1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.;
managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at
Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of _Poems and
prose_ 1874. _d._ Kendal 20 May 1876. _Nodal’s Bibliog. of
Ackworth sch._ (1889) 16.
HOLMES, ALFRED (_son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln_). _b._ London 9
Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother
Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855,
Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland
1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party;
produced at St. Petersburg his symphony _Jeanne d’ Arc_ April
1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and
at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies _The
Youth of Shakespeare_, _The siege of Paris_ 1870, _Robin Hood_,
_Charles XII_, and _Romeo and Juliet_; an opera in 5 acts called
_Inez de Castro_ 1869; overtures _The Cid_ and _The Muses_; _Two
nocturnes for the violin and piano_, _Leipzig_ 1857. _d._ Paris 4
March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 315 (1876), _portrait_.
HOLMES, REV. ARTHUR. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of
his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of
St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow
and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of
Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69;
Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the
_Catena Classicorum series_ 1867 etc.; published _The Midias of
Demosthenes with notes_ 1862; _Demosthenes De Corona_ 1867; _The
Nemeian odes of Pindar_ 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll.
Cambridge 17 April 1875. _Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p._ 6.
HOLMES, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B.
Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught
the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for _The Atlas_
from 1829 and later for _The Spectator_; wrote articles in
_Fraser’s Mag._ and _Musical Times_; author of _A ramble among the
musicians of Germany_ 1828, _3 ed._ 18 ; _The life of Mozart_
1845; _Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works_
1852; _A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart_ 1854; _Life of
H. Purcell_. _d._ 4 Sep. 1859.
HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc.
of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc.
of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of
his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of
George iv. _d._ Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. _Redgrave’s Dict. of
Artists_ (1878) 221.
HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.;
apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806;
printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to
1869; started the _Court Journal_ with Henry Colburn 25 April
1829; bought _The Athenæum_ for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint
proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69.
_d._ 4 July 1873. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 11 July.
HOLMES, JOHN (_son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840_). _b._
Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant
MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April
1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of
Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold
1883–4; author of _A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the
British Museum_ 1844. _d._ 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April
1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. _G.M. ii_, 87–8 (1854).
HOLMES, JOHN. _b._ Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to
Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in
legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867.
_d._ 1870. _Appleton’s American Biography iii_, 242 (1887).
HOLMES, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3
wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor
of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of
Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of _The duty of a Christian
state to support a national church establishment_ 1834. _d._ Leeds
14 June 1854. _Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis_ (1865) 454–5.
HOLMES, REV. PETER (_1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh,
Plymouth_). _b._ Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at
Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor,
Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan
inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private
school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of _Observations on
the standard of doctrine in the Church of England_ 1848; _Bishop
Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ_. _A translation 2 vols._ 1851–2;
contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer,
Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian
library. _d._ Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878;
left a valuable library. _Academy ii_, 428 (1878).
HOLMES, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast_). _b._ Dublin 1765;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland
1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with
his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest
practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused
offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor
general; author of _A demonstration of the necessity of the
legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland_ 1799; _The case of
Ireland stated_ 1847. _d._ 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30
Nov. 1859. _Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp._ 122–33, _portrait_;
_O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar_ (1879) 273–87.
HOLMES, REV. SAMUEL (_son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent_). _b._
1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup
1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66;
canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul,
Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. _d._ 18 Park parade, Harrogate
9 Nov. 1890.
HOLMES, WILLIAM (_5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer_).
_b._ co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L.
of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in
West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for
Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2;
contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested
Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of
the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was
assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed
1830. _d._ Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. _Portraits
of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_.
HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven,
co. Kildare_). _b._ 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when
governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847,
adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris
exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856;
author of _Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold
fields of Caratal_ 1857; _Free cotton, how and where to grow it_
1862. _d._ 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.
HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812;
student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826,
afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison,
G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc.
concert 24 March 1851; composer of _The Elfin of the Lake, an
opera_ 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130
printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. _d._ 23 April 1885. _bur._
Brompton cemet. 27 April. _Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music_
(1854) 295; _Grove’s Dict. of music, i_, 744 (1879).
HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea,
co. Londonderry_). _b._ London 1821; entered consular service at
Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March
1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany.
1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of
Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from
the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of _Sketches on the
shores of the Caspian_ 1845. _d._ Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19
Jany. 1882.
HOLMS, JOHN (_son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley_). _b._
Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and
Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord
of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of
board of trade 1882–5; author of _The British army in 1875, its
administration and organization_ 1875; _Our military difficulty_.
_d._ 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891.
_I.L.N. lxvi_, 199, 200 (1875), _portrait_, _11 April 1891 p._
467, _portrait_.
HOLROYD, EDWARD (_3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831,
justice of court of Queen’s Bench_). _b._ 24 July 1794; ed. at
Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov.
1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26
April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy
court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on
abolition of office; author of _Observations upon the case of A.
Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford_ 1819. _d._ Elland
lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.
HOLT, ALFRED HENRY (_son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844_).
Reported prize fights for _The Era_, _Morning Advertiser_, _Bell’s
Life in London_ and _Sportsman_. _d._ 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. _bur._
Nunhead cemetery.
HOLT, DAVID. _b._ Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828;
assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death;
author of _Poems, rural and miscellaneous_ 1846; _Lays of hero
worship and other poems_ 1850; _Janus, Lake sonnets and other
poems_ 1853; _Poems_ 1868. _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March
1880.
HOLT, ELISE. _b._ London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer,
Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse
1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then
as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre
1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in
burlesque of _Lucretia Borgia_ 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly
theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (_m._ Henry
Palmer). _d._ about 1873. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870)
182, _portrait_.
HOLT, THOMAS (_son of a wool merchant, Leeds_). _b._ Horbury,
Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a
wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55;
purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member
for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for
Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member
of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873;
author of _Two speeches on the subject of education in New South
Wales_ 1857. _d._ Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. _Heaton’s
Australian Dict. of dates_ (1879) 95.
HOLT, THOMAS LITTLETON. _b._ 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt;
projected _Weekly Chronicle_; proprietor of _Iron Times_ started
during the railway mania 1845; edited _Morning Chronicle_; started
many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected _The Novel_
newspaper; started _Ryland’s Iron trade circular_ at Birmingham;
edited a weekly paper called _Chat_ 1846; took an active part in
popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper
duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited
_The Sixpenny magazine_ 1863; _John Horsleydown or the confessions
of a thief_ 1860. _d._ The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879.
_Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii_, 35–46 (1882).
HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, SIR FRANCIS LYTTELTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of
Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835_). _b._
Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819;
assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South
Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master
of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best
riders after hounds of his time. _d._ Sherborne house, Malvern
Wells 29 Dec. 1865. _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii_, 398–9
(1869).
HOMAN, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Rev. Philip
Homan_). _b._ 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. _d._ Dromeroe,
Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. _G.M. xxxvii_, 406
(1852).
HOME, COSPATRICK ALEXANDER RAMEY HOME, 11 Earl of (_eld. son of 10
Earl 1769–1841_). _b._ Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché
to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign
office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828
to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative
peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron
Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875.
_d._ near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. _bur._ in
church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. _F.O. list 1882 p._ 213.
HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (_son of William Home of the family of the earl
of Home_). _b._ near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to
Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his
mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to
London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held
séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen
of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864;
gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in
London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum,
a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec.
at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on
being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him
£30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both
sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868;
gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of
_Incidents in my life_ 1863, _2nd series_ 1872; _Lights and
Shadows of Spiritualism_ 1877. _d._ Auteuil, near Paris 21 June
1886. _bur._ at St. Germain-en-Laye. _Annual register_ (1868)
187–206; _The Mask_ (1868) 141–6, _portrait_; _T. A. Trollope’s
What I remember, i_, 376–81; _Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp._
577–81.
NOTE.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is
understood to be a study of Home.
HOME, DAVID MILNE (_1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845_).
_b._ 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to
Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family
estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent
appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the
professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy
hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of _Our Social reforms
needed in Scotland_ 1867; _Scotch poor houses and English work
houses_ 1873; _The salmon Fisheries of Scotland_ 1882. _d._ Milne
Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. _Times 23 Sep. 1890._
HOME, FRANCIS (_eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica
in Univ. of Edin._) _b._ Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ.
of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838
and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. _d._ Main’s house near
Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.
