6 April 1874. _d._ 11 Moreton
gardens, South Kensington 19 March 1888.
NOTE.—His fellow member for South Notts. 1874–85 George Storer
_d._ Thornton hall, Notts, the same day 19 March.
HILDYARD, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. John Hildyard of Monk’s Eleigh,
Suffolk_). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 24 May 1808 aged 17,
scholar 1812–5, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; assist. P.C. Beverley
minster 1820; R. of Hameringham cum Scrayfield, Lincoln 1837–66;
author of _Thoughts on Sunday schools_. _Beverley_ 1827;
_Specimens of composition_ 1832; _A manual of ancient geography
for the use of schools_ 1835; _A letter to the Rev. A. J. Carr
respecting a sermon preached by him in St. John’s chapel_,
_Beverley_ 1843. _d._ Market Deeping, Lincs. 11 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N.
lxvi_, 211 (1875).
HILES, JOHN. _b._ 1810; organist at Shrewsbury 1835–53, at
Portsmouth 1853–60, and at Brighton 1860–74; organist Christ
church, Gipsy hill, London 1874–81; author of _A catechism for the
pianoforte student_ 1871, _18 ed._ 1882, circulated 65,000 copies;
_A complete dictionary of 12,500 musical terms_ 1871, _7 ed._
1882; _Short Voluntaries for the organ 4 series_ 1854–75;
_Catechism of the organ_ 1876; revised _The Amateur organist_. _By
E. Travis_ 1872, and composed many pieces of music. _d._ 51 Elsham
road, Kennington, London 4 Feb. 1882. _Musical Directory_ (1883)
_p. xviii_.
HILL, ROWLAND HILL, 2 Viscount (_eld. son of John Hill 1769–1814,
colonel in the army_). _b._ 10 May 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.,
M.A. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 1820–24; M.P. for Shropshire
1821–32, for North Shropshire 1832–42; succeeded his grandfather
as 4 baronet 21 May 1824, and his uncle as 2 viscount 10 Dec.
1842; lieut.-col. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 18 Aug. 1824; lord
lieut. of Shropshire 20 Nov. 1845 to death; col. Shropshire
militia 8 June 1849 to Aug. 1852. _d._ Hawkstone park, Salop 2
Jany. 1875. _I.L.N. iv_, 65 (1811), _portrait_.
HILL, REV. ALEXANDER (_son of George Hill, D.D. 1750–1819, principal
of St. Andrews univ._) _b._ St. Andrews 19 July 1785; ed. at St.
Andrews, B.A. 1804, D.D. 1828; licensed as a presbyterian preacher
Sep. 1806; minister of Colmonell, Ayrshire 1815–16 and of Dailly
1816–40; professor of divinity Glasgow univ. 1840–62; moderator of
the general assembly 1845; author of _The practice in the
judicatories of the church of Scotland_ _2 ed._ 1830, _5 ed._
1851; _Practical hints to young ministers_; _Counsels regarding
the pastoral office_. _d._ 24. Wellington sq. Ayr 27 Jany. 1867.
_John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd series_ (1851) 364–9;
_Scott’s Fasti ii, part i, p._ 108.
HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (_son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth_). _b._
Perth 1802; studied under Andrew Wilson, Edin.; landscape painter;
sec. Soc. of Arts, Edin. 1830, which became R. Scottish academy,
sec. 1838–70; R.S.A.; the first to apply photography to
portraiture and to use calotype; a commissioner of the board of
manufacturers 1850; originated Art Union of Edin. 183-, the first
institution of the kind; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I.
and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–68 and many at R.S.A.; commenced in 1843
his picture, Signing the deed of demission, which contains 500
portraits, finished 1865, now in Free Ch. assembly hall, Edin.;
published 60 pictures of the Scenery of the Land of Burns 1841.
_d._ Edinburgh 17 May 1870. _Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists_
(1878) 211; _Edinburgh Evening Courant 18 May 1870 p._ 8.
HILL, SIR DUDLEY ST. Leger (_eld. son of Dudley Hill_). _b._ co.
Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India
rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army
1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19
Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and
in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov.
1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834
to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to
death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov.
1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. _d._ Umballa, Bengal
21 Feb. 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_, 329 (1851).
HILL, EDWARD ROWLEY (_2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle
axe guards, Dublin castle_). _b._ 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23
Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7
Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when
placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.
HILL, EDWIN (_2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham
1763–1851_). _b._ Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st.
rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill
kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the
stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery
in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W.
De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of
_Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and
adequacy of supply_ 1856; _Criminal capitalists, pamphlets_
1870–2. _d._ 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876.
_G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill_ (1880) _i_, 37, ii, 99,
503.
HILL, ELLEN (_dau. of Mr. Shaw_). _b._ 1803; an actress of some note
at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the
Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with
the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from
stage 1840. (_m._ William John Hill, leader and composer _d._
Dublin, Jany. 1851). _d._ London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. _Era 23 Dec.
1866 p._ 12.
HILL, GEORGE. _b._ co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles
on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to _Dublin
Penny Journal_, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the
_Waterford Mail_, _Wexford Independent_, _Drogheda Conservative_,
_Liverpool Herald_, _Rochdale Pilot_ and the _Bacup and Rossendale
News_. _d._ Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. _Newspaper Press 2 Aug.
1869 p._ 181.
HILL, GEORGE AUGUSTA (_5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801_).
_b._ 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain
8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for
Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of _Facts
from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists_. _Dublin 2
parts_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1854. _d._ Ballyane house near Ramelton, co.
Donegal 6 April 1879.
HILL, HENRY. _b._ Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829;
in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck
for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the
Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race
horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846;
won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won
Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E.
Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock
Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. _d._ 52
Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. _Sporting Rev.,
April 1858 pp._ 295–8; _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 63–76.
HILL, REV. HENRY THOMAS. _b._ 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A.
1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley
1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford
1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of
Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of _Church
restoration, What is it? Whence is it?_ 1864; _Thoughts on
churches and church yards_ 1856, _3 ed._ 1862. _d._ Felton 11
Jany. 1882.
HILL, SIR HUGH (_2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850_).
_b._ Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821;
at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader
below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec.
1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of
Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham
palace 18 April 1859. _d._ Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct.
1871.
HILL, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs,
Leamington_). _bapt._ at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed.
at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of
his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr.
24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death;
knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published _A practical
treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties,
privileges and abilities_ 1845. _d._ Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. _Law
Times, lx_, 60 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 447 (1875), _lxviii_, 22
(1876).
HILL, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of
_Old Friends met together, part song_, printed in J. P. Hullah’s
_The Singer’s Library_ 1859. _d._ St. Giles ter. Bethel st.
Norwich 9 March 1877.
HILL, JAMES JOHN (_son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham_). _b._ Broad
st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent
Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to
1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists
1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk
st. 1842–80. _d._ Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882.
_Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882._
HILL, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in
battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819;
captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard
at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9
March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear
admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831.
_d._ Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.
HILL, REV. JOHN (_son of John Hill of London_). _b._ 1787; ed. at
St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice
principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of
Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of _Artis Logicæ
Rudimenta by H. Aldrich_. _With observations_ 1849; author of a
few sermons. _d._ Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. _bur._ St. Peter’s in
the East, Oxford.
HILL, REV. JOHN HARWOOD (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._
Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A.
1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to
death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect,
and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of
_The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events
ecclesiastical, civil and military_. _Uppingham 2 vols._ 1859;
_The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester_ 1867; _The
history of Market Harborough. Leicester_ 1875. _d._ Cranoe rectory
3 Dec. 1886. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi_, 371 (1885–7);
_Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p._ 411.
HILL, VEN. JUSTLY (_youngest son of colonel William Hill of St.
Boniface, Isle of Wight_). _bapt._ Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec.
1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805,
M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks.
1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825;
author of _Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens
of the archdeaconry of Buckingham_. _Eton, 2 ed._ 1847, and other
charges and sermons. _d._ Shanklin 18 March 1853.
HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (_eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of
Birmingham 1763–1851_). _b._ Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792;
ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham;
assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov.
1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of
Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel
for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for
Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the
plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr.
Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the
courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham
and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany.
1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of
Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners
of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31
Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author
of _Suggestions for repression of crime_ 1857; _Our exemplars.
Biographical sketches_ 1861. _d._ Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs.
7 June 1872. _The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill,
By R. and F. D. Hill_ (1878), _portrait_; _Law mag. and review,
July 1872 pp._ 515–29.
HILL, REV. PASCOE GRENFELL (_son of major Thomas Hill_). _b._
Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex
and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain
Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr
with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to
death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.;
author of _Fifty days on board a slave ship_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1853;
_A voyage to the slave coasts_ 1849; _A journey through Palestine_
1852; _Life of Napoleon 3 vols._ 1869. _d._ the rectory house 32
Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Ilford cemetery. _City
Press 2 Sep. 1882 p._ 5; _Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_,
240.
HILL, PERCY. _b._ 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut.
colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in
Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ 24
April 1880.
HILL, REV. RICHARD HUMPHRY (_2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of
Wolverton, Somerset_). _b._ Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister
Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2
June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of
Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865
to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate
public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to
death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. _d._
Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
College, i_ 219, _vii_ 353–6.
HILL, SIR ROBERT CHAMBRE (_4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone,
Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824_). _b._ 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby;
cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813
to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29
May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June
1815. _d._ Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. _The case of J. Jebb
with charges against Sir R. Hill_ (1830).
HILL, ROBERT GARDINER (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._
Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859;
resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835;
proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private
asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln
29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint
system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853;
resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton,
London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of _A concise history of the
entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the
insane_ 1857; _Lunacy, its past and its present_ 1870. _d._ Earl’s
Court House, London 30 May 1878. _Robertson’s Photographs of
eminent medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 65–8, _portrait_; _Medical
Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp._ 187–9, _portrait_, _and 23 Nov. pp._
522–3; _I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp._ 13–14, _view of testimonial_.
HILL, SIR ROWLAND (_3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851_).
_b._ Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s
schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the
Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the
management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a
rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian
commission 1835–9; published _Post office reform, its
importance and practicability_ 1836; described his adhesive
postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to
introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel,
Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director
of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6,
introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented
by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to
post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office,
April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of
£20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867;
D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.;
presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author
of _Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism_ 1832;
_Post office reform_ 1837, _3 ed._ 1837; _The state and
prospects of penny postage_ 1844; _Results of postal reform_
1864. _d._ Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. _bur._ St.
Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. _G. B. Hill’s Life of
Sir R. Hill 2 vols._ 1880, _portrait_; _W. Lewin’s Her
Majesty’s Mails_ (_2 ed._ 1865) 168–97, _portrait_; _Walford’s
Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857_, _portrait_; _H.
J. Nichol’s Great movements_ (1881) 189–220, _portrait_.
NOTE.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange,
London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been
erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.
HILL, RIGHT REV. ROWLEY (_3 son of Sir George Hill, 3 bart.
1804–45_). _b._ 22 Feb. 1836; ed. at Christ’s hospital, Lond. and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; C. of Ch. Ch. Dover
1860–61; C. of St. Mary, Marylebone 1861–63; P.C. of St. Luke’s,
Marylebone 1863–68; R. of Frant, Sussex 1868–71; V. of St.
Michael’s, Chester sq. London 1871–73; V. of Sheffield 1873–77;
preb. of York cath. 1876–77; bishop of Sodor and Man 17 July 1877
to death, consecrated in York Minster 24 Aug.; author of _Sunday
school lessons: the collects_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1867; _Sunday school
lessons: the gospels_ 1866; _The titles of our Lord_ 1870. _d._ 10
Hereford sq. Old Brompton, London 27 May 1887. _Church Portrait
Journal ii_, 25 (1878), _portrait_.
HILL, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; at Royalty theatre; clown at Drury Lane,
especially known in the pantomime of _Jack of Spades_ under R. W.
Elliston’s management. _d._ 26 May 1851 aged 57. _bur._ St.
Peter’s ch. Walworth road. _Era 8 June 1851 p._ 11.
HILL, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1808; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1830,
M.A. 1833; assist. classical master of Mercer’s sch. London
1832–50; P.C. of Holy Trin. Minories, London 1850 to death; author
of _The harmony of the Latin and Greek languages_ 1842; _The
history of the parish of Holy Trinity Minories_ 1851. _d._ 30
Little Trinity lane, London 13 Feb. 1865.