HOME, SIR JAMES EVERARD, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Everard Home,
1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III._) _b._ 25 Oct. 1798;
entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec.
1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov.
1850 to death; F.R.S. _d._ Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Camperdown
cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.
HOME, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native
infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Weston, Bath 12
April 1860.
HOME, JOHN HOME (_son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick_).
_b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15
April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858;
colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. _d._ Pall Mall, London 22
April 1860.
HOME, NORTH DALRYMPLE. _b._ Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol
gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and
Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer
in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s _Ages Ago_, and in
_The Friar_ operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. _d._ Clifton 3
July 1887. _The Era, July 1887 p._
HOME, RICHARD. _b._ 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43
Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to
death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.
HOME, ROBERT (_eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot_). _b._
Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug.
1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70;
commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March
1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to
Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr.
for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to
_Quarterly Rev._ and _Macmillan’s Mag._; translated Baron
Stoffel’s _Military Reports_ 1872; author of _The law of
recruiting_ 1872 and _A précis of modern tactics_ 1873 the best
English book on the subject. _d._ 21 Regent’s park terrace, London
29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (_dau. of J. Hunt_)
granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. _Graphic xix_,
372 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 185 (1879), _portrait_.
HOMER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor;
proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of
abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon.
treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838
to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers
1850; doubled the size of the _Morning Advertiser_ 1850; common
councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov.
1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London
1852 to death; author of _A summary of the laws relating to
licensed victuallers_ 1839; _Monarch fire and life insurance co.,
Scenes at the election for a director_ 1852. _d._ at res. of his
son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3
March 1888. _Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack_ (1862) 95–9,
_portrait_; _Licensed Victuallers’ Year book_ (1875) 70–1,
_portrait_.
HONE, VEN. RICHARD BRINDLEY (_2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of
Faringdon, Berks._) _b._ 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A.
1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon
of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to
death; author of _Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols._ 1834–43, 19
charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. _d._ Halesowen rectory 5 May
1881.
HONEY, GEORGE ALFRED (_mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90_).
_b._ 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in
London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in _Midas_; member
of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in
Macfarren’s opera _Robin Hood_ at Her Majesty’s 1860; played
Eccles in _Caste_ at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves
in _Money_ at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and
1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in _The Two Roses_ at Vaudeville 1870;
visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while
performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. _d._ 127 Camden road, London
28 May 1880. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 183–4; _Illust.
Sport, and Dram. News, x_ 468–9 (1879) _portrait_, _xiii_ 281
(1880), _portrait_, _xvii_ 125 (1882), _view of tomb_; _The Era 30
May 1880 p._ 6, _6 June p._ 7; _Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off
the stage 7th ed._ (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.
HONNER, MARIA (_dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll.
1886 aged 78_). _b._ Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with
Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre,
London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43,
at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent
in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other
roles; (_m._ (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; _m._ (2)
Frederick Morton, stage manager); she _d._ 4 Jany. 1870. _Actors
by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp._ 121–2, _portrait_; _Theatrical Times
10 Oct. 1846 pp._ 137–8, _portrait_.
HONNER, ROBERT WILLIAM (_youngest son of John Honner of Soho,
London, solicitor, d. about 1817_). _b._ 24 Percy st. Tottenham
court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq,
ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a
ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey
1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of
City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre
1848 to death, _d._ Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852.
_Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp._ 89–90, _portrait_.
HONNER, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4
Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861;
commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of
Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858,
K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. _d._ Lower Berkeley st.,
Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.
HONY, VEN. WILLIAM EDWARD (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard,
Cornwall 1778–95_). _b._ Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll.
Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823;
V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of
Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841;
archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon
residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of _Church Rates_
1859. _d._ The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 403
(1875).
HORNYGOLD, WILLIAM, _b._ 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St.
Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical
characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the
scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C.
Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the
illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the
‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union
workhouse, where he _d._ 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. _J. Diprose’s Some
account of parish of St. Clement Danes i_, 165–6 (1868).
HONYMAN, SIR GEORGE ESSEX, 4 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman,
3 Bart. 1794–1863_). _b._ Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany.
1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London
1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the
special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9;
barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial
lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany.
1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21
Feb. 1875. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. _Law mag. and law
review i_, 122–27 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 319, 333, 566, (1875),
_portrait_.
HONYWOOD, REV. PHILIP JAMES (_3 son of William Honywood of Siston,
Kent_). _b._ 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged
18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of
Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of
Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3
which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured
himself hunting on foot three days a week _d._ Colne-Wake 19 Nov.
1874 aged 65. _Baily’s Mag. xxix_, 150–5 (1877).
HOOD, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (_only son of Alexander Hood, capt.
R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798_). _b._ Wootton,
Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22
May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2
baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. _d._ 43
Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.
HOOD, CHARLES. _b._ 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26
June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in
the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859,
lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ 8
Feb. 1883.
HOOD, CHARLES (_son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st.
Blackfriars_). _b._ 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London;
made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal
of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of
British home for incurables 1861–6; author of _A practical
treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added
Remarks on ventilation_ 1837, _5 ed._ 1879. _d._ 10 Leinster
gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.
HOOD, REV. EDWIN PAXTON (_son of a sailor in the navy_). _b._ at
house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24
Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840;
Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord
road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton
1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq.
Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the _Eclectic and
Congregational Review_, of the _Argonaut_ and _The Preacher’s
Lantern_; author of _Old England_ 1851; _William Wordsworth, a
biography_ 1856; _The Peerage of Poverty 1 series_ 1859, _3 ed._
1859, _2 series_ 1861, _5 ed._ 1870 and 50 other books. _d._
suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. _Congregational Year-Book_ (1886)
178–82.
HOOD, FRANCIS GROSVENOR (_2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood,
killed in action 2 March 1814_). _b._ 4 March 1809; ensign
grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3
battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly
contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep.
1854; _killed_ in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854.
_Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii_ 220–2, 239 _et seq.
iv_ 442.
HOOD, PETER. _b._ Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital;
L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the
upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen
sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’
preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of
_Practical observations on diseases fatal to children_ 1845; _The
successful treatment of scarlet fever_ 1857; _A treatise on gout,
rheumatism and the allied affections_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1885. _d._
Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. _Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p._ 699.
HOOD, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal
ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in
Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and
was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his
district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death;
D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. _d._ Rothesay 30 May 1872.
_Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 392.
HOOD, SAMUEL. _b._ Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to
Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of _Practical
treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts,
guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania_ 1847; _A practical
treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania_ 1847; _A brief
account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick_ 1844.
_d._ Philadelphia 1875.
HOOD, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845_). _b._
Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list
pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853;
edited the _Liskeard Gazette_ 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11
July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called _Saturday Night_
1862; edited _Fun_, May 1865 to death; _Tom Hood’s Comic Annual_
first issued 1867; author of _Captain Master’s children 3 vols._
1865; _A golden heart 3 vols._ 1868; _Rules of rhyme, a guide to
English versification_ 1869 and many other books. _d._ Gloucester
cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. _Poems by Thomas Hood
the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling
Broderip_ 1877; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 64–65, _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news, iv_, 357 (1865), _portrait_.
HOOD, THOMAS H. COCKBURN. _b._ 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to
1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of _The
Rutherfords of that ilk_ 188-; _The house of Cockburn, with
anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part_,
_Edin._ 1888, and of many scientific papers. _d._ Edinburgh 16
Jany. 1889. _The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p._ 228.
HOOD, SIR WILLIAM CHARLES (_only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne
Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89_). _b._
South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D.
St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863;
treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death;
lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor
castle 7 July 1868. _d._ Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany.
1870.
HOOF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1788; a railway contractor. _d._ Madeley house,
Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a
million.
HOOK, ANNA DELICIA (_dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham_).
_b._ 1812; author of _Some Meditations for every day in the year_
1864; _The Cross of Christ_ 1855 which was edited by her husband;
(_m._ June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). _d._ 5 May
1871 aged 59 _bur._ churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11
May.
HOOK, VERY REV. WALTER FARQUHAR (_eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook
1771–1828, dean of Worcester_). _b._ Conduit st. London 13 March
1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C.
of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near
Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to
death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc.
cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and
1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon
_Hear the Church_ before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841,
circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to
death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of _A
Church Dictionary_ 1842, _14 ed._ 1887; _An ecclesiastical
biography 8 vols._ 1845–52; _Lives of the archbishops of
Canterbury 12 vols._ 1860–76 and about 70 other books. _d._ the
deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds
consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. _Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W.