HILL, VEN. THOMAS. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813,
B.D. 1822; V. of Badgeworth, Gloucs. 1821; V. of Chesterfield,
Derby 1822–46; archdeacon of Derby 4 Jany. 1847 to 1873; canon
res. with prebendal stalls of Offley and Flixton annexed, in
Lichfield cath. 1851–63; P.C. of Hasland, Derby 1851–63; author of
_The doctrine of the Trinity_ 1820; _Letters and memoirs of W. A.
Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man_ 1849; _The life of L. Saunders_
1858. _d._ Harrogate 14 Sep. 1875.
HILL, THOMAS WRIGHT (_son of James Hill, baker and dealer in horse
corn_). _b._ Kidderminster 24 April 1763; ed. at Kidderminster
gram. sch.; apprentice to a brass founder; discovered the
distinction between vocal and whisper letters; said to have edited
the _Hazelwood Magazine_ 1824–30; invented a system of philosophic
short-hand; devised scheme for representation of minorities; a
manufacturer of woollen stuffs; founded a school at Hill Top,
Birmingham 1803, with his sons removed it to Hazelwood near
Birmingham 1819 and to Bruce castle, Tottenham, Middlesex 1827;
F.R. Astronom. Soc.; a volume of _Selections from his papers_ was
printed in 1860. _d._ Bruce terrace, Tottenham 13 June 1851. _M.
D. Hill’s Remains of T. W. Hill_ (1859); _Edin. Rev. xli_, 315–35
(1825); _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. Soc._ 1852 _pp._ 90–93;
_Life of Sir R. Hill_ (1880) _i_, 2 _et seq._, _portrait_.
HILL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; salesman and book keeper with Daniel Lee &
Co., calico printers, Manchester; mnemonicalist; author of
_Fifteen lessons on the analogy and syntax of the language_ 1833;
_The rational school grammar and entertaining class book_; _The
complete English exposition and comprehensive spelling book_; _The
educational monitor, which will enable the student to fix
knowledge rapidly in the mind_ 1847; _How to teach the alphabet in
a few hours_ 1865; _Memories for the million_ 1875. _d._ Rose
Bank, Patricroft near Salford 2 April 1881. _Gillow’s English
catholics, iii_, 310–11 (1887).
HILL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Daniel Hill, member of council,
Antigua_). _b._ 1805; entered military service of E.I.C. 1821;
commanded garrison of 500 men at Pegu Pagoda, which he held
against 6000 men 1852; commanded the Gwalior contingent 1853;
commanded the Nizam’s contingent during the Indian mutiny 1857;
col. in the army 1859; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861;
K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. _d._ Southsea 20 Aug. 1886.
HILL, WILLIAM JOHN. Composer of _Our Saviour’s farewell. A
devotional canzonette_ 1839. (_m._ Ellen Shaw _d._ 9 Dec. 1866
aged 63). _d._ Dublin, Jany. 1851.
HILL, WILLIAM JONES, stage name of William Hill Jones. _b._ 14 Jany.
1834; a musician; appeared as an actor at Court theatre, London 25
Jany. 1871 as Nicodemus Nobbs in _Turn him out_, as John Brodie in
_Dotheboys’ Hall_, as the manager in _Vesta’s Temple_ 14 Nov.
1872, in _The Happy Land_ made up as Robert Lowe 3 March 1873, as
Uncle Bopeddy in _The Wedding March_ 15 Nov. 1873, in _Peacock’s
Holiday_ 16 April 1874; at the Criterion in _Betsy_ 6 Aug. 1879;
as Mr. Cattermole in _Private Secretary_ at Prince’s theatre 29
March 1884; as the Baillie in _Les cloches de Corneville_ at Folly
theatre Feb. 1878 to 1879; acted Irascible Fizzleton in _Nita’s
First_ at Novelty up to 11 April 1888. _d._ Birchmore villa, 29
Ampthill sq. London 13 April 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Illust.
Sport. and Dram. News, xiv_, 397 (1881), _portrait_; _Theatre, v_,
95 (1885), _portrait_, _xi_, 281 (1888); _Saturday Programme 25
Nov. 1876 pp._ 10–11, _portrait_; _Era 14 April 1888 p._ 8, _21
April p._ 9.
HILLIER, GEORGE (_eld. son of William Hillier, commander R.N._) _b._
Kennington 1815; made collections for the _History and antiquities
of the Isle of Wight_, engraved the plates himself and printed
part of it in his own house; discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery
at Chessel Down and excavated the graves; author of _The
topography of the Isle of Wight_ 1850; _A narrative of the
attempted escape of Charles I. from Carisbrook_ 1852; _The sieges
of Arundel castle_ 1854; _The stranger’s guide to Reading_ 1859.
_d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 April 1866.
HILLIER, THOMAS. _b._ 1831; ed. at Univ. coll. London, M.B. Lond.
1845, B.A. 1849, M.D. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1852; F.R.C.P. 1867; resident
medical officer Univ. coll. hospital; medical officer of health
St. Pancras 12 years; physician hospital for sick children, Great
Ormond st.; lectured on diseases of skin at University coll.;
author of _Hand-book of skin diseases_ 1865; _Diseases of
children_ 1868 and other books. _d._ 32 Queen Anne st. London 7
Nov. 1868. _Medical Times 14 Nov. 1868 p._ 573; _Proc. Med. and
Chir. Soc. vi_, 154 (1871).
HILLMAN, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of William Hillman, surgeon
R.N., d. 1865_). _b._ 1819; ed. at London univ.; M.R.C.S. 1841,
F.R.C.S. 1845, student in human and comparative anatomy there
1841–4; assist. surgeon Westminster hospital and lecturer on
physiology and general anatomy there 10 years; surgeon Westminster
hospital 1869–71; author of _The study of physic and surgery_
1846. _d._ 2 Argyle st. Regent st. London 11 Dec. 1873. _Medical
Times 20 Dec. 1873 p._ 705.
HILLS, JAMES. _b._ 1800; whip of the old Surrey hounds 7 seasons;
first whip of Lord Ducie’s hounds; huntsman of the Heythrop hounds
at Heythrop near Didcot many years from 1835. _Scott and Sebright,
By The Druid_ (1862) 359–72, _portrait_; _Cecil’s Records of the
Chase_ (1877) 163–7.
HILLS, TOM. _b._ 1793; huntsman of the Old Surrey hounds 1812–62;
landlord of the Plough at Bletchingly. _d._ Feb. 1873. _Sporting
Rev. June 1859 pp._ 394–7; _Baily’s Mag. March 1873 pp._ 161–4.
HILLYAR, SIR CHARLES FARRELL (_2 son of Sir James Hillyar 1769–1843,
rear admiral_). _b._ 1818; cadet R.N. 24 July 1828; served in
South America 1837; severely wounded at Lagos 1851; captain 20
Feb. 1852; served at blockade of Sebastopol 1854–5; commander in
chief in China 31 Aug. 1877 to 26 Sep. 1878; C.B. 2 June 1869,
K.C.B. 21 June 1887; admiral 26 Sep. 1878, retired 9 June 1882.
_d._ Torre house, Torpoint, Cornwall 14 Dec. 1888.
HILLYAR, ROBERT PURKIS. Inspector of hospitals and fleets 23 Nov.
1841; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Little Green near
Gosport 23 March 1855.
HILLYER, WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of an innkeeper_). _b._ Leybourne,
Kent 5 March 1813; played with Town Malling club from 1830; first
round armed bowler of his time, known as ‘the best of all
bowlers’; his balls took a curl and uprooted the middle stump; the
finest short-slip ever seen; first played at Lord’s 27 July 1835;
practice bowler to Marylebone club to 1851; in his last match 7
June 1855 broke his thumb; had a benefit at the Oval 1858 which
produced £300. _d._ Wheeler st. Maidstone 8 Jany. 1861. _bur._
Leybourne. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii_, 334 (1862), _vol. v,
page xv_ (1876).
HILLYERD, REV. SAMUEL JOHN (_son of Nicholas John Hillyerd_). _b._
20 Feb. 1784; National schoolmaster Farnley Tyas, Yorks. to 1819;
raised himself by education and was ordained as a literate 1819;
C. of Denby Penistone, Yorks. 1819, C. of Farnley Tyas 1821, C. of
Primrose hill, Great Horton, Bradford 1823; P.C. of Tattersall,
Lincs. 1823–46; V. of Semperingham, Lincs. 1846 to death; a
brilliant preacher. _d._ Semperingham 29 June 1861. _Hulbert’s
Suppl. Annals of Almondbury_ (1885) 16; _Correspondence between C.
G. Selleck and S. J. Hillyerd on universal salvation_ (1835).
HILTON, HILDA. _b._ 1853; actress and vocalist; played with success
in the provinces; acted at Criterion as Little Loo in _Orange
Blossom_ 1877; at Globe as Mrs. Honeyton in _The Happy Pair_; at
the Strand as Ruth in _Ruth’s Romance_; at the Gaiety as Juliana
in The _Honeymoon_ 1880; at the Princess’ as Martha Gibbs in _All
that glitters is not gold_; at Sadler’s Wells 1881; at the Globe
as Frou Frou; lessee of Opera Comique 1883 when she produced
_Bondage_ 31 March; she wrote _Princess Carlo’s plot_ drama in 3
acts adapted from Ouida’s _Afternoon_, brought out at Novelty
theatre 31 Jany. 1887. _d._ Florence 13 June 1888 aged 35. _The
Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 125, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram.
News 8 Jany. 1881 pp._ 401, 419, _portrait_.
HILTON, JOHN. _b._ Sible Hedingham, Essex 22 Sep. 1807; ed. at
Chelmsford gr. sch. and Boulogne-sur-Mer; studied at Guy’s 1824,
M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s
1828, made dissections of the body which were reproduced in wax
for Guy’s museum, assist. surgeon 1844, full surgeon 1849;
professor of surgery at R.C.S. 14 July 1859, president 1867; in
practice at New Broad st., city of London; surgeon extraordinary
to the queen 14 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1839; author of _On
rest and pain, a course of lectures_ 1863, _3 ed._ 1880; _Notes on
the functional relations of portions of the cranium_ 1855; _The
Hunterian Oration_ 1867. _d._ Hedingham house, Clapham common 14
Sep. 1878. _Proc. of Med. Chir. Soc. viii_, 388–90 (1875);
_Medical Times, ii_, 422 (1878); _The Medical profession in all
countries, i, No._ 17 (1873).
HIME, BENJAMIN. Musical publisher; vocal composer; wrote _I see them
on their winding ways, song_ 1830; _Let us hope for the best,
song_ 1835; _O the Forester’s life is the life for me_ 1855 and 20
other pieces. _d._ 30 Victoria st. Manchester 1871.
HINCHLIFF, JOHN ELY. _b._ 1777; chief assistant in studio of John
Flaxman 1806–26; completed some of Flaxman’s unfinished works
1826; exhibited 36 works at R.A. and 9 at B.I. 1814–49; among his
sculptures were Christian and Apollyon 1815, Leonidas, Menelaus
and Paris, and Theseus and Hippodamia; made many mural tablets and
sepulchral monuments. _d._ Mornington place, 185 Hampstead road,
London 23 Nov. 1867.
HINCHLIFF, JOHN JAMES (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1805; in
hydrographic department of admiralty; executed engravings for
_Beattie’s Castles and abbeys of England_ 1842, and _Gastineau’s
Picturesque scenery of Wales_ 1860. _d._ Walton-by-Clevedon,
Somerset 16 Dec. 1875.
HINCHLIFF, THOMAS WOODBINE (_eld. son of Chamberlain Hinchliff_).
_b._ 1826; president of Alpine club; F.R.G.S.; author of _Summer
months among the Alps_ 1857; _South American sketches_ 1863; _Over
the sea and far away, wanderings round the world_ 1876. _d._ Aix
les Bains, Savoy 8 May 1882. _Proc. of R. Geog. Soc. iv_, 424
(1882).
HINCKS, REV. EDWARD (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks
1767–1857_). _b._ Cork 19 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1810, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1829, fellow
1813–9; R. of Ardtrea 1819–26; R. of Killeleagh, co. Down 1826 to
death; a pioneer in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions; studied
Assyrian monuments 1846 and discovered the names of Sennacherib
and Nebuchadnezzar; discovered conjointly with Sir H. C. Rawlinson
the Persian cuneiform vowel system; the results of his
investigations were printed in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1833–65;
author of _Report to Trustees of British museum on cylinders and
terra cotta tablets_ 1854; _Letter on the Polyphony of
Assyrio-Babylonian writings_ 1863 and 25 other works; granted
civil list pension of £100, 20 April 1854. _d._ Killeleagh 3 Dec.
1866. _Webb’s Irish Biography_ (1878) 251; _G.M. iii_, 122 (1867).
HINCKS, SIR FRANCIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cork 9 May
1807; ed. at Royal Belfast Institution; clerk to a shipowner,
Belfast; went to Canada 1830, opened a warehouse in Toronto;
founded and edited the _Toronto Examiner_ 1838; member for county
of Oxford in Canadian legislature, March 1841 to Nov. 1855;
inspector general of public accounts 1842–3 and 1848–54; started
the _Montreal Pilot_ 1844; prime minister of Canada 1851–5;
governor of Windward Islands 1855–62; governor of British Guiana
1862–9; C.B. 23 July 1862; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869; finance minister
for Dominion of Canada 1869–73; president of City Bank of Montreal
1874 which failed; editor of _Journal of Commerce_, _Montreal_;
author of 5 pamphlets and of _Reminiscenses of my public life_
1884. _d._ Montreal 18 Aug. 1885. _Dublin Univ. Mag. vol._ 88,
_p._ 534, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxvii_, 413–14 (1855), _portrait_;
_Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) _p._ 186.
HINCKS, VEN. THOMAS (_son of the succeding_). _b._ 1796; R. of
Finvoy, Connor to 1865; R. of Billy, Connor 1865 to death;
archdeacon of Connor 1865 to death. _d._ the archdeaconry,
Bushmills, co. Antrim 28 March 1882.
HINCKS, REV. THOMAS DIX (_son of Edward Hincks, d. 1772_). _b._
Bachelor’s quay, Dublin 24 June 1767; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin
1784–8 and at Hackney New coll. 1788–90; presbyterian minister
Cork 1790; kept a school at Cork 1791–1803; lecturer on chemistry
and natural philosophy, Royal Cork institution 1810–13; tutor
Fermoy academy 1815–21; classical head master Belfast Academical
Instit. 1821–36 and professor of Hebrew there 1822–49; LLD. of
Glasgow univ. 1834; author of _Letters occasioned by the
circulation of Paine’s Age of Reason_ 1795, _2 ed._ 1796; _An
introduction to ancient geography_ 1825, _7 ed._ 1855; _Rudiments
of Greek grammar_ 1825 and other books. _d._ Murray’s ter. Belfast
24 Feb. 1857. _bur._ Killeleagh.
HINCKS, REV. WILLIAM (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Cork, May 1794;
presbyterian minister Cork 1815, at Exeter 1816–22 and at Renshaw
st. Liverpool 1822–7; professor of natural philosophy at
Manchester coll. York 1827–39; editor of _The Enquirer_ 1842–9;
professor of natural history, Queen’s coll. Cork 1849–53 and at
University coll. Toronto 1853–71; contributed to _Canadian
Journal_ 1854–65. _d._ Toronto 10 Sep. 1871. _Morgan’s Bibl.
Canad._ (1867) 186–7.
HIND, REV. JOHN. _b._ Cumberland 1796; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam.
1813, scholar 1815, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fellow of Sid. Suss.
coll.; moderator 1822, 1823, 1826, examiner 1824, 1827; granted
civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; author of _The principles
of the differential and integral calculus_ 1827; _The elements of
plane and spherical trigonometry 5 ed._ 1855; _The principles and
practice of arithmetic_ 1832, _8 ed._ 1856. _d._ 22 Trumpington
st. Cambridge 17 Dec. 1866. _Light Blue, ii_, 120 (1867).
HINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ Fairfield 1800; classical and mathematical
tutor Moravian establishment, Gracehill, Ireland to 1819; a cotton
spinner 1819; a founder of the Aston and Dukinfield mechanics’
instit. 1825; president of Peace soc.; contested Ashton-under-Lyne
14 Dec. 1832; contested Warrington 7 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ashton 9
Jany. 1835 to death. _d._ Dartmouth house, Queen st. Westminster 1
Dec. 1857. _Dr. Todd and the late member for Ashton. Fatal effects
of the stimulating treatment of disease. By A. B. Granville_ 1860.
HINDLIP, HENRY ALLSOPP, 1 Baron (_3 son of Samuel Allsopp of Burton
on Trent, brewer 1780–1838_). _b._ 19 Feb. 1811; head of firm of
Allsopp and Sons, brewers, Burton; M.P. for East Worcestershire
1874–80, contested it 1880; cr. a baronet 7 May 1880; cr. baron
Hindlip of Hindlip in the co. of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale
in the co. of Derby 15 Feb. 1886. _d._ Hindlip hall near Worcester
3 April 1887. _London Figaro 9 April 1887 p._ 4 _portrait_.
HINDMARCH, WILLIAM MATHEWSON (_son of Wm. Hindmarch of Sunderland,
brewer_). _b._ Fan quay near Sunderland 10 June 1803; articled to
Thomas Collin of Sunderland, attorney; barrister G.I. 30 Jany.
1832, bencher 12 April 1862; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862; attorney general of
county palatine of Durham 7 Dec. 1861; recorder of York, Oct. 1865
to death; author of _A treatise on the law relating to patent
privileges for the sole use of inventions_ 1846; _Observations on
the defects of the patent laws, with suggestions for reform_ 1851.
_d._ Aix la Chapelle 27 Aug. 1866. _Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxiii_,
307 (1867).
HINDMARSH, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1786; entered navy May 1793; served in
Lord Howe’s action and in battle of the Nile when though but a
Midshipman he was in temporary command of the Bellerophon; captain
3 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 May 1836; founded the colony of South
Australia 28 Dec. 1836 and was governor to 16 July 1838; lieut.
governor of Heligoland 28 Sep. 1840 to 7 March 1857; knighted at
Buckingham palace 7 Aug. 1851; R.A. on half pay 31 Jany. 1856.
_d._ Denbigh place, Belgravia, London 29 July 1860. _Heaton’s
Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 91.
HINDS, RIGHT REV. SAMUEL (_son of Abel Hinds of Barbadoes_). _b._
Barbadoes 1795; ed. at Charterhouse and Queen’s coll. Ox.; B.A.
1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1831; missionary to the Negroes of
Barbadoes; principal of Codrington college Barbadoes;
vice-principal of St. Alban hall Ox. 1827–31; domestic chaplain to
archbishop Whately in Dublin 1831–3 and 1843; V. of Ardeley,
Herts. 5 Feb. 1835 to March 1843; prebendary of St. Patrick’s
cathedral Dublin 1843; V. of united parishes of Castlenock,
Clonsilla and Mullahidart 1843–8; dean of Carlisle 27 Sep. 1848;
bishop of Norwich 26 Sep. 1849, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec.
1849, resigned 1857; author of _The history of the rise and
progress of Christianity 2 vols._ 1828, _2 ed._ 1846; _Sonnets and
other poems_ 1834; _The three temples of the one true God
contrasted_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1857 and 25 other books. _d._ 40
Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 7 Feb. 1872. _I.L.N. xv_, 376
(1849), _portrait_, _lx_, 163, (1872).
HINGSTON, EDWARD PERON. _b._ about 1823; attended lectures at King’s
coll. Lond.; contributed to periodicals 1841–42; manager for
professor Anderson the wizard of the north, acting manager for him
at Covent Garden, Dec. 1855 to 5 March 1856 when house burnt; went
with Anderson to America and Australia 1856–64; manager for
Artemus Ward, American humorist in America and England 1864 to
Jany. 1867; managed “the Hall by the sea,” Margate; stage manager
at St. James’s theatre 1870; lessee and manager of Opera Comique
theatre, Oct. 1872 to Dec. 1873; manager at Criterion theatre 21
March 1874; edited many works by R. H. Newell, Mark Twain and
Artemus Ward 1865–76; author of _The Siddons of Modern Italy,
Adelaide Ristori_ 1856; _The Genial Showman, Being reminiscences
of Artemus Ward_ 1870. _d._ Crowndale road, Camden town, London 9
June 1876. _Era 18 June 1876 p._ 10; _Illust. Sporting news, vi_,
473 (1867), _portrait_.
HINTON, JAMES (_3 child of Rev. John Howard Hinton 1791–1873_). _b._
Reading 1822; ed. at Harpenden; cashier at a woollen draper’s shop
in Whitechapel 1838–9; clerk in an insurance office in the city;
M.R.C.S. 1848; assist. surgeon at Newport, Essex 1847; in the West
Indies 1848–50; partner with Mr. Fisher in Bartholomew Close,
London 1850–3; in practice at 18 Savile row, London 1853 to 1874;
aural surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1863; the chief aurist in London
from date of Toynbee’s death to March 1874 when he retired; author
of _Man and his dwelling place_ 1859, _3 ed._ 1872; _Life in
nature_ 1862; _The mystery of pain_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1879; _Thoughts
on health_ 1871; _The question of aural surgery_ 1874. _d._ St.
Michael’s, Madeira 16 Dec. 1875. _bur._ at Ponta Delgada in the
island of Sao Miguel. _Life and letters of James Hinton, edited by
Ellice Hopkins_ (1878), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_, 99, 101
(1876), _portrait_; _Good Words_ (1878) 784–90, _portrait_.
HINTON, REV. JOHN HOWARD (_son of Rev. James Hinton, congregational
minister 1761–1823_). _b._ Oxford 24 March 1791; ed. at Bristol
coll. 1811–13 and at Edin. univ., M.A. 1816; baptist minister at
Haverfordwest 1816–20, at Hosier st. chapel, Reading 1820–37, at
Devonshire sq. chapel, London 1837–63, at Reading 1863–8; resided
at Bristol 1868 to death; sec. of the Baptist Union many years;
author of _The work of the Holy Spirit in conversion considered_
1830, _3 ed._ 1841; _The epistle to the Hebrews freely rendered_
1843; _Athanasius, or Four books on immortality_ 1849; _An
exposition of the epistle to the Romans_ 1863; author with his
brother Rev. Isaac Taylor Hinton _d._ 1847 of _The history and
topography of the United States 2 vols._ _Boston_ 1834, _2 ed._
New York 1853. _d._ 1 Redland terrace, Clifton, Bristol 17 Dec.
1873. _Baptist Handbook_ (1875) 277–80; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1874 pp._
35–6, _portrait_; _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men of Bristol
coll._ (1884) 238.
HIRST, WILLIAM. _b._ near Huddersfield 1777; a cloth dresser and
manufacturer at Leeds 1810; commenced finishing his goods by
machinery 1813; introduced spinning mules, Lewis’ machine and
hydraulic presses into his works 1813–25; made a large fortune
which he lost in 1825; freely communicated his improved process to
the public and was called the father of the Yorkshire woollen
trade; _d._ in poverty at Leeds 29 Aug. 1858. _Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 472–4.
HISLOP, REV. STEPHEN (_son of Stephen Hislop, mason_). _b._ Duns,
Berwickshire 8 Sep. 1817; ed. at Edinburgh and Glasgow
universities 1834–9; a tutor; sec. to Ladies’ soc. for female
education in India 1843; Free church of Scotland minister 1844;
missionary to Nagpoor, Central India 1844–58 and 1861 to death;
opened a school at Nagpoor 1846 which grew into Hislop coll.;
studied the languages of the aboriginal tribes; made discoveries
in geology and natural history; contributed papers to Royal
Asiatic Soc. Journal 1835 etc. and to Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.
1854–61; author of _Papers relating to the Aboriginal tribes of
the central provinces_ 1866; _drowned_, in attempting to cross a
stream 20 miles south of Nagpoor 4 Sep. 1863. _R. Hunter’s Hist of
Mission of Free Ch. to India_ (1873) _pp._ 24, 384; _Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc._ 1864 _pp. xxxix-xl_; _G. Smith’s Life of S. Hislop_
(1889), _portrait_.
HITCHCOCK, RICHARD (_son of Rodney Hitchcock of Springvale, co.