R. W. Stephens 2 vols._ 1878; _Illust. news of the world, iii_,
(1859), _portrait_; _Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 427, _portrait_;
_Graphic xii_, 447, 448 (1875), _portrait_.
HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (_son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter_). _b._
Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for
scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812;
lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany
Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April
1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in
building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of
the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox.
1845; author of _Exotic flora_, _3 vols._ 1823–7; _Icones
plantarum 10 vols._ 1827–54; _The Botanical Mag. 38 vols._
1827–65; _British flora 2 vols._ 1830–1, many editions; _Species
filicum 5 vols._ 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. _d._
Kew 12 Aug. 1865. _Proc. of R. Soc. xv_, 25–30 (1867); _Proc. Med.
and Chir. Soc. v_, 150, 162 (1867); _Jerdan’s National Portrait
gallery_ (1834) _v_, _portrait_; _Taylor’s National Portrait
gallery ii_, 95, _portrait_.
HOOLE, ELIJAH (_son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker_). _b._ Manchester
3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan
methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he
published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of
schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan
Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to
death; author of _Personal narrative of a mission to the south of
India from 1820–8_, 1829, _2 ed._ 1844; _The year-book of
missions_ 1847. _d._ 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. _T. F.
Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt._ 1, _pp._ 45, 290.
HOOPER, EDWARD. _b._ 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury
Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832;
lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of
Cambridge theatre to death. (_m._ Miss Brothers, she was _b._
1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and
was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). _d._ Cambridge
27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.
HOOPER, EDWARD. _b._ London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of
firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an
originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water
colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for
_Festivals of song, By F. Saunders_ 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New York
13 Dec. 1870.
HOOPER, FREDERIC EDWARD EDEN. _b._ 1842; clerk in the Admiralty,
London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of
_The Indian revolt. A poem, part i_, 1858. _d._ 12 Feb. 1886.
HOOPER, GEORGE. _b._ Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86;
helped to start _The Leader_ weekly paper 1850; wrote for _The
Globe_ and _The Spectator_; edited _Bombay Gazette_ at Bombay
1868–71; on staff of _Daily Telegraph_, London 1872–86; author of
_The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte_ 1859; _Waterloo, the
downfall of the first Napoleon_ 1862, _new ed._ 1890; _The
campaign of Sedan_ 1887; _Wellington, a memoir_ 1889. _d._
Southsea 15 May 1890. _I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_;
_Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.
HOOPER, JOHN. _b._ Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and
devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ
which he left to Long island historical soc. _d._ Brooklyn, New
York 26 April 1869. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 252 (1887).
HOOPER, JOHN KINNERSLEY (_3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and
Limpsfield, Surrey_). _b._ 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper
and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe
ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received
the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres.
of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April
1854. _I.L.N. xi_, 309 (1847), _portrait_.
HOOPER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber
goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78;
inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph
cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s
Telegraph Co. in London 1870. _d._ Beechwood, Clapham common,
Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. _Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p._ 964.
HOOPER, WILLIAM HULME. _b._ 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847
and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John
Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port
Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as
Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to
England Oct. 1851; author of _Ten months among the tents of the
Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of
Sir John Franklin_ 1853. _d._ Brompton, London 19 May 1854.
HOPE, ADRIAN (_6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823_). _b._
Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles
23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col.
93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea
1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; _killed_ in attack on fort at Rowas 14
April 1858. _Martin’s Indian empire, ii_, 493 (1876), _portrait_.
HOPE, ALEXANDER JAMES BERESFORD BERESFORD- (_youngest son of Thomas
Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831_). _b._ 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848,
hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin
1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of
Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P.
for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey,
Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All
Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of _Saturday
Review_ with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of
Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection
of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London;
author of _Poems_ 1843; _Essays_ 1844; _The English cathedral of
the nineteenth century_ 1861; _A popular view of the American
civil war_ 1861, _3 ed._ 1861; _Worship in the Church of England_
1874, _2 ed._ 1875; _Strictly tied up 3 vols._ 1880, a novel,
anon. 3 ed. 1881; _The Brandreths 3 vols._ 1882, a novel, and 24
other books. _d._ Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887.
_C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield_ (1882) _i_, 194, _portrait_;
_Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 189–92; _I.L.N. 16 May 1857
pp._ 477, 479, _portrait_.
HOPE, ANNE (_2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta,
merchant_). _b._ Calcutta 1809. (_m._ 10 March 1831 James Hope,
physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of
_The acts of the early martyrs_ 1855; _The lives of the early
martyrs_ 1857; _Life of St. Philip Neri_ 1859; _Conversion of the
Teutonic race 2 vols._ 1872; _Franciscan martyrs in England_ 1878;
wrote many articles in _Dublin Review_ 1872–9. _d._ St.
Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. _Gillow’s English Catholics iii_,
375.
HOPE, CHARLES, Lord Granton (_eld. son of John Hope of London,
merchant 1739–85_). _b._ 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec.
1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord
advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district
1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord
justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord
pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17
Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general
of royal archers of Scotland; author of _Notes by the lord
president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House_
1826. _d._ Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. _Omond’s Lord
Advocates of Scotland ii_, 205–23; _Kay’s Original Portraits ii_,
246–55 (1885), 3 _portraits_; _Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his
kinsfolk, ii_, 102–8 (1819).
HOPE, CHARLES WEBLEY. _b._ 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain
15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A.
1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to
death; F.R.G.S.; author of _The education and training of naval
officers_ 1869. _d._ Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.
HOPE, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (_2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley,
Salop 1761–1854_). _b._ 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3
Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L.
1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he
withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc.
1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at
Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving
his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and
230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were
removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library
1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ.
of Ox. 1861; author of _Buprestidae_ 1835; _The Coleopterist’s
Manual 3 parts_ 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological
subjects. _d._ 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. _Journal
British Archæol. Assoc. xix_, 157–62 (1863); _Proc. Linnæan
society_ (1862) 90–93; _J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus
Oxon._ (1874) _pp. xvii-xxiv_.
HOPE, GEORGE (_2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer_). _b._ Fenton,
East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did
much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was
well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30
offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on _Agriculture
and the corn laws_ 1842; contributed _Hindrances to agriculture
from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by
Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh_ 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and
East Aberdeenshire 1875. _d._ Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec.
1876. _Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter_ (1881).
HOPE, GEORGE WILLIAM (_2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope
1769–1837_). _b._ Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.
1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth
1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton
1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state
for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. _d._ Luffness,
Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. _I.L.N. vi_, 184 (1845), _portrait_.
HOPE, SIR HENRY (_eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10
Sep. 1808_). _b._ 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May
1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American
frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July
1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. _d._
Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.
HOPE, HENRY THOMAS (_eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87_).
_b._ 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe
1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of
architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known
as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and
purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble
statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. _d._ 116
Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000,
17 Jany. 1863. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii_, 112–24 (1854);
_I.L.N. xxxii_, 352 (1858).
HOPE, SIR JAMES (_only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818_).
_b._ 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820;
captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859
to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to
10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872;
admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15
June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3
April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross
of legion of honour 1861. _d._ Carriden house, Bowness,
Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted
hall at Greenwich. _D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii_,
_passim_ (1884).
HOPE, JAMES. _b._ 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy
keeper of the signet 1828 to death. _d._ Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb.
1882. _Law Times, lxxii_, 305 (1882).
HOPE, SIR JAMES ARCHIBALD (_son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope_). _b._
1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3
foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when
placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel
9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec.
1871.
HOPE, SIR JOHN, 11 Baronet. _b._ Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April
1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death.
_d._ 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. _bur._
Inveresk churchyard 11 June.
HOPE, JOHN (_eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851_). _b._
Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor
general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of
advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death;
P.C. 17 April 1844; author of _A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq.,
editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist_ 1811 and two
other letters. _d._ 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, _bur._
at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of
Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national
portrait gallery. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 73–4,
_portrait_.
HOPE, SACKETT. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of
St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2
April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. _d._ 9 Widcomb
crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.