Cork, farmer, d. Aug. 1853_). _b._ Blennerville near Tralee, March
1825; devoted himself to the study of archæology of his native
country, using his pen and pencil in their description; assistant
librarian Trinity coll. Dublin; assistant to geological society of
Ireland; contributed papers to proc. of Kilkenny Archæol. Soc.;
_d._ Roundtown near Dublin 3 Dec. 1856.
HITCHIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1785; editor of the _Hampshire Chronicle_ 1814
to death. _d._ High st. Winchester 2 May 1858. _Hampshire
Chronicle 8 May 1858 pp._ 4, 5.
HITCHINS, BENJAMIN ROBERTSON. _b._ 1792; entered Madras army 1806;
lieut. colonel 47 N.I. 12 May 1842 to 2 Jany. 1854; colonel 1
European regiment 2 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 26 Aug. 1866. _d._
Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 July 1867 aged 75.
HITCHMAN, FRANCIS. _b._ 1839; connected with _Western Morning News_,
Plymouth; editor of _Manchester Courier_; assist. editor
_Standard_, London; wrote for the reviews and magazines, London;
an active member of the Primrose League; author of _Pius the
ninth. A biography_ 1878; _The public life of the earl of
Beaconsfield 2 vols._ 1879, _2 ed._ 1881; _Eighteenth century
studies. Essays_ 1881; _Richard F. Burton, his life, travels and
explorations 2 vols._ 1888. _d._ London, Dec. 1890.
HOARE, CHARLES (_2 son of Sir Richard Hoare of Barn Elms, Surrey, 1
bart. 1735–87_). _b._ 25 Aug. 1767; partner in banking house of
Hoare & Co. 37 Fleet st. London, afterwards senior partner to
death; F.S.A. Jany. 1792; built Luscombe house near Dawlish, Devon
179-; F.R.S. 1809. _d._ Luscombe house 16 Nov. 1851.
HOARE, CHARLES HUGH (_3 son of George Matthew Hoare, brewer,
London_). _b._ 24 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox, B.A.
1841; manager of his father’s brewery and ultimately sole acting
partner; member of All England Eleven; president and treasurer of
Surrey cricket club; member of committee of Lord’s. _d._ Romsey,
Hants. 4 April 1869.
HOARE, VEN. CHARLES JAMES (_3 son of Henry Hoare, banker
1750–1828_). _b._ London 14 July 1781; admitted a pensioner at St.
John’s coll. Cam. 7 May 1799, 2 wr. and 2 Smith’s pr. 1803, B.A.
1803, M.A. 1806; Lady Margaret fellow of his coll. 24 March 1806
to 4 July 1811; V. of Blandford Forum, Dorset 1807 to March 1821;
V. of Godstone, Surrey, March 1821 to death; archdeacon of
Winchester 10 Nov. 1829; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 2
Dec. 1831; archdeacon of Surrey 14 Nov. 1847, resigned 1860;
author of _The shipwreck of St. Paul. A Seatonian prize poem_
1808, _2 ed._ 1860; _Sermons on the Christian character_ 1821;
_The holy scriptures, their nature, authority and use_ 1845, _2
ed._ 1857 and other books. _d._ Godstone 18 Jany. 1865.
HOARE, VERY REV. EDWARD NEWENHAM (_4 son of Rev. John Hoare,
chancellor of St. Mary’s and Vicar general of diocese of Limerick,
d. 9 March 1813 aged 47_). _b._ 11 April 1802; archdeacon of
Ardfert 23 Dec. 1836 to 1839; dean of Achonry 14 June 1839 to
1850; dean of Waterford 26 Nov. 1850 to death; edited _The
Christian Herald, Dublin 5 vols._ 1830–5; author of _The tendency
of the principles advocated in the Tracts for the Times
considered_ 1841; _Remarks on mis-statements as to scriptural
education in Ireland_ 1850; _Practical suggestions with view to
removal of objections to the working of the national education
system of education in Ireland_ 1854. _d._ Lauranah villa, Hamlet
road, Upper Norwood 1 Feb. 1877.
HOARE, EDWARD WALLIS (_2 son of Sir Edward Hoare, bart. 1745–1814_).
_b._ Cork 4 May 1779; entered navy May 1790; when signal lieut. of
the London condemned to death by the delegates of the mutineers at
Spithead 1797; served in Egypt 1801, at Isle of France 1811;
landed on island of Java and routed the enemy 5 June 1811; on half
pay 13 Aug. 1812; captain 13 May 1847; admiral on half pay 9 June
1860. _d._ Upton near Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 Jany. 1870.
HOARE, REV. GEORGE TOOKER (_2 son of Ven. Charles James Hoare
1781–1865_). _b._ 27 July 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1843, M.A. 1847; P.C. of Tandridge, Surrey 1853–65; V. of
Godstone, Surrey 1865 to death; edited _Dare and endure_ 1868;
author of _The village museum, or how we gather profit with
pleasure_ 1858; _A letter written for the people, hints on letter
writing_ 1860; _True stories of brave deeds_ 1870. _d._ Aix la
Chapelle 9 Aug. 1881.
HOARE, JOHN GURNEY (_2 son of Samuel Hoare, banker 1783–1847_). _b._
7 May 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; banker
Fleet st. London; president of Guy’s hospital, Dec. 1867 to death.
_d._ Biarritz, France 17 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 211, 259
(1875).
HOARE, JOSEPH (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 21 March 1814; ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam.; banker of firm of Hoare & Co. Fleet st.; M.P.
Hull 30 April 1859 but unseated on petition Aug. 1859; contested
Manchester 18 Nov. 1868; president Hampstead conservative assoc.
_d._ Child’s Hill house, Hampstead 21 Jany. 1886. _Times 25 Jany.
1886 p._ 7.
HOARE, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_2 son of William Henry Hoare
1776–1819_). _b._ Penzance 31 Oct. 1809; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam.; 31 wr. 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, fellow of his coll. 25
March 1833 to 1835; C. of All Saints, Southampton 1841; commissary
to bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia; diocesan inspector of
diocese of Chichester; founder and sec. of Worth clerical
association; author of _Harmony of the Apocalypse with the
prophecies of holy scriptures_ 1848; _Outlines of ecclesiastical
history before the Reformation_ 1852, _2 ed._ 1857; _The veracity
of the book of Genesis, with the life of the inspired historian_
1860 and other books. _d._ Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex 22 Feb. 1888.
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 244.
HOBART, AUGUSTUS CHARLES (_3 son of 6 earl of Buckinghamshire
1793–1885_). _b._ Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leics. 1 April 1822; ed. at
Cheam; entered navy March 1835; employed in suppressing slave
trade 1835–43; present during Russian war 1854–5; commanded mortar
boats at attack on Sveaborg; attached to coast guard at Dingle,
co. Kerry 1855–61; captain 23 May 1863 when he retired on h.p.;
ran the blockade and carried cargoes into Wilmington and
Charleston, U.S. America 1863–5; naval adviser to Sultan of Turkey
1867; suppressed the Cretan rebellion 1867; full admiral with
title of Pasha 1869; reorganised Turkish fleet and manœuvred
against the Russian ships in Black sea 1877; mushir or marshal of
Turkish empire 8 Jany. 1881, first christian who ever held that
dignity; name struck off British navy list 1867, 1877, restored
1874 and 1884 when he became retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884; president
of Turkish admiralty board; author of _Never caught, By Captain
Roberts_ 1867; _The torpedo scare_ 1885. _d._ Milan, Italy 19 June
1886. _Sketches of my life, By Hobart Pasha_ 1887, _portrait_;
_Biographical Mag., No. 1, June 1877 pp._ 35–45; _I.L.N. lxx_,
433, 435 (1877), _portrait_.
HOBART, VERE HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Welbourn,
Lincs. 8 Dec. 1818; ed. at Cheam and Trin. coll. Ox., scholar
1836–42, B.A. 1840; clerk in board of trade 1842 to 1 Oct. 1863;
known as lord Hobart from 1849; private sec. to Sir George Grey;
sec. of states for colonies 1854–55; a writer in the press on
Irish questions from 1850; with Mr. Foster, paymaster general,
investigated and advised on Turkish finance 1861; director general
of Ottoman bank to 1871; governor of presidency of Madras 14 March
1872 to death; author of _Essay on the Alabama claims_ 1870;
_Political essays_ 1866, _Reprinted_ 1877. _d._ of typhoid fever
at Madras 27 April 1875. _Essays. With Biographical sketch by his
widow 2 vols._ 1885, 2 _portraits_.
HOBBS, JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ Henley on Thames 1 Aug. 1799; chorister
Canterbury cath.; tenor singer; sang at Norwich musical festival
1813; singer at King’s and St. John’s coll. Cam. and St. George’s
chapel Windsor; gentleman of the chapel royal, London 1827; lay
vicar Westminster abbey 1836; well known glee singer; composer of
Wake, Lady, Wake 1845; Phillis is my only joy 1848; For these and
all Thy mercies, A grace 1851; When Delia sings 1862; The captive
Greek girl and 70 other pieces. _d._ 20 Duppas Hill ter. Croydon
12 Jany. 1877.
HOBBS, THOMAS FRANCIS (_1 son of Capt. Hobbs of Barnaby house,
King’s county_). Second lieut. 21 foot 15 Jany. 1847, which
regiment he commanded at the attack on the Redan 18 June 1855;
lieut. colonel 14 depot battalion 8 March 1859; lieut. col. 6 foot
6 Feb. 1863 to death; connected with the suppression of the
outbreak in Jamaica, became of unsound mind 1866; author of _The
subaltern’s hand-book and guide to the military examination_.
_Belfast_ 1859; _threw himself overboard_ from the ‘Tyne’ off the
coast of Hayti 25 April 1866.
HOBBS, WILLIAM FISHER (_son of a yeoman_). _b._ White Colne, Essex
1809; farmer at Marks hall, Coggeshall 1831; grew improved and
more productive wheat; famous for his pigs known as the Fisher
Hobbs pigs; V.P. of Royal agricultural society to death; member of
council of Smithfield club to death; a scientific farmer, using
the best machinery. _d._ Boxted lodge near Colchester 11 Oct.
1866. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 577–79 (1867).
HOBHOUSE, HENRY (_only son of Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen house,
Somerset 1742–92_). _b._ Clifton 12 April 1776; ed. at Eton and
Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1799, D.C.L. 1827; barrister
M.T. 23 Jany. 1801; solicitor to H.M. customs 1806–12; solicitor
to the Treasury 1812–17; under sec. of state for home department
28 June 1817 to July 1827 when he resigned on a pension of £1000;
keeper of the state papers 23 May 1826 to death; P.C. 28 June
1828; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions, resigned 1845; one of
Ecclesiastical comrs. for England 1838 to death; commissioner of
the records 10 June 1852 when he commenced a new system for their
arrangement. _d._ Hadspen house, Somerset 13 April 1854. _G.M.
xlii_, 79–80 (1854); _Times 18 April 1854 p._ 9.
HOBHOUSE, THOMAS BENJAMIN (_5 son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, bart.
1757–1831_). _b._ 19 June 1807; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828;
contested Aylesbury 1835; M.P. Rochester 1837–41; contested Newark
1841; M.P. Lincoln 1848–52; contested Ipswich 1852. _d._ 31 Dec.
1876.
HOBLER, FRANCIS (_son of Francis Hobler, clerk to the lord mayor
1803–43 who d. 21 Jany. 1844 aged 78_). Solicitor in City of
London 1817–60; solicitor to Licensed Victuallers Soc. 1837–60;
solicitor for the Crown in trial of F. B. Courvoisier 18–20 June
1840; sec. of Numismatic Soc. of London; author of _Familiar
exercises between an attorney and his articled clerk on the
principles of the laws of real property_ 1831, _2 ed._ 1838;
_Liber mercatoris or the merchant’s manual, being a concise
treatise on bills of exchange_ 1838; _Records of Roman history as
exhibited on the Roman coins 2 vols._ 1860.
HOBLYN, RICHARD DENNIS (_1 son of Rev. Richard Hoblyn 1771–1827, R.
of All Saints, Colchester_). _b._ Colchester 9 April 1803; ed. at
Tiverton gram. sch. and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828;
ordained 1832, resigned clerical life; devoted himself to teaching
and writing on education; author of _A dictionary of terms used in
medicine and the collateral sciences_ 1835, _11 ed._ 1887; _A
manual of the steam engine_ 1842; _A dictionary of scientific
terms_ 1849. _d._ 22 Aug. 1886.
HOBLYN, THOMAS (_eld. son of Edward Hoblyn_). _b._ Liskeard 1778;
chief clerk in H.M. treasury 1820–34; F.R.S. 27 June 1811; F.L.S.
4 March 1823; author of _Precepts for the use of Hoblyn’s
equalizer, the value in imperial measure equivalent to any value
in wine measure_ 1826; _Description of a method of founding a
lighthouse on the Goodwin sands_ 1851. _d._ White Barns, Herts. 6
Aug. 1860. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 246, _iii_,
1232; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ 370.
HOBSON, FREDERICK. _b._ 1800; proprietor of _The Leeds Times_ 1833
to death, and manager of the commercial department; joined by his
son William Hobson. _d._ Woodhouse, Leeds 18 Feb. 1863. _Leeds
Times 21 Feb. 1863 p._ 4.
HOBSON, JOHN. _b._ Leeds; musical director of the Christy
(afterwards the Moore and Burgess) minstrels London for 12 years
before his death; composer of The flight of the birds 1870; The
man with the appetite 1880. _d._ 8 Appach road, Brixton 31 Jany.
1887.
HOBSON, MARTIN. _b._ 1833; chorus master at Alhambra palace, London;
musical conductor to Bernard’s opera company; composed many
popular songs, among others The boys of merry England 1865; A
norrible tale of the suicidal family 1865; Give me the man of
honest heart 1867; O sing the song you used to sing 1872; I likes
a drop of good beer 1875; Popular hymns, carols and sacred songs,
arranged for pianoforte, 40 numbers 1875; Popular favourites
arranged for the pianoforte, 153 numbers 1876–9, and 30 other
pieces besides arranging many songs, etc. _d._ 3 Dec. 1880.
HOBSON, RICHARD. _b._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 1795; studied at St.
George’s hospital, London; at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.D.
1830; settled in Leeds 1831; physician Leeds infirmary 1833–43;
kept a pack of harriers; was intimate with C. Waterton from 1836;
published _Charles Waterton, his home, habits and handiwork_ 1866.
_d._ 10 Park place, Leeds 29 Nov. 1868.
HOBSON, WILLIAM ROBERT (_only son of Capt. William Hobson, governor
of New Zealand, d. 1842_). _b._ 1831; entered R.N. 1845; mate of
the Rattlesnake in her expedition to Behring Straits as relieving
ship to the Enterprise and Investigator 1853; lieut. 20 April
1855, served in Baltic campaign 1854–5; accompanied Capt. Francis
L. M’Clintock in the Fox in search of Sir John Franklin 1857–9, in
the sledge party April to June 1859, discovered 6 May 1859 in the
cairn built by the crews of the Erebus and Terror the tin case
containing the record that Sir John Franklin died 11 June 1847;
captain 11 April 1866, retired 12 Aug. 1872. _d._ Pitminster near
Taunton 11 Oct. 1880. _I.L.N. 15 Oct. 1859 p._ 362–3, _portrait_.
HOBY, REV. JAMES (_son of George Hoby, boot maker to George III.,
St. James’ st. Piccadilly_). _b._ London 1788; ed. at Bristol
Baptist coll. 1812; assist. minister at Maze Pond chapel to 1823;
minister at Birmingham, Weymouth and Twickenham; visited United
States as one of a deputation from the Baptist Union 1836; author
of _Narrative of a visit to christian brethren in Hamburg,
Copenhagen, etc._ 1844; _Memoir of William Yates, D.D. of Calcutta
1847_; _Anti-popery. A lecture_ 1851. _d._ Caterham 20 Nov. 1871.
_S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men_ (1884) 242–3; _Baptist
Handbook 1872 p._ 226.
HOCHSCHILD, BARON CHARLES. Ambassador and minister plenipotentiary
from Sweden in London 6 Nov. 1854 to death. _d._ 8 Sep. 1857.
HODDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1819; ed. at Christ’s hospital; connected with
Henry Mayhew in the initiation of _Punch_ or the _London
Charivari_ 17 July 1841; connected with _Morning Post_; author of
_Memories of my time, including personal reminiscences of eminent
men_ 1870; upset in a four-horse drag in Richmond park on 28 May
1870 when his skull was fractured, _d._ Richmond infirmary 31 July
1870. _Newspaper Press, iv_, 175, 215 (1870); _Times 4 Aug. 1870
p._ 9.
HODGE, JOHN. _b._ Scotland 10 April 1787; wholesale stationer and
paper maker, firm being Spalding and Hodge, 145–7 Drury lane,
London from 1810; largest house in England, probably in the world.
_d._ 18 Gilston road, West Brompton, 15 Dec. 1865.
HODGES, EDWARD. _b._ Bristol 20 July 1796; organist of Clifton
church, of St. James’s ch. Bristol 1819, of St. Nicholas’s ch.
Bristol 1821–35; Mus. Bac. and Mus. Doc. Cam. 1825; went to
Toronto, Canada 1835; went to U.S. of A. 1838; organist of Trinity
ch. New York 1846–63; composed a morning and evening service and
two anthems for reopening of St. James’s organ Bristol 2 May 1824,
published 1825; published _An apology for church music and musical
festivals, Bristol_ 1834; _Canticles of the Church, New York_
1864. _d._ Clifton 1 Sep. 1876.
HODGES, REV. EDWARD RICHMOND. _b._ 1826; scripture reader in London;
sent by Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews, as a
missionary to Palestine; missionary in Algeria to 1856; minister
of reformed episcopal church; author of _Ancient Egypt_ 1851;
edited Craik’s _Principia Hebraica_ 1863; Cory’s _Ancient
fragments of the Phœnician and other authors_ 1876 and other
books. _d._ Tollington park, Holloway, London 9 May 1881. _Academy
18 June 1881 p._ 454.
HODGES, SIR GEORGE FLOYD (_son of George Thomas Hodges of
Limerick_). _b._ Old Abbey, Limerick 1792; ensign 61 foot 28 Aug.
1806; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1810–15; adjutant
recruiting district 5 May 1825 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on
h.p.; commanded British and foreign legion in Portugal under Dom
Pedro 1832; chargé d’ affaires and consul general to Hanse Towns
31 July 1841 to 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 1 March
1851, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1860; author of _Narrative of the expedition
to Portugal in 1832 under the orders of Dom Pedro 2 vols._ 1833;
contributed many articles to periodicals. _d._ 60 Lansdowne place,
Brighton 14 Dec. 1862.
HODGES, JAMES. _b._ Queenborough, Kent 6 April 1814; engineer,
worked under contractor for Greenwich railway 1834; superintended
construction of Shakespeare tunnel, Dover and blasting of Round
cliff, Down 1842–3; resident engineer on Norfolk railway;
contracted for 50 miles of Great Northern railway; superintended
construction of Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence 1853–60;
engaged in manufacturing peat fuel in Canada 1862; constructed the
Callao docks 1870–5; a great benefactor to Bagshot; author of
_Construction of the great Victoria bridge in Canada_ 1860. _d._
Perry hill, Bagshot, June 1879. _I.L.N. 22 Sep. 1860 p._ 266,
_portrait_; _Engineering 25 June 1879 p._ 78.
HODGES, THOMAS LAW (_son of Thomas Hallett Hodges, d. 1801_). _b._ 3
June 1776; major West Kent regiment of militia; M.P. for Kent
1830–32; for West Kent 1832–41 and 1847–52; author of _Minutes of
evidence before house of commons on emigration, and on state of
the poor laws_ 1833; _The use of Pearson’s drain plough_ 1833.
_d._ Hemsted, Kent 14 May 1857.
HODGES, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Hodges of Weymouth_). _b._
Melcombe Regis, Dorset 29 Sep. 1808; ed. at Salisbury and London
Univ.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833; a revising barrister for Devon
and Cornwall 1837–57; recorder of Poole, Dorset Nov. 1846 to Nov.
1857; drafted the Public health act 1848; chief justice of the
Cape colony, judge of vice admiralty court, and president of
legislative council 9 Feb. 1858 to death; knighted at Buckingham
palace 3 Feb. 1858; author of _Report of the case of the Queen v.
Lumsdaine_ 1839; _The law relating to the assessment of railways_
1842; _The statute law relating to railways_ 1845; _A treatise on
the law of railways_ 1855, _7 ed. 2 vols._ 1888; with G. Williams
and F. L. Wollaston _Reports of cases in court of queen’s bench
1840 continued as Term Reports to 1841_. _d._ Sea point house,
Cape town 17 Aug. 1868.
HODGETTS, FOLEY JOHN HODGETTS. _b._ Prestwood near Stourbridge 17
July 1797; took name of Hodgetts before that of Foley by r.l. 4
April 1821; M.P. for Droitwich 1822–34; contested Droitwich 1835;
M.P. for East Worcestershire 1847 to death. _d._ Prestwood house,
Stafford 13 Nov. 1861.
HODGKIN, JOHN (_2 son of John Hodgkin of Tottenham, Middlesex,
grammarian 1766–1845_). _b._ Pentonville, London 11 March 1800;
barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1825; practised as a conveyancer 1825–43;
had numerous pupils; aimed at conciseness and brevity in
documents; a preacher among the Friends, and a visitor to Ireland,
France and America 1861; helped to prepare the Encumbered Estates
act 1849; author of _Observations on the establishment of a
General Register of titles_ 1827. _d._ Bournemouth 3 July 1875.
_bur._ Friends’ ground, Winchmore hill, Middlesex.
HODGKIN, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tottenham,
Middlesex 17 Aug. 1798; studied at Guy’s hospital, in Paris and in
Edin., M.D. Edin. 1823; settled in London; L.R.C.P.; curator of
museum and professor of morbid anatomy, Guy’s hospital; on senate
of Univ. of London 1837 to death; a founder of Aborigines
protection soc. 1838; F.R.G.S.; Hodgkin’s disease is the name
given to an enlargement of the lymphatic glands; author of _An
essay on medical education_ 1828; _Hints relative to the cholera
in London_ 1832; _Lectures on the morbid anatomy of the serous and
mucous membranes 2 vols._ 1836–40; _Lectures on the means of
promoting and preserving health_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1841; _Narrative of
a journey to Morocco in 1863, with portrait of author_ 1866 and 14
other works. _d._ while on a visit to Jaffa, Palestine 4 April
1866, Sir M. Montefiore erected an obelisk to his memory there.
_Medical Times, i_, 403 (1866); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_,
250 (1867); _Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men, ii_, 73–6
(1868), _portrait_.
HODGKINSON, EATON (_son of Mr. Hodgkinson of Anderton, parish of
Great Budworth, Cheshire, farmer, d. 1795_). _b._ Anderton 26 Feb.
1789; ed. at Northwich gram. sch.; pawn broker, Salford,
Manchester 1811; pupil of Dr. John Dalton of Manchester 1811;
member of Manchester Lit. and Philos. society 1826, president
1848–50; F.R.S. 1841; professor of mechanical principles of
engineering in Univ. coll. London 1847; hon. M.I.C.E. 1851;
F.G.S.; experimented on strength and forms of iron beams and
invented Hodgkinson’s beam; his paper on Strength of pillars of
cast iron in Philos. Trans. obtained for him Royal soc. royal
medal 1841; edited _Practical essay on strength of cast iron, By
T. Tredgold 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ Eaglesfield house, Higher Broughton
near Manchester 18 June 1861. _Life of E. Hodgkinson in Memoirs
Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. ii_, 145 (1861); _Proceedings of
royal society, xii_, 11–13 (1862); _Minutes of Proc. of Instit. of
C.E. xxi_, 542–45 (1862).
HODGKINSON, REV. GEORGE CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1816; ed. at Trin. coll.
Cam., 14 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; principal R. Agric.
coll. Cirencester; principal of York and Ripon Diocesan training
institution to 1854; head master Louth gram. sch. 1854–76; sec. of
National soc.; R. of Screveton, Notts. 1876 to death; an alpine
climber; recommended use of aneroids in mountain expeditions; made
astronomical observations on the summit of Mont Blanc;
experimented on registering amount and intensity of sunshine;
author of _The doctrine of the church. And the statement of G. C.