HOPE, WILLIAM WILLIAMS (_youngest child of John Williams Hope of
Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813_). _b._ 1802; reassumed name of
Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased
Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for
£165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived
latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique,
Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society,
noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; _found
dead_ in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855.
_Gronow’s Last Recollections_ (1866) 129–33; _Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 1262–4.
HOPE-JOHNSTONE, JOHN JAMES (_1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone,
G.C.B. 1766–1831_). _b._ 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries
1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom
of Annandale. _d._ Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.
HOPE-SCOTT, JAMES ROBERT (_3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander
Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837_). _b._ Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812;
ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838,
D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a
friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on
“The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T.
26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college,
Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10
Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and
north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church
at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to
death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of
1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited
by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our
Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2
Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author
of _The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at
Jerusalem_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842. _d._ 7 Hyde park place, London 29
April 1873. _bur._ in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent,
Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. _Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert
Ornsby 2 vols._ 1884.
HOPETOUN, JOHN ALEXANDER HOPE, 6 Earl of (_only son of 5 earl of
Hopetoun 1803–43_). _b._ Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow;
cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April
1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. _d._
Florence 1 April 1873. _Baily’s Mag. xvi_, 159–61 (1869),
_portrait_.
HOPKINS, SIR FRANCIS, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins,
M.P._) _b._ Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814;
ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the
Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff
of Westmeath 1855. _d._ Madeira 11 May 1860. _J. H. Nixon’s
Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv_ (1843).
HOPKINS, REV. GERARD MANLEY (_1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford,
Essex_). _b._ Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner
1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which
was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of
classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of
Jesus about 1868. _d._ of typhoid fever at University college,
Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 11
June. _Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p._ 5.
HOPKINS, JOHN BAKER. _b._ London 10 April 1830; began his career as
a journalist 1858; editor of _Atlas_ paper; joint editor with
Henry Hotze of _The Index_, English organ of Confederate States,
No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London
correspondent to _Paris Correspondence Havas_ 1864–8; on
_Standard_ paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on _Law Journal_ 1867;
contributed to _Morning Post_ and _Vanity Fair_ under pseudonym of
Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on _London Figaro_, July
1870; author of _The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy_ 1854; _Elviré, a
reminiscence of Paris_ 1855; _Not at all nervous, a farce_ 1860;
_Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols._ 1874; _Jack Oakum, a
play_ 1877; _The true history of Nihilism, a novel_ 1880. _d._ 14
Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. _Cartoon portraits_ (1873)
140–43, _portrait_.
HOPKINS, RIGHT REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated
to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17
when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to
1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister
Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary
of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of
St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in
U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec.
1867; author of _Christianity vindicated_ 1833; _Essay on Gothic
architecture_ 1836; _Twelve canzonets, words and music_ 1839; _The
history of the confessional_ 1850, and 30 other books. _d._ Rock
Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. _A sketch book of American
episcopate. By K. G. Batterson_ (1878) 104–106; _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_, 254–6 (1887).
HOPKINS, JOHN LARKIN. _b._ Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy
in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac.
Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to
death; composed _Five glees and a madrigal_ 1842, and _Cathedral
Services in C flat and E flat_ 1857; author of _A new vocal tutor_
1855. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.
HOPKINS, SIR JOHN PAUL (_eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on
board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile_). Ensign 43
foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major
98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of
military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor
castle 11 Dec. 1867. _d._ Windsor 9 March 1875.
HOPKINS, WILLIAM (_only son of William Hopkins of Kingston,
Derbyshire, farmer_). _b._ Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without
success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7
wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from
1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of
Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850,
president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1
June 1837; author of _Elements of trigonometry_ 1833; _An abstract
of a memoir on physical geology_ 1836. _d._ Parker’s Piece,
Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. _Quarterly
Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii_ (1867); _I.L.N.
xxiii_, 225 (1853), _portrait_.
HOPKINS, REV. WILLIAM BONNER. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam.,
second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847,
B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St.
Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death;
hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley
said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of
_Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university_
1853; _The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons_
1866; _The position and duty of non-abstainers_ 1874, _2 ed._
1875. _d._ Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.
HOPKINSON, SIR CHARLES (_son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park,
Middlesex_). _b._ Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A.
1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against
the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras
artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness
1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26
April 1837; author of _Hints to cadets and others proceeding to
India_ 1850. _d._ 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.
HOPKINSON, WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of
Morton-cum-Haconby_). _b._ 1784; coroner for the Soke of
Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little
Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to
the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in
1637. _d._ Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. _Rivington’s Ecclesiastical
Year-book_ (1866) 334.
HOPLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1816; painter of domestic subjects
and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at
Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown
1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for
the use of artists. _d._ 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30
April 1869.
HOPPER, VEN. AUGUSTUS MACDONALD (_son of Walter Carles Hopper of
Walworth, co. Durham_). _b._ 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s
1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of
Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of
_Two Charges_ 1869 and 1870. _d._ Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.
HOPPER, CLARENCE (_son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d.
1856_). _b._ Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram.
sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in
deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited
_London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII._ 1859, and _Sir F.
Drake’s service against the Spaniards_ 1863, in _vols._ 4 and 5 of
Camden Miscellany; author of _A descriptive account of
churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon_ 1867; _A catalogue
of books illustrative of Shakespeare_ 1868. _d._ Brighton 10 June
1868. _Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv_, 316 (1869).
HOPPER, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor_). _b._
Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter.
London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor
of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas
fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843;
competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding
of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840;
published _A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for
building houses of parliament_ 1837; _Designs for the houses of
parliament_ 1842. _d._ 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.
HOPPUS, REV. JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent
minister, Yardley, Hastings_). _b._ London 1789; ed. at Rotherham
and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839;
minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5;
professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ.
1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of _An account of Lord Bacon’s
Novum Organum Scientiarum_ 1827; _Sketches on the Continent in
1835 2 vols._ 1836; _The crisis of popular education_ 1847 and 12
other books. _d._ 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875.
_Congregational Year-book_ (1876) 341–3.
HORAN, EDWARD JOHN. _b._ Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of
Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the
normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant
of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. _d._
Canada 16 Feb. 1875. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 262 (1887).
HORAN, MARY AUSTIN. _b._ Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy,
Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York
1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New
York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s
Industrial institute for children. _d._ New York city 14 June
1874. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 262 (1887).
HORDERN, REV. JOSEPH (_son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich,
Lancs._) _b._ 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A.
1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with
Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of _Plain directions for
reading to the sick_ 1826, _4 ed._ 1830; _Sermons_ 1830; _The
armour of light, sermons_ 1851. _d._ Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug.
1876. _F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds_ (1878) 76.
HORMAN, GEORGE HELIER (_son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s,
Jersey_). _b._ 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of
the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s
advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the
Channel islands bank 1858–74. _d._ The Terrace, St. Heliers,
Jersey 29 May 1879.
HORN, HENRY (_son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire_). _b._ 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St.
John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll.
1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to
death; edited _Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord
and tenant_, _7 ed._ 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published _Reports
in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2
vols._ 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S.
Gowland _shot himself in the head_ at Cagebrook near Hereford 29
Nov. 1857. _Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p._ 5.
HORN, MARION (_dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate
ware_). _b._ Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas
and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco
Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as
Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as
Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United
States; (_m._ 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of
Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many
of best known American singers. _d._ Morrisania co. Winchester,
New York, Jany. 1887. _Ireland’s New York Stage, ii_, 176 (1867).
HORN, ROBERT (_youngest son of William Horn, farmer_). _b._ Bridge
of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed
at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a
commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of
Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing
_Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library_ 1873. _d._ 7 Randolph
crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. _Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii_,
93–7 (1878).
HORNBLOWER, JANE ELIZABETH (_dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831
historian_). _b._ Liverpool 1797; (_m._ Francis Hornblower);
author of _Poems_ 1820; _Poems_ 1821; _Poems_ 1843. _d._ Liverpool
2 Aug. 1853.
HORNBY, EDMUND (_eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick,
Lancs. d. 1812_). _b._ 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of
Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston
1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. _d._ Dalton hall near
Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.
HORNBY, EDMUND GEORGE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 6 Nov. 1799;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington
1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. _d._ Dalton hall 26 or 27
Feb. 1865.
HORNBY, LOUISA (_sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857_). _b._ Winwick 5
April 1788; author of _Bible Stories_; _Universal Reform_; _The
Full Loom_ and other books. _d._ Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.