Hodgkinson of the Training school, York in his defence_ 1854;
_Drops for the cup of uniformity, unity and peace_ 1845. _d._ Car
Colston, Notts. 25 April 1880.
HODGKINSON, SIR GEORGE EDMUND (_only son of George Hodgkinson_).
_b._ Southwell, Notts. 1817; ship owner, ship and insurance agent,
74 Cornhill, London; at one time in partnership with Sir John
Pirie, bart.; sheriff of London 1850–51, after the Queen’s visit
to the city 9 July 1851 was knighted at Buckingham palace 17 July
1851. _d._ Bournemouth 26 March 1886.
HODGKINSON, GROSVENOR. _b._ Newark upon Trent 12 Feb. 1818;
solicitor at Newark 1839–70; M.P. for Newark 1859–74. _d._ Newark
14 Feb. 1881.
HODGSON, ANTHONY. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1780; ed. at Crook hall
coll. and at Ushaw; hatter Newcastle, and bookseller dealing
chiefly in R.C. books; a great student of English R.C. history;
contributed many articles to _Catholic Miscellany_, _Catholic
Mag._, _Weekly Orthodox journal_, and _London and Dublin orthodox
journal_. _d._ Newcastle 10 Feb. 1869. _Gillow’s English Catholics
iii_, 315–18 (1887).
HODGSON, BRIAN (_son of Brian Hodgson, innkeeper, Buxton, d. 1827_).
_bapt._ Buxton 15 March 1767; partner in banking house of Hawkins,
Mills & Co., Macclesfield 1787, the bank failed but paid 20s. in
the pound; superintendent of Martello towers on coast of Essex,
office abolished 1820; barrack master of the troops at Canterbury
1820–50. _d._ in Holland 31 Jany. 1858.
HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER (_eld. son of John Hodgson of Bishop Auckland,
Durham_). _b._ Bartlett’s buildings Holborn, London 1784; attorney
and notary in Westminster 1805–71; chapter clerk to dean and
chapter of St. Paul’s 1806; sec. to Abp. of Canterbury 1809; sec.
to Bp. of London 1813; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 22 July 1820;
sec. to governors of queen Anne’s bounty 15 Feb. 1822, resigned
Jany. 1871; sec. to Abp. of York 1826; treasurer to queen Anne’s
bounty 1839 to Jany. 1871; author of _Instructions for the use of
candidates for holy orders_ 1817, _9 ed._ 1870; _An account of the
augmentation of small livings by the Governors of the Bounty of
Queen Anne 2 parts_ 1826–35, _2 ed._ 1845–56. _d._ Spring grove,
Isleworth, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON. _b._ 1821; resided in New South
Wales 1840–45 and accompanied several exploring expeditions; vice
consul at Pau, France 1851–5; vice consul at Caen 1857–9; consul
at Nagasaki, Japan 1859, and at Hakodadi 1859–61; author of
_Reminiscences of Australia_ 1846; _El Ydaivur_ 1849; _Pyrenaica,
a history of the viscounts of Bèarn_ 1855; _The Wanderer and other
poems_ 1849; _A residence at Nagasaki and Hakodadi_ 1861. _d._ Pau
11 Oct. 1865.
HODGSON, EDMUND (_son of a bookseller in Wimpole st. London_). _b._
1794; publisher with Robert Saunders at 39 Fleet st. London
1825–8; publisher at 192 Fleet st. 1829–55, at 2 Chancery lane
1856 to about 1867; pres. of Booksellers’ Provident Institution.
_d._ 102 Lower Tulse hill, Brixton 3 May 1875. _Publisher’s
Circular_ (1875) 383–4.
HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of Rev. James Hodgson, R. of Humber,
co. Hereford, d. Oct. 1810_). _b._ Croydon 16 Nov. 1781; ed. at
Eton 1794–99, scholar King’s coll. Cam. 1799; B.A. 1804, M.A.
1807, B.D. 1840; fellow and tutor of his college 1808–14; friend
of lord Byron whom he visited at Newstead 1808, corresponded with
lady Byron about her separation; C. of Bradden, Northamptonshire
1815–16; V. of Bakewell, Derbyshire 1816–40; archdeacon of Derby 9
Sep. 1836 to 30 Dec. 1840; P.C. of Edensor in Chatsworth park
1838–40; provost of Eton college 5 May 1840 to death; R. of
Cottesford, Oxon. 1842 to death; published _The satires of
Juvenal, A translation_ 1807; _The Friends, a poem_ 1818;
_Mythology for versification_ 1831; _Select portions of sacred
history conveyed in sense for Latin verses_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1833;
_Sacred lyrics adapted to Latin versification in the principal
metres of Horace_ 1842; made considerable contributions in Latin
to the _Arundines Cami_. _d._ The Lodge, Eton college 29 Dec.
1852. _bur._ in college chapel 4 Jany. 1853. _Memoir of Rev. F.
Hodgson by his son 2 vols._ 1878, _portrait_; _H. C. M. Lyte’s
History of Eton college_ (1875) 413–73.
HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Duffield 13 Feb. 1805; settled at West
Chester, Pa., U.S. America; minister of Methodist Episcopal ch. at
Dauphin, Pa. 1828, at Philadelphia, New York, Hartford and New
Haven; author of _Examination into the new system of divinity_
1829; _The ecclesiastical polity of Methodism defended_; _The
Calvinistic doctrine of predestination examined and refuted_ 1855.
_d._ 16 April 1877. _Appleton’s American biography, iii_, 225
(1887).
HODGSON, FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; a brewer and merchant at Barnstaple;
M.P. for Barnstaple 1824–30, 1831–2 and 1837–47. _d._ Paris 30
March 1854. _E. Yates’s Recollections, i_, 12 (1884).
HODGSON, HENRY (_son of Robert Hodgson_). _b._ Congleton, Cheshire
24 Feb. 1781; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 51 Bengal N.I. 5 June
1829 to 1841; col. 12 Bengal N.I. 1841 to death; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Passy, Paris 8 March 1855.
HODGSON, ISAAC. _b._ Bradford 15 Nov. 1828; a cricketer 1847; first
played at Lord’s 16 July 1860; with C. Lawrence at Glasgow put the
England Eleven out for 20 runs 20 Sep. 1860; bowler to Manchester
Broughton club 1862; right hand batsman, but bowled left, round
armed, slow with a twist; a good player at Knurr and Spell; had a
benefit at Bradford 29 Aug. 1867; landlord of West End tavern,
Lister hills, Bradford. _d._ Bradford 24 Nov. 1867. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores vi_, 437–8 (1876).
HODGSON, JOHN STUDHOLME (_2 son of John Hodgson 1757–1846, general
in the army_). _b._ Blake st. York May 1805; ed. at Woolwich;
ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 3 Feb. 1822; served in campaign of 1845–6
and was wounded at Sobraon; raised first Sikh regt. embodied in
British service which he commanded in second Sikh war 1848–9; as
brigadier, organised Punjab irregular force 1850; in command of
Peshawur frontier; lieut.-col. 12 Bengal N.I. 15 April 1858 to
1862; M.G. 23 July 1861; retired 1865. _d._ 10 Stanhope terrace,
Hyde park, London 14 Jany. 1870.
HODGSON, JOSEPH (_son of John Hodgson of Birmingham, merchant_).
_b._ Penrith, Cumberland 1788; studied at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; M.R.C.S. 1811, member of council 1849, examiner in
surgery 1856–66, president 1864; in practice at King st. Cheapside
1811–18; edited _London Medical Rev._; removed to Birmingham 1818;
surgeon to general dispensary and general hospital to 1848; a
founder of Birmingham eye infirmary 1824; returned to London 1849;
examiner in surgery London univ.; president Medico-Chirur. Soc.
1851; very successful as a lithotomist; F.R.S. 14 April 1831;
attended Sir Robert Peel on his death 2 July 1850; author of _A
treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins_ 1815 which was
translated into German and Italian. _d._ 60 Westbourne ter. London
7 Feb. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. March 1869 pp._ 211–2; _J. F.
Clarke’s Biog. Recollections_ (1874) 331–5.
HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH LOWTHER (_3 son of William Hodgson of Houghton
house, Cumberland_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1818; ed. at Pet. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Wetheral with Warwick 1848 to death;
hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1858 to death; author of _A simple
catechism of the Lord’s prayer_ 1851; _The village schools of
Cumberland_ 1857. _d._ Harber Grange near Carlisle 29 March 1861.
HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH STORDY (_2 son of Joseph Hodgson_). _b._ 1806;
ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; R. of Brinklow near
Coventry 1840–58; R. of Aikton, Cumberland 1858–70; hon. canon of
Carlisle cath. 1872, canon residentiary 1872 to death; author of
_Considerations in phrenology_ 1839; _The duty of private
judgment_ 1844. _d._ The Abbey, Carlisle 24 Jany. 1879.
HODGSON, KIRKMAN DANIEL (_eld son of John Hodgson of the Elms,
Hampstead, d. 1858_). _b._ London 1814; ed. at the Charterhouse
1826 etc.; partner in firm of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants; a
director of Bank of England 1849–78, deputy governor 1862,
governor 1863–4; M.P. for Bridport 1857–68, contested Penryn 1868;
M.P. Bristol 1870 to 1878. _d._ Ash Grove, Sevenoaks 11 Sep. 1879,
personalty sworn under £400,000 Nov. 1879.
HODGSON, MARY (_dau. of Thomas Hodgson 1800–69_). _b._ Bentham,
Yorkshire 1835; ed. at Ackworth sch. near Pontefract 1846–50;
student of Manchester sch. of Art 1874, and at Manchester Academy
of art 1876; lady exhibitor 1882, associate 1884; landscape
painter in oil and water colours; made studies of animals,
especially of cats; author of _A plea for the Alliance, in verse_
1864; _Vegetarian receipts for Christmas time_ 1883; illustrated
H. Thompson’s _History of Ackworth School_ 1879 with 12 drawings.
_d._ York 13 Sep. 1886. _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth
school_ (1889) 15, _portrait_.
HODGSON, RICHARD. _b._ Wimpole st. London 1804; partner in firm of
Hodgson and Graves of Pall Mall, London, publishers to 1841;
introduced many improvements in daguerreo type; built an
observatory at Claybury in Essex 1852, removed it to Hawkwood near
Chingford, Essex; F.R.A.S. 14 April 1848, mem. of council 12 Feb.
1858, hon. sec. 1863–67. _d._ Hawkwood 4 May 1872.
HODGSON, SIR ROBERT (_son of Robert Hodgson, speaker of house of
assembly, Prince Edward island_). _b._ Charlotte town, Prince
Edward island 1798; ed. at Collegiate sch. Windsor, Nova Scotia;
admitted to bar of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward island 1819;
surrogate and judge of probate for P.E. island 1828, attorney
general and advocate general 1828, president of legislative
council 1840, and acting chief justice 1841; resigned all offices
except surrogate and judge 1851; chief justice 1852, judge of vice
admiralty court 1853; acting governor of P.E. island 1865, 1868
and 1873–4; lieut.-governor July 1874 to July 1879; knighted by
patent 1 March 1869. _d._ Charlotte town 16 Sep. 1880.
HODGSON, STUDHOLME JOHN (_son of general John Hodgson 1757–1846_).
_b._ 1 April 1805; ensign 50 regt. 30 Dec. 1819; served in 45, 39
and 19 regiments in Ceylon, India and the first Burmese war;
commander of the forces in Ceylon 1865–69; commander of troops in
Straits Settlement; administrator of civil government of Ceylon;
colonel 54 regt. 13 March 1868; colonel 4 regt. 21 Nov. 1876 to
death; general 2 Feb. 1876; retired 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Argyll hall,
Torquay 31 Aug. 1890.
HODGSON, THOMAS. _b._ Lancaster, Jany. 1800; land surveyor,
Lancaster 1821; made a survey of the county of Westmoreland
1823–5, concerning which he had a paper war with G. & J.
Greenwood, map publishers; author of _Plan of the county of
Westmoreland_ 1828, another issue with the geological strata
coloured by Adam Sedgwick is dated 1841. _d._ Lancaster 1869.