HORNBY, SIR PHIPPS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Winwick 27
April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16
Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off
Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and
victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent
of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller
general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in
chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to
30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6
April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Little Green near
Petersfield 19 March 1867.
HORNBY, ROBERT VERNON ATHERTON. _b._ Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of
_Statistical account of Winwick_ 1837; _Vale: a poem_ 1854. _d._
Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.
HORNBY, WILLIAM HENRY (_3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn_). _b._
Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills,
Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn
1857–69 when he was unseated. _d._ Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5
Sep. 1884. _Puseley’s Commercial Companion_ (1858) 114–5.
HORNCASTLE, JAMES HENRY. _b._ London 26 May 1801; appeared as first
witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut
street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre,
New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre
1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor,
author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. _d._
West Malvern 6 May 1869. _Ireland’s New York stage, ii_, 231, 629
(1867).
HORNE, JAMES. _b._ 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads;
F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied
warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies.
_d._ London 26 Oct. 1856. _Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii_,
102 (1858).
HORNE, LENOX (_younger brother of the succeeding_). Baritone singer
at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at
the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote _Two heads are better
than one, A farce_, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; _The
baronet abroad_; _The tale of a comet_. _d._ Clapham road,
Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.
HORNE, RICHARD HENRY or HENGIST. _b._ London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at
Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain
1829; edited the _Monthly Repository_ July 1836 to June 1837;
sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went
with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort
between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the
gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of
Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted
civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28
April 1880; author of _Cosmo de Medici_ 1837, _a tragedy_; _The
death of Marlowe_ 1837, _a tragedy_; _The history of Napoleon 2
vols._ 1841, _new ed._ 1879; _Orion, an epic poem_ 1843, _10 ed._
1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; _A new
spirit of the age 2 vols._ 1844; _The poor artist_ 1850, _2 ed._
1871; _Sithron the Star-stricken_ 1883, and 15 other books. _d._
Margate 13 March 1884. _R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and
prospects_ (1859) 1–44; _H. B. Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871)
427–46; _Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp._ 374–5; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 301
(1884), _portrait_.
HORNE, REV. THOMAS HARTWELL (_son of William Horne of London,
barrister’s clerk_). _b._ Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed.
at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to
Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey
institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25;
senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister
at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D.
Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s
1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons,
Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of _An introduction to
the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols._
1818, _11 ed._ 1860; _Outlines for the classification of a library
submitted to the trustees of the British museum_ 1825; _A
compendious introduction to the study of the Bible_ 1827, _10 ed._
1862; _Manual of parochial psalmody_ 1829, _41 ed._ 1861 and about
50 other books. _d._ 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. _G.
M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne_ (1862), _portrait_;
_Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne_
(1862); _Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum_ (1872) 105–9.
HORNE, SIR WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at
Chiswick_). _b._ 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov.
1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general
to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to
23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834;
appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834;
master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston
1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2,
for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV.
at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. _d._ 49 Upper Harley st.
London 13 July 1860. _Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell_
(1881) _ii_, 18–41; _Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii_, 341–54,
426–9.
HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, WILLIAM 1797–1867, artist. _See_ Hornygold,
W. _ante col._ 1523.
HORNER, LEONARD (_youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen
merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and
univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in
London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860;
F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31;
inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published _Works of
Francis Horner_ 1843; _Memoirs of Francis Horner_ 1848, _2 ed. 2
vols._ 1853; a translation of Villari’s _History of Savonarola_
1863. _d._ 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. _Quarterly Journal
of Geol. soc. xxi_, 30–40 (1865); _Proc. of Royal soc. xiv_, 5–10
(1865); _Macmillan’s Mag. x_, 319–26 (1864).
HORRABIN, REV. RICHARD. _b._ Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall
Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway,
London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields
1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of
lower orders 1816; published _The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J.
F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin_ 1818. _d._
Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. _Gillow’s English Catholics
iii_, 403–4 (1887).
HORSBURGH, JOHN. _b._ Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed
to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after
J. M. W. Turner for _Scott’s Poetical_ and _Prose Works_ and other
publications; engraved several single plates including Prince
Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott;
undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist
church. _d._ 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. _Pastoral
addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir_ 1869.
HORSEY, GEORGE (_4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London_).
_b._ 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman
and conveyancer; author of _A practical analysis of the Trustees
Act_ 1850; _The probate and administration act_ 1858; _The court
of Probate acts 3 ed._ 1859; _Law of property and trustees relief
act_ 1860. _d._ Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep.
1889.
HORSFALL, THOMAS BERRY. _b._ Liverpool 1805; a merchant in
Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852,
unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868;
president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849.
_d._ Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.
HORSFIELD, THOMAS. _b._ Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed.
Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java
1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to
1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House,
London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of
_Zoological Researches in Java_ 1824; _Descriptive catalogue of
Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts_ 1828–9 and other
books. _d._ Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859.
_Proc. of Royal Society x_, 19–21 (1860); _Proc. Linnean Soc._
(1859–60) 25–6.
HORSFORD, SIR ALFRED HASTINGS (_son of general George Horsford, d.
1840_). _b._ Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July
1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2
battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and
1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at
horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9;
military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876,
col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on
retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860,
G.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.
HORSFORD, SIR ROBERT MARSH (_eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief
justice of Antigua, d. 1850_). _b._ Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn,
London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec.
1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua,
solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov.
1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at
Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. _d._ 11
Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.
HORSLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 24 Queen’s
buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles,
Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846;
organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857;
went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St.
John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic
Soc. two oratorios _David_ 1849 and _Joseph_ 1852; wrote the
cantata _Comus_ 1854; produced oratorio _Gideon_ at Glasgow
musical festival 1860; wrote an ode _Euterpe_ for opening of
Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of _A
text book of harmony_ 1876. _d._ New York city 28 Feb. 1876.
HORSLEY, WILLIAM H. _b._ London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore
Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8;
member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W.
Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee
and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant
organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54;
Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin
st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a
composer of glees; published _Five collections of glees_ 1801–27;
_An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation_
1847; _The musical treasury_ 1853 and about 60 pieces of music;
his best known glees were _By Celia’s Arbour_ 1807 and _Mine be a
cot._ _d._ 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. _G.M.
lxxxiii_, 82, 565 (1813); _Grove’s Dictionary of music, i_, 753–4
(1879).
HORSMAN, CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Mr. Gardiner_). _b._ Dublin 1827; (_m._
1847 Charles Horsman, actor _b._ Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21
Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells
and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.;
her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877.
_d._ 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. _bur._ Undercliffe cemet.
7 June. _The Era 9 June 1878 p._ 12.
HORSMAN, EDWARD (_son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86_).
_b._ 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted
advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1
July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11
May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James
Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord
of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland
March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March
1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave
of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of
_Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs_ 1849. _d._ Biarritz 30
Nov. 1876. _H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian_ (1884) 183–401; _I.L.N.
xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876),
_portrait_.
HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (_1 son of Sir John Hort d.
1807_). _b._ 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812;
succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. _d._ Ebury st.
Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.
HORT, SIR JOHN JOSIAH, 3 Baronet (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._
Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot
27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed
on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866;
lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on
h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878;
C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. _d._ 35 Merrion sq. east,
Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. _The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort,
fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris._ _Plymouth_
1851.
HORT, SIR WILLIAM FITZMAURICE JOSIAH, 4 Baronet (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A.
Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate
at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. _d._ St. Canice’s
cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.
HORWITZ, BERNARD. _b._ Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess
from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known
as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about
1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in
England before 1862; author of _Chess studies and end-games
systematically arranged_ 1884; author with J. Kling of _Chess
Studies_ 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called _The
Chess Player 4 vols._ 1851–3. _d._ 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park,
London 29 Aug. 1885. _I.L.N. viii_, 100 (1846), _portrait_; _Chess
Monthly, vii_, 8; _Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p._ 754.
HORWOOD, ALFRED JOHN (_younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle
Temple, London, conveyancer_). _b._ Camberwell, Surrey 1821;
barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on
historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited _Year books of the
reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series_ 1858; _A catalogue of the
manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn_ 1869; _A common place book of
John Milton_ 1876. _d._ 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881.
_Law Times, lxxi_, 255 (1881).