HODGSON, THOMAS. Master Badsworth hounds for 3 seasons, of
Holderness hounds 16 seasons and of Quorn hounds 2 seasons;
registrar of deeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. _d._ Snydale hall,
May 1863 aged 70. _Sporting Rev., June 1863 pp._ 461–3.
HODGSON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1745; studied medicine and botany in Holland;
M.D.; tried at Old Bailey 9 Dec. 1793 for proposing toast of The
French Republic and comparing the king to a German hog butcher,
imprisoned in Newgate 2 years; author of _The picture of the
Times_ 1795; _The commonwealth of reason_ 1795; _The case of W.
Hodgson now confined in Newgate_ 1795; _A critical grammar of the
French and English language_ 1819; _Flora’s cabinet in which the
relation of chemistry to the flower garden is elucidated_ 1835;
_The life of Napoleon Bonaparte_ 1841. _d._ Hemingford ter.
Islington 2 March 1851 aged 106. _G.M. xxxv_, 560 (1851); _N. & Q.
14 June 1884 p._ 475.
HODGSON, WILLIAM BALLANTYNE (_son of William Hodgson a working
printer_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov.
1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in
Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839;
principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11
March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51;
lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr.
of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial
law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of _Lectures on education_
1837; _The education of girls_ 1864–6, _2 ed._ 1869; _The true
scope of economic science_ 1870; _Turgot, his life, times and
opinions_ 1870 and other works. _d._ at Brussels while attending
educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. _Meiklejohn’s Life and letters
of W. B. Hodgson_ (1885), _portrait_; _Grant’s University of
Edinburgh, ii_, 466–9 (1884).
HODGSON, WILLIAM NICHOLSON (_eld. son of Joseph Hodgson_). _b._
Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8;
M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863.
_d._ 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.
HODSON, VEN. GEORGE (_youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle_). _b._
1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A.
1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham,
Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second
residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833
to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of
_Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience_ 1825; _Morning
discourses at Christ Church_, _Birmingham_ 1832; _The church of
Rome’s traffic in pardons_ 1838; _The finished course_ 1855. _d._
Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.
HODSON, GEORGE A. (_son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of
numerous pieces_). _b._ Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at
Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played _Teddy the
Tiler_ at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee
of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. _d._ Bath 27 June 1869.
_Era 4 July 1869 p._ 11 _col._ 4.
HODSON, JAMES. _b._ Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct.
1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when
he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided
at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. _d._ 17 March 1880.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii_, 495 (1862).
HODSON, MARGARET (_eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by
Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress_). _b._ 1778; author of
_Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance_ 1809, _2 ed._ 1810;
_Poems_ 1811; _Margaret of Anjou_ 1816; _Warbeck of Wolfstein_
1820. (_m._ 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston,
Northamptonshire _d._ 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey,
Coleridge and Landor; also published _The lives of Vasco Nunez de
Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef
Quintana_ 1832. _d._ Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852.
_N. & Q. 2 S. i 113_, _4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411_.
HODSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN RAIKES (_3 son of Ven. George Hodson
1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford_). _b._ Maisemore court near
Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers
engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist.
commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of
guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his
conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a
regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as
Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued
and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot
with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a
native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. _d._
Lucknow 12 March 1858. _Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India,
By W. R. Hodson_ 1859; _Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s
Horse_ (1883); _R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i_ 309, _ii_
14, 538; _Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv_
(1888–89).
HOFFMEISTER, SIR WILLIAM CARTER (_son of Charles William
Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast_). _b._ Portsmouth 6
July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840,
F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at
Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug.
1884. _d._ Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.
HOGAN, JOHN (_son of a builder_). _b._ Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct.
1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated
R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied
in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, _A shepherd boy_ 1824 and a
_Drunken Faun_; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms
altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by
R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of
Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50.
_d._ Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list
pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv_, 72 (1850),
_portrait_; _Art Journal, ii_, 376 (1850), _portrait_.
HOGAN, JOHN SHERIDAN. _b._ near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada
1826; newsboy for _Canadian Wesleyan_ 1826, foreman, then on staff
of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton;
sent articles on Canadian politics to _Blackwood’s Edin. Mag._
1850; established _United Empire_ newspaper at Toronto; accused of
complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a
claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an
essay on _Canada and her resources_, at Paris exhibition 1855;
editor _Toronto Daily Colonist_ 1856 and for some years; member
for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; _murdered_ near
Toronto, Dec. 1859. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 192;
_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 229 (1887).
HOGARTH, GEORGE, _b._ Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a
violinist and composer; a contributor to _Edinburgh Courant_; a
writer on _Morning Chronicle_, London 1831, afterwards editor;
musical critic to _Daily News_ 1846–66 and also to _Illust. London
News_; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the _Houseland
Narrative_ 1850–61; author of _Musical history, biography and
criticism_ 1835; _Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany
and England 2 vols._ 1851; his musical publications were _The
musical herald 2 vols._ 1846; _School music arranged for three
voices_ 1852. _d._ at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10
Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870.
_Newspaper Press, iv_, 81 (1870).
HOGARTH, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland
25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett
29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw;
received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807,
ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20
Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college;
chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred
to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to
death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar
apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata _in
partibus_ 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel,
Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to
death. _d._ Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. _bur._ St.
Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. _Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii_,
346, 357, 410–13 (1877); _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 321–23
(1887).
HOGG, HENRY (_son of a manufacturer of hosiery_). _b._ Nottingham
1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short
poems in the _Christian Miscellany_, also wrote hymns and carols
some of which he set to music; published _Poems_, _Nottingham_
1852; _Songs for the Times_ 1856. _d._ Nottingham 1874. _Wylie’s
Old and New Nottingham_ (1853) 247.
HOGG, JAMES. _b._ Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to _Dublin
University Mag._ and _New York Albion_; editor and proprietor of
_New Brunswick Reporter_ at Fredericton to death; author of
_Poems_. _St. John, N.B._ 1825; _Poems, religious, moral and
sentimental_. _d._ Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866.
_Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 192.
HOGG, JAMES (_son of James Hogg_). _b._ near Edinburgh 26 March
1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer
and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited _Hogg’s Weekly Instructor_,
first number 1 March 1845, title changed to _The Instructor_ 1849,
afterwards to _Titan_, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.;
publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s
_Collected Works 14 vols._ 1857, _new ed. 15 vols._ 1862;
_Churchman’s Family Mag._ and _London Society_ projected by his
son Feb. 1862. _d._ The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14
March 1888. _H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de
Quincey_ (1877) _i_ 396, _ii_ 1–33, 339; _Nicoll’s Landmarks of
English literature_ (1883) 454–5.
HOGG, SIR JAMES WEIR, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of William Hogg of
Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824_). _b._ Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7
Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810;
student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814,
practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta
1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P.
Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11
Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman
1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of
India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872.
_d._ 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn
under £350,000, 8 July 1876. _I.L.N. iv_, 268 (1844), _portrait_;
_Times 29 May 1876 p._ 12.
HOGG, JOHN (_2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on
Tees, barrister, d. 1840_). _b._ 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr.
sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A.
1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823;
F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec.
and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of _A
catalogue of Sicilian plants_ 1842; _Letters from abroad to a
friend at Cambridge_ 1844, and 40 articles in periodical
publications. _d._ Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. _Proc. of Royal
Geog. Soc. xiv_, 298–9.
HOGG, MARGARET (_dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale,
farmer_). (_m._ 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick
shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130
from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854.
_d._ Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. _C.
Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 256, 265–78.
HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON (_brother of John Hogg 1800–69_). _b._ Norton
24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which
he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a
publication entitled _The necessity of Atheism_ by Shelley; made
acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death
1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr.
for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for
Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under
Shelley’s will in 1844; author of _Memoirs of Prince Alesy
Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A
novel_ 1813; _Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a
traveller on the continent 2 vols._ 1827; _Life of P. B. Shelley 2
vols_ 1858, never completed. _d._ 33 Clifton road, St. John’s
Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. _Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862
p._ 5; _G.M. xiii_, 506, 643 (1862).
HOGGAN, JOHN (_4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside,
Dumfries_). _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal
N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849.
_d._ Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.
HOGGE, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1829;
colonel R.A. 20 Feb. 1860 to death; C.B. 17 June 1858. _d._ Erith
18 Sep. 1865.
HOGGINS, CHRISTOPHER ARGYLE. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830;
went northern circuit; Q.C. March 1850; bencher of his inn 1850.
_d._ 3 Plowden buildings, Temple 19 June 1871.
HOLBERTON, VEN. ROBERT (_son of Robert Holberton of Torr house,
Devon_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R.
of St. John, Antigua 1827–50; archdeacon of Antigua 1843–50; V. of
Norbiton, Surrey 1850–75; C. of Walton-on-the-Hill 1876–8. _d._
Devon lodge, Kew 14 June 1886.
HOLCROFT, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Holcroft, dramatist 1745–1809_).
Journalist in London 1822 to death; Paris correspondent for the
_Morning Herald_; sec. to the Asiatic Society; edited an East
Indian paper in India some years. _d._ 37 Woburn place, London 6
Feb. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_, 425 (1852).
HOLDEN, GEORGE. _b._ 1800; professor of music; organist St. George’s
ch. Liverpool to death; composer of anthems, songs, etc.; wrote
_Smiling Mirth_. _d._ 22 Rodney st. Liverpool 5 Dec. 1856.
HOLDEN, REV. GEORGE (_son of Rev. George Holden, master of
Horton-in-Ribblesdale gram. sch._) _b._ Horton 1783; ed. at univ.
of Glasgow, B.A.; P.C. of Maghull near Liverpool 1811 to death; V.
of Horton, 1821–5; author of _An attempt towards an improved
version of the Proverbs_ 1819; _The christian expositor or guide
to the New Testament_ 1830; _An essay on the angels of the church_
1862; and 13 other books. _d._ Maghull 19 March 1865; his library
and half his property left to clergy of Ripon, library kept in
palace at Ripon. _G.M. xviii_, 657 (1865).
HOLDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Walsall, Staffs. 29 Nov. 1821; beat C. Davis at
Sutton Coldfield 24 Jany. 1843 in 73 rounds; beaten by Paddy Gill
on Warwickshire Moor 29 Oct. 1844 in 21 rounds for £50; beat Bill
Stevens at Calf Heath near Wolverhampton 14 July 1845 in 56 rounds
for £25; beat Bob Smith at the Clock, Bickenhall 1 April 1846 in
84 rounds for £50; one of the gamest men who ever lived; licensed
victualler, Wolverhampton; landlord of the Malt shovel inn,
Walsall. _d._ Wood’s Fold, New st. Walsall 4 Feb. 1889. _Sporting
Life 9 Feb. 1889 p._ 7.
NOTE.—He had 3 brothers Jem, Ted and John all pugilists, his
son George Holden, junior, also was well known, he fought
Charley Linch, Jack Lead and Peter Morris in London.
HOLDEN, GEORGE KENYON. _b._ Worcester 1806; attorney and solicitor;
emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1831; private sec. to Sir Richard
Bourke 1831–7; crown prosecutor 1837; solicitor in practice at
Sydney from 1838; member of legislative council 1861; examiner of
titles 1862. _d._ Rockton, Sydney 16 April 1874. _Heaton’s
Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 94.
HOLDEN, REV. JOHN. _b._ Bonds, Garstang, Lancs. 6 May 1797; ed. at
Stonyhurst and Oscott colleges 1812–25; priest 6 Oct. 1825;
missioner at Thetford, Norfolk 1825–39; member of Soc. of Jesus 21
Feb. 1840; missioner at Spinkhill, Derbyshire 1842, at Lowergate,
Clitheroe, Lancs. 1843 and at Lincoln 1847–59; procurator at St.
Bruno’s coll. St. Asaph 1859–61; author of _A discharge of grape
shot against “Authorities to prove that Church of Rome prohibits
reading of the Scriptures.” By the Rev. T. D. Atkinson_ 1826. _d._
Mount St. Mary coll. Spinkhill, Derbyshire 30 June 1861. _Gillow’s
English Catholics, iii_, 339–40 (1887).
HOLDEN, MOSES. _b._ Bolton 21 Nov. 1777; a landscape gardener, then
a weaver; constructed an orrery and a magic lantern 1814–5; gave
astronomical lectures in north of England from 1815; assisted in
establishing Preston Institution; freedom of the borough given him
1834; published _A small celestial atlas or maps of the visible
heavens in the latitude of Britain_ 1818, _4 ed._ 1840; _An
almanac 1835, &c._ _d._ Preston 3 June 1864.