HOSACK, JOHN (_3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire_).
_b._ Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April
1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death;
author of _A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and
Scotland_ 1847; _The rights of British and neutral commerce as
affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council_ 1854;
_Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers_, _London_ 1869, _2 ed._ 2
_vols. Edin._ 1870–4 and other books. _d._ 172 Finborough road,
West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.
HOSKEN, JAMES (_son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20
June 1848 aged 92_). _b._ Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N.
1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built
for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and
reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western;
captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York
in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour
master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9;
commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5;
captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2
Aug. 1879. _d._ 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885.
_Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed_
1889.
HOSKING, WILLIAM (_eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer_).
_b._ Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder
and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red
Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at
R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16
Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham,
Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation
of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40;
professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and
of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an
official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to
1855; published _Preliminary essay on bridges_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842;
_Theory, practice and architecture of bridges_ 1842; _Some
observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the
British museum_ 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular
reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. _d._ 23 Woburn sq.
London 2 Aug. 1861. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 70;
_The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p._ 560.
HOSKINS, SAMUEL ELLIOTT (_son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey_). _b._
Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals
1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859;
physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of _A
Stethoscopic Chart_. _Guernsey_ 1830; _Home resorts for invalids
in the climate of Guernsey_ 1852; _Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau
and Versailles, a comedy in three acts_ 1852; _Charles the Second
in the Channel Islands 2 vols._ 1854; and other books. _d._ York
place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. _Lancet 20 Oct. 1888
p._ 797, _27 Oct. p._ 845.
HOSKINS, WILLIAM (_3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park,
Derbyshire_). _b._ Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an
actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at
Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856,
played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre
1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket,
Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand;
teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (_m._ (1) 1850
Julia Harland, actress _d._ New Zealand; _m._ (2) Florence
Colville, actress, she _d._ about 1881; _m._ (3) Miss Bowman).
_d._ Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. _Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book_,
_Parts 8 and 12_, _two portraits_; _Theatrical Times ii_, 297
(1847), _portrait_; _Era 13 Oct. 1886 p._ 9.
HOSKYNS, CHANDOS WREN (_2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet
1776–1862_). _b._ Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and
Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed
additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a
co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford
1869–74; contributed _Anomalies of Agriculture_ and many other
papers to _Agricultural Gazette_ 1844, &c.; author of _Talpa, or
the chronicles of a clay farm_ 1852, _4 ed._ 1857; _Occasional
Essays_ 1866; _Systems of land tenure in various countries_ 1870.
_d._ 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. _Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli_; _Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876
p._ 544.
HOTHAM, BEAUMONT HOTHAM, 3 Baron (_elder son of Beaumont Hotham
1768–99, captain Coldstream guards_). _b._ Lullingstone castle,
Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream
guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in
the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster
1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. _d._ Sand Hutton near York
13 Dec. 1870. _bur._ in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec.,
personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.
HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES (_1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham
1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk_). _b._ Dennington 14 Jany.
1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in
South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West
coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation
17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853,
governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. _d._ Toorak,
Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.
HOTHAM, WILLIAM (_eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham
1770–1823_). _b._ 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded
a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25
Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30
Nov. 1863. _d._ Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.
HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN, originally named John William Hotten (_son of
Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter_). _b._ 45 St. John’s
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram,
bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a
bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death,
and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published _Dictionary of
modern slang, cant and vulgar words_ 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s
_Poems and ballads_ 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from
circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J.
R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte
1864 &c. _d._ 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead
14 June 1873. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 21 June. _Bookseller 31 Aug.
1873 pp._ 491–3; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 255, 1237.
HOUGH, REV. GEORGE. _b._ London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew
under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of
South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and
sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable
sums to church works and charities; author of _Annual new year
addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury_ 1840–79; _A brief
exposition of the book of Revelation_. _Huddersfield_ 1878. _d._
South Crosland 6 June 1879. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_
(1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.
HOUGH, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to
1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of _Case
book of European and native courts martial_. _Calcutta_ 1821; _On
the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts_ 1838; _Chronological exposition of
opinions of writers on military law_ 1839; _A narrative of the
army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan_ 1841;
_Political and military events in British India 2 vols._ 1853.
_d._ Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1 Baron (_only son of Robert
Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858_). _b._ London 19 June 1809; ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April
1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton
of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868;
president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23
April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of _Memorials
of a tour in Greece_ 1834; _Memorials of many scenes_ 1840; _Poems
legendary and historical_ 1844; _Palm leaves_ 1844; _Monographs,
personal and social_ 1873. _d._ Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885.
_Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1890, 2
_portraits_; _Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1876,
_portrait_.
HOUGHTON, ARTHUR BOYD (_4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C.
service_). _b._ 1836; illustrator of the _Graphic_ and _Fun_;
exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st.
1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871;
illustrated _Dalziel’s Arabian Nights_ 1864–5; _Adventures of Don
Quixote_ 1866 and many other works; author of _The gods on peace
and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle_ 1877. _d._ 162
King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875.
_Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists_ (1878) 225; _Art Journal_ 1876
_p._ 47.
HOUGHTON, REV. HENRY HALL (_3 son of Jeremiah Houghton_). _b._
Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox.,
scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll.
1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle
rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall
and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament,
Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on
death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary
soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures;
gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. _d._ Melmerby
hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. _Record 20 Sept. 1889 p._ 922.
HOUGHTON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston
house of correction_). _b._ Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen
and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to
death; author of _Calvinism scripturally examined_ 1836;
_Rationalism in the church of England_ 1863 and 4 other books.
_d._ Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub. i_, 256.
HOULDSWORTH, JOHN. _b._ Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the
founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various
establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning
and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was
incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 18
Oct. 1859. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix_, 189 (1860).
HOULDSWORTH, THOMAS (_2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston,
Notts._) _b._ 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at
Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton,
Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. _d._ Portland place,
Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.
HOULSTON, THOMAS (_son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop,
printer_). _b._ 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller
at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65
Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64;
partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death.
_d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. _Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p._
938; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p._ 204.
HOULTON, SIR GEORGE (_youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley
castle near Bath, d. 1806_). _b._ Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot
20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on
h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular
war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death;
knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in _London Gazette_. _d._
Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.
HOULTON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840;
surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at
Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical
botanical society; with J. Davies edited _The London medical and
surgical journal_ 1828; translated F. Magendie’s _Formulary for
preparation of new remedies_ 1828. _d._ 12 Blomfield st.
Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.
HOUSMAN, FRANCIS (_son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood,
London_). _b._ London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch.
1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to
death; author of _A selection of precedents in conveyancing_ 1861.
_d._ Calcutta 19 July 1873.
HOUSTON, JOHN ADAM. _b._ Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec.
1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a
portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at
R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin.
from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish
academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited _Gallantry_, _London_
1859; _Lights and shadows of the wayside_ 1861; _Prospero and
Miranda_, _Edin._ 1865. _d._ 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington
2 Dec. 1884. _Art Journal_ (1869) 69–71, 127.
HOUSTON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at
Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast
1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to
death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster;
professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall,
Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a
D.D. degree; edited _The Covenanter_ 1830; author of _A practical
treatise on christian baptism_, _Paisley_ 1853; _The dominion and
glory of the Redeemer. Discourses_ 1880 and 7 other books. _d._
Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. _bur._ Knockbraken 30
March. _Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p._ 5.
HOUSTOUN, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun_). _b._
Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served
25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4
European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll.
10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Torquay
5 April 1862.
HOUSTOUN, WALLACE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1811; entered navy
2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1
April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 42 Eaton sq. London
17 May 1891.
HOVELL, WILLIAM HILTON. _b._ Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader
on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan
1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from
Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western
Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of _Reply to “A
brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George
to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.”_ _Sydney_ 1855. _d._ Sydney
1876. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 97.
HOWARD DE-WALDEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS ELLIS, 6 Baron (_elder son of C.
Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845_). _b._ London 5 June 1799;
ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6
Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for
foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at
Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10
Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as
2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. _d._ Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29
Aug. 1868.
HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, EDWARD GEORGE FITZALAN HOWARD, 1 Baron (_2 son
of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856_). _b._ 21 St. James’s sq. London
20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to
1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough
was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846
to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his
nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb.
1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869;
chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. _d._ 19
Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in R.C. church of St.
Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. _Gillow’s
English Catholics_, _iii_, 422–6 (1887).
HOWARD, CHARLES WENTWORTH GEORGE (_5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle
1773–1848_). _b._ Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton
and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July
1840 to death. _d._ Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.
HOWARD, EDWARD HENRY (_3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard
1795–1868_). _b._ 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21
June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval
attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876;
A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A.
26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. _d._ 16 Granville park,
Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. _Pictorial World_, _xvi_, 147, 165
(1890), _portrait_.
HOWARD, FRANK (_son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of
painting to R.A._) _b._ Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil
and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer
and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths;
exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st.
1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of
Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool
about 1847; published _The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a
series of outline plates 5 vols._ 1827–33; author of _The
sketcher’s manual_ 1837, _7 ed._ 1860; _The science of drawing_
1839–40. _d._ Liverpool 29 June 1866.
HOWARD, GREVILLE THEOPHILUS (_2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and
Berkshire 1804–76_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox.
30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy
17 June 1873 to 1877. _d._ Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28
July 1880.
HOWARD, HENRY. _b._ 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning
1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. _d._
Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.
HOWARD, VERY REV. HENRY EDWARD JOHN (_youngest child of 5 Earl of
Carlisle 1748–1825_). _b._ Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795;
ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834,
D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York
cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby
1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield
with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R.
of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of _Translations
from Claudian_ 1823; _The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with
notes 3 vols._ 1855–7 and 5 other books. _d._ Donington rectory 8
Oct. 1868. _Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p._ 1148; _Burke’s Portrait
gallery, ii_, 99 (1833), _portrait_.
HOWARD, HENRY THOMAS (_2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_). _b._
16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. _d._ Beauchamp near
Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.
HOWARD, JAMES (_2 son of John Howard 1790–1878_). _b._ Bedford 16
Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of
agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member
of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an
originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a
promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P.
Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863
and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s
rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out
upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of _Steam
cultivation, its history_ 1862; _Agricultural implement
manufacture, its rise and progress_ 1879 and 20 other works. _d._
Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Clapham,
Beds. 30 Jany. _Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany._, _4 Feb. 1889_;
_London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 10, _portrait_; _Farmers’ Mag.
xviii_, 1–7 (1860), _portrait_.
HOWARD, JAMES KENNETH (_4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_).
_b._ 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40
and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P.
Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855
to death. _d._ Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.
HOWARD, JOHN (_son of John Moore Howard, farmer_). _b._ Bedford
1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry
for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an
improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851;
mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. _d._ Caldwell priory 23
Dec. 1878. _Times 24 Dec. 1878 p._ 7, _col_ 6.
HOWARD, JOHN. _b._ Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long
distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester
race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped
over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest
pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park,
Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick
Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for
£25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat
Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4
seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of
Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. _d._ suddenly, Dublin hotel,
Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. _Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p._ 8; _Illust.
Sporting News_ (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 _portraits_.
HOWARD, JOHN ELIOT (_son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864_). _b._
Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his
father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids;
purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid
1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June
1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for
his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of _Eight
lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism_, 1845,
_2 ed._ 1847; _Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon_
1859–62; _The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts_
1869–76; _The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation_ 1872 and 9
other books. _d._ Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883.
_Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp._ 634, 637, _portrait_; _Trans. Essex
Field club, iv_, 8–11, _portrait_.
HOWARD, JOHN MORGAN (_eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea_). _b._
Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877;
Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the _New Reports_ 1862 to 1865;
contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell,
Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to
death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death.
_d._ Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. _I.L.N._ 18 April 1891
_p._ 499, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 223, 224 (1874), _portrait_.
HOWARD, LUKE (_son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp,
d. Jany. 1812_). _b._ London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist
at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William
Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on
the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and
stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register
from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him
a poem entitled _Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss_; author of _A few
notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to
Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education_. _By Eccletus_ 1806; _The
climate of London 2 vols._ 1818–20, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; _Essay
on the modification of clouds_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1865; _Cowper’s
English version of the Odyssey with a commentary_. _By Outis_
1843; _Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer_
1847 and 10 other books. _d._ at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce
grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. _Proc. Royal Soc. xiv_, 10–12
(1865); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 331.
HOWARD, PHILIP HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near
Carlisle 1757–1842_). _b._ Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott
coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being
the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec.
1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and
other articles in _Edinburgh Catholic Mag._ and other periodicals.
_d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. _Gillow’s English
Catholics, iii_, 441–2 (1888).
HOWARD, SIR RALPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of
stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80_). _b._ 1801; M.P. co.
Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of
Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26
July 1838. _d._ 15 Aug. 1873.
HOWARTH, REV. HENRY (_son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester,
bath-keeper_). _b._ Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester
sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A.
1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall,
Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to
death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author
of _The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses_
1836; _Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses_ 1837;
_The liturgy as it is. Sermons_ 1843 and 11 other books. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854),
_portrait_.
HOWDEN, JOHN HOBART CARADOC 2 Baron (_only child of 1st Baron Howden
1762–1839_). _b._ Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13
July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount
Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the
Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859;
sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his
father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris
1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with
French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in
Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25
Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to
March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830;
equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. _d._ Caradoc near Bayonne
9 Oct. 1873. _Foreign office list July_ 1873 _p._ 117.
HOWDEN, JAMES ADAM. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28
Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. _d._
Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.
HOWE, RICHARD WILLIAM PENN CURZON-HOWE 1 Earl (_only son of the hon.
Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97_). _b._ Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec.
1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col.
1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon
21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15
July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide
1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister,
again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his
mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27
Oct. 1863. _d._ Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May
1870. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1836) 1 _Series_,
_portrait_ 23.
HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK LOUIS CURZON HOWE, 2 Earl (_1 son of
the preceding_). _b._ Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled
viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30
May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15
Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P.
South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years;
succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. _d._ Gopsall hall, Leics. 4
Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. _I.L.N.
lxviii_, 167, 479 (1876); _Baily’s Mag. xii_, 217–8 (1867),
_portrait_.
HOWE, JOSEPH (_son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at
Halifax, Nova Scotia_). _b._ in a cottage on banks of North-west
Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and
proprietor of a paper called the _Nova Scotian_ 1828; M.P. for co.
of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840;
speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec.
of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3;
governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of _Speech on the
importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies_ 1851;
_Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the
empire_ 1866; _The organization of the empire_ 1866 and 4 other
books. _d._ Halifax 1 June 1873. _W. Annand’s Speeches and letters
of Joseph Howe 2 vols._ (1858).
HOWE, WILLIAM. _b._ West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a
mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’
valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has
been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the
three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s
Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed
the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery
winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. _d._ Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16
Jany. 1879. _N. P. Burgh’s Link motion_ (1870) _pp. i-xvi_; _D. K.
Clark’s Railway machinery_ (1855) 26; _Engineer_, _xlvii_, 67
(1879).
HOWELL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist_).
_b._ London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager
Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife
1879; (_m._ 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer).
_d._ 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.
HOWELL, FRANCIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 1834;
wrote 2 oratorios _The Captivity_ 1860, _The Land of Promise_ 1870
and many songs and ballads. _d._ 1882.
HOWELL, JAMES, _b._ Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June
1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi;
professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.;
double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R.
Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best
double-bass player 1846. _d._ London 5 Aug. 1879. _Cazalet’s R.
Acad. of Music_ (1854) 296–7; _Grove’s Dict. of Music, i_, 754
(1879).
HOWELL, JOHN. _b._ Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in
Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of
books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer
at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his
legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture
of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of _An essay on the
war-galleys of the ancients_. _Edin._ 1826; _The life and
adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin._ 1829; edited _The life of
Alexander Alexander_. _Edin._ 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s
_Tales of the Borders_. _d._ 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863.
_Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii_ 491, _iii_ 19, 78, 379, _4th ser.
ii_ 393, 500.
HOWELL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane_). _b._
London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and
Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s
ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis,
Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J.
Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three
parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.;
author of _Partnership-law legislation and limited liability
reviewed_ 1869. _d._ Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov.
1888. _Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal_ (1888) 345–6,
_portrait_, _and_ 1049–50.
HOWELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in
_Pizarro_ with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first
appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg;
came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of _The Flying
Chest_, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised
harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in
1847; played pantaloon some years. _d._ 1 Dec. 1873.