HOLDEN, HENRY. _b._ 1810; a butcher at Birmingham; landlord of the
Rodney inn, Coleshill st. Birmingham about 1840; built a small
music hall there, which became the leading one in the Midlands,
built a large music hall there, and a brewery 1857, managed his
hall down to 1863 or 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, Malvern 27 Jany.
1880. _Era 1 Feb. 1880 p._ 4.
HOLDFORTH, JAMES (_son of Joseph Holdforth, silk manufacturer
Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 14 June 1778; J.P. for Leeds 1836; mayor of
Leeds Nov. 1838, first Roman catholic mayor since the Reformation;
president of Leeds Catholic institute; supported a ragged school
in Leeds. _d._ Burley hill, Leeds 13 July 1861. _Gillow’s English
Catholics iii_, 346–7 (1887); _Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis_ (1865)
498.
HOLDING, FREDERICK (_son of Henry Holding, painter_). _b._ 1817;
painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s _Battle of Blenheim_
1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s
theatre, Manchester. _d._ 1874. _Manchester City News 3 May 1890._
HOLDING, HENRY JAMES (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Salford, Lancs.,
Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of
marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in
Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding
the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed
1872. _d._ Paris 2 Aug. 1872.
HOLE, LEWIS (_son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26
Oct. 1791 aged 82_). _b._ Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered
R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4
Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861.
_d._ Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_, 131
(1870); _O’Byrne_ (1849) 529.
HOLKER, SIR JOHN (_son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs._) _b._ Bury
24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854,
bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester
1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged
in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April
1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25
Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a
year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19
May 1882. _d._ 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May
1882. _bur._ St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. _A generation
of Judges, By Their Reporter_ (1886) 119–27; _I.L.N. lxiv_, 493
(1874), _portrait_; _Times 25 May 1882 p._ 9, _cols._ 3–4.
HOLL, CHARLTON. _b._ 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15
Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 39
Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.
HOLL, FRANCIS (_4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838_). _b._
Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father;
engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen;
exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his
principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The
coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by
W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited
at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. _d._ Elm house, Milford near Godalming
14 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.
HOLL, FRANCIS MONTAGUE, known as Frank Holl (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4
July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold
medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for _The
Graphic_ 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198
portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88;
A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc.
of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. _d._ The Three Gables,
6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. _Universal Review 15
Aug. 1888 pp._ 478–93, _portrait_; _Graphic 3 May 1879_,
_portrait_, _and 11 Aug. 1888_, _portrait_.
HOLL, HENRY (_brother of Francis Holl 1815–84_). _b._ July 1811;
first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in _King John_ at Drury
Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of
Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage _Grace Huntley_, Adelphi 1833,
_Wapping Old Stairs_, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, _Louise or the White
Scarf_, Victoria 1838, _The Forest keeper_, Drury Lane 15 Feb.
1860, and _Caught in a trap_, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at
Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of _The King’s mail 3
vols._ 1863; _The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols._ 1863; _More
secrets than one 3 vols._ 1864. _d._ 1 Horbury crescent, Notting
hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. _Theatrical Times, iii_, 17, 50 (1848),
_portrait_; _N. & Q. 6 S. x_ 487 (1884).
HOLL, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Plaistow, Essex,
Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for
Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36,
&c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village
pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B.
West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71.
_d._ 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.
HOLLAND, HENRY EDWARD VASSALL, 4 Baron (_only son of 3 Baron Holland
1773–1840_). _b._ 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July
1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic
confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June
1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited _Foreign reminiscences of
Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland_ 1850; _Memoirs of the Whig party,
By H. R. 3 Baron Holland_ 1852. _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859.
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 191, _portrait_.
HOLLAND, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828;
F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. _d._ St.
Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.
HOLLAND, EDWARD (_eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London_).
_b._ 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4
Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P.
Evesham 1855–68. _d._ Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.
HOLLAND, REV. FREDERICK WHITMORE. _b._ Dumbleton near Evesham 1837;
ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All
Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the
peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine
exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey
fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868;
again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers
on Palestine in its Journal; author of _Sinai and Jerusalem, or
scenes from Bible lands_ 1870. _d._ on the Nissen, near Thun,
Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. _Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii_, 670–1
(1881).
HOLLAND, GEORGE. _b._ Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk
warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817;
first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry
in _The Day after the Fair_; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre,
New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New
York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an
assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his
last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his
performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial
diversions and imitations of men and animals. _d._ New York city
20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family.
_Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland_ 1871; _Ireland’s New York
Stage, i_ 560, _ii_ 421, 620 (1866–7).
HOLLAND, GEORGE CALVERT. _b._ Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801;
apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in
practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a
director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London
1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851;
alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of _The physiology of
the fœtus, liver and spleen_ 1831; _The vital statistics of
Sheffield_ 1843; _The nature and cure of consumption_ 1850; _The
domestic practice of homœopathy_ 1859 and 15 other books;
conducted _The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet_ 1853. _d._ Sheffield
7 March 1865. _G.M. xviii_, 653 (1865).
HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_son of Peter Holland of Knutsford,
Cheshire, surgeon_). _b._ Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle
upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6;
studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic
physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816,
F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832,
1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869;
physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of
H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince
Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians
in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809,
F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal
Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of _Travels in the
Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia_ 1815, _2 ed._ _2
vols._ 1819; _Medical notes and reflections_ 1839, _3 ed._ 1855;
_Recollections of past life_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1872 and 6 other books.
_d._ 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. _Munk’s Roll
of Physicians, iii_, 144–9 (1878); _Barker’s Photographs of
Medical men_ (1865) 65–8, _portrait_; _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical Recollections_ (1874) 458–95; _Graphic_, _viii_,
460, 466 (1873), _portrait_.
NOTE.—His 2 wife Saba whom he _m._ 20 March 1834, _d._ 2 Nov.
1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith
_2 vols._ 1855, 4 ed. 1855.
HOLLAND, JAMES (_son of a potter_). _b._ Burslem 17 Oct. 1800;
painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819;
painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A.,
91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in
water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8;
member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830;
drew for the _Landscape_ and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the
finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch
large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington.
_d._ London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. _Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists_
(1878) 219; _Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i_, 671 (1886).
HOLLAND, JOHN (_son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth,
Yorkshire, optical instrument maker_). _b._ in Sheffield Park 14
March 1794; edited the _Sheffield Iris_ 1825–32, the _Newcastle
Courant_ 1832–3; joint editor of _Sheffield Mercury_ 1835–48;
presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100,
1870; author of _Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem_. _Sheffield_
1820; _The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham_
1826; _The Psalmists of Britain_ 1843, and 15 other books; author
with James Everett of _Memoirs of the life and writings of James
Montgomery 7 vols._ 1854–6. _d._ in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872.
_W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland_ (1874), _portrait_;
_Reliquary_, _xv_, 145.
HOLLAND, JOHN (_son of a house painter and picture dealer_). _b._ 15
Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided
in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at
Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures _The Storm_,
_After the Storm_, and _The Wreckers_ to the exhibition at the
Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only
excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. _d._ Trebray
lodge, Feb. 1886.
HOLLAND, REV. SAMUEL (_son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent_).
_b._ Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of
college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor
1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806
when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806;
R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to
death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of
Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of _The
preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended_ 1813,
_6 ed._ 1817 and of several sermons. _d._ 33 Regency square,
Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. _Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii_,
470 (1878).
HOLLAND, REV. THOMAS AGAR (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 16
Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham,
Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of
_Dryburgh Abbey and other poems_ 1826, _4 ed._ 1884 and of a
_History of Poynings_ in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological
Society for 1863. _d._ Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.
HOLLAND, THOMAS SEWARD. _b._ 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England
1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles
1855–6; author of _Pathological anatomy considered in its
relations to medical science_ 1852, and papers in medical
journals. _d._ at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.
HOLLINGS, JAMES FRANCIS. _b._ 1806; second master proprietary sch.
Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of _Leicestershire Mercury_
7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the
founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several
times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of _The life of
Gustavus Adolphus_ 1838; _The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero_ 1839;
_The history of Leicester during the civil war_ 1840; _Roman
Leicester_ 1855; _Lord Macaulay_ 1860; _hanged himself_ at
Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. _Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep.
1862 p._ 5.
HOLLINGWORTH, VEN. JOHN BANKS. _b._ 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804;
assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret,
Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death;
Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of
Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of _Heads of lectures on
divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge_ 1825, _3 ed._
1835, and charges and sermons. _d._ Rectory house, St. Margaret’s,
Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 430–1 (1856).
HOLLINS, JOHN (_son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass_). _b._
Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I.
and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in
Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape
painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical
pictures. _d._ 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. _Redgrave’s
Dict. of Artists_ (1878) 220; _Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p._
170.
HOLLINS, PETER (_eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor
1754–1843_). _b._ Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted
his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture
at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London
1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of
Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts,
Birmingham. _d._ 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886,
portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.
HOLLINWORTH, JOHN IBBETSON. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain
3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. _d._ Southsea 28 Dec.
1861 aged 79.
HOLLOND, REV. EDMUND (_eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C._) Ed.
at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle
1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge,
Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of _Israel’s
pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s
return and what awaits him in his own land_ 1875; patron of 8
livings. _d._ 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83
year.
HOLLOND, ELLEN JULIA (_dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall,
Middlesex_). _b._ Madras 1822. (_m._ 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond,
M.P. for Hastings, _d._ 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by
the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London
1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at
Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St.
Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted
1852 is in National gallery; author of _Channing, sa vie and ses
œuvres_ 1857; _La vie de village en Angleterre_ 1862; _Les
Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société_ 1870. _d._
Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. _Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884._
HOLLOND, ROBERT (_youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor
place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836_). _b._ 5
Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company
with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a
voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8
Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with
the balloon in the back ground 1836. _d._ Paris 26 Dec. 1877,
personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. _Hatton Turnor’s
Astra Castra_ (1865) 139–58; _Monck Mason’s Aeronautica_ (1838)
1–98, _portrait_.
HOLLOWAY, JAMES LEWIS (_son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place,
Charlbury, Oxon._) _b._ 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847;
assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape
of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov.
1879. _d._ Netley 19 April 1883.
HOLLOWAY, SIR THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1810; 2
lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served
in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb.
1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858,
colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870;
C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Farlington near
Portsmouth 21 July 1875.
HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican_). _b._
Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to
London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced
advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending
£50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his
medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244
Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed
100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of
£700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill,
Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally
afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. _d._
Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. _I.L.N. 5 Jany.
1884 p._ 24, _portrait_; _Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p._ 5, _portrait_;
_Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll._ (1886).
HOLM, JOHN DIEDERICK. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G.
Spurzheim the German phrenologist (_b._ 1776, _d._ 1832). _d._
High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.
HOLMAN, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Lattimer_). _b._ England 1798; appeared
at Charleston theatre 1817. (_m._ (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George
Holman, actor, who _d._ 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous
plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s
alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (_m._ (2) March 1819
Isaac Star Clawson); (_m._ (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer
and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the
Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New
York as Maria in _Of age to-morrow_, June 1832. _d._ New York city
1 Sep. 1859. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 181; _Ireland’s
New York stage, i_, 290 336 (1866).
HOLMAN, JAMES (_son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and
druggist_). _b._ Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798,
lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided
and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812;
travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world
1827–32; F.R.S.; author of _A narrative of a journey through
France, Italy, Savoy, &c._ 1822, with _portrait_; _Travels through
Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c._ _2 vols._ 1825, with
portrait, 4 ed. _2 vols._ 1834. _d._ at his lodgings near the
Minories, London 28 July 1857. _Reynolds’ Miscellany, x_, 9
(1853), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1858) 26–30;
_People’s Journal, iv_, 213, _portrait_.
HOLMAN, JOHN. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at
Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful
steeple chasers. _d._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. _Baily’s Mag., Feb.
1888 pp._ 488–9.
HOLME, BRYAN (_son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs._)
_baptised_ at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John
Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a
managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton
court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court
and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21,
with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to
death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825,
which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter
granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W.
Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836.
_d._ 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. _Legal Observer 23 Aug.
1856 pp._ 281–5.