HOWELL, SIR THOMAS (_son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common,
Surrey_). _b._ London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in
business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office
1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of _A day
of business in the port of London_ 1850; _A few stray thoughts
upon Shakspeare_ 1867. _d._ 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23
April 1883.
HOWELL, THOMAS JONES (_son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor
of the State Trials_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1793; edited a _Complete
collection of State Trials vols._ 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I.
17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at
Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for
West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. _d._
6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.
HOWELLS, REV. JOHN. _b._ 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs.
1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of
_A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and
private use_. _Tipton_ 1831. _d._ Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. _monu._
in Holy Trinity ch. which says _d._ 1 Jany. 1857. _I.L.N._
_xxxiv_, 260 (1859), _view of monu._
HOWES, EDWARD (_2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth,
Norfolk_). _b._ Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister
L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P.
East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church
estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of _King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2
with Greek version_ in _Prolusiones Academicæ_. _Cantab._ 1834
_pp._ 25–29. _d._ Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.
HOWES, JOSEPH. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns,
Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near
Leicester. _d._ at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester
13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. _Willis’ Current Notes_ (1856) 27.
HOWIE, VERY REV. JAMES. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of
Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. _d._ Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.
HOWITT, GEORGE. _b._ Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast
left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for
Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of
ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s
1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. _d._
Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 329.
HOWITT, HERBERT CHARLTON (_younger son of William Howitt_). _b._
Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went
to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition
to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the
mountains between Christchurch and the western coast 1 Jany. 1863
to death; _drowned_ in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his
body was not found. _W. Howitt’s History of discovery in
Australia, ii_, 443–58 (1865); _M. Howitt, an autobiography, i_,
277, _ii_, 133–6 (1889).
HOWITT, MARY (_dau. of Samuel Botham_). _b._ Coleford, Gloucs. 12
March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (_m._ 16 April 1821
William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband
1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C.
ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited _The drawing room
scrap book_ 1832–54, and _Pictorial calendar of the seasons_ 1854;
translated _Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols._ 1842–63, works she
then made known to English readers; author of _Sketches of natural
history_ 1834; _Little coin, much care_ 1842; _The Heir of West
Waylen_ 1847; _A popular history of the United States 2 vols._
1859; _M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young_ 1861, _two
series_; _The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols._ 1864; _Tales for all
seasons_ 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes.
_d._ 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. _M. Howitt’s Life of
Mary Howitt_ (1889), _two portraits_; _Alaric Watts’ Life, ii_,
1–15 (1884); _Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p._ 168, _portrait_.
HOWITT, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire,
farmer_). _b._ Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st.
Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near
Southwell 1846 to death; author of _Antediluvian Sketches and
other poems_ 1830; _The Gipsy King and other poems_ 1840;
_Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the
world, Australian poems, &c._ 1845; _Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold
and gems of poetic thought_ 1868. _d._ at his farm Edingley,
Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. _bur._ in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. _The
Reliquary_, _x_ 209–16, _xi_ 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); _S. T.
Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873) 308–11.
HOWITT, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Heanor,
Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and
druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided
at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St.
John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate
1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a
spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to _Spiritual
Mag._; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (_m._ 1821 Mary
Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 April 1871;
part proprietor of _People’s Journal_ 1847, edited _Howitt’s
Journal_ 1847–8; translated _Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame
Geschichte_ 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he
wrote _The literature and romances of Northern Europe_ 1852;
_Stories of English and foreign life_ 1853; _Ruined abbeys and
castles of Great Britain_ 1862–4; his own chief works were _The
book of the seasons_ 1831 which after being refused by 4
publishing houses ran to 7 editions; _The rural life of England 2
vols._ 1838; _Visits to remarkable places_ 1840, second series
1842; _Rural and domestic life of Germany_ 1842; _Land, labour and
gold, or two years in Victoria_ _2 vols._ 1855; _Popular history
of England_ _5 vols._ 1856–62, seven editions; _The northern
heights of London_ 1869. _d._ 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879.
_R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_ 177–98 (1844),
_portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _ii_, 126–31
(1883); _The Naturalist_, _iv_ 366–73 (1839), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
29 March 1879 pp._ 297, 298, _portrait_.
HOWLETT, REV. JOHN HENRY (_son of John Howlett_). _b._ 10 June 1781;
ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A.
1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov.
1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to
death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and
sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of _Metrical
chronology_ 1824, _6 ed._ 1865; _Instruction in reading the
liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland_ 1826, _3 ed._
1866. _d._ 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.
HOWLETT, SAMUEL BURT (_only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st.
London_). _b._ 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal
military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was
reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance
1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of
plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56;
made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer
used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of _A
treatise on perspective_ 1828; _Tables for determining altitude
with the mountain barometer_ 1844; _Description of a barometer
that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature_
1844. _d._ 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.
NOTE.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors
of every public office were suggested by him; they were first
used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written
communication made by him to the authorities.
HOWLEY, SIR JOHN (_1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co.
Limerick_). _b._ Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter
sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third
serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first
serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns
1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. _d._
32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.
HOWLISON, ROBERT (_2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire_).
Said to have been _b._ Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769,
but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. _d._ West
Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. _W. J. Thoms’
Longevity of Man_ (1879) 186–92.
HOWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth_). _b._ 1806; ed.
at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with
Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich
cath. 1863 to death; author of _Sermons doctrinal and practical_
1839; _The Redeemer, a poem_ 1840; _Life and the issue of it_
1869. _d._ Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.
HOWS, JOHN WILLIAM STANHOPE. _b._ London 1797; appeared as Shylock,
Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution,
Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic _New York Albion_ 7
years; author of _The practical elocutionist_ 1849, _6 ed._ 1856;
_The Shakspearian reader_ 1850, _3 ed._ 1870; _Golden leaves from
the British and American dramatic poets_ 1865; _Golden leaves from
the American poets_ 1866; _The ladies’ book of reading and
recitations_ 1870. _d._ New York city 27 July 1871. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_, 288 (1887).
HOWSON, FRANK. _b._ London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist
war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of
opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop
when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and
daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. _d._ Omaha,
Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.
HOWSON, JOHN (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ Hobart Town, Tasmania
17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria
theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family for San Francisco
1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s
Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first
appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras
in _La Créole_, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.;
acted the Marquis in _Les Cloches de Corneville_ at same house 23
Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. _d._ 16 Dec. 1888. _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 189–90.
HOWSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr.
school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of _The gain of
Godliness_ 1840. _d._ Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.
HOWSON, VERY REV. JOHN SAUL (_son of the preceding_). _b._
Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical
master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65;
exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s,
Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued
the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872;
instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s
sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the _Quarterly
Review_, _The Speaker’s Commentary_, etc.; author of _Sunday
evenings_. _Short sermons_ 1849; _Sermons to schoolboys_ 1858–66,
_2 series_; _The character of St. Paul_ 1862, _4 ed._ 1884; _The
companions of St. Paul_ 1871 and about 35 other works; with the
Rev. J. Conybeare, _The life and epistles of St. Paul_ _2 vols._
1852, many editions. _d._ Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. _bur._ the
cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. _I.L.N. lxxxvii_ 667 (1885),
_portrait_; _Guardian_, _Dec. 1885 pp._ 1892, 1951; _Times, 16,
17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885_.
HOWTH, THOMAS ST. LAWRENCE, 3 Earl of. _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded
his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster;
K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death;
trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup
with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. _d._
Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 236–8;
_Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp._ 2–3.
HOYLE, WILLIAM. _b._ valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton
spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9;
cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance
reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury
1880; wrote an annual letter to _The Times_ on the “national drink
bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near,
Bury; author of _Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies
and bands of hope_ 1869; _Our national resources and how they are
wasted_ 1871, four editions; _Crime in England and Wales in the
nineteenth century_ 1876 and of 13 other books. _d._ Southport,
Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. _Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p._ 8.
HOYLES, SIR HUGH WILLIAM (_son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial
treasurer of Newfoundland_). _b._ St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany.
1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member
of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland
1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief
justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent
13 Feb. 1869. _d._ 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.
HUARD, LOUIS. _b._ in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came
to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his
death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857;
illustrated _Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants_
1849; _Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea_ 1869; _A. and E.
Keary’s The heroes of Asgard_ 1871 and other books. _d._ 37 Onslow
sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. _I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p._ 345, _portrait_.